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NFL News:

  • Injury reports!
    • Cam Newton is dealing with a Lisfranc injury, and will miss at least this Sunday for sure.
      • If second-year backup Kyle Allen can get them past the Texans, then they have the Jaguars and Buccaneers on deck before a Week 7 bye.
        • Allen did go 19-of-26 for 261 yards and four touchdowns against the Cardinals.
    • Saquon Barkley is out 4-8 weeks with a high ankle sprain.
      • The Giants are avoiding the IR designation because they are unsure how severe the injury actually is, and IR is a mandatory 8-week sit.
  • Adam Vinatieri didn’t retire as some predicted, and went 5-5 on kicks last Sunday, scoring nine points total.
    • They needed it too, because just Jacoby Brissett wasn’t going to beat the Falcons.
  • Antonio Brown updates:
    1. He has enrolled in social media studies at Central Michigan, proving that you’re never too unemployable to go back to school.
      1. According to ESPN, he is registered in four online classes: Introduction to Management, Technical Writing, Death and Dying (a religion course) and Racism and Equality (a sociology course).
        • Online studies makes sense, because I’m assuming the campus Womyn’s Center might have a protest or two organized for outside his block.
      2. The Patriots have joined the Raiders in refusing to pay Brown his signing bonus.
        1. According to PFT, while he did earn a game check of $283,333, they are declining to pay the $9.0 million signing bonus because they believe he misled them about his legal troubles, which would (in their eyes) invalidate their deal.

Finally, the ex-firefighter who burned Nelson Agholor is being invited by him to a game.

https://twitter.com/nelsonagholor/status/1176288623550853120

That’s some quality high road after a very solid…

Non-football notes:

In today’s punching you in the feels news: Today would have been Jim Henson’s 83rd birthday.

And somehow Dan Snyder still walks the earth.

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Now, dear members of the Commentist Party, while I may not be a real lawyer,

I think this might be the best damn legal decision in the history of mankind.

 

Stealing verbatim (legal term!) from the BBC:

“By an illness, one should understand even small or temporary disruptions to the normal state or normal activity of the body.”

This, it said, includes the tiredness, nausea and headaches commonly associated with hangovers – and which the company, which was not named in the ruling, claimed its shots and powders could cure.

The ruling comes just days after the annual Oktoberfest beer festival kicked off in Munich.

FINALLY, a legitimate way to use my sick days, if only I could get a Canadian court to harmonize this.

Tonight’s sports:

  • MLB:
    • Orioles at Blue Jays – 7:00PM | Sportsnet

      Fozz loves O’s baseball!
    • Cleveland  at White Sox – 8:00PM | ESPN / TSN
    • Dodgers at Padres – 10:00PM | Sportsnet1
  • 2019 Rugby World Cup:
    • Fiji vs. Uruguay – 1:15AM | TSN / NBCSN Gold
  •  NCAA:
    • College Soccer:
      • Notre Dame at Michigan State – 7:00PM | FS1
    • Women’s College Volleyball:
      • Alabama at Texas A&M – 9:00PM | ESPNU
  • WNBA:
    • Game 4: Washington Mystics at Las Vegas Aces – 10:30PM | ESPN2 / TSN5
  • WWE:
    • Smackdown – 8:00PM | USA / Sportsnet360
      • the last episode on USA before moving to FOX next Friday.

Pretty much everything Jim Henson did was gold, and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEnC5gwNAN0

Fucking onions.

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theeWeeBabySeamus

Arizona and St. Louis are really starting to piss me off.
SOMEBODY SCORE ALREADY!!!!!!

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ALXMAC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLKzBOIkLsQ

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Brick Meathook

My latest bartender:
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Brick Meathook

I was just talking with a local musician here in St. John’s Newfoundland and we agreed that there‘s probably not enough Irish folk songs about fishing disasters written, and that’s why every Irish bar band plays the same three fucking songs over and over.

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King Hippo

Not enough survivors 2 rite the songs ,, smh

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ALXMAC

Not Irish but close enough:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HwBhIImG30

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Redshirt

To the neighbor operating a saw in 10:45 PM in the first night where you can turn the A/C off and leave your windows open, may you taste wood shavings in your food for months.

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King Hippo

we’ve had a grand total of TWO nice days this September, and the forecast says that is all there will be. North Cakalaky really grinds on my ass sometimes.

