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Even if the BC medical staff shoot Rourke's foot full of joy juice, if he walks or runs to any degree, his foot will swell up so badly they will have to cut his shoe off and he sure as spit will be hobbled in the next game. But maybe winning one game is all they aspire to, knowing they will pulped against the Bombers. They may hope that Rourke will give the Lions enough of a lead before he is forced out that Adams can close the game out/

Ford must have a LOT of dirty laundry he does not want aired in the hearings.

Trump has more acolytes here in Canada than we hoped. Sad and sick comment on the Alberta right wing.

Extremist Gun Group Talks Of 'Firepower We Have To Unload' On Democratic Candidates Days after federal agencies warned of a heightened threat of violent attacks on political candidates, an extremist gun rights group on Monday urged supporters to give it money so it can figure out “how much firepower we have to unload on gun-grabbing candidates” in Senate races in key battleground states. “At midnight tomorrow, we’ll know exactly how much firepower we have to unload on gun-grabbing candidates in AZ, NV, GA, PA and OH as we head into next week’s election day,” reads a fundraising email from the American Firearms Association.

The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Are Going To End Affirmative Action In Higher Education The Supreme Court’s six conservative justices appeared ready to end affirmative action on Monday, during arguments in two cases challenging the limited use of race in college and university admissions. In Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard University and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina, white and Asian students claim that the use of race in admissions that helps the enrollment of Black, Hispanic and Native American students unconstitutionally discriminates against whites and Asians by violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act in both cases and the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause granting equal treatment to all persons under the law in the North Carolina case. The lawyers for Students for Fair Admissions, a nonprofit group run by conservative lawyer Ed Blum, who is white and has brought numerous cases before the Supreme Court challenging race-conscious policy-making, argued that any use of race was unconstitutional. They asked the court to overrule its prior precedents authorizing the limited use of race to achieve diversity in the 1978 case of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke and the approval of the limited affirmative action program used by the University of Michigan in Grutter v. Bollinger. “Grutter is grievously wrong,” Patrick Strawbridge, counsel for Students for Fair Admissions, said in arguing that any consideration of race in admissions is unconstitutional and “divisive.” The court’s six-justice conservative supermajority has the votes to overturn Grutter. Justices John Roberts, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas have all previously ruled in favor of ending race-conscious affirmative action programs. While Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett have a limited record on the issue, they all aligned with the arguments made by the plaintiffs on Monday. Indeed, in their questioning of the lawyers in support of the University of North Carolina, the conservative justices set up a lose-lose situation. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-affirmative-action_n_63600d1fe4b08fd5e954d2c4

Sounds familiar.....where have we heard this before? Trump? Manitoba PC party leadership race?

Trump indictment expected 'weeks' after midterms — and Bannon makes a threat Republican aides on Capitol Hill and GOP strategists are expecting the U.S. Dept. of Justice to indict Donald Trump within weeks or months of the November election, which is just eight days away. Some are warning if that is the plan it should be sooner rather than later. Former top Trump advisor Steve Bannon claims if the former President is indicted DOJ will be defunded "immediately" and Garland could face impeachment. The Hill reports those "Republican aides and strategists privately expect Attorney General Merrick Garland to pursue an indictment of former President Trump within 60 to 90 days after Election Day, predicting the window for prosecuting Trump will close once the 2024 presidential campaign gains momentum." “A couple of weeks after the election, I assume that Garland will indict Trump,” an unnamed "veteran Republican aide" told The Hill, a right-leaning website, which adds they were "expressing a sentiment shared by several other GOP aides and strategists. " One strategist identified as Vin Weber told The Hill, “I think an indictment is a bad idea, but I think that Garland is under such political pressure by the Democratic left that it may well happen.” Stressing this opposition to an indictment of Trump, he added: "If it’s going to happen, though, it should happen as soon after the [midterm] election as possible because it complicates everybody’s plans: Biden’s plans, Trump’s plans, every other Republican’s plans." “If this is going to happen, it’s not in anyone’s interest to prolong this process until the presidential process for ’24 is underway and drop this like a bomb into the middle of an already established presidential field,” he added. On the far right wing social media site Gettr, convicted criminal Steve Bannon threatened if the Dept. of Justice does indict his former boss, it will be defunded "immediately." "Two Action Items," the bombastic far-right extremist and purveyor of conspiracy theories told supporters, "the DoJ will be Defunded immediately and Articles of Impeachment on Garland and his inner circle will be accelerated…. An Indictment of President Trump will NOT stand." https://www.alternet.org/2022/10/bannon-threatens-doj-and-garland-on-report-gop-expects-trump-indictment-weeks-after-midterms/

Donald Trump Jr. Mocks Paul Pelosi With 'Despicable' Halloween Post The ex-president's son continued to pile on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband after he was seriously hurt in a hammer attack in their home. Donald Trump Jr. on Sunday reduced the attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul Pelosi to a Halloween gag. (See it below.) Pelosi, 82, was hit with a hammer in the early hours Friday by a home invader who reportedly asked, “Where is Nancy?” Pelosi continues recovering after surgery for a skull fracture. Trump apparently thought he could play the disturbing crime for laughs, posting a meme with a photo of underwear and a hammer with the caption: “Got my Paul Pelosi Halloween costume ready.” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-jr-paul-pelosi-halloween-costume_n_635fa241e4b04dfacf8218cc

