{"id":4868,"date":"2011-05-18T01:51:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T08:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4868"},"modified":"2011-05-18T01:51:01","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T08:51:01","slug":"no-football-blame-the-damn-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/18\/no-football-blame-the-damn-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"No Football? Blame the Damn Republicans!"},"content":{"rendered":"

NFL fans will know that a strike threatens the 2011-12 season.  Many won\u2019t care, but I\u2019m in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, and on opening day, that orb had better be carried, passed and kicked!  Players want to train and practice, and owners want to lock them out.  The owners found a court so Republican that they would rule for the billionaires over the millionaires.  Damn Republicans!<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"18NFL\"Monday evening\u2019s court ruling indicates that the NFL<\/a> finally might have found what it wants after years of resounding defeats in the nation\u2019s courts: a business-friendly panel of appellate judges who can help the league turn the tables on players in the legal dispute that threatens the 2011 season.<\/p>\n

Players\u2019 hopes of returning to work immediately were extinguished when the Midwestern appellate judges blocked a lower court\u2019s order to end football\u2019s shutdown, virtually ensuring that players will remain on the sideline at least into the summer. And the judges all but scoffed at some of the players\u2019 arguments, suggesting they might not fare well when the panel considers the overall legality of the lockout next month.<\/p>\n

The NFL has long believed it could score with an appeals court that covers mostly red states in the nation\u2019s heartland and whose most liberal members, attorneys say, would be considered moderate on other circuits<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Washington Post<\/a>><\/p>\n

Now, it\u2019s bad enough for Republicans to crash the economy, rig elections, ignore the Constitution, interfere with human rights, fully support racists, wage class war against the poor and middle classes, try to privatize social security, try to destroy Medicare and Medicaid, and commit all manner of vile Teabuggery!  That\u2019s all horrible, but now they are interfering with my football!<\/font><\/p>\n

This Means War!<\/font><\/strong><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NFL fans will know that a strike threatens the 2011-12 season.  Many won\u2019t care, but I\u2019m in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, and on opening day, that orb had better be carried, passed and kicked!  Players want to train and practice, and owners want to lock them out.  The owners found a court so […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plus","category-141-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}