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I had exactly this speech ready for if I ever met Swervin' Mervyn. I guess there's a lot of people like us. I still regret I never got to give it to Don Matthews.

once upon a time I would've said Darian Durant. At hist best, that dude could make plays that no other CFL QB could make. As a fan of the game, watching him physically dominate DEs was pretty awesome. And his duels against AC are some all-time CFL classics. I was actually pretty stoked to hear we signed him! but then he was a dink and we got Streveller instead.

that corner route with Jason Tucker ... everyone knew it was coming, no one could stop it. The 2005 Grey Cup, him vs. Cavillo, is the greatest football game I've ever seen live.

nothing against Stodds but here is a closeup of the best hands in Bomber history

S.J. Green: watching him with Calvillo was astonishing, they were playing tecmo bowl out there while everyone else was trying to play Madden on nightmare mode Ken Hobart: man was he fun to watch. Take Buck Pierce, make him worse at passing and better at open-field running. That's Ken Hobart. He changed the game. Ticats started 0-4 without him and were Grey Cup finalists with him. Quick Parker: this guy was pure beast. His battles against Walby are the stuff of Valhalla Vernon Adams, I'll always root for a young QB coming in and making a mark on the league, hopefully he leaves a mark on the league Mike O'Shea: I wore 59 because of this guy and I didn't even root for his damn team, just watched him make 20 tackles in a loss back when the Ticats were really stanky and the next day I picked my number. I guess he's a bomber now but he never played for them so I think he belongs on this list. Ray Bernard: another one of those Canadians who couldn't hack it as a starting middle linebacker, but this guy was a ******* cannonball on special teams for the Rough Riders in 1996. That thing where a cover guy blows up both a blocker and the returner with the same tackle? Nowadays we'd call that a Thiadric but maybe it should be a Bernard because I saw that dude do it multiple times during the Roughie's depressing death season.

I suspect that the GOP political calculus is that because **** rolls downhill fast in America, it's not the GOP voters who are going to suffer the most from this, it'll be poorer browner people. And the GOP shrugs at school shootings; they're not going to care about a couple hundred thousand excess coughing deaths. Plus shutting down the economy costs rich people money and encourages government intervention. Neither of these are big wins with the GOP. So their reaction is tragic and predictable. We will see whether this holds up with voters.

yup. we're on the same page.

Hey friends-- If you are interested in this week's newsworthy book, I'm told you can get a PDF of it here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zj5asvqywpa6uqo/trwih-bolton.pdf?dl=1

I rewatched the ep last night and they didn't even mention Abadon during the coming up next screen, they just said "Anna Jay in action." Really really underplayed Abadon. Nice job, especially after watching AEW Dark this week where most of the matches were foregone conclusions. MJF vs. that guy who looks like a tall blonde Henry Rollins was a good match too. Always like seeing Aubrey put the boot to someone, 1000x more when it's MJF.

I'm gonna pirate the **** out of that shitgoblin's book. HMU if you want a link when I get hold of it.

Dug the spot on Dynamite last night where they pumped the tires on fancy girl Anna Jay with a big glowing soft-focus promo and then she got KO'd in a minute by horror freakshow girl Abadon who is my new favorite. and then Anna Jay joined the Dark Order. real nice tight storytelling there and the promo was a great misdirect.

Gotta say I love the AEW tag team division. I especially love that Guevara and Jericho are pairing as "Le Sex Gods." I just admire the audacity -- a guy who looks like the singer from a Night Ranger cover band standing next to a 21 year old who is cut like a diamond and moves like a king cobra, and the Night Ranger guy says "Yup, that's us, we are le sex gods. Both of us." And don't get me wrong, no hate here, I think Jericho is fantastic. dude is such a great heel. he's got his head just far enough up his ass to be super entertaining but not so far that I hate him. real nice calibration there. AEW Dark was pretty meh this week. Hate seeing jobbers brought in just to get demolished by big names. You look at the dark Omega vs. jobber match from a few weeks ago, Kenny showcased his opponent and they put on an entertaining show. Lance Archer vs. Ali, not so much ... though I liked seeing him beat up a random staffer before the match, that's some good heeling.

yup, a couple of those proud boys are well-known regional troublemakers. We'll see how Tiny's parole officer down in Portland reacts to this footage. Don't have time to dig it up now but there's footage on twitter of them going five-on-one against one guy well outside the chazop, they stole his phone and are playing keepaway with it. Totally fits their MO -- they swarm and look for vulnerable solos they can attack. They're human sewage, basically a gang of roided-up eighth graders.

an abacus from China that counts in Arabic numerals... #globalistsEverywhere

Have you ever seen Arrested Development? That takes place in Orange County.

