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Beyond Boston

January 15, 2019

Tom Brady  – “I know everyone thinks we suck “I know everyone thinks we suck and, you know, can’t win any games.”
Not quite Tom, everyone knows the Patriots can win football games. Most of them still think you guys suck. #cheaters

As Trump buys fast food for Clemson players, have to wonder, how many restaurants in DC are hurting big time now because furloughed federal workers aren’t eating lunch or stopping by after work?

 

A tanker carrying 20 TONS of liquid chocolate overturned near Flagstaff today, spilling its contents over the highway. All we need is a truck full of chilis for the world’s biggest mole party.

While Trump spoke in New Orleans today, originally he was confused and said he wsa going to Nashville. They both start with N. What’s the problem?

Trump praised Saints once he figured out he was in New Orleans & not Tennessee. Guess no one told Donald this comment last season about him from Sean Payton “I think we need a little more wisdom in that office. Seems like every time he’s opening his mouth, it’s something that is dividing our country & not pulling us together.”

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, who criticizes socialized medicine as much as anyone in Congress,, will travel to Ontario, Canada later this month to get hernia surgery.    Is this a stealth move to try to get Canada to build a wall to keep him there?

 

While Donald Trump rants about “Angel moms” & falsely limits them to moms whose children were killed by undocumented immigrants, your reminder he has still said NOTHING about police officer #NatalieCorona, 23, from a Mexican immigrant family, murdered by a white man.

 

When asked to comment on Steve King racist remarks, Donald Trump responded “I haven’t been following it.”
Translation: the story hasn’t been covered on “Fox and Friends.”

Donald Trump, ignoring his merit-based immigration claims from the past today to farmers – “people aren’t going to come, except for the people we want to come, because we want to take people in to help our farmers.”
Uh, one of the people he used as a racist dog whistle last fall was the killer of Mollie Tibbetts, who had been a reliable  and good – albeit undocumented – immigrant worker for four years in Iowa.

Former Trump campaign advisor, Barry Bennett who has a political consulting firm with Corey Lewandowski, about furloughed workers “It’s inconvenient that they’re not getting paid. But it’s for time they’re not even going into the office.”
So the question of the day “Evil? Or just amoral?”

 

Better marching in late than never?

January 14, 2019

Today’s 14-point New Orleans Saints comeback was the largest in the team’s playoff history. Of course, last year in Minnesota coming back from 17-0 would have been the record. Not, not still bitter.

Much talk of how Saints might have drafted Mahomes if KC hadn’t.   Yeah, Patrick was on the Saints raider. Right below the guy Sean Payton did draft, and said he wanted more – Marshon Lattimore.

Anyone else noticed time never goes as slowly as it does when your team has a 4th quarter lead.

As for the Chargers against Patriots, well, at least they helped cover the over.

Not a Cowboys fan, but Terrell Owens calling out coach Jason Garrett as “not the answer” after their loss to Rams yesterday.
Because TO knows all about winning a Super Bowl?

Jeanine Pirro asked Trump if he ever worked for Russia.
“I think it’s the most insulting thing I’ve ever been asked.”

Uh, wasn’t there a possible one word answer?

Lots of snow in DC. Hope it doesn’t shut down the government.

A 21-year-old man playing hide-and-seek in an abandoned building in Detroit with friends died last night when he ran to hide and fell down an elevator shaft.
Let me guess, alcohol might have been involved. #DarwinAward

Lindsey Graham complaining about New York Times story on alleged FBI probe of Donald Trump after he fired Comey, “That story came from somebody who leaked it with an agenda.”
That’s like blaming Deep Throat for Watergate

Now Trump tweeting that “Border is eventually going to be militarized and defended or the United States, as we have known it, is going to cease to exist.”
Uh, in many ways the United States, as we have known it, has ceased to exist since Donald moved into White House.
I miss having a President.

More from Trump tweet storm “Best line in the Elizabeth Warren beer catastrophe is, to her husband, “Thank you for being here. I’m glad you’re here” It’s their house, he’s supposed to be there!”
Uh, where’s Melanie?  (sic)

And the doinks just keep on coming

January 13, 2019

Did Adam Vinatieri suddenly get 10 years older in the past week?

 

Lawrence Taylor reportedly sent prostitutes to his opponents’ hotel rooms before big games

Thinking on a more PG level  Saints  fans should be hospitable hosts and send King Cakes to Eagles’ hotel rooms tonight. Lots of big King Cakes with gooey icing, maybe pecan and cream-cheese filled too.

Okay, who had Colts scoring first TD in 2nd quarter, before they had a 1st down?

