kelownabomberfan

Forget about style, compare their pictures. They could father and son. Fyp.

There is something to be said for the politics in Canadian hockey. There are only so many spots on junior teams, and a lot of players are extremely similar in size and skill. I can see if there is a recognizable NHL name on the jersey, that kid is probably going to get some favorable treatment. I look at Ben Hawerchuk's numbers with the Barrie Colts and I wonder if he'd even be playing junior hockey if his dad didn't own the team.

If in my job I had the power to kill 150 people just by pressing a button, my concerns about whether a camera is being pointed at me really shouldn't matter.

It won't be long now before the pilots are phased out. Too many planes going down still due mostly to human error. Or from what it looks like in this case, a seriously deranged pilot.

Bring us the Cup and then Willy can name his price. Walters will look at it and shake his head, but at least he can name it.

Of all the teams the Jets lose to it had to be the ****-bag Canucks. Sigh...

In the off season the Jets just need to trade for Ryan Reaves and Alex Steen and we are all good. 2017 - draft Ben Hawerchuk in the first round. When are Teemu's kids draft eligible?

Back to back games - gotta give Hutch the start against the Oilers so Pavs is fresh for the Canucks. I can't tell you how bad I want the Jets to smoke the stinking Canucks.

I think Logan makes a good point. Other than weather, there's plenty of good reasons to live in Manitoba, like the lower personal and property tax rate, no wait, that's not it. Well their PST is lower. No...hmmm. Well they have fewer insect issues...oh right...hmmm

Tacklewasher told me that the new commish was born in Kenya. Has anyone checked his birth certificate? Congrats on the new job. It is especially gratifying that we got someone this good, given how few people wanted this thankless job. Good luck Mr. New Commish!

Get Center Ice ya cheapskate

Yeah I think planting trees is an excellent idea. As for wood stoves, I've been looking at one for the house as the idiot government and utilities board here have put in a two-tier billing system for electricity, and it's caused huge increases in the cost of electricity. There's a wood stove manufacturer in Penticton that manufactures some of the highest efficiency wood stoves on the market, and may be the one you saw, as it has a catalytic combustor as you describe. Not sure if you can buy them in Manitoba - they're called Blaze King.

Well yes it puts CO2 in the air, but really everyone in Canada burning natural gas to stay warm is still like peeing in the ocean compared to the CO2 generated by China in a single day. Even if the man-made climate change myth had some validity to it, taxing natural gas just isn't going to do anything to stop it, and is just a revenue grab. So just say so. Also - in terms of "alternate energies" - I support them, as long as people look at the entire picture. Some look at a wind turbine and say "see it doesn't generate any CO2". Well, that's not true. What about all of the CO2 generated in constructing it in the first place? And what about the acid boiling that is required for the giant rare earth magnet in each of those turbines? And what about all the birds that are blended by wind turbines? I'm not a big supporter of wind or solar. I do support nuclear though.

Chiarot and Perrault practicing today - could they be back sooner rather than later? What about Buff and Little?

I saw Gretzky's first ever NHL game in Winnipeg. He would have been 18 at the time. He played terrible and the Winnipeg fans were chanting "Superstar" and taunting him, as Gretzky came with a lot of hype of course. I remember thinking that maybe the hype wasn't warranted. I probably was wrong about that.... EDIT: I looked it up - Dec 7, 1979. The Jets won 8-3.

Pencer looked to me like he showed up at camp completely out of shape, and he was getting turnstiled on every play. That first exhibition game he was just getting schooled. Definitely one of Mack's worst picks, especially given how high he was taken.

LOL. Can only imagine the chants if/when the playoffs start.

I met his parents at the airport in Winnipeg two years ago, really nice folks. Wish Paul all the best.

I went to the 2000 Grey Cup in Calgary - sat on the temporary steel benches in the endzone - that's the coldest I've ever been in my life! Never doing that again.

What I really don't get is putting a carbon tax on natural gas. It's the most clean-burning fuel you can find. You WANT people burning natural gas to heat their houses. There is literally NO pollution from burning it whatsoever. And yet, thanks to the idiots that still cling to this stupid man-made climate change myth, the government gets away with charging people a tax for using natural gas. Just so ridiculous. If you, the government, want to tax me for burning natural gas because you need the money, then fine, tax it, and just admit it's because you need money, but don't try and sell the BS garbage that you are taxing me because you want me to believe that taxing it is going to reduce man-made global warming - you can go and **** yourself. That's just total and utter crap.

I don't think it's "too easy" at all. There just is no will to even look at it, as the fear-mongering machine starts up immediately. I lived for a year in Australia, and they have a two-tier system, and no one there seems to complain about it. I don't know why people here complain about it, other than out of ignorance. It would be interesting to see what Australia's wait times are, compared to ours, as I think that is the number one issue - people here have to wait too darn long for treatment and surgery and thus their health suffers for it.

Fair enough. Each province is in charge of their health care though, and in cases like Manitoba, where the government is in bed with the unions because the unions fund and control the party in charge, you are going to have far more inefficiencies etc. We saw that here in BC when the NDP were in charge, it was like open season on the province for the unions with no checks or balances. A friend of mine works in the health-care scheduling business and he says you will never see any professional group abuse overtime more than nurses. It's like they think it's a right of their job. Of course, when you say stuff like this, you get the nutbars who think that you are "attacking" nurses etc. Always an over-the-top emotional reaction when you even suggest that possibly they stop willfully stealing from the taxpayers, and work for the wage that their union negotiated. So there's one big reason why you can't ever talk about changing anything in health care, you can't talk about doing anything differently without someone claiming they are being "attacked". In BC now, the Liberals have hired so many administrators it just makes no sense. Way too much overhead. No business would ever be run this way. And that's the problem, the health-care system is so obsessed with not being "run like a business" they go out of their way to lessen the accountability. A relative of mine was a doctor (retired now) and I asked him what's wrong with health care. He said "What if tomorrow the government said "food is now free". You'd be ordering steak every night. Except after a few days you'd be sick of steak, but you'd still order it. And after awhile, you'd just throw it out. But now you feel you have a right to that steak, even if you are just going to throw it in the garbage, as it's an entitlement. And that's what's wrong with health care".

When I hear things like this I think....who? Pokey Reddick? Daniel Berthiaume? Bob Essensa? Then I remember...wrong franchise...