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Smith's policy is obvious: by distancing herself from any intervention or management of the COVID pandemic, she expects to be able to take credit for this "brilliant" strategy if it works well, and blame others if things go to Hell. Classic PC.

1/6 Committee Levels Reeling Trump With Subpoena That Acts As A Damning Indictment The House January 6th Committee subpoenaed Donald J Trump for his “deliberate, orchestrated effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and block the transfer of presidential power” on Friday, October 21 — the same date as Steve Bannon became the first person in history to be sent to prison for contempt of Congress. “In short, you were at the center of the first and only effort by any U.S. President to overturn an election and obstruct the peaceful transition of power, ultimately culminating in a bloody attack on our own Capitol and on the Congress itself,” the Committee wrote in their letter." Trump has until November 4 to produce the requested documents and must appear for his deposition testimony “beginning on or about November 14.” After a unanimous vote of the Select Committee, Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) announced the committee had issued a subpoena to former President Donald Trump for “testimony under oath and records relevant to the Select Committee’s investigation into the attack on the January 6th on the United States Capitol and its causes,” the Committee shared above their letter to Trump. Chairman Thompson and Vice Chair Cheney cited Trump’s personal involvement in orchestrating and overseeing the effort to overturn the 2020 election: “As demonstrated in our hearings, we have assembled overwhelming evidence, including from dozens of your former appointees and staff, that you personally orchestrated and oversaw a multi-part effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election and to obstruct the peaceful transition of power.” Trump did this even though, as the Committee proved throughout its hearings, he was unable to substantiate his claims of fraud in the courts and the DOJ, his own campaign staff and senior advisors told him he lost the election. “You took all of these actions despite the rulings of more than 60 courts rejecting your election fraud claims and other challenges to the legality of the 2020 presidential election, despite having specific and detailed information from the Justice Department and your senior campaign staff informing you that your election claims were false, and despite your obligation as President to ensure that the laws of our nation are faithfully executed. In short, you were at the center of the first and only effort by any U.S. President to overturn an election and obstruct the peaceful transition of power, ultimately culminating in a bloody attack on our own Capitol and on the Congress itself.” Knowing that Trump deems himself above the law and above having to comply with requirements others are expected to meet, they added that many other presidents have had to testify before Congress after they left office, because as President Roosevelt said, “an ex-President is merely a citizen of the United States, like any other citizen, and it is his plain duty to try to help this committee or respond to its invitation.” “Former Presidents John Quincy Adams, John Tyler, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman, and Gerald Ford each testified before Congress after they left office. President Roosevelt explained during his congressional testimony, ‘an ex-President is merely a citizen of the United States, like any other citizen, and it is his plain duty to try to help this committee or respond to its invitation.’ Even sitting Presidents, including Abraham Lincoln and Gerald Ford, also testified before Congress. Further, both former and sitting presidents including Presidents Nixon, Tyler, and Quincy Adams, have provided evidence in response to congressional subpoenas.” Donald Trump is the first and only president to refuse to accept the rejection of the voters. He chose to incite a terrorist attack upon his own country by seizing power through violence in an attempted self-coup.

A cannon for an arm is a potential asset, not necessarily a absolute requisite. We have seen many strong-armed QBs come and go quickly and others who had a good arm and were successful with the right game plan and receivers. To my perception, Fajardo was better a couple of years ago before he was "Willied" by a bad O-line and worse offensive coach. I think he never developed- rather, he regressed. Whether he is salvageable is another matter altogether.

The British media is reporting that about a half-dozen Conservative MPs have threatened to resign, triggering byelections and threatening the Conservative majority in parliament if Johnson returns as party leader.

New York Judge Blocks State Ban On Guns In Places Of Worship. The judge said allowing people to carry guns in places of worship “would serve the public interest of fostering self-defense" in those spaces across the state. BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the part of a New York state law that makes it a crime for people to carry guns in places of worship. U.S. District Judge John Sinatra Jr. sided with two Buffalo-area clerics joined by two gun rights organizations who had sued and sought a temporary restraining order to stop the enforcement of the law while the case proceeds. The two sides are scheduled to argue the matter in court on Nov. 3 as Sinatra weighs whether to go further and issue a preliminary injunction. New York lawmakers rewrote the state’s gun laws last summer after the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated the state’s old system of granting permits to carry handguns outside the home. Among the provisions of the new law was a ban on guns in places of worship and other locations deemed “sensitive.” In his ruling, Sinatra held that the state didn’t demonstrate that the restriction comported with the Supreme Court’s ruling in June, and wrote that allowing people to carry guns in places of worship “would serve the public interest of fostering self-defense at places of worship across the state.” Without it, Sinatra wrote, “the law creates a vulnerable population of attendees at places of worship left to the whims of potential armed wrongdoers who are uninterested in following the law in any event.”

If Dru Brown starts looking over the fence for greener pastures, he would do well to be very very selective in where he goes. I remember how Drew Willy deteriorated after the relentless pounding he took, and I suspect that Fajardo, for all the mocking, sure looks like he has had the same experience in Regina. Had Collaros not had the dominant O-line he has had, there is good reason to believe he would have likely met the same end.

I am an optimist by nature, but the current state of the world does have me wondering on occasion if humans deserve to exist in this world. I am working to not allow this to poison my outlook as consciousness theory and quantum mechanics strongly suggest that our consciousnesses affect the reality we live in. Thus we need all the happy we can get.

