johnzo

Citation please.

While I agree with you in sentiment, note that an enormous amount of government taxation and spending -- especially with education -- happens at the state and local level, so you need to account for those things if you're comparing education vs. military spending in the USA as a whole. Also, education spending varies hugely by locality here. Elite public school boards in rich areas are hyperfunded. Public school for everyone else .... not so much.

yeah, I'm with Jimmy Pop -- my gay friends are terrified now and are looking over their shoulders, especially with Pride coming up in pretty much every city, especially with the cops getting that L.A. nutcase the same weekend. I am friends-of-friends with some of the victims and watching the social media mourning has been heartbreaking. Me, I'm not any more scared of life than I was on Saturday, but I'm a married middle-aged white dude. Nobody with guns has marked me as a target.

In Clerks, you gotta love that opening shot of Dante falling out of the closet. No explanation, just a cold open of a guy tumbling out of a closet to answer a phone call from his ******* friend. And the rooftop hockey game is inspired. The rest of it is pretty whatever tho.

Joe Pop kicked for us a few games that year, here's some video of him hitting one against Montreal.

The BC white road jerseys look fantastic, that reddy orange is an awesome trim colour. It's the home ones that look like jack o'lanterns without candles.

I'm not the youtube hero, just searched for it last night and was surprised to find it.

Full game on youtube for your armchair coaching pleasure:

okay, in retrospect "Mr. June" is less praise than I intended. It just seems like the guy is always in midseason form at the start of the season. Look at how burning hot he was in the first month last year for Saskatchewan. New team, new offense, new receivers, no big deal, he just slings the ball and puts up the numbers wherever he goes.

So pumped at how decent Davis and Bennett looked. Sure they were playing against backups, but the rookie pivots we've rolled through here in the past didn't look like they could even execute the game plan, let alone execute it against opposition. Liked to see them standing in the pocket, delivering balls, scrambling when needed. They looked like CFL quarterbacks. Really curious to see how our import RBs stack up against actual CFL linebackers, Montreal was playing all backups the whole game at LB. Kevin Glenn is Mr. June, that guy always rolls out hot when the weather's nice. He's gonna do some damage with that stacked receiving corps that Montreal has. Hope a young QB emerges on the Alouettes, though -- gotta keep the fresh supply of young QBs coming into the league.

Pretty amazing preseason game where it doesn't look like anyone played themselves straight off the team. With all those promising receivers in camp, is there any way that Darvin Adams might get beat out?

I'm just lucky I didn't type his name as McGahee or McGarrity. Too many former Bomber names rattling around in my #oldmanbrain.

He's gotta catch the ball, though. Wasn't impressed with the pick that McGuffie caused -- nicely thrown ball clanks off his hands at the five yard line and boom its intercepted and the drive is snuffed out. That's a terrible mistake to make in the red zone in your first pre-season game. (That was McGuffie, right? I don't have a replay handy)

Oh yeah, if I'm at a hockey or a football game, I'm not there to socialize, I'm there for the game. Baseball and soccer have a different vibe for me tho.

Watching soccer live is like watching baseball live, it's a social game, you go to hang out with people and have a blast and maybe something exciting happens occasionally. Baseball is better tho because it's played during the nice weather season here.

He might have a rough time in school, but he'll have a bright future as a CFL player agent.

**** it, I'm leaving work early to watch this.

It's weird how Popp just suddenly fell apart as soon as Trestman left. He wasn't just coasting on Calvillo, he recruited and built some genuinely great teams for a decade. Those teams were loaded with talent everywhere. Kinda sad, I like seeing Montreal lose after all the miseries they've put us through but I don't want any team in the CFL to be a complete gong show.

Damn, I haven't listened to Isaac Hayes in forever, thanks for the prompt iso. Taynted's Highway Star got me thinking about this album, the only Black Sabbath with Ian Gillen on vocals. A lotta people bag on this record, but I think it's fantastic and that cover is perfect ugly.

Hey, don't get me wrong, I think the NFL's great (even though it's tiresome to watch it jerk itself off) and I love watching Hawks games with my friends here, it's just that I grew up on Clements, Reaves, Murphy, Jones, Battle, etc, in royal blue and so that's where my heart is. I'd gladly trade the Hawks super bowl win for a Bombers grey cup win. (And also I know nothing about locker-room culture in any league, so I got no inside information on how Pete Carroll manages his stars.)

You're right. Popp would never do anything that made absolutely no sense.

I'm not really sure, I'm a pretty casual seahawks fan. Don't even watch the NFL until the Grey Cup's over, unless I get gifted tickets.

I bet if Henoc announced he'd switched sides to play QB, he'd get a ludicrous contract offer from Popp within an hour.

Dominique Davis has rocked #6 for his entire time with us, was surprised to see it on the sidelines during a game last year.

Man we gotta get those guys playing a Grey Cup before Neil can't play drums at all.