It is rabid in here

MD wins or Duke doesn't make it out alive.

Cannot be faded

Great sports night. 40 hours of work so far and it is only Wednesday

PS Duke's uniforms are GAF

PPS - I am watching Caps but the Canucks are on during the intermission so dont give me shit for having the wrong hockey game on.

PPPPSS - Work sucks balls

Jackal Juxtaposition: Terps+Caps=Awesome

Whew, lawd. It seems like forever since our boys went to battle side by side. Granted, UMD vs. Duke has much more at stake, but we're just so excited 'cause they're reunited and it feels so good.

You're in the Terrordome like my man Chuck D said, It's time to dethrone you CLONES, and all you knuckleheads

Press play, now read. Lets get to it...




It's so fuckin on at 9pm tonight. The one thing that has always separated MD from Duke is the desire within the Terps. That blood of a slave, heart of a King shit. The Terps are 12-0 with your boy SS in the building this year and he will be live and direct from the second row. We'll be going deep tonight, to wear out Puke who plays a busted rotation of 6.5 guys. My boy Padgett might even get in SportsCenters Top Ten plays with a block or dunk.

I got a feeling Bowies gonna bust out the Mohawk and play lights out. He's actually turned things around nicely and contributed after I swore to Anubis that I would charge the court and punch him in his throat if he didn't start hustling again.


As for Tuck, what more can be said? Dudes been money recently and has a penchant for showing up big in big games.

Dino's been active on the boards ever since he stepped foot on campus and is athletic enough to play with anyone. Should teach those little Plumlee clones a thing or two about life in the paint on the road in the ACC.

Getting into our starting five you already know the deal. Landons solid as all get out. Needs to stay active on the glass, tally 2 or 3 blocks, and KFTC on the mid range jumper.

Sugar Sean has been spitting hot fire the last week. Dude must have the Mazda 6 wiretapped. After Ballstrami called him out, Sugar turned it on.
Eric Hayes? The 31st most efficient offensive player in the country. If Hayes takes 12+ shots, MD does not lose. To anyone. Get out there and do your thing boy.

Jordan Williams? Who knew a freshman would be the second most consistent player on the team. Jordan "Jackal" Williams has been getting his man on ever since the Villanova game. Firing up the home crowd, playing solid D, dunking on fools. Got to have it. Got to love it. Last but not least. The General. The leader. El Callejero. The Street Baller. This is his game. His Senior night. His ACC Player of the Year clinching performance. His last game in Comcast before his name goes to the rafters. My boys got Cajones the size of Anubis's legacy. My boys got more shimmies than Jackals on the Shenanigans dance floor. The man who made Tico owe me $20. Long live the street baller. Viva El Callejero. Respect thy Gangsta.

It's just plain on tonight. My boys ain't no joke. It's go time. Let's get to it.

LETS GO MARYLAND!

Keep Fucking That Chicken: Global Warming

The more dissenters I find on this subject, the more I hear how record snow fall in D.C. means the whole problem is bullshit, the more I hear of how the Canadian mountains imported snow for the Olympic Winter Games, the more I want everyone to buy and read this book or any other for that matter regarding the same subject. I haven't finished it yet, but let me just say if ignorance is bliss for you, keep fucking that chicken. OBD, I'm looking in your direction. Darfur, New Orleans, Haiti, Chile, get used to it.

Boogerdamus: Mavericks Finally Get Dirk A Ring

I hate the NBA, don't get a ninja wrong. Mark Cuban is GAF, but he's a good owner. David Stern is one of the nation's most pronounced clones and that's a very small part of my rationale behind investing any amount of my interest in a Dallas Mavericks playoff run. The Wizard transplants Stephenson and Butler help, but Haywood is still soft as fuck. Dirk deserves this shit. It's rare that I think an NBA player deserves anything, but this is an exception. Boogerdamus has spoken.

NBC's Wet Dream

NBC, go fuck yourself. You got what you wanted.

USA USA USA

6-0 In the 1st? Hey, Canada, We're Your Fuckin' Huckleberry!

Canada, how about you win later on so you have to play the US for gold? Then we'll bend you over on your home ice. We're the cirrhosis-laden Doc Holliday and you're broke ass Curly Bill.

Ryan Miller has a shitty haircut in this picture, but 'dem colors don't run.

P.S. While I was posting this, the score went from 3-0 to 6-0. That, my friends, is JAF. Do Not Sleep.

What Republicans Are Up To

BMR, you asked "what the fuck Republicans are doing"? It's relatively simple: They don't see any electoral benefit in supporting anything Democrats do. If bills pass, the majority gets credit for them, which helps Democrats in November. If bills don't pass and Washington is seen as ineffective, the majority party gets punished in November. So the Republicans are doing everything they can to ensure that the latter is the case.

This is exacerbated by Obama's campaign focus on bipartisanship and reforming Washington, which means he'll get extra credit from the public if he is seen as actually delivering bipartisanship. And the GOP obviously doesn't want that.

A key problem here is that the filibuster gives the minority party a means of obstructing bills that have a majority of votes and the public doesn't necessarily understand this, so the majority often still gets punished. In some ways, the Democrats' 60-vote supermajority may have made this worse, because even informed members of the public could ask "well, you guys have the votes you need, so why are you complaining?" We may have seen this effect a little bit when a handful of Republicans joined with Democrats to pass the HIRE act; I'm assuming that they felt the pressure of the bill's potential failure if they didn't vote for it. The crazy thing is that, after 5 Republicans joined with Democrats in voting for cloture, THIRTEEN Republicans voted for the bill's passage. This particularly ironic screengrab from Lamar Alexander's (R-TN) website pretty much sums it up:

The HIRE Act and the "Partisan Jobs Bill" are the same thing. The ironic thing is that this bill was (1) an effort to create jobs in the worst economy in 75 years and (2) was composed almost entirely of tax cuts and credits. In other words, there was virtually no rationale for this bill not passing with massive (think 90+ votes) majorities.

In summary:

• Republicans know that helping Obama hurts them, so they're not doing it, even on bills that make a ridiculous amount of sense.
• Democrats are pussies for not passing their shit with the massive majorities they had.
• Republicans' "no-to-everything" strategy may not work anymore because they now can actually block everything, as opposed to just slowing everything down. Of course, actually voting for things also may not work because they may turn on themselves.