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I’m sure this may offend somebody but really, I don’t care!

What goes on in the minds of those who believe honour killings are justified!?!?!

By now you’ve heard all about the Shafia trial where a father, a mother and a brother were all found guilty of murdering 4 family members, 3 sisters and a second wife!

What would your child have to do in order for you to make the final decision to take their life?

Think about it!

Like every other parent I know, I would gladly jump off a bridge before allowing any harm come to my children.

To sit back and watch them die by my hand? I can’t even say the words let alone barely type them!

Mohammad Shafia, his wife, Tooba Mohammad Yahya, and their son, Hamed somewhere in that bizarre realm of reality they live in, deemed it fit to drown Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, Geeti, 13, and Rona Amir Mohammad, 52.

Why?

They were shamed and upset by the conduct of the eldest girls, Zainab and Sahar.

Both girls had been dating young men against the wishes of their parents.

They were also upset about Geeti’s defiance and Rona was agitating from a divorce to escape the polygamous marriage hidden by the family in Canada.

If you ask me, if they were doing this for ‘honour’, they should’ve jumped in the car with them. It would be the ‘honourable’ thing to do!

I don’t think many in this world would feel bad to hear of their demise, not because they’re Muslim. I have many Muslim friends who love their kids just as much as I do, but because they willfully took the lives of their children.

Think of how many mothers and fathers who have lost their children to accidents, disease, or miscarriages.

How dare the Shafia family take away a gift that would’ve gladly been accepted by one of those moms and dads?

‘Honour’?

Mohammad, Tooba, and Hamed, you make me sick and you better pray that your God is more forgiving than mine.

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I woke up Sunday a little more lazy than usual.

How lazy?

The kids and I watched 5, count ‘em FIVE Harry Potter Movies! Only 3 more to go…I think!

Despite knowing that the garage needed cleaning, and the Christmas lights were still on the house, I proceeded to further cement my ‘spot’ on the family couch when it dawned on me that I’ve really never sat down and did a movie ‘marathon’, and if you saw me you’d understand that ‘Bill Hart’ and ‘marathon’ will never be seen together in the same sentence.

Unless you count, ‘Bill Hart gets trampled by runners in local marathon!’

The Hart family is nowhere near the level of those hard core Harry Potter fans, since we didn’t stand in line to see any of the movies at the theatre, heck none of us have even read the books but I’ll tell you, those movie producers made themselves a great series.

Proof being that both kids were so enthralled in the magical wonder of Hogwarts neither child broke the audience silence with questions like ‘Why does Harry Potter wear glasses?’ ‘Why is Ronald’s family poor?’ ‘How do you spell Hermonie…Herimone…?’ gee thank goodness they didn’t ask me that!

We all sat quietly watching Harry Potter growing up before our eyes!

After each movie, we did our ‘oohs’ and ‘ahs’, debating what would happen next, as the girls begged me to put the next movie on!

We started at 730AM, it all wrapped up around 7PM. Time to get ready for bed!?!?

We wasted an entire Sunday! The garage still needs cleaning, the Christmas lights are still on the house but once the guilt subsided I realized that the Sundays where my daughter(s) would gladly spend a day cuddled with their Dad on the couch are numbered.

It felt good!

They say ‘Laziness’ is one of the 7 Deadly Sins, but I’m here to tell you that once in awhile you have to put the work away, postpone the chores and just ‘veg’ with your kids.

I’m told I’m not going to be the #1 guy in my daughter’s lives forever!

So before some boy moves in on my territory, I shall teach my girls the ways of the force, the wickedness caused by one solitary ring, and if time permits all the super hero movies Spiderman to Captain America: The First Avenger!

Who am I kidding, I smell another Barbie marathon!

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EE-yikes! This is like the beginning of a scary movie!

Researchers writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science found what they characterized as “severe declines” in the population of small and mid-sized native mammals in the Florida Everglades.

These mammals include raccoons, opossums, marsh and cottontail rabbits, foxes and bobcats, as well as a number of water birds – grebes, herons and the federally endangered wood stork.

So what the heck is going on here!?!?!

Burmese pythons! (Dun dun dunnnnnnnnnnnn!)

If you’ve watched enough Discovery Channel you know Burmese pythons don’t belong here or else they’d be called Florida pythons. They thrive in South and Southeast Asia, not the United States.

It’s believed that a few irresponsible pet owners purchased a Burmese python and thought how cute the little fella’ was without realizing that these things can grow to be anywhere from 10 to 19 feet long! So they panic as their baby snakes quickly mature into giant, dangerous adults, and instead of calling animal control, they flush them or release them into the wild where they are obviously living the good life!

Just when you thought Florida had the whole gator thing licked!

It was a tough Sunday morning!

 
Any morning after a Leafs loss is tough, especially a loss to the dreaded Montreal Canadians!

The coffee is not as strong; the marshmallows in my Lucky Charms are not as sweet, and the spring in my step is not as, well springy!

 
My daughters Danielle and Allannah came down stairs and couldn’t care less about what the Leafs did last night because they root for the Bruins and Red Wings respectively.

  
They joined me at the table and knowing the Leafs were on TV asked if they won last night!

