happy holidays

Hi,
This bugs me, still. I wrote something about this a year ago, but it's the Christmas season, so I have to mention it again. What ever happened to "Merry Christmas?" It's all this "Happy Holidays" crap now! The songs that they play on the radio at this time of year, they're called Christmas carols, right?

Sure, I understand about diversity and stuff, but come on! Look at the young kids that are Canadians, they're going to grow up and not realize what Christmas is! "It's the holiday season, but I don't know what this 'Christmas' is that you speak of." Do you think in the countries that are non-christian, they wish each other "Happy Holidays" because they don't want to offend the christians? Yeah, me neither.

beijos

Movember

Hi,
Please read my page for "Movember." http://www.geocities.com/pick_01/mo.htm

athletes

Hi,
I'd like to bring up some of the salaries of professional athletes. In case you didn't hear, Jason Spezza (of the Ottawa Senators hockey team) just signed a contract extension of $49 million for 7 years! So, an average of $7 million per year. Not even that though. They get the summers off. 7 million for 82 games over 8 months. Or, if they go deep into the playoffs, it could be up to 110 games over 10 months. Let's do some math, shall we?... the average game is 3 hours, so the maximum "work" per year is 330 hours, (which works out to about two months of work for the average person)... anyway, $7 000 000 / 330 hours = over $23 000 per hour! Imagine that! I could make my year's salary in less than an hour and a half! If I'd only chosen a different career path...

If I didn't love hockey, I'd be furious! But look at baseball. That's way worse. I used to like baseball, but with these whiny "athletes" playing make it unbearable. Like, Alex Rodriguez of the Yankees was upset that he was "only" offered $150 million instead of the $350 million that he wanted. I read this article on a pitcher once. They totally broke down his salary and figured that he averages like 7 thousand dollars per pitch, or something like that.

And there's still starving people and poverty in the world, in North America... what the hell's this world coming to?

beijos