I haven't updated this blog in, oh, two years, so I don't expect anyone to read this (don't worry, I'll tell people in person).
I would like to point out that two years ago (two posts down) I bragged about the Oilers signing Dustin Penner. I said the following:
"Here's my prediction for his goal totals in the next few years: 23, 16 (injury-shortened), 35."
Actual totals - 23, 17, and this year he has 9 in 15 games. 35 is looking like a very reasonable number.
Booya.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Things I learned on my trip to the 89th PGA Championship:
1) The McDonald's Big 'n' Tasty is, in fact, neither.
2) After going to the driving range and trying it myself, putting intense backspin on a ball with a three iron IS more difficult than the pros make it look.
3) Tulsa is both hot and ghetto. I wouldn't recommend it.
4) I also wouldn't recommend connecting through O'Hare International Airport unless you have no interest in getting to your destination on time. If going to visit the in-laws, for example, it's a great idea.
5) If your flight is overbooked, you can get some sweet travel deals by volunteering to get bumped to another flight.
6) There are no clouds in Tulsa. None. Ever.
7) ESPN's version of SportsCentre a) spells "centre" incorrectly, and b) does not frequently show anything related to hockey. Even when a big name like Josef Vasicek signs a one year, $750,000 deal.
8) If a waitress offers you free dessert to eat a jalepeno pepper, slap her in her stupid whorish mouth.
9) If Jason says he'll eat a pepper if you eat yours first, slap him in his lying whorish mouth.
10) Tiger CANNOT be beaten. Don't even try.
2) After going to the driving range and trying it myself, putting intense backspin on a ball with a three iron IS more difficult than the pros make it look.
3) Tulsa is both hot and ghetto. I wouldn't recommend it.
4) I also wouldn't recommend connecting through O'Hare International Airport unless you have no interest in getting to your destination on time. If going to visit the in-laws, for example, it's a great idea.
5) If your flight is overbooked, you can get some sweet travel deals by volunteering to get bumped to another flight.
6) There are no clouds in Tulsa. None. Ever.
7) ESPN's version of SportsCentre a) spells "centre" incorrectly, and b) does not frequently show anything related to hockey. Even when a big name like Josef Vasicek signs a one year, $750,000 deal.
8) If a waitress offers you free dessert to eat a jalepeno pepper, slap her in her stupid whorish mouth.
9) If Jason says he'll eat a pepper if you eat yours first, slap him in his lying whorish mouth.
10) Tiger CANNOT be beaten. Don't even try.
Monday, August 6, 2007
RFA frrrrrrrenzy!
Universal apologies to my hoardes of fans who have missed me lately. I have no legit explanation of my hiatus - I just didn't feel like writing things, or maybe nothing outraged me sufficiently.
So, in lieu of pontificating, why don't we talk some hockey, just you and me?
First off - Dustin Penner. Kevin Lowe is officially the Godzilla of the resticted free agent market. Monsters sign RFAs, that's what MONSTERS do!! I'm excited to see what this kid can do on Hemsky's wing. He'll get almost all the garbage goals we lost with Smytty, plus he's got the grit to take care of anyone who feels like taking a run at Ales' shoulder again. Here's my prediction for his goal totals in the next few years: 23, 16 (injury-shortened), 35. $4.25M per season is an overpayment, but it's hard to argue against a 6'4", 245-pounder with soft hands.
Another little note - The man slated to be the head coach for Edmonton's new farm team in Springfield, Geoff Ward, has accepted an assistant coaching position with the Boston Bruins. This is shortly after Edmonton's assistant GM Scott Howson took the Columbus Blue Jackets' vacant GM job. It doesn't sound like much to lose, but these two guys were really, really good. I wish them luck in their future careers and I know the Oilers' farm system and management teams respectively will suffer.
Oh, and a shout out to Patrice Brisebois, going back to Montreal. It's about time. No-one took him seriously in Denver, he belongs in La Belle Province.
So, in lieu of pontificating, why don't we talk some hockey, just you and me?
First off - Dustin Penner. Kevin Lowe is officially the Godzilla of the resticted free agent market. Monsters sign RFAs, that's what MONSTERS do!! I'm excited to see what this kid can do on Hemsky's wing. He'll get almost all the garbage goals we lost with Smytty, plus he's got the grit to take care of anyone who feels like taking a run at Ales' shoulder again. Here's my prediction for his goal totals in the next few years: 23, 16 (injury-shortened), 35. $4.25M per season is an overpayment, but it's hard to argue against a 6'4", 245-pounder with soft hands.
Another little note - The man slated to be the head coach for Edmonton's new farm team in Springfield, Geoff Ward, has accepted an assistant coaching position with the Boston Bruins. This is shortly after Edmonton's assistant GM Scott Howson took the Columbus Blue Jackets' vacant GM job. It doesn't sound like much to lose, but these two guys were really, really good. I wish them luck in their future careers and I know the Oilers' farm system and management teams respectively will suffer.
Oh, and a shout out to Patrice Brisebois, going back to Montreal. It's about time. No-one took him seriously in Denver, he belongs in La Belle Province.
