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I am hoping for either Libby Davies or Svend Robbingstores for NDP, and either a resurgent Stockwell Day or Doug Ford for the Cons. Long before then, Trudeau will have passed 'electoral reform', guaranteeing the dynasty and a second coronation . Might as well have a few laughs en route to the predictable majority.

But clearly and of course the punch in the face was not a consequence of the bat flip/hot dogging. It was because Bautista chose to assault Odor. Without a doubt, 99.9% of MLB players would say to the punch: Bautista deserved it. The slide was pure chickenshit bush league antics. If Bautista was bent on revenge for getting plunked, he should have either attacked the pitcher that threw the ball, or let his own pitcher drill the first batter in the next inning(which happened). Instead, in a close game, he attacks somebody that cannot defend themselves from his attack at time of attack.

The countdown on firing Gibbons is well underway.

Yes, the exhaustive review started long before Trudeau, and his every action since has been to delay, extend and ultimately halt investment and development. More proof of that is the recent appointment and composition of the(newly required) latest post-NEB panel of three people who will almost certainly be unanimously opposed. The resource companies are not stupid, they can clearly see they are simply not welcome in Canada now. Of course, you can and will blow that off as meaningless. I see it as a major, and pointless loss of jobs and export earnings for ideological reasons. Investment is very badly needed to sustain our standard of living and the lovely social contract that cannot be bought via debt indefinitely.

Ambrose has said she plans to vote for the legislation. That will likely screw up the Liberal plan to try to get it stalled in the Senate.

Possible, but there are also other outcomes. Actually, she will be pissed but she is also a queen-in-training and has been battered enough to recognize she needs some help. Tyrion provides that in the form of leadership and experience she does not have, nor does she have anybody around her with it other than him. The Harpies came within a whisker of killing her when she departed the scene, and she might now have the maturity to recognize the value of buying time. That won't matter if the Harpies continue their assault on her- she now has for the first time the means to eliminate them entirely if she chooses. She needs Tyrion, and knows it. Dorne is also a wildcard in this biz..... Agree, but not for those reasons . Olennas choices are to get back her kids, then go to war far from home with both the Lannisters and the Sparrows. Or to get back her kids, then leave town and let the Lannisters fight it out with the Sparrows. It is obvious to her now that the throne and Kings Landing is a place with no future for her family. Since Tywin was killed, the center has crumbled and all the options for leadership of the Lannisters are grim for the Tyrells. Olenna won't want to be proxy leader for the dogs breakfast that has developed in Kings Landing. I reckon the Tyrells will bail out and cut their losses. They are still a potent force and can always return to mop up the debris when the Lannisters fight a populist rising against the Sparrows. But to me it makes sense for them to just retreat to the safety of Highgarden. The Lannisters are nearly spent as a force, Tommen Cersei and Laimie cannot take them anywhere. Tyrion could but he has left all that far behind now and is serving a greater cause. Then everybody dies. But I don't think that is Martins intention. Even if it was, I doubt that the new directors of the plot mean that to happen. To defeat the Walkers, the real enemy of humanity, there must be two elements in place. The first is leadership, and it is certainly looking like Dany and Snow are that element. The other missing element is battlefield tools to defeat the Walkers. How do you kill immortals? With fire- The Watch know they have to burn their dead......or they will return. The dragons will take care of that, en masse. Next season will sort out the Iron Throne. It will be Dany. The final season, if that is the final season, will be the ultimate battle with the Walkers.

I have a different take on this 'issue'. Transgender folks already have plenty of protection under the law, it is not obvious why it needs to be defined now. This has become 'Mom and Apple Pie' stuff in Canada. Unless it has nothing to do with transgender rights at all..... I noticed that the Justice Minister today carefully avoided an answer and blithered rubbish when asked if the Liberal vote will be whipped on this bill. Now why would she avoid that, a simple 'yes' would suffice. Party policy and all....... But what gives me pause, in light of much more important things going on is..... why now? This bill has passed a couple times and has died in the Senate a couple of times. What if... Trudeau needs some ammo, some camouflage to do what he absolutely must do and soon: load the Senate up with not-a-Liberal, but we-will-always-vote Liberal Senators? He needs to do it because he has legislation coming on electoral reform that he needs to punch through before opposition grows and hardens in the sheep. He has no worries in Ottawa, but what if there is a populist insistence on a referendum? This is backstop legislation. If it gets stuck in the Senate, well then Trudeau just won't have any choice but to overtly and immediately load the Senate with his pals to end this injustice. And what is lost by a Senate delay? Not much. It won't be his fault. If by some miracle(when the Cons take a look around and think on it a bit) it flies through the Senate, it is back to Plan A on loading the Senate with Liberal pals. Because either way, electoral reform is the #1 priority of this government. And getting the Senate sorted ASAP is really important- and this could well be a vehicle to that.

