If you owned a Hummer dealership, what kind of people would you focus on? Well obviously not environmentalists. Environmentalists have no interest in owning a gas-guzzling vehicle like a Hummer. So if you own the NHL, were are you going to put your teams? You put them where the most profit it is right? NOOOO!!!! You put them in the southern states where no one cares about hockey, or when given the chance to move to Canada, you ignore it and move the team somewhere else. This is the situation in the NHL right now. The Nashville Predators are up for sale as they have one of the most miserable fan bases in the NHL (they only sold 15,000 tickets for a whole WEEK's worth of games when they were at the top of the NHL). Jim Basillie, the owner of the company that created the Blackberry electronic gizmo thing, was going to buy the team, he even sold season tickets to the Hamilton Predators, when today the owner of the Preds told the NHL to not consider Basillie as a possible buyer because he didnt want the team to go to Hamilton. Yet at the NHL Draft tonight he had people from Kansas City there with him as his personal guests. He obviously doesn't want to send a team where the market is, he seems to like losing money.
Now some more depressing news, yesterday the GM of the Boston Bruins was appointed to the top 3rd spot in the NHL head office, the same man that drove the once great Bruins into the ground single handedly. He is only there because he is the personal friend of the Chief Commisioner of the NHL, Gary Bettman. So now the NHL is run by three Americans who don't know shit about hockey, or about marketing, or about anything of this sacred Canadian pastime.
Friday, June 22, 2007
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Quack!!!!
So, the DUCKS WON THE CUP!!! And the game proved the Senators to be what we always said they were- chokers. Ducks won 6-2, and finished the series 4-1. So now we can all laugh at Jo, and Kathleen's brother Joel, and all other Sens fans. The most degrading part I thought was when the Sens scored on their own net. Probably the highlight of the night.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Sens Suck
The Sens are not Team Canada. Team Canada is headed up by Hockey Canada and is paid for by our tax dollars. The Senators are paid for by the idiots who live in and around Ottawa. They have 15 Canadian players, including Neil who is a disgrace to the human race let alone Canada. The Ducks on the other hand have 19 Canadian players, including such amazing players as Chris Pronger, Scott and Rob Neidermayer, and Jean-Sebastian Giguere. During the off-season the Stanley Cup tours around to the hometowns of the winning players. Which team winning will result in more Cup Time in Canada? THE DUCKS!!!!The Ducks are (well were) one of the coolest teams in the NHL. They played at "The Pond" (now the Honda Center), they were owned by Disney, they had the awesomist logo in the NHL (although i guess that purple on the home jersey's was pretty horrific). But the Ducks still have awesome jersey's, and even though they arent officially "Mighty" any more, they deffinately play like it. Now the Sens. They have the gayest name in the NHL (although Blues are a tough competator for the spot, but I don't really care about them). The Senators, a bunch
SENS SUCK!!!!!!
SENS SUCK!!!!!!
Sunday, May 13, 2007
OH THAT'S GOLD
It's another gold. So far this year we've claimed the World Juniors, World Women's, and now World Men's hockey championships. The only thing we didn't get was the U-17 champs (came in 4th there). We beat Finland 4-2, winning all 9 games that we played at the tournament. It's our 5th gold in 6 years at the World Men's.Then on slighty related notes, Toronto FC FINALLY scored it's first goal ever, and decided to add two more ontop of that yesterday. They also won their first game and got their first red card. So that's awesome too, Go TFC!
Then on a much more dissapointing note, Buffalo lost yesterday and it SUCKED. I HATE THE SENATORS!
Friday, May 4, 2007
The world is almost perfect... except for Team Canada
I'm so happy to report to everyone that the Canadian government has solved all poverty, war, and disease. Well that's what appears to be the case, as I'm pretty sure the House of Commons wouldn't spend valuable time debating about who's captain of Team Canada if they DIDN'T have those issues sorted out.
