John Adams

I back this post to the tilt.

You need to read more. And work on your grammar.

Heard that rumor also, straight from Steve Lankford's huge penis. 4 contestants are already way better than the remainder: Rounds, Gokey, Iraheta, and Lambert are the cream in this crop. The rest are fodder and might put up a fun performance here or there but none match those 4 in talent. (Maybe Girard could crack those 4--the others aren't even close.)

Michael Oilman. The words I could understand were beer, truck, shotgun, doublewide, and Klan. Some country-rap version of We Didn’t Start The Fire. Despite its incomprehensibility, I loved it. His “I don’t give a !@#$ what you think" attitude to the judge's criticisms saves him from my bottom 3. Judges were complete jerkoffs. His vocals were not on display but the fun factor outweighed any shortcomings. Allison Iraheta. Looks the best she’s looked yet…which is not actually that much of a compliment. Everyone keeps saying it: it’s amazing that she’s 16 with those Janis Joplin pipes (and looks...ugh). She’s my personal favorite even though she lacks Rounds's and Gokey’s voice. Long live rock and roll. Please go win this thing, he says, knowing America won't ever let her. Kris Allen. Ballad. Sucky McSuckenstein. The judges 4-wayed gobbled his knob, which is unreal. He was atrocious and he looks like he just got a swirly. I hate him the most. Lil Rounds. Independence Day. Audience clapping is SO !@#$ING ANNOYING. Let’s see. It’s country night + she’s black = Formula for a lynchin'. But wait, what's this? She went with a flag-wrapped song. The show mixed her vocals poorly—she is hard to hear over the band. In the chorus, she hits it. It’s a tough night for her but she’s got one of the top 2 voices in the competition and should survive. Adam Lambert. Ring of Fire. Funky. Hip. Spooky. He’s creepy but !@#$all it was oddly fantastic. Agree with Randy 100%: a young dark adaptation. I know it’s not his version but its uniqueness reminds me of David Cook’s Billie Jean. Scott McIntyre. Hey buddy, the sighted and the blind have an arrangement. We won’t give you singles instead of twenties and you guys wear sunglasses so we don't have to look at the skinless grapes that you call eyes. His voice continues to suck. Piano playing is great but whatever. It’s a singing competition and he has been one of the worst week after week. Alexis Grace. Jolene. I love this song. Ryan compares her to Dolly in the intro, which is interesting…except that Dolly has a trademark that Alexis notably lacks. Dress looks distractingly like it may fall off. Anyways, I thought she did well. Judges panned her a bit unfairly. Danny Gokey. Jesus Take the Wheel. I was distracted by the lyric. !@#$ you dude (and Carrie Underwood). Save your !@#$ing self asswipe: Jesus ain’t gonna take the wheel OK douchebags? His performance came alive at the chorus and whatever. He advances after an average night for him, which like Lil Rounds, is way better than almost everyone. Anoop Desai. You were always on my mind. I’m a little shocked to find that Anoops is more than a Fraternity band singer. He’s got a nice voice. First time on display. His timing is a bit off but it’s pretty good. He’s not a top contestan but he might live to see another day with what is his first good performance since the semifinals started. Randy’s word of the night. Dope. Ahh. Keep tabs on Kara. She will NEVER swim upstream against anyone who expresses an opinion before her. She is a lemming. Megan Corkery. How many well-known worn out songs can she sing? Rockin’ Robin last week. She’s pretty as a button but god does she move oddly…and I wonder what mental baggage she carries in that insane sleeve tat. Like Anoop, she had her best performance to date. Which is not to say it’s great, but middle of the pack. Judges give her flu points, which is bull sh--. If that was allowed, they should give Lil Rounds and Anoop minority points for making it through country night. Matt Girard. Another guy who had his best performance to date. I am a Matt-hater and I really liked it. Love the piano for him—thought it was enjoyable. Long-term greatness? No. But very good and he could move up in this competition after this night. I predict that the judges will love it. Prediction: Correct. Top 3ish: Gokey, Girard, Iraheta/Lambert. Bottom 2: MacIntyre, Allen (awful multimedia in the sig link)

What's important is that my business gives our employees a Bentley of a health insurance plan that has increased in cost 20% each year for the last 5. There is NO CHANCE we can pass some increase in taxes to our employees (giving them a bill). There is no chance we will absorb some huge new tax (taking it out of the company after so many years of absorbing tax increases). Unless this increase is in the 3% or less range, our employees will get less health insurance. Idiocy.

Why not? A guy like Rush is almost precisely Stewart's Right Wing analog. Both shows are mostly about having fun at the expense of politicians. But both shows also have a serious undertone; concern about the state of certain aspects of politics.

