He was my husband’s hero. Hubby is a goalie and grew up watching this legend, in a city that is infamous for its love of hockey.
Mr. Dryden exemplified dignity, class and a love of the game.
The hockey world is paying tribute to this hero of the net.
Anecdote? There was an ongoing debate in our house (mainly because I love to poke the bear 😁); who was the better goalie, Patrick Roy or Ken Dryden. In all honesty, I was a Dryden fan but I was also a Roy fan. Hubby despises Patrick Roy…not entirely sure why but he does. The fun I would have debating this with him…OMG, it was and will probably remain, a huge source of amusement for me.
Thank you Mr. Dryden, for your love of the sport, teaching young men, like my husband, to play with honour and dignity.
I mean, the meme above, is not false, kind of presumptive, definitely simplistic but not completely false.
Forcing religion is never the “right” thing to do. Okay, so the fam has been R.C/Baptist/Jewish/Muslim for generations. A lot of things went on for generations that required change and change came about, sometimes painfully. Religion, by and large, has not kept up.
People, with the exception of right wingnuts, are far more educated, able to form conclusions based on evidence. Society is far more based in logic than in fairy tales and fear mongering.
I get that parents and families have been victimized by terrors from the various pulpits etc. The visions of some sort of devil persona and everlasting punishment repeatedly beat into their psyches until it became their reality, regardless of proof. And no, the bible/Torah/Q’ran are not proof. They’re books, written centuries upon centuries ago. Gilgamesh is believed to have been composed in 2100 BCE. Doesn’t make it valid, just some great storytelling. Same goes for the holy trinity of books/scrolls. Great storytelling but not proof of validity.
So what is at the root of the turning away from the recognized religions of the world? Education. The search for meaning. The search for that elusive path to truth.
The various branches of Occultism, Paganism and Witchcraft seem to offer the freedom to search. For sure, there are branches just as restrictive as the Big 3 but by and large, Occultism and the offshoots flow with change.
Atheism/Agnosticism is also on the rise. You know what is not on the rise? Historical religions. Islam is still higher up on the acknowledged beliefs than Christianity or Judaism but that too, shall change. Absolute control over individuals can’t last, it isn’t who we are as a species.
If your system doesn’t allow questioning, doesn’t allow for freedom of thought, of movement; if your system encourages the subjugation of members? This new millennium is not going to be kind to you, and with good reason.
I get a lot of questions about my use of CBD to control the impact arthritis has on my sleep and daily life. So, I figured I’d just write about my PERSONAL experience and let folks make their own decisions.
Prior to using CBD, I had very little exposure to cannabis. I don’t smoke weed. So the edible idea made sense.
I did my time with Tramadol, Supeudol (Oxycodone Hydrochloride) and the various corticosteroids (shots and oral meds). Did they work? Yes, they did but the side effects and long term impact were not acceptable to me.
Corticosteroids, I have immune system issues and taking that family of meds impacts my resistance to infections even more and just racks the heck out of your stomach. So, that’s not good, either.
Being a woman, in a particular stage in life? Sleep was not a friend. I slept, maybe 3 hours straight and would wake up, wander around, try to go back to bed but the sleep was no restful. I had thought that this was it, no more sleep for me.
I went to One Plant in Hawkesbury, Ontario; https://www.oneplant.ca/ They have many outlets. I prefer them due to the knowledge held by the staff, their courteousness, their friendliness.
Here are the details:
2 Gummies – Twilight Tranquility – 20 mg CBD per gummy and .05 mg THC (There is a far wider choice, this is just the one I picked).
Took about 3 – 5 days to feel any difference, at all, with sleep and pain/stiffness from arthritis.
By 2 weeks, I was sleeping and I found the pain was, markedly, lessened.
The improvement is gradual, not immediate and this is, in no way, shape or form, a cure. The products simply improve my quality of life.
2 months, I can do stairs – slowly but with a marked lessening of pain.
I can get down, on my knees, to vacuum under furniture but it is not pain-free but absolutely manageable.
I am sleeping, not 8 hours but when I do sleep, it is a very deep sleep. I am far more rested and have energy.
These products are not a cure, they are not a quick fix; there is no such thing with arthritis. I take 2 but someone else may need to cut it down or up the dosage. This takes time and may not work for everyone. It works for me, it allows me to enjoy my life, and I don’t worry about the potential of addiction to opioids or damage from the corticosteroids.
First, heart goes out to the victims of a couple of deadly crashes involving tractor trailers. The truckers at fault, for both but the white sheeted wastes of skin took the names and the fact that these men were not white, as an excuse to start tossing around their racial slurs and seemingly trying, very hard, to make this about country of origin and immigration. Okey dokey….
No. This is and will never be about race or immigration. This is about a lack of oversight by the assorted Ministries/Departments of Transport, licensing and the companies tossing drivers out on the road with no viable training, no real supervision as long as that load is picked up/delivered and the cash flows into their bank accounts.
I’ve been involved, within and also married to the industry for over 40 years and has there been a change? Ya think? There is a driver shortage. No “reg’lar” Canadian or American wants this as a career. I wouldn’t want any of my kids driving for a living. The industry treatment of drivers is horrendous. The level of COMPETENT dispatchers is virtually non-existent.
Here are a couple of statements by pencil pushers, one of whom was a C.F.O:
“Drivers are a necessary liability.” He has since retired but his opinion is entrenched. I beg to differ, it isn’t the drivers who are necessary liabilities – it is the keyboard punchers and number crunchers who are necessary liabilities. Without truckers, there is no company. Without a, wildly, overpaid C.F.O, the company can still function.
