Christ, this feels like March. The Niners haven’t played a game in seemingly 2 months, and and were apparently off for a month before that lone Arizona game. But, after long last and much anxiety, we are back to playing football. The St. Louis Rams come to town, not to conquer, but to crumble. After a promising 3-2 start, including division wins ver Sea and AZ, the Rams have lost 3 in a row. Sure, GB and NE were likely pegged as losses, but Miami? Ouch. That one had to sting.
Sure, it’s early in the tenure of Jeff Fisher, but the Rams don’t seem to be doing anything particularly well. 28th in points scored and 20th in points allowed. Sam Bradford has been derailed on his way to elite status among the crop of young QBs in the league. He has been grinding through the Alex Smith school of new coaching staffs and offenses and players on a yearly basis kind of thing. After his rookie year of doing well (3500 yards, 18 TDs, 15 picks, and a near-miss at the playoffs at 7-9), he struggled through an injury-plagued season last year (1700 yards, 6 TDs, 6 picks). This year? Well, pretty much the same numbers he put up last year in 10 games. 1800 yards, 8 TDs, 7 picks. Erstwhile workhorse RB Steven Jackson has finally had it with the organization, and is on his way out after carrying the team for years and being the only bright spot for 6 seasons. WR Danny Amendola is probable for the game, so they may get one of their weapons back, but Bradford has been sacked 23 times in 8 games, so his protection isn’t all that.
The Niners? Well, we saw how they did after their mini-break. They dismantled AZ pretty easily. I foresee much the same this weekend. Gone were the drive-killing Cappy Capperson plays. The Niners ran at will, and thus were able to throw all night off play-action, and chew up big chunks of yards. AZ has a terrible line, and Red Skelton was pressured all night. Again, I see the same thing happening this weekend.
31-10, Niners.
Forty Niners Forever 
Hillary will be 69 in 2016. 77 in 2024. I have a hard time believing she is both willing at this point and can avoid being labeled as too old. The Presidency ages people; I’d hate to see her at 77 after 8 years of that. Better that we find someone younger, no matter the party.
Geez, she’s alreading leading prospective candidates in polling for the Iowa caucuses. We’ll see, but it’s hers if she wants it, there’s very little disagreement on that.
As for Petraeus:
Petraeus’ resignation letter, quoted by several news outlets, centered on his personal behavior.
“Yesterday afternoon, I went to the White House and asked the President to be allowed, for personal reasons, to resign from my position as D/CIA. After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair. Such behavior is unacceptable, both as a husband and as the leader of an organization such as ours,” he said. “This afternoon, the President graciously accepted my resignation.”
Sounds like a man who wants to focus on saving his marriage.
No, Grump. It was a secret directive by Obama to oust Patraeus because Patraeus is a closet Muslim. Look it up! It’s all over the internets!
But wait! Why would Obama dismiss a Muslim from his CIA directorship? Becasue that’s exactly what they think he wouldn’t do! He can be more sneaky from the outside!
Truth is, if Romney had gotten the Latino vote that Bush did in 2004, he would have won.
Sadly, Rmoney burned that bridge during the primaries when he ridiculed Rick Perry and his moderate immagration stance as governor of Texas, saying AZ is the model for the country. The Republican candidates all ran to the tea party to their ultimate doom.
Boner is now talking immigration reform that isn’t as draconian as it was 4 days ago. Funny how losing the election will change one’s perspective.
I think it should be Bill Richardson vs Chris Christie. Battle of the heavyweights.
They can start the Iowa caucus with a hotdog eating contest . . .
The bottom line here, NoFear, is the Republicans didn’t even want Romney as their nominee. Why would the country want him as president?
I’m waiting for NoFear to tie the ‘resignation’ to the Benghazi fiasco.
Because Benghazi = 9/11. No, it’s worse, somehow.
Anyhow, back to football.
You know Danny Amendola, their only WR weapon, will get Rogers and Goldson just about every route over 10 yards, but the Rams will take deep shots. Which means the once and future star Goldson has to stay at home and not bite on play-action or double moves.
Politics? Nothing a good spanking of the Rams won’t solve.
Well not that you bothered asking me Phil, and it hurt my feelings BTW, but here it is: Niners 28 Rams 21, lambs get fleeced.
Yeah Man I figgered you were taking a nap until the BS blew over. Ok gotcha
From politics, nah. I like politics. The extremists on either spectrum not so much. The attempt to place working people into servitude has failed as has the intent to control women.
In my humble opinion it serves this country best to have one party have the presidency and the other one of the house to temper a singular view such as baby Bush had for 6 of his 8 years. Likewise Obama in his first 2. Unfettered power to one party means one voice is heard. Republicans tried the squeeze play during the first term, opposing just about every bill and filibustering at an unprecedented rate in an effort to have Obama’s first term be as much a failure as possible in order to win a republican presidency. It didn’t work as a strategy.
