This is a photograph of a thing full of hot air. Lol. - Editor
-BY PETE FOSTER
Particularly the current furor surrounding the Colorado avalanches gifted Lebanese-born player Nazim Kadri who has suffered death threats and racial slurs after an accidental-on-purpose collision with the St. Louis Blues goalie Jordan Binnington that finished his season for him and eliminated the Blues’ first-string goalie, which had, up to that point, pretty well stonewalled Colorado’s high scoring offense. Certainly, there is no room anywhere for death threats and racial slurs, including in the hockey world. But think here for a moment what sort of ambassador to the cause is a man who effortlessly seeks to intentionally injure another human being in order to win a hockey game and has exhibited a past history of cheap shots to the head and near-psychotic exhibitions of violence on the ice. To Nazim Kadri, I offer up a quote from the immortal don cherry. Keep your head up out there!
We must quickly revisit the sordid saga of the Royal British Columbia Museum in downtown Victoria that, in order to decolonize the building, the new board of directors, in a moment of over-zealous wokefulness, discharged all the exhibits on the entire third floor of the museum except for a giant totem pole that no one has yet to figure out how to get out of the building.
Then they discover, to no one’s surprise but their own, that no one is coming to see the museum anymore because they threw half of it away. Then in an effort to cover their gullibility, they declared the building seismically unsafe, and now the province has kicked in, saying they are going to tear the old building down in an 8-year, 800 million dollar rebuilding project that proponents say could be money better spent elsewhere.
Things like crumbling infrastructure, shortage of doctors and nurses, social welfare, drug addiction, mental health, missing and murdered aboriginal women, and the inability of young people to afford mortgages come to mind! So the Horgen government falls on the old practice of something Justin Trudeau has perfected - blame the previous administration, who have ignored the museum’s problems for decades which has resulted in its sordid condition.
So the Horgen government earns three quotes. The first is from Homer Simpson. “It was that way when I got here!”; And one from Abraham Lincoln, “If you take no notice of the affairs of your government you are doomed to be governed by damn fools!”; And one from an old book I read a long time ago from an aboriginal fellow whose name escapes me. “Only the white man could think of something this stupid and consider it to be a great success!”; And last but not least, the conservative party of Canada, whose debates have degenerated into a childish exhibition of name calling and fault finding. A quote from the immortal Will Rogers, “Only the lead mule ever benefits from a change of view. All the others just get to see the south end of a northbound mule!”
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