What a difference a week makes. Last week at this time I was confident as my NY Islanders entered their first round playoff series. Well, a week later we are down in the series 3 games to 1. Last week I predicted the Islanders would win the series in 6 games. Now the only way they can win is to take it in the full 7 games. While the Isles have come back from such a deficit twice in their history, I'm certainly not as confident as I was just a week ago. Next game is Friday. We shall see...
Besides hockey, my addiction to Air America Radio continues. Really starting to like the Majority Report with Janeane Garofalo, which airs at 8pm to 11pm EST. Al Franken's show, the O'Franken Factor on from 12pm to 3pm EST is easier for me to listen to and very good but not as entertaining as Janeane G's show.
Did anyone catch the "Simian Cheerleader" that is our president completely blow his press conference? Un-F-ing believable!!! Here's an excerpt from the transcript of the Q&A session.
Q Mr. President. In the last campaign, you were asked a question about the biggest mistake you'd made in your life, and you used to like to joke that it was trading Sammy Sosa. You've looked back before 9/11 for what mistakes might have been made. After 9/11, what would your biggest mistake be, would you say, and what lessons have you learned from it?
THE PRESIDENT: I wish you would have given me this written question ahead of time, so I could plan for it. (Laughter.) John, I'm sure historians will look back and say, gosh, he could have done it better this way, or that way. You know, I just -- I'm sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with an answer, but it hadn't yet.
It doesn't translate very well here but what a fool he made of himself. He's clearly in over his head. If you haven't seen it, check out the
CSPAN website and follow the link for Bush's press conference from 4-14-04.
Besides hockey, my addiction to Air America Radio continues. Really starting to like the Majority Report with Janeane Garofalo, which airs at 8pm to 11pm EST. Al Franken's show, the O'Franken Factor on from 12pm to 3pm EST is easier for me to listen to and very good but not as entertaining as Janeane G's show.
Did anyone catch the "Simian Cheerleader" that is our president completely blow his press conference? Un-F-ing believable!!! Here's an excerpt from the transcript of the Q&A session.
Q Mr. President. In the last campaign, you were asked a question about the biggest mistake you'd made in your life, and you used to like to joke that it was trading Sammy Sosa. You've looked back before 9/11 for what mistakes might have been made. After 9/11, what would your biggest mistake be, would you say, and what lessons have you learned from it?
THE PRESIDENT: I wish you would have given me this written question ahead of time, so I could plan for it. (Laughter.) John, I'm sure historians will look back and say, gosh, he could have done it better this way, or that way. You know, I just -- I'm sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with an answer, but it hadn't yet.
It doesn't translate very well here but what a fool he made of himself. He's clearly in over his head. If you haven't seen it, check out the
CSPAN website and follow the link for Bush's press conference from 4-14-04.
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jabberwok:
Dude, sorry 'bout your boyz. Went down in a blaze of glory. Okay, not so glorious. They made some serious rookie-type mistakes in the 2nd Period. What was Niinama thinking? And how's 'bout DiPietro w/out a stick for over 30 BLOODY SECONDS? Rookie mistakes. Well, if it is any consolation, the Sens are down 3 games to 2 against those damn Leafs. As for the political side, I have one message: Hooray for indifference! (That would be mine and mine only.)
jabberwok:
Hey, how are our picks for the first round turning out. Being the lazy rat-bastard that I am, I let you have the chore of keeping track. Go Sens! Isles should have never let Chara go, huh? Hey, what do you think of the Mike Danton brouhaha? Holy Cow! Not something that normally happens in the hockey community. 