Honeymoon site

Check out the name of these cabins. I think it would be perfect for the honeymoon.

Don't try to file a complaint against the police in Florida...

check out the video...

Jets update for Tim

So the JETS have decided to go crazy and change everything.
New coach and GM... Good decisions. Herm I liked but he did not want to be there. GM was terrible.

Pennington - Hurt... always hurt. I love Chad but it may be time for him to be a backup or be traded. It willbe hard to trade given his shoulder status and the fact that he will hit our cap pretty bad.

John Abraham - franchised to trade. hopefully can get either a good draft pick or a new QB. Trade to DC for Ramsey and a 3rd round sounds pretty good to me.

Draft Pick - We are currently 4th. I have always been a fan of trading down to get more picks however with either Cutler or Young probably going to be on the board it would be hard to trade especially with our cap problems.

RB - Martin is getting older but last year was tough b/c with the QB down D's keyed on him and he got hurt. I would like to see us take a 2nd round RB. What would really rock is that we stink again next year. get the 1st pick and take Peterson who will come out early next year. BOOOOMER!!

So in the end I think it will be a painfull rebuilding year and we are going to suck but will be good in a few years.

Another day,

another example of how crappy the Jets' front office is...

I wish I could say that this is the last one of these I'll be posting, but the evidence suggests that the Jets organization will do something else stupid sooner or later... Speaking of which, when is the NFL draft anyway?

Any votes in favor of taking the Jets margarita off the front page?

Hawaiian Shirt Friday: Cat Brains and JRs

Hawaiian Shirt Friday: Cat Brains and JRs

I've seen worse. A saggy old man with floppy balls and a cholostomy bag sitting beside a swimming pool in Florida. Now that's a bad sight! Or how about a saggy old woman who's had a double mastectomy sitting naked beside a pool married to the saggy old man. The human body is not pretty.

Mom

The United States of America

Leading the world in ignorance...

Apparently, the latest front in the war on science is in our nation's museums of natural history...

The money quote: "It's an interesting kind of arrogance to dismiss something that you don't know a lot about," [head curator] Johnson says of the [biblical] tour guides."

Or, if you want to look at the problem of ignorance in a different way, Jeff Danziger shows the difference between the US and India...

Select comments and quotes from Fox's interview w/ Cheney

From T.A. Frank of The New Republic (which is subscription only... e-mail me if you'd like a copy of the whole article)...

Thank goodness for Fox, because if any other station had interviewed the vice president there wouldn't have been narrative like this: "Hospital officials meanwhile say the man that Vice President Cheney shot is doing fine after his minor heart attack and that he wonders what all the hoopla is about." Or you might have missed Fred Barnes's analysis: "Look, it might have been more important if, one, the victim had died, and, two, Cheney were running for president, but ... even then it would have been just a shooting accident." Right--if all of us had to put off our careers every time we accidentally shot somebody, nothing would ever get done.

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And Cheney even seemed to take responsibility for the problem: "Well, ultimately, I'm the man who pulled the trigger that fired the round that hit Harry." (I fired the round, which hit the man, who saved the quail, who'd managed to fly. I don't know why it happened to fly. That's my reply.) Still, he didn't take too much responsibility: "[Y]ou can talk about all of the other conditions that existed at the time, but ... it was not Harry's fault." Translation: You can talk about the talking points my henchmen have been putting forward--"[T]he other gentleman made a serious error by not indicating that he was there" (ex-senator and Cheney buddy Alan Simpson, exhumed for the occasion); or "[Cheney] didn't do anything he wasn't supposed to do" (Cheney advisor Mary Matalin, presumably endorsing the shooting); or "[Whittington] didn't signal them or indicate to them or announce himself" (ranch owner Katharine Armstrong, fresh from a talk with Karl Rove)--but far be it from me to blame Harry in any way.

But when questions turned to how Cheney had handled disclosure of the incident, the vice president made little sense. Hume questioned the overnight delay: "[T]he one thing that we've all kind of learned over the last several decades is that if something like this happens, as a rule sooner is better." Cheney's response: "Well, if it's accurate. If it's accurate. And this is a complicated story." Hume seemed unsatisfied: "But there were some things you knew. I mean, you knew a man had been shot, you knew he was injured, you knew he was in the hospital, and you knew you'd shot him." Well, yeah, Cheney conceded, but no reason to get all hasty: "[I]t was also important, I thought, to get the story out as accurately as possible." But if Cheney wanted the story to be as authoritative as possible, why didn't he put out a statement himself, instead of elevating a ranch owner to the position of impromptu vice presidential spokeswoman? "[S]he was the most credible one to do it," Cheney said, "because she was a witness." And why wouldn't he go directly to the national media rather than relying on the Corpus Christi Caller-Times? Cheney's response: "[A]s the media outlets have proliferated, speed has become sort of a driving force, lots of times at the expense of accuracy. And I wanted to make sure we got it as accurate as possible."

Yes, that all makes sense. I think. Why do I feel a sudden urge to drill for oil?

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Speaking of gyms and such...

I would've paid the dollar....

The Jets Front Office: The Gift that keeps Giving

I don't know why Colin even bother writing this blog if he's not going to comment on all the latest developments in the wacky world of the Jets' front office....

my favorite take on the Cheney situation so far

by Joel Achenbach: I find the story reassuring. Cheney is a man who doesn't just talk the talk. No, if he's going to send American soldiers into harm's way, where they might be shot at any moment by a deranged fanatic, he's also going to do the same thing to his close personal friends. He's giving his hunting buddies a taste of life in the Cheney Era, when you count yourself lucky just to get out alive.

Update: Because this really is a big story and we all could use lessons in gun saftey...

More, More, More.... Thank god it's not like he did something serious, like spooge on a young woman's dress....

Can you believe it? Even more... Now, I don't want to call the VP a complete fucking idiot... well OK, I do but... all you need to do to get your license stamped properly is go to friggin' Wal-Mart or any other shop... apparently, Cheney couldn't plan far enough ahead to get that right... Honestly, it's not that hard...

Tom Toles previews the Democrats' 2006 campaign

i think he gets it about right...

Democracy is a beautiful thing...

but the american system works well too...

I remember watching a documentary about Andy Kaufman...

and they interviewed Bob Saget. And, at the instant Saget appeared, I thought to myself how improbable it was that they would interview him, of all people, for the documentary. Then, Saget said that, although the audience would never know it from the shows he was most famous for (namely, Full House and America's Funniest Home Videos), his act as a comedian had been largely inspired by Andy Kaufman...

I have spent some time figuring out what his act could possibly have been like...

Now, I have a slightly better idea...

Garrison Keillor wonders....

why it is that as the federal government keeps growing, the president keeps shrinking...

As a Redskins fan, far be it from me to criticize another teams front office....

But the Jets ownership is a joke...

I am glad to see that the new hire is a Tulane Law grad however... just what we need: another non-practicing Tulane lawyer.

Tulane in da house

The new Jets GM graduated Cum Laude from Tulane Law School where he earned his certificate in sports law. I guess he went from one crappy green team to another. Go Greeen Wave!!

Oh when the Saints go marching in

Sorry, terrible pun but great news. Even though I probably won't be able to make most of the games and even though I'm a diehard Redskins fan, I think I will but season tickets to help support the city.

An interview with Delay opponent Nick Lampson by Josh Marshall

Here...

You love Tom Delay, I love Tom Delay...

Heck, we all love Tom Delay

And, frankly, it breaks my heart to see that his defense fund is in the red...

Please, look deep within your heart and see if you can find a way to give something to help Tom Delay to move on...

Update: Josh Marshall has more here.