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Unmasked and Furious

 

If he loses, that will be one of the most reproduced images of his presidency. Really stupid on his part. I don't think I have ever seen a president with an untied necktie draped over his shoulder. Terrible optics. If he has any advisors, they're either really stupid or he ignores them.
Wait. Both things are true.

 

There's something very <pretending to feel the fiber of a shirt between fingers> down to earth about John Bolton.

Definitely a guy you drink scotch with till closing time.

But
 I
 ended
 the Administration’s 
first
 hundred
 days 
secure
 in
 my
 own
 mind
 about
 what
 I was 
prepared 
to
 do 
and 
what 
I
 wasn’t.
 After 
all,
 as
 Cato
 the
Younger 
says 
in one
 of
 George Washington’s 
favorite
 lines 
from
 his
 favorite
 play,
 “When vice
 prevails,
 and
 impious 
men
 bear
s way,
 the
 post
 of
 honor
 is
 a
 private station.” Life
 under
 Trump,
 however,
 did
 not
 resemble
 life
 in
 Joseph
 Addison’s eponymous
 Cato,
 where
 the
 hero
 strove
 to
 defend
 the
 failing
 Roman Republic 
against
 Julius
 Caesar.
 Instead,
 the
 new
 Administration 
resembled much
 more
 closely
 the
 Eagles 
song
 “Hotel
 California”: 
“You
 can
 check
 out any
 time
 you
 like
/
But
you
can
 never 
leave.”​

 

Doubt it. That's why the campaign set up the outdoor overflow area and vowed Trump and Pence would hold a second show for them. They advertised a chance to "see President Trump in person" even if they couldn't get in to the main event. In theory, the outdoor event should have been more attractive because it afforded the chance to pay homage in a theoretically less contagious environment. Nobody bothered. We witnessed the true demand.
Can't wait to see the traveling Nazi circus show up in Arizona and North Carolina as he promised.

 

As an aside, it always makes me chuckle thinking about how the goalposts used to be on the goal line. I keep thinking of all the ways that the posts would get in the way.

 

Fatfuck is incensed again.

yawn

 

Also has a show that's syndicated to several soft rock stations. The anti-Seacrest, so to speak. And he uses "Roundball Rock" as his theme, after which the show goes downhill.

 

I think actually it was about the time of this picture (1963-64??) that the NFL first mandated offset goalposts a yard or so behind the goal line.

individual teams had already been building offset goalposts of differing design since the 1940s (some of the early ones look really really weird) but there was no leaguewide requirement, and some teams still had goalposts on the goal line, so of course some teams did use goalposts as extra blockers on some inches-to-go situations - just run the running back right off the edge of the goalpost.

Although the rules used to specify that a punting team could request the ball placed on a hashmark to avoid hitting the goalpost on punts out of the end zone, once every season or so there would be a bad snap or something and a punter would end up booting it off the goalpost in his own end zone for a safety.

It was also a safety if a forward pass thrown from the end zone hit a goal post, but in the 1960s-70s it was astonishingly rare for teams to throw out of the end zone (or really anywhere inside their own 20).

I'm pretty sure Super Bowl I in the Coliseum used old style offset goalposts.

Then in 1968, the NFL adopted the now universal slingshot goalposts. And in 1974, the goal posts were moved to the end lines anyway so it all became moot.

 

This groveling is just so embarrassing! Pathetic!

 

Yesterday's 4.2 earthquake was the strongest in the contiguous 48 United States east of Idaho in at least the past month. Strongest in Oklahoma in 13 months.

 

Only if his brother, Dave, joins him on stage.

 

Wow. What a pathetic display by Sessions.


I mean sure - it’s no Ted Cruz “feel free to say whatever you’d like about my wife” - but damn.

That’s some abused-spouse “I know he loves me; he just has so much going on, so I understand why he beats me” shit.