Your Clean Records = Clean Conscience” Tuesday Evening Open Thread

NFL News:

  • As expected, Aaron Hernandez’s murder conviction was vacated today, as a result of his suicide prior to the conclusion of his appeal.
    • This means his widow will be able to go after the Patriots for the remainder of his 2012 signing bonus.
      • but Odin Lloyd’s heirs cannot, because the law now says Aaron Hernandez didn’t kill Odin Lloyd.
        • unless they attempt to seek a trial in absentia & prove Hernandez killed Lloyd, and then use that verdict to sue for a percentage of the signing bonus the widow is going for. So, no.
    • Question: Would it be a Patriots move to take this all the way to SCOTUS to avoid paying?
  • As expected, they will pair Jay Cutler with Kevin Burkhardt on Fox’s “C” team, replacing John Lynch, who went to Santa Clara to beat Jed York into a man.
  • A three-over 75 put Tony Romo in 40th place, and out of contention for the US Open.
    • the highlight of his round was the 14th hole, where he reached the 600-yard par 5 with a 370-yard drive and a 225-yard 6-iron to within 3 feet; he tapped in the eagle.
    • the lowlight was fumbling the snap on the convert immediately putting his next drive in the water & triple-bogeying the 15th.
  • A construction timeline filed with the city has the Raiders’ Las Vegas stadium completed in June 2020.
    • According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, a 30-month construction time frame is ambitious compared with that of other recent stadium projects. Of the last four domed NFL stadiums built, none have been completed within 30 months.
      • By December 2017, they are hoping stadium site work begins, and that by January 2018 the stadium construction begins.

Finally, in Patriots-hate news:

  • Vegas not only lists the Pats as 3/1 favourites to repeat as champs (they were 7/2 last week), they are now favoured to go undefeated as well. They are favoured by an average of 6.5 points in each game next season.
    • their best odds of defeat are road games in Week 11 (Raiders, in Mexico City) and Week 15 (Steelers), where they are only favoured by 1.5 points.
  • the nfl.com “Power Rankings” are out. Their top-5 are:
    1. Patriots
    2. Falcons
    3. Raiders
    4. Steelers
    5. Packers

It’s voting day in BC today. As in the rest of Canada, we run on a “first-past-the-post” party system, so the leader of the party that wins the most electoral ridings (out of 85) becomes the first minister of the province, or “Premier”.

We have three main political parties:

  1. BC Liberal: centre-right to right-wing (foreign equivalent = Democrat)
  2. BC NDP: centre-left to left-wing (foreign equivalent = UK Labour)
  3. BC Green: they say centre; policies are left-wing (foreign equivalent = German Green)

There is no equivalent for the Republican Party in Canada. The closest might have been the Wildrose Party in Alberta, and they are in the process of dying due to internecine battles & borderline racial separatism. Federal Canadian Conservatives lack the social conservatism that is a hallmark of American right-wing politics.

Our choices for Premier are

  • An entitled, smug lady,

  • A barely-controlled rage monster,

  • and an affable climatologist whose vote-splitting will hand power to one of the other two.

Polls predict a narrow BC Liberal victory, maybe winning 50 seats. It all depends on how deep the Green-NDP split goes.

I will probably head down to my local MLA’s campaign party for some free cocktails once the polls close at 8:00. I figure she owes me, due to the upcoming summer overpass construction.


Tonight’s sports:

  • NHL:
    • Senators at Rangers – 7:30PM | NBCSN / CBC
      • Game 6; Ottawa leads 3-2
  • NBA:
    • Rockets at Spurs – 8:00PM | TNT / TSN
      • Game 5; series tied 2-2
  • MLB:
    • Yankees at Reds – 7:00PM | FS1
    • Cleveland at Blue Jays – 7:00 PM | Sportsnet1

C’mon Sens – DO IT FOR MAESTRO!

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A Canadian man-child of indeterminate age, he stays young by selling alcohol at sporting events and yelling at the patrons he serves. Their rage nourishes his soul, and their tips pay for his numerous trips to various sporting events.
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Shogun Marcus

Probot below put me in a lemmy mood.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=uJ7Voy9YK1I

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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LemonJello

“Is it drafty in here or is it just me?”

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Canada still has a large population of beavers.

LemonJello

Eh?
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LemonJello

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Redshirt
Redshirt

Friendly reminder that the NFL Regular Season is only 121 days away:

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JustStopDude
LemonJello

The National Disgrace fined James Harrison $25000 for this hit.

scotchnaut

Karllssonn iss theee besstt ppplayerr in theeee the league rrrighttt nnnoww.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

http://cdn.fansided.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/229/files/2013/10/scaredfan.gif

At a Rockies game a guy did something similar in front of me; skinned up his knuckles diving to get there before some 11 year old kid; CLASSY MLB fans.

Unsurprised

I can’t imagine how that team’s name became a nickname for Americans.

