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got shot #1 of Pfizer today. I can feel it working. My 5G microchip game is already way stronger and I have this weird impulse to go mow Bill Gates' lawn (he lives across the lake from me)

that's such a great story! I've always heard good things about him.

Yeah, I miss Wittman too. For me, his all-time call is "ELLETT LETS IT GO, SCORES!" Always liked Slack, it's crazy watching him run and move so well with his bone-on-bone knee. Wonder how he good he could have been with working hinges. re: QBs getting worn down, I was watching the 1986 Western Semi, us vs. BC, and both Huff and DeWalt took a ton of hits that would be RTP today. It was quarterback tee-ball back in those days, QBs getting torpedoed by guys who were 3-4 steps away when the ball was out. Man, that was a heartbreaker of a game ... Bombers discipline was terrible, Willard Reaves got kicked out of the game, penalties and turnovers killed every bit of momentum we had, Jim Zorn got humbled, and when Huff finally got it going in the fourth, we had no RB1 to bash in the tying touchdown from the four. But damn, Huff could hurl the ball all over the field. His rainbow throws to Tuttle and Murph in this game are things of beauty.

Tons of vintage CFL games turning up on youtube, like this one from 1995. I'm not 100% sure but I think it has Milt's first two Bomber TDs in it. It's his second game and the announcers don't mention if he had a touchdown in his first or not. He has a couple funny rookie moments in the game, there's one bit where he and his return partner get all Keystone Kops. Ugh, those navy helmets, what were they thinking? Anyone else getting their CFL fix via old games on Youtube?

dod sez: Fake populist Serial lyer Arrogant Ignorant Hypocrite Bigot/misogynist Conspiracy theorist * is actually a colony of millions of alien worms in a pressurized skin suit, as we see in JCon's gif:

yeah, after Loffler and Hecht, I'm done with safeties that can't cover. All those big leads we blew in 2019... Our switch to Alexander at safety was huge in the Grey Cup run, our passing defence suddenly became fearsome, and we didn't blow any more 21-point leads after we made that change.

well, congrats to Johnny Exume on his new arrival and contract and best of luck to him ... except against the Bombers.

hey speaking of late round picks, what's going on with Johnny Exume? That guy was an assassin on the teams in 2019, loved watching him do his thing.

bummed that Atomic is less around -- there was lots we didn't agree on and I think we had some pretty good battles but I enjoyed talking with them. if you're out there @Atomic I hope things are going well for you and yours.

as I've been stuck in my house, I've been staying sane with this guy's videos. He's a chief aboard a container ship and has timelapse from all over the world as well as lots of cool (to me) inside baseball about container shipping. seeing the milky way rise over the Indian Ocean is astonishing.

I'm still here! mostly lurking, though. with all the uncertainty, the way I'm staying sane is to not think about the CFL until someone actually kicks a ball to start a game and then I"ll be back here in full effect for sure. My wife and I have been thinking about travel plans after covid and we've agreed that a summer trip to the peg for the Fringe Festival and a Blue game or two is going to happen. We had such a great time last time we did that...and seeing the bombers live again, after 2020, will be very special. But not gonna plan or dwell on that until it can be a reality. I hope all are well and safe. go Blue!

yeah, sometimes your only options are Michael Bishop and Jason Boltus. glad to see this is getting posted here. trust me, you do not want to indulge this kind of campaign rhetoric.

holy crap, you guys.

Labour Day Classic (week 13) = genuine LOL.

(reading the politico article about the campaign) Here's my takeaway: somehow Trump's campaign was full of complete Coen-movie nincompoops like Guilifoyle, and had to work with losing thirty three cents of every dollar it raised to the various grifters it employed, and yet it turned out voters like an old Chicago machine. The guy still got more votes than any other candidate in history -- except for his opponent, luckily. **** Trump forever, but I will always be in awe of his capability to get the marks on board. We're just lucky that for every mark he brought in, he mortally pissed off 1.001 other voters... (I mean, seriously Deutsch Bank? ... an unsecured loan for 1/3 of a billion dollars to a guy who went bankrupt operating casinos? WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?)

