Nothing personal, John. But when I hear Steelers (or Giants or Patriots) fans moan about how bad their team is, I stop listening. You guys have had plenty of glory in recent years.
Did Festivus yesterday with Wingnut Dad – who y’all might recall cancelled it after “That One” won. He rallied though, no doubt due to familial pressure. Everyone was supposed to come to my place, though, and I prepared for this. And then the day before I hear from my Sister that “oh yeah, we’re having it at her place”. Colonel Wingnut couldn’t even call me to tell me. The loser.
FYI: NYC, weather wise, is like the deep South to me. Boston is South. Heck, Portland ME is the near South.
Too far North – 3:55PM sunsets, 7:15 Sunrises.
Bring on Krampus!
6.
pat
This is creepy. I just spent the better part of the afternoon sending online donations to various humanitarian organizations, and now I’m seeing ads for exactly those orgs on this website. Oxfam, Doctors w/o Borders… Is this showing up for anyone else?
Spooky.
7.
Mr Stagger Lee
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME BEAST MODDDDDEEEEEE!!!!!!! AT THE CLINK!!!!!
You’re spoiled, that’s all. If you want a bona fide example of “sustained suck by an NFL team”, look no further that the San Francisco 49ers in the first decade of the 21st century. Or [insert favorite loser]. The Steelers have been walking in tall cotton for so long that you began to take their bad ass teams for granted.
It’s interesting to watch a little over half of the country welcome Obama with open arms while the rest of the folks are struggling to forgive him for existing. It ain’t easy.
18.
Mr Stagger Lee
@efgoldman: Hah, try the Cleveland Browns 2.0. May the FSM roast Art Modell the netherworld and Randy Lerner when he assumes room temperature.
@pat: No, that’s how Google Ads work. You see ads often based on your web history, even if you just went to the site and left without entering any info. Not really spooky, just typical web tracking.
22.
Or something like that.Suffern Ace
@efgoldman: Really? They made three Super Bowl appearances before then. If you want bad, I’d go with Cardinals, who are really like the Clippers of the NFL. They are only good long enough for the owners to get afraid of having to give a raise to a player.
23.
aangus
Meet the New Trolls,
They’re the same as the Old Trolls.
:)
@gogol’s wife: Eh, I know I’m an outlier on this among communities like ours, but it just really doesn’t bother me. Big deal, they know I went to Petco.com and B&N. I just can’t really get that worried about it when I don’t see what harm it does. It’s not like they have access to your medical files or something…but I know for some folks it’s just the principle of privacy.
26.
Baud
Via TPM
Sen. Michael Crapo (R-ID) was arrested last night just after midnight in Alexandria, Virginia for driving under the influence. According to police statements to CBS news, Patch and WTOP, Crapo failed multiple field sobriety tests and was arrested without incident.
@Linda Featheringill: I mention my Father not simply because of his recent actions, but his recent conversion. He’s always been Conservative (in the “I ain’t paying any more taxes” variety. No guns or religion or social issues), but something happened over the past 4 years (though I suspect more like 2) where he’s gone Full Wingnut, casually dropping “Solyandra” and “Fast n’ Furious” into unrelated conversations.
For example, he handled Obama’s 2008 election just fine. I even tried to get him to vote Obama, and he listened, but didn’t. 2012 and he’s a near-suicidal mess.
It seems representative of an overall national trend. Otherwise sane Conservatives have turned crazy, and the Crazies have gotten even crazier. It’s disturbing on many levels.
28.
FlipYrWhig
@Mr Stagger Lee: Cleveland always stinks. It’s astounding. It’s like my Philadelphia Phillies, who had like two good years between 1915 and 1977.
29.
Raven
I’ll drop the baby off at school at nine,
And bust the lights to get to work on time.
Where I’ll be staring at the clock just waiting to knock off another day.
When supper’s done we’ll watch some TV show,
Of a bunch of folks who’ve never heard of Idaho,
Where easy’s gettin’ harder every day.
I had a garden but my flowers died.
There ain’t much living here inside.
Lately, I don’t know what I’m holding on to.
Wished I could run away to Couer d’Alene,
Take nothing with me, not even my name.
‘Cause easy’s gettin’ harder every day.
Forgive me if this has been covered, but it looks like Sen. Crapo(Republican Mormon) decided to get behind the wheel after celebrating the holidays a bit too much. The police, who apparently were in the giving mood, charged him with DUI.
32.
Baud
I can’t believe you people believe that there is an NFL team that historically has had more sustained suck than the Saints.
33.
amk
@Baud: Chasing some tail ? DUI & adultery would be a feather in his mormon cap.
@efgoldman: I still harbor a grudge against Pete Carroll for wasting the Patriots talent in the late 90’s. That team was poised to be a dynasty – with Drew Bledsoe! – and Carroll pissed it away.
35.
Raven
@redshirt: My old man went south (so to speak) when Arizona was denied the Superbowl because they refused the King Holiday. He saw incredible injustice in it because other states had done so and not gotten sanctioned. He was always a right-winger but it turned him into an embarrassing racist. Really sucked.
