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[Update II - Obama compromised and will deliver his speech on September 8th.]
President Obama has requested a joint session of Congress to address them on the issue of jobs creation. The time he chose for this speech is September 7th at 8 pm, which happens to be the exact same time as the next Republican Presidential primary debate.
While I agree jobs is the crisis of our time that needs to be addressed, his address isn’t so time sensitive that Obama can’t give it on the 6th, 8th, 9th, 12th, 13th, etc.
Obama’s press secretary, Jay Carney, claims it is pure coincidence that the Obama administration happened to schedule this speech at the exact same moment as Rick Perry’s first primary debate performance. Carney suggested the Republicans re-schedule their debate for the night after Obama’s address. This suggests either the Obama administration is either extremely incompetent or just remarkably petty.
I sincerely hope it is not incompetence. If I thought the people running the White House were actually too stupid to check the TV guide website to find out what also might be happening at 8pm on September 7th before planning an important speech, I would honestly fear for this country.
So it is best to assume Carney is simply lying. This scheduling decision seems more like an incredibly petty move by the White House, designed to step on the Republican debate, and an attempt to prevent Rick Perry from being the big story the next day.
What makes this childish, passive aggressive act really ironic is that Obama will probably use the speech to call for more civility in Washington and ask for both sides to work together. But needlessly stepping on the other party’s important events isn’t how you actually go about promoting civility and encouraging cooperation.
Update – Speaker John Boehner has decided to elevate this into a battle for who can be the most petty by sending Obama a letter requesting he move his speech to Thursday the 8th.
This begs the question, did Obama’s people not privately have a quick talk with the Speaker’s office about scheduling before the administration made its public announcement? It seems not. If so that is a pretty good indicator of what little hope there is for true bipartisan cooperation on almost anything this year.
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I’m not sure pettiness is right. It’s more like taunting your opponent, like trash talking during a basketball game. The whole point is to enrage your opponent to the point of getting them to act irrationally. For anyone who’s seen Bull Durham, that’s exactly what Kevin Costner as the catcher did to batters.
Not sure if it will work or not, and it’s kind of odd to do something this blatant before the actual opponent is even clear.
Incompetence, altho obviously Obama can be quite petty (see also the professional left)
It’s stupid either way. He loses any ounce of goodwill he may have gotten among the people for all his talk about bipartisanship, all wasted now.
Prediction: In the spirit of bipartisanship Congress will say “no” to that speech date, with the Fox Furies mewling in the b.g. over O’s diss of St. Ronnie & the Widow Reagan. Mr. “Master Negotiator” will move the date of his speech, with a public apology to Nancy.
And no more better illustration that Obama’s bipartisan rhetoric is nothing more than self-interested b.s., for if he believed a word he would never interfere with Democrats & Republicans & Independents ability to watch a Presidential debate. Wouldn’t be “civil”.
The man’s reach so far exceeds his grasp its embarrassing.
As Rahmbo would say: ‘f*cking r****ds’…!
Why the subjunctive?
Boehner says, how about the next day?
oy :(
Boehner makes the first irrational response (refusing to agree to call for joint session), so the taunting seems to be working.
What I don’t understand, though, is why? Either Obama caves and reschedules, reminding the country yet again how weak he is in dealing with Republicans. Or the White House continues their hard-line stance and it steps all over the last three years of Obama’s “we need to change the way Washington works” bipartisan lovefest.
He should have scheduled a series of policy speeches on Labor Day weekend and then wrapped it up with a speech from the Oval Office on Labor Day night. But he doesn’t really want to do a blue collar, working stiff, jobs speech.
I remember when (per some really ticked-off Kerry staffers who talked to me at the time) Karl Rove told Denny Hastert and Kitty Kervorkian Frist to make sure there was major legislation scheduled for the big Democratic presidential candidate shindig in St. Paul in June 2003. Since most of the candidates were sitting Senators and Representatives, that meant none of them could attend the forum in person (only by satellite), except for Howard Dean.
Did the Dems make a stink about it to the press? No, because they knew it wouldn’t do any good — they’d be painted as whiners.
Fast-forward eight years, and now that the shoe’s on the other foot, the media rushes to print the GOP take. Of course.
quel surpriz – he caved
Sep 8th it is – up against the NFL football opening game
I don’t care what Obama has to say about jobs. He can give his speech whenever the hell he wants; I won’t be tuning in because I don’t believe anything he says anymore.
