Back in the day, the games were exciting and the crowds roared when the Habs scored. I lost interest after the expansion and after the Alan Eagleson embezzlement scandal. The ads around the rink boards are too much of a distraction. One could see the puck better when all was a plain white color.
In retrospect, it was really greedy of the CBC to sell the theme song of HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA to TSN and deprive an old woman, Dolores Claman, of her lucrative royalties for the much played music. Doubt if TSN plays it very often.
So no hockey now.
I lost interest in the NHL around the time that the Vancouver Canucks joined the league.
I attended a university transfer college during my freshman undergrad year, so I went to a few games at the local arena. A lot of my buddies were there as well and I knew many of the players on the team. It was a good way to spend a Saturday night and we usually went for coffee or pizza afterwards.
The last time I actually watched a hockey game was shortly after I started grad studies nearly 40 years ago. The only reason I went was because the team from my undergrad alma mater was playing that night.
Shortly after that, I largely became a sports agnostic, though I paid attention once in a while when the Edmonton Eskimos were playing in the Grey Cup.
The topic of a new arena here in Calgary still creeps up every now and then. People are still against it. Unfortunately, no new sponsorships seem available now, the money is down south again.
Yeah, the World is going to end in twelve years! So what eh?
Never understood why the taxpayer has to bear the cost of arenas and stadiums for multimillionaire business men. A good example is the old Sky Dome in Toronto. The politicians said it had to be built. The sports millionaires said it had to be built. It was critical it had to be BUILT. So they fast tracked and built Sky Dome. Cost to taxpayers around 600M. Then the tickets were so expensive Joe Lunch Bucket and his family could not go. A few years back after all the scam dollars had been milked it was sold off to Private Enterprise for 50M dollars. Who got it in the Keester the dumb ass taxpayer. How many Greasy Politicians got greased again hard to say as even Canadians who did not live in Ontario helped pay for the Pig Pen for Millionaires. Taxpayers should never be forced to pay for these fantasies. And I really do not believe the great spin off bullshit, how it helps local business. Since when is it up to the tax payer to help local business. Nobody and I mean NOBODY helps the local taxpayer. They just keep squeezing the last drop of blood from local taxpayers and their families. Those politicians should have all been strung to a lamp post.
In Edmonton it was the same thing. Essentially financing and gifting a half billion dollar arena to a billionaire. Disgraceful. The old arena, although 40 years old, looked like new and would have likely worked just fine for 100 more years. The only problem with it was they butchered it so badly when they made private rooms so millionaires didn’t have to sit with the riff-raff.
A team owner getting a “free” stadium is nothing new.
Many years ago, Ken Burns made his Baseball documentary series and, in one installment, it was mentioned that the owners of the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants demanded that their respective cities build them new ballparks or they’d move their teams. I’m sure you can figure out why those teams are now known as the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants.
My cousin played for Vancouver. In those days he was the only player who was 6 ft 5 in. tall.
I lost interest when the players went on strike. The games seem to be endless commercials with a few pauses for the game. Same for football etc.
Then the cable fees started going way up. So I said screw cable. The cable company keeps sending me letters offering great deals if I only would come back. I sometimes reply saying that I cannot afford to pay their executive bonuses.
I found that I do not miss TV.
I follow hockey. I haven’t had television in more than 25 years so I listen on the radio (XM). The 82 game schedule is mostly boring but the Playoffs….that’s when hockey becomes a man’s game.
The players are all union members…they extend certain courtesies to each other during the regular season but those disappear in the playoffs.
While I’m on a roll I’ll take a kick at the worst managed team in all pro sport the Edmonton Oilers. They defy stupid. 4 first round picks since 2010. Made the playoffs once in the last 13 years. They sellout every game. Tells you something about their fan base. Yes they are loyal but they also are satisfied with mediocracy. They don’t mind that the team isn’t competitive and that management is incompetent. The team is unworthy of support and until the fans wake up and start voting with their feet it will never change.
I don’t get to watch TSN but on occasion when I do I hear the anthem. It’s unmistakable.
How bout a salute to…..
Tiger Woods!!
All the personal issues played out in front of the world. His addiction to pain killers. Four knee surgeries. Four back surgeries in three years, the final one being spinal fusion. FUSION. Wanted to win once with his two kids watching and for the fifth time in his career…..
MASTERS CHAMPION!
Truly a sports story for the ages.
I like watching golf but I like watching it more so when Tiger isn’t playing. The comeback is a story for sure but so is the adultery that cost him his marriage, the DUI charge, and the hubris that precipitated all that.
Professional athletes are no different than the population at large. The ,majority of people that go about their daily lives are rock solid through and through but some have apparent character flaws.
Tiger revealed that he has more than a few.
The Leafs are the only team that could make me root for the Bruins
I pull for the leafs but only when they play the habs…..
My Grandmother, who died at 98 was a Leafs fan because her brother-in-law was at one time the team’s doctor.
She watched every televised game. She was very pious and would never utter a swear EXCEPT when they were playing the Habs. Then it was “Those Damn Frogs”.
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A glass of good Scotch, and the reflections of one of the West’s most esteemed minds: on financial regulation vrs. trust, on Brexit, corp. virtue signalling, and the new geopolitical reality for Pacific Rim nations of an emerging Chinese imperialism creating a new Cold War, time for – Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum
She did take issue with Jordan Peterson for identifying Tarrant with the alt-right vs. him having mental issues vs. him being a deep state tool. That is another discussion.
The issue is the toxic effect…or as Peterson puts the “pathology of identity politics”.
Muslims need to understand how the divide is being created and the battle lines are being drawn by politicians like Trudeau
who calls a white woman a RACIST for asking a questions about federal funding of migrants. He paints whites as racist cuz some “””alt-right protesters””” show up in the crowd. Playing the same game by the same rules, the association can also be made between Muslims and the radical head choppers and the barbaric ideology of the Koran.
We can put and end to the division and hate. It’s not just whites who need to denounce Trudeau for playing at identity politics.
We’re told the word Sikh was removed because “entire religions should never be equated with terrorism.”
And yet, he’s been warning us for weeks about the dangers of “white supremacy,” equating an entire ethnicity with terrorism.
Trudeau is really drumming up the votes visiting religious sites with photographers along for the ride. In Canada we are all free to practice whatever religious faith we follow but politicians of any stripe are not fooling anyone.
Almost 700,000 Albertans cast their votes in advance polls. These votes will all be counted in Edmonton after the primary polling votes are counted. Presumably by honest union members.
I wonder if we will see the “Lyndon Johnson” effect, where several voting precincts were always the last to be counted. How many votes do you need?
Quote Uncle Joe Stalin. ‘It’s not the people who vote that count, as long as I get to count the votes”
Fake News. Simply not true.
Only votes cast by those living away from home will not be counted the night of the vote.
And those ballots will be counted the day after tomorrow AT the voters home riding.
None of those votes will be collected and counted at EDM.
The only ones that may be collected in EDM might be mailed ballots. But I’m pretty sure that those too are counted in the home riding.
Correction Gord, I was wrong there were 223,000 votes cast outside their electoral district, e.g. the vote anywhere ballots.
