The full recap isn't up yet but I assume it will be on this page.

Brett Favre left the game with an elbow injury:

Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre left Thursday night's NFC showdown against the Dallas Cowboys with a right elbow injury after being hit hard while throwing a pass that was intercepted. He did not return in the Packers' 37-27 loss.

Favre was injured with 10:11 left in the second quarter when he was hit by cornerback Nate Jones. Terence Newman made a diving interception of the fluttering pass.

Favre grabbed his arm and flexed it while walking slowly to the sideline. Aaron Rodgers took over at quarterback on Green Bay's next possession.

Not to be a dick to all the Dallas fans out there, who I'm sure are all very nice people when you get past the fact they are cultists for Pure Evil, but doesn't that mean that Dallas... kinda sorta didn't really win against the Packers per se?

Can anyone tell me why Time-Warner and Comcast are being hardasses about carrying the NFL network, and yet I'm paying for fucking E!, MTV, and Lifetime?

Posted by: Ace at 09:38 PM | Comments (43)
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Another old one by now. If I were a stronger Rudy partisan I might argue it's not a big deal. I think it's rather not a big deal, actually, but I'm not so invested in him as to feel the need to argue it.

I find this more scandalous, actually. Pinkerton here riffs on jokes we've been making for a while, but they're still good:

Here's Giuliani, quoted in an Associated Press story from last week, headlined, "Giuliani promotes virtual fence." Explains the former mayor, "Frankly, the virtual fence is more valuable because it alerts you to people approaching the border, it alerts you to people coming over the border."

That sounds like a good plan, doesn't it? After all, you use a virtual lock on your front door, right? That way, when intruders approach your house, you can spot them. And when they walk in, well, a police SWAT team is on the way. The key to this enforcement strategy, to be sure, is to respond after the crime has occurred. So it's strange, therefore, that Giuliani insists that he wants to build at least some physical wall.

Because virtuality works better, Giuliani assures us. After all, that's why we have virtual prison walls and jail cells, right? You see, when the bad guys escape, an alarm goes off, satellites up in space look down, and helicopters fly over and scoop them up. And if the inmates try it again, well, we just repeat the apprehending process till they cry uncle.

So that's the plan for fending off terrorists from around the world - not to mention any of the 500 million South and Central Americans who might wish to come to this country illegally. We'll spot 'em and nab 'em before they get to Des Moines.

His column finishes with the shocking news that that exciting new technological means of long-range border-crossing detection just don't work.

"Mr. Kittrick, after careful consideration, I've come to the conclusion that your new system sucks."

Posted by: Ace at 09:34 PM | Comments (20)
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Really late on this but I just can no longer even pretend to be outraged when the Clintons lie. It's like getting pissed off at dog crap for smelling like dog crap.

A former senior aide to then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice disputed Bill Clinton's statement this week that he "opposed Iraq from the beginning," saying that the former president was privately briefed by top White House officials about war planning in 2003 and that he told them he supported the invasion.

Clinton's comments in Iowa on Tuesday went far beyond more nuanced remarks he made about the conflict in 2003. But the disclosure of his presence in briefings by Rice -- and his private expressions of support -- may add to the headaches that the former president has given his wife's campaign in recent weeks.

Hillary Mann Leverett, at the time the White House director of Persian Gulf affairs, said that Rice and Elliott Abrams, then National Security Council senior director for Near East and North African affairs, met with Clinton several times in the months before the March 2003 invasion to answer any questions he might have. She said she was "shocked" and "astonished" by Clinton's remarks this week, made to voters in Iowa, because she has distinct memories of Abrams "coming back from those meetings literally glowing and boasting that 'we have Clinton's support.' "

Leverett, a former career foreign service officer who said she is not involved in any presidential campaign, said the incident affected her because of her own doubts about the wisdom of an attack. "To hear President Clinton was supportive really silenced whatever questions I had," she recalled. Leverett, who worked in the same office as Abrams at the time, said Rice and Abrams "made it a high priority" to get Clinton's support, meeting with him at least twice. Abrams was tasked to answer Clinton's questions and "took the responsibility very seriously," Leverett said. "Elliott was then very focused on making sure that we followed up on Clinton's questions to keep Clinton happy and on board."

One of the specific questions Clinton asked, Leverett recalled hearing, is what the United States would do if Iraq's "military used chemical weapons against our Gulf allies."

She recalled being told that Clinton made it clear to Rice and Abrams that they could count on his public support for the war if it was necessary.

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In an interview last night, Sen. Clinton said of her husband's comments, "There was nothing new in what he said."