And is there a football magnet on the goal posts this year?

So the Arizona Cardinals just hired Kliff Kingsbury, who couldn’t win at Texas Tech with Patrick Mahomes?

Alabama sophomore DE LaBryan Ray was arrested last night in Tuscaloosa for alleged public intoxication. Just how drunk do you have to be as a Crimson Tide player to be arrested in Alabama for it?0And so does Putin claim Trump as a dependent on his tax returns?

If Mitch McConnell would simply allow Senate to VOTE on the same bill they passed unanimously in December, then we’d at least know what side all Senators are on with the shutdown.

Five killed so far in Winter Storm Gia crashes in Kansas and Missouri. By Trump logic should the states be blamed for not clearing the roads and letting people drive in the snow?

At times like this with bombshells about Trump rvealed by Washington Post and NY Times, it is important to remember that Barack Obama once wore a tan suit.

Trump may have gotten rid of records from his private meeting with Russia’s leader. But I’ll bet Putin kept his.

 

 

California police officer Ronil Singh, 33, fatally shot by an illegal immigrant, tweeted about and eulogized repeatedly by Donald Trump.
Natalie Corona, 23, fatally shot by a white man with a battery conviction, and crickets.
Sad, and pathetic.

Did he kneel?

January 11, 2019

Tim Tebow is engaged. So guess he’s finally been completing his passes.

 

Two-years, $20 million for Jed Lowrie, 34, with Mets. Nice deal. And maybe at his age Lowrie is tired of dealing with playoff pressure?

Congratulations to Gregg Popovich, now #3 on all-time NBA coaching wins list.  The Spurs this year have EIGHT new players on their roster and no real point guard. It is just possible Pop is GOAT coach.

And 56 points from Lamarcus Aldridge and an NBA record 84% (16-19) on 3-pointers, and 154 points in double OT.  Just like everyone expected for the second game of a back-to-back.

 

Unidentified person reportedly decapitated by a helicopter at a small Florida airport. The local sheriff called it “a “very serious aircraft accident.”
I think I prefer- a serious Darwin winner.

Iowa GOP Rep Steve King -“White nationalist, white supremacist… how did that language become offensive?”
But hey, a Democratic woman Rep. called Trump a “motherf*cker” and another woman danced. #priorities

 

Someone registered officialsecuretheborderfund.com

Worth a click.

If Donald Trump wants to prove Democrats are lying about meetings why doesn’t he just televise all meetings he has with them?

 

 

So the Stable Genius who knows everything about everything also claims he had no idea what his personal lawyer and campaign manager were doing?

Lindsey Graham says “We’re stuck, I don’t see a way forward” about this shutdown.
Uh, Senator, how about passing the SAME bill you passed in December, which the Democrats have passed in January?

 

A police officer was shot and critically injured in Davis tonight. No comment from Donald Trump – and no doubt there won’t be. Unless it turns out shooter was undocumented.

Trump fundraiser of the day:
“Look at just a few examples of what the Liberal Elites had to say about the Presidential Address:
Jim Acosta: “Trump address hazardous to the truth.”
Jimmy Kimmel: “Rarely does a president of the United States interrupt primetime television to warn us about a completely made up thing.”
Chuck Schumer: “This president just used the backdrop of the Oval Office to manufacture a crisis.”

Now look at what hard-working American patriots like you said:
Jackie from Georgia: “Mr President. I back you 1000%.”
Grace from Colorado: “I love you Sir!! You are such a blessing to our Country and I cannot thank you enough! I pray for you every day! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!”
Ed from Michigan: “Great explanation on the the southern border keep it up God bless you sir.””

Wonder if Jackie, Grace and Ed are names he gives those voices in his head?

That’ll teach him?

January 10, 2019

Clemson DT Dexter Lawrence, who was suspended indefinitely over PEDs and missed Tigers’ postseason games, has announced he will leave early for 2019 NFL draft. Makes sense, because in NFL a positive drug test only costs you 4 games.

 

Eight NFL head coaches fired, six white men – so far hired. How’s that “Rooney Rule” working out?

More from our well-regulated militia:  A former LSU offensive lineman lost a leg in a duck hunting incident after his dog reportedly jumped on his gun and, the weapon went off.    Well, dog-gone it.

 

SF Giants changing name from AT&T Park to Oracle Park. And it’s only a coincidence if fans suddenly end up with a major increased in dropped calls?

FDA issued recall notice for “Modjeskas” candy, sold by Kentucky company and QVC as it might be contaminated with Hepatitis A. Okay, MAGAers, you know what to do. Defy science, buy more of the candy and “own the libs.”

