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oh yeah, one more thing about jury bias -- dude was convicted by unanimous vote of all the jurors, as the English common law demands. Which tells me that the jury was entirely composed of: a) Soros clones grown in a secret Venezuelan lab b) robolesbian deep state gun confiscators c) members of the UN Permanent Committee On Baby Tissue Resale d) those Portland pastors who provided sanctuary to Mexican Gender-Quaida e) refugee lizards from Alpha Centauri f) Socks Clinton

Still waiting on your explanation of the million illegal votes, btw.

Challenging jurors for bias is the responsibility of the defence counsel. If Stone doesn't have adequate representation, that's his problem. Dude is rich and can afford whatever attorneys he wants. He apparently picked poorly. It's just like a right winger to want the state to insulate people from the impact of their choices.

Zontar, please bring data to this discussion. What's the normal sentence that someone convicted of multiple counts of perjury and witness tampering gets? Was this sentence out of line with the customary sentence? The proposed sentence was in line with the DoJ's sentencing guidelines for the crimes involved. If the guidelines are unjust, why didn't Barr adjust the guidelines rather than making a specific intervention on Stone's behalf immediately after his boss tweeted his displeasure? It sure looks like someone is worried about Stone spilling what he knows. I know several American prosecutors and it's not surprising to me at all they would go apeshit on charges that interfere with the smooth workings of the legal system. Nothing pisses off a prosecutor more than someone who lies on the stand or tampers with witnesses, because those things can **** up a prosecutors case and they take that more personally than they'd take a random robbery or murder. Prosecutors also love putting people in jail; it's just novel in this case because the perp is an affluent and famous old white dude with suction at the presidential level -- that doesn't happen a ton in the states.

one of the thinking errors you see nowadays is the idea that if you're criticizing Trump and the GOP then of course you must be a rabidly pro-democrat stooge, because those are the two teams and you have to be a fan of one, right? And it's the way that stupid people argue. "You hate Trump so naturally you must be down with all the sex crime and shitty legislation that Bill Clinton did, right?" Just for the record: "Bill Clinton should go to jail if he raped children on the Air Pedo" and "Trump is a criminal who is a danger to the USA and indeed the world and he needs to not be President ASAP" are not contradictory viewpoints. One can hold them both at once.

...that a Democratic president is elected.

The "overturning the 2016 election" argument is stale horseshit from people who want to invalidate the 2018 election. The people who impeached Trump and tried to remove him from office were not deep state spooks or the terrifying Elite Shadow Order of Vegan Feminist Adjunct Professors. They were elected representatives, each of whom beat a GOPer in an election, with the exception of Mitt Romney and maybe Justin Amash? aaand ... if the impeachment had resulted in Trump's removal from office, the GOP would still hold the presidency. That's much of the reason why there is a vice president; to make for an orderly succession in case of emergency. So yeah, horseshit.

yup. This is why people like Zontar are invaluable to the Trump movement -- they take whatever spicy semitruth the Trumpist goons are pushing today and reblog it endlessly as if it's true. That's why you don't see the dude engage on anything substantively. He's not here to debate or to educate, he's here just to make noise.

Still waiting to hear the details about the million illegal voters in 2016, Zontar.

meanwhile, in Oregon... https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/02/west-linn-to-pay-600000-to-settle-wrongful-arrest-racial-discrimination-suit-stemming-from-former-chiefs-favor-for-a-friend.html (TLDR: African-American dude complains to his boss that his coworkers are calling him Buckwheat and teasing him with confederate flags and whatnot. Boss gets freaked out about a lawsuit so OF COURSE he enlists his fishing buddy, the police chief of a nearby small town, to send goons to shake down the complainant and file theft charges against him for leverage. Alas, dude could not be scared off, the theft charges were dismissed and hisresulting lawsuits were settled for over a million bucks, about half from the boss' business, about half from the little town that supplied the police goons. Like many things in 2020 USA, this looks like the plot of a ******* Coen Brothers movie, or perhaps an episode of the A-Team. would love to see B.A. Baracus and Mad Murdoch inflict some wacky hurt on that bunch of crackers)

three offseasons running now the Riders look like a 3-15 team on paper and yet for the past two years we wind up having to play a playoff game out at IG Field West. we always win those games so it's cool ... still, that team pulls rabbits out of their asses every year, gonna assume they keep doing it until I see otherwise.

that'd fit the WJ pattern of brutalizing a team and then signing with them the next season.

looking back in the thread ... where does all this "MBT is looney" stuff come from? does the guy have legit diagnosable illnesses or is he just a wacky character or what?

Way back in 2019, you asserted that Republicans needed to counter the "districts that have been purposely flooded with illegal immigrants and allowing them to vote despite lack of citizenship?" This claim is entirely unsupported by evidence, including the evidence gathered by the Trump administration itself. So, do you still believe that there's an army of illegal voters in the USA that is swinging elections? If so, where's the evidence for that? If not, what changed your mind? Here's a link to the old discussion:

I think Zontar has me blocked so it might be worth someone's trouble to ask them if they've got an update on all that voter fraud.

preach it. me personally, I'm getting a little tired of all the "grey cup this" and "rings that" on this board. People are getting blinded by the bling, if this keeps up pretty soon the Bombers will have a hubcap on a chain that they'll award on the sidelines after tackles.

last week ... my first time fronting a band

I thought last season was pretty awesome.

also x 3 wonder if consistently passing outside is going to widen the defence and the gaps for Harris to hit...

hmm, wonder if this'll run like the old Baltimore Football Club / CFLers / CFL Colts / Stallions -- new team in weird league makes a splash in a city that the NFL jerked around. (man, the US expansion was so weird and so so CFL. even the successful team had more names than years in existence)

would love to see this compared with other QBs and offences. It seems so weird for a CFL offence to throw nothing deeper than 15 yards in the middle of the field. wonder if this is just data illustrating the constant gripe that the 2019 bombers had no midrange passing attack, everything was either a dump play or a bomb. also wonder if this is a turnover minimization strategy, if you never throw into the middle of the defence then there are fewer defenders around to pick the ball off. Look where the two picks happened; in a crowded area of the field.

Eugene Lewis was the guy I thought of immediately when I saw this thread but he wasn't a free agent and he just signed an extension. https://www.cfl.ca/2020/01/31/report-als-sign-eugene-lewis-one-year-extension/ Think Lewis is gonna be a gooder for a few years to come -- he really helped out VAJr last season.

Hope the BB do something nice and public to give him his ring -- give the crowd a chance to cheer that. Damn, remember when PIerce came back as a Lion and got cheered when he drove them for a TD late in the game?

The GOP Senate caucus can subpoena anyone it likes with a simple majority vote. They don't need Democratic permission to do so, and they don't have to let the Dems have any witnesses in return. The GOP is in complete control of this process and McConnell himself said the Senate was aligned 100% with the White House. Sooooo .... if a Biden's testimony will exonerate Trump, then why doesn't the GOP get a Biden under oath, vote to acquit, and move on?

Seattle Dragons announced their opening roster today. Familiar names making the cut: Nick Temple, John Santiago.