The Unknown Poster

Oh, I thought the season ended last night? It did.

No fight. No urgency. I wonder if the pressure is impacting them.

Im on the fence about cell phone use. While I admit I have texted (at stop lights etc) I can certainly understand that. But there was already a distracted driver law and reckless driving law. Apparently, when radios were first put into cars there was the same doom & gloom about how there was going to be chaos as a result of driver's being distracted. Hearing about plain clothed cops standing in downtown over-passes to get better looks at cars below and radioing to cars on the ground is just over-kill. A friend of mine was pulled over and nearly ticketed for using a cell phone. He pointed out that his phone was in his pocket and the officer mistook him changing the song on his ipod. The cop replied that he could ticket him for using the ipod too but didnt. Then why not ticket us for changing CD's or adjusting the radio? Ticket people that deserve to be ticketed. Personally, I can talk on the phone and drive at the same time just like I can hold a conversation with the person beside me, sip my iced cap and drive all at the same time.

How many of those injuries to key pieces tho? We ain't a deep team so when guys from our top 2 lines and d pairings go down, we suffer big time.. The sad thing is, we are now deeper than we've ever been before and its all going to be for naught.

A miracle because they arent going to. They either arent good enough or dont have enough heart or combination of both. They knew exactly what they had to do to beat Florida and didnt do it. Post game, they talked about knowing what they had to do and how they didnt do it. No excuse for that. If you play your game, play hard and lose by a goal, whatever, it happens. Yeah there is a caveat to this. We've been hit terribly hard by injuries. But honestly, if Chevy traded Ladd (and Buff) in the off-season I dont think i could fault his choice of going in a different direction. If they both resign, great. If they are traded, I can appreciate the vision.

If I recall there was talk a couple of years ago about making it public where dues were being spent and members being able to opt out. I pay dues to the union to represent me at my place of work. I know the unions argument is that it benefits me to have an NDP government but that's really an idealogical debate. If they have money to spend on advertising campaigns for political parties then clearly they are charging too much for dues and we should get a refund. Union still think it's 1912. There is an ad where they brag about all the things Unions introduced. Great. Now we have them. Collective bargaining is great but every CBA I've been a part of, you can pretty much know exactly what the agreement will look like before the fighting and mud slinging and threats start. The best union I ever belonged to was when I was 19 and worked security. I was paid minimum wage and worked alone. So once you factor in dues, I made less than minimum wage. Effective union.

Im under the impression a lot of kids get rides. I walked to school...just under 1KM for elementary and just over for Junior High. Walked from Grade 1, so whats that 6 years old? Took city bus to High School.

When you read details of the leadership convention you see that the Premier was directly chosen by the Firefighters union. And he had pledged support to two candidates. Its all dirty politics. I was at a meeting of the union that I am apart of once as we were in a CBA negotiation. I was floored when, at the end of the meeting the leadership implored us to work hard to get the NDP re-elected and they desperately needed our help to keep the PC's out of power. I'd love to know how much of MY union dues go to the NDP. I really can't stand my union. Our leadership is awful. Incredibly paranoid. I had an issue at work at was flat out told my management wanted to get rid of me. I said well I dont think thats the case. Union made it way worse. I was actually quite upset with both sides when we had a meeting as they get entrenched and argue like school children.

There must have been a change in process from when I was a school patrol as a kid. It never fails to amaze me how little structure the kids today seem to have. When I was a school patrol, it was treated as a privilage. And we had to stand at attention and look the part. And the process was cars had the right of way. If there was traffic, you held back the kids until traffic had passed. Even if a car stopped for you, we were to wave the traffic through. Worked pretty good for us.

