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And it very nearly came down to a violent exchange. All over community members trying to screw over other members of a small community. So much for small-town unity.

The few pose as voices for the many. Think of it this way- if you drove across the city, you would not likely notice the great majority of drivers who obeyed the common-sense driving laws but if there were even two or three erratic drivers, you would notice and remember them and might even think that the city is riddled with idiots.

I believe that, as Poilievre continues to woo and associate with the lunatics in the CPC (and more will surely join now), the Quebecois voters will realize that a vote for him will increase the anti-francophone rhetoric in the party. That combined with the waning of the honeymoon effect will probably cause the numbers there to normalize in a few months. His not-so-subtle appear to the MGTOW cretins so soon indicates that he is far from either bright or politically astute.

Probably not, at least not all of it. No doubt he is planning to evade as much of it as possible, and all through the trial and even amped up his rhetoric as the awards were announced, denouncing the trial as sham and the work of "deep state" to shut him up, all the while pleading for donations from the stupid and gullible. Will be worth watching.

For all the Coors fans, it may interest you to know that Adolph Coors is a long-time supporter of the American Renaissance Party- the front for the US Nazi party. A friend quit their beer altogether over it, and he loved Coors beer,

Ukraine's victory "almost a done deal": Military expert on how Russia's invasion imploded Eight months ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, describing it as a "special military operation." Most military analysts expected an easy victory. The Russians had a significant numerical advantage in personnel and equipment, much greater firepower, air and naval superiority and seemingly bottomless resources with which to impose its will. It was reasonable to believe that Russia would conquer Ukraine rapidly and then replace the existing government before declaring "victory". Of course, that did not happen. The Ukrainians had been preparing for this eventuality since at least 2014, when the Russian military and its allied forces invaded eastern Ukraine and illegally occupied and annexed Crimea. With the help of the U.S. and other Western allies, the Ukrainians put in place an extremely effective system of total resistance, in which nearly the entire society was mobilized to defend the nation. The Ukrainian military has greatly modernized its forces, tactics, strategy and style of leadership and command — again, with significant aid from the West. In contrast, despite the Russian military's efforts at modernization, it remains largely guided by Stalin's famous diktat that "quantity has a quality all its own." That may have been true when it came to defending the Soviet Union against Hitler in 1941, but the realities of warfare in the 21st century have greatly complicated that statement. Putin really could fall — but will that help the West as much as we think? Russia's military has suffered numerous setbacks and been exposed as a hollow force, poorly equipped and even more poorly led. Russian forces have suffered heavy losses in Ukraine, with the Ukrainian government claiming that 50,000 Russian soldiers have died, although U.S. estimates are around half that number. Experts have concluded that it will take years to rebuild the Russian military. After a brief period of initial successes that included the siege of Kyiv and rapid occupation of parts of southern and eastern Ukraine, Russian forces have been consistently pushed back. After a successful offensive several weeks ago in the northeast, Ukraine is now moving against Russian forces as part of an effort to recapture the strategically important city of Kherson. Russian forces continue to retreat, abandoning vehicles, artillery, ammunition and other critical equipment and supplies. In a stark contrast, the U.S. and NATO allies are providing advanced weaponry, key intelligence and other assistance to the Ukrainians, which they are using to great effect. Putin has now enacted a de facto draft intended to force 300,000 Russian men into military service, a move that is widely unpopular. There are even rumors that Putin's rule may be imperiled because of the failures in Ukraine, a scenario that seemed unthinkable even a few weeks ago. John Spencer is a retired U.S. Army major who is chair of urban warfare studies at the Madison Policy Forum. He also consults for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the UN and other military and national security organizations. Spencer's essays and other writing have been featured by the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy and other leading publications. His new book "Connected Soldiers: Life, Leadership, and Social Connections in Modern War," was published in July. In this conversation, Spencer explains how and why the Ukrainian military has been so successful in its fight against the Russian invasion. Ukraine now holds the advantage, he argues, and the tide has turned against Putin and the Russian military. Despite Russia's numerical advantage, Spencer argues, intangible factors such as the will to fight, love of country, trusted leadership and a belief in the justness of one's cause have played important roles in Ukraine's success. At the end of this conversation, Spencer draws on his own experiences in combat to explain how the average Ukrainian soldier and their Russian counterparts are likely feeling right now. He concludes that the Russian military is broken from the inside out and that the average Russian soldier — especially among the newest wave of "recruits" — has no heart for the fight in Ukraine and just wants it to end so he can just return home alive. https://www.salon.com/2022/10/11/ukraines-victory-almost-a-done-deal-military-expert-on-how-invasion-imploded/

Not for some. They will go to their graves denying obvious truths- like the COVID victims who died denying that they was any such thing as COVID. Or the Sandy Hook-Uvalde deniers stoked (profitably) by Jones and his ilk.

Trump Aide Reportedly Spills to Feds: He Told Us to Squirrel Mar-a-Lago Docs After Subpoena -Getty At least one Trump employee is talking to the feds as part of their investigation into the classified documents allegedly held at Mar-a-Lago—and the employee has offered some revealing information so far, according to The Washington Post. Citing “people familiar with the investigation,” the Post reported that the Mar-a-Lago employee is cooperating with the feds and has been interviewed several times. The employee told investigators that Trump told staff to move boxes to his residence at Mar-a-Lago after a subpoena had been issued in May for the return of any classified material. Security camera footage from the time backed up that account, showing people moving boxes, the Post reported. Both pieces of evidence reportedly factored into the decision to obtained a court order to raid Trump’s residence, office, and storage room at Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8, which allegedly turned up 103 documents that were marked classified.

