Monday Morning QB

Although Seattle coach Pete Carroll is an idiot, he is not a complete idiot:In fact, this season it was more dangerous to run the football from the 1-yard line than it was to throw it. Before Sunday, NFL teams had thrown the ball 108 times on the opposing team’s 1-yard line this season. Those passes had produced 66 touchdowns (a success rate of 61.1 percent, down to 59.5 percent when you throw in three sacks) and zero interceptions. The 223 running plays had generated 129 touchdowns (a 57.8 percent success rate) and two turnovers on fumbles. Stretch that out to five years and the numbers make runs slightly superior; they scored 54.1 percent of the time and resulted in turnovers 1.5 percent of the time, while passes got the ball into the end zone 50.1 percent of the time and resulted in turnovers 1.9 percent of the time.Bit of course these were not statistically generic teams facing each other:As I mentioned in my Super Bowl preview, this was a matchup specifically built for running the football with Lynch in short yardage. According to Football Outsiders, the Patriots were the worst team in the league in power-running situations and fifth-worst in terms of stuffing the opposition for no gain or a loss. Seattle was the second-best power running team and the sixth-best team at avoiding stuffs. If there was ever a matchup that called for a team to live and die on the back of its running game from the 1-yard line, this was it. While Lynch had been stopped on an early third-and-2 and a red zone third-and-1, the latter came on a zone-read play where Wilson made a mistake (more on that later). Lynch also converted a third-and-2 from the 3-yard line earlier in the game for Seattle’s first touchdown.Well, Carroll made the call and Butler made the play so now Bradychick are certified 4-2 Super Bowl geniuses instead of 3-3 Super Bowl pedestrians.

Comments

[Soylent Red]

Firstest with the mostest!

[narciso]

stay puft trawling in troubled waters:

http://freebeacon.com/issues/flashback-when-hillary-and-obama-gave-credence-to-anti-vaccine-theories/

[narciso]

perfidious albion shows us a glimpse:

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5170/britain-phony-muslim-moderates?anid=7

[lyle]

http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2015/02/02/the-nanny-bowl/

A friend of mine watching the game at my house last night, a fellow member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy bivouacked behind enemy lines in Deep Blue Socialist California, dubbed it “The Nanny Bowl.” He’s definitely on to something. As journalist Kevin P. Craver tweeted to me last night, “I fell into an alternate universe in which the party that loses the November election gets to write the Super Bowl ads.”

[Thomas Collins]

I'm surprised a QB sneak hasn't been mentioned as more of a possibility for a second down play. A Wilson QB sneak on second down, if it doesn't produce a score, puts the ball within the one yard line. Seattle then calls a timeout and runs a Wilson rollout on third down, which produces a Wilson TD run or pass, or Wilson throwing it out of the end zone. There would be still time for a Lynch run.

Wilson, despite his scrambling ability, is most likely not as good a QB sneaker than Brady. But with all the scenarios being discussed in sports media today, I thought this one would have come up.

[lyle]

Appalled may get the vapors with that 4:09 link, narc.

[narciso]

well I'm sure there's a comfy chair around,

[Captain Hate]

Anti vaccine people really irritate me. I worked with somebody whose child was permanently damaged, and I mean really damaged, by a bad reaction to a DPT shot. The sad thing is that genetic diversity makes it impossible to design a vaccine which is foolproof to every person. But the alternative is to make the entire population vulnerable to the diseases which a vaccination program can virtually eradicate. Christie and any other pol who campaign on the fears of LIVs need to be called out on it. Very embarrassing to have this clown as the head of the GOP governors group.

Open borders also endanger the benefits of a vaccination problem.

[GMax]

Ok lets play a little what if game here. Say it was the Cowboys on the 1 yard line. Is there any doubt with their offensive line and Murray that they run the ball with a timeout in their pocket. But now the real what if scenario occurs. Say Romo throws a pick to lose it, is the howling for his head heard on the moon? Why isn't Wilson getting more than his share of grief instead of Pete Carroll?

