You believe in peace but say Bush is a better leader then Harper. Ya hes better at staging a war and killing thousand of innocent people to steal the oil from under there feet. Sounds like a winner to me what a joke.
- jake24242

If Harper had the military might and population that would support it, he would have been as bad, if not worse than GWB.

James is right. The only reason Harper, like Bush, isn't known around the world as an imperialist, resource-stealing, war criminal is because he's the PM of a small, insignificant (militarily) country and not the world's sole superpower.

Pefect example: Even the US, known as an unconditional supporter of Israel, is trying to distance themselves from the country and it's psychopathic leader.

What is Canada doing? Becoming the most ardent supporter of them.

Their traditional allies are stepping back from them, and Harper decides now is the time to jump right in and become their closest ally.

They would kill for Cody Hodgsen, really........really

But I am not going to write bland and generic pieces just to avoid annoying people who might disagree with me.


- James_Tanner

Right, because sensitivity and respect is totally vanilla and puts people to sleep.
Way to hyperbole. Can you just not be an ass?

They would kill for Cody Hodgsen, really........really
- jpd1321

i bet there would be an easier way to acquire him...

I don't know were the idea came along that you can only read or talk to people who agree with you 100%. If you don't like some of my opinions, we can debate them or you can ignore them. But I am not going to write bland and generic pieces just to avoid annoying people who might disagree with me.

We are all grown-ups. We don't need to agree about some things to talk about others. I happen to be of the mind that cheering for a political party like its a sports team is ridiculous.

If the best candidate was Right Wing, I'd vote for him and vice-versa. I have no political leanings, I believe in peace, and justice and fairness and being a decent human being.

In my opinion, neither Bush nor Harper are decent human beings - they are bought and sold by oil companies and they have forgotten the face of their fathers.

But I could also say the same thing about Hilary Clinton.

I don't like them because they think violence is the answer to everything and it has nothing to do with what side of the aisle they vote on.
- James_Tanner

In my opinion you really don't know what you are talking about in people or hockey. Arizona is the example not to do with a hockey team.

Bush is one of history's biggest morons. What was it about his leadership that you liked?

That he kept reading My Pet Goat on 9/11?

That, at the end of 2001, he remarked what a great year it was for Bar and him?

That the admin planted stories about WMD in Iraq and the cited them as proof that Saddam had WMD?

That he put on a cute little airplane-man suit and declared the Iraq War over on May 4, 2003?!?

That the economy disintegrated about 3 months before he left office?

Or that, regardless of what your politics are, it's pretty clear that W wasn't leading anything or anyone and was obviously just a somehat likable goofball frontman who now spends his days painting watercolors of himself in the bathtub while other ex-presidents (including his own father while he still could) spend at least part of their retirement trying to do some good in the world?

i bet there would be an easier way to acquire him...
- docavalanche

Sometimes it is. Do you think ISIS is just going to go away because we're nice to them? And let's not get started about Iran, who will have a nuclear weapon sooner than you think. THEN the fun will start. Also, military troop deaths are double in Afghanistan under President Obama than W. The press doesn't plaster it all over the front page so everyone thinks it's just hunky dory.
- duxcup07

Does anyone else have a sneaking suspicion that Isis is "the rebels" that we armed to fight Assad in Syria? I honestly think we need to leave those people alone. We only make it worse. the only thing people of eitger political party agree on is getting involved everywhere in the wold. Seriously just stop.

Oh and I hope that a team like Ottawa gets mcdavid. That would be justice.

Right, because sensitivity and respect is totally vanilla and puts people to sleep.
Way to hyperbole. Can you just not be an ass?
- jackzack87

No.

I don't know were the idea came along that you can only read or talk to people who agree with you 100%. If you don't like some of my opinions, we can debate them or you can ignore them. But I am not going to write bland and generic pieces just to avoid annoying people who might disagree with me.

We are all grown-ups. We don't need to agree about some things to talk about others. I happen to be of the mind that cheering for a political party like its a sports team is ridiculous.

If the best candidate was Right Wing, I'd vote for him and vice-versa. I have no political leanings, I believe in peace, and justice and fairness and being a decent human being.

In my opinion, neither Bush nor Harper are decent human beings - they are bought and sold by oil companies and they have forgotten the face of their fathers.

But I could also say the same thing about Hilary Clinton.

I don't like them because they think violence is the answer to everything and it has nothing to do with what side of the aisle they vote on.
- James_Tanner

Considering you don't even seem to know that corporations can't even donate politically at the federal level in Canada, you should really just focus on blogging about hockey there bud.

BTW, the tanking by the three or four lowest teams in the league is disgusting, just like the 76ers are doing in the NBA.

As a CBJ fan I hate where we are in the standings, and I hate the fact we have a high draft pick coming our way. I'd rather see the CBJ win every game the rest of the season no matter if we only finished ninth and got a middle of the first round pick.

These are professional athletes playing 82 game seasons. They are paid to win games and people pay serious $$$ to see teams win and give 100% effort, not intentionally trying to lose, or see life-long AHL players put in to supposedly get the next great player.

How fans of any team can root for their team to lose is beyond me. Especially since lots of number 1 draft picks have failed to reach their potential for all kinds of reasons.
- jkumpire

Idealist in our midst! It's a business dude. The only ones sabotaging anything are Owners, GM's mangagement and coaches. I think you'd be hard pressed to find a player let alone multiple players on any one team who are not out there trying to win and play their best on any given night.

