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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.

Man why is this forum so high on Butcher? Guy was super super raw last time we saw him on a CFL field.

Always been a Durie fan ... respect to anyone who can come back from a massive injury like he did. (He missed his last two seasons of university ball due to nerve damage in his knee, but still jumped to the Argos the season after, somehow.)

Tate's release would be a big deal. Don't see him fitting in Edmonton or BC or with us.. Paul Wiecek will be so sad. Best fit I see is as Drew Willy's replacement in TO or QB1(b) with the Jonestown circus. Or maybe backing up Harris or Collaros out east? If I were Jones I'd definitely kick the tires on Tate, he's got more upside than Glenn.

Yeah, this sucks. An angry population is easy to motivate in bad directions, and people on the left have absolutely no clue how to respond to that anger. And when I say forces, I mean both legitimate economic forces and less legit agitators like Fox News / talk radio / twitter trolls / etc. I think this accounts for the huge frustration among the Bernie folks in the USA ... conditions seemed ripe for a genuine socialist populist to emerge with bipartisan nationwide support and completely shake up the American political etch-a-sketch. Instead the Dems went in for Clinton. There's definitely some truth to the stereotype of a coastal elite that lives a completely different life than their inland cousins. Here in Seattle I'm surrounded by people who very deliberately moved away from the small inland towns they hated, and they are really really not the best ambassadors for urbanite left-wing ideas.

Truth. I gotta get back to Winnipeg for the Fringe Festival and a Bomber game this summer, I took my wife a couple years ago and she really loved the scene there (except for the mosquitos and the Bombers stinking up the joint against Edmonton) so it's an easy sell for a vacation/visit home. Anyway, regarding failed states, there's all kinds of shitty refugee situations in Africa. http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/africa.html has the details. Civil wars, religious wars, anti-lgbt laws, etc. As for why a sudden surge, I think it's a case of the surge just getting noticed. African immigration to the USA radically increased in the 2000s, per http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/02/14/african-immigrant-population-in-u-s-steadily-climbs/

If abortion is legal, it's insane to prevent people from using their own money to buy them. The money in an HSA is contributed by the HSA's owner. With you 1000x on the contraception thing. It's strange how the people who hate abortions are also against the government helping to pay for peoples' contraception. It was an Oklahoma state rep or senator who proposed the father permission rule. Probably not a huge surprise that I disagree with that, I think that women's bodies are sovereign and I don't think men should have any abortion-authorization rights. I could get into why I believe that but that could become a super heated discussion very quickly so happy to just agree to disagree on that one and move on unless people really want to talk about it. Good on your adoptive parents; people who work hard for kids are heroes.

yeah, I figured that some team out East would've come for Denmark on day one. Love this in that it might put him back in blue, hate it in that the guy deserves some respect and dollars from the league. Given how people were talking about how free agent money was tight this year, maybe it's the B+ guys like him that are gonna take the hit in wallet.

I hereby retract my attempt to rationalize this signing.

Maybe the Riders are looking at Owens as primarily a DI kick returner / backup receiver. The Roughriders didn't really have a return threat last year. But then again, Owens didn't return kicks at all last year...

Burnham, Arceneaux, and Williams? Not fair, man. I would trade any Bomber receiver for any of those three. (assuming that Williams gets his mojo back after a horrendous injury, of course.)

Congressional Republicans have rolled out an ACA replacement proposal that eliminates the requirement that health insurance companies cover people for pre-existing conditions. (which is very popular). It also stipulates that you can't use your own health savings account* money to pay for an abortion. *An HSA is a tax-free savings account that one uses to pay for health care expenses. Don't know if there's a similar thing in Canada.

Yeah, outrageous. Doesn't rise to the level of criminal conspiracy, I don't think. Much as I want to see this entire administration in the rearview mirror (preferably with skid marks on their necks and faces) I also want to know more before judging this particular bit of stupid.

We'll see. CNN is now reporting that four trump campaign people were talking on the regular with Russian intelligence during the campaign. On one hand, scapegoating the Russians for the election loss is like yeah whatever. Clinton had lots of stink on her (some deserved, some not IMO) and the Trump campaign was pretty shrewd about their use of data and microtargeting voters. All due credit, they did some pretty inventive facebook stuff to squeak out their win. On the other hand, were the Russians attempting to influence the election and did the Trump campaign collude with them in that? And if so, what's in it for Russia? And what's in it for Trump? There's a lot of smoke here. Why not investigate? On the third hand, hope your vacation is excellent, KBF. Could definitely use some sun myself...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/13/americas/refugees-flee-united-states-for-canada/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlarge A Manitoba story from CNN. Refugees crossing from the USA and landing in Emerson, MB. Welcome Place sounds like they're doing good work.