Roundup: Watch George Bush Nearly Get Hit With a Foul Ball & Tim Thomas Make a Great Save
Emmanuelle Chriqui… remember this girl from Mad Men? … Troy Aikman, who is going through a divorce, put his house on the market for $24 million … do any Republicans want to run for President? … sheep meat seized at Dulles Airport … iPads not permitted in Yankee Stadium … here’s Christine Martin … wonder if anyone has caught the “agitated beaver” terrorizing a town in Canada … Julianne Hough was filming a commercial on the beach … anyone grab Lady Gaga’s new album for $0.99? … the Joplin tornado death toll is at 116, making it the deadliest US tornado since 1953 … DNA likely to do in DSK … Pilot error doomed Flight 447 …
Everything you wanted to know about the new 9 am Sportscenter anchor, Kevin Negandhi. [Inquirer]
Sad: Top Junior hockey goaltender, 15, dies after falling out of a truck. [Freep]
Portland owner Paul Allen fired GM Rich Cho after 10 months due to a “chemistry” issue. [Oregonian]
Here’s Dan LeBatard on Charles Barkley’s love/hate relationships with Miami. [Herald]
More on the Gold Cup snubs. [Soccer by Ives]
Louisville and Rick Pitino picked up a nice transfer: George Mason’s Luke Hancock, who will have two years of eligibility left. [Courier-Journal]
Video of two transit officers in DC yanking a guy out of a wheelchair and injuring him. [My Fox DC]
State of the Redskins (and football?): John Beck has become a cult hero in Washington DC. Dan Steinberg deserves full credit. [Sun]
Jackass who predicted the world would end last Saturday says he was off by five months. October 21, 2011 is the new “rapture” day. [IBT]
I am beyond sick of Harvey Updyke. The tree poisoner who is basking in his 15 minutes before a trip to jail, spoke to Wright Thompson. [ESPN]
Who are the most searched-for sportswriters in the country? [Clay Travis]
Murray State promotes assistant coach Steve Prohm to top spot, taking over for Billy Kennedy, who left for Texas A&M. [Courier-Journal]
Rice High School, where Felipe Lopez and Kemba Walker starred, is closing next month. [NY Post]
Why would anyone still want to believe in that fraud Lance Armstrong? [Star-Telegram]
Tim Thomas of the Bruins made a pretty ridiculous save last night.
George Bush does absolutely nothing to avoid this foul ball off the bat of Adrian Beltre; A.J. Pierzynski can’t quite haul it in.
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May 24th, 2011 at 8:37 AM
Love Dubya giving Pierzynski shit for not catching it
May 24th, 2011 at 8:38 AM
When is the PSU hoops post going up?
/probably between 10 and 1 when I’m out of the office
//what PSU post
May 24th, 2011 at 8:38 AM
The Mad Men link goes to the Houston Nutt story listed last week.
May 24th, 2011 at 8:38 AM
Happy 70th to the Greatest Living American.
May 24th, 2011 at 8:38 AM
they pulled out 17 survivors yesterday and it was pissing rain all day. hopefully more come out today, but the crappy weather is supposed to come back this afternoon.
May 24th, 2011 at 8:39 AM
I think the Secret Service should have shot AJ anyway
May 24th, 2011 at 8:41 AM
Highly approve, no matter what kind of picture it is.
Surprised you didn’t put a link to the Modern Warfare 3 trailer up TBL. If not then:
http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/05/23/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-3-reveal-trailer
May 24th, 2011 at 8:42 AM
I didn’t see the sarcasm font
May 24th, 2011 at 8:43 AM
Can we just get this over with and either use the Mayan date of 12/21/12 or just ask Mel Gibson.
May 24th, 2011 at 8:43 AM
Nor should you have.
May 24th, 2011 at 8:44 AM
TBL, just saw where yahoo put a link to the Macho Man story on the front page. big baller.
May 24th, 2011 at 8:44 AM
great story on Negandhi. He’s one of the few anchors I enjoy on ESPN
May 24th, 2011 at 8:47 AM
Sad that nuts like Harold Camping are the face of church going people in this country. Most of us rational people know that there is no one specific date for the end of the world. A specific time is not promised or told to us in the Bible. I’m so sick of these crooks and the foolish people that buy into the scams.
May 24th, 2011 at 8:47 AM
I do, all those tests and never a positive result, while others gutted popped on the reg
May 24th, 2011 at 8:48 AM
The article they posted links the TBL article, but oddly, they refer to it as “Link is subscription only.”
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/post/Over-25-percent-of-the-performers-from-Wrestlema?urn=top-wp132
May 24th, 2011 at 8:49 AM
Julianne Hough was filming a commercial on the beach …
AC likey
May 24th, 2011 at 8:50 AM
Houston Nutt was in Mad Men? And he’s actually a girl?!
May 24th, 2011 at 8:50 AM
how is he a fraud? it’s not cheating when everyone does it and in cycling, literally everyone does it.
or are you saying he didn’t really have cancer? that’s something you’d say…
May 24th, 2011 at 8:51 AM
Jackass who predicted the world would end last Saturday says he was off by five months. October 21, 2011 is the new “rapture” day.
lemmings, all of you.
May 24th, 2011 at 8:51 AM
/updates rapture pool
May 24th, 2011 at 8:51 AM
TBL – the Troy Aikman house link doesn’t work for me.
May 24th, 2011 at 8:51 AM
i also like how the woman in red seems to be trying to put her head in the path of the ball, trying to be a hero no doubt.
May 24th, 2011 at 8:53 AM
No one wants to be a political sacrificial lamb.
May 24th, 2011 at 8:53 AM
From the angry beaver story:
Do they not have zoos in Canada? How about illustrated books? And even if you do see a beaver in the water, you can see its head and tail. That would probably be a good approximate its size, stupid.
May 24th, 2011 at 8:53 AM
But he has had samples turn up with elevated levels of banned substances, just danced around being labeled a “positive” test. The limits are very strict. I’ll see if I can find the exact terminology for what his test results have been.
here’s something I hadn’t thought of in regards to Lance: If he was clean, then he is the greatest athlete in the history of the world, becasue not only did he win 7 TdF’s, but he did against all of his competition that WAS cheating. So he’s either lying (he is), or he is far more of an athletic wonder than we have been giving him credit for (he’s not).
May 24th, 2011 at 8:54 AM
Lance isn’t a feel-good story until he kills someone.
May 24th, 2011 at 8:55 AM
or reads the bible.
May 24th, 2011 at 8:55 AM
Lance isn’t a feel-good story until he kills
someonea bunch of dogs./fixed for Iggles
May 24th, 2011 at 8:55 AM
Am I the only one who finds humor because the “agitated beaver” story is sandwiched in between two bikini links?
May 24th, 2011 at 8:55 AM
Someone needs to take some pictures of him biking while reading the bible.