  
‘No’, and then this; ‘Daddy, why do you cheer for Toronto?’

  
Everybody has a reason for cheering for their team.
 

Maybe you jumped on a bandwagon and stayed there.

 
Maybe you liked the logo as a kid and stayed loyal.

  
Maybe a junior player you idolized jumped to the NHL and you followed!
 

For me, no, no, and no!

 
You see for me, my love for the Leafs started more as a dislike for the Montreal Canadiens.

Picture it, Trenton Ontario! The year, 1979!

Cartoon watching only happened on Saturday mornings; a pack of hockey cards had a stick of gum in them; kids stayed out until the streetlights came on; and we played road hockey….ALOT!

On my street, we’d play before school, after school, weekends, snow days, right up until it got too dark to see a tennis ball flying at your face!
 

Unfortunately, I was grouped with the ‘young kids’.

The older kids would always stack their team and DEMANDED that they were the Montreal Canadiens, and we were designated as the Toronto Maple Leafs!

 
It lit a fire in me because I wanted to stick it to the older kids so badly, I would hack, slash, trip my way to score on ‘Ken Dryden’.

  
Since they hated the Leafs, I would score as Darryl Sittler, Lanny MacDonald, or Borje Salming and it would tick them off BIG TIME!

I LOVED it!

So I would start watching hockey on TV more and see these guys I was pretending to be and got excited whenever they would score, just like me outside my house on Regina Crescent.

The Leafs and Canadiens would meet in the playoffs that year with Guy Lafleur and company sweeping the Buds in 4 games. The older kids would not let me forget it, so I played harder.

At that moment, I knew that from now on all I would want in life is for the Leafs to wins, and the Habs to lose.

That feeling continues to this day, over 30 years later, and yes I see the irony in that if Montreal didn’t win all those Cups in the 70’s, I could very well have been wearing the red, white, and blue of Les Habitants.

Or maybe the Sabres, Islanders, Bruins!

But it didn’t happen that way, Fate played the ‘fate card’ and I folded!

Go Leafs!

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I have to hand it to Jim Carrey, nobody gets a free ride just because you come from the same gene pool.

I missed American Idol Sunday night but heard that Canada’s own funny man’s daughter Jane auditioned.

Auditioned?
Wow! I’m sure that Daddy has more than enough contacts to allow his little girl to get into the recording studio so this is SO refreshing.

No easy ride, no golden road, no silver platter on which your dreams are handed to you. It’s all about earning your stripes, and wish more celebrities would do that.

Jane does have a band called the Jane Carrey Band so there is a little ‘leaning on the family name’ but if she climbs the ladder on her own, she has my respect!

Here’s a video of her audition!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWaGs-8MjGQ&feature=player_embedded
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It’ll be awhile before I complain about the cold again!

Last week in Calgary the temperature was around minus-20C , falling to -30C overnight.
Where are my shorts?

This goes against everything I believe in, known for, and takes pride in.

With all the questionable celebrities out there today, like the Kardashians, Hiltons, & various other reality stars, it’s my job to make fun of them and let me tell you they sometimes make it too easy!

Remember Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt? Gee whiz, sure they got the exposure they wanted but at the expense of looking like idiots?

Musicians fall into the same boat sometimes, what with all the Brittany Spears shaving their heads in the world!

It’s to the point now that my body craves putting them down, and will react negatively if I don’t.

Yet, here I am about go 100% positive on Justin Bieber. (A shiver just went down my back!)

Make fun of singing, his hair, his clothes, his videos, but don’t even think of raking him over the coals for letting success go to his head. This past Christmas, he did what I think VERY few celebrities would, he came home and shared the wealth. (Feeling itchy!)

By now we’ve all heard of those famous ‘Justin sightings’ in local malls right? The guy could’ve easily flown to Los Angeles and spent his money there, but he didn’t. (Is that a hive?)

Then this story comes across our desk that shows how important friends are, real friends.

Jeremy Daniel, 28, a salesperson at Auto Sales in Waterloo, got a call before Christmas about a white 2009 Mustang convertible with black stripes. It was a gift. To be delivered on Christmas Eve.

He figured the buyer might represent a wealthy corporate business person shopping for their teenager, until he saw the name on the cheque: Justin Bieber.

Wow, Justin bought himself a new car from a local dealership!?!

Not quite!

On Christmas Eve, the car was delivered to the Stratford home of Ryan Butler, Bieber’s childhood friend.

According to the Record, Daniel called Butler’s father 10 minutes before arriving to give the Butler family time to gather out front for the big surprise. When Daniel pulled up in the flashy white convertible, about a dozen people were on the lawn of the Butler home — including Bieber himself.

 “It was a great buddy moment. Justin and Ryan were jumping up and down,” said Daniel. “Justin ran up and shook my hand and thanked me for bringing the car over and then the two jumped in the car and took off.”

Justin didn’t buy this for a record rep, a promoter or anyone that could help with his career. He did it for a friend who hung out with him long before he was an international star.

And you know what? I respect that.

Now if you’ll excuse me I have to find a bathtub full of Aveeno!

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Meet Dominika Jurek and Nicholas Vandal.