I remember when all the Bush II creeps were so into waterboarding...

it's brick, so blue and gold would be tough, but I did get some vintage Jets and Blue Bombers pennants from ebay and get those hung up in my office. Off topic but the Bombers don't have much in the way of official 2019 Grey Cup Champion merch you can hang on your walls. Disappointing.

I am way way way way way way way more concerned about the covid than I am about any danger from antifa or black lives matter. Still sheltering my high-risk tuckus in place. Have been doing a ton of home improvement projects and redecorating, though, my place looks pretty spiffy now.

Hey folks, you may be hearing all kinds of crap about how Seattle is a lawless hellscape of gun-totings anarchist checkpoints. That is some Goebbels level horseshit. Here is some drone footage of the CHAZ:

the electoral college makes this more complicated than it looks. There's more dems but they are clustered in cities. Clinton had a four-point popular vote win and still lost in the electoral college because she ran up the score in places like California and New York and lost the midwest by a few tens of thousands of votes. Basically, land gets to vote for president, and land generally votes GOP. I feel okay about Biden's chances, but damn Trump pulled a rabbit out of his hat the first time and the vote suppression machine is revved up and with corona chaos and a massive surge in absentee ballots and a democratic nominee who doesn't inspire a lot of passion and the massive surprise of 2016 still hanging in the air ... everything is uncertain.

man, that sucks he made you wait a full year after Election Day before cutting a cheque. Dude could pay his people faster, is all I'm saying.

no, that is a joke. my point was that this seizure kinda puts the lie to the idea that protesters and vandals are the same bunch. and I couldn't help poking fun at all the Secret Soros Army nonsense that you read from the usual suspects. Actually, if you go back a few months in the U.S. Politics thread, you'll find out that many MBB posters are cashing checks from Soros .... though I regret the jokes I made about the coronavirus vaccine that the SorosForce people got.

holy **** are you folks hearing what's happening out here? Seattle cops abandoned the East Precinct, protesters have set up an damn autonomous zone there with barricades. Somehow all of the surrounding businesses and homes are intact. There is plenty to wreck there -- this is smack dab in the middle of the densest neighborhood on the West Coast. And also, somehow, the precinct house is unburnt! it is strange how these protesters who have been out in the streets for days and days did not take advantage of the cops' sudden retreat to indulge in the animal anarchy that Soros buys with his paychecks. All kinds of chatter about how this was a trap, that the Seattle cops want a new east precinct building anyway and if they get this one burned they win the war. Protesters are not taking them up on it, and I hear anti-provocateur security is in place. I wouldn't have believed something like this could happen even just six months ago, but here we are. This image is not a photoshop.

Believe it when you see it. The mainstream media loves loves loves posting hope porn like this. Jennifer Rubin of the WaPo has basically written the same column every working day of Trump's presidency. Not saying those hyenas couldn't go cannibal, but it won't be heralded by the mainstream media; it will come very quietly and then all at once.

I remember a large wave of stories about the poor police dogs who had to be unemployed because of dope legalization. example: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/may/29/oregon-police-dogs-drug-problem-marijuana it's weird that all of these "won't someone think of the doggos?" stories popped up at the same time. love dogs as much as the next guy but imprisoning people should not be a goddamn make-work program for genius dogs with amazing noses. (boy, that'd be a dog that'd have trouble moving on to civilian life in Seattle. You couldn't walk that dog anywhere where there are people, she would be constantly finding the dope and confused why that wasn't a thing she should do anymore)