Left Coast Sports Babe

What’s all this fuss about Super Bowl MVP Julian Edelman having been suspended for PEDs this season. It’s not like he did anything awful like kneel for the anthem….

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There were so few LA fans at the game, Rams must have wondered if they had become the Chargers?

Super Bowl ratings hit a 10-year low yesterday as Trump’s favorite Patriots won a boring game. I miss Donald’s tweet taking credit.

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Advertisers had to be disappointed.  But maybe NFL can work out a post-game endorsement deal with Tylenol PM?     ZZZZZZZ

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Rams CB Robey-Coleman now going to appeal his $26,739 fine for his helmet-to-helmet no-call against Saints. Uh, Nickell does remember that he ADMITTED and bragged about it?

(besides, his Super Bowl loser’s share was more than double the fine.)

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Some Patriots players already say they aren’t going to White House.  Because they don’t like Trump or they don’t like cold fast food?

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I’d rather be  Saints fan who isn’t over it yet, than a fan who barely noticed their team was (barely) in Super Bowl.

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Marc Ragovin  – “Jared Goff might be a Ram, but on Sunday he played like a deer in headlights.”

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https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2019/2/3/18210010/saints-boycott-bowl-party-super-bowl-53-new-orleans

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GOP is lying and saying Democrats want to kill babies after they are born.
Uh, no, that would be Republicans by claiming babies born to poor people don’t have a right to healthcare.

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Sherrod Brown “We don’t have to know why Trump lies to call them lies, and we don’t have to know the content of his heart to condemn his racism.”
Actually, if Trump isn’t a racist it’s ALMOST worse. Because then he knows he’s saying awful things just to pander to the worst of his base.

Regarding Liam Neesen’s admission of his past wanting to be a racist vigilante. Bad enough he had the desire. But how stupid is he now to admit it?

Stacey Abrams is giving Democratic response to State of the Union. Bernie Sanders just announced he will be giving his own response.

Can’t imagine how Bernie gets the reputation for not being a team player.

Looks like a Trump inaugural crowd, only bigger and having more fun.   (New Orleans,  Boycott Bowl.)

Can the Chiefs and Saints play next weekend for fans who actually want to see a decent football game?

Perhaps highlight of Super Bowl for most average Americans was realization that 70,000 members of 1% paid thousands of dollars to be inside where they couldn’t change the channel.

Jared Goff hasn’t looked that bad in a Big Game since he played for Cal against Stanford.

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Maroon 5, Rams 3.

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Super Bowl MVP Julian Edelman started the season with a four-game PED suspension. So maybe he had fresher legs than anyone else on field?

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With 16 runs in 5 games of 2018 World Series the losing Dodgers still averaged more scoring per game than Rams today in Super Bowl.

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Trump said he would “have a hard time” with Barron playing football. Because he knows bone spurs are hereditary?

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Florida State says they’ve dismissed QB Deondre Francois. Coach Taggert “We have high expectations for all of our student-athletes and we will not shy away from those high standards of conduct.”
Am sure Seminoles would be equally principled if team hadn’t missed a bowl game last season for first time since 1981.

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Poll: Howard Schultz’s favorability just 4 percent across Dems, GOP and independents.
Well, who said America would never find a uniter.

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Pentagon just announced they will deploy 3,750 additional U.S. forces to Southwest border. I’m sure all those troops will feel great about having volunteered to protect our country from dangerous unarmed women and children.

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White House spokesman says Donald Trump’s tan look is the result of “good genes.” So his mom cheated with an oompa-loompa?

So as much of America gets ready for another Super Bowl Sunday,  fans in New England are worried if they really need to buy another AFC Champions t-shirt. While fans in Los Angeles wonder if New Orleans really will trade them Anthony Davis.

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NFL’s silence on no-call keeping Saints from Super Bowl might have been most embarrassing response to a bad mistake this year. Ralph Northam – “Hold my beer.”

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So yesterday Ralph Northam was “deeply sorry” and today he says “it wasn’t me.” Even Brett Kavanaugh thinks that’s a bit of a stretch.

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Now Ralph Northam says he once darkened his fact to look like Michael Jackson. Uh, if he were trying to look like Michael Jackson he would have LIGHTENED his face.

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Ralph Northam voted twice for George W. Bush and in 2009 Republicans tried to get him to switch parties. Just think, if Northam had he’d have his party’s support now to stay in office.

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Any classmates of Donald Trump still have their old yearbooks? Asking for a country.

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I’m a white person & maybe Green Book is too geared to white people. But damn, very different people learning to get along is not a bad message these days. Seriously. Loved the movie.

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Trump said today Cory Booker has “no chance.” So clearly Booker is a more formidable candidate than some people thought.

