Freddie P's Blog

March 30, 2009 @ 10:04

Earth Hour and the Junos.

Category: Radio

March 28, 2009 @ 23:44

Well well well. After having their way with a couple of teams ranked 13th and 14th in the Eastern Conference earlier this week the Montreal Canadiens came crashing back to earth when they ran into a tenth place team in the Buffalo Sabres.

Buffalo won it 4-3 in a shootout.

Nowadays, a tenth place team is tough goin' for the slumpin' Habs, heck, an eleventh place team is tough for the Habs. All you have to do is look back to last Saturday night when they were smacked pretty good by the Leafers.

This whole Hab thing is a joy to watch. They still might be clinging to eighth place in the east but they're not fooling anyone.

Victories over Atlanta and Tampa Bay may have given the likes of Freeway Frank a stiff one, but any body who knows any thing about the game of hockey knows the Habs are a broken down and gutless waste of time.

And that's being kind.

I've got to be honest with ya, and I know this is going to stun a few of you, but I'm at the point now where I wouldn't mind it if the Habs made the playoffs.

Don't get me wrong, having them miss the playoffs would be sweet loveliness, but having them crushed in the first round wouldn't be bad either.

Habs fans would go ape shit over making the playoffs and start making all kinds of mindless and unrealistic predictions but then they'd have to play a team ranked first or second in the east and it would be a massacre.

Usually you don't associate the word massacre with something nice, but in this case it would be like getting a hummer in the VIP Lounge at Chez Paree.

I can only imagine of course.

Here's the way she stacks up after Saturday's action.

The Florida Panthers beat Dallas 6-3. They remain ninth in the east, but now they're just one point behind Le Habiturds and it sets up a big Tuesday night.

Le Habiskank play the high flyin' Chicago Black Hawks while the Panthers host Montreal's twin brothers, the Ottawa Senators.

With any luck, come Wednesday morning, Le Habistink will finally be on the outside looking "up."

And let's not forget, next Saturday night Le Poo Poo comes into the ACC for what I'm sure will be another humiliating spanking.

Why not? The Leafs are a better team right now.

Les Sabres l'emportent aux tirs de barrage.

Category: Sports

March 28, 2009 @ 11:28

Earth Hour arrives at 8:30 tonight, and chances are, when it arrives I'll probably be doing what I always do on a Saturday night around that time, watching the hockey game in my rec-room on my now inefficient 36 inch Sony Tube television.

There won't be a lot of lights on in the rec-room, but it won't have anything to do with Earth Hour, it's got everything to do with the fact I don't like a bright room when I'm watching television.

Meanwhile, the lights will be on upstairs in the kitchen and the foyer and probably the living room because we like them on in those rooms at night. The lights at the front of the house will be on also because I like the way my place looks when it's lit up.

If a load of washing needs to be done, it will be. If my wife wants to bake something in the oven, she will, and if my son wants to crank his electric guitar, he will.

Earth Hour is just another one of those goofy symbolic things along the way that makes me shake my head and laugh, and here's why.

Because day to day my family doesn't use a lot of electricity or waste a lot of energy but I'm willing to bet a lot of the people that will take part in Earth Hour tonight, "do" waste a lot of energy.

But tonight will make them feel better about themselves. You know, like carbon credits make Al Gore feel better about the gross amount of power he uses in his seven houses.

The CN Tower will go dark tonight. Big deal. What about the other 364 days of the year - same with Niagara Falls, government buildings and all the huge skyscrapers in town.

Call me a cynic, but Earth Hour is a pointless event that only serves to feed a new industry, the industry that the likes of Gore and David Suzuki are getting rich off, the business of Green hysteria.

Don't kid yourself people, it is big business and it is filled with con artists and hypocrites who don't see a safer or cleaner planet, all they see is opportunity, the opportunity to spread fear through nonsense while selling their act to every gullible goof on the block.

Here's what really makes me laugh. We have the likes of Gore and Suzuki selling us snake oil while tons of people are still throwing their Tim Horton's cups their car windows. Just check out any off-ramp.

We're supposed to live in the dark for an hour tonight, but there won't be any fewer cigarette butts laying on the ground tomorrow.

Millions of suckers will take part tonight, pat themselves on the back, and then go about their business as they always have.

I wonder how many Earth Hour T-shirts have been sold?

Meanwhile, in the next couple of weeks I'll be putting new windows in my house that will cost roughly half of what I bought my first house for. I'm also looking at a new high efficiency furnace and one of those tank-less water heaters.