The trouble with ruling by executive order -- as Obama did because of Mitch, and as Trump did because he was too ******* stupid to try to pass legislation -- is that the next executive can undo those things without a lot of effort.* Real change, like fundamental change, will demand legislation. And Mitch is a problem, but it's not just Mitch. The big Dem tent means that there are lots and lots of cautious and centrist Dems in Congress who are really not interested in progressive legislation. You saw that in 2009-2010, when a single pissy senator (**** Lieberman forever) blew up the public option in Obamacare. Much as I would love to see Biden just hammer on Medicare for All and bully the government into making it happen, I'm not holding out a lot of hope. (*The courts famously told Trump he couldn't end DACA .... but not because he lacked the authority to do so, but because federal regulation change has to go through a mandated process and that process was ignored and the court was like "just file the paperwork right and do the right studies to quantify the impact, and then you can change your rules." But doing that kind of work is for chumps, apparently; the Trump gang never came back to it.)

unfortunately the system requires compromise. assuming Russian Mitch keeps the senate majority and the GOP keeps its discipline, no legislation -- even the bandaids necessary to fund the gov't -- passes without his say-so. the next coronavirus relief bill will be interesting. Lots of vulnerable GOP senators coming up in 2022, Biden has some leverage.

such a gorgeous cover song here. Wasn't until I heard this version without all the Queen mega bombast that I realized just how heavy this song is, it's about absolutely crushing despair.

ok normally I don't go for this lol GOP kinda stuff but good lord this is some kind of story. it's from 2017 so you might have heard it already https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2017/03/tennessee-anti-lgbtq-lawmakers-torrid-affair-cousin-revealed/ when you get deeper in the article you find out she wasn't -really- his patient. He was just writing pain med prescriptions for her while she was sexing him up, so it was more of a casual thing. what is the big German word for incest-cuckold-sexual-harassment-professional-misconduct-drug-dealer? Anyway, dude is currently facing discipline from the doctor authority in Tennessee.

the National Review (not linking) posted an article about how electing trump was a "middle finger" to all the evil progressives in the USA. No platform, no policies, no coherent philosophy, no health care plan, no COVID plan. Just a middle finger. That's all the GOP is now, that's all they can be. Reactionary anger.

Lots of tweeting / news yesterday about how youth early voting is exploding in the USA. Here's the source story on that: https://circle.tufts.edu/latest-research/absentee-and-early-voting-youth-2020-election

well, well, well. the FBI has charged a boogaloo boi in the burning of the MPLS precinct. https://www.startribune.com/charges-boogaloo-bois-fired-on-mpls-precinct-shouted-justice-for-floyd/572843802/

listening right now. Announcing that Iran and Russia have compromised voter registration databases and that it's them (not the proud boys as was earlier announced) that are pushing out fake election alarms over email. (edit: and asking Americans to be "thoughtful consumers of information.")

Miller is a ******* stealth snake. Guy is all over the White House immigration policy but nowhere on the record. Real mob style operator. I'm wondering who he sees holding him accountable for what he's done. Back in 2008 I seriously wanted the DOJ to put John Yoo on trial, but I trusted Obama when he said that we needed to turn that page. No more. I want Miller to be testifying under oath before Congress about what he did in the White House. Trump is in the crosshairs of a lots and lots of gunfighter prosecutors who want to put his notch on their irons, so I'm pretty sure that guy is gonna see a cell, but Miller is the guy I really don't want to get away.

Respectfully, I think that if Trump could make a dollar from invading New Brunswick -- maybe to help get Trump Tower Fredericton built -- he would not hesitate. I don't think that Trump is some saintly dove, it's just that war doesn't seem to be his grift (so far) And this is the only thing about him that was a pleasant surprise. I was real scared he was gonna be lobbing cruise missiles (and worse) all over the goddamn place as soon as he was elected, completely ******* up the world just to put some "wartime president" shine on his ass. For whatever reason, that didn't happen. (and none of this is to suggest that Donald Trump is anything more than a skinsuit of sewage. it's just that this one particular fear of mine hasn't come true so far. I've got scars from 2003, watching this country leroy jenkins itself in Iraq)