I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
I want to drink beers with the candidates. Many, many beers.
Sports on Super Bowl weekend?
Go Patriots!
I want to drink beers with the candidates. Many, many beers.
I'm a candidate.
I like to see the results of drug testing on the collective effleuent of all the urinals in the US Senate chambers.
http://ccoaler.blogspot.com/2008...02/
philton.html
Paris Hilton & Elisha Cuthbert.
I'm a candidate.
You buyin'?
i got no dog in the superbowl, so i dunno who to root for.
is either quarterback a wingnut?
You buyin'?
No. Accepting donations.
We asked for impeachment.
They gave us steroid hearings instead.
And I'm supposed to be enthusiastic about the current Democratic party going into the 08 election?
I'd like to swap links with some of the finest liberal blogs there over the pond. Visit me and let me know if you agree. Ciao
Figures this post would come up while I'm watching my son's baseball practice ...
is either quarterback a wingnut?
jdw |
Don't know, but somehow I'll bet one of them is goin' to Disneyworld!
This may sound weird, but I'm looking forward to the Superbowl. Totally because of Tom Petty....
Paris Hilton & Elisha Cuthbert.
I'd hit it™. The latter, I mean.
And I'm supposed to be enthusiastic about the current Democratic party going into the 08 election?
steve simels |
They love their jobs too much to take any 'chances'.
I'd like to swap links with some of the finest liberal blogs there over the pond. Visit me and let me know if you agree. Ciao
Oh dear. You might want to read for a while. You may not want us thugs trashing your place with our mere presence.
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wÒÓ† | 02.02.08 - 10:20 am | #
Good to see ya!!!
Ask Spectre if he objects to NFL coaches being waterboarded.
Of course, the fact that my ex-wife's noyfriend is one of my son's coaches this year detracts a little bit from my enjoyment. But, I guess I'm getting used to it ...
Ask Spectre if he objects to NFL coaches being waterboarded.
Yes, he does. Commissioners, not so much.
Happy Ground Hog Day [Jonah Goldberg]
You know how I feel about it.
No. Are you jealous because groundhogs are more respected than you are?
"This may sound weird, but I'm looking forward to the Superbowl. Totally because of Tom Petty...."
the waiting is the hardest part...
this is important as the nfl has an anti trust regulation exemption based primarily on thier claim that they need it to ensure competitive balance.
This may sound weird, but I'm looking forward to the Superbowl. Totally because of Tom Petty....
steve simels |
That they're playing under a domed stadium prevents the prerequsite military jet "flyover" before the game. Not to be thwarted, I'm guessing they open some giant roll-up doors at each of the stadium and have a cruise missile fly in one end, do a few laps around the stands and fly out the other end.
The crowd will love it!
"When I watch those big football players scoring home runs I am reminded of my days on the old gridiron playing defensive forward."
Mitt Romney
the waiting is the hardest part...
jdw |
if only someone had posted about this yesterday and left a link on one of the threads...
millions of destroyed e-mails - that waterboarding tape destroeyed and spectre is worried that the pats might ne getting away with something???
may the universe have mercy on his idiot soul
so, if the nfl is alowing cheating and it is destroying competetive balance, they dont get their antitrust exemption.
That they're playing under a domed stadium prevents the prerequsite military jet "flyover" before the game. Not to be thwarted, I'm guessing they open some giant roll-up doors at each of the stadium and have a cruise missile fly in one end, do a few laps around the stands and fly out the other end.
The crowd will love it!
Or they could fill Katie O'Beirne full of helium and let her blow it out her ass as she flies around the stadium like a deflating balloon.
man the lakers got pau gasol
Is that spokesperson's name Brown, or Browne?
Here's a story about homophobia at the theatre.
Truly a touching saga ...
Tom Brady goes around knocking up supermodels, so I don't think he's a wingnut.
The crowd will love it!
Or they could fill Katie O'Beirne full of helium and let her blow it out her ass as she flies around the stadium like a deflating balloon.
leibniz, monadΩ |
Great idea! Better they could squeeze her ass cheeks letting the helium out to the tune of 'God Bless America'!