Now we have a reset, Republicans have to become the party of yes in order to take credit for righting the country in the next 4 years. They must also become more inclusive to diversity. Hannity has already embraced immigration reform, something he has banged the drum against for years.
Democrats on the other hand have to recognize that there is not an unlimited supply of money to pander to every cause no matter how worthy it is deemed. To continue to increase the debt in the short term is ok, since austerity as a solution has failed in every country it has been tried. But to not address the debt in the long term view is irresponsible. It makes no difference now who started wars and didn’t pay for them or who made tax cuts and didn’t pay for them or who gave enormous bailouts to whom. Today we have an unmanageable and increasing debt that must be addressed. All solutions are on the table, taxes, defense budget, social programs, raising of revenue etc. No party got a mandate to say anything should not be on the table as a negotiating position, we the people deserve and demand government by the people for the people and that means ALL the people not the privleged few or the masses with their hand out. It is a crazy situation that almost half the adults pay no federal tax. It is a crazy situation that pay is comparatively so low to the cost of living that many can’t afford to live.
A prosperous United States needs manufacturing here, and it needs a working and middle class that can afford to spend money here at home within this economy. Allowing the uber rich or giant corporations to make unheard of profit margins and then turn around invest them overseas in China and India and send manufacturing there because of a better return on their investments does not help the U.S., it helps those individuals. China must be made to play by the rules and our companies here must be held accountable to this economy or no matter who is your political flavor we are all in a world of shit.
This nonsense of my party is better than your party and has the right answers is a shell game. Real policies are needed. The time for politicking is over. Now they must work together and they will if only for their own self interest in being elected next time.
Stump speech over!
The mistress has been identified as Paula Broadwell DCI Patreus’ biographer
Grumpy, looks like Chip Kelly might make it to the NFL after all: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/category/rumor-mill/
We get to see if his math is new math or good math.
Sounds like a guy who got caught to me, Grumpy. But when did he get caught is the question.
It’s the timing of it that raises the stink.
Yes, I think it’s tied up in the Benghazi story. And even a party-line parrot like Chuck has to admit BHO tends to leak immediately classified intel when he sees it as politically expedient while hiding behind it when he wants something buried.
It’s all speculation at this point, but it sounds like he didn’t back the administration’s play or fall on his sword gracefully enough. And how often is the chance to take him out of the political landscape going to come up?
I’ve been picking the Niners to win huge each week but I just don’t see it this week. I think we start a little slowish and just sort of sludge our way to a victory (hopefully). Niners 24 Lambs 16
Not sure why but I feel a one score win too.
History has a way of repeating itself. IMO, this election was the final nail in the coffin that turned America from a Republic into a Democracy. Of course, we do know our founding fathers warned of this as well as Karl Marx telling us why Democracies always fail. IMO, they are all correct. So be it if this is what the society I live in wants. Not much I can do about it except cry for America. FDR started the turn from a Republic to a Democracy, Obama and the (47%, but more properly, 50%) voters finished it. At least I can follow sports.
You packing your bags, Bergs? Good God, what a scared little puppy. The slky is falling! THe sky is falling!
Yes it is. Open your eyes fool.
Then leave, you chickenshit. Get the fuck out of the country.
Nice! I thought you guys supposed to be peaceful?
And I thought you guys were Confederate flag-waving meth-heads.
Oh yeah.
I’m a perfectly reasonable person. But you are completely off the planet with this shit.
Yeah, we’re Argentina. And you are Daffy Duck. Pull another story from your ass. I bet Ayn Rand is popular in your garage.
And if Romney got elected, gold would be raining from the skies.
When will you learn that it really doean’t matter who gets elected? Sorry you can’t get out from under the spell of Faux News. And don;t give me the ‘I’m not really a Republican’ schtick. You stole that from me when I told you I had voted for John Anderson in 1980.
So, in 100 years, the Unted States will be in trouble because of a 3% tax increase. One that was put in place by Roinald Reagan.
“Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people
learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move
to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation.”
— Karl Marx, author of the Communist Manifesto.
From James Madison, one of the members of the Convention charged with writing our
Constitution, he wrote the following: “…democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence
and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of
property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been in violent in
their deaths.” The word democracy does not appear in the constitution of a single one of
our fifty states.
John Marshall, who was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1801 to 1835 said:
“Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between
order and chaos.”
Alexander Hamilton, in a speech made on June 21, 1778, stated: “It had been observed that a pure
democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that
no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves
deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny;
their figure deformity.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson stated: “Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.”
