johnzo

No, censoring all conservative news sites nationwide would be like Chris Jones level stupid. Law enforcement is quite capable of narrowly focused breakups of terror plots. In the last month, the FBI has busted at least two terrorist conspiracies, one an ISIS loon and the other a guy who wanted to restage the Charleston black church massacre, the Dylan Root killings. http://heavy.com/news/2017/02/robert-hester-jr-isis-kansas-city-missouri-facebook-army-terrorist-photo-presidents-day-islamic-state-muslim-lorenzo/ http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2017/02/fbi_white_supremacist_convicte.html Yet National Review and Breitbart and Al-Jazera in America are still publishing their stuff. So I think that "we can't fight radical right-wing terror because we can't shut down all conservative media" looks like a straw man to me. Steve Bannon, his chief of staff, has written a lot of stuff that I'd consider to be white supremacist. He's a clash-of-civilization kind of guy who sees the world as whites vs. everyone else. Your mileage may vary on whether that's white supremacy or not. Your second question: there have been dozens and dozens of threatening phone calls and bomb threats to Jewish and Islamic community centers in 2017. Here in Seattle, an Islamic center was just burned by an arsonist and two mosques have been similarly burned in Texas in the past couple of months. The President can use the bully pulpit to condemn these attacks and direct his attorney general to investigate them. But the focus of the administration is not on domestic white terrorists, it's on Muslim terrorists. The president has directed that a Homeland Security program named Countering Violent Extremism which (from my reading) is a touchy-feely program about de-radicalizing communities, should be explicitly focused on Muslim communities. (gonna get back to the rest of your post in a bit, esp the Goddard stuff, which is very interesting. I've gotta train to catch. and thanks again for the response)

“You don’t get to tell us what to do any more than Barack Obama did,” Wallace said after continued arguments with Priebus. “Barack Obama whined about Fox News all the time, but I got to say, he never said that we were an enemy of the people.” - Chris Wallace, Fox News anchor.

Speaking of Calvillo, looks like he took a demotion this year, last year he was the OC, this year Chapdelaine is the OC and AC is the QB coach. Which is a weird change from the normal Alouette way ... parachuting high-profile people into jobs they can't do / are not ready for.

That Popp/Trestman team was pretty awesome -- well coached and loaded with talent. The wheels didn't come off the Als until Trestman left and Popp decided he was a full-time coach.

Me neither. Teams need to be able to start a lot of different import WR's over the course of a season ... we used nine last year, the Riders used eight. Might as well have as many veterans in camp as you can, especially when some of them are cheaper free agent acquisitions (I'm guessing Grant wasn't a super spendy signing, given that he took about a week to land in Regina)

Tate made those comments in 2014, so it's amazing that he lasted two more full seasons after calling out his OC, who is now his HC.

I wish we'd kept Mayo. He pro-rated to be a 1000-yard receiver last year. (I know, I know, pro-rating is stupid, but the guy showed lots of promise and was really key in one of our early turnaround games)

Whoever is hurt that week?

It's not so much the actual number, it's that Fox News is reporting bad news about the president. Will they wind up on the enemy-of-the-people list with the other failing news outlets?

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Holy ****, Marco Rubio has tweeted that the bipartisan Senate investigation of Trump/Putin is on like a bomb. And Fox is putting Trump at 39% approval. Fox reporting bad news about a republican president is like Nixon going to China. Perhaps the GOP is sick of how the Trump circus is distracting from their tax cuts for the 1% / kill Obamacare agenda. The long knives may be out. Interesting times, man.

oh, and further on the National Guard thing this morning: the AP says that they reached out to the White House for comment before publishing the report, and the White House did not respond. As I understand it, this is SOP for journalists: if you're writing about someone, you usually contact them for comment before going to press. The National Guard story would've stopped there if Spicer had cared to stop it, but it's politically useful to be able to howl "fake news!" Also, the head of the DHS has confirmed that the memo is real, but represents an early policy draft that was not followed up on. So, does anyone still consider this news fake?

Hate the player. Don't hate the game. Gif threads are good for me because I think I've killfiled the most egregious gif spammers. (that's how old I am, son, I say "killfiled." shoutz to my fellow internet nerds of the eighties.)

