We have a few football games coming up, and they usually generate lounge comments, so it’s time for a new one for that and other loungey stuff.
Chiefs at Raiders tonight at the Coliseum.
The Big Game, Saturday at 1 p.m. in Berkeley.
(Hell, The Game, Saturday morning our time at Harvard Stadium. ESPN’s Game Day crew will be there.)
The Washington D.C. football team vs. the 49ers Sunday in Santa Clara.
One not happening: Jets and Bills on Sunday in Buffalo. It sounds like it’s probably being moved to Monday night at Ford Field in Detroit.
I’m surprised they wouldn’t try Jets at Bills in Syracuse in the Orange Dome.
I’m surprised they’re going to bother playing it at all. It’s not like either team is going anywhere.
Ew.
why were the boca guys fighting each other after the draw?
i must have missed that. what happened?
it was right after it ended. a few of the active players were shoving one another. and the black bibbed guys calmed the 3 or 4 participants down.
then they cut to the river guys clapping
i guess i looked away right there because i did see the river guys clapping but not the part before.
i wonder what it was. there was a horrible free kick attempt at the end and the TV guys were jumping on someone about it, like he waited too long / not long enough, or he should have called the ref’s attention to river moving the wall up, plus he kicked it horribly.
yeah, that looked weird. But what do I know.
Also its all in spanish.
I was on a FOX station
deportes.
The weather may be the equalizer the Raiders need to actually win a game. Wouldn’t surprise me if this were the game.
They need to figure out how to get the rest of the game called RIGHT NOW!
It looked like sewage.
A couple of Callaspo’s turds are probably mixed in there somewhere.
move it to buffalo?
We get a .25 win for leading at the end of the first right?
are you looking for a shut down quarter?
The reality is, after that half they should have a lot of confidence,now they just need to come out and show the consistency in the second half.
There it went.
Why is that guy wearing sunglasses in the darkness and rain?
Bad eyes.
are you james taylor all of a sudden?
She’s seen fire AND rain.
Who? What?
Al Davis?
Does anyone else think its a bad idea to take all of your Hall of Famers- most of whom are in their 50’s or 60’s- and have them stand out in the middle of a monsoon for half an hour or so?
I know Mark may be trying to think of creative ways to make Oakland eventually hate him but this is extreme.
Madden is 78, and all I could think there was William Henry Harrison.
@aces They’re trying to rehydrate their skin. They’ll look 20 years younger in the second half.
I have never seen rain like this here before. FSU’s gambling manifesto says when acts of God intercede, take the points.
God I am going to now have to learn how to do screen grabs and stuff. This is how Taft beat Bakersfield in The Best of Times. I kept waiting for a shot of Kid Lester walking up the stairs to the WSC.
Can we talk about Cal basketball in here? Up 12 on Syracuse at the half in Madison Square Garden.
Bears 73
Elcroatas 59
Is it cold in Oakland?
It is California cold.
It is not midwest cold.
LOL
I was thinking, holy shit what a miserable game to be at.
Well, the rain is as cold as a cold shower.
And I bet it smells like crushed asshole in the stadium.
The Coliseum always smells like Saags and happiness.
It was fantastic game to be at. The rain was cleansing. Also so torrential that I couldn’t even text you lewd suggestions.
lol a lil at the QB’s celebration.
FK YEAH LOSING STREAK OVER
Any given Thursday.
HALLELUJAH
it’s raining Bed.
That last five minutes I was going crazy…woke up both kids…dog howling…wife laughing at me…don’t care…happy
I high-fived at least 30 random fans on the way out. The happiness among fans of a 1-10 team was genuinely delightful.
So everybody? :P
Thanks, and go As.
Even I was thrilled!
Same here. For various reasons the kids have never gotten into football. It is one of my great disappointments that I cant sit and watch with them.
But the eldest Ace walked by right about when DC was starting the last drive. I got him to sit down (knowing a little bit more about Derek gave him something to connect to) and by the time we scored he was yelling and high fiving me like a dude. Maybe this changes EVERYTHING!
Do you know what Twitch is? If your kids watch it, that’s their equivalent of sports.