George Washington is his first inaugural address, dedicated himself to “The preservation…
of the republic model of government.”
When asked about the form of government produced by the Constitutional Convention, Thomas
Jefferson answered, “A Republic, if you can keep it.” (Benjamin Franklin is reported to
have said this also.)
unca- You go on being smarter than our founding fathers. Plenty of you agree with yourselves, that doesn’t make it right. Good night.
I may not be smarter than the founding fathers, maybe I am. But nothing of what you said means anything. Obama gets elected so now we’re a banana republic? We’re ancient Greece? Got it.
What next? Everyone in the country gets to print their own currency? Yay! 5000% inflation! Listening to guys like you 4 years ago, we should all be speaking Arabic, paying 80% in taxes, and praying to allah. What hapened?
Like I said, if you are so worried, move to Australia. Shit, too socialist.
And, yeah, thank God we don’t have people in our government. We have the cream of the crop in Congress and the Senate. Brilliant minds who have nothing but the best interests of the country at heart.
It’s amazing. In 4 short years, Obama has destroyed America and everything it stands for. You picked the wrong week to stop smoking meth, skippy.
Obama has the hammer now, and Boehner knows it. ( BTW, it was McConnell who made the “one term President” remark) .As Slate magazine says in no uncertain terms “Nothing will happen during the Lame Duck session. Then the Bush tax cuts will expire. Then Obama will propose some middle class tax cuts and the House will pass them. The interesting thing to talk about is whether that Obama tax reform could somehow be more creative/interesting/better than simple extension of the Bush tax cuts. But either way, Obama will get what he wants on policy and Republicans will get what they want on politics—namely the ability to complain that taxes on the rich are too high and people need to elect them to enact some tax cuts.”
Funny thing is, nothing will really change, the economy will recover in the next few years, yet you will still be whining about your ‘lost’ country. Like John Boehner said the day after Obama was elected in 2008, Our mission in life is to make Obama a one-term president. Nothing else matters. We will not compromise or agree to anything he tries to do.
That’s gevernment in action. WEll gevernment inaction.
San Jose just passed a measure to raise the minimum wage to $10.00 Hour.
The GOP is decrying how this is going to cost people jobs. The GOP wants to abolish the minimum wage all together. They feel it’s OK to pay someone $5 an hour so they can make a bigger profit.
Living the American Dream off the backs of the have nots. That’s called looking for a handout.
Sorry Chuck, put this further up the thread but it makes more sense here and the good news is you get to read it twice!!!
I like politics. The extremists on either spectrum not so much. The attempt to place working people into servitude has failed as has the intent to control women.
In my humble opinion it serves this country best to have one party have the presidency and the other one of the house to temper a singular view such as baby Bush had for 6 of his 8 years. Likewise Obama in his first 2. Unfettered power to one party means one voice is heard. Republicans tried the squeeze play during the first term, opposing just about every bill and filibustering at an unprecedented rate in an effort to have Obama’s first term be as much a failure as possible in order to win a republican presidency. It didn’t work as a strategy.
Now we have a reset, Republicans have to become the party of yes in order to take credit for righting the country in the next 4 years. They must also become more inclusive to diversity. Hannity has already embraced immigration reform, something he has banged the drum against for years.
Democrats on the other hand have to recognize that there is not an unlimited supply of money to pander to every cause no matter how worthy it is deemed. To continue to increase the debt in the short term is ok, since austerity as a solution has failed in every country it has been tried. But to not address the debt in the long term view is irresponsible. It makes no difference now who started wars and didn’t pay for them or who made tax cuts and didn’t pay for them or who gave enormous bailouts to whom. Today we have an unmanageable and increasing debt that must be addressed. All solutions are on the table, taxes, defense budget, social programs, raising of revenue etc. No party got a mandate to say anything should not be on the table as a negotiating position, we the people deserve and demand government by the people for the people and that means ALL the people not the privileged few or the masses with their hand out. It is a crazy situation that almost half the adults pay no federal tax. It is a crazy situation that pay is comparatively so low to the cost of living that many can’t afford to live.
A prosperous United States needs manufacturing here, and it needs a working and middle class that can afford to spend money here at home within this economy. Allowing the uber rich or giant corporations to make unheard of profit margins and then turn around and invest them overseas in China and India and send manufacturing there because of a better return on their investments does not help the U.S., it helps those individuals. China must be made to play by the rules and our companies here must be held accountable to this economy or no matter who is your political flavor or we are all in a world of shit.
This nonsense of my party is better than your party and has the right answers is a shell game. Real policies are needed. The time for politicking is over. Now they must work together and they will if only for their own self interest in being elected next time.
