Following Kshama's lead

Great to see the nation's liberal politicians falling in line behind their new leader. Can state seizure of factories be far behind?

Philadelphia loses to New Orleans in the first round.

I was surprised Robin Roberts was news. I expect congratulations from the gay news outlets, but it hardly seems to rate being a story on CNN.

@2: You mean Barack Obama, the guy who engineered a raid that killed Osama Bin Laden, who George W. Bush fought wars in TWO countries against and still couldn't bring to justice? Barack Obama, who brought American military might to bear in support of democracy abroad and managed to actually liberate a country instead of leaving it a bombed-out hellhole? Is that who you're accusing?
Or do you mean to impugn the abilities of the guards at the Benghazi consulate and the nearby CIA outpost, who stood valiantly against the overwhelming forces of an armed mob, killing over a hundred attackers, until help could arrive?
I'd say you mean neither of the above, really. You're upset that, contrary to Republican talking points, there was no Al-Qaeda involvement in the attack, which leaves you looking a bit silly. And since you know nothing of how the military operates, you conveniently assume that the PotUS could have simply dispatched a squad of elite soldiers to the embassy within an hour and saved the day. Sorry to rid you of your delusions, but we have very good reasons for not firing blindly.
Go ahead and talk a lot of shit. We all know you're just trying to put on a brave face because you've been proven wrong yet again.

@1 We have outsourced all our factories to China and India. Catch up, fercrissakes.

So no news on what Francis's child abusing priest committee has been up to lately?

@1 There is no need for hyperbola. State seizures of strategic industries isn't foreign to capitalism, neither is a long history of corporate welfare.

@5: philly beats NOLA at home, gets crushed by the panthers.

@7: For all intents and purposes, Al-Qaeda these days is a loose federation of armed mobs with Iran backed firepower at their disposal.

@13: You could be more wrong, but it would be difficult.

@12 How about this scenario: Eagles beat Saints at home, and Panthers in Carolina. Winner of 49ers/Packers game upsets Seahawks in Seattle. NFC championship game in Philly!

@13: Are you confusing Shia and Sunni? AQ is not a fan of Iran.

@9: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/…

Just running over a bunch of ducks. Just like that. Fucking asshole.

@18: He reads to his kids every night from a book he has modified to be titled "Make way for ME, ducklings!"

I think that Campbell could be prosecuted under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. It won't happen, of course, as much as I'd love it to (if only to raise awareness about the MBTA).

If you go to the article that the source links to, the report is that there were about 20 ducks there, the bastard didn't even slow down, he killed six, and the surviving injured ducks made their way back to a pond.

@12: If they survive the Saints, they will definitely get crushed by Carolina. That defense is sick.

@15: How about this scenario: I find a lamp in a dumpster and a genie pops out and makes me god-king of the galaxy.

The Eagles made the playoffs, but they are not a very good team. Trust me, this is where the Skins were last year. Bad team, makes the playoffs improbably based on some luck and timing in a horrible division.

Inconsistent teams do not survive the playoffs, and no NFC East team deserves to be there this year.

@23 I dunno. I'm not saying the Eagles are a great team, but it's a tale of two seasons with new coach Chip Kelly. They are 7-1 in the second half of the season, with the league's rushing leader in LeSean McCoy and an efficient Nick Foles achieving the third highest passer rating in league history topping the league's number two offense. And while the defense gives up a lot of yards, they are middling in terms of points allowed. So an Eagles playoff run is not unimaginable. Stranger things have happened.

That said, I wouldn't want to play in Seattle.

@15 Philly beating Carolina, lol.... Eagles are gonna have their hands full to beat NO. One & done, I say.

@22, maybe New Hampshire doesn't have one of these handy laws like we do to let politicians speed to make up lost time.
http://nypost.com/2013/09/17/wash-state-…
shall be privileged from arrest in all cases except treason, felony and breach of the peace

But , seriously, what about the moron feeding ducks in the driveway of a hotel ? If some accident had spilled syrup all over the highway and attracted every bug for a mile to the road, would you cry over the crushed cockroaches ?
http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201004/r554…

A national $15 an hour minimum wage ftw!

And, yes, I'm going to duck discussing that other bill.

It drives me quackers.

@24: People like to forget that Nick Foles has thrown at least a dozen passes that should have been picked off but were dropped by DBs. He makes a lot of bad decisions, and has lucked out in almost all of them this season. Not that a 3rd year QB without much playing time should be perfect, but you can't count on that every year.

