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Also, White House is directing former counsel Don McGhan to ignore his subpoena requiring him to testify before Congress, saying as a former employee of the President acting in an official capacity for the government, he is immune from testifying. So I guess when Bill and Hillary Clinton had to testify, those rules didn’t count?

Sorry, link failed. Basically NYTimes reporting that Justin Kennedy (The son of Anthony Kennedy, the justice who surprisingly stepped down to clear the way for Brett Kavanagh’s ascention to SCOTUS) signed off on Trump financial deals for Deutsche Bank when no other bank would touch him.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Remember when Justice Kennedy retired suddenly from the SCOTUS w/Brett Kavanaugh waiting in the wings for <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a>?<br><br>Guess who signed off on Trump’s suspicious loans <a href="https://twitter.com/DeutscheBank?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DeutscheBank</a> when no other bank would? <br><br>Justin Kennedy. <br><br>Justice Kennedy’s son. <a href="https://t.co/w6Jcl77Ryt">https://t.co/w6Jcl77Ryt</a></p>&mdash; Fernand R. Amandi (@AmandiOnAir) <a href="https://twitter.com/AmandiOnAir/status/1130213118934753281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Nichols became the starter in 2016, went 10-3 and got us into the playoffs. Went 11-6 his next year as our starter, and in his “bad” year went 9-5. It’s time people got off his back, he has enough of a load to shoulder trying to carry the offence with Harris without these negative fan rankings about how our back up QB is always better. Everyone loved Streveler until he actually had to carry the team for an extended period in the Banjo Bowl, and we saw that he wasn’t really the saviour he was anointed as based on spot duty. Love Streveler’s game, but our best hope is that he has lots of mop up duty and the odd sequence to shake things up. A healthy Nichols is our best option, IMO.

Joe Mack: “Hold my beer” #Labour Day massacre. #52-0.

Cow catamaran! Bovine boat!

How can you hate "The Colonel"?

Always in 3's. Lipton, Day and now Conway. This one hurts. His dentist sketch or the elephant story are two of the best improv comedy bits of all time. And his Emmy awards moments with Harvey Korman are pretty hilarious too.

I did. Here it is, in fact. You can watch and critique the whole thing, but I looked specifically at the first 30 second intro here as a comparison: And here is a Fox news "personality" (host, whatever term you want to tag him with, even "radio host", but he does show up on TV and is likely better known for that) for comparison's sake: So I see a difference. You may not. It may be enough for you that each "newsman" is on stage with a political candidate at a partisan event (one calls itself a town hall but is acknowledged as being in front of "Democrats and Independents who are going to participate in the democratic primaries" and the other is a rally for the Republican President) and everything else is just semantics. I see differences in the intent of each event, in the approach taken by each newsman and their role, their level of personal interaction with the politician, and in how they "work the crowd" and in the message they deliver overall. And since this was an issue of "most biased", I'm not sure what can be said to explain the phrase "those people at the back are fake news, by the way" by a news personality, who is introduced as "someone who has been with us since the beginning, who has done an incredible job for us" when news reporters are not supposed to be about "us" and "them" or "doing jobs" for elected leaders, at least in my day. But I have my opinion , you have yours, so I will just let others see the unredacted clips and come to their own conclusions about what they believe.

Alas, like Highlander “there can be only one”.

If you mean “idiot” in the “stupid” sense, I would disagree. He is more opinion host than reporter (so much of cable news is these days, that downfall of straightforward reporting on all sides has led to this polarization). And his job is to enflame the passions of both sides. Since you have such a strong dislike of him, it sounds like he’s intelligent enough to push your buttons with his shtick. And if he is beyond biased, wouldn’t that make him unbiased based on the strict definition of your words? I’m pretty sure I get the point you are trying to make, but it gets lost in your hyperbole. Funny how that can happen and sabotage an argument. As for the worst, that’s a subjectively qualitative assessment, and certainly up for debate. I won’t get into a “pick your political side and defend it with name-calling” argument - there’s been a lot of that nonsense on both sides sprinkled into the last 3 pages of this thread in between the odd valid point. I will say this, I don’t recall Lemon climbing on stage and acting as the warm-up act for a sitting politician during a stump speech rally like another “newsman” has, so I personally would not rank him as the “worst” in terms of bias on that basis alone.

I am a huge Clements fan, and we won that one for one trade that sent Brock packing. Maybe the most cerebral QB we ever had. I think Clements had a better supporting cast offensively and defensively than Brock did, so I’m not sure they had the same team, and Brock had the misfortune to hit his zenith in the Eskimo dynasty, when neither he (or Clements in Hamilton) could get past Moon and Wilkinson. But a fun debate to have between those 2 for sure.

I haven’t done the bios yet. Will put them up later this week as the 5th Receiver vote winds down.

