Posts posted by Mark H.
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I want to share a story here - definitely related to current US politics:
We have a family of Sudanese refugees in Selkirk, MB. that were sponsored by a group of 20 local churches - my wife and I are members of the committee. They were vetted by the United Nations and arrived in July. Just in case it matters, they are Muslim. A widowed mother, her teenaged / young adult children, and one son who's married with one infant child. The had to leave a daughter and son behind in a U.N. refugee camp for complicated reasons. The son (22) is now being forced out of the camp due to a lack of U.N. resources and him being an able-bodied male. However, if he leaves, Sudanese rebels will force him to fight for their cause, literally put a gun into his hand. One of the sons has dramatically improved his english, can even text coherently, and has started volunteering in the seniors program at the local library - a first step to building an employment resume.
Questions:
1. Is the U.N. vetting process not adequate enough for Trump? What exactly is going to be improved in 90 days?
2. If that young man is indeed forced out of the camp against his will and winds up with the rebels - would he then be considered dangerous when he undergoes the vetting process? Is it really that simple? Does he not deserve help?
Finally, this is why articles like the one posted above really bother me. They are mostly political: the democrats did this, the republicans did that, the left wishes this were not true, etc. etc. etc. They attempt to fear monger while not actually addressing the issues, not really sharing the story of actual refugees.
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1 hour ago, kelownabomberfan said:
The article would be quite convincing if one were not aware of the facts it omits.
1. It cites Somalia as a source of terrorism via refugees - but Somalia is not even on the ban list
2. It does not mention countries like Turkey and Saudi Arabia being excluded from the list - or does the that art gallery incident in Turkey not matter?
3. Obama postponed refugee applications, not ALL VISAS, big difference
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I wonder - if Trump is getting bad advice or if he's just not listening to anyone? He's making changes at a rate that is unreasonable and unsustainable. The immigration ban, forcing Mexico to pay for his wall, while his VP is busy spouting off about abortion, etc. etc. etc. This all happened in their first week - they could at least give their country a little room to breathe.
How many executive orders can he sign before they don't mean anything anymore?
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Cool article. I wonder how effectively they can measure variables. Such as: a defensive player making an outstanding play that does not usually get made. Or, a certain play is very effective but a certain opposing D is adept at stopping it, perhaps due to their skill set.
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8 hours ago, Atomic said:
Not so sure about that one... I doubt they're very good (how would you know if they are?), and most IT jobs in the private sector are the furthest thing from cutthroat and demanding.... source: I've spent my career in IT...
That's what they tell me. As for knowing that they're good, let's just say they know their around a Sonic Wall, just to give you one example.
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1 hour ago, Floyd said:
I'd really look at going 5 import receivers...
Go three NI DL... Thomas and Corney should be ready to rotate each play, maybe sign Westerman or Klassen?
Bring in someone to compete with Hardrick too... MacMillan or Van Zeyl?
NATs - 3 OL, 3 DL, S, RB
QB pressure was not generated consistently this year - I think improving the DL should be the bigger priority.
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27 minutes ago, kelownabomberfan said:
That's been my experience with local politicians of almost every stripe. Our Conservative MP was a nice guy. Our new Liberal MP is a nice guy (though his office is right across the hall from mine, I can say that he sure isn't in Kelowna much). I feel for them when their leaders are the ones that are the targets for a lot of anger, and they have to smile and nod and say "I know what you mean" and eat a lot of poop on behalf of their party, even though they are just the face of the party in your area.
They also work far harder than many of us realize. I was talking to Kelly Block when I got a chance to spend a week at Parliament. She gets up at 4:00 Monday morning to drive to Regina, to fly to Toronto, to fly to Ottawa
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15 minutes ago, Kluchk said:
All I'm saying is its time to move on. The Riders have a vision. Their vision is to go young. Will there be growing pains, absolutely; however, you're crazy to think Jones doesn't have a plan. The Riders will be ok. Durant hasn't done anything in two years. A lot of us aren't willing to watch him sit on the bench anymore. I'd rather see young talent try and solidify a spot.
"Try and solidify a spot" therein lies the problem. This is a QB driven league.
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1 hour ago, The Unknown Poster said:
Carbon taxing. A liberal elitist scam. Just awful. If he thinks we're gonna be off oil in the short term he's nuts. Punishing every day Canadians so he can look good to his elitist pals. This clown isn't remotely up for the job of PM. Disgraceful.
