Left Coast Sports Babe

Steve Kerr had “Sweet Home Alabama” playing today during #Warriorspractice. Just guessing if they win again it will be 2nd year Golden State won’t get White House invite.

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Bad news for Clemson Tigers. Not that it really matters, but in all Red State CFB Playoff, all of a sudden, USA has a whole lot of new #Alabama fans.

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Another Hannukah miracle. Who ever thought that Steve Kerr, Gregg Popovich and Charles Barkley would all be in agreement on anything? #DougJones

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Now that we have #DougJones in the Senate, can we move on to getting the #SFGiants a power-hitter? @SFGiants

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Wednesday it was Tavis Smiley. So the Christmas Advent Sexual Harassment calendar hasn’t missed a day yet.

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So now that #RoyMoore has lost will they fire their “Jew attorney?”

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63-yr-old Alabama white man quoted Tuesday “I just love the unborn far too much to ever vote for a national Democrat.”
Fortunately more of the state decided they love the “born.”

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Colorado GOP Sen. Cory Gardner “I hope Senator-elect Doug Jones will do the right thing and truly represent Alabama by choosing to vote with the Senate Republican majority.”
Uh, Sen. Gardner, Colorado went for Hillary. When are you going to do the right thing and truly represent Colorado by voting with Democrats?

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US Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein told Judiciary Committee he sees “no good cause” to fire Robert Mueller. How long until Trump tries to fire Rosenstein?

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Let’s look at this another way. Anyone doubt if Al Franken were being replaced by a GOP senator, McConnell would have him sworn in by the weekend?

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Roy Moore really disappointed today. Not only did he lose Senate election, but apparently all Alabama jobs for mall Santas have been filled.

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For all of us who cheered #HiddenFigures, #BlackWomen deserve another ovation after Alabama.

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Roy Moore still thinks he can get a recount in Alabama. Well, what do you expect from a man who convinced himself that 14 was 18.

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Sad for Dan Johnson’s family. The Kentucky state legislator, accused of molesting a teenager at his church where he was a pastor, apparently shot himself.  But have to wonder how many girls and women have committed suicide over the years after being molested.

Just to start a non-political controversy for a change, who do my friends and readers think should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame who isn’t already in?
I’m thinking “The Carpenters.” Don’t laugh. Plenty of soft-rock and pop acts in there. Karen had one of the best voices ever, and they were very successful standing out from the crowd.

It takes a lot of work for a perfect season. With their 4th quarter performance today it appears as if the Browns are up to the task.

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Cleats, heck.  How many on the Bills & Colts in today’s Buffalo blizzard considered switching to ice skates?

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Rex Ryan dissed Geno Smith, Smith called his former coach a “coward,” today Ryan compared Geno to a marshmallow. These two are more entertaining than watching Giants.

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Baker Mayfield won the Heisman easily with great stats. But with a preseason arrest and other issues  he can thank Cam Newton, Johnny Manziel and Jameis Winston for getting committee to drop “integrity” from their mission statement.

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Is there an award for the most runner-up finishes for the Heisman?  (Stanford has five since 2009.)

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Alabama has a chance to get even many of us on West Coast to root for #CrimsonTide in CFB Playoffs this year.    Just elect #DougJones

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We like to think national conversation about sexual assault has changed. But Ben Rothlisberger still remains popular in Pittsburgh.

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No one in Alabama can find Roy Moore. Have they looked inside mall Santa suits?

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Just imagine if that reporter had tweeted a picture making @realDonaldTrump’s hands look too small?

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Whatever the Trump crowd size was at Pensacola rally, it was certainly a very WHITE Christmas event.

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If lying about crowd size is cause for losing your job when is Trump resigning?

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“We call it a tipping point, I think, so many accusations, so many cuts, so many drip, drip, drip — when it got to the 14-year-old’s story, that was enough for me. I said I can’t vote for Roy Moore.”
Another liberal for Doug Jones. Nope, Alabama GOP Senator Richard Shelby.

