the season has started

So here we are at race season again. w00t!! I get to obsess and wax poetic about a sport that even participants in find a bit hard to watch. So, goings on in the Tour of Qatar; Team Slipstream continues to impress. Even with the loss of "Big Maggie" to a broken collarbone Slipstream continued to put their young sprinter Chris Sutton in the top 10 everyday, eventually landing him just off the podium for 4th place in the stage race. Congratulations Chris and Team Slipstream.

Maggie says he'll be ready for Paris Roubaix.

Go Slipstream

Does this mean I gotta go buy a burrito now??

I haven't been talking much politics recently mostly because I've been getting over saturated with all the coverage of the primaries and the last state of the union. (thank god! only 350 or so days left) But as it stacks up now it is essentially a 2 horse race on either side. McCain/Romney and Clinton/Obama.

I would perfer to see Romney run only for the fact that I think he is more obviously insane and more likely to melt down under the national spotlight. McCain, just 8 years ago was pulling conservative dems and is a far more savvy politician, far better at fooling people who dont listen carefully.

Now that Richardson is out, as is Edwards and Kucinch (sp?) it's down to who we all knew were going to be there at the end. Clinton and Obama. I have a hard time with Hillery for a number of different reasons. Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton is the first. I think that we should have more than 2 families in the white house over the course of 36years (George the 1st was VP in 1980, if Hillery were to serve 8, she'd leave office in Jan '17) That and the fact that as a women in a man's world, I'm afraid that she would make overly aggressive decisions in order to prove that she was every bit as tough as all the guys. Also her vote on the Kyle Lieberman amendment, naming Iran's Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization, after the Iraq authorization 4 years earlier she should have known better than to allow GW that kind of authority. He immediately ratcheted up the saber rattling until the NIE came out disputing the fact that Iran was seeking a nuclear weapon. And at the end of the day we can still talk about the fact that she has taken more money from the industrial military lobby, the pharmaceutical lobby, and the insurance lobby than anyone else democrat or republican. Did I mention the fact that she is probably the most divisive figure in the race on either side??

Yes I know there are other contenders still in on both sides, but none are going to affect anything, not even Huckabee.

So Super Tuesday is 4 days away, lets hope the democrats havent shot themselves in the foot (again)

All this and Mrs. Culimerc has already said I get to go riding both Sat and Sun. w00t!!