Phoenix shoots down Warriors
Amare Stoudemire had 36 points, 11 rebounds, and 4 blocked shots and the Suns won their third in a row while snapping Golden State’s three-game winning streak with a 123-115 victory last night in Phoenix.
Steve Nash had 21 points - including 8 in a row in a big fourth-quarter stretch - and 13 assists. Raja Bell had 18 points, Boris Diaw 16, and Leandro Barbosa 14. Nash and Bell both were 4 of 6 on 3-pointers. The Suns made 12 of 24 threes, 7 of 12 in the second half.
Baron Davis scored 38 points, 2 shy of his career high, for the Warriors. Golden State had won three straight against Phoenix.
The Suns improved to 6-6 since Shaquille O’Neal joined their lineup. O’Neal was in foul trouble most of the night, playing just 15 minutes. He had 9 points and four rebounds.
Wizards 101, Cavaliers 99 - Caron Butler unleashed a month’s worth of pent-up energy on his 28th birthday, returning to host Washington’s lineup after a 16-game injury absence to score 19 points.
Butler, whose hip injury sent the Wizards into a February slump, scored the game’s opening basket, survived some rough contact, and made six of his first eight shots.
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on 16 Mar 2008 at 7:40 pm # Viviette
Where’s that in the constitution? The DoI isn’t a legal or binding document and I have a hard time caring for a document when quite a few signatories owned slaves, for starters. Maybe that does explain this country; founded by talk, followed by bullshit. (incidentally, only 1/3 of america supported independence, 1/3 were loyalists, and the other 1/3 kept switching to the winners side or were just plain ‘ol ambivalent - that’s democracy?).anyways, article 6 of the constitution does have this:”…all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution [of any State] or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding. [Emphasis added.]”we have quite a few treaties which details treatments of foreign citizens.
on 16 Mar 2008 at 8:30 pm # Sheryl
If you penalise everyone who speaks out about what’s happened in Iraq, how are you ever going to call to account the people who are really to blame?Really the ones who should be penalised are the ones who won’t speak out. In the UK there has been a long debate about the death in British custody of Baha Mousa. Because no-one in QLR would spill the beans about this, one serviceman has recently opined that all were therefore to blame, and: Perhaps a complete disbandment where the colours are burned and all members dissmissed from service without honour.When we see that happen to, say, USMC then we’ll know that these things are finally being taken seriously in the US. Won’t ever happen of course.
on 16 Mar 2008 at 9:21 pm # Hayleigh
We hold these things to be self-evident, that all people are created equal…. All. Not just those within some lines drawn on a map.
on 16 Mar 2008 at 10:11 pm # Phoebe
It being strategically necessary is the only reason the ‘hand of charity’ was extended, see the Morgenthau Plan for an idea of the issues involved.
on 16 Mar 2008 at 11:02 pm # Marilena
Were I running for office, this is the speech I would make.We have blood on our hands. All of us. Every last one. Even those of us who protested the war are guilty. Why? Because we all could have done more. We could have voted a different administration into office. We could have protested more, protested harder, protested further afield. We could have done a better job of getting our message out.We could have held our leaders accountable, whether they were Democrat or Republican, Labour or Conservative, and stood up with one voice to say ‘No’. And we didn’t.We are all, all of us, guilty of a crime against humanity. Not as guilty as George Bush or Dick Cheney or Tony Blair, but guilty nonetheless. And we need to apologise to the people of Iraq, and to the soldiers we sent there.When in human history has giving an 18-year-old a gun and a trip to a foreign land, where he doesn’t speak the language, where he doesn’t know exactly what he’s supposed to do…when has that ever worked out well? You take a kid from the cornfields of Iowa, from the barrios of LA, from Newcastle or London, and expose him to horror greater than he can imagine. You send him to watch his best friend die in agony, you send him to face the constant fear that he could be killed any second, and expect him to do his job and come back a balanced, normal human being. Oh, he also has to kill people while he’s there. That certainly wouldn’t affect you.We need to do everything we can to make two things whole again. First, the people of Iraq. I don’t care how they want to go about it. Do the Kurds want to be a separate nation? Fine. Do the Shi’a want to join with Iran? Knock yourselves out. Do the Sunnis want to live in their own smaller country? Fantastic.My point is this: this is not a nation we own, and this is not our fight. While we should obviously fight oppression wherever it occurs, using force should be our last option, always, without question. We should not consider sending kids into combat without first considering the potential cost both in lives and in money. This war was a mistake before it was launched, a mistake when it was launched, and a mistake now.And we are to blame, because we let it happen.
on 16 Mar 2008 at 11:52 pm # Sheri
goddamned xtian pretards. THIS is the army.
on 17 Mar 2008 at 12:43 am # Shawna
While I agree that what they did was horrendous, to be part of the machinations of a whole military industry and its mantra would obviously create an environment where it may feel ok to do those things. Yes, he should be jailed, but his repentance counts for something. To draw an analogy, I wouldn’t punish a nickle and dime drug dealer the same as a Pablo Escobar type.There’s a lot of grey in there, man.