Postscript on the S____ B___: Congratulations Philadelphia [Updated]
[guest post by JVW]
Congratulations to the Eagles. Independence Hall beat Faneuil Hall or something.
But really, folks, a 41-33 final? Does no one get to play defense any longer? Did the field tilt downhill for the offensive team on each posession? Do any of you who watched it want to argue that it was better than the Alabama-Georgia final a month ago?
The Churchill movie is really good, but I think the screenwriters overdid the whole Churchill-as-the-only-one-resolutely-standing-athwart-Hitler motif. But I guess that’s the movie industry for you.
[UPDATE] – Aw, Philly, don’t ever change.
– JVW
I’m going to DVR the 1:00 am reshowing of the game and watch select pieces, now that I know how it ended.
JVW (42615e) — 2/4/2018 @ 9:05 pmI still don’t know what a pass reception is.
random viking (6a54c2) — 2/4/2018 @ 9:13 pmRobert Harris, who has gotten over his bush and Blair
derangement is now revisiting Munich. His argument was that chamberlain was playing for time, now lord Halifax is something else again.
How realistic is oldmans performance?
narciso (d1f714) — 2/4/2018 @ 9:35 pmHow realistic is oldmans performance?
Worthy of all the awards talk, I should think. Amazing that he has played both Sid Vicious and Winston Churchill on screen.
I just went through Martin Gilbert’s biography of Churchill, and if there was as intricate a plot by Chamberlain and Halifax to force Churchill out just a few weeks into office, it certainly escaped Gilbert’s notice. I think that’s one of the subplots that the movie grossly exaggerated.
JVW (42615e) — 2/4/2018 @ 9:40 pmCongratulations Eagles fans your Q. B. and offense was better. Both defenses were amateurish at best. And the kicking game of the patriots was below average. Both offensive lines played very well with a little advantage to the Eagles as they ran the ball down the throat of the Patriots in the first half. Entertains I guess. But I enjoy a 21- 17 type game with teams that tackle. Again congrats EAgles fans.
mg (bb02ea) — 2/4/2018 @ 9:48 pm2 – rv -regarding catches:
Stephen Miller
@redsteeze
Maybe figure out what a catch is or is not before tackling criminal justice reform, NFL
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And the only riot I’ve heard about tonight is in Amherst.
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2018/02/04/thugs-violent-riot-starts-after-super-bowl-no-not-in-philly-in-amherst-ma-videos/
harkin (8256c3) — 2/4/2018 @ 9:53 pmNice pic of Philly partying:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVPhtqRXUAAtEgn?format=jpg
harkin (8256c3) — 2/4/2018 @ 9:54 pmNick Foles was an Arizona star as was the Gronk.
AZ Bob (f60c80) — 2/4/2018 @ 10:16 pmFoles is from Austin and played at Austin Westlake where he broke many of Drew Brees’ records.
DRJ (15874d) — 2/4/2018 @ 10:35 pmI didn’t care who won but it was a fun game to watch.
DRJ (15874d) — 2/4/2018 @ 10:37 pmCommercials were fun, too. Budweiser is always good, Tide was fun, Australia, too, but Manning and Beckham doing the Dirty Dancing scene was hilarious.
DRJ (15874d) — 2/4/2018 @ 10:45 pmCongratulations!
Poker Online (bf2cdf) — 2/4/2018 @ 10:48 pmScrapple at dawn. Great job, Philly.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 2/5/2018 @ 1:02 amMy daughter watched it and she said pretty much what you said, DRJ.
nk (dbc370) — 2/5/2018 @ 4:54 amUsually, the toilet breaks you.
urbanleftbehind (aa10ca) — 2/5/2018 @ 6:00 amDid Tom Brady thank God for his loss?
Ben burn (b3d5ab) — 2/5/2018 @ 6:48 amThat’s when the hairs really went up on the back of our necks,” she recounted in an interview with The Global Politico, her first extensive public comments about what it was like to spend months in the middle of the U.S. government’s halting, frustrating attempts to understand the Russian attack on the U.S. electoral system — and then try to figure out how to respond to it.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/02/05/global-politico-victoria-nuland-obama-216937
Ben burn (b3d5ab) — 2/5/2018 @ 6:53 am16. God gets all the credit for good stuff Ben. But anything bad is not his fault or it’s for the greater good anyway (we’re just too dumb to realize it). Nice arrangement, isn’t it?
Tillman (a95660) — 2/5/2018 @ 6:56 amNice arrangement, isn’t it?
I guess I lack faith.
Ben burn (b3d5ab) — 2/5/2018 @ 7:05 amMr. President, I see you’ve had a busy morning of ‘Executive Time,’ ” Schiff tweeted.
