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Republicans pushing ‘hit and kill’ bills to allow motorists to run down protesters: report As the organizes of the fatal 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville are standing trial in a civil lawsuit, Republicans across the country are organizing to pass "hit and kill" bills that allow motorists to run down protesters. On Monday, the Boston Globe reported on a "Back the Blue Act" signed by Iowa's Republican governor, Kim Reynolds. The bill took the side of drivers who run over protesters. In June of 2020, the driver of Reynold's state-issued Chevrolet Suburban struck a Des Moines Black Liberation Movement protester who was urging the governor to restore voting rights. "Iowa is one of three states, along with Oklahoma and Florida, to enact laws this year giving drivers some degree of legal immunity if they use their vehicles to hurt protesters, part of a wave of 'hit and kill' bills introduced in 13 other states by Republican legislators since 2017. Most of those proposals came after one of the most sustained periods of demonstrations in US history following Floyd's murder, and the effort to crack down on protesters has sent a chilling message to activists, who believe it will encourage violence against them," the newspaper reported. There is currently pending legislation in Tennessee, New Jersey and Washington. Republicans pushing ‘hit and kill’ bills to allow motorists to run down protesters: report - Alternet.org

Already there.

A mystery, man.

Would Rider fans allow their girlfriends to do that?

The GOP in the last year has been very busy suppressing potential Democratic voters, installing their people in every facet of election administration and gerrymandering the ridings to a degree unheard of until now in US politics. All this while they were screaming that the Democrats were rigging the elections

Stefanson was, I believe, the minister of health who made all the major cuts there that led to the lack of capacity to respond to the COVID, not to mention increasing wait times on knee and hip replacements from 12-15 months to 2 1/2 years + where it is now. She is going to have to wear that.

The PCs were pretty much guaranteed to lose the next election, which probably one of the reasons Pallister not only bailed but has also sold his house in Winnipeg. With this internal blood-fuel so closely resembling Trump's hiss-fit debacle it will likely increase the magnitude of the pending loss. Landslide election wins rarely make for good government, though.

How worried should we be about the "delta plus" variant? The delta subvariant known as AY.4.2 – ominously dubbed "delta plus" – is TKing headlines as cases of it are increasing in the United Kingdom. Earlier this month, the U.K.'s Health Security Agency published a report stating "a delta sublineage newly designated as AY.4.2 is noted to be expanding in England." The descendant of the highly transmissible delta variant has two mutations to the spike protein, and it appears to be on "an increasing trajectory" as most recent data suggests it made up approximately 6% of all sequenced cases in the U.K. So what does this mean for the United States? First of all, the delta subtype variant has already been detected on our shores. However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recently stated delta plus is not a cause for concern . . . yet, but the agency is monitoring the situation closely. READ MORE: Delta variant twice as likely to hospitalize victims, new study finds "We're watching it very carefully," CDC Director Rochelle Walensk Walensky said on NBC's Meet the Press last week. "We have had a handful of cases here in the United States, but it has not taken off as it has in the U.K." As some may recall, before the delta variant exploded in the U.S., it was the dominant strain in the United Kingdom. In many ways countries in the U.K. have become blueprints for the United States, which is why news about the "delta plus" variant increasing abroad can be unnerving for Americans. Does this mean a delta-plus wave is imminent? Experts who have been following the pandemic tell Salon it's likely not going to be worse than the original delta surge, but it is a variant to keep track of since it's possible that AY.4.2 is more transmissible than the current dominant delta variant. "Any variant is potentially a cause for concern, and given what happened with delta I'd be really hesitant to say something absolutely isn't a problem, particularly given how little we know," Justin Lessler, a professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina's Gillings School of Global Public Health, told Salon. "But that being said, what we do know about the delta plus variant doesn't indicate to me that it's a major problem, at least for the United States. "It looks to be about 10% more transmissible than delta," he continued, "and in our work on the scenario modeling hub, when we looked at a hypothetical variant that was 50% more transmissible than delta, we did see resurgences in that case, but we didn't see big ones that put us back to the size of the delta wave or last winter's winter wave." How worried should we be about the "delta plus" variant? | Salon.com

Because its all they have in lieu of logic, legal precedent and decency. That is was close at all says something both sad and alarming about the state of the provincial (and probably federal) PCs. Edging ever closer to fascism while pretending to be tolerant.

