I swore after Week 3, the week of “Let’s All Join Hands and Take a Knee Because Donald Trump is a big bully” that I was just not going to devote full columns to discussing these self-absorbed twits. But frankly, they really are the gift that keeps on giving. Especially when you tend towards the smart ass.
So I guess in the NFL, November is Salute to Service Month. I’m given to understand it always was the Salute to Service Month but for some reason it was the best-kept secret in the NFL up till now. But this year they seem to be going all out – all the coaching staff is wearing Camo, and there are PSA’s cut by the teams with them honoring a veteran. Tell me, do you guys bring the veteran out on the field with you for the anthem? You know, so he can get a front-row seat of you disrespecting the flag and the anthem of the country he fought for? He’ll be easy to spot – he’s the one standing at attention with his hand over his heart. Oh, and last week, the NFL apparently not only acknowledged its Patriotic base has for all intents and purposes disappeared but apparently where it had feld TO — it advertised it’s “Salute to Service” during a commercial broadcast during the NASCAR race. I’m sure the 1o or so race fans that didn’t get up for a beer while this annoying self-promotion was on had a few choice words for the screen.
While corner-eye watching last week, however, the number of fights and ejections by these idiots made me wonder if American anger with the league and their whole “SJW” BS is starting to get to them. Geez I hope so.
Let’s start with this choice little number, from the Bengals/Jaquars game. AJ Green puts on the chokehold and throws punches at Jalen Ramsey – now at the time it happened, the announcers said that they weren’t ejected but I found out later that yes they were. But please notice the yellow flag isn’t thrown after Ramsey’s shove, only after the Green chokehold – so why was RAMSEY ejected?
In the Saints game, Jameis Winston poked Marshon Lattimore, who turned and gave him a tweek, after which he was blindsided by Mike Evans, who apparently thought the game was over and the UFC had taken over the field.
Evans was NOT ejected from the game, but fined. Nice going there, refs.
Then Sunday evening, such a huge fight broke out during the Raider/Miami game that the refs ran out of yellow flags and started throwing their hats. I sincerely hope this isn’t a trend.
If the fighting gets really bad as the season progresses, they may have to resort to throwing other items of clothing. And depending on the game, I may be eating. Or I WAS. Unfortunately there is no video of lonely hats sitting on the field.
I can see it now. “Well, Chris it was pretty nasty out there. I count a total of 8 – EIGHT! – hats thrown on the field. And Ed Hoculi was at the point where he was removing his whistle!”
As the slide continues, here’s the Future Brawlers of America playing this week (Byes to the Ravens, Chiefs, Raiders and Eagles – nice: maybe I can get Football Savant Offspring to clean his room since he has no dog in the hunt/fight this week):
Saints @Bills
Packers @ Bears
Browns @ Lions
Steelers @ Colts
Chargers @ Jaguars
Jets @ Bucs
Bengals @ Titans
Vikings @ Redskins
Texans @ Rams
Cowboys @Falcons
Giants @ An Near-Empty Stadium at Santa Clara, CA
Patriots @ Broncos
Monday:
Dolphins @ Panthers.
In the NHL the guys I like to call “the Boys of Winter” are busy:
Devils @ Blackhawks
Oilers @ Capitals
Lightning @ Mighty Ducks (REALLY, Anaheim?)
Sharks @ Kings
NASCAR’s penultimate race takes the drivers back to the Southwest to Phoenix. Martin Truex Jr. maintains a 50-point lead in the Points Race, and here’s hoping as they head to the Home(stead) Stretch, he pulls off his first Championship. More on this next week.
In the PGA, the OHL Classic at Mayakoba is in its final round.
In the NBA, street thugs making millions will be bouncing a ball around a court dressed like idiots.
As always, it’s your Sunday Open thread, so discuss all the weekend news dump items here.
http://nypost.com/2017/11/11/turns-out-trump-didnt-ruin-americas-economy/
Hey, nevertrumpers….
@ coldwarrior:
They’re soooo desperate to say this is a leftover of Obama’s economic policies. Which is of course why he had such sterling quarterly GDP’s, right?
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
this is sooo fun to watch
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
Which is of course nonsense. the economy suffered for eight years under Obama, and he did not cause an economic
come back on his way out the door. The stock market is in large part driven by investor confidence , and Trump
has their confidence, Obama did not.
