Fallujah To Start With

The funny thing with this article is, I haven't seen the relevant piccie, must go search google or something for it. About that marine who is the poster boy of the occupation, who horror of horrors, has a photo of him smoking. Like a) the cigarette doesn't come anywhere near the destructive capability of just ONE bullet shot of his gun, and b) the US military is trashing a city, the guy himself is getting shot at by the other side and you are worried about him smoking?



Oh, and on seeing the piccie - it isn't as iconic as I thought it would be. Certainly not the millions of dollars Malboro put into their advertisements - hell, I'm not even a smoker and I love those ads LOL. Not so much the cowboy person as the views of the countryside are the ones I like. But of course, the company is only competing for market share, of COURSE they wouldn't be targetting new smokers LOL LOL - well, that got a bit off track...



Checking the CHL site, as the NHL is still out of business, led me on a bit of a tiki tour (New Zealand saying, means in a roundabout sense), led onto WHL, which got me thinking about the game I went to in Victoria in 2001 and which league are the Salsa in, which led me onto their Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League affiliate team - damn Canada, still has a hold over me LOL. But going down to that level of detail is interesting seeing all the local advertisements :) also giving me a smile is the Teddy Bear Toss promotion - bring a teddy, throw it onto the ice after the home team goals (hope they score one LOL) and those will be presents for some kiddies or other - everybody, lets go awww - awwww :)



At least SOME hockey is going on, away from the who wants to remain a millionaire collective bargaining fiasco LOL.



Another viewpoint of the Monday Night Football Desperate Housewives 'issue' - rolling eyes here, it just seems to me very Big Brother Thought Police that people are being told what to get offended about, at least in the States. Good phrase in the article, saying that the mainstream media isn't jumping down the throats of the vocal moral minority because they are still traumatised by the election result.



'Yes, there are - some, anyway - but you wonder how many of them were as upset as Mr. Limbaugh, whose imagination led him to mistake a lower back for a rear end. (He also said that the Sheridan-Owens encounter reminded him of the Kobe Bryant case; let's not even go there.) The evidence suggests that Mr. Limbaugh's prurient mind is the exception, not the rule. Though seen nationwide, and as early as 6 p.m. on the West Coast, the spot initially caused so little stir that the next morning only two newspapers in the country, both in Philadelphia, reported on it. ABC's switchboards were not swamped by shocked viewers on Monday night. A spokesman for ABC Sports told The Philadelphia Inquirer that he hadn't received a single phone call or e-mail in the immediate aftermath of the broadcast.'



Will write more later - getting too caught up in the cricket LOL.

Pauly