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When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

This fight is for everything.

Everybody saw this coming.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Eh, that’s media spin. biden’s health is fine and he’s doing a good job.

The willow is too close to the house.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

John Fetterman: Too Manly for Pennsylvania.  Paid for by the Oz for Senator campaign.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

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You cannot shame the shameless.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

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Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

“More of this”, i said to the dog.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

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Their freedom requires your slavery.

The words do not have to be perfect.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

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WVU v. LSU Open Thread

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Sorry, forgot to put this up. Been cooking all day for the party. On the menu, I slow roasted a 12lb pork shoulder on the grill, made a Carolina vinegar based sauce and coleslaw for pulled pork sandwiches, pickled sweet beets, sweet potato fries with sea salt and rosemary, and cooked down some beans for 10 hours with a ham hock and some bacon ends. Added some fire roasted tomatoes to the beans, and it really came out well. I love cooking for a lot of people. The key to good reviews is to make sure you have lots of booze in them first.

Now drowning my misery/prepping for celebration with a house full of people.

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  2. 2.

    gravie

    Yum. We’re watching it here and eating Pop Tarts and drinking wine. Of course, we’re rooting for LSU.

  4. 4.

    The Dangerman

    The key to good reviews is to make sure you have lots of booze in them first.

    I’m thinking that rule is just about Universal.

  7. 7.

    South of I-10

    We had chicken with Stubbs Wing Sauce, Lima Beans and Corn Maque Choux. Hopefully dessert will be the sweet, salty tears of WVU fans.

  9. 9.

    Mr. Stagger Lee

    I wish Transporters from Star Trek were around, I would be beaming to your house or I would beam your food to my place.

  10. 10.

    Nevgu

    But mostly….you just eat a lot of crow. Voted for Bush, think some obscure New Mexico Glibertarian Gov idiot has good ideas because they have a sad over Libya.

    Did I mention LIBYA!!!

    Stock market down…..Wrong Way Cole fails arms. Stock market goes back up, Cup Half Empty Cole looks other way and says “hey look at that other shiny object over there”.

    Captain Doom Cole, eating crow since the day he started this backwoods swamp blog.

  18. 18.

    Zagloba

    @Nevgu: I thought we were talking about pie?

    I love how one simple change turned your comment into something sensible, on-topic and friendly.

  23. 23.

    Svensker

    Canuckistan TV doesn’t have Jets on tomorrow, so I’ze bummed. They’re offering Seahawks instead. Seahawks! I ask you.

  26. 26.

    passerby

    LSU Tigers are choking on 3rd downs.

    Love that Death Toll Bell WV uses. It has the perfect pitch sound of doom. Wonder if it is having the desired results on the Tigers.

  29. 29.

    Spaghetti Lee

    Well, Mizzou-OU is quickly turning into a horrorshow. I’m a Mizzou fan, but I ain’t stupid-I know a lot of our success this last decade had to do with not playing the Big 12 South every year. And Deaton is toying with joining the SEC, presumably in a division with Bama, Auburn, LSU, and Arkansas? Jesus, we’d never have a winning record again.

  31. 31.

    The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik

    Man, this is just ugly.

    I just hope WVU does what they’ve done for the last three games as well and play a completely different game in the second half that turns the game completely on its head. That’s about the only chance they have at this point.

  35. 35.

    Mr. Stagger Lee

    @Svensker: There might be a chance for you to see your Jets. I suggest Ready.TV I use this channel to watch Keith Olbermann and Bill Maher. They may show the Jets game tomorrow. I figure though eventually the NFL and other corporations will stomp this website out but for now when the sun is out make hay!

  38. 38.

    Spaghetti Lee

    I stand by what I said. 3-4 out of conference, and the 3 wins were UMass, Marshall, and Tulane.

  40. 40.

    ChrisB

    I’m not sure what is worse, that pick before the end of the half or the fact that Brent Mussburger called it before it happened.

  41. 41.

    The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik

    @passerby:

    That last deflection and INT was just fucking ridiculous. The first INT we had was all receiver botch, but that one was just…I dunno how you stop that kind of play.

