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None of these names jump out as sure things- dark horses as best and probably training camp faces.

if you accept the usual statistics, that for every dead military personnel, there are 4-6 disabled, that would mean that almost half of the Russian standing army is hors de combat. The Russian army is sending conscription notices out to men of service age. but with the casualties already suffered and the tremendous losses in equipment, the new draftees are likely to be rushed into the front lines with little or no training and poor equipment. This is a recipe for slaughter. In the Viet Nam war, 25% of officer fatalities were at the hands of their troops, and this is likely to be even higher for the unfortunate Russian officers. The Ukrainian army have today picked off their 60th colonel, so there will be a lot of skittish Russian officers. The Ukrainian military is being very guarded about this, but a few weeks ago, I read a retired British intelligence officer's estimate that for every Ukrainian casualty there were 6-8 Russian ones, so you can estimate that the Ukrainian losses have been about 5,000, but the civilian deaths have been about 10 times that.

She is not the first.

'Your body is mine': Video shows anti-abortion activists telling pro-choice protestors 'not your choice, not your body' Countless thousands of Americans supporting and defending a woman’s right to choose an abortion protesting what is expected to be a Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, after a draft opinion was leaked a week ago. A video posted Saturday appears to show several anti-abortion activists standing on the steps of a New York City church telling people protesting in support of abortion as a constitutional civil right, “You have no choice. Not your choice, not your body, your body is mine.” Captions on the video attribute those remarks to “FDNY,” the New York City Fire Dept., but that has not been confirmed. The leader of the group is wearing what appears to be an FDNY patch on his pullover, and an “America First” cap. America First is the name of the group headed by Nick Fuentes, who has been called a white nationalist and a white supremacist. “Not the church, not the state, the people must decide their fate,” the pro-choice protestors chant in the video, which has gone viral over the weekend. “I am the people,” the anti-choice activist, pounding his chest, declares. “The people have decided, the court has decided, you lose.” “You have no choice,” he responds to their chants, gesticulating as if he were a ruler. “Not your choice, not your body, your body is mine – and you’re having my baby.” https://www.alternet.org/2022/05/pro-choice/

No doubt it will be a strange movie. I won't give the plot away but apparently it is one of those movies where if you go to the loo, you will miss important stuff,

Rumours persist that both Duterte and Marcos are CIA assets and Fernando and Imelda were.

They would then be loyal GOP supporters, would they not? Are zombies aware that vegans would taste better than the rest of us, being grain-fed and all?

Michael Flynn endorses 'insane' COVID-19 conspiracy theory that claims vaccines turn people into zombies Retired Army Lieutenant General and disgraced ex-National Security Advisor Michael Flynn is a notorious peddler of outlandish conspiracy theories, especially those that originate inside QAnon or spew from the pouty lips of former President Donald Trump. In particular, Flynn, a Trump-pardoned convicted felon, has focused much of his paranoia on ginning up opposition to COVID-19 vaccines and sowing doubts about the nature of SARS-COV-2. For example, Flynn has claimed that the inoculations were covertly added to salad dressings by the "Deep State" to secretly poison unsuspecting Americans. Flynn has also stated that a “global elite type of people” engineered the coronavirus pandemic to prepare the world for their next artificially-concocted outbreak, which Flynn believes "is potentially another type of virus that’s imposed on the public." Part of that scheme, Flynn maintained, was that a shadowy cabal of international powerbrokers intended to exploit the crisis as a means of stealing the 2020 election away from Trump. But on Sunday, Flynn endorsed yet another fringe – and absolutely looney – conservative delusion about COVID-19 vaccinations during an appearance on right-wing radio host Clay Clark's ReAwaken America Tour. This latest ill-begotten contention was put forth on May 1st by disinformation podcaster Jeffrey Prather. Here are the basics: Vaccines contain inactive "lipid nanoparticles" embedded with deadly "chimeric pathogens" which were genetically programmed to animate when properly triggered. The germs supposedly lying dormant include E. Coli, Ebola, Marburg – a highly fatal viral hemorrhagic fever, and brewers yeast – an ingredient added to ferment beer and bake bread. The "pathogens" will be activated when 5G towers thrice broadcast an 18 gigahertz signal for one minute. The specified frequency subsequently causes "1P36 gene deletion," turning vaccine recipients into zombies. More on that one in a moment. Clark summarized Prather's assertions and then asked Flynn to share his thoughts. "This pathogen that you just talked about; I think that there's been some great articles written about how it relates to the 5G technology that is being input basically globally," Flynn said of thoroughly debunked "alterative" research. "But my statement is that because this is a good versus evil time. It is actually one of the most consequential periods in history to be alive." Next, Clark aired a brief clip of Prather discussing his unfounded ideas, which disturbed him greatly. "That would cause you to begin to have seizures, begin to bite people, and to have problems with your frontal lobe," he declared. "It's a lot. It's heavy." https://www.alternet.org/2022/05/michael-flynn/