Thank goodness Tuck called that timeout…if we had lost due to Mack and Moore still celebrating I may have died from a heart attack right there.
1. Tuck should get a game ball for that TO alone.
2. I don’t think NFL teams have a kangaroo court system, but if they did, Moore and Mack should be significantly poorer after this game.
3. Someone should remind them to keep track of the what the current FKing down is.
I agree with you on all three counts. I’ll give this team credit for one thing…they try hard. They don’t have many players, and they can be really dumb, but they do try. I hope Murray comes back healthy. I don’t care to see McFadden touch the ball again and I’m not sure Maurice Jones-Drew actually exists…oh, and cut Denarius Moore, tonight.
Moore is going into my HOF for WRs that seemed like they should become great and instead are horrible flameouts. He is in the class with Jerry Porter and Jacoby Ford.
I was listening on the radio and I thought Greg Papa was going to have a stroke (which would be a tremendous improvement for 95.7’s daily air, although I quite like him as a football PxP guy).
It is really difficult to truly evaluate Carr given the players around him, but I am becoming less and less impressed.
I would be very open to drafting Mariota.
I’d give the kid at least another year…hopefully with better coaching. He gets rid of the ball too soon but that can be overcome. If the next Manning or Luck was coming out then fine but I doubt any of these college QB’s are on that level.
No way. I like Carr a lot, but even if I didn’t, they gotta trade that pick, get DL and DB picks and really build this defense.
I would be perfectly fine them trading the pick.
Probably the best move they can make.
Pretty much always true of #1 picks. Takes ~30 good players to be a good team, and if you’re picking #1 you don’t already have 29
or you’re Indy and you lost PFM for a year and are gifted Andrew Luck.
Thanks, and go As.
Right, sure. Exception proves rule.
Grrrrrrr
I’m sure we’ll hear again for the 1,000 time that now we’ll see more of Reece as a runner…and then he won’t run the ball again for months. I’d love to pound the ball with Reece and Murray.
What I really loved was the scheme of Reese in that drive. Flat-out announced they were gonna run inside to move the chains and run clock, then did it. Most impressive drive of the season, by a lot.
Alex Smith is a nice player but…you’d have to have a great defense and an amazing running game to win the Super Bowl with him at QB. He just doesn’t make plays down the field.
Didn’t manage the game well.
He had a poor game tonight outside of that one stretch. Again, he’s a nice player but I don’t think he’s a championship player.
Stupid celebration aside…Mack is a player. If he can get just a little bit better at positioning he’s going to be a beast.
Michael Irvin doing commercials about people not breaking the law made me chuckle.
Hello, dont get caught breaking the law, or you’ll have to do a commercial just like this one.
It was nice to see all the Raiders Hall of Famers…although Ron Woodson is a Steeler to me…heck, he even played for the Ravens longer than he did the Raiders. I did forget he played for the 49ers for one year.
I hope no funerals are caused by this glorious reunion having happened in the middle of the cold and pouring rain.
The Oakland Raiders are the winningest NFL team in the history of November 20th, 2014…it ain’t much but I’ll take it.
Enjoy the lounge.
Just saw my first ever six-pack of Grapefruit Sculpin from Ballast Point in Seattle. Suffice to say, it is fan-fucking-tastic.
(mutters about putting fruit in beer and kicks the kids off his lawn)
Heh. In fairness, I asked if this meant they had the Habanero Sculpin of which I have never been able to try, but alas, that guy is not bottled.
you are in Seattle?
Vivace.
Okay, this is awesome.
Thanks, and go As.
They are right about one thing-thank God like 3 different people had the smrts to call the TO. If that had led to a loss I may have started a riot. Which in a boring residential neighborhood in Fresno would be REALLY hard to do.
Go to the corner of Fruit and Paul with a megaphone.
Yell loudly and repeatedly “Paul Is A Fruit.”
Throw live hamsters at anyone who gets near you.
Riot.
These football players sound almost human.
My season ticket partner who watches every Raider coach and player interview says that the players on the Raider D seem to genuinely like each other.
United in their common disdain for the Raider O, no doubt.
The only thing I hate about the Raiders offense is the coaches and players involved with it.
