SpeedFlex27
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Trump has turned the world against the US. This will not end well for him & the GOP. His trade secretary today actually laughed at Canada's announced trade sanctions against the US saying they are puny. But once you add up the Mexican, ourselves & the EU sanctions the US will be hurt badly. Trump did this to please his rust belt state base.
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6 hours ago, Booch said:
there is a lot of legal over the counter supplements you can take that has substances in it which is banned. When I played we had to look over the substances in things, and a lot of times the products with a "propitiatory blend" listed was reason enough to sometimes stay away as companies use that for different reasons...to hide actual dosage amounts of ingredients said in the product (mainly to snooker the consumer) and as well at times to not reveal some of the gray area stuff that is illegal...or not safe
Booch, when my son played at SFU his final season he developed what could have become a very serious health issue. For obvious reasons, I'm not going to get into what it was as that is personal but it was serious. All I know is because of the NCAA's stupid list of banned substances, his doctor had to go through that list & pick a treatment based on what would be safe from suspension not what was best for his health. As a result, he never felt very well from a health perspective his entire senior year. He had a much better junior year as a player than as a senior. I'm sure not feeling well had a lot to do with it although to his credit he never used that as an excuse. He'd have applied for an exemption from that banned NCAA list for health reasons but the steps it would have taken weren't worth it as the NCAA could have ended up denying his request. Then if he had some of those banned substances in his system he may have been suspended if he was randomly tested which I think would have happened. So, he & his doctor along with the team physician came up with a treatment that wasn't ideal but it was the best that could be done under the circumstances using drugs that weren't banned. I felt that the NCAA put my son's long term health at risk with their holier than thou rules. The NCAA are run by bureaucratic morons putting players health at risk. As soon as he finished playing he went on the meds he should have been on in the first place & felt a lot better.
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Just an aside, anyone see Drew Edwards Top 40 Players? I did & it is a joke. It isn't up on 3 Down Nation which I find interesting. Wait till you see who he has at #2, #20 & at #40. His credibility just flew out the window.
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1 hour ago, Mark F said:
I just read, as an example, currently the Alberta dilbit is piped to Oklahoma. Oklahoma is landlocked. So being landlocked has nothing to do with refining crude.
time sensitive..... same thing applies. If time mattered, then it makes more sense to do it in Alberta.
Also just read..... we send the raw material to the states, they refine it, then send it back to us, and charge us for the final products. how does that make economic sense?
You're right that renewable is the future, and sadly I haven't heard a thing about investing in it, from Trudeau, or Notley, or anyone in Canada.
or encouraging investment in it, in this country. It's just about oil.
shortsighted.
and I admit, I know little about dilbit processing, oil markets, and the rest of it.
But It bugs me that it hasn't even been considered in public discussions.
It was over a decade ago. Here in Alberta. Private oil companies & the provincial government said no.
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2 hours ago, Mark F said:
Not sure these excuses add up.
Ten years ago the debate raged in Alberta about how it wasn't feasible to build upgraders & refineries in Alberta. That it made more economic sense to ship bitumin by pipeline in its raw form to be refined on the Gulf Coast or Chicago as it made more financial sense to do so. No oil company would build a refinery in Alberta because of the huge construction cost & the regulatory hurdles to overcome. Provincial governments in SK & AB didn't want to get involved. Even back then, it was difficult to get a refinery built after the oil companies began closing them down in the early 80's. So 17to85 was right. They weren't & still aren't excuses, it is reality. Looking back, does the oil industry in Alberta wish that they would have built even one new refinery after what has happened since Trudeau was elected PM. I'm sure they do but it's too late now.
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2 hours ago, kelownabomberfan said:
I honestly don't trust her or the Greens. She's at the mercy of her foreign interests that are funding her.
What a gig. Green leader for life.
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37 minutes ago, kelownabomberfan said:
I hear your point on this. Where would you build it? And would you have Elizabeth May and David Suzuki chaining themselves to fences to block workers from building it? Just curious. It's easy to say "just build it" but you wind up dealing with the same band of lunatics no matter what you do.
Me personally, if we're really interested in "green power", should be looking seriously at nuclear technology. We have so much uranium, let's use it rather than just handing it to the Chinese.
Nuclear energy would really bring out the nutbars. Some of these eco-terrorists would take us back to the pre-Industrial Revolution time period if they could. Indeed, some of these nuts believe in culling the human race to under a billion people worldwide. How do you even hold a conversation or discussion with someone like that? You don't. They would never listen.
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32 minutes ago, Mark F said:
Elizabeth May proposed doing exactly this. A few months ago.
Of course, build it in Alberta, they have the business people, the trades, let them make the money.
It's really stupid that this is never even discussed.
It would take a decade to build a single refinery with the regulatory process. Then there's the interveners & politicians like Horgan who would against it. The eco environmental terrorists who would wreak havoc all backed by millions of American dollars in US organizations like Tides Canada. The same thing that happened with KMX would happen with a refinery. So, Horgan can say it's not the pipeline he objects to but the heavy oil bitumen. However, he's lying. He'd be against a refinery in the Lower Mainland. He would be against anything related to oil in BC.
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1 hour ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:
BC has got the right to challenge this. They might legally be in the wrong according to most but they can still take it to court and the Supreme Court is the last stop. Horgan's not gonna say as long as he got the votes behind him.
Heck Sask is doing same thing with the federal carbon tax. Where are thou on that one Speedy?
Everybody has the right but it's a waste of taxpayer's money. Money that could be directed into social programs, health, infrastructure & education in BC is being thrown away to pay lawyers. You okay with that? Horgan has an unlimited amount of $$$ he can use but it isn't his. It's the taxpayers money not that it ever stopped politicians before. As far as Scott Moe goes in SK regarding his carbon tax fight with the feds, he'll lose as well. The difference is one is a national infrastructure program that got federal approval by the NEB to build a pipeline. The other is a province wanting to not have a carbon tax imposed on them by Ottawa. You can't compare the two. No province in Canadian history has ever opposed a federally approved infrastructure program before.
