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Some deja vu from https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/cfl-55-yard-line/tim-burke-says-could-blasted-game-bombers-promptly-010247983.html?pt=2/ (though to be fair, Burke is predicting that his Bombers will lose while Jones is excusing the loss as part of his master plan. gads, Burke was a terrible HC)

Not national news, but I just started working at Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos' rocket company. https://www.blueorigin.com/ Step 1 for us is suborbital space tourism -- next year if all goes to plan. Step 2 is ??? but we're talking about "millions of people living and working in space." So I am pretty pumped, it's by far the coolest thing I've ever done.

These guys basically violate a bunch of classic pop songs / showtunes. Leaving on A Jet Plane, Don't Cry For Me Argentina, Seasons In The Sun, Science Fiction Double Feature, etc. Their cover of Rocket Man really cooks.

I downloaded that game from YouTube last year ... should re-upload it as a tribute... You guys remember what Philip Hunt did to Glenn in 2010? This was even more of an asswhupping, against the best team in the league.

I'll never forget the home game vs. the Lions in 1984 .... our D got on a tear and sacked Dewalt a bunch ... the Lions ended the first quarter with -50 net yards ... Mervyn Fernandez was owned by the Bomber secondary. The stadium was sold out and the crowd was losing its mind chanting BC SUCKS. That was one of the very few times we beat a Matthews / Dewalt BC team. Just like Calvillo and Trestman always had our number.

One of the greatest of all time. His 1980s Lions teams were juggernauts, complete teams with no weaknesses. They set the standard in the CFL West after the Edmonton dynasty faded. Also gotta give him props for being so frank about his anxiety disorder. Always impressed when a guy in a macho business like football can talk about their emotional illness.

Hell, you can add Printers in there, sure he turned to chicken **** but dude had an MOP season in 2004 and a decent season in 2005. Barker also has had a pretty good run in TO .. half the Eastern Division is starting Barker QBs. Funny how the Argos aren't one of them. Totally pulled a Vancouver Canucks there, turning two excellent prospects into zero excellent prospects.

yeah, there are a lot of scary people out their with violent beliefs and guns and a lot of angry hard-luck cases for them to recruit. It's easier than ever for them to find each other. Add to that a thriving industry of anti-government / anti-foreigner / anti-GLBT propaganda and you've got a fiery brew indeed. And my activist friends, the people who work with the cops, are telling me that there's considerable sympathy for the shitheads in LE. There's darkness out there. All I can do as a white guy is to stand up to oppose white shitheads. I feel like white supremacy is kind of a problem that white people need to own.

LeFevour always looks so awkward back there, but he makes plays.

This guy was at today's "anti-sharia" protest. The flag he's holding is a Christian Identity flag. The Christian Identity folks have ... novel ... ideas about how white people fit into biblical times. They're not down with the mixing of the races, or with the gays, and they have a special hatred for the Jews. Now if you read about CI, you'll see that this guy is clearly a loon (and a violent one, he was goading people to fight him.) One could think, maybe he's on the far edge of his movement and it's dirty pool to hold him up as representative. One of the "anti-sharia" pitches is that gay people and Jews have lots to fear from Muslim people and so liberals who aren't phobes or antisemetics ought to fight sharia too. But I think that if Act for America is so concerned about the gays, perhaps they might police shitheads like this out of their movement, because Christian Identity is not quite a gay-positive ethos.

That's my take on it.

I don't deserve a ton of credit, we outnumbered them by at least ten to one so it wasn't super brave of me or anything. It's an easy stand to make, you just have to show up.

https://twitter.com/CayleThompson/status/873592423456227329 Act for America held "anti-sharia" demonstrations in several American cities today. Seattle was out to greet them. We drowned them out ... people had cowbells, drums, foghorns, whistles. I brought my bomber horn. One of the yahoos was waving a strange green flag. The design reminds me of something...

8 completions for 58 yards. Yeah, that looks like a 2016 Willy statline.

yeah, that's the big question, does Ray have a few more miles in him? Would love to see him go out on high note, have been a fan of his since the 2005 Grey Cup ... he and AC put on an air show in that game.

Really interested to see if Trestman can turn around Drew Willy's career. It'd be some bad karma off the Bombers if he does because our 2014 and 2015 teams basically destroyed Willy, and that was a shame, because I believe he had the tools to be a solid CFL starter.

so I mostly like aggressive music but recently my mom has fallen for Elton John's greatest hits. She lives alone back in t-bay and she's got some cognitive stuff going on so anything she gets enthusiastic about I want to support. She gifted me an EJ CD and we are listening and swapping emails about the tunes. The songs are decent ... Sir Elton knows his **** ... but I think my favorite part of his act is the old costumes. Damn, that man could peacock better than anyone. Every one of these outfits is a gem. https://www.buzzfeed.com/kimberleydadds/the-most-flamboyant-elton-john-stage-costumes-possibly-ever?utm_term=.wy9mylMLLE#.baG1n6AVVO

The Argos are gonna have an easier schedule for sure... Gonna be real interesting to see if Trestman can revitalize another QB's career. If his O can get the ball out of Ray's hands quickly and protect Ray as well as it used to protect Calvillo, the Boatmen could do some damage.

No argument there ... in the USA, at least the parts of it I know, the idea of interning people in camps is very well understood. Especially out here in Seattle, our Japanese community was hit very hard by the WWII internments. When I say mainstreaming I worry about people nodding and saying "hey those camps sound like a good idea." And it's heartening to hear the host on Fox explicitly reject it when it came up. But it's easy for me to be clinical about it and dismiss it as impractical -- I have zero fear that anyone is going to put me on any kind of list in the future. Other folks might not be so sanguine.

Yeah, it's impractical on dozens of levels and I bet the courts would crap on it in the USA. But it's still alarming as rhetoric and I hope these ideas are not mainstreamed any further.

Justin Holland had a spark during a pre-season game in .. I wanna say 2007? .. but got cut anyway. His dad turned up on OB. Maybe there was some heat there? Anyway, I think I remember him signing off graciously after Justin got cut.

Todd Marinovich. The Johnny Football of his day, ultra-hyped college QB who had a huge national profile and a bunch of monkeys on his back. He was a bust in the NFL -- the Raiders made him go to Betty Ford -- then he showed up at Bomber training camp in ... 1993? 1994? ... and blew out his knee on the first day. In 1999 he was a backup QB in BC behind Damon Allen and Khari Jones. Didn't throw a pass, but he used lots of heroin and famously once cut his hand on a crack pipe at halftime, he had to secretly bandage it and keep it hidden on the sidelines. Guy was a total mess, his father was a piece of work who devoted his whole life to making his kid into the ultimate QB. Just had a look at his Wikipedia page, still looks like he's bouncing in and out of trouble. It's sad, the guy is a musician and a painter as well, he's good at lots of stuff, but H is a harsh mistress.

Media in Britain and USA calling for Muslim internment camps: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-trump-supporters-calling-muslim-internment-camps-article-1.3228321

Alex Suber must really, really love our fans ... the team was 23-40 while he was here. Good job, fans!

Bombers D had a lot of takeaways last year but they also gave up gobs and gobs of passing yards, the most in the league by a fair margin. Though we were middle-of-the-pack in points allowed. Bend, don't break. This is the thing that has me wondering if we're headed for a 2012ish letdown ... in 2011, just like 2016, we made a ton of lucky plays on D but when our luck ran out in 2012, it wasn't pretty...