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Alabama Sen Richard Shelby said he didn’t vote #RoyMoore but wrote in a “distinguished Republican name. And I think a lot of people could do that.’
Works for me. Or may I suggest Alabama voters write in Nick Saban?

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Cory Booker, talking about Al Franken “My question is, why isn’t Donald Trump doing same thing — who has more serious allegations against him, w/ more women who have come forward.”
Too soon to start pool when Trump will tweet with stupid nickname for @CoryBooker?

Can we have a moment to remind Alabama voters that not only is @GDouglasJones a former prosecutor, he is a hunter who owns guns?

LA City Council voted to legalize marijuana sales starting in 2018. And we thought a lot of fans were late to Dodgers games until now…. #dudewheresmyticket

LaVar Ball now wants both his sons to play overseas. Thinking Europe response “Uh, no, we have Louis Vuitton stores too.”

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Former Team USA gymnastic doctor Larry Nassar sentenced to 60 years in prison. Can they put him in general population?

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So maybe besides all the other bets on Thursday Night Football there should be an over-under on injuries?

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Cleveland Browns fired Sashi Brown, executive VP in charge of their personnel dept. #Browns fans shocked – team HAS a personnel dept?

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Are millennials into bitcoin because they missed out on beanie babies?

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Or is  “bitcoin” millennial for “tulip bulbs?”

United Airlines has a waiver for winter weather. On December 7. In Atlanta, Georgia. But no, we don’t have climate change.

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So while we work up to @realDonaldTrump & @MooreSenate can GOP start by calling for Blake Farenthold to resign?

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Pantene says the color of the year for 2018 will be “Ultra violet.” Waiting for tweet from Trump complaining that it’s not orange. #fakecolor

So Trump is going to have a physical next year. Will that include a visit to his dentist? #DentureDonald

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White House @PressSec said @realDonaldTrump will undergo a physical next year & results will be made public. Right after he releases his tax returns?

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Arizona GOP Rep. Trent Franks said he is resigning over asking female staffers about becoming a surrogate for his child. Why do I guess that wasn’t phrase he used? Cue Paul Anka #Havingmybaby

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GOP claims to be the party of personal responsibility. Until they get elected.#Franken #Conyers #Moore #Trump

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Donald Trump Jr tweeted an attack on Al Franken this morning. Donny claiming moral high ground is like Hillary Clinton claiming to be expert on email servers.

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Damn, now #NewMexico. Time to reset the mass shooting clock to zero again. And for NRA to claim all students should be armed

More and more teams out of the Ohtani free agent race. This is getting more and more like an episode of the Bachelor.

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Giancarlo Stanton might be deciding between #Cardinals & #SFGiants. Has anyone from Giants considered sending him average weather reports from St. Louis in summer?

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LaVar Ball pulling LiAngelo out of UCLA means the kid will miss out on potentially a great three months of college.

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And yes, this is LaVar saying he is pulling his son out. Not his son making the statement.  Yeah, this young man is definitely mature enough for the NBA.

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Stanford’s Bryce Love  named a finalist, and invited for Heisman ceremony. If by some miracle he wins, will his trophy have only one ankle?

(or an ankle brace at lease,  Love has been running on one ankle since a late October injury against Washington.)

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#Giants have fired #BenMcAdoo after benching Manning. Who’d a thunk the 2017 Jets would be the most NFL functional team in NY?

So House wants to allow Americans to take their guns and concealed-carry permits across state lines. But heaven-forbid they bring their marijuana.

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RIP #JohnAnderson, Remembering the days when those on fringe of the GOP were honorable people.

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So if GOP women who voted for Trump are called liars when they accuse Roy Moore, even with WRITTEN evidence, what makes any woman think she has better chance of being believed?

Orrin Hatch on Roy Moore – “many of the things he allegedly did were decades ago.” Of course same could have been said for Charles Manson.

