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Post by insomnius on Sept 12, 2005 18:32:19 GMT -5
I scheduled a week off for next week - on Tuesday Sept 20, when I would otherwise be at my cubicle in the e-Commerce building that overlooks the Bell Center, I am rather going to be at a Canadiens free practice!!!
WEEEE!
One thing - anyone know what time it's at? (I've driven to other cities for weddings only to miss them so that's the kind of detail I'd like to take care of right away...)
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Post by seventeen on Sept 13, 2005 0:24:06 GMT -5
when I would otherwise be at my cubicle in the e-Commerce building that overlooks the Bell Center Do you read Dilbert a lot? |
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Post by insomnius on Sept 13, 2005 5:41:45 GMT -5
Hey! I resemble that!
No need to read Dilbert - he works with me....
No idea on when the practices are anyone?
Nothing on the Habs site but dates - no times....
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Post by Habs_fan_in_LA on Sept 13, 2005 11:03:03 GMT -5
Dilbert and Andy Capp are my two heros. Used to have four heros but Al Capp passed away and Doonsbury has gone pinko.
Norm and Vera, the perfect couple.
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Post by insomnius on Sept 13, 2005 11:31:11 GMT -5
Pinko??? Doonesbury seems not to have any political affiliations save to lambast whichever politico is bumbling that week - that Bush bumbles so much is not HIS fault!!!  |
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Post by M. Beaux-Eaux on Sept 13, 2005 11:32:23 GMT -5
... that Bush bumbles so much is not HIS fault!!! Is too.  |
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Post by franko on Sept 13, 2005 11:34:30 GMT -5
Doonsbury has gone pinko. gone? How long have you been reading it for . . . it had pinko (to use your term) leanings from the beginning. As Doonesbury, the strip debuted as a daily strip in about two dozen newspapers on October 26, 1970, the first strip from the Universal Press Syndicate. A Sunday strip began on March 21, 1971. It became well known for its social and political (usually liberal) commentary, always timely, and peppered with wry and ironic humor. wikipediaMy favourite compilation: But This War Had Such Promise |
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Post by insomnius on Sept 13, 2005 12:19:35 GMT -5
... that Bush bumbles so much is not HIS fault!!! Is too. Not Doonesbury's fault - certainly it is the Shrub's fault... |
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Post by Habs_fan_in_LA on Sept 13, 2005 13:34:41 GMT -5
"W" certainly has stumbled of late. His malaprops, handling of the Battle of New Orleans, Iraq quagmire and Afgan rebuilding stain his victories in the short and sweet wars (if war can be called sweet).
Doonsbury has tons of material to attack, but it should be done fairly. I acknowledge both sides, for and against "W". Jon Stewart looks for 8 second sound bites and exaggerates them the way Howard Stern cuts sound bytes on his enemies and exaggerates them. He edits and cuts pieces out of context.
I'm not happy about a lot of things, taxes, economy, price of gasoline, young soldiers dying. It's fair to discuss "W" on vacation while New Orleans drowns, but it's not fair to blame the natural disaster on the pres. The sound byte of "W" saying his FEMA impersonator is "doing a heck of a job" shows that "W" has distanced himself too far from the details, but it also showed a chief exec trying to support his troops efforts.
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Post by Habs_fan_in_LA on Sept 13, 2005 13:57:30 GMT -5
Doonsbury has gone pinko. gone? How long have you been reading it for . . . it had pinko (to use your term) leanings from the beginning. As Doonesbury, the strip debuted as a daily strip in about two dozen newspapers on October 26, 1970, the first strip from the Universal Press Syndicate. A Sunday strip began on March 21, 1971. It became well known for its social and political (usually liberal) commentary, always timely, and peppered with wry and ironic humor. wikipediaMy favourite compilation: But This War Had Such PromiseDoonsbury did attack Clinton too. Is it possible that Doonsbury hasn't changed, but I've grown older? |
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Post by BadCompany on Sept 13, 2005 15:00:52 GMT -5
It's fair to discuss "W" on vacation while New Orleans drowns, but it's not fair to blame the natural disaster on the pres. The sound byte of "W" saying his FEMA impersonator is "doing a heck of a job" shows that "W" has distanced himself too far from the details, but it also showed a chief exec trying to support his troops efforts. Of course we can’t blame Dubya for the hurricane, and we shouldn’t blame him for not knowing what to do in that type of crisis. He is the President, not a natural-disaster specialist. However, the fact that FEMA head-honcho Robert Brown also didn’t know what to do in that type of crisis, and was not a natural-disaster specialist either, can and should be laid at Dubya’s feet. We talk about it on these boards all the time, a GM giving his coach the proper players, and the coach using his players in the proper situations. In this case, Dubya put a horse judge in charge of disaster management. Newsweek has a good article going, talking about the bunker mentality and group-think idealism that pervaded government thinking throughout the crisis. While the title of the article ( How Bush Blew It) smacks of opportunistic Dubya bashing, the article itself provides a very good, and balanced insight into what went wrong. There was a lot of incompetence at a lot of levels, but what scared me the most was the feel-good shield that seems to have been thrown around Bush, to protect him from the big-bad world. Nobody wanted to tell Bush the bad news, and Bush does nothing to find it himself. Everything is good, everything is fine, there is no smoke, keep playing that fiddle… Dubya is hardly alone in this, a few days into the disaster I watched Anderson Cooper do everything he could not to completely unload on a Democratic Senator who was trying to tell him the politicians were doing a great job, and that everything was under control. “Senator, I’m sorry…” Anderson seethed, close to screaming and/or crying, “For the last four days, I have been seeing dead bodies here in the streets of Mississippi and to listen to politicians thanking each other and complimenting each other — I have to tell you, there are people here who are very upset and angry, and when they hear politicians thanking one another, it just, you know, it cuts them the wrong way right now, because there was a body on the streets of this town yesterday being eaten by rats because this woman has been laying in the street for 48 hours, and there is not enough facilities to get her up. Do you understand that anger?