Johnny Coli

So, that's roughly 68,000 tickets sold, and if they don't sell the 5000 more it's a blackout. But the fuggin' NE Paytoilets' stadium holds 68,000 and change, so they would have sold out with that many tickets and they draw from a six state region. The blackout rules are total sh--. Next time some bandwagon Pats fan starts jawing about sellouts punch him in the fuggin' face.

Interesting. So, what you've linked to actually shows that Pelosi and Lee most definately foted against the war, and we all know how vocally opposed Howard Dean was to the war. Pretty amazing what a few facts will do to an argument. Looks like Juan Williams was spot-on.

Someone asked Belicheck at his presser this morning about it, and he dismissed it. Boston Herald And from the Globe (Bill's take): Seems like the Phelons either listened to the same audio you get for free, or they're lying, or the Pats are lying. So far the only one suggesting some kind of cloak and dagger "signalgate" is Clayton, and he's a freaking idiot.

I don't know where the info that it was an "inside job" came from. The Boston Globe is saying that the Phelons just used the TV audio (Brady's signals may have been intercepted). No one around here is calling it cheating. The Pats do this all the time. I think people are more surprised that they didn't figure out what was going on themselves, and change it.

Excellent subject, Stuckincincy, and I commend you for highlighting the impact cattle and the cattle industry has on the environment and global warming. I would have never picked you for a vegetarian proponent. Here is the link to the actual UN-FAO Newsroom piece, Livestock a major threat to environment, and here is the link to the actual report, unlike the biased, cherry-picked summary that was originally linked to, Livestock’s long shadow. From the UN-FAO Newsroom summary... Clearly I'm not as deranged as Stuckincincy as to suggest that we stop eating meat and refrain from using livestock-derived products. I had a nice steak last night. But the report is interesting, nonetheless, in pointing out the huge impact that livestock agriculture has globally. Kudos for Stuckincincy for having the nuts to take a position even more controversial than that of Al Gore.

Amazing! Digging/flipping through stacks of vinyl at garage sales and flea markets is not only aesthetically pleasing as an excersize, you often find something spectacular. Not every bin, box or bundle will contain a rare find like the Velvet's acetate described here, but you almost always walk away with something worth playing, if only once. You'll never get that satisfaction from a compact disk. I wonder if we'll ever get to hear the versions on that platter.

Slight correction: She's a zealous idiot whose last day as a congresswomen was last friday, and she's been a lame-duck since August when she lost the run-off in the primary. Cynthia McKinney is a nut, but more importantly, she no longer has any connection to the 110th Congress that will begin meeting in January. The only ones chattering about her at this point will be the Right wing noise monkeys.

And when he is getting hit he's not giving it up. Over the last six games he's been sacked 17 times and fumbled it only four times, compared to Brady who's been sacked 11 times and has fumbled it 6 times. Both have 12 fumbles on the year but Losman has been sacked 15 more times. Seemingly pointless stats, yes. But almost every knock that the naysayers have had on the kid at the beginning of the season and during the bad three-game stretch before the bye have been corrected. They're rapidly running out of negatives to point to.

What the hell will it take to convince you people? Over the last six games the Bills are 4-2, and JP Losman has completed 63.7% of his passes for 1035 yards, 8 TDs and 4 INTs. Over that span his QB rating is 91.2. Over the last six games the Pats are 3-3, and Brady has completed 62.8% of his passes for 1348 yards, 6 TDs and 8 INTs. Over that span his QB rating is 75.3. If you even want to delve into the insane notion that JP doesn't hold onto the ball that well, over that same six game span Brady was sacked 11 times and coughed it up six times, compared to JP geting sacked 17 times and only coughing it up four times. The QB that you "realists" contend is the best QB in the game has just been out-played by JP Losman over the last six games, and in that same span the TEAM as a whole has a better record. We may be "delirious" about JP Losman, but you are clearly delusional if you don't see that this kid has been playing extremely good football since the bye week. And by extremely good I mean he's outplayed a guy who will be a first-ballot HOFer.

Agreed. I hope the "experts" continue to ignore this team, and when the Bills win out and end the season 9-7 they will glance at the standings and wonder how the hell this team snuck up on them. Better yet if the Bills get into the playoffs with a record only one game worse than the Paytoilets.

If they beat down the 'Fins this week, not only will they have swept the Phelons and won a divisional game on the road against the Jets, they will also have back-to-back wins aganst Mangini and Saban, two "up-and-coming coaching geniuses" that have been slobbed on by the NFL and the Sunday pre-game chattering monkeys.

That team is spiralling into the toilet and they have no one to blame but themselves...done in by Bellicheck and Krafty Bob's own hubris. I watch with a certain glee as the worst fans in football turn their bowed heads away from Foxboro and south towards the New York Giants.

I look forward to your post in December of 2008.