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14 minutes ago, JCon said:
The only good thing about this mess... Les Quebecois are helping to pay for it.
Watch, SNC Lavalin will run this project for the Libs & money will go back to Quebec. They killed Energy East & Quebec will still get it's share & more. Trudeau & Morneau will see to that.
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8 hours ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:
Not crazy about this. Still got to pay someone to build it.
but how did the Feds blow it? BC has a right to say no and take it to the Supreme Court. What the Feds should be doing is front lining this to the SC. AB/BC/Feds all want that.
Frosty, you really need to be a lot more informed before you say something like this. BC does not have the right. The pipeline is federal jurisdiction not provincial. It has been approved. There have been 17 separate court cases trying to assert aboriginal as well as provincial rights to stop the pipeline & they have lost every one.
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3 hours ago, rebusrankin said:
Federal jurisdiction, pipeline has been approved, BC really doesn't have the right to say no. What BC has done is added to the burden of all Canadian taxpayers and they've sent out another sign that Canada is a poor place to invest.
Horgan dragged the rest of the country in & now we are on the hook for a minimum of $4.5 billion & probably a lot more. This was approved by the NEB & it went through a vigorous regulatory process. And the guy says he'll continue to waste BC taxpayers money with more ridiculous court cases. I'd love it if he & his province were faced with the spectre of having to pay back the $4.5 billion or more if they lost another court case. Then, you'd see him back off real fast. But things don't happen like that, I guess.
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11 hours ago, 17to85 said:
The biggest problem TSN has is that they try to be the entertainment rather than letting the game be the entertainment. They pick a player or a story of the night and never deviate from the script. It's awful broadcasting. They would be better off just calling the game as it is and letting the game tell the story.
Agree.
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4 hours ago, Mr Dee said:
Things to agree on, or not, on Sunday:
👁🗨Mark Chapman, 1st round CFL draft pick, has not signed with the Ticats. Interesting decision to miss his first pro camp with Hamilton...
👁🗨Former NFL QB Josh Freeman is indeed that, having been both fired and retired. Another oopsie at recruiting for Montreal..
👁🗨 Nice to see and hear Chandler Fenner’s “kid-walks-into-a-candy-store-for-the first-time” attitude and excitement.. I liked the signing then, I like it even more now. Adding to this D’s versatility..
Don Landry reports on that infamous CFL Media poll: “Every team got at least one vote except for the Ottawa REDBLACKS”
CFL News - In the first pre-season game of 2018, neither Brandon Bridge nor newcomer Zach Collaros are currently in the plans at quarterback for Chris Jones and the Roughriders
👁🗨Why isn’t more being said about the questionable depth of the Ottawa RedBlacks QB stable?
William Arndt, Danny Collins, Dominique Davis and Trevor Harris.
And finally, CFL game day with Saskatchewan visiting the Eskimos.
CFL football is back!!
Regarding the qb depth of the RedBlacks behind Harris. The same could be said for the Bombers. It's alarming to think who may take the reigns if Nichols goes down. However, I'm not pointing fingers at Walters as he was blindsided by Durant 2 weeks ago. The situation we're in because of Durant wasn't our GM's fault. It certainly tells you about the character of DD, doesn't it? However, that being said... we all have to be concerned what would happen if Nichols suffered a serious injury. We're no better off than Ottawa.
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5 hours ago, M.O.A.B. said:
I guess the Riders are starting 3 INT in the OL - LT Vaughn, RG Bond and RT Coleman
7 NAT starters will be - LG LaBatte, C Clark, RB Messam, WR Baggs, DT Evans, LB Hurl and S Brouillette
This really shows you howwellbad they drafted since Cheat Jones became their GMRider fans loved Hurl the first time. They're really going to love him now after Muamba.
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1 hour ago, JuranBoldenRules said:
TSN should broadcast the games on one of their 5 channels without any play-by-play or analysis, just the field mic. Hell if they offered that PPV I’d pay.
The average fan wants to be entertained. Only hardcore fans would appreciate it. The others don't know what is going on & would switch off after a few minutes.
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10 minutes ago, kelownabomberfan said:
I think the main appeal of Henoc was his passport.
The only problem is if he went down it would wreak havoc with ratio. Not many Canadians can play to the level of Muamba. That's why you get someone like Hurl playing Mac. With an American it's much easier to find a replacement & not mess with the ratio. So, Muamba may be a ratio breaker either way.
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4 hours ago, Bubba Zanetti said:
And theyre going to be lead by Drew Freakin' Willy. Dear lord. If they finish better than 5-13 ill eat my shoe. Enjoy Henoc!
Initially we were all upset with Muamba doing what he did but I'd take Bighill over him without question.
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4 hours ago, Atomic said:
Fajardo is in BC
Crompton is back in Alabama doing private qb coaching of HS players.
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5 hours ago, WBBFanWest said:
Don't really understand why Reed would think that he needs to go out and make sure that everyone knows that Freeman didn't quit, he was fired. Chump move but I'm sure glad that we've happy passed on the Dumpster Fire award. Now if Montreal would just pass it back to the Riders...
Reed is an asshat. He just couldn't leave it alone & let the guy walk away with what was left of his dignity. There really was no reason to do that.
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Cato had mental health issues some say PTSD from where he grew up. Manziel doesn't have that but is bi polar which is treatable. If we said people with PTSD such as soldiers returning from a theatre of war or people who are bi polar are headcases we'd be criticized severely.