  42. 42.

    Spaghetti Lee

    @Mr. Stagger Lee:

    That’s what I’ve been thinking for a while. If we must have our 16-team SupahConference bullshit, then the logical solution is for the Big Ten to bring in what’s left of the Big 12 North and go up to 16. Then OU/OSU/Texas/Texas Tech go to the Pac-16 that all the ESPNers keep drooling over. It all works out pretty logically, or at least more logically than the current mess. But they keep saying they don’t want to expand, and if they do they’ll probably try to nab some Big East team. But it looks like OU and Texas have hashed out their differences, so the Big 12 will stay intact, at least for a while, and maybe we’ll bring in BYU or Houston or whoever.

  45. 45.

    Mr. Stagger Lee

    @Spaghetti Lee: I wouldn’t argue with that move, Houston deserves to be there, and BYU would be a cool move, for now they are in the independent desert and playing their B-Ball in the West Coast Conference
    which has Gonzaga.

  46. 46.

    JPL

    John is not tweeting yet so I assume he is okay with the game. Yeah.. right.. expect the tweeting to start soon.

  50. 50.

    JPL

    ?? John hasn’t mentioned Rosie in a while. Did he find a home for her? The reason I ask is not only did we have pics of Lily and Tunch but when I checked to see if JOhn was drunk tweeting yet, he mentioned Lily and Tunch. No Rosie and such a pretty name..

  51. 51.

    ppcli

    Just dropped in to send condolences for the WVU game. The Mountaineers are young and are going to get better. LSU is just too damned good. My choice for NC this year.

    Hey, at least Pitt lost today!

  52. 52.

    passerby

    @The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik:

    Tyrann Mathieu (No. 7), true sophomore, not very tall (5’9″ or so), soft spoken, but man! his instincts are sharp. He’s a little beast and will probably go high when he enters the NFL draft in a few years. Love him and his focus-on-the-ball ability.

    ETA: His stats are ridiculous.

  56. 56.

    JPL

    @Geoduck: Thanks.. the middle child I guess. Rosie is lucky because someone threw her away and she was rescued and now is fed and has a safe environment so there is that.

  58. 58.

    Berial

    @Mr. Stagger Lee Give them credit for that, but it just doesn’t matter. Those LSU bastards are just too damn strong this year. It should be an awesome game when they play Alabama to see who wins the SEC West this year.

    With the way my Mississippi State Bulldogs played this weekend we’ll be lucky to win another SEC game this season. Had to go into OT to beat Louisiana Tech.

    Edit: Well at least there’s Ole Miss to beat later in the season.

  60. 60.

    Berial

    @Raven (formerly stuckinred)
    It is my sincere hope and complete delusional fantasy that the reason MSU looked so bad tonight was because they practiced for the Georgia game all week instead of Tech. We pulled out a lucky win last year, and I’m hoping for the same thing next week.

  61. 61.

    The Dangerman

    Well, hell, we have a game; sorry, Mountaineers, I thought you were puppy chow about 30 minutes ago.

    Edit: Could be chow again.

  62. 62.

    The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik

    Defense has come alive, and that explosiveness in the offense is finally making itself damn known. C’mon, keep up the defensive stand, and just one more TD for the lead.

  71. 71.

    4jkb4ia

    Even after the kickoff return, this is a football game!

    R-E-S-P-E-C-T for the Big East is really all you can ask for in a game like this.

    (About to leave for an early Selichot in ten minutes because my husband refuses to stay up until 1 am. Scholar in residence was underwhelming)

  73. 73.

    Mr. Stagger Lee

    Whoever dresses Kirk Herbstreit needs some talking to. Garishly stripped suit and candy cane tie? C’MON MAN!!!

  75. 75.

    The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik

    @4jkb4ia:

    Respect? Big East?

    Even WVU winning the National Title (because lets face it, they’re probably our best chance for a BE Nat’l Champ this and most years) wouldn’t give the Big East respect. It’s a state of football law or something.

