Posted on 05/13/2004 6:17:16 PM PDT by wagglebee
"I've stopped reading newspapers," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said today to the troops in Abu Ghraib, Iraq. "You've got to keep your sanity somehow. I'm a survivor."
The wire services did relate that remark. What they didn't admit was the loud cheers rising from the GIs.
Fortunately, we saw (and heard) the footage on Fox News.
I was trying engage on cultural perceptions. Sorry that I offended you.
What can I say? They have a better sports department than the Herald, Parade Magazine (Maria v. S.) and Henry Hook's crossword puzzle bi-weekly. Besides that boil on the rear of Boston journalism, Mike Barnicle, just signed with the Herald.
Can you believe that? What the heck were they thinking? What a slap to Howie!
LOL!!! I love it!
$ 14 billion and how many years to dig a tunnel????
According to most figures I've seen, newspapers actually lose money on subscriptions and print sales. If you really want to get their attention, you have to go after their advertisers.
This project was a disgrace. This "Big Dig"- if managed on the local level would have cost a third of what it did!
That's because of all the damn yankees that have invaded us in my lifetime. Most of 'em have no manners and don't know how to behave themselves in polite company. They move here to escape their northern s**tholes, then immediately start creating the same problems here.
To you, that is most likely a valid perception of New Englanders or Northerners in general. But when New Englanders do make friends they are friends for life no matter what! My best friend to this day is a kid I met in my neighborhood when I was 9. Our families consider each other relatives. Yes- New Englanders are hard to make friends with but if you do- then there is no better friend in the world!
Is that income before or after taxes? What are the taxes in Mass?
High- but not as high as they used to be- property tax depends but tends to be above average high.
"It is a fact that in the entire Vietnam War we did not lose one major battle, we lost the war at home, and at home John Kerry was the field general." ~~ Robert Elder, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth
And Larry BIrd! Don't forget Larry Bird!
:) Go Sox!
I am really pumped up for this season. Sox are going to take it!
Larry Bird is a HOOSIER. He only resided in Boston TEMPORARILY while playing there. He is now BACK HOME AGAIN IN INDIANA, for the second time.
Rummie should run for president after 'W's 2nd term. It would be fun watching the libs go into orbit.
And two of the white boys that were slow and couldn't jump are back in Indiana now!
An I'm still mad about the Pacers 1st. round lost to Celtics last year :(
OK then. Kevin McHale! Don't forget Kevin McHale! (although he is technically, in Jesse's pronounciation, a Minne-SOAT-an)
From 1980-81 through the 1991-92 season, Kevin McHale teamed with Larry Bird and Robert Parish to form one of the greatest frontlines in professional basketball history with the Boston Celtics. In that 12-year era, the Celtics compiled a 690-276 record, won nine Atlantic Division titles and six Eastern Conference championships. At 6-foot-10, 225 pounds, McHale's nearly unstoppable array of low post moves revolutionized pivot play and helped lead Boston to three NBA championships in 1981, 1984 and 1986. His 56-point effort against the Detroit Pistons on March 3, 1985, ranks second all-time in Celtics' single-game history behind Larry Bird's 60-point performance against the Atlanta Hawks on March 12, 1985. Just eight days earlier (March 5, 1985), McHale had scored a career-high 42 points against the New York Knicks.
Named to the NBA's 50th Anniversary Team in 1996 and seven NBA All-Star Teams (1984, 1986-91), McHale was an All-NBA First Team selection in 1987. He won the league's Sixth Man Award in 1984 and 1985. Noted for his high-percentage shooting (.554-ninth best in NBA history), McHale was the first player in NBA history to shoot 60 percent from the field and 80 percent from the foul line in the same season. Defensively, McHale was an NBA All-Defensive Team selection from 1986 to 1988 and a Second Team selection three times (1983, 1989, 1990). On Boston's all-time lists, McHale ranks second in field goal percentage (6,830-12,334, .554), third in games (971), fourth in points (17,335) and field goals made (6,830), and sixth in rebounds (7,112) and minutes (30,118). McHale, who was Boston's first choice (third overall) in the 1980 NBA Draft, retired from the Celtics following the 1992-93 season.
I have been told by troops over there that they love him and so does every other soldier they know.
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