Pettiness or incompetence? Hmm, I don’t really care much. A pox on both these bastards.
I agree…it was unbelieveably petty – and undemocratic – to try to screw Repugs out of their debate. Who do you suppose he figured he’d score points with by doing this? Surely not his base! Maybe the Obamabots who are devoted to the MSNBC Obamabots?
This was just plain stupid. Good ole’ Ed Schultz was spinning this madly saying with all the pearl clutching vaporizing how the republicans were dissing the poor preznit.
Most anyone with a brain cell knew there was a fairly hyped republican debate that night, to me it just seemed lame that the white house chose this event to poke the republicans with a stick.
Here’s the hyperbole from huffpo.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
He never really says anything anyway. Hope. Change. Bipartisanbullshit. Shared Something or Another. Shining City on the Hill…oh wait, that was a different dip shit liar.
He is as trying and incompetent as Boehner.
http://www.bgladd.com/PaleoBama.jpg
That sounds like a good plan. But he also wants to tell the thugs that he will agree to SSMM cuts and that is not something he wants to tell all those people on labor day weekend.
Boehner calls the shots?
…OMG, I thought OBAMA was president!
Are there any adult chaperons in the capitol?
That’s great.
Aw comon John, please, I’m the preznit after all.
Timeline:
WH calls Boehners office. Asks for date/time for speech. Boehners office says okay.
Next day Boehners office realizes that the debate is that day. Sends letter to WH saying not okay now.
Soooooo…..since Boehners office said okay when they were asked – and WH denies that they deliberately did this to upset Repubs….
Who you gonna mistrust?
I think I mistrust both of them. But somebody is lying. And in a clinch – my heart mistrusts the lying orange-man more.
Jes sayin’.
I thought Dave Weigel nailed it earlier in a tweet…
daveweigel
I can guess how this ends. In compromise, Obama lets Boehner give the speech
Actually, the President can only request to address a joint session of Congress – so in this case – yes. Boehner does call the shots.
Obama is just pathetic, plain and simple. Like others, I won’t be tuning in anyways. He’s lost the respect of the people. He’d be better off resigning now than having us go through the mockery of an election in 2012. He’s so done, it is amazing he doesn’t realize it.
Completely shit management – not even the competent technocratic admin.
Must. Talk. With. Opposition. As. Regards. Public. Stances.
In real work life, people get fired for this sort of incompetence.
Had to fix that one!
uhh…………nobody cares when obama or why obama decided to make these speech.
except the usual suspects for the usual reasons.
And we are paying these asshats’ salaries.
Boehner and Obama don’t know their ***** from page 12. We will never know who fucked up first. The real question is “Who cares?” Not like the speech will have any meaning. Not like the debate will have any meaning.
The wise men havn’t gotten up the courage yet to “suggest” he exit, stage right.
stage
rightcentrist.grow up…nobody is denying you your chance to swoon over perry.
I won’t be tuning in either. Do you ever get the feeling that all of us are just watching a horrible play, with obama as the star, destroying the democratic party? It’s depressing.
State those suspects and reasons
Lets get real here…jobs ain’t coming back until Obama is gone. He has done all he could to destroy jobs and job creation, and every knows it.
LOL. I gotta run with that… hmmm…
When, can somebody provide the answer, when the fuck has a congress ever refused to allow a president to speak before a joint session of the congress?
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What is the diff?
Yeah, you’re right, 10 years of tax cuts, including Obama’s, really haven’t done squat.
Jobs have been fleeing for as long as the rich have been uber-coddled.
Tax the rich!
You obviously are an idiot.
Actually most will be happy there will be a football game on. Don’t even have to explain why you aren’t watching Mr. Obama talking.
As to incompetence or pettiness, it is a toss of the coin.
How would we know? These things used to be settled between adults, like adults. Do you know the answer?
NPR reported this evening that the WH (Daley and some other high level stafer) contacted Boehner and got the go ahead from Boehner.
Now, either Boenher did not know there was a Republican presidential primary debate OR he didn’t think it was a big deal and gave his OK to the WH and then had to walk back his decision due to pressure from other Republicans.
