Mr. Charles P. Pierce, at Esquire, on “An Elaborate Plot To Make Darrell Issa Crazy“:
Over at Bloomberg Politics, Margaret Talev has lit the fuse by which dozens of heads may go supernova all at once. I mean it, this woman is calling for the mother of all cable-news tantrums. She may also be calling for the immediate spontaneous combustion of Darrell Issa and anyone standing within a 15-foot radius of him. Amid other suggestions as to how the president can continue to do the job he was elected (twice) to do, and fck with the minds of the opposition at the same time, both laudable goals, she drops the big one. I like her style, I must say…
Talev’s piece is titled “Five Ways Obama Can Mess with Republicans in 2015,” including campaign finance reform: “So-called dark-money nonprofits, such as those affiliated with the Koch brothers, could find it much harder to muck around in elections. Under current practices, up to half of these groups’ money can be spent on politics. Changes to the Internal Revenue Service regulations governing 501(c)(4) social welfare organizations could shrink the percentage they can devote to election activities such as advertising… “ (Her other suggestions are excellent, also.)
I’d bookmarked a couple of articles about Issa’s latest pre-Xmas wet fart doc-drop acknowledging, as the NYTimes primly put it, his “Inquiry into IRS Lapses Shows No Ties to White House.” Or, as Michael Hiltzik explained “Issa’s Big Dud” in the LA Times:
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista) wasted enormous congressional resources over the last 18 months trying to inflate the IRS “scandal” into a mountain. The release Tuesday of his final, petulant report on the affair marks what may be its final decline into a mouse.
The bottom line: Contrary to his assertions in countless appearances on Fox News, there’s no evidence that the Obama White House directed — or indeed was involved in any way — in the supposed targeting of conservative nonprofit groups for special scrutiny by the IRS. There’s no evidence that “tea party” groups were exclusively targeted, as opposed to tax-exempt “social welfare” organizations from across the political spectrum….
Much of the report underscores how flagrantly partisan and majestically useless Issa has been as a government watchdog. (He’s giving up the committee chairmanship in 2015 because of term limits, ceding the gavel to Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah.) It treats political activities as somehow a legal right of c-4 organizations, though that’s not what the law says — not if they want to retain their tax exemptions and donor confidentiality privileges…
One point that the Issa report fails to make is that the investigation undoubtedly succeeded in its ulterior purpose, which was to hamstring the IRS in pursuing its statutory duties and undermined its already flagging reputation. Aggressive enforcement of the 501(c)4 standards is off the table. In the year-end spending bill passed this month, the agency’s budget was gutted — cut by $356 million from last year, $1.5 billion below the administration’s request.
For Issa, who is Congress’ richest member, and plutocrats from shore to shore, an intimidated and underfunded IRS is heaven. And that’s what we’ve got.
Insofar as President Obama can counter this Oligarchs’ Revolt via executive order, I’m in favor!
***********
Apart from hoping for a better 2015, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
draftmama
Well isn’t that what all the rich people want? Have the IRS so ineffective they can get away with anything. BTW after the two IRA agents in Helena MT retired last year, because of the federal hiring freeze we no longer have anyone in the office here. One person comes here twice a week for 6 hours. Your tax dollars at work….
Baud
I’ve been sick and it’s really annoying.
Linda Featheringill
@Baud: Sorry to hear about that.
Linda Featheringill
Hey – We survived another Christmas! That makes [mumble, mumble] for me.
I usually enjoy the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day. I still have problems of course but there is very little I’m expected to do about them. It’s kind of a holiday.
Baud
@Linda Featheringill:
Thanks. It’s one of those lingering things. Very frustrating.
Major Major Major Major
Yep, that happened. http://m.imgur.com/3cmpoK9
Baud
@Major Major Major Major:
I don’t think I’ll ever get used to interracial marriages.
JPL
@Baud: Not to be all doom and gloom but if it’s the flu, expect feeling like crap for awhile. It took the neighbors three weeks before all the congestion was gone. Hope you are better soon, though.
JPL
@Major Major Major Major: Nice!
JPL
@efgoldman: Is it possible that they are having the defensive players play offense and vice versa? Something is not right.
Baud
@JPL:
Thanks. Doesn’t feel like the flu. I don’t have a fever at least.
raven
What a fucking joke:
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: at least this wasn’t one of those man-woman affairs. What’s next, cats and dogs living together?
