Snippety Snips: Some Comments

-Ever notice when you are watching a program how the local weather report is used? 'It was a gorgeous day in Tin Pot Valley. Will it last? Tune it at 6pm to find out." Yeah, right. Either we click on the 24-hour weather channel one channel over or we head to the Internet to find out. No need to wait around for nothing. Sports shows do the same damn thing. "We'll tell you in a minute." Like I have no fricken life. If anything it's bloody annoying. If you bring it u talk about it on the spot. I'm not in my car all day.

In these times where information is readily available within minutes if not seconds, the "tune in" hook is an obsolete ploy. Producers need to wise up.

-My wife was eager to participate in a contest today. She worked herself up into an excited frenzy when her heart suddenly sank - Not open to Quebec residents. I remember when I wanted to join a nationwide hockey pool on TSN. Same thing: not open to Quebec residents. Pork chop we are and pork chop we act like. We've all seen this. In fact, it happens more often than I care to acknowledge. Petty games among the provinces is nothing new. It's in fact one of the most irritating aspect of this decentralized nation. Sometimes I wonder about us....

-I read somewhere about how Christians, Jews and Americans (those noted infidels) hijacked Islam. Aside from the typical nonsense spewed by leftists, I wondered how this could be. As far as I can tell, it is Islam that hijacked itself. It has no one else to blame except the malignant tumours that reside within its own faith. The West and Israel are pluralistic, secular and free democracies (leave aside the creative criticisms and conspiracy theories of each - some of us have too much time on our hands) that abide by the rule of law. There is no doubt there are abuses in our infallible imperfectability but to spew and utter such assertions is unfortunate and wrong. There is zero accountability in the Arab world. There remains plenty of it here (boorish behaviour of some of our leaders acknowledged) and when we don't like something we boot the bastards out. It is the apologists for Islamic terror who tend to see the world through one narrow prism and from the predictable assumption that the West is inherently amoral and evil.

-Just watched the "History of Soccer" on National Geographic. It left me somewhat befuddled. How can a show go through a full hour without interviewing or mentioning the heritage of Italian soccer? The show was heavily represented by Germans, Brazilians and of course Englishmen. All this was fine and justified. But the omission of Italy (save one small segment abut how calcio -football - was invented in Florence) was odd if not blatant and plain absurd. In fact, one can argue that Argentinean representation was also low.

-Check this link out: Riiiight. Some of us had Kermit the Frog, Gonzo, Grover and others....

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