Of course the ball was thrown to the first baseman. It was high and wide, because Odor was avoiding getting spiked in the crotch or knee. The umps immediately called the hitter out at first because of Bautistas slide. Not later, immediately. Bautista didn't even start his slide until he was nearly on the bag. And what Odor did on a slide has noting at all to do with this play. Bautista had plenty of time to start chucking punches, chose not to. Well, he took a serious shot from Odor, that likely took some fight out of him. But what was he expecting: when start a fight as he clearly did, you better get your hands up and finish it. Bautista is supposedly a leader on this team. He needs to start acting like one. They were down one run when he started this. Selfish and stupid , in this case.

I don't see The Dragon Mistress vs The Slavers taking too long to polish off. The Salvers will backtrack on their agreement to behave themseleves She'll turn the Dothraki loose on the Masters of the two slaver cities. They refused to be bribed by the Slave Masters with the promise of 10000 horses. Now they can just take the horses, which is more their style But they won;t want the cities themselves, not their style- the slaves will end up as masters in their cities. I also wonder if the civil war in Kings Landing will take long to play out. The Tyrells will align with the Lannisters just long enough to retrieve their kin from prison. After that, they'll abandon Kings Landing, go home and let the Lannisters duke it out with The Sparrows. They have had enough grief in that relationship. The Bastard Bowl will be nasty, but there are some forces gathering to oppose him: Jon Snow and the Wildlings(good band name), the Ironborn, Baelish and The Aerie, and likely the Umbers. But the real battle is yet to appear: White Walkers vs Everybody. The initial premise and threat from the first episode Game of Thrones was: winter is coming. Winter does not mean cold and snow, it means the White Walkers. It is a Song of Ice and Fire. We know where the Ice is coming from- north of the Wall. And now we know or I can guess that the Fire is coming from Bravos in the form of Danerys, a Dothraki horde, the Unsullied and three dragons breathing Fire to take on the Walkers. The Wildlings must be involved too, or they can never go home again.. Will the final battle be fought at Winterfell, where it all began, after Ramsay Bolton has been eliminated?

You cannot have gotten any of that from the replays, surely. There is a pretty long list of people badly hurt by slides like Bautistas, they changed the rule after major injuries to Tejeda and Posey. The slide that game night was an intent to injure. If I was Odor, I'd have taken off my glove and given him a real beating. When did he slap Bautista with his glove? After the slide, Joey popped up in his face looking to initiate trouble and Odor gave him a two handed push. Bautista came back at him and Odor drilled him in the chops, knocking off his glasses and helmet. Bautista seemed to entirely lose his interest in taking on Odor at that point- and Odor still had his ball glove on. If you are going to get all macho on somebody, you better be able and willing to back it up with something other than posturing. He was 'throwing' at Bautista? Throwing the ball? He was throwing it to first base as the second half of an easy double play and missed that because he got taken out by the illegal, dangerous slide.

There are many communications strategies, and few of them are intended to gauge the feelings or opinions of the flock of sheep. Poll outcomes are often predetermined, the questions influence the answers and are intended to reinforce a conclusion already reached- not to reach a decision. A case in point is the addition by Trudeau of yet another level or review to the exhaustive process of the NEB. When you cannot control the answer desired because you get to the party too late, then change the question until you get the answer your desire.

They are built with that in mind. Even base building code changes in the last generation have many changes in that regard. Windows, doors and building envelopes are much tighter- so much so that whole house ventilators and/or air-to-air heat exchangers are required to allow for some fresh air. Insulation in above grade walls and ceilings is higher, and foundation walls have more too. A big change was the disappearance of mid efficiency furnaces, regulated out of existence by the Great Satan Harper in 2010.