[lyle]

God bless VDH but I think he gets one thing wrong in this piece that Jane or Janet linked on the previous thread:

The Obama administration knows full well that the Taliban, ISIS, al Qaeda, Boko Haram and the rest of the pack draw their zeal from the Koran. But to say such might turn off two or three useful constituencies — the hard Left at home that hates any judgmentalism, “moderate” Muslims in the Middle East who are essential to nullifying the “radicals” in their midst, and the global community that is always suspicious when America goes to war against a particular group or ideology.

If the "hard Left hates any judgmentalism," you could have fooled me. "Any"?

[Miss Marple]

My sister and I got measles when we were in the early years of grade school.

We were very sick, and we had to stay in a dark room with no reading or TV watching due to fears of eye damage, and we also had to stay in bed because of worries about heart or brain damage.

Horrible time, and why anyone would want to risk their kids getting that I do not know.

[narciso]

judgementalism against their preferred marks, I mean clients, not against kulaks and other running dog counterrevolutionaries,

[Appalled]

lyle:

Dude, narc's link rather makes my point. The argument raging on the other thread was all about the implacability of Islamic rage. But here, we find out this about the snarly faces spokesmen in the UK:

Groups such as the MCB and the Ramadhan Foundation are not voices for victimized Muslims or exploited mosques; rather, they seem to be defenders of the very extremists that the government's letter called upon British Muslims to reject.

How, then, do such groups manage to portray themselves as "leaders of the Muslim community"?

Britain's Muslim community is complicatedly diverse. Although Jamaat-e-Islami and the Muslim Brotherhood control prominent "leadership" groups such as the MCB, and are featured almost exclusively within the media as voices for "the Muslim community," these networks only manage 3.4% of Britain's mosques. A survey from 2007, in fact, revealed that 94% of British Muslims do not believe that the Muslim Council of Britain represents their views.

I believe we will have to confront ISIS directly one of these days. Unfortunately. What I have been endeavoring to dispute is that the people who belong to Islam are just gonna fight until we give in and convert, so we just gotta smush 'em like bugs...

[narciso]

because we are 'knee deep' in the crazy years, no need to quote Heinlein, we've gone ultra plaid,

[Miss Marple]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-02/college-sports-ticket-tax-break-would-vanish-under-obama-budget

Fair warning!

[Appalled]

Anti-vaccine people are beneath being beneath contempt. Talk about being anti-science...

[anonamom]

The hard left hates any judgmentalism that it doesn't originate.

I am depressed today about Islam.

Stephanie, I would love to know how your work up is progressing--hit has my email if you think it's not of general interest, or private. ;-)

[Captain Hate]

Everybody but I loves Russell Wilson.

[lyle]

PJM:

The Nationwide ad was extraordinarily awful and was met with almost universal derision. Instead of admitting that it whiffed with its attempt, the company doubled down and issued a statement saying that it was attempting to start a dialogue about home accidents and child deaths.

Um, no, you were trying to scare people into buying insurance.

It did inspire a new slogan for the company which spread throughout social media: “Nationwide Your Kid Has Died”.

The wife and I looked at each other in gaping disbelief on that ad. But almost all of them were horrible.

[NKvirusedand back]

MM-- if you want to become angry, do some Google research about autism/vaccines, and the current micro epidemics in fashionable Calif zip codes because moronic parents bought into RFKJr's (that monster again) trial lawyers' propaganda and their useful idiots like big boobs Mccarthy. Maddening. Fordham U had a mumps outbreak last year asdid the NHL this year.

[narciso]

these are the groups that the Conquistador Coffee tories, rely on, and one wonders why
the message doesn't get through, there was a public school director in Birmingham, who was ISIS's top fundraiser,

[lyle]

I'm done with you, Appalled. Have a nice day.

[NKvirusedand back]

essurance breaking bad advert was a great idea.