However, those 223,000 votes will be counted in Edmonton starting Wednesday at 1 pm and may take several days to count. Source; Pamela Renwick director of operations and communications for Elections Alberta. “There is no way with that kind of volume. We’re hoping we will have those counts in by Saturday”.
There better be one hell of a clear audit trail. My concern, from the time I heard of Notley’s absentee voter scheme, was that she would direct the votes to constituencies where they are needed. You are likely right that the vote counters are loyal union volunteers. It is really strange that the absentee votes will be counted the day after the election when the cutoff was Saturday. 4 days to get the ballots to Edmonton? In 2019?
They’ve published a breakdown of the number of vote anywhere ballots issued by constituency.
And we won’t know to which constituency these ballots belong until Wednesday (if that number is released then).
With that many vote anywhere ballots, it will likely be Friday or Saturday before we know who won the election.
So to the media, there is no need to cover the election Tuesday night. Cause nothing will be known till the vote anywhere ballots are counted.
The vote anywhere ballots will be counted in Edmonton. The in-riding advanced ballots and special ballots will be counted in the riding.
That’s reminiscent of Georgia and Florida in the U.S. Midterms last fall.
Canada used to have a pretty fair and honest election system.
The recent arson attack in Edmonton, Alberta — as the election campaign nears its end — could give election observers pause. The perp yelled “xenophobia” and “homophobia” while torching 13 cars. But if one searches his name, Maurice Sutton, on Facebook, first entry, from Edmonton, shows a fairly screwed-up nutter, dressed up in mostly goth trappings, someone decidedly miserable and messed up. Not much to worry about here.
Btw, the pro-NDP Globe and Mail has the UCP up by 8 percentage points. They will probably win by more. If so, there will by lots of tears flowing within the corporate headquarters of our media giants in downtown Toronto.
David
I hope you are correct.
But see my comment above (at 6:27 am) on counting of the advance polls. Lots of opportunities for mischief.
Tears also flowing at the U.N.
hockey, who cares. I enjoyed watching Tiger win the masters more than any game in the past decade.
For this playoff season, I do not care who wins. My beloved Pittsburgh Penguins are down 3 games to zero against the Islanders.
China will produce 100 million tons more coal in 2019. Note that translates into approx. 250 megatonnes CO2.
But there is more! China will be adding 200 million tons of coal mining capacity in 2019.
But wait, there is even more!!! China has another 409 million tons of coal mining capacity under construction.
Aren’t you glad you are paying a carbon tax? Except you don’t pay it on goods from China.
Fortunately CO2 is not a problem.
The Toronto Star’s Heather Mallick explains to Canadians today that Scheer and Doug Ford are racists who hate anyone who has a brown skin. She also explains that anyone who opposes Justin is a “primitive”. Don’t be a Nazi, join the Team Trudeau/Notley Alliance.
Ah Yes Old Heather the Malignant Guttersnipe. Another one that should be following a ravens ass from dumpster to dumpster for her next meal.
I fund raised for Dannielle Smith when she was Wildrose Leader. Started up a Constit. Assoc for Wildrose, me and another guy. Believed in her. I dropped out when my wife got cancer to care for her at home. I was shocked and appalled that she crossed the floor. She was brilliant, but very indecisive Libertarian, no backbone or staying power. Not cut out for the vicious sport of Politics. Very intelligent woman. But always surrounded by goat ropers and lawyer advisors as soon as it looked like she had a shot. The PC were dirty scum after The Man Ralph was knifed in the back. Could never stand Lougheed, he had a lot of sex with Pierre and screwed Alberta.
I truly hope this is so. I have posted previously, that after living for 25 years in Ontario, I KNOW that all of Eastern Canada thinks that anyone west of the Manitoba/Ontario border (with the exception of Vancouver) are too stupid to feed themselves, have fallen off of the turnip truck and only deserve to be hewers of wood and carriers of water. Mind you, most people in eastern Canada barely think of western Canada at all. I think a prime example is that of women’s magazines (Chatelaine, Canadian Living, Flare, Canadian House and Home etc.). As a former interior designer, I was always saddened that the design spreads in Canadian House and Home were in Toronto, or around Toronto, occasionally in Ottawa or Montreal, very occasionally in Vancouver and Calgary, once for Edmonton and NEVER in Saskatchewan or Manitoba.
I would be happy to vote for separation from Canada.
Big Momma: In a previous life each fall I would travel to the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto. Over many years I got to know farmers from all over Canada – became friends with them.
The large majority of them had no clue about western Canada. A good buddy of mine who farms in central SK and would go to the Royal each year would greet me with, “Well how are things out west,” and we’d laugh. That was the standard greeting you would get from the crowd east of Manitoba. We made lite of it. Nothing wrong with that but very few had ever been west of Ontario.
If you brought up an issue that concerned the west this strange look would come over their face and you knew you were in foreign territory . The quebek guys were good – but hopeless, The west? never heard of it.
I have also experienced the condescending attitude of the GTA. The ‘what would you know rube’ reaction to finding out I was an Albertan. Again few have been ‘west’.
Your comment reminds me of something that happened during my first year of grad studies.
My supervisor at the time hired a number of undergrad students to help him in his lab. One night, he had everyone over at his house for supper and I chatted with one of them. The kid was from Quebec and this was around the time of the first separation referendum.
I mentioned that I had moved to the coast from Alberta and he was convinced that we were all nothing but knuckle-dragging anti-French rednecks. He had no idea that there are several communities in Alberta where French is the main language, such as St. Paul.
I don’t think I convinced him.
Fox News reports that Chinese tech giant Huawei has hired a former Obama official as a lobbyist. Makes sense since Clinton sold uranium to Russia.
Always a non conformist…”Go Leafs Go!!!!”
Love the vid!
Not enuff vid of Kadri taking dirty cheap shots to be realistic.
Diane Francis at the National Post informs us today that the fridges Groper gave 12 million dollars to Loblaws for, are coming from China. I bet that makes the Canadians sitting in a Chinese prison feel good.
On top of all those CO2 emissions coming from coal in China. How galling! China seems to win with climate change no matter what, and Canada somehow manages to lose thanks to the Trudeau government.
Shite for brains Harper was still sending China 50M a year in Foreign Aid, how stupid is that? About as stupid as Canada spending Defense Funds on NATO to defend superpowers and we can not even defend our own borders. Canada has 36,000 miles of coastline on 3 oceans 4 ancient diesel sub, and a handful of leaking frigates that can barely leave port.
But if the fridges come from China there is no Carbon Tax.
Liberals saving you money!! Justin and Catherine are so proud of their business acumen.
UCP will pursue legal action against US-funded campaign against Alberta energy
United Conservative leader Jason Kenney announced on Saturday that a UCP government would” obtain legal advice and pursue all possible legal remedies against the foreign-funded Tar Sands Campaign whose explicit goal has been to landlock Alberta oil and gas”.
Let us hope that Jason Kenney follows through on this ASAP before the upcoming federal erection.
Kenney and the UCP need to make this an International incident, He should take full page ads in all the Big US Papers and try to get Trumps ear. And ignore Ottawa, fight on alone for Albertans. We won’t forget that never.
