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Open Thread

by John Cole|  September 16, 200712:02 pm| 32 Comments

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The Steelers play the Bills, I am feeling sick, and this is all you get.

*** Update ***

Another win, and I only feel slightly dirty for rooting for the Browns as they beat the whiny-ass Bengals.

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  1. 1.

    whippoorwill

    September 16, 2007 at 12:48 pm

    I am feeling sick and this is all you get.

    Well that’s just dandy. Some kinda cult leader of moonbat minions you are. What will we do? What will we say? We’ll be like lost children drifting through the blogosphere with bloodsucking wingnuts ready to feast on our lost leaderless souls.

    Oh well, I think I’ll have a cheeseburger and watch the Browns lose big.

  2. 2.

    demimondian

    September 16, 2007 at 1:38 pm

    Hey, you guys have Steely McBeam. What’s your problem?

  3. 3.

    jake

    September 16, 2007 at 2:04 pm

    Hey, you guys have Steely McBeam. What’s your problem?

    Heh. Why do you think he feels ill?

  4. 4.

    ThymeZone

    September 16, 2007 at 2:17 pm

    Go Steelers. In this matchup, anyway.

    Steely McBeam is one handsome hunk of manly manliness. He makes me proud of my gender.

  5. 5.

    Ned R.

    September 16, 2007 at 2:45 pm

    A smooth eunuch makes you proud of your gender? Plz to reconsider.

  6. 6.

    jake

    September 16, 2007 at 2:59 pm

    Steely McBeam is one handsome hunk of manly manliness. He makes me proud of my gender jaundice.

    Fixed.

  7. 7.

    ThymeZone

    September 16, 2007 at 3:09 pm

    Steely McBeam is one handsome hunk of manly manliness. He makes me proud of my gander

    Sorry, fixed now.

  8. 8.

    whippoorwill

    September 16, 2007 at 3:47 pm

    I don’t believe it. Browns 51 Bengals 45. Maybe we will win in Iraq.

  9. 9.

    Cain

    September 16, 2007 at 3:51 pm

    I had no idea this shit was going on in Colorado and Wyoming but it seems like accelerated gas and oil drilling. The area are all republicans and they’ve started to get sick of it.

    Pretty freaky, I had no idea that tehy were ruining landscapes over there. That’s gotta hurt.

    link

    cain

  10. 10.

    Bubblegum Tate

    September 16, 2007 at 4:32 pm

    Steely McBeam is one handsome hunk of manly manliness.

    Careful–too many more outbursts like that and the GOP will nominate him for president (take a hike, Freddie!).

    The Browns beat the Bengals? The fuck?

    I’m helping my ex pick the games for her office pool. I don’t think I did all that well this week. Yeesh–and I’m supposed to be her ringer!

  11. 11.

    norbizness

    September 16, 2007 at 5:30 pm

    Cause we’re the… Hou-ston Tex-ans. Hou-ston Tex-ans. Houston Texans Num-ber One!

  12. 12.

    demimondian

    September 16, 2007 at 5:37 pm

    Hey, TZ! Do you think “The next wining streak starts today”?

  13. 13.

    ThymeZone

    September 16, 2007 at 6:27 pm

    Hey, TZ! Do you think “The next wining streak starts today”?

    Well, we have a streak of One Win going, now.

    If you’re a Cardinals fan, that’s exciting.

    Yee haw, etc.

  14. 14.

    Blue Jean

    September 16, 2007 at 6:29 pm

    That’s too bad. Get well soon, John!

    (though watching the Bengals might make you sicker. ;-)

  15. 15.

    demimondian

    September 16, 2007 at 9:47 pm

    Hey, look, kiddies! We can’t find a missing white girl, so, instead, we’ll front page an arrested black man.

    demi “what do you mean, convenient” mondian

  16. 16.

    BARRASSO

    September 16, 2007 at 11:50 pm

    Wyoming has been torn to shit the last ten years and the cattle men farmers and ranchers are pissed. The BLM has been told by the higher ups to just not enforce the laws anymore.

  17. 17.

    Andrei

    September 17, 2007 at 12:29 am

    What the hell was up with the Yellow helmets? First the mascot then the helmets. Someone needs to find out what they frig is going on over there.

  18. 18.

    rachel

    September 17, 2007 at 3:14 am

    Wyoming has been torn to shit the last ten years and the cattle men farmers and ranchers are pissed. The BLM has been told by the higher ups to just not enforce the laws anymore.

    That’s what they voted for, and now they’ve decided they don’t like it? What flip-floppers.

  19. 19.

    Punchy

    September 17, 2007 at 8:01 am

    What the hell was up with the Yellow helmets?

