Further to the latest post
I'll refrain from being link crazy like the last post, but I should point out that Floyd did indeed win the tour de france. It was a pretty good race to watch, with the lead changing many times. I was disappointed with team discovery, though. In the past the entire team was very strong, and was able to control the race whenever they wanted. I figured that with a team that strong, they could manage to lead out any of their better riders and have a shot at the top 10 at least. But it seemed like whenever there was a mountain stage break, team DSC was nowhere to be seen. Hincapie and Azevedo sometimes made a showing here or there, but neither of them could stick it out.
Menno Yellow
Floyd Landis from Farmersville, PA, the
worlds fastest Mennonite, is wearing the
yellow jersey on
Bastille Day in the
Tour de France. Wow.
whizzardry
Recently there has been a lot of talk, (like over at
kirk's blog) about three guys peeing. At times like this, I'm glad I have friends who blog. Because then I can read sane comments on the news. Not like at the globe and mail. I read the comments posted about a recent article on this issue and read people say things like 'throw the book at them,' 'time for some cruel and unusual punishment,' 'bring back prohibition,' 'send them to a warzone and have them be minesweepers,' and 'send them to jail.'
Here is the thing. Corporal punishment is wrong, and not something Canadians do. Prohibition didnt work. Conscription is wrong and not something Canadians ought to do.
But what about the argument that what they did was completely disrespectful?
This spring I went on a trip to Italy. It was nice. We toured around the countryside, and we toured around Rome. My impressions of Rome were that aside from the monuments, it is a big dirty city. A very cool, very historical, big dirty city. And everyone smoked. While we were touring around the city, we came to the Altar of the Fatherland, at which is located their Tomb of the Unknown soldier, complete with an honour guard of two soldiers (with rifles in hand). This monument was sparklingly clean, and crawling with officers to keep people from smoking or sitting down. In a big dirty city, this place was clean. In a place where everyone smokes, not one person was smoking. In a city full of weary tourists, no one was sitting.
Here is where we pale in comparison. We let people do whatever they want to this monument. This is how we disrespect our veterans. We do not guard the monument. It is like we dont care what happens to it.
