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This is going a bot off-topic, but someone proposed that if a country is thinking of going to war, it should be under three conditions: All of the politicians who vote for a war will have the names of 10 of their closest friends/family put into a draw where 1 of these 10 will be drafted and sent to front-line positions, All citizens and corporations will have a visible "war tax" put onto their income statements and, No corporation would be allowed to make profit on the war and must supply all goods and services at cost.

FYI: Costco south has N95 masks and at a good price as well.

That's sort of like the difference between knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge is being aware that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it on your ice cream.

To validate what some have shared here: the father of a good friend served on the bomber crew that flew the most missions over Germany in WW2. Every one of the air crew turned to alcohol to anesthetize the memories and associated feelings and this produced a horrible childhood for my friend and his siblings all of whom succumbed to addiction as well. They were the walking wounded and far from few.

Hmmmm.... his production really slumped over his last years in college: Career Stats See All STATS 2019 2018 2017 REC YDS AVG TD LNG ATT YDS AVG TD LNG FUM LST 8 109 13.6 0 50 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 14 214 15.3 4 36 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 39 618 15.8 4 55 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Career stats are updated nightly

Mostly in the area of crotch movement display.

Boris Johnson Allegedly Screamed ‘Let the Bodies Pile High’ in Foul-Mouthed Anti-Lockdown Rant -Reuters/Toby Melville Last October, when Britain’s coronavirus case numbers were threatening to spin out of control for a second time, some of Boris Johnson’s most powerful allies in government rounded on the prime minister and told him that another lockdown was urgently needed before things got worse. The top ministers made their case to the extremely reluctant prime minister and talked him round—but, according to a shocking account published Monday, his begrudging acceptance came alongside an unhinged rant about lockdowns that sounds like a King Joffrey line that was edited out of Game of Thrones for being too callous. The Daily Mail reported that Johnson raged at the meeting that he’d only proceed with a second lockdown on the understanding that there would never be a third. The prime minister is alleged to have screamed: “No more ******* lockdowns—let the bodies pile high in their thousands!” MAIL: Boris: ‘Let the bodies pile high in their thousands’ #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/zCq9d7Jm4I — Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) April 25, 2021 That account was backed up by a second publication, The Spectator, which reported Monday that “multiple people” heard the hissy-fit. The typically cautious BBC News has also corroborated the version of events.

Historian: The real patriots invaded the nation’s capital fifty years ago They called their trip to Washington, D.C., an "invasion." Vowing not be "deterred or intimidated by police, government agents, [or] U.S. marshals," they arrived outfitted for war in fatigues and jungle boots with weapons and gas masks firmly in hand. Calling themselves "concerned citizens" and "patriots," they announced their intention to "protect the flag" by "stop[ing] all business as usual, until the government recognizes and responds positively to our demands." No, these were not the self-professed patriots who stormed the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021. This was back in 1971 when President Richard Nixon claimed to be fulfilling his campaign promise of "peace with honor" by lowering the number of American ground troops in Vietnam. Much to the horror of thousands of recently returned GIs, the civilian branch of the most vocal and sustained antiwar movement in American history took the bait and stopped protesting. And thus, on the evening before Patriots' Day, twelve hundred members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War ("VVAW") arrived in Washington from around the country for what they called Operation Dewey Canyon III in a pointed rebuke of the recent American expansion of the air war into Laos under code names Operation Dewey Canyon I and II. At first the public was confused. The men who descended on the nation's capital in olive drab, some with bandoliers strapped across their chests, did not look anything like the closely clipped GIs featured in the military recruiting posters plastering America's post offices. These guys had beards and long hair. "Son, I don't think what you're doing is good for the troops," a Daughter of the American Revolution complained to one them, as the veterans marched past the DAR's Memorial Hall. "Lady, we are the troops," was the ready reply. After four days spent in such peaceable pursuits as lobbying their congresspeople, laying funeral wreaths at Arlington National Ceremony for both the American and the Vietnamese dead, holding a candlelight vigil at the White House, and testifying in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the veterans announced their plan to descend on the Capitol Building, which the Nixon administration decided to surround, preemptively, with a version of the same kind of barrier fence that encircles it now. Historian: The real patriots invaded the nation’s capital fifty years ago - Alternet.org

The demonstration at the Forks wasn't so big that it couldn't have been controlled. All the police would have had to do was "kettle" them and let them out one at a time while they handed out citations and arrested the nut from Saskatchewan. I suspect that if it had been an ANTIFA demonstration the response would have been much different.