[Thomas Collins]

Romo would get less slack, GMax, because he is associated with a botched snap, while Wilson already has a Super Bowl ring.

http://www.si.com/nfl/2014/10/08/tony-romo-dallas-cowboys-seattle-seahawks-bill-parcells-mike-holmgren

[Old Lurker]

I do hate this man:

"President Barack Obama claimed on Monday that without a comprehensive budget covering the Department of Homeland Security, more than 130,000 mission-critical employees will be forced to work without pay by the end of the month. They include 40,000 employed by Customs and Border Protection, 50,000 Transportation Security Administration screeners, 13,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and 40,000 Coast Guard personnel. Pay would be restored at the end of any withholding period. ´I know how vital you are, and I want to make sure more Americans know how vital you are,´ Obama told an auditorium full of DHS employees Monday

[jorod]

No, he is an idiot. The same thing happened to the Bears this season. Their coach is gone.

[Extraneus]

the people who belong to Islam are just gonna fight until we give in and convert, so we just gotta smush 'em like bugs...

This seems a bit over-general. Not all Muslims are strict adherents. What do you propose to do about people who believe in strict adherence to the Koran?

Qur'an (8:39) - “And fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and polytheism: i.e. worshipping others besides Allah) and the religion (worship) will all be for Allah Alone [in the whole of the world ]. But if they cease (worshipping others besides Allah), then certainly, Allah is All-Seer of what they do.” Translation from the Noble Quran

Qur'an (9:29) - "Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued." Suras 9 and 5 are the last "revelations" that Muhammad handed down - hence abrogating what came before, which includes the oft-quoted verse 2:256 -"Let there be no compulsion in religion...".

Qur'an (9:5) "But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war); but if they repent, and establish regular prayers and practice regular charity, then open the way for them..." Prayer and charity are among the Five Pillars of Islam, as salat and zakat. See below. Islam sanctions violence as a means of coercing religion.

Qur'an (9:11) - (Continued from above) "But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then are they your brethren in religion" This confirms that Muhammad is speaking of conversion to Islam.

Quran (9:56-57) - "And they swear by Allah that they are most surely of you, and they are not of you, but they are a people who are afraid (of you). If they could find a refuge or cave or a place to enter into, they would certainly have turned thereto, running away in all haste." This refers to people living among Muhammad's own people who may not be true believers, but have to pretend to be in order to survive. They have no safe refuge to which to escape the Muslims. If Islam were a religion of peace, then why the fear?
Qur'an (2:193) - "And fight them until persecution is no more, and religion be only for Allah. But if they desist, then let there be no hostility except against wrong-doers." The key phrase is to fight until "religion be only for Allah."

Qur'an (3:83) - "Are they seeking a religion other than Allah's, when every soul in the heavens and the earth has sub mitted to Him, willingly or by compulsion?" So much for the earlier verse (2:256) stating that there is "no compulsion in religion".

http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Quran/013-forced-conversion.htm

[Porchlight]

Horrible time, and why anyone would want to risk their kids getting that I do not know.

I think can speak for the anti-vaxxers a little bit since I know many of them and I have young children.

The answer is because almost all of them are younger people who have grown up in a measles-free America. They have no idea what the disease entails - they maybe have seen kids with spots in old cartoons or something and they think it's like chicken pox. To them, "no measles" is the natural state of things and these old diseases must have just died out on their own because they were so old-fashioned or something.

And they typically do not listen to their mothers and grandmothers about anything child-related: sleep, food, school, anything. So when they're told that measles are bad news and the kids should be vaccinated, they don't believe it.

The internet, with its insane volume of misinformation that is easily shared, exacerbates the problem. The autism-vaccine link stories have been around a long time, and since everyone now knows someone with autism, that goes a long way to fanning fears.

A country free of dangerous childhood diseases is a little like liberty. We all take it for granted. To those who have never experienced anything else, it seems silly to worry about it ever being different. But it only takes a couple of generations who do not understand its value to squander it.