May 24th, 2011 at 8:56 AM
if i recall those tests where there was a positive result in the “b” sample were also deemed invalid as they were mishandled by the testers.
May 24th, 2011 at 8:56 AM
Robert Allen Zimmerman is 70 today.
May 24th, 2011 at 8:56 AM
he is a bitch, that is for sure.
May 24th, 2011 at 8:56 AM
and to think…a canadian was trying to give us zombiepocalypse advice.
hah!
May 24th, 2011 at 8:57 AM
Doomsday
May 24th, 2011 at 8:58 AM
May 24th, 2011 at 8:58 AM
tell me you’re not referring to bob dylan.
May 24th, 2011 at 8:58 AM
MacGruber keeps the nations capital safe.
May 24th, 2011 at 8:58 AM
Wasn’t Houston Nutt the first secretary that Sterling banged on his desk?
May 24th, 2011 at 8:58 AM
Of course it is.
May 24th, 2011 at 8:58 AM
Try again- That’s Nolan’s wife Ruth in red.
May 24th, 2011 at 8:58 AM
Now here’s a link about him.
May 24th, 2011 at 8:59 AM
You’re well aware that I am…
May 24th, 2011 at 9:00 AM
have you ever seen a beaver* in the wild? I’ve seen them at zoos and in pictures, but two of them turned up in one of our neighborhood lakes this spring and they seemed much bigger than I remembered.
*giggles
May 24th, 2011 at 9:00 AM
how is that mush mouthed, guitar strumming communist the greatest living american?
May 24th, 2011 at 9:01 AM
Excellent point.
/high fives spencer
//cocks gun
May 24th, 2011 at 9:01 AM
for those that care, Doc Jensen’s final “Lost” column was just released.
/pours one out for the TBL that was.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:01 AM
Oh, Spencer, how I adore thee.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:02 AM
Hey have you seen the new book about ESPN? Here is a post about Robin Roberts’s computer virus that shut down everyone on the 3rd floor one Friday Morning.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:02 AM
ooo, hey hosers. didn’t think these there zombies would be so big ‘n fast, donchaknow.
/zeus
May 24th, 2011 at 9:02 AM
Nice beaver! Thank you – I just had it stuffed
May 24th, 2011 at 9:02 AM
fixed the mad men link. feel free to shoot me an email or hit me on gchat if you guys see stuff like that.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:02 AM
never heard of her or the guy in the picture, but I take he is quite wealthy?
May 24th, 2011 at 9:03 AM
today’s not my 70th, but thanks anyways.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:03 AM
Here smoke this shit. Its the same shit that killed Bob Dylan.
Dylan isn’t dead?
Isn’t he though…Isn’t he?
May 24th, 2011 at 9:03 AM
Beavers in a zoo? Next you’ll tell us that they have squirrel exhibits.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:04 AM
jay v…all im saying is clearly phil pfister is the greatest living american.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:04 AM
Can we just get this over with and either use the Mayan date of 12/21/12
May 24th, 2011 at 9:04 AM
Some bible-thumper got lit up on twitter last night after he tried to pull some snark on Steve Nash for being in a pro-equality ad. He ended up deleting his account.
I believe Lascivious 3:2 says, “If thou can’t take the heat, get thy ass out the kitchen.”
May 24th, 2011 at 9:04 AM
Yes. I’ve also seen woodchuck which is like a beaver but without the paddle tail.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:05 AM
Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I’m sorry, I’m gonna have to plead ignorance on this thing, because if I had known that sort of thing was frowned upon…
May 24th, 2011 at 9:05 AM
lawl
May 24th, 2011 at 9:06 AM
If you like muscles and what not…
May 24th, 2011 at 9:07 AM
and take away our easy jokes? No thank you.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:07 AM
badassiest woodchuck evar.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:07 AM
muscles have nothing to do with it. well, a little. but pfister is symbolically american…what’s more american than 6’6″ 375 lbs of car lifting, fridge throwing patriotism?
May 24th, 2011 at 9:09 AM
and more idiots will empty their bank accounts. again.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:09 AM
It was a fascinating read, though. That dude is fucking nuts. Also, anything Wright Thompson does should be considered a must-read material.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:09 AM
also, i think this may be first time in history phil pfister and bob dylan were involved in a debate.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:09 AM
Canadians disagree.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:10 AM
Isn’t that a gopher (aka prairie dog)?
May 24th, 2011 at 9:11 AM
Anyone ever play a game called prairie dog hunt back in the day? Blasting those guys with a shotgun was fun at a young age.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:11 AM
I dunno…a google image search returned that. a woodchuck is no different from a groundhog, a.k.a. a land beaver, right?
May 24th, 2011 at 9:12 AM
dave coulier is canada’s mouthpiece.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:12 AM
You do make a compelling argument.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:12 AM
If they want to donate that money to me I think it would be a win-win for everyone involved.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:12 AM
what’s the difference…it’s all dinner, right?
/miz’d
May 24th, 2011 at 9:13 AM
Spencer,
Here is the video of that kid doing the 640 pound dead lift.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:13 AM
Everything you wanted to know about the new 9 am Sportscenter anchor, Kevin Negandhi.
Represent, brother!
May 24th, 2011 at 9:14 AM
Oops.. Here is the link.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:14 AM
groundhogs have those crazy looking mitten hands, I don’t think a woodchuck has those, do they?
May 24th, 2011 at 9:15 AM
I never had a positive result either.
Marion Jones’d
May 24th, 2011 at 9:15 AM
Yes but I’m pretty sure your picture is a gopher, not a woodchuck. Significant size difference in the two. Google has done you wrong, my friend.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:15 AM
Pfister? Barely even know her.
/veal
May 24th, 2011 at 9:15 AM
right.
/me’d
May 24th, 2011 at 9:16 AM
What a kick in the nuts for OKC last night.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:16 AM
tell me you’re not referring to bob dylan
my absolute music kryptonite.
oh, and nice job TBL with the roundup pic of maureen ponderosa.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:16 AM
Beavers grow much larger than a woodchuck, the one in the link was going after a German Shepard. Mean little bastards, very territorial.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:16 AM
It was a fascinating read, though. That dude is fucking nuts.
Wasn’t that a given? He lives out in bumble-fuck Alabama and poisons trees in the name of his beloved football team. I honestly think forcing him to walk around in Auburn apparel for the rest of his life would be more punishment for this loser than jail time.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:16 AM
that kid is going to hurt himself with that shitty form. ugh…also, stop yelling.
/still impressed
May 24th, 2011 at 9:16 AM
Hey ark – is your dog still relegated to the cone of shame?
May 24th, 2011 at 9:17 AM
considering he’s as tall as that bazooka is long, I beg to differ.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:17 AM
yes, Ben, Penn State gets its own post
May 24th, 2011 at 9:17 AM
great name.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:17 AM
Spencer… gun to your head… did Lance Armstrong cheat… yes or no?