My 2 favs are from the inauguration. http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jh...efest-09-obamas http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jh...bamas-inaugural The second is a direct pop on Obama.

That's your best post ever. There's not even a close second. Quit while you're ahead.

You make it sound like 45+ yard attempts (not to mention completions) happen several times a game for other QBs. They don't. The 45+ "weakness" is stupid. Almost no QB in the NFL attampts passes beyond 45 yards so your point is meaningless. To back this up, the top-rated QB in the league last year was Rivers. He attempted 10 passes of 40+ yards ALL SEASON. Amazingly, he completed 4 of them--so he's a stud. Next rated: Pennington with 4 attempts. (Completed 2!) Next rated Warner--he must attempt a lot of long balls with the best WR duo in football right? 7 attempts all season. A few other notable names. How about Manning? Huge arm. Great downfield WRs. 2 attempts of 40+. 2. 0 completions. McNabb: 11 attempts. 2 completions. Edwards: 1 for 1. 1 more completion than Manning--1 less attempt. (In Losman's best year 2006, he was 2 for 10). So passing deep is overrated. For the true longball guys, you get maybe 1 attempt every other game. BFD. Are you talking about JP Losman? Really? Edwards has a lot to prove to become a legitimate starter in the NFL but your post doesn't point out his weaknesses. People like you point to arm strength and miss the point. Others point to his inability to react to blitzes, which is also completely off--he reads blitzes very well. His biggest weakness by far is against 7-8 in coverage. He sucks/blows chunks against lots of guys in coverage. He absolutely can't throw well when there are lots of guys in coverage.

Joe Montana: 38.7 Thanks for the meaningless stat.

This legislation is repugnant.

Based on yesterday's rally, we should finish off March up more than 5000 more points. (This is a softball.)

100% agree. They are the only one to root for in their present form. GM and Chrysler should go through bankruptcy and emerge better for it.

All your points are good but the best is this one. TO's character issues are only in the game of football (no drug and thug crap with him) and have nothing to do with his work ethic. His problems stem from his big mouth and celebrations. The big mouth is annoying but not the end of the world. I find his celebrations just an overblown "look at me" moment and unlike Gastineau/Derrick Thomas, TO's celebrations are usually kind of funny. (Spygate with the football was my favorite.)

Eagles fans feel about LJ like we feel about Royal. The rest of the league likes them both a lot more than the people who see them weekly.

TO had 10 TDs last year. Bills offense had 30. In 2007, he had 15 (vs 23 for Bills) and in 2006, he had 13 (vs 28). He'll help.

Has there ever been a nomination process so fraught with resignations? This is getting to be ri-goddamn-dicuolous.

I love the TPS GG fights. Getting my popcorn ready.

There have been a lot of articles tracking Cramer's picks and taken has a whole, he consistently UNDERperforms any broad measure of the market. In the one I read in Forbes (I think), they showed that betting against Cramer in 2008 made you 10% while betting with him lost something like 50%.

Surprising? Not really. The judges almost always lead the sheeple to place their votes. Judges oozed over those 3. Those 3 advanced.

The problem isn't so much the job creation as the problem that the government never cuts in the same numbers. When was the last major government lay-off. The government only grows.

That's embarrassing for you. The WSJ is the best newspaper in the US, and this is coming from a guy who thinks the NYT is #2. I gaurantee the "Rush is Right" crowd doesn't read the WSJ. It's well beyond them.

Juno was OK. Tonight had one winner and a lot of other people lumped together thereafter.