Preposterous IP overreach of the day.
turn it into a bar fight… just add bacardi.
Friday Funk Fiesta with us now as we blog upon the 74th birthday of one Mac Rebennack of New Orleans, Louisiana. You may know him best as the Gris-Gris grabbing, Goofa Dust speading Night Tripper, the incomparable “Dr. John” Creaux.. that’s right, Dr. John has a last name! And he’s also got an all-star band (including drum beast of devastation Steve Gadd) behind him for this 70-minute set, recorded off the radio in our nation’s capital 36 years ago and remastered extensively by yours truly all day yesterday! All this, that we might proclaim the heartiest “Yeah you right!” to this pillar of American music on his big day :P
Help, quick! In 20 minutes I’ll be watching Mockingjay and I haven’t read the books or seen the previous films. What do I need to know?
Bruce Willis is actually dead the whole time.
Shot by some girl with an arrow, right? It’s falling into place for me now.
I’m pretty sure that’s how it happens…oh, and her dad is Darth Vader.
And she takes naked selfies the entire time.
I’m for that…well, depending on who’s taking the selfies.
Revealing that she’s actually a guy.
i see ed people
Kill yourself now.
Is that an order or just a suggestion?
Maybe he didn’t make it??
The boat sinks at the end.
Thanks, and go As.
I think it’s safe to say that the most important thing you needed to know before going is that the movie is going to suck.
I read the books as the kids were reading them a year or 2 ago. Even for kids lit they got worse each one. Splitting this one into 2 is mind numbing to me.
I stopped after the first book. Haven’t been able to get into the second.
The good thing was they were short and easy to read so once you got going you could tear through them.
But yeah so much of Mockingjay ended up with me thinking “maybe 13 and the capital will just blow each other up and I wont have to read anymore.”
#SpoilerAlert?
I read the first book during nursey school, just so I could see the movie. I was looking forward to seeing Liam Hemsworth, and boy was I disappointed. He was in the movie for five minutes. As much press as he was doing? For a few scenes? Boo.
I don’t read or listen to Creed…I’m firm on this.
I think it’s a One Direction concert film.
Sorry I missed this. But of course everyone forgot the obvious: Mockinhjay is actually just the name of her childhood sled. It’s over in the corenr, about to be thrown in the fire.
Enjoy the soup.
I’m starting to feel better about the fact that I liked Family Ties more than The Cosby Show growing up…of course now someone will tell me that Michael J. Fox and Michael Gross were actually a serial killer combo in the 80’s.
Of course the real reason I liked Family Ties more is I’m a horrible racist…although I was hotter for Lisa Bonet than Jason Bateman’s sister. I guess I’m a complicated horrible racist.
What’s happened with Bill Cosby is a great reminder why you should only admire dead people…their current behavior can never disappoint you.
Oh, I’m sure your friendly neighborhood historical revisionist has a little bit of shade to share.
Look at how Mother Teresa’s reputation has taken a crap after her death. Someday she may even be known as a serial killer.
Hmm…maybe she was Michael Gross’ partner on that 80’s killing spree.
It’s all starting to make sense.
I thought Guardians of the Galaxy was just okay.
I haven’t seen it yet. It has a green skinned character in it so I doubt I’ll like it due to the horrible racist thing.
Green and blues and pinks!
Sounds like a bunch of commies listening to boring music.
I was happy to hear that Arkansas is only the third least educated state…we usually only beat Mississippi in these sort of things. Way to step up your game, West Virginia.
I’ve always thought it was strange that the state that’s the hardest to spell, Mississippi, has the residents least likely to be able to spell it.
I didn’t know what I was buying until I listened to it…
I like to use lemons for ice tea, to clean things, and to make Annette Bening face.
I have to admit that I’d like to see this one in the tagline rotation.
“Annette Bening Face” is a concept that deserves revisiting.
Well, I’ve got fifteen minutes…how about we bring peace to the Middle East?
Or you could bring me a sandwich.
Is that an dinner order or just a suggestion?
You know.
May I suggest a print sandwich on a Samsung.