May 24th, 2011 at 9:17 AM
The Canadian government has apologized many times for Bryan Adams.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:18 AM
Interesting factoid…the Minnesota Golden Gophers mascot is not really a gopher, it is a squirrel.
/Hates living in this stupid state with crappy mascots.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:18 AM
Tim Thomas now has the two best saves of 2010-2011. The one above and the one on Beauchemin. I would think this now qualifies him as the greatest living American. Especially with Beauchemin being a Maple Leaf.
American goalies FTW.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:18 AM
do any Republicans want to run for President?
Romney or Hunstman. Everyone else is a blithering idiot.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:18 AM
absolutely. but ive long held the stance that i want my athletes to enhance their performance as much as possible.
if anyone should dope, it should be pro athletes.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:19 AM
No one should ever apologize for Bryan Adams.
/Summer of 69′d
May 24th, 2011 at 9:19 AM
Who the fuck is Ben?
May 24th, 2011 at 9:19 AM
Nope. But it was only the regular version. I bought the extended one on iTunes for $15.99
/little monster’d
May 24th, 2011 at 9:19 AM
yeah, maybe around the radioactive waste landfills in Canada.
/TMNT’d
May 24th, 2011 at 9:20 AM
atlbadger…one more thing. i think during lance’s heyday the entire sport was doped up. look at the names of the suspended…if anything, all he did was beat other cheaters. level playing field, and all that.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:20 AM
Going to be mighty enjoyable listening to SC when Thomas gets depantsed by Luongo in the finals.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:21 AM
Not a fan of the 7-striped ground squirrel, Nordy, a baseball playing bear….at least there’s a timberwolf. There’s that
May 24th, 2011 at 9:21 AM
Spence, I keep hearing good things about the new Game of Thrones that was released on HBOGo. Best episode of the season?
May 24th, 2011 at 9:21 AM
Not even Jim James can convimce you otherwise, eh?
I know, different strokes for different folks.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:21 AM
remember this girl from Mad Men? …
Caity Lotz… aside from a ditzy name, pretty attractive. Girl-next-door hot.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:22 AM
A step-in deadlift bar? Come on kid, grow up.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:22 AM
Of course I knew he was nuts, but reading that article made me believe he was even crazier than I could imagine.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:22 AM
What the hell, I go to bed with OKC up 15 and like 5 minutes to go and get to work and they lost? WTF?
May 24th, 2011 at 9:22 AM
Why on earth does Penn State fucking basketball get a post?
May 24th, 2011 at 9:23 AM
as well as Nickelback, Celine Dion, Anne Murray, Avril Lavigne, and Snow.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:23 AM
Go SG, go SG, go SG gooooo!
May 24th, 2011 at 9:23 AM
Honey badgers shit on beavers
May 24th, 2011 at 9:23 AM
The gold-crown death scene from last week was badass.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:23 AM
watched it last night…id say ep 6 was better for nothing more than SPOILER ALERT the crowning scene.
but last night’s was pretty important in terms of getting things in motion. shit’s bout to hit the fan.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:23 AM
//Has feeling Draper and his new wife will have a drug induced 3way with her next time they are in California.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:24 AM
informal, tuesday morning poll:
Jose Bautista, clean or cheating?
May 24th, 2011 at 9:24 AM
atlbadger…one more thing. i think during lance’s heyday the entire sport was doped up. look at the names of the suspended…if anything, all he did was beat other cheaters. level playing field, and all that
I agree, and I honestly don’t care one way or the other. I’ve always disliked Lance Armstrong because I thought he was a dick to his first wife and hung out with Matthew McCaugnehey (sp?). Then he really sold the “hard work and determination” can’t beat cancer and win 7 straight tour-de france’s. Which is bullshit. It was modern medicine and blood doping. The whole “Livestrong” thing I always thought was a fraud, is all.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:24 AM
Vigneault would have complained about that save because Thomas used his stick. Can’t be having goalies make amazing saves with a stick now. That’s just unfair.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:24 AM
She can get it. Those eyes are dreamy.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:24 AM
it’s coming coop!
May 24th, 2011 at 9:25 AM
My guess is a)it’s not often a coach leaves a “big” conference school to go to a middle of the road Patriot (or similar) league
b) PSU is going to be screwed relative to their coaching search, as most of the “names” were already hired
But, ideally, it will so that c) Coop, myself and the rest of the PSU fans can celebrate the chance (fingers crossed) we actually get a real coach at the school for once.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:25 AM
TBL-if he is cheating he has a great way to avoid the testing that is going on.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:25 AM
bautista is clean.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:25 AM
And Snow hate too? GD it has gotten uppity around here lately. First we can’t put pineapple on pizza and now senseless 90s white rap can’t be enjoyed. It was the 90s, people were wearing slap bracelets and neon green clothing. Wild and Crazy Kids was a popular TV show. So what if Informer was huge hit? Nothing to apologize for. Besides, he had one of the best album names ever, 12 inches of Snow.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:26 AM
i love college basketball?
May 24th, 2011 at 9:26 AM
fraud or not, it did good work. can’t hate on that even if it did feed lance’s ego.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:26 AM
atlbadger…one more thing. i think during lance’s heyday the entire sport was doped up. look at the names of the suspended…if anything, all he did was beat other cheaters. level playing field, and all that.
Can we then say that multiple Tour De France winners such as Greg LeMond, Eddie Merckx, and Miguel Indurain doped as well?
May 24th, 2011 at 9:26 AM
What on earth for? I mean, do grown men actually spend money for her “music?”
May 24th, 2011 at 9:26 AM
Because it’s not another boring anecdote from the ESPN book…be thankful
Clean, need more proof than “hits home runs”
May 24th, 2011 at 9:27 AM
sure, why not.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:27 AM
Nice. I love the fact that this show doesn’t fuck around.
He’s an unlikely story, that’s for sure, but I’ll say clean.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:27 AM
most smart republicans will wait out this election and wait for an even playing field against new Democrat nominees than try to unseat Obama.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:27 AM
incredible lollercoaster. you are a living, breathing meme.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:28 AM
We already know your feelings on this one…
May 24th, 2011 at 9:28 AM
Not a big G Bush fan, but his cool points just went up a few by giving AJ shit for not catching it. The look on his face is priceless.
Ms Lotz was cute in Mad Men, but damn she looks good in that video. In my opinion though, none of Dons flings were hotter than his wife.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:28 AM
Hey Cleet? I dont want to make you uncomfortable but I just remembered I had a dream last night that you and I went to the movies together because there was a Saved By the Bell reunion movie out. And on the way there I was singing “I’m so excited… I’m so… scared”. Hilarious dream, or creepy?
May 24th, 2011 at 9:28 AM
informal, tuesday morning poll:
Jose Bautista, clean or cheating?
