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  4. 4.

    Linkmeister

    What’s the point of the draft? There’s no training camp, there’s likely no season.

    Yet ESPN insists on promoting this ‘event” like crazy. Whistling past the graveyard, I calls it.

  5. 5.

    General Stuck

    More than one way to skin a Citizens United wingnut

    Will Obama Throw a Grenade to Blow-Up Hidden Campaign Donations?

    Frustrated by limited, near-term legislative or regulatory options to increase disclosure of hidden federal election expenditures, President Obama is considering an executive order aimed at government contractors which would partially achieve that goal. If issued, this order will cause a political uproar–and stimulate immediate litigation to stay its effect.

    The president is responding to the 2010 political cycle, when groups allegedly independent of candidate campaigns spent $300 billion in attempts to influence the outcome of federal elections. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, almost 50 percent of that total was spent by organizations which did not disclose their donors, up from 25 percent spent by entities with no disclosure in 2008.

    It will make John Boehner cry like a little baby.

    via/The Peoples View

  15. 15.

    Comrade Luke

    As a lifelong Seattleite, THANK YOU TENNESSEE!

    Seattle drafting Locker was my nightmare scenario. The guy will be holding a clipboard for the next 10yrs.

  17. 17.

    Comrade Luke

    @khead: She seems to have lost a lot of weight post-engagement. I guess she’s thinking that since her wedding portrait will be seen by billions of people for all of eternity, she’d better nail it.

    Also, too: she’s smokin’

  23. 23.

    calling all toasters

    Hey, where’s the Obligatory Rugby Troll to talk about how football players are effeminate?

  24. 24.

    MikeJ

    Gah. I was just trying to give Cole shit and the thread about something I care nothing about mutates into a thread about something else I care nothing about.

    Please, if you must talk about football or weddings, try to work in some Cole abuse.

  29. 29.

    khead

    @MikeJ:

    Eh. I got it out in the last thread. Now I am rooting the the Steelers to do something good or for the Skins to do something truly stupid – for the entertainment value of another 6-10 Resdskin season. Snyder is a douche.

    See also, rooting against Cleveland above.

  30. 30.

    Martin

    So, they’re drafting people onto teams that have locked out the guys that are being drafted?

  33. 33.

    MikeJ

    @khead:

    for the entertainment value of another 6-10 Resdskin season.

    Barely worse than my team’s record, and the Seahawks went to the playoffs.

  34. 34.

    Shoemaker-Levy 9

    @Comrade Luke:

    Seattle drafting Locker was my nightmare scenario. The guy will be holding a clipboard for the next 10yrs.

    Not on the Titans he won’t. And probably not if he had fallen to the Seahawks either, unless you think Jesus Whitehurst is the Saviour.

    For those outside the greater Puget Sound area, Locker is similar to Newton in that he has both huge upside and huge question marks. I wasn’t looking for the Seahawks to draft him out of some misplaced hometown loyalty but neither would I have been disappointed had it happened.

    Ponder just went to the Vikings. Here’s hoping the Seahawks don’t splurge on the sixth best QB in an overrated QB class.

  36. 36.

    Comrade Luke

    Newton won the national championship. Locker got UW to…a winning record, and it took him all 4yrs to do it. For four years all we heard was how he was the second coming, and he did next to nothing.

    He has no touch – NONE. I can’t wait until that guy throws it into the flat the first time so I can see the Pick-6. Of course, everyone in Seattle will blame the running back.

    The whole reason people here would need an explanation of Jake Locker is because the don’t know who he is. And why is that? Because he hasn’t done shit.

  38. 38.

    gex

    Sorta OT: Again I ask, why don’t the players and the cities that pay for the stadia look for 32 new owners? I’m sure you could find plenty of people who would be willing to only take 50% of the monies for someone else’s talent.

  40. 40.

    khead

    @Comrade Luke:

    The rest of the team sucked.

    I’m not a Locker apologist (Top 10? I don’t think so. But I don’t think any of these QB’s are Top 10 material) but he’s all UW had for a while.

  45. 45.

    scav

    @stuckinred: Well, a draft-pick of princesses is at least a little off-kilter from the usual lineup of invective and pets. The traditional hint of naked mopping came early.

  47. 47.

    khead

    @MikeJ:

    Yeah, but I am local to DC and the Skins fans are solid entertainment on Steve Czaban’s show when it all goes to shit……

    Good times…..

  50. 50.

    Steve

    @John Cole: My best man went to college with the royal couple (I actually got married not far from campus). Not saying they were best pals or anything, but he saw enough of them to say that they’re both very decent people.

  52. 52.

    Linkmeister

    @Ron: No, not necessarily, but I do think the owners are stupid and will drag this out as much as possible. I remember the NHL’s lost season and the 1995 baseball short season and lost World Series.

  53. 53.

    Gian

    @John Cole:
    royal wedding? we fought a damn revolution with french and spanish help to be rid of that monarchy.

    our constitution bans titles of “nobility”

    I’m sick of our news media covering this like a Palin preganacy with quads. I never want to be a “subject”
    but that’s me, you’re welcome to ooh and ahh at the notion of royalty and divine right and stuff, like the rape of a newlywed female by british nobles under some doctrine called something like first night. the people getting hitched might be perfectly nice and I hope they do well… just like anyone else who gets hitched.

    But fuck the whole damn concept of royalty

  54. 54.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Anton Sirius: As a Green Bay fan, I will admit that the Lions are going to be more of a threat than the Vikings and possibly the Bears (sorry, stuckinred), but I don’t think they won the draft off of one person.

  55. 55.

    Geoduck

    @Comrade Luke: Dittoing Shoemaker-Levy. Saying Locker has no touch is an exaggeration; he has a wildly inconsistent touch. When all the cylinders are firing, he’s brilliant. When he falls apart, he really falls apart. It will be interesting to see how well he does in Tennessee, assuming he ever gets to play.

    And blaming him for the Huskies’ recent woes.. ha. Every aspect of the team sucked, from the coaches all the way down, not just the quarterbacking.

  59. 59.

    Cacti

    @John Cole:

    Not going to watch, but I think Kate Middleton is just stunning. Seems to really have her shit together and is confident and grounded

    She’ll make a fine stud mare for Willy Windsor.

  62. 62.

    alwhite

    @Cassidy:

    HEY NOW! His team played in the Superbowl – all that stuff has to be forgotten & never mentioned again. Just ask Ray Lewis.

  63. 63.

    ET

    Well as an Bama grad stocked to see to Tide players go in the top ten (feel sorry for Marcell Dareus for going to the Bills but Julio Jones gets to drive just down the road to Atlanta) but Cam Newton went first (boo Auburn) but he is going to the Panthers – hahahahaha and the Nick Farley the other Auburn player gets to go to Detroit – hahaha.

    As a Saints fan don’t know much about Cameron Jordan but hope he will do well.

    FUNCKING BONUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bama player Mark Ingram went to the SAINTS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO It is a good Friday !!!!!!!!!!!

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