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The majority of Cubans are OK with the current, admittedly authoritarian, regime. They live longer, have lower infant/maternal morbidity and mortality than Americans, few ghettos and violent crimes and can access medical care within 24 hours. When Castro came to power, the mafia was on the verge of establishing a dictatorship and drugs as well as underage prostitution were appearing openly on the streets of Havana. Castro was hugely popular, at least at first, but became hardened after the CIA tried several times to kill him and created the infamous Bay of Pigs invasion. The embargo by the US as punishment drove Castro into the arms of Russia. When Castro came to power, he nationalized many of the huge private and corporate estates and farms, so that alienated much of the rich, who left for Florida and have been simmering since. That said, the young people long to have the fantasy American lifestyle of what they think the youth of America have.

I think the lack of retalliation on Robertson by our O-line was probably due to the expectation that he would be ejected, fined and suspended for an appropriate time by the league. The Bombers were behind at the time and needed to keep their cool and not take a reaction penaty.

Adult children of alcoholic parent(s): Guess at what normal behaviour is Lie when it would be just as easy to tell the truth Judge themselves without mercy Have difficulty having fun Take themselves very seriously Have difficulty with intimate relationships (trust) Overreact to changes over which they have no control Constantly seek approval and affirmation Feel that they're different from other people Are super responsible or super irresponsible Are extremely loyal, even in the face of evidence that the loyalty is undeserved Are impulsive May tend to lock themselves in a course of action without giving serious consideration to alternative behaviours or possible consequences. Their impulsivity or riigid thinking can lead to confusion, self-loathing, and loss of control over their environment. In addition, the person spends an excessive amount of energy cleaning up the mess. Moreover, there are a set of behviours that arise in men who have grown up without an appropriate father figure. I can post those if requested.

Proud Boys are a neo-fascist group which is predominantly white supremist, but do not discount the desire for power to motivate people to align themselves with groups hostile to them, There was an African Nazi contingent in WW2 and people of Jewish background there as well.

“Dark” right-wing network recruits MAGA “army” to replace 50K federal workers Trump plans to purge Anetwork of conservative groups is gearing up for the potential reelection of Donald Trump, actively enlisting an "army" of Americans to come to Washington with a mission to disassemble the federal government and substitute it with a vision that aligns more closely with their own beliefs and ideas, according to The Associated Press. Organized by the Heritage Foundation, the sweeping new initiative called Project 2025, offers a policy agenda, transition plan, a playbook for the first 180 days and a personnel database for the next GOP president to access from the very beginning to take control, reform, and eliminate what Republicans criticize as the "deep state" bureaucracy. Their plan includes the possibility of firing as many as 50,000 federal employees. Democracy experts view Project 2025 as an authoritarian attempt to seize power by filling the federal government, including the Department of Justice and the FBI, with unwavering Trump supporters, which could potentially erode the country's system of checks and balances.

Bombers should be cooing in his ear every day.

Putin Just Offered His Most Deranged Take on War Against Ukraine - via Reuters Russia’s Vladimir Putin claims the West deliberately installed an “ethnic Jew” as the president of Ukraine in order to “conceal the antihuman essence” of the country. Despite a neo-Nazi paramilitary unit fighting on behalf of Russia in Ukraine and many ordinary Russians currently mourning the death of a Wagner commander famous for his SS insignia tattoos, Putin went all in on his bonkers take. In an interview with a state TV reporter on Tuesday, he cited ordinary citizens of Israel as proof of his claim. “This makes the situation the utmost revolting, that an ethnic Jew is covering for the glorification of Nazism and those who once led the Holocaust in Ukraine, and this is the destruction of one and a half million people. And this is best understood by ordinary citizens of Israel. Look what they’re saying on the internet,” he said, without elaborating.

You may well be right, but perhaps a slice of bread instead of a whole loaf may be better than nothing.