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Trump will go down in history as the first leader ever to prepare for declaring a national emergency by spending the weekend golfing.

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And again folks,  because anyone who reads this knows how much I’m still mad about the no-call that kept Saints from Super Bowl and how much  I adore Drew Brees  (just given NFL sportsmanship player of the year, voted by his peers)  –  your reminder of his request “Pour that passion and emotion into your families & communities.”

http://www.drewbrees.com/the-foundation/

The foundation helps cancer patients, and children especially.  Donating the price of a beer or two would be cool.  Besides, who cares about watching the Rams and Patriots anyway?

Yeah, more important things than sports, but just think, if referees didn’t miss that call, almost ALL of America would be briefly united on SuperBowl Sunday – if only in rooting for New Orleans Saints, aka “Anyone but the Patriots again.”

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And we wouldn’t have lost the age vs. youth story with Patriots-Saints. Brady is a whole year older than Brees.

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To be fair, Los Angeles fans are very caught up with this LA-New Orleans controversy.  As in, is there any chance the Lakers can talk the Pelicans into trading them Anthony Davis?

Not running for office, and never thought of blackface, ever. But I did tell a lot of Polish jokes when I was in elementary and high school. Anyone else got a confession?

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Now Donald Trump says he’s losing ‘Massive Amounts of Money” in this job.
Gosh, if there was only something he could do to show that, like releasing his tax returns.

Again, not sure on 2020 at all. But this alone is almost enough to make me vote for Cory Booker. – When asked if he talked to Obama as he finalized his decision:

“I miss Obama, and I miss her husband, too.”

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And although while I’m glad to see Cory Booker in the Presidential Race. But can we Democrats please remember – NO ONE, not our spouses, best friends, children, etc, agrees with us 100% on every issue.

There is not a single candidate running for the Democratic nomination who has not f*cked up something. Maybe we can start focusing on what each of them do right, and who shows they are the most likely to do good for our country?

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If Democrats spend the energy we normally spend attacking each other in the primaries on attacking Trump we cannot lose in 2020.

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Okay, I get stupid things in college, I even get stupid things in front of an old-fashioned camera in college.  (Alcohol possibly being involved.)  But when you’re definitely sober later, deciding a blackface/KKK costume picture is one of the thing you want your classmates to remember you by…?

This is going to get me in trouble, which I why I am posting it here and not on Twitter. But as Ralph Northam’s career sadly but justifiably goes down in flames, I can think of two CURRENT politicians whose followers never criticize them – Trump and Bernie.

from Marc Ragovin   “So it’s the Friday before a Rams/Pats Super Bowl, or as Belichick likes to call it, a “pre-shoot”’

Reviews of penalties are being discussed a lot this week in NFL, and some complain it will take too long. Two responses — first, you limit the challenges, the same as other challenges, and let the booth call them in last two minutes. But second, and this goes for all sports – put a one-minute time limit on replay reviews. If you have to watch for 5-10 minutes from a ton of different angles, then whatever humans called on the field is reasonable.. The egregious ones take 30 seconds or less.

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NCAA is penalizing Missouri, including a 1 year football bowl ban, after finding a tutor did academic work for 12 student-athletes.
What a shame for those young men who have dreamed all their lives of playing in the AutoZone Liberty Bowl.

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Lost in all the other outrage these days, pitchers and catchers report in about two weeks. And Bryce Harper still hasn’t signed with a team.

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17 cars caught fire on roof of a garage at Newark Airport this morning, 15 of them were destroyed. Hope the airport at least waived the parking fees.

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Wait…. “According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a canine officer alerted other officers to the presence of 254 pounds of fentanyl hidden inside an 18-wheeler carrying cucumbers.”
#DogsNotWalls

So if per today’s unhinged Trump tweet storm the “Wall is already being built, I don’t expect much help!” why is there any need even to consider another shutdown?

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So after Trump threw his entire intelligence team under the bus today, who do we have next in Trump Resignation Bingo?

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Forecasts for Chicago are temperature rise from-25 below yesterday to low 50s and rain on Monday. Over 75 degrees.
So didn’t Trump just tweet that he wanted to see some global warming?

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in Orlando, a UCF student was arrested outside his dorm, with a fully automatic AR-15 in his car. Arrested. Not shot. Don’t even need a picture to know what color he is.

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So GOP insist ALL AOC’s ideas, even the most extreme ones, have been adopted by Democratic party, while crickets about Republican members of Congress like Ted Yoho, one of 7 to vote against back pay for furloughed workers.

Eight women have died in the past six years after patronizing a discount plastic surgery clinic in Miami.
But seriously, discount plastic surgery? Isn’t that like half-price day-old sushi?

