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Children Died In Uvalde Because Police Didn’t Try To Open An Unlocked Classroom Door There are many stunning revelations about the disastrous Uvalde police response to the Robb Elementary mass shooting, but, shockingly, they try to open an unlocked classroom door. The San Antonio Express-News reported on a Texas House committee report on the law enforcement response: A shield that would have protected officers against the gunman’s assault-style rifle arrived at 12:20 p.m. BORTAC, an elite tactical unit of the U.S. Border Patrol, likely assumed command shortly before 12:30 p.m. Yet officers, including Paul Guerrero, acting commander of BORTAC, waited until 12:50 p.m. to enter Room 111 and kill Ramos — 73 minutes after police first arrived at the school. A door to the classrooms likely was unlocked the entire time. While trying to find a master key, officers didn’t try to open the door before finally storming the room, the report said. Nearly 400 law enforcement officers were on the scene, and not a single one of them tried to open the unlocked classroom door. It is as if they were making up excuses not to enter the room and stop the shooter. The report described the law enforcement response as lackadaisical and described how police abandoned their school shooter training where they were taught to put themselves on the line to attempt to save children. The report blamed poor information, spotty communications, and law enforcement officers who did not follow their training. The lock on the classroom door was broken for weeks, and it was not repaired. The school spotted the shooter outside the building, but no one used the intercom to declare a lockdown, so the teacher in the classroom had no idea what was happening when a shooter walked in and began shooting. Law enforcement probably got kids killed through their response, and people should be held accountable.

Duron Carter, an improvement? (snort)

Three men linked to Russian spies were in 'unhinged' Oval Office meeting with Donald Trump: report One of America's top counterintelligence experts revealed his thoughts on Saturday on the three men linked to sanctioned Russian spies who were present for a key White House meeting plotting Donald Trump's coup attempt. "Four days after the electors met across the country and made Joe Biden the president-elect, Donald Trump was still trying to find a way to hang on to the presidency," Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said in Tuesday's public hearing of the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol. "On Friday, December 18th, his team of outside advisers paid him a surprise visit in the White House that would quickly become the stuff of legend," Raskin explained. "The meeting has been called unhinged, not normal and the craziest meeting of the Trump presidency. The outside lawyers who'd been involved in dozens of failed lawsuits had lots of theories supporting the big lie, but no evidence to support it." At the meeting, the idea of using the U.S. military to seize voting machines was proposed. "In the wee hours of December 19th, dissatisfied with his options, Donald Trump decided to call for a large and wild crowd on Wednesday, January 6th, the day when Congress would meet to certify the electoral votes," Raskin explained. "Never before in American history had a president called for a crowd to come contest the counting of electoral votes by Congress or engaged in any effort designed to influence, delay, or obstruct the joint session of Congress in doing its work required by our Constitution and the Electoral Count Act. As we'll see, Donald Trump's 1:42 AM tweet electrified and galvanized his supporters, especially the dangerous extremists in the Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys, and other racist and white nationalist groups spoiling for a fight against the government." In a thread posted to Twitter, former FBI Deputy Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Peter Strzok noticed a pattern among some of the participants. Strzok had also headed the FBI's counterespionage section. Strzok said the meeting had 'staggering counterintelligence issues' presented the three of those in attendance. "Mike Flynn, who was paid by an organ of Russian state media to travel to Moscow to attend a dinner where he was seated next to Putin. Flynn later plead guilty to lying to the FBI about conversations he had with the Russian Ambassador about election interference," he noted. "Patrick Byrne, one of several men once in an intimate relationship with convicted Russian agent Marina Butina. Byrne gave money to Butina after her return to Russia, where she ran for the Duma, hounded Navalny, and supported the invasion of Ukraine," Strzok continued. "Rudy Giuliani, who repeatedly met with and took info from sanctioned Russian agents like Andrii Derkach, despite USIC warnings to the White House in 2019 that Trump’s personal lawyer 'was the target of an influence operation by Russian intelligence.'" "So in this tiny meeting in the Oval Office where options to upend US democracy were advanced to the President of the United States, there were not one, not two, but three people directly linked to sanctioned and convicted agents of the Russian government," Strzok noted. "While I doubt Russia planned it, their efforts to gain access to Trump’s inner sanctum succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. And it demonstrates just how successful seemingly amateurish intelligence activity can be." He included a Russian Foreign Ministry photo from inside the Oval Office of Trump meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak https://www.alternet.org/2022/07/three-men-linked-russian-spies/

Harris may go down int he books as one of the best if not THE best Canadian running back ever in the CFL. He looked so-so when with the Beastly Lions but really blossomed with the Blue as not only a good ball carrier but a very good blocker and receiver.

A bit off topic here, but I thought that both Gray and Dobson had enough mojo to be very good if not dominant linemen in the CFL. So far, they have not shown any real abilities in that regard.

But a very well-paid and coddled piece of garbage who typifies the Riders and many of their fans.

He was better early in the game before he got thumped a few times, but it could also be that his arm/shoulder got sorer and stiffer as the game wore on and he threw more passes.

If the Rider board of directors has any gonads or intelligence, at the end of the current season the bodies will be stacked outside the team offices like cordwood.

It occurs to me that both the Riders and Argos mirror their communities. The Riders are crass, loud-mouthed and inept, whereas the Argos play indifferently as if they have no fans to answer to. And they are not wrong.

He should have all of his scrips reviewed by another MD for a year.

Does my heart good to see the Riders falling all over themselves.

Watching too much soccer.

Criminal Smoking Gun: Trump Campaign Operative Gave Fake Elector List To House Republican The Trump campaign member who gave the fake elector list to a House Republican has been identified as the Trump reelection effort is tied to the criminal plot. Politico reported: Mike Roman, then Trump’s 2020 director of Election Day operations, delivered those false elector certificates — signed by pro-Trump activists in Michigan and Wisconsin — to Rep. Mike Kelly’s (R-Pa.) chief of staff at the time, both people told POLITICO. Kelly was a Trump ally in the effort to overturn the 2020 election, and his then-top aide received the documents from Roman before deputizing a colleague to disseminate copies on Capitol Hill, according to both people. Roman’s role in the effort to deliver those slates of electors directly to Pence has not previously been reported. The fake elector list ran through the Trump campaign. It has long been suspected that the criminal plot originated with the Trump campaign. Trump’s campaign lawyers are under Justice Department investigation for the plot, but the attachment of the name of someone from the Trump campaign who disseminated the list on Capitol Hill provides a direct public link from the Trump campaign to the crime. House Republicans were involved in the fake elector plot. The names of the fake electors were providers to the GOP members of Congress so that they could vote for the fake slate and throw the election to Donald Trump.

HELLUVA GAME!!!

WOW!!!!!

They owe us, dammit!

Butt-pucker time is over!

Oh, fourletterword.

Jefferson with a GREAT play!

Gray took the wrong man

And again

More lookout blocks by the Bomber O-line.

Decent kick return negated by holding, dammit.

Bombers may well win despite their O-line, not because of it.

Agudosi: good things are worth waiting for. We may not see Bailey on the field again. Kinda sad, though.