Comments on: You guys can drive.

By: Jolene

Jolene — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:02:49 +0000

Oh, and yes, good luck to the Pens. Always hope for good things to happen to Pittsburgh.

By: Jolene

Jolene — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:01:56 +0000

Erin Burnett, a CNBC reporter recently returned from travel in India, Europe, and elsewhere, made similar points this AM re the world reshaping itself around us, and her comments were followed by similar observations from Zbigniew Brzezinski. It’s long past time for some big-picture thinking.

By: brian stouder

brian stouder — Thu, 22 May 2008 13:52:12 +0000

Here’s to the unstoppable march of the Penguins to the Stanley Cup; and Danica Patrick or Graham Rahal at Indianapolis; and Lewis Hamilton at Monaco (or, for a dark horse pick, Giancarlo Fisichella. If there is a really [really, really]big rainstorm during qualifying, Fisi might could win the parade-like race in the streets of Monte Carlo); and Jeff Burton at Charlotte (mom likes Tony Stewart best)

By: LA Mary

LA Mary — Thu, 22 May 2008 13:41:57 +0000

Joodyb,
I had to fire a nun last year because she lied on her resume. The Masonic stuff is small compared to that. I know I’m going to hell.

By: Jeff (the mild-mannered one)

Jeff (the mild-mannered one) — Thu, 22 May 2008 13:22:48 +0000

Not ugly, i trust, but somewhat less than mild-mannered — two links that i hope get widely read, soon:

Mr. Murti, whom i’ve never heard of before, pegs it — “One of the biggest challenges our country faces is our addiction to oil.” Read more at –http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/21/business/21oil.html?

Tom Friedman, on what President Bush actually DID screw up –
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/21/opinion/21friedman.html?

“Let’s start with the most profound one: More and more, I am convinced that the big foreign policy failure that will be pinned on this administration is not the failure to make Iraq work, as devastating as that has been. It will be one with much broader balance-of-power implications — the failure after 9/11 to put in place an effective energy policy.”

I’m watching Obama and McCain to see who can convince me they have an energy policy that makes a lick o’ sense.

By: Sue

Sue — Thu, 22 May 2008 12:33:30 +0000

Well, Nancy, perhaps you shouldn’t have turned over the driving to us after all. It got a little uglier than I’m used to here. And go Penguins.

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Thu, 22 May 2008 11:04:01 +0000

Penguins are gonna win the Cup in 6 games. You heard it here first.

By: Terry WAlter

Terry WAlter — Thu, 22 May 2008 06:18:32 +0000

Hey Nancy, nice to know you've been reading my posts. I've always considered you to be left-leaning, but still thinking for yourself. As opposed to the brain dead , PC spouting, sloganeering types. Otherwise I wouldn't still be reading/annoying you. The Peggy Noonan column did a pretty good job of summarizing where I, and many other Republicans I know stand. Bush has been a pretty good Democrat president. NCLB-massive federal intrusion into education-check. Geezer drug program- who knows how much that'll cost-check. Massive general spending & resultant increased national debt-check. He sure shot that Republican campaign talking point right in the ass. Mandated huge increase in vehicle fuel mileage ratings-check. Actually, the hard feelings started back with his old man,after he stood there and lied to me about NO NEW TAXES!!! When he was running for re-election, the Quayle motorcade was coming by where I worked along US24. I was sorely tempted to run out and scream NO NEW TAXES, but I figured I might end up in the crosshairs of a scope,so I didn't. While you and perhaps 51% of the posters on here don't agree with me about the role government should play in our lives, it shouldn't be hard to see how we feel betrayed. What with all the excitement about how the Indiana primary mattered for the first time in decades, I'm sure many of you forgot/didn't care that on the R side of the ballot, it still didn't. We were force fed W. by all the big money men and this time McCain. Speaking of bad presidents,it's easy to come up with one worse than W.- Dimmuh Carter. He campaigned on the misery index;inflation plus unemployment. By the time he got axed,it was 3 times as bad. And he started the ball rolling downhill by helping to oust the Shah of Iran. He may have not been perfect,but he was a true friend of the U.S. More than you can say for the Ayatollah or Hackedmeajewtoday. Now Dimmuh's running over there kissing up to terrorists,dead & alive. On the topic of strange rituals. At my sons' middle school year end awards, one of the teachers presided over the ceremony. He turned off the electric lights and lit a candle. He breathily intoned about it being "The Light of Knowledge". If you couldn't hear the Far Eastern music playing in your head,you were asleep. Now it seems a year or so before, a certain herbal plant was found growing in his back yard,right there in town. He disavowed any insight as to how it might have gotten there. As I recall, he was never charged with anything. That candle shone brightly for me, because before I left the ceremony, I knew how that plant had sprouted where it did.

By: joodyb

joodyb — Thu, 22 May 2008 05:40:41 +0000

Methinks LAMary is in big trouble for revealing that secret Masonic scriptage.

By: Dexter

Dexter — Thu, 22 May 2008 05:25:48 +0000

Jesus Christ, Cal, you have Detroit-cred, but damn, all that breakdown on the Celtics / Pistons , and yet not a word on Zetterberg, Lidstrom, Datsyuk, or even a nostalgic word about the reunion of The Grind Line (Maltby-Draper-McCarty), or Ozzie’s stellar netminding, or Holmstrom, or Jiri Hudler and his great impact even though he plays just eleven minutes a game?
No mention of Babcock’s coaching or Dallas Drake?
C’mon, Caliban! We’re Cup Crazy , and I live in Ohio, fer chrissakes…and I bet Detroit is going nutso, too, even though not enough Motor City denizens have enough cash to afford Cup Tix.
By the way? …Wilt was better! I started out a Celtics fan but by 1967 Wilt won me over to the 76ers…now as an adult I’m all DEE-TROIT BASSS-KET-BALL! (but seeing Elton John was my best Palace memory…)