What We Should Expect From The Release Of The Full Mueller Report
Relatively few people will read the nearly 400-page special counsel report. Many will cherry-pick information to support their current opposition to the president. Here’s what is reasonable to expect from it.
Brett Wilson: Canada’s ‘Economic Civil War’ Takes Center Stage in Alberta Vote
For a guy who says one of his fondest memories as a Canadian was watching the Quebec separatist movement fail at the ballot box in 1995, Brett Wilson sure talks a lot about his own province seceding.
The entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist has been bringing up the idea of the western provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan dropping out of the country with increasing frequency. He sees separation as a potential remedy for moves by the federal government and other provinces — carbon taxes, the cancellation of a pipeline to the Pacific, the obstruction of a pipeline to the Atlantic — that he says amount to “economic civil war.”
Trudeau’s carbon tax could have severe repercussions across the board. We could be hearing the word recession again, people who are middle class, which is most of us, will struggle to pay bills and buy food while those “wishing to join it” will lose hope.
Should be puke worthy watching Climate Barbie and Ken Doll Trudeau on the campaign trail.
From the NY Times of all places.
Eleven MILLION sq ft of unoccupied office space in down town Calgary.
That is more space than all the office towers in Calgary had in the 1980s.
And they say the NDP has a good chance of winning in Calgary?
You would have to be brain dead to vote NDP after seeing those darkened towers every day.
The wife and I went past the industrial area south of the refineries in Edmonton last week and I could not believe the number of empty yards that once were full of trucks, equipment, and steel pipe.
Billions of dollars of investment have left the province and certainly won’t return until the Notley -Trudeau business idiots are gone.
Vote for Alberta.
The wife and I went past the industrial area south of the refineries in Edmonton last week and I could not believe the number of empty yards that once were full of trucks, equipment, and steel pipe.
I’ve noticed the same thing along 51st Avenue east of Calgary Trail. There are a lot of fabrication shops and yards that are now idle and empty with “For Lease” signs on their fences. That’s quite a change from 10 or 20 years ago when most of those places were occupied and busy.
Meanwhile, Ritchie Brothers will be holding its largest Canadian auction at its Edmonton yard in a few days time:
Things are certainly bizzare-world here in Calgary.
Guy across the street works as an executive engineer in oil and gas. He has an NDP sign in his front lawn. But I do have to say that his wife works in counseling with the Roman Catholic Church, helping the refugees.
Other neighbours with NDP signs, retired math prof from U of C, lawyer, 2 heavy union government workers.
Nuff said! Answers a lot of questions.
Yes Glacier, there’s a lot of the older crowd that are nicely setup and aren’t affected greatly by this fiasco.
And they aren’t thinking of the young people starting out.
I worked in Calgary from 1969 to 1980 as a seismic data processing geophysicist. What a hell of a gr8 time to be in the oil business! I worked on data from all over the world and traveled to the US since one of the companies I worked for also sold seismic processing packages. Even saw Sable Island from a porthole!
Oh, did I mention the parties? The skiing. The trips we took.
I bought a new car, a new house, a 700 ac farm, a new wif,,,, – I mean I married my wife and had both of our boys there. heh.
Funny ending though. Joe Clark PCs won the federal election in 1979 and things looked even better going forward. I changed jobs for more money in Jan 1980.
In Feb 1980, the bastard Liberals won again and things went down hill.
One April late afternoon on a Friday I said to myself Phuket.
I called my assistant into my office and told him I was driving to my farm that evening.
I told him that if I wasn’t at the office Monday morning, then I would not be coming back again.
He thought i was joking. I wasn’t. Even though I was only working 4 days a week for the summer for full pay but making up for it in the busy winter, I still quit.
I only went back a month or so later to sign the papers for the house sale.
Took 10 years before we went back for a visit.
Been on the farm ever since.
Just don’t ask me about the Canadian Wheat Board. LOL
I know what you’re referring to. I worked in the oil business in Calgary ’78-’79. There was lots of money in that town during that time and, yes, the parties were something else. Oh, and don’t forget Eighth Avenue….
Those were grand times. I miss them.
It all came crashing down after PET returned to office and started beating up Alberta with the NEP.
I know an older couple who are voting NDP. Why? So the millennials can learn how hard it is to pay off debt.
Must admit their “logic” is tempting, but I voted UCP.
Alberta’s election is one of the most important in memory, there is one choice for not only Alberta but the entire country.
Like Ontario, a Conservative government following after a mess made by Liberal and NDP governments has it’s work cut out to right the mess on every file.
There is still some hope for the future if there are more like the young woman that wrote the following.
A high school student speaks out on feminism
Modern feminism has set out to infiltrate family life, destroying it with poisonous lies through the cultivation of a “culture of grievance” in which women are always to be seen as victims. It has done this by promoting the ideological falsehood that men and women are not natural allies, but that their relationship is adversarial in nature. Feminism strives to pit women against men at every opportunity.
Macron just declared an emergency and anti terror units are investigating. There has been ongoing attacks on Christian Churches all through France. https://cruxnow.com/church-in-europe…olic-churches/
Vandals and arsonists have targeted French churches in a wave of attacks that has lasted nearly two months.
More than 10 churches have been hit since the beginning of February, with some set on fire while others were severely desecrated or damaged.
St. Sulpice, the second-largest church in Paris, after Notre Dame Cathedral, had the large wooden door on its southern transept set ablaze March 17.
Investigators confirmed March 18 that the fire was started deliberately, according to the website of the Vienna-based Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in Europe, an independent organization founded with the help of the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences.
As one poster mentioned elsewhere, the Notre Dame cathedral crumbling, and then burning down and becoming an empty shell, is a metaphor for Europe. The entire continent is crumbling, and becoming an empty shell.
A monument to the Roman church, which has systematically persecuted anything resembling real Christianity (never mind Judaism) and ruined the souls of billions of children, is burning to the ground.
Forgive me for not shedding a tear at the undoing of that den of thieves.
God’s love endures forever. His patience with false prophets and perverts is another story.
A pig like you celebrates anything that goes against your “enlightened” viewpoint. A pox on you. Hopefully you’ll get a really malignant cancer, one that’s painful and untreatable.
I’m sure many leftists are rejoicing today as yet another symbol of western civilization is destroyed.
For a number of years, an amateur radio station at the museum was activated annually around the time of the anniversary of the ship’s sinking. Radio, after all, played an important part in that event.
The station, W0S, used the same callsign as that of the one on board the Titanic. I actually made contact with W0S over the old AO-51 amateur radio satellite back in 2011 and I received a confirmation card in recognition.
While on the subject of amateur radio, Dr. Owen Garriott W5LFL becomes a silent key:
Aside from flying on Skylab 3 and the STS-9 space shuttle mission, W5LFL had the distinction of being the first radio amateur to operate his station from space.
Years later, the tradition of amateur radio in orbit continues through the ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) program by which schools can arrange to have radio contacts with it. In addition, the ISS also keeps the ham gear available in case the primary radio communications system on board should fail. Also, each crew that’s on board has to have at least one member who’s a ham in order to comply with applicable communications legislation on either the American or Russian side.
