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I know Ritchie said you lose one game for every rookie in your line-up. So what's that going to do for our record this year? How many rookies do we have starting this year? I get the whole veteran thing, but you can find veterans under the age of 30 out there. You can have a few wily older guys, but when your whole team is over 30, then you have a problem. More than just one problem. EDIT - I see 11 guys on our main roster that are CFL newbies (and other new guys who are coming here with CFL experience like Gibson, Bryant and Hurl). How many are starters?

Delbert Fowler, Aaron Brown. Man we had a good corp of LB's back then.

They just need Kit Cartwright to come in to help Durant with the offense and the 2008 mirror would be complete.

I still laugh when I hear Schultzie whine during TSN panels about having to be on the OL with Winnipeg's linebackers constantly blitzing and Tyrone Jones running by him all night destroying the QB. Must not have been fun to play against those guys.

Buddhist camps? Who are you, Richard Gere?

CFL News @CFL_News #Riders could have 5 defensive starters who are 30 or older. #CFL via @robvanstone and CFL News @CFL_News #Riders offence could include as many as eight starters who are 30 or over. #CFL via @robvanstone Taman was never big on youth.

That's what he said last year as well...so in his mind he doesn't think that Marve has progressed. It makes me think they will never think he has progressed whether he has or not.They probably hate him and it's become personal. I don't know what else it could be. Kind of a modern-day Cinderella story here, with Willy and Brohm being the ugly step-sisters.

We are also incredibly lucky to have a political and economic system in place designed to ensure that the majority of the wealth generated by the exploitation of resources goes back to the people. Some will say that it's not enough, but those people I find will always say it's not enough, even if the number is 100%. What you have to understand is the mentality of a lot of the rest of the world. When I was Egypt for instance, I was trying to explain the concept of universal health care to people there, even ones who couldn't speak English and were dirt poor. Even the ones who lived hand to mouth, liked the idea of free health care, but when they asked me who paid for it, and I said "everybody, via taxes", they'd shake their heads and say "no way, I'm not paying for my neighbour's health care, I'm not sick so I shouldn't have to pay". The entire concept of sharing resources is just lost on a lot of the world. Everyone is conditioned to take whatever they can, and screw everyone else. Dog eat dog. And until that cycle changes, you are going to have giant slums and huge chunks of the population sitting in filth and squalor. Travelling through Myanmar, I couldn't believe that so much of the rural population doesn't even have electricity, because the generals there just steal everything, leaving almost nothing for capital infrastructure. Same goes in Egypt, in pretty much every tinpot dictatorship in Africa, in Cambodia, Haiti, you name it. Zimbabwe is a crying shame. They were a first-world country only 40 years ago, and now thanks to Mugabe, they are one of the poorest, while he dines on lion and elephant at a $2 million birthday party.

Marve

As good as Tom Clements was, Cal rarely hesitated to throw Huffer in if Clements got into a two and out rut. Even in the Grey Cup in '84. I never saw anything foul up a defence more then suddenly having to adjust to a drop back qb with deadly accuracy after facing a scrambler. The same could work in reverse. It would be nice to see MB and MOS try it with Willy/Marve. Brohm can hold a clip-board.

Anyone think Alphabet would be better for us as a backup NI than Richards?

Sinopli is on Ottawa's disabled list. What the hell is a disabled list?

Gibson sticks on the roster. Interesting.

So Cauchy made it?

I am trying to recall even remotely thinking that Veltung had no chance. Nope. Never did.

MOS figures they could start as many as 10 if need be.... Go for 12 N starters! Tim Horton's dozen!

There are no more games at IGF but it's not over. They're in the round of 16 now. oh

One of the companies I worked for was a manufacturing company that employed skilled and unskilled people. The owners offered all kinds of incentives to the unskilled types to learn a trade or increase their skills through training programs, so that they would be able to earn higher salaries. Nope. No way. They were stuck earning a wage that meant that they were scraping by, and that's where they wanted to stay, unskilled and trapped earning low wages, rather than put in even a minimal effort to learn something new and have a broader skill set. I didn't understand that mentality, and still don't, but that's how some people are. Perhaps they have underlying disabilities you dont know. There is an enormous amount of people suffering from varying degrees of FASD. Many undiagnosed. Others may lack the confidence or have anxiety disorders. Its not as simple as "everyone who is under-paid and under skilled is a lazy SOB who wants to be that way". So then let's all admit that there are many complex issues underlying the situation. It's not as simple as saying everyone is lazy, and it's also not as simple as saying that everyone should be making only minimum wage so that no one is elevated above anyone else.

I'm glad the womens' soccer thing is over. Who won?

That looks like Tacklewasher after a Bomber win...

One of the companies I worked for was a manufacturing company that employed skilled and unskilled people. The owners offered all kinds of incentives to the unskilled types to learn a trade or increase their skills through training programs, so that they would be able to earn higher salaries. Nope. No way. They were stuck earning a wage that meant that they were scraping by, and that's where they wanted to stay, unskilled and trapped earning low wages, rather than put in even a minimal effort to learn something new and have a broader skill set. I didn't understand that mentality, and still don't, but that's how some people are.

Mark - I've toured factories (known as "sweat shops" to guilt-laden liberals) in Egypt, Myanmar and Cambodia. I can tell you this - if it wasn't for us horrible North Americans buying up goods manufactured by these "working poor" from these countries, they wouldn't be "working poor", they'd be dead and starving poor. When it comes down to options for these people, it's work in these factories, or sell their bodies. It's that basic. When I was in Myanmar, I asked what the skilled ladies running the machines were making, and they told me $5 a day, which of course, given the North American mindset, made me recoil in horror. But then they told me that these ladies were really well-paid, given the cost of living was low enough that they had money left over to help support their families. My guide in Myanmar told me he could feed his whole family, including wife, parents and kids, on $50 a month. So I gave him a tip of $50 US so he could feed them all for a month. He showed me his house, which was by North American standards just plain awful - no electricity, bamboo walls etc. but he and his wife were happy. Could it be better? Yup. But that's the thing. We'd be hurting these people much much more by boycotting their products then by continuing to buy them. They are extremely happy to have jobs, which wouldn't exist, without us horrible exploitive evil North Americans. It's a process, and it takes time.