My right hand is worn out from all the…uh…er…um…pocket pool I’ve played…wait, no…from all the jer…no, that’s not it…thumb wrestling I’ve done…yeah, that’s sounds plausible…they’ll buy that…I’m not typing this am I?
Enjoy the feature presentation.
Congratulations…you’ve won an all expense paid trip to beautiful Buffalo, New York.
To quote the late great Bob Dylan…it’s hip to be square.
Enjoy the cocktails.
I will. With an A’s tie in.
The Lyle Alzado Football Life documentary brought back some memories. 10 year old me loved Alzado.
To quote the late great Huey Lewis…the times they are a changin’.
um…nevermind
The news to me
I learned three things from tonight’s commercials on the NFL Network.
1. Infomercials still exist.
2. CD’s still exist.
3. Infomercials hawking CD’s still exist.
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you can get tom emanski video’s still
My favorite is the one from “Emanski After Dark” where Eddie Taubensee shows how much of a baseball bat a man can actually sit down on without injuring himself.
Is there no decency in humanity anymore?
It’s end times my friends…they’ve canceled Queen Latifah’s talk show.
Are there any C list celebrities who haven’t had a daytime talk show?
john stamos
He was married to Rebecca Romijn which makes him a B list celeb at least in my mind.
In other entertainment news…I’ve been told I’m still not cool enough to watch The Mentalist.
cbs doesn’t do hulu.
And they don’t take American Express.
So how do I watch CBS stuff then? Have to use their online app or something?
Related question-is there anything legal I can get to watch the A’s from MLB? I just checked some thing for MLB.TV and it said they are blacked out if I used it.
I am thinking about ditching cable when my contract is up in a few months. But to do so I need to find enough other parts to make the family viewing still work.
We just stopped watching CBS, but I suppose you could get an antenna and put it on your roof and wait for the progam to be listed in the Sunday paper’s pull out TV “gide” like your goddamned parents did.
as far as the A’s. there are, well, I don’t think there are ways to watch the A’s streaming on your TV without violating the terms of your service contract with mlb.tv.
Yeah. I started my look last night and I dont know if I am going to do what I wanted.
My idea was that I could get a Chromebox for each of the TVs, Hulu Plus, and the MLB.TV. But I am running into too many roadblocks.
-No A’s games
-Only one person can be on the Hulu plus at a time
-No CBS
But I still think it is cheaper to get Hulu for each of the kids than to get a cable box. And they dont watch CBS, so I can probably make it work. NoI just hope MLB gets less stupid about blackouts (I am 30 minutes too far north =( ) or I decide to become a criminal.
we have Netflix too.
there is a limit on hulu? huh.
you wouldn’t be a criminal. you would be violating your contract
By limit I mean it says only one person can stream at a time. Has anyone found that not to be true? If I can let the eldest Ace watch spongebob while lil miss ace watch something else, etc Im golden.
What about Amazon’s TV thing? It won’t have MLB, but you may be screwed on that anyway.
you can’t stream without a cable subscription.
Even with Prime?
you can stream Amazon stuff, just not MLB content
mlb content that is restricted by the blackout policy.
Proxies are pretty effective, or so I’ve heard. There’s a chrome extension called hola unblocker which may or may not be totally foolproof and completely legal.
If you have a mac computer and an apple tv box, you can mirror it right to the big screen. The chromecast dongle might do the same, not sure.
Curt The Science Pervert: The new kids science show on Fox News.
Watch as Curt Schilling perverts science, files for bankruptcy, and shows off bloody socks.
Is it confirmed that the sock was a hoax?
I’ll have to go over all the research that I do before I post here on Free Kraut to be sure.
I thought the reverse was true
With Ed and Bed doing all the posting this is a good time for young students to learn proper grammar and spelling.
I am half heartedly trying to figure out how to add a twitter account so I can post this gold
Free Kraut needs a twitter feed so we can tweet out all the A’s news we break.
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We totally nailed to move to
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Your 1937 Philadelphia Athletics!
– Finally adopted those uniform numbers!
– Only 5 Athletics HBP the entire year!
– I miss Jimmie Foxx
#RIP John Shibe
#FreeKraut1937
The Trotsky trial was getting boring until they decided to increase the number of judges since FDR thinks it is such a swell idea.