Or, another possibility is that he outright lied to Daley and the WH in order to create another embarrassment for Obama.
Anyone think it just might be the third option?
And, of course, Obama could have spoken on Tuesday — or any time, from the Oval Office, without calling for a joint session of Congress.
Oh I know, I know. Obama has fewer letters??
This isn’t an act of war or an attack or an emergency it is a speech he should have thought of giving a while ago.
That hit me too — so I’m tending toward the Boehner lied to the WH in order to create another bad day or so of new coverage for Obama.
Kinda undermines his call for action, doesn’t it, that the Repub Speaker disses him this way?
Is the world supposed to stop because there is another one of the umpteen Republican Debates?
It’s right in the middle of the opening game of the football season.
It’s so crazy, it’s like everything that he does any more hurts him politically. I mean it’s almost like he’s TRYING to damage his prospects of winning the 2012 election.
It just doesn’t make any sense at all …
Z
Please Mr Boner, can I have another?
No. That is why I asked the damn question. If I knew I would have said it.
Rationally, no one can figure out who lied or who is incompetent. If either man had acted in good faith during their political career, we would not being having this argument. Obama has dug his own grave. We don’t trust him anymore than we trust Boehner.
Btw, for all you daytime FDL pups here’s my new Grandson…! ;-)
My usually-unreliable source said that the WH contacted Boehner and got no response. Which sounds even more likely, given Boehner’s record of ignoring phone calls.
I could watch that a million times.
They’re not coming back after he’s gone, either, if too many people vote for the Rs.
We need a new forkin’ party. or two or three.
Obama flies the banner of “left neoliberalism,” which is to say that he puts on a good show of caring for people but in the end he’s there to prop up the corporate profit rate. It’s as valid a thing as “sustainable development,” given that capitalist development isn’t sustainable.
I could care less about any justification at this point. Obama can’t claim he honestly did not know about their debate regardless of what Boehner said. He’s an idiot for playing things so tight that it gave him no wiggle room. He’s just a tool and he’s got to go. I’ve already come to terms with the fact we’re going to have a Republican for another 4 years.. after all that’s what Obama is anyways.
http://www.bgladd.com/ObamaJointSession.jpg
Ridiculous — Obama’s big speech on jobs is a complete waste of time, regardless of which day he shows up to beg republicans to help him save ordinary people — something he’s had no intention of doing since he was junior senator from Illinois.
We needed direct, effective, confrontational action. not meaningless rhetoric, on the jobs front during the first six months of his administration, just as he was bailing out his real TBTF constituents on Wall Street.
It’s beyond pathetic that we’ll be choosing between four more years of this crap, and Rick “The Dead Zone” Perry in 2012.
There is greater danger than just looking like the pushover, He is preparing to give another nice speech when most Americans have heard him too many times. A little like the boy who cried wolf. Without a miraculous program, he is just more and more marginalized.
He’s become his own SNL parody.
oh sh*t they are both adorable!!
Congratulations
Mr Walker bipartisanship is a myth akin the the White Ship and general folklore handed down for eons.
Scheduling of this is not anything but politics, we all know it.
N frankly, I’m not sure which event bores me more . . .
If the SF Giants were on tv at the same time, I’d take a walk . . . a long walk. What’s the point of spending time on losers?
*G*
hiya CT — how’s the family?
Source: Business Insider / Bloomberg
Remember when Standard & Poors gave triple-A ratings to subprime mortgages that would eventually go bad and nearly bring down the entire economy?
It’s happening again.
Bloomberg reports:
S&P is poised to provide AAA grades to 59 percent of Springleaf Mortgage Loan Trust 2011-1, a set of bonds tied to $497 million lent to homeowners with below-average credit scores and almost no equity in their properties.
This tone-deaf move comes weeks after S&P downgraded U.S. debt. While it makes sense that corporate bonds may be safer than sovereigns, we can’t figure out how subprime mortgages are triple-A.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/sp-just-rated-a-bundle-o…
“…This begs the question, did Obama’s people not privately have a quick talk ….”
You wanna talk petty? Or just pet peeve? Well, that’s mine. IMPROPER USE OF “Begs the Question!”
as my eighth grade teacher used to say, “go look it up!”
Prolly means he’s scared shitless now, like the rest of us.