Oil is not sustainable, environmentally or economically. The oil sands are one of the most expensive oil sources in the world.
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42 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:
They do have a budget for the qb position under the cap for 2017 so I respectfully disagree. The money they saved on Glenn will go to Nichols. Decisions have to be made with remaining Bomber free agents as in who stays & who doesn't.
Considering they play in a QB driven league, I hope you're wrong. If they cut Glenn it should be because they have confidence in Davis as the #2 guy - if that then gives them more cap room, it's just a bonus. If history hasn't taught them not to roll the dice on their #1 QB started staying healthy, then I don't know what will. Again, I hope you're wrong.
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5 minutes ago, tracker said:
God cares about NFL football??? And if Mulumba gets cut, does that mean that Mulumba has been shunned by God???
That's where fundamentalism runs into a dead end
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42 minutes ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:
Another one bites the dust...
The only reason to keep reading the Sun is now gone
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12 hours ago, Mark F said:
correct. although I would say not blindly. Princeton and Northwestern University study:
Not really a big shock is it.
I mean the people who voted for them because of their religious beliefs. White Christians feel under represented and they think Trump will do something about that.
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1 hour ago, Jacquie said:
An exit poll breaking down who voted for whom that is interesting. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/08/us/politics/election-exit-polls.html?_r=0
"Data for 2016 were collected by Edison Research for the National Election Pool, a consortium of ABC News, The Associated Press, CBSNews, CNN, Fox News and NBC News."
In a breakdown of "Most important candidate quality", the vast majority of Trump voters chose "Can bring needed change". Those are the people who will be disappointed considering Trump's choices for his cabinet. He hasn't "drained the swamp" - he's added to it.
No surprises here. Many Trump supporters are white Christians, many of them living in small towns or rural areas. All the other numbers are pretty balanced. That's why he won the mid-west by a huge margin, so huge that California didn't even matter
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13 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:
Obama gave us Trump. He truly alienated the right wing white vote that no one felt was important. Trump saw that & exploited it. Were the Dems & everyone else wrong. Outgoing Presidents seem to carry the popular vote. Lots of Presidents & Prime Ministers would be very happy with a 49% approval rating nationwide.
Except that Trump isn't going to do anything different for the right wing white vote. I'm baffled by people who are satisfied with lip service. Trump will do no more to accommodate their personal beliefs than Obama did. The United States, and all other countries, needs to get past the idea that any leader will somehow accommodate their personal beliefs.
Trump played the game and got himself elected. His VP is a guy who makes clips about 'grace before dinner and church on Sunday' that got them millions of votes in the mid-west. They will do nothing for the people who voted for them because of that, but so many of them blindly believe they will.
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On December 16, 2016 at 4:36 PM, wbbfan said:
Plus you dont want to limit the ability for NI talent to flow between teams too much. Thats how you rebuild. Other wise you end up with one team that has far too much talent who can over pay them and protect them and their dominance at NI depth.
Yes, but the salary cap would contain that to a certain extent.
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4 hours ago, kelownabomberfan said:
Hillary is way up in the popular vote because of the huge concentration of Democrats in California. If the vote was purely based on popular vote then Trump would have spent more time on the West Coast. As it was he left the West Coast to Hillary and focused on the battle-ground states that Hillary assumed were in the bag. And that's one of the main reasons she lost, she was out-maneuvered by a much smarter election team.
Which is ironic - because that is the exact strategy with which Obama won his second term.
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22 minutes ago, wbbfan said:
Thats simply not true.
In blinks time we had many horrible o lines, 1 or two deep wr cores at best, some horrible OCs and systems, and for 3 years he split touches out of the back field.
Yet STILL he put up 368 for 3396 and 13 tds. 8 years in the cfl. 7.5 here. 3 years split touches out of the back field and primary returner for the first half of his career too.
Denmark in 6 years 359 catches for 4870 and 24 tds. Darvin adams 133 catches for 1790 and 14 tds.
Blink was the no2 man at worst in our offense, and lead us to wins. Harris was 3rd - 4th in bc. harris played on better teams and was a smaller piece. your drastically under rating blinks contribution. Our offense was reliant on going deep to milt or going to blink.
Not at all - just stating that other RB's were / are better as receivers - Harris is just one example
We had a good OL from 2006 - 2008, especially 2007. There were other players who were vital cogs of the offense over the years, Milt and Blink were more long term while some of the others moved on.
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That's visa waiver restriction compared to a complete immigration ban.