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Tom DeLay blames everybody but himself for the GOP's misfortunes.
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Now that the Anna Nicole Smith case has just about run its course, at least for now, it's time for Phil Spector to have his time in the limelight.
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Ramy Brooks' career has gone to the dogs.
Asshole.
He's not the first, either:
The last time a musher was disqualified for striking a dog was in 1990 when former champion Jerry Riley from Nenana hit a dog with a steel snowhook and injured it. Riley said he was trying to break up a dog fight and accidentally hit the dog with a strong blow.
Judges, citing alleged mistreatment of dogs by Riley in the past, refused to believe him and banned him from the race for life. Ten years later, however, the ban was lifted, and in the 2001 Iditarod, Riley, by then 64 years old, finished eighth -- one of the best finishes ever by a musher over 60.
Rookie Dave Branholm was disqualified in 1993 for losing a dog between Rohn and Nikolai.
Cases of mushers being disqualifed for mistreating dogs in the Iditarod have been relatively rare. Probably the worst of them came in 1983 when Wes Atherton shot a dog. The animal had broken its leg early in the race. Atherton had loaded it in his sled and tried to take it back to the checkpoint he'd just left, but he said the dog was suffering so badly he couldn't bear to watch. So he shot it.
Atherton thought that was a humanitarian act. Other mushers were horrified. Atherton, a rookie, never attempted another Iditarod.
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More double-standard horseshit, as young boys/men are never believed to suffer negative consequences from casual sex.
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