Apparently July is the only month that snow has never been recorded in Calgary. Enjoy.

Israeli Extremist Group Chants ‘Death To Arabs’ During Jerusalem Protests JERUSALEM (AP) — The holy city of Jerusalem, a tinderbox of competing religious and political claims, has repeatedly triggered bouts of Israeli-Palestinian violence. This time around, there have been some additional sparks, including Jewish extremists who, emboldened by their political patrons’ recent election to parliament, staged a provocative march to Jerusalem’s walled Old City chanting “death to the Arabs.” The group, Lehava, heightened recent unrest in the holy city, sparked by Israel’s now-reversed decision to block Palestinians from praying there during Ramadan.

He is also pompous and arrogant.

No. The infection rate seems to have stabilized here, at least for the moment. The next couple of days will be telling.

What is it going to take for Pallister to smarten up and institute more restrictions- 300 new cases and a dozen deaths per day? Is he taking advice from Premiers Ford and Kenney?

Agreed. Trump and his cabal probably wanted the January 6th insurrection to be their "Reichstag incident" but it did not happen by a narrow margin. America will likely never know how close their country came to having Trump as their furher. And he would have reveled in "saving America" from lawless ANTIFA terrorists by holding office "only until things settled down" while he and his stormtroopers destroyed all opposition.

I would bet my last dollar that if it wasn't profitable, none of the neo-fascist supporters would exist.

Back then, they called PTSS "shell-shock" and alcohol became the usual self-medication for too many to help them live with the memories of the horrors and fears they lived with. In the US, more military have committed suicide than have died in all the foreign wars. For many, booze was only a brief respite and then they passed the trauma down to their sons and daughters. Now, there are effective treatments for those who are brave enough to seek help. For every untreated PTSS sufferer, there are 5-6 people (parents, siblings, partners and children) affected.

‘Old Grumpy Man’ Tom Brady Whines About New NFL Numbers Rule Super Bowl-winning quarterback Tom Brady is upset that NFL owners approved a rule change that will expand the uniform numbers available to players. The change means, for example, that quarterbacks, kickers and punters will no longer be the only players eligible to wear a single-digit jersey number. Owners adopted the new rule because the expanded practice squads necessitated by COVID-19 issues last season created number conflicts, NFL.com noted. Not a big deal, right? They’re just numbers. But Brady, the winner of seven Super Bowls, thought otherwise. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback suggested in an Instagram story that players won’t know who to block, and facetiously asked why have numbers at all. He wrote that the rule would “make for a lot of bad football” and was “dumb.”

More than sad- it gives an alarming insight into the fascist mindset of many GOP supporters. In American history, it has been estimated by American historians that only about 25% of American colonists wanted independence (mostly because Britain had outlawed slavery and the colonists feared they would be next to be deprived of their cheap and plentiful labour). The 25% launched into a rhetorical crusade exaggerating grievances and predicting all manner of dire consequences if they remained a colony and managed to create enough of a furor that many of the undecided went along with the movement. That England had a king who spoke no English and was probably mentally ill did not help. Legal expert warns there's an under-the-radar GOP plot that could create a future 'democratic crisis' Civil rights groups have been lambasting Republicans for the many voter suppression bills they have been proposing in state legislatures all over the U.S., warning that the bills are designed to make it more difficult to vote. But election law expert Rick Hasen, in a New York Times article published this week, warns that making voting harder or more of a hassle is not the worst part of these bills — or in the case of Georgia's so-called Election Integrity Act of 2021, an actual law. The most "dangerous" part of Republican voter suppression bills, according to Hasen, is the type of power they would give Republicans over the administration of elections. Hasen is worried that Republicans want to give themselves the ability to throw out democratic election results that they don't like. "A new, more dangerous front has opened in the voting wars, and it's going to be much harder to counteract than the now-familiar fight over voting rules," Hasen warns. " Legal expert warns there's an under-the-radar GOP plot that could create a future 'democratic crisis' - Alternet.org

Absolutely. But as soon as you accept that it is solely the responsibility of government(s), it can give some the idea that they can go about their business as usual. Case in point: those who believe that their god will do everything to protect them and they need not observe common-sense precautions. This bizarre thinking implies that the elect will be saved and prosper, and it is irrelevant that the unbelievers will suffer and die.

There is some truth to blaming Manitobans. We have our fair share of those who either ignore isolation warnings as fake or believe God will protect them. It doesn't take that many to spread the virus by casual contact.

Alberta Minister of Health has conceded that Alberta has lost the battle against the COVID variants.