Accepted. But in the club's history, Brock holds pretty much all the career records, and Ploen is legendary enough to have both a street and a gate and the new stadium named after him. Not saying I disagree with you about Jacobs' impact, I am just going off of what the club has always laid out as the hierarchy of QB's here. Ploen was the second player ever inducted into the Ring of Honour, Brock 5th. Jacobs was 10th. So if you are looking for anyone to unseat Ploen, the most realistic defendable option would be the QB who set all the career benchmarks for passing on the club, and the only back-to-back league MOP in club history. Others may disagree - that is why I have Jacobs on the nominees list.

When Tuttle got moved to the slotback category, he got many votes fewer than Edwards. If he couldn't beat out Edwards in the slotback voting, why would he beat him out here in the 5th receiver voting? I took the first runner-up in each of the 3 previous receiver categories.

To me it boils down to Ploen (rings) vs Brock (numbers) and no one else will be considered best ever.

So we have not surprisingly voted in Stegall and Poplawski as our starting slotbacks, and Murphy and Boyd as our wuide receivers. Boyd is an interesting case as he was barely trailing Perry Tuttle before the do-over, and was behind Nielsen early before edging ken out by one vote. The "5th Receiver" voting is now underway, so that leaves us with quarterback. This vote will pit the stats vs. the awards vs. the success. Without having researched anything, my initial list based solely on reputations and my subjective awareness of their connection to Bomber history are: Jack Jacobs (wonder if the censor monitor will block out "Indian"?), Ken Ploen, Don Jonas, Dieter Brock, Tom Clements, and Khari Jones. Also prepared to consider Matt Dunigan, but if I include him I feel obliged to also add Kevin Glenn. And if completion percentage and winning percentage mean anything, then Matt Nichols has 2 criteria to warrant inclusion, even if he has zero shot to win. So anyone who wants Dunigan in, tell me how to justify his inclusion and not Glenn or Nichols based on their Blue Bomber pedigree alone (I know Matty is everyone's favorite, but did he do enough on-field to raise him over the others?) Ansd I won't consider Grey Cup wins or appearances as the sole reason, so sorry Tom Burgess and Buck Pierce (but not really sorry Sean Salisbury). Let me know if anyone else should be added or removed.

One man's take: This is a real "apples to oranges" comparison for these 3, given the different eras and styles of play that existed and how the different positions have evolved. so I can only say all 3 are very deserving candidates for their own reasons. I suspect this will come to personal favoritism for voters. Edwards has the best numbers overall and the most 1000 yards seasons, Nielsen was his team's leading receiver the most times and his passport is a bonus, and Nicklin had the most team success and was the most "jack-of-all-trades" in filling multiple roles. I welcome testimonials for your favorites, I will make my vote anonymously and not try to influence anything, but I will say that any of these "back-ups" would be massively deserving of being starters and stars on any team in this league in any era.

Run-off vote between the top vote getters from tight end, wide receiver, and slotback who did not make the team in those positions. Here are the 3 candidates and their bios: Stats will be broken down into receptions-yards-average-longest-TDs for the career, with the best single season total for each in parentheses with the corresponding year following the career numbers. Terrance Edwards (slotback)– 114 games in 7 seasons (2007-13), 469-7200-15.4-90-46 (80 rec. in 2007, 1372 yds.-17.6 avg.-90 long-12 TDs all in 2010), 3 time divisional all-star (2007, 10, 11), 2 time CFL all-star (2007, 10), 5 times 1000+ yard season (2007, 08, 10-12), team nominee Most Outstanding Player (2010), 2 Grey Cup appearances (2007, 11), #4 club all-time in career receptions and yards Jeff Nicklin (tight end) – 54 gp in 7 seasons (1934-40), no receiving stats available, 4 time divisional all-star (1937-40), 4 Grey Cup appearances (1935, 37-39), 2 time Grey Cup champion (1935, 39) Bio: https://www.bluebombers.com/2016/11/11/lest-we-forget-the-jeff-nicklin-story/ Ken Nielsen (wide receiver) – 81 games in 6 seasons (1965-70), 280-4340-15.5-72-31 (76 rec.-1121 yds. both in 1967, 20.3 avg. in 1970, 72 long, 11 TDs both in 1966), 3 time divisional all-star (1967-69), 2 time CFL all-star (1968, 69), 1 time led league in receptions (1968), 2 times 1000+ yard season (1967, 68), team nominee Most Outstanding Player (1967), 4 time team nominee Most Outstanding Canadian (1966-69), West Division Most Outstanding Canadian (1968), CFL Most Outstanding Canadian (1968), led club in receiving 5 times (tied #2 in club history), led club in receiving 5 times (tied #2 in club history)