Alot of team owners seem to be making themselves even richer by talking taxpayers into building new stadiums for them. I wish politicians would look into that.
This may sound weird, but I'm looking forward to the Superbowl. Totally because of Tom Petty....
steve simels
They played his interview with Terry Gross on NPR yesterday. I thought he had a very insightful take on himself.
Totally because of Tom Petty
Yikes!
Great idea! Better they could squeeze her ass cheeks letting the helium out to the tune of 'God Bless America'!
That's a skill only Jonah or Rich could ascribe to.
Specter is a Giants fan.
If Tom Petty covers CCRs "Fortunate Son" at halftime, I'll buy everyone of the hundreds of albums he's ever made!
When will we have a president that moves to abolish Football. Until then, there will be no progress in this nation.
It's a retractable roof. I believe they can still do a flyover, to the delight of warmongers everywhere.
Speaking of warmongers, any significance to the fact that the game is in
//mccain.senate.gov">Huggy Bear's hometown?
Alot of team owners seem to be making themselves even richer by talking taxpayers into building new stadiums for them. I wish politicians would look into that.
Roxanne | Homepage | 02.02.08 - 10:33 am | #
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exactly. and one of the reasons they can do that is because they have an antitrust exemption.
"When I watch those big football players scoring home runs I am reminded of my days on the old gridiron playing defensive forward."
Mitt Romney
Ah, Mitt. There you go exaggerating again. We all know you were only a backup point guard on your championship baseball team.
millions of destroyed e-mails - that waterboarding tape destroeyed and spectre is worried that the pats might ne getting away with something???
may the universe have mercy on his idiot soul
Nuts! seriously
Bingo!
Obviously the purity of the NFL is more important than anything the Constitution used to guarantee.
Besides, attacking the destruction of Patriot spy tapes is much safer politically.
352 days to go.
Simels forgot Paula Abdul!
spectre is an eagles fan.
Fucking tags.
Having said that, Camden Yards has the best baseball food evah.
Totally because of Tom Petty
Let's hope he doesn't have a wardrobe malfunction.
In Specter's defense, it doesn't take the NFL to embarrass him.
352 days to go.
Diane C. Barking-Mad |
And what if it's followed by McCain/Huckabee??
Never understood the Petty thing. The guy's whiny-er than Robert Smith.
Specter should get his nose out of the NFLs business and put it back up Bush's ass where its been for the last 7 years.
I suspect Mitt's position on his football team was at Left Out.
Just a joke, not a real observation.
Repost:
Trifecta, good game.
And thanks for playing to the end, unlike the individual who upended the board yesterday when he saw he wasn't going to win (coughntoddcoughcough)
At least Darcy cared enough to make a personal contact yesterday and apologize. More than I can say about Patty or Maria who don't read their mail or return their calls.
Has Spectre ever done one good or honest thing?
If the curent boom/bust/bailout crisis was not in real estate, but jewelry, would we have all been waiting for the bauble to burst?
And when it did, wouild it go BLING!!?
Just wondering...
p o o p
s l o w
on the
u p t a k e
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i cant imagine spectre has spent more than a few hours on this. i hardly think it is some big waste of time.
i agree with spectre here. plus i htink the cheating of the pats was covered up and even encouraged by the league, which is a disaster.
In Specter's defense, it doesn't take the NFL to embarrass him.
bdr |
Ira Einhorn got a lifetime achievemnet award for that. (Philly reference).
Has Spectre ever done one good or honest thing?
leibniz, monadΩ
Funny you should ask.
spectre voted against cloture on the immunity bill.
Totally because of Tom Petty
Let's hope he doesn't have a wardrobe malfunction.
Moe Szyslak | Homepage | 02.02.08 - 10:35 am | #
As Tom famously said when asked what he thought about the kiss between Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley at the MTV Awards:
Yuck.
The man is making a Spectrecal of himself
The last Petty show I went to was filled with young folks and weed. I'm guessing the kids they import for the SB will be Mormons or something so it will be a different vibe.
And what if it's followed by McCain/Huckabee??
good god.
