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.
Entertainment Weekly asks, Tom McMahon answers. My 5:
1. Fox News Channel – I need the news.
2. History Channel – “Dogfights”, “Mail Call”, “Modern Marvels”, need I go on? (I’d wish they’d reintroduce Sworn to Secrecy” to the rotation)
3. ESPN – I need my sports.
4. Discovery Channel – “Mythbusters”, “Man vs Wild”.
5. AMC – Movies.
Yark – CoverItLive died about 9:20. Time to do this the old-fashioned way…
9:22 – To Richardson – Pushing national service for college education.
9:22 – To Breck – It’s the corporates. Destroy them (and not the Islamists?) for the sheeple.
9:23 – P-p-please mandate a carbon tax. – To Richardson – It’s a stupid idea because it’s a mandate and it is passed onto the people. Cap and trade is also a mandate, but it’s good. We need light rail (bullshi*)
9:25 – To Obama – I like cap-and-trade and mandating sacrifices on the altar of Gorebal Warming.
9:26 – To Hiliary – We’re headed to a recession, so we need more welfare.
9:28 – We have 3 engines out, we’re leaking fuel…oops, wrong speech. We have a housing crisis, a job crisis, and a looming recession. Defend taking away the Bush tax cuts. To Hiliary – Rich is $250K.
9:32 – Sorry about that; the PHP error popped up again (have to track it down). To Obama – I like trickle-up.
9:34 – How do you improve the economy? To Richardson – Balance the budget, pay off the ChiCom debt, line-item veto (so far, so good), kill corporate welfare (starting to go off the rails), tax breaks for those that overpay (way off the rails).
9:34 – What would you take back? To Hiliary – Why me first? They’re not talking about recession, education, and I’ll leave the rest to the pundits.
To Richardson – I’d take back backing Wizard White because he wasn’t lieberal enough.
To Breck – I take back what I said about the Black Pantsuit jacket a few debates ago, you look mahvelous, Hill.
To Obama – We’re different than the people we eliminated and the the Pubbies (no shi*, Sherlock).
And we’re done.
Thanks for coming on out. Sorry about the outages, both on the CoverItLive and this place. I’m headed to bed; I don’t feel like listening to ‘Rats spin ‘Rats.
I haven’t yet decided whether to be nice or surly (you’ve got a few minutes yet to vote)…
Should I do a nice-blog or a surly-blog of tonight's ABC debates?
Up to 1 answer(s) was/were allowed
Total Voters: 10
Loading ...…but whatever the decision, it will be below. If you’ve never watched a live-blog with CoverItLive’s software, it’s quite a bit nicer than just watching it on a blog. First, you don’t have to hit refresh. Second, you can participate (all comments on the CoverItLive portion are subject to my approval). Third, if I do decide to be nice, I can multicast this puppy. Going in, Mitt Romney took Wyoming with 8 delegates, Fred Thompson was second with 2, Duncan Hunter picked up his first delegate, and the 12th was still up in the air as of post time.
Revisions/extensions (5:29 pm 1/5/2008) – Hate to disappoint those of you who want me to show my AoSHQ colors, but this thing’s going multi-cast. I will, however, be making massive use of the <expletive deleted> tag. I will also be keeping an eye on the NFL.
Also, I almost forgot the ground rules; I paraphrase a lot, questions will be in italics, answers in plain text, and any personal comments in-line with questions or answers will be in parentheses.
Also live-blogging (list as of 5:13 pm):
– William Smith at Conservative Blogger (also using CoverItLive)
– Free Republic (yeah, it’s not a blog, but it’s also home for me)
– Allahpundit at Hot Air
– Justin Higgins at Right On The Right (exact thread)
Added 5:58 pm
– Ace of Spades
– Michelle Malkin
One can’t have too many “Right”s on a roll or in a reader, so let’s add one more – Right On The Right (not to be confused with Right From The Right)
First, the Wyoming county caucuses. This thing slipped my mind, partially because it is so archane (H/T – John Hawkins) it makes the Dem half of the Iowa caucii look sane and partially because the delegate total was halved, but it’s on as I type. At stake are 12 6 12 of 28 14 delegates, and the story (cribbed from Rich Moran) is pretty convoluted. Originally, Wyoming’s plan was to do their county caucuses to select 12 of the 28 delegates to the national convention the same day as New Hampshire’s primary, January 22, with the remaining 16 chosen at the state convention in May. Because of the leapfrogs, they eventually settled on today. Because, unlike Iowa’s and Nevada’s caucii, the delegates are bound to candidates, the RNC halved the grand total because it’s happening before Super-Duper Tuesday, which would have cut the bounty from the caucuses to 6. In a desperate attempt to keep some form of meaning, the Wyoming Republicans decided to once again make it 12 and cut the number selected at the convention from 8 (already reduced from 16) to 2.
Jim Geraghty reports that the party insiders are still anticipating a romp by Mitt Romney, the only candidate to set up an office in Wyoming. However, Fred Thompson has also worked the state relatively-hard (no jokes about being lazy; reserve them for the Liberal Three this round), and those two as well as Ron Paul and Duncan Hunter have made recent phone efforts. Meanwhile, the Liberal Three of John McCain, Mike Huckabee, and Rudy Giuliani treated Wyoming as though it didn’t exist.
