Crap Throwing Monkey

But it sure is fun to speculate on.

Scratch "Republican" from that sentence, and I agree with you. Democratic Senators aren't going to do jack sh-- over this issue...not when they can let it ride and milk it come election time.

I'm so sorry I got myself involved in this train wreck of a thread. Look...anyone who wants the pharmaceutical industry unregulated to the point where a pharmacist can override a doctor's script based on their personal non-medical judgement is a thorough idiot. Peroid. That has nothing to do with the relation between corporate America and the government, and everything to do with medical ethics. Mickey, if you really want to argue German economic policies through the 20's and 30's...study it for a quarter-century like I have, then get back to me.

That's right...Vinnie's helmet scored against Seattle as well...

But not their officiating crew.

GOD, I love this league...

But...but...but...those calls are made by the jurisdiction [sic] of the official!

For the record, I was pointing to the fact that, while large groups of people are collectively stupid, individuals are generally idiots as well.

I thought you were doing that. Why exactly are we discussing Nazi economic policy again?

Actually, if you take six steps and are bobbling the ball, it's incomplete. You have to have control and make a "football move". Which is one of the stupider rules, I think. What the !@#$ is a "football move"?

Who's Florio? Who even gives a sh-- about Florio? I'm talking about the 80% of the tens of millions of viewers last night who not only know the difference between a block and a tackle themselves, but now know that NFL officials don't.

A good number of people who had no money or ego invested in the Seahawks thought the officiating was obviously biased as well.

Well, I knew I was stupid already. I don't have a Ph.D., remember?

But it's so cute, the way you chase him around the board with this non-sexual man crush... And people are stupid. What's your point?

It's so cute, the way you follow Darin around like a yapping little puppy dog...

And Rear Admiral Karl Doenitz got ten years for "waging aggressive war"...despite numerous affidavits from Allied naval leaders stating point-blank that he did nothing the Allies didn't do themselves. Don't confuse the vengance of the victor with justice. And using Flick KG as an example of favorable Nazi policies to industrialists is disingenious at best. Of the two main policies Flick was a beneficiary of - Aryanization of industry and forced labor - one was far less economic than it was racial (and was, at best, neutral to the industrialists...discriminating, as it did, against a certain class of industrialists for racial reasons), and the other was less a favor to industrialists than it was an economic policy brought on by severe manpower shortages (and could be argued as unfriendly to industrialists...the only ones who got rich of forced labor were the SS; the total return on forced labor for the companies employing it was actually rather low). And that doesn't even consider how they were competing against growing state-run industries. Which is not to say they shouldn't have been tried for either (as they were...and largely acquitted - yet you want to argue they were complicit? ) But the economics hardly support an "industrialist friendly" environment to the degree you're pretending. I'm more comfortable with a government that doesn't stand up for either. The tyrrany of egalitarian individualism can be just as bad as the tyrrany of corporate favoritism. Even worse, sometimes. That view also conveniently ignores that throughout American history, the government has been largely pro-industry...and the benefactors of such - the Carnegies, Rockefellers, Vanderbilts, Goulds, Morgans, and such - established quite a few of the institutions that today you'd argue should be out of the hands of corporate America.

Forget it. He's rolling...

It's interesting, though, to note that one of the PFW writers points out that everyone seems to be bending over backwards to say "Yeah, BUT Seattle made mistakes..." when the officiating's brought up.

Giving my post a second thought...I don't know. It's a waste of time. Guess I'll delete my post.

That is seriously !@#$ed up. Seriously. "You told everyone we admitted screwing up...so we're not going to to our jobs for you," basically.

Plus..."a lot of rules" doesn't excuse calling a personal foul for an illegal block on a !@#$ign tackle!!! I do think that rule simplification is in order ("A receiver catches the ball if he gets both feet down and makes a "football move" while he maintains possession...unless he's tackeld and the ground pops the ball out...unless it's in the end zone...which is different from hitting the pylon...but only on the second Saturday of the month during a full moon." ) But not discriminating between a tackle and a block is something else entirely...

Funniest officiating decision I've seen since "Performing an unnatural act on the field." It's rare you see a call SO bad it's funny.

Define "worst". The call on Rothlesburger's TD was the most damaging to Seattle...but the "blocking too low" on Hasselbeck's tackle was the most egregiously stupid, I think.

But that's not the rule, is it?