Since the `06/`07 NHL season begins tomorrow with the Leafs opening at home to the Ottawa Senators, I decided to take a look at the Leafs roster. Wow, does it suck. About the only good thing I can say about the roster is that it’s younger than any Leaf team in recent history.

For the first time in a decade the Leafs don’t have a bona fide reliable goaltender. Their first line will consist of a 35 year old Matt Sundin flanked by Darcy Tucker and Jeff O’Neil. Which means that unless Kaberle and McCabe score 50 goals apiece this year the team will be lucky to break 200 for the season.

I could be wrong though. Maybe Steen and Stajin will improve upon their outstanding performances from last year. But if management is banking on the young guys like them to carry this team into the playoffs then I say stick a fork in the Leafs, they’re done before the puck even hits the centre ice face-off dot tomorrow.

2 Canadians killed in Afghan attack

Two Canadians were killed and five other soldiers injured in southern Afghanistan, military officials said Tuesday.

TWO U.S. , ONE ANA SOLDIER KILLED

wo U.S. Soldiers and an Afghan soldier were killed and three U.S. Soldiers were wounded during fighting with enemy combatants in the Pech District of Kunar Province on the evening of Oct. 2.

Afghan Drug Lords Bring in Professional Trainers

Persistent, and frequent rumors, in Afghanistan indicate that some of the drug lords are hiring European mercenaries to provide military training for their armed followers.

British opposition blasts Europeans for failing NATO in Afghanistan

Britain’s main opposition Conservatives on Tuesday criticised other European states for doing too little to help NATO defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan.

So what are the Conservatives hiding?

Apparently, the Cons in Canada are afraid of revealing why Rob Anders got acclaimed in his riding in Calgary West. So much that the release of the documents regarding it will:

“irreparably harm” the federal Tories, its lawyer said today.

Any guesses, wild speculations or nutty conspiracy theories?

I like to drink iced tea and I go through about a case of 24 cans a week. So yesterday I went out and bought ten cases since it was on sale. I put one case in the kitchen and 9 in the garage. At this rate my garage will be filled from wall to wall and floor to ceiling with iced tea in less than a year. Or so the Fraser Drunkstitute would have you believe.

Let’s take a walk though their press release:

Provincial government spending on health care will consume more than half of total revenue from all sources by the year 2020 and all revenue by 2050 in six out of 10 provinces if current trends continue, according to a study released today by The Fraser Institute.

And by 2100 it will consume, 200% of revenues. Health care spending, as a result of a few federal-provincial deals to “save” health care, has increased in recent years. The Fraser takes this as its starting point then projects in linear fashion what would happen if such a trend continued.

The unsustainable spending meme has had numerous stakes driven through its heart yet it continues to thrive in the minds of those who want to destroy our healthcare system in order to enrich corporate Canada; whose gross incompetence when it comes to protecting public interests should be enough to scare every rational person away from wanting them to hold our health in their hands.

Follow the chain of events to their inevitable spintarded conclusion.

Event #1: PMS cuts funding to adult literacy programs by $17.7 million.

Event #2: Mrs. PMS goes out and panhandles for spare change in order to fund adult literacy programs.

Event #3: Conservaparrot Stephen Taylor then beats his chest and declares, “We believe in helping the less fortunate, but more so as a personal and private and charitable decision rather than having the government make that decision for us.” He then goes on to say, “Socialism is charity without consent.”

Event #4: Taylor gets whacked in the back of the head by a $1.6 million adult literacy database funded by the taxpayer regardless of whether or not we consented to this outrageous display of socialism foisted upon us by the Conservatives.

Event #5: I’ll let you know what happens after Taylor regains consciousness.