Ugly Bike
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007Gilby pulls the plug (again).
Another entertaining blog bites the dust. I’m sure someone will come along and replace it with a colossally lame blog in the not-to-distant future.
Archive for March 6th, 2007
More Libby
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007How to respond to all of your conservative pals regarding the Libby case:
• This was a trial about nothing.
Perjury, obstruction of justice, and lying to federal investigators is hardly nothing. Were conservatives not the very ones obsessed with the “rule of law” during the Clinton era?
• No underlying crime was committed.
Libby’s obstructions prevented special counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald from determining whether the alleged CIA leak actually violated federal law.
• Libby was not responsible for the CIA leak.
Maybe, maybe not. Libby was not on trial for this charge anyway. But Libby did discuss Valerie Plame’s employment with NYT reporter Judith Miller on several occasions before Robert Novak’s published column naming Plame.
• There is no evidence that the CIA leak compromised national security.
The CIA believed that the leak was serious enough to warrant an investigation. The disclosure of Plame’s CIA front company put other CIA agents at risk. Plame was the chief of operations for the CIA’s Joint Task Force on Iraq at the time of the leak and her exposure jeopardized the work of this task force.
Do you really have any conservative pals anyway?
The danger of motorcycles
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007Lay down your motor and life will be all about mobile phone games and sex.
How sad.
Lotto versus Unibet
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
VeloNews actually makes a good point regarding Unibet’s exclusion from Paris-Nice:
The reason is that it is illegal to publicize betting in France and the team is sponsored by an online betting shop. Oddly enough, the French law in question is a 19th century regulation that bans the promotion of gambling, including “lotteries,” which could conceivably ban participation by two long-time pro teams, Française des Jeux and Predictor-Lotto.
I am sure that France has some kind of exception to allow the promotion of its own national lottery in the case of Française des Jeux. But Lotto backed teams have been actively racing in France for almost 20 years with no problems. Seems a bit hypocritical to ban Unibet while allowing Lotto.
Never-the-less, both the Unibet and Astana racing teams paid the UCI over $40 million each in order to qualify as a Pro Tour team for 2007. Neither one of these teams are getting what they paid for.