…There are people that want answers, and people want someone to stand up and say: we should have done more.” Unfortunately, in our political culture too much time is spent a** covering, and not enough time actually fixing things, or owning up to responsibilities. I see now that Bush has accepted the blame for the Federal response, but the cynic in me sees this simply as a way to halt his slow slide into Brian Mulroney popularity levels. Hopefully I am wrong. Hopefully Bush will see in this disaster an opportunity to open up his administration to challengers, to “outsiders” and to learn and grow. Hopefully the cult of cronyism that pervades the US government will disappear. I have no problems with the US government making decisions that differ with my opinion. I have great problems with them making decisions that differ simply because they didn’t know any better. Anyways, this thread has diverted WAAAAYYY off topic...  |
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Post by habsaddict2 on Sept 13, 2005 15:10:36 GMT -5
It's fair to discuss "W" on vacation while New Orleans drowns, but it's not fair to blame the natural disaster on the pres. The sound byte of "W" saying his FEMA impersonator is "doing a heck of a job" shows that "W" has distanced himself too far from the details, but it also showed a chief exec trying to support his troops efforts. Of course we can’t blame Dubya for the hurricane, and we shouldn’t blame him for not knowing what to do in that type of crisis. He is the President, not a natural-disaster specialist. However, the fact that FEMA head-honcho Robert Brown also didn’t know what to do in that type of crisis, and was not a natural-disaster specialist either, can and should be laid at Dubya’s feet. We talk about it on these boards all the time, a GM giving his coach the proper players, and the coach using his players in the proper situations. In this case, Dubya put a horse judge in charge of disaster management. Newsweek has a good article going, talking about the bunker mentality and group-think idealism that pervaded government thinking throughout the crisis. While the title of the article ( How Bush Blew It) smacks of opportunistic Dubya bashing, the article itself provides a very good, and balanced insight into what went wrong. There was a lot of incompetence at a lot of levels, but what scared me the most was the feel-good shield that seems to have been thrown around Bush, to protect him from the big-bad world. Nobody wanted to tell Bush the bad news, and Bush does nothing to find it himself. Everything is good, everything is fine, there is no smoke, keep playing that fiddle… Dubya is hardly alone in this, a few days into the disaster I watched Anderson Cooper do everything he could not to completely unload on a Democratic Senator who was trying to tell him the politicians were doing a great job, and that everything was under control. “Senator, I’m sorry…” Anderson seethed, close to screaming and/or crying, “For the last four days, I have been seeing dead bodies here in the streets of Mississippi and to listen to politicians thanking each other and complimenting each other — I have to tell you, there are people here who are very upset and angry, and when they hear politicians thanking one another, it just, you know, it cuts them the wrong way right now, because there was a body on the streets of this town yesterday being eaten by rats because this woman has been laying in the street for 48 hours, and there is not enough facilities to get her up. Do you understand that anger?…There are people that want answers, and people want someone to stand up and say: we should have done more.” Unfortunately, in our political culture too much time is spent a** covering, and not enough time actually fixing things, or owning up to responsibilities. I see now that Bush has accepted the blame for the Federal response, but the cynic in me sees this simply as a way to halt his slow slide into Brian Mulroney popularity levels. Hopefully I am wrong. Hopefully Bush will see in this disaster an opportunity to open up his administration to challengers, to “outsiders” and to learn and grow. Hopefully the cult of cronyism that pervades the US government will disappear. I have no problems with the US government making decisions that differ with my opinion. I have great problems with them making decisions that differ simply because they didn’t know any better. Anyways, this thread has diverted WAAAAYYY off topic... Why? WHY? Why did I even read this and was about to respond? Are you getting cranky even at your tender young age? Tell you what, just give me your ideal woman "spces" and I will search EVERY nudist beach and EVERY club to find her. As a friend, I promise to be diligent, thoughtful........and stone drunk while doing so.  |
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Post by insomnius on Sept 13, 2005 21:07:20 GMT -5
And I STILL DON'T KNOW when the damn Habs practice is.....
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Post by jennypotatoes on Sept 13, 2005 22:47:15 GMT -5
First there was HA, an Original. I had NO plans to come out of the closet, until 2004-2005 happend to us. It was just one of those things. My furor just grew and grew, until one day.... KA-BOOM! Now the young fella from the left coast may be joining us? Figuratively speaking.
If Souray plays like an All-Star, which he is certainly capable of - I'll have to forgive him for being happy in Sweden while I was suffering down here without NHL hockey. I suppose it's possible I won't even be crankky anymore. Who knows?
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Post by BadCompany on Sept 14, 2005 7:33:10 GMT -5
And I STILL DON'T KNOW when the damn Habs practice is..... Okay, okay... 10 AM... But its not at the Bell Centre, its at the Pierrefonds Sports Complexe... |
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