Mario Cipolinni (pic) wins a second stage in the 57th Vuelta a España.

The Lion King's team, Acqua e Sapone, launched him perfectly for the win. The leadout was fast and dangerous as the final kilometers of the race were filled with traffic circles the pack had to navigate at 40+ miles per hour. The team members just blew apart one-by-one as they stretched out the pack keeping Super Mario at the front. What excitement this team adds to a tour. They have dominated the sprints in two of the three grand tours this year, the Vuelta and the Giro. They probably would have dominated in the Tour de France also, had the organizers not excluded Cipolinni for what looked like personal reasons. Not all of the best cyclists in the world were at the Tour this year.

The Vuelta can be watched on OLN TV.

10:42:54 PM    comment []

Hillary speaks her mind and I agree!

"Well, I think if we're in a war and we're thinking about expanding that war to Iraq, you know, the nation, and particularly those of us who are in the top 1 to 10 percent of our country's earners, we have to be willing to put our money where our mouths are."

Hillary also hammers Bush on the solution to all problems being tax cuts. I am so glad people are finally willing to call Bush's policies a rehash of Reaganomics.

"We've seen this before. This is what was done in the 1980s and it took about eight years to get out of the deficit ditch and to get a surplus so that we could be prepared for rainy days and even terrible tragedies like what happened to us on 9-11."

Although I truly hate this phrase, "You go girl!"

11:10:39 AM    comment []

When civil rights leaders get old.

The sad thing is that he was a good civil rights leader at one time, and one of Atlanta's first black police officers. He is a shadow of the man he used to be. Hopefully he will lose the primary runoff and join his whacked out daughter Cynthia McKinney at home. Cynthia, by the way, became a representative only because her father tailored a heavily black congressional district for her in 1990 during redistricting.

His most memorable quote came during his daughter's reelection campaign this year, as she was going down in flames. He blamed her loss on others.

"Jews have bought everybody. Jews... J-E-W-S.

Not that he would be racist or anything.

As a Democrat I truly hope that Atlanta, and Georgia, will continue to get more moderate Democrats in elected office.

9:24:30 AM    comment []