bad coaching, some poker, 30 BILLION DOLLARS
in addition to not hitting free throws when they really needed to, the memphis tigers also lost due to incredibly bad coaching. up by 3 with just seconds to go and kansas with the ball, memphis did not foul and send ku to the line where they would have had to try to hit the first free throw and then miss the second trying for the rebound, one of the most difficult of plays to accomplish. instead, they let kansas get an open look at the basket and the rest is history. congrats to the jayhawks, they never paniced and played their game.
i have been playing very well at the poker tables since i gave myself a good talking to: to wit: quit trying to win and go back to trying to play well. i had gotten into a spell where i was "trying" to win every session and that cost me dearly. i had to reremind myself that it is a 365 day season and that fundalmentals are what wins over the long run. put another way, the wins will take care of themselves due to the laws of math and numbers, the trick is, to avoid the losses or keep them at an absolute minimum. offense wins games and defense wins championships. i have championship years when the wins are bigger than the losses. (which, incidently, is every year i have ever played the grand old american game of poker, be it stud or hold-em) yesterday i may have played a perfect game of no limit hold-em and that is very rare for me; i still make too many mistakes at no limit but, with critical retrospect, i didn't yesterday. as in my comedy, i am my biggest critic in poker and that may be one of my biggest strengths; people who cannot see their mistakes and then avoid them the next time are bound to repeat them. it is like the comic who sucks and then comes off the stage and says how bad the audience was. wrong, dog breath, you were bad, the audience was just responding to your hack material delivered poorly.
today, general petraeus and ambassador crocker are going to appear before congress and tell us just how hunky dory everything is in iraq. i do wish i could be on one of the committees so that i could ask some questions of our fearless leaders. the republicans like to tout petraeus as our modern day macarther but he is just another hack for the neo-cons, just better spoken and a better politician than most of the dumbos we have had over there.
facts are facts, jack and the fact is iraq is back to more bombings, more american deaths, more political turmoil, no progress made on any of the so-called "benchmarks" and the government there is disfunctional, crooked, filled with arguing cronies of all stripes. their "army" is a joke and in their recent clash with the al sadr militia, thousands of iraqi troops deserted.
we, the united states, are still paying for iraqi domestic needs while at the same time the iraqi government has, are you ready?, THIRTY BILLION DOLLARS in reserve plus another TEN BILLION in development funds. that is your money going to iraq. my money. our money. not their money. what does it take for the american people to get mad?
i question the patriotism of any general who would keep american troops in harm's way with no clear mission for them to accomplish. we are not at war, we are occupying iraq. we are occupying afghanastan. left to the whims of politically ambitious generals such as petraeus and morons such as senator mc cain, we will be there one hundred years.
how this for an idea; anytime we send american troops to some god forsaken foriegn country we have to institue a draft. if it is important enough for us to go to war, how about sending the sons of the rich and powerful to fight along side the boys and girls from poor rural and urban settings? if we instituted a draft today we would be out of iraq tomorrow.
oh well, got to feed the dogs, figure out something to do with the pool (it is green), wash the dishes, put up the washed clothes, pick up dog shit and then go play poker. have a good day, don't hurt anybody, if you do pray, pray for peace.
i have been playing very well at the poker tables since i gave myself a good talking to: to wit: quit trying to win and go back to trying to play well. i had gotten into a spell where i was "trying" to win every session and that cost me dearly. i had to reremind myself that it is a 365 day season and that fundalmentals are what wins over the long run. put another way, the wins will take care of themselves due to the laws of math and numbers, the trick is, to avoid the losses or keep them at an absolute minimum. offense wins games and defense wins championships. i have championship years when the wins are bigger than the losses. (which, incidently, is every year i have ever played the grand old american game of poker, be it stud or hold-em) yesterday i may have played a perfect game of no limit hold-em and that is very rare for me; i still make too many mistakes at no limit but, with critical retrospect, i didn't yesterday. as in my comedy, i am my biggest critic in poker and that may be one of my biggest strengths; people who cannot see their mistakes and then avoid them the next time are bound to repeat them. it is like the comic who sucks and then comes off the stage and says how bad the audience was. wrong, dog breath, you were bad, the audience was just responding to your hack material delivered poorly.
today, general petraeus and ambassador crocker are going to appear before congress and tell us just how hunky dory everything is in iraq. i do wish i could be on one of the committees so that i could ask some questions of our fearless leaders. the republicans like to tout petraeus as our modern day macarther but he is just another hack for the neo-cons, just better spoken and a better politician than most of the dumbos we have had over there.
facts are facts, jack and the fact is iraq is back to more bombings, more american deaths, more political turmoil, no progress made on any of the so-called "benchmarks" and the government there is disfunctional, crooked, filled with arguing cronies of all stripes. their "army" is a joke and in their recent clash with the al sadr militia, thousands of iraqi troops deserted.
we, the united states, are still paying for iraqi domestic needs while at the same time the iraqi government has, are you ready?, THIRTY BILLION DOLLARS in reserve plus another TEN BILLION in development funds. that is your money going to iraq. my money. our money. not their money. what does it take for the american people to get mad?
i question the patriotism of any general who would keep american troops in harm's way with no clear mission for them to accomplish. we are not at war, we are occupying iraq. we are occupying afghanastan. left to the whims of politically ambitious generals such as petraeus and morons such as senator mc cain, we will be there one hundred years.
how this for an idea; anytime we send american troops to some god forsaken foriegn country we have to institue a draft. if it is important enough for us to go to war, how about sending the sons of the rich and powerful to fight along side the boys and girls from poor rural and urban settings? if we instituted a draft today we would be out of iraq tomorrow.
oh well, got to feed the dogs, figure out something to do with the pool (it is green), wash the dishes, put up the washed clothes, pick up dog shit and then go play poker. have a good day, don't hurt anybody, if you do pray, pray for peace.
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