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Why Lance Armstrong has my sympathy
TheDailyCaller.com ^ | 01-16-2013 | Laurie Dhue

Posted on 01/17/2013 12:08:06 PM PST by TexasCajun

Consider this: You and I have now won the Tour de France as many times as Lance Armstrong.

In case you need a quick recap: After more than a year of investigating, in June 2012, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) charged Armstrong with using illicit performance-enhancing drugs. In August, it stripped Armstrong of all competitive results from August 1998 on, and announced that he was banned from competitive cycling for life. In October, the sport’s governing body, UCI, accepted USADA’s recommended sanctions. By early November, nearly all of his sponsors had dropped him (including Nike, Anheuser-Busch, RadioShack and Oakley). In mid-November, Armstrong resigned from the board of directors of his foundation, Livestrong. Yet despite all this, and even though 26 of his former teammates have offered damning evidence against him, including several who admit to doping with him, Armstrong hasn’t publicly admitted to taking performance-enhancing drugs.

But that’s about to change because of — who else? — Oprah. The AP is reporting that Lance Armstrong admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs in his recent interview with Oprah, which airs Thursday night on OWN. I’ll be watching not just to see an admission of guilt, but to see an admission that he’s an addict, just like me, and needs help, just like I did.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/16/why-lance-armstrong-has-my-sympathy/#ixzz2IGSzjkei


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KEYWORDS: addiction; armstrong; dhue; lance
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To: kevkrom
Lance stole and cheated his way to fame & fortune.

If there were any non-doping cyclist, he did indeed steal what should rightfully be theirs by his cheating.

He defrauded sponsors & charities to the tune of multi-millions.

If only Lance had hired Rusty Hardin like Roger Clemens.

21 posted on 01/17/2013 12:29:29 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: jimbo123
Armstrong needs to return all of the money he took from the US Postal Service in sponsorship fees or go to jail for fraud.

And then the labor unions need to be thrown out of the USPS. No matter how bad Lance Armstrong has been, it doesn't even come close to the evils of union thugs, especially the goons "working" for the Postal Service. Without the corrupting influence and featherbeddding of unions, a stamp would still look like this:

In all candor, in an ideal world, the entire USPS would be consigned to the scrap heap of history. Mail and parcel delivery is far better served by the private sector but there are some Constitutional complications to overcome with abolishing the USPS.

22 posted on 01/17/2013 12:29:29 PM PST by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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To: Delta Dawn

Hillary will ‘plain it all to us next Wednesday.


23 posted on 01/17/2013 12:31:14 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: TexasCajun

Our grandson fell in love with Laurie before and at the time he started to talk.

His mom would park his high chair in front of the tv and Fox News was usually on.

At that time Laurie Dhue, was a regular on Fox.

Our grandson would watch her and smile, even if he had been crying before watching.

His first word was Mama, then Daddy, then he surprised everyone shouting ‘Lauri “DO”’, when he saw her on tv or wanted to see her.

A few months, later when he was more verbal and more demanding he would stand up in his crib and yell, “Watch Lauri DO!” until his mom would get Fox on. As soon as Luari came on he would smile, sit down, watch her and drool. His mother joked that his Dad did the same thing.


24 posted on 01/17/2013 12:33:26 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Tagline space for rent to pay for some of my extra taxes the next 4 years!)
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To: jimbo123

In my opinion, the Postal Service shouldn’t even be in the “business” of sponsoring professional athletes at all. This is a quasi-governmental agency with a near monopoly that is losing money in the billions and has to raise postal rates about every six months now. It’s wrong to squander OUR MONEY on this sort of nonsense.


25 posted on 01/17/2013 12:36:12 PM PST by jpl (The government spent another half a million bucks in the time it just took you to read this tagline.)
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To: TexasCajun

Heck with Lance, I am sick to death of him. He is one more liar that needs to go away.

Screw you, Lance. Go away. You are just another liar spoiling the country.


26 posted on 01/17/2013 12:36:36 PM PST by dforest
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To: kevkrom

He’s a freakin’ liberal so he’s guilty of being devastating to our country from within!

Hang the POS!


27 posted on 01/17/2013 12:36:56 PM PST by Randy Larsen (Aim small, Miss small.)
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To: TexasCajun; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows

A black transvestite I once knew, a very funny guy, sometimes addressed people saying “Miss Thing” or “Miss Dhue”!