To some I may look like a hero because of all this, but really, it's got nothing to do with Green hysteria or wanting to help the environment, it's got everything to do with wanting to help Fred Patterson.

I'm doing this because I don't like a drafty house, I'd like an unlimited supply of hot water and I'd like my gas bill to be lower so maybe I can save enough money buy one of those flat screen TV's that use very little energy.

It just so happens that all these products are now made with conservation in mind and by wanting them or needing them I will be doing my part for the environment by purchasing them - and not necessarily by choice I might add, because just about everything we buy is more efficient today.

Cars run cleaner, appliances don't use nearly as much electricity and industry is being forced conform. Generally speaking we're doing a pretty good job of helping the planet through advanced technology and buying the products attached to it.

It's the realistic non-hysterical approach because when you get right down to it, considering our busy lives, there's not much more we can do other than bending over to pick up some litter or turning off our lights for an hour every goddamn night for the rest of time - and you know that ain't gonna happen - anywhere.

Yea, spare me the symbolism and the guilt trip and the hypocricy of everything connected to Earth Hour and the fear of an impending environmental disaster.

Take just half the bullshit attached to Earth Hour, dump it into the Atlantic Ocean, and that my friends would be an environmental disaster.

Category: Stuff

March 27, 2009 @ 19:28

Russel Peters, Bum-Ho and the Habs.

Category: Radio

March 27, 2009 @ 08:13

There really hasn't been much to report on Habs watch this week because the Habs were dealt and unbelievably easy schedule down the stretch.

Although I must say, it was fascinating how they almost blew last nights game.

Meanwhile, I thought this would be a good time to re-visit some Hab fan history. Hab fans like to poke fun at Leaf fans for street celebrations after opening round playoff victories, they think it's sucky compared to what they do.

Habs fans burn, vandalize cop cars.

Some French tourists visited Quebec and attended their first hockey game ever.
They loved it so much that they purchased a CH sweater and brought it back to France.
Before they left they had the name of the most popular player printed on the back, or at least the name of the player that they heard the most during the game.

Category: Sports

March 26, 2009 @ 08:38

Say what you want about Dalton McGuinty, but he's a much better politician than John Tory.

Let's go back to the fall of 2007 during the provincial election campaign when John Tory introduced full funding for faith based schools.

On the surface, it was the right thing to do. In politically correct Ontario it was really a no brainer. If there was full funding for Catholic schools in the province, it was only fair that other religions get the same thing.

Of course that's not the way it played out. There was a backlash based on intolerance and it literally sunk Tory. His attempt to be fair and considerate of all Ontarians turned out to be his demise.

It was a noble and gutsy move, but it was political suicide.

Meanwhile there was the Dalton McGuinty lurking in the background, poised to lose the election based on deceit, lies and non-action.

He had an unprecedented list of broken election promises behind him and a province that had suffered considerably under his leadership. But then one morning he woke up and John Tory had handed him an election by possessing a quality that McGuinty can't relate to.

Honesty.

Now let's zoom the clock forward to the spring of 2009. Ontario rejected John Tory over an issue that made sense, and re-elected a bold faced liar who's been virtually invisible since the world economy started to tank.

That is until yesterday when he came out of hiding and tossed out his intention to harmonize the GST and PST in today's Ontario budget.

Forget about all the window dressing attached to this, and the smokescreen of a one thousand dollar rebate for most families, because in the end this is nothing more than another trademark McGuinty back door maneuver.

And forget about attempting to tie it to the federal government. In the end, this is Dalton's decision and Dalton's alone.

This tax punch will cost Ontario families a lot more than one thousand dollars a year, and regardless of what the Liberal leaning Toronto Star claims, it's nothing more than a ruthless tax grab at the worst possible time.

But nobody should be surprised. We all knew what Dalton McGuinty was all about prior to the election in 2007 and we were ready to dump him, but then John Tory made the fateful mistake and leveling with the people of Ontario by telling the truth during an election campaign.

Meanwhile, at the same time Dalton McGuinty was promising no tax bumps and rejecting any suggestion of harmonizing the GST and PST.

John Tory, honest man - bad politician.

Dalton McGuinty, excellent liar - great politician.

Ontario, dying province - mindless voters.

Category: Politics

March 25, 2009 @ 08:47

Habs, OHL playoffs and discovering Brampton.

Category: Radio

March 24, 2009 @ 08:46

Sports, all sports, Habs and Bills.

Category: Radio