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Cranky Frank Clair

@crankyfrankclair.bsky.social

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Twitter expatriate. Looking down from my pedestal on all things RedBlacks, CFL, some NFL and Sens. I resist. Slava Ukraine. #CFL #RedBlacks #senators #antifa #elbowsup #never51 🇨🇦🦬

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Cranky Frank Clair @crankyfrankclair.bsky.social · Dec 28

There needs to be a word specific to the interminable wait for the tank to fill before you can do a necessary second 🚽 flush.

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Cranky Frank Clair @crankyfrankclair.bsky.social · 3h

I was #freetyries before it was cool 😜

#rnation

Cranky Frank Clair @crankyfrankclair.bsky.social · 8h

Yes, Emperor Palpatine will bring order to the galaxy. If you’re against Palpatine, you’re for chaos.

Cranky Frank Clair @crankyfrankclair.bsky.social · 1d

Those details aside…

The team record during Burke’s tenure is awful.

7/9 CFL teams have a former player/coach in charge of the onfield product. Ottawa has no one since Miles Gorrell left. If Burke stays, it needs to be *under* a 🏈 exec who didn’t come up through the communications team.

Cranky Frank Clair @crankyfrankclair.bsky.social · 1d

Hard to say…OSEG doesn’t make bold moves. I’ve articulated my case against Burke here:

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Cranky Frank Clair @crankyfrankclair.bsky.social · 1d

His quote after Monday’s game was enraging…Dyce said he wouldn’t be considering playing Adams.

Dude that’s out the door in two weeks doesn’t get to make that decision.

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Cranky Frank Clair @crankyfrankclair.bsky.social · 1d

Green Day not making the list makes it fatally flawed. That was a top 5 show.

Cranky Frank Clair @crankyfrankclair.bsky.social · 1d

AJ Jakubek reporting that Dustin Crum did not practice today due to head injury.

Tyries Adams may start for the RedBlacks.

I’ll never cheer for a head injury, but…

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Cranky Frank Clair @crankyfrankclair.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah…perhaps more than any other sport, the eyeball tests are more important that stats to determine a player’s ability and contribution. I like stats to point me in a direction, then I use eyeball tests to complete an actual opinion.

Cranky Frank Clair @crankyfrankclair.bsky.social · 1d

They are trying to create objective scores using very subjective methods. And we’re just supposed to trust that those interns are qualified to make assessments like that? I don’t ignore PFF grades, but I sure don’t trust them.

Cranky Frank Clair @crankyfrankclair.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t speak to PFF’s NFL work, but their CFL grades are 🤔 at best. I have a *really* hard time they are investing in qualified people to grade every player on every snap. And the weightings are horrendous; OT grade on 20 run plays is equal to their pass pro grade on 40 snaps. Huh??

Cranky Frank Clair @crankyfrankclair.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t often have cause to praise OSEG marketing, but credit where it’s due:

Super savvy of them to sell out the RedBlacks Thanksgiving game fan bus to Montreal way back in June. 😏

Cranky Frank Clair @crankyfrankclair.bsky.social · 2d

If they aren’t using wristbands with markings only visible under black light, they deserve all the counterfeits that walk in the door.

Cranky Frank Clair @crankyfrankclair.bsky.social · 2d

Mike Sutherland, an OSEG employee, doing his best to tell it like it is on the RedBlacks last performance. I’d rather hear from Sudsy than the corporate speak from the team president.

Cranky Frank Clair @crankyfrankclair.bsky.social · 2d

OMG…is it a small venue and they need to limit numbers? Wow. There’s no way they don’t reverse this; makes me think it was decided by someone who doesn’t understand how GC week works for people who don’t have an all-access league-issued pass.

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Cranky Frank Clair @crankyfrankclair.bsky.social · 2d

I’m not saying you should ask MTG to speak at your meeting or invite her to dinner. It’s about not crucifying someone for an opinion they’ve since changed. In this case, MTG has gone from “mindless cheerleader” to a critic on a couple of issues. That can be celebrated without forgiving the rest.

Cranky Frank Clair @crankyfrankclair.bsky.social · 2d

The distinction is between being a cult member and a supporter. The cult members insist up is down and down is up…and that the Epstein papers are a nothing burger, regardless of how loudly they demanded release in the past. Dismissing GOPers who break from a Trump doctrine won’t encourage others.

Cranky Frank Clair @crankyfrankclair.bsky.social · 2d

That tracks in a most CFL way 😏

Cranky Frank Clair @crankyfrankclair.bsky.social · 2d

Yikes. Now an 81y TD run for the Falcons, as they keep owning the Bills defence. Creamed at the point of attack. Buffalo D should have been built with recognition that Baltimore *would* have been a likely playoff opponent. This is bad.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 3d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Cranky Frank Clair @crankyfrankclair.bsky.social · 2d

Geez, this isn’t going to calm fears about the Bills run D. Front seven just got demolished on an Atlanta TD run from the Bills 21. 😬

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Cranky Frank Clair @crankyfrankclair.bsky.social · 3d

💯If you don’t embrace people who leave the cult, then no one leaves the cult. Too many people wanted to reject Liz Cheney & others due to some policy disagreement that is inconsequential to Trump-level constitutional crisis. If MTG flipped, bring her in, we don’t have to 100% agree with her.

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Cranky Frank Clair @crankyfrankclair.bsky.social · 3d

scooby doo characters dancing with the words existence is suffering

ALT: scooby doo characters dancing with the words existence is suffering

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Cranky Frank Clair @crankyfrankclair.bsky.social · 3d

We all need someone in our lives as committed to us as Glen Suitor is committed to seeing Tyries Adams start for the RedBlacks this season.

And he’s 100% right.

Cranky Frank Clair @crankyfrankclair.bsky.social · 3d

I’m souring on Dustin Crum. He’s never going to be a decent starter, so what’s the point.

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Cranky Frank Clair @crankyfrankclair.bsky.social · 3d

Imagine having Justin Hardy and Eugene Lewis on your team and through three quarters, they only have one pass each thrown to them. 🤦🏻‍♂️🤬 #rnation