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Ooooh.... a Ride fan. You have my condolences. Seriously, I feel for the rational Rider fans who have to countenance the steaming pile of excrement that the Rider team and organization have created. We Bomber fans have had a taste of that in the Sleepy Joe era but it pales in comparison.

No problem. A belt sander will take all that off in short order.

Generally, these are people whose lives are drab and lacking success in any measure, so they look to find someone to blame other than themselves. Its a variation of the "If it wasn't for you, I could" game.

Apparently Gene Rodenberry sexually harassed her endlessly and that was the reason she considered quitting.

Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa.

QAnon ‘Queen of Canada’ Wants Some American Subjects A QAnon leader whose followers believe she’s the “Queen of Canada” has now set her sights on the United States, urging her followers to enforce her dangerous “decrees” in America. For people outside of the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory, Romana Didulo is just another Canadian citizen. But for her supporters, she’s a monarch ordained by Q and the American military to rule over Canada and, ultimately, the world. After being endorsed by other QAnon promoters, Didulo managed to amass a following, and is currently touring Canada in a fleet of RVs to meet with her supporters. Now, though, Didulo’s ambitions seem to have grown. In July, she started telling her more than 60,000 followers on the messaging app Telegram about the establishment of the “Kingdom of America,” handing out royal “titles” to Americans who promised to promote her reign there and appointing a new United States “commander-in-chief,” a man named David Carlson. While Didulo’s ideas are ridiculous, they’ve already had a real-world effect on Canada. When Didulo told her fans that she had abolished Canada’s income tax, some stopped paying taxes to the Canadian government. Because Didulo issued a “decree” announcing that her supporters could now pay their utility bills with “IOUs” backed by her bogus government, her supporters have started losing electricity and water in their homes. Apparently PT Barnum was among the authors of the report.

If there was a potentially better deal out there, I have to believe that the CFL would have taken it. Since CTV owns TSN, that is not an option, which leaves CBC which has been systematically dismantled over the past 20-30 years under Conservative regimes. We can bewail circumstances but they are what they are.

I realize your comment was tongue in cheek, but to me it looked like Ottawa had schemed for Harris and pretty much smothered him every time he had the ball. I would have thought Harris would have been used as a receiver more often and he is a darned good one. Would have opened up more options for the Argos.

The indifference to such derelictions of duty on the part of American voters is more proof that their taste for democracy is waning. From here it is a short step to a dictatorship that will masquerade as the solution to all problems. Between Russian interference, fundamentalist block voting, neo-Nazi agitation and Qanon hysteria, American faith in their political systems is at an all-time low.

Nonconsensual Condom Removal Can Now Be Prosecuted As Sex Assault In Canada “A complainant who consents to sex on the condition that their partner wear a condom does not consent to sex without" one, Canada's Supreme Court ruled. Canada’s top court has ruled that removing a condom during sex without consent can now be prosecuted as sexual assault. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday that “stealthing” — pretending to use a condom, or secretly removing it before sex without a partner’s consent — can violate the legal definition of consensual sex. “Sex with and without a condom are fundamentally and qualitatively distinct forms of physical touching,” Justice Sheilah Martin wrote in the majority decision. “A complainant who consents to sex on the condition that their partner wear a condom does not consent to sex without a condom.” There is “no agreement to the physical act of intercourse without a condom,” she added. Women’s rights advocates hailed the decision. Pam Hrick, executive director of Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund, called the ruling “foundational to the right to sexual autonomy and equality.” It was a dramatic contrast to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last month to scuttle Roe v. Wade, dropping decades of protection for women’s right to an abortion. “Stealthing” becomes even more ominous for women in America now where a case of accidental pregnancy could become a lifelong mandatory commitment to a child.

She has transited the Final Frontier.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Reportedly Stayed At Fundraiser For Hours After Uvalde Shooting Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who attended a campaign fundraiser hours after a shooting that killed 19 students and two teachers in Uvalde, reportedly was at the fundraiser for hours. The Republican governor, who initially said he stopped “on the way” to Austin to “let people know” he couldn’t stay, visited the fundraiser in Huntsville, 150 miles east of Austin, The Dallas Morning News reported. Records obtained by the outlet show the governor, via a loaned jet, arrived in Huntsville at 4:52 p.m. and didn’t leave until about three hours later. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gov-greg-abbott-fundraiser-hours-uvalde_n_62e6108fe4b00fd8d83ff3d4

Well, he was playing the Argos, so that is like the free space on a bingo card.

