In spite of the Flyers managing to shut down Evgeni Malkin, who had one of his worst games of the playoffs tonight, the Pens still won Game 2 tonight by a score of 4 - 2.
The Pens recovered from a huge game-tying shorthanded goal by Mike Richards of the Flyers thanks to a fantastic play from their 4th line. Max Talbot scored on a play made by Gary Roberts and Georges Laraque for the game-winner.
Talbot beats Biron in the play of the game for the game-winning goal
This is a great ad from the RNC and a nice rebuttal to all the Obamaniacs who think it’s unfair that the Reverend Wright scandal and Bitter-gate have taken the focus off of “the issues”.
Freshman U.S. Rep. Chris Carney, Dimock Township, e-mailed a statement early Friday morning saying he has followed through with an earlier promise to constituents to support the candidate who won the 10th Congressional District. Clinton defeated fellow Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama in the state’s April 22 primary election by garnering 70 percent of the Democrat vote.
“Pennsylvania’s 10th District overwhelmingly chose Sen. Clinton in the Pennsylvania primary and I will respect their decision,” he said in the brief statement.
Anybody else have a Mother’s Day/Pentecost service at church today?
Well, could be worse, I suppose. If May 1st had been a Sunday, we might have seen an Ascension-May Crowning-National Loyalty Day-National Day of Prayer service.
… and good riddance to a contender for dumbest government project evah.
EarthLink, which fronted $20 million to build the network and has completed 80 percent of the build-out, stopped accepting new customers last week, according to a report by Metro Philadelphia. The company has also supposedly given the city a deadline of this week to come up with a plan to take over the network or sell it to a third party.
EarthLink, which won the contract in 2006 to build what was at the time to be the largest citywide Wi-Fi deployment in the nation, said earlier this year that it’s getting out of the Wi-Fi business.
The company had aggressively pushed its municipal Wi-Fi strategy. And Philadelphia was one of several large contracts the company had won to build citywide Wi-Fi networks.
But after the death of EarthLink’s CEO Garry Betty in early 2007, it quickly became clear that the Internet service provider had a change of heart when it came to Wi-Fi. Within months, the company had wiggled out of several contracts with cities such as San Francisco and Houston. Early this year it announced it was abandoning the business altogether, and it started negotiating with five cities in which networks had already been built or partially built.
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The Montgomery County commissioners believe motorists will be willing to pay an extra fee to get off and on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Norristown.
If they are wrong, the Lafayette Street Corridor project that many believe is vital to Norristown’s revitalization efforts is dead.
The commissioners Thursday unveiled an innovative funding proposal to cover the estimated $160-million-plus cost of the Lafayette Street project.
This project includes the construction of a new electronic turnpike interchange in Norristown, the linking of that interchange to an extended Lafayette Street, the rebuilding of Lafayette Street and additional improvements to local and state roads in the area.
Under that financing proposal, the county would take on most of the state’s burden of funding the project by taking out a bond issue and assessing motorists using the new interchange an additional fee above the regular turnpike toll to repay the bond.
Let me get this straight.
We need a team to do economic development of the county, AND we’re going to saddle commuters with this extra fee? Why would anyone looking for a place to do business choose to do it near Norristown?
Of course, if this goes through, it’s only a matter of time before Ft Washington, Valley Forge & Lansdale end up with a similar fate.
Good thinking Joe.
Thanks for your help Jim.
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Game 2 could be the most important game of the series. Why?
Because the Flyers have lost every Game 1 so far, but then have come back to win Game 2, 3, and 4 in both of their previous playoff series. Thus a Penguins victory in Game 2 will potentially be devastating to the Flyers.
On the other hand, the Penguins have yet to lose a single playoff game at home. If the Pens lose Game 2 at home, that also has the potential to kill their momentum and give an edge to the Flyers as we head for Game 3 and 4 in Philly.
If the Penguins stay at the top of their game, I honestly can’t see them losing Game 2; not with their home ice advantage. But if they decide that the Flyers are pushovers and they underestimate their ability, they can easily blow Game 2 and head into Flyers territory with a tied series.
Penguins key to victory - Give it 100% all game
Flyers key to victory - Lull the Pens into a false sense of security
Heading home on a rainy day. My wife was behind the wheel, so naturally I had a camera in my lap — just in case. Here’s a bit of what we saw driving through paradise [I meant that figuratively, not literally the town in Lancaster County].
………..one was indicted over bribery charges, including allegations that he kept a reserve of $90,000 in cold hard cash(literally!). He was accused of taking thousands in bribes over a foreign contracts scheme, and multiple aides pleaded guilty to felonies. His party leaders deferred and danced around it, and only removed him from his committee slots after the national media started asking hard questions. The voters in his overwhelmingly favorably drawn district re-elected him over a serious challenger even after his indictment was made public.
…………the other ran a red light while drunk, coming from the home of his “lady friend” and their love child. He admitted all of this, and apologized to the voters of his district for it. He may serve a five day jail sentence if convicted, and his wife may leave him. His party leaders called for his resignation, even knowing that they may lose the seat in any upcoming special election.
Bonus: Which party leadership is mostly composed of craven partisan hacks with no morals or courage whatsoever?
Anyone who gets these questions right can walk around all day knowing that they are far smarter than the collective intelligence of the party leaders mentioned in the first paragraph.
