Bears Get Creamed

Ok it is 41-21 with 1:30 left in the game.

But it wasn’t that close; it was 31-7 at the half, with Arizona getting 4 drives between 70-85 yards on their first 4 possessions plus a field goal off of a field goal return.

The Bears did close to 34-21 off of touchdown set up by an interception but got no closer.

Oh well…

(photos from yahoo)

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8 November noon-ish

Workout notes I took advantage of a pretty day to get 10 miles of slow walking (3:09) at McNaughton Park. Of course the frisbee golfers were there by the time I completed a loop and there were a couple of guys on bikes with ZZ Top beards. This is Pekin, after all.

My calf hurt just a little; I wouldn’t have noticed it much had I not been alert for it, and I haven’t had a pain killer in over a week.

8 November 09 (am)

Workout notes Nothing yet; I do want to get out and hike in this beautiful weather though.
I’ll leave when I finish here.

Health Care Reform It passed the House by a narrow margin. There is an excellent interactive map here.

(click to enlarge). Legend: dark blue: Democratic Representative who voted “yes”. Light blue: D. Rep. who voted “no”. Light red: Repuke Republican who voted “no”. Bright red: Republican who voted “yes” (there is one in New Orleans, Louisiana; Representative Cao; look at the “lower point” of Louisiana; it is barely visible.

Yes, Rep. Dennis “The Purity Troll” Kucinich voted “no”. Yes, I wish that single payer was possible. But we need something that we can build on. Hence, I agree with this Daily Kos diarist:

Some people wonder why I am not a fan of Dennis Kucinich and don’t take comfort when I look along the trench and find him fighting by my side or, especially, carrying my banner. Well, he voted against health care reform tonight. He can provide any reasons he wants, but I’d note that the only Democratic women in the entire House to vote against the bill (Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin of South Dakota, Suzanne Kosmas of Florida, and Betsy Markey of Colorado), are from very conservative districts. The women of the Democratic caucus swallowed hard when the Stupak-Pitts amendment passed, and they voted to go ahead with reform. So, please don’t try to tell me that the pro-life-’til-the-day-he-decided-to-run-for-president Kucinich voted no because he was standing up for women’s rights.

* BooMan23’s diary :: ::
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I presume he voted no because this bill isn’t a single-payer bill. But he and Rep. Massa of New York are the only two proponents of single-payer to vote against reform. And Massa is just looking for cover because his district is very conservative. What really happened is that Kucinich wants attention and wants to be holier and purer than everyone else. I’d have to hold my nose to vote this bill, too, but look around, Dennis. You’re all alone. Again.

The bill passed the House with 220 votes (218 votes were required). That leaves us no room to improve the bill in Conference. We got a single Republican vote, from Joseph Cao of New Orleans. Cao was satisfied by the Stupak Amendment, but his vote will disappear if that language is stripped out in Conference. So, we have two votes to spare. Want a stronger public option? Forget it. Any small change to this deal will probably kill the effort to pass this under regular order. I give Pelosi credit for winning, once again, but she just barely made it. She did what she had to do, but it certainly wasn’t pleasant. [...]

Surf to the article to see the title by “BooMan”.

As far as the bluedogs: well, some are about as good as we will get out of such a district. No, I won’t give to the DCCC as I don’t want to support them, but I won’t push for a primary in such districts either.

7 November Football….

Navy 23, Notre Dame 21. Actually, Navy was up 23-14 with about 1 minute after a Navy safety but ND got the onside kick and scored with about 20 seconds left. Navy got the onside kick and then ran out the clock.

But in all honesty, Navy has played better teams; they had a close encounter with Ohio State and played Pitt tough and lost to a 2 loss Temple team in the last minute.

So this was a competitive game against two evenly matched teams.

Then I watched Ohio State finish off against Penn State and then Standford hold off an Oregon rally. I’ll probably put an appearance at Vickie’s weenie roast.