@ lobo91:
This election has been so educational
@ coldwarrior:
Yes it is. And the economy will REALLY take off if the corporate tax rate is reduced; which is why I imagine the RINO Establish and the Democrats are fighting it – would really show that the Trump policies would work and we can’t have that, of course. Forget what’s good for the country – what’s good for THEM?
Apropos of nothing, CW – after that Auburn blowout of Georgia – Flyboy and I were wonder how FAR Georgia is going to fall – no doubt Bama goes back to No. 1 – so how many spots do you think Georgia loses and will Auburn land? The Iron Bowl should be excellent this year.
well, it is the gulf coast and all.
😆
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
we will now hear how wonderful Miami is. their strength of schedule is a joke compared to UGA and Bama. UGA should not fall more than two or three places as their strength of schedule is way up there.
gonna be interesting
strength of schedule matters yugely.
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
precisely.
coldwarrior wrote:
Oh, its so much worse then your probably realize. What most people do not understand is, that nearly 80% of all proposed legislation submitted in both the House and the Senate are bills that technically constitute Extortion. That is why Mordor on the Potomac is drowning in Political Lobbyists. Its How turd burglars like Pelosi and McConnell who have salaries of mere hundreds of thousands of dollars a year manage to end up with tens to hundreds of million dollars fortunes.
The pukes in Congress write up proposed legislation that would for example make Hog Farming illegal in Rural Counties with populations greater to 10,000, and then they make sure that the Hog Farmer’s know about said proposed legislation, and how said legislation could be modified to not impact them should a political donation be made to whichever Congress Criminal wrote the bill.
Trumps tax policies and his other financial policies are seriously putting a knee into the Congressional Extortion capabilities. Remember Trump’s requirement that for every new regulation passed, two had to be eliminated? That was a size 16 Air Assault Jump boot put up Congresses Extortion practicing Ass.
The Deep State understands that Trump isn’t just eliminating the obvious corruption, he is going after their revenue sources as well. The Political Aristocracy doesn’t mind if their numbers get culled from time to time, they accept that as part of the charade they play. Going after how they finance their Criminal Syndicate on the other hand gets them quiet riled up.
@ coldwarrior:
Did you watch the carnage in Miami last night?
so is he setting himself up for an “I quit” scenario when they laugh him out of the room?
Report: Roger Goodell Seeking $50M Salary, Private Jet for Life in New Contract
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2743820
big earthquake in Iraq/Iran, 7.2 mag, 60+ confirmed dead
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-12/massive-quake-hits-near-iran-iraq-border-damage-reported-baghdad
RIX wrote:
i couldnt take it. so i shut it off.
Someone’s not clear on the concept:
lobo91 wrote:
Ah, we are back to the old “It’s not the nature of the evidence, it is the seriousness of the charges” in the democrat playbook. And the Palooka party members like Peter King jump right on board like a bunch of gangly teenagers following the cool kid.
lobo91 wrote:
So Peter, let’s turn things around here. Let’s say the dems decide to come after you next, are you going to be able to prove you are innocent of pedophilia charges for an accusation from 40 years ago?
@ AZfederalist:
I don’t believe that for a minute.
I heard it was bestiality
lobo91 wrote:
Forgive me, but IIRC even the claims didn’t involve anything violent and no actual sex occurred.
I know if true it’s sick, but maybe Peter King needs to go look at some of the “most hideous crimes” so he can lay off the hyperbole.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
Funny, isn’t it? When a dem is accused of something, the rest of the dems circle the wagons, go after the accuser and take care of their own regardless of how hideous the transgression. As such, Teddy Kennedy, Chuck Dodd, Barney Frank and others managed to remain in power for decades. When a Republican is accused of something, it’s a mad scramble by the republican leaders to the microphones to be the first to throw the accused, no matter how flimsy the evidence or the accusation, overboard and to the sharks. … and then turn around, smiling to both the press and the dems (but I repeat myself) saying, “see! We aren’t like that, we have high standards!” When it turns out down the road the whole thing was bogus they just shrug like doofuses and act like nothing ever happened.
It’s maddening.
As if Kasich hadn’t already committed political suicide over the last year or so, he doubles down on the stupidity.
http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2017/11/robert-farago/ohio-governor-john-kasich-bbq-pork-eating-surrender-monkey/
Yes, Kasich has come up solidly anti-second amendment.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
He should just switch parties
lobo91 wrote:
Yep, at this point it’s just becoming absurd.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
But his dad was a mailman. That’s gotta count for something.
