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Alberta Press Leader is just a little Albertan in a Wexit sort of way. Quoting this paper is like a Jehovah's Witness quoting the Watchtower, a Jew quoting the Torah, a Muslim quoting the Koran, and any bizarro fringe group peddling their own version of propaganda. They also held an online poll asking if Albertans should be allowed to carry handguns like they do in Texas. "Do you agree with this law? Are you in favour of citizens carrying handguns to protect themselves like they are allowed to in Texas? Poll has ended. There were 256,468 votes with 97.2 per cent in favour" As far as I can see, the only reason for Albertans to open-carry handguns is to protect themselves from other frickin' Albertans wearing open-carry handguns.
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I don't think how they look should be the basis on determining which guns are acceptable and which aren't, it should be how they function. I think that's reasonable. And if we can all agree on that its a good basis for the conversation, and beneficial to everyone involved frankly. 1. The Criminal Code of Canada is quite detailed on what weapons are prohibited. It avoids the use of terms like "assault weapons" or "assault-stye weapons", but it makes very clear what criteria are used in determining which firearms are prohibited. "How they look" isn't a criterion. https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/sor-98-462/fulltext.html 2. On May 1, the Government issued this: Registration SOR/2020-96 May 1, 2020 Regulations Amending the RegulationsPrescribing Certain Firearms and Other Weapons, Components and Parts of Weapons, Accessories, Cartridge Magazines, Ammunition and Projectiles as Prohibited, Restricted or Non-Restricted https://www.scribd.com/document/459370005/Federal-government-banning-military-style-guns#from_embed And finally: here's a direct quote from the Canada Gazette on May 1, in which all legislative changes are required to be published: "The Regulations prohibit approximately 1500 models of assault-style firearms, including current and future variants." The brand and model numbers of those 1500 guns are then listed so that there is zero confusion about which weapons the government means.
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[Signing] Red Wings sign Mathias Brome
Curmudgeon replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
Agreed. Brome was just the latest in the "shiny new toy that I really, really want" category that appears on CDC every time a free agent signs somewhere other than Vancouver. -
[Report] Blackhawks CEO and President relieved of duties
Curmudgeon replied to skolozsy2's topic in General Hockey Discussion
You might not remember Thomas Scallen and Lyman Walters, Minnesota-based operators of Medicor and the Canucks first owners. On this day in Canucks history: February 22, 1972. Owners Thomas Scallen and Lyman Walters are charged with the theft of $3,000,000 in club funds. Scallen was sent to prison in 1974. The Club was then taken over by Frank Griffiths who was the next largest share holder. -
Understatement of the frickin' century. Do we all remember when Obama had an encounter with a porn star and got his lawyer to pay her hush money? Or when he boasted of trying to move on her like a bitch but couldn't get there? Or when he altered a US weather map to include his version of the truth? Or when he suggested somehow getting UV light inside the body, along with injections of disinfectants? Or when he when he cozied up to Putin and Kim Jong Un and Duterte and made Mexicans and Muslims evil? Or when he continuously told the public that China was paying huge tariffs when it was actually American consumers who were paying the bill? No, me neither.
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I'm thinking a lifetime of overindulgence, heavy smoking, morbid obesity and probably diabetes has put an end to KJU. There are rumours that he collapsed the other day, was rushed to hospital, and was operated on by a very nervous and apparently inexperienced doctor. An urgent appeal went out to China to send a team of surgeons to Pyongyang. I'm thinking this talk of a vegetative state does not sound good. I think the Evil Sister takes over and lobs a few missiles into the north Pacific somewhere, just to let Trump know she can play, too. But can she out-manoeuvre the military? That will tell the tale. Oh, and by the way, first Kim's brother (Kim Jong-Nam) was assassinated in Malaysia in 2017 by "North Korea" and now Kim Jong-Un is on death's door. And who is still here? The Evil Sister, Kim Yo Jong, that's who. I rest my case.
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You've been p***ed for about four years now?