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Somewhere Nixon is thinking “How the f*ck did I get impeached for a cover up of a two-bit burglary?

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If Trump gets away with “if the President does it it’s not illegal,” do we retroactively exonerate Nixon?

How long until Trump tweets “Yeah, of course I colluded w/ Russians, so what? GOP got their SCOTUS judge & we got our tax cuts. #MAGA.”

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Among many reasons I’m a Democrat – I believe more in leaving our children a world w/ clean air & water, great national parks & a good educational system, than in leaving our children a world free from estate tax.

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Going forward into December, if someone wishes you Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Hanukkah, Kwanza, whatever… just smile and say thank you. We need more nice. Seriously.

Who knew the #Silverdome would be tougher than any of the Lions teams who played in it?

Especially when the Lions have never had a problem imploding.

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Ole Miss QB Shea Patterson has permission to transfer, possibly to Michigan. Supposedly he wants “stability at offensive coordinator.” Points for not even pretending it’s about academics.

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Going to be arguments about that 4th CFB playoff spot. But who’d a thunk best team in Florida would turn out to be UCF Golden Knights?

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Tiger Woods making ESPN golf headlines even for finishing tied for 9th in a tournament with only 18 golfers and no cut. Maybe they’d have better ratings just having a “Best of Tiger’ highlight show each week.

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Post script to Pac 12 championship:   Look, USC was a better team almost all year than Stanford. But if a conference championship really means something, maybe you don’t schedule it on after short week on Friday night?
Of course, given TV and college football maybe they scheduled it Friday because the NFL has Thursday?

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As we look at all red-state #CFBPlayoff did Senate tax bill making tuition waivers taxable mean football players need to pay tax on scholarships?

So all we need to do to believe Trump, is to believe that CIA, FBI, Justice Department, all the major media except Fox, etc are ALL corrupt and lying.

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If we didn’t know otherwise sure seems like Trump tweets are calling for the impeachment of President Hillary Clinton.

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Trump railing against Hillary again, and tweets – “General Flynn lies to the FBI and his life is destroyed…” Uh, maybe more like Trump’s life will be destroyed.

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#NYTimes McFarland email “If there is a tit-for-tat escalation Trump will have difficulty improving relations with Russia, which has just thrown USA election to him.” Now Trump admin says that was sarcastic. Right. #Sarcasm

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Many Republicans held their noses & voted in 2016.  While Democrats bemoan #TaxBill , and yes, there should be standards, it’s maybe a good time for the party going forward for 2018 and 2020 to realize standards are not the same as litmus tests?

Trump’s lawyer John Dowd says he wrote obstruction of justice tweet about knowing Flynn lied. Wait, I thought Trump only hired the best lawyers?

Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley “I think not having the estate tax recognizes the people that are investing as opposed to those that are just spending every darn penny they have, whether it’s on booze or women or movies.”
Yeah, I can understand how the working class voted Republican…. #WTF?

To be fair, Stanford football has teased fans all year with glimmers of being a great football team, and then a lot of doses of reality.

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Ole Miss hit with more NCAA sanctions. Amazing how the only SEC teams who get punished for violations aren’t the ones who go to top bowl games.

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Kate Upton asked Justin Verlander in a tweet “Which is better, winning a World Series or a honeymoon w/ @KateUpton? Even an American League pitcher should be able to avoid swinging & missing on that one.

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Jimbo Fisher gets $75 million head coaching contract  from Texas A&M for 10 years, fully guaranteed.  $75 million. But God forbid a booster buy a player dinner.

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$75 million for Fisher after a so-far 5-6 record at FSU.   Normally you don’t get rewarded for that kind of mediocrity.  Re-elected, maybe.

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Michael Flynn revenge karma cocktail: Russian vodka. With several twists. Served very cold.

What happened to Kate Steinle was horrible. Period. Anyone think GOP reaction might have been different if she were undocumented & accidental killer were white?

