SpankyMcFarland

Rock’em Sock’em Hockey was kinda corny when it first appeared almost thirty years ago and has not aged well. Things worked out a lot better for Don than they did for many of his friends who featured, e.g. Bob Probert. https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/5gjbdn/what-i-learned-from-watching-the-entire-first-decade-of-rockem-sockem-hockey-videos-287

Let’s keep him on the show until he’s 105.

But in recent years, Cherry has come to seem more and more a relic of a hockey world, and even a Canada, that no longer exists. “He is a Canadian icon who has done a lot of good things, but they should have never let him stay that long on the air,” said Chris “Knuckles” Nilan, a retired player who Cherry once publicly attacked for being insufficiently pro-fighting. “Honestly, I think they set him up to fail. They could have let him go a little earlier, maybe when he was 80.” https://nationalpost.com/news/coachs-corner-don-cherry-fired

Because he was ridiculous. Did you take him seriously?

Cherry is an obnoxious ignoramus who should have been put out to pasture years ago. How about that? Nobody has to wear a poppy.

I thought this was an opinion site. My bad.

WWI was a catastrophe for Europe, with empires sending their sons to the slaughter. It is more accurately portrayed in the poetry of Wilfred Owen who made an honest attempt to capture the horror of the trenches. Here is an example of his work: Dulce et Decorum Est Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs, And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots, But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of gas-shells dropping softly behind. Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time, But someone still was yelling out and stumbling And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.— Dim through the misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. In all my dreams before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,— My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. My grandfather joined up in a moment of madness but lived to tell the tale.

The guy is 85. He should have been given the boot years ago.

FPTP may deliver many odd results from constituencies with multiple candidates who can win. Apart from Brexit, Corbyn and his leadership style are an issue for some erstwhile Labour voters, particularly his response to anti-Semitism within the party.

Leaving aside the specifics here, Kenney seems to like being angry. Outrage is his default position.

In the smartphone era, anybody doing this runs a constant risk of being caught. Such offenders would rarely be the sharpest knives in the drawer.,

Any party leader who loses an election should face such questions. The CBC is certainly not making up the fact that Scheer lost.

It’s an increasingly obsolete parenting style that involves hovering over your kids. The new technique on the block is the more activist snowplow: https://www.todaysparent.com/blogs/snowplow-parenting-the-latest-controversial-technique/

One type of mentally ill shooter occurs more often than one would expect by chance - a young adult male with symptoms suggestive of paranoid schizophrenia.

Exposing them is the main thing. They’re not worth sending to prison.

In the real world, incompetence is a more likely explanation than some intricate conspiracy. A few points about Michael Baden. He was chief medical examiner (not coroner) of New York City for one year before being fired 40 years ago. He is now 85. I don’t want to sound ageist here but there comes a point for everyone to surrender the stage to younger talents. Leaving that aside, is he really an expert on the specific topic in question, i.e. has he published a recent, large prospective study on pathological findings in suicidal hanging? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Baden

Firstly, a quibble on terms. One can speak of strangulated hernias but people are strangled. Lord knows what happened in that cell. What can be said is that the available forensic evidence does not appear to exclude suicidal hanging. It used to be received wisdom in forensic pathology that hyoid bone fractures were highly suspicious of manual strangulation - if one found them unexpectedly in an autopsy on a young woman the authorities would be contacted right away. However, several recent studies report that hyoid bone fractures are quite common in suicidal hangings, especially in older men. Wiki gives an incidence of 27% Hyoid bone fracture - Wikipedia en.m.wikipedia.org This study found an incidence of 39%: Laryngohyoid fractures in suicidal hanging: A prospective autopsy study with an updated review and critical appraisal. - PubMed - NCBI Note that this was a prospective study which presumably had clear criteria for examining neck structures to look for small fractures that might be missed in a routine exam of an obvious hanging case.Even if Epstein was incompletely suspended (feet on the ground), he could still have fractured his hyoid bone during a suicidal hanging. Both complete and incomplete suspension cause laryngohyoid fractures. In one study they were twice as common in older subjects when there was complete suspension: However, even with incomplete suspension, the frequency of fractures is 31% in older subjects. I presume the percentage of hyoid bone fractures in particular is in the paper.Lastly, for the conspiracy junkies, here’s a paper describing a case of a staged hanging of the body by the offender after homicidal strangulation: Homicidal assault to the neck with subsequent simulation of self-hanging. - PubMed - NCBI

In retrospect, great odds for any fight but Clay was a rank outsider. Liston was the George Foreman of his time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali_vs._Sonny_Liston

Britain resembles Canada in having multiple national parties but also has many regional parties, making FPTP chaotic in its effects. The one clear trend in both countries is that regional parties can end up with far more seats per vote than small national parties: e.g. UKIP versus SNP, DUP or SF; BQ versus NDP or Greens.

Canadian PMs have come in two flavours since 68: Trudeauvian and Chrétienesque. A radical right-winger has yet to win office.

A pure party is a small party. If you’re only going to welcome true, bible-thumping believers to your shindig then you are looking at less than 20% of voters.

That’s not a fight you’re going to win.

I’m merely saying that the consensus on these issues has moved on.

There are social conservatives who do care about these matters and there’s no point blaming the media or Liberals for harping on about it. Harper understood this.

Rees-Mogg is an amusing eccentric, way out of the British mainstream on social issues. His views on such matters are irrelevant.