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There is definitely collusion smoke but I agree, no collusion fire yet. There are still Trump campaign people who have stories to tell about this, so we'll see. I very much doubt Trump will ever be impeached. Impeachment requires a supermajority of the Senate and Republicans have no interest in defying the Trump personality cult. Should he be impeached? Russian collusion aside, the self-dealing of government money into Trump properties may rise to the level of impeach-worthy. But there's no red line law about removing a President. Congress and / or the Cabinet could remove Trump tomorrow because they think he should prefer redheads, and he'd have no recourse. The American executive is both weirdly weak and invincibly untouchable. I think the best possible result is that we elect a ton of dems in 2018, Trump spins his wheels in the DC mud for three more years, somehow (cross fingers) there are no giant more crises that critically require American leadership (beyond Puerto Rico, which is a disgrace) and we elect someone better in 2020. To be fair to pigseye, a lot of my more-leftist friends like to make the point that, to a Chilean of a certain age, American outrage over foreign election interference is hilarious/infuriating. This country has filthy hands, especially in Central America, South America, and the Philippines. That doesn't mean I'm cool with a kleptocrat gangster like Putin pulling the strings on American elections, though -- that's very unlikely to make anything better. If Americans, left and right, weren't so vulnerable to agitprop, this country would be in a lot better place.

Yeah, after what happened to Edmonton last year, having three starting-calibre import tailbacks in their camp is not such a bad idea.

This thread is ridiculous. Asking "who won free agency" in February is silly. You could sign every great CFL free agent for zero dollars each and still have a disaster season if the fates are against you. Like, what if Bond disappears into another dimension, Fenner gets nerve-tonic gigantism, Lirim H. gets cut for non-regulation sideburns, Alex Bazzie decides he's a chicken, and Demski gets a season-ending concussion fighting SamCanadian at a Winnipeg bar? There are no guarantees. We can decide who won free agency in November.

Just watched the finale. I really like that the Emperor is running around the federation verse pretending to be Captain Georgiou. I thought the slow burn of the Mirror Lorca reveal was pretty tight too -- he's recruiting all these random Starfleet ne'er-do-wells and he's setting his phaser to "pillow talk" with Admiral Eyes ... and suddenly "oh yeah, this is who that guy is, he's not just doing random crazy bullshit, he actually has a plan." Nicely done stuff there. And I liked the glimpse of Captain Killey we got during the Orion camp scenes. Felt like they hit the "someone is not who they appear to be!" button one too many times with the Ash stuff. And it was very typical Star Trek in that the most interesting stuff happened in another universe / timeline, not in the federation timeline. On the whole, the first season was like a B-. I like the characters and I like the actors and the art design is just gorgeous. I'll watch when the next season pops up but I'm not breathless waiting for it or anything.

He did not look good spelling Ray last year. I remember Bluto saying that the Trestman offence befuddled Ray during the early parts of last season, so maybe this is no stain on Fajardo, maybe no one but a veteran with their mind right can run the Trestman offence.

If you're ever concerned about this very thing, check the color of the header of your favorite football discussion board. If it's not green and has no Rod Pedersen real estate ads, then you can be sure you're not suffering through the hell-on-earth of the Great Tribulation. I've used this in dreams, it totally works.

Maybe Henoc chills at home and waits for a team to run into national injury trouble, then signs at a premium for a partial season? Keeps his mileage low and his salary high? (and then he gets cut again the next year because he's overpaid)

Hey! If we can get this thread to 10 pages, then maybe Muamba will sig-- (nevermind)

Eventually Republicans will pay a price for this. They are way out of step with public opinion, which is for stronger gun control.

Players' reaction: I once had an animated gif of Lapo smashing his headset during the fun part of the -2010- 2009 Grey Cup ... wish I could find that, I could use it today.

alas, Demski is #10 now.

Lights off gives you some deniability, I think. Lights on is like "Hold my beer!" type stupidity.

I put a lot of Jones criticism on this board to Springfield / Shelbyville kinda stuff - Jones makes a great heel because he's an ******* who is good at his job and gets a lot out of his players. I even thought the RRs signing Hurl made sense -- he's your backup for your stud ratio-breaker who can get you through a game in case your big guy goes down, and then you rejigger your ratio the following week. This, though -- this is shitting-the-bed-with-the-lights-on stupid. Replacing a guy who at his best, is a Harris / Singleton class ratio breaker with an RB on the wrong side of 30 who's been straight up cut a bunch of times and an LB who is a step too slow to play the position full-time....I just don't get it. Bond is a catch, but if they needed to cut Muamba to afford him, they're robbing Peter, spending his money on a new garage full of jet-skis, and then promising Paul they'll pay him next week.

The board was united, but then came the Do Or Die heel turn...

...or maybe you let Muamba shake free, crowd up the MLB market a bit, and then sign Reed or Woods for a lot less dough.

I'd trade a pick for Muamba instantly, even for just a single year of him. Ottawa and Toronto are not set at MLB (is Montreal?) so there will be bidders for him if he's cut. I'd want to pre-empt the bidding war and trade for him. He instantly fills our most pressing need and has the right passport. Our Grey Cup window is right now and our Canadian depth is miles ahead of where it's been in the past, so I'm comfortable sacrificing the pick. First round picks turn into starters less than 50% of the time and they turn into a real ratio breaker like a Muamba way less than that. He's in his prime and judging from what I saw late last season, he's back in CFL form.

I'll always be rooting for Drew Willy, but man he's got a tall hill to climb in Montreal.

He's second-all time in Bomber sacks and a Grey Cup champion ... he's seen here moderating his menacing stare so he doesn't slag the camera's lens ... he's the mighty TONY NORMAN! #vintage55 (like the big ugly watermark says, this photo is from Scott Grant Photography. He has tons of great vintage Bomber shots -- alas, all road whites, but based on the other teams in the photos I think he's based in the Eastern division....)

No, take it to the free agent thread! We need the posts there!

I always understood "in all thy Son's command" to mean that the country was in obedience to Christ. But all the other references to thee and thou in the song are clearly about Canada and not about God. Six year old me saw "thy Son" and also "see thee rise" and figured biblically loaded language meant biblical intent, and then I just didn't think about it for forty years, until today.

(tho I guess "thy sons" is meant to be "Canada's sons" instead of Jesus. Learn a new thing every day.)

It's interesting that the change of a religious bit is being portrayed as a gender change instead of a religious change.

Bill to replace "in all thy Son's command" with "in all of us command" in O Canada passes the Senate, just needs royal assent. This oughta cause some fireworks.

As if #randleisland wasn't scary enough, now it has gaitors...