[NKvirusedand back]

'Hate' I try to resist that, but Obummer does make it difficult -- impossible really. Keep the pay going to these 'folks' without interruption? sure... don't veto the budget repealing the EOs and the open borders (deportation moratorium, work permits etc) and all of those 'essential folks' won't miss a check.

[lyle]

Obama told an auditorium full of DHS employees Monday

Other than the missing "unionized" modifier before the words "DHS employees," I'd say quod erat demonstrandum.

[Old Lurker]

I gave up trying to avoid the Hate verb regarding that subject.

[Danube on iPad]

Because it's great fun to hoot at Tony Romo.

[Miss Marple]

Obama is coming to Indianapolis on Friday to speak at Ivy Tech Community College about free stuff, I guess.

[Sue]

Ugh! 😝

[Bela1]

What a lying sack of donkey dunk this POTUS turned out to be. Last I checked Congress passes and emergency supplemental. Last time he pulled this, we learned he lied through his teeth about govt. employees not being paid. He truly disgusts me.

[Stephanie De Nile is a river in Progtopia]

Anonamom, Blood work done last week and an appointment scheduled for this Thursday. They added back metapropol and most of my issues cleared up in hours. So now I'm on the hydralazine 2x a day and the metapropol 2x a day.

They will probably readjust the meds on Thursday. I have also added a multivitamin that contains potassium and a fish oil supplement to my morning regimen. Heart rate is down to 80 but the bp is still a bit high at 164/94 but better than the 181/109 it was before adding back the metatoprol. And no more episodes of afib!

[narciso]

where is the nearest burrow:

http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=354716

this and the fact, that Katie Perry wasn't lampooned relentlessly,

[Bela1]

...passed an emergency supplemental...and, if he thinks he can hold hard working people hostage like this, he's worse than disgusting.

[Miss Marple]

Bela1,

Last time, after all the whining and hand-wringing, we discovered that once government started up again, all of the employees got paid for when they were off. So they all got free, taxpayer-funded vacations.

Agree he is a terrible person and a liar.

[Jack is Back!]

Stephanie should have been a super bowl ad for perserverance, dogged determination and obviously, Big Pharma. Hang in there and think about Gene Krupa as your heart:)

[Jane]

About bloody time TM! Thank you

[Stephanie De Nile is a river in Progtopia]

My daughter had a bad reaction to the dpt shot so our doctor gave her the next two shots as dt and no p. No regrets but I can't imagine foregoing any part of the mmr shot.

When I had my son, the hospital gave me a booster shot before discharge as evidently my originals were some of the ones that weren't effective. Makes sense as I got the mumps at age 5.

[Neo]

(KTRS) - Radio Shack has been selling communication equipment since 1921, but according to Bloomberg, the retail chain will not be celebrating a 100th birthday. As part of a bankruptcy deal, RadioShack Corp. will be shutting down their entire chain of 7,000 tech stores, half of which will be reportedly sold to Sprint. According to the report, RadioShack locations that are sold to Sprint would operate under the wireless carrier's name, meaning RadioShack would cease to exist as a stand-alone retailer.

[henry]

Carroll probably remembers the 3 TDs that GB didn't score from the 1 by running a bruiser from Bama.

[Stephanie De Nile is a river in Progtopia]

Booster mmr to be clear.

[Extraneus]

It's easy to understand that vaccines should be mandatory, especially when you have normal kids. I've said it before, but when you have an abnormal one who was born perfectly normal, like I do (Apgar 9,9), that small inkling of doubt about what might have been, if only if they hadn't been vaccinated, is hard to dispel. Impossible, actually.

[lyle]

For no particular reason other than the bolded sentence, a link from AT:

But then, that’s liberals for you; they seem to have a knack for taking human joy, happiness, and appreciation out of absolutely any event that the rest of us view as a form of entertainment. They have thoroughly corrupted Hollywood and television, and now they are damned well getting their big left foot in the door of sports, through the not so subtle control of the advertising messages accompanying those sporting events. And of course they have their intestinal worm: Bob Costas.

[matt]

Apparently, Obama has been opening the floodgates with back door visas to otherwise illegal immigrants since 2009.

