Sunday Picks – The Thumping in Texas

No I’m not going to give you the loss on the San Fran – Seattle game.
That was a Puffin thing.
Our mutual pick of the ‘Game of the Week’ – Baltimore at Houston – turned out to be a bust.
The Tennessee – Buffalo game or the Jets and Pats was the ‘Game of the Week’.

Last year all of us were in the 60+ percent range. This is getting weird to pick.

I haven’t checked it out and may have changed with yesterdays games, but I heard that only 2 of the AFC teams (again prior to yesterday) had .500 of above records.

Over all
Backwoods 59 – 44 = 56%
Kane 58 – 46 = 55%

This week
Backwoods 7 – 4
Kane 10 – 2

Thurday…………………….Kane………….Backwoods
6…..to….13 – Win
Seattle(4-3) @ San Fran(5-2)….SF……………no pick

Seattle is actually 3-4 and they show it. But they do make some other teams play ‘ugly.

Sunday 35…..to….34 – Win
Tennessee(3-4) @ Buffallo(3-4)..Tenn………….Buff

Matt’s back AND they have a running game. Look out!

19….to….14 – Win
Dallas(3-3) @ Carolina(1-5)…..Dallas………..Dallas

Dallas is pretty much rebuilding. Or should be. Carolina? Well they have QB. Now if they can just find 53 other players and a coaching staff.

13…..to…..43 – Loss
Baltimore(5-2) @ Houston(6-1)…Balt………….Hou

This was a real let down.

23…..to…..27 – Win
Washington(3-4) @ NYG(5-2)……NYG…………..NYGiants

The Giants are starting to make some distance from the rest of the NFC East.

35….to….28 – Win
New Orleans(2-4) @ Tampa Bay(2-4)NO…………..Tampa

It may be too late but could make a showing this year.

30…..to…..20 – Win
Green Bay(4-3) @ St Louis(3-4)..GB……………GB

GB still has a lot of work to make the playoffs.

14….to….21 – Loss
Arizona(4-3) @ Minnesota(5-2)….Ari………….Minn

And THIS is why GB has a lot of work to do.

13…..to….17 – Win
Cleveland(1-6) @ Indy(3-3)…….Indy…………Cleveland

For both teams there’s always next year or the year after or the year after that or……

23…..to….26 – Win
Jacksonville(1-5) @ Oakland(2-4).Oak………….Oak

Wow. Two very bad teams make a very bad game. Who knew?

26…..to….29 – Win
NYJets(3-4) @ New England(4-3)…NE…………..NE

Maybe the Pats are back but………

24…..to…..17 – Win
Pittsburgh(3-3) @ Cinci3-4)……Pitt…………Cinci

Any body have Pittsburgh at 3-3 almost halfway through the season? I know I didn’t.

Monday
Detroit(2-4) @ Chicago(5-1)……Chi………….Chi
Bye : Atlanta(6-0), Denver(3-3), KC(1-5), Miami(3-3), Phly(3-3), SD(1-4)

But it’s NOT Republican Obstructionism – ‘Pennsylvania Newspaper Owned By Top Right-Wing Funder Falsely Claims ID Is Required To Vote’

‘Again, the claim that voters will need to show ID in order to vote, as well as the claim that voters who do not show ID will be forced to cast a provisional ballot and then show ID later, are entirely false’.

‘The state of Pennsylvania is currently bound by a court order which permits voters without ID to cast normal ballots, not provisional ballots, and to have those ballots counted just like any other’.

‘Voters will still be asked to show ID at the polls, but may not be turned away or given a provisional ballot because they do not show it’.

‘The Mount Pleasant Journal is one of several newspapers run by Trib Total Media, a media conglomerate owned by billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife’.

‘Scaife’s foundation donated hundreds of millions of dollars to conservative organizations ranging from the American Enterprise Institution to the Federalist Society, and he currently serves as vice-chairman of the right-wing Heritage Foundation’s board of trustees’.

‘Last Thursday, at least one of Scaife’s newspapers printed an inaccurate story headlined “Photo ID required for November election,” when, in reality, a court order suspended the requirement that Pennsylvania voters show an ID or lose their right to vote’.
From : http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/10/22/1056351/pennsylvania-newspaper-owned-by-top-right-wing-funder-falsely-claims-id-is-required-to-vote/?mobile=nc

 

 

A ‘Conservative’ vision for America – ‘Rep. Steve King Won’t Say If He Believes Contraception Should Be Legal’

PLEASE – PLEASE – PLEASE America! Elect these ‘guys’ so that they can take back America – for themselves!!

What kind of an America do you want to live in?

One where a very prominant Republican Representative says he ‘hasn’t taken a position on the sale of contraceptives’?

Tell me again how you Republicans want ‘limited government’?

Even the possibility of restricting the sale of contraceptives reeks of Government controling our lives vs a Government that gives us self determination.

‘Iowa Congressman Steve King (R) pointedly refused to say whether he believes contraception should be sold legally in the United States. King, who sits on the House Judiciary Committee, criticized the seminal Supreme Court decision of Griswold v. Connecticut, which overturned a state ban on the sale of contraception’.

‘As to whether he was “personally against” the sale of contraception, King said “I’ve not taken a position on the sale of contraceptives at all.”
From : http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/10/21/1056071/rep-steve-king-wont-say-if-he-believes-contraception-should-be-legal/?mobile=nc