As stupid as this sounds, it absolutely pales in comparison to all the other insanity in the US.

Yes. much like Sonny Wade did back in the 70's. Cruise through the regular season and then turn it on in the playoffs.

In the short time Harris was behind center last night, he did show some potential. Khari ought to be able to bring out the best in him.

Rod? Is that you?

And, true to her Trumpian roots, Glover refuses to accept the outcome of her party's election.

The whole point is to stir up controversy, regardless of harmful outcomes, even to the point of emboldening insane, violent advocates.

Suitor has a rich fantasy life. He needed it to survive living in Regina for half the year.

Updated 'Trump Train' 911 transcripts reveal Texas cops refused to send escort to Biden bus As supporters of then-President Donald Trump surrounded and harassed a Joe Biden campaign bus on a Central Texas highway last year, San Marcos police officials and 911 dispatchers fielded multiple requests for assistance from Democratic campaigners and bus passengers who said they feared for their safety from a pack of motorists, known as a "Trump Train," allegedly driving in dangerously aggressive ways. "San Marcos refused to help," an amended federal lawsuit over the 2020 freeway skirmish claims. Transcribed 911 audio recordings and documents that reveal behind-the-scenes communications among law enforcement and dispatchers were included in the amended lawsuit, filed late Friday. The transcribed recordings were filed in an attempt to show that San Marcos law enforcement leaders chose not to provide the bus with a police escort multiple times, even though police departments in other nearby cities did. In one transcribed recording, Matthew Daenzer, a San Marcos police corporal on duty the day of the incident, refused to provide an escort when recommended by another jurisdiction. "No, we're not going to do it," Daenzer told a 911 dispatcher, according to the amended filing. "We will 'close patrol' that, but we're not going to escort a bus." The amended filing also states that in those audio recordings, law enforcement officers "privately laughed" and "joked about the victims and their distress." Updated 'Trump Train' 911 transcripts reveal Texas cops refused to send escort to Biden bus - Alternet.org

Pumpkin Humour

All NHL games have several minutes of fluff before the game actually starts, so arriving 10 minutes late is no big deal.

The Tories, both federal and provincial, know that without the nutball fringe, they have no chance of winning any elections. So they have to pretend while knowing that they have no intention of following through. Cynical, but its all they have.

That is a scary number- we can only hope it is a one-day anomaly.

As content as O'Shea is here, I think that the Argos may see him as the messiah who will fill the stands if he becomes head coach and thus may make him an offer he cannot refuse. CFL head office would certainly support that.

In an interview earlier this season, Whitehead said that the Bombers showed no interest in re-signing him. There may be issues we know nothing about.

Don't bet the farm on that. Cowgary is a much better likelihood.

Here in the U.S., the task of investigating what happened with the pandemic has fallen to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, which has kept a pretty low profile these last few months. But on Tuesday they took the testimony of Dr. Deborah Birx, Trump's COVID-19 coordinator. According to the New York Times, Brix reiterated her earlier shocking claim that at least 130,000 lives were unnecessarily lost because the administration refused to do everything it could to ensure the nation followed the public health recommendations to mitigate the spread of the disease. But in her testimony this week she also said that as the pandemic wore on into the summer and fall, the administration became distracted by the presidential campaign and pretty much lost interest in the crisis. In other words, a lot of people died so that Donald Trump could get elected. When asked if she felt Trump did everything he could to save lives, Brix replied, "no." She also complained about the malign influence of Dr. Scott Atlas, the radiologist who caught Trump's eye on Fox News and was brought in to push the idea that the country should seek "herd immunity," just as Bolsonaro had tried to do in Brazil. She testified that Atlas even brought to the White House the three physicians who later authored the "Great Barrington Declaration," which called for deliberately hastening herd immunity. A crime against humanity: Dr. Deborah Brix admits Trump's campaign distracted from COVID response | Salon.com