Stump speech over!
If your first paragraph was written by a non-partisan it doesn’t read that way.
No impartial observer could ignore the daily drone of demonizing the President’s every action and word, including a huge amount of misinformation, for GW’s entire eight years in office. And Obama’s very public hatred of Republicans while excluding any input from that side and promoting the idea of punishing those citizens that didn’t vote for him, while complaining only of Republicans’ efforts to have their voice heard.
What do you suppose their constituents sent them to DC for? Roll over for whatever Obama wants to pass in closed-door deal sessions and bills of thousands of pages of new laws that are passed without even being read just because it furthers the left’s agenda to bring this country into European socialism as far and as quickly as possible.
At least recognize that a great many citizens of this country don’t want that for the land of the free and the home of the brave.
No president has divided this country like Obama has and continues to do. He seeks to divide in every way possible. It’s the path to an agenda, not a better country. Only partisans can think that is the way to lead.
My take on that NF is that you could substitute Obama for Bush and Bush for Obama in what you say. You hold a view from the right and see exactly the same things that the left view saw from Bush. It’s a perfect example of what I am saying. I fully recognize almost half the country is unhappy with is direction, in exactly the same way when a republican last had the office.
Extreme partisanship has been a growth industry.
I would argue that both Bush and Obama have been equally divisive during their service, at least to date. I expect the second term of Obama to more unifying for all the reasons I first stated.
As for my position I think you will find that the more liberal of out blog friends will find parts of what I posted as offensive as you did in opposite areas of course. It’s a validation in and of itself when most don’t like what I have to say for their own reasons.
Sorry NF I didn’t address the congressman aspect, yes they are their to protect their constituents. Unfortunately very few do. They have self interest or party interest held above their constituents interests. That goes for both parties and includes the upper house.
There is no doubt filibustering hit an all time high during the past 4 years and for all sorts of “reasons” most of which were actually self serving on both sides.
NoFear, almost half the country was extremely disappointed when Bush won.
The right feels the same way about Obama as the left felt about Bush.
Why is that so hard to figure?
Congress is suposed to represent it’s constituents? You been under a rock for 30 years? Congress approval rating is at an alltime low. Why? Becuse they aren’t serving their populace? Because all they want to do is STAY in Congress? Because they enjoy feeding at the public money trough? Because they enjoy the benefits of free health care while they deny it to the people they serve? Becasue they have free rein to insider-trade stocks while its illegal for the rest of us? Yes.
Congressmen get huge amounts of money from PACs and corporations. They are honest politicians, for the most part: once bought, they stay bought. Problem is, we the people did not do the buying. They are utterly loyal – to those who fund their continued reelection. The whole system is crooked and rigged. Unless that changes, nothing changes.
bingo
Oh, and yeah: Union (and some corps) domination of the Dems is just as bad as Corporate domination of the Reps.They’re all fucking swine, feeding at adjacent troughs.
I don’t agree with this comparison that unions and corporations are equally as bad. It’s not close to the same amounts of money being peddled. Unions do have to have a correction whether that’s a self correction or an enforced one. When the rest of society is having a tough time and money is tight union employees cannot continue to feed at the trough at unsustainable levels. They too need to adjust to the new realities. I think agreements need to have flexibility inserted to fluctuate with the rest of society. It could be tied to many economic indicators and should run the gamut of payments made on their behalf including pensions. In short when we are all having good times so should union employees, when we are all hurting they need to hurt too or the burden falls more on non union labor and society at large.
The auto industry is a great example. Unions refused to budge from the massive health and pension costs the companies were laden with right up to and including bankruptcy. Only then did they make new agreements reflecting the new reality and business model or be permanently unemployed. Partly as a result of these new agreements the domestic auto industry is resurgent and close to competitive with imports.
Like most of these issues, there is 2 sides to the story, companies need to be competitive in the global arena and people need to have protections and security in order to prosper.
Dems and Repub house members feed at the exact same trough, corporate special interest and often from the exact same special interest groups where they buy both sides to vote for or against a given measure against the very people they should be representing. It’s a game and we the people need a seat at the table.
In my world, NO ONE could make large contributions to political parties or candidates. Not corporations, not unions, not PACs. The whole big money bullshit is a big part of what has corrupted the political process in this country. I’d limit all individuals to 100 bucks a piece, and screw anyone who doesn’t like it. And no collective contributions at all.
Citizens united exacerbated an already horrendous flow of money. It also allows foreign money to affect our domestic elections. I agree Grump, ban all large contributions from any source. That takes the graft out of much of the elections.
NF and Twin, I just wanted to acknowledge your service to your country with veterans day coming up, and the same to anyone else who has served.
Thank You.