US House of Reps: Your tax dollars at work

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You’ve got to watch this just to remind yourself the quality of intellect that can get elected in this country…and to learn that the University of Florida football team shows off ‘teen spirit’ (about 40 seconds in). I am sure Kurt Cobain is proud. Hat tip to the Wiz.

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36 Responses to US House of Reps: Your tax dollars at work

  1. turfpack 03/24/2009 at 8:21 PM #

    De gators is de bestest teams in de nations and de smartests in actodemacs too.

  2. Greywolf 03/24/2009 at 8:25 PM #

    Paramarine
    March 24th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
    Fortunately, there is another fan in Florida that’s willing to make up for this:

    http://www.totalprosports.com/blog/index.php/2009/03/florida-panthers-fan-exposes-herself-on-live-tv/
    `
    This girl had her good points… I always thought Florida Grapefruit was some of the best.

  3. highstick 03/24/2009 at 9:09 PM #

    Now you know why I’m a hockey fan!! LOL!!

  4. BladenWolf 03/24/2009 at 9:39 PM #

    I just busted a gut laughing at the video of that..er..
    gov’ment o-ffeeshul…

    Then I read the comments and I laughed again (in a different way) so hard I started crying…damn guys… “is that a weave?”…”Delta is ready when you is”…”do those choir robes come in red?”

    those are priceless…

  5. PackerInRussia 03/24/2009 at 10:57 PM #

    I couldn’t finish watching that. I only made it through about a minute. If someone had stood up and made a politically incorrect statement, there would have been hell to pay. To me, something like this is just as offensive. I guess I expect too much, though. BTW, her speech writer seems to have thrown in a few too many commas.

  6. Greywolf 03/25/2009 at 3:13 AM #

    BladenWolf
    March 24th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
    “Delta is ready when you is”
    `
    BladenWolf, Singular and plural tense matching of verbs and nouns is important.
    Delta ARE ready when you is.
    Gotta run down to Toys B Us and get something for my grandbaby.

  7. highstick 03/25/2009 at 10:56 AM #

    I always thought it was “We B Toys and Sh.t!”

    Laughed so hard I had to go to the hospital and get some “bluecose”! I better stop there cause the rest gets really un-PC!

  8. GAWolf 03/25/2009 at 11:04 AM #

    Since I know all of you were curious about ‘Sheed Wallace’s take on the economy:

    Wallace was interviewed by Michael Grange (no idea) the other night and Sheed was his usual, insightful self. I love this cat’s honesty. Both teams played hard.

    Do you follow the economy?

    Hell yeah.

    What’s your scouting report?

    Right now? We got to look out for them bad shooters. There’s a lot of bad investments right now. The market is still [messed]up. Oil and gas prices are up and down, depending where you live at.

    It’ll get better though. We can’t stay in this recession for too long. Us, as in the United States, we did it for a few years in the 1920s, early 30s, but eventually we came out of it. We’ll come out of it.

    Do you worry how it will affect the league?

    Nah. I follow how that s___ affect me. F___ the league, excuse my French. I’m going to be out one day, but that’s not going to stop the economy from still plummeting. I follow it for me, for my family.

    But if the economy suffers the league will too?

    That’s going to happen. Guys who were able to get that big money contract the last couple of years, kudos for them. Myself and other free agents included, talking about signing for next season or the year after that, it’s going to hit us hard. Definitely we’re not going to get the money that… guys think they should get and deserve. But that’s all part of it.

    You’ve got a good head on about it though?

    You have to. I’m not the type of guy who rolls out here and spends mad money on this and that. I spend it on my kids or my wife or something like that but just save that cheese, that’s my whole thing.

    If you put a suitcase in a locker room with $25-million [compared with the $56-million or so salary cap] would players take it or would they leave it and go get a job? What would they do?

    They would probably rely on that suitcase. I guess it depends on the up-bringing. Myself, personally, I have no problem going out there and getting a 9-to-5. If I have to do that to support my family, that’s what I’m going to do: get my black ass up, and get that 9-to-5.

    Sounds like you’ve been careful with your money?

    Have to. That’s too much damn money to blow on nothing. You always got to make investments, and not always necessarily on cars, like most people think.

    How many more years you going to play?

    I don’t know. I guess until the wheels fall off the bus. Or until I’m not wanted on no teams, I guess. I’m still year-by-year.

    Sounds like you’re prepared to sign for less than you’re making [Wallace in in the last year of a deal paying him $13.1-million this season?

    You have to play that by ear man. I know for sure I can’t walk into a GM’s office and say I want $100-million. They’d look at me and laugh. There was a day though, before the recession.

    A lot of guys are going to have to take less?

    It’s going to change a whole way of living for some guys, having to take those pay cuts. It’ s a bad free-agent year for us.

    Do players talk about it?

    More the veterans. The younger guys don’t worry too much.

  9. jwrenn29 03/25/2009 at 6:29 PM #

    Meyer is a great corch. Totally.

  10. turfpack 03/25/2009 at 7:47 PM #

    You guys-that’s some funny sh%&-some of you guys are crazy!

  11. GAWolf 03/26/2009 at 7:16 PM #

    If you’ve seen the plaque of Tebo’s speech you HAVE to see this… the one of THIS speech:

    http://brahsome.com/2009/03/26/the-gradulation/

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