Any cowboy from Oak Cliff, Texas, who survives metastasized cancer & then dominates the Tour de France 7 years in a row, is beyond amazing. However, we'd not be surprised if the amazing marvels of modern pharmacology were a team player.
(I am assuming you are telling the truth, of course. Since I am unable to verify this information I am giving you the benefit of the doubt.)
As far as Cowboy Lance goes, I truly hope he is clean, but I wouldn't be surprised either. Just another reason I don't follow professional sports - too much pressure, not enough integrity.
At any rate - enjoy your tour! I will certainly enjoy mine.
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"What a book a Devil's Chaplain might write on the climsy, wasteful, blundering low and horribly cruel works of nature." ~Charles Darwin, Letter to Hooker, 1856
"To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact." ~Charles Darwin
"How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by chldren." ~Charles Darwin
"By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science wasd justified. ~E. O. Wilson
"Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals." ~E. O. Wilson
"It is said that men may not be the dreams of the God, but that the Gods are the dreams of men." ~Carl Sagan
"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." ~Carl Sagan
"Nothing physical which sense-experience sets before our eyes, or which necessary demonstrations prove to us, ought to be called into question (much less condemned) upon the testimony of biblical passages." ~Galileo Galilei
"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence." ~Richard Dawkins
"All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God." ~Stephen Hawking
"I do not believe that any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States." ~Thomas Alva Edison
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." ~Albert Einstein
"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him." ~Arthur C. Clarke
"Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." ~Thomas Jefferson
"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise." ~James Madison
"Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it." ~John Adams
"My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years." ~Abraham Lincoln
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." ~Benjamin Franklin
"Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause." ~George Washington
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Are you attending?
ReplyDeleteGreetings from sunny Anaheim!
ReplyDeleteJust had to bring the cold with ya, huh?
ReplyDeleteWimp.
ReplyDeleteI am surprised you never mentioned Avalon. It was incredibly picturesque. And deserted on Super Bowl Sunday.
ReplyDeleteArles & Avignon, even better.
ReplyDeleteThis year's Tour passes thru neither, but Stage 15 sprints into Montpellier before heading for the Alps, less than an hour's drive to either.
And next day is a day-off. Très magnifique!
btw, your Avalon link didn't make the cut.
Oops. I don't think my Anaheim link is working either. Both pics are in the same album so it shouldn't be a problem now.
ReplyDeleteWay to stay on topic though. You are so good at that!
I have only been to Paris. Fantabulous when you are extremely young and poor. Unforgettable.
Used to Scuba Avalon back in my early cycling days.
ReplyDeleteDon't miss the Tour of California.
We plan to catch Stage 7 up Mt Baldy.
Team RadioShack is riding, tho Lance hasn't yet committed.
By "catch" do you mean ride or just spectate?
ReplyDeleteDo you think Lance is a doper? Or just really beyond amazing?
We never spectate; we test our limits.
ReplyDeleteAny cowboy from Oak Cliff, Texas, who survives metastasized cancer & then dominates the Tour de France 7 years in a row, is beyond amazing. However, we'd not be surprised if the amazing marvels of modern pharmacology were a team player.
Disappointed, but not surprised.
Pretty impressive! Good luck!
ReplyDelete(I am assuming you are telling the truth, of course. Since I am unable to verify this information I am giving you the benefit of the doubt.)
As far as Cowboy Lance goes, I truly hope he is clean, but I wouldn't be surprised either. Just another reason I don't follow professional sports - too much pressure, not enough integrity.
At any rate - enjoy your tour! I will certainly enjoy mine.