Jack McKeon, 88, has been hired as a senior adviser for the Washington Nationals.  Good for McKeon.  But at 88, isn’t “senior advisor” redundant?

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Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin says it was “soft” for schools to close due to cold.
So why didn’t he give that Press Conference outside?

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Okay, here’s an idea for positive NFL change. Besides adding limited PI review, which the CFL does, let’s talk about targeting and helmet-to-helmet.
The league already reviews plays and fines players, as they did after Saints-Rams. But make, AFTER REVIEW AFTER THE GAME- deliberate helmet-to-helmet/targeting a defenseless receiver an infraction that means unpaid suspension for the next game. Even if the playoffs or Super Bowl.
If safety is REALLY the goal that will make anyone think twice.

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US State Department raised its Venezuela travel advisory warning for US citizens to “do not travel.”
With all due respect, is there any American who WANTS to travel to Venezuela right now?

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Mitch McConnell said today that making Election Day a federal holiday is part of a “power grab” by Democrats to win elections.
Right, because heaven forbid in a democracy we make it easier for people to you know, actually vote.

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As a moderate Democrat, I disagree with AOC on several policy issues. But am in awe of her social media skills – Today’s tweet -“Why don’t people ever tell billionaires who want to run for President that they need to “work their way up” or that “maybe they should start with city council first”?

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Sarah Sanders: God “wanted Donald Trump to become president.”
God, “Don’t blame me, heck, I can’t even get a lousy targeting penalty called when SAINTS are involved.

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Okay, if GOP doesn’t want Election Day to be national holiday in theory over cost, it would be inexpensive & effective to give all voters a lottery ticket.

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On Morning Joe, Howard Schultz was surprised because while he said “I don’t eat Cheerios,” when Mika Brzezinski told him an 18 ounce box cost $4, he responded “That’s a lot.”
Right, about 2/3 of the price of an equivalent sized Starbucks latte.#NotTheOnion

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At least seven people have died due to cold temperatures in the Midwest. Following his California comments waiting for Donald Trump to say it was their fault.for not shoveling their walks or something.

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For the attack by his neighbor, Rand Paul was awarded more than $580,000 in expenses and damages. How many Americans are starting GoFundMe pages for the neighbor?

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Have to wonder, at some point does  Donald Trump think about fact that if he hadn’t run for President he could be spending this whole  Polar Vortex winter at Mar-A-Lago with Playboy bunnies and porn stars?

Serious final note –  Frank Robinson is reportedly in hospice care. 2019 so far kind of sucks.

For those who say “get over it” with the Saints being robbed by refs- the Patriots also had an early lead – 14-0 at halftime, “let” KC come back, and ended up facing 3rd and 10 early in OT on their own 35. Imagine if a Chiefs defender had decked Edelman, PI, helmet-to-helmet and no call.
New England would have punted, and Kansas City, since Mahomes was dialed it, probably would have won. But I am sure Patriots fans would be “over it.”

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San Antonio Spurs get a home win with a buzzer beater from Rudy Gaby, 126-124 over the… Phoenix Suns?!?   Speaking of being robbed,  Spurs coach Gregg Popovich

“I thought that they outplayed us, outcoached us, outphysicaled us, outexecuted us. We had no respect for them or for the game. We didn’t play with each other. It was a pathetic performance, and Phoenix got robbed.”

While we were focused on hamberders…. According to reporter Michael Harriott, at Trump’s Clemson fast-food dinner “”15 of the University’s black players listed on the school’s official roster attended the White House visit, the vast majority of whom (11) were freshmen or sophomores who had very little playing time during the season. Just one senior made the trip and only six of the players in attendance were even listed on Clemson’s national championship depth chart. There are at least 57 black student-athletes on Clemson’s official team roster, which means 74 % of Clemson’s African-American players chose not to make the trip to the White House..”

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In California, Ghirardelli and Russell Stover have to pay over $750,000 in fines for “oversized containers” that “mislead” consumers into thinking they were getting more candy than they are actually buying.

This does not bode well this Easter for makers of hollow chocolate bunnies.”

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A 56 year-old man is facing felony charges after allegedly stealing pills he thought were opioids. They were actually laxatives. (Where? Of course, Florida.)
But talk about a sh*tty story.

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Wistful at the thought that with Polar Vortex this week comedians could have been falling all over each other to come up with the best “President Hillary Clinton is cold” joke.

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Donald Trump says he will give a Super Bowl pregame interview on Sunday.
Yet another reason for Saints fans not to watch the game.

After allegations of knowing hiring illegal workers and helping them falsify document, apparently Donald Trump’s companies will start using E-Verify. – which Trump has touted in some speeches.
Translation, until they got caught, they saw no reason to change business as usual.