He’s 6’0 195lbs! Why is he the only one with the ability to pass a test while on PEDs? Or does he have some secret hook-up with some undetectable stuff that other players that have been caught (Manny) don’t have access to?
May 24th, 2011 at 9:28 AM
Whether Lance himself is a fraud, the “whole ‘Livestrong’ thing” is not. They have raised a TON of money for cancer research.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:28 AM
Not even Jim James can convimce you otherwise, eh?
almost. his cover of goin to acapulco is great.
i cracked and listened to the NPR stream of Circuital. Just a taste. It sounds absolutely great.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:29 AM
It did? Last time I checked cancer hadn’t been cured.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:29 AM
Tee-hee.
/us’d
May 24th, 2011 at 9:29 AM
After GoT came out in the 90′s, Martin was asked in an interview about the sometimes cruel plot twists, he said something like “I want the reader to know we’re playing for keeps here, and right from the start”.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:29 AM
I’m not holding my breath for a real coach. I feel like I’ve been waiting for a “real coach” since Bruce Parkhill left and I was never terribly fond of his work.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:29 AM
SG, yeah, I took him in over the weekend and the vet said he’s in it until Thursday. he’s getting pretty used to it though, doesn’t run into the door frame nearly as much. although I felt real bad yesterday because I left him outside for the day for the first time and it started raining and I’m pretty sure the lampshade is to big for him to fit into his house, but he was dry when I got home, so he figured something out.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:29 AM
Bruce Pearl is still available.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:30 AM
If Lance cheated, he did it better than everyone else, which I find impressive. In a sport where cheating is rampant, he took it to a whole different level and never technically has been caught. For the hundreds, maybe thousands of times that he’s been tested, he’s never been straight up positive. If he did cheat, that’s ridiculous. That in it’s own right would require some impressive dedication.
If he cheated, it doesn’t change anything in my mind about his athletic accomplishments- he won 7 consecutive tours against what was probably a pretty level playing field, and that’s pretty incredible.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:30 AM
Depends, were you wearing a Bayside cheerleader uniform?
May 24th, 2011 at 9:30 AM
research isn’t free, lawya.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:31 AM
also, this.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:31 AM
research isn’t free
it cost uh hefty fuckin fee!
May 24th, 2011 at 9:31 AM
Save of the year? Possibly.
/hasn’t seen that many save but that has to be in the running
Also, CoD MW3 looks tight as hell, Mantis.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:31 AM
Jose Bautista, clean or cheating?
Clean, bet he’s been ‘randomly’ tested multiple times.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:31 AM
Also, isn’t it a wee bit early to be putting the greatest chokers to ever choke in the Stanley Cup Finals already? It took them 7 games to close out an 8 seed and they blew a 3-0 lead in the process. Sharks ain’t dead yet.
I do look forward to Chara planting his ass in front of Luongo should it happen though. Not enough Kleenex in all of British Columbia…
May 24th, 2011 at 9:32 AM
What the hell, I go to bed with OKC up 15 and like 5 minutes to go and get to work and they lost? WTF?
I won’t be around when it goes up, and this site is taking so very long to load these days that I’m frustrated even to visit, but just so you guys know, I watched it. I had it recorded, and I started fast forwarding at 99-84. I almost deleted it and went to bed. But I fast forwarded instead. It was awesome.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:32 AM
Bruce Pearl is still available.
He doesn’t want to live in Happy Valley.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:32 AM
book 3 had the best, and probably most shocking twist at the end. (haven’t read book 4 yet.)
May 24th, 2011 at 9:33 AM
This story continues to fascinate me.
@spartan59 was his name. I read his timeline after reading Nash’s RT. That guy was way too far right.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:33 AM
terrible measuring stick.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:33 AM
if you don’t throw in your buck o’ five, who willllllllllll?
/buck o’ five
May 24th, 2011 at 9:33 AM
Agree with this. I think Lance is a punk and a cheat, but his charity has done amazing work.
Exactly. Daniels, Cristie and Perry would be wise to wait until 2016. Huntsman would, too, but he is going to give it a go this election cycle. Defeating an incumbent president is very difficult. You need a candidate with great charisma to snatch the stage away from the sitting president. In modern politics, the two men who did that were Regan and Clinton. Do you see anyone like that on the Right? Maybe Cristie, but he would be the front runner for 2016 in my opinion.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:33 AM
Save of the year? Possibly.
Not even the best save of the playoffs.
/Rinne on Bieksa in overtime
May 24th, 2011 at 9:33 AM
most smart republicans will wait out this election and wait for an even playing field against new Democrat nominees than try to unseat Obama.
I agree, but someone has to run. I’m betting on Romney because he’s a smart finance guy, and would be able to get the deficit under control. Hell, if can get elected Republican Governor of a state that is essentially a bastion of liberalism, his national chances can’t be that bad. He’s not going to go after Obama on security; nobody can. He’ll hit him on the budget and entitlement programs that are being doled out. He’s the best chance the Republicans have.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:34 AM
seriously. that article is worth a read.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:34 AM
link? haven’t seen the trailer, only the tease.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:34 AM
My only complaint with Lance Armstrong is that he’s a shitty husband and father. Wife stands by him throughout the cancer and he promptly leaves her once he recovers.
If he cheated, who cares? It’s cycling.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:35 AM
Sharks ain’t dead yet.
Thornton playing with one arm, Heatley still thinks he’s playing for the Senators and Niemi, well he’s just turrible. Series is over tonight.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:35 AM
Some bible-thumper got lit up on twitter last night after he tried to pull some snark on Steve Nash for being in a pro-equality ad. He ended up deleting his account.
I saw that… I clicked to see his mentions… some of the hate being spewed at him was kind of disappointing, but there were far, far, more people that were just pointing out what a hypocrite he was, which was nice.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:35 AM
It looked badass. Does anyone know anything about the team who developed the game? I think it was Sledgehammer or something like that. I had never heard of it before.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:36 AM
Bob Golic on M&M. SBTB TCY legend. I liked the college years.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:36 AM
My only complaint with Lance Armstrong is that he’s a shitty husband and father. Wife stands by him throughout the cancer and he promptly leaves her once he recovers.
I’m with you SC… I could give a shit about his cycling accomplishments and whether or not he cheated. I just don’t like him because I always thought he was a dick.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:36 AM
Did he try and touch your boob?
/two weeks ago’d
May 24th, 2011 at 9:36 AM
Look at the first 15-20 comments or so. Someone linked to it in here.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:37 AM
i thought it was by infinity ward’s leftovers.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:37 AM
Ha! Interesting, I wonder what you think I look like unless you somehow know. Did I try to pull a theatre move like that one dude in high school?
