Uh, John, are there ANY games on today? I thought week 1 is next week.
3.
quannlace
Think I just heard Obama on his way to visit flooded Paterson. The Garden State Parkway runs just past my house and there was a cavalcade of sirens going by a few minutes ago.
Yeah, what’s up? I’ve got the usual dismal Nationals and Orioles games, golf and U.S. Open tennis, and there is a Colts-Bengals game on the NFL Channel, but it’s not clear that it’s live.
Oh, yeah, Mexico and Chile are playing soccer on Univision.
8.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Steeplejack: The Eers and Marshall followed by Texas A&M and SMU.
9.
Yutsano
@Steeplejack: I think JC just wanted to change the subject. Or something. Since I’ve been labeled insufficiently pure now I guess all I can do is pick on border collies and play with horses. Have fun, I’ll check in later.
The moved the kickoff back a few minutes because Bethune is waxing Prairie View and it’s running late.
19.
commish
More leagues in BJFL are now open for signup! John please check your email and post the links…note the changed url in my second message. Would post myself but am afk.
20.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@commish: He doesn’t stick around here during WV games does he?
21.
RossInDetroit
Don’t forget ELO. Killer cello on Don’t Bring Me Down.
Those are purty. But they look hungry. Someone will identify them within 10 posts. I’m not an entomologist but they resemble a butterfly caterpillar I’ve seen.
26.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@jeffreyw: catalpa worms? Great bait.
eta
Upon further review they only appear on catalpa trees!
27.
Corner Stone
@jeffreyw: They look like the tomato horned worms that destroyed my tomato crop 2 years ago.
Mine were green but the exact same structure as those.
@jeffreyw: nice pic. I’m pretty sure they are the caterpillars of the black swallowtail butterfly. They like everything in the same family: fennel, carrots, parsley and dill. I’ve had some luck planting a patch of parsley just for them and moving the little guys out of my veggie garden to the butterfly patch. They are pretty when they grow up
When college football consolidates down to 64 schools who will West Virginia Schedule when there are no more football teams at Marshall or Bowling Green.
37.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
Maybe they could project an image of the butterfly on the scoreboard at the WV game and the Eer fans could help identify it?
@khead: Well, the Eers will wear them down like my dawgs did Boise last night!
43.
bk
I live in a decent sized city. We have a university with 30+k students, And we have a football team, that no one cares about (and which got hosed by Wisconsin the other night, and which covered the 35 point spread because, well, idk.
Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult
Saturday 3 September 2011
by Mike Lofgren
I found that via Benen. It’s long and I’m half way through. Pretty damning coming from a 28 year GOP operative. Too long for the attention span of most but lotsa juicy quotes that should get circulated.
49.
Corner Stone
@RossInDetroit: It’s discussed a couple threads down below.
Okay Mr. Snarky. Pardon me for not reading every post.
53.
Yutsano
@Omnes Omnibus: Your lack of purity on some level will be sussed out. My guess is it will relate to you still supporting the Kenyan usurper in the White House. Because that’s really what it’s all about amirite?
Hey, I’m busy reading the original source article, so back off!
This sort of begs the question if the GOP has been as evil and undemocratic as he says, and for so long, why has he worked for them for 28 years.
And I apologize to everyone if that was already mentioned in comment #238 4 posts back.
59.
Yutsano
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): Yeah. But probably not for long. The day is still nice and my brother got a Lab-German shorthair pointer mix who wants to play ball NAOW!! I may just indulge her.
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): Hee. I promise you not THAT kind of drink. Though it may indeed have a drug in it. Caffeine still counts as a drug right?
Corner Stone
Go back where you came from John Doom Galt Cole!
freelancer (iPhone)
Uh, John, are there ANY games on today? I thought week 1 is next week.
quannlace
Think I just heard Obama on his way to visit flooded Paterson. The Garden State Parkway runs just past my house and there was a cavalcade of sirens going by a few minutes ago.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
Ha!
The Dangerman
Apocalyptica cover of NEM.
Edit: If Cello in Rock interests you, check out Caroline Dale (and David Gilmour, of course) covering some Floyd.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
What’s the spread?