NPR reporting earlier that McCain is garnering pro-choice voters, despite his pro-forcing women to have babies stance.
And what if it's followed by McCain/Huckabee??
Bond, James Bond
Well, in that eventuality I will seriously consider taking myself to a nunnery.
re Spector--the NFL knows it has nothing to worry about. He'll blather and bluster and threaten, then vote however they want him to . . .
Maybe they've noticed this little pattern of his.
Sorry,
I am serious about what I mentioned downstairs. This is the story that really sort of pissed me off. Jamison Foser can have his motivation, I can have mine. As you read this little blurb from the Times, think about it.
NEW YORK (AP) -- A burglar posing as a construction worker made away with about $100,000 worth of jewelry and electronics in a broad-daylight heist at Lesley Stahl's apartment, police said Friday.
Police wouldn't provide specifics, but the New York Post reported the burglar posed as a construction worker and stole several diamond watches, a pearl necklace, earrings, gold and silver necklaces and a laptop.
The break-in occurred during the morning of Jan. 25 at the ''60 Minutes'' correspondent's apartment overlooking Central Park.
Stahl, a former White House correspondent who has been on the CBS news magazine since 1991, wasn't home at the time. She had no comment on the burglary, a CBS-TV spokesman said.
The burglar reportedly went onto the roof, gained access by breaking a patio door and then ransacked the apartment Stahl shares with her husband, writer Aaron Latham, and daughter.
Now, does that sound like you? Do you have SEVERAL diamond encrusted watches in your apartment on Central Park in Manhattan? 100,000 dollars worth of bullshit just sitting around. We are not talking about investments, just trinkets to amuse her ladyship.
Fuck them all.
I didn't even know you could upend the board.
Let's hope he doesn't have a wardrobe malfunction.
Moe Szyslak
Uhm, let's hope he does.
Yummy.
Huge tabby alert
makes me think of one of the early chapters in Christopher Moore's "You Suck".
Ira Einhorn got a lifetime achievemnet award for that. (Philly reference).
Bond, James Bond | 02.02.08 - 10:37 am | #
The guy who killed his girlfriend and then wrapped her in plastic and stashed her in the attic?
Hey now!!!!!
I predict the devastating clarity of HDTV will make Tom Petty look nearly as old as he really is!
Well, in that eventuality I will seriously consider taking myself to a nunnery.
I'm seeking political asylum in Australia.
Why is congress wasting its time on this when they have not yet endorsed Easter.
This is Professional Sports. Even pro football has degenerated into a spectacle little better than the World Wrestling Federation, and don't get me started on pro basketball.
I don't care if they pump themselves up with enough chemicals to float a ship, graft bionic legs onto themselves, and have team spying networks bigger than the CIA. It's all a huge entertainment business, and the players have become a bunch of spoiled, sheltered crybabies.
well, if true doc, they shouldnt get an antitrust exemption.
watertiger: makes me think of one of the early chapters in Christopher Moore's "You Suck".
[look of complete cluelessness]
.
Sinf, your piece about the homophobe in the theater talk was actually inspiring, in that that guy was the only one who was "offended", especially in an audience of older south Floridians (who were around in the Anita Bryant days.) I commend the other audience members who laughed.
The guy who killed his girlfriend and then wrapped her in plastic and stashed her in the attic?
Hey now!!!!!
steve simels |
And said to the cops after they discovered her rotting stinking corpse in a trunk in his closest,
"Hey you found what you found."
Uhm, let's hope he does.
Yummy.
qlª | Homepage | 02.02.08 - 10:39 am | #
Why qlª, you sly minx you.
Specter does have a very well behaved badger that sleeps on top of his bald head. I think that is cool.
I think in all sports they ought to have an unlimited class or league, where the athletes can take whatever drugs they can get a doctor too prescribe.
This is as long as they reveal their entire treatment, what they take, how much, how long, and also to reveal their medical history for the rest of their life. The data could a coded number so that their name is not attached to the data. We might find out which of those drugs can do some good and which just kill the player early with no improvement in performance. Use the players as guinea pigs, if they want to dope themselves.