Nothing new?

Compare and contrast.

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President Bush keeps telling Congress to get its act together and support our troops:

"The missions of this department are essential to saving Americans' lives, and they are too important to be disrupted or delayed or put at risk," Bush said at the Pentagon after he received more than two hours of briefings [on Thursday]. "Pentagon officials have warned Congress that the continued delay in funding our troops will soon begin to have a damaging impact on the operations of this department."

Senate Majority Leader Reid still refuses to budge on his demand that the president sign a retreat bill. He keeps insisting that the DoD doesn't mean it when it says it's going to have to start suspending programs and laying folks off.

Meanwhile, the Secretary of Defense Gates announced that 200,000 contractors and civilian employees may receive notices to start looking for new jobs as early as Christmas. What a special Christmas gift for our military and support infrastructure from congressional Democrats!

Bleg? Okay, I tried to put together a pic of a an axe bearing a Christmas tag (that reads "Happy Holidays", of course) and the words "To: the DoD From: Harry Reid." But I suck. It would have been a heckuva lot easier if I, uh, owned an axe...or a Christmas tag. Any takers?

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 09:18 PM | Comments (13)
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Heretical meteorologists are charging the National Hurricane Center with inaccurately labeling depressions or non-tropical systems as tropical storms which are then named. Why is it important?

The number of a season's named storms forms the foundation of historical records used to determine trends in hurricane activity. Insurance companies use these trends to set homeowners' rates. And such information is vital to scientists trying to determine whether global warming has had a measurable impact on hurricane activity.

Of course, the NHC denies it, but it sounds to me from the article that this shouldn't be all that difficult to prove with numbers. The criteria for declaring that a weather system is a tropical storm are pretty specific.

Any meteorologists among the morons?

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I can't believe this hasn't been posted yet (did I miss it in the Headlines?). A Chilean prostitute named Maria Carolina is raising money for poor, disabled children by auctioning her services.

"I've already auctioned off the 27 hours of love," Maria Carolina told Reuters on Wednesday, saying she had raised about $4,000. "One of my clients already paid. It seemed like a good deed to him."

Adult prostitution is legal in Chile. Chile's two-day Teleton fundraiser is endorsed by television stars and aims to raise funds for poor, disabled children.

Speaking about Maria Carolina's unusual donation, campaign organizer Mario Kreutzberger said he would not encourage "immoral" activities, but said he would accept her pledge.

Since this probably falls into the "where's the picture?" category:

A heart of gold...

No Offense... [Ace] A heart of gold, maybe, but a face of Wulfram.

Also known as Tungsten.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 08:46 PM | Comments (17)
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Shocker.

Meanwhile, two other questioners were revealed as plants.

Bringing the total number of questioners with undisclosed affiliations to anti-Republican parties and organizations to NINE.

[UPDATE - PA]
I think we need to start a pool on the final shill count for this debate. I'm going to go with a somewhat conservative number -- one dozen.

Posted by: Ace at 07:13 PM | Comments (68)
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13-10 27-17 24-27 34-24 34-27 Dallas takes the 3 37-27, dang

I'm on the edge of my seat.

To all my cheesehead friends..

fuck you.

lotsa love.

Oh, and do not suffer my ire. Post ya threads and jack.

Posted by: Dave In Texas at 06:07 PM | Comments (82)
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I live in Robert Wexler's(D-FL) district. Wexler has been distributing an online newsletter with a poll in it recently asking if Cheney should be impeached.

There doesn't appear to be any way to reliably hyperlink the results, but after voting, the following results were displayed:

Which one of these four statements do you agree with about Vice President Cheney:

The Vice President has abused his powers in office which rise to the level of impeachable offenses under the Constitution and he should be impeached and removed from office. 59.97%

The Vice President has abused his powers in office, committing impeachable offenses under the Constitution, but he should not be impeached. 6.47%

The Vice President has abused his powers, but the abuses are not serious enough to warrant impeachment under the Constitution. 7.16%

The Vice President has not abused his powers. 26.41%

Regardless of the ultimate outcome, do you think the Judiciary Committee should begin hearings to look at the evidence of possible impeachable offenses?

Yes, I think the Judiciary Committee should begin impeachment hearings. 60.41%

No, I think impeachment hearings would be a waste of time and a distraction from more important issues Congress should address. 39.59%

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Jack “In Cold Blood” Murtha says the surge is working.

Hot Air has the details on this sign of the Apocalypse.

What's the over/under on how many heads explode over at the nutroot sites?

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