The title is a play on words concerning the Canadian Broadcasting Company’s (CBC) “Hockey Night in Canada.” And it is Hockey Night in Canada, as it has been every Saturday night throughout the Great White North since, well, since forever! I sure do miss Channel Nine out of Windsor, one of the BEST things about my ten-year sojourn in Detroit. But I digress.
Today was a real treat; I got to watch the beloved Red Wings beat arch-rival Colorado, in Denver, 4-3. It wasn’t as close as it sounds, however. Detroit beat the PANTS off the Avalanche in every single category that’s measured in hockey: final score, shots, scoring opportunities, face-offs, you name it. But it was a good game, well-played. David Aebischer, the Avs goalie, is the sole reason the score wasn't 7-3 or 9-3. If a lesser goalie had been in the Avs net, the score would have been much higher. There’s not a team in the NHL that can beat Detroit when The Great Red Wings show up. And that means consistency has been a bit of a problem this year. But not today.
Iran update: The president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is crazy like a fox, or so says Victor Davis Hanson in The not-so-mad mind of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Mr. Hanson has a point (or three. or four.). Excerpt:
In A Date With Destiny…, a guest posting at Ace of Spades HQ, WunderKraut is getting all depressed at the options, or lack of same, we have in dealing with Iran. He catalogs what he sees as “all available” options. Most aren’t good (as I’ve mentioned before), but he does have a novel option that many of us have left unsaid, but have certainly thought about: Threaten to turn Iran into a sea of glass. Also in the “unsaid” department regarding this particular option, my thoughts/daydreams have revolved around that ol’ Nike advertising slogan: Just do it. But then again, I’m just a little to the right of Genghis Khan, when you come right down to it.
Today was a real treat; I got to watch the beloved Red Wings beat arch-rival Colorado, in Denver, 4-3. It wasn’t as close as it sounds, however. Detroit beat the PANTS off the Avalanche in every single category that’s measured in hockey: final score, shots, scoring opportunities, face-offs, you name it. But it was a good game, well-played. David Aebischer, the Avs goalie, is the sole reason the score wasn't 7-3 or 9-3. If a lesser goalie had been in the Avs net, the score would have been much higher. There’s not a team in the NHL that can beat Detroit when The Great Red Wings show up. And that means consistency has been a bit of a problem this year. But not today.
Iran update: The president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is crazy like a fox, or so says Victor Davis Hanson in The not-so-mad mind of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Mr. Hanson has a point (or three. or four.). Excerpt:
But for now, barring divine intervention, Ahmadinejad's task poses two small hurdles: getting the bomb and preparing the world for Israel's demise.As it’s said: read the whole thing.
Oddly, the first obstacle may be easier. An impoverished Pakistan and North Korea pulled it off. China and Russia will sell Tehran anything it cannot get from rogue regimes. Ultimately, Moscow and Beijing will probably veto any punitive action by the United Nations.
Impotent European diplomats will always defer to such an important global figure, "ruling out" force to stop the Iranian nuclear industry as they offer money and trade deals if Tehran will just act sanely.
The United States has a growing anti-war movement, and 180,000 of its troops are busy birthing democracy in Afghanistan and Iraq. And the unpredictable President Bush has less than three years in office anyway.
In A Date With Destiny…, a guest posting at Ace of Spades HQ, WunderKraut is getting all depressed at the options, or lack of same, we have in dealing with Iran. He catalogs what he sees as “all available” options. Most aren’t good (as I’ve mentioned before), but he does have a novel option that many of us have left unsaid, but have certainly thought about: Threaten to turn Iran into a sea of glass. Also in the “unsaid” department regarding this particular option, my thoughts/daydreams have revolved around that ol’ Nike advertising slogan: Just do it. But then again, I’m just a little to the right of Genghis Khan, when you come right down to it.
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