Everything posted by Mark H.
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Jets v Blues playoff who wins and why.
FWIW they averaged 3.1 goals per game in last year's playoff run - 53 goals in 17 games. Basically, scoring at last year's rate would have gotten them into OT - with the shaky goal tending and puck possession we saw last night - I do not like their chances in OT. You don't win playoff games when your goalie is letting in wrist shots from the face off circle.
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Canadian Politics
He clearly has fewer effective advisors monitoring and mentoring him at this point - the real Trudeau is being exposed.
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Canadian Politics
We have socialist capitalism. No need for corporations invest in a new business - let the government establish one and they'll eventually sell it to them.
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Canadian Politics
Ok then. Somehow you don't know or can't accept that both extremes of the political spectrum are one and the same. I'll move on - it was pointless.
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Canadian Politics
I know about that. When you go the extreme right or the extreme left, you get something like The German Labour Front or Russian Communism. I don't have a problem saying that Nazi Germany was an extreme form of socialism - because it was. But Hitler's policies are also found on the extreme right - fascism. The political spectrum is really a circle.
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Around the League: 2019 Off Season
And Dougie was out - guys like Oost were getting owned in the middle. Sorta like when Jake Thomas plays every down - only worse.
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Restaurant/food thread
KO's in Headingley - best soft ice cream in MB. But I'll go to any place that serves blue licorice - just cannot buy that stuff in bulk anywhere.
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Around the League: 2019 Off Season
I'm pretty sure Mr. Brown was injured most of that year. Teams had their way with our interior DL as a result - the results were not to be remembered.
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Canadian Politics
This is probably pointless, but I'll try anyway: To put it simply, if you go all the way to the far left, you get complete government control. When you go to all the way to the far right, you get complete corporate control, enabled by government. Surely you're aware of corporations that benefited from and aided the Nazi regime? https://allthatsinteresting.com/major-brands-nazi-collaborators This is not ignorance - it's the way the political spectrum works. No matter who you are, what you believe and which politics you lean towards - extremism and fundamentalism are dangerous beasts.
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Your *HATE* goes in here
Mine is easy: 50. The NFL - totally done with that league 40. MLB - just completely stupid (all teams are equal, but some are more equal than others) 10. Any hockey that isn't playoff hockey (I have a faint interest in Jets' regular season) 0. NBA - have never cared about it at all
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Canadian Politics
One and the same. http://www.rndpanthers.com/kenney/civicis10/unitone/4Unit1ChallengeGovernment.pdf
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Canadian Politics
You can pity sake all you like - the far right and far left are the same thing.
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Canadian Politics
If we view your two statements together: "if everyone just worked harder, we wouldn't need any of that." The developed world has been there, done that - it was called 'The Industrial Revolution.' Most of the population worked their asses off, and it got most of them absolutely nowhere. The rich simply got richer on the backs of the poor. Things are pretty messed up on the political right these days, and some us get the sense that they are working towards more of the above. Just my 0.02
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Canadian Politics
Citing the most extreme examples - very well done. Hint: The system that ruled Nazi Germany provided few if any opportunities to get out of poverty. Well - unless you include to killing (or planning to kill) the people of eastern Europe so Germans could take over their farms. For reference: lebensraum When you go the extremes - the right and the left are essentially the same.
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Canadian Politics
In rural areas you will often have pockets of small classes - 8 to 12 students. A 19.8 average means there are high numbers in the core areas - 30 to 45 students. Highschool teachers most often bear the brunt of that.
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Canadian Politics
Even though they are averaging 19.8 students per teacher in Ontario. http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/educationfacts.html
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Bomber News: 2019 Off Season
It would be a daft party.
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Around the League: 2019 Off Season
I guess now Jennings can play duck & check without rattling off 15 second snap counts first.
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Canadian Politics
I wish you were right. If you were, something would have been done by now.
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Canadian Politics
Personally, I don’t believe any Canadian government is going to build a pipeline. Harper might have, but not any of the current leaders.
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Canadian Politics
I partly agree - but how was anyone going to save 100 000 jobs in Alberta?
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The MBB All-time Blue Bomber team: Mount Rushmore and the all-time Happy Honkers
Man - hobbies can be a lot of work...
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Canadian Politics
I thought that a few weeks ago - but it’s looking more and more like she’s just an ethical person. If she runs again as an independent, her constituents bloody well better vote her back in.
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Random News Items
Cameras can be lethal... A study found in a 7-year period, 259 people worldwide died while taking selfies. More than 70 percent were men, who researchers said took more risks to get a dramatic shot. Tech giants have promoted a culture of selfies and social media is full of daring photos taken at great risk. The rugged 277-mile-long Grand Canyon makes safety rails impossible in many areas. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/grand-canyon-tourist-falls-to-his-death-while-taking-photos-2019-03-29/
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Canadian Politics
She stays because the optics of Trudeau forcing her out would probably be the final nail in the Liberal coffin.