So at what point does this rise to a criminal offense?

LUN

[Jack is Back!]

Ex,

I thought most states had parental and medical exemptions? What happened with you and where?

[Sue]

My older brother and I had the German measles. I had no idea until I just looked that this is also Rubella. I wondered why we weren't vaccinated but found the vaccine wasn't available until 1967. I think I was in the 1st grade when I had it, the same year I had chicken pox. 1964ish.

[lyle]

So at what point does this rise to a criminal offense?

We're waaaaay past that point.

[Jeff Dobbs]

Er....

Monday Morning QB

It Is Morning Somewhere In The World, But It Is Not Morning In America.

[Beasts of England]

@henry: As much as I like Eddie Lacy, he's not even close to the same category as Lynch.

[Jack is Back!]

"Can I hand this to you or should I step back 8 yards and throw it to you?"

[Extraneus]

Never heard of an exemption, nor would I have considered it. I'm only talking about hindsight.

As for what happened, my daughter's head stopped growing normally after her vaccinations, and she ended up retarded. I'm not saying it had anything to do with vaccinations, just that the thought that it might have is hard to dispel.

[NKvirusedand back]

no one is as good as Lynch between the tackles, he's the best power runner on the planet. You are committed to throwing on 2d Down? Fine; play action, roll out, use Wilson's legs and resourcefulness, don't throw THAT do or die pick play pass. Carroll is still the goat IMO.

[Janet - I wish my family had a poncho]

Apparently, Obama has been opening the floodgates with back door visas to otherwise illegal immigrants since 2009.

So at what point does this rise to a criminal offense?

There are never any consequences. If I was a lib., I'd be smiling & cheering the administration on.
Do everything you've always dreamed of doing, because nobody is gonna stop you!!

from Matt's link - " USCIS is the agency within the Department of Homeland Security responsible for issuing work permits and processing applications related to President Obama’s executive action on immigration."

The State Dept. is letting in refugees, DHS is issuing work permits, & thousands are walking across the border.

[lyle]

Lovely.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/397745/university-california-students-chant-allahu-akbar-during-anti-israel-vote-brendan

[Janet - I wish my family had a poncho]

but when you have an abnormal one who was born perfectly normal, like I do (Apgar 9,9), that small inkling of doubt about what might have been, if only if they hadn't been vaccinated, is hard to dispel. Impossible, actually.

Same for my Pastor's daughter (22yrs. old now).

[anonamom]

Hit, a very happy birthday to you!

Ex--very sorry. That sounds like something no one will ever have an explanation for for you. I do understand what you mean too--not saying it caused it, but can't say it didn't.

I am glad my kids got the vaccinations they did, but I know some families have paid a very high price for our "herd immunity."

[Jack is Back!]

Ex,

Sorry. Didn't understand your references.

I hate to go all stats but they do bear out that Vaxx's do immensely more good than not. For those with doubts my prayers are with you.

The fact that Obama endorses Vaxx doesn't change my mind. He may fiunally be right on some subject.

[Threadkiller]

Appalled, I know you are skipping Koran class but by any chance can you tell me what "Allahu akbar" means?

Does the meaning change depending on who it is saying it?

[Threadkiller]

...who is...

[Extraneus]

Ok, I don't want to change the thread over my personal comment. I'd much rather engage Appalled about Islam or talk about the Superbowl, or even cleavage. Just wanted to put in a word for some of the people who worry about vaccinations.

[Sue]

Happy birthday hit!

[Ignatz]

--I'm surprised a QB sneak hasn't been mentioned as more of a possibility for a second down play.--

I'm amazed how little they are used in blank and one situations anymore.
It is very unusual if they don't gain at least one yard and are extremely safe.

[Ignatz]

-- I wondered why we weren't vaccinated but found the vaccine wasn't available until 1967.--

Being way younger I'm sure I had mine. :)

[Ben]

"The internet, with its insane volume of misinformation that is easily shared, exacerbates the problem. The autism-vaccine link stories have been around a long time, and since everyone now knows someone with autism, that goes a long way to fanning fears."