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Sharkbait

That’s not even right

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Brick Meathook

Let’s not forget the Pittsburgh fentanyl victims:

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Wakezilla

Thoughts about today: An Impeachment inquiry isn’t an impeachment and an impeachment isn’t a conviction. This seems to be a short-sighted and huge risk in an election year. The Dems have a better chance of taking Trump down at the election. All the impeachment inquiry does is make Trump the issue for 2020 candidates, versus, say, healthcare or gun control climate change.

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herodotus450

People don’t care about guns and are too stupid to care about healthcare. They gotta make trump the issue.

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King Hippo

Well, the people who DO care about guns are the peoples who own lots and lots of them. Otherwise, gun control support is a mile wide and a millimeter thick.

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King Hippo

It’s a landmine, but the Dems are staying in line for once, and seem to be using both strategy and tactical awareness. I am cautiously optimistic (not of conviction, but winning the PR battle and the 2020 election).

All corners of the Big Tent seem pretty fired up this time. Our people show in large numbers, that’s a winning hand (even beyond the margin of dirty pool).

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WCS

It’s a YUGE risk/reward move. It’s not as is if the Senate will actually convict him. If anything, this might piss off enough voters to vote against the Dems next year.

Frankly, I just don’t know anymore. If you need me, I’ll be in the kitchen, where the bar is.

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Cuntler

“This might piss off enough voters to vote against the Dems next year.” Really? I don’t know one single person that hasn’t made up their mind about Trump. This is faulty logic.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

With apologies, Wakezilla, but I have heard this exact same sentiment from concern trolls for the last three years, intended to get Democrats to back down. It was hatred of Trump that led to them to win the House in 2018, and if they can duplicate a similar margin of victory they will win the presidency in a walk, no matter who the nominee is. They don’t have to fear that taking action will energize Trump’s supporters; they have to fear that inaction will demoralize their own.

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ballsofsteelandfury

The BIG question, though, is what exactly are the Democrats doing to prevent another electoral college victory when the majority of the country doesn’t support the candidate? What are the Democrats doing about gerrymandering? What are the Democrats doing about how Trump is filling courts with judges friendly to his cause?

Those are the long term issues and they’re not doing anything about them because they are under the mistaken belief that it will be fine once they’re in power and THEY can take advantage like the Republicans have.

That’s horrible for democracy and our country and they’re letting it happen.

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King Hippo

If haven’t already, read the excellent book “Nixonland” – this right-authoritarian machine (of which Herr Fuhrer is its culmination) has been a long time building, while everybody else was distracted trying to provide good government. It won’t, CAN’T be undone overnight. And it’s very hard when there’s nobody to negotiate with to find common ground. They’re completely led by nihilists now.

Just have to start one step/battle at a time. Otherwise, one gets overwhelmed and gives up. WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT THE NIHILISTS WANT.

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ballsofsteelandfury

The Democrats have fresh voices like AOC and others, but it seems they are stifled by the Establishment Democrats that are used to the old ways.

If the Democrats can’t hold a United front, how can they hope to undo what has been building for a while?

We really need a third party.

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King Hippo

they ARE holding a united front, and AOC is valued by leadership (and by people across the Big Tent). Pelosi didn’t do anything impeachy earlier BECAUSE she wanted to present a united front, and she had no problem with members of the caucus pushing the issue while that foundation was being laid. Of course AOC’s not leading the goddamned caucus from day 1, but she hasn’t been marginalized or frozen out in any way.

Our system isn’t set up to function with 3+ parties, which is indeed a problem. If you had to assemble a true “governing coalition” you’d have better, more responsive government.

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ballsofsteelandfury

It would be nice if that’s the case. I just saw her go out on a limb with her Green New Deal only for no one in her own party to fully support her. It seems they let her be a sacrificial lamb, but I’m not sure they even got anything in return…

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King Hippo

she’s moving the Overton window to the left, and she has shown herself to be VERY strategic for such a new Congresswoman. All corners of the party give her good marks (even those who were originally skeptical) everywhere I read.

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

The green new deal has changed the narrative on climate in the primary. She won on the green new deal.

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ballsofsteelandfury

But will climate change even be an issue in the general? That’s Wakezilla’s original point.

