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Okay, Denizens, the question is put to you:&#160 Fantasy football league, who’s in?

And if there are enough of us who wanna do this, do you guys have a preference which site you want to use to facilitate it?

Hurry up & lemme know.&#160 Thatisall&#153.

UPDATE:&#160 Alright, guys, the league URL is http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/league/scbbs_fl.&#160 Have at it.

It’s an autopick draft, but since there are only four of us or so, there should be plenty (Pawlenty? ) of players available.

UPDATE, part deux:&#160 HDD is reporting a bad link.

Let’s do it this way:

Go to the Yahoo Sports Fantasy Football FAQ, follow the instructions to join an existing league and look for league #617975.&#160 That’s ours.

Email me immediately&#160 if you have any probs.

UPDATE the Threeth:&#160 Password has been emailed.

As I was working on a project Friday morning, I had access to a TV that happened to be tuned into Fox News, when the graphic flashed across the screen, “Fox News Confirms McCain Has Selected Sarah Palin As His Running Mate”.

I turned to the guy next to me and said, “That.&#160 Pick.&#160 Took.&#160 Balls.”

Consider.&#160 McZhamnesty had his comfort-zone options:&#160 He could have picked the candidate who ran second to him in the primaries – Romney – but, as I’ve already stated – he stood to lose the evangelicals in the base.&#160 A base he absolutely could not&#160 afford to fracture at this point.

He could have picked Lieberman, whom potheaded fuckwit extraordinaire DJ Allyn claims&#160 was McCain’s first choice, citing the NY Slimes – but then he would have completely lost the conservative base, and the election along with it.&#160 Picking former Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge, which whom he’s pretty much compatible idelogically, wouldn’t have been much better; the base would still have been left grumbling.

Picking Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty would&#160 have put some conservative street cred on the ticket, but there’s no “wow factor” with Pawlenty.&#160 Not to mention it’s not going to help McCain take Minnesota, anyway.

But out there just beyond the fringe of the national spotlight happened to be the governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin.&#160 She had made headlines recently by suing the United States government (specifically the Department of the Interior) over the listing of polar bears as an endangered species, citing its potential devastating effects on the oil & gas development industry.&#160 According to Wiki, which is where I’m getting most of this – risky, yeah, I know – Palin

…had been under consideration since a private meeting with McCain in a February National Governors Association meeting. As the vetting rounds narrowed the candidate list down Palin was always one of the potential candidates.

McCain pulled the trigger on the selection on Thursday.

This is a brilliant selection.&#160 In choosing Palin, McCain has managed to do three things:

1) reach out towards the PUMAs (Democrat women who have adopted the slogan “Party Unity, My Ass”) and bring them into camp – which appears to be having a slight effect:

Wow, Thanks so much to this Sarah Palin who never forgot us. She is a fighter. She paid her respects to our Hillary and Geraldine . They now no more think women in this country are 2nd class. You go girl and thank you for a refreshing pick Sen. McCain.

2) He’s brought the conservative base back to the fold with (again, according to Wiki, which is risky) $7 million in contributions hitting the McCain coffers the day of the announcement.

3) He’s pissed off the liberals.

Three major objectives in one fell swoop.&#160 Three birds, one stone.

Brilliant.&#160 Ab-so-effing-lutely brilliant.

For my part, Denizens, I was leaning towards holding my nose and voting for McCain – yes, despite all the criticism I’ve dumped on his RINO ass – as long as he didn’t pick Romney.&#160 You see, I consider myself an evangelical, and I support the Bill Keller view that “a vote for Romney is a vote for Satan” because of the Mormon issue, and I do not want a cultist in such a high position of government.&#160 Besides, there are about three people over at the Rott whom I would’ve taken a perverse pleasure in pissing off with that vote (no, Misha’s not one of them).

Now, however, things have changed.&#160 I will, with great delight, vote for&#160 the ticket containing the conservative – Palin.&#160 And I think that more people are with me than will vote for the Obamessiah and Senator Hair-Butt-Plug (thanks, Azygos).

In short, guys, I think that – all things being equal and the McCain/Palin ticket doesn’t make any critical missteps the next couple of months – the Republicans will keep the White House in November.

You heard it here first.