Trump argues we need wall to stop migrants driving right across in their “unbelievable vehicles… stronger, bigger, and faster vehicles than our police have, than ICE has” So Trump is TRYING to get more Americans to buy cars made in Mexico?

Maybe if someone told Donald Trump that until the shutdown is over, health inspectors won’t be able to vouch for the safety of his fast food orders…

Trump insists walls work.   But curiously a wall didn’t work to stop Dorothy, a tin man, scarecrow and lion.   Speaking of REALLY successful witch hunts…

 

Coast Guard suggested their employees consider a garage sale during their furlough. Hmm, or maybe some private sales of stuff they might happen to find on boats trying to sneak into the US?

So when the next hurricane destroys parts of Florida, Louisiana or Texas, will Trump withhold FEMA money until people stop building near the shoreline?

None of the headlines today seem to have real Trump Oval Office Tuesday speech message right. “My campaign manager shared political polling data with a business associate tied to Russian intelligence but I REALLY hope you won’t notice.”

It’s up to you?

January 9, 2019

Warriors haven’t beaten up on a team in recent memory. Tonight they beat NY Knicks  by 27, and it wasn’t that close. A message to Kevin Durant just in case he’s thinking about “trying to make it there” to prove he can “make it anywhere…?”

 

Give Trump some credit for distraction. While we were focused on his train wreck in Washington,  Wizards outscored the 76ers by 9 in the 4th quarter and still lost by 17.

Actually, Trump has something in common with the hapless Washington Wizards.  For the forseeable future, they’re both going to be Wall-less.

So after Dabo Swinney’s description of where they were last night will Santa Clara change their name to “wherever-the-heck California?”

On a brighter note for 49ers fans last night at Levi’s Stadium, with Trevor Lawrence they may have gotten a glimpse of the QB they can draft in 2021 if they keep s*cking.

So no smugglers will ever bring drugs in by boats or planes ever again if we put up steel slats. Got it.

 

Nothing Donald Trump hates more than being upstaged. So please, next time he demands airtime for a “National emergency” can some celebrity have a friend drive them slowly on LA freeways in a white Bronco?

 

So Wednesday morning Rush Limbaugh, arrested for abusing oxycodone and hydrocodone, will commend Donald Trump, who abuses Adderall, for Trump’s speech condemning illegal drugs in this country.

This SHOULD have been the rebuttal. From Dec. 11, “I am proud to shut down the government for border security, Chuck. … I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. I’m not going to blame you for it.”

 

Serious note.  Few things get me as genuinely livid as the fact that in this country if you are a police officer killed by an American citizen, or a woman killed by a husband or boyfriend, or a child killed by a family member, you will get crickets from Trump. But ah, if your killer is undocumented, then you are a posthumous saint.

Tide Rolled

January 8, 2019

Trevor Lawrence said he hopes to win “at least 3” more championships at Clemson. If he were a basketball player he’d be packing up his dorm room tomorrow.

Your reminder that Clemson senior QB Kelly Bryant transferred to Missouri this year after he said starting job was unfairly taken away from him & given to Trevor Lawrence.

Hard to believe but this Clemson team needed a 4th quarter comeback led by 3rd string QB Chase Brice earlier this year to beat Syracuse.

Alabama’s Tua Tagovailoa sure looked like an NFL quarterback tonight. Unfortunately the QB he looked like was Mark Sanchez.

Carl Grove, 90, was stripped of his gold medal in cycling he won at Masters Track National Championships after testing positive for a PED.
He blamed the result on “bad meat.” Really, wouldn’t it have been more believable to claim a tainted supplement? Like Ensure?

Nonpolitical rant of the day: If you have about 10 items in a “10 items or less Express Line” AND you have two return items for credit requiring manager approval, AND you want to complain because you spent 25 cents for a bag last time and the handle broke… just maybe you shouldn’t be in the Express Line.

 

If it was a REAL national emergency , why didn’t Donald Trump have his press conference preempt the National Football Championship?

That moment when the Bachelor is ready to start up another season tonight and you realize it’s much more reality-based than the show coming out of the Oval Office.

About this national emergency Trump wants to declare to build the wall: he had over 700 days with GOP in control of House and Senate when he could have passed almost anything he wanted….

So POTUS who refers to media as “enemy of the people” just got all major networks to give him free time for an immigration speech, when those same networks turned down Obama’s request for same thing in 2014.
But yeah, Democrats need to be more civil.

