movin', movin', movin'

I am moving my blog over here, in order to take advantage of WordPress, an open source blogging software. It has the ability to (among other things) let you categorize entries.

I pulled all of the entries from this blog and several from an earlier blog, as well, over there.

Going to leave this one here for at least a while, as there are folks with links to entries here.

Who's this "we"?

Everybody out there who calls us spoiled because we play a game, they can kiss my ***. I will say personally, to everybody who calls us spoiled ... don't come. We don't want you in the rink, we don't want you in the stadium, we don't want you to watch hockey.

-- Jeremy Roenick, center for my (formerly) favorite NHL team, the Flyers (6/25/05)

Who's this "we"? Is Roenick suddenly the spokesman for the NHLPA? Does this statement come from him having polled every player on every team?

I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that it didn't. But in the spirit of being the self-appointed spokesman for a bunch of other people, I have a reply. If you're going to lash out at the people who really pay your salary (because it's not the owners) while the millionaires and the billionaires can't come to an agreement, then "we don't want you in the rink, we don't want you in the stadium, we don't want you to play hockey", Jeremy.

Sure sign of the apocalypse

Bono, lead singer of U2, was being interviewed by Tim Russert on Meet the Press on June 26, 2005, to promote a concert series to aid Africa. On several occasions, Russert attempted to bait Bono into criticizing the United States and President Bush. Thankfully, Bono -- in a move totally out of character with his celebrity status -- refused to stoop to that level. His reaction:

I love America. I believe in America. It offs me, it upsets me, when the rest of the world thinks America is not doing enough. The president is right to say they're giving a quarter of all aid to Africa.

To use Bono's words, I bet Russert was "offed" and "upset" after lobbing softballs at Bono that he refused to swing at.

("Upon further review", it occurs to me that Bono is Irish. So perhaps he hasn't been quite as tainted by the asininity that most American celebrities display proudly.)

It must be weird definition month

I e-mailed this at John McCain's website tonight:

While I do not quibble with Senator McCain's choice to defend Senator Durbin after his apology concerning his reprehensible comments comparing our servicemen and servicewomen to Nazis, the statement that his apology was "the courageous thing" is absolutely laughable. Senator Durbin refused to apologize for several days, then attempted to "clarify" his comments, then finally apologized after even staunch members of his own party classified his comments as "disgraceful".

While it is clear that Senator McCain has on several occasions tried to extend an olive branch to the Democratic party, those of us on the right side of the aisle would appreciate it if, in the future, the Groucho glasses were removed from the branch first.

"ethical"?

Allegedly, PETA stands for "People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals". One of the things they do is find homes for animals -- dead in a dumpster. That's a weird definition of "ethical".

What were they thinking?

Read the title of this article and then read Jesus' words from Matthew 7:13 (NKJV):

Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it.

And then explain to me how this is a good thing.....

(Props to my friend Randy Brandt for discovering this first.)