TrueBlue4ever

She’s a lock in her riding and has been for 21 years, has been very loyal to the party (stood by Stuart Murray when he got tepid reviews by his own party and opted to step down and was replaced by the more bombastic and further right leaning Hugh McFadyen - somewhat risky given Murray’s flagging popularity, but was quickly able to gain McFadyen’s and then Pallister’s trust) and has handled a number of high visibility positions (Justice, Health, Family, Deputy Premier). According to media reports, she has the backing of a large segment of the party to run. I know her personally from way back and she is very bright and savvy without being a camera hog or needing to see her own name in the media. Decent person but certainly not naive to the political game at all. I hope she is not being set up as a political lamb to the slaughter following an unpopular leader who knows his party is going to crash and is abandoning ship (see Kim Campbell), and I say all this as someone who does not traditionally vote PC. I think she could strike a chord as a more moderate or at least reasoned voice for that party than a Calvin Goertzen, Shelly Glover, Scott Fielding, or Candace Bergen. She has already said she would go against the Palliater regime and abandon bill 64 acknowledging that Manitobans are not happy with it. And with a party that still has a bunch of white men in it, she could offer a bit of diversity. Big down side is that she was Health Minister during the 3 TD wave of the pandemic when the ICUs got overloaded and patients were shipped out to other provinces, so she wears that big target on her back. And she was largely not visible during that time, so one could argue she didn’t stand and face the fire (I understand she had medical issues of her own when she was MIA, so I cut her slack there). That’s one admittedly biased view based on having a personal connection to her (not super strong, although enough to be on a first name basis collegially). Hard to know how much she designed it vs Pallister, but she did follow marching orders at the least.

Funny that the gripe about the Coyotes woes is that an arena in Glendale is too far away from Downtown Phoenix and fans won’t travel that far to watch a game. The Cardinals’ stadium is right next door, and that location has not kept fans away. So where do they end up? Quebec City might push, but I think the league might prefer Kansas City.

Don’t forget “ and if I have to explain it to you, then you won’t be smart enough to understand it. You’re not worth the effort”

I would actually like a serious answer from GCn. Maybe left wing extremism is marked by those who point out right wing stances as extremist. But is there something more?

Ok. But please provide examples. Right wing extremism is often defined by an anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ, anti-woman, anti-abortion, anti-science, anti-environment, pro-gun rights, anti-black stance. What is left wing extremism defined by in your opinion?

I stand corrected. The database I looked it up on was inaccurate. Thanks for the clarification.

They can also worry about these things, more than they need to…….

Nelson is decent at getting 7-8 yards where it looks like he might get 2-3, but he is not as aggressive at hitting the holes as Grant. But he doesn’t dance around a lot and lose yards trying to break one outside, so that is a positive. As for the ball security, he did bobble one catch but got it back quickly enough. However, Grant has not fumbled away any kick or punt returns in his time here either, so he is no less secure and is more of a threat. Nelson is serviceable but at this point is not stealing that starting job any time soon once Grant is healthy.

What is confounding is that they are so rigid in their belief and yet at the same time so susceptible to influence from outside sources. They won’t listen to reason but will be swayed by a perceived authority’s wrong opinion nonetheless.

Sadly it’s never stopped you from yapping.

Take that scenario and from the (d) point (the first one) that is the same for any fill up. Now remove parts a,b, and c and replace it with walking into the kiosk and waiting in line behind all other customers and then either paying up front and having to estimate how much the full up will be in cash, and then walking out to fuel up, or walking in after the fuel up to pay, or collect your change if you guessed the amount wrong and overpaid in the first place. You likely would have waited longer if everyone had the same payment point (inside the store with one clerk) than with each pump handling the transactions.

You’re the kind of tipper that makes waiters spit in the food.

And it will be. Slashing health care will be their #1 priority.

Saw a Twitter post from an ICU nurse. She asks the COVID patients why they didn’t take the vaccine. When they respond “because we don’t know what is in it so we can’t be sure it’s safe” she replies “I’ve given you 5 injections today while I’ve been treating you, and you haven’t asked once what was in what I was giving you and took it gratefully”.

Not when we are punting from inside the 40 yard line like we have been.

And I read it and all I see is this Nice to see that the end of 29 yers of futility made us all more collegial around here.

One question that needs answering before all others. Are Harris and/or Adams practicing today?

Why is it when someone writes “I know a guy who…..” I am convinced the only two possibilities are: (a) if it’s a story meant to make the storyteller look better by association (ex. I know a guy on the Bombers so I have inside Intel that makes me look smarter), then the “guy I know” doesn’t really exist, or I at least do NOT know the guy, or (b) if the story is kind of pathetic (ex. I know a guy who got busted by his boss for watching animal porn at work) then the “guy I know” is actually the storyteller themself?

Haiku about The 5-7-5 Haiku rule: Some here can’t count right Looks like Riders’ special teams In a Grey Cup game

The headache for the Liberals is that every vote that gets bled off goes against their total. Dissatisfied Conservatives will still vote Conservative before they vote Liberal or NDP. Dissatisfied Liberals likely won’t vote Conservative, but they will much more easily vote NDP instead. And any Liberal voter in Quebec has the Bloc as another option, but I don’t think Conservative voters are as quick to vote Bloc instead of sticking with their party.

Nope, they’ve just beaten them more handily.

Riders playing Ottawa at home, got to try William Powell again.

Fair point. So how about we figure out what type of fans Fox Creek and Steve the3rd actually are before sh*ting on them and telling them to leave. Because we haven’t seen enough yet of either type of extreme to make a conclusion.

If a coach approaches the field goal with the attitude of “if we miss this” then that screams to me a lack of confidence in the kicker, or the kicker themselves are saying to the coach “I can’t make it from here”. All teams have a dangerous returner who can bring back a field goal. At best this is an ultra conservative coaching approach that is playing not to lose rather than to win, which from your past comments on Tim Burke and LaPo’s offensive schemes is something you absolutely hate. In a one score game in the 3rd quarter, you should want points on the board, not give them a long field to march. Maybe with one minute left I can see it, but too much game left to ignore points. I’d it was a 55 yarder I could accept the logic, but I’d your offence gets inside the opponent’s 40 yard line in today’s game with kickers as refined as they have become, I think you should expect to come away with some points. But even an easy kick should clear 42 yards, no? Otherwise, as 17to85 said, you give that dangerous returner a chance to run it back, which is apparently O’Shea’s strategy to avoid according to him. Looking at Crapigna’s history, of 118 career field goals only one has been over 50 yards, and only 3 more have been over 48. In today’s game, that’s a weak leg. We’re we spoiled by Medlock, sure, but Bede, Paredes, Lauther, Ward and Whyte can all hit beyond 50 comfortably. It’s a big advantage to give up. Either Legghio fixes his accuracy, we trust Crapigna to kick something beyond 45 yards (hardly a big ask) or we start shopping for a new kicker before this habit of letting teams hang around bites us in a close game where we passed up on points. Just my opinion.