28 posted on 01/17/2013 12:37:47 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Daveinyork; jimbo123
Experts: Lance Armstrong confession could cost him tens of millions

A Justice Department official told NBC News some lawyers in the civil division are pushing for the government to join a whistleblower lawsuit filed in 2010.

The suit is under seal but published reports have said that Armstrong teammate Floyd Landis brought it on behalf of the U.S. Postal Service, which sponsored the team and paid out $30 million in fees.

If successful, the suit could compel Armstrong and other defendants to pay back that money plus $60 million in damages, with up to 30 percent going to Landis. Federal involvement in the suit could improve Landis' chances.

29 posted on 01/17/2013 12:39:10 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: TexasCajun

I know that Miss Dhue, like all talking heads, can read having to read a teleprompter for living, but when did she learn to write?


30 posted on 01/17/2013 12:39:51 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: jpl
In my opinion, the Postal Service shouldn’t even be in the “business”...

Fixed it! :-)

See my post a few back on this matter. And yes, I know of Article I: Section 8: Clause 7 in the Constitution. I favor a strict interpretation that allows Congress the power to only designate facilities but would allow free enterprise to perform the job of mail handling and get it out the role of inefficient government bureaucrats and their evil union allies.

Lawyers?

31 posted on 01/17/2013 12:42:58 PM PST by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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To: TexasCajun

My jock/felon is better/faster/stronger than your jock/felon/


32 posted on 01/17/2013 12:44:40 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: TexasCajun

For the life of me, I can’t understand why the USPS sponsored a cycling team in the first place.

$32 million, over 4 years....to sponsor a sport that is really only popular with their customers a few weeks out of the year.

Wow.


33 posted on 01/17/2013 12:45:57 PM PST by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: Grampa Dave
Our grandson would watch her and smile, even if he had been crying before watching.

Me too Grampa Dave.


34 posted on 01/17/2013 12:46:30 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: jpl

I wonder...did Armstrong take these drugs continuously? Or only in the run up to big races.

If Armstrong was able to abstain from use when not racing (and to pass drug tests), I wouldn’t exactly say he was addicted to the drugs. Rather, I’d say he was addicted to winning.


35 posted on 01/17/2013 12:49:14 PM PST by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: TexasCajun

GUILTY!

36 posted on 01/17/2013 12:49:27 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: jimbo123

To prevail in a lawsuit the USPS would have to prove damages. What are its monetary damage? None of his former sponsors have a case.

Armstrong is an ahole, but that is a different issue.

He will have liability to those he defamed and to the media outlet he successfully sued for defamation.

In the world of cycling, his actions were nothing out of the ordinary, he just avoided getting caught longer than most.


37 posted on 01/17/2013 12:49:54 PM PST by SeaHawkFan
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To: jimbo123
Armstrong needs to pay back the millions in sponsorship dollars he stole from the US Postal Service or go to prison for fraud.

Sounds fair. What about every other doper who pushed a pedal and took sponsorship money to do so?

38 posted on 01/17/2013 12:50:22 PM PST by kevkrom (If a wise man has an argument with a foolish man, the fool only rages or laughs...)
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To: TexasCajun

This just in:

Tour de France officials have finally found a “clean” winner for the 2003 tour. Jeremy Koutsis was just 8 years old when he was randomly selected to ride in the prologue that year as a publicity stunt for one of the tour sponsors.

” Since Jeremy was not tested he must be presumed to not have taken any performances enhancing drugs” said one tour official. The official also said they would be monitoring Jeremy for the rest of his life for any deviations in his performance. “ Our goal is to maintain the integrity of the race.”

In a related story the US testing agency that nailed Armstrong indicated they had procured an Eddie Mercks’ hair sample from an old photo album and would have a startling announcement in the coming weeks.


39 posted on 01/17/2013 12:52:09 PM PST by waredbird
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To: re_nortex
And yes, I know of Article I: Section 8: Clause 7 in the Constitution. I favor a strict interpretation that allows Congress the power to only designate facilities but would allow free enterprise to perform the job of mail handling and get it out the role of inefficient government bureaucrats and their evil union allies.

The Constitution authorizes Congress to set up post offices, it doesn't mandate that it do so.

40 posted on 01/17/2013 12:53:52 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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