 

Just guessing Tuesday night that Trump will
1. Declare a national emergency giving him power and unlimited money to build his wall.
2. Declare he will sign a bill to open government and take credit for it.
3. Declare victory
4. Declare he has earned a vacation.
And then, like with the caravan and his middle-class tax cut and most everything else and drug prices, he will do nothing except search for the next shiny distracting object.” 

And then there were eight.

January 7, 2019

Any Bears fan blaming Cody Parkey for the loss today has to ask themselves – if you couldn’t contain Nick Foles and Eagles when it mattered how the hell did you expect to stop Jared Goff and the Rams?

 

What went wrong for Ravens?  Waiting for media to ask Ray Lewis to take a stab at it.

Seriously, anyone but me really tired of seeing Ray Lewis being honored and over at football games. Heck, NFL pretends OJ Simpson doesn’t exist. 

#JacinthBaker #RichardLollar

 

Thinking all Sean Payton and Drew Brees have to do to keep Saints from getting too complacent against Eagles is show a replay of New Orleans last play against the Vikings from 2018.

Poor Sebastian Janikowski, injured in first half of Saturday’s wild card game.. Suppose it’s not much consolation for him and Seahawks that his medical bills should be covered by Medicare.

At least 49ers and Raiders fans didn’t have to deal with playoff drama. #smallmercies

 

Trying to remember the last time a male Presidential candidate was referred to as “unlikable.”

Fox News top story about funeral for California police officer Ronil Singh “who was gunned down after stopping an illegal immigrant.”
47 officers were killed in line of duty in 2018. Wonder why Singh is the biggest headline?

(And somehow Fox didn’t mention that Singh himself, while legal, came here as an unskilled immigrant from Fiji, and trained at various jobs  for 8 years to become an officer.)

Trump today on furloughed government workers, 16 days into the Trump Shutdown ‘I can relate and I’m sure that the people who are on the receiving end will make adjustments, they always do.”
He can relate? What, because he hasn’t been able to golf in Florida?

From today’s Trump fundraising email “Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer shut down YOUR government by choosing illegal immigrants over hard-working American patriots like YOU. NO MORE!
The only reason Democrats shut down the government is because they know they can’t win in 2020. They don’t care about your safety, they only care about Presidential Harassment!”

Again , Dec. 11, “I am proud to shut down the government for border security, Chuck. … I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. I’m not going to blame you for it.”

Wild cards

January 5, 2019

QB Joe Flacco, now the backup to Lamar Jackson for tomorrow’s Ravens wildcard game against Chargers. “It’s definitely not the most fun position in the world.”
As opposed to a tee-time to get Joe home in time to watch his team watch Steelers play instead?

DeMar DeRozan, on his first triple-double to help the Spurs trounce the Raptors, who traded him for Kawhi Leonard despite his desire to stay in Toronto – “It wasn’t emotional at all for me. … It was just a fun game for me.”
Good thing for San Antonio that DeRozan is a better player than he is a liar.

 

So about halfway through the NBA regular season, and basically every in the Western Conference still has a realistic shot at the playoffs.

Well, except for the Phoenix Suns, aka “Chopped liver.”

Georgia QB Justin Fields is leaving the school, reportedly for Ohio State. Fields will apply to NCAA for a hardship waiver so he can be eligible to play in 2019: The hardship, he lost his starting job to another student-athlete. What a system.

Can we declare a national emergency to deal with a President who thinks he can declare a national emergency over a stupid wall?
Asking for a country.

When I woke up and read someone called Donald   Trump a “motherf*cker” my first thought was “Now which member of his Cabinet?”

Trump now threatening to keep government closed for “months or even years.”
So over 800,000 workers will continue to go without a paycheck because of his tantrum. Rep Rashida  Tlaib, who called him a “Motherf*cker”  may have been too kind

 

 

Trump said of Rhasida Tlaib’s “motherf*cker” comment “she dishonored herself and dishonored her family using language like that in front of her son and whoever else was there.”
Right, the correct way to honor your son is to sleep with both a porn star and a Playboy bunny while he’s an infant….

Trump also today “I want Apple to make their iPhones and all of the great things that they make in the United States.”
Wonder if MAGAers would cheer quite so loud if they realized this would mean needing a mortgage for a phone.

Just wondering, as a friend and I talked about, what if federal employees who aren’t getting paid stop showing up for work? You know, nonessential people like TSA and Air Traffic Controllers?

Girls club?

January 4, 2019

Maybe we should have expected the College Football Playoff in Santa Clara to be a tough sell. Any serious local fan of top college-level talent is probably already tired of watching the 49ers.