/Not sure what, but he sure thinks that’s important.
@ AZfederalist:
My current mailman sucks.
It’s over. We are back.
you will never guess who tweeted this last nite
Yeb!
I can’t even……………….
https://twitter.com/JebBush/status/929541504187686912
@ eaglesoars:
Please clap.
@ eaglesoars:
FWIW, people are saying he’s tweeting about the Convicts victory over the Catholics on Saturday.
Can’t even twitter right.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
I didn’t see that in the comments (that I skimmed because I wasn’t sure what he was talking about). Was the timing right?
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
it gets worse
Kasich: Roy Moore Should Step Aside — ‘Everything in Life Can’t Be About Who Wins an Election’
translation: but I’m gonna run until I win SOMETHING
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/11/12/kasich-roy-moore-step-aside-everything-life-cant-wins-election/
I don’t know how credible this is but I’ll just leave it here
Jerry Jones Forfeiting Cowboys Reportedly Discussed by Owners over Goodell Saga
On Sunday, Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk cited a league source who said “multiple owners already have been discussing the possibility, which flows from Article VIII of the NFL’s Constitution and Bylaws.”
One of the sections of the article allows the commissioner to essentially force the forfeiture of a team if the owner “has been or is guilty of conduct detrimental to the welfare of the league or professional football” and a $500,000 fine is deemed “not adequate or sufficient.”
Florio granted such a move “would trigger years of litigation” and explained the notion of applying it to Jones specifically “comes from the belief among owners that Jones instigated Papa John’s CEO John Schnatter to disparage the NFL, blaming league leadership for ratings declines and, in turn, a reduction in Papa John’s revenues.”
nite
@ lobo91:
How the hell do you prove a negative?
right_wing2 wrote:
You can’t, of course. Which is the point
@ lobo91:
Two negatives make a positive, but two positives do not make a negative.
Yeah.
Right.
Fly out in a few hours for my surgery, not been able to sleep. God I hope they fix this right
coldwarrior wrote:
Did the same. It was like watching the Buckeyes vs Iowa all over again.
I wonder how much the Pentagon paid the NFL this time. Last time, they paid $5.4 million to ‘salute troops’, but that was during the Обама Regime.
Am I the only person who was clueless (again) about this?
U.S. Breaks Ground for New Permanent Military Base in Israel
https://pamelageller.com/2017/11/u-s-breaks-ground-new-permanent-base-israel.html/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
@ rain of lead:
god speed, sweetie.
AZfederalist wrote:
They must find for me the cries for McCain to step down when the New York Times published a story about his alleged affair with a staffer.
Deplorable Macker wrote:
They really went overboard yesterday. Camo sideline gear, camo towels, camo patches on the uniform.
But as Flyboy pointed out watching this — the American Flag goes on the LEFT shoulder, not the right, and you are not entitled to use the gold-bordered flag unless you have SERVED.
And of course, the 49-dirtbags had their resident kneeler, Eric Reid, there to disrespect everyone. He should have been told to stay in the locker room.
And let’s see, wasn’t it about 10 days ago that Krapperdick’s attention-whore attorney was saying that he was SURE he’d be signed by an NFL team in the next couple of weeks? How’s that going for you?
BTW, I need to ask a question about the Roy Moore thing. So if I understand it correctly, the 14-year-old goes on a “date” with Moore, is taken to a remote cabin and, to put it delicately, messed with a little. She then goes back a SECOND time?
http://nypost.com/2017/11/12/goodells-absurd-contract-demands-leak-and-this-is-getting-ugly/
@ NY Post
Roger Goodell is ruining the NFL brand coddling the kneeling thugs, but wants a humungus raise and perks.
Fire him.
@ RIX:
Eagles had a great point above – Goodell is making demands that make it impossible to renew his contract so he gets to say “they wouldn’t meet my demands” and walk away. He cannot be delusional enough to think that the league thinks he’s done a good job? If he is, he’s mentally incompetent to serve as the Commissioner.
When he goes, he can take that walking turd Joe Lockhart with him.
BTW, I hear there’s a big boycott of Keurig for pulling their advertising from Hannity based on a request from someone at Media Matters. Video on Twitter of people throwing their Keurig’s off a balcony and trashing them.
