Word comes from España that Alberto Clenbutador may get a year’s suspension from the Spanish cycling federation. That would cost him last year’s Tour title, and take a great big piss in his 2011 racing season — and perhaps his contract with Bjarne Riis — depending upon when said suspension is deemed to have taken effect.
Whatever the Spaniards decide, the case seems likely to wind up in the Court of Arbitration for Sport, so it’ll be a while yet before we get the final word.
Speaking of meatheads, Congress will entertain the prez this evening during the State of the Union address. I’m less and less interested in this class of political theater these days — more work, less jabber, please — but we’ll probably be watching anyway, just to see if anyone steps on his dick the way Joe “You Lie!” Wilson did during Obama’s 2009 health-care speech.
Interestingly, ol’ You Lie will be sitting between two Democrats tonight — Susan Davis of California and Madeleine Bordallo of Guam. The posturing never stops with this lot. Too bad the Academy doesn’t hand out an Oscar for Pretending to Legislate On the People’s Behalf.
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At the rate things are going, it will be Patrick, Larry, and me on the Le Tour podium. Everyone else will have been disqualified.
I think I’m still testing positive from stuff I took in the Seventies.
If you remember the seventies, you won’t be testing positive.
Maybe he should be having Taco Bell. but then, who knows what is in them.
re: Tour Podium – I’ll be looking good in that Polka Dot jersey, assuming they have it in XXL.
Who knows what’s in Taco Bell, indeed:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/25/taco-bell-meat_n_813864.html
Damn’ little beef, from the looks of it. So clenbuterol probably isn’t much of a worry. ’Course, a guy might grow a double row of hairy tits down his back and a prehensile tail. …
I heard that the first Repub to shout out an insult wins a new car from Oprah!
I just got the mother-of-all anti-Obama emails yesterday from my oldest friend. The subject line said “very rare photograph!” Knowing who it’s coming from, I scroll down wondering what sort of shit I’m swimming in now when I see the classic photo of Ronnie Rayguns feeding Bonzo with a baby bottle. Below the photo is the caption “Reagan feeding Obama”.
My old buddy grew up to think just like everyone else around here. Oh goody gumdrops.
Nice “friend” ya got there barry…
Don’t y’just know that every now and then Barry looks over at Michelle and sez, “Remind me again, exactly why the fuck is it that I wanted this goddamn job?” You got to give these Kenyan socialist Muslim monkeys credit for tenacity.
I hear ya David and Patrick…I guess that’s one reason I don’t hang with him too much anymore. That said, I’ve known him for around 37 years now; so it’s kind of hard to cast someone off totally just because of how they’ve become in the past 5 or so years.
Still, I’d be lying if I didn’t say it bugged me a good bit more than all the other emails that have preceded it these past few years. But replying to it with vitriol from a local gumment computer wasn’t exactly the time or place either. Hit delete and spend some time thinking it over was the best move at the time.
Or you could reply back saying that the local guvment ‘puter software tagged the e-mail as “harmful matter” and its contents, IP address and sender information have been submitted to the Big Brother Corporation presented by Faux News Korp.
And just wait for a response.
barry, we’re all getting inundated with the kind of shit like your friend sent you. I like your response to just “think it over” before acting. You are not going to change his mind or his position, so maybe it’s best to just back away…
Lots of angry, ignorant people out there. Pete Wirth introduced a five foot passing bill in the New Mexico legislature. There is an article about it in one of the Albuquerque news outlets. All the usual mouth breathers are posting hate mail.
go figure.
As I’ve written before the Tea Party is just the KKK without the pointy hats. Obama’s still got folks on both sides mad at him? In my view that means he’s doing just fine, especially (as OG pointed out) looking at some of his fellow lawmakers. The Repuglicans made a LOT of noise about not doing this or that while they were out of power — now that they have some again, it’ll be the same old stuff, more corporate handouts, less services for anyone who’s not rich and meaningless laws to deal with problems that don’t even matter in the grander scheme of things.
So Il Pistolero will be left playin’ with his pistol for a year and the bro of the guy who sent off euro 7K to Dr. Fuentes for the “training advice” will be declared the winner of TdF 2010? Pro cycling just looks ridiculous these days, sort of like the Repuglican Party, no? Read somewhere that the House majority leader’s name is actually pronounced BONER, not Bainer, despite what he claims.
Remind me again why we let national federations determine the bans? There’s no way the Spanish federation really going to hand their golden boy a two year ban when the clock started almost exactly two years before the London Olympics.