(Multimedia referenced in here is at the link in my sig.) A note for the regular reader. (Who am I kidding?) Fox has a lockdown this year on videos of the performances and is taking them off Youtube as fast as infringers put them up so I can't embed videos. On the Idol website, they put the videos up but it takes them a few days and they don't allow embedding either. I will start putting links to the performances in the blog so the curious can go to the Idol site to watch. (Disabling the embedding is so dumb. Come on Fox. More eyes for your advertisers if you allow embedding.) Von Smith. Rooster Hair. "You’re all I need to get by." Marvin Gaye is hard to sing and at first, I thought this whitebread dude was !@#$ing it up because his low octaves were painful. Then he hit the chorus and nailed it. Really nailed it—I was shocked that this kid could pull off Marvin Gaye. He's got the awful in look on. A red V neck and red sneakers with gray suit. Jesus H man. Simon said he gives off a “Clay Aiken vibe.” Hey Simon, why not just punch him in the balls? Taylor Vifauna. Ambiguous race woman from Utah. "Some people." Hard song from Alicia Keys. Like the first guy, she hit the chorus. Carrying on a clothing tradition noted last week, she's in another empire waist dress. What the !@#$ ladies? Stop with the 6 month pregnant look.“What’s it like to go shopping with Taylor” from Kara. Thanks for that insight Stupid. Judges are rough on her. At 17, she'll get over being voted off. Alex Wagner-Trugman. Dorky guy. "That’s Why They Call it the Blues." He's the winner if this is Last Comic Standing. He delivers a few good jokes but his singing sucks. Still, his poor singing was not as bad as his muscular dystrophy dancing. (Guilt tax. Note to wife reading this: Send MD a check for $100.) Topping off how painful it was, he arranges this sad song to jazz it up. His performance's end was the best part. Ariana Afsar. 17 year old SD girl. "Winner takes it all." When Ryan said she’d be singing ABBA, I thought Dancing Queen would be the perfect choice for this cute 17 year old. Then she sings "Winner Takes it All," a somber ode. The judges can't stop panning the song choice long enough to note that she had a strong voice. Ju’not Joyner. Black guy with cuffs. "Hey There Delilah." This is a honkey-tastic song (that as a honkey, I like). He slowed it down more than it's already slow tempo and I despised (judges loved) the arrangement. Whatever. This guy has a great voice but the song did him no favors. If he can really belt out a song, this song didn't show it and despite the judge-love, I didn't feel it. I do wonder at his name, pronounced Jew-Not. If he makes it further, I'll throw in some speculation about his parent's possible biases. Kristin McNamara. Plastic surgery. "Give me one reason." Yet another Empire waist dress. Sometimes I see someone and just know for a certainty that they are toxically crazy. Enter this woman. Even Simon comments on it. Her singing is forgettable. Her psychosis is not. If she's 23, I'm 6 foot 9. Nathaniel Marshall. Inappropriate piercing guy. "I would do anything for love." It's a photo finish to see who I hate more, this guy or Meatloaf. You win Nathaniel. I want to be on record that I wrote that he's Richard Simmons minus the fitness before Kara said something similar. His voice is crap. The tats on chest would be more interesting if you could read them. The judges ask "What kind of record will you make?" Answer: None. Next. Felicia Barton. Last-minute entrant Mom. "No one" by Alicia Keys. The back story on her late entrance is that some Philadelphia (Go Phillies) girl had a record contract so this lady got in 2 days ago. She's one of the few tonight who sang her heart out. She was off pitch a few times but it's a hard song. 9 for effort. 10 for likeability. 6 for singing because of song difficulty. She stands out and may advance on guts and Rocky factor. Scott MacIntyre. Blind guy with Greg Brady's hair. " Mandolin Rain." Several times tonight the audience is clapping out a beat inappropriately. What the !@#$? He has awful pitch issues. Aren't blind people supposed to have heightened complementary senses like Daredevil had? I'm thinking he's gone at the same time that the judges are fellating him. They are completely FULL. OF. sh--. Blind guys are good for ratings so advance the blind guy. Give me a break. ::..:.::...:: --that's Braille for me giving the judges The Finger. Kendall Beard. Country Girl. "This one’s for the girls." (Here's a Yu-Gi-Oh video of the original song that is just !@#$ing bizarre.) I don't like country much but this girl is charming and she sings precisely the right song for her. A nice ballad with a message we can all get behind: 13 year-old-girls should now give up their poon-tang. Check. When Kara is first up and an attractive woman is on stage, the attractive woman is !@#$ed. No exception here. Kara !@#$s her and the other judges follow suit. The judges are wrong. She was solid. Jorge Nunez. Gay PR guy. "Don’t Let the sun go down on me." As he starts singing I wonder: Is he singing in Spanish? Terrible song choice. Here you have a vivacious energetic gay guy and he chooses a ballad by a colorful but at this point somewhat old and dull Brit. In a trend for the night, the judges are idiotic and compliment his song choice. Simon is right to note that Paula and Kara patronize him for working on his accent. How obnoxious. A first: Ryan made Abigail and me laugh by telling callers to dial "Five Seven Uno Uno" after the guy breaks into Spanish because he's so excited. I didn't think it was possible for a man to be smaller than Ryan but this guy is. Lil Rounds. "Be without you." Wow. I stopped taking notes because she was THAT good. Not only the best of the night but if America votes right, it can crown the next Idol right now. And I don't even like R&B but there's no doubt she's got the best voice and her stage presence is good. In a crowd shot, the inappropriate piercing guy is not only singing but also acting out the song to the country girl who's next to him. Ridiculous. All the judges love it and cunty Kara goes street in her review, donning an incongruous hip-hop affect. Ugh. Top 3: Patriots/Lil Rounds Felicia Barton And because Idol is picking at least one man and one woman this season in this round, Von.

How in the !@#$ do you tell Wall Street you're not taxing it? Who are you exempting from taxes with this statement?