Yes, you may have heard, the House of Commons demanded Hockey Canada come before them the other day and explain why they had chosen Shane Doan as the captain of the team in the World Men's Hockey Championships. Back in 2005 a linesman claimed that Doan had called him a "f-----g frenchman." The NHL investigated and said that he had not said it. Infact, Doan is a very strong Christian and is often pestered by his teammates because he will never swear, the worst he has been said to swear is he once used the word "fudge." I think it's pretty out of character for him to one day completely turn all that around and insult the linesman like that. So, the wonderful Bloc Quebecois decided to get Quebecers angry by bringing up this issue. I've seen editorials, heard people on the radio and on TV, and seen articles in the paper, and everyone thinks its absolutely retarded, and of course, so do I. I'm pretty sure our government has a LOT of better things to do than sort this out.
So after the response of people, and the explanation by Hockey Canada, it was dismissed from the House and Doan is still Captain. I'm glad Team Canada is still captained by a Native Canadian, and personally, I think a Native has more right than anyone else in this country to drop a remark like that to either Frenchman or Englishman, after all, it was their land in the first place.
Yes, you may have heard, the House of Commons demanded Hockey Canada come before them the other day and explain why they had chosen Shane Doan as the captain of the team in the World Men's Hockey Championships. Back in 2005 a linesman claimed that Doan had called him a "f-----g frenchman." The NHL investigated and said that he had not said it. Infact, Doan is a very strong Christian and is often pestered by his teammates because he will never swear, the worst he has been said to swear is he once used the word "fudge." I think it's pretty out of character for him to one day completely turn all that around and insult the linesman like that. So, the wonderful Bloc Quebecois decided to get Quebecers angry by bringing up this issue. I've seen editorials, heard people on the radio and on TV, and seen articles in the paper, and everyone thinks its absolutely retarded, and of course, so do I. I'm pretty sure our government has a LOT of better things to do than sort this out.So after the response of people, and the explanation by Hockey Canada, it was dismissed from the House and Doan is still Captain. I'm glad Team Canada is still captained by a Native Canadian, and personally, I think a Native has more right than anyone else in this country to drop a remark like that to either Frenchman or Englishman, after all, it was their land in the first place.
Sunday, April 8, 2007
Monday, April 2, 2007
Screwed up society
In some places kids are shooting eachother with guns, whole numbers of people are slaughtered in genocides and war, millions die from hunger. Yet in some place, kids play with *gasp* LEGO!!! What a terrible thing to expose the children of our culture too, no child should ever be forced to use their imagination, no kid should EVER have to face such a huge problem as who has the most amount of Lego peices! So is the idea of the people at Hilltop Children's Center in Seattle, here's an article about it from the National Review:
Perhaps you’ve heard about the schools that have banned tag. Or dodgeball. Or stories about pigs. If so, you won’t be surprised to hear that the Hilltop Children’s Center in Seattle has banned Lego.
A pair of teachers at the center, which provides afterschool activities for elementary-school kids, recently described their policy in a Rethinking Schools cover story called “Why We Banned Legos.” (See the magazine’s cover here.)It has something to do with “social justice learning.”My vision of social justice for children of elementary-school age is as follows: If you’re tagged, you’re it; if the ball hits you, you’re out; and pig stories are fun, especially when told over microwaveable hot dogs.But I try to keep an open mind, so I read the article on why Hilltop banned Legos.As most aficionados know, Legos are made by a Danish company. The company name comes from the Danish phrase leg godt, which means play well. “Lego became a national treasure and one of the strongest brands in the toy industry,” wrote The Economist last year. “Its colorful bricks are sold in over 130 countries: everyone on earth has, on average, 52 of them.”In their Rethinking Schools article, teachers Ann Pelo and Kendra Pelojoaquin describe how the kids at Hilltop built “a massive series of Lego structures we named Legotown.” I sensed that something was rotten in the state of Legotown when I read this description of it: “a collection of homes, shops, public facilities, and community meeting places.”My children have spent a large portion of their young lives playing with Legos. They have never, to my knowledge, constructed “community meeting places.” Instead, they make monster trucks, space ships, and war machines. These little creations are usually loaded with ion guns, nuclear missiles, bunker-busting bombs, force-field projectors, and death-ray cannons. Alien empires have risen and fallen in epic conflicts waged in the upstairs bedrooms of my home.Perhaps kids in Seattle, under the careful watch of their latte-sipping guardians, are different. But I don’t think so.
