The Fun Tour

On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 16:48:02 GMT, "B. Lafferty" <[email hidden]>

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http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/9118.0.html

Throw in some medicinal weed and it could be the best race in America.
Seriously, I do hope they have a leader's jersey for sale. What slogan
might it have? "Just say no" is too old and common. Suggestions......

Just say "Who knows?"

Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...

Curtis L. Russell said:

On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 16:48:02 GMT, "B. Lafferty" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/9118.0.html

Throw in some medicinal weed and it could be the best race in America.
Seriously, I do hope they have a leader's jersey for sale. What slogan
might it have? "Just say no" is too old and common. Suggestions......

Just say "Who knows?"

Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...

How about? Be glad someone is stepping up to throw a ton of money at
this race to make it happen. AMGEN makes more than EPO by the way.

Tom

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Curtis L. Russell said:

On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 16:48:02 GMT, "B. Lafferty" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/9118.0.html

Throw in some medicinal weed and it could be the best race in America.
Seriously, I do hope they have a leader's jersey for sale. What slogan
might it have? "Just say no" is too old and common. Suggestions......

Just say "Who knows?"

Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...

How about? Be glad someone is stepping up to throw a ton of money at
this race to make it happen. AMGEN makes more than EPO by the way.

Tom

I think it's great that they've stepped up to the plate. Hopefully, they
will [dare I say USAC, too ;-) ] use some part of their corporate presence
to promote a drug free message in sports. IIRC, they have a team of
employees who have been competeing as a USCF team for several years.

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B. Lafferty said:

http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/9118.0.html

Throw in some medicinal weed and it could be the best race in America.
Seriously,

What connection, EPO-cannabis, are you referring to, or making up?

I do hope they have a leader's jersey for sale. What slogan

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might it have? "Just say no" is too old and common. Suggestions......

Bode Miller for President?

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writers/tim_layden/11/01/bode.book/1.html

Or: http://tinyurl.com/8ul5h --D-y

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Quoted message said:

B. Lafferty said:

http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/9118.0.html

Throw in some medicinal weed and it could be the best race in America.
Seriously,

What connection, EPO-cannabis, are you referring to, or making up?

I was thinking of the Columbian team that Pablo Escobar sponsoed when he was
running for political office. One of his men gave out free joints to all at
the stage start one day duning the Columbian tour. .

Quoted message said:

I do hope they have a leader's jersey for sale. What slogan

Quoted message said:

might it have? "Just say no" is too old and common. Suggestions......

Bode Miller for President?

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writers/tim_layden/11/01/bode.book/1.html

Or: http://tinyurl.com/8ul5h --D-y

Maybe a first in history ... where riders get in trouble if they DO use a
sponsors' product rather than if they don't.

--
Bob C.

"Of course it hurts. The trick is not minding that it hurts."
T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia)
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Quoted message said:

http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/9118.0.html

Throw in some medicinal weed and it could be the best race in America.
Seriously, I do hope they have a leader's jersey for sale. What slogan
might it have? "Just say no" is too old and common. Suggestions......

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What connection, EPO-cannabis, are you referring to, or making up?

It isn't unknown for people in chemo to use both at different times
for different reasons.

"Doper Toker Tour" has a ring to it, but too many Dr.Hook and the
Medicine Show fans would probably show up hoping to see them back.

Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...

B. Lafferty said:

http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/9118.0.html

Throw in some medicinal weed and it could be the best race in America.
Seriously, I do hope they have a leader's jersey for sale. What slogan
might it have? "Just say no" is too old and common. Suggestions......

Amgen press release:

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/051102/25918.html?.v=1

Thanks for the link.
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Quoted message said:

B. Lafferty said:

http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/9118.0.html

Throw in some medicinal weed and it could be the best race in America.
Seriously, I do hope they have a leader's jersey for sale. What slogan
might it have? "Just say no" is too old and common. Suggestions......

Amgen press release:

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/051102/25918.html?.v=1

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email hidden said:

What connection, EPO-cannabis, are you referring to, or making up?

It isn't unknown for people in chemo to use both at different times
for different reasons.

"Doper Toker Tour" has a ring to it, but too many Dr.Hook and the
Medicine Show fans would probably show up hoping to see them back.

Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...

I love it. The Doper Toker Tour presented by AMGEN.

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B. Lafferty said:

http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/9118.0.html

Throw in some medicinal weed and it could be the best race in America.
Seriously, I do hope they have a leader's jersey for sale. What slogan
might it have? "Just say no" is too old and common. Suggestions......

Route information for anyone interested

http://www.amgentourofcalifornia.com/route.html

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Quoted message said:

B. Lafferty said:

http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/9118.0.html

Throw in some medicinal weed and it could be the best race in America.
Seriously,

What connection, EPO-cannabis, are you referring to, or making up?

I was thinking of the Columbian team that Pablo Escobar sponsoed when he was
running for political office. One of his men gave out free joints to all at
the stage start one day duning the Columbian tour. .

Throwing a few pennies to the poor? It takes more to pay off the
bigshots:

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/29/1812254

(reading down to the HCA scandal, so scandalously underreported in the
"liberal press"😉:

(sorry for the length, suffice to say apparently only some criminals
get shot down):

<DOUG IRELAND: Well, the interesting thing that we're not reading in
the mainstream corporate media is just what the Frist family company,
H.C.A., Hospital Corporation of America, was all about. When the Bush
administration came into office, H.C.A. was, had been for nearly a
decade, the target of one of the most extensive federal investigations
of any corporation in the history of the United States. And H.C.A. was,
in fact, one of the largest corporate swindles in American history.

<The company that provided the family money that Bill Frist used to buy
himself a Senate seat from the State of Tennessee was obtained by
fraud, and fraud on the government. H.C.A. defrauded for years and
years the programs designed to help poor Americans get healthcare.
H.C.A. defrauded Medicaid. It defrauded Medicare. And it defrauded
Tricare, which is of course, the federal program that covers the
military and their families. The government case against H.C.A. was
basically that the Frist family company kept two sets of books and
fraudulently overbilled the government. It inflated its expenses. It
billed the government for inflated overrun.

<It violated both law and medical ethics when the company increased its
Medicare billings by exaggerating the seriousness of illnesses they
were treating. It bribed doctors in a whole scale bribery operation. It
gives them partnerships in H.C.A. hospitals as a kickback for the
doctors referring patients to H.C.A. It gave them free gifts, loans
that were never expected to be paid back, gave them free rent, free
office furniture, free drugs from hospital pharmacies. All of this to
bribe the doctors into referring patients to H.C.A. companies.

<When the Bushies came in at a time when this investigation, which the
deputy F.B.I. director said was one of the most important the F.B.I.
had ever conducted into corporate America, it was expected that Bill
Frist's brother, Thomas, who was one of the richest men in America --
Fortune estimated he had over $2 billion -- was going to be indicted,
along with a raft of H.C.A. executives.

<But the Bushies and John Ashcroft decided otherwise. And they arranged
a little sweetheart deal with the Frist family, with Bill Frist's
brother, Tom, and the executives of the Frist family business, H.C.A.,
that let them get off the hook without any jail time. They did have to
pay a fine, and the size of the fine tells you just how massive the
fraud was, because the fine was for $1.7 billion, with a "b", $1.7
billion that H.C.A. had to pay the government for the fraud that it had
committed.>

Well, maybe they'll nail his saintly ass to the barn door this time. "I
have no clear recollection of having talked to my brother about selling
that stock".

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Suggestions......

Bode Miller for President?

--D-y