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Back in the 60s Squirrel advertised on the radio with a jingle that ended: "It tastes so good that you'll want more, Buy Squirrel Peanut Butter at your grocery store" Edit: Just remembered the whole jingle. It just popped into my head. Very strange. "Squirrel Peanut Butter is the best by far Creamy smooth to the bottom of the jar, Tastes so good that you'll want more, Buy Squirrel Peanut Butter at the grocery store." I'm sure it was written by the same ad copy writers for CKNW that came up with the "$1.49 Day, Tuesday" jingle.
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Anybody remember Woodward's peanut butter in gold coloured one pound tins with a pry off lid? Just peanuts, a little peanut oil and a bit of salt. I liked crunchy but everybody else in the family liked it smooth. Here's a question for those of you who eat peanut butter on toast: Do you apply the peanut butter while the toast is still hot to warm, or do you wait until the toast is cold and apply the peanut butter to a crunchier toast? I thought everybody liked it still warm but my wife's family were English and preferred their toast cold. Is that a thing?
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Happy that everyone I know seems to have avoided Covid so far. Really looking forward to hockey in July and August. No hockey has always been the only downside to long, sunny summers, but this year there is a chance we'll get hockey all summer. All day at the lake, eating outdoors, then home for a game and barbecue.
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To do is to be. - Confucius To be is to do. - Lao Tzu Dooby dooby doo. - Sinatra
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What a dangerous, dangerous man Donald Trump is. His businesses are losing money and all he can think about is ending social distancing by Easter when, according to him, things will be back to normal. Dollars before lives. Imagine the mind that thinks that way, then realize he has demonstrated over and over again that he can do whatever he wants and nobody can stand up to him and get away with it. His pronouncements on "cures" have already cost lives when the disciples have ingested drugs they shouldn't have ingested. But he doesn't care, because what happened yesterday never actually happened. Only today is important and tomorrow, well, we'll worry about tomorrow tomorrow. That is the key to understanding Trump: Whatever happened before today doesn't count because it never really happened and it's fake news to bring it up. So when he says he has always believed it was a pandemic, even before it was called a pandemic, he's not lying, because "always believed" means since he woke up this morning. Nothing before that ever happened.
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Normal length, but all there and mostly white. And yes, it will be 41 years in April. Time flies, time flies.
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Ha ha. Saturday Night Fever was the most popular album when my wife and I were married. It was the movie we saw on our first date. Our wedding waltz was How Deep is Your Love. Still married, still dance to that song.
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Coronavirus is a distant second to the number one cause of death in Russia, and that is falling out of open windows from a great height.
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Right on, man. You are generating good karma, and the world needs more of that. I have a small garden and my goal has always been to grow enough to give away to the neighbours just because I can. It's amazing what a few tomatoes and an ear or two of corn can do to build connections with people.
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You're not going to die of boredom. It will be your inability to come up with alternate solutions to simple problems that will eventually do you in.
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[Speculation] - NHL plan for the season
Curmudgeon replied to Me_'s topic in General Hockey Discussion
I think that's a good idea, but I don't think the NHLPA would agree to shortening the season because the owners would argue, and probably correctly, that they aren't going to pay 82 game salary costs for a 72 game schedule. They would probably want to cut salaries by 12-14% because revenue would be down that much. Or more. Remember: for us, it is a game, for the players and owners it is a business, and money is the driver. -
Thanks, Dad. Always helpful to tell us what we SHOULD have done. Hindsight is clear and perfect, especially from Japan, which has always been a nation of compliant, xenophobic germaphobes stuck on islands with a huge moat all the way around them. Japanese standards of cleanliness are probably the best in the world, and their organization to act quickly in times of crisis is without peer anywhere in the world. Japan is the polar opposite of China or India or much of southeast Asia, where using a public toilet is the most disgusting experience imaginable and where unrefrigerated meat and other food is displayed in pubic markets in the most unhygienic conditions I've ever seen. The fact is that Canada has employed a modicum of caution in trying to get the right answers and right science before plunging headlong into knee jerk reactionism. Canadians are not like the Japanese; we have to be convinced an idea is good and unlike Japan, we don't immediately comply with the edicts of the government. I am not saying the Canadian way is better or even preferable, but it is the reality with which we are faced. Canada is doing a better job than the US, the UK, Mexico, Brazil and other nations with populist leaders who have sought to diminish the threat and shrug it off as no worse than the flu. Is it enough? Probably not, but it is better than the American, British and Mexican approaches by a long shot. In the meantime we will try to get through this, and will do so in spite of being shamed by you.
