Friday digest
- For Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Finals on Monday night, Canadian classic rockers Trooper will be playing outside of Scotiabank Place in Ottawa. I'm going to go ahead and set the over/under on the combined total of how many times they'll play "Raise A Little Hell", "Boys In The Bright White Sports Car" and "Here For a Good Time" at a stingy 8.
- The fellas on the Team 1200 today said that more Americans watched the US telecast of the National Spelling Bee (14 million) than did the Stanley Cup Finals game (500,000). If that's true, it's a pretty sad state of affairs, Mr. Bettman.
- Here's a must-read article which rightfully tears many holes in the modern Trudeaupian brand of multiculturalism as pushed by the cultural elites in Canada in the Toronto Star and elsewhere.
- The best of Rosie O'Donnell, here. My two favourites are either "don't fear the terrorists - they're mothers and fathers" or when she stated that the Patriot Act has turned the United States into a South African-style apartheid state.
- Today's loony left play of the day comes to us from good ol' PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), who argue that because raising animals for food consumption contributes more greenhouse gases than do all of the cars and trucks in the world combined, the US government ought to give tax breaks to vegetarians.
In the words of PETA President Ingrid Newkirk, “(a)nyone who buys a hybrid in order to cut down on their contribution to global warming and uses it to drive to the supermarket to buy chicken, steaks, and milk should face up to the fact that there’s no such thing as a meat-eating environmentalist.”
All I have to say about that is that I love animals.
Pass the burgers.
- Ever notice that Hillary Clinton seems to be campaigning against the very kind of America that her husband championed during the 1990s?
- When Peggy Noonan writes your political obituary, I'd say the gig is pretty much up.
- Twenty years ago this weekend, something very near and dear to my heart, the ugly duckling of Canadian politics, the Reform party, was born, based on the principles of a government that lives within its means, regional fairness, and increased opportunities for participation by regular people in the public policy process.
That's an anniversary that definitely deserves a toast.
- The fellas on the Team 1200 today said that more Americans watched the US telecast of the National Spelling Bee (14 million) than did the Stanley Cup Finals game (500,000). If that's true, it's a pretty sad state of affairs, Mr. Bettman.
- Here's a must-read article which rightfully tears many holes in the modern Trudeaupian brand of multiculturalism as pushed by the cultural elites in Canada in the Toronto Star and elsewhere.
- The best of Rosie O'Donnell, here. My two favourites are either "don't fear the terrorists - they're mothers and fathers" or when she stated that the Patriot Act has turned the United States into a South African-style apartheid state.
- Today's loony left play of the day comes to us from good ol' PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), who argue that because raising animals for food consumption contributes more greenhouse gases than do all of the cars and trucks in the world combined, the US government ought to give tax breaks to vegetarians.
In the words of PETA President Ingrid Newkirk, “(a)nyone who buys a hybrid in order to cut down on their contribution to global warming and uses it to drive to the supermarket to buy chicken, steaks, and milk should face up to the fact that there’s no such thing as a meat-eating environmentalist.”
All I have to say about that is that I love animals.
Pass the burgers.
- Ever notice that Hillary Clinton seems to be campaigning against the very kind of America that her husband championed during the 1990s?
- When Peggy Noonan writes your political obituary, I'd say the gig is pretty much up.
- Twenty years ago this weekend, something very near and dear to my heart, the ugly duckling of Canadian politics, the Reform party, was born, based on the principles of a government that lives within its means, regional fairness, and increased opportunities for participation by regular people in the public policy process.
That's an anniversary that definitely deserves a toast.
posted by Road Hammer @ 9:27 AM
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