22 / January
22 / January
Open Thread

It's free-speech Friday. Say anything you care to say on anything you care about in the comments section. Well, we're waiting!

posted at 01:02 AM
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Either the Dallas O-line (which dominated Philly) is worse than I thought or the Minny D-line is really good. That matchup, which the Vikings owned, decided the game. Despite the final score, the Dallas D played pretty well. The offense did nothing because Romo had no time to throw and there were no running lanes. Oh well, maybe next year.

I hate Favre. And the media lap-dance he'd get if they go to the Super Bowl (or, God forbid, win it) would be unbearable. I hope New Orleans kicks their tail.

Posted by: Ralph on January 22, 2010 06:46 AM

How did we get to the piont where nearly two thirds of the bills in the Senate require sixty votes to pass? I hope the Ds don't pick up the habit.

Guido

Posted by: Guido on January 22, 2010 11:17 AM

George Carlin was wrong about women who are against abortion.

Posted by: Homer J. Fong on January 22, 2010 11:26 AM

I guess because our inexperienced man-child President has not been effective screwing up our healthcare (yet), he had to move onto the next thing on his agenda to destroy America and in the process, screw things up around the world.

This is like GW and/or McCain how? And when are the adults coming back to Washington?

"LONDON - World markets fell Friday, led by bank stocks after President Barack Obama proposed a sweeping overhaul of Wall Street to avert future financial crises.

Obama said he would seek to limit the size and complexity of large financial institutions so that their collapse wouldn't imperil the broader financial system and world economy or cost taxpayer money in bailouts.

The announcement spooked investors, causing a sell-off in Europe after sharper falls in the U.S. and Asia.

Britain's FTSE 100 stock index was down 1.0 percent at 5,280.82 and Germany's DAX shed 1.0 percent to 5,691.31. France's CAC-40 lost 1.0 percent to 3,823.01.

Wall Street fell for a third day on the open, with the Dow Jones industrial average down 0.6 percent at 10,330.18 and the Standard & Poor's 500 index down 0.5 percent at 1,110.87.

Obama's announcement and Wall Street's reaction unnerved markets already on edge over China's recent moves to prevent its economy from overheating amid worries of inflation and asset bubbles.

Bank stocks were hit hardest, with Barclays Plc down 5.8 percent, Royal Bank of Scotland Plc 3.8 percent and Deutsche Bank 4.2 percent lower."

Posted by: asdf on January 22, 2010 12:29 PM

I could not agree more about Favre. First off, I'm not a fan so it was tough when he did his "should I stay or should I go" schtick last fall and FavrESPN covered everthing buy his bowel movements.

So I too want to see a smackdown by the Saints. Which should happen with that good old (Dallas,Texas) boy Drew Brees playing at a very high level.

Something has to break right for you guys with Da Boyz taking the pipe and Longhorns having the worst luck imaginable. Maybe some living vicariously will help ease the pain.

Posted by: asdf on January 22, 2010 01:03 PM

Regardless of what happens on Sunday all the anti-Farve people ate crow this year. Tremendous season better than anyone exspected. He didn't handle his decision on retiring in Gbay in the best way (indecisive to say the least) however he has earned the right to be indecisive and the h*ll with Gbay management telling him its best for the Gbay orgaization for him to retire. I'm sure it would've been, but not for the NFL or its fans or the Vikings or Sidney Rice. Its not Gbay's decision it was Farves and he made the right one.

Posted by: df11 on January 22, 2010 01:35 PM

The Cowboys will not win another Super Bowl as long as Jerry Jones the self promoting micromanager owns the team. He got his mileage out of that unbelievable trade 20 years ago but the boys have been a mediocre organization since that talent ran out in the mid 90's.

Poll: Which team is more despicable: The Lakers or The Cowboys?

Posted by: Ancient Mariner on January 22, 2010 03:23 PM

A.M.,
The answer to your poll is the Yankees.

Posted by: Ken on January 22, 2010 06:07 PM

well said df11,u took the words right out of my keyboard.

Posted by: tagmnbagm on January 22, 2010 06:17 PM

What I found interesting about Carlin's rants on this (first line: why are women who against abortion the one's you wouldn't want to F in the first place) is that he has been less than left in other things he's ranted about. Like Global Warming.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c

I know that he was somewhat of an activist with a particular slant to his agenda, but ultimately he was an entertainer. Although I can't get away from the fact that he went against his leftist grain to embarrass that environuts.

With regard to abortion, new stats show young women between 15 and 25 overwhelmingly against it. Very interesting.

