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So, where you draw the line? What if I decided that left-handed people were evil? At one time they were considered so- "sinister" means left-handed. Or if I thought that Lithuanians were sub-human?

We don't have enough idiots in the city as yet?

One last point from me: I had my questions about the Bible being the literal word of God, but years ago, I happened to become friends with a pastor from the Mennonite faith (fundamentalist Baptist, really) and eventually we got onto the subject of religion and dogma. He told me that in theological college, the student pastors were told that they ought not to take the Bible as inerrant and they even spent time studying how it had been edited and re-edited, where it contradicted itself in places and where in the old and new testaments it orders and/or justifies incest, adultery, bigamy, murder, genocide and killing of infidels. The students were told to be prepared for questions of this sort but to dismiss them as the unfathomable word of God. You may want to look up what Jesus was supposed to have said in Luke 19:27. The Bible has been altered to justify the views and actions of whomever was in power in the early Christian church, and many of the heads of that church were often weak, corrupt and under the influence of local rulers.

Yup. Sportsnet and Madani have learned that the players are threatening to strike.

Can't wait to hear what this is. Anyone care to speculate? Because Sportsnet is given to hyperbole, I wouldn't be surprised if they just learned that the players are threatening to strike.

Perhaps this ought to be moved to the thread in the CFL discussion forum.

12:00 noon local time- Sportsnet is reporting that they will shortly announce some big CFL news. Hmmmm....

Interesting reactions around the Rider and Stampeder fan forums. The Rider fans in large numbers pretty much universally called Price a narrow-minded idiot and the Stamp fans appear to not care enough to comment, although two or three were morally outraged enough to threaten to stop supporting the team. Like it or not, Alberta, and southern Alberta in particular, is quite different from the rest of the country, and more American than not, so the Stamp fan reactions (or lack thereof) is pretty typical. If the folks who take their "Christianity" so serious as to think they ought to follow its dictates word for word, they ought to spend some time actually reading the Bible, and the old testament in particular. As an example, in Leviticus, the faithful are ordered to kill those who plant two different crops in the same field, and it gets worse from there. Jesus condemned no one, but the fundamentalist churches are riddled with pastors who preach one thing but live quite another way.

Fixed it for ya ... Good point. All we can do at this point is hope that Etcheverry has learnt from his history and will be smart enough to adapt his game plans on the fly during games. That was a hallmark of the team in recent years, both offensively and defensively- the other teams seemed to be able to adapt to whatever we were having success with and we couldn't return the favour.

Lawrence would be a great fit, but there is still a growing list of concerns about Etcheverry.

I endorse Evan Pszczonak in tomorrow's draft. Only because you want to hear Rod Black try to pronounce his name. Pizz-on-ack - fairly simple, but yes, Rod would be something like "Pet-ree-zz-owl-ee" Followed immediately by Black being taken to hospital for a tongue splint.

I endorse Evan Pszczonak in tomorrow's draft. Only because you want to hear Rod Black try to pronounce his name.

Well we hope we do. What harm is there in determining that after training camp? This team is not so stacked in NIs with experience to just cut guys willy nilly. Don't use the words "willy" and "cut" in the same sentence so early in the season- you'll start all kinds of panic.

Hmmmm. it sounds like there's going to be more drama around this draft for the WBB than it has for years.

And they're OK. They sleep all night and work all day.....

Yes, Wild is very good, but trying to assess last year`s performance of the defensive unit is like trying to judge a track meet during an earthquake. It was such a mess on so many levels that the best thing to do is try to forget it and start with a fresh mindset.

It doesn`t look like there`s a lot of confidence in Etcheverry here, but it all comes down to two things: we`re saddled with him, like it or not, and O`Shea ought to be able to figure out whether his new DC is competent or not. We ought to know within the first month or so if we`re in for another long season.

The article seems to be really promoting Dylan Ainsworth as someone who has the potential to be a sleeper with the comparison to Blugh.

Life is just fulla surprises.

While we're at it, can we blame the worst winter in over a century on Etcheverry as well?

Oh God don't be so naive.University educated man intent on playing in the CFL & he claims he didn't know that what he was taking (Stanozolol) was a steroid? Who is being naive here? I think it's you Atomic.You misunderstood. I don't believe that Quinn Smith didn't know exactly what he was doing. My comment was referring to Duressler47's apparent shock at the fact that some athletes use steroids and other drugs. It is incredibly widespread.Duressler (to me) was stating that it seems like more athletes today are using illegal drugs like marijuana or performance enhancing drugs like Stanozolol. I think his comments are directed towards them either not being very bright or that they are cheaters. Hence the integrity comment. Some will get caught & others won't but why take the chance? Because for every one that gets caught, 99 get away with it. And the rewards are money, glory, beautiful women, and making a career out of playing a game you love. I can't blame guys for trying to get every edge they can. Not likely he's going to be all that popular with the ladies for long- any steroid is essentially synthetic testosterone, and if guys are on it for extended periods, the steroid suppresses the natural production of testosterone. The testes slow down and finally shut down production of testosterone, eventually permanently. While on artificially high levels of the drug, typically male attributes like aggression and sexual attentiveness are heightened, but once back off the steroids, arousal and erection are very difficult to impossible, and estrogen begins to take over. The testes shrink to almond size and the person has to be on daily injected synthetic testosterone permanently to avoid losing male sexual differentiation characteristics. And that doesn't even talk about possible cardiac myopathy and loss of bone density.

The laws may be silly, but this is not about the law. It is about an athlete who has a chance to make a major career advancement and threw it away. His agent and common sense would have told Sheets that he should be on his best behaviour, but his arrogance and/or stupidity overruled that. And your assertion that pot opens up the mind is very questionable. It produces a perception that competence is enhanced but it is actually the opposite. How many times have you heard someone say that a few drinks makes him a better driver?

He may be a stop-gap measure for 1 or 2 seasons. Steady if not spectacular, but its kinda hard for me to visualize some age 34 to be nearly "washed up".

Now that Police, Mack and Burke are all gone, is Etch being set up to be the next whipping boy?

One would think that a CFL player who is trying to get into The Big Show for huge dollars and all that comes with it would be on his best behaviour until at least it was a done deal. Besides, they have urine testing down there and THC stays in your system for a long time. He was playing Russian Roulette.