You clearly missed the whole story swirling around those samples, first they were actually reported by the French ( who have them) press and Armstrong was in some sort of litigation to supress them or to argue their irrelevance, I don't recall details, it was a good 2-4 yrs. ago. I wondered at the time what will ever remain of the controversy, will it ever blow up and it clearly did.
Defense of what? The use of tax dollars to pursue Lance Armstrong into retirement? If so, then please show where I said that. I was simply saying that they aren't a federal agency and they don't, as far as I'm aware, have any federally mandated enforcement powers. The US government doesn't empower them to determine athletes' eligibility to compete -- the governing bodies of the individual sports do that. Their power doesn't extend beyond the jurisdiction of those governing bodies... unlike, say, the FAA, a bona fide government agency with rather broad jurisdiction and enforcement powers (to keep this remotely aviation orientedA weak defense at best.
).Apparently the American tax payer wants American athletes to be squeaky clean chemically and is willing to fund an organization to administer the tests to prove it. Like I said, we as a culture worship these "heroes" far and above Nobel prize-winning writers and scientists and even brilliant entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs. I totally and 100% agree that this is a waste of taxpayer money and that the funds should come from the governing bodies -- or the huge profits made by the sponsors. So what to do about it? Write our congresscritters to introduce a bill cutting off funding to the USADA? If it's doable, I'm all for it.
I expect quite a few that weren't aware before, are now. I would be surprised if anything changes as a result.
They just spelled the end of the little interest Americans had in the TdF until they get naked chicks riding it, or at least topless. 
May be we could mount machine guns on the bikes, that would make it more interesting than Cricket and almost as interesting as Golf or Baseball.
Nah. The WWF claims to be what they have always claimed to be... the World Wildlife Fund for Nature.
Dead serious. I put it right alongsside Toddlers & Tiaras and Jerry Springer... just ways in which we plumb the depths of human depravity for profit. We're a lesser society for it.
What? You don't like Honey Boo Boo?
I feel deeply sorry for that poor girl. Her family and the TV producers are assuring her a completely ruined life. The fact that someone is willing to put it on the air diminishes us all, and the fact that there are people willing to watch it makes me wonder if we haven't slid too far into the abyss already to ever recover.What? You don't like Honey Boo Boo?
What? You don't like Honey Boo Boo?
It's a spinoff of "Toddlers and Tiaras"
if that gives you a clue about the subject.
It's a spinoff of "Toddlers and Tiaras"
http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/tv/here-comes-honey-boo-boo
I was channel surfing and came upon a preview that was so off the wall that I had to figure out what it was about...
You are my hero.
Browsing through that site I thought it was hilarious.You're not real in tune with the mid-20's west coast hipster crowd I see
Browsing through that site I thought it was hilarious.
Browsing through that site I thought it was hilarious.
The White People Travel Bingo card on the front page is pretty funny. Although I only could score two items for myself. One was the Nalgene water bottle with the faded Colorado Pilot's Assn. sticker on it.
The White People Travel Bingo card on the front page is pretty funny. Although I only could score two items for myself. One was the Nalgene water bottle with the faded Colorado Pilot's Assn. sticker on it.