At Hilltop, however, the teachers strive to make them different. “We recognized that children are political beings, actively shaping their social and political understandings of ownership and economic equity,” write Pelo and Pelojoaquin. “We agreed that we want to take part in shaping the children’s understandings from a perspective of social justice. So we decided to take the Legos out of the classroom.” The root cause of Hilltop’s Lego problem was that, well, the kids were being kids: There were disputes over “cool pieces,” instances of bigger kids bossing around little ones, and so on.An ordinary person might recognize this as child’s play. But the social theorists at Hilltop saw something else: “The children were building their assumptions about ownership and the social power it conveys — assumptions that mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society — a society that we teachers believe to be unjust and oppressive.”Pelo and Pelojoaquin continue: “As we watched the children build, we became increasingly concerned.”So they banned the Legos and began their program of re-education. “Our intention was to promote a contrasting set of values: collectivity, collaboration, resource-sharing, and full democratic participation,” they write. Instead of practicing phonics or memorizing multiplication tables, the children played a special game: “In the game, the children could experience what they’d not been able to acknowledge in Legotown: When people are shut out of participation in the power structure, they are disenfranchised — and angry, discouraged, and hurt. ... The rules of the game — which mirrored the rules of our capitalist meritocracy — were a setup for winning and losing. ... Our analysis of the game, as teachers, guided our planning for the rest of the investigation into the issues of power, privilege, and authority that spanned the rest of the year.”After “months of social justice exploration,” the teachers finally agreed it was time to return the Legos to the classroom. That’s because the children at last had bought into the concept that “collectivity is a good thing.” And in Hilltop’s new Lego regime, there would be three immutable laws: All structures are public structures. Everyone can use all the Lego structures. But only the builder or people who have her or his permission are allowed to change a structure. Lego people can be saved only by a “team” of kids, not by individuals. All structures will be standard sizes.You can almost feel the liberating spirit of that last rule. All structures will be standard sizes? At Hilltop Children’s Center, all imaginations will be a standard size as well: small.
This is absolutely pathetic, i really wonder if those teachers at Hilltop are active in their own community making the rich and poor equal to everyone else. I really doubt it. Now how many kids do you think have been scarred for life because they didnt get to use one of the "cool" pieces.
Perhaps you’ve heard about the schools that have banned tag. Or dodgeball. Or stories about pigs. If so, you won’t be surprised to hear that the Hilltop Children’s Center in Seattle has banned Lego.
A pair of teachers at the center, which provides afterschool activities for elementary-school kids, recently described their policy in a Rethinking Schools cover story called “Why We Banned Legos.” (See the magazine’s cover here.)It has something to do with “social justice learning.”My vision of social justice for children of elementary-school age is as follows: If you’re tagged, you’re it; if the ball hits you, you’re out; and pig stories are fun, especially when told over microwaveable hot dogs.But I try to keep an open mind, so I read the article on why Hilltop banned Legos.As most aficionados know, Legos are made by a Danish company. The company name comes from the Danish phrase leg godt, which means play well. “Lego became a national treasure and one of the strongest brands in the toy industry,” wrote The Economist last year. “Its colorful bricks are sold in over 130 countries: everyone on earth has, on average, 52 of them.”In their Rethinking Schools article, teachers Ann Pelo and Kendra Pelojoaquin describe how the kids at Hilltop built “a massive series of Lego structures we named Legotown.” I sensed that something was rotten in the state of Legotown when I read this description of it: “a collection of homes, shops, public facilities, and community meeting places.”My children have spent a large portion of their young lives playing with Legos. They have never, to my knowledge, constructed “community meeting places.” Instead, they make monster trucks, space ships, and war machines. These little creations are usually loaded with ion guns, nuclear missiles, bunker-busting bombs, force-field projectors, and death-ray cannons. Alien empires have risen and fallen in epic conflicts waged in the upstairs bedrooms of my home.Perhaps kids in Seattle, under the careful watch of their latte-sipping guardians, are different. But I don’t think so.