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

Yes. GOTV for younger voters

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King Hippo

It will be part of the next governing agenda. Most Americans aren’t issue-based voters. The key is having all Dems taking climate change seriously, and knowing their feet will be held to the fire by activists going forward.

They will run on whatever fucking wins, which is exactly what I want. You just can never have someone leading the ticket with low charisma/political ability. HillyBob proved that forever.

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King Hippo

Off the record over a beer, she would agree with you. Guarantee it. We need more strategic thinkers like her, in all ideological corners of the party.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

We won’t have a realistic third party until we have ranked choice voting, and we won’t have ranked choice voting until the left unites sufficiently to make it happen. The Overton window shifts in a huge way to the left when that happens, which is why the right are going to fight it with everything they’ve got.

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King Hippo

THIS, all day.

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Unsurprised

Did you see how North Carolina Democrats ended up going with a heavily gerrymandered plan after the last was so illegal even the post-VRA federal courts laughed it out? They decided to protect themselves and their districts at the expense of their constituents and the public as a whole, give this grossly unconstitutional plan political and legal cover by voting heavily in its favor, and exposed themselves as venal scum who will face no consequences because they’re already set in a game that is rigged even if it’s not as set as if they could or would ever win the majority.

Take that and apply it to Congress and you have what will be the inevitable result for 2020 overall. If you think most congressional Democrats give a shit about democracy, the rule of law, the Constitution, or literally anything other than preserving their own power then you haven’t been paying attention since 1992 and I would joke about selling you beachfront property in Arizona except that’s also now inevitable and for the same reasons.

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King Hippo

the state party here is in bad, bad shape. There are up-and-coming folk in Wake County specifically, but they need time.

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Unsurprised

I worked for and with legislators in a state where the Democrats controlled both houses for decades and almost the entirety of NM’s statehood and this is how redistricting is done there and in every other state. It’s how it’s always been done. These guys got exposed, but it doesn’t matter because people know in other states and it still goes on.

Maybe they will by the time there’s a clear D-leaning population majority, but I’m a cynic.

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King Hippo

Every state should do it like CA’s commission. Question is, how do you make that happen? Holder’s group is a start, but that’s all.

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Unsurprised

Obama assembled the largest, most advanced political mobilization operation in the world in 2008 and then he turned it over the to DNC, which suffocated it in its crib because they didn’t want to actually be responsible for anything and didn’t like the idea that mobilized citizens could tell them what to do – especially if what to do would be to fuck off and die like the worthless pigs they are,

There’s only one candidate building anything similar, and he’ll never win, and his supporters will not only never participate alongside the Dems and others but will be actively opposed by both Dems and Republicans. Maybe they can work entirely outside the parties, but the parties will also do everything in their power to kills any movement they don’t control because it would be an existential threat to them. And because that’s what they have done every other time one has arisen – from the Know-Nothings to Populists to the Socialists (having the Red Scare used to imprison or exile that party’s leaders helped a lot) – and is why politics has been the province of these two parties for 160 years.

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King Hippo

yeah, we discussed this before. Obama fucked up and didn’t press his advantage. It was too much faith to be put in one (fallible, I will never believe he acted in bad faith) man. We have to go about it the hard way now, which the next generation will hopefully make happen.

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ballsofsteelandfury

Which candidate is that?

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Unsurprised

It’s a way of keeping the people they want on both sides around because they all work together every day. I never bought into this collegial bullshit of being warriors during the day and then being friends at night because I’m crazy and cannot and will not be friends with people who share existential differences on matters of life and death.

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ballsofsteelandfury

Exactly.

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SonOfSpam

Wait, I’m confused…the courts just threw out the REPUBLICAN redrawn map. Unless you’re talking about something that happened a while ago…

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Unsurprised

This is about the map they just approved after that one was tossed out.

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King Hippo

which the party itself didn’t support, but there is no discipline over lazy representatives who don’t want to have to bother with campaigning. The court could still reject it, and hopefully will.

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Unsurprised

Hopefully. But like better informed people than me have said, them voting in favor of it gives the Republicans a legal argument in court that its biases are acceptable to both parties.

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King Hippo

yes, it does. And the members who did so were being selfish assholes. Which happens quite a bit (see also, what happened with the NY Senate the last decade).

It’s getting harder because sunlight is being thrown at it now.

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Unsurprised

To their credit, the IDC was broken and its members thrown out when exposed and when there was a concerted effort made against them by progressive Dems and the Working Families Party. So maybe it’ll happen in NC and other states in time.

