Favorite News Article: Oh Canada

Dennis Gartman's daily letter is one that many investors subscribe to on a daily basis. I always enjoy the ending of the letter because it has a new fun fact or observation about the world. This was taken from Wednesday's article:

OH, CANADA! POLITICAL

CORRECTNESS RUN TOTALLY

AMUCK!: And now for a bit of humor on this

rather humorless day, one has to take Canada’s

political correctness with a very large grain of salt for it

has indeed become a land where political correctness

trumps all else. But even for Canada the following

seems to take PC to a new and unique and truly

frightening… even idiotic... level. According to reports,

the Gloucester Dragons Recreational Soccer league

has had a “mercy” win rule in effect that never allowed

a winning team to win by more than 5 goals, apparently

in an attempt to save poor soccer playing children from

the ignominy of being beaten to the proverbial pulp.

We at TGL have never understood the PC rules

regarding “mercy” rule, but then again we were born in

the 50’s, long before political correctness reared its

pathetic head.

Now, however, the GDRS has gone one step beyond

the “mercy” rule and has said that any team winning six

goals or more shall actually lose the game. At first we

thought, “We’ll that settles that: The team with 5 goals

will simply sit back, empty the goal, and let the team

that is behind score a goal or two quickly so that play…

real play … can begin.” We were wrong, for it quickly

dawned on us here that the losing team would instead

swiftly move to kick another goal against themselves

and for the team that is ahead, putting the ball into their

own goal in order to be down by 6 goals and thus win

by losing.

But then we thought, wait, things will become even

worse, for the team then up by 6 goals will go on

“offense” and kick the ball as swiftly as it can into its

goal, scoring for the other team, hoping to bring the

score back to 5 goals so that they actually win the

game, which would then mean that they would go on to

defend their opponents goal from their opponents who

would want to kick the ball into their own goal, with the

team that is leading defending against a goal that

would count in their favor.

This is the politically correct world run amuck, and we

ask simply, can someone not stop these people and

save them from themselves? You cannot make this

stuff up? Really, you can’t. It is just not possible. Truth

trumps fiction almost every single time.