May 24th, 2011 at 9:38 AM
I agree with this. However, he’ll never get the nomination because his health care plan served as the framework for the national health care law. The Republican base hates him because of this. Whereas McCain got the nomination despite being a “moderate” and “maverick,” Romney has a 20-ton weight tied around his ankles because of RomneyCare being equated (rightfully) to the President’s plan.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:38 AM
Yes. Haters gonna hate.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:38 AM
Hilariously creepy?
May 24th, 2011 at 9:38 AM
WOW THAT TRAILER LOOKS FUCKING AWESOME.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:38 AM
Said half-jokingly. Unwad your panties.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:39 AM
Spence, Mantis posted the trailer link earlier. Here.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:39 AM
guess we’re both right, husker.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:39 AM
CJ my reply to you about your dream got moderated. How tall was I in this dream?
May 24th, 2011 at 9:39 AM
exactly. that’s why I’m asking you guys.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:40 AM
There were many problems with TCY, Bob Golic wasn’t one of them.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:40 AM
Because it’s not another boring anecdote from the ESPN book…be thankful
That interview with the author that was posted over the weekend reminded me of a few bad first dates. Came off as awkward and the author acted like he really didn’t want to be doing the interview at all.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:41 AM
the problem is that Mitt in 2011 is not the Mitt that was governor of MA. if he was the old Mitt i’d give him a fair shot, but it will take a massive drubbing in an election to make the republican candidates break from the party line in the future and stand out to appeal to the masses, rather than the hard right base.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:41 AM
Maybe due to the magnitude of the save. Timmy’s was more athletic and difficult to make. Save of the year. #2 is him robbing Beauchemin in OT. Then… perhaps Rinne can sniff the trail of patriotism left by Timothy James Thomas Jr. at #3 with that OT save.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:41 AM
This is too funny. A (presumably) adult male using this in defense of Lady Gaga. It hurt to even type that name.
/Team She Has Zero Talent
//neither do 99% of other pop artists, but still…
May 24th, 2011 at 9:41 AM
Total bummer that the guys who did MW2 are gone. That game was so much better than Black Ops.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:42 AM
informal, tuesday morning poll:
Jose Bautista, clean or cheating?
If I was betting on it I would go with cheating, seems the safer odds.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:42 AM
What I want to know is if you have a dream about someone here, what do they look like in the dream? Are their faces just their avatar pics?
May 24th, 2011 at 9:43 AM
Timmy’s was more athletic and difficult to make.
Really? It was a nice save, as much a function of his aggressive style than anything else. If he’s not out above the top of his crease to begin with there would be no reason to have to dive back.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:44 AM
Haha well I think we were close to eye to eye so you werent any taller than 5’7″
May 24th, 2011 at 9:44 AM
Julianne Hough was filming a commercial
It appears as though she needs make-up and a good hair-style to make her look as good as she does sometimes. Those pictures of her frolicking in the Pacific weren’t her best effort. Disappointing.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:44 AM
You should try and be more false today. But I bet ya can’t, because that was a pretty impressive exercise in being false.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:44 AM
I agree with this. However, he’ll never get the nomination because his health care plan served as the framework for the national health care law. The Republican base hates him because of this. Whereas McCain got the nomination despite being a “moderate” and “maverick,” Romney has a 20-ton weight tied around his ankles because of RomneyCare being equated (rightfully) to the President’s plan.
Basically then plan then is to ready for 2016, huh? Pick someone like Palin or Bachmann, let them get trounced, and provide a ton of fodder for Jon Stewart, right?
Paul Ryan with his healthcare plan might be a fast rising star as well.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:44 AM
Haha well I think we were close to eye to eye so you werent any taller than 5’7″
Hey now. What were you two doing whilst you were eye-to-eye?
May 24th, 2011 at 9:45 AM
I’m going to try and take this seriously and be nice.
There is testing in place for steroids. It has caught a whole bunch of people, some multiple times. Bautista gets tested. To suggest he’s cheating is to do so with zero evidence. Nothing. And in the face of credible testing.
You’ve alluded to HGH in the past. Doing so is to be ignorant of the science of HGH, which I’ve said before. It’s a non-issue.
On top of all that, Bautista has completely remade himself as a hitter. It takes 2 seconds with Google to find 50 stories about how the Jays adjusted his mechanics at the plate.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:45 AM
i dunno man…treyarch did a badass job with BO. they’re two different games and the maps in BO are MUCH better than in MW2.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:45 AM
Spencer is Brutus with smoke coming out of the head
May 24th, 2011 at 9:45 AM
not defending him for this, but this type of behavior is pretty common among cancer survivors male and female…and it’s not always the survivor that leaves.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:45 AM
Exactly. If Mitt is the best option, the Reps should wait until 2016 to get excited. He has so much baggage in terms of changing his stance, that you never actually believe he has an honest change of heart/opinion, but rather he panders to whomever will get him elected. Add that to his healthcare issue and the fact that evangelicals will have a hard time liking him, and I could see Pawlenty getting the call. Huntsman is the best candidate, but that’s because he’s a moderate. The problem is, the Right saw what happened last time they nominated a moderate (McCain) and I doubt they’ll do that this go around. Huntsman also has a tie to Obama that will irk the primary voters.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:46 AM
But he was… and he did. Should have been a goal regardless if St. Louis hadn’t quit on the play. He’s right there. Use your stick, Napoleon.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:46 AM
Nice. If they did have a SBTB reunion movie that would be an instant pants cream.
/TBS killing me right now with Home Improvement from 7-8.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:47 AM
Honestly his face was blurry but I just knew it was Cleet
May 24th, 2011 at 9:47 AM
crackerjack looks like this when I dream about her.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:47 AM
Ha. Knew you’d be on me for that Jersey. How about this for false: OKC will be going to the Finals.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:47 AM
What I want to know is if you have a dream about someone here, what do they look like in the dream? Are their faces just their avatar pics?
I’ve always wondered what it would be like if we had to post pictures of ourselves rather than avatars. Not sure how I’d go about hiding my snaggle-tooth. I’ve always pictured spence as Brutus though, so my head might explode if his portrait depicted anything different.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:47 AM
/Team She Has Zero Talent
I watched some of the HBO special and was surprised to see that she actually pretty talented.
/she studied music at NYU.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:48 AM
Just missed playing a round of golf in a group right behind G.W. Bush the other day. He’s probably in my ideal foursome.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:49 AM
I’m saving it for Ballin. And you should have went one step further, I had them winning the whole damn thing. And for the EXACT reason I was told I’m wrong, I will be wrong.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:49 AM
I agree in layout, I liked the designs and aesthetics better in MW2. I still play BO a lot though.
/Team M16
May 24th, 2011 at 9:49 AM
You mean the one that would sink any hopes of him winning a national election?
I liked MW2 so much more. I liked the single player game more for sure. The maps were good in the BO, but I liked the modern angle better in MW2.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:49 AM
This.