Subjunctive . . . good use of word . . . not one I have in my daily psychopathic patois, I must admit . . . ;-)
Twisted, Fer Shure.
Maybe I missed something? What was the compromise? Boehner “allowed” the President to give a speech? What did Republicans give up?
Compromise…that is an awfully forgiving word…
That’s Just The Way It Is, Some Things Will Never Change.
;-)
Yes! More of the OBAMA Hope a Dope?
The NFL starts on 9-8-2011 Saints vs Packers will draw a much bigger audience than OBAMA
Why is OBAMA giving a speech? Why? none of his ideas will see the light of day
when the NFL begins? no one is going to watch this speech
Maybe OBAMA does not want anyone to see or hear this speech? YES
Sounds like the OBAMA WH, wants the Media to sell OBAMA’s CON USA citizens speech?
How? if no one watches the OBAMA CON USA citizens again speech, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, and others can tell the USA what OBAMA wants them to hear, knowing they will be lying for the WH
Obama knew 9-8-11 would be the day he would get to give, his foolish speech about JOBS.
9-7-11 never was in play! the GOP DEBATE will be on MSNBC?
Yet again OBAMA shows us how he plans to lose in 2012
BAM!
I KNEW it wasn’t about the GOP!
*G*
If we were still talking about letting the Bush tax cuts expire or not bailing out the crooks on Wall St or getting out of stupid wars or a heath plan that’s not a bailout to screwed up HMOs – I’d give a shit.
But about this?
I’m not going to WATCH Obama or the Republicans.
Who gives a flying fuck? They’re all the same bunch of fuckers destroying our country by bending over backwards so that the ultra rich that screwed up the world economy can drain out the last red cent.
I take it all back, the Obama White House is incompetent. They seem to have absolutely no concept of the politics of governing.
Let me make some helpful suggestions:
1) Watch the first four seasons (Aaron Sorkin as writer) of The West Wing
2) Read Machiavelli’s The Prince
3) Get someone to explain Game Theory to senior advisors.
Well, Mr. doubled-their-electoral-vote just got his hiney handed to him, for the umpteenth time.
Yawwwnnn…
LMAOROTF!!!!
A Game Material hoss . .
*G*
I’m surprised that Obama didn’t compromise with Boehner by agreeing to give the speech at 3:00 AM in the morning on Dec. 25th.
Bin Laden will be blame for giving USA TAR SANDs OIL
“U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu suggested in an interview with energyNOW that the controversial Keystone XL oil-sands pipeline was likely to be approved by the U.S. State Department because of energy security concerns.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/08/u-s-energy-secretary-suggests-keystone-xl-pipeline-likely-to-be-approved/
OBAMA is not that into winning in 2012
Yes! Obama is going to go all Rick Perry on the enviornment.
The OBAMA WH is going to blame TERRORIST for making them destroy the Earth
You.
Think.
It’s.
Obama?
Wow . . . an original Tea Party Jihadist!
HINT: Corporate fascists. N yes, they DO have their dirty grimy paws on yer gubbermint.
Well, ONE might be misconstrued phonetically to be a stiffy.
So your point is BUSH gave the USA Jobs?
please think about your answer here
You do know? Bush gave us GREAT DEPRESSION NUMBER 2
Awww Mom, yer messin up the fun!!!
*G*
Give ‘em all some play . . . ;-)
Coinkeedence with those ad nauseum ExxonMobile TeeVee ads of late extolling the beneficent necessity of tar sands for “jobs and national security”?
‘eh?
Damn.
Yer good.
X2
GrandDUDE!!!!
Congrats to mom, hubby, kid, you n missuz . . .
All are gorgeous!
Wow . . newborns freak me, it’s good . . . but they need so much luck n help1
lol
Awesome CT, blessings to all . . from dawg n me.
*G*
Yes!
” You also have to note that companies extracting these tar sands are making great strides in improving the environmental impact of the extraction of this oil and will continue to do so — and they should be encouraged and pressed to do so… It’s not perfect, but it’s a trade off.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/08/u-s-energy-secretary-suggests-keystone-xl-pipeline-likely-to-be-approved/
this is the WH game plan here! It is tar sands oil or we must keep fighting the terrorist?
