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Of course he's saying that. He doesn't need to pander for votes from autoworkers until the 2012 Republican primaries, at which point he can again promise to save their jobs.

The single best thing about this deal might be that we will never have to hear the idiots on Fox's NFL studio team discussing college football again.

I don't think OU has anything to worry about (in terms of making the Big 12 title game) if they beat TT and then OSU the week after (unless TT loses to Baylor in the final week). Not only will they be finishing with a higher caliber slate of games than Texas, but in the event of a three-way tie the whole "team X beat team Y and so they can't be ranked below them!" line of reasoning is no longer valid, and so the voters will have to step back and evaluate the season as a whole. I believe this would favor OU with a win over the #1 team late in the season in addition to a bunch of other good conference wins, a loss at a neutral site to a good team, and two OOC wins that look very good at the moment (TCU, Cincinnati).

Did I just miss something, or is that scene from the trailer and the movie poster (Bond walking up over the hill carrying a massive assault rifle type weapon) not even in the movie?

Fixed. I'm doing better in my pick-'em now by choosing the ACC games based on deciding who I think should win, then picking the other team. By the way, sorry I haven't had time this week to respond to the firestorm I started earlier in the thread, but I may try to respond to a few posts later, especially since this week was fairly boring and so there's not much else to talk about other than to argue some more over the BCS (in fact, one argument I would make in favor of the BCS is that it makes college football a lot more interesting to follow and argue over from a week-to-week and even day-to-day standpoint).

Stewart Mandel and I must be related in a past life or something, because this argument on why the BCS makes the regular season more important and exciting mirrors my opinion practically word-for-word:

McCain was on Jay Leno tonight and gave a pretty good interview. What's hilarious is that after being shielded constantly from the media throughout the campaign, now that it is over Sarah Palin has no problem appearing all over the TV shows. She was on the Today Show this morning, is going to be on Larry King and The Situation Room on CNN tomorrow, and I'm sure there's plenty more in store.

What I don't understand is why Disney/ABCESPN would want to deliberately reduce their potential audience by having the Rose Bowl (or any other BCS games) on ESPN instead of ABC. Do they get better advertising rates for ESPN or something? Surely the most profitable thing to do would be to put the games on ABC, they can still do their stupid "ESPN on ABC" crap. What am I missing here?

I've got no problem with it, I just posted it for entertainment value.

Joe Scarborough casually drops the F-bomb this morning on MSNBC, then continues his point without realizing it while the rest of the panel tries not to burst out laughing:

My absolute least favorite thing about the Christmas season is the stupid music that gets played at every store. Do people really enjoy hearing that crap? I love doing homework at the campus Starbucks because normally they are playing jazz music or Radiohead or something along those lines, and then Christmas rolls around and I can barely step into the place because it's all fucking jingles that drive me up the wall.

Of course Florida has to win out. That goes without saying. Anyone loses now and they are out of the title picture. The only team that could conceivably lose and still end up in the championship game is Alabama, if they dropped a close game in the next two and then blew out Florida in the SEC title game.

One of my friends is a huge Utah fan. He contends that the 2004 team could have been any of the other unbeatens a run for their money, and is already planning to travel from Eugene to wherever their BCS bowl game ends up being (assuming they make it). Even he doesn't think they should be in the championship game, because he is confident they would get killed by any of the "Big 5" (TT, Alabama, Florida, Texas, Oklahoma). In fact, he's worried that they are going to end up playing the 2nd place team from the Big 12 South in the Fiesta Bowl and getting killed; he would rather play the ACC, Big East, Big 10, or Pac-10 champ (and that includes USC) over any of those aforementioned teams.

Will someone tell the CBS announcers to shut the fuck up about the Oakland Raiders offensive line from 40 years ago?

But I thought the jews and niggers hated each other? I guess they can put their differences aside to oppress the WASP... Godwin's law strikes early. This one is my favorite. Maybe this guy can dye his skin blue or something?

I really hope Richardson is Secretary of State and not Kerry. Hagel seems like such a perfect choice for Defense: he's a Republican so that fits with Obama's promise of inclusiveness, but his foreign policy views are much closer to Obama's than to the GOP mainstream's.

If you want to see something funny, go to Fox News' website and check out the comments on their most recent poll, which shows Obama +7. Apparently FOX NEWS is "in the tank for Obama" and their poll is "liberal biased".

Why doesn't it surprise me at all that you would parrot this crap from Drudge without even checking if it's true or not? McCain had a 1 point lead in a single day of polling for a 3 day tracking poll, which Obama still leads by 5. Since a single day of said poll has a sample size of only 400 people, the margin of error for that 1-day result is huge (which is precisely why they do these 3 or 5 day tracking polls, to minimize the overall margin of error). Not only that, the poll in question uses party ID weightings that are extremely generous to the Republicans (it assumes that they are the same as in the 2004 election, which is clearly false). Really, the fact that McCain's best result is a 1 point lead on a single day of a tracking poll with a Republican lean just goes to show how far behind he is right now.

This is because Drudge has no clue to how to evaluate polling data and so he just cherry picks the results he likes (including today's nonsense of reporting one day of a multi-day tracking poll, which has a relatively tiny sample size and thus a large margin of error).

I expect a significant amount of the commentary during the Florida-Georgia game to be along the lines of "A 1-loss SEC champion should be in the title game over an undefeated Penn State!".

Nate Silver debunked the Bradley Effect with regards to recent (2006) elections with a black candidate vs. a white one. Here's the link: Bradley Effect? Or Elephant Effect? He's also written a lot more about the non-existence of the Bradley Effect with regards to this election, you can skim the archives for that.

Hitchens can be hit or miss (to put it mildly), but he absolutely nails Palin here: Sarah Palin's War on Science

You'll make a fine suicide bomber one day, son. Just remember to practice your terrorist fist-jab.

Maybe I am missing something, but I don't get this acronym.

It doesn't look inconceivable that the ACC and Big East champs could end the regular season not ranked in the top 25. LSU being exposed for the second week in a row.