Trump's day so far: - may have admitted to tax fraud as an alternative to conceding that he is a fake billionaire, saying he was "entitled" and it was "sport" to not pay any taxes and manipulate the banks - deemed to have lost at least twice as much money than any other person in the US between 1985 and 1994 - #billiondollarloser #1 trending on Twitter - son is being subpoenaed by the Senate - hand-picked Attorney General found in contempt of Congress - it came out that his chief evangelical endorsement used his personal "fixer" lawyer to help cover up a sex scandal - had a court ruling in NY decide that his tax returns should be turned over to Congress - pardoned a soldier convicted of first degree murder and branded a war criminal - woke to the news of another school shooting in Colorado - had to account for China backpedalling in almost all of its trade deal with the US - watched the S & P index fall for the 3rd straight day, 24 hours after seeing the Dow close 473 points down - invoked Executive Privilege to block the release of an investigative report on him that he claims completely exonerates him, and may have abused his executive privilege in doing so (by using his power to shield himself from an investigation into him, creating possible obstruction), thus opening another door to a justifiable claim for impeachment Not Trump bashing, just reporting the facts. So how was your day, everybody? And not to brag, but I made $1.17 billion more than Donald Trump between 1985 and 1994 (now THAT's Trump bashing!)

Wrong. Trump will seek a third term, invoking the "Roosevelt" precedent and backed by the Supreme Court, or will pass the dictatorship Presidency on to his heirs, Don Jr. or Ivanka Kim Jong Trump.

No, she had it right. She said HALF of his supporters were a basket of deplorables. You know, racists, bigots, misogynists, liars, cheats, frauds. Look at some of the people at his rallies, in his business orbit, his personal staff, his Presidential appointees, his political cronies..... The other half are merely gullibles.

One man's take: James Murphy is an easy choice for best wide receiver in club history. Before Milt came along, he owned pretty much every significant club record for career or single season marks. Also made the most underrated spectacular clutch catch in CFL history to my mind, with his one-handed backwards grab between 2 defenders for a touchdown in the West Final in BC that carried us to the 1984 Grey Cup, yet no one seems to mention in the "all-time great catches" lists. Now the tricky part, for his counterpart and the runner-up who goes on to the run-off vote. Darvin Adams - The club's current leading receiver, but has never felt like the "go-to" guy (having a possession receiver in Dressler and a run-heavy offensive set hurts him) and has only 4 seasons under his belt. In the end, not enough mileage to crack my top 3. Robert Gordon - one huge season in 2000, amassing almost 1400 yards, but still that year (as in his whole career) he played second fiddle to Stegall. Also split his time between the Bombers and the Arena League for a few seasons, which shortened his games played and reduced his stats. In the end, only one 1000+ season and never led the club or league in any meaningful category, and no individual team awards. Falls short for me. Mike Holmes - the star wide receiver of the Dieter Brock years, but his numbers are not as gaudy as one would expect from a pass-happy offence like that one. Outplayed by his teammate Joe Poplawski and then Eugene Goodlow (who would be on this list but for a career-ending injury that gave him only 1.5 effective years as a Blue Bomber). I put him mid-pack in this group of 9. Bob LaRose - A favorite target on Don Jonas, but that team's offence revolved more around Mack Herron, so again a lack of "go-to guy" cred and no individual team awards lowers his stock for me. Clarence Denmark - Looking back, one of the more underrated (and given how he got cut the first time and brought back mid-season, underappreciated) Bomber receivers. Not sure if his bigger career numbers are a product of playing more years than the others, or if his lengthy playing career speaks to how consistently good he was to keep being brought back. Burst on to the scene as a rookie, but not sure he was ever viewed as the true #1 receiver on the team during his tenure. So that leaves 3 players for 2 spots (one of whom is James Murphy's teammate): Jim Thorpe - two really impressive years that rival any other receiver over that time span, regardless of position. Only Stegall, Murphy, and Wilcox had more yards in back-to-back seasons than Thorpe. Double his tenure with the same productivity and he definitely has a shot at the second spot in this group, triple it and he is a lock beside Murphy. Alas, too short a time span here to rank with the all-time best for me, but a bona fide star while he was with us. Ken Nielsen - The best receiver the club had in between its 1950's-60's and its mid 1980's dynasties. Less emphasis on the pure passing attack compared to today make his career numbers look smaller than his counterparts, and unfortunately he was saddled with some bad teams, but he was the go-to guy as evidenced by him leading the club in receiving in 5 of his 6 years here. Plus, bonus points for being a stand-out Canadian in a position usually reserved for an import. In the end, his recognition in the club's individual award nominations puts him one step higher. Jeff Boyd - Murphy's partner in crime (what a scary offence with those two as well as Poplawski and House at the slots, Clements as QB, and Reaves in the backfield - who do you key on?). The fact that he put up such big career numbers in less years offset his more limited playing career in Winnipeg, and hard to ignore 3 1000+ yardage years and the team MOP nomination. One of the great deep threats in team history. Despite the wealth of talent around him, never felt like an afterthought. As it should be, I have him and Murphy lining up together as the top 2 wide receivers on my team.