There is some football game on or something. I’m busy doing work stuff this afternoon and, frankly, when I woke up this morning, I didn’t even know who was playing. I guess I can have the game it on as background noise.
If, like me, you don’t have a teevee, Westwood one affiliates will carry the game. In the Seattle area, you can find it on 950 on the AM dial.
Anyway…snark away in the comment threads if you wish.
3:45: Somebody scored a basket.
3:50: Did Tom Cruise just score?
3:53: Damn…Redmond’s best Thai restaurant has closed.
3:56: Meanwhile, the score in Nevada (via Nevada GOP):
Current #NVCaucus results with 72.9% of precincts reporting: Gingrich: 22.3%, Paul: 18.6%, Romney: 48.1%, Santorum 10.9%, No Vote: 0.2%
72.9% complete? Have they run out of fingers?
4:18: From Twitopia:
Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox
“Illegal huddle” also something Santorum has campaigned against. #SuperBowl
4:25: Is this USA Today headline a double entendre? Brown student uncovers lost Malcolm X speech.
4:50: Poll Analysis: Patriots ahead of Giants by +1 halfway through contest.
5:19: From Twitopia:
Newt Gingrich Ideas @GingrichIdeas
Use Madonna’s outfit as a model for my Moon Emperor uniform.
5:48: Clearly, Obama has won over the hearts and minds and companies of Detroit:
5:59: Rush Limbaugh goes “green”.
6:00: Remember Shrub’s “sporting” moment? What is it about Wingnuts going nostril spelunking during sporting events? Do they think they’re digging for gold? Or do they imagine themselves wiping out poor people?
6:11: The National Football League can admit, seat, entertain for 3+ hours, and clear out 68,658 people in far less time than it takes the Nevada GOP to tally votes for some 35,000 caucus-goers?
6:51: It’s over. The Yankees win…again.
It appears that after spending 5 years in Nevada, Romney will take a smaller percentage of the vote than he did in 2008. Rs, down deep, just really don’t like him.
How can they not like someone who is trying to be just like them? Trying really, really hard!
Matching them stroke for ugly stroke in their very, very ugly Obama hatred?
And failing at it all because Romney’s record has shown him to be the biggest phony who has ever walked up to a microphone and opened his piehole.
Obama has conducted his presidency anticipating this contest. He has adopted Romney’s policies as MA governor on the domestic front and pretty much continued Bush’s policies on National Security..
No one – Romney or a neo-con in the Cheney mold can touch Obama at this point.
Patriots up by 5…
I’ve been so indifferent to post-season football. No idea who I should be rooting for..
This is a rematch so the team that didn’t get the ring the last time should get it this time – I guess.
I’m blown away by the fact that maybe only 10-15k voted in the caucuses, and they still haven’t counted the votes yet. That enthusiasm gap is getting bigger. But then again, perhaps this is a little gamesmanship from the Nevada R leadership – which has a lot of Paulites in it…..
4th and forever…
Wow! Converts! Needs 50 some yards..
5 seconds remaining!
Hail Mary!
Incomplete..
Game over.. NY wins..
New York wins it, because when you’re a Jet you’re a Jet all the way!
Okay, so the commercials really sucked this year, except the Cheetah Attack and Oikos Yogurt “Tease” ads were good; and the best part of Madonna’s halftime show was when she dropped through the trapdoor and disappeared. As for the game, the only play that topped the Giants guy sitting down in the end zone was the Patriots guy dropping the Hail Mary pass. The game was better than the ads this time.
@9 Er, don’t know how to break this to you, but the NY team playing in this game was the Giants …
Heh. Very appropriate.. Not too much memorable about it aside from LMFAO and Ceelo Green making half-hearted showings.
@9
I discovered the other day that the Baltimore Colts hadn’t been in Baltimore since 1983.
Did anyone else see the brouhaha about the Saturday night caucus, apparently intended to be for Jews only.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02.....vegas.html
Republicans are strange…
This NY Times story describes how Bank of America defrauded its own customer by selling him worthless securities. The good news is that arbitrators ordered the bank to pay him $1.38 million.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/46271338
A Florida businessman who blew the whistle on fraudulent mortgage practices in 2003 triggered a Fannie Mae investigation that resulted in a report called O.C.J. Case No. 5595, which corroborated many of his allegations. But Fannie Mae buried the report.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/46270662
That’s cool and they can even use public money to do it, as long as the public makes money on the deal. Just say no to pro-sports corporate welfare.
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Concur. As long as the citizenry doesn’t lose money, I’m all for it.
17, 18: I’ve never been a big fan of pro basketball anyway, but I would root for the home team back in the Sonics days. So my response to bringing another NBA team back to Seattle at this point is, mostly a shrug. I kind of feel like the jilted boyfriend who, after a couple of years of seeing the former girlfriend make out like a tramp living with the rich guy, decides that maybe she’d have been better of sticking with me all along. At least, until the next rich guy comes around.
So, if the NBA wants to come back to Seattle, it’s not going to be on the basis of Seattle begging and pleading for the NBA to throw it a scrap from the table. I think it should be the other way around. My conditions:
(a) Okay, as long as you fire the commissioner at the same time, we just won’t do business with someone as unethical as he is;
(b) The NBA owners pay Seattle a huge fine for the way Seattle was treated when the Sonics moved to Oklahoma – just to make us feel better;
(c) Either this new arena is built entirely from private money, or the deal on the table for public financing is so good (i.e., inherently profitable for Seattle) that it can’t be refused. Also, any presumed profit from the deal doesn’t include in the analysis tens of millions of dollars in ancillary jobs that never materialize, like most sports teams cost/benefit anaylsis pretend to do.
If they do that, maybe I’ll consider it.
Funny, I could have sworn that Romney had already declared a “sweeping victory” in Nevada and was moving on to other states.
Which makes me wonder if the voting had been rigged – with the most populous county in Nevada still counting it’s ballots, Romney is free to claim the momentum and move forward.
(Does anybody else notice that “momentum” in the GOP is a little like middle school, with everyone trying to be attached to the most popular person of the moment?”
So, assuming that it’s not just a plot to rig the results toward Romney:
(a) The GOP, and the Tea Party in particular, has been railing about “local control”. Notice how this works out for them, when the state party organization can’t tell the county organizations how to handle the counting?
(b) Is it that hard to count some 300,000 ballots by hand? You divide them into piles, one pile for each candidate, then you count. If the totals don’t match, you count again, until you’ve fixed the discrepency. Other countries, like Sweden and Norway, manage to do this overnight (countries, not counties).
(c) I’m still waiting for someone to claim that the former King County elections director is involved – somehow.
Perhaps Madonna isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but (Canadians take note) I’ll certainly take her over Nickelback.
19:
If Darth Stern wants back in Seattle so badly, let him pay for his own fucking palace. Until then, pitchers and catchers report in a week or so, and Sounders FC play Santos Laguna in four weeks in the first leg of their CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinal.
fuck pro basketball..or should I say thugball.
if they never come back to seattle, it will be fine with me.
I would spend my money on college hoops over the pros any day of the week.
Here’s an interesting fact … according to Forbes magazine, the NFL doesn’t pay Superbowl halftime performers. Their expenses (e.g. travel) are covered, but otherwise they perform for free. This means Madonna was paid exactly what her performance was worth — nothing. The performers do it for the massive publicity, which helps them sell albums, concert tickets, etc.