The House Ethics Committee report is out. The GOP "leaders" were deemed negligent, but somehow didn't break any rules by being negligent. House Ethics finds GOP leaders negligent Seems like an "overly friendly" conclusion.

Today is the last day of the 109th congress. They've been doing their 3-day work-week thing for two years, and the GOP has had pretty much absolute control of all legislative agenda in both houses of Congress, and the White House. Well, what did they do? What is the 109th Congress' legacy? You could go to the Library of Congress website and dig around for yourself, but Wiki has a nice list, and also lists all the members (109th Congress). You'll find all the legislation that passed, including: crucial emergency feeding tube legislation (passed 3-0 in the senate...yes, 97 members weren't able to get back for this national crisis) the alaskan bridge to nowhere the border fence that's too short (and won't really be funded anyway ) limits on your legal recourse to sue large corporations in class action suits gave massive subsidies to oil corporations pork, pork, pork the Presidential $1 coin act bent over for the credit industry by preventing natural disaster victims from filing for bankruptcy and made it harder for people to file for creditor relief endorsed torture suspended habeus corpus limited online gambling further criminalized copying of DVDs, and called for DVD "sanitizing" technology to remove offensive material Pretty amazing what can get "accomplished" in two years when you put your mind to it for three days a week. What they failed to do, however, was approve of 9 of 11 appropriations bills, which they've decided to punt into the new Congress. I think there's quite a lot more to be ashamed of than just blowing off the budget, Mr. Kingston.

Not realy. Arizona voters rejected an anti-gay marriage amendment, and in the other 7 states that did pass an amendment, the numbers of voters that voted against the amendments have risen considerably. More pro-gay marriage and openly gay members of the federal, state, and local governments have been elected in this election than in previous ones. Many of the most vocal anti-gay incumbents were defeated. The Dems, who are more favorable overall in their stance towards equal rights have control of both the Senate and the House. It would be impossible to get rid of hate overnight, or in a single election cycle. But, with more countries allowing gay marriage, and a newer generation that seems to be more aware of, and tolerant of gay people, the hate will eventually be struck down.

Not sure if it's been challenged. Here are the statutes and the amendment for reference. I don't see how this (the amendment, third link) won't be challenged at some point. A 1975 VA statute prohibits same-sex marriage. In 1997 a sentence was added to the statute to prevent recognition of same-sex marriages from another state(Code of Virginia § 20-45.2). In 2004 they added a ban of same-sex civil unions and partnerships or "other arrangement(s)"(Code of Virginia § 20-45.3. They passed the constitutional amendment this past election. (Article I. Bill of Rights. Section 15-A. Marriage. [pdf])

If you were a parent of an adopted child, or your spouse was pregnant via a donor and something happens to your wife (God forbid, of course), you have certain legal rights as a parent with respect to that child. As a gay couple living in VA, Mary Cheney's partner, Heather Poe, has no rights with respect to their child. This isn't about Mary Cheney being accepted by the other Cheneys. It's about Heather Poe, or any other same-sex partner in VA being recognised, legally, as a parent, and being given the same rights that a spouse/partner in a heterosexual marriage enjoys. The fact that it is Mary Cheney is not the issue.

Amen.

Actually, her newborn child will only have one parent, according to VA law. Mary Cheney and her partner (of 15 years) Heather Poe live in Virginia, a state which has the most restrictive, anti-gay marriage laws in the nation. VA prohibits same-sex marriage, same-sex civil unions and same-sex domestic partnerships, will not recognize any of those relationships from another state, and any legal priviledges afforded by such arrangements are not recognized. So, according to VA law, Heather Poe has absolutely no legal connection to this child and has no legal standing with regard to Mary Cheney. But, you know, it's all about family values and protecting the sanctity of marriage with the anti-gay marriage crowd.

Let's see...make an incredibly inferior species in your own image, and make them worship you or they go to hell when they die. Sounds pretty narcissistic and petty if you ask me.

What'd you think of Jay Reatard's new LP?

Except that with the Jets game there's the Mangini connection (ex-Pats defensive coach) and Belicheck hates him. There's far more interest in that game from a regional perspective. If the Pats have any control over what gets televised (not sure they really have a say in the matter, though) then one could make a case that the scumbag coach of the Paytoilets had the league switch the games because of his hatred for Mangini.

This is the post of the day, brother. Intentional or not, this is genius on levels I had no idea existed.

That would be Nobel prize winning biochemist Carl Ferdinand Cori, of course, who would have been 110 years old today. Metabolizing sugar has never been sexier. I'd also like to shout out a very happy 100th birthday to the Teutonic Terror, Otto Preminger, who not only was an accomplished director, but found himself in front of the camera as Mr. Freeze and still found the time to father a bastard child with Gypsy Rose Lee. A very happy birthday to all!