Let Ball Deep Eat Cake

A few weeks ago, during Obama's big speech on health care before a joint session of Congress, Ball Deep went a little nuts and started freaking out about the effect of health care reform on the deficit, at which point I had to smack him down with a little economic knowledge.

But today there's some good news for Mr. Deep, not to mention basically everyone else out there - the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has scored the Senate Financial Services bill and found the following:

• The plan will cover 29 million people who would otherwise have been uninsured.
• Only 3 million people will be removed from private health insurance.
• 5 million fewer people will use the individual insurance market, the source of a lot of the current horror stories.
• 29 million legal residents will have have insurance who would otherwise not have.
  
• 245 million people will be basically unaffected.
  
• It will not add to the federal deficit.

In other words, Mr. Deep, you can have your cake and eat it too. This is far from the perfect bill in my mind - it doesn't include a public option, there are still a lot of fucked up incentives that will need to be corrected, and I would much rather just go to a single payer system like every other developed nation. But it's a hell of an improvement. And to everyone out there who called this pretty ideologically centrist effort socialism or a government takeover or wasteful spending, here are some words of advice: go find a new hobby. Because your attempts to fuck up the country in your spare time because of paranoid fear and ill-thought-out ideology is pretty fucking annoying to the rest of us.

In other political news, it looks like Schubert and I have the right idea. Now the rest of you, move to the dirty south - you'll be able to buy a house without bankrupting yourself AND we'll be able to live in a Democratic paradise!

Statistics Be Scar Shoulders' Lullaby

SS, you're a consummate shit talker. No one attempts to tear that from your Scottish/Chinese grip, but I like to let numbers talk. BD, I love the way we lost that game. Mark Clayton is straight, he'll get many more throws his way and you better believe he has already forgotten about the ONE drop on their two-minute drill to end the game in an extremely hostile environment. Psst, it was the first loss and it came on the road against the NFL's pride and joy.
Joe Flacco through a season and 4 games:

		G	CMP	ATT	PCT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	INT	RAT
2008	BAL	16	257	428	60.0	2971	6.9	14	70	12	80.3
2009	BAL	4	95	151	62.9	1103	7.3	8	72	3	94.3

Eli Manning through two seasons:

YEAR	G	ATT	COM	PCT	YARDS	YPA	TD	INT	RATE
2004	9	197	95	48.2	1043	5.3	6	9	55.4
2005	16	557	294	52.8	3762	6.8	24	17	75.9

Jackal Book Club

Any more additions? I am keeping a Jackal Reading list.

Rusty's website gave me an idea. Let me know if some Jackals want to start swapping some books via USPS. It would be a hell of a lot cheaper than Amazon route. And it would motivate peeps to get through more books if peeps were waiting to have it sent back.

(I know the first post label makes no sense, but it came up as a default and brought back memories.)

Den Posts that are making me laugh days after I read them:

"moafucka hit ma peena".

I'm just sayin' that shit is still funny and I can't stop sayin it.

Dan Snyder = DB or the Century!

I hate Dan Snyder... Yes HATE!

"football player"

nothing else to say, but what a fag...

Where Jackals Fear to Tread: The Middle East

Wow...Imagine how many lashes we would have received in our lives by now if we were unfortunate enough to be born in this country.

'Merica may have its problems to be certain, but shit like this makes me feel fortunate to not live in a place like Saudi Arabia.

Dude not only got sentenced to 5 years FPMITA (Federal Pound Me in the Ass Prison) but also got 1,000 lashes (don't know what that is "exactly" but sounds really bad) for talking about having fun. "charged with violating Saudi Arabia's crime of publicizing vice." He didn't even get caught having fun, just openly discussing it meant a beating and jail time. These officials are clearly sex starved and not thinking straight. I hope all these virgins they are going to get in heaven have a bad case of herpes and faces like Charles Barkley.

"Pre-marital sex is illegal, and unrelated men and women are not permitted to mingle." What the hell is that? That is the GAFest thing I have ever heard. There are some crazy mofos over there.

By the way this picture is totally unrelated to this story. It took place in Yemen, but it is most likely another situation where someone was murdered/tortured in front of others for doing something totally normal to keep the cycle of fear going. FUCK THAT..

Someone needs to get shit control over there.

Bitches.

Jackals who knwo how to read and tsuff

I had a scary thought today. When football is over there will be many nights where deciding between "Two and a half Men" and "Anderson Cooper 360" may be a real decision to have to make. (For the record, I would never watch either of those things, merely trying to make a point that 99.97% of TV sucks balls.)

So I am soliciting the help of my jackals to give me some good books to check out. A few Jackal must reads to help eliminate the need to weed through the aisles and aisles of self-help books and Giants Superbowl picture books and the rest of the bullshit that plagues the bookstores these days.  No real preference on fiction/non-fiction just as long as it is good isshh.

I'll kick it off with just a few at the top of my list:

On the Road Jack Kerouac

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert Pirsig

Into the Wild Jon Krakauer

Way of the Peaceful Warrior Dan Millman

PS  I admit Jackals and Book club don't really mix, but I digress...

GCOTD: Vince Vaughn

I feel pretty bad for all you jackals out there who will be dragged to this douchebag's new movie by your wife or significant other. "Swingers" was a great film and the second one of your jackals starts doubting himself, he'd do well to be told that he's money and he doesn't know it. Heather Graham was so hot in that movie. Way too hot for John Favreau, but that's Hollywood isn't it? However, despite the Double V's excellent character and priceless improv in the diner scene "there's my special lady, nothing but smiles for me" or "I'm the asshole" or "'cause you're growns up and you're growns up and you're growns up", his descent into douchebaggery has been well documented. "Old School" was pretty awesome too, but it seems like they threw it together way too fast, as funny as old school was, it fell very short of its potential. Ever since that movie, Vince Vaughn plays the same character, with the same voice, delivery, one-liners. Yes, that is still John Favreau in the supporting actor role. Please, jackals, find a way to sit this one out.

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