….and other things that make you think you’ve landed in Bizarro World. Or the Twilight Zone (I’ll take the latter, have had a school girl crush on Rod Serling and not George Reeves).
I’d like to think that right after this photo snapped, Roger Dodger was the recipient of a backhand bitchslap.
No.1: Not being a Cowboys fan, except insofar as I thought Tom Landry was the quintessential image of a coach and that Danny White was too damn cute to be real, I don’t pay much attention to them except when they are piling on the Saints. My introduction to Jerry Jones was via a 60 Minutes profile talking about his new stadium, and he came off like….well, like a narcissic jerk. But today, Jerry Jones is the hero of many football fans this week for his efforts to take out the odious Roger Goodell. I hope he succeeds. And other NFL owners are proud to display all the lack of awareness of the national climate that the Congressional majority leaders have been displaying since January, when they “threaten” him with the NFL version of the “nuclear option” to try and take his team away if he does. Perhaps they should think about doing a little polling. Because if they do this to Jones, start tolling the bell at Independence Hall.
No. 2: San Francisco won for the first time, after the despicable Eric Reid took a knee. He’s “carrying the [Krapperdick] banner.” Hope he carries it straight to the unemployment line. Maybe the Niners could offer him a $15 million contract and he could walk away from it as well. Then he and the GQ “Citizen of the Year” (still trying to nail down what country they might have been referrring to) can room together in the Tenderloin. Might be crowded with SJW “fiance” in the mix and never shutting up – oh and prayer rugs being hauled out .
In keeping with the upcoming holiday theme….
These Turkeys will be suiting up today: (Turkeys not suiting up? Jets, Colts, 49ers, and Panthers)
Lions @ Bears
Jaguars @ Browns
Ravens @ Packers
Cardinals @ Texans
Buccaneers @ Dolphins
Rams @ Vikings
Chiefs @ Giants (you lost to the 9ers, guys, anything you do now is a comeback)
Redskins @ Saints
Bills @ Chargers
Bengals @ Broncos
Patriots @ Raiders (this may actually get Football Savant Offspring to Mass this morning)
Eagles @ Cowboys
Monday’s Game:
Falcons @ Seahawks
NASCAR brings its 36-race season to a close at Homestead-Miami Raceway, and it just occurred to me that the sport begins and ends its season in Florida. Probably because it’s one of the few states that has decent weather in February and November. I will never understand the NASCAR points system, no doubt because they keep changing it and I’ve never been good with numbers. Here’s why. Last week, Martin Truex Jr. was 50 points ahead in the points race, had a decent finish in Phoenix and yet there is a four-way tie for the lead. This actually means the likely Champion will change throughout the race. I dunno….I’m smelling collusion and manipulation. Let’s go look for the Russkies! In any event, it will be fun to watch, even if you DON’T believe the race is won or lost in the “pits”.
The NHL has a nice slate, so check your local listings. Can someone explain “blue line” and “icing” to me? Wierd quetsions becuase I used to watch the Bruins faithfully in their Stanley Cup year in 1970. I didn’t really understand the rules, you understand. I just wanted to moon over Bobby Orr…
Islanders @ Hurricanes
Avalanche @ Red Wings
Senators @ Rangers
Kings @ Golden Knights
Panthers @ Mighty Ducks
The Golden Knights hail from “Vegas” – not LAS Vegas; just “Vegas” Why disrespect the “Las”? You don’t shorten the City 270 miles west to “Angeles”. Yeah, but I’m on the case and in the current climate, I figured it out. “Las” is female; “Los” is male. It’s misogyny. Has to be. It can’t be White Supremacy or Homophobia, so it has to be the choice from Column C.
And if If no one is saying “Las” anymore, just change the name of the town to “Vegas.”
In the PGA – final round in the RSM classic from Sea Island Golf Club in Georgia.
In the NBA, I imagine that they must be beside themselves with joy that three potential future players were released from China this week. They should be welcome with open arms since they already have a head start on a criminal record, with bonus points for criminal activity in a foreign country hostile to the U.S.
And this is your open thread for Sunday. And your reminder to start defrosting the turkey if you haven’t started already.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stancollender/2017/11/19/gop-tax-bill-is-the-end-of-all-economic-sanity-in-washington/#741ac29977ef
Wow, Trump derangement syndrome continues.
the blue line in the offensive zone is the line that the puck must pass first before any offensive player or they are off sides, the play is blown dead, and the puck is taken back to a face-off dot outside of the offensive zone.
icing is the act of clearing the puck from behind your blue line, past the center line, and over the other blue line. it is deemed icing when the opposing player touches the puck (but not the goalie). that said, the opposing team may not skate slowly and allow a puck to be iced, they must play it or the icing is waved off. if you ice the puck, the puck is brought back into your zone for a face-off and you are not allowed to substitute players.
you may ‘ice’ the puck at will to kill time when you are playing short handed trying to kill a penalty.
a bobby orr hat trick is when a player gets a goal, an assist and into a fight within a single game of hockey.
http://www.wideopenspaces.com/the-puckle-gun-machine-gun-from-300-years-ago/
@ coldwarrior:
You must gain the red line, not your own blue line, or its still icing.