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So let me get this straight: Immigration laws exist already that should have kept the guy who killed Kate Steinle out of the US. But GOP demands new and stronger laws. But when mass shootings happen, ah, then they say laws are fine, we just need to enforce them.

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GOP with this tax bill is acting like they won’t ever have to worry about another election.

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Child tax credit expansion voted down because it would raise corporate tax rate from 20% to 20.94%. But yeah, GOP is party of working class. #overflowtheswamp

Trump lawyer refers to Michael Flynn as “former Obama administration official.” Waiting to see how this will also be Hillary’s fault.

Trump says reports of him firing Rex Tillerson are #FakeNews. So official reason will end up being Tillerson wants to spend time w/ his family?

Florida State wants Jimbo Fisher to decide if he will accept Texas A & M coaching job. Possible translation with the Seminoles 5-6, will he quit or be fired?

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Tiger Woods shot a 3-under par in his first tournament in a year, leaving him tied for 8th.  But hey, at least ESPN has something to write about golf.

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Blue Jays analyst Gregg Zaun has been fired for “inappropriate behavior ” in the workplace. Time to start getting more women hired in sports too.

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Cowboys-Redskins  – a game between two teams who at best will never get out of the wild card round.

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Soon to be heard at the Pearly Gates “Surprise, surprise surprise….” RIP Jim Nabors aka Gomer Pyle.

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Open note to guys planning to apologize for past sexual harassment. We’ll be a lot more likely to believe you if you do it before you get caught.

Jeff Sessions indicated Federal Government might try cracking down on recreational marijuana. He does realize Colorado & Nevada each have a GOP senator… now?

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NY Giants benched Eli Manning after 2-9 start. Because without him they might be contending with Browns for the number 1 pick?

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ASU might hire Herm Edwards as football coach. Because nothing says looking to the future like a 64-year-old who hasn’t coached in 10 years.

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Anonymous NFL owner on Trump “He’s trying to destroy us. He’s trying to use race to divide players & our fans. It’s all over a grudge.”
That moment when @POTUS gives @NFL the moral high ground…

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Oops. Apparently a glitch in American Airlines’s vacation scheduling system means that thousands of flights Dec 17-31 don’t yet have pilots scheduled. So will flights that operate have a “pilot bonus pay” surcharge?

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‘Add #MattLauer to the list. Well, there will be no shortage of men with the resumes to run for GOP senators.

-Geraldo Rivera has been tweeting so vociferously about news being “flirty business” got to figure it’s time to start a pool on when HIS accusers come forward.

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Now #GarrisonKeillor fired by Minnesota Public Radio over allegations of improper behavior. Maybe it’s time just to turn all media and politics over to women.

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Several GOP senators are condemning Trump’s retweeting of far-right “Britain First” hate videos. Why don’t they just use the standard “Thoughts and prayers?”
#littlelessconversationlittlemoreaction

Fox News is positively gleeful over the Matt Lauer firing. Wonder if they hope for a ratings bump to make back some of that $32 million they paid Bill O’Reilly.

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Thinking over at Saturday night live they might as well wait to write cold open until Friday night, because most outrageous story of week keeps changing.

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So when did #MAGA become code for “Let’s p*ss off every other country in the world except Russia?” Repeat win today for those with Britain in Trump insult pool.

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Several GOP senators are condemning Trump’s retweeting of far-right “Britain First” hate videos. Why don’t they just use the standard “Thoughts and prayers?”

Birds of a feather: Not all Americans were unhappy with Trump’s retweeting of far-right anti-Muslim British videos “Thank God for Trump! That’s why we love him!” – David Duke

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Once again, if Trump wanted to prove immigrants are depressing pay, all he had to do was raise salaries enough at Mar-A-Lago to get Americans to apply instead of getting 70 temporary visas.

Wisconsin is absolutely the Rodney Dangerfield of this year’s #CollegeFootballPlayoff rankings.

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Eli Manning has been benched in favor of… Geno Smith? Colin Kaepernick won’t need to present evidence at his collusion trial other than NFL game tapes.

