http://www.redstate.com/finrod Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:11:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Figured I'd get this one in a bit earlier this week. Last week's scores: Erick Brockway: 10 Finrod: 9 Bye Week Teams: Dallas, Indianapolis, Miami, San Francisco Sunday, October 18 Houston at Cincinnati Detroit at Green Bay Baltimore at Minnesota NY Giants at New Orleans Cleveland at Pittsburgh Carolina at Tampa Bay Kansas City at Washington St. Louis at Jacksonville Arizona at Seattle Philadelphia at ... http://www.redstate.com/finrod/2009/10/15/nfl-pick-em-week-6/ Last week's results: Husker 13 Finrod 11 Erick Brockway 10 Alberta 10 Bye Week: Chicago, Green Bay, New Orleans, San Diego Sunday, October 11 Cleveland at Buffalo Pittsburgh at Detroit Dallas at Kansas City Minnesota at St. Louis Oakland at NY Giants Tampa Bay at Philadelphia Washington at Carolina Cincinnati at Baltimore Atlanta at San Francisco Jacksonville at Seattle Houston at Arizona New England at Denver Indianapolis at Tennessee Monday, ... http://www.redstate.com/finrod/2009/10/11/nfl-week-5-pick-em/ Getting this in at the last minute. We're on an honor system so go ahead and post your picks even if the games have already started. Bye week: Atlanta, Philadelphia, Arizona, Carolina Sunday, October 4 Baltimore at New England Tampa Bay at Washington Tennessee at Jacksonville Oakland at Houston Detroit at Chicago Cincinnati at Cleveland Seattle at Indianapolis NY ... http://www.redstate.com/finrod/2009/10/04/nfl-week-4-pick-em/ Since I'm the only person that picked both weeks so far, it's pretty pointless to post yearly summaries, so I'm not. Last week's summary: danasdaddy: 13 Finrod: 6 Week 3 games: Sunday, September 27th Washington at Detroit Green Bay at St. Louis San Francisco at Minnesota Atlanta at New England Tennessee at NY Jets Kansas City at Philadelphia NY Giants ... http://www.redstate.com/finrod/2009/09/25/nfl-week-3-pick-em/ Last week's results: Finrod: 14 navychick1993: 13 NightTwister: 7 Everyone is still welcome to join in, even if you didn't make any picks for Week 1. If there's enough new entries, I'll do two running-score tallies: one by total correct picks, and one by percentage correct picks. Now for Week 2 games: Sunday, September 20th Carolina ... http://www.redstate.com/finrod/2009/09/17/nfl-week-2-pick-em/ What with the demise of redstatesports.com, and since no one else has stepped up, I'm posting the NFL match-ups for the week for people to pick. Make your picks quickly, since the season kicks off tonight! Thursday, September 10 Tennessee at Pittsburgh Sunday, September 13 Miami at Atlanta Denver at Cincinnati Minnesota at Cleveland Jacksonville at ... http://www.redstate.com/finrod/2009/09/10/nfl-week-1-redstatesportscom-memorial-pick-em/ Fox News is running this as its headlining story: Less than a month after being told by Donald Trump that she can keep her Miss California crown, Carrie Prejean was fired on Wednesday, Foxnews.com has learned exclusively. There are conflicting stories here: Donald Trump says that she refused to show up to ... http://www.redstate.com/finrod/2009/06/10/breaking-carrie-prejean-fired-from-being-miss-california-usa/ One of the standard arguments against drug legalization or decriminalization is that it will cause drug use to skyrocket. This notion, however, takes a major body blow when we look at Portugal, which in 2001 became the first European country to officially abolish all criminal penalties for personal possession of ... http://www.redstate.com/finrod/2009/05/08/strange-bedfellows-cato-and-glenn-greenwald-team-up-to-analyze-drug-decriminalization-in-portugal-2/ Hat tip to absentee's blog of the same name which when combined with that bloody Swiffer commercial that has been overplaying Human League's _Don't You Want Me_, swished around in my brain and out came the following parody: (Parody of Human League, _Don't You Want Me_) You were working as a Senator ... http://www.redstate.com/finrod/2009/03/26/_teleprompt-me-baby_/ Remember everyone speculating as to whether the DVDs that Barack Obama gave to Gordon Brown instead of a gift of