The real trade off is? Humans will DIE
the OBAMA WH CON USA citizens Job speech is a Distraction,
Every expert has said if you turn TAR sands into oil, keep MANKIND good bye
Incredible, ain’t it . . . n I’m kidless in my life . . . still the impact hits hard.
New life . . . new start, perhaps a planet changer . . .
I’n still agog . . . n I don’t do that over kids . . .
Doncha mess with that toot toot.
He was born in his birf suit.
When the doctor slapped his behind,
Said you gonna be special.
Somethin like that.
Kudo’s to all once again Family Tuttle . . . n blessings too . . .
It all starts with people dumpin the two we have.
If one person does it . .
If two, if TWO people do it.
You know the song n thot . . ;-)
Howdy to Hubby, how’s the dobro work?
Que?
Well, I know what I’ll be watching when Obama gives his job speech. Something of substance. Yes, an NFL game has more substance than any speech by Obama.
Ok, that was too good not to acknowledge.
Out of 3 things, I would have not done them . . .
Bravo!
TAAAANNNNN!
Boney said he had page business to tend to.
Still not a good time for hum, er, him (danged keyboard).
Ummm, NPR got it wrong? NPR lied? Seems we can’t get the straight story from anyone now.
Yup, of course he was going to cave. The least he could have done is explain the change as in response to his wife’s request he accommodate Nancy Reagan’s schedule since she’s been planning the Reagan library debate for months.
At least that way Obama would look chivalrous (like MacArthur said, the commander’s wife is the general’s general) instead of once again wimping out to John Boehner.
What a corporate tool. The energy companies are just going wild with the propaganda right now and not just in the US.
Same As It Ever wS.
I no longer ask myself, I know most of the answers.
I dont like ‘em, either, them answers.
We trudge on and endure and well, hope.
N that shit is becoming a VERY short straw, no?
Love all yer musings, thanks for all yer sharings.
I really don’t care what he has to say, it’s just going to be one lie after another. King Chaos wouldn’t know the truth about anything even if it ran up and kicked him in the ass. You can bet the only job he is worried about is his. We will hear the old “it has to be with the agreement of both sides and it will take time.”
The thing that really pisses me is this ass scheduled it for 8:00P the time I normally watch Keith O. King Chaos needs to change it to 9:00P or even better just give us a break and STFU.
I think it is nether.
Obama is getting killed in the polls right now for not being tough enough with the Republicans. This is a way to pick a fight and show how tough he is without having to move to the left legislatively (and pissing off his big donors.)
Just watch, this will be the only issue of his entire presidency Obama does not give an inch on.
Awww, CT, so many congrats!!! Thank you for sharing.
CTuttle that is such a cute baby grandson and he has his own YouTube channel and everything! Welcome little one and congrats to the family!!
Never mind, I guess he already caved.
I’m going to be watching Football. In all honesty towards Obama, I can’t bear to watch him anymore anyway. Too big a disappointment. Then again, I’m going to be voting “None of the Above” in 2012. Does it make a difference if Obama gives away what we care about when he caves, or if a Repug just takes it away?
Yes! they are
Does anyone really think OBAMA is going to say no to the Keystone Pipeline? really?
Obama is the guy who wants to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicade? during a Depression, that he now owns
Obama Job czar is sending Jobs to China google Jeffrey Immelt GE CEO, this guy just sent GE X ray division to CHINA
Everyone watch the FOOTBALL game, life is short, don’t waste it watching a CON MAN,
what is going to be more real and honest? NFL football Game or OBAMA job speech?
I going with the NFL football game
Where are the adults in this administration. Either they forgot to check the calendar or they don’t know parliamentary rules. Neither excuse provides much comfort. The latest news is the jobs speech has been moved. So here is where we now stand. Obama gets his head handed to him. The Republicans are gloating and reading his pre-released speech, which they will whack like a pinata in their debate. Then the very last thing is the president will get up and try to rally the dead troops. Someone wake me up.
The Obama administration could have prevented this whole mess. Quit trying to spin this as some great ploy. The ship is sinking because there is a hole in the bottom. It’s not for ventilation as the deckhands suggest. FYI, he just rescheduled his address and had his head handed to him.
Obama is cracked, crazy as a loon. Look for increasingly bizarre behavior during the next year.
