WTF? Onside kick?
Now a fluke int. Guess I am going to get a good night’s sleep.
*** Update ***
I can’t lie. Rubbing Oliver’s nose in it if we win with our backup qb in might lead to fatal gloating.
Although Leftwich should be starting somewhere. So should Culpepper.
Aqualad08
Off topic, but coming to your site and seeing the words:
"Michelle Malkin is a national treasure."
Makes me leave your site quickly…I know you can’t control the PJM ads, but, whoa, that is some fucked up shit…
Who said that anyway? Her husband?
MeDrewNotYou
I know it hurts John, but that was one hell of an interception.
Third Eye Open
Hugh Hewitt looks like a bush baby getting an enema.
Canes and the Phins won, all is good in the world.
sopchoppy
Living in tallahassee, fl. Watching the game – Blanketed by aggressive NRA For political victory ads against Obama, and by an Rev. Wright Ad Against Obama.
Republicans certainly out bought the Obama campaign for tonight’s game.
Just thought I would pass it along.
Jennifer
Given the Redskins’ propensity for signaling incumbent party fate, I’m hoping the Steelers step up tonight.
Conservatively Liberal
OT: We are getting hit by our first fall storm on the south Oregon coast and the power just came back on after being out for about an hour. I was sitting here reading online and all of the sudden beepbeepbeep as all seven of our APC units kicked on. I shut down the entertainment/network systems (APC 1400 on that), the two servers (two APC 1000’s on those), the garage APC (600) for my laptop, the two APC 1000’s in the kid’s rooms and the APC 1000 for my main computer. IOW, lots of beeping when the power went out…lol
Of course I left them on long enough to light some candles!
APC’s are a requirement on the coast with our winter storms. Same with the Honda generator we have in the garage, plus flashlights and extra batteries.
Old Boy Scout here; "Be Prepared" and I am. : )
Cruel Jest
Redskin fan here. Indoctrinated since infancy. Couldn’t be happier. But Redskin fans, like Democrats, tend to expect the worst.
Yesterday was harder for me though. I wanted the Cowboys to be crushed, but that entailed rooting for the Giants. Enjoy my pain, but pity my Mother. The Redskins are responsible for more broken wine glasses than the Ring of Fire. Poor dear.
t jasper parnell
Ah memories .
TheFountainHead
This redskin D line is on speed tonight.
Josh Hueco
@Conservatively Liberal:
That brought back some nice memories. I don’t miss Oregon’s five-month-long rainy winters, but I always loved it when those nasty storms arrived at night…the winds blowing and the tree limbs rattling and whatnot. :)
On the other hand, it was 82 here in Waco today, so I can’t complain.
J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford
@sopchoppy:
The Reverend Wright ads have been running heavy on MSNBC and CNN all night.
TheFountainHead
Wow, when was the last time we saw a punt get blocked?
Helena Handbag
Cheer yourself up with some Donuts and Bacon:
Obama logo = Donut + Bacon
Now that’s saturated fat we can believe in! Sing it loud, and sing it proud.
Incertus
@sopchoppy: You’re getting that Wright ad too? I’m seeing it on CNN as well. What a joke.
Conservatively Liberal
@Josh Hueco:
I love the storms here too. They can get real nasty, the churning of the ocean can be felt through the ground (we are about 300 feet from the ocean) and heard real well. We moved here from Spokane, Washington in ’92 as I hate shoveling snow and everything being frozen. At least I don’t have to shovel rain!
But I do need to keep the inflatable raft handy. ; )
What I like about living here is Spring comes sooner and Fall comes later than in Spokane. Christmas is usually in the high 60’s to low 70’s during the day, which is always nice. Beats the crap out of snow and cold. We run in the high 40’s to low 50’s for our lows and it has been as high as 84 at Christmas.
We refer to the winter time here as the ‘monsoon season’, five months of rain is about right. At least the late Spring through early Fall are dry except for the foggy days.
Josh Hueco
I’m listening to the candidates’ halftime statements now. I admit I’m biased, but I thought Obama came across well with his humorous call for a playoff system in football. McCain came across as a bit crabbed in making steroid abuse his number one priority. That’s yesterday’s news. :(
CL: I spent a weekend in Spokane once. I thought it was very pretty country. It probably helped that it was in June and not January. :) I was also pleasantly surprised by the city’s size and culture. I went to a restaurant and had a chicken dish with brie sauce that was delicious!
