Friday, July 9, 2010
Take Me Out To The Rodeo
Someday I would like to attend the Calgary Stampede. I have never attended a rodeo and I think that would be an enjoyable experience. I saw in the news today that a group paid $15,000 to advertise the “cruelty of the rodeo” in the Calgary Herald. A British animal rights group is also getting involved. Rodeos are banned in Britain, and as many as 50 British MPs signed a motion in their House of Commons to have the Canadian federal government intervene in what is considered permissible at the Stampede. When I hear this kind of moral indignation coming from Europe (like with the seal hunt) against historic Canadian institutions, it does not make me more sympathetic to their opinion. Rather the opposite, I want to go buy seal skin boots and tickets to the Calgary Stampede.
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Yeah. All this from a people who still chase foxes to exhaustion and let the dogs tear it to pieces... hunted their wolves to extinction and manage their forest(s) by the tree... having got it so wrong in their own back yard they think they can achieve salvation by managing someone else's. True wanking socialist sh##eaters.
ReplyDeleteI have always enjoyed going to the rodeos. However if you're going to go to a rodeo for the first time go to a small town rodeo. You will see many of the same cowboys and stock as you will at the bigger rodeos but you will get a much closer look at them as they prepare to ride, rope and wrestle.
ReplyDeleteFrankly, the British have managed to almost completely destroy their own country so why would they think that anyone in Canada cares one iota about what they think? As far as I an concerned the governance of Canada should tell them to fix save their own country from bankruptcy and Islamization and leave us to manage our lives as we choose.
ReplyDeleteComing from pioneer Alberta ranching families I have zero empathy. Their ancestors's sheep farms and tenant farms were stolen or over-taxed by the UK land owners in the early 1800s, so we left for Upper Canada. I say figs to them, their class system and their pathetic petition. Calf-roping is a skill on the range. Britain's uninformed MPs have enough problems without telling the ex-colonies what to do. Since the PM opened the Stampede, I doubt the British Ambassador will even bother to pass along a diplomatic note. Perhaps we should send a gift of a nice polar bear rug and drawings for a mosque across the street from the British Parliament.
ReplyDeleteThe 100th anniversary is in 2012. Having been to 26 Stampedes and free pancake breakfasts, they and the others around the province are very fun. My great uncle started the Hand Hills Stampede as a fund-raiser for the Red Cross in 1917.
Seal skin apres-ski boots were popular and warm when I used to ski at Banff.
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ReplyDeleteThis is shorthand FKEM.
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