The other is:
“Truckers are stupid Neanderthals.” This comment from was a dispatcher and makes me laugh, to this day. Neanderthals that pay your salary and without whom, you would be unemployed.
How many dispatchers have actually attained any sort of certification to do the job safely, effectively? I have. It was a grueling course and caused more than 1 migraine but if certification was mandatory? You would see far less accidents and actually an increase to the company bottom-line. The course includes utilizing equipment logistically, optimizing profit while maintaining good HR policy and safety. At no time was “clearing the screen” ever discussed. (Clearing the screen, refers to having all loads off a pick-up/delivery list, regardless of whether or not these actions can be done safely or at all.)
Drivers encouraged to work beyond their hours…albeit, this is becoming increasingly difficult with the E.L.D. systems but those systems, like any other, relies on oversight. The odds of a “doctored” E.L.D. being discovered is so low, it is ridiculous. Highway officials don’t have the technological training to detect a “hacked” system.
Old School truckers are retiring and few are choosing it as a career. It is destroys the body, breaks up families and kills drivers long before their time.
“The average life expectancy of a truck driver is approximately 61 years, which is significantly lower than the national average life expectancy of about 78 years. This disparity is attributed to various health risks and lifestyle factors associated with the trucking profession, such as obesity, sleep apnea, and exposure to diesel exhaust. Additionally, studies indicate that truck drivers face a higher mortality rate compared to the general population, with specific health issues like heart disease and lung cancer being common.”
With the lack of a professionally trained driver pool, rather than hire responsibly, trucking companies are grabbing whomever walks through their doors. If anyone denies this? They lie. The driver shortage is real. The initiative to encourage retention, attract new drivers, is non-existent. Instead, drivers are still being treated like “necessary liabilities”, overworked, underpaid and perhaps even more relevant is that total lack of respect from the pencil pushers. Another comment made to me by a pencil pusher, back in the day?
“Drivers are a dime a dozen.”
That’s the mentality that has created the retention disaster being faced by trucking companies. Professional drivers are, absolutely not, a dime a dozen; you know who are a dime a dozen? Pencil pushers.
Customers don’t give a rat’s ass if a driver is competent or not, if a company is responsible or not. Customers want the load delivered and will rely on load brokers, with no real skin in the game, to that end. There’s a lot of blame to go around but that blame does not lie on any particular culture. It is industry wide.
Were the two drivers, from the fatal accidents, at fault? Absolutely. The U-Turn on the interstate? Go to jail, go directly to jail, do not pass go. In Québec, the driver was accessing a highway, rear-ended a 4-wheeler, killed 1 and sent the other 3 people to hospital; he took off. A hit and run. He’s been caught. Jail buddy, directly to jail.
Now, what about their employers/load brokers or the government? Fault/guilt needs to be spread evenly.
Just an anecdote – I know of 3 fatal accidents, personally, each one of those drivers were as white a frog’s belly. And if I hear one more racial slur, regarding trucking and immigration, I’m going to slap a bitch.
This news story is in French; the incident happened in Québec. In a nutshell, not to be insensitive to the victims but for brevity; there were 4 men in the Acura, one man, a passenger in the backseat, was killed, the 3 other occupants were severely injured, and are in hospital. The vehicle was hit by a tractor-trailer who fled the scene. (Yeah, no way did he not know. IMO, this is murder, plain and simple.)
There has to be a re-vamp of the industry. Not just driver training, increased surveillance by the departments of transport, country-wide but far more scrutiny of trucking companies. They are out there, operating as if they are consequence free. Changing company names, owners, like most of us change our underdrawers.
It is not just the disregard for public safety, thumbing their collective noses at highway codes but the rights of the drivers as well. (A topic for a whole other blog.)
Are there incompetent and downright dangerous operators out there? Abso-freaking-lutely. Professionalism as drivers seems to have disappeared at an alarming rate. Unsafe speed, lane changes, dangerous conditions of trucks, tires, the use of electronic devices while driving – handsfree or not – bloody dangerous (4-wheelers included). There simply aren’t enough safety checks, by a long shot, going on. Monitored weigh stations are, obviously, not enough.
As an aside: not just trucks – those monstrous RVs are included. Paw-paw and Mee-maw (grandpère et grandmère) do not have the training to control a vehicle of that size. New licensing categories must be introduced.
Our roads are not the wild west; all drivers deserve to be safe out there.
Jokingly is right. Paw-Paw has truly entered the twilight zone and he has no return ticket.
Tell us there, Yam-Tits; which leaders? For that matter, can you define or even find Europe on a map?
My heart goes out to Americans; the man has, almost (he’s had help from his Yam-titties), single-handedly destroyed any respect the U.S. held in the world. Gone. It is nothing more than a laughing stock, at this point. The world watches and waits for the next inanity out of his mouth.
So, what I take from this is, don’t call the cops. Just don’t. Slam the perpetrator in your trunk, with duct tape and a hood, drive as far away as you can, to an area with no homes, no lights…and drop him/her, preferably, on their head.
The same method should be used for any predator in the sexual assault or child abusing category. Justice is a myth. Vigilantism? What does anyone expect to start happening?
Folks be outraged at the homeowner’s arrest…REALLY? Welcome to world of women and the justice we never seem to get.
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