I think she’s got a ton of talent and is different from the cookie cutter pop artists that most people associate her with. Her new album stands appart from the other two by quite a bit and is different than anything else on the radio right now. I also understand that no matter how hard you try, you’ll never convince some people of that. Agree to disagree is the best we can do here.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:49 AM
Should have been a goal regardless if St. Louis hadn’t quit on the play.
St. Louis? Did you even watch the play?
May 24th, 2011 at 9:49 AM
I just know what Jersey and TBL look like, that’s all.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:49 AM
/Team She Has Zero Talent
I’d go with Ke$ha there before Lady Gaga.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:49 AM
only if the millions of americans who rely on medicare and medicaid decided to sit one out and not vote at all will he be elected to an office higher than where he is now.
this will prove to be a huge issue this election. it’s not like liberals are the only ones on those gov’t services.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:50 AM
Anyone know how long the Double XP for blackops is supposed to last?
May 24th, 2011 at 9:50 AM
Sadly this is how most females remember me.
/I look like Josh Groban, with short hair.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:50 AM
A good amount of us know what we look like in semi real internet life.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:50 AM
That’s hot
May 24th, 2011 at 9:50 AM
Do yourself a favor and tweet Moleman about the history of her when she was a student at NYU. You need to read it.
She has talent. The talent is being a marketing guru and re-inventing her entire persona from an isolated NYU student to a spokesperson for equal gender rights. Musical… I will abstain from commenting.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:51 AM
Agree.
What?
May 24th, 2011 at 9:51 AM
Gaga is very musically talented but chooses to focus more on the image and showmanship of the act. She’s a pretty damn good piano player, though.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:51 AM
Clean
Spence and others – Modern Warfare 3 looks pretty sweet, but Battlefield 3 looks even better, look up the videos on the youtubes.
Christie is not a viable candidate at any point – a new poll released today has him with a 45% unfavorability and 63% among females. Females vote in greater numbers than males. He can’t connect with them since he bullies occupations that tend to have greater female participation (teachers & civil workers). He’s fucked if he tried to go national.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:51 AM
I always picture spence with the popped collar
May 24th, 2011 at 9:51 AM
Sportsdork summarizes my feelings quite nicely. I’ve a hunch a number of folks feel the same way
May 24th, 2011 at 9:52 AM
I don’t see it. He’s safely high up in the House leadership with a decently safe status as an incumbent. Moreover, everything he has said so far regarding the open Senate seat in Wisconsin has been to say “I like where I am.” The only people calling for him to run are a few conservative bloggers.
With that being said, there’s plenty of time for things to change. I just don’t see him having the charisma of a presidential candidate. He reminds me of Tim Pawlenty, except that Pawlenty did not concoct a budget that would end Medicare as we know it.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:52 AM
All you need to know is that the short time I spent with Devang, he was working on a nice piece of ass at the bar.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:52 AM
I was front row at her show here in KC. She has plenty of talent…and it’s a hell of a show. When she gets on the piano and it’s just that and her voice, it’s pretty incredible. No auto-tune needed.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:52 AM
usually just goes for a weekend.
agreed on the modern stuff…so hopefully mw3 is that next step.
it’s the little stuff that makes BO a better game experience. not getting raped by aircraft the minute you spawn, bigger maps, harder to camp, smoother action…but they’re just different games, so i don’t really like to compare.
can’t wait for mw3.
/im not that big of a nerd, i promise
May 24th, 2011 at 9:52 AM
Doesn’t seem to be hurting Obama. He’s about to be campaigning and trumping what is in essence a continuation of the Bush Doctrine. A far cry from the bring the troops home platform he used in ’08 to get votes.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:53 AM
A good amount of us know what we look like in semi real internet life.
Elitists.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:53 AM
Gonna be a tough call which one I get…it might be both.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:53 AM
only if the millions of americans who rely on medicare and medicaid decided to sit one out and not vote at all will he be elected to an office higher than where he is now.
Honest question: can this be changed in 5 years? Medicare and Medicaid are the best options right now for some people, but the scale of corruption is so rampant as to drain billions. I think 60 minutes did a piece on this.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:53 AM
Whoa…you don’t think Gaga has talent? I’m not a fan of her stuff, but I don’t think you can question her talent. She has a killer voice and is a very good piano player.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:54 AM
Lots of humanizing and photo stalking goes on over on the Twitters.
/follow back, yo!
May 24th, 2011 at 9:54 AM
He’s standing right there. Downie goes for the chip shot (obviously forgetting that one of the greatest goalies of our generation is in net), it’s blocked by Timmy and then St. Louis and Moore do nothing about it. There’s two white sweaters in front of the goaltender. Rebound could have been had.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:54 AM
I am willing to bet, any day now, she makes some very stripped down music that is actually “music” according to the people that hate pop music. And you will repent.
/Turns up Lovegames
May 24th, 2011 at 9:54 AM
I just hope that you were really wearing your NWO shirt at Rehab in Vegas as it appears you were on Twitter.
Because that’s fucking awesome.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:55 AM
You need some TBL facebook friends…many of us were humanized long ago.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:55 AM
same here. except his face looks like scott stapp. with a guido mustache.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:55 AM
The Afghanistan policy (whatever the fuck it actually is) is my biggest disappointment, without hesitation.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:55 AM
Jersey, if you ever want to hang out, I make a supurb wingman. I’m married with a kid, I can talk to a grenade all night long.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:56 AM
Think it’s over today not sure. I haven’t played Black Ops much b/c of the PSN outage and playing AC2 & AC:B (Revelations sounds amazing Spence)
Yeah its called raising the amount that the medicare & social security tax cap is. Why is it that the first $106,000 is taxed, but after that, it isn’t taxed. Increase the cap to $500,000 and link to inflation +1%. Boom, problem solved.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:56 AM
For those gamers in need of something to pass some time until MW3/Battlefield 3/etc. come out, I can’t suggest L.A. Noire enough. Terrific sense of ’40s L.A. style, great storytelling, facial animations are amazing and doing detective work is fun.
Very different from anything else out there in a good way.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:56 AM
Have you heard the new album, Jersey? Thoughts?
May 24th, 2011 at 9:56 AM
Rex’s description of Spencer was dead on. Buckeye hat from 1998, jeans with a bit of a dip smear right by the pocket, unshaven, and a t-shirt from a local golf course. I found him in about 8 seconds at the airport back in November.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:56 AM
Rampant is not the word I would use. It’s not a broken system, just one in need of certain fixes. Going to a voucher system is not one of those fixes.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:56 AM
He’s standing right there.