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Howard Schultz toying with running for President might be doing as much for the Starbucks brand as “New Coke” did for Coca Cola.

Howard Schultz, a life-long Democrat, is trying to explain why he would run for President as an Independent. But really, there’s only one reason – because he has no chance to win Democratic primary.

Nickell Robey-Coleman, Los Angeles CB whose illegal hit on Saints TommyLee Lewis sent Rams to Super Bowl is now saying age is starting to affect Tom Brady’s play. Wait until LA figures out that touching Brady and often his receivers, is an automatic 15 yard penalty

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Phonetically #SuperBowlLIII should be pronounced “Super Bowl Lie.” Coincidence?

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Tom Brady says there is zero chance he will retire after this season. Translation – Giselle doesn’t want him around the house.

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American creativity is not dead. Nor is #WhoDat spirit  https://www.facebook.com/groups/164795546974540/

On a lighter sports note, just watched movie “Secretariat” again. Forget NFL, MLB, NBA arguments etc…. we are talking serious GOAT. #31lengths

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Saying that animals need to be full grown, United Airlines has banned puppies and kittens as “emotional support animals.”
But actually aren’t ALL puppies and kittens emotional support animals?

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Howard Schultz somehow feels he needs to run as an independent because it would be absolutely impossible for a billionaire with no political experience to get a major party’s nomination?  WTF?

Okay Howard Schultz, you have “seriously considered” running for President.
Now time to say “After serious consideration this idea stinks more than when my baristas accidentally burn coffee.”

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Simple math. 30-35% of Americans would still support Trump if he shot someone on 5th Avenue. A third party party candidate only needs about 10-15% of the rest to ensure Donald’s re-election.  50% before you factor in Greens, Libertarians and people who write in their pets, is not enough in an electoral college universe.

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Trump is applauding Bible study in schools. Uh, about those commandments, including coveting thy neighbor’s wife. “I did try & f*ck her. She was married. I moved on her like a bitch…”

Sarah Sanders “The President doesn’t want to go through another shutdown.”
So I guess she ran out of burnt facts for her eyeliner?

RIP Peter Magowan, 76, former managing-partner of the SF Giants.   Though younger fans may not remember, he was one of the people most responsible for keeping that team that plays in the monstrosity called Tropicana Field from being the Tampa Bay Giants.

(Ironically, he was due to be honored this year, and the Giants’ opening day opening at now… ugh, Oracle Pack – are the Tampa Bay Rays.)

Gregg Popovich angrily called a timeout 16 seconds into tonight’s Spurs game, after the Wizards scored an easy bucket. San Antonio ended up winning 132-119.
Can’t win a game in 1st quarter, but Pop knows…sometimes you can lose it.

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Golden State Warriors look so good with five all-stars healthy now about only thing that could stop them is Bill Vinovich’s crew officiating the NBA finals.

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Tampa Bay Rays announced that Tropicana Field will become first cash-free sports venue in North America. Wonder if the team got approval from both of their season ticket holders?

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So on Monday hundreds of thousands of federal employees will return to work for first time in over a month, after being given only a few hours notice before the shutdown.
And you think the leftovers in YOUR office fridge are scary.

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Another mass shooting in US, this time in Louisiana. Suspect again is young white man. Wonder if Trump has his staff look into all these killings in hopes one was committed by an immigrant.

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Not even that Kamala Harris is my first choice. But already seen Twitter attacks on her over Willie Brown – not from MAGAers but Bernie supporter

Can I go on record as saying as long as underage boys or girls, or rape, aren’t involved, I really don’t care who the Democratic nominee has slept with?

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Open note to Democrats wanting to be elected President in 2020 – how about showing us what you can do to help save the country from Trump in 2019?

Poor Donald Trump had he only kept Shutdown long enough to close down Atlanta airport next weekend for Super Bowl he’d at least been guaranteed in 2020 to win Louisiana.

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ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports that Robey-Coleman was fined $26,739 for helmet-to-helmet hit on Saint’s Tommylee Lewis.
Even the loser’s share of Super Bowl is over $55,000.
Going forward NFL doesn’t think players can figure the math?

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Disgruntled Pittsburgh WR Antonio Brown apparently wants to join SF 49ers. And hey, what says winning with class more than player who sits out last game of year with playoff implications because he’s feuding with his quarterback?-

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Imagine if Barack Obama had shut down the government over Mitch McConnell not scheduling a vote on Merrick Garland.

Trump agrees to reopen government without funding for his wall, but adds “As everyone knows, I have a very powerful alternative but I’m not going to use it at this time.”
Translation, I’m not going to declare a national emergency until I know Mueller is ready to release his report.

