First post of the new year

Hooray for 2009?
meh, on va voir

-Flyers
I had the privilege of attending last night's Flyers game. While I have been following them all year, I have not been watching games on a regular basis. Nowabouts in the season is usually when I start watching, due to the Eagles sucking it up in the playoffs. Due to my boycott, which is now a few months in effect, I haven't even been watching them recently. (Oh, but they made the playoffs! -- oh, but they TIED THE BENGALS, oh and they play in the NFL. BTW, don't want the Giants to win, but I really don't want to see the Eagles lose another NFC championship game). But the Flyers -- the real deal, McCoy. The officiating sucked major balls -- they really don't know what legal contact looks like -- killed about 8 power plays and didnt have one themselves until the 3rd. Luckily this allowed the Flyers to show off one of the best penalty kill units of the league. There was a 4 on 4 in the first, after the refs decided to break up a fight before it started. Haha, mortal fools. As soon as both players were done their "unsportsmanlike conduct" penalties, they dropped gloves at mid-ice and put up their dukes.
The Carter/Scottie line was one of the most dominant lines I've seen in a game, though the Richards line also did pretty well. Jeff Carter showed why he's going to the all-star game (though only as a reserve, cos of the massive Montreal based letter writing campaign -- really, the Canadiens have starters in this game, BS -- and because the League itself has its head so far up its ass, they couldn't even list Jeff Carter on the website for voting. That's right, you had to write him in, even though he was leading the league in goals for most of the season, and shares the tie for it now. Also, how is Mike Richards not going, he is the emotional leader of the team, much like Primeau used to be.) Anyway, Jeff Carter, Scottie Upshall, and Scottie Hartnell were involved in every single goal in some capacity -- even though statistically one of them was unassisted. They took over the game and forced the Flyers to win. Biron did pretty well on his end to make sure this happenned as well. He made some amazing saves that I thought only Nittymaki could make (though somehow this leads to Nittymaki giving up more goals).

- BSC
Or is it the BCS, or who really knows anyway. Well, put two and two together, if I was at the Flyers game, then I couldn't possibly have been watching the BCS title game (I refuse to call that abomination a national championship) unless I was in one of those snooty personal luxury club box suite. Can you even see the game up there? Do you bang on the box window instead of the front glass? Alas, I digress.
The game pitted the young and plucky Sam Bradford against He Who Is Tim Tebow. The game didn't end up the scoring affair anyone thought it would be, but it certainly didn't resemble the defensive slugfest that was Bob Stoops first (and for now, only) national championship -- Florida State's only points came on a safety. In the 4th it was tied, but eventually the mighty Tim Tebow called upon the stregnth he used to previously circumcise all the Filipino children of the world and willed his Florida team to win, on a Percy Harvin direct snap when Tebow was on the sideline.
But really, it doesn't matter. The National Title was already decided when undefeated Utah beat one loss uber SEC powerhouse (one loss there is like negative five in any other division, right?) Alabama.
The injustice? While Utah came in second in the final poll, a close second as well, the AP Coaches poll put them at 4th, behind 3 schools with one loss, and equally as strong schedules (ok, I guess I get Florida, cos they won the agreed upon game, but USC and Texas weren't even picked to play in the title game, and also had a loss). Wittingham, the coach of Utah, used his vote to vote for his own team, and rightfully so, but the irony is he may actually lose his vote in the future. You see, the coaches are, by coaches union rules or whatever, supposed to vote for the winner of the BCS game as the end of the year number 1. Hopefully the coaches will see their stupidity if they actually pursue this course of action. While Wittingham does not have the clout that JoePa has, the coaches never sought course of action against JoePa for splitting his 2004 (?) vote among the winner of the title game (USC, I think), Auburn, and Utah -- all of whom finished the year with an undefeated season and a BCS bowl victory (the title game was then simply one of the four bowls, as opposed to a separate one). Wait, so Utah's done this before? Yeah, funny thing is, the head coach then was current Florida coach Urban "I LOVE to run the score up" Meyer; guess a florida coach just has to do it.

- Politics
Uh-oh, Barry O has some trouble in paradise already!
-Bill Richardson, a man several times passed over for positions in the last year (President, Vice President, Secretary of State, Secretary of Treasury) has decided to drop his name from nomination for Secretary of Commerce, and return to being Governor of New Mexico due to allegations of pay-to-play politics in his home state (so this sort of thing happens outside of Chicago?). The charges against him are kinda weak, which means he probably just didn't want to be Secretary of Commerce. That, or the liberal media is making a molehill out of a mountain, and this is actually a big fuggin deal. No way to tell until the investigation is over, but the position of Governor of any state, besides Alaska, is a higher position than Secretary of Commerce. Everyone knows that.

-Pannetta to be head of CIA
Fwahhhhhh????
I really don't get this at all. The man has no experience in any intelligence bureau at all, not even as like a clerk or secretary (like a real secretary, not that secretary of whatever shit).

-Who is Hilldawg's Senate successor?
We all know she didn't really want to be Senator of NY anyway, and her Chapaqua residence was about as flimsy as they come, but who's gonna be her successor?
Could it be Caroline Kennedy, whos credentials include -- being a Kennedy?
Or Andrew Cuomo, whos credentials include -- being a Cuomo, and married to a Kennedy?
wait, seriously, its pretty much down to these two? I thought we were done with the Kennedies.

Where's Lee Harvey Oswalt when you need him? too soon?

Damnit, can't take it back now.

-- Knuttel