Gregg Popovich and Kawhi Leonard hugging after Spurs game tonight was a nice thing to watch. Seriously.
(as was the Spurs showing their former and formerly disgrunted superstar that Popovich teams really don’t need an “I.”)
Whether you like him or not,  James Harden is really really good at basketball.

RIP Herb Kelleher, 87, founder of Southwest Airlines. No cause of death given. Maybe he just wanted to get away?

So is GOP problem with the video of Alexandria Oscasio Cortez’s dancing as a young woman that she wasn’t also chanting “I like beer?”

Your reminder that Nancy Pelosi is the daughter of a Baltimore mayor, and the mother of five. So a perfect match for Trump – she has experience with mob bosses AND children.

It  4:07 p.m. ET Sarah Sanders announced a press briefing starting at 4:10 p.m.  It started late with a brief Trump appearance but the real subject was probably “Waaaaa. Nancy’s getting too much attention.”

 

Bernie Sanders told CNN he didn’t realize women in his 2016 presidential campaign were being harassed because “‘I was a little bit busy running around the country.”
Trying to imagine if a woman made that excuse.

 

So an American citizen is supposedly arrested in Moscow and Trump State department responds by issuing a travel warning for… China?

As Trump rants today about the Pope having walls, guess if he ever traveled beyond his own properties, he’d know that anyone can enter Vatican City, and you don’t even need a passport.

Nancy Pelosi said she’d give Trump $1 for his wall. Considering Mexico is paying for it shouldn’t that be enough?

So maybe Trump would give in on the funding bill if instead of offering him $1 for his wall Nancy Pelosi just offered to fund some great shutdown commemorative coins?

Dianne Feinstein says she is supporting Joe Biden for President. Well, of course… she’s always thought Joe was such a nice young man.

Today’s reminder that Nancy Pelosi is badass -: “As President Reagan said in his last speech as President: ‘If we ever closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost.'”

Not quite full house?

January 3, 2019

Tickets for the College Football National Championship  Game Monday are down as low as $151 on Stubhub.
If this keeps up there’ll be so many empty seats fans will think they’re at a 49ers game.

And hey, who’d a thunk people might not want to show up for an Alabama-Clemson matchup.  Why, those teams haven’t played each other in about 370 days.

Not sure if an eight-team playoff would have produced more interesting games.  But it might have produced more ticket buyers.

 

 

NY Giants GM Dave Gettleman on 2019. “My commitment is to make this team the best team it can be. If that happens to have Eli playing quarterback, it does.”
Translation. maybe if Eli wants to play at the Meadowlands he should talk to the Jets?

(a friend of mine suggested, Rutgers?)

RIP Daryl Dragon, 76, the Captain of “Captain and Tennille.” With luck he’ll go to heaven where no one has to hear “Muskrat Love” ever again.

How many children growing up in Fox News households are going to get “F”s on future history tests that ask about the collapse of the Soviet Union?

Donald Trump telling Mitt Romney to be a “team player” is like Bernie Sanders telling a Democratic senator to be a ‘team player’

Now Trump is claiming that even though Mattis handed him a resignation latter, he “essentially fired” his defense secretary.
In other words “He didn’t break up with me I broke up with him. Nobody breaks up with me.”

Fox News ridiculed Elizabeth Warren for drinking beer on camera in a Instagram New Year’s Eve video at her house. So they think instead of running for President, Warren should be nominated to the Supreme Court?

In 2016, Border Patrol apprehended 337,117 people trying to get into US. Also in 2016, Department of Homeland Security issued an estimate for the number of people in the U.S. on visas that had expired in fiscal 2015: 527,127.
How about spending some of Trump’s proposed ridiculous wall money on visa tracking?

Wishes

January 1, 2019

Happy New Year’s. And to all my friends on both sides of the aisle -may your troubles last as long as Donald Trump’s promises.

Tickets for the National Championship game next Monday night are now going for as low as $200, less than half of face value.   So wait, fans don’t even want to come to the 49ers Levi’s Stadium to watch teams that don’t suck?

 

Urban Meyer’s wife Shelley “I would be ecstatic if he didn’t [coach again] “I’m done. I want him to be done. He’s too intense.”
Over-under on how many months he’s around the house before she begs him to go back to work?

On New Year’s Eve, Stanford won the Sun Bowl and Oregon won the RedBox Bowl. Two Pac 12 wins on the same day? Hope this isn’t a sign of the apocalypse.

 

Melania Trump posted a smiling selfie from Mar-A-Lago New Year’s Eve.  Well, of course she was happy, she was in Florida while Donald stayed in Washington, D.C.