Much simpler when it’s just dogs.
raven
@efgoldman: Ask their loudmouth coach to tell you how great they are and overrated the SEC is.
Baud
@raven:
You ain’t kidding. I guess if a foreign dictator doesn’t threaten your movie, Hollywood isn’t impressed.
JPL
@Major Major Major Major: I have a purebred and a mutt sharing my lap, does that count?
raven
@JPL: Lil Bit better be a purebread, her “wellness” exam was three bills today!
Baud
@Major Major Major Major:
So I guess we should now call you Mr. Major Major Major Major.
Major Major Major Major
@JPL: I give you my blessing.
@Baud: Shame there’s no honorific or title change for a married fella. But I wouldn’t be opposed to adding another title to my nym… it’s not quite unwieldy enough yet.
Linda Featheringill
@JPL:
Lucky lap!
Baud
@Major Major Major Major:
Which one are you, if you don’t mind me asking?
Cervantes
@JPL:
Too much information.
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: Ooh! Guess!
Hint: I’m not the Indian fellow in the back.
Betty Cracker
@raven: Holy crow, Oklahoma is getting a thrashing! I feel bad on Sooner’s behalf.
rikyrah
@Major Major Major Major:
So sweet.
Congrats!
Betty Cracker
@Major Major Major Major: Congrats, Mr. MMMM!
Baud
@Major Major Major Major:
I’m going to guess you’re facing the camera, since it makes more sense than posting a picture with your back turned to us.
Tommy
@Major Major Major Major: Did you just get married? If so I hope you and your partner/spouse have as many years as possible together.
Pogonip
@JPL: Terriermandotcom thinks dog wellness exams are mostly a scam. You may want to read him next time the issue comes up. I don’t have a dog in the fight (hee!) myself as I haven’t had a dog since the idea of dog wellness exams started up. I suppose much would depend on whether it’s purebred or not. If it’s an AKC breed I guess you might as well have it examined periodically since if it’s not sick it soon will be. It’s a crime what the AKC has done to man’s best friend.
Anne Laurie
@Major Major Major Major: Congratulations! You make a lovely couple!
raven
@Betty Cracker:
JPL
@Anne Laurie: Didn’t the picture make you smile.
Corner Stone
Man, there is just no way a homeowner in real life agrees to turn two bathrooms into one big bathroom.
Just lost about $25K in resale value, homie. #BathCheesers
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Major Major Major Major: Congratulations!
Cheers,
Scott.
Linda Featheringill
to Major Major M M . . . .
Congratulations!
Lovely picture, by the way.
Pogonip
@Anne Laurie: I couldn’t get the picture to come up, but I gather it involves congrats! So congrats to Major X 3!
in other news, I left the paper out in the car, so no news is the news. I read the comics off Washington Post web site, so not a major (ha!) problem.
Tommy
@JPL: Yes. I just flat out love pics of people getting married. That same sex couples can get married, as a straight guy, I start to get emotional. Very emotional. We’ve made progress.
raven
@Pogonip: My little girl has a laundry list of issues, 5 meds in here eye’s every day for life, autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) that requires more meds, she was peeing blood when we adopted her and she has stinky ears! She has a cardiologist, an ophthalmologist as well as her GP. Maybe it’s all bullshit and we just should have let her go blind or maybe she wouldn’t really die from the AIHA. We’re doing everything we can to take care of her and it won’t change.
raven
@Major Major Major Major: Yes, it really wasn’t that clear that was what the photo was (I knew WHAT it was but not who). We had lunch with our friends who were back from Australia for the holiday. They had to leave because, even though they are legally married in New York, the Aussie can’t get citizenship. . .yet.
Pogonip
@raven: Purebred?
lamh36
@Major Major Major Major: Congratulations to you and your new hubby.
Speaking of marriage, my lil sis sent me a link to one of them online quizzes. This one was “when will I get married”. After answering the questions, it told me I’m gonna get married at 56! Damnit 56!!! I’m 38…sheesh…
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: Yep :)
raven
@Pogonip: Who knows? She was dumped in a box on our vets doorstep in the middle of the night. She’s a cocker, how pure we don’t know.
lamh36
Uh huh. Hey, he didn’t know guys!