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Nixon Foundation – Calling Roger Stone “a Nixon campaign aide or adviser is a gross misstatement.”
So yes, we have a new answer for the GOP in “how low can you go?”#DisownedByNixon

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Apparently Roger Stone was arrested by furloughed FBI agents working without pay.
Some statements don’t even need a punchline.

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Trump is upset that CNN just happened to be there when Roger Stone was arrested. Gosh, and who’d a thunk any furloughed FBI agent might have had any incentive to alert the media?

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Thinking “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”, which IS marvelous, is almost like “Dirty Dancing.” Except if Baby found that being funny was as good as finding a hot guy to get her out of her corner.

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Your reminder that while none of Obama’s campaign staff, lawyers and confidants were arrested, while he was President, Barack DID wear a tan suit.

As crazy as this world these days, at least there is some consistency.  ESPN devoting headlines after opening round at the Farmers Insurance Open to Tiger Woods… eight shots off the lead.

Now former SF Giants pitcher Hunter Strickland has signed with the Seattle Mariners. So just imagine how mellow he’ll be now that he’ll be in America’s most caffeinated city.

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Apparently ticket prices for Super Bowl have dropped by 17 percent since Sunday’s conference championship games – a “worst-case” demand scenario because Patriots have gone 4 times already and Rams fan base isn’t that interested.
Womp womp.

Maybe some of the big acts who refused to play Super Bowl halftime show should consider a charity concert during the game in New Orleans.

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Look, nothing’s going to change with Rams Saints game result, even though petition is up over 750,000 signatures.
But at a time when NFL routinely acknowledges mistakes after the fact, along with suspensions and fines for targeting, absolute crickets from the league office. Not even a slap on the wrist for Nickell Robey-Coleman who BRAGGED about it again on Monday

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Trump “The grocery store will float you the food on credit until the shutdown is over. That’s how it works.”
And George H.W. Bush was lambasted for not knowing how a grocery store scanner worked? WTAF?

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So will Trump Hotel in DC let all furloughed federal employees put meals and drinks on account?

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What’s tomorrow, Trump will say furloughed workers will can have all the groceries they want, and Mexico will pay for them.

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Interesting that even in the middle of an acrimonious shutdown, Speaker Pelosi refers to him as “President Trump” where he refers to her as “Nancy.” But Democrats need to be more civil.

Trump “Many of those people that are not getting paid are totally in favor of what we’re doing.”
Would he like to trot some of those people out at a Press Conference? Or are they too busy standing in food bank lines?

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Southwest Airlines just announced govt shutdown means their planes can’t be certified for over-water travel and thus has delayed their plans to offer scheduled flights to Hawaii starting this winter. And the delay could be months.

Waiting for Trump to say he doesn’t care about foreign travel.

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Many national parks are in Red States, & small businesses who cater to those parks – motels, restaurants, gift shops, etc, are REALLY hurting with the Trump Shutdown. But it’s okay because they’ll get back pay too. Oh wait, never mind.

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From USA Today – an “on again off again” Indiana girlfriend of Sun Trust Bank killer “I never understood where it started. For some reason (he) always hated people and wanted everyone to die.”
She said he bought a gun last week, but that she and others had shrugged it off because he always liked firearms.”
Right, and who would think an angry young white man would be dangerous?

Give him points for honesty. A-Rod on Clemens and Bonds and the Hall of Fame. “Of course I want them to get in, because that would mean that I have an opportunity to get in one day,”

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As New Orleans fans plan Super Bowl boycotts and keep signing a petition in protest of Sunday’s missed call that gave Rams the NFL Championship Game win, interesting to note in LOS ANGELES, more viewers watched the Chiefs-Patriots game than the Rams-Patriots.

(Btw, the petition won’t change anything, but it will upset Roger Goodell —   so please feel free to share and add your name, over 700,000 as of tonight.  https://www.change.org/p/we-want-an-nfc-championship-rematch-sunday-jan-27-after-refs-missed-call)

Don’t have to look picture to know suspect in latest mass shooting in Sebring, Florida is a white man. Donald Trump hasn’t tweeted about it.

According to his FB page, suspect in Sebring Florida shooting, with at least 5 dead, is a fan of both Milo Yiannopoulos and Alex Jones.
So where is GOP outrage on how he was radicalized?

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About building that wall to stop crime. Don’t suppose it would be possible to recreate that cask of amontillado story in the White House…?

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In one sentence from Nancy Pelosi: “There is serious and justified concern that this president would shut down the government any time he does not get his way legislatively. That is why we must hold the line on this shutdown.”