substance were Region 1 or not? Turns out they are Region 1, and thus not playable in the UK: While not exactly a film buff, Gordon Brown was touched when ... http://www.redstate.com/finrod/2009/03/19/those-dvds-obama-gave-gordon-brown-they-were-region-1-after-all/ Normally I'd paste in my standard flat-ASCII NCAA tournament bracket here, but the new site format makes that impossible. While using (tt)(pre) works other places, apparently the way things are set up here, (pre) cancels out the monospace font that I need that (tt) gives me, and I haven't ... http://www.redstate.com/finrod/2009/03/16/finrods-2009-ncaa-tournament-bracket-and-open-thread/ Those of us that are regular readers here are aware of the perils should the Employee Free Choice Act, aka 'card check', be passed and made law. But it's not just us; businesses are taking note as well. In the Feb. 7 issue of Hotel Business, there's a ... http://www.redstate.com/finrod/2009/02/18/hotels-worried-about-obama-and-the-employee-free-choice-act/ The Super Bowl is set: the 5-time Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers vs. the first-Super-Bowl-ever Arizona Cardinals.  These are two of the league's oldest teams; the Arizona Cardinals were a charter member of the NFL back in 1920, while the Pittsburgh Steelers were one of three teams to join the ... http://www.redstate.com/finrod/2009/01/19/super-bowl-xlviii-pittsburgh-steelers-vs-arizona-cardinals-sports-open-thread/ You've put in a long eight years, President Bush. But you need to give one more speech before you leave office, and that's to declare victory in Iraq. Sure, technically there's still work there to be done. And sure, we still have over 100,000 troops there. But you ... http://www.redstate.com/finrod/2009/01/12/president-bush-please-declare-victory-in-iraq-before-leaving-office/ After reading about the plans being made for the inauguration, I'm very glad that I will not be attending: Tough rules have been instituted for individuals wanting to attend President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration, forcing some to rethink their plans to come to the nation's capital on Jan. 20 for the historic ... http://www.redstate.com/finrod/2008/12/23/the-disillusionment-looks-to-begin-with-the-inauguration/ The city of Chicago is pushing through two changes: first, side streets will now only be plowed during union working hours, which apparently are weekdays 7am-3pm (hat tip: Neal Boortz, via americanthinker.com): CHICAGO (CBS) -- Mayor Richard M. Daley said Tuesday that city crews will cut back on plowing side ... http://www.redstate.com/finrod/2008/12/04/chicago-where-services-are-only-available-on-union-hours-but-you-have-to-pay-247/ Zombietime.com has decided to declare this Saturday, November 22, 2008 to be Victory in Iraq Day: We won. The Iraq War is over. I declare November 22, 2008 to be "Victory in Iraq Day." (Hereafter known as "VI Day.") By every measure, The ... http://www.redstate.com/finrod/2008/11/19/victory-in-iraq-day-november-22-2008/ Obama's 30-minute adfest on Wednesday Oct. 29 may backfire, since it'll be pushing back the start of the World Series Game 6 (that is, presuming it goes to Game 6)-- look at the teams in the World Series: the Phillies and the Devil Rays, from Pennsylvania and Florida, respectively. Here's hoping ... http://www.redstate.com/finrod/2008/10/20/obamas-wednesday-ad-fest-may-backfire-in-pa/ This Open Thread is for good news, no matter how trivial. Sourpusses should comment elsewhere. My contribution: I was reading stories off a Pittsburgh site about the Steelers' win over Jacksonville, when I noticed something peculiar. At the bottom of the page it had categories for 'Today's Most-Read Articles', and ... http://www.redstate.com/finrod/2008/10/07/good-news-overnight-open-thread/ The MSM has beaten their Iraq narrative into the ground. This is what's preventing John McCain's accusations of Obama wanting to abandon Iraq from having the impact it should, because large parts of the public either have never heard or have forgotten the story of how and why we ... http://www.redstate.com/finrod/2008/10/01/weve-won-two-wars-in-iraq/