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You know the world is insane when you see #Reno trending and are happy to find out “oh, only a ‘active shooter’ but no reported injuries.”

I dream of an alternate reality where world is a calmer more secure place & comedians are struggling to write new pantsuit jokes. @HillaryClinton

Maybe Elizabeth Warren did incorrectly tout Native American heritage. GOP would criticize less if she just was avowed white woman hanging around malls looking for teenage boys?

Chip Kelly hired by UCLA. Kelly’s first college-coaching job since the 49ers.

How far as Tiger Woods fallen? From being on top of the world & attending 2009 Notre Dame vs Stanford game to playing golf this weekend with Donald Trump.

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Love Trumps hate. And millions of Americans are loving watching the hated Alabama Crimson Tide lose.

How many headlines tomorrow – “Rolled tide.”? #AUBvsBAMA

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Stanford’s Bryce Love  has to be the best one-legged player in college football.

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And forget pumpkin pie. After the fourth quarter against Notre Dame, Stanford’s favorite Thanksgiving weekend dessert has to be turnovers.

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Would be adding insult to injury to point out after Stanford upset of Notre Dame that it’s 60 degrees in Palo Alto & 28 degrees in South Bend. #NDvsSTAN

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Michigan QB John O’Korn had a horrible day in his team’s loss to OSU. And he’ll still probably have an NFL job before Kaepernick.

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Pundits said SFGiants were probably going to make playoffs in 2017 & had chance for World Series. Giants decided probably wasn’t good enough & took a pass on the year.

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Black Friday  was so successful this year figure Trump will try to rename it Orange Friday and take the credit.

(and then as a friend pointed out, the SF Giants will sue him.)

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A new U. of Michigan study found an oil in cinnamon attacks fat cells & could help fight obesity. Can’t wait to see the ads from Cinnabon.

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Washington Post notes that a “Pew Research Center study found that 58 percent of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents believe colleges & universities have a negative effect “on the way things are going in the country,” up from 37 percent two years ago.”
Well, yeah, education causes Democrats.

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So now Trump is blaming negative way much of the world views USA  on CNN. #WTF?

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I miss the days when condemning Nazis and child molesters was nonpartisan.

What Washington is thankful for this Thanksgiving – they got to play the NY Giants.

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Jones said Cowboys “are not a good team right now.” Who said we can’t get agreement on anything in this country?

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Wonder how many Americans first became football fans because it provided a distraction from dealing with relatives on Thanksgiving. @NFL

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Six Blue Jays rookie league players were suspended for PEDs last weekand Toronto has begun an internal investigation. Over the cheating or over the fact that they were all stupid enough to get caught?

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Good for Vikings DE Everson Griffen who could watch his son’s birth. But thinking I’m really glad I had a baby before Facetime.

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Think Americans would be more likely to vote if we had to line up and got chance to buy something at half-price afterwards. #BlackFriday

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Among the things all Americans can all be thankful for is that sexting – with photos – did not exist when Bill Clinton was President.

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Joe Barton threatened to call Capitol police on a woman if she exposed him. Here’s a simpler suggestion for men to avoid exposure – don’t take dick pics.

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As shopping season begins, be careful what you wish for. Many political comedians not that long ago were imagining @HillaryClinton presidency & hoping for at least some material.

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Trump today said F 35 is literally invisible, “even if you’re flying right beside it.”   Reminds me of time US showed off by flying stealth bomber right over the Rose Bowl.

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Donald Trump’s long brag about himself on Twitter & to the Armed Forces making millions of Americans thankful that their most obnoxious relative isn’t THAT bad.

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Short version of @realDonaldTrump tweet storm today – “All Americans need to be thankful for ME.”

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What I’m really thankful for this Thanksgiving. That Americans still have the right to post tweets making fun of our US President. Let’s hope that continues.

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And on a serious note,   I am very thankful for everyone who takes the time to read this blog. You are the reason I write.