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yeah, and the "far left" in American politics is somewhere around the center everywhere else in the world. Government-sponsored health care and tuition are not controversial things to offer for most of the developed nations in the world.

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wait wait you're telling me a pro athlete or coach talked to the media in empty cliches? And on a Mike O'Shea team no less? Inconceivable! Dude had a radio show in 2010ish when he was the starter and it was clear then that he was never gonna be a Jeremy Roenick quote machine but I recall he did a real fine job handling the call-in yahoos, especially when the team wasn't playing well. And I think that after a career of high-level play as a starting QB and a promising start in coaching, it's safe to say that he's figured out how to talk to football people.

love that we retained Costello, our OL got lots better as the year went on and was ******* vicious in the Grey Cup, we give Walters props for that regularly but I bet Costello had no small impact there.

Question: how many democrats have left the party or resigned their elected posts because of sex crimes or lurid allegations in the 2010s? I bet you can't answer this.

I am still waiting to learn the details of the million fraudulent votes in the 2016 US federal election. Prove that claim, withdraw it, or confirm my judgement that you're just a noisy crank who regurgitates whatever the Macedonian trolls are writing this week.

I'm still waiting to learn where all those millions of illegal voters voted in 2016

I play drums today because when I was eleven, I heard Subdivisions and I thought "hey those drums are all weird, they're not predictable like in other songs." rest in beats, Neil. **** cancer.

Spiderverse was indeed super great. Just saw Knives Out. It was pretty good, bordering on great. Definitely worth seeing. I know a lot of people here don't like Rian Johnson but that guy can make a film.

was intrigued by the Dark Order at first but Lucha Underground did stories like that like a million times better. Let me know when the leader of the Dark Order kills the house band, makes a throne of their skulls, and presides over the ring like Thulsa Doom while Cody cowers in an undisclosed location. ****, I miss Lucha Underground.

oh another reason I don't use chat is that sometimes the streams I watch can be 30 seconds to a minute behind TSN or live, so the chat is kind of spoilery.

yeah, the chat isn't fun to use during games, whenever the Bombers suffer any minor reversal it's the ******* end of the world for some, which gets tiresome. If the chat had an ignore feature I'd use chat more. I tried to implement my own a few years back, but stalled out on it.

https://pleated-jeans.com/2019/12/24/disturbing-vintage-christmas-cards-that-arent-around-anymore-for-a-reason-22-pics/

We need @GuySmiley573 to cut a new version of this with more appropriate lyrics.

yup, I know that Mrs. Johnzo hit up the Bomber store and that there's gonna be some Cup merch under the tree for me too...

maybe the wrong holiday, but I am thankful for this place and for all of you, I don't know how much of a Bomber fan I'd be without you. all the best of the season to everyone on MBB, to the Blue Bombers, and to the entire CFL. I love this nutty league of ours.

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1977 was a huge year for me. I was four years old. The previous xmas my brothers had gotten Led Zeppelin's IV, Kiss's Destroyer, and Rush's 2112, so the soundtrack was set. The following summer I saw Star Wars, the first film I ever saw in a movie theater -- I grew up extremely rural and seeing a movie in a theater was a huge deal for my family. As Palpatine would say, my destiny was set. I was gonna be a heavy metal sci fi kid until the day I died.

I'm always impressed here with the folks who can dissect football games at a level beyond "oh that touchdown was a good play!" which is where I'm at. It's the exact same thing, just a different subject. Hope you enjoy the new film, Speedflex!

yeah, me too! I avoided all but the very first trailer for this one. oh, a thing I forgot to mention: I got such a stupid giant warm fuzzy when Rey took Luke's X-WIng and his beatup old helmet and when Finn called her Red Five. Made it feel like she was actually the true heir to the Jedi. Strangely, all the passing-the-torch fetishism around Luke's lightsaber in the modern trilogy never really gave me that feeling, even though it was obviously shooting for it. plus, I was glad that they paid off the X-Wing's appearance in TLJ. See, they didn't completely ignore that film.

Spoiler-free hot take: for me, it wasn't as good as Rogue One, but it was easily the best of the modern Skywalker trilogy. It knows who its audience is, and it serves them well.

I had no idea he was going to be in it, when he turned up for that quarter-second shot I was like "wait is that Wedge?" and then we stuck around for the credits to confirm.

I thought it was pretty good, much better than I expected. It didn't feel like a 2.5 hour movie, the pacing was so relentless that it flew by. It was a nice mix of the familiar and the novel, well-acted, great action scenes, and it didn't feel emotionally hollow. I thought it was definitely the best of the modern trilogy, it wasn't a hot mess like TLJ or unwarmed leftovers like TFA. The kiss was an ... interesting choice. The way I see it in my head, these are both confused kids who've both just almost died, they have a weird lingering mind-link, and they share experiences of weird powers that no one else can relate to, and that healing thing was pretty damn intimate as well with weird force soul energy going back and fourth between them. It read to me more as more an animal response to trauma thing than a romantic thing. But I can totally see why folks would be squicked by it. For everything I wrote in the other thread about how I didn't want yet another goddamn planet killer, I actually liked that this movie offered 10,000 planet killers. Escalation is good. The only overt TLJ ****-you I noticed was the presence of Anakin / Luke's lightsaber, unless I'm missing something about that. That lightsaber has been lost and destroyed so many times and it keeps turning up ... you know that it is digging its way out of its Tatooine grave... Loved Hux's reveal as the spy. It's always good when a big twist is both surprising and 100% true to the character. Of course Hux is going to try to set up Kylo Ren. Of course he will **** it up. Hux is 100% fuckup. Really liked how C3PO was forbidden to translate the Sith runes because of his programming. That's totally how software works, something that starts off as a good and sensible hamstrings you later on in a way you'd never anticipate. Headscratching moments: - who made the sith dagger? - why did they need a ground team to take out the tower when the tower is just sitting there exposed and Rogue One showed that snubfighters are really super good at blowing up targets that are just sitting there exposed? - Same thing with the command ship, it's just another big unshielded hunk of metal with the critical tower sticking out of it, should've been easy meat for Poe, who is shown shaving star destroyers of their weapons in every movie he's in. - It's okay to melt C3PO's brain to save the galaxy but it's also necessary to press the pause button on the mission to save the galaxy to go rescue Chewie? Damn, droids' lives suck. But then, when you add it up, the galaxy is saved basically because Rey is nice to a couple of droids, so at least the movie is kinda aware of how ****** up the property status of droids is and rewards folks who are kind to them. I ******* hate how droids call their owners "master." WEDGE CAMEO! I caught it, he's a gunner on the Falcon. Also saw Ghost or a ship of the same class whizzing by during a dogfight. Palps vs. Rey is a real nice callback to Palps vs. Luke in Jedi. Only Palps has a way better offer for Rey than he did for Luke. Luke gets "kill your father and then we'll see how things go" whereas Rey gets "your friends are dying and I can put you in charge of the fleet that's killing them." And I liked how Palp's plan had a couple ways it could have gone well, either he gets to be PalpRey or he gets to be full-on Just Palp once he force-vampires Rey and Ben. Either way, he wins, which is how real supervillains plan their strategies. And I like how the Final Order fleet was like "oh ****, we have a single point of failure that the Rebels are targeting again" and they have a backup ready and standing by. Can't have credible heroes without a credible heel.

and man just look at this beautiful play ... a Bomber on every Al, Streveler legging out the fake, Yoshi getting to the second level and erasing Muamba, AH33 one-on-one with Lokombo which is a nice matchup for the good guys. I wanna do a post of my top ten favorite Bomber blocks from 2019 .. gotta rewatch the season...