Archive for April, 2007
Monday, April 30th, 2007
People phone or e-mail me all the time about “going for a ride” with them.
Hey, going for a ride when ever is just not the reality of life right now.
On weekends I ride one of the two days. That’s it. I am on the road by 8am and I try ...
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Monday, April 30th, 2007
Who’s doing this? Looks interesting.
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Monday, April 30th, 2007
Basso is out at Discovery.
Tyler Hamilton and Jorge Jaksche implicated in Puerto, suspended from Tinkoff and won’t race the Giro.
Who is ready for Hamilton to just go away now?
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Monday, April 30th, 2007
NRO:
How can the Republican party, headed by a president determined on a war he can’t see an end to, attract the support of a majority of the voters? General Petraeus, in his Pentagon briefing on April 26, reported persuasively that there has been progress, but cautioned, “I want to be ...
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Sunday, April 29th, 2007
His blog is way better now days!
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Sunday, April 29th, 2007
On Fox Sunday morning today Bill Kristol (who has a great record going: wrong about everything. why do they still put this guy on teevee?) was criticizing Senator Obama for stating that his first response to another terror attack in the USA would be one of emergency management rather than a ...
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Saturday, April 28th, 2007
I joined Billy, Scotty Rob and Dykes for a nice ride in the western suburbs this morning. We all agreed it was good that none of us went down to Sogn Valley as the legs were not really there. Dykes and Scotty Rob pushed the pace a bit around Lake ...
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Friday, April 27th, 2007
No racing for me this weekend. I don't need to spent 3 hours in the car and pay a bunch of money to get dropped. Another long training ride will do me more good.
For those racing tomorrow I have a prediction: pain.
(sent wireless via Treo 650)
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Friday, April 27th, 2007
AP:
The country would be safer by only "a small percentage" and would see "a very insignificant increase in safety" if al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was caught because another terrorist would rise to power. "It's not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one ...
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Friday, April 27th, 2007
Hey
Originally uploaded by smithersmpls.
Not much to report on today so far.
Baby Smithers got a new playset.
(sent wireless via Treo 650)
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