Lets look at the MTS privatization. Has anyone gotten better service since it was privatized? Filmon lied- in the election before he privatatized MTS, he personally promised he would not privatize it, and then he did it. He said that Manitoba could not afford to have a crown corporation help keep up with all the pending technology, but and here is where it gets interesting, the legislation to sell MTS specifically prevented SaskTel from buying MTS, and they were very interested. Same old stories-lying Tories Yes, everyone gets better service. MTS had lousy customer service for awhile and they knew that. They have improved in that area significantly. Its certainly no worse than any "call center" service I've experienced with other comparable businesses including SHAW. If you're referring to the Phone Center stores, they would have gone away regardless and if they didnt, thats a perfect example of why the government couldnt be trusted to effectively run the operation. Im really not sure there is a great argument against the privatization of MTS at this point. I was pretty young during the bulk of the Filmon years and actually grew up very anti-PC (my parents were NDP'ers) but the older I got, the more I couldnt deny his effectiveness as a leader. As a young person in the 90's, Winnipeg sucked big time. Everyone I knew was dying to get out. Losing the Jets was another nail in the coffin. Filmon was the leader we needed at the time we got him. NDP had come in and screwed things up, economy was bad, transfer payments down. PC's governed during bad times, steered us through it and when things turned around, here came the NDP with alot of wonderful ways to spend the money the PC's worked hard to generate. And now history repeats itself except the Selinger government has had pretty good times and loads of money...they are just incompetent. And along will come a PC party to fix things. You pretty well ignored everything Tracker wrote, except the 1st part about service. My biggest beef with the MTS thing was the fact he had just campaigned on not privatizing it. It's not a whole lot different than Selinger raising the PST after saying he wouldn't. Both were needed and the right thing to do (IMO) but lying about it before hand is sure to piss people off. Filmon deserved the critisism and so does Selinger. Another thing that stinks about it, besides the SaskTel thing, is that Filmon became a director with MTS less than 5 years after privatization, so he not only lied about it, he gained quite a bit financially from it. I didnt ignore it. I didnt have a counter argument. Like I said, I was pretty young so I really can't remember details like SaskTel wanting to buy it. MTS is a pretty good company now though and I am not sure they'd be there had they continued to be a crown corp (in fact, Im sure they wouldnt).

Slow time for Bombers news. But I have to say, this forum has really become a great place for discussion of various topics, even when disagree.

This is exactly true. They fixed a problem that didnt exist. For example, it was a terrible tragedy that a young girl died at Holiday Mountain this week. Are they going to close down the expert run? Are they going to ban school ski trips? The entire time I went to school, I know of two kids hit by cars. Both injured pretty seriously, both recovered. And not a soul talked about lowering the speed limit because it wasnt the fault of the speed of the car, it was kids doing what kids do - running out in traffic. The idea that 'hey kids will do stupid things so lets bubblewrap the world' is stupid. Eventually there might be a backlash that sees the law altered. At best I *might* agree that during the ACTUAL times the BULK of kids are going to and from the immediate school surroundings, you could do this. So this clown can set up his camera car at 3:30 and leave at about 3:50. But sitting there in what seemed like a virtually abandoned neighbourhood at 5PM? Why was he doing that? Because drivers will instinctively drive the speed they always have when there ISNT A SINGLE SOUL walking around and thats when you will catch them, not at 3:40 when most drivers in the area are using common sense and going slower...(or going slow simply out of neccesity due to foot traffic, school buses and parents blocking lanes to pick up their kids).

Lets look at the MTS privatization. Has anyone gotten better service since it was privatized? Filmon lied- in the election before he privatatized MTS, he personally promised he would not privatize it, and then he did it. He said that Manitoba could not afford to have a crown corporation help keep up with all the pending technology, but and here is where it gets interesting, the legislation to sell MTS specifically prevented SaskTel from buying MTS, and they were very interested. Same old stories-lying Tories Yes, everyone gets better service. MTS had lousy customer service for awhile and they knew that. They have improved in that area significantly. Its certainly no worse than any "call center" service I've experienced with other comparable businesses including SHAW. If you're referring to the Phone Center stores, they would have gone away regardless and if they didnt, thats a perfect example of why the government couldnt be trusted to effectively run the operation. Im really not sure there is a great argument against the privatization of MTS at this point. I was pretty young during the bulk of the Filmon years and actually grew up very anti-PC (my parents were NDP'ers) but the older I got, the more I couldnt deny his effectiveness as a leader. As a young person in the 90's, Winnipeg sucked big time. Everyone I knew was dying to get out. Losing the Jets was another nail in the coffin. Filmon was the leader we needed at the time we got him. NDP had come in and screwed things up, economy was bad, transfer payments down. PC's governed during bad times, steered us through it and when things turned around, here came the NDP with alot of wonderful ways to spend the money the PC's worked hard to generate. And now history repeats itself except the Selinger government has had pretty good times and loads of money...they are just incompetent. And along will come a PC party to fix things.