Is it just me, or does destroying a $200 coffee maker that you have ALREADY PAID FOR seem like a silly thing to do. If anything, don’t buy another one when it’s time to replace. And don’t buy “Green Mountain Coffee” pods as tha company is owned by Keurig.
Also, if Keurig made this decision based on a single tweet, they’re idiots. They might ask those advertisers who came crawling back to Limbaugh fared.
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
True, I would not destroy a coffee maker to make a point.
No matter what, I am not tossing out my Blue Moona.
Nothing like finding out at 9am about an interview at 12:30 pm, when you don’t have time to prep for it.
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2017/11/13/that-was-fast-keurig-ceo-bob-gamgort-backpedals-on-hannity-claims-it-was-outside-company-protocol/
@ Twitchy
Keuring now responds with gobbledygook.
right_wing2 wrote:
Good luck!
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
@ RIX:
I have idea why people get involved in trivia like this. I’ve been on twitter awhile, and tho it can be a great deal of fun, and a good source for news, I think because it’s so widely public it gives people an inflated idea of their own importance. It’s a lot like high school.
Well, we just got back from the final follow-up with Hubby’s surgeon and he got the all clear. No restrictions, back to normal. Sees the cardiologist on Weds for final med adjustments and that’s it. W00T!
Yep, every metro sexual guy’s idea of a role model.
Colin Kaepernick named GQ’s Citizen of the Year
https://twitter.com/axios/status/930066346943156224
Roy Moore is going to be a Senator from Alabama for the rest of his life
JUST IN: Attorney Gloria Allred to hold press conference today in New York with new accuser of former Alabama Judge Roy Moore
https://twitter.com/JesseRodriguez/status/930094610696851456
eaglesoars wrote:
Well, Allred is involved. I think we can confirm at least this accuser is fake.
@ eaglesoars:
On and HER accuser is of course claiming attempted rape. Naturally.
I hope when this is over, win or lose the election, Roy Moore sues EVERY one of these women for defamation.
They are counting on the fact that after the election they will be allowed to fade into the woodwork. This is a pattern and practice with Democrats that needs to stop.
I’m done with Twitchy and that muckraking piece of sh*t known as “Sarah D.” Never going back.
@ eaglesoars:
Thanks. There are 7 people interviewing for 3 positions. I’ll have an edge since I’ve been in the position before as a seasonal TL, but I don’t have the technical background that others might have. Should know by Friday.
eaglesoars wrote:
Great news….
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
look at this photo. see that portrait she’s holding? Is that supposed to be her at 16 or something?
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/11/13/beverly-young-nelson-roy-moore-gloria-allred/
this man held office in Alabama for 40 yrs. If fathers thought he was a threat to their daughters, the Atchafalaya Swamp is just across the border.
@ eaglesoars:
Yes.
My guess is she probably doesn’t have a photo of herself at 16 that makes her look attractive enough to substantiate her claims.
Pure Gloria.
They probably showed a guy on the boardwalk a picture from a magazine advertisement.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-secret-correspondence-between-donald-trump-jr-and-wikileaks/ar-BBEVstD
Wow, MSN has become desperate. This is their newest smear attack. Even in this attack they had to admit that Wikileaks was talking to Jr and he wasn’t really talking back. They specifically say “one-sided” communication.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Don Jr has already released the entire thread, the oversight committees have had it for awhile, and he’s got all of 3 tweets. I don’t know what The Atlantic thought it was scoring because it sure looks like an own goal.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
where’s the fucking yearbook he signed? she doesn’t have a pic in there?
eaglesoars wrote:
Agreed, and at least they got MSn.com to look stupid too.
This is a horrifying piece on the drug ravaging happening in parts of Penna.
http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/11/its_just_old_people_and_addict.html
@ eaglesoars:
There are rapidly increasing numbers of vehicles here around the burgh with window decals and bumper stickers reading “Shoot Your Local Heroin Dealer.”
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
I’m surprised at the number of inmates we have now who are heroin addicts. A year ago, it was mostly meth.
lobo91 wrote:
Yeah, we have a mix of both here in my town. Accounts for the massive uptick of crime (robberies and car thefts mostly), and the huge amount of hit and runs.
@ lobo91:
I wonder about supply. Heroin needs to be imported, whereas fentanyl I BELIEVE can be synthesized.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
@ lobo91:
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
I wonder what CW is seeing in trauma/ER
We’ve also seen an uptick in carfentanyl deaths and busts.