Anne Laurie
@Pogonip:
They’re like baby wellness exams — you probably need to update their shots anyway, and the subjects aren’t very fluent about expressing exactly what may or may not hurt. Older dogs are stoic about creaky joints, failing senses, the effects of damaged organs. Better to have a professional find out about the fluttery heart valve, the subclinical periodontal infection, the reduced kidney function (even when you know it’s gonna be expensive to treat those problems) than to have a beloved companion drop dead and then find out they were in pain & you could’ve made things less horrible.
And the only difference between purebreds and randombreds, as they get older, is that you have a slightly better idea of which bad card is liable to show up in a purebred’s exam first.
(IMO, the main reason people think mixed breeds are “healthier” than purebreds is that there’s no monetary incentive to nurse mixed-breed puppies with chronic conditions, so the worst cases are quietly euthanized before they can run up big bills. And it’s easier to remember that one pedigreed dog that gets orthodontia or a kidney transplant than the thousands of “no-name” dogs whose humans quietly drain their bank accounts to salvage a few more weeks or days at the end of an always-too-short life.)
lamh36
raven
@Anne Laurie: Lil Bit has that cocker heart murmur.
raven
@Anne Laurie: Raven went through the whole cancer routine (I think you know that). We say we won’t put another dog through that but we do have health insurance on Bohdi.
Pogonip
@raven: Poor little critter. I’m glad to hear she has owners who are willing and able to keep her alive.
Yatsuno
@Major Major Major Major: MAZEL TOV!!!
lamh36
Erick Erickson Apalled That GOP Whip Spoke At White Nationalist Event
raven
@Pogonip: Oh she’s happy as a clam! She loves people and cookies and scoots her butt against the car seat and barks at me!
JPL
@Anne Laurie: Finch is my second mutt and before that I had Goldens and a Shar Pei. Shar Pei’s are known for health problems but my Goldens lived a long happy life. A vet once told me that mutts are becoming over bred and the previous one only lived to ten or eleven.
JPL
@lamh36: The story was on CBS news tonight and is on NYTimes.com. It’s odd to say you had no idea that David Duke’s organization was hate filled. Boehner will wait a few more days and see if the story dies down before he makes a decision.
SiubhanDuinne
@Major Major Major Major:
Yay! So happy for you both!
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Major Major Major Major: May you and your husband have all the love your hearts can hold.
@Pogonip: Lil Bit, who has a list of conditions in need of regular monitoring, is like a poster pup for wellness exams.
In general, though, the exam should be called an annual check up for heartworm test, fecal float, and vaccines.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major:
Cool. Always nice to put a nym with a face. I hope hubby approves of Balloon Juice. We wouldn’t want any … trouble.
Baud
@lamh36:
Oh. You mean that David Duke.
Anne Laurie
@raven: Yeah, so did our late pedigreed papillon Flicker, who cost us more than our mortgage for the last few years of the 15 she shared with us. And heart problems are not one of the issues for which Papillons get flagged. But we didn’t spend that money because the lady who sold her to us at a steep discount was one of the top breeders in the country, we did it because my Spousal Unit would’ve sacrificed one of his own kidneys if he’d been assured that would give her another good year. And we’ve spent equally “insane” sums keeping no-name shelter dogs & cats alive — including a couple who didn’t even like us that much, we joke…
raven
@Anne Laurie: I offered to sell my truck for Raven’s treatment.
Schlemazel
@Baud:
I always worry about their children, they don’t really belong in either community
Boy, how many times I heard that from ‘well meaning’ adults when I was a kid
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: I ended up with the crud for Thanksgiving, it too will pass. Hope ya feel better bud.
JPL
@Baud: At the time, Scalise was living under a rock and just didn’t know what was happening. It was only after that, he became a born again person and joined the tea party, which is a honorable group .
Mandalay
Nothing to see here, please move along….
Anne Laurie
@JPL:
… which I translate as “people are willing to spend money curing dogs that would’ve been put to sleep — or at best had their conditions ignored until they dropped over dead — even twenty years ago”. Hey, it’s been good for the veterinary profession!
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Me either, oh wait.
Gravenstone
@Major Major Major Major: You’ve got nothing on Mumphrey (et al.) for unwieldy nyms.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Me either, oh wait.
@Major Major Major Major: Molotov(as Scott Walker would say).
lamh36
How exactly is David Duke’s supremacist organization anything like League of Women Voters?
Yatsuno
@lamh36: It’s so cute when they flail.
