Before beginning the drive, Mitt Romney put Seamus, the family’s hulking Irish setter, in a dog carrier and attached it to the station wagon’s roof rack. He’d built a windshield for the carrier, to make the ride more comfortable for the dog.
Then Romney put his boys on notice: He would be making predetermined stops for gas, and that was it.
The ride was largely what you’d expect with five brothers, ages 13 and under, packed into a wagon they called the ”white whale.”
As the oldest son, Tagg Romney commandeered the way-back of the wagon, keeping his eyes fixed out the rear window, where he glimpsed the first sign of trouble. ”Dad!” he yelled. ”Gross!” A brown liquid was dripping down the back window, payback from an Irish setter who’d been riding on the roof in the wind for hours.
As the rest of the boys joined in the howls of disgust, Romney coolly pulled off the highway and into a service station. There, he borrowed a hose, washed down Seamus and the car, then hopped back onto the highway. It was a tiny preview of a trait he would grow famous for in business: emotion-free crisis management.
“Ordinarily if you go to a doctor for a medical check of some kind and you go 60 times and you get one that’s odd, the doctor will say ‘well, there must be a mistake with the test.’ In this situation, in these tests, they take that as an issue with you and you have to explain exactly what is is that happened.”
How unfair.
“Their test, I believe, is a good test. It’s just, they way they did it and the way they applied it doesn’t work.”
Does that include the 7 times that you passed the test before getting popped?
Sean Hannity thinks the whole thing is a farce, while Alan Colmes goes for the jugular.
“Is there a doping problem in the sport at all?” – Colmes
“Sure. If one person dopes it’s a problem.” – Landis
Especially if that person is the winner…
“If you know you are going to get tested, and tested extensively, it doesn’t make sense that you would do it to me. Unless you think you can beat the test.” – Hannity
“No, logically that doesn’t make sense. But, again, that’s not a defense that they will accept.” - Landis
Yea, didn’t Landis state that there is no possible reason for a cyclist to use testosterone?
Astana’s Matthias Kessler has returned an adverse analytical finding for testosterone, according to a team press release issued today. The sample was taken in a surprise doping control on April 24 in Charleroi, Belgium prior to La Flèche Wallonne. Kessler finished fourth in the race.
For years, we’d been setting our side-view mirrors so that they gave us a view of the back corner of our cars. This is the way it’s been done for generations - from grandfather, to father, to us! But we finally discovered something very interesting. The back corner of the car never moves. It always stays in the same exact place. So there’s really no reason to keep an eye on it.
Good point.
Tom and Ray then go on to demonstrate their recommended way to set up your side view mirrors.
I tried out this set up over the weekend and have been testing it out for the last few days.
It takes some getting used to, but I have to say that it really works. No more blind spot. You still have to check over your shoulder before changing lanes, but it’s really more just checking right next to you rather than back over your shoulder.
If you are eligible to serve in the US military should you automatically be eligible to vote? If you fight for the United States in battle should you automatically be made a citizen of the USA?
If you are old enough to drive should you be old enough to vote?
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