Can Secret Service tell Donald Trump no one is now available to inspect his fast food and thus for safety reasons he can’t have any hamburgers until shutdown is over?
Government would be open tomorrow.

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For that matter, so how quickly would the shutdown end if military pilots who are taking Melania to and from Mar-A-Lago tell Trump it’s not safe to fly?

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Fox News claims “a poll finds a slim 51 % majority says Trump is responsible for the shutdown, while 34 % blame congressional Democrats.
17 points is “a slim majority?” Guess it’s the same math that says losing popular vote by almost 3 million is a landslide win.

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Actually, if Donald Trump wants to give a SOTU speech on Hannity’s show, let him go ahead. But NO other network should cover it.

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Trump SOTU statement basically tonight.
“If I can’t give it in the House, I will not give it with my spouse.
I will not give it in a box, I will not even go on Fox.”

and then

Build A Wall
Crime Will Fall.
Fooled you All
It’s About MY Haul
$$$

Mike Mussina just elected to Baseball Hall of Fame. About time. Go Stanford.

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Chiefs have fired their defensive coordinator after loss to Patriots on Sunday. Well, of course, he neglected to tell players they weren’t allowed to TOUCH Tom Brady.

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Saints have been criticized a lot for play-calling and not going for 3 running plays before kicking a FB late in 4th, when Rams would have had it back with about a minute left. Actually the play calling was vintage Payton, going for the game-winning TD. Which looking at videos they would have had easily. …

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More people in Los Angeles watched Chiefs-Patriots game than Rams-Saints.  Hope the Super Bowl doesn’t conflict with a Lakers game.

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Now at least one airline warning “customers traveling from US airports may experience longer wait times than usual at security TSA checkpoints due to current US Govt. shutdown. We strongly recommend customers arrive at US airports at least 3 hrs before departure time of their flight.”
Are we great yet?

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So now that the birthers have started in on Kamala Harris, suppose it would save time if Cory Booker brings a copy of his birth certificate with him when he announces he is running for President.

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And now that Supreme Court has let Trump transgender military ban stand can’t wait to see all the MAGAers stampeding to recruiting offices to take transgender troops’ places.

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As Senate prepares to vote Thursday on a bill to open government until Feb. 8 while working on border security funding, your reminder – with McConnell’s blessing and support, they passed “near-identical legislation on bipartisan lines before the shutdown began.”

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So Donald Trump is insisting he still wants to do SOTU next week. Fine, why doesn’t he do it from real center of his government -Fox News Studios?

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Trying to imagine if a liberal public school had organized a field trip for students to DC for the purpose of marching for abortion rights….

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I’m so old I can remember that even the worst Winter or Spring break behavior from high school or college students didn’t require a PR firm.

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Lara Trump to furloughed workers “It is a little bit of pain, but it’s going to be for the future of our country….”
So is she going to send them some lovely Trump branded cake to eat during the shutdown?

Not only did ref no-call screw Saints yesterday, also denied fans a chance for a GUARANTEED record breaking Super Bowl. Up until now oldest QB to win the game was Peyton Manning, 39. Brees is 40, Brady 41.

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Your reminder that the NFL, a multi-billion dollar operation, still uses part-time officials.

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Referee Bill Vinovich who chose not to flag Rams’ Robey-Coleman for PI or helmet-to-helmet works most of the time as certified public accountant. Wonder if he pays the same careful attention to tax returns?

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Who knew that answer to “Who Dat say Gonna Beat Dem Saints?” was the refs?

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NFL apparently spoke to Sean Payton on the phone less than an hour after the game and admitted that should have been a pass interference.
Well, hey, not like it was game changing or anything.

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Has anyone told the Rams that not only can they not get away with pass interference during the Super Bowl, it’s roughing the passer if they get close enough to muss up Tom Brady’s hair.

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I’m so old I remember having a President who spent MLK day volunteering in DC soup kitchens, instead of rage tweeting from his bedroom.

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(and the same President who wants to be known for creating Space Force  was in his bedroom last night rage tweeting during a full lunar eclipse.)

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Look, we all know if MLK Jr. was alive today Donald Trump would have given him a nasty nickname and attacked him as a radical leftist.

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Trump did visit MLF  Memorial day in DC today for about 2 minutes, and said not a word about Martin Luther King Jr. At least he didn’t give a speech about himself. #smallmercies

Rudy Giuliani told Fox News today that his team & Robert Mueller’s “communicated” about Cohen-Trump BuzzFeed News article and “agreed a significant portion of it was false.”

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Fox News pundit Mark Levin… “I keep hearing it’s day 29 of the government shutdown. It’s amazing how we count weekends, Christmas, New Year’s, Martin Luther King’s birthday on Monday as the government shutdown.”
Right, because nobody has to eat or pay bills on weekends and holidays.”