At Hilltop, however, the teachers strive to make them different. “We recognized that children are political beings, actively shaping their social and political understandings of ownership and economic equity,” write Pelo and Pelojoaquin. “We agreed that we want to take part in shaping the children’s understandings from a perspective of social justice. So we decided to take the Legos out of the classroom.” The root cause of Hilltop’s Lego problem was that, well, the kids were being kids: There were disputes over “cool pieces,” instances of bigger kids bossing around little ones, and so on.An ordinary person might recognize this as child’s play. But the social theorists at Hilltop saw something else: “The children were building their assumptions about ownership and the social power it conveys — assumptions that mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society — a society that we teachers believe to be unjust and oppressive.”Pelo and Pelojoaquin continue: “As we watched the children build, we became increasingly concerned.”So they banned the Legos and began their program of re-education. “Our intention was to promote a contrasting set of values: collectivity, collaboration, resource-sharing, and full democratic participation,” they write. Instead of practicing phonics or memorizing multiplication tables, the children played a special game: “In the game, the children could experience what they’d not been able to acknowledge in Legotown: When people are shut out of participation in the power structure, they are disenfranchised — and angry, discouraged, and hurt. ... The rules of the game — which mirrored the rules of our capitalist meritocracy — were a setup for winning and losing. ... Our analysis of the game, as teachers, guided our planning for the rest of the investigation into the issues of power, privilege, and authority that spanned the rest of the year.”After “months of social justice exploration,” the teachers finally agreed it was time to return the Legos to the classroom. That’s because the children at last had bought into the concept that “collectivity is a good thing.” And in Hilltop’s new Lego regime, there would be three immutable laws: All structures are public structures. Everyone can use all the Lego structures. But only the builder or people who have her or his permission are allowed to change a structure. Lego people can be saved only by a “team” of kids, not by individuals. All structures will be standard sizes.You can almost feel the liberating spirit of that last rule. All structures will be standard sizes? At Hilltop Children’s Center, all imaginations will be a standard size as well: small.
This is absolutely pathetic, i really wonder if those teachers at Hilltop are active in their own community making the rich and poor equal to everyone else. I really doubt it. Now how many kids do you think have been scarred for life because they didnt get to use one of the "cool" pieces.
Monday, March 26, 2007
GO LEAFS!
Well, it's monday and I'm still in a great mood from saturday night's win against Buffalo. It is just so awesome to be there when they win. To be so close and just watch the puck come flying in and 19, 500 people around you erupt in an explosion of cheering. The atmosphere just makes it so amazing. The Leafs played way better than the night before, and the Rayzor stayed sharp all night, same with the D.
The pic is of Rayzor stopping Briere's breakaway on net, it was a great save.
I got Ron MacLean's autograph which was pretty sweet. My throat is still killing me from all the yelling i did, but i'd do it again any day. So next season we'll have to all go and see the Leafs beat the Habs or Sens or someone else like them.
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Going too far
As everyone probably knows, I'm hugely patriotic- it's Canada all the way for me, and nothing makes me feel more proud to be Canadian than when we win in big sports events, especially Gold in Hockey World Championships whether they be the World Juniors or Olympics, Men's or Women's. But there is one thing that I don't do, and that is kill the coaches or players of our team if they don't do well. Our men's team did terrible at the last Olympics but none of the players where murdered. Yet some people seem to think that's appropriate. A few FIFA World Cups ago, a Columbian goalie scored on his own net, losing the game and eliminating their team from the tournament. When he returned home, someone came to his door and shot him in the head because of it. Now on St. Patricks day, the Pakistani Cricket team lost to the Irish team in the Cricket world cup. Apparently this would be like the Toronto Maple Leafs losing to a cheerleading squad- very embarassing obviously. The Irish team was basically meant as a filler team so they would have an even amount of teams in the tournament. Now Pakistan is going home and Ireland is in the finals. But the real problem here is that the Pakistani coach was found dead the day after losing. There was blood and vomit all over the walls of his hotel room. Now police are saying that it appears that he was strangled to death. Sooooo, it seems pretty obvious what happened here. Someone murdered him because the team lost so badly. WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!! GIVE IT A BREAK, IT'S JUST A GAME.
Thanks for reading, you just wasted 2 minutes of your life and you're never gonna get them back. sucker
Thanks for reading, you just wasted 2 minutes of your life and you're never gonna get them back. sucker
Monday, March 5, 2007
No More. Please.
