“And you know what, it reminds me of President Obama and the economy,” he contended.

Really? This is his pitch for a job as vice-president?

Well then this squirrel poop on the bottom of my shoe reminds me of Paul Ryan. It’s nutty and no matter how much it stinks, I’m not going to touch it.

Right back at ya, Sparky.

If you can’t get it right, it is time to get out.

…unless we’re talking about trickle-down economics and tax cuts for “job creators”, in which case FULL STEAM AHEAD!

FFS. He’s taking a disastrous attempt at union-busting and trying to make it about the national debt? What a fucking tool.

He gets his pony when the union gets its pension.

Ayn Rand collected Social Security benefits, just like he did.

Ryan’s special. If you don’t believe it, just ask him…

I’ve always wanted to deregulate sports…just to make a point.

Let’s lock out all the refs!

That last link is a fun read – bizarre and (to me) other-worldly, but fun.
I wonder if her whole approach as a sports team fan carries over to other aspects of her life; scary thing to contemplate.

Someone on the prior thread (I think) eloquently wrote a comment about going full Galt NFL & having no Refs, no Rules, hand out sling-shots to the crowd coming in & serve tons of alcohol.

I thought pussy R-ayn was all ovah that kind of libertarianish “rugged individualism”??

WTF? R-ayn can’t take it when his “team” got beat? So R-ayn is blaming his “team’s” performance on non-union Refs? Isn’t R-ayn against the unions who are sucking the life-blood out of the poor benighted 1%?

I haz confused…

You know, it’s just like taking out a loan at a bank…you think you are playing by the rules, the banksters rip the ball out of your hand, and then congress just lets them keep the ball!!!!!!! WTF!

Hey, at least America has games to watch. Up here in Canada the lack of NHL hockey is revolting. And then Red Wings exec Devellano gets fined by Gary Fucking Bettman for telling the truth!

I think Goodell, all the NFL owners, Bettman and all the NHL owners should all be put on a fully enclosed and heavily guarded field, buck fucking naked save their wallets. Fight to the death, and the last man or woman standing is then summarily shot and pissed on. All officiamated over by NFL replacement zebras, of course.

Then, for the second half we can have all the union-busting whiny cuntbags that weally weally want weal NFL refs back to strip, shove a grape up each of their asses and make them crawl to the other end of the field, forward, and then back to the original starting line, backwards. Last person eats everyone else’s grape (Ryan won’t be able to help himself!) and then all, including the replacement officials, are summarily shot and pissed on.

I’d fucking pay to see that, boy howdy.

LMFAO!!!

Am I at espn.com?

Fine. Romney is losing. His wife is a bitch. Obama is the worst president ever. And drones are going to kill us all unless we elect Jill Stein.

Happy now?

Interview with the sparkly nailed girl after the Packers loss:

Q: What on earth did you do to your nails to cause this?

Well, the video shows conclusively that we can’t really blame the incompetent refs for the Packer’s loss. It was clearly the fault of Tearful Cheesette’s friend Megan, who made her wear the sparkly nail polish and the Clay Matthews jersey.

Poor Eddie.

I can hardly wait til Pebble Beach.

No refs in golfing….

[Cue the music:] “LOOK FOR THE UNION LABEL!. . .”

Casey, you are not psychotic. Those refs work for Paul Ryan.

C’mon now, don’t hold back — tell us how you really feel. Bottling up your emotions can lead to behaving like a Republican.

“I find your tears amusing” is an excellent category; I don’t think I’ve seen it before but I welcome its frequent use, especially since the we’ve got wingnutageddon coming up soon.

If Paul Ryan visited Somalia he’d come away saying “You know, this is a great demonstration of the terrible effects of centralized government and over-regulation”

Because of course anything bad is. Anything good must come from God and freedom. Total, utter, unregulated freedom. Not like Somalia though.

Yeah, Ryan wants the (unionized) regular refs back.

Guess who else chimed in?

http://www.channel3000.com/news/Walker-calls-for-return-of-union-refs/-/1648/16734100/-/beilco/-/index.html

I’m calling for the return of collective bargaining and state employee unions, Scotty! I do believe we’ll both be frustrated!!

Tom, you’re right: the stuff writes itself. There have been a lot of awful calls so far this “season”. I do believe next weekend I will hie myself to the garage for the next several Sundays and work on an old FIAT. That will be far more rewarding than watching the current NFL charliefox…..

Oh. Let’s not foget that Rep. Ryan/Rand is a fan of the team “owned” by the community, not some cock-bite like Jerry Jones.

Oh, the humanity!!!!

As a Lions fan, I have seen so many bad calls go the Packers’ way, first during the Favre years and into the Rodgers years, while the announcers were on their knees worshipping every Green Bay fart. Quit your whining, cheeseheads. They can’t all go your way. F Paul Ryan!

If you disagree with Bibi Netanyahu, elected head of Israel, and think he is an asshole, you are an anti-Semite … HITLER!!

If you disagree with President Barack Obama … PATRIOT!!!

Doncha love being a client state? Love how that works.

Please correct me if I’m wrong, but the replacement refs are “on the field”. The (regular NFL employed) fellers in the replay booth are not part of the “replacement refs” and could have easily gone with the call “on the field” just to make those poor smucks look like, well, poor smucks and add to the uproar.

Dr President Jill Stein would’ve gotten the call correct and picked the winners and losers*….

*betters took a pounding on this game and the bookies cleaned up. Invisible Hand! Invisible Hand!

Those who oppose Obama really have no earthly idea what a Romney presidency and republican control of congress would do. But it is fraking fun to knock him.

