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Can't stop thinking about his best game in blue, against the Argos -- he passed for almost 400 yards and was ragdolled every second play. Yeah, painkillers.

I looked into this and from what I could read, this whole mantra that the government was "muzzling scientists" was a bunch of alarmist BS, much like the alarmist BS being spread about Bill C-51. Is the government really "muzzling" scientists? No. Not really. It's amazing how a soundbite these days gets into the public mainstream and then is repeated as gospel over and over again. Today all I see are idiots posting "#Harperisabigot" everywhere. Just ridiculous. These people truly are their own worst enemy. "At least one media relations expert" ... now that is some unimpeachable sourcing, man. Rock solid. Why didn't you copy in the first half of the article, that talks about a study that shows that Canadian federal scientists are, in fact, less free to talk about their work than American scientists are?

I'll add:- Parliamentary privilege was reached 3 times by his Gov. This is the 1st time for any democracy. - wilfully violated the election spending limit in 2006 - Changed a $16 Billion dollar surplus into a record $56 Billion dollar deficit - one of the Cons promises was more accountability - but Harper has shut down Parliament twice, once to stall on a vote, and then again to avoid a vote of non-confidence. - the latest Budget was fudged by cuts to Health care, Coast Guard, dumping GM stock at a steep loss, raiding the the federal emergency fund and spending the UI surplus I could go on, because there is way more to Harper's bizarre politics, but I tire of these "politics" and so I'll stop. I just wanted to point out that the man who represents Canada isn't all he's made out to be. Or maybe he is. I'll add "the muzzling of government scientists" to Harper's rap sheet. Scientific work shouldn't flow through the PMO. Science is not politics or public relations.

It should also be noted that according to the Maryland prosecutor, Gray was falsely arrested -- the cops picked him up for illegal possession of a knife, but the knife he was carrying was legal. The cops did not have a justification to put him in the van. He was basically kidnapped and killed.

Here is a story on Baltimore drug war policing, which is a major component of the context of Freddy Grey's death. Spoiler: it's brutal and anti-consitutional but no one gives a ****. http://www.vice.com/read/david-simon-talks-about-where-the-baltimore-police-went-wrong-429 Also today, the six cops involved were hit with a variety of charges from the state attorney, the gnarliest being second-degree murder. You all realize we're going to have enough material to keep this thread going for a very very long time.

I think MB lasts the season unless we have a Tim Burke / Peter Horachek scenario where the entire franchise comes apart at the seams. How many teams have replaced their OC mid-season and actually improved as a result? Plus, O'Shea seems like a patient sort.

Jesus, a rib dislocation ... I've had less severe rib injuries before and could barely breathe without bad pain.

Seriously? You think that it's more appropriate for a cop to immediately escalate to deadly force if they're less certain about how much danger they're in? Shoot first, ask questions later?

He also had Count Dooku. its a silly concept really. The idea that evil guys never trust each other so there is only ever two...well Palpatine seemed to have a lot of control over his apprentices. And why would Vader go along with turning Luke to replace him? Is he that dense? Just stupid. Vader hopes that Luke will turn to the dark side so they can team up and destroy the Emperor. Then they will become a new father-son Sith duo. Vader makes this offer explicitly in Empire. The Emperor hopes to replace Vader with a younger, fresher apprentice. Like wants to turn his father back to the Light Side while staying frosty himself. The Emperor messes with this by unleashing the new death star on the rebel fleet and hoping this will provoke Luke into dark side fury. It makes sense to me. Jesus Christ am I arguing about Star Wars on the internet?

5th game - we win in regulation 6th game - we are so far ahead in the second period that we invoke some kind of little-known NHL mercy rule and win without playing the third. 7th game - our 6th game was so dominant that the NHL awards us the Game 7 victory before we even fly to Anaheim.

To those people who say "just obey the cops and everything will be fine" -- what if the police are constantly harassing you? You don't have to run or fight or be impolite to be treated like a criminal. You just have to have the right/wrong skin color. Check out this story from Toronto: http://www.torontolife.com/informer/features/2015/04/21/skin-im-ive-interrogated-police-50-times-im-black/ This isn't policing. At best, this is hall monitoring. At worst, this is "papers, please."

I figure if white Jesus is acceptable then black Johnny Storm is totally fine as well.

I like what Noeller had to say about the oilers in a different thread: they need to be backing the money truck up to Chiarelli's door right about now. They've gotta do something to show they're serious about turning it around. The franchise's credibility will sink even lower if McDavid refuses to report. And as always lol Leafs.

Jesus Christ those Nashville home uniforms are putrid. That swoop across the front shoulders looks like a stupid neck mustache or some Brundlefly bristles.

I am not a marketing guy but I have to wonder why you would leak your big event movie trailer on Star Wars Trailer day. There's zero oxygen out there for Batman/Supes.

I am digging the show, but I've only read the first book. I actually read slower than GRRM writes, so I haven't got it in me to read a multi-thousand-page fantasy series.

I hear the Leafs are interested in Chiarelli as well. Be interesting to see how well Chiarelli can do when he doesn't have an idiot Leaf GM to trade with Was sad to see Nolan be the designated Buffalo tanker. He had some good seasons in the 90s.

I just came in here to post about that Burge case. Torturing people to obtain confessions -- that's some ******* medieval **** right there. Burge himself was convicted of lying about the torture, was sentenced to 4.5 years in jail, but now he's been released. He still collects a police pension. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-burge-reparations-emanuel-met-20150414-story.html#page=1

GAME OF THRONES! First four episodes were leaked last weekend.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=twyla+tharp

I think that the complete inability to close out 3-1 series migrated with Jets 1.0 to Phoenix -- the Coyotes also blew a couple of 3-1 series leads in the 90s, if memory serves. But man if we are up 3-1 in the series and lose Game 5, I am gonna need some thorazine because those Edmonton and Vancouver series back in the 90s just about killed me.

I really think this series is a pick 'em. Anaheim has more star power, but we're red-hot, and Anaheim's record is inflated by the crappy teams in the Pacific. I think it boils down to one guy. If we have SuperPav, we win. If we have ClarkKentPav, we lose.

I think USA has it right. We'll be better than BC and Saskatchewan but I don't think we've caught Calgary and Edmonton yet.

My enduring memory of Romby is from a late 2008 game where an Eskimo DL took a serious late hit / cheap shot on Kevin Glenn and Romby was the only guy who really strongly objected after the play. He took like a 30-yard full-speed run at the guy all the way from the end of his route. Weird to see the skinny little rookie deep-ball threat be the only guy really standing up for his QB, but the 2008 Bombers were a really passive team.

I hate the Leafs with every fiber of my being. I would rather live through a 100-year Roughrider Grey Cup run than a single Leaf Stanley Cup. I feel bad for Peter Horachek, though, because Shanahan hand-picked him to drive the Leafs straight into the iceberg. I was hoping he'd coax a late run out of the team, make them lose some of their McDavid raffle tickets and weaken MLSE's resolve to burn the place down. (based on http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/kelly-shanahans-scorched-earth-leafs-plan-wins-mlse-support/article22938348/) At least I'll always have this stat: the Leafs finished winless on the road in 2015 in games where both the opposing goalies didn't hurt themselves.