And please don’t post any Spoilers from Little Orphan Annie-I had mom write tonight’s episode down for me so I could go check out this new Daffy Duck character at the Warnors.
#FreeKraut1937
Can Manchester City continue to defy their pythagorean record? Being relegated despite scoring the most goals in the first division would be quite an achievement.
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Thinking of moving to Marin now that I can drive my motor car to work. I should be able to fit a much larger radio in a house out there.
Stop making this about you.
Western Union me.
win
Commas and periods are anti-social…they just want to separate things.
I haven’t cut my hair in a while…I’m about two months and a bottle of bleach away from having a Hulk Hogan look.
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Enjoy the veal.
Go Crimson!
I was thinking “that stadium looks like it dates back to the Spanish-American War” and looking it up, I just about nailed it.
Also LOL at the Harvard kicker for wearing glasses on the field.
Hurrah
For most of the 4th quarter that seemed headed for the worst implosion since the AL wild card game. The A’s retain the dishonor for now.
::shakes fist::
KU’s evisceration by the Sooners in Norman is being delayed by thunderstorms. The Big Game is scheduled to follow that game on FS1. This likely means much of the first half of the Big Game will be shown on Fox Business Network or HAHAHA Fox News Channel.
Whew.
Furd’s offense goes from bad to awful without Montgomery, so that makes the matchup with our defense even. The Bears can definitely win this thing if our offense can hold on to the ball on Furd’s side of the field.
…or inside our own 10 yard line.
I flipped on the radio just in time to hear Joe Starkey say “Oh my, it’s intercepted by Stanford again.” That’s all the Cal football for me this season.
Even with a horrid loss today, the state of college football is such that Cal gets an invite to some dreadful bowl game if they beat a very mediocre BYU team next week.
Disappointed in the game today but clearly the team that was better won, so congratulations batgirl.
On our side, whether we beat BYU and go to a bowl game doesn’t matter all that much. Sonny will certainly be judged on his third season. I’d strongly recommend that he not have the worst defense in FBS next year.
Florida, of course
yup, the racists turned out in force to support their house n****r. Fuck them.
There are so many layers of wrong here, it might be a taco bell “burrito”
Yeah, that’s not racist. At all. Just wow.
Wow, three straight Cal TDs overturned by the refs, who I can only assume bet the under.
This game is a great demonstration of why I feared MLB replay so much. I have to say, I found it delightful in the Yale-Harvard game when the announcers said “that’s debatable, but the Ivy League doesn’t use replay”.
You made it!
Its old, and I saw it in the deadspin comments, but AV bait:
I saw a VERY relevant comment on Reddit that basically said for all the accolades he gets now, Messi won’t truly be appreciated until he retires and his records aren’t broken for decades.
Thanks, and go As.
The best part of winter is soup.
i’m making leek potato as we speak!
There’s a restaurant in Nashville I’ve been to a few times that has an amazing chicken tortilla soup. I’ve had dreams about it.
I made some good vegetable barley soup last night, but it will be even better when I reheat it tomorrow.
My grandma makes oxtail and barley vegetable soup.
I made taco soup for work tomorrow.
We’ve been all about Spoonerisms at home recently, so when mrs ptbnl made pea soup …
My crock pot says you are only sort of right.
Instead of flowers, people should send bouquets of french fries. Like an Edible Arrangement.
Bottles of booze. I want you all doing shots over my grave.
and we got groups for june!
CHI
mex
ecu
bol
ARG
uru
par
jam
BRA
col
per
ven
(top two go through. third placers go into mini 3-way round robin with top two going through.)
it even seems feasible the order balls came out in is the order the teams will finish. no clear group of death, with 2 biggies per group.
That reminds me of this AV bait I saw earlier today.
saw that. i don’t know how anybody coulda been fooled though. he looks more like brett michaels than cani.
Wait, are you saying that the third place teams are going to play two additional games each between the groups and the knockouts just to eliminate one team? That’s new.
that’s what i thought when i looked at the brackets. in retrospect (i haven’t gone back to confirm) it makes more sense that they’re just going to compare their existing records *as* third-placers and pick the two better ones to go through.