@ eaglesoars:
Probably a lot of dead young people.
http://triblive.com/local/allegheny/12166029-74/in-a-first-fentanyl-overtakes-heroin-in-allegheny-county-overdose-deaths
Cruz pulls support from Moore: Allegations merit ‘criminal prosecution’ if true
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/360205-cruz-pulls-support-from-roy-moore-allegations-merit-criminal-prosecution-if
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
my understanding is that fentanyl is ‘x’ times stronger (however that’s measured) than heroin, so I would expect a higher overdose rate.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
That’s an awfully big “if.”
And then there’s the issue of statute of limitations. We’re talking about stuff that allegedly happened almost 40 years ago, without a scrap of physical evidence.
What’s there to prosecute?
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
Yeah, I’m embarrassed. Daines pulled his support two days ago.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
Ted, allow me to introduce you to Statute of Limitations.
lobo91 wrote:
Nothing.
And Cruz was a prosecutor.
What’s that tell you about Cruz?
He could have said “There are too many questions” or something of the like, but no.
lobo91 wrote:
same thing that happened with crack. It killed off its customers
eaglesoars wrote:
Before that it was PCP. I remember talking to a cop back when I was in high school who said that they didn’t bother with the users, since they’d be dead soon enough. They only went after the dealers.
@ lobo91:
I had a friend who actually left the force because the PCP users were so violent, it got to the point where his first instinct was to pull his weapon. HE ended up in the ER 3 times. He had to quit before he killed somebody
eaglesoars wrote:
Anybody can make crack.
I only say this because I haven’t heard of any “fentanyl lab busts,” yet the process is pretty involved and the amount on the streets is alarming.
Like I said, lately, carfentanyl.
It’s not something an idiot can do.
Perhaps it’s being manufactured outside the country.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
Democrats circle the wagons, Republicans throw the accused to the sharks. … and all they have is accusations, no evidence. The accusation is all it takes
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
Well, if it’s involved and requires some smarts, its safe to say there aren’t many of them and they’re going to be located near a quick/easy distribution route. Like the 95 corridor.
uh oh. That Roy Moore year book autograph dated 1977 that says “Roy Moore 1977′?
http://www.businessinsider.com/roy-moore-yearbook-sexual-assault-beverly-young-nelson-2017-11
Can’t be. He wasn’t the D.A. He didn’t get his law degree until 1977 and then he went into private practice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Moore
eaglesoars wrote:
Oops. You’d think the dems would get people who are making false accusations and do a bit of research
@ AZfederalist:
I seriously think that they, along with everyone else (Deep State, GOPe), are doing this more than anything to prove to themselves that they can still do it after Trump’s election.
The Senate is already saying that they won’t “accept” him if he wins.
Expect mayhem if that happens.
AZfederalist wrote:
twitter is actually good for something. a few of us decided to go looking at the same time – approx – and are trying to get it out there. I’m stunned Moore’s people aren’t doing the same.
AZfederalist wrote:
yeah, except it was the GOPe. These people fuck up their own scandals
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
https://www.roymoore.org/About-Judge-Moore/
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
He graduated in 1977 with a Juris Doctor degree and returned to Gadsden to begin private practice with a focus on personal injury and insurance cases.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
I think we’re seeing conflation of terms: ‘prosecutor’ and ‘district attorney’
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
ok, no we’re not.
@ eaglesoars:
I gotta sleep, eagles.
I’m sure more will unfold by the time I get up.
Nite.
eaglesoars wrote:
But I still say that I don’t buy people thought he was dodgy for decades and continued to vote him into an office where he could determine who goes to jail. AND, I cannot think of ONE parent in the south who, if they thought this guy was a threat to their daughters, wouldn’t make use of the Atchafalaya. He gets banned from the mall but still gets voted into office? How does that even work?
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
me too. nite.
new thread, night yinz!
eaglesoars wrote:
This is the South. They are NOT afraid to go tell Papa and/or their brothers if some man manhandles them. Oh, and did she tell any of her friends afterward? Sorry, but there’s no way she would have kept this to herself.
The fact that Allred is her lawyer tells me she’s full of it.
coldwarrior wrote:
I should have, but it was like a train wreck. I couldn’t take my eyes off of it.
RIX wrote: