I’m not saying Big Jonny was workin’ the system in order to pay for booze, medical bills and porn, but… 16 in Arizona charged with fake Katrina, Rita claims Sixteen people in Arizona were indicted after federal and Arizona authorities said they claimed to be victims of Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita. Federal officials said [...]
Takin all bets…
Raise your glasses . . .
. . . to Jerry Thomas, “the Jupiter Olympus of the bar,” according to “The Bartender Who Started It All”, a story in today’s New York Times. The tale’s jumping-off point is “Imbibe!” (Perigee Books, $23.95), a biography-slash-recipe book by David Wondrich, the drink correspondent for Esquire. Wondrich follows Thomas’s perigrinations from Sackets Harbor, N.Y., [...]
Stolen Bike.
Going worldwide with this one. For those of you who are traveling Europe, who might live in or near Munich or Germany… Keep an eye open. Also if you see this on ebay, post that it’s stolen and kick their ass in a dark alley. Its a steel Singular singlespeeed, with a sweet ritchey rear [...]
NO.WRONG.BAD.
from Reuters : Bike-riding suicide bomber kills 30 Iraqi police By Ross Colvin BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A suicide bomber on a bicycle killed 30 Iraqi policemen doing their morning exercises at a base north of Baghdad on Monday, in one of the deadliest strikes on security forces in months. And a roadside bomb attack in [...]
Jaksche claims Riis threatened him
Seen this yet? Jörg Jaksche claimed that Bjarne Riis threatened him if he spoke out on doping, he said at the “Play the Game” antidoping conference in Iceland this weekend. “If you talk, you will never come back in cycling, Riis told me. And stated that he would organize that I could never come back,” [...]
As the empire burns…
A few things in the news lately. First up Condi is looking for help. It must make some Rethugs heads explode, or at the very least, catch fire to hear this. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Anxious not to repeat mistakes of past Middle East peace-making, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has turned to former presidents Bill [...]
It’s like Deja Vu all over again
Any idea where this is going? Inquiring minds want to know: I looked into his eyes and saw into his soul. But perhaps instead of tuning into Everybody Loves Raymond tonight, cuddle up with this little heart warmer: www.zeitgeistmovie.com
Lets look at something.
That something being a visual aid on how much money we are bleeding in Iraq. Nine Million dollars … The pile is 5 feet tall, 10 feet long, and 6¼ feet wide. A single stack of dollar bills in this amount would be 3,000 feet high. This horde is comparable in size to a single [...]
Tour de France revamped for 2008 – big jonny doesn’t care
Oh yeah, that thing in July with more drug use than a dead show is still around for ’08. The Tour de France has been given a major overhaul for 2008 as organisers try to revamp the tarnished race. Time bonuses have been scrapped and for the first time since 1966 the race will not [...]
Big Pun calls it out
From: Big Pun Subject: Doctors save man with vodka drip Where can I get some antifreeze? news.bbc.co.uk I got a fresh bottle in the garage I ain’t even cracked the label on. Come on through later and we’ll have ourselves a little party. You and me and the bottle makes three tonight.
AZ Cycle cross #1
These are a few days late getting posted, so sue me. Happy Friday. From: Snake Subject: RE: Pines to the Mines Just so you know I won the first cross race in PHX. I only took me 4 laps of the 9 to get back into the rhythm. Then it was full stick all the [...]
Thursday’s Poem: Haiku for Ike
A lap full of cat All too soon, it is empty The earth is hungry