Comments on: Sunday Talking Heads: December 7, 2008 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/07/sunday-talking-heads-december-7-2008/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:15:39 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: looseheadprop http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/07/sunday-talking-heads-december-7-2008/#comment-1751189 looseheadprop Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:20:53 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/07/sunday-talking-heads-december-7-2008/#comment-1751189 <p>Hold onto your gag reflex, a couple of days ago somebody (an R) told me Pete King is thinking about running for Seante.</p> Hold onto your gag reflex, a couple of days ago somebody (an R) told me Pete King is thinking about running for Seante.

]]> By: looseheadprop http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/07/sunday-talking-heads-december-7-2008/#comment-1751181 looseheadprop Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:18:06 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/07/sunday-talking-heads-december-7-2008/#comment-1751181 <p>if you click on the profile there is an explanation of my screen name. A looseheadprop is a rugby position. LHP plays in the front row of the scrum and, along with the tight head prop, props up the hooker (analogous to the center in NFL football) so the hooker can strike at the ball with either foot without falling off balance.</p> <p>If you are experienced, and totally lacking in ethics, the LHP can collapse the scrum pretty much at will without much danger to self, but at great danger of spinal cord injury for the opposing team. It is VERY hard for the referee to catch the LHP doing it.</p> <p>Therefore, to be a responsible LHP, you have to learn to put the long term health and safety of your opposition, ahead of short term gain for your own team. You also have to be aware of proprotionality–after all, is winning even the most important game of you life worth knowing that you deliberatly risked making someone a quadraplegic?</p> <p>Learning to play that position agressively, but not recklessly, invovles alot of soul searching. I think I learned more useful elassons, trying to grock rugby in fullness than I ever did in a classroom.</p> if you click on the profile there is an explanation of my screen name. A looseheadprop is a rugby position. LHP plays in the front row of the scrum and, along with the tight head prop, props up the hooker (analogous to the center in NFL football) so the hooker can strike at the ball with either foot without falling off balance.

If you are experienced, and totally lacking in ethics, the LHP can collapse the scrum pretty much at will without much danger to self, but at great danger of spinal cord injury for the opposing team. It is VERY hard for the referee to catch the LHP doing it.

Therefore, to be a responsible LHP, you have to learn to put the long term health and safety of your opposition, ahead of short term gain for your own team. You also have to be aware of proprotionality–after all, is winning even the most important game of you life worth knowing that you deliberatly risked making someone a quadraplegic?

Learning to play that position agressively, but not recklessly, invovles alot of soul searching. I think I learned more useful elassons, trying to grock rugby in fullness than I ever did in a classroom.

]]> By: Waccamaw http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/07/sunday-talking-heads-december-7-2008/#comment-1751050 Waccamaw Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:22:35 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/07/sunday-talking-heads-december-7-2008/#comment-1751050 <p>Well, it’s a given they’re definitely in need of *that* specific piece of infrastructure. :-(</p> Well, it’s a given they’re definitely in need of *that* specific piece of infrastructure. :-(

]]> By: SouthernDragon http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/07/sunday-talking-heads-december-7-2008/#comment-1751043 SouthernDragon Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:19:48 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/07/sunday-talking-heads-december-7-2008/#comment-1751043 <p>Wobblybits has just shown up on PW’s thread.</p> Wobblybits has just shown up on PW’s thread.

]]> By: foothillsmike http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/07/sunday-talking-heads-december-7-2008/#comment-1751037 foothillsmike Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:16:43 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/07/sunday-talking-heads-december-7-2008/#comment-1751037 <p>Meet the Idiocracy</p> Meet the Idiocracy

]]> By: SouthernDragon http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/07/sunday-talking-heads-december-7-2008/#comment-1751030 SouthernDragon Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:14:04 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/07/sunday-talking-heads-december-7-2008/#comment-1751030 <p>Is that the death knell of MTP I hear in the background? From the thought provoking days of Lawrence Spivak to the mindless days of David Gregory.</p> Is that the death knell of MTP I hear in the background? From the thought provoking days of Lawrence Spivak to the mindless days of David Gregory.

]]> By: foothillsmike http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/07/sunday-talking-heads-december-7-2008/#comment-1751029 foothillsmike Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:13:30 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/07/sunday-talking-heads-december-7-2008/#comment-1751029 <p>Rice on this week continuing revision of history.</p> Rice on this week continuing revision of history.

]]> By: Elliott http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/07/sunday-talking-heads-december-7-2008/#comment-1751025 Elliott Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:11:48 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/07/sunday-talking-heads-december-7-2008/#comment-1751025 <p>oh puke<br /> was hoping they’d change their minds by today,</p> oh puke
was hoping they’d change their minds by today,

]]> By: Prairie Sunshine http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/07/sunday-talking-heads-december-7-2008/#comment-1751022 Prairie Sunshine Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:10:29 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/07/sunday-talking-heads-december-7-2008/#comment-1751022 <p>Sheesh, way behind…</p> <p>Obama great on MTP — blames the probs of Big Auto on…lousy business model and exec comp pkgs that are way outa line compared to their competitors…boo-yah!</p> <p>Gregory baton passing…Gregory pfffffht.</p> Sheesh, way behind…

Obama great on MTP — blames the probs of Big Auto on…lousy business model and exec comp pkgs that are way outa line compared to their competitors…boo-yah!

Gregory baton passing…Gregory pfffffht.

]]> By: katymine http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/07/sunday-talking-heads-december-7-2008/#comment-1751016 katymine Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:08:09 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/07/sunday-talking-heads-december-7-2008/#comment-1751016 <p>Until 2004 there wasn’t a state Democratic Party office. It was a organization that would start up months before an election and there was no network or funding. Since then we have had both a County & State office, we have officers, staff and it is open ALL year around. </p> <p>The issue is that they have not been growing the farm team so our bench is very slim. It was Howard Dean that helped us with anything. We just do not have a long list of people who are qualified to run for some of these offices. AND because of that we don’t get the DSCC & DCCC support for those candidates.</p> Until 2004 there wasn’t a state Democratic Party office. It was a organization that would start up months before an election and there was no network or funding. Since then we have had both a County & State office, we have officers, staff and it is open ALL year around.

The issue is that they have not been growing the farm team so our bench is very slim. It was Howard Dean that helped us with anything. We just do not have a long list of people who are qualified to run for some of these offices. AND because of that we don’t get the DSCC & DCCC support for those candidates.

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