Also, Denmark hell yeah. #cornerroute

What this board needs ... is to automatically levy like-count penalties ... on posts that include that creepy mashed potato lady. Also if Subway can do double stamp day MBB should be able to do a thing where all gameday gif threads are double like threads. Gameday gif threads are ******* awesome.

Yeah, it's the same thing as meeting a native person in Winnipeg and asking them if they can get you a meeting with the band council in Alert Bay. It's an ignorant and trollish thing to say that people will take offense at, and I'd be happier if the president wasn't the kind of person to do **** like "oh, hello, black woman, I'm gonna yank your chain right now and you gotta sit and take it because I'm the president." Bullies aren't cool.

Thanks for the response, Atomic. I agree with you that the Quebec City attack and the Pulse Nightclub attack (and attacks like the Ecole Polytechnic attack and the Nathan Cirillo attack as well, and lots of others) are all of the same coin. They're all hate crimes, or terrorism if you like -- crimes intended to terrify a tightly knit minority, to hit them where they feel safe, and to radicalize both the attacked community and people sympathetic to the attackers. I also agree that calling him "radicalized" is a bit of a tactic -- but believe me, my intention is not to shut you down. When I say "how did this guy get radicalized" what I'm really saying is "I'm scared that there are more of this guy out there, and that guys like him represent a threat that's comparable to the threat from Islamist / Sikh / whatever terrorists, and that investigating the places the produce a guy like this is a worthwhile use of law enforcement resources." Do you think that's a reasonable/correct stance? When I said "radicalized," TUP immediately popped up to say "Can't he just be a regular old racist violent loser?" and I want to kick against that idea a little bit, against the immediate narrative that this guy was just some loser whose alpha-bits spelled out the wrong message one morning. Because there are signs that something dark and terrible is organizing; white-on-nonwhite violence in the USA is spiking right now and the President is pussyfooting with white supremacists. Maybe this is more of an immediate terror in the USA, where the white supremacists are well armed and have symbols and traditions and are very difficult to prosecute. Sometimes they even have official power -- there was an awful recent case about a Louisiana sheriff whose department did some heinous, heinous things to some black folks and totally skated on a jury trial. And as a proud (if long-absent) Canadian I kinda despair that that kinda **** is being exported northward. Yeah. Terrorism wins when the bystanders are radicalized. So I agree, our response to terrorism should not be to radicalize more people, even hypothetical people. Are there any egregious examples of this kind of persecution in Canada? I don't doubt there are, it's just that I'm not 100% up on my Canadian news. The case that comes to mind for me is the Brendan Eich case in Silicon Valley.

Use your words, man. "White house denies" and "not true" are not logically equivalent, and that holds true for any White House, not just the current one. And you have to admit that the current administration has a loose relationship with the truth. Remember Spicer claiming that the inauguration festivities were the biggest ever? Not a lot of credibility there. Perhaps it's a leak detector; it's a classic counterespionage technique to feed distinctive and compelling information to questionable people and then see where it gets echoed.

(this is a discussion I meant to get back to, but got distracted) The reason I say "radicalized" is because there appears to be a movement that is producing terrorists like him. The FBI just broke up two Dylan Roof style conspiracies in the states. Dozens of Jewish and Islamic community centers have received bomb threats in the past month. So, it's a valuable question to ask: where did this guy get his ideas? Where did he get his firearms? Who else might be similarly inspired? And what do we do about it?

The last day I won was June 24, 2016 ... opening day of the 2016 season. A flashy debut followed up by nothing, which I guess makes me the MBB version of Nic Grigsby.

Yeah, that bit about attacking a Russian ship, that wasn't real funny to me, but I guess I'm an easily triggered snowflake. Glad to know you guys are getting yuks out of it.

Gotta go sew three stripes on all my pants now, because pant stripes are what champs do!

there's more! I click on my profile and it tells me I've won three days on MBB. woo, three-time champ! pops champagne. http://morningbigblue.com/community/profile/625-johnzo/

Hey, I just found out that MBB has a leader board... http://morningbigblue.com/community/topmembers/ Most of the posters I look for are cruising along at about half a like per post ... except for the mighty DoD who is crushing it with an average of more than one like per post....

what? Lefevour doesn't nearly have the zip on the ball that Jennings does. He throws a lot of rainbows.