Now that there’s no-touch icing (player safety) the whistle is blown once the puck crosses the goal line. Icing is also waved off if an offending teams player beats the other team to an imaginary line formed in the zone where the two faceoff dots align.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
which is what i meant…but clearly did not type!
rain of lead wrote:
a beautiful piece of craftsmanship.
what a quiet news day. Late this evening some rumors, people are still digging to confirm. You remember that congressional slush fund? It may be that some of the victims were minors. If that’s true, it wouldn’t be staffers, I don’t THINK interns, probably pages.
nite.
morning y’all
lets get right to the news, shall we?
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/11/19/talks-collapse-germanys-merkel-to-announce-inability-to-form-government/
Charles Manson is dead
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/europes-merkel-macron-may-less-popular-than-trump/article/2641178
@ rain of lead:
Mr Manson, meet Satan. Satan, I believe you already know Mr Manson.
@ right_wing2:
morning
sometimes I hate “interesting times” less than others
oh man,
I really want to see how this turns out
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/2017/11/self_taught_rocket_scientist_plans_to_launch_over_ghost_town?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=socialflow
meanwhile in mid eastern news
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/palestinians-threaten-put-hold-all-communications-trump
rain of lead wrote:
organ donor
assuming there’s enough left
wonder what insanity the news will bring today
@ eaglesoars:
maybe, but there’s this much –><— of a chance he could pull it off.
it did say he's done a big jump before
the NFL news
https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2017/11/nfl-suspend-marshawn-lynch-sitting-anthem-standing-mexicos/
@ rain of lead:
4 cats will need homes
cool science news
https://hotair.com/archives/2017/11/19/somebody-sending-messages-extraterrestrials/
political cartoons
https://legalinsurrection.com/author/afbranco/
Bill still got some “splainin” to do
http://dailycaller.com/2017/11/19/exclusive-bill-clinton-still-silent-about-flights-on-pedophiles-sex-plane/
http://dailycaller.com/2017/11/19/washington-post-defiant-alabama-voters-are-sticking-with-moore/
@ rain of lead:
“I never liked Roy Moore,” Steve Morgan, the vice-chairman of the Bibb County Republican Party, told the Post. “But guess what? I’m voting for Roy Moore, because I hate the stupidity that has invaded the Republican Party.”
well; I see ol Howard Dean had a nasty flare up of hoof and mouth disease
http://dailycaller.com/2017/11/19/howard-dean-tries-to-compliment-alabama-backward-blah-blah-blah-video/
rain of lead wrote:
ever been to Vermont? Say, Barre? Yeah, anybody from Vermont should keep their mouth shut about Alabama
Hillary praised Bill last night. For what? For staying off of twitter when he was President. You know, before twitter was created.
rain of lead wrote:
Burning in hell as we speak.
rain of lead wrote:
Stupidity indeed
How’s yer back, Rain?
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
Yeah I saw that. If a septugenarian conservative said that the press would go for the knives. Out of touch, too old, too white, etc
rain of lead wrote:
This is so heinous and horrible, and so wide reaching in the Dems.
Ruhro….Comrade Merkel can’t form a new govt….this triggers elections…
@ rain of lead:
Future Darwin Award recipient.
i hate doing plumbing. hate it with a passion.
dischwasher wont turn on??? hmm, breaker looks ok, alright, pull the washer out and check the circuit at the wires, hmmm, no power?
go back and check the electric panel…pull the mains and…aha!
i have a bad main breaker. OK, easy fix. go to lowes and get a new one and get some spares…fixed the electrics, i have power at the end wires to the washer. put it back together and…
…what the hell is that sound? *GRRRRRRR* the jagoff who installed the washer used copper line to run hot water to the machine and now it crimped and is leaking! WTF?????
off to the plumbing store to fix that jagoff’s lazy mistake.
I effing HATE PLUMBING!!!!!
coldwarrior wrote:
not a bit of pain
just gotta get my walking in today
that is all I am allowed to do for now
@ coldwarrior:
i hate it som much that i made mrs coldwarrior take me to sushi for lunch.
now all is better.
rain of lead wrote:
excellent, follow da rules!
you asked for it, now suffer.
sew……reap….. aint that a bitch?
https://www.weaselzippers.us/364706-msnbcs-joe-scarborough-claims-trumps-tweets-have-racist-overtures/
@ Weasel Zippers
Joe & Mika. Couldn’t just beat these two with a golf shoe?
coldwarrior wrote:
“room to destroy” – they gots it
and from today’s “The MSM is populated by really sleazy people”
The NYT has suspended Glenn Thrush, uber Trump hater,for ‘imposing’himself on young women who worked with him at Politico while everybody was getting drunk at bars after work. (Seriously, I don’t know how that works. How it happens more than once I don’t even get and if there are no complaints from his current co-workers, whose business is it?)
And Jake Tapper used to date Monica Lewinsky????
bwahahahaha
Rose frequently gave unsolicited shoulder rubs to several of them, behavior referred to among employees as “the crusty paw,” a former employee said.”…
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/11/20/the-bloom-is-off-the-rose-eight-women-outline-terrible-sexual-harassment-by-charlie-rose/
this just keeps getting better and better
the reason these guys are being offered up is because they are all tied to the Clinton’s, and therefore, now expendable????
sure starting to seem like it
RIX wrote:
we dont use metal spikes any more…
😆
new thread!
@ rain of lead:
sure is!
Newsweek
✔
@Newsweek
How murderer Charles Manson and President Donald Trump used similar language to gain followers http://bit.ly/2AYw9ib
3:10 PM – Nov 20, 2