You know civics teachers all across this country are cringing at this video. Towards the end, Hockey Night In Canada host Ron MacLean mentions that Arnold Schwarzenegger, a native of Austria, could be the future President of the United States.
Hold the phone! Ahem Mr. MacLean! May we direct you to Article II, Section 1 of this piece of paper we have in this country called The Constitution? We quote:
"No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."
We don't operate under the "whoever brings the beer" rule we hear you guys have up there, MacLean. We have rules and an army of 10th grade Civics teachers to drill them into our heads so that 13 years later, we can catch people on them.
And the language in the Constitution is crystal clear so there shouldn't be any confusion:
No word yet if Don Cherry claimed Doug Gilmour would've made a better governor of California than a weak-willed sissy Euro.
(Those were jokes folks. Please don't send us hate mail. We love Canada.)
(Editor's Note: Apparently Ron MacLean has been so shamed by his ignorance towards our electoral processes that he threatened a LaBatt Blue embargo to our country unless someone took the video off of YouTube. Either that or someone violated the CBC's copyright. We like our explanation better.)
EMPTY NETTER ASSISTS
Seems no one in Southern California cares about hockey according to this Canadian Press story. Sorry, but there seemed to be at least 18,000 people that did Monday night.
Here's a surpise. The American hockey media and the Canadian hockey media aren't seeing eye-to-eye.
With that in mind, we're going to start our own international media squabble. We're calling out the Puntland Post of Mogadishu, Somalia. Frankly their coverage of the Stanley Cup playoffs has been subpar and their delivery guy is always late. The ball is in your court Puntland Post.
Former Penguins coach Kevin Constantine gets a gig with the Houston Aeros of the AHL. We're guessing Jaromir Jagr won't be pushing for a trade there any time soon.
Mike Milbury officially becomes irrelevant with the New York Islanders.
Gianni Vitucci of Hamilton, Ontario has been destroying our E-mail inbox the last week or so. But it's all good valuable stuff he's sending us. His latest contribution is a piece on NHL players' diets in between periods.
Ron Wilson will remain coach of the San Jose Sharks.
Former Penguins tough guy Marty McSorley's status as a Sharks broadcaster is up in the air after a mysterious disappearance from the broadcast booth a few weeks back.
This image has been floating around the Internet the last few days. It is allegedly the designs for the Dallas Stars' new uniforms.
An interesting look at the e-mail scandal that plagued the NHLPA.
We posted this a while back, but it never hurts to recycle old material. Plus someone was kind enough to send it to us. The petition to bring Mike Lange back to television.
The Penguins sign forward Tim Wallace.
Sidney Crosby apparently also has a degree in medicine.
Kudos to The Sidney Crosby Show for spotting that item.
First Published: May 30, 2007, 4:00 p.m.
