Archive for April 24th, 2007
Giuliani
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007Rudy Giuliani said if a Democrat is elected president in 2008, America will be at risk for another terrorist attack on the scale of Sept. 11, 2001.
But if a Republican is elected, he said, especially if it is him, terrorist attacks can be anticipated and stopped.
This from a guy who, after the World Trade Center terrorist bombing of 1993, put the city Emergency Operations Center in the very same complex that was attacked and was under threat for future attack. So guess what happened to the control center on 9/11? It was destroyed in the attack and was of no use to the city that day.
Is this the kind of great judgment that we can expect from President Rudy?
I’ll pass.
Yellow Line Rule
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007You are in the fight for your life. Attacks are going up the road, your legs are starting to go soft, the wind is blasting from the right. It’s classic gutter ball conditions and you are looking for any relief you can find to stay in the race.
Half a dozen guys up front are rotating in an echelon, taking advantage of each others help to gain even a few seconds break from the wind. The rest of the group is lined up single file in the middle of the road, unwilling to offer any assistance or benefit to someone else. It would be so easy to start a second echelon, just behind the first, with the same efficiency. The gap would only be a few feet and it would be easy to shut it back down once you get out of this horrible cross wind.
But, for what ever reason, no one offers to help you get the second echelon started. It’s getting harder and harder to stay on the wheel ahead of you. Looking to the left you see the entire lane of road open and free. But it does not take long for one or two other riders to move across the yellow line, into the lane reserved for oncoming traffic, in the desperate attempt to catch a break from the wind and stay in the race.
You curse these riders for the cheaters that they are. It’s getting more and more difficult to stay in the race however. What are you going to do?
It comes down to this: Are you going to move across the yellow line and take advantage of the wind break provided by those who are obeying the rules or are you going to get dropped from the group? Those are your two options.
The race course is devoid of traffic. There is no official monitoring your group. Others are sitting over there recovering from the wind and you are sitting over here suffering. You paid $25 just to enter this event. You are going to have spent four hours in the car to get out here and back. You worked your ass off all winter so you could race this season and you are going to get spit out of the pack because of a 2 mile cross wind section?
Someone who just spent a few minutes on the wrong side of the line accelerates off the front and the whole groups moves to chase. It’s crunch time now. Make or break.
Are you going to do what you have to do to stay in the race?
Or are you going to race with honesty and integrity and watch the race go up the road without you?
What are you going to do?
