Some of us grieve for KO's self-imposed exile from DK since he has returned to work for the Mouse as he left political journalism(sic) via a stop as a call center rep at Current TV to return to sports journalism(sic). However, some of us actually watch his now 30 minute ESPN program which may have been shortened and rescheduled regularly due not to audience but for a case of the shingles. Yesterday, he and Tony Bruno discussed the naming of a new NHL franchise in Las Vegas, which would be made even more surreal if it simply was a moving of the old Hartford Whaler franchise now called the Carolina Hurricane. It needs to be called the Las Vegas (Fighting) Reagans. "He Shoots, He Verifies!"
Chuck Muth imagines a world where Las Vegas tourists could take a patriotic break from gambling and Cirque du Soleil for a side trip to Mount Reagan.
Muth, a Nevada activist and former executive director of the American Conservative Union, is spearheading the effort to get a Las Vegas-area peak named after the late president and right-wing hero. The initiative is part of the Ronald Reagan Legacy Project, a push to memorialize the former president as widely as possible that's backed by anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist, who is an old friend of Muth's. The sometimes-controversial effort has gotten more than 3,000 landmarks named for the Gipper, including highways, buildings, and schools -- but never a mountain. While 12 other presidents have U.S. mountains named for them, and FDR has a peak in Canada, getting approval for Mount Reagan has proved unexpectedly difficult. http://www.theatlantic.com/...
And what better evidence of the Great Communicator's affection for the sport bonding two countries across the 49th parallel:
Now, keeping a bunch of hockey players in line's no easy job, so these fellows deserve real credit. I remember doing a film called "Hell's Kitchen" back in 1939, and it featured a group of delinquents called the Dead End Kids. They had come from New York and straight from the Bronx by way of a play called "Dead End," and they were as wild off the screen as they were on. But in one sequence the movie called for dressing them up in hockey uniforms and skates and putting them out on the ice in Madison Square Garden. And I was out there on skates too as their coach. I have the deepest appreciation of how hard it is to keep peace on the ice. [Laughter] And I can understand why hours of fine sportsmanship are often overlooked because of maybe a few moments now and then when tempers get short. But hockey's such a majestic contest, let's hope that public attention will focus on the nobler aspects of that sport. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/...
Who am I kidding - if the Carolina franchise moves to Vegas, it can go back to Whalers in the figurative sense of
William Bennett and his gambling addiction as a prime
whale.
Ronnie and Mommy with Grover Norquist as one of the Plushophiles