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Human rights groups have criticized the law, which was passed in December 2011 and has been used to imprison land-grab victims and activists.
Activists and others responded to the amendment with calls for the whole law to be scrapped, saying it violates the constitution and people should not have to ask for permission to protest.
Thanks. God bless.
Aaron
By Terrance Gavan
Remember South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius?
Oscar – no grouch – runs 100 meters in 10.91 seconds.
This month, at the South African national championship, he placed second in the 400 meter dash.
That makes Oscar a candidate for next year’s Olympics.
Here’s the thing.
Both of Oscar’s legs are amputated beneath the knees.
He runs on a pair of prosthetic legs, and international track officials want him barred from the competition in London 2012.
Pistorius’s story and struggle is featured on the London 2012 Olympic website. “I am delighted that my new personal best of 45.61 is within the Olympic B qualification and it takes me that step closer to competing in the Olympics as well as the Paralympics in 2012,” says Pistorius. “There is a year-and-a-half to go to the London Games and I need to put my head down and push for it.”
Good for Oscar.
It’s a beautiful story.
Closer to home, another young man has some dreams of his own.
Josh Cartwright, 24, is a cottager on Lake Kashagawigamog. His parents, John and Belinda Cartwright have cottaged in the Highlands since 1987. Continue reading Lake Kashagawigamog cottager waiting as pro baseball career put on hold
By Terrance Gavan
Yes of course we love dogs.
Everybody loves dogs.
But especially women soccer players.
This German Shepherd gets a lotta’ love in spite of arresting a try on goal!
Good Puppy!
By Terrance Gavan – Voice Sports
Chicago – By hook and by crook.
Matt Cooke is a schnook.
I’m going to go out on a limb here.
And I’m going to guess that when Matt Cooke – erstwhile Pittsburgh Penguin knuckle-dragger and drooling yob, who fired an elbow recently into the unsuspecting noodle of NYR’s Ryan McDonagh – comes out of his mandated 10-game plus first round of the playoffs suspension, Mario Lemieux, the guy what signs his checks, is going to ask ol’ Matt to grab his golf clubs and follow the sun.
“Go west young Matt,” Mario will say. “Oh, and don’t let the door hit your big fat gluteus maximus on the way out tough guy.”
Then I think ol’ Mario is going to tell Mr. Cooke to fold it five ways and put it where the moon never shines.
I think Cooke’s days in Penguin powder blue are “over.”
I’m spitballin’ here knuckleheads.
Or channeling my inner NHL owner.
There’s irony here.
Because for years I’ve been told by a legion of talking heads over to the network where the ‘T stands for The’ that human battering rams like Clarke remain stolidly glued to the brawler mindset because it’s the only way they can stay in the show to collect all that dough-re-mi.
Let’s see.
The suspension is going to cost Mr. Cooke in the neighborhood of one quarter of a million samoleons. Cooke will forfeit $219,512.20 in salary.
That’s a lot of smackers for a beguiling smacker.
So my question?
Is Matt Cooke independently wealthy; the son of an oil baron; a trust fund baby; or just plain dumb as a bag o’ hammers?
I’m not going to help you sort that out.
Here’s the thing.
Matt Cooke is serving out his fifth suspension for suspect behavior.
He ain’t getting’ no love from anyone.
Including his own team. Continue reading Cooke is not the problem – but he makes a charming scapegoat
By Seamus O’Bradaigh – PTE Editor Emeritus
Pitt Panthers are truly unblessed, undressed and discombobulated.
Butler beats the number one seed in what can only be called a huge comedy of fouls at the end of the game.
The Pitt crew came back to tie the game at 71 with a free throw and a chance to win with another free throw.
Free throw missed and they have overtime right?
Noooooo!!!
A rumbling lumberjack decides to jump all over the Butler player with .81 seconds left.
Here’s the actual skinny from the NY Post.
In a bizarre sequence of events, both teams committed fouls inside the final second of the game. After Smith’s shot went in, Pittsburgh forward Gilbert Brown took the ball up the left side of the court when, inexplicably, Butler guard Shelvin Mack rode him along the sideline, and was called for a foul with 1.4 seconds remaining.
“Shelvin can’t be in that position,” Butler guard Ronald Nored said. “I told him when I got back on the floor, ‘Make them make a 35-footer to win the game.’ That’s a tougher shot than two free throws.”
But after Brown missed the second of his two free throws, Butler’s Matt Howard grabbed the rebound. Inexplicably, Pittsburgh’s Nasir Robinson fought for the ball, and was called for a foul with 0.8 seconds remaining.”We were just trying to psych [Brown] out the whole time,” Smith said. “We were just standing there looking at him, getting our hands up, and he ended up missing the second one and Matt made a great play.