Wow, what a game! Penguins 4, Flyers 2. It was also an adventure for me, since I happened to be sitting in the Flyers section. There were Flyers fans in front of me, Flyers fans behind me, and also in the section were some members of the Flyers Ice Team, and… R.J. Umberger’s relatives. Fortunately the Pens kept them quiet for most of the game.
Needless to say, it got ugly in my section. The ushers threatened to eject some folks from the game at least once. It was pretty intense. And this was only Game 1!
The player of the game was absolutely Evgeni Malkin, who scored two goals and had one assist tonight. If the Pens win the Stanley Cup, Geno is definitely going to be the MVP of the playoffs.
This faux pas is beyond weird; I know the guy is tired, but “How many states are there in America?” is the kind of question they ask you at the hospital after you’ve had a seizure to see if your brain is still working. I speak from personal experience on this matter, by the way. When I had a random seizure in 1996, the guy at the emergency room asked me how many states there were and then who was president. I responded with a ten minute rant on Whitewater - he urgently ordered up more tests.
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Alex, what I want to know is, how are they getting home? Surely someone isn’t going to drive 216 miles down to get them and then bring them back…? I shudder at the needless carbon footprint left behind!
It’s like I always say: education is the only long term solution to stupidity.
It only seems that way to you. My lefty friends are just as frustrated as you are. They, like you, have seen election after election go by in which principled candidates they support have lost out to what they see as unprincipled moderates. The fact is that the American public in general prefers moderates to principled activists [whom they see as "extremists"] on both ends of the spectrum. That is why candidates in the general election have to “run to the middle”, and in the course of doing so, they disappoint their activist bases. Many historians would argue that this dynamic is what has kept America from falling prey to the extremist ideologies that have plagued Europe for most of the past century.
John,
You are absolutely right. I wish I had read your post before writing the above.
Nathan,
You are quite right. Pat Toomey in the past has urged Republicans to put aside their ideological differences and to cooperate in the general election. I was responding to the specifics of this article. Most particularly this quote:
A Republican majority is only as useful as the policies that majority produces. When those policies look a lot like Democratic ones, the base rightly questions why it should keep Republicans in power.
That sounds pretty uncompromising to me.
My response to Pat and to you when you ask “what good is it to have Republicans in office that don’t differ from Democrats in any meaningful way?” is that there are meaningful differences between even moderate Democrats and Republicans in matters such as tax policy, judicial appointments, second amendment rights, and national defense. These are not insignificant issues. As I pointed out in my post, at least with Republicans in office movement conservatives have a seat at the table. With Democrats running things they have nothing.
I would also note that David Frum, in “Dead Right” showed that even Ronald Reagan delivered far less to his conservative supporters than he might have.
Just weeks after nearly every member of the state House voted to have the state pay a new $25 fee for parents collecting child support, 117 lawmakers changed their minds and today voted to instead assess the fee against the parents.
“When this law takes effect, parents collecting as little as $167 in child support per month will have to give $25 back to the government each year for the privilege of collecting the money owed to them from the other parent,” [State Rep Kate] Harper said. “Taxing children and single moms is, I believe, absolutely the wrong thing to do. Every dollar of child support money should go toward food, clothes and shelter for the child, not government bureaucracy. We can afford it. They can’t.”
Glancing down the roll call, it looks like a lot of Democrats voted against her amendment.
Happy Mother’s Day! Get another box of Mac & [Government] Cheese.
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The Rev. Al Sharpton called a videotaped police beating of three shooting suspects in Philadelphia “worse than Rodney King,” prompting the city’s police commissioner to chide anyone “fanning flames … from afar.”
The civil rights activist made the comments Thursday as he interviewed the mother of one of the suspects on his radio show.
Thirteen police officers have been taken off street duty as police investigate the television news footage, according to Lt. Frank Vanore, a police spokesman. The video shows officers kicking, punching and beating the three black men during a traffic stop Monday.
“I’ve not seen anything like that since Rodney King, and it’s worse than Rodney King, and we cannot allow our community to be under siege,” Sharpton said. “We’ve got to stop this nonsense in our community, acting like you got to be a certain level black to be treated within the law.”
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Curious what Chris Matthews’ brother thinks about the “Hardball” host entertaining a run for Senate? Ponder no more.
“I think it is great,” Republican Jim Matthews, a Montgomery County Commissioner, said in an interview Thursday.
“We are all surrounded by dead people who just plod along and don’t even investigate their dreams. It is kind of neat to see a guy at the top of his game contemplating a complete change in direction,” Matthews said.
I didn’t realize Jim was at the top of his game.
Oh, that was about his brother. Right.
This is for an election in 2010, so there’s plenty of time to speculate on who is running.
Eh Mr. Governor? Eh?
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The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board is forming a Wine Advisory Council comprising restaurant owners, hotel managers and wine experts “to help bring the best selections and wine values to Pennsylvania consumers,” the agency announced yesterday.
Chairman Patrick J. Stapleton III said the council is part of an initiative to improve customers’ shopping experience at the PLCB’s 620 stores.
“For too long, this organization has been about us and what we want to accomplish as an agency, and we have lost sight of what matters most — our customers,” Mr. Stapleton said.