RSR
My homebrew club is now a 501c4. But we’re more about dark beer than dark money.
Schlemazel
@Major Major Major Major:
Oh, congratulations by the way! Its nice when the government stops supporting the bigots & allows love to flourish. Hope i’ts everything you ever dreamed of and more.
JPL
@lamh36: Since I bless my curse words.. Holy Shit…. Just keep digging.
Gravenstone
@lamh36: Do you really have to ask how a Republican can unironically (in their mind) equate women with a hate group?
JPL
@lamh36:
Yup.. a bipartisan org to encourage people to vote is considered liberal… Keep diggin
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Thanks, Bill.
Baud
@lamh36:
He’s showing that he’ll speak to diverse groups of people, regardless of whether they are good or evil.
Violet
@Major Major Major Major: Aww….great picture! Congratulations!
JPL
@Baud: Great the Majority ‘Whip has a hotline with the devil.
raven
@Baud: Karnaki (sp) is filling in for Rachel and he”s all over it.
Anne Laurie
@raven: And you probably loved that truck even more than the Spousal Unit loves his spare kidney! :)
Baud
@JPL:
As if the devil would stoop low enough to take a call from the House Republican leadership.
raven
Baud
@raven:
Is Obama playing the “blame game” again?
raven
@Anne Laurie: :)
raven
@Baud:
See what those puke assholes say now!
lamh36
Ok, it’s time for 2014 to end. I mean it’s 2014…and we are talking about David Duke!!! 2014…go home, your drunk!
Gin & Tonic
@raven: Bob’s not thinking that.
Baud
@raven:
Still say we should have gone to war.
Baud
I hear it’s gotten so bad in Russia that Putin’s been seen wearing shirts.
Frankensteinbeck
@Gin & Tonic:
‘Something something American support of fascists blood on your hands.’
JPL
@Baud: That I could handle. I figured he would start wearing speedos while riding bareback. It was not a pretty picture.
lamh36
Dude Duke talked to the reporter for like 20 min!
Baud
@lamh36:
One wonders if the GOP base is finally ready for their close-up.
jl
@Baud:
” Is Obama playing the “blame game” again? ”
That damn Obama is playing the ‘good policies’ card again. It is very divisive and unfair. Why won’t someone call him on that?
Baud
@JPL:
A Russian Lady Godiva. Shudder.
@jl:
Oh, they will.
lamh36
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: If Obummer would only lead, everything would be just fine. And compromise with those nice Rethuglicans.
/wingnut & the Village
Southern Beale
Apparently Michael Grimm has decided to resign from Congress.
So do they have another election then, I guess?
lamh36
BillinGlendaleCA
@Southern Beale: Guess he decided not to do the Jay Kim route(served with an ankle bracelet while under house arrest).
Yes, they’ll hold a special election.
Cervantes
@Southern Beale:
Yes. From the article you cited:
Cervantes
@lamh36:
An event in Metairie hosted by Duke and his associates … everyone there knew very well what they were doing.
lamh36
@Cervantes: abso-fucking-lutely.
I see that Rep Cedric Richmond has released statment “defending” Scalise as a “good man”.
So the fuck what? A lot of “good men” are racist as fuck.
My thoughts, Cedric Richmond is my Congressman. He beat the Cao guy. He got elected cause he’s a NOLA Congressman. He has no real clout or authority. My thoughts, he is aiming for the House version of Corey Booker
As a constituent of Cedric Richmond and a voter in NOLA, I’d like him to shut da fuq up.
And I call BS on his Scalise is a good guy line. He’s covering his own ass and trying to get in good with leadership…period.
Don’t give me some mess about Richmond just defending a friend…bullshit.
Look, I don’t expect Scalise to lose anything real over this.
But damn if he shouldn’t lose his leadership consideration over this. Come da hell on.
So why the hell Cedric Richmond felt the need for this defense if beyond me.
What is that saying about letting your enemy keep digging?
Gin & Tonic
@Cervantes: I’ve only visited Metairie a few times over the years and have one former business acquaintance there, and I could have told Scalise what this was all about. Things are very, very clear in Metairie.
Omnes Omnibus
@Major Major Major Major: You poor bastard. I mean, best wishes to you both.
Mnemosyne (iPad Mini)
One of my teeth started hurting yesterday and I’m worried that there may be yet another root canal in my near future. Damn it.