He’s standing right there because he was screening the goalie on the point shot, doing exactly what he should do. St. Louis has no chance to reach the rebound and Moore takes a swing at it and misses a bouncing puck. Watch it again.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:57 AM
mccain was a special case, with too many campaign screw ups and costly errors that looked even worse next to a well oiled campaign from Obama.
the republicans need a younger moderate candidate to win in 2012. not someone who will say cut taxes for the rich, end medicare, no more spending, yada yada yada.
the more they shout about that, the more they limit their base and exlcude the independents and conservative dems.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:57 AM
This is why I love presidential politics. The poly sci nerd comes out in me every 3 years.
But the difference there is, he’s actually the president. I’m not making a one-is-better-than-the-other argument. I’m saying for Romney to win a national election, his record is going to be turned inside out…and he has a long history of changing his stance on just about everything.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:57 AM
Sprite can get fucked, by the way.
/needed to be said
//team 7-up is better
May 24th, 2011 at 9:57 AM
It was all fun and games for Obama until he had that first sit-down meeting with CIA director, et al. I like to imagine a little bit of pee came out.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:57 AM
Come on… Think I would fuck around like that? Rehab is serious business, yo. Gotta wear my best.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:58 AM
and a crooked mustach.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:58 AM
MW3 picks up exactly where MW2 left off.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:58 AM
Just missed playing a round of golf in a group right behind G.W. Bush the other day.
what course were you at?
my office is next to bush’s, its pretty obvious when he is leaving.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:58 AM
There’s a reason presidents age in dog years while in office. I don’t know why anyone would want that job.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:59 AM
Are you unfamiliar with the scaledown of troops in Iraq?
He also said he was sending more troops and resources to Afghanistan.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:59 AM
I will echo SC’s sentiment above and leave it at that. She’s not worth it.
Saving my energy for Ballin’
May 24th, 2011 at 9:59 AM
Pretty much everyone has a pic of themselves up on twitter. Apparently I look like some cartoon mouse. I’m just happy it was a girl cartoon mouse.
May 24th, 2011 at 9:59 AM
Gotcha. Yeah I agree if the Dems do a good job of hammering that home. Hard to imagine they won’t. See how-to article featuring Kerry, John.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:00 AM
This is how people who hate liberals imagine Democrats, isn’t it? Man, it must burn you people up that Obama was the one to get OBL.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:00 AM
I am similar to my Twitter avatar. Just not green
May 24th, 2011 at 10:00 AM
ATL_Badger – see my gravatar for a pic of spencer. this is how he looks on a daily basis.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:00 AM
SG, what’s your twitter name? I’m not sure if I’m following.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:00 AM
I don’t use Twitter for personal reasons so my identity is equally incognito over there.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:00 AM
I will not entertain any links that don’t come from info wars. Good day, sir.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:01 AM
Pretty much everyone has a pic of themselves up on twitter. Apparently I look like some cartoon mouse. I’m just happy it was a girl cartoon mouse.
Not everyone who comments here is on twitter though. And most just have avatars there as well. I think spencer is general Macarthur, which threw me off for a second.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:02 AM
Instead he said, hey, you know that Osama dude? Why the fuck isn’t he dead yet?
/love that the soft-on-terror guy got him for no other reason than it pisses off neo-cons so much
Without a doubt. Get the fuck out of there. That country will never be what we want it to be. It’s just that simple.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:02 AM
I’ve heard it. And I want to like it. But I think it’s just short of what the other 2 albums were. I can’t put my finger on it. I love Hair and Heavy Metal lover. There is something just weird about her album that I can’t put my finger on.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:02 AM
To be clear, NDub is right, these aren’t broken promises. Maybe just one that has been slower in implementation than originally thought with Iraq.
But the Afghanistan policy (to the extent that there’s been an actual policy over the last 10 years) is just one that makes no sense.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:02 AM
This.
/adjusts tie
May 24th, 2011 at 10:02 AM
Man, it must burn you people up that Obama was the one to get OBL.
and it must burn you people up to know that most of us dont give a shit who got him as long as we got him.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:03 AM
This is how people who hate liberals imagine Democrats, isn’t it? Man, it must burn you people up that Obama was the one to get OBL.
Nah.. I’m sure they just play the “well, without Bush, you wouldn’t have had the intel that allowed for the raid” card.
/hates politics
//goes back to Gaga talk
May 24th, 2011 at 10:03 AM
no, it would take a couple decades. you can’t cut people off that already use it, but giving them vouchers or rebates without an increase in salary to cover the higher upfront cost will only make the problem worse.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:04 AM
Exactly. I think we will look back at the 2008 election and see a shift in who runs for President. We will see more people with lighter resumes because it limits where the attacks come from. You will get the experience attacks, but you can defend those, especially when you know they’re coming. It’s the attacks on ones record that are hard, because you can’t deny your record.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:04 AM
I mean, c’mon… Gadget was a cutie.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:05 AM
Yeah, that’s not where I was coming from. Eh, whatever.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:05 AM
Truly fixed
May 24th, 2011 at 10:05 AM
I’m no hawk but would you suggest leaving? I just don’t think we can. Not yet, anyway. We’re training the Afghan Security Forces and trying to keep things as stable as we can until we can start taking units out.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:05 AM
I hate liberals, politically speaking, for different reasons. I think a little bit of pee would come out for anyone who had to face up to the severity of potential threats. It was only made worse for Obama bc he was using specific troop withdrawal time tables as a matter of politicking. Those ideas/ideals disappeared immediately after he was sworn in.
And I don’t care who was president when we got Obama. Like I said before, Obama’s foreign policy, save what happens when he opens his mouth about Israel, is identical to the Bush Doctrine. He was even promoting the expansion of democracy in the Mid East the other day.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:06 AM
It’s definitely different. I’ve been through most of it twice, and I think it gets better with multiple listenings. It’s missing that “Bad Romance” track, but is solid even still.
Digging Government Hooker, myself.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:06 AM
Pretty much everyone has a pic of themselves up on twitter.
yep
May 24th, 2011 at 10:06 AM
While Joakim and I are equally hairy monsters, I do not look like him in the face.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I just got an e-mail that there is a 64 oz tub of homemade poppycock in my kitchen. I need to go grab a few handfuls.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:09 AM
Hilarious. His policy is the same as the three previous presidents, but because he actually says it out loud, he’s the loon who wants to crush Israel. Fucking.Hilarious.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:09 AM
Why do Republicans always make this slip?
May 24th, 2011 at 10:10 AM
I think I understand why you’d say that, and yeah, some of the talking points are the same.
But a lot of the action – albeit some things that don’t get headlines – is not. The revolts in the ME have changed some things, but there were changes in policy re: Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the EU, and Latin America.
Talking about Israel/Palestine is not going to endear us to each other, I don’t imagine.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:10 AM
He’s said publicly what has been discussed privately for at least two decades.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:12 AM
it makes a lot of sense actually…afghanistan is not some modern, socialized culture. read up on the politics in the FATA and you’ll realize that it’d be a slow, long, complicated process no matter how we approached it.