Phoenix Woman
John, RE: the Mittster —
This is the start of the three-way no-holds-barred falls-count-anywhere tag match between the Corporate Cons, the TheoCons, and the NeoCons.
The TheoCons have lined up behind Palin — she’s their fair-haired girl for 2012, at least until she or her stringpullers egregiously screws up and Mike Huckabee swoops into the vacuum and graciously offers her a spot on his presidential ticket.
The CorporateCons are getting behind Romney — he’s got the money, he’s not Nosferatu with divorces like Rudy, and he’s sick and tired of having to kiss TheoCon butt.
The NeoCons — ah, now they’re interesting. They’re currently in bad odour, so they’re going to pull a chameleon act and blend into the background for a few months. I don’t know if they’re going to dare run their own candidate, but they might wind up the kingmaker in a Romney-Huckabee slugfest.
Cruel Jest
@Josh Hueco:
re: Halftime statements; my comment to the room was, "And Obama wins another debate." He’s so smooth it’s scary. Did you catch his MTV interview? Ta-Nehisi posted on it.
Echoes without Bunnies or Men
The redskins election indicator, I am surprised you didn’t mention it John. They are 17 for 17 in election predictions.
I am a Skins fan, longtime NVA resident, but tonight, lose you bitches! Stillers ALL the way.
Josh Hueco
@Cruel Jest:
Yeah, he’s good. I was most impressed by his statement about neither getting too high in the good times nor too low in the bad times. Hopefully it impressed some undecideds and served as a quiet but effective rebuttal to the ‘Skerrie Black Radical’ caricature shown in the Rev. Wright ads.
Josh Hueco
The MTV interview was good too. Nice, common-sense answer to the question. That’s some hat Sway was wearing. ;)
TheFountainHead
Way OT: But has there been any recent polling on the Bachman-Tinkleberg race?
Commie-rade Rommie
DanO hurt his thumb Sunday, so there’s a real chance Culpepper will start for the Lions’ next game over Stanton.
Whee. Yes we can go 0-16 and make history.
Tattoosydney
@Josh Hueco:
Does anyone have a link to video?
Josh Hueco
@Tattoosydney:
Yoobetcha
Josh Hueco
@TheFountainHead:
SUSA has Brownshirt Barbie with a one point lead. The good news is that Indies and Mods are far in favor of Tinklenberg.
Tattoosydney
is definite win.
Now I just have to find the halftime statements.
TheFountainHead
You know, I wasn’t keyed into that race until after her Hardball appearance, but I now want her to lose as badly as I want Obama to win.
Brian J
I know this would be be theme-appropriate in the other thread, but I’d like to vent and want people to see it here. Earlier this afternoon, as I was flipping between the channels, Michael Barone on Fox implied that a significant portion of Obama’s fund raising, which he only got because he broke his promise, was from sketchy sources. It was such an outrageously exaggerated claim, if it’s even true, that I wanted to jump through the screen and beat the Buddy Holly glasses off that son of a bitch’s face.
Tattoosydney
This too is win… the Obama Hustle…
Also, too, this post from Al Giordano (and the Mary Mary video that is included in it) deserves re reading on the day before the election…
joe from Lowell
I saw Leftwich as a rookie, in the snow in New England, when he was with Jacksonville. He already had that poise in the pocket that was on display tonight. I was impressed.
Ed Marshall
Wow, did Palin suck on SNL. That was creepy as fuck. I can’t figure out what the joke was. I wan’t to know who wrote that thing.
Bubblegum Tate
Now we see why I was kind of excited that we picked up Leftwich. Dude looked real sharp this game.
srv
So we’re never going to get the archives back? I wanted to find your pre-election day posts for 2004.
burnspbesq
@Brian J:
Sketchy sources, like, umm, actual hard-working citizens by the million, who dug deep and gave whatever they could out of sincere patriotism. As opposed to crony capitalists out to increase their slice of the pie.
Yup, that’s real sketchy.
mcd410x
impeachment proceedings to begin jan. 21
get off my lawn, you whippersnappers!
burnspbesq
Darn. Looks like the blind rabbi who is running against a truly despicable wingnut Congressman in the district where I grew up (NJ-05) isn’t going to get it done.