@Corner Stone: “Jack’d Up”, you mean? You’re not supposed to cheer for that anymore – MEMO from the League.
39.
Hill Dweller
@efgoldman: A lot of the Senate, including Sen. Reid, was in Hawaii today for Sen. Inouye’s funeral.
40.
Corner Stone
@Baud: I never understand this. I’m 100% with Atrios on this. Having a driver, calling a towncar, getting a cab, it’s all worth whatever fee that costs that one freakin evening. Pay $200 to get a towncar to come get you. God forbid you hurt someone.
@Raven: I’ve lived in AZ, got friends in AZ right now and visited back in 2009. I love AZ on one level. On another, fuck AZ.
Public Enemy – “By the Time I get to Arizona”
++++++++++++
I’m countin’ down to the day deservin’
Fittin’ for a king
I’m waitin’ for the time when I can
Get to Arizona
‘Cause my money’s spent on
The goddamn rent
Neither party is mine not the
Jackass or the elephant
20.000 nig niggy nigas in the corner
Of the cell block but they come
From California
Population none in the desert and sun
Wit’ a gun cracker
Runnin’ things under his thumb
Starin’ hard at the postcards
Isn’t it odd and unique?
Seein’ people smile wild in the heat
120 degree
‘Cause I wanna be free
What’s a smilin’ fact
When the whole state’s racist
Why want a holiday F–k it ’cause I wanna
So what if I celebrate it standin’ on a corner
I ain’t drinkin’ no 40
I B thinkin’ time wit’ a nine
Until we get some land
Call me the trigger man
Looki lookin’ for the governor
Huh he ain’t lovin’ ya
But here to trouble ya
He’s rubbin’ ya wrong
Get the point come along
An he can get to the joint
I urinated on the state
While I was kickin’ this song
Yeah, he appear to be fair
The cracker over there
He try to keep it yesteryear
The good ol’ days
The same ol’ ways
That kept us dyin’
Yes, you me myself and I’ndeed
What he need is a nosebleed
Read between the lines
Then you see the lie
Politically planned
But understand that’s all she wrote
When we see the real side
That hide behind the vote
They can’t understand why he the man
I’m singin’ ’bout a king
They don’t like it
When I decide to mike it
Wait I’m waitin’ for the date
For the man who demands respect
‘Cause he was great c’mon
I’m on the one mission
To get a politician
To honor or he’s a gonner
By the time I get to Arizona
I got 25 days to do it
If a wall in the sky
Just watch me go thru it
‘Cause I gotta do what I gotta do
PE number one
Gets the job done
When it’s done and over
Was because I drove’er
Thru all the static
Not stick but automatic
That’s the way it is
He gotta get his
Talin’ MLK
Gonna find a way
Make the state pay
Lookin’ for the day
Hard as it seems
This ain’t no damn dream
Gotta know what I mean
It’s team against team
Catch the light beam
So I pray
I pray everyday
I do and praise jah the maker
Lookin’ for culture
I got but not here
From jah maker
Pushin’ and shakin’ the structure
Bringin’ down the babylon
Hearin’ the sucker
That make it hard for the brown
The hard Boulova
I need now
More than ever now
Who’s sittin’ on my freedah’
Opressor people beater
Piece of the pick
We picked a piece
Of land that we deservin’ now
Reparation a piece of the nation
And damn he got the nerve
Another niga they say and classify
We want too much
My peep plus the whole nine is mine
Don’t think I even double dutch
Here’s a brother my attitude hit ’em
Hang ’em high
Blowin’ up the 90s started tickin’ 86
When the blind get a mind
Better start and earn while we sing it
Now
There will be the day we know those down and who will go
++++++
Word.
44.
Corner Stone
@redshirt: It looked like a legal hit, actually. But he got torched like his name was Crapo.
It would appear that the Intertubz don’t like me tonite!
:((
47.
The Dangerman
…sixteen weeks of sustained suck…
Now, THAT’s a BJ post.
Carrol’s enough of an asshole to try to put up a major asswhooping on SF (although, in the rain, he’d be smart to pull his starters to prevent injury).
48.
Comrade Jake
The only person that can stop a bad drunk in a car is a good drunk in a car.
@Raven: Me too. Love Tucson. Used to love going to Nogales, but no longer. Sad – we’ve lost cool, hip fun border Mexico. I went over like 10 times in the 90’s and always had a blast. Love the actual Mexicans! What’s going on down there now should be an outrage in America as well, but, oh yeah, not much. “Liberal Media”.
Is it bad to admit that I hate Christmas? I have hated it for years, with its consumerism and its false humanitarianism. This year the hubby and I decided to stay home and not give any gifts to each other or family, except the kids. Friday, I received a gigantic package from the
grandparents, and I kinda feel bad for not visiting or giving them anything. My grandparents always said that the only gift they want is our visit, but I figured since I saw them two weeks ago, it won’t be so bad if I don’t visit on Christmas. Am I horrible for not going to Boston this year?
