Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
The Ice Bike race was a rousing success last Sunday, something like 75 people came out and participated in the races. Unbelievable.
A friend of mine and I worked registration and everyone who turned out to race was enthusiastic and excited to be able to be racing their bikes in January. My friend pointed out something that made me laugh but is completely true. If you just invited a bunch of people to come out and ride around on snow and ice, and throw in a bitter cold wind, you would not get hardly a single person to show up. Promote the same ride, create a start/finish line and charge $10 and you will get nearly 100 people to come out. People are crazy.
There is another race this coming Sunday for all you that missed out. I’ll try and have some better pictures to post next week.
One of the participants was an exchange student from Ypres Belgium. She was amazed that I recognized the name of her home town as she had not yet met a single American that was familiar with it. It’s a great sign of our public education system when no one recognizes the name of a town where 1.7 million French, German and British soldiers died between 1914 and 1918. That’s nearly three times the total number of Americans killed in every war fought since the Revolution.
UPDATE 1/24/06 1:50pm: 1.7 million killed or wounded at Ypres. Regardless, very few Americans are familiar with this town.
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
Chris Matthews 5-1-03:
We’re proud of our president. Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who’s physical, who’s not a complicated guy like Clinton or even like Dukakis or Mondale, all those guys, McGovern. They want a guy who’s president. Women like a guy who’s president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president. It’s simple.
I think people are looking for a guy who might be a little more complicated at this point. Bush at 36% and falling.
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
Lou Dobbs: The Washington Post has shut down one of its blogs after a Washington Post executive wrote that disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff gave money to Democrats as well as Republicans. The comments weren’t well received by many Washington Post blog readers, in fact using the blog to launch highly personal attacks against ombudsman Deborah Howell. For the record about a third of the money from Jack Abramoff and his clients did in fact go to Democrats and 2/3 to Republicans. That’s the reality. Don’t blog me! It’s the fact. And poor Washington Post ombudmsan not being able to deal with reality on their own blog.
Yes, Lou, but that’s not what she wrote.
Liberal media indeed.
Q: How come they can’t figure out that money from Abramoff’s clients was given legally and money from Abramoff was given illegally?
A: Because they are worthless.
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