With I'm sure an exception or two, these guys spend their entire lives living and dying by competition. To insinuate these players can just turn on and off like a light switch their uber competitive natures is about as implausible as saying Pittbulls were bred to be lap dogs.

I just don't believe for a second that the players themselves would willingly sabotage their own craft and life blood. Too much pride involved for the majority of them.

In my opinion you really don't know what you are talking about in people or hockey. Arizona is the example not to do with a hockey team.
- rune_74

Again, this brings me back to the problem of people needing everything to be totally homogeneous. It is not only probable, but likely that people who you do not agree with actually do know what they're talking about.

And there are people who I never would in a million years agree with who are well informed as well. There are like four topics on earth where there the extreme opinion is correct. Everything else demands compromise and a necessity to hear things you won't agree with.

It shouldn't be a big deal. My wife likes Frasier, my gramps is probably pretty racist, my brother is a redneck, my best teacher was really religious, my cousin once dated a Young Republican, my uncle Chuck is insane, and virtually everyone I know does not share my views on wealth redistribution.

It's cool. I think we should all have different opinions and voice them and talk about them. I think the only really harmful thing you can do is automatically shoot down the ideas of someone just because they are from an opposite political party/lifestyle/ have weird ideas, etc.

Considering you don't even seem to know that corporations can't even donate politically at the federal level in Canada, you should really just focus on blogging about hockey there bud.
- Egleg

Yes that's right. Since there is that one rule, they have no influence and I am just ignorant. OK then.

Yes that's right. Since there is that one rule, they have no influence and I am just ignorant. OK then.
- James_Tanner

Glad to see you've come to terms with it.

Does anyone else have a sneaking suspicion that Isis is "the rebels" that we armed to fight Assad in Syria? I honestly think we need to leave those people alone. We only make it worse. the only thing people of eitger political party agree on is getting involved everywhere in the wold. Seriously just stop.

Oh and I hope that a team like Ottawa gets mcdavid. That would be justice.
- datswho

Yep. This is how I see the middle east.

We westerners are like those morons who keep introducing new species to wipe out a nuisance species. Then we realize that the plant/animal we introduced is actually worse for the environment (and the things that live in it) than the original nuisance. So what do we do? We introduce yet another plant/animal that gets rid of the problem, but then creates a whole new problem that's even worse!

At the end of the day, we could have just left it alone and let mother nature sort it out.

Leave the middle east alone. The more we meddle, the worse we make things. History has proven this to be true, yet every generation thinks they are so much smarter than the one before it and that they are immune to the past.

Oh and I like the McDavid to Ottawa idea

Tanner, can you write a single Arizona blog without referencing the Leafs? Or a single lazy Plus / Minus blog without mentioning the name of a Leaf in the heading? It's a blatant and pathetic trick designed to lure more readers in. Not only that, but in this article you actually use the same ploy by introducing George Bush and Stephen Harper into the mix?? You're pathetic. If you had any talent whatsoever, you wouldn't need to resort to gimmicks like this. None of the other bloggers do this - they stick to the team that they support. Most likely because they actually have things to say, other than simply listing their prospects for us. And pleeeease stop talking about "analytics", as if you have any clue what you're talking about

Listen Harper is bad, but it's even insulting to him to be compared to George W. Bush. Nice try though
- Ballam

Or even worse than those 2............ Obama!!

So is it true, that if the Yotes lose 50 million over the this year and the next two years combined. They can opt out of their lease and move the team?

Stopped reading the instantly you needlessly drug politics into it, even it only was a single sentence shot. Totally unnecessary.

Geez, why are people so butthurt about a meaningless political comment that really even barely broached the political arena?

The context of the comment was not politically motivated.

If Harper had the military might and population that would support it, he would have been as bad, if not worse than GWB.

James is right. The only reason Harper, like Bush, isn't known around the world as an imperialist, resource-stealing, war criminal is because he's the PM of a small, insignificant (militarily) country and not the world's sole superpower.

Pefect example: Even the US, known as an unconditional supporter of Israel, is trying to distance themselves from the country and it's psychopathic leader.

What is Canada doing? Becoming the most ardent supporter of them.

Their traditional allies are stepping back from them, and Harper decides now is the time to jump right in and become their closest ally.
- Charliebox

oh wow, the direction of this comment thread is entirely unexpected

So is it true, that if the Yotes lose 50 million over the this year and the next two years combined. They can opt out of their lease and move the team?
- Itsjustarash

There is an option to do that, but I think it's a longshot. I doubt they'd be buying out players and stuff like that if they had any intention of moving.

oh wow, the direction of this comment thread is entirely unexpected
- BulliesPhan87

How? When you include an offhand remark that disparages a political leader who has been the Prime Minister for close to a decade, you're going to get a derailed poopstorm.

Geez, why are people so butthurt about a meaningless political comment that really even barely broached the political arena?

The context of the comment was not politically motivated.
- MnGump

I hear you man. I thought you could take shots as Bush and Harper and be apolitical about it, since even their once most ardent supporters have kind of moved on and realized they aren't/weren't very good at their jobs.


I guess I underestimated how black and white some people see the world. No big deal.