    I kept thinking I was watching a college game. Then I thought I had the color all screwed up on the telly. Had to keep reminding myself it was the Steelers. Couldn’t recognize them at all with those god-awful piss yellow lids.

    Looks like ManPurse McBeam is spreading his rampant homosexuality to all corners of the team.

  20. 20.

    Jill

    September 17, 2007 at 8:18 am

    John…I’m worried about how many times a year you get sick, seems like an awful lot.

  21. 21.

    Punchy

    September 17, 2007 at 8:23 am

    Boy, if this is:

    1) true (it is)
    2) not reversed (it will be)
    3) enforceable (it’s not)

    that’s a huge, huge blow. These clowns do a lot for the semi-important people. I foresee Maliki going back on this in…oh….4 hours.

    And I had no idea they had what seems like complete immunity from prosecution. Wow. No wonder they’re so brazen.

  22. 22.

    The Other Steve

    September 17, 2007 at 8:27 am

    Welcome to the nation of bedwetters, where we are afraid of chalk, and now toilet paper dust.

  23. 23.

    The Other Steve

    September 17, 2007 at 8:36 am

    I had no idea this shit was going on in Colorado and Wyoming but it seems like accelerated gas and oil drilling. The area are all republicans and they’ve started to get sick of it.

    No point in having guns, if the land has been destroyed of wildlife.

    My great uncle lived near Colorado Springs. He had a natural gas mine on his land. But I don’t recall it having had a tremendous impact to the land. Just a 40’x40′ section of land that had been fenced off for the mine. He was paid a yearly rent for the land, plus a percentage of the gas that was extracted.

    I love Colorado, and really hope they don’t destroy the wilderness there. It’s very beautiful.

  24. 24.

    Punchy

    September 17, 2007 at 8:36 am

    Ruh roh

    Seriously?

  25. 25.

    Punchy

    September 17, 2007 at 8:42 am

    Welcome to the nation of bedwetters, where we are afraid of chalk, and now toilet paper dust.

    TP has dust? WTF is that? Anyone understand this?

  26. 26.

    KoC

    September 17, 2007 at 9:17 am

    As a Bills fan, I can only say “There’s always next week”.

    *Looks at the schedule*

    Shit…

  27. 27.

    The Other Steve

    September 17, 2007 at 9:52 am

    TP has dust? WTF is that? Anyone understand this?

    Yes, it’s very dusty, and it looks like ANTHRAX!

    Fortunately Alan keyes will save us!

  28. 28.

    The Other Steve

    September 17, 2007 at 9:55 am

    Ruh roh

    Seriously?

    Hard to say. Toriegraph is the opposition newspaper in Britain. They may just be scare-mongering a bit to hit the new Gordon Brown.

    We’ll have to wait and see a bit. Congress should pass a resolution demanding the President receive war authorization before attacking any more countries.

  29. 29.

    Pb

    September 17, 2007 at 1:00 pm

    Congress should pass a resolution demanding the President receive war authorization before attacking any more countries.

    1) That’s already in The Constitution.

    2) They tried that re: Iran and failed to pass it.

    2) a. How sad is that?

    DeFazio has attempted several times over the course of the past two years to pass legislation that would reassert Congress’ constitutional war-making powers.

    In a statement of administration policy released Wednesday, the White House threatened to veto the 2008 defense authorization bill if it contained “provisions that would prevent the president from protecting America and allied and cooperating nations from threats posed by Iran.”

    I’d like to see a few more bills or amendments like that, and then see if they pass or not. How about a bill that prevents the President from imprisoning or torturing any more Americans indefinitely without trial or legal counsel? Or from flying them to another country and imprisoning them there?

    Or I could move. How’s Canada this time of year…

  30. 30.

    Tax Analyst

    September 17, 2007 at 3:23 pm

    TP has dust? WTF is that? Anyone understand this?

    That would probably be the little bits of paper along the sheet perforations…it sometimes shreds off when a sheet is torn off the roll to wipe one’s ass or wipe semen off your shoes or wherever it might have happened to relocate after it leaves one’s gland.

  31. 31.

    jake

    September 18, 2007 at 6:53 am

    It would be really cool tragic if these people developed tentacles and a craving for human flesh.

  32. 32.

    Krista

    September 18, 2007 at 9:25 am

    TP has dust? WTF is that? Anyone understand this?

    It does too. Go into a bathroom on a sunny day, when the light’s streaming in the window. Grab some toilet paper fromt the roll and crumple it up. You’ll see a ton of little dust motes.

    (Note, this isn’t something that I actually set out to observe, but my mom’s upstairs bathroom window faces south, and I’ve spent a lot of time in that house during my life.)

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