Several years ago, his son Richard, became a tourist astronaut and flew on board the ISS. The two of them made contact with each other during the few days the younger Garriott was there.
The term “silent key”, by the way, is given to hams who have died. I believe its origins go back to when Morse code was the primary radio mode. When an operator’s key is silent, it means that he or she is not transmitting.
73, W5LFL (SK)
RIP
Dr Owen Garriott
He led an interesting life and was a man who was outstanding in his field.
He was involved with making solar observations during Skylab 3. A lot of the data are still being studied.
One story I heard was that he tried to get his 2 metre ham station on board Skylab, but NASA turned him down because, by the time he made his request, the manifest for the mission had already been finalized. That’s why he had to wait 10 years before he could take his radio with him.
Very interesting. If there is such a thing as ‘past life recall,’ perhaps you may have re-lived some of your own déjà vu.
Since you write of it, I wonder if the amateur radio station at the Branson Missouri museum was activated this year, for this, the 107th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic?
There also is a Titanic museum in Pigeon Forge Tennessee. There is a smaller scale replica of the Titanic – seems to be very interesting as well. The above link shows a photo.
I just watched an early version of the CTV nightly late NEWS – there was no mention of this anniversary. It is sad how history is being wiped out on many fronts.
Since you write of it, I wonder if the amateur radio station at the Branson Missouri museum was activated this year, for this, the 107th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic?
I’m a bit hazy about the details of the station. I don’t know if it was permanently at the museum or if a ham, or group of hams, set it up just for the occasion.
W0S was a special events station when I worked it. Those are stations which go on the air for special occasions, such as the anniversary of a major historical event. They’re granted temporary callsigns by the governing authority and they operate for a limited period of time.
I think the operations at the Titanic museum stopped after 2012, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s permanent. It’s possible that it could go on the air again for, say, the 110th anniversary.
As for the sinking not being remembered in the news, it’s understandable considering what happened in Paris today.
True, considering Paris today.
Maybe the 110th will be remembered.
Supreme Court Justice steps down. Turdeau announces Kim Campbell will lead the selection process.
But we all know Justin has the final choice. Perhaps we will see Justin select …
Gerald Butts.
Kim Campbell. Almost as bad as Lizard May the Great Manatee. Imagine some poor sap waking up in the morning with something like that beside him, and hung over.
That is when he has his wolf with his paw in the trap moment and chews his own arm off to avoid waking the beast. Then swears off drink forever.
Nah I never did, fat ones thin ones scabby assed ones, a good rooster gives them all a jab.
Of course that was in my wild misspent youth. For a few years there I was like a reserve dog, just skin and bone left. The old married women in the canteen at work saved my life. They would bust out laughing on Monday morning when I would come after tomcatting all weekend without a penny and hit them up for a sandwich and a coffee till payday. Hell I spent it all on women and booze, never wasted a dime. What else is a 18-19 year old country boy supposed to do when he 1st hits the big smoke.
Spitting with it…Holy Hanna, oh man, that’s juicy funny, you!
Ah Kim Campbell.
I remember an august fellow remarking she could listen intently to someone while completely missing their point.
She missed the boat and the vote, taking PCs down to two seats, and presaging the march of Grit unenlightened despots.
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The most ignorant fans in the hockey world.
I’m cheering for Boston.
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Well well, there goes the left-wing narrative about Kenney and UCP supporters:
https://twitter.com/tiffanyrg9/status/1116553188314734593?s=20
https://youtu.be/gDAIaoTVfrM
This link: The old theme music as it should be played.
Toronto bores me in its entirety.
Back in the day, the games were exciting and the crowds roared when the Habs scored. I lost interest after the expansion and after the Alan Eagleson embezzlement scandal. The ads around the rink boards are too much of a distraction. One could see the puck better when all was a plain white color.
In retrospect, it was really greedy of the CBC to sell the theme song of HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA to TSN and deprive an old woman, Dolores Claman, of her lucrative royalties for the much played music. Doubt if TSN plays it very often.
So no hockey now.
I lost interest in the NHL around the time that the Vancouver Canucks joined the league.
I attended a university transfer college during my freshman undergrad year, so I went to a few games at the local arena. A lot of my buddies were there as well and I knew many of the players on the team. It was a good way to spend a Saturday night and we usually went for coffee or pizza afterwards.
The last time I actually watched a hockey game was shortly after I started grad studies nearly 40 years ago. The only reason I went was because the team from my undergrad alma mater was playing that night.
Shortly after that, I largely became a sports agnostic, though I paid attention once in a while when the Edmonton Eskimos were playing in the Grey Cup.
The topic of a new arena here in Calgary still creeps up every now and then. People are still against it. Unfortunately, no new sponsorships seem available now, the money is down south again.
Yeah, the World is going to end in twelve years! So what eh?
Never understood why the taxpayer has to bear the cost of arenas and stadiums for multimillionaire business men. A good example is the old Sky Dome in Toronto. The politicians said it had to be built. The sports millionaires said it had to be built. It was critical it had to be BUILT. So they fast tracked and built Sky Dome. Cost to taxpayers around 600M. Then the tickets were so expensive Joe Lunch Bucket and his family could not go. A few years back after all the scam dollars had been milked it was sold off to Private Enterprise for 50M dollars. Who got it in the Keester the dumb ass taxpayer. How many Greasy Politicians got greased again hard to say as even Canadians who did not live in Ontario helped pay for the Pig Pen for Millionaires. Taxpayers should never be forced to pay for these fantasies. And I really do not believe the great spin off bullshit, how it helps local business. Since when is it up to the tax payer to help local business. Nobody and I mean NOBODY helps the local taxpayer. They just keep squeezing the last drop of blood from local taxpayers and their families. Those politicians should have all been strung to a lamp post.
In Edmonton it was the same thing. Essentially financing and gifting a half billion dollar arena to a billionaire. Disgraceful. The old arena, although 40 years old, looked like new and would have likely worked just fine for 100 more years. The only problem with it was they butchered it so badly when they made private rooms so millionaires didn’t have to sit with the riff-raff.
A team owner getting a “free” stadium is nothing new.
Many years ago, Ken Burns made his Baseball documentary series and, in one installment, it was mentioned that the owners of the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants demanded that their respective cities build them new ballparks or they’d move their teams. I’m sure you can figure out why those teams are now known as the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants.
My cousin played for Vancouver. In those days he was the only player who was 6 ft 5 in. tall.
I lost interest when the players went on strike. The games seem to be endless commercials with a few pauses for the game. Same for football etc.
Then the cable fees started going way up. So I said screw cable. The cable company keeps sending me letters offering great deals if I only would come back. I sometimes reply saying that I cannot afford to pay their executive bonuses.
I found that I do not miss TV.
I follow hockey. I haven’t had television in more than 25 years so I listen on the radio (XM). The 82 game schedule is mostly boring but the Playoffs….that’s when hockey becomes a man’s game.
The players are all union members…they extend certain courtesies to each other during the regular season but those disappear in the playoffs.
