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Fri Jan 18, 2013, 12:05 AM

rsmith6621 (6,666 posts)

Are We Past Lance Armstrong... Can We Get Back....

..... To the business of talking about people who are having their homes unfairly foreclosed on. Can we get about talking about those who are unemployed and need work. Can we get back to finding solutions leveling the foreign trade field How about the discussion about closing loophole that corporations use to add to their bottom line and the executives wages. How about how ineffective our elected leaders are.

I am sick of the 2 week Lance confession orgy, but hell, the news anchors got another break from doing their job as journalist.

Hope tomorrow the media has moved on.

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18 replies	Author	Time	Post
Are We Past Lance Armstrong... Can We Get Back.... (Original post)	rsmith6621	Jan 2013	OP
who????	niyad	Jan 2013	#1
Bicyclist who had a make-believe online girlfriend	LTR	Jan 2013	#7
I think we should still claim credit for the Moon landing in 1969	slackmaster	Jan 2013	#2
Fine by me	Kalidurga	Jan 2013	#3
I agree.	Archae	Jan 2013	#4
Nope it's all guns and faux outrage over a bicycle racer.	MrSlayer	Jan 2013	#5
Add to that the climate change report.	Mojorabbit	Jan 2013	#8
Really? Like a MAJOR athlete's drug usage is nothing? LA won Olympic gold;	WinkyDink	Jan 2013	#6
I want to know- did Lance get his cancer from steroids? And how many kids will die from steroids?	graham4anything	Jan 2013	#9
Even if Lance Armstrong had not used	Jenoch	Jan 2013	#10
"found several items banned in France: toothpaste, soap, and deodorant."	marmar	Jan 2013	#12
"Ignorance"?	Jenoch	Jan 2013	#17
This is the first thread I've seen on Armstrong	BainsBane	Jan 2013	#11
I was looking forward to more threads.	Prometheus Bound	Jan 2013	#13
I think that he is a pertinent person to discuss	Are_grits_groceries	Jan 2013	#14
Doping to win is an issue in cycling.	Jennicut	Jan 2013	#15
Not quite - he needs to be tied to Bush	malaise	Jan 2013	#16
Or you can just avoid the threads, no?	marmar	Jan 2013	#18

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Fri Jan 18, 2013, 12:08 AM

niyad (24,779 posts)

1. who????

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Fri Jan 18, 2013, 01:26 AM

LTR (13,048 posts)

7. Bicyclist who had a make-believe online girlfriend

or something like that.

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Fri Jan 18, 2013, 12:08 AM

slackmaster (60,567 posts)

2. I think we should still claim credit for the Moon landing in 1969

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Fri Jan 18, 2013, 12:13 AM

Kalidurga (4,829 posts)

3. Fine by me

I think it's a non story from the get go.

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Fri Jan 18, 2013, 12:14 AM

Archae (26,619 posts)

4. I agree.

I really could care less about Lance Armstrong.
It's over.

Now get on to what *IS* important, like the House GOP stupidity on just about everything, and the GSA (formerly the NRA) finally having jumped the shark.

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Fri Jan 18, 2013, 12:18 AM

MrSlayer (21,559 posts)

5. Nope it's all guns and faux outrage over a bicycle racer.

Jobs bill still not passed? So what. Income inequality still running rampant? Yawn. Banks robbing and pillaging with no end in sight? Whatever dude. Every company in the nation dropping hours to avoid paying health costs? Crickets.

Occupy issues are so 2011 man.

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Fri Jan 18, 2013, 01:41 AM

Mojorabbit (12,871 posts)

8. Add to that the climate change report.

There are a ton of things happening but you would never know it here. I used to get most of my news from this board.

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Fri Jan 18, 2013, 12:45 AM

WinkyDink (37,370 posts)

6. Really? Like a MAJOR athlete's drug usage is nothing? LA won Olympic gold;

he's not a nobody.

Frankly, his fall is Shakespearean in magnitude.

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Fri Jan 18, 2013, 01:43 AM

graham4anything (10,368 posts)

9. I want to know- did Lance get his cancer from steroids? And how many kids will die from steroids?

Lance Armstrong belongs in jail for fraud.

Kids emmulating him will take the same drugs that have the #1 side effect being cancer.

He was like a terrorist, using women and kids and his charity to shield his shenanigans like a crime syndicate.

Why do people want to cover this up?

BTW, if not for Ralph Nader and his lies keeping people home because, why bother, both parties are one and the same, 9-11 wouldn't have happened, the bankrupting of America wouldn't have happened and the US Supreme Court never would have had Sam Alito and John Roberts.

Thanks Ralph Nader for the havoc you brought to America.

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Fri Jan 18, 2013, 02:27 AM

Jenoch (1,780 posts)

10. Even if Lance Armstrong had not used

illegal drugs to help him win he would have been stripped of his Tour de France victories because they searched him and found several items banned in France: toothpaste, soap, and deodorant.

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Fri Jan 18, 2013, 04:05 AM

marmar (61,347 posts)

12. "found several items banned in France: toothpaste, soap, and deodorant."

Bigoted ignorance is soooo funny.

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Fri Jan 18, 2013, 12:34 PM

Jenoch (1,780 posts)

17. "Ignorance"?

It was a JOKE. it was a joke based on longtime stereotypes of France. I am quite sure that toothpaste, soap, and deodorant are all legal items in France. How widespread their distribution is, well, that's another story ; )

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Fri Jan 18, 2013, 02:31 AM

BainsBane (10,915 posts)

11. This is the first thread I've seen on Armstrong

There are a wide variety of subjects to choose from among DU threads.

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Fri Jan 18, 2013, 05:23 AM

Prometheus Bound (3,489 posts)

13. I was looking forward to more threads.

Kind of disappointed.

I'm sure that there are at least a few people here who can handle more than one topic at a time.

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Fri Jan 18, 2013, 06:05 AM

Are_grits_groceries (12,740 posts)

14. I think that he is a pertinent person to discuss

because of his duplicity and its effect on Livestrong and PED use in general. The media goes overboard on a lot of topics so this is nothing new. I also want to know if his use of PEDs caused his cancer.

I also believe it's possible to discuss more than one subject in more than one area.

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Fri Jan 18, 2013, 06:15 AM

Jennicut (25,411 posts)

15. Doping to win is an issue in cycling.

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Not sure why the anger about people wanting to discuss it. You should hang out with my brother who rides 60 miles a day as an obsessive cyclist. He would talk about how much he hates doping all day long.

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Fri Jan 18, 2013, 06:17 AM

malaise (107,039 posts)

16. Not quite - he needs to be tied to Bush

They were buddies

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Fri Jan 18, 2013, 12:37 PM

marmar (61,347 posts)

18. Or you can just avoid the threads, no?

And let's get real - the disappearance of the Lance Armstrong story from the news will not encourage said news anchors to do their job.

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