Win or lose, Mazel Tov, Rabbi Schulman. You sure as hell fought the good fight.
The district where I currently live (CA-40, Royce) is hopeless.
Ron
Big Ben didn’t look very good tonight, but did at least get them the lead before the half. Leftwich did fine, and holy crap, the defense played scary good tonight. If someone told me before the season started they’d be at 6-2 halfway through I’d have been satisfied. They have a tough schedule (and they still have to play some pretty decent teams).
Comrade Stuck
Hope abides; therefore I abide.
Countless frustrations have not cowed me.
I am still alive, vibrant with life.
The black cloud will disappear,
The morning sun will appear once again
In all its supernal glory.
GO MUP!
Oliver Willis
Clearly the Redskins are all Obama fans and threw the game in order to move the mojo in Obama’s favor.
Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Embarrasing.
Conservatively Liberal
First Results in!
Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, voted for Obama over McCain, 15 to 6!
Brian J
More good news for John McCain!
eyeball
Today and all day we will see
The largest flash mob is human history
go to the polls and evict the GOP.
Our Founders were geniuses. They codified quadrennial revolutions. We are about to witness one. Live it my friends. It’s the perfect symphony of civil democracy.
… and thank you God, for making karma such a bitch.
jcricket
I am 100% certain that will be the way the rest of America votes too. 2 to 1 Obama :-)
But seriously, Punksatawney Phil and the other Dixvillian’s haven’t voted for a Dem since, I dunno, someone 40+ years ago?
Echoes without Bunnies or Men
18-18
Redskins election indicator works again
For those who don’t know, for the past 17 elections the Washington Redskins can determine the next president by whether they win or lose Sunday prior to Election day.
If they win, the incumbent party wins.
If they lose, the challenger wins.
Now it’s 18-18.
jcricket
Any race within a couple percent could go either way, depending on turnout (or people who stay home). This means mostly things could go in favor of the Democrats and Obama, given the enthusiasm gap, but that’s definitely not 100%.
GOTV!
Conservatively Liberal
I like that, 2.5 to 1. Those are results you can believe in. A Republican stronghold goes for the scary guy! ; )
I am not going to rest until this is over…lol!
jcricket
BTW – This bodes well for quashing the hypothetical "Bradley Effect". We’re talking about upper and middle class whities voting 2.5 to 1 for the black guy with the foreign sounding middle name.
Josh Hueco
@jcricket:
Yeah, it’s going to be interesting watching all the heads go asplodey here in Texas. Right now I’m arguing with a guy who insists that the mortgage crisis was caused by Bill Clinton forcing banks to give loans to people who the actuarial tables warned would not be able to pay back.
Conservatively Liberal
The Redskins LOST!
Gobama! : )
eyeball
Hmmmm … no Zogby leak to Drudge tonight … This must be … good news for john McCain!
i just love that expression — i think we should use it every time something goes down in flames from here on.
jcricket
Palin "released" her "medical records". By that I mean she released a single page letter from her personal physician saying she’s in good health. Classy move at the last minute there.
I don’t believe in conspiracy theories, but I’m on the fence about this whole "the baby isn’t hers" thing.
She’s either being secretive just to be secretive, like Cheney. Or because there’s something really bad in the medical records. Given that we know she’s not old and dying, I think there just might be something to this whole idea her birth story is ridiculously fishy.
Josh Hueco
@jcricket:
Meh. I never thought much of it. There was no need to go digging through her medical records to discredit her. She did it as soon as she started opening her mouth.
jcricket
Oh I know. I really couldn’t care less – but it’s one more thing where her strange secretive behavior helps discredit her. This is the same woman who demanded to see the marriage certificate for a previous political opponent because his wife kept her maiden name (thus making their marriage a sham).
I say there’s a 10% chance there’s something fishy in her medical records, and a 90% chance she’s just being a secretive, lying, vindictive wingnut because she thinks its her right.
The Moar You Know
@jcricket: I’m willing to leave it alone at this point. It’s finished.