Redshirt

Welcome to America, where the rights of a dead guy mean more than the survivors of the people he murdered.

JustStopDude

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
LemonJello

Sploosh?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
LemonJello

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Unsurprised

I need to do research into her when I get home. Only because I don’t want to do something at Starbucks that would put me on a sex offender registry. Plenty of us are on that already.

LemonJello

“Son, this is why I told you to bring your shiv with you.”

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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LemonJello

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scotchnaut

“Welcome to the Harvard-sponsored CEO beginners program!”

Unsurprised

That does seem to be the main criterion to get into Harvard.

JustStopDude

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scotchnaut

I’ve never been emotionally invested in the well-being of your country until these last few months. As a dumb-ass from the outside looking in…it just doesn’t seem right.

Shogun Marcus

You see it too?! Whew…thought I was tripping balls again.

scotchnaut

The rhetoric from the Right is taken at face value by a large number of your countrymen-that’s something that you must address in some way. I just don’t think the “left”/Democrats have an answer to that right now or have for the last dozen or so years. Everyone on the left seems to think that what’s good for everyone is completely obvious to everyone but it clearly isn’t.

Unsurprised

It seems obvious because they think Americans are decent people. We are not. This is why we’re a fascist plutocracy.

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem

HEY! Christina Hendricks seems pretty decent!

litre_cola

Agreed, I wish it was just a tv series as it appears from up here but sadly it is not.

JustStopDude

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litre_cola

Posey is the best catcher in baseball (come at me), the rest of the Gigantes this year are utter garbage.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Not easy hitting a stationary glove from that distance from your knees.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Well, that’s what SHE SAID anyway.

Redshirt

Currently playing?: Agreed. No question. He’s the best.
All time?: YOU WANNA TAKE THIS OUTSIDE?!

http://s.hswstatic.com/gif/johnny-bench-hof-1.jpg

litre_cola

I served him when I was the sommelier at the Westin Turnberry in Scotland (now the Trump Turnberry smh) he was one of the nicest guys to chat with.

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem

Wasn’t “sommelier in Scotland” one of Alanis Morissette’s lines in Ironic?

scotchnaut

Trump: “Thank God all these losers that I fired signed Non Disclosure Agreements.”

PA: “Ah. It’s not. Uhh. The thing is…” [calls his lawyer]

Gratliff
Shogun Marcus

All the metaphors for the things. Take your pick.

Col. Duke LaCross

Goddamn Verstappen. Talented kid, but drives like a dickhead.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

What is up my Comey??!?

Shogun Marcus

“My book deal advance and speaking engagements fees muthafucka!”

Gratliff
Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Need to delay Russia collusion investigation. ….. or maybe because things.

King Hippo

Most Glorious el beisbol Cardinals are starting LF called up from AAA and CF called up from high-A, thanks to injuries. But they are kicking ass, natch.

#CardinalWayWOO!!

King Hippo

So…an OTT/Smash final is humanity’s best hope?

litre_cola

Well for all of us who dislike Bettman a Ottawa/Edmonton would give him a heart attack. I believe that he would see a Nashville victory as a win for him putting teams in the South.
I do not want Edmonton to win, I would be happy with an ICE REDBLACKS win tho.

King Hippo

Pulling for EDM (not v. OTT) but they’ll blow G7 @ Disney.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Senor Weaselo

The Rangers think they’re going to pull a Senators, aren’t they. They’re not, I hope they know that.

King Hippo

Sens woo! How is Cuse lookin?

scotchnaut

Still got 3 spots to fill schollie-wise and one of the guys (Tucker) is most certainly headed to Duke. I’m generally hopeful.

King Hippo

Just break the Dookie’s kneecaps and we good.

scotchnaut

Hippo, how are the basket-balling Wolfpack looking?

King Hippo

Also a flaming bag of shit. Almost every player from last year’s team is leaving.

King Hippo

I would pay triple the price for an MLB.tv that wasn’t a flaming bag of shit.

How is this worse than fucking free ESPN3 streaming?

scotchnaut

“I respect your goalie.”

-Sens fan

/facking hell of a save

litre_cola

Yes, here in Albertastan (recently renamed due to a lefty protest vote win) the Wild Rose Party is the equivalent to Le Pen’s party in France, and also your current president. They try as hard as they might not to say or do something homophobic/racist/elitist but some of them older white folks just say what they think. Fortunately they are vote splitting with the Conservative party hence our lefty provincial government. I guarantee it will not happen next election, we will get back to the earth raping, no taxes, no social services (in comparison to to other provinces) haven that Alberta has been the past 50 years.

King Hippo

Ted Cruz is sooooo jelly of teh muthaland

litre_cola

Oh he would lead those xenophobes for certain.

herodotus450
Unsurprised

Oooooooooh

scotchnaut

4 minute penalty?