Steeplejack
@freelancer (iPhone):
Yeah, what’s up? I’ve got the usual dismal Nationals and Orioles games, golf and U.S. Open tennis, and there is a Colts-Bengals game on the NFL Channel, but it’s not clear that it’s live.
Oh, yeah, Mexico and Chile are playing soccer on Univision.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Steeplejack: The Eers and Marshall followed by Texas A&M and SMU.
Yutsano
@Steeplejack: I think JC just wanted to change the subject. Or something. Since I’ve been labeled insufficiently pure now I guess all I can do is pick on border collies and play with horses. Have fun, I’ll check in later.
Mark S.
Are you talkin’ bout West Virginnie?
Mark S.
@Yutsano:
Good, get the hell out of here. Only people who have been Democrats since conception are welcome here.
Oops, I guess I’ve gotta leave as well!
JGabriel
Which game? WoW?
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Steeplejack
@Raven (formerly stuckinred):
Ah, college football. I didn’t see that coming, especially on Sunday.
Steeplejack
@Yutsano:
What the hell did you do now?
Corner Stone
@Mark S.: Out! Mark Doom Galt S!
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Steeplejack: There are normally a couple of games cuz the NFL doesn’t start till next week. Maryland and Miami play tomorrow night.
Corner Stone
@The Dangerman: Cello is the absolute balls.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
The moved the kickoff back a few minutes because Bethune is waxing Prairie View and it’s running late.
commish
More leagues in BJFL are now open for signup! John please check your email and post the links…note the changed url in my second message. Would post myself but am afk.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@commish: He doesn’t stick around here during WV games does he?
RossInDetroit
Don’t forget ELO. Killer cello on Don’t Bring Me Down.
Corner Stone
@Raven (formerly stuckinred):
Nah, he generally throws up a troll FP and then lies about peoples’ comments as he sucks down some swill and gets drunk on teh twitters.
freelancer (iPhone)
@commish:
Hit me up, my email is in the link in my name.
jeffreyw
Ack! Caterpillars on my parsley! Anyone know what they are?
RossInDetroit
@jeffreyw:
Those are purty. But they look hungry. Someone will identify them within 10 posts. I’m not an entomologist but they resemble a butterfly caterpillar I’ve seen.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@jeffreyw: catalpa worms? Great bait.
eta
Upon further review they only appear on catalpa trees!
Corner Stone
@jeffreyw: They look like the tomato horned worms that destroyed my tomato crop 2 years ago.
Mine were green but the exact same structure as those.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@jeffreyw: Black swallowtail.
Jewish Steel
@Corner Stone:
still am i loling at this.
floridafrog
@jeffreyw: nice pic. I’m pretty sure they are the caterpillars of the black swallowtail butterfly. They like everything in the same family: fennel, carrots, parsley and dill. I’ve had some luck planting a patch of parsley just for them and moving the little guys out of my veggie garden to the butterfly patch. They are pretty when they grow up
PeakVT
@jeffreyw: Eastern black swallowtail butterfly, perhaps.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
Oh boy, no joy in mudville! Killer blocking!
jeffreyw
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): You da man! I just found them meself on the google.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@jeffreyw: Even a blind squirrel gets an acorn once in a while!
RossInDetroit
That’s a cool butterfly.
superdestroyer
When college football consolidates down to 64 schools who will West Virginia Schedule when there are no more football teams at Marshall or Bowling Green.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
Maybe they could project an image of the butterfly on the scoreboard at the WV game and the Eer fans could help identify it?
Corner Stone
@Raven (formerly stuckinred):
They’d all start running for the hills. Well, motoring for the hills on their govt scooters.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Corner Stone: The are in the fucking hills, you ever been there?
eta, they’d think it was MOTHRA!
http://images.wikia.com/godzilla/images/c/c6/407px-Mothra_Larva.jpg
Walker
Absolutelly. Time to sit in front of the TV, stick Deus Ex in the X-Box and…
Oh. That’s not what you meant.
khead
@Raven (formerly stuckinred):
Marshall was getting around 23/23.5 @ kickoff.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@khead: Well, the Eers will wear them down like my dawgs did Boise last night!
bk
I live in a decent sized city. We have a university with 30+k students, And we have a football team, that no one cares about (and which got hosed by Wisconsin the other night, and which covered the 35 point spread because, well, idk.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@bk: The Runnin Rebs!