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Trump claiming Nancy Pelosi thinks walls are immoral. Uh no, Pelosi didn’t say all walls are immoral – she said YOUR proposed wall was “immoral, ineffective and expensive.”
And Nancy is right.

Thinking in spirit of the city, New Orleans residents should deliver one big gooey filled King Cake to each member of Los Angeles Rams tonight. And challenge them to eat every bite before the game.

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Lakers hoped to keep James Harden under 50 tonight.   Well, even in overtime – mission accomplished. And it was about as successful as George W. Bush’s version.  Los Angeles 134, Houston 138.

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Uh, for a reaction to this Trump quote, paging Spurs coach Gregg Popovich (and have him bring a map)
“Everybody knows that walls work. You look at different places, they put up a wall, no problems. You look at San Antonio, you look at so many different places. They go from one of the most unsafe cities in the country to one of the safest cities immediately, immediately”

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Covington Catholic — per Wikipedia the “only all-male high school in northern Kentucky. Maybe not coincidence it’s located on “Dixie Highway.”

But Rogers and Hammerstein were right  “You have to be carefully taught.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAZ8yOFFbAc

Today is 15th anniversary of Howard Dean scream. You know, when Americans decided a man who sounded like that was too emotional and unhinged to be President.

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No sympathy at all for furloughed federal Federal Workers in Trump speech. Guess he figures they can all ask their parents for a little million dollar lo

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Considering Donald  Trump has his own plane, wouldn’t it have been nice gesture to send Melania on it to Mar-A-Lago this weekend, instead of spending taxpayer dollars for military jet while federal worker are lining up at food banks?

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Your reminder that while trashing Buzzfeed, Donald Trump yesterday acknowledged the greatness of Robert Mueller. “A very sad day for journalism, but a great day for our Country!”

Finally, once again, mention of the California police officer killed by an undocumented immigrant. But crickets on officer Natalie Corona, 23, from a Mexican immigrant family, ambushed and murdered by a white man.
F*ck you, Donald Trump

Kansas City fans – We hope Mahomes can end our 49 year Super Bowl drought.
Boston fans – We really are the underdogs, promise. In fact, they should deflate our footballs to make it more fair.
New Orleans fans – Sorry, what, we can’t hear you? Who Dat! Who Dat! Who Dat!
Los Angeles fans – Is there a big game this weekend? Is Lebron back?

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Weather forecast in Kansas City this Sunday night for the Chiefs Patriots game has improved from near zero to temperatures in the 20s. Gosh, by Midwest winter standards that’s practically shorts weather.

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Another Southwest plane slid off the runway today. Fortunately no injuries but never thought “Wanna Get Away” meant getting off the tarmac.

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Apparently 376 Central Americans have just requested asylum after crossing US border in Arizona through tunnels. So yeah, about that wall.

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Over 10,000 furloughed federal employees have now applied for food stamps. And sadly some of them are probably at the US Dept of Agriculture that oversees food stamps.

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School where Karen Pence teaches doesn’t just forbid LBGT students, they reserve “right to expel student if they, their parents, or someone in their household engages in homosexual or bisexual activity, or supports or condones that behavior.” “Supports or condones that behavior?” What, like playing Elton John music?”

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Got it, so Donald Trump only hires “the best people” but they become weak and stupid liars after they quit or he fires them.

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New Trump rule. “Under no circumstances during a government shutdown will any government owned, rented, leased or chartered aircraft support any Congressional delegation, without the express written approval of the White House Chief of Staff.”

But FLOTUS needing a spa weekend, THAT’s essential.

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Why Saturday for Trump important announcement? Does he know that even his cult member don’t want their football games interrupted? Or is he trying to end shutdown so Melania can avoid criticism when she takes a government plane back from her Florida spa weekend.

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Democrats have now passed 9 separate bills to open government. Just saying.

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Your reminder that the 9 bills Democrats have passed to open the government are almost the same bills the GOP-led Senate passed UNANIMOUSLY before Christmas.

DeMarcus Cousins to join Golden State Warriors this weeekend. Just in time to heat up the NBA Preseason.

Washington Wizards beat the NY Knicks Thursday in London 101-100.
As if Britain doesn’t have enough to worry about with Brexit issues think NBA could have sent them two real professional teams?

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Phil Mickelson, 48, shot a 12-under 60 in the Desert Classic Thursday tying his career low. Hope this is a good omen for that youngster Drew Brees, 40 on Sunday.

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Does Michael Cohen have good security and a food taster? Asking for a country.

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As the Trump shutdown continues, one group not asking why Nancy Pelosi isn’t giving in to appease Donald is women who’ve ever had a toddler. (Because we know – give into one tantrum, and worse ones follow.