Yeah really. I mean even if you would prefer to keep MTS as a crown corporation, I'd love for someone to explain why MTS is bad. The thing is, there is so much competition. Just read the quarterly financial reports from MTS to see that. I have zero faith MTS as a crown corp would have been able to successfully position itself as a market leader in current technology. Hydro is different. There isnt multiple competitive companies coming here to battle over your electricity dollars. The NDP loves crown corps so they can take the profits and pretend their deficit isnt as bad as it really is. As it relates to the Stadium, I had no problem with the deal that was made but regardless of who was in power, the deal would have been made. Neither the PC's nor the NDP would have allowed the Bombers to essentially fold. Just as the NDP would have done as much to save the Jets as the PC's tried to do too.

Firing nurses lol Filmon's biggest problem was we had an NDP government before him. He came into office with a deficit, dwindling transfer payments and a bleak situation. Balanced the budget, made it law (which the NDP undid) and governed pretty well. What I like most is, when you look at one of the biggest issues during his time, the Jets' situation, you had people on one side thinking he didnt do enough and people on the other side thinking he had done too much. Perfect example of not being able to please everyone. As for privatizing MTS, the MTS of the 90's is a lot different than the MTS of today. It would have taken a massive public investment for MTS to keep up with changing technologies. Sure, maybe everyone would still have a landline phone for $10/month. But thats all you'd have.

And Myers hurt.

As opposed to Sterling Lyon who referred to Manitoba women as "good breeders" and Filmon with his vote-rigging scandal? Or premier-hopeful Brian Pallister who calls non-Christians "infidels"? One incident of idiot staffers doesn't ruin a great legacy of Filmon. Would take him back any day.

Just slap a speed sign to the back of kids' jackets and mount a camera on the kids head. That way no matter where the kids are or what time it is it can always be "reduce speed to save lives" and make a few bucks for the city

Barring a miracle there has to be at least a thought from TN to going with youth. Maurice let it slip that if the team he not turned it around somewhat last season that that was the plan. Are they going to allocate 16+ million per year to Ladd, buff and Frolik to miss the playoffs every year?

I hope true north hasn't written any cheques with all that playoff money. Jets need a miracle to get in now. They basically have to play well above what they've shown all year. No reason for that to happen. Looking forward to doubling our odds of seeing playoffs hockey next season. Go moose.

Team is running out of juice. Injuries and no fourth line has finally caught up with them. No superstar goalie to steal a game.

I see a "name that team" discussion has started on Twitter. Have to think they'd be Moose. Easy change, especially if this is temporary. Apparently, before they went with Jets, True North had a logo/jersey designed for a Manitoba Polar Bears team (I think it was burnt orange). Not going with the Moose would allow them to sell more merch to former Moose fans. But I would strongly assume it's Moose.

This school zone speed limit is the most pointless thing I've ever seen. Sorry...it has a point: generate revenue. I realise it's an easy argument to make, you're either in favour of saving lives or putting children at risk. Except that's not the point. My God how stupid. Driving through my area twice on Monday. The idiot is sitting there on Chancellor at 5PM. NOT A CHILD TO BE SEEN ANYWHERE. And cars are driving at little more than walking speed. But what about the children!?? Oh no, all of the fatalities that were happening. It was chaos with children being maimed left and right, the streets running red with the blood of the innocent children being mowed down by the evil drivers. It simply doesnt happen. 50KMH is perfectly reasonable. And here's something...there was already a little known law that when school was beginning or ending (ie when kids were actually in the area), the 50KMH was reduced to 30. Didnt need signs. Just common sense that if hundreds of kids were milling about, you'd slow down. And before you say "yeah but ignorant drivers wouldnt slow down", well if someone wants to speed they will speed regardless. The police could have enforced it. But guess what, they didnt. Want to know why? Because there was no issue with kids being mowed down.

Maybe CJOB will get the Moose rights!

@SportsCentre: JUST IN: @NYIslanders announce signing of D Johnny Boychuk to a seven-year, $42M contract extension. http://t.co/vftdd8dTRi 31 years old. And people wonder what Buff will ask for...