 

I’m so old I remember when Christmas and New Year’s holidays meant seeing cheerful pictures of the First Family smiling and enjoying time with their children.

Just wondering, how much of our taxpayer dollars are going to shuttling Melania back and forth to Florida, AND paying for double Secret-Service while she, Ivanka and Jared vacation and Donald stays in DC?

Now that she’s running, the attacks on Warren, who wouldn’t be my first choice, have begun. But somehow I’ve missed all the stories questioning Bernie’s likability.

Trump afternoon tweet – “For FAR TOO LONG Senate Democrats have been Obstructing more than 350 Nominations…”
Wonder what Justice Merrick Garland thinks…

 

So if Mitt Romney REALLY wants to make a statement to Trump, perhaps he can actually vote against any budget with money for a wall?

 

Your daily reminder from December 11, “I am proud to shut down the government for border security, Chuck. … I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. I’m not going to blame you for it.”

Battle lines

December 31, 2018

Can’t imagine how Stanford got the #NerdNation nickname

From Twitter tonight,

Meanwhile, after Eagles won 24-0, looks like Redskins offense decided to take part in Washington DC Trump shutdown.
Actually, yeah, I know, the worst team in NFL would still beat a team like Alabama easily.
But Jets, Redskins, Raiders and 49ers did their best today to try to convince us otherwise.
Cleveland was down by 2, with 1 & 10 at Baltimore Ravens 39 and 1:18 to play in 4th quarter.  Three incomplete passes in a row & Mayfield throws a 4th down interception. So yeah, much improvement, but as a way to lose – that’s SO Browns.
Patriots up 31-3 late in 4th quarter, still keeping their starters in against hapless Jets. Sort of thing that has Belichick & company so beloved by NFL fans outside New England.
Maybe today’s game is all part of Saints plan to push Drew Brees as MVP choice by showing how they look without him?

Maybe it’s just me but thinking while jokes about school shooting survivors may distract people from remembering your sexual misconduct, those jokes won’t much for your overall image.  #LouisCK

So if Mexico is supposed to be paying for the wall, why hasn’t Trump shut down the Mexican government?

 

Today’s Trump fundraising email “While Nancy Pelosi sits at her luxurious resort in Hawaii, I’m at the Oval Office working for YOU.”
Uh, wasn’t it the Senate who refused to go along with Donald’s ransom demands? And Mitch is in Kentucky.

A new report found half of US adults have an immediate family member who has been in jail or prison. Well, soon maybe we won’t be able to say Trump family can’t relate to average Americans.

And then there were two.

December 30, 2018

 

So apparently when you spot Alabama 28 points they have a pretty good chance of winning a football game.

Your reminder that of four teams in CFB Playoff only one of them was from a state that elected a Democratic senator in 2018.

To be fair, these CFB Playoff routs ARE the committee’s fault. In choosing between top college-level teams this year they didn’t even consider the Oakland Raiders.

 

OPM- Office of Personnel Management message to federal employees started –  “Feds, here are sample letters you may use as a guide when working with your creditors during this furlough. If you need legal advice please consult with your personal attorney.”

Uh, federal employees are not allowed to access their government emails during a shutdown. So how are they going to see this? For that matter if you can’t pay bills how can you pay an attorney?

 

Can someone remind Donald Trump that Congress HAD deal to prevent shutdown, until he threw a tantrum & got departing House members to pass ridiculous new bill on way out.

No doubt Nancy Pelosi would never think of just passing the original bill on Jan 3?.

I’m so old I remember “I’ll tell you what, I am proud to shut down the government for border security, Chuck, So, I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. I’m not going to blame you for it.”

Headline from NY Daily News “Reports that “Robert Mueller has obtained ‘nude selfie’ from Russian company targeted in his investigation: court filing.”

And if anyone needed a potential image to use as an appetite suppressant for their New Year’s diet?

 

 

And here comes the Sun (Bowl)

December 29, 2018

Stanford vs. Pittsburgh in El Paso, Dec 31….. where at least Cardinal will no longer carry the weight of an entire conference on their shoulders…. because.

 

Washington State and thus the Pac 12 actually won a bowl game. Just when conference was finally about to get regular offers to play SEC teams.

Watching MusicCityBowl with Auburn and Purdue and knowing Boilermakers were  the team that beat Ohio State…. well, it does not strengthen Buckeyes’ contention that they should be in CFB playoff

 

Teddy Bridgewater starting for New Orleans at QB on Sunday. One argument for Drew Brees as  NFL MVP might be having done such a good job he AND many other starters can rest week 17.