56.
Raven
@redshirt: Ever go to Rocky Point? I went camping and fishing in Gyuamas in 72.
Carrol’s enough of an asshole to try to put up a major asswhooping on SF (although, in the rain, he’d be smart to pull his starters to prevent injury).
I hope he gets the chance to rub The Harbaugh’s face right into it.
65.
Schlemizel
All you whiners crying over your teams suckage should dry up.
At one time the MN Vikings were perennial winners, Super Bowl contenders. The GM was one Jim Finks put those teams together and asked the owner to be allowed to buy 10% of the team for himself. The owner freaked & dumped him, hiring Mike Lynn, a guy who knew nothing about football.
Mike Lynn made a deal that sent several defensive starters and draft picks to the Dallas Cowpies – who used that talent to win 2 super bowls while the vikings tanked.
Finks went on to put together the Cubs team that made a run at the pennant and then the Saints team that was very successful and getting better before smoking killed Finks.
Lynn made the deal for the new stadium that paid him a million dollars a year as long as the Vikings played there. And the team stunk. He also screwed the owner out of the team. There has followed a succession of morons who don’t know a first down from a down jacket trying to run the team. They once traded UP and picked a DL that was pegged to be a third round pick. They drafted an Ivy League QB that nobody thought would make it in the NFL and then stumbled along with him long after he showed conventional wisdom to be correct. They hired a coach who tried to run an Iron Man/USMC obstetrical course on the first day of practice that ended the career of their place kicker & injured several other players (Coach showed up in fatigues & a helmet for the event BTW). They babied two of the biggest assholes to ever play the game to the point it damaged the entire team who retaliated by not playing the NFC championship game. They finally got rid of the Moss only to stupidly trade to get him back & then find out he was still the useless asshole he had always been.
And those are just some of the highlights of one of the worst run franchises in the league.
66.
Comrade Jake
@Mike in NC: Really? I was just about to post the opposite. Everyone I’ve met from there is pretty nice.
67.
Ron
A friend of mine on FB has a comment thread for “Airing of the Grievances”. It’s quite epic.
@Raven: Nope. Ever been to Biosphere 2? It’s like an hour or so North of Tucson and is awesome – a glass enclosed world, with forests and oceans and deserts and rain forests – except not in the plural. It’s also got some of the most fascinating engineering ever – for example, huge artificial lungs which take on expanding air during the day and breath it back at night, all without external power. If you dig science, it’s totally worth the visit. The UofA runs it now and has an awesome campus on site as well – like out of old Star Trek.
70.
Raven
@Corner Stone: Man, we went hiking in Texas Canyon and Cochise Stronghold. No wonder them fucking blue bellies couldn’t find him!
I am DONE! I do not have to enter a store until after The Holidays. And that’s good, because if I had had to listen to Brenda Lee yowl about rockin’ around that damn Christmas tree one more time, I would probably have run amok with a stake of holly.
I despise The Holidays. I like Christmas, which is an important holy day on my religion, but The Holidays are nothing but an exercise in wretched excess and forced gaiety. I don’t understand why the feminist groups don’t come out against The Holidays, because the giant marketing machine we call a society puts tremendous pressure on already overworked women to conform to the marketed ideal of The Holidays. Most women hate The Holidays; I haven’t found a woman who likes The Holidays in at least ten years.
I love those Coach T commercials, and I don’t care who knows it.
78.
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
You guys don’t know what suckitude is. The Seahawks may have won some game or other—somewhere, sometime—if so, it was never brought to my attention.Then suddenly, for no apparent reason, they were in Super Bowl Xtra-Large with the Green Bay Packers. They completely humiliated Green Bay in the first quarter, then laid down and let the Packers use them as throw rugs for the rest of the game. Now that’s some world-class suckage!
Sorry, but no. So you haven’t won a Super Bowl. Lots of teams haven’t won a Super Bowl. The Vikings have made the playoffs 14 out of the last 25 years. The Bills, Lions, Browns, Jets, Cardinals, and I’m sure I’m missing a few would love a track record like that.
I get the idea that it’s worse to root for a team that always breaks your heart over one that never comes close, but there’s something to be said for never getting close, trudging through season after season and knowing there’s nothing but 5-win seasons and failed draft picks in your future.
Aren’t lots of comedies about terrible people doing terrible things to each other? It’s not like Groucho or the Stooges or any Mel Brooks characters were models of integrity.
Art Modell has to wait in line behind Robert Irsay, the bastard who started it all.
ETA: And by all I mean NFL musical chairs.
84.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@Raven: Five of us tried to go to Guaymas in 1971. Mexican customs wouldn’t let us go south (visa? I can’t remember) with long hair. Two guys decided to go to a barber and headed onward. The rest of us hung out in Tucson and hit Nogales instead.
Nixon. “Operation Intercept”. What a fuckin’ joke.
85.
Corner Stone
The Bandwagons are dismantling The Harbaughs. And I love it.
86.
The Sailor
@Spaghetti Lee: I guess it was that the Seinfeld characters were all unlikeable, to me. Not much a Stooges fan.