Pogonip
@raven: Clearly a match made in heaven.
Omnes Omnibus
@Pogonip: Of course, but Cockers are worth all the expense and work.
Redshift
@Major Major Major Major: Congratulations!
Gin & Tonic
@Omnes Omnibus: Now they can be just as miserable as us heteros. (j/k as the kids say these days.)
LWA (Liberal With Attitude)
Gallup says that Obama and Hillary lead the list as the most admired people in America.
In the words of Peggy Noonan…Let us savor.
2liberal
cute doggie animated GIF
http://imgur.com/gallery/aJYZ20v
Cervantes
@LWA (Liberal With Attitude):
Some detail:
Omnes Omnibus
@Gin & Tonic: That is as it should be.
Omnes Omnibus
@Cervantes: But neither of them are popular….
John Revolta
@Cervantes: Never mind “Americans”. Let’s poll “Likely Voters”.
Ben Cisco
@lamh36: Every plantation had at least one.
delk
@Major Major Major Major: Congrats!
Hope you guys have a great honeymoon!
lamh36
@Ben Cisco: I mean, the Dem party in Louisiana released a statement about Scalise, who asked Richmond for anything?
Mnemosyne (iPad Mini)
@Major Major Major Major:
I will wish for you and your husband what I wish for all married couples: that today is NOT the happiest day of your life together and that you will have many more even happier days ahead of you. ?
Gravenstone
@LWA (Liberal With Attitude): You’ll note that Noisemax has the hed about Hillary being more admired than Oprah. Oddly enough, there is no mention of Obama being highly admired. I wonder why ever that might be?
satby
@Major Major Major Major: Congratulations!!!
Mike in NC
@LWA (Liberal With Attitude): Why no love for Ted Cruz and Sarah Palin? I has a sad.
mclaren
So let me get this straight:
When Margaret Talev lists 5 things Obama can do using executive orders to push forward the progressive agenda and thwart the Republicans, she’s a genius and everyone applauds.
When I list 5 things Obama can do using executive order to push forward the progressive agenda and thwart the Republicans, I’m “insane” and “ranting and raving” and “a fringe lunatic” and “on LD-50 doses of LSD.”
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-kay.
Right.
Obama could have appointed every single judge and every single cabinet member he wanted to appointed YEARS AGO using recess appointments. But when I point out that Obama should have and could done this, why…I’m insane and ranting and not grounded in reality.
Obama could have signed an executive order shutting down Guantamo Bay torture/prison facilities and then he could have sequestered funds from some military adventure to pay for it. But when I point out that Obama could have and should have done this, then…I’m in need of therapy and demented.
Obama could have signed an executive order declaring a state of national emergency and establishing a single-pay public health care system while impressing the nation’s overpaid incompetent doctors into the U.S. military at minimum wage, and then used that as a bargaining chip to force some modified form of single-payer. But when I point out that Obama could have and should have done this, oh, then, I’m psychotic and need to be tied to a gurney and have my frontal lobes excised with an icepick.
Obama could have removed the criminally insubordinate generals like Petraeus who presented Obama with plans for a surge when he asked them to draw up plans for de-escalation in Afghanistan and Iraq, and Obama could have ordered their courts-martial and dismissal (at the very least) without retirement pay as an example to the chronicaly insurbodinate generals and admirals of the military-industrial complex. But when I point out that Obama could have and should have done this, then I’m a “moonbat” and I need to be tranked with heavy doses of thorazine.
Obama could have signed an executive order declaring the perpetrators of the 2009 financial collapse enemy combatants and he could have ordered his Attorney General to prepare charges against them for fraud and conspiracy and grand theft and interstate wire fraud and hundreds of other charges of exactly the kind the Pecora Commission leveled against the bankers of the 1930s, using the securities laws of the 1930s which are still on the books today. But when I point out that Obama could have and should have done this, ignorant incompetent sociopaths like burnspbesq gibber drivel about how I’m “insane” (even while burnspbesq remains utterly unable to explain how, if the 1930s securities fraud laws are so allegedly inadequate to put thieving bankers in prison, the prosecutors of the 1930s managed it quite handily).
Gotta love those Democrats.
When someone with prestige suggests the earth is round, they fall down and genuflect. But when some joker in the peanut gallery points out the earth has spherical qualities, oh, then those Democrats fall all over themselves contorting themselves into knots of contempt and derision.
