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I didn't think the Bomber offence could get any worse than last week, but here we are.

Did most of the Bombers somehow miss training camp? And Rose is still a marked man. Does Gray's career as a starter end tonight?

Vince McMahon Steps Down As WWE CEO During Misconduct Investigation The pro wrestling mogul has "voluntarily stepped back" and will be replaced by his daughter, Stephanie McMahon, the company said. Vince McMahon has “voluntarily stepped back” as WWE CEO and chairman during a board investigation into alleged misconduct with a former female employee, the company said Friday. McMahon allegedly paid a $3 million “hush” settlement to a paralegal to cover up their affair, The Wall Street Journal reported this week.

A symptom of a probable concussion.

They have already tried it.

3Down is reporting that Harris was taken out of the game due to a suspected hamstring injury. Well, that didn't take long.

Happy for Trevor Harris, though. He has not had much luck of late.

AWWWW, crap! Another team plagued by poor kicker.

Not impressed with the Alouette's receivers as a whole. Trevor Harris looking decent.

'Diary Of A Wimpy Kid' Actor Who Killed Mother Also Targeted Justin Trudeau: Court Canadian actor Ryan Grantham, who has appeared on “Riverdale” and the 2010 film version of “Diary of a Wimpy Kid,” pleaded guilty to killing his mother in March — but now comes word he also allegedly plotted to kill Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as well. That revelation came during the sentencing hearing for the 24-year-old Grantham, who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder earlier this year. According to the CBC, Grantham shot 64-year-old Barbara Waite in the back of the head in March 2020 while she was playing the piano.

Thousands Of Cattle Killed By Brutal Heat, Humidity In Kansas BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — Thousands of cattle in feedlots in southwestern Kansas have died of heat stress due to soaring temperatures, high humidity and little wind in recent days, industry officials said. The final toll remains unclear, but as of Thursday at least 2,000 heat-related deaths had been reported to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, the state agency that assists in disposing of carcasses. Agency spokesman Matt Lara said he expects that number to rise as more feedlots report losses from this week’s heat wave. The cattle deaths have sparked unsubstantiated reports on social media and elsewhere that something besides the weather is at play, but Kansas agriculture officials said there’s no indication of any other cause. “This was a true weather event — it was isolated to a specific region in southwestern Kansas,” said A.J. Tarpoff, a cattle veterinarian with Kansas State University. “Yes, temperatures rose, but the more important reason why it was injurious was that we had a huge spike in humidity ... and at the same time wind speeds actually dropped substantially, which is rare for western Kansas.” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/heat-wave-kills-cattle-kansas_n_62ab9da8e4b0cdccbe5b416c?utm_source=spotim&utm_medium=spotim_recirculation&spot_im_redirect_source=pitc

I'm not sure why Davis is still in the league. He must work awfully cheap. Harris's running is getting worse as the game wears on.

Black Adam trailer:

Loved the humourous and often bizarre Duckman.

I am concerned that we will become so inured to these preventable deaths that we will recalibrate and accept them as inevitable and acceptable.

Or the coaches.

I thought Whop showed enough in his brief outing to deserve a better fate.

I am afraid that with your political system being what it is and with the unrestricted, massive flow of money both in the open and dark money to sway candidates, there is little chance of meaningful change in your country. The massive inequality and concentration of power has created system that benefits few and fuels the violence and unrest there. I feel for the many good people in America who are essentially powerless.

You may wish to check out the Opera browser- less of a systems hog, faster than Edge and with built-in VPN. One would think that, given all the tech expertise of Microsoft, they could come up with a browser that would blow all the others into the weeds.

Louisiana mother forced to give up custody of her daughter and pay child support to her rapist: report Crysta Abelseth, now 32, was allegedly raped at age 16 by John Barnes, a man nearly twice her age who she had never previously met, after accepting a ride home from him after a night out at a restaurant with friends, and the sexual assault resulted in a pregnancy, reported WBRZ-TV. "Instead of bringing me home, he brought me to his house," Abelseth recalled. "Once inside, he raped me on his living room couch." Abelseth said other people assumed a boyfriend was the father and she never corrected them, but sometime in 2011 Barnes learned that he might have a daughter and pursued custody. "When my daughter was five years old, he found out about her, and once he found out about her, he pursued custody and wanted to take her away from me," Abelseth said. "They granted him 50/50 custody despite the fact that [the child] was caused by rape." A DNA test showed Barnes was almost certainly the father, despite the fact that he had been 30 and Abseleth was younger than the age of consent when he assaulted her, and she eventually pressed criminal charges against him in 2015 because she didn't previously understand how the law worked. "I thought if I didn't do it the next day, there was nothing I could do about it," Abelseth said. "I went to a trauma counselor, and he said, 'No, you have 30 years after you turn 18.'" The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office said that investigation remained open seven years later, and Abelseth said it was never even assigned to a detective. She claimed that Barnes had law enforcement connections that allowed him to escape accountability and gain full custody several weeks ago over allegations that she gave her teenage daughter a cell phone. "He's well connected," Abelseth said. "He's threatened me multiple times, saying he has connections in the justice system, so I better be careful and he can take her away anytime he wants to. I didn't believe him until it happened." Stacie Triche, of the non-profit organization Save Lives, is started helping Abelseth with her legal fight after Barnes challenged her custodial rights, and she said it's hard to understand why a judge would give Barnes full custody and force Abelseth to pay child support to her rapist. "When I found out she was a rape victim, and this rapist could potentially get full custody, that's when I stepped in and said something has to be done about this," Triche said. "She's been forced to pay her perpetrator, forced to pay her rapist child support and legal fees and give up custody of the child that's a product of the rape. It makes no sense." Judge Jeffrey Cashe granted Barnes custody, but an employee in his office said judicial canons would prevent him from explaining the decision, which was placed under seal, and an attorney from the Louisiana Foundation Against Sexual Assault (LFASA) said the decision was egregious. "It seems pretty straightforward that not only did a crime take place, but as a result of the crime, this person should not have custody of the child," said LFASA attorney Sean Cassidy. https://www.alternet.org/2022/06/louisiana-mother-daughter-custody-rapist/