87.
Anya
@Bill Murray: Nice voice. I like the song. Thanks for sharing.
88.
Corner Stone
Why would Jack Reacher drive such a fine mofo car?
@amk: What, he’s a Mormon? Reminds me of when I worked in Egypt and seeing the Saudi upper classes come off their flights into Cairo from Ryadh totally drunk (we’re talking about the males. of course) and spend their time in casinos.
90.
Anya
@Mike in NC: Seriously, there are nice people and mean people everywhere, but the three people from Idaho I’ve met are really nice. The stereotypical salt of the earth, polite and generous.
91.
Corner Stone
Burn bitchez! That’s right! Sherman just toasted The Harbaughs right the fuck out of this game!
92.
catclub
@aangus: So close! Then they mis-spell a key word.
93.
catclub
@Schlemizel: I want to know more about this: “USMC obstetrical course”
Obstacle course sounds too easy. And I have heard it said that the uterus will humble any doctor.
94.
Corner Stone
I hope so hard that lil bitch Harbaugh gets to sit the Championship game out due to his choice to sit Alex Smith.
Harbaugh and Kappy can pass the medicinal bong back and forth while they watch the Superbowl.
95.
Suffern ACE
Goodness. Seattle is now going to be favored to win the NFC.
96.
Corner Stone
I hope they drop 60 on ’em. Fuck The Harbaughs.
97.
Felonius Monk
I couldn’t go to Festivus because I couldn’t find my Manzier.
98.
Narcissus
@Felonius Monk: I was wearing two, but I was just doing it to fool Lloyd Braun.
Sorry for the airing of grievances but… Please help a liberal blogger stave off eviction the week after Xmas.
Next year, I’ll do the feats of Strength, I swear. I’ll even work out in 2013…
101.
Carolina Dave
My family was spared the Airing of the Greviences this year. Or anything else because my wife said, “We are not f#$%ing celebrating Festivus this year or any other year.
As to sucky NFL teams. I W
102.
Carolina Dave
I will submit the Carolina Panthers. But of course the Jax Jags suck worse. So were #2 in sucky teams,
103.
PurpleGirl
@Raven: Your unit’s holiday card? It’s interesting in how it mixes secular/military images (the badges) around the religious image in the center.
104.
PurpleGirl
@Litlebritdifrnt: I rarely watched Seinfeld and didn’t find him particularly funny. So I’ve picked up Festivus from the general society.
I’ve been working through the night to finish a manuscript for my typing client. After I’ve met her to deliver the manuscript, I’ll come home and sleep. (My bad, I used the wrong set of files to make this round of changes to it so I had to redo part of it.)
@PurpleGirl:
I would hate typing someone’s manuscript. You are brave.
I think manuscript files are confusing. It would be easy to get one or two mixed up.
From the local paper:
The Vietnam vet turned training camp into boot camp, Mankato serving as a poor man’s Parris Island. Veterans began to rebel on Day 1, when Steckel kicked things off with an Ironman competition – an extreme obstacle course that claimed victims with pulled hamstrings, acute exhaustion and vomitus projectilius.
It went downhill from there.
I’ll add the guy was also a sky pilot who forced his religious beliefs into every event/discussion/occasion.
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Tom The First
Boy, Seinfeld sure was funny.
Spaghetti Lee
Aw, poor Steelers fan.
Nothing personal, John. But when I hear Steelers (or Giants or Patriots) fans moan about how bad their team is, I stop listening. You guys have had plenty of glory in recent years.
Litlebritdifrnt
@Tom The First:
Actually no it wasn’t, it was utterly juvenile. (Unless that was snark of course in which case I agree with you).
redshirt
Did Festivus yesterday with Wingnut Dad – who y’all might recall cancelled it after “That One” won. He rallied though, no doubt due to familial pressure. Everyone was supposed to come to my place, though, and I prepared for this. And then the day before I hear from my Sister that “oh yeah, we’re having it at her place”. Colonel Wingnut couldn’t even call me to tell me. The loser.
I pinned him.
redshirt
FYI: NYC, weather wise, is like the deep South to me. Boston is South. Heck, Portland ME is the near South.
Too far North – 3:55PM sunsets, 7:15 Sunrises.
Bring on Krampus!
pat
This is creepy. I just spent the better part of the afternoon sending online donations to various humanitarian organizations, and now I’m seeing ads for exactly those orgs on this website. Oxfam, Doctors w/o Borders… Is this showing up for anyone else?
Spooky.
Mr Stagger Lee
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME BEAST MODDDDDEEEEEE!!!!!!! AT THE CLINK!!!!!
gogol's wife
I don’t like the new trolls. That’s my grievance.
aangus
NO SOUP FOR YOU!!!
Meanwhile…..