Tigers are a 12.5 point favorite on Saturday, but apparently most betting money for CFB Playoff game between Clemson and Notre Dame is coming in on the Fighting Irish.

Will winning bettors be required to donate some of their profits to Notre Dame. #TouchdownJesus

Question of the week, what are more meaningless in December?  Most college football bowl games, or most NBA “regular season games?”

Today’s fundraising email to me said President Trump “was SHOCKED to see that your name was missing from the list of Official Build The Wall Members.”

Well, if Trump really were shocked we’d have even more ammunition for 25th amendment.

Just wondering, could we get Donald Trump put federal money towards eradicating dangerous diseases if we told him the viruses came into the country illegally?

Trump now says he will stay in DC and miss his New Year’s Eve bash at Mar-A-Lago.    But okay, let’s be logical here — all the VERY expensive tickets have been sold that guarantee access to the President.

So choice here is, go down to see the few people he actually likes in January or February when shutdown is over, or stay home, avoid the rich donors he tolerates,  plus the germs he fears, and blame it on the Democrats….

Well, maybe if they include teacher’s colleges?

December 28, 2018

Nick Saban is against expanding the college football playoff from four to eight teams.

Makes sense, we all know Alabama wants to win championships by playing as few good teams as possible.

San Antonio Spurs last night beat NBA’s Western Conference current best Denver Nuggets. While the Golden State Warriors lose back to back home games against Los Angeles Lakers and Portland Trail Blazers.

So is NBA about to change their motto to “Any given Sunday, or Monday, or Tuesday, or Wednesday, or Thursday, or Friday, or Saturday?”

Wisconsin 35- Miami 3. Almost as low a score for Hurricanes in New York as the Yankees averaged in ALDS.

41 bowl games this season…. for how many of this young men will it be the most overhyped and meaningless game of their lives… until they get drafted by a team like the Jets.

 

 

 

Can we get bipartisan agreement on the fact that when it’s a 45 minute line to order a grilled cheese and someone sees a friend in line and says ‘”hey can I order with you too” that should be a felony?

As Trump uses sad shooting death of policeman to push his wall, guess no one told him officer Ronil Singh came here from Fiji as an unskilled young immigrant who wanted to be a police officer.

While Trump lies about a fake 10% pay raise for military, members of US Coast guard will be working without pay starting tomorrow due to his Shutdown. #Details

A cell signal reportedly put former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen outside Prague around the time of the alleged Russian collusion meeting.

“Fake cellphone signal” tweets in 3.2.1….

But okay, should we really be surprised same Trump administration that doesn’t seem to believe in records of what they write and say in public also didn’t understand the concept of locating cell phones?

 

144 USA police officers killed in line of duty in 2018 and Trump decides to tweet about the one who apparently was shot by someone in the country illegally.

Cheezed off?

December 27, 2018

Bad news for fans of good college football – After an 80 minute weather delay in 1st quarter, the First Responder Bowl was canceled. Worse news for fans of good college football – After 6 INTs in 1st half, the CheezIt Bowl wasn’t canceled.

CheezIt Bowl featured 9 interceptions in one game. To put that in perspective Drew Brees and Aaron Rodgers have thrown 7 interceptions between them all season.
Cal and TCU combined for 9 interceptions in CheezIt Bowl Thereby prompting fans of both teams to scream repeatedly “CheezIt Christ.”
Pac 12 now 1-10 in their last eleven bowl games.   Maybe the conference should start boycotting bowls or something?
If this keeps up soon they’ll be known as the “Pac It In” conference?
Now it’s acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker who’s been caught embellishing his resume, and claiming falsely that he was an Academic All-American at the University of Iowa.
Though Donald Trump so hates being upstaged in any way fully expect that within a week he will declare that he too was an Academic All-American at Wharton.
Trump so hates being upstaged in any way fully expect that within a week he will declare that he too was an Academic All-American.
On the day that we discover Trump faked his bone spurs, Ruth Bader Ginsburg leaves the hospital after yet another cancer surgery. #Badass
Trump left the country and the stock market is bouncing back big time. Anyone know how to change the White House locks?
How long until Trump declares some sort of wall victory that entitles him to take his vacation at Mar-a-Lago?
Apparently many expensive tickets have been sold to a New Year’s Eve gala at Mar-A-Lago where guests were promised access to Trump.     And money from ticket sales will go directly into Donald’s pockets. So we may not know the exact excuse he will use to attend…. but there will be one.

Happy Boxing Day.