Texas GOP Attorney General Ken Paxton on the Uvalde massacre: 'God has a plan' Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said recently that he would tell parents of young children killed in the Uvalde school shooting that "God has a plan." Paxton, who took the leading role in a failed Supreme Court case aimed at overturning the results of the 2020 election, went on a media blitz to fight calls for gun restrictions shortly after an 18-year-old shooter killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in the West Texas town of Uvalde. In an interview with right-wing radio host Trey Graham, Paxton acknowledged that it is "difficult to give comfort" to families who lost their kids. "If I lost one of my children I'd be pretty devastated, especially in a way that is so senseless and seemingly has no purpose," he continued. "I think ... I would just have to say, if I had the opportunity to talk to the people I'd have to say, look, there's always a plan. I believe God always has a plan. Life is short no matter what it is. And certainly, we're not going to make sense of, you know, a young child being shot and killed way before their life expectancy." https://www.alternet.org/2022/06/god-always-has-a-plan/

Irony and shame are lost on the GOP.

"Signs of distress"? He lives in Regina half the year. Isn't that cause enough for distress? Possible PTSD?

Welcome aboard, and don't be concerned about your cat- cats hate everyone. So many cats, so few good recipes.

A Big New Parkinson’s Drug Just Passed a Crucial Safety Trial There are currently no FDA-approved means to prevent or cure Parkinson’s—a disease that afflicts more than 10 million adults worldwide, and is expected to rise to 1.2 million by 2030. Patients usually start to show symptoms around age 50, and are prescribed the drug L-Dopa to alleviate some symptoms like tremors or involuntary body movements. Unfortunately it doesn’t slow down or stop the progression of Parkinson’s. We may soon have a better form of treatment on the way. In a study published Wednesday in the journal Science Translational Medicine, researchers at San Francisco-based Denali Therapeutics developed a drug called DNL201 that targets LRRK2, a protein that is commonly mutated in Parkison’s and ends up killing brain cells. DNL201 stamped out the rogue protein’s presence in lab mice suffering from Parkinson’s, and was also shown to be safe in a Phase 1 clinical trial in 150 people (which included both healthy individuals as well as those with Parkinson’s). Should future clinical trials prove successful as well, this new drug could be a powerful new intervention against a growing health crisis. Parkinson’s arises due to the destruction of neurons that produce dopamine, best known as the “feel-good” chemical that’s associated with pleasure and reward but is also crucial for motor function. Scientists estimate that 85 percent or more of all cases are caused by complex interactions between environmental and common genetic risk factors. Will This Stem Cell Breakthrough Spell the End of Parkinson’s? We’re About to Find Out. One of the genes that seem to play a role governs the production of LRRK2. Mutated versions of the gene encourage inflammation that kills dopamine-making neurons. Early genetic and animal studies conducted by scientists in Germany, the U.K., and by biotechnology company Genetech in the mid-2010’s showed a way to target LRRK2 with small molecule drugs that can more easily enter our cells. Enter: DNL201. In previous studies on lab rats and macaque monkeys, the drug helped safely lower LRRK2 levels in the brain. Denali Therapeutics moved forward with a pair of human trials, administering DNL201 as a pill. Just as in the animal studies, the drug significantly reduced blood levels of LRRK while causing no adverse reactions. In the second trial in particular, DNL201 was given to 28 patients with mild to moderate Parkinson’s disease, some of whom carried the LRRK2 gene mutation. Again, DNL201 lowered levels of LRRK2 without significant adverse reactions, except for those who got the higher dose of the drug (though the most severe complaint for those participants was a headache). While these initial results are a promising start, the researchers caution that the study’s findings aren’t enough to guarantee DNL201 can treat Parkinson’s. It boils down to whether the drop in LRRK2 does correlate with saving dopamine-producing neurons from chemical destruction in humans as it did in the cell studies. To test that, DNL201 needs to be closely watched in much larger studies and for longer periods of time than simply one year, the researchers emphasize. In the meantime, Denali Therapeutics is focusing on another LRRK2 blocker developed in tandem to DNL201, called DNL151. This drug was also found to be pretty effective at paring down LRRK2 and may be more convenient for patients since they need to take it only once a day, Laura Hansen, a spokesperson for Denali Therapeutics, told The Daily Beast in an email. There’s one clinical trial underway testing DNL151 in people with early-stage Parkinson’s disease. Another clinical trial for Parkinson’s patients who carry the LRRK2 mutation is expected for later this year.