I’ll get my sports rant out of the way first this week as I watched the Winnipeg Jets lose a close one goal game to Anaheim on Saturday night. The Ducks got away with a number of infractions late in the game and the old school way of thinking is that the refs let the players play in the final minutes of the third period because calling a penalty would indicate the referees are picking sides and they are the ones determining the outcome. My argument is that by not calling the penalties that are right in front of your face, the referees are determining the outcome through their inaction. If one team is dominating another, the quickest way to even the competition is through cheating and for some reason in hockey, it is okay to do that in the third period. Imagine an umpire in baseball deciding he’s going to change the strike zone in the eighth inning.
I would be okay with referees officiating in a very liberal manner right from the opening face off of the first period. This would set the tone and players would discover, quickly, what the level of standard is. That was, exactly, the situation on Sunday in Ottawa as the Senators played Montreal. I felt that game was one of the better officiated games I think Saskatchewan native Brad Watson was one of the men in stripes Sunday night.
Muslim people will tell you their religion is peaceful, but how do you explain the recent act off the coast of Italy where Muslim migrants, allegedly, threw 12 Christians overboard during a crossing from Libya. There would have been more casualties, however it’s being reported that the remaining Christians formed a human chain to resist the assault. Muslim apologists (a lot of whom aren’t even Muslim) will tell you it’s the news’ fault for branding it ‘Muslims throw over Christians’. They feel it should be ‘12 people were thrown overboard’. Well, if there were 11 Christians and 1 Muslim, then they would be right.
Not sure if this qualifies as an oxymoron or not, but in 2013, the University of Winnipeg opened a special prayer room for Muslim students so that they could worship on campus. Earlier this week, Canada’s Supreme Court ruled against prayer being held at city council meetings. It has become easiest to discriminate against the majority and bow to the bullish minority.
ESPN suspended one of their female reporters for a week after she lost her mind and threw a 3-year-old style fit on a parking attendant. The attack was personal and vicious and, of course, caught on video. In this day and age of where breathing the wrong way gets you reprimanded, I’m shocked this was only a week long suspension. I would have terminated her immediately. In her rant, she made sure to mention she was on television and had an education (although this came across in the most ditzy tone you can possibly imagine) and inferred her looks were much superior to those of the attendant’s and therefore she should also be treated with more respect than someone who isn’t as, universally, attractive. The parents of the youngest victim of the Boston Marathon bombing are urging federal authorities to consider taking the death penalty off the table in exchange for life in prison with no chance of being released and waiving all rights to appeals. Their main concern is having to relive the worst day of their lives over and over in the media every time the terrorist files an appeal to try and prolong his life. I must admit that death might be too kind for this guy. Let him sit in a jail cell and let’s not ever speak of him again. He doesn’t deserve the attention.
