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Equally nice would be to see Lance carrying water as a domestique and then bringing Contador up a vicious climb that breaks every rider.
Contador is a good kid. Astana is a great team. Lance is still the King.
Just when I thought that silliness was a thing of the past, I noticed today on CNN they’re talking about the elimination of all nuclear weapons again, apparently as part of a super power initiative. I’m trying to relate this to the legalization of drugs. I mean, you can’t seriously entertain that as a legitimate idea without the assistance of some pretty potent mind altering meds.
Or maybe, the concept itself is kind of like an opiate…
I mean, not that anybody with a winning chance isn’t a doping offender, but I hope when you want Lance to win, you know he won’t win without a little doping himself?
So there really is a ‘Midget Wrestling League”. I thought that was just a running gag.
Gotta feel bad for these guys, even their final performance was faked.
Dave, I understand your cynicism, but I don’t trust any government with nuclear weapons. I know it’s an unrealistic dream (you may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one who loves his possessions), but I’d love for governments to get rid of their nuclear weapons. I mean, is that just another kind of gun control? Why isn’t it a legitimate idea?
That’s easy – keeping job-stealing foreigners out of our country so they don’t steal our jobs.
The one thing the article about immigration fails to bring up is that America has to be a place that innovating immigrants want to come to. I think that incentive is waining.
So politicians sacrifice a lot so they can fuck up our lives and the lives of their families, huh. Where the fuck is my violin.
Because you can’t un-invent something. You can’t turn back the clock. There will always be someone out there trying to get nuclear weapons and you certainly can’t trust any government to give them up once they have them (despite what they claim).
It’s not just unrealistic. Getting rid of all nuclear weapons would actually be worse than what we have now. If you got rid of them, then any country that gets them to the exclusion of all others, would be able to control the world. That’s quite an incentive to re-invent them.
The invention of nuclear weapons was like opening pandoras box. Unfortunately they will probably be used again in my lifetime. I would much rather see international collaboration to develop technology that mitigates the effectiveness and deadliness of these weapons then a futile effort to rid the world of something that ain’t going away.
I’ve always suspected that being a good parent and being a politician are mutually exclusive. It seems physically impossible.
[...] Headline of the day week year-so-far via Balko the Agitator. [...]
‘These articles about all the sacrifices politicians make in order to become rich and powerful are really nauseating.’
this article seemed pretty bland and I didn’t think it was particularly flattering. am I missing something?
Wait a minute, are you being sarcastic about the massacre of innocent people in Colombia being a Drug War victory? Because if you were, you would be implying that by training, arming, and paying thugs to turn in corpses we had some sort of moral obligation to oversee what they do in some way. Which is obviously crazy talk.
We seem to have let slip our dogs of war without any leash, handler, and strapped steaks to any farmer or villager. I suggest Colombians try to pay more acute attention to how it is for the greater good, buncha whiners.
People seem to be having trouble figuring out sarcasm and humor today…
Judging from the down votes on Michael Chaney’s comment #6, either some pro-immigration folks have faulty sarcasm detectors, or the nativists have suddenly developed a new appreciation of wit.
Dave, those are good points. But would you agree that the super-powers have way too many nuclear weapons and it would make sense to decrease that number?
I have no problem with the concept of arms reduction. As I said, my gripe is with those who believe the “elimination of all nuclear weapons” is a credible foreign policy goal.
The possession of nuclear weapons remains the only surefire way to prevent large-scale conventional military invasion by the US or regional military powers. In some ways, the proliferation of nuclear weapons has done wonders for world peace. Unfortunately, the margin of error remains small with potentially disastrous consequences.
You mean Lance and his Dr. and his drugs, don’t you? Please don’t embarrass yourself by pretending.
Never go to the police for help, or you will get shot in the head by an electrocution device, and they will make up charges to try and deflect any responsibility (or do I repeat myself):
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/028893.html
My impression is that the politicans themselves have to be at least decently good parents or their children make them look bad, and that politicians themselves can be quite good. (I’m thinking here specifically of the Clintons, who, say what you will about them, raised a very reasonable daughter)
But yeah, their staffers families suffer much like the families of senior underlings anywhere suffer.
It doesn’t seem like “news” to me, but I’m not sure why anyone would assume that everything in a newspaper is hard news. Seems like a reasonable topic for a feature story to me.
BamBam,
That’s a great link. Thanks.
Can you expand upon why it would be good to see Lance win? I know very, VERY little about cycling, but I have friends who are active in the cycling community and the overwhelming consensus seems to be that he’s a raging douchebag as a person and a liar and a cheater as an athlete. I can understand the urge to be contrarian, but if this another example of libertarians misguidedly channeling their distaste for the drug war into supporting dopers and cheaters I have to object. The government convicting somebody for choosing to ingest certain chemicals into their own bodies is completely different than a private body, existing to establish and enforce rules of a game, punishing (or seeking to punish) voluntary participants in said game who know that the body’s rules are to be adhered to. If you have another reason for supporting Lance, I apologize for the assumption and would like to hear what the reason is.