The Eagles have to put together a string of consistent games against quality opponents, something they have not done been able to do all season. You do realize that in 2013, the Eagles were only able to beat opponents with winning records twice, and one was against an injury ravaged Green Bay team without Aaron Rodgers, and the other was a squeeker against Arizona?

Wow, if the Eagles didn't have the easiest schedule this year, I'd like to know who did (or at least in the second half, where the only teams who ended with a winning record they faced were Arizona and Rodgersless GB). 1) 6 games against the NFC Least, 2) SD, KC, Den, Bucs, Oak, GB sans Rodgers, Ari, Det, Min, Chi..... 1 good team, and 3 teams that could win or lose any given week (SD, KC, Ari), rest bad.
I don't see the Eagles beating the Panthers at all. They MAY beat the Saints, but only because Brees can't play on the road this year. No way they beat the Panthers though.

Meanwhile, I think I'm hoping for the Colts or the Chiefs to make it to Foxboro. I don't want to see the Bengals. I am just hoping that we make it to Denver and give them a good game. If that happens, win or lose, I'll be happy with our season.

@26

Oh, fuck you. There are accidents, there's the predator-prey dynamic, and there's just plain nature taking its course, but this was just cruelty and indifference, asshole.

@29 Foles is first in quarterback rating, first in yards per attempt, first touchdown-to-interception ratio, and 8th in completion percentage. Not bad for a second-year quarterback taken about 10 spots behind Russell Wilson in the third round.

You want to dismiss him as lucky, that's up to you. He will put the ball up for receivers in single coverage and trust them to catch it or defend it. But he's accurate on short and midrange passes, and doesn't tend to throw behind the receiver they Orten did on the two he had intercepted.

@31, fine. I'm going to sit in the front row and show off my container of mice in a box at the start of the next Seahawks game.

Then I'm going to bitch a fit when Taima gets released, flys around for a bit, then swoops down and starts devouring my special mouse friends.

If someone was really feeding ducks in the driveway then of course they're less prone to "taking off" then the average birds that normally scatter when a car approaches.

@36: DO IT FAGGOT
@34, 35: no u

@11: There is no need for hyperbola.

I was really just mocking Goldy's claim that the nation's politicians are following Kshama's lead.

P.S. Tax breaks and "welfare" programs are not the same thing. I'd like to see the rich pay higher taxes as much as the next guy, but I don't think misleading buzz-phrases and double-speak are going to get us there.

P.P.S. The Sunday NYT had some great masturbation material for you about Russia's hostility towards its business owners. Who knows, maybe someday we'll all be lucky enough to live in a such a well-functioning society as that.

30, The team w/ the easiest schedule this year was KC.

But, apparently congressmen can be chased off if you tell at them in the right way. Good to know.

http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/1025…
Campbell wrote that he apologized to witnesses for striking the ducks, but left the area because one of those witnesses -- Murphy -- became “highly agitated and confrontational.”

“He cursed, continuously yelled, and approached me in a threatening manner,” Campbell wrote. “After I parked my car, his aggressive behavior and threats continued. To diffuse a situation that was becoming increasingly hostile, I walked across the parking lot to my office building.”

goldy, why would you wish for the seahawks to get upset by SF/GB? you know where you live, right? love it or leave it.

@38 - Come on, Boeing has been poster child for MIC welfare for over a half century. Pretending it doesn't have responsibility toward the taxpayer is horseshit. You're a real charmer for insinuating that I'd enjoy whatever Russia is doing to business people (and I don't mean the mafia and its oligarchs).

@41: No. Loyalty to your first team is important. You can root for a team in a new hometown in a sport you hadn't cared about before, but you can't just go from one city to another and throw your allegiance behind that city then. What if you moved Boston to NY, or San Francisco to Dallas or Seattle?

Volgograd.

Sometimes, there IS a need for a hyperbola. (sorry, sorry, I kid lovingly).

http://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/hyper…

@43, you can also root for your "new" local team if they're in a different league or they're not playing your REAL hometown team. No matter where I live, I will always be a baseball fan. I'm lucky to live in an NL town where my real hometown team is AL (and neither of them are going to be WS contenders in the next few years). Even if I ended up in another AL town, I'd root for the local team when they're not playing my team.