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/12/23/doctor-behind-discredited-vaccine-autism-link-handed-quackery-award/
JWL
You’re spoiled, that’s all. If you want a bona fide example of “sustained suck by an NFL team”, look no further that the San Francisco 49ers in the first decade of the 21st century. Or [insert favorite loser]. The Steelers have been walking in tall cotton for so long that you began to take their bad ass teams for granted.
aangus
Ooooopppsssss, wrong link..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWCAvpo30Ro
Cacti
@JWL:
I’ll see your 49ers and raise you a Washington Redskins.
aangus
Oooopppsss!!!
Wrong link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWCAvpo30Ro
+4
redshirt
@JWL: A 49’ers fan crying? C’mon! You should still be resting fine on laurels.
pat
OK, I guess it’s because I gave my email address and BJ has it too, but I still find it a bit creepy.
Raven
@Spaghetti Lee: Bear Down!
Linda Featheringill
@redshirt:
Your Wingnut Dad:
It’s interesting to watch a little over half of the country welcome Obama with open arms while the rest of the folks are struggling to forgive him for existing. It ain’t easy.
Mr Stagger Lee
@efgoldman: Hah, try the Cleveland Browns 2.0. May the FSM roast Art Modell the netherworld and Randy Lerner when he assumes room temperature.
Oltrol
@gogol’s wife:
Troll
Violet
That’s a pay phone in that photo. I feel old.
Alison
@pat: No, that’s how Google Ads work. You see ads often based on your web history, even if you just went to the site and left without entering any info. Not really spooky, just typical web tracking.
Or something like that.Suffern Ace
@efgoldman: Really? They made three Super Bowl appearances before then. If you want bad, I’d go with Cardinals, who are really like the Clippers of the NFL. They are only good long enough for the owners to get afraid of having to give a raise to a player.
aangus
Meet the New Trolls,
They’re the same as the Old Trolls.
:)
gogol's wife
@Alison:
I think it’s really spooky, but I guess it’s the price we pay.
Alison
@gogol’s wife: Eh, I know I’m an outlier on this among communities like ours, but it just really doesn’t bother me. Big deal, they know I went to Petco.com and B&N. I just can’t really get that worried about it when I don’t see what harm it does. It’s not like they have access to your medical files or something…but I know for some folks it’s just the principle of privacy.
Baud
Via TPM
Why wasn’t he home in Idaho?
redshirt
@Linda Featheringill: I mention my Father not simply because of his recent actions, but his recent conversion. He’s always been Conservative (in the “I ain’t paying any more taxes” variety. No guns or religion or social issues), but something happened over the past 4 years (though I suspect more like 2) where he’s gone Full Wingnut, casually dropping “Solyandra” and “Fast n’ Furious” into unrelated conversations.
For example, he handled Obama’s 2008 election just fine. I even tried to get him to vote Obama, and he listened, but didn’t. 2012 and he’s a near-suicidal mess.
It seems representative of an overall national trend. Otherwise sane Conservatives have turned crazy, and the Crazies have gotten even crazier. It’s disturbing on many levels.
FlipYrWhig
@Mr Stagger Lee: Cleveland always stinks. It’s astounding. It’s like my Philadelphia Phillies, who had like two good years between 1915 and 1977.
Raven
I’ll drop the baby off at school at nine,
And bust the lights to get to work on time.
Where I’ll be staring at the clock just waiting to knock off another day.
When supper’s done we’ll watch some TV show,
Of a bunch of folks who’ve never heard of Idaho,
Where easy’s gettin’ harder every day.
I had a garden but my flowers died.
There ain’t much living here inside.
Lately, I don’t know what I’m holding on to.
Wished I could run away to Couer d’Alene,
Take nothing with me, not even my name.
‘Cause easy’s gettin’ harder every day.
redshirt
@Baud: LOL. “Crapo”. Sure!
Hill Dweller
Forgive me if this has been covered, but it looks like Sen. Crapo(Republican Mormon) decided to get behind the wheel after celebrating the holidays a bit too much. The police, who apparently were in the giving mood, charged him with DUI.
Baud
I can’t believe you people believe that there is an NFL team that historically has had more sustained suck than the Saints.
amk
@Baud: Chasing some tail ? DUI & adultery would be a feather in his mormon cap.
redshirt
@efgoldman: I still harbor a grudge against Pete Carroll for wasting the Patriots talent in the late 90’s. That team was poised to be a dynasty – with Drew Bledsoe! – and Carroll pissed it away.
Raven
@redshirt: My old man went south (so to speak) when Arizona was denied the Superbowl because they refused the King Holiday. He saw incredible injustice in it because other states had done so and not gotten sanctioned. He was always a right-winger but it turned him into an embarrassing racist. Really sucked.
aangus
:)
http://sphotos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/428801_580301298663614_2091678752_n.jpg
Corner Stone
Vernon Davis just got lit the fuck up like Rockefeller Center at Christmas.
redshirt
@Corner Stone: “Jack’d Up”, you mean? You’re not supposed to cheer for that anymore – MEMO from the League.
Hill Dweller
@efgoldman: A lot of the Senate, including Sen. Reid, was in Hawaii today for Sen. Inouye’s funeral.