Your original understanding would be more fair and more fun. I just don’t think there’s time.
it’d almost make more logistical sense to open it up to 6 teams from the north and have 4 groups of 4…
holy smokes concacaf has a lot of members.
bonaire? that’s the nice neighborhood next to beverly hills right? they get their own team??
and montserrat? the doctrinized private preschools where they teach you how to put on sweaters left to left???
You can have Suriname and the Guyanas back, if you want them.
I got bit by the NFL bug and wanted to watch some games, but I don’t have cable or regular TV.
So, I’ve been watching all the Houston Oilers games from the 70’s and 80’s I can find. Dan Pastorini and Earl Campbell were frickin’ awesome!
Well I cant find my favorite football banner ever to place here: at the HOU-OAK WC game someone at the Coli had a Campbells “Creamed Earl” sign. It was definitely too big for Lew’s liking.
So instead, here is some of Earl’s sauce for you.
They did provide great moments in television history such as this one.
I literally had that on in the background tonight as I cooked dinner for my folks and wife, but my mom had me turn the sound off because Howard Cosell gets on her nerves.
Thanks for pointing that dude out. I can see him being pretty much over it by that point. I’m surprised he didn’t pick his nose too.
This Ferguson prosecutor. Good lord, man, just shut up now.
The guy fired 12 shots at the unarmed kid! 12!
The most insane part is that they decided that there isn’t even probable cause to think a crime might have taken place. Can you imagine what would happen if the decision whether or not to prosecute any crime was made on similar basis?
That was one dry, scratchy voice. And he was very repetitive. Then again, we are talking about a general audience with a short attention span and who mostly don’t understand what the process entails, specifically I’m looking at you news media.
For the third time, NO! He can’t tell you how the grand jury voted.
INQUIRING MINDS NEEEEED TO KNOW!!!! And by that, I mean the News Media. Damn Jim, we’ve got to spin this thing!!! SPIN!! SPIN!! SPIN!!!!
i don’t understand the bruising on the right side of the young officer’s face.
Split-screen of the president speaking in measured tones while pitched battle rages in an American street. Yikes.
Very surreal.
Having George Zimmerman’s lawyer as the expert in the CNN studio seems somewhat provocative.
haven’t watched any.
But am at my parents house, and the news teased “find out if a white police officer is charged for killing a black teenager” as if there was a question.
whole situation is just sad.
Thanks, and go As.
and keeps happening again and again.
One of these days there’s going to be a perfect storm of events that’s going to escalate this shit beyond what we’re already seeing.
yeah, when it happens to affluent white people.
Thanks, and go As.
Never, in other words.
1789 is not never. it’s just that when 1789 happens, 10 years later everything is barely-distinguishibly pro-affluent people again.
…but different people are affluent
I was thinking it would be the next Martin Luther King Jr. getting shot by a cop for walking down the street. But that might do it too.
Politically, if we want this shit to end, we need to cut the balls off of our police departments.
Cut their salaries to the bone. Up the education requirements. Don’t allow them to carry guns.
Then, the only people who will qualify to be cops are idealistic young liberal social workers…
THE EXACT PEOPLE WHO SHOULD BE COPS IN THE FIRST PLACE!
We probably need to change the way we prosecute police shootings. Even DAs who don’t have the background this guy did (father a cop killed in action) are invariably close to the cops just because they work with them and rely on them every day. Having someone from outside the usual process handle these cases would change the calculus for these guys when they decide whether to fire their weapons.
Agreed on that one. Either a special division of the state/fed. Or some outside, dare I say, Anti-cop group? Give the cop access to very qualified defense so they’re not totally screwed, but divorce those who protect the current system from the process.
I would be totally fine with having the DOJ handle every local cop prosecution, but I’m sure the Supreme Court would strike that down before the ink was dry.
I think an independant anti cop group would be better. State and Federal DsOJ are populated by the same pro prosecution people and DAs Offices.
