Enrico over at the 700 Level made the point that if McNabb plays on Sunday, he will be booed loudly before he even takes a snap. Which will be another opportunity for Eagle fans to make asses of themselves. So I commented, and my argument was quickly rebutted by one of the rocket scientists who hates McNabb. First my comment:
Just goes to show what a bunch of mindless morons Eagles fans are, and why it’s so much more fun to root for the baseball team in this town than the football team. When Iguchi filled in admirably for Utley, we didn’t boo Utley when he returned and pine for the days of Iguchi. Why? Because Phillie aren’t morons. Eagles fans are. I’m not even convinced that McNabb is the right call to start on Sunday, but to boo the best quarterback in a teams 75 year history before he’s taken a single snap? Beyond stupid.

Here’s the 2nd paragraph of Not a fan of five (his first paragraph didn’t make much sense): i’ll be at the game on Sunday, and boo whenever the f@#%@ i feel like it. assholes 😛 beer is the only thing that tells me what to do.

There is no argument I can make that can overcome that logic. He’s right. McNabb does deserve to get booed before he takes a snap. I didn’t see that before, but that’s because I wasn’t letting the beer tell me what to do.

Here’s what you need to know from the release: Just a friendly reminder that we will be celebrating our 4th Anniversary this Sunday 12/2/07 from 4pm until 2am. The Chef will be preparing tasty complimentary appetizers and we will have drink specials and giveaways all night long. The winners of the annual Good Dog photo contest will be announced at 7pm. As always it is a fundraiser for Morris Animal Shelter, so 100% of all raffle proceeds (which Good Dog will match) and 20% of total sales will go towards helping Morris keep up the great work. In honor of our 4th birthday Flying Fish Head Brewer Casey Hughes has created our very own signature brew…
We will be tapping Flying Fish Good Fish Anniversary Ale at 4pm…it is a Double Hopped IPA and it is delicious!

I think I just really hurt my left arm while sneezing.

-First off, lined up a venue today for the City vs. City Smackdown on December 10th and I think it’s gonna be pretty awesome. Announcement coming tomorrow.

-Quizzo tonight at the Good Dog at 8 p.m. Still no overwhelming favorites at the Good Dog (15th and Locust), so if you’re team is decent but not unstoppable and you wanna try to get a win, I suggest you play here.

-At the Bards (20th and Walnut) at 10:15 p.m. The Bards does get the NFL Network on their high def TVs, so if you play quizzo, you won’t miss the Packers vs. Cowboys game.

After his provocative, in depth look at Ron Paul, I had no choice but to make Chip Chantry my official political correspondent. Chip is not only a terrific comedian (he will be performing December 5-8 at Helium) he also has a lot of experience in politics, having once run for Class Treasurer in the 6th Grade. (He lost in a landslide.) Anyways, he will be doing interviews with several of the candidates for President. He begins with Mike Huckabee.

“And let me tell you something about that WOP Giuliani,” MIke Huckabee whispered with a defiant grin, “If he thought he had a bad September ’01, wait till he sees what The Huck has in store for him in December ’07.”

That’s what immediately endeared me to Mike Huckabee: his spunk. This governor of Alabama has shed many pounds over the years, but he has not lost an ounce of grit.

During a campaign stop in Duluth, MN last week, I had the privilege of spending the afternoon with an individual posturing to become the most powerful man in the world; an unlikely profession for such an unassuming, yet captivating southern gentleman. As we briskly walked hand-in-hand along the banks of Lake Superior, Mike Huckabee invited me into his America: an America of truth, justice, and unorthodox surgical procedures.

CHIP CHANTRY– First of all, why Lake Superior?

MIKE HUCKABEE– I like things big, young man. BOLD. Do you think any self respecting candidate would be caught dead along Lake Huron, that piece of crap pond? Do you know who likes Lake Huron, Chip? Gays and Asians.

CC– Point taken. Let’s get down to brass tacks. What’s the first thing Mike Huckabee would change about America if he got elected?

MH– We need to trim the fat from this government. I lost 100 pounds. I know about cutting out the excess.

CC– For example?

MH– I’m a big supporter of Home Schooling- less students we have to educate. And, I mean, those kids are nerds anyway. But let’s not stop with Home Schooling. What about Home Healthcare? Home Gun Control? Home Social Security? If we put the onus on each household, less bureaucrats! I lost 100 pounds.

CC– Congratulations. You look great.

MH– And here is something you may not know about the Mike Huckabee. I was the first man in North America to undergo a hysterectomy, or as I like to call it, a Hucksterectomy. (He shows me his scar, then his eyes light up.) Eat your vitamins and say your prayers, because Huckamania is running wild!

CC– Was a hysterectomy actually neccessary?

MH– My body is like the federal government; you don’t truly know if there is a problem until you get in there and root around a while. And let me tell you one thing you won’t find in my abdomen- 100 extra pounds. I ran a marathon. (He attempts to high five me.)

