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The war in Afghanistan (the graveyard of empires) has gone exactly the way Eric Margolis and others predicted. The Americans are begging the Talban (which they created and funded) to let them slink away with their tails between their legs. The Afghanis have defeated invaders from India(3x) Iran, Alexander the Great (Macedonia), Russia, Britain (2x) and now the US with a ragtag army. America is now exposed as a paper tiger and a crumbling empire.

*GASP*

New ‘Jeopardy!’ host Mayim Bialik also faces scrutiny for ‘shaming’ Harvey Weinstein’s victims By MARTHA ROSS | Bay Area News Group After Mayim Bialik was named one of the new hosts of “Jeopardy!” this week, she was forced to clarify that she’s not anti-vaccine after social media users focused on her 2012 comments about her hesitancy to vaccinate her children. Bialik’s positions on vaccines may not be the only past troubling comments she’ll need to answer for, as questions remain over the way she and longtime executive producer Mike Richards were selected to replace the late Alex Trebek. The Daily Beast reported that the “Big Bang Theory” alum sparked controversy in October 2017, shortly after powerful Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was exposed as a serial sexual predator in groundbreaking investigative news stories that sparked the #MeToo movement. At the height of national outrage over the extent of Weinstein’s alleged abuses, Bialik penned a controversial New York Times op-ed. She argued that she had never been sexually harassed or assaulted in Hollywood because she’s a “nontraditional looking” actress who chooses to dress modestly. The Daily Beast’s entertainment reporter Tirhakah Love brought up Bialik’s problematic comments about vaccines and Weinstein’s victims to raise questions about the way ABC went about selecting a new “Jeopardy!” host. The network created a lot of fanfare about bringing in a number of celebrity guest hosts to audition, raising fans’ hope that the network was truly interested in looking at diverse candidates, Love explained. It appears that the show already had an insider — Richards — primed for the role. Richards will take over the primary hosting duties, while Bialik will host “Jeopardy!” spin-off competitions. This week, Richards also was reminded of his own past issues, being implicated in multiple pregnancy discrimination and wrongful termination lawsuits while producing “The Price Is Right,” the Daily Beast also reported. To her credit, Bialik was a highly popular choice for many “Jeopardy!” fans, but Levar Burton also had an enthusiastic fan base, and the former host of the groundbreaking children’s show “Reading Rainbow” might not have as much baggage as Bialik, as Love pointed out. That luggage includes her Oct. 13, 2017 New York Times op-ed, titled “Being a Feminist in Harvey Weinstein’s World.” In her column, Bialik at first seemed intent on shedding light on how powerful men in Hollywood like Weinstein could get away with victimizing multiple women. After castigating the entertainment industry for its long and sordid history of objectifying and exploiting women, Bialik drew social media fury for explaining there are upsides to not being “a perfect 10.” “Those of us in Hollywood who don’t represent an impossible standard of beauty have the ‘luxury’ of being overlooked,” she said, “and, in many cases, ignored by men in power unless we can make them money.” She then implied that she’s been “overlooked” by predators because she has always dressed modestly and never acted flirtatiously with men. It took Bialik about five days to figure out why people were so mad at her for appearing to blame victims for being assaulted. Advocates for survivors said she failed to understand that men who abuse women are less interested in sex and more turned on by humiliating women and exerting power.

Our kick return game has to get better as well. I don't know if its the blocking or lack of ability on the part of our returner(s) but it has been meh so far this year. He ought to be able to do better- he was not in the clear that often.

And why there is Monday Night Football.

AH! A little razzle-dazzle to put the icing on the cake.

Nichols has an excuse- Harris, not so much.

And thats how you alienate them. Ooooh killer sack on Harris.

And in the provincial legislature as well

Sewell gets his revenge

Gotta keep yer priorities straight,

That hit was so hard that my TV blanked out briefly. Touchdown Montreal!! who doesn't love a BJ?

Looked like Hunter got the worst of it. Elks' safety got hammered there.

Wilder didn't strut after that play- maybe because he got buried?

Montreal receiver Simonise is beginning to to show his polished catching. But I wax poetic.

The fire you may be seeing in Edmonton may relate to the coaching, and soon.

Ah. He seems to have put together a decent team.

who is the Alouette GM these days? Sooooo.....you're in favour?

I agree with your disagreement at the risk of being disagreeable.

Kind of a weird situation- there are three CFL quarterbacks who are dinged up and yet all of them performed better than a healthy Harris has so far this season. Looks like Sewell was right.

Edmonton kicker O'Neill has defoliated most of his facial shrubbery this year. Guess his mom got on his case.

Adams seems to have matured as a pivot since 2019. Als have talent at receiver but you gotta have a good QB. Happy for Khari.

COVID-19 Hospitalizations Among Ages 30-39 Reaches New Record: U.S. Data -Getty COVID-19 hospitalizations among those in their 30s have reached a new record, U.S. data shows, with doctors attributing the rise to the Delta variant’s grip over the unvaccinated. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the rate among those between the ages 30 and 39 entering the hospital is 2.5 among 100,000 people as of Wednesday, up from a January record of 2 per 100,000. Doctors pointed to the increased transmissibility of the Delta variant, which has hit an age group once thought largely impervious to hospitalization. That risk is also amplified by increased socialization, providing more avenues for those unvaccinated in their 30s to catch the virus. “It loves social mobility,” Dr. James Fiorica, chief medical officer of a hospital in Sarasota, Florida, told The Wall Street Journal. “An unvaccinated 30-year-old can be a perfect carrier.” It’s led some doctors in Arkansas to monitor younger patients for possible organ failure. “This age group pretty much went unscathed,” Nikhil Meena, the medical director of the University of Arkansas Medical Center’s ICU, said. “They’re all out there doing their thing and getting infected and getting sick enough to be in this hospital.”

Rasheed Bailey seems like a caring person, but he is going to have to show more than he has to stick as a starter. McKnight did not look all that dangerous, either.

With the shortened pre-season plus the change of offensive players and OC, keeping the gameplan to short high-probability plays was likely a deliberate and effective choice.