That’s fair, but it’s not pro-prosecution that I’m primarily worried about here. It’s pro-cop, and more specifically, pro the particular police department for which the suspect worked. I can live with the prosecutor being a law and order type. I can’t live with him or her being completely in bed with the suspect’s force and having to continue working closely with that force on a daily basis.
I think both are a serious issue if only for the sake of insuring no bias. But the latter is definitely the heart of things. They HAVE to have a good working relationship to do their job properly. Having to go after a member of them puts law enforcement and the justice system had risk so it’s nearly impossible to accept their findings on their face.
How about this: if cop is wearing TURNED ON body camera, they retain the presumptions in their favor we have now (but we see exactly what happened. If not, presumption flips and we assume they had something to hide.
You’d want to add anything outside the view of the camera, anything lost while recording gets flipped. Only what can be corroborated by the video. Which is more or less what you’re saying anyway.
Yes please.
As a secondary benefit, I like the idea of turning around the “if you have nothing to hide, why are you afraid of being watched” argument on cops.
absolutely. I have a few DA fb friends. they are reasonable people in general, but the posts a couple of them have made…yeesh, they just can’t separate.
I just don’t see how an outsider DA could look at what went down there and say that the DA office did its job. It’s baffling.
Prosecutors are different people.
its true.
After last trial, the my jury* took the prosecutor to task for repeatedly “asking” my client, who took the stand, if she was a liar (she admitted to lying to the cops after her arrest) about the stolen property and drugs found in her car.
he was genuinely shocked that him saying “so you are a liar? That’s what you do you lie, right?” “You’re a liar, right?”
Many have no idea why our clients, don’t just stop doing drugs and stealing and get a job.
*although voting to convict on the more serious charges, it was a nothing to lose trial, offer was 10 years, judge could do a little better, but would necessarily end up pleading to 2 strikes, so we went to trial. after trial, probation rec was 5 years BEFORE prop 47 which she qualifies for some relief
Maybe they’ll feel differently when it’s a 12-year-old kid dead…
Actually, that would backfire bad. Very bad. Think that one through. They would be more corrupt. They’d get their money on the side. And those who are sadistic assholes would be more inclined to do stupid shit that they think they will get away with because they have less to lose in terms of salary/pension. And they’ll abuse their power because, fuck it, that’s all they have cause the money is shit.
Higher educational requirements, okay. VERY (think Japan) restrictive gun requirements, okay. But the rest of it, no.
How about *higher* salaries for police combined with some sort for teach for america type program to draw in the idealistic liberals. Police for America. Americops. You get the idea.
Also, with the higher salaries come strict suspensions without pay nearly every time you discharge your weapon, and most of the time you use your taser. That way they are less likely to kill or maim somebody just for the sake of convenience.
whoa city. how did that happen? (agüero, agüero, agüero)
He’s too good for that team. They don’t deserve him. By the way, I’ve been meaning to ask: why is he called “Kun”?
he liked to watch this cartoon and his little brother couldn’t say the M.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kum-Kum
Yeah that was a crazy finish.
and it’d been such a dull 2nd half really.
I enjoyed the “look at my nipple” celebration photo here.
My favorite part of his play came after he scored the second. Neuer tried to kick the ball away so that Kun couldn’t do the grab-the-ball-and-run-it-to-the-center-circle-because-there’s-still-time-for-us-to-win-this routine, but Aguero beat him there, took the ball, and sent him flying into his own net. Totally awesome.
if i can’t have july 13, there’s always neuer in the net, i guess.
It really, really stinks that he wasn’t healthy for that final.
di maria is my lament.
Today is a sad day for a million different reasons, not the least of which is the Tragedy Anniversary aspect at which humans seem to excel. Forty years ago tonight someone very powerful and connected left us… a pity he only sold 10,000 records while alive, and upwards of ten million since. Blog with us today for a stunning tribute concert, remastered by yours truly, to the indescribably beautiful music of Nicholas Rodney Drake.
So I ordered a jacket a week ago that was supposed to ship in 1 day. Yesterday I still hadn’t received shipping information, so I called the store to see WTF. Today I got shipping information, so I didn’t think anything about it. Well, just five minutes ago, someone from fucking TEXAS calls me and wanted to let me know they had my jacket. Ummm, how did you get my phone number? It was in the package along with your other contact information. FUCKING GREAT. This guy has called me twice now about this fucking jacket. Just fuck the jacket now.