MacKenna
This might matter.
Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult
Saturday 3 September 2011
by Mike Lofgren
Insightful piece. Spread it around.
jeffreyw
@RossInDetroit: We get them here, pretty common, really. Along with the tiger swallowtails.
Corner Stone
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): Ooooohhh.
RossInDetroit
@MacKenna:
I found that via Benen. It’s long and I’m half way through. Pretty damning coming from a 28 year GOP operative. Too long for the attention span of most but lotsa juicy quotes that should get circulated.
Corner Stone
@RossInDetroit: It’s discussed a couple threads down below.
Mark S.
@MacKenna: @RossInDetroit:
You guys should check out this awesome blog.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mark S.: Yippee! I can stay. Although I am sure that I should be drummed out for being insufficient in some other way.
RossInDetroit
@Mark S.:
Okay Mr. Snarky. Pardon me for not reading every post.
Yutsano
@Omnes Omnibus: Your lack of purity on some level will be sussed out. My guess is it will relate to you still supporting the Kenyan usurper in the White House. Because that’s really what it’s all about amirite?
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus: I’m watching you kid…
Corner Stone
@RossInDetroit: Read them or get out!
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Yutsano: You’re back!
dj spellchecka
the sporting news thinks the steelers are gonna go 14-2 with the browns finishing 5-11, si has them at 10-6 and 8-8 respectively….
what say you?
RossInDetroit
@Corner Stone:
Hey, I’m busy reading the original source article, so back off!
This sort of begs the question if the GOP has been as evil and undemocratic as he says, and for so long, why has he worked for them for 28 years.
And I apologize to everyone if that was already mentioned in comment #238 4 posts back.
Yutsano
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): Yeah. But probably not for long. The day is still nice and my brother got a Lab-German shorthair pointer mix who wants to play ball NAOW!! I may just indulge her.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Yutsano: Do it!
jeffreyw
Thread needs moar breakfast.
Yutsano
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): I may see if she’s up for a car ride also. I need me a drink and stuff and my SIL is busy helping a friend.
Svensker
@quannlace:
Is Paterson still flooded?
Yutsano
@efgoldman:
How very French of you.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Yutsano: Let’s not be drinkin and drivin now!
Yutsano
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): Hee. I promise you not THAT kind of drink. Though it may indeed have a drug in it. Caffeine still counts as a drug right?
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Yutsano: Not to john law it don’t!
Corner Stone
@efgoldman:
I’m having left over lo mein. And it’s gonna be epic.
Corner Stone
@jeffreyw: Looks like a Nintendo Mario Bros landscape.
Corner Stone
Damn. Geno Smith reminds me of the NES Cunningham QB.
Corner Stone
@efgoldman:
Sure. How has John Doom Galt DJIA Cole failed you today?
Svensker
@Svensker:
Welp, just went and read the Bergen Record on O’s trip there. Folks in Paterson were very happy to see him.
MacKenna
@Mark S.: Thanks, I shoulda known. :)
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
leave john alone this is the
colecoal bowl.The Commish
Two new conferences for the BJFL!
One on Yahoo, will follow rules similar to last year’s leagues and this year’s Elitist Meritocracy Conference:
http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/league/bjfl_wingnutwelfare
Password is alsotoo
Another league on ESPN.com, will use an auction draft (don’t ask me, I’m not the commissioner there!) and maybe some other different rules:
http://games.espn.go.com/ffl/leagueoffice?leagueId=290918
Draft are coming up this week, don’t be late!
JR
@efgoldman:
No Such Thing as UWV. It’s WVU, has been since foundation of school. Although I have seen the un-informed call it UWV.
You’re allowed to hate it, if you’re from Pitt, PSU, VPI… South Carolina, whatever.
khead
@JR:
Uh… VPI?
Showing some age there.
The Commish
@freelancer (iPhone): Looks like I need a MS LiveID to see your email. Hope you saw the link to the leagues!