“I don’t know what they were thinking, but they grabbed Matt and fouled him.”
The senior forward then stepped to the foul line, made the first free throw and missed the second intentionally to give the eighth-seeded Bulldogs (25-9) an improbable 71-70 Southeast Region victory over the top-seeded Panthers to advance to the Sweet 16 next weekend in New Orleans.
Pitt bulls of shit take Gav to the manure pile.
Fuck you Pitt.
From my iPhone.
FYP!!!!
Gav out … Of the pool!!
By Terrance Gavan
Yeah, I’ve been told that I’m not supposed to comment of the state of the NHL.
I’m not supposed to tamper with the tenor of The Game.
I’m not supposed to ask for a five game suspension of that charming and even handed gentle giant Zdeno Chara who may have ended the career of one Max Pacioretty.
Against a stanchion in Montreal’s Bell Centre.
The play was payback for a little shove that Max handed out post-game to Chara in an earlier Habs’ win over the Bruins.
Please don’t tell me that Chara’s shove was an accident.
I’ve reviewed it 43 times on my video software.
The Habs were up 4-0 and Pacioretty was skating past Chara after a loose puck.
Chara reached out with his left arm and he pushed Pacioretty’s head into a stanchion.
Please don’t tell me that Chara didn’t know the stanchion was there.
Zdeno Chara knows where every stanchion and every wonky board is on every arena in the NHL.
It was payback, pure and simple.
It was not a hockey play.
Chara was called for interference. Like high-sticking, two-handers to the back of the head, cross-checking, and boarding; interference is by definition not a hockey play. That’s why it’s a penalty. Continue reading Bunk, blather, bull shit and bupkis from Bettman
The good news?
Cody Hodgson, a Highlands’ hockey prodigy, is back in Winnipeg playing for the Manitoba Moose, where he will at least be getting some playing time.
The bad news?
The brain trust over to the Vancouver Canucks, after swinging a few deals, just prior to the NHL trading deadline, have apparently decided that Hodgson, a two way center with moxie, smarts and soft hands, is not the answer.
The question is: “What do we need for a fourth line center? Goal scorer or banger?
The latter won out last Monday.
The Canucks acquired yappy pest (a good thing says GM Mike Gillis) Maxim Lapierre (25) – a kid who played junior under Canucks coach Alain Vigneault – and Chris Higgins (27) last Monday.
The Canucks, who are dancing on the edge of the NHL’s salary cap, say that they have found their fourth line center with the twin moves, and that means Hodgson is for the second time in a little over a month, the odd man out. Continue reading Back to the Peg for Cody Hodgson – Duchene says his Avs can’t buy a break
By terrance gavan
Dave Duerson, a former NFL safety with Chicago Bears may have been depressed, and he may have been confused when he pulled the trigger of the shotgun on February 17, 2011.
One thing Dave Duerson was not.
He was not ambivalent about the possible cause of his depression and suicidal mindset.
You see, Dave Duerson did not point the shotgun at his head.
He popped off one round to the vicinity of his chest, ending his life via severe chest and heart trauma.
He saved his brain for a reason, elucidated in his final suicide note.
He wants his brain autopsied. Continue reading The Duerson factor suicide preserves brain
By Terrance Gavan
I have no idea if the Emperor – OHL commissioner Dave Branch – is wearing a tux or his birthday suit.
I do know that I went into last Wednesday’s hot stove night – organized by our own Scotty Morrison who once again managed to snag the Stanley Cup from the Hockey Hall of Fame – expecting banter and bonhomie from the assembled panel of guests that included former NHL players Ron Stackhouse, Walt McKechnie, Gary Inness, Scotty, and special guest, Branch, the commissioner of the OHL and president of the Canadian Hockey League.
We got the banter, some great stories and reminiscences from Stack, Inness, Walt and Morrison.
The heat jumped when the subject of head hits and the “new” NHL was broached in the question and answer round.
Some coaches and parents in the audience were interested in picking Branch’s brain regarding head shots, concussions and equipment.
It was illuminating.
Branch, who as the head honcho of junior hockey in Ontario, has instituted a number of forward leaning rules and decisions regarding head shots, concussions and the general demeanor of junior hockey in this country was asked a few cogent and thought provoking questions. Continue reading Dave Branch drops the puck – and his drawers
By Terrance Gavan
Yes of course it’s a fair pole.
We’ve been calling it a foul pole since Kenesaw Mountain Landis was Kenesaw bunny hill Landis.
And I hate it. It’s got to change.
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