On the turning away
From the pale and downtrodden
And the words they say
Which we won't understand
"Don't accept that what's happening
Is just a case of others' suffering
Or you'll find that you're joining in
The turning away"
It's a sin that somehow
Light is changing to shadow
And casting it's shroud
Over all we have known
Unaware how the ranks have grown
Driven on by a heart of stone
We could find that we're all alone
In the dream of the proud
On the wings of the night
As the daytime is stirring
Where the speechless unite
In a silent accord
Using words you will find are strange
And mesmerised as they light the flame
Feel the new wind of change
On the wings of the night
No more turning away
From the weak and the weary
No more turning away
From the coldness inside
Just a world that we all must share
It's not enough just to stand and stare
Is it only a dream that there'll be;
No more turning away?
-"On the Turning Away" Pink Floyd
From the pale and downtrodden
And the words they say
Which we won't understand
"Don't accept that what's happening
Is just a case of others' suffering
Or you'll find that you're joining in
The turning away"
It's a sin that somehow
Light is changing to shadow
And casting it's shroud
Over all we have known
Unaware how the ranks have grown
Driven on by a heart of stone
We could find that we're all alone
In the dream of the proud
On the wings of the night
As the daytime is stirring
Where the speechless unite
In a silent accord
Using words you will find are strange
And mesmerised as they light the flame
Feel the new wind of change
On the wings of the night
No more turning away
From the weak and the weary
No more turning away
From the coldness inside
Just a world that we all must share
It's not enough just to stand and stare
Is it only a dream that there'll be;
No more turning away?
-"On the Turning Away" Pink Floyd
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
I've Gotta Stop Being Racist
'What is a Canadian? A Canadian is a fellow wearing English tweeds, a Hong Kong shirt and Spanish shoes, who sips Brazilian coffee sweetened with Philippine sugar from a Bavarian cup while nibbling Swiss cheese, sitting at a Danish desk over a Persian rug, after coming home in a German car from an Italian movie... and then writes his Member of Parliament with a Japanese ballpoint pen on French paper, demanding that he do something about foreigners taking away our Canadian jobs.'- Anonymous
Rant: The Official Team Canada Source of Merchandise
Well, as you probably all know from my constant whining and complaining, I ordered a Team Canada jersey back in December with the intent of getting it by the Gold Medal game, but I never recieved it. Well it is now January 16 and I still haven't gotten it. I was supposed to have it in 5 days from ordering it. www.jerseycity.ca is the official source of Team Canada merchandise, and I think that Hockey Canada made a very bad choice in picking them. On their website they claim to "have developed thousands of loyal customers due to a solid reputation of exceptional customer service and product delivery." If that is true, then I should have worn my jersey by now, but the fact is that their service is so pathetic that they haven't even shipped it yet. They say they have no mediums in stock. Well, ok, that seems to be acceptable, of course you're gonna run out at a time like this...right??? Well if you're running a business, wouldn't you have enough jersey's in stock to last you through the high point of the buying season? And if you are out of stock, you are supposed to advertise it on your site, and if you can't even do THAT, then at least email the people ordering it about your situation. But I only got an email from them TODAY saying that they hadn't any mediums in stock and blah blah blah. I have no clue when I'm supposed to get it. In fact I'll most likely get my Wellwood Leafs jersey which was supposed to take 3-4 weeks, before it. So, NEVER order from Jersey City. When I go out west to the Olympics in 3 years (yes, I'm buying tickets when they go on sale in 2008, who wants to come with?) I vow to go into one of their stores and give them a piece of my mind.
Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Friday, January 5, 2007
We've struck GOLD!!!
Ok, I haven't updated in a while, infact my New Years Resolution was to be nicer to the USA. I'll probably get around to ranting about Global Warming and the Environment or something like that soon. But for NOW........
TEAM CANADA'S STANDING ON TOP OF THE WORLD!!!! GOOOOLLLLDDDDD!!!!!! We beat Russia 4-2 to claim the Gold Medal position. I have to admit it wasn't as fun after the Semi-Final game that we played against the USA, which has to be the best game I've ever watched. It was SOO tense.
Our truely amazing Goal Tender, Carey Price, was declared the Goalie of the All-Star World Junior team, Top Goalie of the tournament, MVP, and he's now coming home with a Gold Medal around his neck. He truly deserves to wear the #1 on his jersey.
YYYYYYYYEEEEEESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TEAM CANADA'S STANDING ON TOP OF THE WORLD!!!! GOOOOLLLLDDDDD!!!!!! We beat Russia 4-2 to claim the Gold Medal position. I have to admit it wasn't as fun after the Semi-Final game that we played against the USA, which has to be the best game I've ever watched. It was SOO tense.
Our truely amazing Goal Tender, Carey Price, was declared the Goalie of the All-Star World Junior team, Top Goalie of the tournament, MVP, and he's now coming home with a Gold Medal around his neck. He truly deserves to wear the #1 on his jersey.
YYYYYYYYEEEEEESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sunday, December 24, 2006
Rant VI: Sundin
Wooops, I guess technically it's actually Sunday now, but I'll pretend it's still Saturday, and if I'm "lucky" it'll be screwed up and say i posted this yesterday. So really really short and sweet: I don't care if both two goals tonight came from Sundin- look who was in the box when we got two of the three goals against us. He needs to retire.
And on a side note, Wellwood and Pohl take all!
And on a side note, Wellwood and Pohl take all!
Friday, December 22, 2006
Rant V: Hockey and Money
Why is it that Canada only has 6 of the 30 Hockey teams in the NHL? Apparently it has to do with where the money is, USA has more money, and it's worth more, so they get them. It's completely unfair, the NHL can pose any amount of restrictions it wants on the game and where teams hail from, so how about a restriction on how many teams can come from a certain place. If they are out there for money, it actually makes a LOT more sense to have Canadian teams than American ones, I mean seriously people, WHO goes to see Tampa Bay and Florida games!? Most likely Canadians on vacation in Florida. I remember in a This Hour Has 22 Minutes episode, at the end one of their reporters was going around Tampa Bay, wearing a TB Lightning jersey, and asking people if they knew what the name of their team was. Out of the 10 or so people that they showed, only about 1 of them actually knew the answer, and about the same number said that they would go to a game if they were given a free ticket (a few more agreed under the condition that they got free beer). If you look at the rates for games down south, they're WAY cheaper than the games up here. They need fans, yet we have LOADS of fans, who are willing to pay a LOT for tickets to a game. And about fans, a lot of these American teams have no fans unless they are doing good. Pittsburgh is a perfect example of pathetic fans, the Penguins nearly went bankrupt until they got Lemieux, no one was coming to the games until they got someone good. Once he left, they went into a slump again, until now they have Crosby. Now notice something about those two names? They're both CANADIAN players, on average, American teams only have about three American players and the rest are all Canadian and European. In fact neither of the Florida teams have ANY American players. If you could only play for your home country, they'd have what? 6 teams maybe? Something seriously needs to change here.
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Rant IV: The Quebecers
Alright, it's been like 200 years or something now that the French have been subject to British/Canadian authority, and they still won't shut up. I don't have anything wrong with the language or the culture, in fact I think it's actually pretty cool having a huge province that is all a different language from the rest of the country- it's something the USA doesnt have. But the thing that really bugs me is how the Quebecers HATE being Canadian. I'm gonna focus on one case here. A few days ago, there was an incident with a hockey team from New Brunswick I think it was. The team had visited the Canadian Armed Forces Base in Gagetown, and the commanders had given the coach of the team a flag for the players to sign so that they could send it off to Afghanistan. When asked to sign it, one of their star players was heard saying that he would never sign a Canadian flag- only a Quebec one. He was thrown off the team because they said that even for a star hockey player, this wouldn't be tolerated. Now of course the guy makes up some story about how he actually thought someone else had already signed it for him. The coach of the team has been suspended, and the team has been charged $1,000 for asking the team to sign a flag. Now... we live in a perfectly free country- doesnt something seem a bit wrong here!?