The one-size fits all prescription for protecting the majority at the peril of young immune systems, some of which demonstrate greater sensitivity to toxins, makes the ambient toxins in our environment a building block for unfortunate reactions. Being suspicious of the System was something I thought conservatives carried like a badge of honor. Just because you haven't had the tragic consequences, doesn't exempt you from some form of empathy and understanding.

[Jane]

MM when I was a kid they wanted you to get measles - because it gave you immunity. I remember that distinctly.

[Sue]

Ha ha!

[Jane]

For awhile - maybe still, the problem with vaccines was thought to be the preservative so you wanted to make sure you got a single serving not one bundled with others.

[Sue]

My youngest brother was born in 65, so mother missed being pregnant when we had the measles by __ this much.

[Sue]

I never had the mumps or the vaccination. Hopefully it doesn't make a return.

[Ben]

Yeah Thimerosal the mercury-based preservative which insured max profit for Big Pharmers by using multiple dose vials. Of course, it's 'denatured' mercury and perfectly safe like depleted uranium.

[Lazybusy]

Happy B-Day Hit.

[Jane]

Me neither Sue. How odd.

[Miss Marple]

Jane, exactly right. Same with chickenpox.

Ben, all forms of mercury have been removed from vaccines for several years now. Do try to keep up.

[Stephanie De Nile is a river in Progtopia]

Happy BiRtHdAy, hit!

[Ben]

"Ben, all forms of mercury have been removed from vaccines for several years now. Do try to keep up."

Yes, I know. And why was that if it was perfectly safe? You may be informed enough to understand the effects rage on for decades after being removed.

[anonamom]

The thimersol is long gone, and autism rates continue to increase.

I blame high fructose corn syrup and excessive fetal ultrasounds.
Or maybe it's laptop use!

[Miss Marple]

Ben,

Why are you so determined to see villains in business but not within the current government.

I will be the first to support lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies if they KNOWINGLT\Y introduced mercury to save money while risking damage to children.

I assume it was thought harmless, and possibly might still turn out to be so. For many years amalgam dental fillings were mixed with mercury to make them pliable. There are probably a lot of people over 50 who still have those fillings.

[Stephanie De Nile is a river in Progtopia]

I can't take vaccines with albumin in them. I'm not totally allergic, but when I eat eggs or stuff with eggs in it, I get a histamine reaction and sneeze about 30 times, get all stuffed up and five minutes later I'm back to normal. Still eat eggs, but I warn everyone at the table to duck!

[Jack is Back!]

Regarding the SB. I am not committed to any team that played. But Brady was the better QB by far. His passes were precise even the INT were precise. Take that as a geometric abstraction but they were.

The Patriots decided to pass on the best pass defense in the NFL from day one not the day of the game. Who the hell does that. Only NK's Belicheat, that's who. He cheated the Seahawks by not running the ball and throwing it to no draft pick wide receivers and some hunky TE. How dare he upset the playbook like that. Another evidence of cheating.

And in big games, someone makes a great play, sometimes on offense, sometimes on special teams and sometimes on defense. Did the Seahawks screw the pooch with that play on the 1 yd line? No. The Patriots defense did what they had to do and stop the play which resulted in the INT. Lets give credit to Butler and his skill and learning experience instead of Carroll's call.

You do not win games on the sidelines but on the field. Belichick didn't throw any of those 50 pases but he thought those were the way to win and Carroll didn't throw that INT but he thought it was the right play. The point is the game is won and lost on the field by the players. Wilson didn't execute or his receiver. Game over.

Lets get over it.

[NKvirusedand back]

"Perfectly safe"? who knows. But I do know there was no proof of causation of autism, zero, nil, naught. The original Lancet published 'study' was deemed fraudulent, not in error, fraudulent, and Lancet published an explanation of the Wakefield fraud. Because of the disgusting pigs in the USA called 'trial lawyers' the autism fraud carried on for years here because useful idiots like Obummer and HildaBeast humped the fraud publicly, years after it had been exposed as a fraud and Wakefield's study had been withdrawn by Lancet.