Corner Stone
@Baud: I never understand this. I’m 100% with Atrios on this. Having a driver, calling a towncar, getting a cab, it’s all worth whatever fee that costs that one freakin evening. Pay $200 to get a towncar to come get you. God forbid you hurt someone.
aangus
:P
Corner Stone
Seattle trashing The Harbaughs. Fuck yeah!
redshirt
@Raven: I’ve lived in AZ, got friends in AZ right now and visited back in 2009. I love AZ on one level. On another, fuck AZ.
Public Enemy – “By the Time I get to Arizona”
++++++++++++
I’m countin’ down to the day deservin’
Fittin’ for a king
I’m waitin’ for the time when I can
Get to Arizona
‘Cause my money’s spent on
The goddamn rent
Neither party is mine not the
Jackass or the elephant
20.000 nig niggy nigas in the corner
Of the cell block but they come
From California
Population none in the desert and sun
Wit’ a gun cracker
Runnin’ things under his thumb
Starin’ hard at the postcards
Isn’t it odd and unique?
Seein’ people smile wild in the heat
120 degree
‘Cause I wanna be free
What’s a smilin’ fact
When the whole state’s racist
Why want a holiday F–k it ’cause I wanna
So what if I celebrate it standin’ on a corner
I ain’t drinkin’ no 40
I B thinkin’ time wit’ a nine
Until we get some land
Call me the trigger man
Looki lookin’ for the governor
Huh he ain’t lovin’ ya
But here to trouble ya
He’s rubbin’ ya wrong
Get the point come along
An he can get to the joint
I urinated on the state
While I was kickin’ this song
Yeah, he appear to be fair
The cracker over there
He try to keep it yesteryear
The good ol’ days
The same ol’ ways
That kept us dyin’
Yes, you me myself and I’ndeed
What he need is a nosebleed
Read between the lines
Then you see the lie
Politically planned
But understand that’s all she wrote
When we see the real side
That hide behind the vote
They can’t understand why he the man
I’m singin’ ’bout a king
They don’t like it
When I decide to mike it
Wait I’m waitin’ for the date
For the man who demands respect
‘Cause he was great c’mon
I’m on the one mission
To get a politician
To honor or he’s a gonner
By the time I get to Arizona
I got 25 days to do it
If a wall in the sky
Just watch me go thru it
‘Cause I gotta do what I gotta do
PE number one
Gets the job done
When it’s done and over
Was because I drove’er
Thru all the static
Not stick but automatic
That’s the way it is
He gotta get his
Talin’ MLK
Gonna find a way
Make the state pay
Lookin’ for the day
Hard as it seems
This ain’t no damn dream
Gotta know what I mean
It’s team against team
Catch the light beam
So I pray
I pray everyday
I do and praise jah the maker
Lookin’ for culture
I got but not here
From jah maker
Pushin’ and shakin’ the structure
Bringin’ down the babylon
Hearin’ the sucker
That make it hard for the brown
The hard Boulova
I need now
More than ever now
Who’s sittin’ on my freedah’
Opressor people beater
Piece of the pick
We picked a piece
Of land that we deservin’ now
Reparation a piece of the nation
And damn he got the nerve
Another niga they say and classify
We want too much
My peep plus the whole nine is mine
Don’t think I even double dutch
Here’s a brother my attitude hit ’em
Hang ’em high
Blowin’ up the 90s started tickin’ 86
When the blind get a mind
Better start and earn while we sing it
Now
There will be the day we know those down and who will go
++++++
Word.
Corner Stone
@redshirt: It looked like a legal hit, actually. But he got torched like his name was Crapo.
Raven
@redshirt: I got’s people in Tucson.
aangus
It would appear that the Intertubz don’t like me tonite!
:((
The Dangerman
Now, THAT’s a BJ post.
Carrol’s enough of an asshole to try to put up a major asswhooping on SF (although, in the rain, he’d be smart to pull his starters to prevent injury).
Comrade Jake
The only person that can stop a bad drunk in a car is a good drunk in a car.
aangus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQpUs1qNxMM
Lojasmo
@Baud:
Better male hookers in VA, I’m told.
redshirt
@Raven: Me too. Love Tucson. Used to love going to Nogales, but no longer. Sad – we’ve lost cool, hip fun border Mexico. I went over like 10 times in the 90’s and always had a blast. Love the actual Mexicans! What’s going on down there now should be an outrage in America as well, but, oh yeah, not much. “Liberal Media”.
redshirt
@Corner Stone: “Jack’d Up!” was always legal hits. But celebrating even hard hits these days is frowned upon. Flag NFL is NIGH.
A Ghost To Most
All you not-buffalo bills fans have a lot to learn about suffering.
Raven
Merry Christmas from 45 years ago.
Anya
Is it bad to admit that I hate Christmas? I have hated it for years, with its consumerism and its false humanitarianism. This year the hubby and I decided to stay home and not give any gifts to each other or family, except the kids. Friday, I received a gigantic package from the
grandparents, and I kinda feel bad for not visiting or giving them anything. My grandparents always said that the only gift they want is our visit, but I figured since I saw them two weeks ago, it won’t be so bad if I don’t visit on Christmas. Am I horrible for not going to Boston this year?