I didn't even know you could upend the board.
You can resign from the game (trash can icon), and the would-be winner cannot claim the win in the stats.
Mentioned this upstairs, but it's worth messing with your heads again:
Obama/Clinton.
Clinton/Obama.
I could enthusiastically support either ticket. Especially if they announce they'll appoint Edwards AG.
I'm not kidding about this...
It's always possible to get annoyed at people who simultaneously say it's only a game, that we pay far too much attention to sports, and then deny the obvious fact that sports is a multibillion dollar business, whose success is deeply involved with public and governmental intervention on a whole range of levels.
Specter is a jerk, seven ways from Sunday, not least because, after making some decent noises about an issue of constitutional law, proceeds to roll over and play dead. But his apparent silliness about a scandal that, compared to, say, steroid use, the wholesale corruption of the college game, the blackmailing of municipalities for new stadia and special-case pleading for antitrust exemptions, like that, is small potatoes indeed, mirrors his country's confusion about just what sports are all about.
Well I can see that no one here has any gumption when it comes to removing the scourge of Football from American shores. Eat your chips, drink your beer and revel in this gladiatorial pursuit, but you will rue the day.
"When I watch those big football players scoring home runs I am reminded of my days on the old gridiron playing defensive forward."
I was gonna make a joke about being the catcher on a hockey team, but I guess they actually have one, don't they?
'course, it's a bit like giving the pitcher a bat on the mound...
All Petty's early stuff is excellent, into the 80s. My favorite album is the underappreciated "Long After Dark". He began to lose me after "Southern Accents". The songwriting got stale and the instrumentation went too much toward strummy guitar stuff, not enough guitar-organ integration like the earlier material.
Why is congress wasting its time on this when they have not yet endorsed Easter.
rootless-e |
Good question. Following their 'Christmas' resolution they should have one declaring Easter to be a Christian holiday beloved by many Americans. And throw in a clause about 'Peeps' too!
In November 2006, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, (R -PA), whose home district includes Comcast, proposed legislation to repeal the NFL's antitrust exemption under the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961.
Specter's concern was based on the National Football League's NFL Network, which is held in an extremely limited number of homes, as compared to the other broadcasters of the NFL. For the 2006-07 NFL season, each NFL team will annually earn more than $120 million in shared TV money. The league's officials negotiated various deals with CBS, NBC, FOX, and Disney, and ended up with a six-year, $24 billion broadcast and cable rights contract. The television deals end in 2011. Additionally, DirecTV will pay $700 million every year through 2010 for its Sunday Ticket package. The NFL also decided to keep an eight-game Thursday-to-Saturday night package in-house, placing it on its NFL Network.
Both the Sunday Ticket and NFL Network became issues of concern to the Senator, whose district includes DirecTV rival Comcast. Comcast's Versus network attempted to bid for the eight-game package the NFL gave to their own network, but lost.
well, if true doc, they shouldnt get an antitrust exemption.
euphronius, Day Job
I think they should be regulated the same way that any other business should be regulated, which is heavily.
I'm not kidding about this...
steve simels
What, did you get a visit from Morley's ghost last night?
[checks calendar. Yep, it's Saturday. Scratches head.]
This may sound weird, but I'm looking forward to the Superbowl. Totally because of Tom Petty....
steve simels
Documentary on Sundance about him right now.
Fuck them all.
DWD - January is gone?
she's not even rich DWD - she's upper middle-class - but they like the rich are not like you and me and worse they are full time propagandists for the people and the system that keeps them in fat city - they don't just tell those lies on tv - they spend every waking hour of their lives telling those bs inside stories to their pals and famallies to justify, rationalize their whoredom -
Tom Petty. Roger McGuinn. Same person.
I have a hard time getting *mad* at football players. I mean, grab another beer or something.
Well, yes, Marcellina that was heartening.
Now, does that sound like you? Do you have SEVERAL diamond encrusted watches in your apartment on Central Park in Manhattan? 100,000 dollars worth of bullshit just sitting around. We are not talking about investments, just trinkets to amuse her ladyship.