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King Hippo

right – it took 10 years of damned hard work. I think you’ll need 20 years to get the ship turned around significantly, nationwide.

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

Trump already is the issue for 2020. The bigger ramification here is making Susan Collins, Corey Gardner, et al defend the POS-in Chief while they’re running for reelection.

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SonOfSpam

And pack the fucking court. Or get rid of Kavanaugh/Gorsuch. Whatever.

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King Hippo

Important to have a chance to win the Senate, or better yet – with enough numbers to abolish the filibuster.

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SonOfSpam

“But the norms!” say people who aren’t sick of McConnell’s shit yet.

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King Hippo

we can talk norms again when we get the Merrick Garland Supreme Court seat back, and they quit being led by nihilists.

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Cuntler

Hard disagree.

First, no one who isn’t going to vote for Trump is suddenly going to be like, “Well, now I am voting for him because impeachment is so . . . uncouth!!” There is already so much dirt and malfeasance by this guy that I don’t see how it backfires.

Second, an impeachment inquiry will get more people to talk to Congress than would otherwise talk, will bring out more Presidential and advisor malfeasance than otherwise, because we know there is lots of malfeasance (Shit, how many were indicted/convicted under Mueller?).

Third, an actual impeachment would mean Trump would have to testify, which means perjury x 800. If if he is not removed from office, it will be days of hearings that basically show how corrupt and unfit this motherfucker is. He would open the door to so many crimes during his testimony that it will be an embarrassing failure of epic proportions. Trump on the stand and Trump’s incompetent advisers on the stand will be terrible for his GOP supporters and enablers.

Finally, apathy in voting (along with suppression, of course) led to his election (i.e., the “they both suck!!!” people didn’t bother voting in rich white suburbs, leaving to old white boomers who always vote to elect him. Again, fuck Wisconsin and Michigan.). Politically, it makes no sense to pander to Trump’s base, as they are a lost cause, but Dems must focus on driving up voter turn out. If impeachment shows how unbelievably shitty this guy is, more people will show up to vote him out. It actually makes the most sense over doing nothing and hoping they win on the issues (which they won’t).

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Brick Meathook

What the hell time is it there?

It’s 11:50 here. I think PM.

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ballsofsteelandfury

What are you, in Adelaide?

/Why Eagles Why smiles knowingly…

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Brick Meathook

St. John’s Newfoundland. Tonight I’m swimming to London, should be there by Friday.

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herodotus450

Newfies have a :30 minute timezone I think.

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Brick Meathook

You are correct.

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Viva La Tabula Raza

So do Afghan peoples. Fucking weird.

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Senor Weaselo

Dirt ‘Dacted clinch a playoff spot, at home, against the Dirt Iggles, by sweeping a doubleheader, also officially KOing the Phils. Cue the laughing at Bryce!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxXEPk3dzFg

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King Hippo

Dirt Packers would have to have a Marshall football plane event in order not to make it now (for the right to lose to Strasbourg).

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ballsofsteelandfury

The Democrats are the 2019 Cleveland Browns. Everyone has such high hopes for them to actually achieve something, but they’ll invariably find a way to fuck it up.

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Sharkbait

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Unsurprised

I’m like the groundskeepers in Major League. They can win the equivalent of the World Series or Super Bowl in your Browns simile and I’ll still say they aren’t shit because they aren’t shit. They will never be worth shit.

But here, with the impeachment, they will 100% fuck it up because they are weak and stupid.

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Sharkbait

Man I missed Good Eats

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ballsofsteelandfury

So great. He hasn’t lost a step.

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King Hippo

Chi**** is losing 9-2 to the Dirt Yinzers, who last won in like mid-August, IIRC. So much evil joy in mah black #BFIB heart for our breaking their will so thoroughly.

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herodotus450

Women named Heather, yeah or hell yeah?

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SonOfSpam

Catch her early.
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litre_cola

Heather Brooke was talented.

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Sharkbait

Damn right.

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Viva La Tabula Raza

Would still do. Ya get less picky with age.

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King Hippo

I actually am getting MOAR picky, since it takes sommet really good, uh….to keep the plumbing lines functional.

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King Hippo

1) I loved that fucking movie.

2) The first gal I ever fell in love with was a Heather. At Governor’s School, of all pompousities. She later stood me up for senior prom.