They’re not celebrities, politicians, pro athletes, just a couple of hard working Canadians.

They’re both third assistant directors on the Nikita TV show, and were carpooling home together six minutes after wrapping up a film shoot at 5:15 a.m. Saturday morning in Toronto, when a black Mercedes-Benz ML450 roared in front of their vehicle as they waited for a green light and headed towards a Queens Quay pier.

The truck hopped the curb, went through a fence and a park bench before plunging into the icy water near a docked harbour cruise ship.

Dominika called 911 while Nicholas ran across the street and called to the driver, who had emerged from the sunken SUV’s sunroof, suffering from shock and cold.  According to reports the temperature was -12 C but wind-chill made it feel like -25 C.

Paramedics arrived and rushed the driver to the hospital, where he was treated for hypothermia.

He will survive, but some are asking if it was a life worth saving?

The driver was 19 year old Hung Jiang and it’s alleged he fell asleep behind the wheel. Later that afternoon, he was brought to a police station and charged with impaired driving.

The kid was drunk and flying through the streets of Toronto.

What if somebody was going for an early morning stroll down by the pier?  What if they were walking a pet? What if they brought their kids with them?

I’m hoping his parents hugged him until he passed out, but brought him back with the mother of all butt kickings.

I hope he feels ashamed of himself, and realizes just how lucky he is. Not so much because he’s alive but because nobody else was hurt.

I hope the first thing he does this week is find those two that saved him and give them the most sincere thank you he can muster.

I hope he takes his punishment like a man and remembers this for the rest of his life.

Dominika Jurek and Nicholas Vandal have provided you with a second chance Hung Jiang, what are you going to do about it?

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Ask any musician and they’ll tell you the big dream is scoring that first record deal. Today, you just ‘rent’ one!

Tim McGraw had a beef with his label and is now independent. Really though, how much help does Tim McGraw need now?

Not to be outdone, The New York  Post’s Page Six is reporting that BNA Nashville artist Kenny Chesney wants out of his deal and has shopped a $30 million, five year record deal to EMI, UNIVERSAL and WARNER. A source told the Post that Kenny wants to be “more mainstream.”

However, KENNY’s manager is reported to have said, “This is very inaccurate. We have no plans to be anything but a Country-music artist . . . Also, we have enjoyed a long-term, successful relationship with SONY . . . The numbers you speak about and WARNER BROS., etc. are purely rumors that are far from the truth.”

$30 million? Does Kenny need that kind of money? I know for a fact that Kenny and Sony get along just fine, but time will tell!

It’s a brand new year! Any regrets from the Christmas that has come and gone? Well yeah. I didn’t watch Polar Express (fell asleep), never got that sleigh ride in (not my fault, need snow for that), and last year’s carolers were nowhere to be seen, or heard.

 
Come to think of it, I never heard near as much Elvis as I should have either.

However, I did watch Charlie Brown, Rudolph, and A Christmas Story.

 
I did successfully get the gift my wife wanted.

  
I did hear the NORAD Santa reports on the radio Christmas Eve.

 
But it seems like a lot of little things were forgotten during the holidays because there was too much running around, everyone was too busy, or Christmas chores needed to be completed.

Because of this, I wrote myself a little note for Christmas 2012;

Dear Bill,
You have just finished moping around the house on January 2nd, taking the decorations off the tree, packing away the Christmas movies, and returning the lights to their boxes.
What’s the problem? Christmas was a great time, family was happy, nobody went hungry, and there’s still rum in that bottle above the stove.
It went by too fast? Christmas can last days or weeks if you want it.
Too stressful? Did you forget last January that Christmas is coming again?
Missed a few movies? Dec 22nd 2012 has been deemed ‘Family Movie Night’, tell your kids not to make plans.
No carolers this year? Pick up the phone NOW and call the church that came by in 2010 and volunteer to join them if they need more voices.
Go to as many Christmas tree lighting ceremonies as you can.
When you walk by Santa in the mall, stop and wave to him. Remember how cool it was when he waved back?
Turn off your computer, and call your friends who you won’t see this Christmas.
Keep the computer off, and buy a box of Christmas cards.
Don’t PVR every special on TV, remember the anticipation you felt as a kid when you were just 2 minutes away from watching ‘Santa Claus Is Coming To Town’?
Buy a Bing Crosby Christmas CD this week.
Lastly, take a moment and step outside on Christmas Eve and look at the sky. Take a deep breath, enjoy the quiet, the fact that it’s absolutely free, and believe that maybe, just maybe you will see a guy in a red suit fly by.
Merry Christmas!

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My wish for 2012 is for Steven Tyler, Alice Cooper, “Weird Al” Yankovic and a couple of guys from the Doobie Brothers sing the Beatles’ tune “Come Together

 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SX63mUW0-B0
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And lastly, my bold predictions for 2012 include the following;
1. The Maple Leafs will make the playoffs
2. Lindsey Lohan will disappear, but nobody will notice until 5 months after the fact.
3. I will eat something I’ve never tried before, and used to be alive.
4. I will catch a foul ball at a Blue Jays game
5. The world will NOT end!!!!!

Look our Kreskin!