Time once again to add another disgrace to the legacy of the Bush administration. The Walter Reed Army Medical Center fiasco is the next logical point on the timeline that includes no weapons of mass destruction, inadequate troop levels in Iraq, lack of body armor for soldiers, Abu Grahib, and billions of dollars unaccounted for in the war and rebuilding effort. One point that will never occur on the timeline is the point when flag-waving evangelicals begin to demand the most basic level of competence from this administration. If wounded veterans in squalid conditions aren’t enough to produce a backlash from the conservative base, then nothing will, short of Bush suddenly reversing his pledge to protect marriage from homosexuals.
If the playoffs were to start today, Toronto would be the eighth seed and play Buffalo in the first round. I would hate to see this happen because I think it would clearly turn into a bloodbath like the Buffalo series against Philadelphia last year. Toronto would be incredibly overmatched by Buffalo and I’m concerned about the Sabres making it out of the first round with everybody healthy.
My frustration with the Bush administration is equal to my frustration with the Bettman administration. Neither is able to recognize its failures. In the Sabres/Canadiens game last Friday, Thomas Vanek had a breakaway towards an empty net in the waning seconds of a game that Montreal could not possibly win. Defenseman Sheldon Souray gave chase. In Bettman’s NHL, it’s expected that Souray would slash Vanek on the wrist. He did. Just as in Bettman’s NHL, it’s expected that Cam Janssen is going to go mercenary on Tomas Kaberle. It’s all part of the game in Bettman’s NHL. Luckily Vanek’s wrist did not get broken, because the top scorer on the top team in the league getting his wrist broken on an empty-net goal doesn't merit a second though in Bettman’s NHL.
It’s trivial to compare sports with war, but in both cases you’ve got leaders who talk tough but can’t fulfill the role of real men, which is protecting the people you’ve been sworn to protect.
If the playoffs were to start today, Toronto would be the eighth seed and play Buffalo in the first round. I would hate to see this happen because I think it would clearly turn into a bloodbath like the Buffalo series against Philadelphia last year. Toronto would be incredibly overmatched by Buffalo and I’m concerned about the Sabres making it out of the first round with everybody healthy.
My frustration with the Bush administration is equal to my frustration with the Bettman administration. Neither is able to recognize its failures. In the Sabres/Canadiens game last Friday, Thomas Vanek had a breakaway towards an empty net in the waning seconds of a game that Montreal could not possibly win. Defenseman Sheldon Souray gave chase. In Bettman’s NHL, it’s expected that Souray would slash Vanek on the wrist. He did. Just as in Bettman’s NHL, it’s expected that Cam Janssen is going to go mercenary on Tomas Kaberle. It’s all part of the game in Bettman’s NHL. Luckily Vanek’s wrist did not get broken, because the top scorer on the top team in the league getting his wrist broken on an empty-net goal doesn't merit a second though in Bettman’s NHL.
It’s trivial to compare sports with war, but in both cases you’ve got leaders who talk tough but can’t fulfill the role of real men, which is protecting the people you’ve been sworn to protect.
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