Rants From The Herd

So, Young Kora Wira was fishing with her family near Venice, Florida. It was a nice day... that is until some rage filled barracuda launched itself out of the water, in full fish attack mode. Latched itself onto the girls arm, in what one can only assume was intent on dragging her back into the ocean in some sort of strange revenge plot for humans over playing that one Heart song.

Luckily her dad was on had to quickly repel the attack, stabbed the vengeful water based assailant with a knife he had handy.

You can read and see more Here , including photos of the bite... which is nasty.

Man 1 - Fish 0. Now, Kora IS ok,  she walked away with 51 stitches... and her dad walked away with one of the weirdest fish photo-ops ever:

That's gonna make for one killer "What we did this summer" slide show for the old man....

Hudson,

A 40-ton whale leapt from the water and landed on the deck of a South African couple's yacht. Video of it was released yesterday and you gotta see it to believe it: 

Let that be a lesson to you, never ask a whale to "High 5".

Hudson,  

YouTube user Vicodinkid shot some amazing footage of the Trans-Canada Highway getting washed out near Maple Creek, check it out:

Also, SaskatoonHomepage.ca posted a video  and is keeping us updated on the story .

 I'd like to think I could say more about this, but "Wow" is the only thing that comes to mind.

 what do you think?

Hudson 

 ... wait, that title was lame...

this isn't the end of anything, this is just damn awesome!

At 7:07 in the morning on April 11th the legendary Texas Stadium was demolished. It is where some sporting type teams from Texas played against teams not from Texas in some sorta sport sport. Who cares about the history, lets watch that baby get blowed up... FROM THE INSIDE!

 Now... am I the only one that watched that and suddenly started thinking about Mosaic Stadium in Regina...

Cheers!

Hudson 

Well, my kinda lady at least...

(please note, if you are my wife and are reading this... it is TOTALLY platonic)

So, the other night in Kalamazoo, Mich. the ever lovely and vivacious Miranda Lambert stopped a cat fight. yes, you read it right... check out the video

 Halfway through singing "Stay With Me", the gorgeous and totally awesome Miranda Lambert spotted to girls in mid cat fight. With the voice of an angel she told the band to stop and confronted the combatants. No, for real... she even did the whole "Don't make me come down there" thing and the crowd cheered. 

Both women didn't wanna mess with Mrs. Huds... uh, Ms. Lambert and stopped, and the show went on.

...

 damn she's good.

Hudson 

OK, this is nuts!! A Taiwanese boy named Lin Yu Chun NAILED the classic "I Will Always Love You" on a talent search show called Super Star Avenue....taking First Place...$1 Million and a Recording Contract! Check out the video.......xox Cristy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA-tOsM6F4Y

Just... a few of them will have some extra time on their hands.

If you missed last Sunday's Blades game (and, if you did... wow. you missed some damn fine Don Cherry Hockey) they have the highlights up on the Blades Website. Now, SaskatoonHomepage.ca has the aftermath.

Five suspensions total including GM and Head Coach Lorne Molleken and almost 5k in fines for the Blades, and Josh Cowen from the Rebels out for 4 games and the team fined $250 total.

Watch the video... It turns into total chaos.

 Now, we're not here to say if it was right or wrong, or judge the level that one team was punished over the other...

I think we're just saying... wow. THAT's some Hockey.

Gonna make for an interesting first round.

GO BLADES GO

Hudson, 

 This is the meal I proposed to:

We hope to be wed in the spring, and yes we are registered at Schryer's Smoked BBQ Shack .

(you can hear more about the happiest day of my life in the BullCast )

-JtP

 
So, it is the day after Team Canada's epicly massive win... Am I talking about the USA vs Canada Men's Hockey game? Yes. Am I talk about the Olympics as a whole? Yes.

We've heard over and over again about Own the Podium , the Goverment program mandated to give Canada the most overall at the games. Now we are hearing the questions... "Did it work? Should it continue?"

Yes, Canada placed third overall. Yes thats not quite what the program was set up to do. Yes, the Germans landed 30 medals total (10G, 13S, 7B) and  yes, the Americans came out on top overall with 37 (9G, 15S, 13B; making them amazingly good at coming in 3rd and 2nd! way to go team!)

Technically, that means the program didn't set out to do what it said it would. I say nay nay to your technicalities (yes, thats right, nay nay... not sure why chose that, but lets move on).

Canada set the record for the most Gold ever at a Winter Olympic Games. So we didn't own the WHOLE podium the whole way through, we did grab 14 gold so we owned the prime real estate... THE TOP. The penthouse of the podium if you will.

In my humble little opinion as a chubby ginger that spent the whole Olympics glued to the couch and the screen, I call it a success and congratulate each and every member of Team Canada and the Own the Podium program. From an office clerk in Ottawa to Jon Montgomery to the dude that picked competitors up at the air port.

Traditionaly, we Canadians are reserved and not prone to gloating in victory... But we earned it this time Canada.

Good game World, good game!

- Hudson