Suzanne
@Major Major Major Major: YAAAAAAAY! Congratulations, that’s wonderful!
We are in Arkansas visiting my in-laws. I am reminded once again that as bad as Arizona is, the entire South is worse.
Mike J
@Suzanne: Which part of Arkansas? I have a hojillion relatives in Forest City.
Emma
@Major Major Major Major: Mazel tov!
MomSense
@Major Major Major Major:
Congratulations!!
lamh36
MomSense
@lamh36:
Even people in Maine knew who the hell David Duke was in 2002. His race for governor and his KKK affiliation were national news.
Gravenstone
@lamh36: So he’s basically saying that he’ll force Boehner to clean house of every racist scumbag directly affiliated with David Duke? What could go wrong?
Violet
@lamh36: He’s your Congressman? Are you going to call his office tomorrow–and get any friends and family who also live in his distric to call as well–to complain about what he said? Congressmen looove to hear from their constituents. Heh.
mclaren
Oh, and by the way — let’s take a look at what a president with real balls does when the business leaders fuck with him:
Source: This day in history: FDR seizes control of Montgomery Ward.
When impotent whimpering Democrats rush forward to assure me that “Obama doesn’t have the power to jail those Wall Street criminals!” I just laugh.
J R in WV
@Major Major Major Major:
Well, it took me a couple of minutes to figure that news out, I’m slow that way.
Congrats!!
Mazel Tov, also, too, etc.
ruemara
@Major Major Major Major: Woot! Congrats you two crazy kids! May it be the start of something perfectly wonderful.
I am finally home and relaxing. I found out that, thanks to increased visibility (i.e. ME) we’ve managed to turn the largest profit ever. Nearly 80% over last year. I am very glad. I wish that translated into fair pay, benefits and actual vacation time, but personal pride will have to suffice.
Mary G
@Major Major Major Major: Congratulations!
You are a lovely couple.
J R in WV
@mclaren:
I like those ideas, is there room in your asylum for one more?
Esp the generals not following orders, and the bankers!!! the Bankers should be in Gitmo. not helpless foreigners who didn’t do anything by cross a border on the wrong day.
@Suzanne:
Arizona is as far south as you can get. My winter camp is 25 miles north of the Mixican border. We have to pass Border patrol checkpoints to get into the US to go to the grocery store.
And In Arkansas, that’s Forrest City, named for Nathan Bedford Forrest, founder of the KKK. I know this because we sometimes spend the night there on our way west, and I tried to look up hotels for Forest City, AR, and didn’t find any, because it is FoRRest City.
I will admit it doesn’t LOOK like a KKK hotbed just driving through. But I don’t want to spend extra time there.
AxelFoley
@mclaren:
Good God, do you have to write a dissertation every time you post?
AxelFoley
@lamh36:
Oh, please let this happen! LOLOLOLOL
GregB
Congrats MajorX3.
Amir Khalid
@GregB:
Not to quibble, but it’s Major ^4. He does look like a happy man. Congratulations, and many happy anniversaries, to him and his gentleman.
BruinKid
Oh. My. God. Are. You. Serious.
THAT is who the local GOP wants to nominate???
But note that even as Bill de Blasio won his race with over 72% of the vote city-wide, he lost Staten Island, 44% to 53%. That’s how conservative the borough is.
Amir Khalid
@BruinKid:
To the people who want to nominate Donovan to run for Grimm’s Congressional seat, that was a success.
SWMBO
@Major Major Major Major: Congratulations! You both look so happy. Best wishes to you both and a long, contented life together.
chopper
@Major Major Major Major:
Majorly majorly majorly majorly awesome.
chopper
@BruinKid:
Well he’ll have a lock on the white vote. And it is Staten Island.
grandpa john
@efgoldman: They did before their defensive coach was sort of nudged out by nepotism, and said coach was immediately hired by my alma mater since their defensive efforts at the time stunk. and as they say the rest is history, as defense is now no. 1 in the country. Having a backup quarter back playing the best game of his career helps some also.
grandpa john
@efgoldman: Well they could have talked about how nice payback is, since the defense that is ripping them up is coached by the guy who was at OK before he was sorta nudged out to make way for the head coach’s brother
VFX Lurker
@Major Major Major Major: Awesome sauce! Wishing you both health and happiness.