/may as well bang the missus and come back for the last 2 minutes of the power play…

Senor Weaselo

It’s okay, take your time, you won’t miss anything.

scotchnaut

An extra 30 seconds to “warm her up”?

/I don’t think that now is the time to try new things

litre_cola

Well done scotchy, legit laugh.

King Hippo

Shit like that at your advanced stage of matrimony will get yo’ ass accused of having an affair, , ppl forget that.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

WHAT ARE YOU??!!? SOME KIND OF MARATHON MAN!?!?!?

Senor Weaselo

I see it’ll be a race between CC Sabathia and the Ice Giants about who can piss me off more today, that’s always fun.

King Hippo

Have you considered a nice opiate habit? It’s fun and mostly legal!

scotchnaut

HOFFMAN!!!

King Hippo

That diarrhea smoothie is in the blender…

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

Am I too encouraged if I say the L.A. Chargers could eke out a wild-card spot if — if — they stay healthy? Please stay healthy.

Hiring Gus Bradley has already seen to that…

Also, how the hell is it that the only team to lose to the Browns last year is at 24? It’s almost like power rankings are just speculative word vomit disguised as #content…

King Hippo

If anybody knows about getting over the hump and in the playoffs, it’s Gus Bradley.

And at the mere mention of “hump” Lady Laserface is preggers again.

Brick Meathook

That election slate would make a good sit-com:

The barely-controlled rage monster dad and his entitled smug lady wife have hilarious adventures in their daily lives along with their son the affable climatologist. And their other son, the gay state trooper. And their daughter the nun.

Now here’s the twist: they’re all practicing snake handlers!

litre_cola
Senor Weaselo

So after the dinged windshield a week ago, I got a flat today. So let’s see if the Rangers either mitigate or extend my contempt with the world! Yanks are up 2-0 though, so that’s not awful.

King Hippo

FUN FACT! My racist, Sens fan ex-gf was a Yuuuuuuge NDP booster. Go figure, eh?

Unsurprised

Figures

litre_cola

That is a bit odd, as the NDP are not racist.

scotchnaut

“Do it for Maestro”

Jeez Rob, I’m right here.

Redshirt

What did I just watch?

Shogun Marcus

Dave Grohls superstar jam band of course! With the late Lemmy.

scotchnaut

/reads nfl.com Power Rankings

Grrrr!!! The Giants weren’t going to draft a starting O-lineman in the 3rd fucking round! Jesus Banana Christ! Can people get that through their heads?

Unsurprised

There is no equivalent for the Republican Party in Canada.

Then how did Stephen Harper happen?

scotchnaut

The conservatism of Harper was nothing like today’s Republicanism is what I think he was getting at.

Unsurprised

Question: Would it be a Patriots move to take this all the way to SCOTUS to avoid paying?

Fuck. Yes.

Additionally, Roger Goodell’s boner already filed an amicus brief at the mere mention of denying a player or his estate their rightfully-earned money.

ballsofsteelandfury

If BC liberal is centre right to right wing, wouldn’t that make the equivalent the republicans? This is the first time I’ve heard “democrats” and “Right” in the same boat.

Unsurprised

We don’t spend enough time off DFO then.

The civilized world considers the U.S. rightfully so to be batshit-fucking-crazy conservative to the point of always teetering right on the fringes of classical fascism. Socially, the Democrats talk a good game about liberal social policies but don’t actually work towards them or even really try. Sure, they throw a token “everyone should be equal” schtick, but equality ≠ equity and even the standard-bearer for liberal intellectualism, the New Republic, is still racist as fuck towards African-Americans. The soft bigotry of liberals in America – from low expectations to outright NIMBYism (equality and desegregation is great, just not if they actually have to do anything that would put them in contact with darker people) – is pervasive and insidious and is only overlooked because the right-wing literally treats minorities like they are not human.

That said, European social liberals are also just as big a bunch of fucking scumbag racists and idiots. It’s easier for them to have liberal state programs because of their, until recently, hyper-homogenization. It’s the same reason why the most liberal cities in the U.S. are also the whitest and most segregated – because people will protect and support their neighbors, just so long as their neighbors look and act and believe the same things they do.

Anyway, we’re all scum and I hope humanity goes extinct soon. This is exhausting.

Gratliff

USA: Slighty Less Crazy Than Iran Weather Permitting

Gratliff

In reality, America is center-right. We’re a puritan nation that makes long-delayed, half-steps towards progress, before getting even that drastically reduced to the smallest fractions by conservative pushback. Hillary, touted as being dangerously liberal during the election, is a bank-friendly centrist who believes in a strong military and whose husband signed off on one of the most harmful criminal justice bills of all time. Bernie Sanders would be middle-of-the-road in most non-theologies.

http://i.imgur.com/3y0LLaq.png

Unsurprised

I would never say center right. We are an extremely right-wing country.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

How do I bet all my money against the Patriots going undefeated?

Unsurprised

Bovada?