3) Turns out “Heather” was gonna be MY name if I had come out teh oven a girl, which kind of freaked me out.

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Viva La Tabula Raza

Don’t think I know any Heathers except them what’s on the tv. A generation or two ago in my youth, Stephanies and Jennifers were the trigger names.

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Brick Meathook

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King Hippo

Another good fantasy football name!

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I suppose so. It feel creepy to reminisce about now but the summer after I graduated from college I made out a bit with a fellow lifeguard who had just graduated high school herself.

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Wakezilla

“The Giants are avoiding the IR designation because they are unsure how severe the injury actually is, and IR is a mandatory 8-week sit.”

FFS Giants! You aren’t any good. Just put Saquon on the IR and reduce his hit count. This shit isn’t that hard.

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scotchnaut

Counterpoint: Wayne Gallman.

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King Hippo

GOOD NEWS! I got Daniel Jones off waiver wire. The G-men fan in front of me took Gallman instead, despite supposedly having seen him play.

BAD NEWS! My team is still liquid shit.

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scotchnaut

He should do well vs. Potato Skins next week. Gotta fix that fumble tendency though.

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King Hippo

Considering my alternative was Brokeback against the “no TDs shall pass” P*ts? Oh yeah, he going in the lineup.

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scotchnaut

I like that opposing DC’s have to throw 4 years of game film in the garbage because this kid can move in the pocket and throw long.

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King Hippo

yep, still may be a 5-11 season, but it will at least be interesting

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Sharkbait

Shameless plug to piggyback off of Balls’ excellent writeup this morning: https://www.doorfliesopen.com/2019/08/16/sharkbaits-cocktail-of-the-week-beerfest/

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herodotus450

Women named “Jackie,” yay or nay?

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SonOfSpam

Not if you want your head to stay in one piece.

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scotchnaut

Did you see the way Jackie K. was shaking her ass as she climbed onto the back of that limo? Wowza!

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Hmm. Never have, though I did escort one to her junior prom. She was captain of the cheerleading team the following year, so it’s a very firm YAY for me.

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SonOfSpam

Was this a long time ago, or did you Chmura?

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Oh, God. No, this was when I was a senior in high school.

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scotchnaut

Gotta be wearing a pillbox hat, otherwise, big “No”.

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Viva La Tabula Raza

I was about 3-1/2 years old when JFK was shot, and I don’t remember a thing about it except for the couple days they showed him lying in state that were televised continually and the funeral which all resulted in my Diver Dan kiddy show being pre-empted. Cool horse towing the hearse carriage, though.

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litre_cola

That was the Challenger explosion for me. I was 10 and super pissed that Scooby Doo was pre-empted. Couldn’t understand what the big deal was.

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scotchnaut

and I don’t remember a thing about it

Let me guess-you were born in Manchuria, huh comrade?

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Viva La Tabula Raza

Why don’t you pass the time with a game of solitaire?

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scotchnaut

#triggered

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BallsofLacrosseAndMapleSyrup

Brother in law’s wife is “Jacqui””. If anything like her, RUN AWAY

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Wakezilla

Pros; puts out

Cons: Purposely will get pregnant to lock you down

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Don T

Sí, sí, SIIIIIIIII

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

This guy on Love Island is talking about how he’s got “the biggest heart ever” and I’m like, nah, fuck that, you know who had the biggest heart ever? Secretariat.

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BallsofLacrosseAndMapleSyrup

Blue whales would like a word

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herodotus450

LEAFS IN CHAOS!!
https://twitter.com/MouradB/status/1176330126310744064

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nomonkeyfun

But nouw knouw Austin Taylour Matthews is a gououd Canadian bouy.

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scotchnaut

Just today I saw a bumper sticker that read “Get Over It, Trump Won”. First thing, stickers yakking about US politics in this small Ontario town are very rare. Second thing, the sort of fella/missus that would display that would be the type that could never let go Obama’s 1st and 2nd win.

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Brick Meathook

I have a bumper-sticker that says:

DON’T BLAME ME
I VOTED FOR ME

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Viva La Tabula Raza

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herodotus450

Obama reelected with 52% of the popular vote: “That’s barely a majority, he doesn’t even have a ‘mandate to rule’”
Bush and Trump elected with less than 50% of the popular vote: “Get over it libs, we won and praize jesus for the electorical college.”

