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This is a hostile takeover!

Bear vs. Cat

Break Dancer vs. Toddler

Man vs. Wild

Rabbit vs. Snake

Jet vs. Car vs. Sportbike

747 vs. Lightweight Hippie Car

747 vs. Hong Kong Kai Tak

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1982 World Track Championships Tandem sprint early round

Just watch the “brilliant piece of riding” at the end.

Oh, and David Beckham is coming to Metrodome in October.

http://www.startribune.com/503/story/1196881.html

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I am not the biggest Greg LeMond fan, but, man, what a bizarre day of testimony for the guy, I feel bad for him. LeMond is a witness for the USADA at the trial of 2006 Tour de France quasi-champion Floyd Landis.

Landis, if you recall, is accused of doping during the Tour de France last year.

Anyway, in testimony today, LeMond broke down in tears when he testified his uncle molested him when he was a child. Why did this come out in testimony? Because last night he got a call from a man claiming to be his uncle saying, “I am your uncle and if you want me to finish this… We can talk about how we used to hide your weenie.” “This” being his testimony.

LeMond testified that he told the story of his uncle to Landis in a phone conversation after Landis had been accused of doping. He used it as an example of what can happen when people keep secrets buried as a way of trying to get Landis to come clean. Apparently Landis replied, “I don’t see anything good that could come of [coming clean]. I would hurt my friends.”

The kicker? The caller who claimed to be LeMond’s uncle is a close associate of Landis’. The caller was identified by police as Will Geoghegan, who has been by Landis’ side throughout his defense of his innocence.

What a soap opera. I believe Lance Armstrong doped and I believe Floyd Landis doped. Pro Cycling is in serious trouble and is full of a bunch of liars and cheaters. I applaud LeMond for speaking out against these so-called champions. The sport needs to clean house and it can start with stripping Landis of his title.

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I hate Republicans as much as the next guy, but there is one GOP candidate that I wouldn’t mind seeing elected (did I just say that?). And, his foreign policy logic beats any Democrat presidential candidate thus far. I almost feel like a traitor saying that because I am not clear on his domestic policy, yet. Anyway, Ron Paul is making sense and it is good to have him on stage with the other neocon idiots because he brings up great points and is truly against the current administration.

Here is a clip of him on CNN:

What are you thoughts? He ran as the Libertarian party candidate for president in 1988, I believe.

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Arctic Cat announced layoffs and a move from Thief River Falls to the Twin Cities this fall. This is a crushing blow to residents in Kittson County, some of whom have relied on jobs at Arctic Cat for decades. While forty-seven years is a long time for Arctic Cat to have stayed in Thief River Falls and one thing is certain - they will be missed.

Jobs of this nature do not come to Kittson County readily. The departure of Arctic Cat will not only affect Arctic Cat employees, but will affect other small companies in and around the Red River Valley area that relied on the multiplier effect generated by an Arctic Cat presence in Thief River Falls.

Will a move to the Twin Cities be better for the company? Maybe. It will make it easier for executives to get to and from business trips anyway.

Will it make it better for the people Up North? Not the ones who are left behind. But they’ll cope and find something else to do for a living. It’s not going to be the best scenario for them. But if they don’t have an opportunity to make the move to the Twin Cities, they’ll just have to do the best they can.

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There was a bridge I used to call a Troll Bridge in high school that is pending demolition. It was built in 1895 and was used daily up until 1999. In high school I used it as an easy access method to get from Cottage Grove to Inver Grove Heights. In those days Newport had four stoplights along highway 61 and there was usually blood on the highway so it took a long time to get through all four traffic lights.

The Troll Bridge was an easy way to cross the Mississippi without having to go to the bridge on 494 and at the cost of only $0.75 to cross it was a no-brainer.

It was cool to get on the bridge when a barge was crossing. There were just old retired folks on one end of the bridge in the tool booth and they were pretty mellow and always friendly. There was the bridge operator who would actually swing the bridge open. It was a magical summer night if you were lucky enough to be on the bridge while it opened.

Even if you were in a hurry…things suddenly became less important when you could turn off your car and walk up to the closed gate and watch the bridge swing open to let a barge pass.

Even now I can feel the cool breeze coming down the river valley and I can smell the sweet fragrance of the Mississippi comforting me as I watched a barge pass in the night.

There is no practical reason to hold onto a bridge like this. The new overpasses and wide-open expressway through Newport coupled with the widened bridge on 494 at Highway 61 makes this little swing bridge completely obsolete.

Bot for those of us who remember how snarled traffic used to be…for those of who remember sneaking across the river to steal a glance at KoD…for those of us who remember what it meant to stand on the edge of the bridge in child-like glee…for those of us who remember -

The old swing bridge will always hold a special place in our hearts.

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You have to love cops. A Dearborn, Mich., cop recently decided to make some magic brownies with evidence he seized from some poor schmuck on the street. Well, Cpl. Edward Sanchez isn’t the brightest bulb in the drawer. In fact, he’s an idiot. This is all you need to know from the 911 call he made after he and his wife ate the brownies:

“I think we’re dying,” he said in the 5-minute tape, obtained under the Michigan Freedom of Information Act.

“We made brownies and I think we’re dead, I really do,” Sanchez continued.

He told the dispatcher he had never made marijuana brownies before, but had previously used marijuana.

Then, he asked the score of the Red Wings game on television that night, explaining, “I just want to make sure this isn’t some type of, like, hallucination that I’m having.”

Ahh, yes, the wonders of the magic brownies. The best part is his wife admitted stealing a bunch of coke from her husband’s police cruiser and going on a three-week, drug-fueled binge. So, what happens to a cop who steals evidence and then freaks out? He is allowed to resign. No criminal charges are brought — nothing. And worse yet, he admits he shook down people on the street and grabbed their drugs without arresting them.

You have to listen to the audio recording of the call, there are a bunch of other little tidbits that make it quite hilarious. Keep in mind that this is a cop.

Click here to download audio track

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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales gave testimony in front of congress today and was presented with a recent poll stating that a majority of American’s (53%) lack confidence in him and believe he should resign. He stated that he wasn’t aware of the poll and that he didn’t believe it.

As an American I certainly don’t believe he’s capable of prosecuting anything in a non-partisan way. I’m also concerned that he’s eroding our civil liberties and guilty of getting in front of the Senate and now Congress and lying through his teeth.

I think we should all contact the attorney general and let him know that we don’t have confidence in him, that he should step down and turn himself into the authorities for abusing his office for partisan purposes. Here’s his contact info:

Email: AskDOJ@usdoj.gov.

If you feel extra motivated you can give him a call and let him know how much he sucks: 202-353-1555

In addition here’s his address if you wish to longhand a message to him:

U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001

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LOST has announced a three-year deal outlining forty-eight more episodes to culminate with a final one-hundred-twentieth episode.

This gives us twenty more episodes than originally envisioned by executive producers/showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse.

This is good news for television viewers. I had begun to feel like I was watching a darker version of Gilligan’s Island with more sex and killing. Even down to the mythical radio that the island visitor brought with her last episode. I kept waiting for the Professor to show up and start tinkering with it…only to discover it has enough power for only one transmission. Then I would expect Gilligan would pick it up and use it to call in to a radio station where he would win the grand prize of $100 million dollars only to be unable to claim the prize after the DJs write him off as a prank caller calling from a “desert island”.

Amen for setting a LOST end-date! Now if only our Administration could do the same thing about that fiasco over in the Middle-East…

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