While I’m on a roll I’ll take a kick at the worst managed team in all pro sport the Edmonton Oilers. They defy stupid. 4 first round picks since 2010. Made the playoffs once in the last 13 years. They sellout every game. Tells you something about their fan base. Yes they are loyal but they also are satisfied with mediocracy. They don’t mind that the team isn’t competitive and that management is incompetent. The team is unworthy of support and until the fans wake up and start voting with their feet it will never change.
I don’t get to watch TSN but on occasion when I do I hear the anthem. It’s unmistakable.
How bout a salute to…..
Tiger Woods!!
All the personal issues played out in front of the world. His addiction to pain killers. Four knee surgeries. Four back surgeries in three years, the final one being spinal fusion. FUSION. Wanted to win once with his two kids watching and for the fifth time in his career…..
MASTERS CHAMPION!
Truly a sports story for the ages.
I like watching golf but I like watching it more so when Tiger isn’t playing. The comeback is a story for sure but so is the adultery that cost him his marriage, the DUI charge, and the hubris that precipitated all that.
Professional athletes are no different than the population at large. The ,majority of people that go about their daily lives are rock solid through and through but some have apparent character flaws.
Tiger revealed that he has more than a few.
The Leafs are the only team that could make me root for the Bruins
I pull for the leafs but only when they play the habs…..
My Grandmother, who died at 98 was a Leafs fan because her brother-in-law was at one time the team’s doctor.
She watched every televised game. She was very pious and would never utter a swear EXCEPT when they were playing the Habs. Then it was “Those Damn Frogs”.
Conversations with John Anderson: Featuring Niall Ferguson
“Regulation is the disease for which it claims to be the cure!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYPCcwnueB8
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A glass of good Scotch, and the reflections of one of the West’s most esteemed minds: on financial regulation vrs. trust, on Brexit, corp. virtue signalling, and the new geopolitical reality for Pacific Rim nations of an emerging Chinese imperialism creating a new Cold War, time for – Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum
Former CIA Station Chief, Brad Johnson has a deeper take on the Christ Church shooter’s background/motivation. Stuff going on not as portrayed …
https://bit.tube/play?hash=QmVh1nxEZ23Qvrf9nRaEZDQ138FdZEdUwh5VUpTmvMLEvw&channel=251530
Followed the link and went down the rabbit hole and ended up here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7nXZAfDiCY&feature=youtu.be
Excellent commentary.
She did take issue with Jordan Peterson for identifying Tarrant with the alt-right vs. him having mental issues vs. him being a deep state tool. That is another discussion.
The issue is the toxic effect…or as Peterson puts the “pathology of identity politics”.
Muslims need to understand how the divide is being created and the battle lines are being drawn by politicians like Trudeau
who calls a white woman a RACIST for asking a questions about federal funding of migrants. He paints whites as racist cuz some “””alt-right protesters””” show up in the crowd. Playing the same game by the same rules, the association can also be made between Muslims and the radical head choppers and the barbaric ideology of the Koran.
We can put and end to the division and hate. It’s not just whites who need to denounce Trudeau for playing at identity politics.
We’re told the word Sikh was removed because “entire religions should never be equated with terrorism.”
And yet, he’s been warning us for weeks about the dangers of “white supremacy,” equating an entire ethnicity with terrorism.
HYPOCRITE!
IT’S ALL ABOUT PANDERING FOR VOTES.
https://mobile.twitter.com/MaximeBernier/status/1117819367817908224
A brief video summary of who is responding to the tragic Notre Dame fire with ‘smiley faces’ on Facebook. Appalling.
https://mobile.twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1117854455473397763?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1117854455473397763&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.blazingcatfur.ca%2F2019%2F04%2F15%2Fallah-est-grand-muslims-laugh-celebrate-as-blaze-destroys-notre-dame-cathedral-during-holy-week%2F
Trudeau is really drumming up the votes visiting religious sites with photographers along for the ride. In Canada we are all free to practice whatever religious faith we follow but politicians of any stripe are not fooling anyone.
Almost 700,000 Albertans cast their votes in advance polls. These votes will all be counted in Edmonton after the primary polling votes are counted. Presumably by honest union members.
I wonder if we will see the “Lyndon Johnson” effect, where several voting precincts were always the last to be counted. How many votes do you need?
Quote Uncle Joe Stalin. ‘It’s not the people who vote that count, as long as I get to count the votes”
Fake News. Simply not true.
Only votes cast by those living away from home will not be counted the night of the vote.
And those ballots will be counted the day after tomorrow AT the voters home riding.
None of those votes will be collected and counted at EDM.
The only ones that may be collected in EDM might be mailed ballots. But I’m pretty sure that those too are counted in the home riding.
Correction Gord, I was wrong there were 223,000 votes cast outside their electoral district, e.g. the vote anywhere ballots.
However, those 223,000 votes will be counted in Edmonton starting Wednesday at 1 pm and may take several days to count. Source; Pamela Renwick director of operations and communications for Elections Alberta. “There is no way with that kind of volume. We’re hoping we will have those counts in by Saturday”.
There better be one hell of a clear audit trail. My concern, from the time I heard of Notley’s absentee voter scheme, was that she would direct the votes to constituencies where they are needed. You are likely right that the vote counters are loyal union volunteers. It is really strange that the absentee votes will be counted the day after the election when the cutoff was Saturday. 4 days to get the ballots to Edmonton? In 2019?
https://www.elections.ab.ca/current-news/2019/04/15/2019-provincial-general-election-advance-poll-turnout/
They’ve published a breakdown of the number of vote anywhere ballots issued by constituency.
And we won’t know to which constituency these ballots belong until Wednesday (if that number is released then).
With that many vote anywhere ballots, it will likely be Friday or Saturday before we know who won the election.
So to the media, there is no need to cover the election Tuesday night. Cause nothing will be known till the vote anywhere ballots are counted.
The vote anywhere ballots will be counted in Edmonton. The in-riding advanced ballots and special ballots will be counted in the riding.
That’s reminiscent of Georgia and Florida in the U.S. Midterms last fall.
Canada used to have a pretty fair and honest election system.
The recent arson attack in Edmonton, Alberta — as the election campaign nears its end — could give election observers pause. The perp yelled “xenophobia” and “homophobia” while torching 13 cars. But if one searches his name, Maurice Sutton, on Facebook, first entry, from Edmonton, shows a fairly screwed-up nutter, dressed up in mostly goth trappings, someone decidedly miserable and messed up. Not much to worry about here.
Btw, the pro-NDP Globe and Mail has the UCP up by 8 percentage points. They will probably win by more. If so, there will by lots of tears flowing within the corporate headquarters of our media giants in downtown Toronto.
David
I hope you are correct.
But see my comment above (at 6:27 am) on counting of the advance polls. Lots of opportunities for mischief.
Tears also flowing at the U.N.
hockey, who cares. I enjoyed watching Tiger win the masters more than any game in the past decade.
For this playoff season, I do not care who wins. My beloved Pittsburgh Penguins are down 3 games to zero against the Islanders.
