Archive for December 20th, 2006
The NHL is contemplating increasing the size of the nets to increase goals scored. I think this would be a big mistake. The quality of the play, combined with the back and forth action, is what makes hockey exciting to watch. The recent rule changes have accomplished a lot to make hockey a better spectator sport. Larger nets will diminish the need for skill without contributing to the flow of the game. The NHL has done a good job with rule changes, don’t more changes just for the sake of change.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The National Hockey League is contemplating using bigger nets to increase the number of goals scored in games, Calgary Flames captain Jarome Iginla said on Wednesday.
Iginla, a member of the NHL’s Competition Committee, said, however, that the league would not make such a dramatic change to the game easily.
“I think we do want scoring to be up,” he said via teleconference. “It’s not where it was at all in the ’80s, from what I understand. It’s hard.
Source: League looking into using bigger nets, says Iginla | Reuters.ca
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Voters overwhelmingly voted Republicans out of office. The main reason was the failed war in Iraq. That does not mean the voters want to escalate the war with more troops, it means get them home as soon as possible.
The problem with the failed war isn’t that we failed. It is that the President duped the public at large, as well as Congress, to initiate the fiasco. This is a blatant slap in the face of voters who want this Iraq debacle ended. The only certainties to come out of Bush’s war is the increased risk of terror attacks, total chaos in Iraq, thousands of dead American soldiers, our rights to privacy destroyed and a debt the will take decades to pay off.
Bush lied to get us into this war and now he’s lying about the will of the voters to keep us there. This should be a loud and clear call to the Democrats to not waste any time in January to start Impeachment proceedings.
But in a wide-ranging session in the Oval Office, the president said he interpreted the Democratic election victories six weeks ago not as a mandate to bring the U.S. involvement in Iraq to an end but as a call to find new ways to make the mission there succeed. He confirmed that he is considering a short-term surge in troops in Iraq, an option that top generals have resisted out of concern that it would not help.
A substantial military expansion will take years and would not immediately affect the war in Iraq. But it would begin to address the growing alarm among commanders about the state of the armed forces. Although the president offered no specifics, other U.S. officials said the administration is preparing plans to bolster the nation’s permanent active-duty military with as many as 70,000 additional troops.
Source: U.S. Not Winning War in Iraq, Bush Says for 1st Time - washingtonpost.com