Rant III: Let Go
Alright, pretty short and sweet (I hope), cause I ain't really that wound up right now, but I have to post one rant a day, so yep. Well, as you may have heard, or judging by the small amount of gobal news that actually reaches most of you people, you probably havent heard...that the United States has pretty much admitted defeat in Iraq. Now, I'll give you some background on the US invasion of Iraq since some of you (*cough*Jackie*cough*) don't know the difference between Iraq and Afghanistan, a President and Prime Minister, and a Canadian and an American soldier. Well, shortly after 9/11, the President of the United States of America, George W. Bush, met with his staff and decided what to do to retaliate for this, their first attack on home soil since the War of 1812. They didn't even want to discuss Afghanistan where Osama Bin Laden was supposed to be, they right away wanted to invade Iraq. They'd been waiting a long time to invade Iraq, and this was the time. But they came to realize that the world wasn't going to approve of an invasion of a country not even responsible for 9/11, so instead they decided to invade Afghanistan first, and then move onto Iraq, war by association I suppose. They decided to associate Iraq with terrorists, and since they were on a War Against Terror, then they could invade Iraq. Well the obvious real reason behind Iraq is the oil, PERIOD. So in 2003, while the world was busy with otherstuff, the American Navy opened fire on the Sovereign Nation of Iraq. One day people roamed the streets enjoying life, not even knowing that that very night, their entire world would explode all around them. By morning bodies lined the streets. Soon afterwards the land invasion began. Several months, and approximately 100 dead American soldiers later, Bush declared on the deck of a US Naval Aircraft Carrier that the war was done, "mission accomplished." Well, it's close to 4 years later, and the American soldiers killed in Iraq has reached approx. 2, 900, more than the amount of people killed on 9/11. Well, about a month ago, with the recent American Mid-term election, Americans responded, and his party lost. Americans, and the rest of the world with them, is fed up with George Bush's war for oil. It was pretty much the gerneral consensus recently that the war couldn't be won, that it was Vietname II. But then all of a sudden today, with the introduction of a new Secretary of Defence (he fired the last one after the election) he decided that the war can now be won, they just need to put more men into Iraq. Well, he has two more years in office, I'm estimating a death toll of 5,000 American soldiers, he's gonna have to start drafting people too, where's he gonna find all his pigs to get slaughtered otherwise? And what i want to know, is how can he be so eager to let other parents children be killed, but he has two 20ish year old daughters sitting at home!? It's not like the military doesn't take women! So, yep, we can all look forwards to a lot more deaths... and Americans are angry at us for never coming to their aid in Iraq? our army isn't big enough to be able to afford to lose 5,000 troops. Heck, that's more troops dead than what we have in Afghanistan.
Well that obviously wasn't as short as I'd expected :)
Well that obviously wasn't as short as I'd expected :)
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Rant II: NATO in Afghanistan
Well, we're at war, the same war that's been going on for the last 4 years. But now our troops are being left behind, in Afghanistan. First off, a bit of background info. Canada has approximately 2,300 troops serving in Afghanistan, less than the amount of American troops that have died so far in Iraq, thanks to Bush, but I'm sure I'll get around to ranting about him at another time. The Canadian Forces have suffered 43 casualties I do believe, and the most of them coming in the last year. The reason for this is simple. Canadian forces, helped by American forces, are covering the most violent section of Afghanistan, the Panjwaii district. The other countries involved are mostly just sitting around in their peaceful little sections doing nothing to help our troops. We have asked for help but it isnt being offered, in fact just today France declared that it is pulling 400 troops out of A-Stan. It is possible to win the war in A-Stan, but not with the number of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) troops presently serving there. It doesn't help at all if you say that all is lost, not enough men, so let's pull some out. How about GIVING 400 more troops!?
Monday, December 18, 2006
Rant I: the Weather
Apparently the weather is one of the things that Canadians will talk about to anyone, strangers or the best of friends. And I always look at the forecast, and one thing that is really really really annoying me, is the lack of snow on or before Christmas Day for the last few years or so. Now I really hate this, but the thing that makes it all the worse, is the fact that the weather meterologists never seem to care. They always say "some beautiful warm temperatures coming up" or "I'm glad to see that we'll be able to get past Christmas without any snow storms." You know, they might as say "God Bless Global Warming!!!!" It would be really nice if they would think about what they are saying, about how they are approving of Global Warming and about all of those people that want to go skiing, snowboarding, snowblading, skating, sledding, and everything else out in the snow and ice. If they don't want cold weather, they should have thought about this equation: cold+winter=Canada. If they dont want it, then they can go forfeit their Canadian Citizenship and leave me in PEACE!
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