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

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Consistently wrong since 2002

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Why did Dr. Oz lose? well, according to the exit polls, it’s because Fetterman won.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

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  6. 6.

    marcopolo

    and i thought we’d have seen pepper spray used by now…it is black friday, after all…

    also too, i am agnostic over whether it would be the players, refs, fans, stadium staff, or aliens using it…

  8. 8.

    cathyx

    @marcopolo: I like that idea. When the teams are lined up on the line of scrimmage, WVU should pull out the pepper spray and spray the defenders. A touchdown every time.

  14. 14.

    khead

    @cathyx:

    Heh. I can’t get the little one to stay still. It’s not for a lack of trying – 30 f’in pics and those are the best 2. They’ve been playing through the gate all day.

  17. 17.

    Evolving Deep Southerner (tense changed for accuracy)

    Man, that LSU-Arkansas game … In the beginning, after the Pick Six especially, I thought Arkansas would not only win, but romp in that one. But LSU proved that it is the best football team in the country right now. The perennial “BCS Chaos” will have to play it out in the “scrum” over Number Two.

    I am glad to see my Dawgs in the SEC Championship Game, but it could be ugly.

  18. 18.

    Raven

    Anyone ever heard of using tonic water for a hammy cramp? I stood on the deck of a heavily pitching fishing boat and just woke up with what I thought was a knife stabbing me in the hamstring.

  19. 19.

    Kola Noscopy

    Infractions of rules are infractions of rules; never understood those who think the rules shouldn’t apply depending on the situation, in the absence of any such exceptions having been included in the rule book.

    So to sum up: A chop block is indeed a chop block and will be called as such when a chop block occurs. Not hard to understand.

  23. 23.

    Svensker

    @Raven:

    Don’t know about tonic water, but calcium/magnesium pills will help. Magnesium alone if you can’t find cal/mags. Epsom salt soak is excellent (mag in solution).

  24. 24.

    Paddy

    Hey guys- I’m doing our Holiday referral post tonight and wanted to give ya’ll the opportunity to get more eyes on stuff you like, whether it’s your work or someone elses, a charity or neat thing. You can send it here ’cause I will be updating for a couple weeks. We need to support each other on the intertubeythingamajigs.

  25. 25.

    Evolving Deep Southerner (tense changed for accuracy)

    In that game, I would not be worried about our defense as much as our offensive line. They’re “bigger than the NFL” big, but … I can see Aaron Murray getting KILLED in that game. Their defense is really good.

    Of course, Arkansas was up on them two touchdowns at one time today, so you keep that kind of effort up, anything’s possible. I’ll sure be screaming at the TV over it.

  26. 26.

    Yutsano

    @MikeJ: @Raven: Weird. I swear that when I looked on ESPN this morning they said 7:30 start time tonight. Oh well. It’s not as if I’ve been wrong before.

    @burnspbesq: That game against UW is fun to watch too. But I know that happens later in the season.

  27. 27.

    cathyx

    @Raven: The best thing you can do for a cramp and for avoiding cramps is to drink a lot of water. That’s why you cramp up in the first place, you’re dehydrated.
    ETA: Potassium is the mineral to take to help with cramping.

  28. 28.

    Raven

    @JPL: $$$$$. I paid for my season ticket with what I made on the Boise game. I hate the dome so I may juts set a price in my head, throw em up on stub hub and see what happens. I’m invested in the ACC Championship if the Hokies go so I have to wait and see what gives.

  30. 30.

    cathyx

    @Raven: That would get you sore muscles, but not cramps. Most people don’t drink enough water during the day. Usually that entails drinking when you don’t feel thirsty.

  35. 35.

    suzanne

    So I had to fill a prescription, and F Walgreens with a rusty pitchfork, so I went to Target. After 5pm. It wasn’t so bad at that hour. Anyway, while the pharmacy was doing what they do, I browsed in the holiday department. They are selling a Christmas ornament of a menorah.

    My head kind of exploded.

  36. 36.

    Schlemizel

    In the only game that matters the U of M tied up Michigan State before the end of the first period. three quarters of the way through the second it is still tied.

    Damn arena in Lancing is tiny so the game is pretty brutal

  37. 37.

    khead

    @cathyx:

    If you want to explain to me how I can get a kitten to chill out in the best photography light possible – since she is a lot like Sonic the Hedgehog on steroids – I am all ears.

    Meanwhile, I will take what I can get with her.

  38. 38.

    Evolving Deep Southerner (tense changed for accuracy)

    @Raven: @Raven: It has. But they will be up against the likes of nothing they’ve seen thus far. Maybe it will bring out the best in them. I hope so. I sure would hate to see it turn out just ‘zackly like people expect it to, you know? The only outcome worse than that would be “Damn, I thought they’d beat ’em, but not THIS damn bad …”

    I’d sell your tickets and watch it at the house. I’m younger than you by a sight, but I’ve already gotten too old for crowds or “scrums” of any kind, no matter how benign.

  42. 42.

    cathyx

    @khead: First you get a laser pointer. Then you lure her out to where there is better lighting. Then you hold the laser pointer still so she thinks she caught the light dot. Then snap the picture.

  45. 45.

    Evolving Deep Southerner (tense changed for accuracy)

    @Raven: Just saw this from some fuckstick writer on Yahoo! as an aside to their coronation of LSU:

    Predicting the ripple effects of a Georgia upset seems akin to predicting the fallout of an alien invasion, which at this point seems about as likely to happen.

    Unlikely, yes, but “alien invasion” unlikely? Shit, no, not that unlikely.

    And according to Yahoo-person, it wouldn’t make a shit if Georgia pulled off this infinitesimally probable upset, Louisiana State University STILL ought to be #1.

  47. 47.

    burnspbesq

    @Raven:

    the dome just sucks

    Indeed. Went to the Women’s Final Four there in 2003. Never seen so much Tennessee Dog Gack Orange before.

  56. 56.

    Yutsano

    @suzanne: I’ve seen those. They’re usually for mixed faith families. A lot of compromise houses will have a tree and a menorah as well.

  62. 62.

    moderateindy

    The reason you would rarely see a chop block called on a field goal attempt is that such a block would be super crappy technique for a lineman to do during that type of play. I didn’t see it but my guess is that somebody made contact below the waist with the defender while another blocker was still engaged with that defensive lineman.
    But seriously, Cole crying about the officiating is hilarious. I don’t follow WVU, but considering how often he squawks about his poor Steelers getting screwed, I’d have to go with the word suspect, to describe his judgement where his football teams are concerned. Because everyone knows how often the Steelers, and teams like Duke or North Carolina basketball get the short end of the stick when it comes to officiating. Let’s just say that if Cole, were a Detroit fan, we’d be hearing about how the refs and the league were picking on poor Suh.

  63. 63.

    burnspbesq

    @moderateindy:

    teams like Duke or North Carolina basketball get the short end of the stick when it comes to officiating.

    If you’re going to be a Dook hater, get your talking points straight. Dook gets all the calls, and it’s because Eebil Coach Rat-Face has perfected the eebil arts of intimidating the refs.

    If you want to see how the experts do it, follow the link in comment 51.

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