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Here’s my latest, on what local celebrity smackdowns you’d most like to see. The Metropolis asks, “What philebrity rasslin’ matches would you like to see?”

https://youtube.com/watch?v=F2LYnfb0KbU

Eddie Rabbitt

A few weeks ago, I offered regular commenter Bob T. a column on this website so that he could spout off his right wing diatribes to an enormous audience. Well, a midsized audience. Ok, ok, so an audience consisting of you and Palestra Jon. Whatever. Bob T. has decided to start his column by tackling the Valerie Plame (That’s Valerie above, not Bob) affair. It’s a damn impressive column, I think. Bob might have even been sober when he wrote it. And it seems fitting that he started with a story about an undercover agent: Bob sent me this column thru an intermediary to protect his anonymity. I am not kidding. Enjoy.

In his State of the Union Address in January of 2003, George W. Bush had asserted that the Hussein regime attempted to procure uranium yellow cake from Niger — an assertion that would become known as “the sixteen words.” In July of 2003, shortly after the invasion of Iraq, former ambassador Joseph Wilson published an op-ed piece in the New York Times entitled “What I Didn’t Find in Africa.” This essay was highly critical of the Bush administration and asserted that during his fact-finding mission to Niger prior to the start of the war, Wilson had found no evidence that the Hussein regime had sought to procure uranium yellow cake. Shortly after publication of this article, Robert Novak published a piece in which he identified Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, as an employee of the CIA. Wilson then charged that the Bush administration had “outed” his wife, revealing her employment as a covert CIA agent, in a deliberate attempt to punish him for his criticism.

Well, here we had a “scandal” custom made for the mainstream media and their continuing obsession with the evil machinations of the Bush administration. Congressional hearings were held, the New York Times piously editorialized. Wilson announced at one point that he looked forward to seeing “Karl Rove frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs.” Ultimately, a U.S. Attorney, Patrick Fitzgerald, was chosen as a Special Counsel to investigate this assumed violation of federal law — the statute in question being The Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982.

Unfortunately, some problems soon cropped up that began to subvert this pleasing anti-Bush-administration narrative with all its anticipated delights such as felony indictments, convictions, impeachment proceedings, etc. For one thing, Valerie Plame’s then current status with the CIA failed to meet the criteria for what constitutes “covert status.” While Plame had been employed years previously in covert status, her position at that time was as a CIA analyst. Anyone interested in Valerie Plame’s employment could have followed her to work and watched her drive into CIA headquarters in Langley, VA. (This is what’s known in intelligence lingo as “deep cover.”) Plame’s covert status had actually been exposed years previously by the notorious traitor and spy, Aldrich Ames. Her ability to serve as a covert agent hopelessly and permanently compromised, Valerie’s cloak and dagger days were long past by the time her husband published his article in the Times. There was no chance she could ever again be given a covert assignment.

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As most of you know by now, Philadelphian Celeste DiNucci pulled off a spectacular run at the recent Jeopardy Tournament of Champions and came away with a $250,000 victory. An occasional quizzo player, I asked her about her experience on the show, how quizzo compares to Jeopardy, and about the rock star-like rager I assumed she had after her win.

JGT: First of all, congratulations, Celeste. Tell me, how intense is it to be up there with Alex, the bright lights, the cameras etc.?

Celeste: Well, not nearly so comfortable as sitting around a table in the Black Sheep or O’Neals, but it also seems to go by much more quickly.

JGT: How would you compare Jeopardy to quizzo, in terms of difficulty?

Celeste: Two totally different games, actually. Quizzo seems to be about scouring the corners of your brain for all of those inexplicably irrelevant yet interesting facts, whereas for Jeopardy, there’s more of a core of information that makes up the Jeopardy universe. You know that you’ll be asked about Shakespeare, you know that you’ll be asked about science, you know that you’ll be asked about some aspect of American history. And often you can sort of piece information from different areas together to come up with the right response.

JGT: Do you think that quizzo would be a good or bad study aide to someone who wanted to be on Jeopardy?

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O’NEALS

• Young, the Old, and the Restless 93
• Close Enough For Government Work 85
• Not Giving Thanks 82
• Cornbread Mafia 77
• Werewolf Bar Mitzvah 76

BARDS

• Sofa Kingdom 99
• Hurtin’ Bombs 95
• Tom Turkey 95
• Alec Trebek Runs Full Speed With a Boner 87
• Narcotyzing Dysfunktion 86

LOCUST RENDEZVOUS

• The Jams 104
• River of Rocks 94
• Can I Has a Cheeseburger? LOL 91
• 1022 79
• Tom and Kathleen 75

BLACK SHEEP

• Satan’s Minions 92
• Philly Softcore 91
• F Ghandi, Squanto’s My Favorite Indian 91
• Mayor’s Minions 86
• The Kiddie Table 85