I have often written about my love for traveling in Canada. This video reminds me why I love Canadians. At the November 18, 2014 Maple Leafs game against the Nashville Predators, the mic cut off during the singing of our national anthem so the Canadians finished singing the song for us.
Of course, this will not influence my loyalty when the Maple Leafs next play my Chicago Blackhawks. The Hawks play the Calgary Flames tonight without rookie defenseman Trevor van Riemsdyk who is injured. He is the he younger brother of Toronto Maple Leafs forward James van Riemsdyk. I will be watching tonight in full Hawks regalia.
@Jim Rose:
Well said!
Jim, quit Grubering yourself, that’s gross.
On the Immigration front:
A question for the legal community here.
Why can’t Congress or a group of States get an injunction, through a temporary restraining order, or a Wit of Mandamus, against Obama?
I thought this situation is exactly why that law was created to address?
Jim Rose
@Joan
Notice that regular gas is now below $3.00 a gallon and dropping like a stone?
Want to know why?
North Dakota and Canadian Tar sand oil is finally coming on line, no thanks to the Obama administration.
And by the way, there is still not one case fracking causing ground water to be polluted. Every single case that environmentalists claimed was caused by fracking, everyone single one, turned out to be water already naturally polluted by naturally occurring minerals that was simply pumped out of the ground by the fracking process.
Remember the video of the guy lighting “natural gas” coming out of the kitchen faucet on fire, claiming it was caused by fracking? Remember him?
He was Obama’s very first head of the EPA.
A year or so after he released that video, his arrogance caught up to him. Someone released his entire, unedited video, showing that he had disconnected the water line under the sink and hooked up a line that ran to a propane tank. He turned on the propane and then the camera panned up to the sink and he proceeded to light it on fire.
Another example of the Liberal/Progressive GRUBERISM.
For all of you academics that subscribe to, and believe in, the “Gruberism Liberal Mantra”, lets us review it’s definition for those that do not know it’s true meaning……..
Gru-ber-is-m
/verb.
1. The Liberal/Progressive/Socialist Elite political act of outright lying and/or hiding the true facts of a political argument or movement for the sole purpose of defeating defaming a political opponent or movement, or deceiving US Citizens.
2. The Liberal/Progressive/Socialist Elite act of Purposefully constructing legislation so complicated and misleading, that the true facts are hidden from purview of most who are responsible for voting on it, or the American Voter, who is viewed as “Too Stupid” by the Liberal/Progressive/Socialist/Academic Elite, who feel justified in the act of GRUBERISM, because they know what is best for you.
3. The Liberal/Progressive/Socialist Elite modern day implementation of
Saul Alinsky’s axiom of “its ok to outright LIE, cheat, or deceive about the true facts of your political argument in order to achieve the liberal perceived outcome”
Make no mistake, the exposure of the shear scale of Gruberism committed by the Liberal/Progressive/Socialist Elite throughout the government, especially in the last 7 or 8 years, has only just begun to be brought into the daylight of justice. Just wait until the Republicans take over the Senate this coming January!
Have a nice day!
Jim Rose
ATTN All true American Patriots:
Please spread the word “Gruberism”. It is important the everyone is educated on its proper use and context so that they will understand the sh_t that is about to hit the fan.
Jonathan,
TVR was coming on strong. Will be sorely missed. Hey will you still be welcome at home this Thanksgiving after agreeing to be Lead Counsel for the House against Dearest Leader? I predict fireworks, but then there are always fireworks at the Turley household.
Best,
Joe
I just hope the Canadians will stop acting like their American (Republican) neighbors and will stop obliterating the boreal forests and despoiling the ground water and native people’s lands with their continued extraction of filthy polluting tar sands.
Would you prefer that Canadians act like their American (Democrat) neighbors and turn Toronto into Detroit?
Rick, Your ignorance is showing. EVERY hockey fan who attends NHL games could, and DO SING the Canadian national anthem. And, I would bet most non hockey fans in the US could as well. It is the best national anthem IMHO.
Nick – Even I can sing the first two words. 🙂
How many Americans do you think could sing Canada’s National Anthem in a similar situation?
