Ducks Gameday -- The Half-Stars Game
by Earl Sleek on Jan 24, 2012 11:40 AM PST
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Anaheim Calling and Defending Big D -- two teams with 100% White House attendance.
I tried to sketch some Ducks-Stars stuff today, but nothing really panned out. But here -- I'm posting it anyways!
Prediction: I'll be around for game comments tonight -- stop on by! As for the game itself, it's kind of fascinating to me that the Ducks have yet to win an overtime or shootout decision on North American soil this season, so let's say that happens.
Go Break. :)
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GO Natural Disaster!
two teams with 100% White House attendance
hahaha! okay I get it, I’m in the minority with having no issues with what Tim Thomas did.
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Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" -- Benjamin Franklin (see profile for more info on this quote)
Oh, I don’t care, either. Last time I was in DC I didn’t go to the White House. :)
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When I was young, I was at a White House xmas party. I don’t remember much, just that I was there. I absolutely love DC and visiting the White House and everything over that way.
Yeah yeah, you guys can make all the jokes you want about which president I met. :)
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Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" -- Benjamin Franklin (see profile for more info on this quote)
President Ford … or was he Vice President then. Don’t recall exactly. But I remember meeting him. Use to have a photograph of myself and him, but it’s been lost.
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Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" -- Benjamin Franklin (see profile for more info on this quote)
It’s almost a bigger deal to me that Ovechkin is blowing off the All-Star Game, and I don’t care about that either.
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I am skipping the Alstar game this year as well, I have seen enough of the Ottawa Senators play between Sunday vs. the Ducks and Monday vs. the Kings.
I see the teammate argument. He probably should have gone as a member of the team, but I see his point too. I think the real problem is that it was just handled poorly.
My biggest gripe is the selective application of his ideals
After all, if he truly feels so strongly about government being involved where it shouldn’t, he should never play in any arena that was funded by public money. But since government’s involvement in that area has benefitted him personally, he can conveniently ignore it.
I’m just saying, if you’re willing to take sort of stand and release such a dramatized statement, then be consistent about it. Since he’s clearly not, I have an issue.
by PhantomPretender on Jan 24, 2012 6:41 PM PST up reply actions
Well now you’re saying he should just be extreme bout his views.
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Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" -- Benjamin Franklin (see profile for more info on this quote)
Not at all
I’m saying that if his conviction is strong enough that it prevents him from participating in one team activity, it should be strong enough to prevent him from participating in others. It’s just an issue of consistency. He claimed that this was in opposition to the growing role of government. But he’s only against it when it doesn’t directly apply to him.
by PhantomPretender on Jan 24, 2012 6:46 PM PST up reply actions
He should have just skipped the ceremony then said that the cab wouldn’t take his inferior credit card.
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by Earl Sleek on Jan 24, 2012 6:48 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Or he should have just admitted it was all about politics, period.
He sort of tried to pretend that it wasn’t a partisan issue, when it so clearly is. Just own up to it. I’d still think he was an idiot, but it’s better than the half-assed attempts at rationalizing what he did.
by PhantomPretender on Jan 24, 2012 6:49 PM PST up reply actions
And I want to stress
that people who are accusing Thomas of racism are also idiots.
by PhantomPretender on Jan 24, 2012 6:51 PM PST up reply actions
He’s not racist, just stupid.
"Thank you very much fans and let’s go for the next game together!"
— Lubomir Visnovsky
I rec’d that shit.
Disagree. I see no issue with him not participating. It was a political stand and he has the right to make it.
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Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" -- Benjamin Franklin (see profile for more info on this quote)
The event wasn't political
So making a political stand seems a bit childish. To be clear, I’d have issues with Democrats doing it during Republican administrations. It’s an overreaction in the context of the event. Nobody thinks that a sports team showing up to be recognized for their achievement is any sort of tacit approval of an administration.
by PhantomPretender on Jan 24, 2012 7:05 PM PST up reply actions
Doesn’t matter if the even was political or not. He choose to use this event as his protest. I don’t fault him for that.
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Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" -- Benjamin Franklin (see profile for more info on this quote)
And I do
We’re just going to disagree on this.
by PhantomPretender on Jan 24, 2012 7:08 PM PST up reply actions
So please for the love of god stop talking about it…
"Thank you very much fans and let’s go for the next game together!"
— Lubomir Visnovsky
I rec’d that shit.
I intended to :)
But now you made me reply to this.
by PhantomPretender on Jan 24, 2012 7:11 PM PST up reply actions
Fuck.
"Thank you very much fans and let’s go for the next game together!"
— Lubomir Visnovsky
I rec’d that shit.
Okay … I’m adding a comment … found here -
The ability to tell the President that you’d rather hang out in your room at the Marriott than shake his hand at the White House is, when you really think about it, a fairly stunning example of what makes America great. Think that would fly in Cuba? Or how about Cold War Russia? Uday Hussein would torture and even kill soccer players for collecting penalties in games. You might not always like how someone exercises their freedom of expression, it’s not always comfortable, but there is no more essential act in enabling the health of a democracy."
So again, good for him! If this is how he choose to protest, good for him.
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Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" -- Benjamin Franklin (see profile for more info on this quote)
Thanks in advance.
Fuck you and shut up.
"Thank you very much fans and let’s go for the next game together!"
— Lubomir Visnovsky
I rec’d that shit.
The ability to tell the President that you’d rather hang out in your room at the Marriott than shake his hand at the White House is, when you really think about it, a fairly stunning example of what makes America great.
That’s a reason that America is great. Tim Thomas is still a dim-wit.
by meetyourmako on Jan 25, 2012 12:41 AM PST up reply actions
That he had the right to do it doesn’t make him not a dick.
If you imagine a salt shaker in your hand, tilt your head back
and act like you're shaking salt into your mouth; you will taste salt if you concentrate hard enough.
Doesn’t make him one either.
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Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" -- Benjamin Franklin (see profile for more info on this quote)
I had dinner at my doctor’s house the other night. I demanded a full physical, right there, in front of everyone.
It doesn’t matter that it wasn’t a medical visit, I chose to use this event as a medical check-up. It was my right as an American, dammit.
“I wasn’t making the night about me,” I later explained to my pet hamster, Dumpling. “If they’re offended by my health concerns then that’s their problem.”
If you imagine a salt shaker in your hand, tilt your head back
and act like you're shaking salt into your mouth; you will taste salt if you concentrate hard enough.
It’s like a soaked t- shirt but with a white outfit and orthapedic shoes
Let's go Ducks.
by deb d on Jan 24, 2012 4:12 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
No, they really should be looking at a clock or something.
They’re counting down to recess.
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Uh
That’s not good
Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.
"My goodness, this is delicious. Hitler! That's a lovely tie you're wearing. You're Goebbels!" -Lewis Black
yea getzlaf not even getting it on goal when he was wide open was brutal…
too many blocked shots…i keep harping that pronger needs to start some camp on getting shots thru….guy was a master at that
hey el nino finally might be serviceable..!!
in 2 or 3 weeks i should be back on line…
oh and butt plug
Niles: You'll see who feels foolish when I'm sitting on a mechanical bull sipping champagne.
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Jan 25, 2012 8:59 AM PST up reply actions
We’re fucked. Fire the coach….
"Thank you very much fans and let’s go for the next game together!"
— Lubomir Visnovsky
I rec’d that shit.
I’d love to say that there are no moral victories, but seeing as we’re pretty much out of it and that actual victories are worthless, way to outplay the Stars, fellas!
If you imagine a salt shaker in your hand, tilt your head back
and act like you're shaking salt into your mouth; you will taste salt if you concentrate hard enough.
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