China will produce 100 million tons more coal in 2019. Note that translates into approx. 250 megatonnes CO2.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-09/china-s-mammoth-coal-industry-gets-bigger-crowding-out-imports
But there is more! China will be adding 200 million tons of coal mining capacity in 2019.
But wait, there is even more!!! China has another 409 million tons of coal mining capacity under construction.
Aren’t you glad you are paying a carbon tax? Except you don’t pay it on goods from China.
Fortunately CO2 is not a problem.
The Toronto Star’s Heather Mallick explains to Canadians today that Scheer and Doug Ford are racists who hate anyone who has a brown skin. She also explains that anyone who opposes Justin is a “primitive”. Don’t be a Nazi, join the Team Trudeau/Notley Alliance.
Ah Yes Old Heather the Malignant Guttersnipe. Another one that should be following a ravens ass from dumpster to dumpster for her next meal.
Article by Dannielle Smith. “Alberta has put Canada on Notice”. https://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/columnists/danielle-smith-canadas-on-notice-albertans-have-had-enough
Watcher
Danielle Smith must read SDA…..
I fund raised for Dannielle Smith when she was Wildrose Leader. Started up a Constit. Assoc for Wildrose, me and another guy. Believed in her. I dropped out when my wife got cancer to care for her at home. I was shocked and appalled that she crossed the floor. She was brilliant, but very indecisive Libertarian, no backbone or staying power. Not cut out for the vicious sport of Politics. Very intelligent woman. But always surrounded by goat ropers and lawyer advisors as soon as it looked like she had a shot. The PC were dirty scum after The Man Ralph was knifed in the back. Could never stand Lougheed, he had a lot of sex with Pierre and screwed Alberta.
I truly hope this is so. I have posted previously, that after living for 25 years in Ontario, I KNOW that all of Eastern Canada thinks that anyone west of the Manitoba/Ontario border (with the exception of Vancouver) are too stupid to feed themselves, have fallen off of the turnip truck and only deserve to be hewers of wood and carriers of water. Mind you, most people in eastern Canada barely think of western Canada at all. I think a prime example is that of women’s magazines (Chatelaine, Canadian Living, Flare, Canadian House and Home etc.). As a former interior designer, I was always saddened that the design spreads in Canadian House and Home were in Toronto, or around Toronto, occasionally in Ottawa or Montreal, very occasionally in Vancouver and Calgary, once for Edmonton and NEVER in Saskatchewan or Manitoba.
I would be happy to vote for separation from Canada.
Big Momma: In a previous life each fall I would travel to the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto. Over many years I got to know farmers from all over Canada – became friends with them.
The large majority of them had no clue about western Canada. A good buddy of mine who farms in central SK and would go to the Royal each year would greet me with, “Well how are things out west,” and we’d laugh. That was the standard greeting you would get from the crowd east of Manitoba. We made lite of it. Nothing wrong with that but very few had ever been west of Ontario.
If you brought up an issue that concerned the west this strange look would come over their face and you knew you were in foreign territory . The quebek guys were good – but hopeless, The west? never heard of it.
I have also experienced the condescending attitude of the GTA. The ‘what would you know rube’ reaction to finding out I was an Albertan. Again few have been ‘west’.
Your comment reminds me of something that happened during my first year of grad studies.
My supervisor at the time hired a number of undergrad students to help him in his lab. One night, he had everyone over at his house for supper and I chatted with one of them. The kid was from Quebec and this was around the time of the first separation referendum.
I mentioned that I had moved to the coast from Alberta and he was convinced that we were all nothing but knuckle-dragging anti-French rednecks. He had no idea that there are several communities in Alberta where French is the main language, such as St. Paul.
I don’t think I convinced him.
Fox News reports that Chinese tech giant Huawei has hired a former Obama official as a lobbyist. Makes sense since Clinton sold uranium to Russia.
Always a non conformist…”Go Leafs Go!!!!”
Love the vid!
Not enuff vid of Kadri taking dirty cheap shots to be realistic.
Diane Francis at the National Post informs us today that the fridges Groper gave 12 million dollars to Loblaws for, are coming from China. I bet that makes the Canadians sitting in a Chinese prison feel good.
On top of all those CO2 emissions coming from coal in China. How galling! China seems to win with climate change no matter what, and Canada somehow manages to lose thanks to the Trudeau government.
Shite for brains Harper was still sending China 50M a year in Foreign Aid, how stupid is that? About as stupid as Canada spending Defense Funds on NATO to defend superpowers and we can not even defend our own borders. Canada has 36,000 miles of coastline on 3 oceans 4 ancient diesel sub, and a handful of leaking frigates that can barely leave port.
But if the fridges come from China there is no Carbon Tax.
Liberals saving you money!! Justin and Catherine are so proud of their business acumen.
This is my smart ass answer to all the millions of tax funded useless paper shuffling bureaucrats and Uncivil servants working for all 3 levels of government. Chinese tracking devices. If the Chinese street cleaners stop moving for more than 20 minutes an alarm goes off to head quarters. I would add a feature that keeps buzzing loudly if they over stay coffee break, washroom breaks, or lunch breaks. And it would show the Gubmint worker how many minutes were being deducted from their pay in real time for dogging it. PS I would add a zapper function. I would even program it for low energy hours when they feel sleepy after lunch. Random Zaps.
End the Puppy Palaces. https://www.endtime.com/prophecy-news/chinese-officials-force-street-cleaners-to-wear-gps-tracking-bracelets/?utm_source=Endtime+Newsletter&utm_campaign=c26700f988-19ENEWS+-+NEWSLETTER_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5ded71173e-c26700f988-47803201&mc_cid=c26700f988&mc_eid=eecf3cfa77
UCP will pursue legal action against US-funded campaign against Alberta energy
United Conservative leader Jason Kenney announced on Saturday that a UCP government would” obtain legal advice and pursue all possible legal remedies against the foreign-funded Tar Sands Campaign whose explicit goal has been to landlock Alberta oil and gas”.
https://www.thepostmillennial.com/ucp-will-pursue-legal-action-against-us-funded-campaign-against-alberta-energy/
Let us hope that Jason Kenney follows through on this ASAP before the upcoming federal erection.
Kenney and the UCP need to make this an International incident, He should take full page ads in all the Big US Papers and try to get Trumps ear. And ignore Ottawa, fight on alone for Albertans. We won’t forget that never.
What We Should Expect From The Release Of The Full Mueller Report
Relatively few people will read the nearly 400-page special counsel report. Many will cherry-pick information to support their current opposition to the president. Here’s what is reasonable to expect from it.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/15/what-we-should-expect-from-the-release-of-the-mueller-report/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=8a12d1ece4-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-8a12d1ece4-84055819
Brett Wilson: Canada’s ‘Economic Civil War’ Takes Center Stage in Alberta Vote
For a guy who says one of his fondest memories as a Canadian was watching the Quebec separatist movement fail at the ballot box in 1995, Brett Wilson sure talks a lot about his own province seceding.
The entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist has been bringing up the idea of the western provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan dropping out of the country with increasing frequency. He sees separation as a potential remedy for moves by the federal government and other provinces — carbon taxes, the cancellation of a pipeline to the Pacific, the obstruction of a pipeline to the Atlantic — that he says amount to “economic civil war.”
https://energynow.ca/2019/04/canadas-economic-civil-war-takes-center-stage-in-alberta-vote/?source=de&wtv
The Ontario court carbon tax challenge live
https://twitter.com/aballinga/status/1117797436733440000
“rather than depending on the market” interesting phrase from a conservative challenge
Trudeau’s carbon tax could have severe repercussions across the board. We could be hearing the word recession again, people who are middle class, which is most of us, will struggle to pay bills and buy food while those “wishing to join it” will lose hope.
Should be puke worthy watching Climate Barbie and Ken Doll Trudeau on the campaign trail.
From the NY Times of all places.
Eleven MILLION sq ft of unoccupied office space in down town Calgary.
That is more space than all the office towers in Calgary had in the 1980s.
And they say the NDP has a good chance of winning in Calgary?
You would have to be brain dead to vote NDP after seeing those darkened towers every day.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/world/canada/justin-trudeau-alberta-election.html
The wife and I went past the industrial area south of the refineries in Edmonton last week and I could not believe the number of empty yards that once were full of trucks, equipment, and steel pipe.
Billions of dollars of investment have left the province and certainly won’t return until the Notley -Trudeau business idiots are gone.
Vote for Alberta.
The wife and I went past the industrial area south of the refineries in Edmonton last week and I could not believe the number of empty yards that once were full of trucks, equipment, and steel pipe.
I’ve noticed the same thing along 51st Avenue east of Calgary Trail. There are a lot of fabrication shops and yards that are now idle and empty with “For Lease” signs on their fences. That’s quite a change from 10 or 20 years ago when most of those places were occupied and busy.
Meanwhile, Ritchie Brothers will be holding its largest Canadian auction at its Edmonton yard in a few days time:
https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/10-900-items-selling-in-ritchie-bros-biggest-annual-canadian-auction-818094305.html
Things are certainly bizzare-world here in Calgary.
Guy across the street works as an executive engineer in oil and gas. He has an NDP sign in his front lawn. But I do have to say that his wife works in counseling with the Roman Catholic Church, helping the refugees.
Other neighbours with NDP signs, retired math prof from U of C, lawyer, 2 heavy union government workers.
Nuff said! Answers a lot of questions.
Yes Glacier, there’s a lot of the older crowd that are nicely setup and aren’t affected greatly by this fiasco.
And they aren’t thinking of the young people starting out.
I worked in Calgary from 1969 to 1980 as a seismic data processing geophysicist. What a hell of a gr8 time to be in the oil business! I worked on data from all over the world and traveled to the US since one of the companies I worked for also sold seismic processing packages. Even saw Sable Island from a porthole!
Oh, did I mention the parties? The skiing. The trips we took.
I bought a new car, a new house, a 700 ac farm, a new wif,,,, – I mean I married my wife and had both of our boys there. heh.
Funny ending though. Joe Clark PCs won the federal election in 1979 and things looked even better going forward. I changed jobs for more money in Jan 1980.
In Feb 1980, the bastard Liberals won again and things went down hill.
One April late afternoon on a Friday I said to myself Phuket.
I called my assistant into my office and told him I was driving to my farm that evening.
I told him that if I wasn’t at the office Monday morning, then I would not be coming back again.
He thought i was joking. I wasn’t. Even though I was only working 4 days a week for the summer for full pay but making up for it in the busy winter, I still quit.
I only went back a month or so later to sign the papers for the house sale.
Took 10 years before we went back for a visit.
Been on the farm ever since.
Just don’t ask me about the Canadian Wheat Board. LOL
I know what you’re referring to. I worked in the oil business in Calgary ’78-’79. There was lots of money in that town during that time and, yes, the parties were something else. Oh, and don’t forget Eighth Avenue….
Those were grand times. I miss them.
It all came crashing down after PET returned to office and started beating up Alberta with the NEP.
I know an older couple who are voting NDP. Why? So the millennials can learn how hard it is to pay off debt.
Must admit their “logic” is tempting, but I voted UCP.
Alberta’s election is one of the most important in memory, there is one choice for not only Alberta but the entire country.
Like Ontario, a Conservative government following after a mess made by Liberal and NDP governments has it’s work cut out to right the mess on every file.
There is still some hope for the future if there are more like the young woman that wrote the following.
A high school student speaks out on feminism
Modern feminism has set out to infiltrate family life, destroying it with poisonous lies through the cultivation of a “culture of grievance” in which women are always to be seen as victims. It has done this by promoting the ideological falsehood that men and women are not natural allies, but that their relationship is adversarial in nature. Feminism strives to pit women against men at every opportunity.
https://www.thepostmillennial.com/a-high-school-student-speaks-out-on-feminism/?utm_source=The+Post+Millennial+Bite+Sized+News&utm_campaign=a249d0707f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_04_15_01_32_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_dfff09204e-a249d0707f-150112431
huh… Steve Jobs may have actually had HIV ??
https://file.wikileaks.org/file/steve-jobs-hiv/steve-jobs-hiv-2.jpg
Steve Jobs had HIV?
They still haven’t released bath house jack laytons cause of death.
…well he was caught ‘jacklatin in a rub-n-tug…
Notre-Dame Cathedral is currently burning to the ground.
https://twitter.com/hashtag/notredame?data_id=tweet%3A1117840323697414145&vertical=default&src=tren
Looks like “some people did something”. France’s very own twin tower moment.
https://twitter.com/patrickgaley/status/1117848909877895171
Video of the spire falling.
Portents of the globalist future of civilization.
Macron just declared an emergency and anti terror units are investigating. There has been ongoing attacks on Christian Churches all through France. https://cruxnow.com/church-in-europe…olic-churches/
Vandals and arsonists have targeted French churches in a wave of attacks that has lasted nearly two months.
More than 10 churches have been hit since the beginning of February, with some set on fire while others were severely desecrated or damaged.
St. Sulpice, the second-largest church in Paris, after Notre Dame Cathedral, had the large wooden door on its southern transept set ablaze March 17.
Investigators confirmed March 18 that the fire was started deliberately, according to the website of the Vienna-based Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in Europe, an independent organization founded with the help of the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences.
As one poster mentioned elsewhere, the Notre Dame cathedral crumbling, and then burning down and becoming an empty shell, is a metaphor for Europe. The entire continent is crumbling, and becoming an empty shell.
A monument to the Roman church, which has systematically persecuted anything resembling real Christianity (never mind Judaism) and ruined the souls of billions of children, is burning to the ground.
Forgive me for not shedding a tear at the undoing of that den of thieves.
God’s love endures forever. His patience with false prophets and perverts is another story.
A pig like you celebrates anything that goes against your “enlightened” viewpoint. A pox on you. Hopefully you’ll get a really malignant cancer, one that’s painful and untreatable.
I’m sure many leftists are rejoicing today as yet another symbol of western civilization is destroyed.