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Redshirt

I just realized I could’ve made a fortune in 2016 with bumper stickers reading “Don’t blame me. I voted for None of the Above.”

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Unsurprised

Yeah, these assholes are hypocrites who only have one faith: bad faith. Fuck them and everyone who puts up with their shit.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

All this nonsense about how impeachment is going to energize Trump supporters? Fuck that shit. You know who’s energized tonight? ME.

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Sharkbait

Me too. Fuck him.

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Brick Meathook

I’m really high.

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SonOfSpam

Well spoke, sir.

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Senor Weaselo

I don’t want to!

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Redshirt

I’m cautiously optimistic this could result in Trump leaving and a normal, evil Republican taking over in ’20 or ’24. In addition, I stopped for a coffee in Yellow Springs, OH, and I’m pretty certain they put something in my coffee.

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King Hippo

Huzzah. Leader Pelosi played her cards right, was ready for the moment when it arrived.

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Sharkbait

Balls, you’ve inspired me to go make a DIY canned michelada I wrote about a few weeks ago. It’ll have to be done with Coors Light, but beggars can’t be choosers tonight.

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ballsofsteelandfury

WOOOO!!

Actually, cheap light beer is best. Let us know how it goes!

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Sharkbait

It’s good. I think I like the Narragansett better (because it’s my preferred cheap beer) but the Coors Light is doable. I added some Cayenne to the spice rim. I’ve got a nice spice burn going on

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herodotus450

Did trump finally do something bad enough that republicans care about? Word on the street is he blackmailed Ukraine into giving him dirt on Biden for the election.

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Sharkbait

We can only hope.

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scotchnaut

It’s so funny that you used ‘republicans’ and ‘care’ in the same sentence. Well Done!

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Redshirt

HOW DARE YOU…

Sorry, forgot about reality for a second. As you were.

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Unsurprised

Republicans care about their vacation homes sucking off billionaires earned them.

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Redshirt

Don’t celebrate yet. Trump’s jury is literally a jury of his own peers. They need to present a clear case, a Smoking Gun, something that Republicans cannot defend, or, if they do, something they can use to convince a majority of the country that the Republicans don’t deserve their vote.

I’m not sure if Trump is an idiot or if he’s playing the Democrats like a fiddle. Either way, the Democrats need to tread lightly. Don’t just impeach just to say you did it. Get all your ducks in a row, set up your case for either the Republicans and the American People.

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ballsofsteelandfury

This.

Plus, let’s say he DOES get impeached. That doesn’t mean shit. Clinton got impeached and he finished out his term and I bet you that he would have been reelected if eligible.

Trump won’t care if he gets impeached. He’ll continue with his thing and get reelected.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

He will care very, very, very much. If he were capable of not caring, the Mueller investigation would have gone nowhere.

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Redshirt

Good point. Republicans overreached in ’98-’99. If anything, it proved the Framers of the Constitution was wise to make conviction/removal require an Absolute Majority, so a President wouldn’t be removed on a whim.

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SonOfSpam

Nah, impeachment is bad. After Clinton’s impeachment, the Dems lost a crapton of seats in Congress. The difference is this: Clinton was impeached for lying about whether a blowjob constituted sex. Consensual sex. Wrong? Sure, but people understood that lying under oath about a blowjob is kinda weak to remove a president. This is very very different, and the criminal cherry on a cake of corruption. Decent chance that once the various hearings get going (and we’re gonna see his financials), Republicans will suddenly be SHOCKED at the crimes (because they wanna save their own skins), and we’ll have a Nixonian ending. He will not finish his term. Book it.

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Unsurprised

I’m in. I still think he’s untouchable.

A bunch of the Democrats in the House – the body they flipped on the promise of holding him accountable – didn’t and probably still don’t want to impeach him, investigate him, and frankly, don’t seem to think he did anything wrong (I wonder why …). And this is with the experienced, arm-twisting blah blah worthless POS as Speaker. They’re never going to make a case on Ukraine when there have been impeachable offenses coming out the ass since the day he was sworn in. So even if they do impeach him, it’s not even going to pressure the Republicans protecting his fat fucking deadbeat loser ass to shift from giving him total coverage. And in the end, he stays, he wins, and I guess we just sit on our hands and let this shit keep playing out forever.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I’m not sure if Trump is an idiot or if he’s playing the Democrats like a fiddle.

