Viva La France
I heard two items of note today in the news about my favorite nation:
1. They are providing the requisite medical care to that World Statesman, Yassir Arafat. We wish him Godspeed. . .straight to hell.
2. Officials of the Tour De France are changing the course this year to cut back on the mountain climbs and shorten the time trials. Seemingly innocuous, but for the fact that these are the two areas where a certain Texan has been earning that yellow jersey the last couple of years. I've heard of 'leveling the playing field' but this takes the cake.
1. They are providing the requisite medical care to that World Statesman, Yassir Arafat. We wish him Godspeed. . .straight to hell.
2. Officials of the Tour De France are changing the course this year to cut back on the mountain climbs and shorten the time trials. Seemingly innocuous, but for the fact that these are the two areas where a certain Texan has been earning that yellow jersey the last couple of years. I've heard of 'leveling the playing field' but this takes the cake.
posted by stewdog | 10:24 AM | Permalink
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Hey Stewdog -- great to see you back in the game and posting about our favorite nation.
As for Arafat: "We wish him Gospeed. . .straight to hell."
-- Amen to that. I have a confession to make, though. I saw that picture of the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize laureate smiling, looking very gaunt, and holding the hand of one of his cronies on AOL yesterday, and for the life of me I couldn't help feeling the slightest twinge of pity for him. Tell me that's a good thing and that it's only human. I imagine it's the way Frodo must have felt when he looked at Gollum.
I keep checking the news hoping to hear that nobel peace prize winning Arafat is on his way to his eternal punishment. What's taking so long?
I heard John Loftus on the radio a few days ago saying that his intelligence sources (whoever they are) think Arafat is dying of AIDS. That would be interesting, but I haven't been able to find anyone confirm that rumor.
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