It appears that Putin has become so paranoid about a possible coup against him that his KGB is killing off anyone who could potentially plot against him. Several powerful industrial-financial directors have died under mysterious circumstances, Another happened yesterday: The series of mysterious deaths of Russian billionaires continues. Alexander Subbotin, former top manager of Lukoil was found dead. He allegedly died from toad poison. It seems RU intelligence agencies are experimenting with other types of poison.

Draft Overturning Roe v. Wade Quotes Infamous Witch Trial Judge With Long-Discredited Ideas on Rape. Justice Alito’s leaked opinion cites Sir Matthew Hale, a 17th-century jurist who conceived the notion that husbands can’t be prosecuted for raping their wives, who sentenced women to death as “witches,” and whose misogyny stood out even in his time. When U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, in a draft opinion obtained and published this week by Politico, detailed his justifications for overturning Roe v. Wade, he invoked a surprising name given the case’s subject. In writing about abortion, a matter inextricably tied to a woman’s control over her body, Alito chose to quote from Sir Matthew Hale, a 17th-century English jurist whose writings and reasonings have caused enduring damage to women for hundreds of years. The so-called marital rape exemption — the legal notion that a married woman cannot be raped by her husband — traces to Hale. So does a long-used instruction to jurors to be skeptical of reports of rape. So, in a way, do the infamous Salem witch trials, in which women (and some men) were hanged on or near Gallows Hill. Hale’s influence in the United States has been on the wane since the 1970s, with one state after another abandoning his legal principles on rape. But Alito’s opinion resurrects Hale, a judge who was considered misogynistic even by his era’s notably low standards. Hale once wrote a long letter to his grandchildren, dispensing life advice, in which he veered into a screed against women, describing them as “chargeable unprofitable people” who “know the ready way to consume an estate, and to ruin a family quickly.” Hale particularly despaired of the changes he saw in young women, writing, “And now the world is altered: young gentlewomen learn to be bold” and “talk loud.” https://www.propublica.org/article/abortion-roe-wade-alito-scotus-hale

A Mother's Day Thought:

No doubt the Rider linebackers and d-backs were happy to hear the final whistle that day.

And FYI: the Budweiser horses also come from Manitoba.

Different dynamics, though. The center-left people for the most part are donating to keep their societies from devolving into a Mad Max scenario, whereas the right-wingers are donating out of fear, rage and a desire to regain an imagined utopia that never existed and see no problem in using any means, including violence and intimidation to that end. They are not open to compromise and are bolstered by their fragile belief that they are the anointed of God.

This is only the latest evidence that the USA has become irredeemably contaminated with racism, hatred and fear. There are no guarantees that we in Canada will devolve into something similar and all we can do is care for each other and learn from the insanity south of us. We need to learn and live what many Americans have chosen to ignore: that which diminishes one of us diminishes all of us.