It can be two things!
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Senor Weaselo

He could give Putin the nuclear codes, on clear audio, and they wouldn’t give two shits.

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Unsurprised

Don’t celebrate yet. Trump’s jury is literally a jury of his own peers. They need to present a clear case, a Smoking Gun, something that Republicans cannot defend, or, if they do, something they can use to convince a majority of the country that the Republicans don’t deserve their vote.

I don’t know if it’s incompetence or corruption, or both, but this will never happen.

They can’t sell shit. They can’t mobilize shit. This will fail, and it will be spectacularly fucked.

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Viva La Tabula Raza

I think they applaud this kind of behavior.

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Brick Meathook

Two guys doing a Neil Young cover better than Neil to an an empty house on a rainy Tuesday night in St. John’s Newfoundland, September 2019.

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herodotus450

Newfoundland!? I hope you didn’t have to take a boat, cause otherwise you might have fallen overboard and then
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt5EHAqhR1c

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Viva La Tabula Raza

It’s just a rehearsal/sound check for Saturday night, when that place is probably wall to wall. Right?

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scotchnaut

“Pull My Powderfinger” has never sounded any better.

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Brick Meathook

Tonight’s bartender:

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Redshirt

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bettors-89-cent-20-team-parlay-misses-500k-payout-because-of-redskins-loss/

It could’ve been worse. I would’ve bet 10 bucks on this just for fun and missed out on a $5M payout.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I read about that during the day on Monday, and if that guy didn’t move heaven and earth to hedge things but putting 100k on the Bears moneyline he deserved to lose.

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King Hippo

as a #HAILGAMBLOR devotee, this was absolutely my first thought. Also, NEVAR DO PARLAYS

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jjfozz

Nothing being done at work about the crybaby who slagged our company online. It’s fucking despicable. And yes, she’s untouchable because she’s a gay minority who is also obese. This is burning me up and no one is doing a goddamn thing about it. But guess who had a bowl of chili, a bowl of salad, and a bowl of beans for dinner? Guess who’s getting to work early tomorrow to shit on someone’s desk?

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Redshirt

She’s a bitch who completely sucks. Its cool. I’m a Non-Trump Republican so being a minority, I’m allowed to say that.

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Unsurprised

You need better lawyers. My first thought was some Federalist Society vampires, but now I think you may as well just go full criminal lawyer.

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jjfozz

Just went to walgreens to pick up a pair of cheater glasses. fuck me. fuck my life. gonna get into bourble.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I really should go shower, because once I’m done with that it’s time for beer and steak. WHAT AM I WAITING FOR?

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Redshirt

Shower? Who’s coming over? The Pope?

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scotchnaut

That almost, sorta explains the plastic sheeting on the furniture…

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Redshirt

Trump calls Giuliani for legal advice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnMdI_NiZvA

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scotchnaut

Will Sasso was a goddamn embarrassment on Mad TV but his off the cuff shit on The Fighter and the Kid is the best thing about that podcast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOh6YyJWcgk

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Senor Weaselo

I can refute that in three words: Kenny Rogers Jackass.

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scotchnaut

I was thinking more about the horrible Steven Seagall skits.

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Unsurprised

Because you can’t outdo real life Steven Seagall in being a giant piece of shit.

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Unsurprised

I wish I at least had fat guy charisma. Anyway, I’ve wasted all my up time from being on-off sick. Nap time.

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Unsurprised

The best part is the final line about the decision being handed down the day after Munich Oktoberfest … festival began.

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Sharkbait

Panarin-Zibanejad-Buchnevich
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WCS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpl5mOAXNl4

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WCS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKVZYWuA_0E

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scotchnaut

I give this vid 9.5 out of 10 Don Cherries.

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herodotus450

It’s a pretty good Red Wings vs. Avalanche goalie fight.

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scotchnaut

“Yeah, sure. It was a pretty good fight. I once saw Glenn Hall and Jacques Plante trade fists over a puck bunny by the name of Delilah after a preseason game in St. Louis back in ’68. That was a fight!”

-Don Cherry

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jjfozz

This is fucking glorious

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Sharkbait

Fuck yeah preseason hockey

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Whoever’s doing PR for Agholor should get a nice bonus come Christmas. That’s literally the perfect response.

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