On the same day Trump canceled Nancy Pelosi’s congressional delegation trip to Afghanistan,  he sent Melania in an Air Force Jet to Mar-A-Lago.

That last line doesn’t even need a punchline. But presumably with cake for local residents to eat?

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That moment when Donald Trump’s personal attorney reportedly paying to rig pools in Trump’s favor is only 2nd biggest bombshell story involving Michael Cohen today.

Sigh, posted on Twitter that Nancy Pelosi couldn’t go commercial as a government employee because no US airliner flies to Kabul.
Some MAGAer snarkily sent me a screen shot showing Emirates Airline flights. Right, no US airline, which government employees are supposed to take. But hey, why let laws get in the way of supporting a good tantrum.

I’m so old I remember waking up and not even giving a thought to what insanity President of the United States had done already this morning….

Now former Alabama and Texas quarterbacks Jalen Hurts and Shane Buechele are the latest to have decided to enter the graduate transfer portal, which would allow them to play for their new universities next season.

Just once, I’d love to hear one of these guys announce what in graduate program they’re supposedly going to study.

New Dodgers President of Business Enterprise Tucker Kain has some big ideas – including “night clubs and sports bars inside Dodger Stadium.”
Well, it might be one way to get fans to stay past the 7th inning.

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Bill Belichick says he’s not concerned about the freezing weather expected in Kansas City for AFC championship. Well, and even if Patriots HAD played well enough for #1 seed, forecast is for snow and sleet in Boston this Sunday.

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Interim Michigan State President John Engler was forced to say he’ll resign today after telling Detroit News that Nassar’s victims had been in the “spotlight” & are “still enjoying that moment at times, you know, the awards & recognition.”
How long until Engler gets offered a job in Trump White House?

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Trump said he bought 1,000 hamburgers for Clemson football team, White House said it was more like 300. Does this mean he’s got 700 burgers stored in fridge to survive a long shutdown?

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Possible major flooding expected with storms in California over next two days. How long until Donald Trump somehow blames the state for it?

Note to SF Bay Area drivers. Rushing across the train tracks as signals start flashing and crossing arms start coming down is never smart. Doing that when it’s raining hard with slick roads is Darwin Award material.

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Trump tweets today that “radical Democrats are the party of open borders and crime” while his cult members in Senate vote against sanctions on criminal Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. #NotTheOnion

So with SOTU being possibly delayed does that mean White House can stop work on translating it from the original Russian?

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Apparently Chris Christie’s new book eviscerates Jared Kushner. But really, did Jared ever think the man who shut down a bridge over a perceived slight would forget being kicked out of a role in Trump administration?
Womp womp.

We cannot find him in the House.
We cannot find him with his spouse.
We cannot find him in a chair
We cannot find him anywhere
#WheresMitch.

Eagles coach Doug Pederson said yesterday “Carson Wentz is the quarterback going forward.” Guessing Wentz might be forgiven for not being too unhappy New Orleans Saints came to beat Philadelphia last week?

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Brandon Wimbush is transferring from Notre Dame to UCF “I am excited to announce that UCF has granted me an awesome opportunity to play my last year of collegiate football for their great University.”
Well, at least he isn’t even pretending it’s about academics.

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So do hamberders go well with covfefe?

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The official White House story is that Trump fed the Clemson team fast food because of the shutdown. Gosh, if there were only a hotel near the White House where Trump knew the catering staff….

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British Parliament rejects PM Theresa May’s Brexit deal with the European Union – 432 votes to 202
Gosh, who knew a country could get a vote so wrong?

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So maybe Britain can just do a mulligan and have the whole country revote on Brexit?
Millions of Americans wish they could do the same with 2016.

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This 2020 election cycle is going to be tough for Donald Trump. So many women running for President, so little time to think of childish nicknames for them all.

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Open note to IRS workers, if Donald Trump calls you back to work without pay it might be an understandable error to accidentally release his tax returns.

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Surest sign things are not going well for Donald Trump? Fox News has headlines about another caravan again.

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Historically Presidents have loved to visit children’s classrooms. Guess we can be sure though Donald Trump won’t visit the new school where Karen Pence will teach,  which bans LGBTs.  They don’t allow anyone guilty of “moral misconduct” – including “heterosexual activity outside of marriage (e.g., premarital sex, cohabitation, extramarital sex).”

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Seriously, how hard would it be for Donald Trump to end the shutdown, declare he will privately fund the wall as a profit making operation and then lie about it being done?

From Marc Ragovin  “Now that Steve King has been stripped of his committee seats, he will probably announce his retirement to spend more time with his klan … I mean clan.”