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Its his right arm, but he will be back.

They usually go where she goes.

Big Play McCrae!!

It is for the Stamps.

It has to be the Gawdawful uniforms. No pressure on Maier at all.

The game is still within reach but unless the middles of our lines stiffen up, that will change quickly and we will be out of it by halftime. WE need a TD!!!

Bad on Yoshi!!

If the Stamps march down the field again and score a major, we are in trouble.

With Calgary's patchwork o-line, this should not be happening. Dammit!

Bomber defence not looking good.

Big Stan not looking good, either.

Bomber O-line getting beaten almost every play so far.

"Deep" doesn't necessarily mean "best"- it means they have the most receivers, That's all.

For all of the hyped changes, Riders did not look a lot better than last year. If it wasn't for the inept Elks and woeful Stamps, they would still be bottom feeders.

Oscar Maier? Plays like a wienie- looks good and hard at first softens if played too often.

And I don't think they are all that scary, either. Good set of receivers but a quarterback who is mediocre on a good day.

Hailstorm Results in Spain 12 hours ago:

to be sure, she heeds to have a stake put through her heart.

Poverty, broken families and communities, lack of education, poor housing, poor diet.

Zuckerberg Twists the Knife in Twitter as Millions Flock to Threads Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday claimed that more than 10 million users joined Threads, his Twitter rival app, within seven hours of its launch, with the Facebook founder publicly dragging Elon Musk’s platform. The new social media app, which had been slated for release on Thursday, was made available to download in 100 countries on Wednesday evening. Zuckerberg spent his first few hours on the platform saying he wanted to make Threads a “friendly” place that eventually has more than a billion users—an opportunity, he said, which Musk has blown for Twitter. Twitter failed to ban hate speech for blue-check users according to a new report. A post on Threads from UFC fighter Mike Davis asked if users thought the app “can become bigger than Twitter!?” “It’ll take some time, but I think there should be a public conversations app with 1 billion+ people on it,” Zuckerberg replied. “Twitter has had the opportunity to do this but hasn’t nailed it. Hopefully we will.” In another reply to billionaire Mark Cuban, who asked if Zuckerberg was sure the app was open to everyone as it’s “pretty nice right now,” the Meta boss took another swipe at Musk. “The goal is to keep it friendly as it expands,” Zuckerberg wrote. “I think it’s possible and will ultimately be the key to its success. That’s one reason why Twitter never succeeded as much as I think it should have, and we want to do it differently.” The comment apparently speaks to a strategy of attracting Twitter users disaffected by the changes Musk has made to the site since his $44 billion takeover last year involving new paywalls, daily post restrictions, and content moderation updates that have spooked former advertisers amid a surge in online hate.

Doc Who Pushed Bogus COVID Cure Accused of Experimenting on Homeless A French doctor who popularized the now-discredited hydroxychloroquine treatment for COVID-19 is under fire for an alleged pattern of unauthorized experiments on homeless people. Didier Raoult, a famed microbiologist who led the IHU Mediterranee research hospital until last year, became an internationally renowned figure in alternative medical circles in the Vaxxer world. Now French authorities and journalists allege a longer pattern of questionable research by Raoult and his associated institutions, beginning with medical tests on homeless people that might have violated French law. An investigation by French news magazine Le Point this month alleges that Raoult and colleagues violated the nation’s 1988 Huriet Law establishing rights for participants in biomedical research trials. Scientists quoted in the article argued that Raoult’s team had conducted unauthorized studies while collecting blood samples from homeless people in the 1990s. The study’s authors declined to comment, but argued in a medical journal discussion site that the trials were legal because they were part of routine medical treatment. Medical experts quoted in Le Point disagreed, citing the fact that the study’s subjects were healthy and didn’t need medical care. “As long as there are healthy volunteers, it can't be health care. So it is research,” one told the magazine. Questions of medical ethics have followed Raoult since he began offering hydroxychloroquine for COVID patients. In April 2022, a French health agency issued a scathing investigation into a hospital Raoult directed, accusing both of “serious breaches and non-compliance with the regulations for research involving the human person.” The agency found the research institute to have collected biological samples from patients without proper consent. The report also accused the institute of forging a signature from a member of an ethics committee. The investigations led to sanctions against the research hospital in June 2022.

Maier is a classic NFL quarterback prospect- tall and over 200 pounds, reasonably fast in open field, but does not seem to be quick in reacting or running. Has shown a decent arm but looks to be confused too often and hesitates.

A bit off topic but there is a symmetry here: one Bomber loses a member of his family, and another gains one. Such is life.

Twitter Threatens Legal Action Over Meta's Popular New Threads App Twitter parent company X Corp. is threatening to sue Meta over its new Threads app as the platform began racking up millions of users upon its Wednesday debut. A Silicon Valley legal firm representing X Corp. claimed in a letter first reported by Semafor that Meta had “engaged in systematic, willful and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property” by poaching its employees. Threads is a text-based competitor to Twitter that was launched as a companion to Meta’s Instagram platform this week. Given all the chaos that has come with billionaire Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter late last year, some observers consider Threads to be a potential “Twitter killer.” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/twitter-meta-threads-app-lawsuit-threat_n_64a70b0be4b0e5efaada7455

This is a natural extension of right-wing thinking in Canada- they have seen the rise of extremist right-wing power in the USA, and as destructive as it has been, they want that kind of power and delude themselves that they can harness and control it to give them perpetual power in Canada. Obviously, the GOP had the same delusion which has taken the US into very dangerous and violent times. There is an axiom that describes this perfectly-" If you lie down with dogs, you are going to get fleas". All fascism needs is a veneer, no matter how thin, of respectability.