  76. 76.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    @Berial: You are talking to a Georgia fan. With what I have had to sit through for the past 3 years I have zipola sympathy. On the other hand, since I am a wiz at getting over, my tickets are free.

  77. 77.

    Berial

    I need to pay more attention. I honestly thought the game was almost over, but it was just the end of the 3rd quarter. /embarrassed.

    Not even drunk (yet, HEY! I’m working on it!) But I was channel surfing between a lot of games.

  80. 80.

    Berial

    @Raven (formerly stuckinred)
    As a Mississippi State fan my only hope of victory these days comes from beating Ole Miss and SEC East opponents. We went 9-4 last season and came in 5th in the SEC West. Dan Mullen has only managed to beat 1 team in the SEC West so far. We haven’t beaten Alabama, Auburn, Arkansas or LSU in like 3+ years.

    It’s a hard luck life.

  82. 82.

    The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik

    Whelp, that should probably do it. No more worries, the college sports fandom can now go back to treating WVU like a laughing stock despite being the most consistent team in both of the Big East’s two money sports for the past 5-6 years.

  85. 85.

    burnspbesq

    A near perfect day: Duke wins, Carolina loses, Maryland gets its doors blown off.

    Re ASU’s lead: temporary and misleading. Fight On!

  88. 88.

    burnspbesq

    Also, Sox lose, Rays and Angels win.

    This time tomorrow,
    Reckon where I’ll be,
    Down in some local tavern,
    Drunk as drunk can be.
    Hang down your head, Sox fan,
    Hang down your head and cry,
    Hang down your head, Sox fan,
    Your team is bound to die.

  91. 91.

    4jkb4ia

    47-21–what a shame.

    @burnspbesq:
    Please, Hashem, this is like 2005? Just get them to the playoffs and they can stink up the joint once they are there because to ask for two miracles is chutzpah.

  93. 93.

    passerby

    LSU fans who traveled to Morgantown are calling in to the after-game show on WWL/LSU radio as they’re caravan-ing back up to Pittsburgh.

    Of course they enjoyed the Tigers’ win but mostly they called to gush about the friendly welcome and treatment they received from the WV fans and folks in Morgantown.

    Just passing it on.

  94. 94.

    MiniVanVader

    @South of I-10: A fellow Cajun! Yes! I’m in College Station these days, and I do cheer the Aggies. And I don’t mind the Texans. But give me a Cajuns/Saints weekend over an Aggies/Texans weekend.

    Also, FUCK LSU.

  95. 95.

    JR

    Well, when their defenders can rip the ball away from a first down reception, there isn’t too much you can do.

    I was born and raised a WVU fan, everybody in my immediate family went there – brother, wife, mom and dad. Dad would get us up a 5 am (he worked nights and often was running on 5 hours of sleep) to drive from Beckley to Morgantown back in the late 50s and 60s.

    The old Mountaineer Field! We saw the Mountaineers loose to Joe’Pa over and over.

    But due to life choices, I live 85 minutes from Marshall, and 3 hours from Mgtn… so I graduated from MU, dean’s list BSCS. I never did understand why the folks in Huntington wanted to be a BAD division I team instead of National Champs in Div IIA, over and over!

    Yesterday was a really bad football day. I even rooted for Pitt as a fellow Big East team, and Notre Dame and Touchdown Jesus beat them. I don’t think Pitt stands a chance against WVU this year… They should run the rest of their schedule.

    I’m still proud to be from West Virginia, where there aren’t many swamps, and proud of the Mountaineers too. Although the Coal Magnates and Milan Puskar contributors kinds give me a sour feeling in my stomach, but that’s a different storyline.

    Go Mountaineers!

    JR

  96. 96.

    JR

    One more thing: the SEC officiating team.

    I think they did a better job that I expected. LSU got some great spots on rushing plays, and I saw some facemask fondling that lots of ref’s would have thrown a flag for.

    But all the breaks didn’t go to LSU, WVU got a couple too.

    On that ball ripped from the receiver’s grasp, I think he was down and the play over before they got the ball out, which was probably why he didn’t fight any more.

    Crow, I’m having crow again.

    That is all, too, from southern WV.

    JR

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