CNN.com - Italian court: Not a virgin? Sex crimes aren't as serious.

I was going to blog about how NBC is beating Lindsey Jacobellis like a government mule, but this story seemed a wee bit more important. Seems that the Italian Supreme Court thinks gals who have been around the block are whores after all. I am too disgusted to rant.

CNN.com - Italian court: Not a virgin? Sex crimes aren't as serious - Feb 17, 2006

The True North Strong and Free?

Is there a movement to separate northern Ontario from the rest of the province? Livio De Matteo thinks so, and this is just the tip of this iceberg. Stay tuned, this gets good.

Women's Olympic Hockey

Women's Olympic Hockey

Part and parcel of the ridiculous moaning about the women's hockey team has been the assertion that Canada is hurting hockey by being good. For some reason, the trouncing Italy and Russia took will discourage young women in those countries from taking up the game. As if the Olympics are the alpha and omega of hockey. As if young men will not take up soccer in Canada because we will never win the World Cup.

Utter bullshit.

Regardless, I say they can take hockey out to the Olympics with my blessing. If the other countries don't want to play, then can it. Just like softball in the summer Games. People, both male and female, play hockey for the love of the game, not because it will get them a gold medal. We have 66000 registered female hockey players in Canada. They play because it is fun. Let's play in the World Championship, or just have a North American Cup and be done with it. Hockey does not need the Olympics (just like tennis).

Now, while we are on a mission to kick out women's hockey, let's eliminate any sport in which one or two countries are dominant. I am looking at you ice dance. And you biathalon. Why should our cross-country skiers be faced with the prospect of never winning a medal. Maybe Johnny would take up skiing if the other countries slowed down a little so we could feel better. I wish some of those teams and individuals that beat my ass over the years had held back a little so that I could have felt better. No wait, I don't. I wish I had been better. Tough for me.

And long track skating pursuit? What the ...? I can't even watch that crap. Why not a relay for every fucking distance from 400m to 10000m so that some Dutch skater can win 18 gold medals, just like the swimmers.

Olympic Rant

Honshui's rant about the speed skating team needed to be brought forth from the comments.

A la Honshui:

"the speed skaters are a lot like the swimmers. Lots of support [is it 20 or 30 million? - JimDandy], lots of 'fractionalized events' to increase the likelihood of a medal and they are sinking as fast as the swim team. Hell, their little suits are the winter equivalent of the speedo bathing suit, and as the Mrs. Honshui observed, the suits sure smush 'the package'; she has yet to miss a heat...

So Wotherspoon [sic] loses badly and offers up the explanation that he knew what he needed to do but he didn't do it. What the hell is that? What does the term sprint mean to him? I figured it means go like hell and hope for the best rather than 'pace yourself' or 'avoid risk'.

But then what speed skater other than one who did not make the team would bother to say anything? This is the same problem as the summer olympics where we keep athletes on the team for one olympics too many. Bring in some fresh meat for some real sporting events. Find some athletes as tough as that chinese gal in the pairs figure skating, but for god's sake, can we please pull the plug on Sandhu? I don't care if he tries his best."

I am in complete agreement with Honshui. I think we should throw out this qualification standard that only the top 8 in the world goes to the games. Find the hungriest, most talented, most agressive athlete available, and send them, even if the team ends up being small. Take only the wolves. Let the lambs lie. Besides, it works for hockey.

And fuck Sandhu. I can choke 17 ways before breakfast. I don't need to see it on t.v. Let him go model and make big bills that way.

As for choking, that has to be another post, 'cause I know our bloggin team is familiar with the feeling.

Who Will Stand Up To Neal Marshall?

When is one of the speed skaters going to have a Rick Say style hissy fit over the performance of the speed skating team in Calgary? Surely their weak performance (Speed Skating Canada made a prediction of five to seven medals) can be blamed on somebody else. Or, maybe they need another 10-20 million. Or, maybe the athletes are holding out for a better oval in Vancouver.
At least a fit would be funny television.

Improve The Luge!

The luge is a ridiculous sport. Well, it is not a sport. Luge Canada agrees :

The start is critical and is the only part of the run where the athlete has control over the acceleration of the sled.

Oooh, sporty.

How about this:


After the start, an aerodynamic sliding position is quickly assumed with racers reaching up to 150km per hour while steering their sleds with subtle movements of the shoulders, legs and hands.

Sure, they go really fast. Thanks to gravity. Not every sport needs to be a gross motor movement fest, but you should at least be controlling your progress. This is worse than fukcing horse jumping events. T_Swift suggested an equipment change for the luge that could really enervate the event. Kill the bobsled events, and put everyone on a Radio Flyer. Sit upright in the open and do the event on the downhill course. Now that is worth paying to see. That, or put them on Super Slider Snow Skates and then have them run the course. At least that would require some leg strength.

Jim Dandy, T-Swift and Ezra Levant: Freedom Fighters

On Monday, Feb 13, 2006, Ezra Levant's Western Standard will publish the "prophet cartoons" already displayed on the JD blog. Levant is doing so to support the principle of free speech and to show what cowards the leftist media really are. Welcome to the hard right dandy and swift!