[Marlene]

My baby sister was born in 1967 and I remember the pediatrician's office telling Mom that the five older kids had to come in for the MMR vaccine the next time she brought the baby in for vaccinations. When my husband had the mumps,he distinctly remembers his mother telling him to stay in bed and DON'T MOVE because the mumps could affect other *ahem* glands and he would never have children.
I also remember lining up in the cafeteria in 1st or 2nd grade and receiving the polio vaccine in a Dixie cup.

[Threadkiller]

I blame the statistics

http://www.m.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/features/autism-rise

[Ben]

WEB-MD? Yeah.

AMA and CDC have our best interests in mind. Sheesh. I thought y'all were skeptical conservatives.

[clarice]

Radio shack..ahh..I remember the first clunker computer my son put together with parts from there. One of their stores was just blocks from our house and to him he was heaven.

[Threadkiller]

Can't even throw Ben a bone...

[Threadkiller]

http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/02/obamas-real-religion/

[Ben]

".I remember the first clunker computer my son put together with parts from there."

Memories. I remember the Coleco Adam. It didn't even have a floppy. A cassette tape was the memory. It was only good for word processing. At the end of a sentence you had to hit return and the cursor blinked three times before it returned. I thought it was wonderful to edit without correction tape.

[Ben]

"Can't even throw Ben a bone..."

Leave some meat on it.

[Jack is Back!]

Two words.

Heath Kits.

[Jim Miller]

Sue - At one time, some parents deliberately exposed their girls to German measles to protect their future children.

(I recall hearing of a few such cases when I was growing up.)

[NKvirusedand back]

ahhhh Jack- the Hawks give teams the 'underneath' routes, they play man to mandown field and rely on their safety/LB speed to stop the underneath receptions after 3 yd gains not 7 yard gains, and they rely on their cover corners to create a pass rush by not letting 10-15 yard routes break quickly. The Pats patiently took what the Hawks give, nothing special there. Two things, the Hawks were hurt by Lane breaking his wrist on the first INT, second, BeliCheat won the game by sorting out the pass protection and giving Brady time to start hitting Gronk down field in the 4th Qtr which he had been unable to do with significant success in the first 3 Qtrs. Belichick won the game with his in game adjustments, something no other coach is able to do as effectively as him. And even with the Lane injury and Belichick's genius, it took a Carroll brain cramp for the Pats to win.

[Danube on iPad]

Still basking in the glow of that magnificent game.

According to Sal Paolantonio, Kraft and his family are furious with Goodell and the League over this Deflategate bullshit, even hinting that after Wells makes his report there could be a putsch of some sort.

[Miss Marple]

Marlene,

My school got polio shots. We had to line up and get them by classroom (which was a lot of kids back in the early 50's).

1st and 2nd grade. Got our pictures in the paper as they sent a reporter out from the local paper. Since I got the shots in 1954 I believe my school was part of the field trials, in which thousands of children participated.

Jonas Salk did not patent his vaccine. He felt it should be available to all.

[Stephanie De Nile is a river in Progtopia]

Whodafuq said anything about webmd? I only use them for info on drugs and would never self diagnose through their site. Most sane people would do the same.

The stuff was removed from vaccines to stop the lawyers getting stupid juries to do stupid stuff like ignoring the science and giving victims money cause they had bad stuff happen and after all the pharmaceutical company could afford it actual facts be damned. Remove the lightening rod, the lawsuits are moot.

Generals Beauregard Lee says an early spring down heah!!

[Marlene]

anonamom @ 6:08...are you serious about the ultrasounds. Just wondering,I never had an ultrasound (1977) and the nurses in the OB's office smoked! Ha,the good old days!

[Extraneus]

Assuming Goodell held off on the evidence until after the SB, wouldn't Kraft naturally be furious at the moment?