The store’s response: “The jacket just shipped today, so there’s no way this gentleman has your package.”
That’s your answer? Great, thanks. I no longer care about the fucking coat I CARE ABOUT THIS WEIRDO HAVING ALL MY CONTACT INFORMATION.
if you don’t like it you can jacket.
Probably his angle.
Thanks, and go As.
I’m gonna start getting awful dick pics now.
Like there is such a thing as an awful dick pic.
Micropenis.
i asked you not to tell anybody.
Thanks, and go As.
I asked you not to send me the pictures.
liar.
Thanks, and go As.
Nanopenis.
Worse yet, Nana’s penis.
Napopenis
email that.
gotta wonder if brian.only is missing his old hood tonight…
Another long night of ‘copters
Hellacopters
nice. i am in orange county. the library we went to has maybe 100 spanish language books, but is on the at least 5th police helicopter of my lifetime.
but. but. they told us that 5-blade bell that huntington beach sprung a million bucks for was going to allow cops to bust backyard keggers extra-quietly for a lifetime!
only once was the helicopter useful in my experience. when santa landed at my elementary school and gave us candy canes.
a second time it might have been useful, when a driver side swipped SLF’s car. Of course, by the time I ran to a pay phone a block away and called 911, and the helicopter to engaged to track down the SUV, the SUV was gone and never caught.
And when neighborhood kids were engaging in malicious mischief, the helicopter couldn’t see under the cars where the kids were hiding so they never got caught either.
at some moment it looked like there was going to be a 2nd attempt on our freeway onramp, so we decided to make our protest from albany hot tubs. came back and everything was quiet here, but it seemed they’d moved closer to you. i followed on twitter till about midnight. it sounded… hm. gosh. like some people wait all year for a reason to go out and play riot.
get any sleep?
Yeah, it calmed down eventually. Oakland does seem to have a problem as the point of convergence for all the white suburban blackblockheads. T-mobile and McDonalds I can understand in an infantile posturing kind of way, but trashing Genova deli? Way to stick it to the man, tough guys …
trashing genova is a bunch of balony.
its shocking that I have seen no protests locally…in orange county
Too busy doing fundraisers for Officer Ferguson.
pfft. why would the duchess of york need to join the police??
Wow. This is messed up on so many levels.
No charges yet…that might yet happen. But the Minneapolis Police Department has its messed up aspects, as Pointergate pointed out.
After watching it a couple of times, I know I’m in the minority on this, but I’m more bothered by people in mass like that blocking the street (or in the east bay block fucking highways). Unless there’s proper crowd control, there’s a point where the driver has to do some sort of illegal maneuver to get around the crowd. That’s not to say gassing it through the crowd is accessible, but I can easily imagine myself trying to slowly get through, have the car pounded on and mobbed and wonder what the fuck I’d do at that point. Obviously running down those people should result in some sort of legal action, but I’d hope that the situation would at least play in on some level. It’s not too dissimilar to those motorcyclist attacking a car and the driver gassing it to get away. At some point you have to act in your own defense even if you foolishly put yourself into the situation.
put it in park. roll down the window. shout the system’s got to die, hella hella occupy. and wait a few minutes. where were you going anyway?
This might just be the most passive-aggressive idea of all time.
only if it’s written on an unsigned post-it, stuck to the cupboard over the sink, and begins with “whoever’s dirty dishes and state of the union address these are…”
It would be totally hilarious. Just so obviously petty and it’s not like Obama’s SoU is going to be particularly awesome this year — anything he proposes can’t make it through Congress. Actually, maybe it would be an awesome speech because he could get completely content free and instead go with nothing but rhetoric.
I think he needs to talk about how it’s things are now in the Republicans hands and that it’s all their responsibility and really ham that up. Then he can veto the fuck out of everything and throw his hands up in the air saying “What, I said it was their responsibility. If they were to compromise and do their job, they’d have plenty of votes to bypass me altogether.”
If they do, I hope he holds it at the White House and present it as a Roast to the GOP.