Raven
@redshirt: Ever go to Rocky Point? I went camping and fishing in Gyuamas in 72.
Raven
@Anya: No and yes.
Maude
@Anya:
No. You’re doing the right thing.
Corner Stone
@Anya:
Not if you’re a secret Kenyan Muslim Soci@li$t. Which we know you are.
Mike in NC
@Baud: I’ve never met anybody from Idaho who wasn’t a total crackpot scumbag.
aangus
+5
Just sayin”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAkY3R6lxXk
Corner Stone
@Raven: I gots people South of Tucson. Top that gringo.
Raven
@Corner Stone: Sierra Vista?
Corner Stone
@The Dangerman:
I hope he gets the chance to rub The Harbaugh’s face right into it.
Schlemizel
All you whiners crying over your teams suckage should dry up.
At one time the MN Vikings were perennial winners, Super Bowl contenders. The GM was one Jim Finks put those teams together and asked the owner to be allowed to buy 10% of the team for himself. The owner freaked & dumped him, hiring Mike Lynn, a guy who knew nothing about football.
Mike Lynn made a deal that sent several defensive starters and draft picks to the Dallas Cowpies – who used that talent to win 2 super bowls while the vikings tanked.
Finks went on to put together the Cubs team that made a run at the pennant and then the Saints team that was very successful and getting better before smoking killed Finks.
Lynn made the deal for the new stadium that paid him a million dollars a year as long as the Vikings played there. And the team stunk. He also screwed the owner out of the team. There has followed a succession of morons who don’t know a first down from a down jacket trying to run the team. They once traded UP and picked a DL that was pegged to be a third round pick. They drafted an Ivy League QB that nobody thought would make it in the NFL and then stumbled along with him long after he showed conventional wisdom to be correct. They hired a coach who tried to run an Iron Man/USMC obstetrical course on the first day of practice that ended the career of their place kicker & injured several other players (Coach showed up in fatigues & a helmet for the event BTW). They babied two of the biggest assholes to ever play the game to the point it damaged the entire team who retaliated by not playing the NFC championship game. They finally got rid of the Moss only to stupidly trade to get him back & then find out he was still the useless asshole he had always been.
And those are just some of the highlights of one of the worst run franchises in the league.
Comrade Jake
@Mike in NC: Really? I was just about to post the opposite. Everyone I’ve met from there is pretty nice.
Ron
A friend of mine on FB has a comment thread for “Airing of the Grievances”. It’s quite epic.
Corner Stone
@Raven: West of there, in Green Valley.
redshirt
@Raven: Nope. Ever been to Biosphere 2? It’s like an hour or so North of Tucson and is awesome – a glass enclosed world, with forests and oceans and deserts and rain forests – except not in the plural. It’s also got some of the most fascinating engineering ever – for example, huge artificial lungs which take on expanding air during the day and breath it back at night, all without external power. If you dig science, it’s totally worth the visit. The UofA runs it now and has an awesome campus on site as well – like out of old Star Trek.
Raven
@Corner Stone: Man, we went hiking in Texas Canyon and Cochise Stronghold. No wonder them fucking blue bellies couldn’t find him!
Raven
@redshirt: Negative.
Corner Stone
Go The Bandwagons!
Anya
@Raven: I feel like a heel, but really, why do people need to visit each other only on Christmas. I can visit them any other time.
@Maude: Great minds and all that
@Corner Stone: Shush. Don’t blow my cover, man.
Rosie Outlook
I am DONE! I do not have to enter a store until after The Holidays. And that’s good, because if I had had to listen to Brenda Lee yowl about rockin’ around that damn Christmas tree one more time, I would probably have run amok with a stake of holly.
I despise The Holidays. I like Christmas, which is an important holy day on my religion, but The Holidays are nothing but an exercise in wretched excess and forced gaiety. I don’t understand why the feminist groups don’t come out against The Holidays, because the giant marketing machine we call a society puts tremendous pressure on already overworked women to conform to the marketed ideal of The Holidays. Most women hate The Holidays; I haven’t found a woman who likes The Holidays in at least ten years.
kindness
Niners are gettin spanked.
Narcissus
@Litlebritdifrnt: How do you not like Seinfeld
Corner Stone
I love those Coach T commercials, and I don’t care who knows it.
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
You guys don’t know what suckitude is. The Seahawks may have won some game or other—somewhere, sometime—if so, it was never brought to my attention.Then suddenly, for no apparent reason, they were in Super Bowl Xtra-Large with the Green Bay Packers. They completely humiliated Green Bay in the first quarter, then laid down and let the Packers use them as throw rugs for the rest of the game. Now that’s some world-class suckage!
The Sailor
@Narcissus: “How do you not like Seinfeld?”
A show about selfish people doing terrible things to each other and to others? What’s to like?