To use a sports metaphor, American politics are a dumpster fire. 'This is how Republicans are planning to steal elections': GOP officials refuse to certify primaries: Republican election officials in at least three states have refused to certify primary votes, in a sign of things to come amid the party's baseless election fraud crusade. Numerous allies of former President Donald Trump have echoed his lies about voter fraud on the campaign trail. Trump-backed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake and Nevada U.S. Senate candidate Adam Laxalt both claimed evidence of "election stealing" before any votes were cast. Colorado secretary of state candidate Tina Peters has twice demanded recounts of her Republican primary race after losing by double digits. Nevada gubernatorial candidate Joey Gilbert filed a lawsuit alleging that his GOP primary loss was a "mathematical impossibility," even after a recount he requested confirmed the results. While candidates are free to challenge the results of their elections under various state guidelines, Trump-allied election officials pose a more insidious threat. Echoing the same false narratives as Trump and his endorsed candidates, county officials in New Mexico, Nevada and Pennsylvania have tried to circumvent state laws and refused to sign off on primary results. Republican commissioners in Otero County, New Mexico last month refused to certify primary results in their GOP-dominated jurisdiction, citing unspecified concerns about Dominion voting machines. These apparently stem from TrumpWorld's crusade to stoke baseless allegations that the machines had "flipped" votes from Trump to Joe Biden. The Otero County commissioners ultimately relented and certified the votes amid concerns that they could go to jail after state officials took them to court. Republican commissioners in rural Esmeralda County, Nevada, likewise refused to certify the 317 votes cast in the county last month, citing unspecified concerns about the election from residents. County officials ultimately relented after spending more than seven hours counting the 317 ballots by hand. Three Republican-led counties in Pennsylvania — Berks, Fayette and Lancaster — have refused to count all valid votes from the May 17 primary election for Senate, Congress, governor and the state legislature for weeks over opposition to the state's rules regarding undated mail-in ballots. Officials in all three counties informed the state last month that they would not count mail-in votes that had not been properly dated, according to the Associated Press. Pennsylvania mail ballots instruct voters to write a date next to their signature on the outside of mail-in return envelopes, although these dates do not determine whether voters are eligible or if votes were cast on time. A federal appeals court ruled in May that undated mail-in ballots must be counted, ruling that the dates are "immaterial." The U.S. Supreme Court, even with three Trump-appointed justices, allowed the ruling to stand last month. A state court similarly ruled in the Republican Senate primary that undated ballots should be counted. The Pennsylvania Department of State earlier this month sued the three counties, asking a state court to order them to include all valid ballots "even if the voter failed to write a date on the declaration printed on the ballot's return envelope." The department said in the lawsuit that the handwritten date "is not necessary for any purpose, does not remedy any mischief and does not advance any other objective," and that "allowing just three county boards to exclude votes that all other county boards have included in their returns creates impermissible discrepancies in the administration of Pennsylvania's 2022 primary election." "Interpreting Pennsylvania law to allow a county board of election to exclude a ballot from its final certified results because of a minor and meaningless irregularity, such as a voter omitting a date from the declaration on a timely received ballot, would fail to fulfill the purpose of the Pennsylvania Election Code and would risk a conflict with both the Pennsylvania Constitution and federal law," the lawsuit said.

Looks like the Arbys are gonna win this one, and I'm happy for LaPolice. He may not be the reincarnation of Don Matthews, but he looks to be a good guy. Doesn't have all the horses they need yet, particularly behind center. Evans may or may not be the answer but we will not know until he has a half-dozen games under his belt plus a couple more pieces on offence.

Hallett was a very welcome and pleasant surprise. Considering that Mitchell is a darned good passer, that is impressive.

Just keep thinking about all the $ they are funneling into TSN and the CFL.

Bighill wasn't all that prominent, but he and the defence got the job done. Every time I think that the defence is spinning their tires and giving up too much, somehow they get it done. And with missing some key pieces as well.

"Smooth and fast" is a good description for Philpott- he seems to read blocking well.

Aww, come on. She adds some levity to an otherwise mostly dull panel and is not hard on the eyes. Sort of a female Rod Black but smarter and not as irritating.

A perfect season so far despite a tough opponent. Rider fans?

"when you throw the ball, three things can happen and two of them are bad"- Jack Gotta

Now to grind out a long time-consuming drive.

Good kickoff coverage.

Now he's just Shoen off!