Next, most of the candidates will be on back-to-back debates on ABC tonight starting at 6 pm (Central; refer to your local listings for station and time). I’ll be here with live-blogging; since I haven’t yet decided whether to be nice or surly, I do not know whether I’ll be simulcasting the live-blogging at some of the other places I have blogging keys to (namely, my hole-in-the-TownHall wall). I’ll leave that decision up to you. Mind you, I won’t guarantee I’ll listen to the majority (unlike government, I’m not a democratically-elected representative republic), but it will weigh heavily in my decision.
Should I do a nice-blog or a surly-blog of tonight's ABC debates?
Up to 1 answer(s) was/were allowed
Total Voters: 10
Loading ...Sorry I couldn’t make you guys money this year, but at least I got you through the .500 glass ceiling with a 123-120-13 record. Now, it’s the most wonderful time of the year, the NFL playoffs.
For those of you new to this site, I pull the lines off of Bodog (unless the site or a particular line is unavailable) a bit before the first kickoff (sometimes, barely before), tell you which team will win against the spread, and (usually) give a nugget or two (could be real, could be real BS, could be both). During the regular season, I also choose 2 games a week to give an opinion on the over/under; for the playoffs, it’s going to be every game. It’s been a while since I issued the standard disclaimer, so allow me to do so again – These picks are not intended to be used for any wager. If you decide to ignore this advice, please wager legally and responsibly; I can’t be held responsible if Uncle Sam or Knock-Knees Tony pays you a visit.
Washington (+3.5/over-39) @ Seattle – The Redskins are hotter than a roll of dice, and the Walrus is no Max Rockatansky. Step right up, chum, and watch Portis burn a rubber road right to freedom.
Jacksonville (-3/under-41) @ Pittsburgh – Hmmmm, 2 running backs or none? Take the deuce, especially since Jax already won once.
NY Giants @ Tampa Bay (-3/under-39.5) – The Giants played their Super Bowl last week, and they’re facing their personal nightmare in Jeff Garcia.
Tennessee @ San Diego (-10/over-39) – Over/under on fines to be handed out after this game – $35,000 (take the over).
There is a reason why I called the last week of the regular season in the NFL the second-hardest to pick; so many teams treat this as a 5th exhibition game. Let’s review the random carnage:
Detroit 13 @ Green Bay 34 (-5) – No word yet whether Craig Nall is done for his career.
New Orleans 25 (-1.5) @ Chicago 33 – And the ‘Aints go marching out.
Minnesota 19 @ Denver 22 (+3) – Wall 1, Rookie 0
New England 38 (-14-LOSS) @ NY Giants 35 – Once again, the Pats were fit to be had. Don Shula last spotted with a 5-quart pail of ice cream hoping somebody, anybody plays 60 minutes of ball against them.
Buffalo 9 (+8-TIE) @ Philadelphia 17 – McNabb played like his contract was up.
Carolina 31 (-3) @ Tampa Bay 23 – Real smooth, Chuckie. At least you made the Carolina contingent on my roll happy.
Cincinnati 38 (-3) @ Miami 25 – The Deadfins were as lifeless as their fans after the G-men let the Pats off the hook.
Jacksonville 28 (+6.5 – game currently crossed out at Bodog) @ Houston 42 – And the award for the toughest division in the NFL goes to – the AFC South, which edged out the NFC East in wins 42-40 (both boast no losers and both wild-cards from their respective conferences).
Seattle 41 (pick’em) @ Atlanta 44 – Turnover, turnover, turnover.
San Francisco 7 @ Cleveland 20 (-10 – game currently crossed out at Bodog) – The Dawg Pound is really wondering why they wasted money on AJ Hawk’s brother-in-law.
Dallas 6 (+9) @ Washington 27 – Either Wade Phillips is a genius for realizing that it’s nigh impossible to beat the same team 3 times in the playoffs, or he won’t survive to play in Jerry Jones’ doll house.
Pittsburgh 21 (-3.5) @ Baltimore 27 – The Steelers treated this as an off-week, with predictable results.
San Diego 30 (-9) @ Oakland 17 – How appropriate that Plastic Pelosi is from San Fran. The top 2 net punting averages in NFL history were set in the Bay this year; Oakland’s Shane Lechler had a 41.1 net and San Fran’s Andy Lee had a 41.0 net to shatter the old record of 39.9 net.
St. Louis 19 @ Arizona 48 (-6) – Like Lambs to the slaughter.
Kansas City 10 (+6-WIN) @ NY Jets 13 – Jimmy Hoffa was deeply saddened.
Tennessee 16 (-4.5) @ Indianapolis 10 – Can anybody answer the question, why there are any ex-Badger quarterbacks in the NFL?
9-6-1 against the spread and 1-1 on the over/unders closes out the regular season at 123-120-13 ATS and 20-13-1 O/U. Wild card picks will be up momentarily.
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