I just hope the Canadians will stop acting like their American (Republican) neighbors and will stop obliterating the boreal forests and despoiling the ground water and native people’s lands with their continued extraction of filthy polluting tar sands.
Jim, I didn’t know you were a northerner! My son is a huge hockey fan and pond hockey player. I tell him he is probably the only Colombian hockey player. He is a Blackhawk fan like his old man. He doesn’t know NHL history. He was amazed when I told him the Islanders were DOMINANT back in the 80’s, before he was born. I have a friend who lives in the Twin Cities. His 3 sons were hockey players. They are spread out now but always return in January for a big pond hockey tournament.
Paul, Canadians are far from gutless. Their participation in WW2 was honorable and brave. They were right not to join wars of choice, good for them.
ModernMiner, You obviously don’t understand hockey fans. US hockey fans would do the same as this Toronto audience. There is a good natured rivalry between US and Canada fans, but there is a DEEP respect for the Canadian roots of this great sport. US fans often sing along w/ the Canadian national anthem and many of us think it is more melodic than ours. I sense you might be a self loather, thinking we Americans are horrible people. Well, you don’t get any of that horseshit in sports, particularly hockey.
Nick, I went to college up in Plattsburgh and I couldn’t agree more about Quebec.
As for hockey, i grew up with my own pond as well as my neighbors pond depending on who’s ice was better. I grew up in the hay day of the Islanders. To me, the last true dynasty in any sport. Also, one of the things I always hang up wherever I’ve worked is a framed picture of the US Olympic team beating the USSR I cut out of the newspaper with news caption “U.S. puts soviets on ice”.
I love traveling in Canada, especially on a motorcycle during warmer seasons. The country is beautiful; the people are wonderful. One thing I’ve learned is to allow extra time at fuel stops because someone will begin a conversation, and it will go on for quite a while, sometimes even after I’ve put my full-face helmet back on.
And no one sings the American and Canadian national anthems better than Jim Cornelison does at Chicago Blackhawks games.
Having dual nationality, Canadian and American, and having lived in France for many years, I am foremost a citizen of the universal country of common sense. However, I feel pride for the good of Canada, the USA, and France, as well as any other person of any other nation that expresses that common sense. Canada had the common sense to stay out of Viet Nam, Iraq, and other American colonial ventures. When asked to assist in Afghanistan, Canadians lost over a hundred and fifty young men and women, more per capita involvement than any other nation, including the US. Canada has many faults but it does have a clarity that Americans should observe and emulate.
issac – if you think Vietnam and Iraq were colonial ventures, it just shows how historically challenged you are, And 150 people lost is what get killed in Chicago on a weekend. The Canadians are nice people, but gutless, as a country.
Unfortunately, I don’t think too many Americans could return the favor to the Canadians should the circumstances be reversed.
ModernMiner – they get to listen to it during every hockey game, so they have learned it by osmosis. 😉
I don’t remember JT expressing his love of hockey and the Blackhawks. We are simpatico in that regard. The Blackhawks have territorial rights and would never allow a team in nearby Milwaukee. My son-in-law in Minneapolis is a Wild fan. I’ve gone to games w/ him in St. Paul. But, I remain a Blackhawk fan from my days in Chicago. There was NOTHING more inspiring than a national anthem in the venerable Chicago Stadium. It is a building w/ incredible acoustics. When you hear about loud venues in other cities, players will tell you, there was NO venue louder than Chicago Stadium. The new United Center sucks.
This is Lai Youttiham, a Laotian refugee who learned to play guitar in a refugee camp. The American Army Captain who ran the place was a guitarist who had several electric guitars. He taught the young refugee to play, and it was not long until the student surpassed his teacher. Lai made many videos, but only recently allowed his face to be seen–he still has family in Laos. He now lives in Vancouver, loving both the USA and Canada for the new life and freedom both countries gave him. It shows when he was asked to play the national anthems of both countries before a game.
Hosers are great people. But, that kindness toward the singer and respect for the US national anthem would not have occurred in Montreal. Quebecers have a huge chip on their shoulder and are the antithesis of their fellow countrymen. Hell, Quebecers don’t want to be Canadians. They dislike other Canadians almost as much as they do Americans.
We get a lot of Canadian snow birds and they are very nice people. They are our brothers by another mother. 🙂