Leslie Stahl joining 60 minutes was the beginning of celebrity journalism. We are forced to watch her cutesy, snarkly sex-kitten puss for her reaction after every one of her inane questions. Morley Safer must be spinning is his grave. I. Hate. Her.
elmer, phd.
If you have never seen this, you are in for a treat.
Clark, the Canadian Goalie Baseball Player.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h...h?
v=hdf4GeT4ELA
steve: absolutely, 100%. A goddamned unity ticket, when it's never been more necessary, but of a sort that actually addresses problems and offers solutions, rather than tries, with sublime indifference to fact and history, to wish the problems away.
Y'know, I'd bet they'll both hear this a few times, from a few directions. It'd change the country, and the world, if they listened. It'd instantly make them both bigger than they are, or could hope to be alone.
What, did you get a visit from Morley's ghost last night?
blerb, reefer mad
Bob Marley's ghost?
This is Professional Sports. Even pro football has degenerated into a spectacle little better than the World Wrestling Federation, and don't get me started on pro basketball.
not being a sports enthusiast of any stripe, i happened to watch last year's nba playoffs and was beyond freaked how much it reminded me of a cross between a gladiator freak show and that movie rollerball. the pregame spectacle is frightening .
I'm hoping I can avoid watching the Superbowl by like having to replace a leaky toilet or something.....
When will we have a president that moves to abolish Football. Until then, there will be no progress in this nation.
EkCenTriK | 02.02.08 - 10:33 am
I believe that was Teddy Roosevelt.
Tom Petty. Roger McGuinn. Same person.
Troutski |
At least Petty didn't change his name because some guru/numerolgist told him to.
McCain Reaps What He Sows [John Hood]
Over the past 48 hours, I've been watching and digesting the McCain vs. conservatism story unfold in the conservative and mainstream media — the anti-McCain statements, the anti-anti-McCain lectures, the anti-anti-anti-McCain rants — and it seems to me that a major element of the story is being ignored.
McCain is drawing fire from leading GOP conservatives because that's what he's worked towards for many, many years.
McCain is your new Lord and Master. You will bow and scrape whenever he's in your vicinity.
If he says, "Spread 'em," you will oblige.
I'm not driving up to Phoenix to watch the SuperBowl.
Eat your chips, drink your beer and revel in this gladiatorial pursuit, but you will rue the day.
EkCenTriK
You had money on Green Bay didn't you?
"I believe that was Teddy Roosevelt.
Tom - 大肚腩"
Eh?
Do you have SEVERAL diamond encrusted watches in your apartment on Central Park in Manhattan? 100,000 dollars worth of bullshit just sitting around.
I don't know what is in my apartment on Central Park. Who has time to track all that stuff?
Clinton and Obama could be each other's assassination prevention.
I don't know what is in my apartment on Central Park. Who has time to track all that stuff?
rootless-e
It's fucking ridiculously hard to keep good staff.
Great Oz sheets.
Hey, everyone remember Incog?
This guy: Ô¿Ô
he's over at AmericaBlog spouting some anti-religious, anti-Hillary, anti-hetero stuff.
He's very "anti."
This is Professional Sports. Even pro football has degenerated into a spectacle little better than the World Wrestling Federation, and don't get me started on pro basketball.
It's Vince McMahon's world and we just live in it
Lets all go Super Bowl Caroling during half time. We could dress up, knock on the doors of Super Bowl parties and sing beer jingles for free beer!
Leslie Stahl joining 60 minutes was the beginning of celebrity journalism. We are forced to watch her cutesy, snarkly sex-kitten puss for her reaction after every one of her inane questions. Morley Safer must be spinning is his grave. I. Hate. Her.
Jill |
If you ever hear a great snapping sound, presume it's Leslie Stahl face 'going' after one too many face lifts!
I really enjoy that late 80's Tom Petty stuff that Jeff Lynne produced (Lynne is a genius, IMHO), but my favourite Petty song is still "You Got Lucky".
You can resign from the game (trash can icon), and the would-be winner cannot claim the win in the stats.