Incompetence or pettiness? I’ll go with hubris.
” If so that is a pretty good indicator of what little hope there is for true bipartisan cooperation on almost anything this year”
thats good, awesome in fact. Id rather see the budget extended 30 days at a time in a spirit of truely vicious partisan petulance than for Obama to get a little more “bi-partisan” this year. Bi-partisan clearly means democrats and republicans working together to serve the needs of their corporate benefactors while pile driving the rest of us into the dirt. havent they done enough damage in 4 years? do we need any more secret closed door bi partisan lobbyist-white house orgies?
Love the idiots over at Huffington Post.. “No no, it’s the Republicans, they are the meanies here..”
Seriously, if jobs are so goddamn urgent (which they should be), why the hell are you waiting a week for your speech? Why do you grandstand and put yourself up against a longstanding scheduled debate?
He’s such a tool. It is amazing that so many just can’t see Obama for what he is.. No, no.. it’s all the evil Republicans fault!
If you’re absorbing yourself with this poop you’re not out raising hell.
Holy crap. Now he moves the speech to open night for NFL?
So fucking incompetent that it is embarrassing. I’ve seen junior high election campaigns run with more acumen.
Dood is going to be one-termer if the GOPers can nominate someone who isn’t totally insane.
Incompetence or pettiness. Come on. It’s the Obama administration. Can’t we just compromise and say it is both?
I have to commend Obama on his creative capitulation skills. He seems to have scheduled a time he knew he’d have to give-up. That polishes his reputation as the Great Compromiser. He’s getting better at caving every day in every way.
hmmm? watch the debate or “Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail”? Yup, the movie it is.
Thursday night, Preznit speach, or Saints/Packers? Yup, I am ready for some football!
“…it’s all the evil republicans fault…”
Shaking rightwing fear-dolls at democrats to try to cover Obama’s ass has become a burgeoning cottage industry. i.e.: every time Obama takes another shit on us, Digby puts up a thread about Sarah Palin talking out of her ass.
It didn’t work in the mid-terms and it’s not going to work in 2012.
Hot Air: Obamateurism of the Day
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/09/01/obamateurism-of-the-day-582/
“Dood is going to be one-termer if the GOPers can nominate someone who isn’t totally insane.”
——–
Ayyyyyy, there’s the rub. Last three possibles, GOP has one religious cultist, one certifiable idiot, another certifiable idiot who carries a laser-sighted pistol and believes in NO government but HE wants to be in charge it.
IMO, Obama and his advisors did not check the GOP debate schedule, were not aware this was NFL season opener, and were certainly not aware this is the season finale of “Burn Notice”.
F**’ing morons.
No one will watch Obama’s speech now. The Republicans will test, weigh and measure Obama’s jobs speech the night before among themselves and 300 million Americans. Obama needs to go to a different location on the night of the debate–the night he originally wanted to give the speech–with a bunch of other high ranking politicians, troops, babies, people in wheelchairs, people with children and geriatric parents and, then, pre-empt the GOP so they don’t pre-empt him. Obama also needs to show the palms of his hands while talking and touch his heart a few times like Bill Clinton used to. Perhaps Obama could yell for a while before the speech to get that empathy-getting horse voice that Clinton used, too. Those are such social psychology 101 tactics to pull people in. If I was giving the speech, that’s what I would do. Holy Crap, if he does not do this he will be toast before he is bread. Obama needs to pull out all the stops and quit hoping the GOP will play nice and invite him to the prom. Needy for who? I hope it is for jobless Americans, and not a wink from the GOP.
Somewhere Nancy is weeping.
Obama seems to be developing a breath-taking competency at making a complete fool of himself.
I don’t normally watch football, but I’m beginning to take a real interest in the NFL opener or the Burn Notice finale, which would be the first episode of the Burn Notice I’ve ever watched.
You lie!
It is not the season finale of Burn Notice! (Well not according to Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Burn_Notice_episodes
It is like the new version of the A-Team, all the world’s problems solved inside an hour with just that lurking story that gets dragged out over the entire season or more.
I stopped watching football a long time ago. A lot of grown men, playing a children’s game, getting paid a fortune to destroy themselves physically and possibly mentally. Anyways, when I watch, my teams always lose. I’d rather be a fan from afar.