“Instead of tweeting false smears, the American people would appreciate it if you turned off the TV and helped solve the funding crisis, protected Dreamers or…really anything else.”
Ben burn (b3d5ab) — 2/5/2018 @ 7:09 amThe things queers worry about. What do they care about Tom Brady’s religion, when they can better spend their time looking for a sale on Vaseline?
nk (dbc370) — 2/5/2018 @ 7:12 amHey happyfeet:
urbanleftbehind (aa10ca) — 2/5/2018 @ 7:15 amhttp://theintercept.com/2018/02/05/mitch-mcconnell-elaine-chao-offshore-paradise-papers/
Vaseline market was cornered by Evangelicals some time ago. Squeezing past those Pearly Gates is not easy for the junk food Endomorph and Saint Peter is too busy to notice the Squatters.
Ben burn (b3d5ab) — 2/5/2018 @ 7:15 amIt was a crucible, that brief in 1940, but considering the fact that a generation had perished in France and Belgium, as ferguson notes in pity of war, they were reluctant to go forth again, until alternatives were exhausted.
narciso (d1f714) — 2/5/2018 @ 7:19 amMitch McConnell and his very own Clinton-type foundation..
https://theintercept.com/2018/02/05/mitch-mcconnell-elaine-chao-offshore-paradise-papers/
Ben burn (b3d5ab) — 2/5/2018 @ 7:21 amIt does show that football is a team effort.
narciso (d1f714) — 2/5/2018 @ 7:21 amWhat’s at stake in maverick sellout
https://www.dailywire.com/news/26736/colts-linebacker-killed-dui-accident-mexican-ryan-saavedra
narciso (d1f714) — 2/5/2018 @ 7:26 amugh they’re so dirty
they’re at least as dirty as the idiot CDC chick
why does piggy Elaine still have a job
happyfeet (28a91b) — 2/5/2018 @ 7:31 amWho likes to pay taxes, no one, that’s why the Kennedy’s had an off shore trust, now is any of this illegal, probably nit, of you’d have to lock up phald of Washington but as with foreign registrations it becomes a tool
narciso (d1f714) — 2/5/2018 @ 7:34 amThe Super Bowl — meaning the traditional 52-year old game played by the top AFC team versus the top NFC team and not the super bowls of chips, salsa, pretzels and cheeetos at Super Bowl parties — is a time to reflect whether politics is not exactly the same things with the players and team owners making tons of money from the public who only watch and cheer (or boo) and have really nothing to say about how the game is run.
nk (dbc370) — 2/5/2018 @ 7:40 amDiscretionary spending?
Hookers and Hookahs?
Ben burn (b3d5ab) — 2/5/2018 @ 7:46 amhttp://freebeacon.com/national-security/pentagon-agency-cant-account-over-800-million-expenses/
Rumsfeld found 1.2 billion in 2001,
narciso (d1f714) — 2/5/2018 @ 7:50 amUrban. Missed your Intercept and duplicated. Sorry.
Ben burn (b3d5ab) — 2/5/2018 @ 7:55 amBut as the auditors found, the agency often has little solid evidence for where much of that money is going. That bodes ill for ever getting a handle on spending at the Defense Department as a whole, which has a combined $2.2 trillion in assets.
In one part of the audit, completed in mid-December, Ernst & Young found that misstatements in the agency’s books totaled at least $465 million for construction projects it financed for the Army Corps of Engineers and other agencies. For construction projects designated as still “in progress,” meanwhile, it didn’t have sufficient documentation — or any documentation at all — for another $384 million worth of spending.
The agency also couldn’t produce supporting evidence for many items that are documented in some form — including records for $100 million worth of assets in the computer systems that conduct the agency’s day-to-day business.
“The documentation, such as the evidence demonstrating that the asset was tested and accepted, is not retained or available,” it said.
The report, which covers the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2016, also found that $46 million in computer assets were “inappropriately recorded” as belonging to the Defense Logistics Agency. It also warned that the agency cannot reconcile balances from its general ledger with the Treasury Department.
The agency maintains it will overcome its many hurdles to ultimately get a clean audit.
“The initial audit has provided us with a valuable independent view of our current financial operations,” Army Lt. Gen. Darrell Williams, the agency’s director, wrote in response to Ernst & Young’s findings. “We are committed to resolving the material weaknesses and strengthening internal controls around DLA’s operations.”