December 26, 2018

Think I raised my son right, this was his Christmas present to me.xmasshirt

 

Tom Brady “I know I’ve talked about it for a long time. I have that goal to not only play next year, but beyond that.”
Possible translation, “Giselle isn’t ready for me to just sit around the house.”

Whats a bigger shock, that the Lakers beat the Warriors 127-101 on Christmas? Or that they were only up 71-57 when Lebron James got hurt in the third quarter.

 

A foot doctor’s daughters now say their late father diagnosed President Donald Trump with bone spurs to help him avoid the Vietnam War draft as a “favor” to his father Fred Trump.
So can we start calling him #CadetFakeBoneSpurs?

I’m so old I remember staying up late Christmas Eve in hopes of hearing Santa.
Instead of in dread of what POTUS might tweet.

Apparently 7-year-old who Donald Trump said it was”marginal” for someone her age to still believe.in Santa said she’d never heard word “marginal” before.
Again, education causes Democrats.

Apparently the three ghosts who visited White House last night didn’t make much impression on Donald Trump.

Whatever you believe…

December 25, 2018

Merry Christmas is not a mean sentiment   But “Happy Holidays” is boring and kind of a cop-out.  So heck  “Merry Whatever you Celebrate.”

 

 

Christmas Eve might have left Raiders fans wondering if they will ever see a professional home football game in Oakland again..

Fans in New Jersey might be forgiving for wondering the same thing with the Giants and Jets.

Clemson will not have star Dexter Lawrence for CFB playoffs after the DT tested positive for a banned substance. Maybe Lawrence was just trying to prove he is NFL ready?

Meanwhile, Alabama coach Nick Saban suspended three players for the CFB semifinal game against Oklahoma Saturday for “violations of team rules.” The players included two reserves and one starting offensive lineman who’d been dealing with turf toe and might not have played anyway.

But I’m sure Saban would have suspended the players anyway if they were stars…. #sarcasm.

 

Donald Trump -“I am all alone (poor me) in the White House waiting for the Democrats to come back.”
Oh, Democrats are coming back. But just guessing Trump should be careful what he wishes for. Especially starting Jan 3.

So confused, Trump whining about being “all alone” today. But he still has Fox News and the one he loves best. Unless staffers took down all the White House mirrors.

Trump to a seven-year old calling in on NORAD’s Santa line “Are you still a believer in Santa Claus? ‘Cuz at seven it’s marginal, right?”
Many Americans to their children “Are you still a believer in US democracy? ‘Cuz at 242 it’s now marginal, right?”

A group called Kremlin Annex is outside the White House playing music loudly. Please can someone get them the music tonight to Linda Ronstadt’s “Poor poor pitiful me.”

Trump now so upset about Fed chair Jerome Powell, maybe Donald should just fire the idiot who hired him.

In the Trump version of Christmas, Jesus Mary and Joseph are detained at a border wall and Herod is celebrated for keeping Judea great.

Any given Christmas Eve Eve?

December 24, 2018

Thinking a lot of folks might be forgiven for wondering why Nick Files isn’t Eagles starting QB?

6-8 Broncos vs 3-11 Raiders on Monday Night Football this week. So many NFL fans are getting their Christmas turkey earlier.

 

Wizards and Suns combined for 295 in Triple OT NBA game. Curiously enough 295 is approximate over-under if  Chiefs and Saints end up in the Super Bowl.

So did the Washington Redskins decide to show solidarity with government workers Saturday by shutting themselves down in the 4th quarter?

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin tweeted that he had called leaders of US largest banks to confirm they had liquidity to keep offering credit. Thereby trying to reassure Americans who weren’t worried until he tweeted?

 

 

Here’s a compromise for Donald Trump – whatever we decide to spend on his wall or slats or whatever, Democrats get an equal amount to put into whatever social problem they want that he’s cut.

So wait, this morning we aren’t talking about “artistic steel slats” and are back talking about “a good old-fashioned wall.” This is SO confusing.

 

If we had a President he would be at least sending “thoughts and prayers” to Indonesia.

Same POTUS who said he’d run unarmed into a school to face an armed killer was afraid to fire his Secretary of Defense in person or even by phone.

Just thinking, anyone who REALLY cared about safety in this country might make sure TSA agents got paid during a shutdown.

So if Mexico is paying for the wall will they cover paychecks of furloughed government workers too?

Trump is staying at the White House over Christmas.  Is it really because of the government shutdown. Or is it just possible Donald doesn’t want to face his rich friends after tanking the stock market?

Wonder if since he’s stuck in DC, if Trump will issue an executive order demanding McDonald’s stay open on Christmas.