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[1792] Of OMG! OMG! Michigan won!
This is truly a pleasant surprise. Michigan won against No. 9 Wisconsin!
Frankly, embarrassingly, I had expected Wisconsin to steamroll pass Michigan and take their first win in Ann Arbor for the first time since 1994. The reason is the Wolverines are in a bad shape this season, especially with the departure of key players as well as Coach Carr at the end of last season. So far, Wolverines supporters has justified the sorry state by calling this season a season of rebuilding.
And this is a shameful admission: I did not watch the game exactly because the expectation against Wisconsin was set so low. So, imagine my genuine surprise when the first message of the day I received through my cell is the word, “we won”. That two-word message brought my Sunday to a whole new ecstatic level.
However, despite the win, the game was so bad that Michigan got booed by our own supporters!
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP)—Rich Rodriguez earned the right to be hailed at Michigan for the first time.
Rodriguez, in his fourth game as coach, directed the Wolverines’ biggest comeback in Big House history, helping them rally from a 19-point deficit to beat No. 9 Wisconsin 27-25 Saturday.
The first significant victory of his debut season in Ann Arbor wasn’t sealed until Allen Evridge misfired on a 2-point conversion with 13 seconds left.
“Never had a doubt,” Rodriguez joked.
It didn’t seem like the Wolverines were going to have a chance to celebrate their 500th game at Michigan Stadium when they had five turnovers, trailed 19-0 and were booed off the field at halftime. [Call it a comeback: Michigan beats Wisconsin 27-25. Larry Lage. AP via Yahoo! Sports. Saturday 27 2008]
I would have never booed my own team. Angry, yes but booing is out of the question. I am glad to say that I have never booed the team in The Big House, even when Michigan was poised to lose to Michigan State in 2005. We did not lose that one because we made the biggest come back that demanded 3 overtimes.
In the Big Ten, only Penn State and Northwestern are undefeated. Penn State is okay but Northwestern, well, no offense to Northwestern everybody knows Northwestern is a pretender. They are up there because of their unimpressive schedule. That will change next week when they meet little brother Sparties next week.
In any case, the win was really handed over to Michigan by the Badgers. But a win is still a win. And there is hope now!
Here is to Monday, for a ranked Michigan for the first time in many months.
Margaret Thatcher speaking at the Conservative Party Conference in 1986:
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This Government has rolled back the frontiers of the State, and will roll them back still further.
So popular is our policy that it’s being taken up all over the world.
From France to the Phillipines, from Jamaica to Japan, from Malaysia to Mexico, from Sri Lanka to Singapore, privatisation is on the move, there’s even a special oriental version in China.
The policies we have pioneered are catching on in country after country.
We Conservatives believe in popular capitalism—believe in a property-owning democracy.
And it works!
In Scotland recently, I was present at the sale of the millionth council house: to a lovely family with two children, who can at last call their home their own.
Now let’s go for the second million!
And what’s more, millions have already become shareholders.
And soon there will be opportunities for millions more, in British Gas, British Airways, British Airports and Rolls-Royce.
Who says we’ve run out of steam.
We’re in our prime!
The great political reform of the last century was to enable more and more people to have a vote.
Now the great Tory reform of this century is to enable more and more people to own property.
Popular capitalism is nothing less than a crusade to enfranchise the many in the economic life of the nation.
We Conservatives are returning power to the people.
That is the way to one nation, one people.
I spotted three paperback copies of The Myth of the Lazy Native at Kinokuniya, Suria KLCC yesterday and it astoundingly cost approximately RM388, a price enough for the acquisition of two hard copies of any contemporary publication. The price is all the more shocking given the thickness of the book. But then again, maybe it is just economies of scale at work with too little copies printed to make it affordable for the larger masses.
This famed work of Syed Hussein Alatas had been out of print for the longest time.
Since I have a voucher which is only valid for the month of September, I plan to get it today. And sigh, I cannot believe that I am falling for Kinokuniya’s ploy to increase their sales.
And oh, damn. That spaghetti last night burned my tongue.
I am feeling slightly melancholic at the moment. And no, nothing to do with Eid. Eid and me do not go along well together.
I like the subject but the color is disappointing.
This was taken in Kota Damansara, on the same day I shot a far better photo of a deformed drain cover.