Putin has one more card to play. He is trying to get his lackey in Belarus to attack Ukraine and this divert Ukrainian troops away from their steady advance in the east and south. Putin still hopes to prevent the loss of Crimea. His current strategy is to destroy as much Ukrainian infrastructure- electricity, gas, water, sewage and telecommunications. The fight is not going well for Putin's troops. Apparently the Russian army is losing 6.5 soldiers for every Ukrainian casualty, and Russian soldiers are deserting in large numbers, often bringing their armoured vehicles and arms, and many abandoning everything when retreating.

That's British pounds- nearly $200,000 Cdn. And she doesn't have to do anything for it. Helluva payday.

Jan 6. committee can't find a Trump lawyer that will accept service of subpoena: report The report comes days after a judge cracked down on Trump's effort to dodge service of a New York fraud lawsuit. The House Jan. 6 committee voted to subpoena former President Donald Trump last week but investigators are still trying to find someone authorized to accept service of it, according to ABC News. The subpoena was introduced by the panel's vice chair, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who called Trump the riot's "central player." All nine members of the panel voted to approve the resolution. The panel's chair, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., acknowledged the move as a "serious and extraordinary action" but said that the committee had an "obligation" to hear from Trump.

Greg Abbott’s Solution To School Shootings: Send DNA Kits Home to Parents to ID Their Kids’ Bodies In Greg Abbott’s Republican Texas, public schools sent kids home with a DNA kit so their parents could identify them after a mass shooting or other emergency. “The state of Texas is sending public school students home with DNA kits designed to help their parents identify their children ‘in case of an emergency.'” Today reported. "After the mass shooting in Uvalde, the kits are making many parents feel even more anxious about sending their children to school,” they open. The kits are for K-8 level, and for the purpose of: “if law enforcement were to need help finding a missing or trafficked child, or identifying victims of mass shootings,” Reform Austin reported. Furthermore: “When you put it in the light of Uvalde, it’s one of the most macabre things you could think about,” said Bob Sanborn, president of the nonprofit Children at Risk. Parents of the children killed at Robb Elementary had to provide DNA samples to help identify their slain children, due to the amount of bodily harm done by the AR-style rifle used in the massacre. A Uvalde student was just arrested Monday evening after making a shooting threat, a mere four plus months after the May 24th massacre that killed 19 students and 2 teachers.

Conservative governing philosophy has degenerated into immediate rewarding of selves and adherents and the implementation of the destruction of social programs. They have enough awareness to realize that their actions will usually destroy their chances of re-election, so they need to do as much damage as soon as possible. A few, like the Saskatchewan Party have chipped away at government programs slowly in the hope that the voters, like a the frog in the pot of water, will not realize what is going on until it is too late. Some, like Ms. Truss, are so intoxicated by their power that they go for the jugular SAP.

What about the elves?

The only question I have is....where?

Well, his career certainly is.

I told my wife that I wanted to be cremated. She called and made an appointment.

Texts reveal Marjorie Taylor Greene’s efforts to 'overturn the 2020 presidential election': journalist When Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia debated Marcus Flowers, her Democratic challenger in the 2022 midterms, on October 16, he lambasted her for encouraging the insurrectionists who attacked the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021. Greene angrily responded that it was unfair to blame her for that attack in any way. But an article written by journalist/author Hunter Walker and published on SubStack following that debate demonstrates that Greene promoted the Big Lie after the 2020 election and encouraged MAGA efforts to overturn the election results. Greene, during the debate, told Flowers, “You cannot accuse me of insurrection. I was a victim of the January 6 riot just as much as any other member of Congress. That was the third day I had on the job. I had nothing to do with what happened there that day, and I will not have you accuse me of that. That is wrong of you to do. You’re lying about me, and you will not defame my character in that manner.” But text messages that Greene sent to former White House Chief of Starr Mark Meadows before January 6, 2021, according to Walker, “indicate” that she “was involved in organizing the efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election at the U.S.” https://www.alternet.org/2022/10/marjorie-taylor-greene-texts-insurrection/

Maybe they,( Trump, Lindsay Graham, Marjorie Taylor Green, Matt Gaetz etc etc) could get a group rate.

Anyone who expected anything other than the flat-earthers and their parasites turning into a public spectacle will be disappointed. They somehow think this will advance their cause and garner increased public sympathy.

There is evidence that Russia drone-bombed a city in occupied Donbas region. They then blamed it on Ukraine and used that to resume attacks on free Ukrainian cities. More proof that anything and everything Putin says is not to be trusted.

Roger Stone this weekend turned on Trump and his family. Kanye West bought a right-wing website that had been critical of him but intends that there will be no change in the right-wing drivel it has been spewing. Herschel Walker and Mehmet Oz continue to spin out of control with lies that their followers sop up.

A couple of weeks ago I spoke to a friend who is in WRHA management and learned that over the past year or so, 10-15% of healthcare staff (doctors, nurses, orderlies, janitorial, dietary diagnostic etc are off with COVID-related illnesses, many long-term. Even before the pandemic hit, they were stretched to the limit and when the pandemic hit, it was the last straw. Even if all necessary measures are taken and no new pandemic hits, it will take 5-8 years for the system to recover. And doctor's offices are much the same.

With a max guaranteed salary up front.

I think that Dru did well enough to establish himself as a legitimate backup with a good possibility of becoming a starter. I am OK with the defensive backfield performance and they can only get better, but our run defence is well, offensive. The linebackers had to play up to the line (and not very well) which opened up the passing game. Had the Bombers consistently stopped the run, the whole defence would have been better. We are vulnerable to a strong running game, even with Jeffcoat back. Its not just the loss of Stove, but Kongbo is gone and The Snake seems to have lost a step or two,