Tomorrow she can start packing up the ol’ suitcase to head back to the frozen meth-ridden welfare-state trailer park hellhole she runs, and she can crap out another sixteen kids for all I care. Maybe she and her trailer-destined daughter can have a competition to see how many warriors for Christ they can hatch between them. She is done.
Brian J
I’ve decided that since I want to get up very early tomorrow so I can vote as soon as possible, I will go to bed. That prevents me from spending an hour or two trying to find out if the claims from Michael Barone and others are somewhat less ridiculous than usual. I guess I’ll just have to live with the idea that one of the most disciplined presidential candidates in history isn’t dumb enough to try to pass off illegal donations as legitimate ones with the notion that he wouldn’t get caught.
Jay Severin Has A Small Pen1s
"Given the Redskins’ propensity for signaling incumbent party fate, I’m hoping the Steelers step up tonight."
Breaking News:
SI is reporting:
After the Redskins loss, Republican lawyers are now challenging the final score. An emergency hearing in NYC tomorrow led by Arlen Spector, an Eagles Fan and a Pennsylvania Senator, who has mixed feelings about trying to overturn an outcome favorable to his beloved Eagles in order to benefit his political party.
Not to bust anyone’s bubble but the skins lost in 2004 and Bush still won. That trend is broken. Also, they aren’t playing on Sunday.
Comrade Darkness
So, I go to Acme for my traditional dozen raw oysters and a crawfish po-boy and the wash/pitt game is on the tv (just starting, with an onside kick?!). I wander down to Sing Sing for two sets of blues and the wash/pitt game is on (albeit, with the sound off (I’m guessing)). I return to my hotel and the wash/pitt game is on in the lobby bar. I get to my room and … what do I find is on bj?
Is this some kind of sign? And if so, what the hell does it mean?
Conservatively Liberal
Agreed. What Sarah is selling may be popular in Alaska but that doesn’t mean that everyone else in the country will buy it.
Josh, about Spokane:
There are some really great places to dine in Spokane, and it is a good looking, diverse city. That said, the place sucks donkey dicks. It’s a great place to grow up but forget about living there. The city government sucks, the police and sheriff departments are about as corrupt as they get, and the politics there are predominantly right wing. I lived there for over 30 years and it was a relief to get out of there.
That said, it is one of the few towns where I will drink water right out of the tap. The Spokane aquifer is famous for its quality water. The town is in a river valley, on the edge of the forests to the north and the prairies to the south. Coming into Spokane on I-90 (eastbound), you see little but scattered farms, businesses and small towns across the prairie. The interstate rises before it reaches the valley edge. Once you crest it and descend into the valley the town is laid out below. It is a very beautiful view, especially at night.
Most of our families (wife’s and mine) are still living there, so we go up there regularly to visit them. It is a great place to visit, but after a week or so I am ready to get out of it. Now I am a small town guy and I like it that way. But if you are young and looking for a place to have fun, Spokane is a good place to start.
Just avoid the cops and you will do ok…lol! They will ticket you for looking the wrong way. While walking. Once they ‘know’ you, you can expect to get pulled over regularly.
Examples:
Defective Equipment = K-Mart Fog lights purchased in Spokane.
Excessive Engine Noise = No ordinance on the books but they just charge it under "Defective Equipment".
Littering = Pulling over on the return trip from surgery and stopping the car to vomit next to the curb from a reaction to the anesthesia. I was the passenger and they ticketed me. I had to go to court to fight it but I won.
Traction Bars too low = Just an excuse to pull you over.
License Plates too high = No shit, on a ’72 ‘Cuda. I pissed the cop off by letting a bit of air out of the air shocks because he said my rear plate was a half-inch too high…lol!
I could go on and on with stupid shit like this. Like I said, once they get to ‘know’ you, they will make your life miserable.
Martin
That it’s Monday, so only one game today and MLB is done for the season.
Third Eye Open
Hey, anyone from Florida get that 3am robocall last week from Ridge?
They are sinking mondo-cash into the panhandle, which means if they are still competing for votes in Gadsden or Wakulla or all points West, then there is gonna be some major ass-whoopin in store for ole Johnny Mac
Josh Hueco
@Conservatively Liberal:
I’m not surprised to hear what you have to say about Spokane. I believe that was also the hometown of closet-homo Republican (but I repeat myself) Jim West.
