"Quebec Remparts goalie Jonathan Roy was suspended for seven games, and Remparts coach Patrick Roy -- Jonathan's father -- was suspended for five games following Saturday's melee between their team and the Chicoutimi Sagueneens in a Quebec Major Junior Hockey League playoff." ESPN.com news services
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I turned on the television this morning to catch the latest Democratic melt-down in play only to see a hockey player pummeling another hockey player viciously as the crowd cheered him on. Turns out the hockey player with the "attitude" was told by his father to go over and beat the goalie for the opposing team half-to-death. WAY TO GO DAD!
Not only has this incident ratchet down the institution of fatherhood a few notches but it highlights how out-of-control hockey is as a "sport." Is hockey a "sport" or an "excuse" to be violent?
In school I played football and never saw a single fight break out. Oh, I did see an attack. The coach, a beast of a man .. a first class "A-hole" (to use a Gene Simmons' expression) .. took a dazed player and threw him in the mud in front of everyone because he was unhappy with the way the kid played. The boy springs from the wet, brown slops, takes off his helmet and throws it at his attacker striking the half-wit coach in the head and ran like hell from the field to the howls and cheers of his comrades. But, other then that small event, I never saw a fight. But with hockey fighting seems to sustain this "event" (hard for me to see it as sport).
If I had a son, or daughter, and he or she wanted to play hockey I would work to convince him or her not to waste their time. I would lean my child towards boxing or MMA (Mixed Martial Arts). Somehow, it seems to me, these sports a more dignified then two clowns ( all that padding makes them look like clowns to me ) with bent sticks beating the crap out of one another rolling around on ice like two cartoons before a delirious and drunken crowd.
Hockey should be reserved for the Senate. Now there it would be a blast to watch! It could be presented as a "public service" event.
What do you think of hockey? Sport or mishap?
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Then, Hillary took a mean high-stick to the forehead with her hilarious recollection of the Tuzla incident.
The Democratic party is poised to roar out onto the ice...............to fight itself!
I was just reading the other day how scientists hope to train fish to catch themselves. Maybe they could train Democrats when to shut up? As Don Imus would say, "Just shut up!"
I think Hillary has managed to knock one over the fence with her asinine "recollections" of an event that never happened. I'm sure she's in the history books now right along with all the other liars that went down in flames.
Being a Democrat, I don't find any of this comforting. Being a Conservative, I find it hilarious.
Maybe if all the Liberals beat each other to a pulp, then only the reasonable Conservative Democrats will remain after November, to clean up the mess they all made. I'd love to see a Conservative Democrat like Heath Shuler fully supported by the party the next time around.
All these Liberals are a bunch of losers.
We need a strong two party system to make our election process actually workable. We're being short changed with the current line up. And I don't understand why other then to say in the end its our fault. What else could it be? We elect goofs to high office and when we get stuck with the results we blame the OTHER guy, it's never our fault.
Just look at the fiasco with Spitzer and now this David Peterson. But before Republicans can laugh and celebrate I think they need to take a good hard look at their own ranks and work to weed out the losers there as well. We know we have them, it's just a matter of finding them and cutting them from the pack.
I'm disappointed that these two are the best the Democratic party could come up with.
What's going to happen if John McCain wins and ends up croaking on us? I'm not sure if that would be a bad thing .. or a good thing. I guess it depends on who's his running mate. I'd like to see Huckebee get the call. He was the one I was most interested in originally .. just seemed like a good, upstanding fellow.
Only Huckabee was willing to consider major tax reform, and we need it badly. The current system totally sucks and it's screwing the American people big time. The other thing we need are stronger UNIONS to make sure the American people get their fair share of a better tax system. What good does it do to pour more money into the corporations (stockholders) if the men and women on the floor don't make a decent living wage? We've been seeing a lot of that for some time.
I live in Ohio and the knot heads here have fallen for the totally asinine idea that we don't need big industry any longer. They are bragging about how we will become a state of enterprising small businesses. MAKES ME FREAK'N LAUGH! We have .. something around 11 million people in this state .. how many fast food resturants, flower shops, garages, doughnut shops, etc. etc. do these fools think we can support?
I think the United States has bought into a very bad situation when we've allowed our current tax system to run businesses overseas. I say, cut the crap, cut the taxes on corporations, strenghten the unions (but monitor them carefully for corruption) and use those corporate tax savings to BOOST EMPLOYEES WAGES rather then dump all that money directly into worthless government programs. In the long run, the government will get it anyways. Nothing will be lost only people will be able to afford to live in the United States again.
President Romney.
Which is a high probability no matter who gets in the White House this time.
If McCain gets in, then croaks, its President Romney.
If Obama gets in, his policies are the same as Jimmy Carter's - so I expect pretty much the same result in 4 years. After Obama's destroyed the economy............and Romney has had 4 years to hone his Conservative credentials, I see a new Conservative revolution sweeping away Liberal mistakes and bad platforms - this time with Romney instead of Reagan.
Yea, I saw that.
But Huckabee isn't seen as strong on the economy - which is the main topic now. Romney fills that gaping hole in McCain's resume.
He may not like Romney as much, but I think he needs him more desperately than he needs Huckabee.
I see Huckabee with some sort of role in a McCain/Romney administration, as I think both men like him a lot. Who doesn't? He was as authentic as it gets.
It's getting just about unbearable to watch the news. Pick whomever they are going to run with so McCain can knock them out. Word is no matter who wins .. Obama or Hillary.. the losers intend to vote for McCain in droves as some sort of "protest". HA! I love it. :O)