Bill Murray
@Anya: Here’s a sort of anti-Christmas Christmas song for ya — Florence Dore “Christmas”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwzaKsVTSk0
Spaghetti Lee
@Schlemizel:
Sorry, but no. So you haven’t won a Super Bowl. Lots of teams haven’t won a Super Bowl. The Vikings have made the playoffs 14 out of the last 25 years. The Bills, Lions, Browns, Jets, Cardinals, and I’m sure I’m missing a few would love a track record like that.
I get the idea that it’s worse to root for a team that always breaks your heart over one that never comes close, but there’s something to be said for never getting close, trudging through season after season and knowing there’s nothing but 5-win seasons and failed draft picks in your future.
Spaghetti Lee
@The Sailor:
Aren’t lots of comedies about terrible people doing terrible things to each other? It’s not like Groucho or the Stooges or any Mel Brooks characters were models of integrity.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@Mr Stagger Lee:
Art Modell has to wait in line behind Robert Irsay, the bastard who started it all.
ETA: And by all I mean NFL musical chairs.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@Raven: Five of us tried to go to Guaymas in 1971. Mexican customs wouldn’t let us go south (visa? I can’t remember) with long hair. Two guys decided to go to a barber and headed onward. The rest of us hung out in Tucson and hit Nogales instead.
Nixon. “Operation Intercept”. What a fuckin’ joke.
Corner Stone
The Bandwagons are dismantling The Harbaughs. And I love it.
The Sailor
@Spaghetti Lee: I guess it was that the Seinfeld characters were all unlikeable, to me. Not much a Stooges fan.
Anya
@Bill Murray: Nice voice. I like the song. Thanks for sharing.
Corner Stone
Why would Jack Reacher drive such a fine mofo car?
mainmati
@amk: What, he’s a Mormon? Reminds me of when I worked in Egypt and seeing the Saudi upper classes come off their flights into Cairo from Ryadh totally drunk (we’re talking about the males. of course) and spend their time in casinos.
Anya
@Mike in NC: Seriously, there are nice people and mean people everywhere, but the three people from Idaho I’ve met are really nice. The stereotypical salt of the earth, polite and generous.
Corner Stone
Burn bitchez! That’s right! Sherman just toasted The Harbaughs right the fuck out of this game!
catclub
@aangus: So close! Then they mis-spell a key word.
catclub
@Schlemizel: I want to know more about this: “USMC obstetrical course”
Obstacle course sounds too easy. And I have heard it said that the uterus will humble any doctor.
Corner Stone
I hope so hard that lil bitch Harbaugh gets to sit the Championship game out due to his choice to sit Alex Smith.
Harbaugh and Kappy can pass the medicinal bong back and forth while they watch the Superbowl.
Suffern ACE
Goodness. Seattle is now going to be favored to win the NFC.
Corner Stone
I hope they drop 60 on ’em. Fuck The Harbaughs.
Felonius Monk
I couldn’t go to Festivus because I couldn’t find my Manzier.
Narcissus
@Felonius Monk: I was wearing two, but I was just doing it to fool Lloyd Braun.
Corner Stone
@Narcissus: “Serenity now. Insanity later.”
jurassicpork
Sorry for the airing of grievances but… Please help a liberal blogger stave off eviction the week after Xmas.
Next year, I’ll do the feats of Strength, I swear. I’ll even work out in 2013…
Carolina Dave
My family was spared the Airing of the Greviences this year. Or anything else because my wife said, “We are not f#$%ing celebrating Festivus this year or any other year.
As to sucky NFL teams. I W
Carolina Dave
I will submit the Carolina Panthers. But of course the Jax Jags suck worse. So were #2 in sucky teams,
PurpleGirl
@Raven: Your unit’s holiday card? It’s interesting in how it mixes secular/military images (the badges) around the religious image in the center.
PurpleGirl
@Litlebritdifrnt: I rarely watched Seinfeld and didn’t find him particularly funny. So I’ve picked up Festivus from the general society.
Maude
@PurpleGirl:
Good morning. I’m up to take a med. I’ll go back to sleep later.
Happy Christmas Eve.
PurpleGirl
@Maude: Happy Christmas Eve to you.
I’ve been working through the night to finish a manuscript for my typing client. After I’ve met her to deliver the manuscript, I’ll come home and sleep. (My bad, I used the wrong set of files to make this round of changes to it so I had to redo part of it.)
Maude
@PurpleGirl:
I would hate typing someone’s manuscript. You are brave.
I think manuscript files are confusing. It would be easy to get one or two mixed up.
Schlemizel
@catclub:
I can’t find a description of the events themselves but read this SI story from the time & tell me what you think.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1122483/index.htm
From the local paper:
The Vietnam vet turned training camp into boot camp, Mankato serving as a poor man’s Parris Island. Veterans began to rebel on Day 1, when Steckel kicked things off with an Ironman competition – an extreme obstacle course that claimed victims with pulled hamstrings, acute exhaustion and vomitus projectilius.
It went downhill from there.
I’ll add the guy was also a sky pilot who forced his religious beliefs into every event/discussion/occasion.