L. Ron Obama
Not only that, but now that tonight’s results are out, Drudge has not updated the latest Zogby numbers from yesterday’s +7.1% to today’s +11.4%.
ninerdave
Yes, we can!!!
…oh and fuck the Steelers and Roethlisberger in particular for being my shittiest fantasy pick this year
ninerdave
@jcricket:
Here’s a hint:
The baby ain’t hers it’s her kids. Speaking as someone who’s wife is a nurse and who’s sister-in-law is in the Airline industry:
Medically a doctor would never clear her to fly
Airline wise an airline would never let her on a plane. Can you imagine the lawsuits if she’d (or any pregnant woman) gone into labor in the air? Both from the mother if something had gone wrong and the 100+ passengers on the flight?
It ain’t hers.
Here’s the kicker. I don’t care. I’d imagine that most people who aren’t in wingnuttia don’t care. Her daughter got pregnant. Shit happens. The family is obviously well enough off to care for the baby. Whatever you think about Palin, her family seems pretty tight knit. Politics and their beliefs aside, it seems like a good and caring family.
Other than her political aspirations, I don’t know why it’s such a big deal to have a baby out of wedlock.
ninerdave
Apropos of nothing:
I live in the Bay Area, it’s rained a lot in the last few days. A month or so ago I had my back yard ripped out as the wife and I are going to re-do it in the spring. So it’s pretty much bare dirt.
To my surprise today, I see that enough dirt has washed away exposing some of the sprinkler system plumbing. Which is basically green garden hose hooked up to the sprinkler heads covered by a thin layer of (now washing away) dirt.
Nice!!
I was thinking about re-doing it anyway, I guess now I’ll have to.
r€nato
indeed, like a treasure chest, she is something that should be buried and forgotten about for a long, long time.
I hope you are making some good dime off those PJTV ads. "Goodbye NBC, CBS, ABC – here comes Hugh Hewitt News!" For reals?
phobos
Can’t sleep…clown will eat me.
I’m actually feeling rather neglected, never once getting robo-called here in PA. I guess it’s because I live in a predominately R suburban county, though there has been a ton of the expected 527 funded Reverend Wright ads this evening on Comcast.
As far as PA coal counties go, dumbass McCain already had as much support in Pennsyltucky as he was ever going to get. Which is lucky for him, seeing as how the coal industry already views McCain as somewhat squishy on the whole subject.
Frank Sobotka
I still don’t really understand why Jacksonville let Leftwich go (Garrard is a marginal improvement. Maybe.) and furthermore why Leftwich chose to be a back up in Pittsburgh with quarterback openings in Detroit, San Francisco, Oakland, etc, where he could definitely still be a serviceable starter.
As for the election? I’m in full superstition mode. Not a word of celebration or chastising until the polls are closed.
bago
Prying my…
JGabriel
Just saw this a DKos: Best McCain Endorsement, Evah.
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Beej
WTF? I open Balloon-juice and it looks totally different! Little teasers of text with an invitation to read the whole post? I don’t think I like this.
roza Hussein
Leftwich… glad we got him we’re gonna need him
"Fair and Balanced" Dave
Oliver Willis @41
Oliver,
FWIW, I thought the Skins’ Defense played very well last night–especially in the first half. I hope they take out their frustrations from last night on the Cowboys in two weeks (and, since I’m a Steeler fan, on the Ravens in December).
ET
As a DC resident I have two words:
GO STEELERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Eric
I don’t know if anyone said it, but that indicator about the Redskins and the incumbent party is over. They lost their last home game in ’04. I think the Pack beat them.
As for Leftwich, I was never a fan, and am still unsold in spite of how well he played in one half. I was worried about the prospect of a completely immobile quarterback playing behind an offensive line with suspect pass-blocking skills. Glad he played well, but I want Ben back and healthy.
"Fair and Balanced" Dave
Looking ahead for the Steelers:
11/9 Indianapolis
11/16 San Diego
11/20 Cincinnati
In other words: The Colts, The Bolts, and The Dolts.
horatius
Looking ahead for the Steelers:
11/9 Indianapolis
11/16 San Diego
11/20 Cincinnati
In other words: The Colts, The Bolts, and The Dolts.
And see the surprise on the squealer’s faces when they lose all three.