TrueBlue4ever

Passed away this morning.

Here is an article about the provisions of the Constitution about impeachment and the precedent for impeaching someone out of office. And as a matter of logic, every single outgoing President between losing the election and Inauguration Day could essentially break the law with reckless abandon and fear no consequence if impeachment were not allowed for someone out of office. That defies all common sense. https://www.justsecurity.org/74226/history-shows-the-senate-can-hold-an-impeachment-trial-after-trump-leaves-office/

But Don Jonas got traded and you still love him, no?

Torts is an idiot. If he really wanted it to “stay in the locker room” then a very public benching in his 4th game there is a dumb way to do it. Even if you don’t get into specifics you’re not exactly keeping it private. Smacks of “handled internally, no issue, next question”. How about coaching your player rather than embarrassing him? Can’t imagine why PLD ever wanted a trade. 🙄

That’s baloney. He was already insufferable way before the trade.

Here’s the progression of the test positivity rate and the trends in the last week: Mon. - 89 cases/1603 tests=5.55%, 3 deaths, 104 hospital, 27 ICU Tue. - 83/1410=5.89%, 0 deaths, 99 hospital, 24 ICU Wed. - 126/1833=6.87%, 3 deaths, 105 hospital, 22 ICU Thu. - 110/2183=5.04%, 2 deaths, 109 hospital, 20 ICU Fri. - 110/2232=4.93%, 1 death, 115 hospital, 23 ICU Sat. - 82/1529=5.36%, 4 deaths, 101 hospital, 23 ICU Sun. - 80/1434=5.58%, 4 deaths, 105 hospital, 21 ICU Today - 53/1373=3.86%, 4 deaths, 105 hospital, 15 ICU And active cases got cut in half over yesterday, so clearly some data backlog clearing. So we ARE seeing a drop in new cases that is not just because of fewer tests, even though tasting was lower (probably due to the cold as you say). Besides, if people won’t go out and test because of the cold, then they are at least socially distancing by staying at home as well, so that will keep infection rates down.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/07/politics/george-shultz-former-secretary-of-state-dead/index.html

It has to be said...... WTF is this half time show in the hall of mirrors?

Thank you for the correction.

Post deleted. False source. Appreciate Rich for pointing it out.

Here is some background info on the source. https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_58a08b80e4b0e172783a9db4/amp

Polio was a virus, it has been eradicated.

Not to get too far ahead here, but a reporter on 1290 yesterday was essentially talking about Marty in the past tense, so I suspect his passing is imminent. Great coach, just could never get over the hump with talented teams. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.kshb.com/sports/former-nfl-head-coach-marty-schottenheimer-reportedly-moved-to-hospice-care%3f_amp=true

Start at the 8:37 mark. Or cut to the chase at 10:13. Either way, I have found the best remedy is to starve him of oxygen if you don’t like him. Not literally, and not via the ban hammer. Just tune out his noise. Don’t worry about discrediting his sources or challenging his version of spin with contrary opinion or facts. Just act like he didn’t even post and carry on with the conversation. And when he whines about the “echo chamber” and “closed minds refusing to accept differing points of view” (Kellyanne Conway called them “alternative facts”, which by definition cannot exist) understand that he does it to get a rise out of people and to get them to follow him down the rabbit hole to get a sense of gratification out of it (he will deny this point I strongly suspect) because he is being heard. He may have some interesting tidbits to post, unfortunately for him so much of his past posting history (notably in the Climate Change thread) is so one-sided and debunked, that his reputation as an objective or credible poster here is shot. And that is of his own doing. So if you want to spend time debunking him further, have at it. It gets kind of fun to see how fast you can sow doubt into his sources. But there is little point in getting upset about it. That is his oxygen. And it seems to me that this approach of just ignoring him and pretending that he didn’t post anything worked before. Once his contrarian climate change posts were simply passed over, he got bored of being invalidated and “took a break from the echo chamber”. Now he’s back but his habits haven’t changed, so there is no reason to give him a new chance at legitimacy. Differing opinions are certainly allowed here, and we can agree to disagree, but if you can’t back up your position, use discredited sources, or just turn a debate into a personal insult like “you just don’t want to see the truth because of a character flaw” (radical left, right wing racist, and Rider fan seem to be the go-to’s here at this point in time) when you get challenged, then your schtick will get tired quickly, whichever side you are on. In my opinion, the best way to remove these types is to pretend they did not post. Or write “TLDR”. (My personal calling card) 🤣

Very sad story on the eve of the Super Bowl. Aside from the distraction for the Chiefs and their coaching staff, a real human tragedy that could have legal consequences. https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/05/us/britt-reid-accident-kansas-city/index.html

Bombers’ operating costs for 2019 was $32 million, the player salaries were only $5.35 million of that. Ticket sales accounted for 32% of the club’s total revenue of $35 million. Game day, concessions and merch sales accounted for another 24%. And although the privately owned clubs’ books are not public, the publicly owned Bombers, Riders, and Edmonton Whatevers are considered probably the 3 healthiest clubs in the CFL, and only the Bombers turned a profit in 2019. Suggesting that the TSN can cover the bulk of the salary cap and therefore the league is financially solvent because of that one fact is too simplistic and fundamentally incorrect. Edited to remove some of my snark. Was not needed or called for.

Look, I told you I was sorry for that..... uh, I mean, yeah, me too! It may suck, and it’s another re-tread, and you just may not like Queen Latifah in general, but don’t judge just on the casting beforehand. No one thought that Bruce Willis of Moonlighting fame could ever pass as an action star when Die Hard came out, and who would peg Liam Neeson as an action star either before Taken, given his work in Schindler’s List and Love Actually?

The club paid him $100,000 in bonus money in 2020 to not play one down. I’d say they did right by him, and he has returned the favour.

Travel expenses, hotel accommodations, flights, meals and per diems, training camp expenses, equipment costs, stadium upkeep and game day power usage costs.,,,,,,,

Hey, your wish was granted and LaPo is no longer with the team. You can stop slagging him for all the terrible things he did to this offence like bringing home a Grey Cup.

Third goal reminiscent of the power play on Monday. Club doing a better job of keeping the puck in at the blue line and counter-attacking. Also Vesaleinen working and skating harder than I can recall him ever doing so before. Good 3rd and 4th line work tonight.

The Ottawa game is on October 2. I would say odds are better that we will have fans in the stands than not by that time.

Best part of the Guardian article is the last two sentences of this snippet. A delicious middle finger to the grifter . ”And yet, in less than five minutes, USFL joy was replaced by USFL horror, and NFL horror was replaced by NFL joy. After confirming that, yes, the NFL had violated the law, the jury awarded damages of … $1. Yes, one dollar. “Actually, $3,” said David Cataneo, who covered the trial for the Boston Herald. “Damages in antitrust laws are tripled.” Rozelle had the car turn around again and speed to the courthouse. Trump, already there, was sitting alongside John Mara, the son of New York Giants’ owner Wellington Mara. When the words “one dollar” emerged from Leisure’s lips, the younger Mara pulled out a $1 bill from his wallet and handed it to the Generals’ owner. Trump’s sunken expression was worth the price.”