/that said…operations jawbreaker and anaconda were hamstrung by incompetent leadership from non CIA and SOCOM officials
//could’ve been over long ago
///but we probably would’ve attacked pakistan then…
May 24th, 2011 at 10:12 AM
A lot of people have, caught myself doing it once…I’ve since moved to saying “Bin Laden”
May 24th, 2011 at 10:12 AM
Yeah. It was a natural scaledown after the surge had such success. The surge that Obama said wouldn’t work.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:13 AM
It would be a lot better for everyone if he followed up his talk with real actions re: settlements, but that’s likely something that isn’t happening until his second term (if he actually intends on it).
May 24th, 2011 at 10:13 AM
democracy must sound pretty fucking good to the 3/4 of the population that gets shat on by dictators and an ironclad caste system. you know…considering the mass revolts and all that.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:13 AM
Got very political in here all of a sudden.
/leaves
May 24th, 2011 at 10:14 AM
Speaking of 2012, it appears as though Rudy G is thinking about giving it another run. The best line was this one:
Rudy’s 2008 campaign was a blueprint for what NOT to do.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:15 AM
Concerning the 1968 lines? News to me re: W. Bush.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:15 AM
Creating an argument and getting in a shot while doing so all while ignoring the facts.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:17 AM
“Keep over 100,000 Americans there and spend $50 billion a year there until magical ponies appear that turn Afghanistan into a modern democracy” is not a reasonable policy. There’s no clear path. There are no clear goals that can be articulated by anyone in either administration. It’s just “wait and hope and die and spend”.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:17 AM
Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others!
May 24th, 2011 at 10:18 AM
I’m with you, cleet.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:18 AM
Read up on it. The difference is, settlements and such were rarely discussed with W as the war on terror was his main thing. The two-state solution has always been the unofficial stance. Obama simply made it the official one.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:19 AM
I’m not ignoring anything. I created an argument that the scaledown was a natural response to the surge working and not a political institution of Obama. That’s all.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:19 AM
wonder how rudy G even gets to the point where he’s considering running again…he must’ve built up a TON of political capital in washington to get people to ignore the fact he tried to get charlie wilson on cocaine use and failed because he had no evidence.
fuck rudy G.
also found this funny…
May 24th, 2011 at 10:20 AM
I once saw a couple of Canadians in a zoo and wasn’t all that impressed
Then I saw one in it’s natural habitat and found it much larger than I thought
May 24th, 2011 at 10:21 AM
Doesn’t this go against what Husker said? Isn’t what Obama saying re: Israel actually much different than what previous Presidents have said about the 1967 lines? The settlements? The Israeli forces in Palestinian areas?
May 24th, 2011 at 10:21 AM
Never underestimate a politicians ego and ambition.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:23 AM
so what’s your plan? i mean, if it’s so crystal clear, by all means, lets have it.
but im all for letting al qaeda have free reign in the FATA. it’s not like pakistan has a corrupt, easily bought government with nuclear capabilities or anything…
May 24th, 2011 at 10:23 AM
Obama has taken things much further concerning settlements, the ’67 lines, and troops in Palestinian territories. I’m confident this is not in line with previous administrations.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:23 AM
Obama said the 2-state solution (which would mean the borders go back) is the US policy. Every other president has said the same things privately and the policy towards Israel/Palestine has been such on an unofficial level, but Obama was the first Pres to say it in a speech.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:26 AM
It’s a lose-lose situation, but al qaeda isn’t the scary threat you’re making it out to be. It’s not like we are going to ever leave Afghanistan fully. We will still use special ops in the region. Having an entire army there is doing us very little good, and it’s helping to crush our fiscal situation.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:26 AM
Well, unfortunately, that’s not all he said.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:26 AM
Obama is not the first President to hint that Israeli settlement activity in Palestinian lands is hurting the peace process (and it is the number one issue). If he takes action he’ll be the first since GHWB to do so.
And everyone has learned an important domestic politics lesson from Bush the first’s 1992 fate.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:27 AM
Sounds like 1998 in here.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:28 AM
By the way, if there is ever an agreement — and it’s doubtful with the current Israeli administration (it doesn’t matter that much with the Palestinians, they can be controlled) — it will not be the pure 1967 borders. It will largely be based on the incredible 1999 agreement that Clinton fucked up at the last minute.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:30 AM
i have an idea to help alleviate that bad fiscal situation…but that’s neither here nor there.
but there’s a lot of value having a mobilized military right on pakistan’s doorstep. and regardless of your thoughts on al qaeda’s capability, the FATA is a breeding ground for insurgents. leaving the area in the state it is (largely due to our involvement) would be just horrible to the people living there.
we should at least try and rebuild the place, no? leaving wouldn’t exactly endear anyone to american hearts.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:33 AM
May 24th, 2011 at 10:35 AM
Spence, the short answer is your right, there is no plan that is without risk or without costs. I didn’t mean to make it seem that way.
The long answer is, well, really fucking long. Don’t mean to cop out, but maybe another time.
Did you see that Kurt Coleman missed 0 tackles in 2010, leading all NFL secondary players (per PFP)?
May 24th, 2011 at 10:35 AM
I think the manner in which we are trying to rebuild the place is also part of the problem. A buddy of mine just got back with some real practical intel. Stuff like we are depending on the Afghan trained military to enforce laws, protect outliers, etc. and they are doing a pathetic job of it because they are idiot Afghans, while on the other hand the swift, stern, organized former remnants of the Taliban are still capable of winning hearts and minds because they simply aren’t as incompetent.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:37 AM
Fucking A. It seems like we’re never going to achieve anything over there.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:37 AM
didn’t see that, but doesn’t surprise me. his problem was size and speed, never assignment or lack of fundamentals. dude brings the hammer and always wraps up. one of my favorite buckeyes ever…glad you’re enjoying him.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:40 AM
you get control by buying warlords and the warlords mandate that they need involvement for their incompetent men.
in kill bin laden, about operation anaconda, they get into this BIG TIME. delta guys, the best in the world, were prohibited from FIRING SHOTS because the afghans were promised the job.
when the afghans left the real estate they conqured every night it got taken back and the delta guys were left up there alone.
there are so many intertwined political webs in that region that it’s almost impossible to toe the line while not getting the entire region of 30mm people in an organized insurgency against you.
it’s slow process, but it doesn’t make it wrong. the afghan police/army needs to learn somewhere, right?
May 24th, 2011 at 10:41 AM
Yeah, have to assume that sort of thing doesn’t go unnoticed by the coaching staff. And even if what he lacks makes him less than ideal as a starter, I bet he has a roster spot pretty well locked up now. And an ideal special teamer.
May 24th, 2011 at 10:45 AM
Yeah at The Event being over. Since It got canceled I get to draw my own conclusion. Earth shoots every nuke at that planet and kills everyone!
May 24th, 2011 at 10:46 AM
No I agree with you. It’s just fucked up.