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Good time to be a hockey fan
Gary Bettman must be holding his breath and trying not to do or say anything.
The NHL is currently the only major professional league in North America that doesn't have a full-blown crisis on its hands (disregarding, for the moment, the quickly-moving MLS juggernaut). Let's review the private hells being experienced by Bud Selig, Roger Goodell, and David Stern and compare them to similar NHL situations.
MLB - Bud would probably laugh, but his nightmare is the best of the three. All he has to deal with is the immanency of the most sacred record in his entire sport (Hank Aaron's home run record) being broken by an accepted cheater, liar, and all-around-jerk. Barry Bonds is the last player any commissioner would want to preside over the coronation of as Home Run King.
For Bettman and the NHL, this would be like Sean Avery passing Wayne Gretzky's all-time points total.
NFL - The most popular (as measured in jersey sales) athlete in the league has been indicted on an array of disgusting and depraved charges involving dogfighting. Even I am grossed out by some of the things he and his cronies did to dogs, and everyone knows I'm pretty adamant about the whole (human life) > (animal life) inequality holding true. If Vick was so messed up as to do that to dogs, who says he wouldn't do it to people?
Picture Sidney Crosby being indicted on drug trafficking and prostitution charges.
NBA - Wow. Just wow. David Stern is boned. At least in the other two sports, the problems stem from one bad apple player. For basketball, the integrity of the entire game has been thrown into sharp question. The news that Tim Donaghy bet on games that he himself refereed would be bad enough if it were just a few regular season games, or if it was assured that he acted alone. But he reffed PLAYOFF games, and made several egregious calls. And no-one is sure that this isn't a widespread, systemic disease that is crippling the league. In short, every time a questionable call is made in the NBA for the next 10 years, everyone will assume the ref is on the take.
Think...all of the Canadian NHL franchises moving stateside. And nukes destroying Detroit, Chicago, Denver, and New York. That's how pooched the NBA is.
The NHL is currently the only major professional league in North America that doesn't have a full-blown crisis on its hands (disregarding, for the moment, the quickly-moving MLS juggernaut). Let's review the private hells being experienced by Bud Selig, Roger Goodell, and David Stern and compare them to similar NHL situations.
MLB - Bud would probably laugh, but his nightmare is the best of the three. All he has to deal with is the immanency of the most sacred record in his entire sport (Hank Aaron's home run record) being broken by an accepted cheater, liar, and all-around-jerk. Barry Bonds is the last player any commissioner would want to preside over the coronation of as Home Run King.
For Bettman and the NHL, this would be like Sean Avery passing Wayne Gretzky's all-time points total.
NFL - The most popular (as measured in jersey sales) athlete in the league has been indicted on an array of disgusting and depraved charges involving dogfighting. Even I am grossed out by some of the things he and his cronies did to dogs, and everyone knows I'm pretty adamant about the whole (human life) > (animal life) inequality holding true. If Vick was so messed up as to do that to dogs, who says he wouldn't do it to people?
Picture Sidney Crosby being indicted on drug trafficking and prostitution charges.
NBA - Wow. Just wow. David Stern is boned. At least in the other two sports, the problems stem from one bad apple player. For basketball, the integrity of the entire game has been thrown into sharp question. The news that Tim Donaghy bet on games that he himself refereed would be bad enough if it were just a few regular season games, or if it was assured that he acted alone. But he reffed PLAYOFF games, and made several egregious calls. And no-one is sure that this isn't a widespread, systemic disease that is crippling the league. In short, every time a questionable call is made in the NBA for the next 10 years, everyone will assume the ref is on the take.
Think...all of the Canadian NHL franchises moving stateside. And nukes destroying Detroit, Chicago, Denver, and New York. That's how pooched the NBA is.
Sunday, July 22, 2007
A Miscarriage of Justice
I am horrified and disgusted to relate the following story. Charges against a man accused of raping and repeatedly molesting a 7-year-old girl have been dropped because the court took too long to find an interpreter fluent in his native West African language, and thus his right to a speedy trial were violated.
The Maryland court found that the man, who had attended high school AND community college in English, was unable to understand the proceedings unless they were translated into his native Vai. The full story can be found at http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/22/charges.dismissed.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories.
Imagine telling the father of a raped 7-year-old that the man who did it will walk because they couldn't find anyone who spoke Vai, which they didn't really need anyway. I have nothing to say, I'm depressed beyond belief.
The Maryland court found that the man, who had attended high school AND community college in English, was unable to understand the proceedings unless they were translated into his native Vai. The full story can be found at http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/22/charges.dismissed.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories.
Imagine telling the father of a raped 7-year-old that the man who did it will walk because they couldn't find anyone who spoke Vai, which they didn't really need anyway. I have nothing to say, I'm depressed beyond belief.