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1. I saw Stan Mikita and Bobby Hull when they were stars with the Blackhawks on Boxing Night in 71, I think. Andre Boudrias scored on a breakaway with Hull and Mikita hanging on to him and he still scored. I think there's a photo of that somewhere. I heard later that Hull was suspected of playing drunk that night. All I know is that I was disappointed in his game. 2. I was in the crowd with my dad in late December of 73 or 74 when the Philadelphia Flyers climbed the glass to go after fans who were taunting them. In that same game there was a disputed non-goal by the Flyers against Vancouver in the north end. Bernie Parent skated the entire length of the ice and slammed his stick against the glass where the goal judge was seated. The Flyers were animals. Really. 3. I was in the Coliseum for Game 4(?) in 94 when I was seated right below the all-time great sportswriter Jim Taylor and got to chat with him throughout the game. Pavel Bure got thrown out of that game for an elbow or high stick and Kirk McLean let in a very bad goal. Canucks lost. I saw Harry Neale and Bob Cole before the game on a sort of catwalk above the concourse. I remember yelling "Hey, Cole, where are your Leafs? Where are they, Cole?" He pretended he didn't hear me, but we both know he did.
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For four or five days I was growing more and more concerned about getting back into Canada. At 3:30 this morning we arrived at the airport in Mexico City to board an Air Canada flight to Vancouver. Nobody asked if we had a cough, or fever or sniffles. There was no signage about Covid-19 and no handouts like the ones we received arriving in a bus station in Xalapa, Veracruz. Two of the flight crew wore masks and no hot beverages were served, which is very odd for an early morning flight. Arrived at YVR just before 10:00 am. We were off the plane, through customs and out the door with our bags in less than fifteen minutes. There were people asking if anyone was feeling sick or had we been around anybody that was sick. What are you going to say? I don't know? Of course we said no because as far as we know, nobody appeared sick.. We were told we must self-quarantine for 14 days, which we are absolutely fine with. There were very, very few people in the airport. So, we are now home, and quite happy to stay here. One more thing: there is nothing that looks better than the final approach to YVR when you've been out of the country for several weeks. I love to travel, but I cherish coming home.
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Off to bed for a 3:30 check-in at Mexico City for an Air Canada 5:25 flight to YVR. We are asymptomatic but will self-isolate at home. Our neighbour will pick up our SAVE-ON order we put in online from Mexico. The media is talking about Covid but the president of Mexico is out hugging, kissing and shaking hands all over the country. Says Covid is a myth. Nobody here in CDMX seems to be taking any precautions, nothing appears closed down and there is no panic buying. Only in the State of Veracruz are bus passengers arriving given an information sheet and verbal instructions on staying careful. Oh, yeah, in 28 days we haven’t seen a single drop of rain, and it’s been hot. Don’t know if that has any effect on virus spread, but it is interesting. But, when the virus hits here full force, it is going to be a nightmare.
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Fair question but may be a moot point. I checked the webcams at the four border crossings in the lower mainland and valley on Sunday about 4:30 pm. Virtually zero traffic heading into Canada. Normally, on a Sunday afternoon, the waits are anywhere from an hour and a half to two hours. From that I took that darn few Canadians headed into Washington this weekend, and fewer still Americans were choosing to vacation at a time like this. I think Americans are self regulating when it comes to leaving the US, and Canadians already know if they were to fall ill in the US without travel medical insurance and need hospital care, it could bankrupt them.
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Well, it is a fine line to walk for any political leader. You want to rely on the best available science to protect people WITHOUT causing mass panic and the worst impulses of the greedy and selfish. On the other hand Trump just this morning said the US has this under tremendous control, even as the numbers climb by the day. Boris Johnson is saying it's no big deal, people will get sick, deal with it. And Mexican president Lopez Obrador says it's a myth and we shouldn't stop hugging each other. On balance I'd say Trudeau is doing okay.
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Negotiations? Benning offers x years at y dollars. Agent wants x +/- 2 years at y++ dollars. Counter-offers ensue. Finally term and money is acceptable for both parties, so he signs. Takes time. Remember how long it took Boeser to sign?