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It's almost a badge of honour to still be in this thing and not have picked Andrew Harris at least once yet, but that day will come. Just not today. William Powell for Ottawa.

I remember Omarosa giving an interview shortly after Trump was elected saying how everyone who crossed him during the election and doubted him should beware, because he is motivated to prove everyone wrong, payback is a b*tch, and revenge is sweet (at the time she was on his staff and said these words with glee). It's obvious by his comments and actions that he holds grudges and vows revenge on any perceived "enemy", much like Nixon had his list. In fact, much of his Presidency seems to be bent on dismantling anything Obama did, and I often think it's solely because Obama humiliated him publicly at the correspondent's dinner [where he mocked Trump's whole birther movement by displaying his long form certificate, then showing a clip of "The Lion King" as his actual birth video, while sarcastically trashing Trump's decision-making with false praise based on his "Celebrity Apprentice" firings (this was the same night the Bin Laden raid had been authorized on Obama's orders)]. All this to say, in light of his latest public spat with LeBron James, I wonder who is on Trump's enemies list, and why? It would be long, but for starters: Hillary (for calling him a puppet?) Colin Kaepernick (for kneeling, or is it the colour of his skin?) Comey (for not finding enough to jail Hillary, or not burying the Russia probe) Mueller, Sessions, Manafort, Rosenstein (Russia probe) Sean Spicer (not lying well enough to justify Trump's contradictions, having a conscience) Cohen (no loyalty, unsealing the vault) LeBrom (see Kaepernick) Seth Meyers (correspondent's dinner joke) Stephen Colbert (every night's monologue) CNN, Jim Acosta ("fake news", a.k.a. criticizing Trump's presidency) Vincente Fox , Angela Merkel, EU ;ustin Trudeau (not blindly buying in to "America First" policies) So who else?

I swear I didi not see your post before making the same switch. Great minds....

6 game injured list. Great. Let's switch to Kamar Jordan since it's the only game left.

Eric Rogers - Calgary

Desperate, yes. Guilty conscience, I'd say not so much. He has high levels of arrogance combined with ignorance, but he lives in an alternate reality of wealth where he does what he wants (remember the whole Billy Bush "grab em by the [you know what], I forced myself on her like a b*tch, you get to kiss them, do whatever - when you're a big star you get away with whatever" and his "I could shoot somebody in Times Square and my approval would go up 5 points" mentality). He is now feeling heat he can't buy his way out of like his past lawsuits, and it upsets his sense of superiority. He has now flat out denied knowing about the Trump Tower meeting in advance. If Cohen taped the one meeting, got to think he taped many others, so if there is a tape of that session proving Trump DID know, then we finally have a direct contradiction that Mueller can act on and that COULD lead to impeachment for lying (still, it won't happen as long as Republicans hold the balance of power). Trump has always said "no collusion" as his go to, which isn't a 100% denial of his knowledge of meetings, just his spin that nothing of what happened ever benefitted him and his rise to the Presidency, so this flat out denial could sting worse. And we saw his backtracking on his intelligence community flip-flop after the Helsinki disaster. He reads from a prepared script saying "I 100% percent believe the intelligence that the Russians meddled" then looks up and adds "among many others, who can say, quite possible, and none of it affected the race". His ego is so large and so fragile he cannot bring himself to even allow the possibility that his election win is tainted buy outside influence, and he is sinking himself because of it. He has no conscience in my mind. He is a full blown egomaniac if not a borderline sociopath.

I'm still floating. The Duke came through!

But how dare you kneel during the anthem.

At this rate we are going to have to change the rules to force people to pick a different player every week. Even though I haven't picked Harris yet, I am going with Duke Williams.

3rd and short advice: 2 yards? Harris, or field goal. Inches? Run straight, Strev!

Thanks much. I will roll the dice with Eric Rogers.

Didn't see anything on Rogers past the "one game injured list from week 4" update. Bo is apparently "questionable" for this week, listed as day-to-day rather than week-to-week by Stampeder staff, and was practicing already yesterday. Regardless, it's Montreal so seems like a good bet to pick a horseman this week.

Is Eric Rogers healthy? Was going to take him if he's back this week, or Don Jackson in his absence, now KBF says Jackson nicked up. Any intel would be appreciated.

Hey, give the man credit. Trump was working on a jigsaw puzzle and said "Wow, great puzzle, and I did so well. Took me only 7 days to put it together, and the box said '2 to 4 years' !"

Since I need to catch people, Derel Walker.

Here is a list of some of his controversies (compiled by CNN, so if you believe they are "fake news", it probably won't do anything to convince you): https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/06/politics/scott-pruitt-controversies-list/index.html But in the simplest terms, he is a self-admitted climate-change denier who once sued the EPA on behalf of the oil and gas industries. His beliefs are his, and he can advocate them, but imagine putting someone who has openly advocated for the total legalization of drugs, and fought in court against the laws the government has put in place, in charge of that same department enforcing those drug laws in our country as a prosecutor. Massive conflict of interest, and giving him the power to undercut those very laws with sweeping "policy" decisions that fit his personal agenda ("we choose not to prosecute those that use or sell drugs, even though that is our essential mandate") would undermine the very existence of the drug prosecutions agency. same idea with the EPA here. Again, he can have his viewpoint, but then recognize that he has a conflict and turn down the position, do not go in with the intention of deregulating everything the department has in place and essentially destroying the entire agency from the inside. If Trump had such strong feelings against the EPA, campaign on the promise that he will shut down the agency altogether if elected and back out of every environmental accord the world has in place BEFORE he gets elected, not after.

Last Week Tonight pretty much nailed it last year on this topic:

Well, no better luck tonight with Powell. Did everything but score (because 2 point converts don't count - damn you, rules!!) Had contemplated picking Bowman with Nichols back at QB, we shall see tomorrow.

Glad I was late and missed picking from last night's game. Will go with William Powell.

Jeremiah Johnson.

I think the case of Bush v Gore pretty much put to bed any notion of the SCOTUS being an apolitical body. The travel Muslim ban decision and dissent just reinforced it once more.

Yes, let's protect those unborn fetuses, they have rights too that should supercede the choice of the mother......until they are born, then we can rip them out of their mother's arms and throw them in cages.

Sorry, if scoring a 2 point conversion gets booed down as not counting for anything, you all can go lump it!

Think back to 2001. Our offence was built on spreading the ball around with no one primary target, even with Milt and Charlie Roberts on it. We regularly had games where at least 7 different players would catch the ball, and once had 9 as I recall. 9! That is almost unheard of. (Stegall, Bobby Gordon, Arland Bruce, Stoddard as starters, two of Andre Arlain, Markus Howell or Geoff Drover getting action as back-ups, and the 3-headed monster of Eric Blount, Troy Mills, and back-up Charlie Roberts all got catches ). We were pretty much unstoppable. That is what this offence could morph into. That misdirection was something to behold. Keeping the focus off of one guy like Dressler is better for our overall success and his (and other players') health long term. And yes, we had 9 different targets in the Montreal game (and 6 different rushers). The results speak for themselves. And let's not forget that Dressler is now our primary FG holder again, and how important that crucial but oft overlooked role is.