Thursday, July 19, 2007
PM Bill C-250: Amendment to Criminalize Independent Thought
I'd like to bring to public attention (by virtue of my legions of readers...*cough*) a Private Member's bill enacted by the Canadian Federal Government in 2003. Nobody knows about it because the Liberal governement at the time hushed it up and passed it through with minimal fanfare and media attention (which the liberal Canadian media happily played along with). The bill is C-250, and it is an amendment to the Criminal Code's hate propoganda section. The amendment adds the phrase "sexual orientation" to the list of identifiable groups. The passage now reads as follows:
(4) In this section, "identifiable group" means any section of the public distinguished by colour, race, religion, ethnic origin or sexual orientation.
It was also amended as follows, ostensibly to appease religious groups who felt that the addition curtailed their right to teach that homosexuality and other sexual disorders were immoral:
(3) No person shall be convicted of an offence under subsection (2)
(b) if, in good faith, the person expressed or attempted to establish by an argument an opinion on a religious subject or an opinion based on a belief in a religious text
There are a plethora of reasons why this Bill is both absurd and dangerous. For a full discussion of some of the best of them, please visit http://www.ccrl.ca/index.php?id=139. I will focus here on one that isn't brought up at that site, which doesn't appear to have been voiced yet.
The second amendment (not "The right to keep and bear arms", I mean the second of the two amendments in C-250) actually is more devious and detrimental than the first, in my mind. The first is outwardly hostile to those who regard homosexuality as sinful and detrimental to society, but the second has the insipid intention of Ned-Flanderizing those who object to sexual disorders.
Let me explain. By adding this, the government is implicitly saying that the only possible objection one could have to homosexuality is based on dusty old Bible texts, and if you're one of those quaint old goofs who still believes in that stuff then shucks, you go right ahead - they won't infringe on your lil' ol' rights. This disregards the multitude of social and medical abominations brought on to our society by the plague of homosexuality and its associated perversions. You'll note that there is no provision for disagreeing with homosexuality based on the fact that disease is much more rampant than with heterosexual couples. Or that homosexual "couples" have demonstrably higher rates of physical abuse than heterosexuals.
That would be hate speech.
(4) In this section, "identifiable group" means any section of the public distinguished by colour, race, religion, ethnic origin or sexual orientation.
It was also amended as follows, ostensibly to appease religious groups who felt that the addition curtailed their right to teach that homosexuality and other sexual disorders were immoral:
(3) No person shall be convicted of an offence under subsection (2)
(b) if, in good faith, the person expressed or attempted to establish by an argument an opinion on a religious subject or an opinion based on a belief in a religious text
There are a plethora of reasons why this Bill is both absurd and dangerous. For a full discussion of some of the best of them, please visit http://www.ccrl.ca/index.php?id=139. I will focus here on one that isn't brought up at that site, which doesn't appear to have been voiced yet.
The second amendment (not "The right to keep and bear arms", I mean the second of the two amendments in C-250) actually is more devious and detrimental than the first, in my mind. The first is outwardly hostile to those who regard homosexuality as sinful and detrimental to society, but the second has the insipid intention of Ned-Flanderizing those who object to sexual disorders.
Let me explain. By adding this, the government is implicitly saying that the only possible objection one could have to homosexuality is based on dusty old Bible texts, and if you're one of those quaint old goofs who still believes in that stuff then shucks, you go right ahead - they won't infringe on your lil' ol' rights. This disregards the multitude of social and medical abominations brought on to our society by the plague of homosexuality and its associated perversions. You'll note that there is no provision for disagreeing with homosexuality based on the fact that disease is much more rampant than with heterosexual couples. Or that homosexual "couples" have demonstrably higher rates of physical abuse than heterosexuals.
That would be hate speech.
Monday, July 16, 2007
Black Friday
Just thought I'd take this opportunity to discuss the Conrad Black trial and the associated media coverage. I'll preface with this: He's guilty. All the evidence I've heard points to that. I don't condone what he did.
Having said that, have you ever seen a white-collar criminal receive this kind of lambasting in the media? This rivals Kenneth Lay & Enron, and it's not even on the same scale, in terms of investor fraud and loss of jobs.
Just another example of the liberal media pouncing on a man who, in better times, showed himself to be a beacon of conservatism and right-minded thinking. He was a bastion of sanity in the media and served as sterling opposition to the hordes of leftist pukes who dominate the Canadian media landscape. An article I read was titled "Conrad Black: Fall of an Arrogant Fraud". What fair, unbalanced journalism.
Memo to the Left: You disgust me. Go play "chicken" on the railroad tracks.
Having said that, have you ever seen a white-collar criminal receive this kind of lambasting in the media? This rivals Kenneth Lay & Enron, and it's not even on the same scale, in terms of investor fraud and loss of jobs.
Just another example of the liberal media pouncing on a man who, in better times, showed himself to be a beacon of conservatism and right-minded thinking. He was a bastion of sanity in the media and served as sterling opposition to the hordes of leftist pukes who dominate the Canadian media landscape. An article I read was titled "Conrad Black: Fall of an Arrogant Fraud". What fair, unbalanced journalism.
Memo to the Left: You disgust me. Go play "chicken" on the railroad tracks.
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