Ukraine Says It Sank Another Russian Ship Near Snake Island -Defense Ministry of Ukraine The Ukrainian military announced Saturday that it has brought down yet another Russian ship trolling the Black Sea near Snake Island. The Defense Ministry of Ukraine tweeted a video of a ship that it identified as a Russian Serna craft, a type of boat used to transport troops for amphibious landings, Radio Free Europe reports. According to the military, a Bayraktar drone was used to sink the warship. “The traditional parade of the Russian Black Sea fleet on May 9 this year will be held near Snake Island—at the bottom of the sea,” the Defense Ministry said. A Russian antiaircraft system en route to Snake Island was also allegedly destroyed by the Bayraktar drone strike. Russia has yet to comment on the incident and outside sources have yet to independently verify the sinking. (HAT TRICK!!!)

Justice Amy Coney Barrett Wants To Overturn Roe To Create A “Domestic Supply Of Infants” For Adoption Buried in the Alito Roe draft opinion is the idea that Roe needs to be overturned to create a domestic supply of infants for adoption. Read: page 34 of the Alito draft: This is some Handmaid’s Tale stuff that not long ago would have been attributed to the mind of Margaret Atwood and a few extremist Republican politicians. There are now five people on the Supreme Court who are willing to use the need for a domestic supply of adoptable infants as a rationale to take away rights from every woman in America. The problem with creating “a domestic supply of adoptable infants” is that the term itself suggests white American babies. However, the woman who will be disproportionately impacted. In states where abortion is already restricted, most of the women who get abortions are minorities. The overturning of Roe could lead to the foster care system being overwhelmed with babies, and foster care isn’t a great place to care for and raise a child.

'Wonder Years' Director Fred Savage Fired After 'Inappropriate' Conduct Allegations Fred Savage has been fired after an investigation into a number of complaints of alleged misconduct in his role as executive producer and director of ABC’s “The Wonder Years.” “Recently, we were made aware of allegations of inappropriate conduct by Fred Savage, and as is policy, an investigation was launched. Upon its completion, the decision was made to terminate his employment as an executive producer and director of ‘The Wonder Years,’” a spokesperson for 20th Television told Deadline. Details of the complaints were not provided. Neither Savage nor his representatives were immediately available for comment.

Hundreds of police officers in the United States have been trained by right-wing extremists: report Hundreds of cops across the United States have been taught by individuals who espouse far-right extremist views, according to a new investigation that was published Friday to sound the alarm on a burgeoning and unregulated private training industry. Reuters identified five law enforcement trainers who have been hired by police and sheriffs' departments nationwide despite their support for right-wing militia groups, including the Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, and Three Percenters; the QAnon conspiracy, which baselessly claims that Democrats and Hollywood stars belong to a cabal of Satanist pedophiles and cannibals; and former President Donald Trump's "Big Lie" that the 2020 election was stolen. Some use bigoted instructional materials that promote racism, misogyny, and transphobia, and many endorse the constitutional sheriff philosophy, which maintains that county sheriffs should refuse to uphold any law they find unconstitutional. "Adherents to the constitutional sheriff movement consider the federal government a grave threat to U.S. citizens," Reuters reported. "They argue that local law enforcement is a higher authority, with the power to countermand the decisions of legislatures, courts, and presidents." Richard Whitehead, one of dozens of active and retired police officers or trainers who were listed in a database of members of the Oath Keepers, "has called for public executions of government officials he sees as disloyal" to Trump, Reuters reported. In a 2020 social media post, he urged cops "to disobey Covid-19 public-health orders from 'tyrannical governors,' adding: 'We are on the brink of civil war.'" https://www.alternet.org/2022/05/police-officers-trained-by-extremists/

The salary cap and Import/Non-import ratio is what separates the smart GMs from the dullards. I do NOT want it screwed with.

A scatback with a good resume and a couple of maybe receivers.