Yeah Jill Stein will free us all. No? Oh fucking great now what do we do?

Who will be the first to tell those Billionaire owners (and Walker and Ryan): You get what you pay for, bitch!

~ Harry R. Sohl

A referee with good pay and a pension to protect is a hell of a lot less likely to take bribes or other inducements. Too much is at risk.

Perhaps the NFL owners would prefer to pay refs a flat $100 per game and then let the highest bidder(s) purchase a promise of prefence for their team?

From the owners’ standpoint, right now they’re funding a pension program that is a defined benefit program, said Goodell.
About ten percent of the country has that. Yours truly doesn’t have that. It’s something that doesn’t really exist anymore and that I think is going away steadily.

What we agreed to do and offer as ownership, he added, is that they would have a defined contribution plan, in the form of 401(k), so they’ll still have a pension plan but the risk, like [for] most of us, would be on individuals.

They are charged with FAIRLY and ACCURATELY officiating and controlling a competition on which, literally, millions of dollars ride, a business which tens of thousands of people rely on for their livelihoods, and protecting the health and safety of the highly paid players, Goodell.

Splurge a little you greedy fucking shit-stains.

Nobody cares. Their shit is played.

Baseball is the national pastime.

Exactly! >applause<

Meanwhile, Chris Kluwe, already in the Real Men Hall of Fame for his comments taking down an antigay Maryland state legislator who tried to browbeat the Ravens because Brendan Ayanbadejo dared speak out on behalf of marriage equality (just. go. read.), adds more luster to his good name:

I’m A Minnesota Viking, And I Think The Packers Got Screwed

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Let’s be clear: We’re past the preseason now. These games really matter, and the Packers just lost one that counts for real, one that by all rights they should have won. As a divisional rival, it pains me to say this, but the Packers got royally horsebuggered on that last play, and this could have serious implications down the road when it comes to playoff seeds and homefield advantage.

One of the main points Commissioner Goodell has always harped on is protecting the shield: not letting anything tarnish the brand of the NFL. Commissioner, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but right now the shield is tarnishing faster than a sailor’s virtue in a two-dollar whorehouse. Players see it; coaches see it; fans see it. These refs are not fit to stand in for the men you’ve locked out for what is increasingly looking like nothing more than simple greed—attempting to squeeze blood from a stone simply because you can. The NFL is America’s No. 1 sport in part because everyone watching it knows that the players determine the outcome of a game, not the refs. As of right now, you’re hurting business by putting a product out on the field that challenges that belief.

Excuse me, a question – is that supposed to be Mrs. TBogg?

And the crowd goes wild . . .

Hey, didn’t I see that comment at espn.com?

Business bestseller of next year: Who Moved My Cheesehead?

I’m putting that as my FB profile for a day … Well Done, TBogg !

Since I live in Seattle I aint sayin’ shit except go Jill Stein.

Drones bad

Obama is Keynen

Roethlisberger is a rapist. ( I’m still pissed about the shitty refs in Superbowl XL )

Well if he was cheesed off by that then he be gittin his full rogue-on with this:

“Dan Senor, one of Romney’s closest advisers, has kept a tight grip on Ryan, traveling with him everywhere and making sure he hews to the directions of the Romney “brain trust” in Boston. (A brain trust, rumor has it, that refers to Ryan as “Gilligan.”)”

Gilligan? Are you fuckin kiddin me, The Holy Manchild of the Galtian Promiseland an the “brain trust” in Boston calls him Gilligan?

This means full-on Stench Warfare. Git Palin on the phone and alert the Militias.

We’re all going to lose so long as capitalism prevails anyhow so it really is asinine to try and lay the guilt on thick for others who are not prepared to march themselves in line and vote for Obama. Without challenging the system which necessitates perpetually increasing consumption just to achieve near full employment and in which the only motivation is self-interest, we are doomed to failure. There is no tenable long-term alternative to dismantling capitalism internationally in the years to come. Fortunately, it is hard to see how support for this will not swell with the working classes coming under particularly sustained and vicious attack throughout the developed world since the meltdown. The world’s elite seem to be getting too greedy, too audacious of late- they are placing themselves in a precarious position indeed!

To say that overplaying the distinctions between a Romney presidency and a second term of Obama is not seeing the forest for the trees is putting it mildly.

We’re going to have to deduct two points from your student essay for failing to use the phrase “corporate duopoloy” although we’re sure your argument played very well without those terms in your dorm room at 1AM during your Shit Is Fucked Up And Bullshit bull session right before making a Taco Bell run.

We welcome further submissions blaming it all on The Man because the oldies are always the goldies.

And the refs award TBogg a touchdown for necessary roughness.

Well, in their defense, every Thurston Howell III must have his Gilligan.

Also, I’m certain that show is where most of them learned their economic/class theories. You’ll notice the rich are treated preferentially and housed palatially even tho’ money itself actually has absolutely no value on that island.

~ Harry R. Sohl

This jersey, that jersey, sparkly nail polish… no, here’s what you should wear: a stripey referee suit and a whistle. Maybe they’ll call you down from the stands to take over for Referee Wally, who just got tackled accidental-like… not yet? Okay. NOW he just got tackled, accidental-like. Go on down there, girl! You can’t do worse.

If your writing dripped with as much substance as it does unfounded smugness maybe it’d be worth a damn. Could you articulate why you are so satisfied with the current system at all or does the satisfaction you get from knowing you fit inside the mainstream trump all else? Why don’t you learn to debate the merits of the idea instead of being a high-handed twat?