Marcellina
Do I detect a slight undertone of annoyance here?
Scrabulous: Does it strengthen or destroy online friendships?
"You had money on Green Bay didn't you?
Nuts!"
No
I live in Texas and don't follow sports. Hell, I don't even know the rules to the game.
Lets all go Super Bowl Caroling during half time. We could dress up, knock on the doors of Super Bowl parties and sing beer jingles for free beer!
bill |
I'd copyright that idea!
I think they should be regulated the same way that any other business should be regulated, which is heavily.
Doc
Ah, would that it were so, grasshopper.
Unfortunately, the current administration (with the collusion of Congress) has successfully done such things as place mine owners on the Mine Safety & Health commission.
I think it safe to say that the NFL, MLB, NBL (what is pro basketball called?), and NHL would have the same kind of regulatory oversight.
I'd copyright that idea!
Bond, James Bond
First did it back in college. We did pretty well on the free beer
I live in Texas and don't follow sports. Hell, I don't even know the rules to the game.
EkCenTriK
Don't hang out at the local high school football stadium on Friday nights.
Specter originally was concerned about a potential cover-up and believed the destruction of evidence potentially compromised the league's integrity. He believed he was being ignored by the league after his office had faxed letters twice in the last two months without a response. Specter even suggested the league's antitrust exemption could be at risk but backed off from possibly calling Goodell before the Senate Judiciary Committee, of which he is the highest-ranking Republican.
Specter's priorities:
NFL destroying tapes of Patriot's spying - worthy of his outrage and ranting!!!
CIA destroying tapes of CIA agents torturing detainees in secret prisons, etc. - not so important.
portia: well said, and precisely nailed...
[look of complete cluelessness]
Sorry, JP, was on the phone with India trying to cancel Real Player.
For the fourth time.
Christopher Moore is a comedy writer - in the early chapter of "You Suck", two vampires rent out Chet, the Huge Cat, to drink some of its blood (without harming it).
"I believe that was Teddy Roosevelt.
Tom - 大肚腩"
Eh?
EkCenTriK | 02.02.08 - 10:48 am
Teddy Roosevelt threatened to outlaw football.
ended up causing major rules revisions instead to improve safety. things like 10 yards for a first down and linemen with a neutral zone and the forward pass.
sports are for j0cks not nerds if you are a nerd read this http://livelymoney.blogspot.com/
...principles.html
how to make yourself sound like a total douche bag, arlen edition:
"'There's a credibility issue here,' Specter said.
He stopped short of charging a cover-up, but warned that the judiciary panel may want to probe the matter.
In the meantime, Specter said he might miss Sunday's big game.
'I may play squash while it's on,' Specter said."
spector is senile
Specter is such a fucking jagoff. My humble wish is a Dem sweep of the Senate so we can shitcan any influence of Arlen, Lindsey and HolyJoe. What a bunch of morons. Perhaps the Senate and House should apply written tests for members, like applications for Jeopardy. Is there a way to pass a Constitutional amendment against rampant stupidity?
i certainly hope he's senile. otherwise, getting mouthy about "the integrity of football" and then saying that you'll be playing squash instead of watching the super bowl is patently ridiculous. i'd have given him a pass if he'd said jai alai, but squash—no way.
Specter actually referred to the CIA's destruction of torture tapes as he was discussing the NFL's conduct. He is daft. Someone get a net.
Let's see here, illegal spying, destruction of evidence... I suppose if we find out Dick Cheney is on steroids, the double standard will be complete.
Two things.
One, they need to stay out of sports. Politicians always look like David Spade in PCU trying to mess with the cool kids parties.
Two, how the hell does the minority on the Judiciary Comittee get to decide if someone is called before the comittee? Can't we pressure the Dems to not let this happen? There are a few more important things to deal with at this time.
Um, Snarlin Arlen is concerned about a COVER-UP? Because of the destruction of VIDEO TAPES???
Are you fucking kidding me? "Irony" doesn't begin to describe that.
the man is not going to watch the super bowl because HE SAID HE'LL PROBABLY BE PLAYING SQUASH! SQUASH!!
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