Miscellaneous [Updated]

I found this interesting: While some 350 people in the United States are killed each year by police, few cops ever are tried for murder. This article is about one former cop being charged, but the report mentions few police will ever receive serious punishment.
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The PETA wackos want Obama to shove their crappy vegetarian lifestyle on school children, who need meat and dairy products in order to function.

Fucking goddamned weirdos.
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Lance Armstrong is on the road back to the Tour de France by competing in the Amgen Tour of California. However, Armstrong had a few harsh words for a reporter who called him a "cancer" on the sport of professional cycling.

There is this transcript of an interview with the critic, Paul Kimmage:

This return, he wants us to believe that it's all about saving the world from cancer. That's complete bullshit. It's about revenge It's about ego. It's about Lance Armstrong. I think he's trying to rewrite his exit from the sport. He's sat back and he's watched the last two years and he cannot stand the idea that there are clean cyclists now that will overtake his legacy and buy the memory of all the crap that he put the sport through.

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When Armstrong talks about transparency, this is the greatest laugh. When he talks about embracing this new transparency . I'm really looking forward to that. I'm really looking forward to my first interview request with him and seeing how that comes back. Because that would really make it interesting.

This guy, any other way but his bullying and intimidation wrapped up in this great cloak, the great cancer martyr . this is what he hides behind all the time. The great man who conquered cancer. Well he is the cancer in this sport. And for two years this sport has been in remission. And now the cancer's back."

Not very tactful, frankly.

And here is the video:




Update: Last year, cycling great and former Reno resident Greg LeMond talked about the issue of doping. Here is the video:



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