WildPath
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Read all 26 pages of this thread just for the response to Fajardo hitting the post. There needs to be a suitable gif for this. If I knew how to make gifs, I'd totally put both post hits together for one.
Unfortunately now they can blame the loss on hitting the post again.
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33 minutes ago, Tracker said:
A poll released today reports that Trudeau is a more trusted PM than either of his competition. Don't know what that means for the election, though.
I'd like to see information on whether that is a trend with most incumbent PMs. The devil you know...
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1 hour ago, JCon said:
It would be good if the Liberals were more centrist and actually tried to earn the right's vote. But, they operate in the fringes and simply act as an alternative to the NDP. They're not deep and could never functionally form govt.
I agree that they are more of an option for the left than the right. The only way I can imagine some hardcore right voters switching is because voting for the NDP is the same as worshiping Satan and they want to stick it to the PCs for introducing restrictions and vaccine passports. Though Christian Heritage or something would likely swipe the "PCs are too communist" votes.
Not sure what you mean by them not being deep, but I agree that its hard to make any headway when voters only see vote for the Liberals as a vote for the party they really don't want (be that PC or NDP) I'm hoping they make some progress as they were last significantly relevant in the late 80s when they were the official opposition. Doubt much progree will happen next election as NDP and PC are so radically opposite at the moment.
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I've said it before, multiple times, but the Liberals have the best party leader and they are really progressive. We'd be in a much better situation with them leading us through Covid. While they don't have any chance to form the next government, it would be best for Manitoba if they were at least a more serious third party and could hold a balance of power which would keep both PC and NDP in their places and preventing majority victories.
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Hearing of the protests at the hospitals, the craziness of taking dewormer instead of a vaccine, pushing against any effort to control to virus does have me dangerously close to being happy when I hear of the death of a vocal anti-vaxxer. I don't like that.
As a teacher, I try to look at the causes of what is going on and how we can improve as a society in the future. Its a dire situation, but I really think we need to do a better job of explicitly teaching critical thinking at all levels of our educational system. It is already woven into other curricula, but it might require its own course. Perhaps even being elevated to the level of math/literacy.
The world is changing faster than ever before and the rate of change keeps picking up. We need a population that is able to use critical thinking fluidly in a wide variety of situations otherwise we're left with hospitals being overwhelmed with people using dewormer because they read how unsafe a vaccine is.
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6 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:
Ha, ha. He wasn't wrong. Biggest play of the season & Andrew Buckley the backup QB carried the ball on third down & lost yards. All they had to do was hand the ball off to Jerome Messam from the one & he'd be in. Dumb.
Just like the Seattle Seahawks not giving the ball to Beast Mode Marshawn Lynch on the one & threw an interception on the goal line to lose the Super Bowl. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb. Coaches get too cute & outsmart themselves.
Agreed, but the way he handled that by throwing his teammate and coach under the bus came off as arrogant and classless. I don't think that kind of behaviour would go over well on our team. And when its from your QB franchise player, it spreads to others. Look at the culture of the Stamps, sure some of that comes from Dickenson too. (It was awesome to see him on the sidelines after they fumbled on the trick play last game)
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26 minutes ago, Noeller said:
I know Henry Siemens... A good man. I have no doubt his eyes rolled very hard at the thought of this idea....
I believe you, but its hard to believe by that quote that it is true. He also public made it aware that he is fully vaccinated. Maybe appealing to both sides by not shutting down the ridiculous idea of a sanctuary city.
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2 hours ago, Tracker said:
I am cynical enough to believe that the Tories introduced what was certain to be unpopular legislation with the knowledge that Pallister was as popular as cooties and would have to leave. That way, the pending premier/party leader could disavow Bill 64 and claim to be listening to the will of the people. Such is politics.
My friend has expressed a similar belief. I don't think some as arrogant and conceited as Pallister would allow himself to be the sacrificial lamb, but its possible.
I think its more likely that they introduced tons of legislation, purposely blocked the public and other parties from seeing it until the last possible minute, knowing they would only be able to hold 5 bills back. The more outrageous the legislation the better as that meant a lot of other garbage would pass while outrage would only be around the 5 bills.
