The Nashville Mass Shooting - by Moses

 

      As we saw yesterday, another mass shooting, this time three kids and three adults in Nashville Tennessee.  This is 29 mass shootings in the last two years and looks to be the trend for the near future as the incidence has gone up enormously post COVID.  To this I ask a simple question;  When did an amendment to the right to bear arms ever pose a threat to Americans?  In Canada, we pride ourselves in security.  We have strict gun laws that include psychiatric questions to insure that people with mental health issues don't have the right to a firearm.  When someone in Canada buys a gun, they are REQUIRED to register their firearm.  What may seem to be simple procedures saves lives.  It is a hard issue to come to terms with, but while in 1776 a few shotguns and hunting rifles could be used to withstand an enemy element within their government, please be mindful that it is now 2023 and the fundamental right to overthrow the U.S government is non-existent.  The U.S military would never be able to be overthrown anyway (unless nukes were entered into the equation).  

  What troubles this writer is that with the vested interests of the N.R.A there will always be lobbyists for assault weapons and weapons that can't be justified by Canadian standards.  This is an ongoing dilemma as long as assault weapons and sub-machine guns are made available to the U.S population.  The sickening thing is that occurrences in incidence like we've seen in the U.S over the last two years has essentially reached its' boiling point, and the reality is that every inner city in the U.S (aside from maybe the state of Texas) is susceptible to having guns on the street by illegal trade.  These are issues that can't be here in Canada. 

  Isn't it strange but this is not the first time a transgender person has committed a mass shooting and that they passed the salesclerk test once again, this time resulting in six dead.  Why hasn't the U.S adopted screening to those that want to possess a firearm.  Why can't there be a fifty question prerequisite, and the passing of someone in a psychiatric sense to nullify people with severe mental health issues from owning firearms?    

Article Seven in the Chammas Constitution - by Moses

 

      As it has been reported from years' past, the Chammas constitution carries Article Seven;  and the Jew shall be hunted and hide behind asterick trees and killed.  This is an except from their Article Seven in their constitution.  This is primarily the reason of a delay towards a two state solution.  What disturbs me is that when I contacted a connected member of the Bait Knesset in Israel, they proclaimed ignorance to Article Seven, leaving me nowhere to go but to disown them as being a reliable source.  This is misinformation that could come back to haunt.  The reality is that to proclaim tracking laws for one people in the legal sense is essentially a murder charge if you're Palestinian and legalizing tracking of the people that are the supposed enemy.  Where do you draw line.  Always seemed to me that what's good for the goose is good for the gander.  This hypocrite oath being taken by Israel in these contexts' are a gross social injustice.   

Reparations in America - by Moses

       As surely as Germany paid reparations to Jewish holocaust survivors and their families, America will pay reparations to African-Americans.  It would stand to reason that 20.7% per capita would suffice to pay African-Americans (Through Banking, Team Ownership Positions, University Funding, and NAACP interests).  The reality is that even though African-Americans are as competitive as other peoples' they have a much higher incidence of poverty in the U.S.A.  Roughly half of all African-Americans consider themselves low-income (under $20,000/year for individuals and under $50,000/year for families).

2022/23 Toronto Maple Leafs - by Moses

 

      With all the trades made at the trade deadline this year here is how the Leafs shape up in print;

Head Coach - Sheldon Keefe

Goalies

1.  Ilya Samsonov - age 26

2.  Matt Murray - age 28

3.  Joseph Woll - age 24

Defencemen

1.  Morgan Rielly - age 29

2.  Conor Timmins - age 24

3.  Mark Giordano - age 39

4.  Erik Gustafsson - age 31

5.  Timothy Liljegren - age 24 

6.  Luke Schenn - age 33 

7.  T.J. Brodie - age 32

8.  Justin Holl - age 31

9.  Jake McCabe - age 29

10.Noel Hoefenmayer - age 23 *

11.Jordie Benn - age 35 *

Lines

                    LW                                              C                                    RW

1.  Michael Bunting (age 27)    Auston Matthews (age 25) Mitch Marner (age 26)

2.  Alexander Kerfoot (age 28)     John Tavares (age 32)  William Nylander (age 27)

3.  Sam Lafferty (age 28)             Ryan O'Reilly (age 32) + Calle Jarnkrok (age 31)

4.  Zach Aston-Reese (age 28)      Noel Acciari (age 31)     Pontus Holmberg (age 24)

Bench

1.  David Kampf (C - age 28) 

2.  Nicholas Robertson (LW - age 21) + 

3.  Bobby McMann (LW - age 26) *   

4.  Alex Steeves (RW - age 23) *

* - currently playing with the Marlies

+ - on injured reserve