It Was A Close One

The All Blacks Wales match - the Welsh haven't beaten us in 51 years, but it was a one point thriller in Cardiff this morning. Three tries to two, so we COULD say we had a more expansive game, but all those people that watch the tries instead of the points are missing one themselves - lol, a one point loss in a World Cup final means more than scoring more tries than the winner in that game.



Hmm, lucky I didn't go down to the cricket yesterday - NZ are getting flogged at this stage of the game - centuries to Gilchrist and Clarke (is he REALLY this good?), and a 90 run last wicket stand with McGrath getting a fifty. Pop gun attack is coming to the fore LOL - and umm I think I have my hair to wash or something today instead of going down to the game LOL. Eh, just remembering our last test series in Oz, a couple years ago now, we almost got flogged by the Australians in the first test, and then almost flogged them in the second - Steve Waugh was SO out lol, damned umpires - and then the third was a pretty tame affair. So one test does not a summer make is the point I'm making :)



Still on sport, well kind of, the fantasy leagues are the best we can hope for during this NHL lock out - and this table is from the National Post, for the Leafs. And no, I am not going to get het up about the fact that on this ladder the Canucks are doing badly LOL - it's a FANTASY game this season Pauly, buck your chin up - better no hockey than loser hockey - oh, that's your non Canadianess coming out, lol and loser hockey would be better than a season long lock out...



Baghdad has exploded again - looks like the root cause was that raid on one of the city's major mosques that happened yesterday - you raid our church, we will go burn some of your Humvees, bleah. The confirmed death toll for American troops this month has hit 100, more bleah. Fallujah is in ruins and doesn't seem at all under control - an ambush there today killing two marines and injuring four. Need I go on? Well, not today, I don't want to make this post too depressing.



This one is good - a report from an embedded reporter (with the Marines in Fallujah) that brings some humanity to the whole conflict - well, by humanity, bringing it down to a level where he could be talking about any group of 19 or 20 year olds. Who happen to be fighting for their lives 10,000 miles away from home, while in the meantime killing the other side. And we aren't allowed to watch Saving Private Ryan, go figure.



Think that is enough for this morning - like I said, not much doing in my real world today...

Pauly