I finally got around to adding Elliot and From Where I Sit. One of these years, I’ll sort the blogroll (yeah, right; procrastination is my last name, or is it York?)
The repository of one hard-boiled egg from the south suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (and the occassional guest-blogger). The ramblings within may or may not offend, shock and awe you, but they are what I (or my guest-bloggers) think.
I finally got around to adding Elliot and From Where I Sit. One of these years, I’ll sort the blogroll (yeah, right; procrastination is my last name, or is it York?)
I guess I shouldn’t exactly use “post-mortem”, because I actually made some money. Oh well, let’s review the 2-1-1 against the line/3-1 against the over/under weekend anyway:
Washington 10 @ Seattle 20 (-10-TIE/over 40.5-LOSS) – The Vegas boys had the line perfect, they and I didn’t count on all that rain.
New England 13 @ Denver 27 (-3/under 44) – It’s the altitude, stupid.
Pittsburgh 21 (+10/under 47.5) @ Indianapolis 18 – Thanks to the 10-letter word for “choke” (Vanderjagt) – And all of CBS’s cheering, and the refs couldn’t be worse, couldn’t stop the Steelers from continuing the Manning curse.
Carolina 29 @ Chicago 21 (-3/over 30) – At least the weather was good for those of you on the wrong side of the toll booths. Duh Bears cost me a lossless weekend against the spread.
My pre-season Super Bowl winner, Pittsburgh, is still alive. The other 3 teams I had in the conference championships, however, are out (buh-bye New England, and the Eaglets and Dirty Birds didn’t even make the playoffs).
Jessica has the lowdown. One of the blogs targeted, Playground Politics, has decided to not quite take this lying down and has a poll on what the #1 priority of Legislative Republicans should be this spring. As I type, with a total of 6 votes registered, “TABOR” (my choice) has a slim lead over “Inquisition against bloggers”, with “Economic Development” on the board and “DNR Reform” and “Other” not drawing any interest.
Owen and Jessica both report that an agreement on TABOR is going to happen soon. Jessica quotes Rep. Jeff Stone that the competing versions in the Senate and Assembly should match inside of 2 weeks, while Owen states that unnamed sources say Sen. Glenn Grothman’s version is “very good”. All I hope is that it doesn’t look like the anti–TABOR that is Assembly Joint Resolution 71.
Jib posts his bleak feelings on the near future with regard to Iran, and points us to a piece by Niall Ferguson in The Sunday Telegraph on how “The Great War of 2007” could get started by a nuclear Iran. There are basically 4 ways this can go, with 3 of them resulting in a nuclear-armed Iran attacking both Israel and the US (remember, Iran doesn’t call Israel or Jews “The Great Satan”, it calls the US that) with its nuclear weapons, and the 4th resulting in a massive guerilla/terrorist war:
That having been said, we can’t wait for the Iranians to gather nukes. The mullahs don’t care whether it’s George Bush, John Kerry, John McCain or Russ Feingold in the Oval Office; they want us dead. Al-Qaeda showed them it’s possible, and they’re working feverishly on the means to make 9/11 look like your typical murder. If you’re looking for the UN to save us, you’ve got another thing coming. Two of the permanent members of the UN Security Council are actively backing Iran’s plans, a third (and its partner in the EU) are quietly cheering on the Iranians from the sidelines, and the majority of the UN couldn’t care as long as their delegations got enough warning to evacuate New York City.
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