Rascism In Calgary

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Roland Ashley Warawa - Scumbag

The gang violence in Calgary is getting out of control. All these two bit hoods acting like wannabe gangsters shooting at each other in public places is starting to take a toll on our fair city. Jose Ribamar Ribeiro Neto was minding his own business, leaving a restaurant downtown when he was shot in the face by this worthless puke as he took pot shots at who the hell ever, now the poor guy is blinded.

Say what you will about more established gangs like the Hells Angels, but at least they take care of business out in the boonies (with a few terrible exceptions, mostly from the Quebec Biker War that claimed 150 lives, i.e. Daniel Desrochers), and innocent people are usually left out of the mix.

The thing that bugs me the most about this whole thing is that Warawa has been incarcerated before on weapons and attempted murder charges! In 1997 he was sentenced to 10.5 years behind bars and prohibited from carrying a weapon until 2014. Apparently robbing a shopkeeper and trying to kill him with a .22 is grounds for a more lenient sentence than someone trafficing narcotics. What is wrong with our legal system that violent offenders get more lenient sentences than drug offenders? How does that make any goddamn sense!? The sad thing is Jose told his family (from northern Brazil) that he felt safe here, but today he has lost an eye, possibly two. As the Brazilian community rallies around this unfortunate victim, all we can wish is that the courts do not make another mistake with his viscous attacker, and simply throw away the key next time he gets thrown in the brig.

What an asshole.

CFL Losers - The Entire East Division

It seems like every year lately the East Division of the CFL is becoming more and more of a joke. A quick perusal of the standings makes this more and more evident. Three of the four teams there are below .500 and two of them are so far below there is no conceivable way for them to crawl back into it. It all starts with Casey Printers for the Hamilton Tiger Cats. A former MOP, he tried his luck in the NFL for the Kansas City Chiefs and was unceremoniously cut. There is nothing new about CFL players trying out for NFL teams, what could be disturbing is that unlike Jeff Garcia, Doug Flutie and Warren Moon, Casey Printers tried out for a terrible team, and didn't even manage to make it on as a backup. His CFL MOP season was tremendous, but given his recent performances in Hamilton and Kansas City, it leads me to believe that the onus for those campaigns was more on the rest of the team than Printers himself.

Look at the Lions, even now, dead last in the West (yet still above .500). They still have arguably the best receiving corps in the league, far and away the best defensive line in the league, a seriously good offensive line, etc. The message should have been sent around the league when Wally Buono started Dickensen instead of Printers in the Grey Cup.

The rest of the division has not fared too well this season either, Toronto is in shambles, Kerry Joseph has recently been benched for under performing. Winnipeg has randomly become an absolute mess, just a smidgen better than the lowly Ti-Cats. Recently Montreal ventured west only to get totally creamed by a hungry Stampeders team that was desperate for some separation in the West (they didn't manage to get it, the Tiger Cats played their best only to revert back to their old ways and lose to Edmonton).

The only thing buoying the Alouette's record this season has been a terrible division to feast on, otherwise they might have been below .500 as well. As terrible as the East is, every once in awhile they show flashes of brilliance. Winnipeg in particular this season has had some amazing 'almost won' games. Mental errors seem to have plagued the cellar dwellers more than anything else this season, o-linemen totally missing blocking assignments, receivers running routes that the quarterback did not anticipate or were not part of the play, etc. This season it looks probable that we will have two west teams in the Cup final, hopefully BC and Calgary.