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How do people in the Southern district see that and not see the reason to get vaccinated? More cases than all of Winnipeg and Winkler has a huge anti-mask/vax/restrictions/sanity rally. Even the genius deputy mayor is considering having Winkler become a sanctuary city. I don't get how they can push against the rights of gay people to be in relationships with each other and then hold up their hands and say they are being persecuted with vaccines when they obviously have the choice, but don't want to deal with the consequences of their actions.
One man suggested Winkler become a so-called sanctuary city where people can live in freedom whether they choose to get the vaccine or not.
“We need to put a hedge of protection around this community because the wolves are upon us,” the man said.
Henry Siemens, the city’s deputy mayor, said council is aware of the idea but hasn’t received any official proposals. However, he didn’t rule anything out.
“In broad strokes, a sanctuary city, I wouldn’t have ever seen it used in this manner before,” Siemens said, noting he’s fully vaccinated. “When we get that we’ll have all of council review and determine the best way forward.”
Sidenote: the only time I've seen that many vehicles lined up along the streets in a Mennonite community was during free pancake breakfast (a joke, but also true)
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2 minutes ago, Bigblue204 said:
Naylor clarified afterwards that he did lie multiple times to the team about being vaxed but didn't provide fake documents. When asked to provide them he simply couldn't.
So does that mean they've just been taking players vaccination status based on their word this whole time? Surprising if true and that would likely mean vaccinated % is way inflated for any team that did not ask for documentation.
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3 minutes ago, Bigblue204 said:
If I'm voted in to lead a thing (in this case a province) and there is a very real emergency going on I would have a hard time abandoning ship during said emergency. Like I said he's a coward.
And he has stated on multiple occasions that he would remain on at least until the end of the pandemic. Part of me thinks he's itching to get back to the Costa Rica mansion after all the stress he's accumulated, but part of me also wonders if the PC party has forced his hand a little bit behind the scenes. He is very unpopular and extremely unlikable. I'm sure some MLA's are fearing they will be out after the next election. Maybe they feel they can put some lipstick on the pig, rebrand the party and do much better after Manitoban's have had 2 years to forget his reign.
Either way I feel that the PC MLAs are cowards as well. They start coming out now with complaints, but they were fully on board without a peep when they had a chance to object. Whatever happens next elections, I really hope that it is not a majority government. We've seen the 'New Leader, New Party' thing too many times. They need to keep some of the stain of the last few years on them instead of saying "behind the scenes" after the fact.
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1 hour ago, rebusrankin said:
So those protesters in Winkler outside the Hanover SD office over not wanting their kids masked, do they think this will make the HSD change their mind? Its a provincial mandate too.
I think a lot of Hanover families expect Hanover SD to be quite different from provincial norms. I grew up in Hanover (pity me) and we had daily bible reading and prayer. Lots of other stuff that, as a teacher, I would never see in any of the schools I've been in now.
Times have changed some (I'm in my 30s), but I imagine Hanover is still Hanover somewhat as parent pressure is huge. They are already able to opt out of "sensitive content" in schools already. I don't have a source on this, but I assume they were many of the schools that got special customized tours of the human rights museum so they could ignore gender issues and anything else that didn't fit with their view of the world.
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14 hours ago, Tracker said:
What I find infuriating about this sort of thing (antivaxxers getting sick) is that they hoover up resources that those who have taken appropriate measures and gotten sick need as well as diverting resources from others who are critically ill from non-COVID sufferers. In the US private healthcare system, the massive costs of treating critically ill anti-vaxxers will drive up the premiums for all- even those who are not responsible for pandemic. Here in Canada, these idiots will inevitably affect our healthcare system costs as well, but these will be reflected in increased taxes.
Fortunately it seems that the extra burden may be targeted to those who are not vaccinated.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-vaccine-insurance-premiums/
What really frustrated me was, here in Manitoba, we had 6 cardiac patients die because of Covid clogging hospitals. I suspect there has been a lot more than just the 6 patients that were reported by a doctor.