Having interesting games in the eastern division would be a welcome change.

Darby is an upgrade but I wasn't all that impressed with Clements.

He has also said that he is ready to negotiate turning the gas on again.

He has already been accused of illegally hiding his assets so as to avoid having them seized.

Right out of the right-wing Trumpian playbook. You come out and say something that validates the bigotry, fear and hated of the flat-earthers and then, when challenged, half-heartedly say that you didn't mean it like THAT. Forgiveness is easier to get than permission, and you can always attack your critics for unjustly misunderstanding you.

Ms. Smith apparently lives in a world devoid of awareness of the attempted genocides of Jews, Armenians, and the insults, discriminations and injuries suffered by LGBT people, blacks, Asians, Semites, aboriginals, the disabled and so forth. Much more comfortable to pretend these do not exist. Blind stupidity has its benefits.

Comes with the territory.

Yes. Apparently the supply of the covalent vaccine is spotty at the moment, but they have been told that in a couple of weeks that ill be cleared up and they will be able to take walk-ins.

All dreadful. Prodigy was the best of a dreary unimaginative lot, but not by much.

Ms. Lansbury accepted a job to host a sex-education film for teens back in the 60's. Its rare but can be found if you look hard enough. It was unintentionally hilarious and she looked wooden and uncomfortable. Probably not included in her resume.

Herschel Walker Bizarrely Shares Anecdote About Bull Ditching 3 Pregnant Cows Herschel Walker apparently has decided the best way to counter the reports that he paid for at least one former partner’s abortion is to tell bizarre anecdotes about bulls who get multiple cows pregnant. During a rally on Tuesday with Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton (R) and Florida Senator Rick Scott (R), the Georgia Senate candidate wrapped up his speech with what Mediaite called “a janky parable” about a bull who got three different cows pregnant. Although the story’s point was apparently about how the United States is the best country in the world, audience members are forgiven if they related it to recent reports that he fathered numerous kids out of wedlock while publicly criticizing “absent fathers.” Here’s the anecdote in all its glory: “And they’ve been saying, ‘Something is better somewhere else.’ And I’m here to tell you it’s not. So, I been telling this little story about this bull out in the field with six cows, and three of them are pregnant. So, you know he got something goin’ on. But all he cared about is keep his nose against the fence, looking at three other cows that didn’t belong to him. Now all he had to do is eat grass. But no, no, no. He thought something was better somewhere else. So, he decided, ‘I want to get over there.’ So one day, he measured that fence up, and he said, ‘I think I can jump this.’ So that day came where he got back. And as he got back and as he took off runnin’, he dove over that fence, and his belly got cut up under the bottom. But as he made it onto the other side, he shook it off and got so excited about it. And he ran to the top of that hill, but when he got up there, he realized they were bulls too. So what I’m telling you don’t think something is better somewhere else. This is the greatest country in the world today.”

That's all she wrote.

This Deadly COVID Twist Is Like Nothing We’ve Seen Before As the wave of COVID infections from the highly-contagious BA.5 subvariant finally subsided back in late July, new subvariants were already competing for dominance—and the opportunity to drive the next wave of infections. A little over two months later, epidemiologists are close to naming a winner. In the United Kingdom, infections from a highly mutated subvariant called BQ.1.1 are doubling every week—a rate of growth that far exceeds other leading subvariants. In the U.S., BQ.1.1 is spreading twice as fast as its cousin subvariant BA.2.75.2. That means BQ.1.1 is very contagious. But that’s not the subvariant’s most alarming quality. What’s most worrying is that it also evades certain antibodies. In fact, BQ.1.1 seems to be the first form of COVID against which antibody therapies—evusheld and bebtelovimab, for instance—don’t work at all. Luckily, the best vaccines still work against BQ.1.1—especially the latest “bivalent” messenger-RNA boosters. Uptake of the new booster has been shockingly sluggish, however, meaning the new jabs aren’t yet offering much protection on a population level. We have the tools to defeat COVID. But “the reality is nobody is using the tools,” James Lawler, an infectious disease expert at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, told The Daily Beast. Highly contagious and immune-evasive, BQ.1.1 is poised to take advantage of an increasingly vulnerable global population as antibodies from vaccinations and past infection gradually wear off in coming months. The question isn’t whether a fresh wave of infections is coming. It’s exactly when. “We are stepping into a very fluid phase of the pandemic right now,” Edwin Michael, an epidemiologist at the Center for Global Health Infectious Disease Research at the University of South Florida, told The Daily Beast. Michael has built sophisticated computer models for simulating the COVID pandemic. https://www.thedailybeast.com/deadly-twist-in-covid-variant-takes-the-world-by-surprise?ref=home

What works in Rourke's favour is that Canuck quarterbacks who start for CFL teams are as rare as hen's teeth and ones who have been as good as he was before his injury are doubly so. Canadian receivers and much more plentiful- even ones as good as Demski has been,

And then you will be liquidated?

But if the Argos played there, they would probably draw as many fans as they do now.

Head to head with the Popeye's and there is a Jollibee not far away.