johnzo

This board needs a laughing/crying reaction emoji.

Here's another weird contradiction I've noticed: Headline: Minority person dies in encounter with law enforcement. Right wing talking point: Blue lives matter! We support law enforcement! They are the thin line between chaos and civilization! Headline: Law enforcement fails to intervene in pre-crime; NRA takes heat Right wing talking point: Law enforcement sucks! You've only got 10,000 crazies in your jurisdiction, how did you miss the fact that it was this one who was actually a homicidal freak????

The Florida shooter was a citizen, and did not have a criminal record before he gunned up his school. But if law enforcement had acted on the warnings they received and confiscated his armory, they could have prevented this massacre. So it sure looks like you are pretty directly contradicting yourself here. Besides, do you really think cops should be free to confiscate guns from non-criminals simply because they've received warnings about that person's behavior? Don't you think that's ripe for abuse?

Florida Kids: we are sick of kids getting gunned down in classrooms and we would like some gun control laws OK? Republicans: Don't listen to these kids, their brains aren't fully formed yet, they're acting emotionally, not rationally, and their grief is being exploited by George Soros. Florida Kids: how about raising the minimum age one can be before buying a military semi-auto rifle? NRA: Kids must be allowed to bear arms because of freedom!!!!!

Hey, while we're talking about Manafort -- if you want a look at what a despicable piece-of-**** cartoon heel he is, check this out: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/03/paul-manafort-american-hustler/550925/ The Trump stuff is just the latest chapter. Dude has been buying and selling influence forever, often to very, very bad people -- in the eighties, he basically turned a murderous Angolan guerilla into King T'Challa. Ferdinand Marcos, the vile old dictator of the Philippines, used him to get suction on the USA too. I'd love to see him do a massive stint at club fed for whatever crime Mueller can tag him with...

Yeah, you've definitely got a point. It's interesting to think about how much power the American religious right wields as opposed to the straight-up capitalist lobby groups. There's a strain of thinking on the left that the religious right exists mainly to enable the capitalist right -- my impression is that the capitalist right is much more effective at driving politics than the religious right is. I don't know much about the lobbying pro and con for dope legalization down here. Washington and Colorado, the pioneer dope states, both legalized via citizen initiative, which bypasses that lobbying to some extent, so no one was talking about where the money was flowing.

Oh yeah, fuckheads like him are constitutionally incapable of saying an honest "my bad." Shows weakness.

I've seen a couple seismic cultural shifts in my time in the USA -- with gay marriage and marijuana legalization. Once the opinion polls flipped like this, the avalanche wasn't far behind. Those two things didn't have a massive industry lobbying group fighting them back , though. Gun re-regulation might be more like the tobacco wars. That was such a weird cultural moment, back when I was in college -- after a lifetime of being around indoor smokers, suddenly people were excusing themselves from parties and game nights to go outside and have a smoke. It was amazing how fast it flipped, somewhere around 1992...

Last year, TSN said that Kap had zero reason to be interested in the CFL. He's earned a ton of money and has nothing to prove to the NFL. https://www.tsn.ca/why-manziel-will-likely-play-in-the-cfl-and-kaepernick-will-not-1.869087

Dude who ran his emails about those kids being actors has been fired.

I grew up on the K-Tel compilations of the early eighties -- was a broke-ass kid, so getting a single cassette of 10-15 radio hits for like $5 was a big big deal. I had no idea they were a Winnipeg company!

There is definitely collusion smoke but I agree, no collusion fire yet. There are still Trump campaign people who have stories to tell about this, so we'll see. I very much doubt Trump will ever be impeached. Impeachment requires a supermajority of the Senate and Republicans have no interest in defying the Trump personality cult. Should he be impeached? Russian collusion aside, the self-dealing of government money into Trump properties may rise to the level of impeach-worthy. But there's no red line law about removing a President. Congress and / or the Cabinet could remove Trump tomorrow because they think he should prefer redheads, and he'd have no recourse. The American executive is both weirdly weak and invincibly untouchable. I think the best possible result is that we elect a ton of dems in 2018, Trump spins his wheels in the DC mud for three more years, somehow (cross fingers) there are no giant more crises that critically require American leadership (beyond Puerto Rico, which is a disgrace) and we elect someone better in 2020. To be fair to pigseye, a lot of my more-leftist friends like to make the point that, to a Chilean of a certain age, American outrage over foreign election interference is hilarious/infuriating. This country has filthy hands, especially in Central America, South America, and the Philippines. That doesn't mean I'm cool with a kleptocrat gangster like Putin pulling the strings on American elections, though -- that's very unlikely to make anything better. If Americans, left and right, weren't so vulnerable to agitprop, this country would be in a lot better place.

Yeah, after what happened to Edmonton last year, having three starting-calibre import tailbacks in their camp is not such a bad idea.

This thread is ridiculous. Asking "who won free agency" in February is silly. You could sign every great CFL free agent for zero dollars each and still have a disaster season if the fates are against you. Like, what if Bond disappears into another dimension, Fenner gets nerve-tonic gigantism, Lirim H. gets cut for non-regulation sideburns, Alex Bazzie decides he's a chicken, and Demski gets a season-ending concussion fighting SamCanadian at a Winnipeg bar? There are no guarantees. We can decide who won free agency in November.

Just watched the finale. I really like that the Emperor is running around the federation verse pretending to be Captain Georgiou. I thought the slow burn of the Mirror Lorca reveal was pretty tight too -- he's recruiting all these random Starfleet ne'er-do-wells and he's setting his phaser to "pillow talk" with Admiral Eyes ... and suddenly "oh yeah, this is who that guy is, he's not just doing random crazy bullshit, he actually has a plan." Nicely done stuff there. And I liked the glimpse of Captain Killey we got during the Orion camp scenes. Felt like they hit the "someone is not who they appear to be!" button one too many times with the Ash stuff. And it was very typical Star Trek in that the most interesting stuff happened in another universe / timeline, not in the federation timeline. On the whole, the first season was like a B-. I like the characters and I like the actors and the art design is just gorgeous. I'll watch when the next season pops up but I'm not breathless waiting for it or anything.

He did not look good spelling Ray last year. I remember Bluto saying that the Trestman offence befuddled Ray during the early parts of last season, so maybe this is no stain on Fajardo, maybe no one but a veteran with their mind right can run the Trestman offence.

If you're ever concerned about this very thing, check the color of the header of your favorite football discussion board. If it's not green and has no Rod Pedersen real estate ads, then you can be sure you're not suffering through the hell-on-earth of the Great Tribulation. I've used this in dreams, it totally works.

Maybe Henoc chills at home and waits for a team to run into national injury trouble, then signs at a premium for a partial season? Keeps his mileage low and his salary high? (and then he gets cut again the next year because he's overpaid)

Hey! If we can get this thread to 10 pages, then maybe Muamba will sig-- (nevermind)

Eventually Republicans will pay a price for this. They are way out of step with public opinion, which is for stronger gun control.

Players' reaction: I once had an animated gif of Lapo smashing his headset during the fun part of the -2010- 2009 Grey Cup ... wish I could find that, I could use it today.

alas, Demski is #10 now.

Lights off gives you some deniability, I think. Lights on is like "Hold my beer!" type stupidity.