Ben burn (b3d5ab) — 2/5/2018 @ 7:59 amhttps://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/05/pentagon-logistics-agency-review-funds-322860
It’s NEWS when he’s actually at the WH.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/palm-beach/fl-reg-trump-super-bowl-sunday-20180204-story.html
Ben burn (b3d5ab) — 2/5/2018 @ 8:02 amAt least FAU was a good choice for the invited cheerleading squad, Palm Beach County is a sixth borough contender. USF/UCF are surprisingly too much like a UC/CSU campus, and I dont think he could handle FIU.
urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 2/5/2018 @ 8:26 amI haven’t been to see the Churchill movie yet. I’m very offput by the one line from the movie that the advertisements run over and over, in which Gary Oldman (a fine actor whom I greatly respect) shouts, “We shall never SURRENDER!” The speech from which this was taken is one of Churchill’s most famous, and was broadcast either live or on a delayed basis worldwide, and although it builds to a conclusion, Churchill never shouted. More to the point, the emphasis was on the word “never,” not on the word “surrender,” which makes no sense whatsoever.
I’ve been reassured by others whose judgment I trust that the other artistic liberties taken by the film are less jarring, and that as a Churchill fan I ought not miss the movie. But I may not get around to it before it’s out of the theaters. I shall NEVER surrender my affection for Mr. Churchill.
Beldar (fa637a) — 2/5/2018 @ 8:30 amHe never apologized for calling Mohandas a fakir consolidating his xtreme Nationalism.
Ben burn (b3d5ab) — 2/5/2018 @ 8:33 amAudio of Churchill’s speech. The “we shall NEVER surrender” line is at 2:20.
Beldar (fa637a) — 2/5/2018 @ 8:34 amCome all ye young rebels, and list while I sing,
For the love of one’s country is a terrible thing.
It banishes fear with the speed of a flame,
And it makes us all part of the patriot game.
My name is O’Hanlon, and I’ve just turned sixteen.
My home is in Monaghan, and where I was weaned
I learned all my life cruel England’s to blame,
So now I am part of the patriot game.
This Ireland of ours has too long been half free.
Six counties lie under John Bull’s tyranny.
But still De Valera is greatly to blame
For shirking his part in the Patriot game.
They told me how Connolly was shot in his chair,
His wounds from the fighting all bloody and bare.
His fine body twisted, all battered and lame
They soon made me part of the patriot game.
It’s nearly two years since I wandered away
With the local battalion of the bold IRA,
For I read of our heroes, and wanted the same
To play out my part in the patriot game.
[extra verse I found]
I don’t mind a bit if I shoot down police
They are lackeys for war never guardians of peace
And yet at deserters I’m never let aim
The rebels who sold out the patriot game
And now as I lie here, my body all holes
Ben burn (b3d5ab) — 2/5/2018 @ 8:34 amI think of those traitors who bargained in souls
And I wish that my rifle had given the same
To those Quislings who sold out the patriot game
Could you also add some instrumental accompaniment?
urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 2/5/2018 @ 8:36 amI can hum out of tune.
Ben burn (b3d5ab) — 2/5/2018 @ 8:38 amUrban, your wish is my (and a prior movie version’s) command.
Beldar (fa637a) — 2/5/2018 @ 8:48 amI like this longer audio version of Churchills’s speech. I also like this Churchill-Richard Burton anecdote that someone told me about many years ago. And I love this Churchill quote:
DRJ (15874d) — 2/5/2018 @ 9:17 amThe Churchill-Orsen Welles anecdote is also good.
https://youtu.be/TpqwY7QL7r8
harkin (8256c3) — 2/5/2018 @ 9:30 amBack at the ranch:
ttps://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/after-house-gop-memo-fbi-oks-release-unclassified-steele-referral
narciso (beec15) — 2/5/2018 @ 9:54 amI thought the “Ranch” was limited to terrorist incidents.
urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 2/5/2018 @ 9:56 amChurchill was counting on FDR doing the right thing. Talking about faith. Wow.
papertiger (c8116c) — 2/5/2018 @ 10:03 amChurchill-as-the-only-one-resolutely-standing-athwart-Hitler motif
Except that he was, pretty much. He had been warning about Hitler since the mid-30’s and refused to STFU as his betters dealt with Herr Hitler and dug the hole deep. Even at the time he was appointed, there was still a strong appeasement faction, and even a collaboration faction — not all the fascists were in the National Front. The world would have been a MUCH different place if they had gone with Halifax (who wanted to negotiate a truce after Dunkirk).
Kevin M (752a26) — 2/5/2018 @ 11:16 amIf you want a good exposition of Churchill being Horatio at the bridge in the 1930s read Manchester’s second installment of his Churchill biography (The Last Lion: Alone). One of the greatest books never written was the projected third, concluding part, which Manchester had to give up because of his stroke. (The continuation by a faithful acolyte does not rise to the same level.)
Kishnevi (5bd7eb) — 2/5/2018 @ 4:56 pm