kelownabomberfan

Great. That probably will solve a lot of problems here, as it appears you and I have an inability to communicate. Your comment about how this was going to be the last FPTP election really struck me as being horribly naïve, and then I remembered that was a comment from Prince Vapid during the election. Oh well, we all have to trust someone. Just don't trust the guy with the haircut and the smile, is all I'm saying.

Benn vs Buff - that'd be one for the ages.

I still say that Justin is following in the steps of his dad. The comparatives to his old man are actually quite eerie. Win a big majority in 1968 (including taking Kelowna riding, something that didn't repeat itself until 2015), and then fast fall out of favour by the next election, but still squeak out a minority. I think JT will get a minority next election too, but we'll see. It depends on how much Jagmeet destroys the NDP. I just don't see Quebec continuing to vote NDP, and if they don't they aren't going to support Dimples McCheery (Scheer made a joke about that) so that leaves Trudeau. Quebec like Alberta tends to vote enmasse for one party, and I think that's going to be the Liberals.

no problem. I'm just curious - why did you trust the Liberals on election reform? It was pretty obvious they were never going to do it. Next time you want to trust a politician, just inbox me first and I'll set you straight.

It's always good to bet a dark horse in the playoffs. Load up on them while everyone is taking a third line guy on Tampa or Vegas.

Always count on the hot goalie. Is Quick playing well this year?

http://angusreid.org/federal-issues-march2018/ March 19, 2018 – The passage of time appears to have done nothing to soothe Canadian voters irritated with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau since his highly criticized passage to India last month. This, combined with a simmering unease among the electorate over the federal government’s deficit spending has, for the first time, driven Trudeau’s disapproval rating north of 50 per cent. All of this adds up to a ten-point gap between the Liberal and Conservative parties in vote intention. The latest polling analysis from the Angus Reid Institute shows that if an election were held tomorrow, the CPC – led by Andrew Scheer, would be in range to form a majority government. The bleed away from the Trudeau Liberals includes not just vote intention, but perception of leadership. On a number of key metrics, including those that have traditionally been strengths for the Prime Minister, Scheer is seen as a better bet. But with 18 months before an expected election, key areas of Liberal support remain solid. Millennials, many of whom turned out to the ballot box for the first time in 2015 principally because of Justin Trudeau, have not changed their minds about the leader – a majority (55%) still approve of him. And the party remains either in the lead or competitive in vote-rich urban centres, where a red surge pushed the Liberals to a 2015 majority.

I laughed at all the people that fell for that promise. No way the Liberals are going to abandon their best chance of maintaining a majority. When NDP supporters were telling me that they were voting for Trudeau I was just shaking my head at their gullibility. That being said, when I look at some of the ****-shows going on in countries like Italy that have proportional representation I am glad that we don't have it. There are already enough lunatics influencing our politics we don't need to elect even more crazy people. Here in BC we have three Green MLA's holding the entire province hostage for the crazy Green ideology, and that's not "democracy". I get this is a rare event under FPTP and hardly ever happens, but under prop rep this would be the norm, and that just sucks. Prop rep is not the way to go in my opinion.

Barry Melrose vs. Barry Melrose? Fun fact - I just dug out my old autographs and found my signed Barry Melrose picture. He came to speak at our hockey banquet in 1981. He had a broken jaw (I think?).

Yes Nashville Ducks would suck a lot of energy out of Nashville.

if that had been Buff getting hit everyone would have been blown out of their seats.

I watched that Benn/Trouba hit and I don't think Trouba hit his head. It looked more like he just got smashed in the body. Not sure how that can be a concussion.

Tanev is going to be important in the playoffs. My question is whether the Jets can handle the attrition of the playoffs. Everytime we get into one of these slug-fests with playoff-like intensity we seem to lose a D man or a forward. By game 12 will there be anyone left or will they be playing all Moose players? Jan Kostalek quarterbacking the power-play by round 3?

I'd like to get through more than one game without losing someone. Is that too much to ask?

Andrew Scheer is pretty funny - here's his speech last year at the press gallery dinner. This is the same dinner who a few years ago Elizabeth May was escorted out of for being visibly intoxicated.

I always liked this classic - where Homer decides to stop going to church....

That goal Roslo scored last game was a beauty. That was just pure talent. I don't know who sits but Roslo should be playing.

its a cycle. Just like in the US. Dem Pres = Repub congress. And vice versa. Lib PM = Cons provincially. Overall, people just seem to like change. And that's not a bad thing, usually.

http://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-trudeau-is-captain-canada-to-our-threatened-steel-workers-our-oil-workers-silence

how is Vesalainen doing?

Speedflex has some experience with Simonise. Apparently not the greatest attitude. Maybe he has fixed that now.

You don't see many shots like the one on the Little goal go in anymore. That was pretty bad. You could see the whole Blackhawk team deflate after that one.

I think he was referencing Bambi.

Iheart will have to report the death of Iheart in the death thread.