No, the punch in the face was a natural reaction to Bautista trying to end the second basemans career. One thing made me laugh: the second baseman (who has the wondrous name of Roughed Odor) didn't bother to take off his ball glove the entire time. He punked Bautista with one hand.

because a trial can result in a finding of criminal insanity and he can be sentenced to an indefintie term while being held in a facility for the criminally insane. I don't think a term amongst the regular nuts can accomplish that.

The punch in the face was a reaction to the slide by Bautista that was intended to injure. Seemed a fair and proportional reaction, given what has happened to fielders careers in other examples.. Normally, when your pitcher plunks one of yours, you plunk one of theirs and thats it. It was an ignorant, selfish play by Bautista. The jays urgently needed base runners, and he made that play into an automatic double play. Selfish crap. And everybody seems to have forgotten that the Jays continue to lose. Maybe they are counting on another miraculous, post allstar game miracle. Good luck with that. They urgently need to make some changes.

Justin actually has pretty much nothing at all to do with the fighting of wildfires. Neither does Goodale. It was and is coordinated and acted upon by the province, and in this case with the local authority of Wood Buffalo. But they would be delighted to realize that some people have bought that BS, which they have been peddling from Day 1 of this fire.

I doubt she is evil, but her account is not truthful and your repetition of it is not worthy.. Her home has 35 rooms, including a space specifically designated as her office on the second floor. Yet she cries poor about having to work off her dining room table?

You are absolutely right. And those many families that choose to have the either or both partners in marriage work rather than stay at home hire day care, gardeners, laundry assisantts, cooks etc on their own dime. OK, only the rich ones do all that. Too bad this couple is impoverished and Sophie cannot realize her dreams. Did the 24/7 nannies get fired? OMG.

The 1982 CA had the support of 9 provinces and all the federal parties. The Meech Lake Accord had the support of all the federal parties. The current topic has all the support of you, your pals, and the Liberal Party of Canada. PASS IT!!!!!

You were the one complaining that 58% was too high, but applaud all and any measures passed by a government with 39% of the vote. Sorry, that is unfair to you: you applaud all measures by a Liberal government passed at any level, and condemn all measures passed by a Conservative govt.

But 39% is acceptable today?

Yes, I mentioned that Trudeau might bribe the NDP into supporting him- they are a bit vulnerable after all and open to offers. But how is lame duck Tom going to sell this to his party? What bribe can Trudeau offer that is not as transparent as his reasons for wanting ranked ballots, and wanting them right now? I get that you hate Coyne, he has switched from savaging Harper to chowing down on Trudeaus ass- and this is starting to grow exponentially into a big, big mistake for Justin.. The status quo returning? You're just parrotting LIberal talking points again. FPTP is not on the Lib list of flavours, neither is proprep. It is a lsit on One: ranked ballots. Stop pretending otherwise. Trudeau Jr could likely buy Mulcair with a promise of proprep, but that ain't gonna happen. There is no way the Liberals would accept a system that puts them into minority- and reliant on the NDP. Tough day, eh Waldo? Just ever so briefly, the sheep have looked up. Trydeau was hoping that would not happen.

Oh oh, there he goes again: BUT HARPER!!!!! You are going to strain your back moving those heavy goalposts all the time. No, this is not going according to Trudeaus schedule at all. Speaking of a tizzy, did you see the panel on the National last night? Even stalwart Hebert of The Star noted that the electoral reform biz was floundering bigtime. Barton on Power and Poltics, another LIb stalwart, was basically laughing at the Liberal talking head who would not budge from rote repetition of his talking points, which were silly. Not looking so good this morning, Waldo.

I get people like Waldo humping my leg every day here. Strangers would be an upgrade.

At least two of the G7- UK and USA- have managed to get the train systems largely off the public teat. And you pointedly failed to answer my question about providing a comparable country to the vast distances and lack of people that Canada enjoys. Many would argue? I agree that many would, but how many of them would argue in favour? Outside those that directly benefit from having taxpayers pick up their commuting cost? The issue is not what VIA should concentrate on at public expense, the issue is subsidy. As an 'independent Crown Agency', I'd like to see them given the same opportunity as was given Canada Post. It goes like this: Canada will give you a lot of equipment, land and trained employees. You will provide a coherent business plan and choose a staregic business plan. There won't be any subsidy. If you make money, you can reinvest in anything you wish. Canada Post took that scenario and ran with it successfully for three decades or more now(until the latest round of interference from Trudeau)