Posted by: asdf on January 23, 2010 10:10 AM

Ralph, the noise in the stadium and Flozel Adams' injury were big.


Dan, why "pray for Haiti"? If God really wanted to help Haiti, wouldn't he have just prevented the earthquake?

Just sayin'.

Posted by: Herman on January 23, 2010 08:44 PM

Herman, excellent point.

A good blog post by Ken Silverstein, an investigative journalist who occasionally publishes articles for Harper's, was posted on his blog Washington Babylon. It remarked that the prospect of a derailed "health" reform agenda in Congress will lead to the loss of billions of dollars of revenue for AHIP and PHRMA.

Sadly, conservative idiots persistently think Obushma and the DEMONcrats are anti-business. If the stock market drop post-Brown is any indication (particularly within "health" sectors), the despondent reaction from the stock market to the power shift away from Obushma, The Committee To Screw The World, and the DEMONcrats would show otherwise.

http://www.harpers.org/subjects/WashingtonBabylon

Posted by: PMA on January 24, 2010 12:52 PM

Worth Repeating #122

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”

John Kenneth Galbraith

Posted by: PMA on January 24, 2010 07:13 PM

I've had Direct TV for a year now: 6 equipment failures and terrible phone/and technical service. I actually had a phone rep refuse to send a technician out to my house because she "didn't feel the situation warranted it" (my TV was totally inoperative at the time). Has anyone else dealt with these people? Word of advice for anyone considering doing business with Direct TV:

Don't!

Posted by: Ancient Mariner on January 25, 2010 11:10 AM

The stock market fell because Obama (temporarily) has moved on from working to screw the country with Government Subsidized Rationed Health Care to taxing and over-regulating the banking industry through more government control. Again!!

Everytime this guy opens his eyes in the morning, there is a new government something and reason for the private sector to sweat and retract.

Posted by: asdf on January 25, 2010 11:33 AM

Worth Repeating #123

"A man, who is in prosperity, while he sees that others have to contend with great wretchedness and that he could help them, thinks:

'What concern is it of mine? Let everyone be as happy as heaven pleases, or as he can make himself; I will take nothing from him nor even envy him, only I do not wish to contribute anything to his welfare or to his assistance in distress!'

Now no doubt if such a mode of thinking were a universal law, the human race might very well subsist, and doubtless even better than in a state in which everyone talks of sympathy and good-will, or even takes care occasionally to put it into practice, but on the other side, also cheats when he can, betrays the rights of men, or otherwise violates them. But although it is possible that a universal law of nature might exist in accordance with that maxim, it is impossible to will that such a principle should have the universal validity of a law of nature. For a will which resolved this would contradict itself, inasmuch as many cases might occur in which one would have need of the love and sympathy of others, and in which, by such a law of nature, sprung from his own will, he would deprive himself of all hope of the aid he desires."
-Immanuel Kant, from the Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, Chapter 2

Posted by: PMA on January 25, 2010 12:26 PM

Bout sums it up, This buys a lot of Hope and Change....

Figures on government spending and debt (last six digits are eliminated). The
government's fiscal year runs Oct. 1 through Sept. 30.
Total public debt subject to limit Jan. 22 12,245,872
Statutory debt limit 12,394,000
Total public debt outstanding Jan. 22 12,302,465
Operating balance Jan. 22 142,454
Interest fiscal year 2009 383,365
Interest fiscal year 2008 451,154
Deficit fiscal year 2009 1,417,121
Deficit fiscal year 2008 454,798
Receipts fiscal year 2009 2,104,613
Receipts fiscal year 2008 2,523,642
Outlays fiscal year 2009 3,521,734
Outlays fiscal year 2008 2,978,440
Gold assets in September 11,041

Posted by: asdf on January 26, 2010 06:51 AM

Dungeon Sea Online is opened! anyone play it ?

website: Http://www.dungeonsea.com

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0FWz_JK5Mg

Info:

Dungeon Sea Online is a fully 3D-designed multiplayer online game based on 5,000 years of pirate history. In it, comical pirate characters and creatures travel the high seas and encounter intricate story-based quests, wondrous cities and beautiful landscapes in their search for treasures fit for a king – or a king's ransom! Though the excitement of ship-to-ship combat is a heady brew for newcomers and veterans alike, many players take pride in their place among the community. Whether you seek to enforce the laws of the DSO world, chronicle the adventures of your peers, or simply help junior players learn the ropes, the DSO community has a place for you.

Posted by: DungeonSea on January 28, 2010 06:07 AM
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