'Police violence is flourishing' — and would figure prominently in new right-wing authoritarian state: columnist Critics of former President Donald Trump, from progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) to right-wing Never Trump conservatives like attorney George Conway and the Washington Post's Max Boot, have been warning that if Trump wins the 2024 election, his second administration will do everything it can to destroy the United States' system of checks and balances. In his September 5 newsletter, liberal Philadelphia Inquirer opinion columnist Will Bunch takes their warnings a step further — arguing that if a full-fledged authoritarian state does take over the U.S., "violent reactionary policing" will play a prominent role in it. "If you remember the late John Singleton's classic 1991 film 'Boyz n the Hood,' you can't forget the constant, buzzing presence of police helicopters over South Central L.A., reminding the youthful protagonists they are always under watch in a modern police state," Bunch writes. "Three decades have passed, and for all the talk about changing the police, the only real change is that cops have gone high-tech." After George Floyd's murder in June 2020, Bunch laments, the U.S. "decided to double down on repressive law enforcement instead of cleaning up its act." "Increasingly, cops are enforcing right-wing politics," Bunch observes. "In Telford, a Philadelphia exurb, an online activist was stunned to get a letter from the local police chief threatening to arrest her for 'maliciously harassing' the right-wing extremist group Moms for Liberty. This comes on the heels of a widely publicized raid of a small-town Kansas newspaper that had investigated prominent locals, including the new police chief, and an incident in St. Louis in which a member of a jail monitoring board raced to the facility after an inmate died ― only to be arrested by the cops." The columnist adds that "police violence is flourishing" in the U.S., noting examples that range from police in Ohio shooting an unarmed pregnant woman to the fatal shooting of motorist Eddie Irizarry in Philadelphia. "Police killings in 2022 set a recent record high, although the pace has diminished slightly this year," Bunch warns. "It feels important to see out-of-control, violent or politicized policing in the proper context — not as a random story that occasionally intrudes on the nonstop news of Donald Trump's 50-50 chance of becoming 47th president despite his indictments, but as a subplot of the same narrative. The powerful, ultra-conservative police unions mostly endorsed Trump in 2016 and 2020, and that ridiculous phalanx of motorcycle cops at his Atlanta arrest was a visual reminder that the police support him more than ever — despite his growing rap sheet."

A perfect scenario for the installation of an authoritarian government and/or civil war.

LOVE Nick Park's work.

If this doesn't scare US voters, nothing will. But probably it will not.

Ford has shown some nice touch on his passes, so I may be mistaken about him having only running as an asset.

Ford is a one-trick pony. AS soon as a good defensive coach figures out how to neutralize him, his effectiveness will drop like a stone in a well. Run-first QBs usually do not have longevity.

MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin Warns To Take Trump At His Word Over Latest Wild Threat Don’t dismiss Donald Trump’s vow to lock up his political enemies if he wins back the White House, MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin said on Sunday. It wasn’t “hard to imagine him following through,” said Mohyeldin. Mohyeldin recalled Trump 2016’s campaign promises to ban Muslims from entering the United States, to build a wall on the southern border with Mexico, and to strive to end abortion rights by overturning the landmark Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Wade. All three “seemed like absurd, vindictive moonshots at the time, but in some form or fashion, he in fact did carry out on all three of those campaign promises,” said Mohyeldin. “So when Donald Trump says that he truly plans to lock up his political opponents, I for one take the man seriously,” he added.

So tall that he has to be extolled continuously.

And how unusually tall Dolegala is.

If it hasn't happened by now, I wonder if its going to happen at all. I keep getting the feeling that they think that once our wounded return, all will be well.

What?!?! Not trust Liegghio? Perish forbid.

Time for us to face reality and admit the Bombers are no longer the best team in the league this year, if they ever were. No part of this team can legitimately claim to be the best- not the quarterbacking, not the receivers, not the d-line, not the linebacking nor the d-backs, and certainly not the special teams who are anything but. Brady Oliveira is a bright spot. I see the same pattern emerging as last year where the Bombers stumbled late in the season, bumbling their way to victories but spiraling downward through the playoffs and finally crashing in the Grey Cup game. It just seems to be happening earlier this year. O'Shea and Co. seem to be just fine with the current level of play and obvious holes in the roster.

There is no way in Hell that Dickinson and his coaches did not see that headbutt. That fits in with a the way Dickinson has ignored all the crap that has been going on with the Riders and their on-field performances since he got there. If he acknowledged it, he would have to actually do something about it, and he does not have the gonads to do it.

A strong running game means that the linebackers have to start hugging the line of scrimmage, not dropping off into coverage. That means the intermediate passing game (8-15 yards) should open up. If/when that becomes successful and the running game is still a threat, the D-backs are on their own and thus vulnerable. Bombers did very little of that. It ain't rocket surgery.

Yes, Dickenson can and undoubtedly will, say something, probably many things dumber.

His liver finally threw in the towel.

Bombers were out-coached today.