CFL Picks Week 4

CFL 17 Comments

Winnipeg over Toronto,
Calgary beats Montreal,
Ottawa takes Edmonton,
Hamilton claws BC.
So, you think the refs have jobbed your team before? In the Toronto @ Winnipeg game, “Karen” was the selected contestant in the $1M Safeway and Sobey’s TD to Win. The Bombers returned the opening kick-off to the endzone, she wins a $25K entertainment center. If another kick-off (not punt) is returned for a TD she gets a $1M in a $50K annuity for 20 years.
Halfway through the first quarter this happens on a kick-off return.


Yep, Karen got jobbed by the CFL refs. No way that was a valid illegal block penalty.
Update: Karen got taken care of. Various sponsors have stepped up to do the right thing. Safeway/Sobeys put up a years worth of groceries. Air Miles chipped in 500,000 miles. CFL is putting up a VIP trip to the Grey Cup and the Wpg Blue Bombers put up season tickets for this and next year.
Good job.

Those Moderate Muslims!

Religion Of Submission 13 Comments

Neil Price of the Golden Hill Cemetery in Lakewood, CO said he had left three unreturned voicemails for Tarek El-Messidi, the founder of non-profit Islamic education organization Celebrate Mercy, who led the high-profile effort by the Muslim community in February and March to raise money for vandalized Jewish cemeteries in the US. El-Messidi’s partner in the effort was Sarsour.
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The campaign — named “Muslims Unite to Repair Jewish Cemetery” — had raised $162,468 through the Muslim crowdfunding site LaunchGood…

#Resist

The Libranos 42 Comments

Terry Glavin in the National Post hints at what the discovery process would have done to the Liberals, not Canada, the Liberals.

The public mood should not be expected to soften unless Trudeau manages to dispel the impression that the deal was a kind of hush-money arrangement, designed to make the Khadr problem go away and head off the scandal that would inevitably emerge from the evidence in a hard-fought court trial.

Can’t have those kind of things getting out, now, can we?
Not my Prime Minister.

Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car

Roadkill 15 Comments

They all look alike to them;

Video surveillance footage of crimes committed on the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) service by minority youths is being withheld by San Francisco authorities due to their concern that the videos might perpetuate racial bias and stereotyping.
In three months time, at least three robberies have transpired at the San Francisco station by groups of teenagers. One such attack, on April 22, was committed by some 40-60 teens, reports KPXI-TV.

More Liberal cash for access.

You Might Be A Liberal 10 Comments

Another Liberal lobby group selling cash for access.
NDP’s Nathan Cullen sends another letter to the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner. (PDF, 2pp)

In summary, Canadians deserve the answers to the following questions: what is the nature of the relationship between CCI and the Liberal Party of Canada, how is CCI able to guarantee regular and exclusive access to Ministerial staff for its large corporate members, and how many other ministers, or members of their senior staff, are participating in exclusive meetings with CCI members or similar organizations?

Good questions.

Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV?

Canadian Taxpayers Federation Chief Big Screen TV Great Moments In Socialism 10 Comments

Financial Post;

The First Nations Financial Transparency Act is simple: It requires First Nations to publish salaries and expenses for chief and council as well as basic financial documents online — the kind of information the rest of us can get with a Google search. The overwhelming majority of First Nations follow the law, but Onion Lake is one of six bands that have never complied. The previous Conservative government withheld non-essential funding from those bands, but the new Liberal government suspended all enforcement.
Charmaine’s victory enforces the legislation and for her it’s a very personal victory. The stay-at-home mom went on a 13-day hunger strike to demand accountability from her leaders during the summer of 2014. They told her she’d never get anywhere. She now has judicial validation.
The most fascinating parts of this ruling are the arguments Onion Lake left out. Rather than contesting matters of fact, Onion Lake asked the court to stay Charmaine’s application until other court proceedings conclude. Justice B.A. Barrington-Foote rejected the stay application.

Good for her.

“Roaring Ralph”

You Might Be A Liberal 23 Comments

Lorrie Goldstein zips up truth’s pants. I can’t count how many times over the weekend I heard canards like, “the court ordered payment” or “Harper caused this”, etc. Good on Lorrie for trying to right the mistruths Goodale and his ilk are spreading like so much bovine excrement.

Goodale — let’s call him “Roaring Ralph” — with an assist from Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, approached Baghdad Bob levels of disinformation last week as they executed the Trudeau government’s strategy of blaming Harper for the Khadr mess the Liberals created.

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