I can’t help it - every time I see this I say Alex Oxlade Chamberlain in my head.
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Pleb. I see appellation d’origine contrôlée. 
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He’s a well known politician in these parts! Occasionally pops back home to do a job for us in midfield too.
Oh the irony!
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This is getting some laughs in Ottawa today…US is probably just a cycle or two away from one side of their divide refusing to hand over power, given that the people who orchestrated January 6 are barely being required to pay their parking tickets. But sure, Canada is a failed state.
https://twitter.com/CBCNews/status/1461514566295240710
I loved this line " As for tribal divisions affecting politics, Grothman voted against an inquiry into the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, when his place of work was attacked by a mob seeking to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power after an election."
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Failed state, yes, but for a different reason. No Canadian professional hockey team has won the Stanley Cup since 1993. I’m in my Friday mood, by the way.
At least he knows Canada is a real place and not a made up country.
This is fucked up.
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its either that or cry…
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A Limp Bizkit song also comes to mind (showing my age…)
just in case…
https://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/limp_bizkit/the_f_song-lyrics-192029.html
Disgraceful,
I am actually lost for words it’s so bad. I have gone to write about the judge, American society, gun culture and racism but halfway deleted my post.
So many ways this is fucked up.
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That case was a mess, and the prosecutor didn’t do a very good job. That said, if the jury accepts the initial killing is self-defense, the second two shootings must also be. It’s a pity, as the judge introduced lesser charges to give the jury an opportunity to convict him of manslaughter. This verdict says it’s okay to take a gun to a riot and what happens happens.
Now watch the Arbery case in Georgia. If those defendants are acquitted, oh my. More riots.
It’s just very very sad that it has come to this.
Dammit, you should have said that closer to when the Raptors finally won something.
The NHL is a sore point. I’d like to see the Canadian teams reject league-level broadcast revenues, each team gets their own market. Winnipeg would be in the top 10 for revenue.
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and yet not remotely surprising.
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Yeah…fair point.
I said ‘come to this’.
It was here yonks ago.
It was always going to happen once you saw which side the narrative was coming down on. This isnt a case of ignoring facts and coming to a controversial decision. It is a case of a fundamental difference of opinion of what rights of self defense someone has. What we have now seen a couple of high profile cases is that the dead have no voice and their fear for their own life in their actions preceeding their death is considered legally irrelvant. Only the party who lived gets to claim fear and the right of self defense. The fact their presence and actions caused legitimate fear for the safety among others, others whose feat was realized in their ultimate death, does not matter.
You cannot square the circle on the logic that is required for these decisions to be made, but this is where the law now come down over and over again.
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I think the next logical step is protestors coming armed, for their own self-defence.
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I have real dread of what that might look like. I haven’t been following it, but it would seem less written in the stars than the Rittenhouse verdict.
Gaetz apparently wants Rittenhouse to join his office as an intern…but maybe that is just because Gaetz knows Rittenhouse has a little sister.
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