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20 minutes ago, Pete Catan's Ghost said:
That's the word.
It could have been special teams against T.O., but unsure. I think I was too disgusted to care.
I noticed a shot of him coming off the field too. I thought it was on a defensive play, but I could be wrong.
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20 minutes ago, Bigblue204 said:
I had mentioned something similar to my dad during the 1st TO game. His kicks had very little arc to them.
Interesting. I didn't notice that. I noticed more about how he kind of swung at them from the side.
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Damn. Wanted to watch this one, but can't find a stream. CFL really needs to have better options for people without cable.
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I was never quite sure if it was touted as a prevention or treatment for Covid, but according to the link it would be for both.
I haven't heard anything recently on treatments for Covid, when the pandemic was first declared I assumed treatments would make more progress than vaccines. Maybe they have, but most of what I have come across has been about vaccines.
Another thing I remember reading about a month ago was the potential for intranasal vaccines. The article I read previously, and can't find now, claimed that they would likely be better at preventing transmission.
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I remarked to my dad that Crapigna had a really weird kicking motion. I thought it even looked like he slipped on a kick in the last game. I don't know if he was compensating for a nagging injury or if that's how he's always kicked.
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1 hour ago, rebusrankin said:
Josh Guenter PC MLA came out strongly against these new policies. Did I mention he represents Borderland, right smack in Southern Health including Stanley and Altona? Ignorant *******. PCs should kick him and Teistma out of caucus.
Apparently they are concerned that restrictions to unvaccinated people will cause them to be less likely to get vaccinated. I'm sure that's their real concern with the new restrictions 🙄
Whatever Guenter has been doing so far to encourage people in his riding to get vaccinated without restrictions has worked wonderfully so far.
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1 hour ago, Mark F said:
excellent.
limiting loss to only one half of Vancouver from sea level rise.
could be worse!
not that great a place anyways....
well done Conservatives!
@WildPath attempted sarcasm by me. Neither party is going to do anything. I doubt that the ndp would either. NDP in B.C. if theyve done anything, I have not heard of it. still mowing down last old growth on Van islamd though.
we'll sit on our hands till America tells us what to do.
Agreeing with you. Sad reaction because we will still do half measures which won't mean much other than an attempt to say there is a climate policy and they're doing something. Don't really understand how they can lambast Trudeau for ruining the future by spending during a pandemic and be completely blind to the biggest challenge to our future.
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50 minutes ago, Sard said:
Exactly, and there have been doctors and nurses out there refusing the vaccine for various reasons and those are the ones the anti-vax, anti-mask crowd point to and say "See even these medical professionals don't trust the vaccine"...
Some doctors come out of Med school with a 4.0+ GPA, others around 3.0 or possibly less (not sure what the fail mark is), but at the end of the day, they are all called doctor once they're done.
What do you call a med student that graduates at the bottom of his/her class?
Doctor.
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7 minutes ago, 17to85 said:
The last time I read a sun newspaper was several years ago while waiting on an oil change and yeah, it was ridiculously partisan to the point you can't even call it news. I doubt they have gotten any better since.
But readers of the sun will tell you that everything else is biased and the sun is the only one that reports news. Ask the PCs who spread B.S. about how biased the Free Press is.
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Fortunately lots of organizations like schools and private business have stepped up in the lack of provincial leadership. Many individuals also continue to wear masks and act like we haven't defeated Covid(again). One thing I wonder is how many people are not really feeling symptoms due to vaccinations, but are still passing it on. Plus those who are unvaccinated by choice would also be less likely to get a Covid test. I guess the only way to be sure was to test a truly random sample of the population. I don't have the source, but I remember reading somewhere that a surprising (for me) high percentage of children that tested positive for Covid were at the hospital for something else, such as a broken arm, and required a routine Covid test.
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I listened to the last bit of the Bomber game on CJOB. Bob loved the post hit. Emphatically stating "How's that for a little DAY-JA-VUUU" with a good chuckle after.