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Man, I hate that I'm always sweating like a pig.
Went to the Sloan show last night. It was fun. They usually are. You know, it was an average Sloan show, and there's nothing wrong with that. I just wish that Club Soda had opened the balcony, so that there had been more seats available. I kept despairing at the lovely rows of unused barstools on the upper level.
Elizabeth's right about Patrick - it's too bad he has buzzcut hair. I've never been a fan of that on pretty much anyone.
Last night was the first bar show that I'd been to since I was diagnosed with asthma, and it was pretty rough. I was glad to get outside once it was over.
This pissing match between Bill O'Reilly and the Globe is really, really funny. On the radio the other day (private, talk radio - not the CBC), they played clips of O'Reilly coming this close to calling for a boycott of all things Canadian, because apparently two army deserters have landed up here wanting refugee status. I'll get to that in a minute. But, about O'Reilly, I guess he has some segment on his TV show called "Talking Points", and in those clips I heard the other day, he said that if we didn't return the deserters, "Talking Points would have to call for a boycott of Canada", and we'd join France, and Canada had best remember how much it relies on the United States for its economic well-being blahblahblah.
Oh, no! He's calling for a boycott of Canada? My God, not Talking Points! How will we ever survive, without the two million viewers a night that he has that wouldn't have visited Canada anyway?!?
This reminds me of something that Rick Salutin wrote at the beginning of the Iraq war. He was referring to a GWB quote in which he said something like "I've lost patience with Saddam Hussein", and how infantile of Bush it was to just presume that if he had lost patience with Saddam, that it obviously should go to the top of the world's agenda. Same thing with O'Reilly.
To Canadians with half-a-brain, Bill's really made himself out to be an incredible doofus. He keeps referring to the Globe as left, or far-left, or any number of other things, just because one of the paper's columnists hilariously made fun of him. All that Bill really had the intellectual capacity to do in return, it seems, is call John Doyle "a pinhead". (That's what I hear, anyway. Correct me if Bill took his argument up a notch and I'm unaware.) Maybe in the bizarro-world of U.S. politics, where the political spectrum's left-side begins where most spectrums' right-wings end, the paper could be called far-left, but in the overwhelming majority of the rest of the world, the Globe is solidly entrenched in the centre. If Bill wanted to attack the Star, I'd still think he was an idiot, but at least then, he'd be an idiot with a kind of point. As much as I love the CBC, I recognize that when Bill mentions the CBC in the same-breath as the words left-wing, he has a point.
Rick Salutin was apparently a guest on Bill's radio show, the other day. Now that is something I would have loved to hear. There are intelligent right-wingers - I'm willing to admit that much - but Bill ain't one of them, at least not on the platforms that he has that I've seen. Rick Salutin, frankly, is on another level, and even if most of Bill's listeners weren't able to pick up on it, I'm confident Salutin talked circles around him.
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As for those deserters, I'm with Bill on this one, in fact. If the draft was happening, I'd say by all means, let them save their lives and come to Canada. But, there is no draft right now. These two clowns signed up for the military. Even if they signed up for the reserves, they need to understand that signing up like that isn't without risk.
Now, if they were going to have to face a firing squad, or something, upon being sent back to the U.S., again, I'd say, let them stay here. But, there is no firing squad waiting for them. Maybe some jail time, or something.
Send them back.
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Don Cherry's started his campaign to bring the CBC to its knees, it seems. I think this is going to get very, very ugly. I think Don's finally reached the end of the line, and the network's going to be flooded with emails and calls, but on the flip side, I'll probably check out Coach's Corner this afternoon, along with millions of other Canadians.
Hockey Night in Canada will go on. So will Cherry, probably at Leafs TV, which will see its subscriber base go through the roof, if they can land him.
Went to the Sloan show last night. It was fun. They usually are. You know, it was an average Sloan show, and there's nothing wrong with that. I just wish that Club Soda had opened the balcony, so that there had been more seats available. I kept despairing at the lovely rows of unused barstools on the upper level.
Elizabeth's right about Patrick - it's too bad he has buzzcut hair. I've never been a fan of that on pretty much anyone.
Last night was the first bar show that I'd been to since I was diagnosed with asthma, and it was pretty rough. I was glad to get outside once it was over.
This pissing match between Bill O'Reilly and the Globe is really, really funny. On the radio the other day (private, talk radio - not the CBC), they played clips of O'Reilly coming this close to calling for a boycott of all things Canadian, because apparently two army deserters have landed up here wanting refugee status. I'll get to that in a minute. But, about O'Reilly, I guess he has some segment on his TV show called "Talking Points", and in those clips I heard the other day, he said that if we didn't return the deserters, "Talking Points would have to call for a boycott of Canada", and we'd join France, and Canada had best remember how much it relies on the United States for its economic well-being blahblahblah.
Oh, no! He's calling for a boycott of Canada? My God, not Talking Points! How will we ever survive, without the two million viewers a night that he has that wouldn't have visited Canada anyway?!?
This reminds me of something that Rick Salutin wrote at the beginning of the Iraq war. He was referring to a GWB quote in which he said something like "I've lost patience with Saddam Hussein", and how infantile of Bush it was to just presume that if he had lost patience with Saddam, that it obviously should go to the top of the world's agenda. Same thing with O'Reilly.
To Canadians with half-a-brain, Bill's really made himself out to be an incredible doofus. He keeps referring to the Globe as left, or far-left, or any number of other things, just because one of the paper's columnists hilariously made fun of him. All that Bill really had the intellectual capacity to do in return, it seems, is call John Doyle "a pinhead". (That's what I hear, anyway. Correct me if Bill took his argument up a notch and I'm unaware.) Maybe in the bizarro-world of U.S. politics, where the political spectrum's left-side begins where most spectrums' right-wings end, the paper could be called far-left, but in the overwhelming majority of the rest of the world, the Globe is solidly entrenched in the centre. If Bill wanted to attack the Star, I'd still think he was an idiot, but at least then, he'd be an idiot with a kind of point. As much as I love the CBC, I recognize that when Bill mentions the CBC in the same-breath as the words left-wing, he has a point.
Rick Salutin was apparently a guest on Bill's radio show, the other day. Now that is something I would have loved to hear. There are intelligent right-wingers - I'm willing to admit that much - but Bill ain't one of them, at least not on the platforms that he has that I've seen. Rick Salutin, frankly, is on another level, and even if most of Bill's listeners weren't able to pick up on it, I'm confident Salutin talked circles around him.
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As for those deserters, I'm with Bill on this one, in fact. If the draft was happening, I'd say by all means, let them save their lives and come to Canada. But, there is no draft right now. These two clowns signed up for the military. Even if they signed up for the reserves, they need to understand that signing up like that isn't without risk.
Now, if they were going to have to face a firing squad, or something, upon being sent back to the U.S., again, I'd say, let them stay here. But, there is no firing squad waiting for them. Maybe some jail time, or something.
Send them back.
***
Don Cherry's started his campaign to bring the CBC to its knees, it seems. I think this is going to get very, very ugly. I think Don's finally reached the end of the line, and the network's going to be flooded with emails and calls, but on the flip side, I'll probably check out Coach's Corner this afternoon, along with millions of other Canadians.
Hockey Night in Canada will go on. So will Cherry, probably at Leafs TV, which will see its subscriber base go through the roof, if they can land him.