ISIS certainly is:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/04/blow-to-the-hearts-of-crusader-leaders-isis-supporters-cheer-as-fire-rips-through-notre-dame-cathedral-in-paris/
“Lighten up, people–it’s only an art museum, after all….”:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/04/some-flames-did-something-ilhan-omar-posts-statement-on-notre-dame-fire-that-avoids-mention-of-church-named-for-virgin-mary-or-even-that-it-is-a-catholic-cathedral/
A divine sign, perhaps?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/04/amazing-interior-photo-of-notre-dame-reveals-cross-still-standing-after-massive-fire-engulfs-cathedral/
Another important religious artifact was saved from the fire:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/04/jesus-crown-of-thorns-rescued-from-inferno-at-notre-dame-cathedral/
No no creeping Sharia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv8a3MBHGe0 nauseating, that is exactly what UnMes want. We may as well stop pretending we are a country of laws.
On Friday, a female jihadi was jailed over her attempted car bombing outside of Notre Dame Cathedral.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/04/breaking-on-friday-female-jihadi-jailed-over-attempted-car-bombing-outside-notre-dame-cathedral/
We are assured that the fire is due to some foul-up related to the renovations, because Muslims neva do nuffin.
Workers saying fire was intentionally set. https://twitter.com/CarmineSabia/status/1117865130543472641
Who was hired to do the renos? As in, who was actually up there among the wooden structures “working”?
Oh no even the CBC is reporting on lavscam.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/snc-lavalin-trial-board-1.5096153?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar&fbclid=IwAR04BfHFAJkE7ultGU1mo2nrClYbNKa_38Y1m0WKw0ayE-e7vAnLu3RnVtY
Turns out some board members may be involved! Really! Say it ain’t so Justin!
Notre Damme last Psalm Sunday. Yesterday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zty4gSoYakE&version=3&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player%5Fembedded
I warned you to wash your socks. Now Christina Freeland announces your gagging. Open your big mouth insert dirty socks. The Ukrainian Sausage Freeland says this will be in time for the October Election.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-15/canada-russia-meddling-okay-if-it-destabilizes-you-not-other-way-around
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/charles-joughin-titanic-anniversary-april-15-drunk
Today is the anniversary of the sinking to the Titanic. Read about how one man survived it.
https://www.thisisinsider.com/titanic-secrets-facts-2018-4
(Re: 9:06 – plz excuse typo – should be “of” the Titanic, not “to” )
In this new link there are photos and some interesting facts about the Titanic that you may not have read about.
Branson, Missouri is the site of a Titanic museum:
http://www.titanicbranson.com/
For a number of years, an amateur radio station at the museum was activated annually around the time of the anniversary of the ship’s sinking. Radio, after all, played an important part in that event.
The station, W0S, used the same callsign as that of the one on board the Titanic. I actually made contact with W0S over the old AO-51 amateur radio satellite back in 2011 and I received a confirmation card in recognition.
While on the subject of amateur radio, Dr. Owen Garriott W5LFL becomes a silent key:
http://www.parabolicarc.com/2019/04/15/nasa-astronaut-owen-garriott-passes-88/
Aside from flying on Skylab 3 and the STS-9 space shuttle mission, W5LFL had the distinction of being the first radio amateur to operate his station from space.
Years later, the tradition of amateur radio in orbit continues through the ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) program by which schools can arrange to have radio contacts with it. In addition, the ISS also keeps the ham gear available in case the primary radio communications system on board should fail. Also, each crew that’s on board has to have at least one member who’s a ham in order to comply with applicable communications legislation on either the American or Russian side.
Several years ago, his son Richard, became a tourist astronaut and flew on board the ISS. The two of them made contact with each other during the few days the younger Garriott was there.
The term “silent key”, by the way, is given to hams who have died. I believe its origins go back to when Morse code was the primary radio mode. When an operator’s key is silent, it means that he or she is not transmitting.
73, W5LFL (SK)
RIP
Dr Owen Garriott
He led an interesting life and was a man who was outstanding in his field.
He was involved with making solar observations during Skylab 3. A lot of the data are still being studied.
One story I heard was that he tried to get his 2 metre ham station on board Skylab, but NASA turned him down because, by the time he made his request, the manifest for the mission had already been finalized. That’s why he had to wait 10 years before he could take his radio with him.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic_museum_(Pigeon_Forge,_Tennessee)
Very interesting. If there is such a thing as ‘past life recall,’ perhaps you may have re-lived some of your own déjà vu.
Since you write of it, I wonder if the amateur radio station at the Branson Missouri museum was activated this year, for this, the 107th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic?
There also is a Titanic museum in Pigeon Forge Tennessee. There is a smaller scale replica of the Titanic – seems to be very interesting as well. The above link shows a photo.
I just watched an early version of the CTV nightly late NEWS – there was no mention of this anniversary. It is sad how history is being wiped out on many fronts.
Since you write of it, I wonder if the amateur radio station at the Branson Missouri museum was activated this year, for this, the 107th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic?
I’m a bit hazy about the details of the station. I don’t know if it was permanently at the museum or if a ham, or group of hams, set it up just for the occasion.
W0S was a special events station when I worked it. Those are stations which go on the air for special occasions, such as the anniversary of a major historical event. They’re granted temporary callsigns by the governing authority and they operate for a limited period of time.
I think the operations at the Titanic museum stopped after 2012, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s permanent. It’s possible that it could go on the air again for, say, the 110th anniversary.
As for the sinking not being remembered in the news, it’s understandable considering what happened in Paris today.
True, considering Paris today.
Maybe the 110th will be remembered.
Supreme Court Justice steps down. Turdeau announces Kim Campbell will lead the selection process.
But we all know Justin has the final choice. Perhaps we will see Justin select …
Gerald Butts.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/canada/supreme-court-of-canada-s-clement-gascon-stepping-down-for-family-reasons-1.4380792
Kim Campbell. Almost as bad as Lizard May the Great Manatee. Imagine some poor sap waking up in the morning with something like that beside him, and hung over.
That is when he has his wolf with his paw in the trap moment and chews his own arm off to avoid waking the beast. Then swears off drink forever.
Nah I never did, fat ones thin ones scabby assed ones, a good rooster gives them all a jab.
Of course that was in my wild misspent youth. For a few years there I was like a reserve dog, just skin and bone left. The old married women in the canteen at work saved my life. They would bust out laughing on Monday morning when I would come after tomcatting all weekend without a penny and hit them up for a sandwich and a coffee till payday. Hell I spent it all on women and booze, never wasted a dime. What else is a 18-19 year old country boy supposed to do when he 1st hits the big smoke.
Spitting with it…Holy Hanna, oh man, that’s juicy funny, you!
Ah Kim Campbell.
I remember an august fellow remarking she could listen intently to someone while completely missing their point.
She missed the boat and the vote, taking PCs down to two seats, and presaging the march of Grit unenlightened despots.
UK Iman says women can be taken as sex slaves. Well I guess that lets goats, donkeys and sheep off the hook. https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2016/07/31/british-imam-tells-muslims-war-coming-can-sex-slaves/?fbclid=IwAR0_ZbG9FlSJ7YKU3HVUljcPiumapHNEcTs4nyKK154MDW8ViMBDxluJCZ4