As the virus mutates, the most common COVID symptoms appear to be changing, too SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, is devastating precisely because it can worm its way into so many different organs and systems in the body. That manifests as different symptoms, from fever to trouble breathing, although an infection can be asymptomatic, too — that is, no symptoms at all. Throughout the pandemic, there have been a few telltale signs of COVID infection. The loss of sense of smell and taste were chief among them. But as the virus has mutated again and again, creating new strains like Typhon (BQ.1) and Gryphon (XBB) which can evade some of our tools to fight it, it seem that the symptoms of COVID may have changed as well. Recent estimates published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday pegged Typhon and its close relative Cerberus (BQ.1.1) as making up 27 percent of cases, an 11 percent increase from last week. Meanwhile, cases of BA.5, the strain that has dominated cases for the majority of summer, dipped below 50 percent for the first time in months. Indeed, emerging data suggests the symptoms of COVID are changing with new variants. And, they can differ regardless of whether you've been vaccinated or not, or previously infected. Newly released data from the ZOE Health Study, which maintains the COVID Symptom Tracker app, finds that the dominant symptoms have shifted. The app was originally launched in March 2020. It quickly logged one million users, who typed in how COVID was making them feel, allowing researchers to pin down some of the most common COVID symptoms. It was part of the reason why it became well-known that anosmia (loss of smell and taste) is a key symptom of the original COVID strain. More recently, ZOE crunched the data from over 4.8 million users and found that after two vaccinations, the top-ranking symptoms were sore throat, runny nose, blocked nose, persistent cough, headache, in that order. (Vaccines can protect against severe disease, which generally means hospitalization or death, but breakthrough infections are not unheard of, although far less severe than infections in the unvaccinated.) Loss of smell has slipped to the number nine slot, while shortness of breath is down at number 30 for this group. ZOE says this indicates "the symptoms as recorded previously are changing with the evolving variants of the virus." Just one dose of a vaccine can shift the order of most common symptoms to headache, runny nose, sore throat, sneezing and then persistent cough. For those who haven't received a vaccine at all, the symptoms are generally closer to the original ranking from 2020: headache, sore throat, runny nose, fever and persistent cough. However, loss of smell has slipped to the number nine slot, while shortness of breath is down at number 30 for this group.

A SCRAP OF SANITY HAS RETURNED TO THE WORLD AS NEO-FASCIST BRAZIL PRESIDENT BOLSONARO IS DEFEATED DESPITE HIS DIRTY TRICKS Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the presidential election.

In the last few days the Russians have poured some 30,000 troops (mostly untrained, many unarmed or armed with WW2 weapons) into the Donbas conflict zone. In the last 24 hours, the Russians have suffered their largest single-day losses (1100-1300) of the invasion. The Russian air force has lost more than a quarter of their warplanes and are no longer providing air support out of fear of Ukrainian anti-aircraft weaponry. It has been estimated that more than 75% of Russian tanks and APCs are non-operational. As a real blow to Russian military morale, a capital ship in a harbour once thought safe has been hit by missile and is on fire. this ship was used to launch cruise missiles against civilian targets in Ukraine. Putin is apoplectic. In retaliation, Russia has said it will fire on any grain ships leaving port with grain desperately needed in Africa and Asia, but NATO has announced it will send escort ships into the Black Sea to protect these ships.

Soooo.....the honey wagon has been booked?

'You're shooting a gun!' GOP congressman shredded by CBS' Margaret Brennan over 'FirePelosi' hashtag 'You're shooting a gun!' GOP congressman shredded by CBS' Margaret Brennan United States Representative Tom Emmer (R-Minnesota) appeared on Sunday's edition of Face the Nation and was grilled by CBS anchor Margaret Brennan over a video that he posted to Twitter of him at a shooting range with a hashtag that read, "fire" House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California).

Texas pastor openly calls on 'Christian nationalists' to 'impose their values on society' Texas megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress said over the weekend that Christian nationalists had a right to "impose their values" on everyone else. During an interview with Real America's Voice host Tim Clinton, Jeffress addressed recent concerns about the rising nationalist movement among Christians. "We always put our love for God above everything, even allegiance to our country," he explained. "But that's not what they're really talking about. Listen carefully. They say they are opposed to people who say America was founded as a Christian nation, Americans who believe not only in the spiritual heritage of our nation, but believe that we ought to use elections to help return our country to its Christian foundation." "If that's Christian nationalism, count me in," the pastor laughed. https://www.alternet.org/2022/10/christian-nationalists-impose-their-values/

I think that the Lions have painted themselves into a corner by intimating that Rourke can play and play well. So- they have to have him start the game for a couple of series and then announce that he, despite a heroic effort, has re-injured himself in a way not related to his foot injury.

And that's a wrap. A good night all.

Augustine nearing 100 yards.

We seem to have solved the run up the gut vulnerability.

Great to hear that the Lions are selling WSf tickets well. Good for the league.

And Ralph is down.

Looks like bomber secondary are playing off a bit now.

Don't have any sacks tonight but Bomber D-line is dominating.