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Official Lance Armstrong Thread: Part 3 (Post-Confession)

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Lance fear not: Peter Stetina name-checks you and Levi in his latest blog like you were Greg and Davis.

When Peter comes to Austin he'll wear syringes in his hair.
 
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Bill Burr Doesn't Buy Oprah's Holier-Than-Thou Lance Armstrong Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9YL04v-J5U
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This has been posted many times before in this thread, but I suppose it's good to be reminded of how the average Joe USA still looks at poor ol' Lance.
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Yes it has but hey the person is starstruck at the moment. :D
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;) It's still funny though. Bill Burr cracks me up.

Don't blame me that I'm too stupid to have figured out how to sign into this format change when it first happened. The ID must be heard though, under any guise - it's the IDternets dummy!
 
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ya don't think he would have earned an egg 'n spoon?....

just give him 'n egg.......

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Laughing at you....... the comment........
you made........... was like........
it was a ...........field day event ........
with sack races and such.......
 
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Federal prosecutors seek judgment without trial in Lance Armstrong case...

The $100 million legal battle between Lance Armstrong and the federal government has reached its most critical stage yet.

After more than two years of bickering over pretrial evidence, both sides were set to file lengthy court documents Wednesday that ask a federal judge to decide key issues that that could dramatically affect the case.

The government is suing the former cyclist, along with his former team director, Johan Bruyneel, and his former team owner, Tailwind Sports. The suit seeks damages on behalf of the U.S. Postal Service, which paid more than $30 million to sponsor Armstrong’s team from 1998 to 2004.

“Because the factual record is undisputed, the United States respectfully requests that this Court enter an order granting partial summary judgment in its favor against Defendants Tailwind, Armstrong, and Bruyneel,” the government stated in its filing Wednesday.

Armstrong also is expected to request summary judgment against the government, a motion that asks the judge to rule on the case without a trial based on undisputed facts already established.

A decision could come later this year, giving a significant victory or defeat to each side. Otherwise the case could proceed to trial, prolonging a heavyweight legal slugfest that revved up in 2013, when the government joined a case originally filed in 2010 by Armstrong’s former teammate, Floyd Landis.

In its suit, the government says the team’s doping practices breached its sponsorship contract with the USPS and that it submitted false claims for payment while in violation of that contract.

The government gave an exact amount Wednesday, saying Tailwind Sports and its predecessor, made 41 “claims for payment to the United States between June 10, 2000 and October 31, 2004 under the 1995 and 2000, Sponsorship Agreements, for which the USPS paid Tailwind and its predecessor DFP Cycling LLC a total of $32,267,279.85.”

The damages could be tripled to nearly $100 million under the False Claims Act, with Armstrong possibly on the hook for all of it and Landis in line to get a cut of it as the whistleblower who brought the case.
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Lance Armstrong asks judge to wipe out federal case...

It’s 59 pages long with 91 exhibits, all filed in federal court Wednesday in hopes of ending a $100 million lawsuit filed against him by the federal government.

If successful, his summary judgment motion could throw out all remaining counts against him in the government’s case, decimating a suit that accused his cycling team of submitting false claims to the U.S. Postal Service. The USPS paid $32 million to sponsor his team from June 2000 through October 2004 — an amount that could be tripled to nearly $100 million under the False Claims Act.

"In the cold light of morning, the USPS sponsored a cycling team, received far more benefits from that sponsorship than anyone could have anticipated, and therefore have no actual damages and no viable claims against Armstrong," his argument stated. "For these reasons ... the Court should grant Armstrong’s motion for summary judgment."

The issue will be decided by U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper, whose court also received a request for partial summary judgment Wednesday by the federal government. In effect, both sides are asking Cooper to decide key parts of the case without a jury trial. If Cooper doesn’t grant Armstrong’s request, the case would proceed to trial. A decision isn’t expected for months.
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A federal judge on Friday criticized Lance Armstrong for not providing adequate responses to the federal government, saying the former cyclist has showed a “continued failure to comply” with this obligation in the government’s $100 million lawsuit against him.

U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ordered Armstrong to comply by next week or risk having certain evidence being excluded at trial.

Armstrong’s legal team previously had responded to certain written questions from the government by effectively telling the government to go find the answers itself.

“Armstrong may not waste the government’s time by stating that responsive information `may’ be found in certain locations,” Cooper wrote in his ruling Friday.
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“Armstrong’s continued failure to comply with this discovery obligation places the government and the Court in an awkward procedural position,” Cooper wrote. “At this late stage, he has responded to Interrogatories 16 through 19 by incorporating certain portions of Mr. Kidder’s expert report. But that report did not exist when Armstrong’s initial responses were due. And Armstrong has already filed his motion for summary judgment on the issue of damages and supported that motion with relevant exhibits. The motion treats each of the contested issues more exhaustively than does his most recent set of supplemental responses, filed around the same time.”

He ordered Armstrong to “respond in full or risk exclusion of responsive but unidentified evidence at trial.”
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In other news...Betsy is accusing LA of hacking into her Facebook account to unfriend people. Yup. After a hard day at golf, Lance comes home, dons Rollerblades and sunglasses, and hacks the Gibson so he can randomly unfriend Betsy's sycophants. Of course this is the same paranoid who convinced herself that SB Nation's devastating article about USADA's sham testing program for boxing was part of an Armstrong conspiracy to discredit USADA. Crazy as a 5h1th0us3 rat.
 
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DamianoMachiavelli said:
In other news...Betsy is accusing LA of hacking into her Facebook account to unfriend people. Yup. After a hard day at golf, Lance comes home, dons Rollerblades and sunglasses, and hacks the Gibson so he can randomly unfriend Betsy's sycophants. Of course this is the same paranoid who convinced herself that SB Nation's devastating article about USADA's sham testing program for boxing was part of an Armstrong conspiracy to discredit USADA. Crazy as a 5h1th0us3 rat.
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You're right. Lance would *never* go after Betsy. Now tell us more about Floyd.

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ScienceIsCool said:
DamianoMachiavelli said:
In other news...Betsy is accusing LA of hacking into her Facebook account to unfriend people. Yup. After a hard day at golf, Lance comes home, dons Rollerblades and sunglasses, and hacks the Gibson so he can randomly unfriend Betsy's sycophants. Of course this is the same paranoid who convinced herself that SB Nation's devastating article about USADA's sham testing program for boxing was part of an Armstrong conspiracy to discredit USADA. Crazy as a 5h1th0us3 rat.
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You're right. Lance would *never* go after Betsy. Now tell us more about Floyd.

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ScienceIsCool said:
DamianoMachiavelli said:
In other news...Betsy is accusing LA of hacking into her Facebook account to unfriend people. Yup. After a hard day at golf, Lance comes home, dons Rollerblades and sunglasses, and hacks the Gibson so he can randomly unfriend Betsy's sycophants. Of course this is the same paranoid who convinced herself that SB Nation's devastating article about USADA's sham testing program for boxing was part of an Armstrong conspiracy to discredit USADA. Crazy as a 5h1th0us3 rat.
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You're right. Lance would *never* go after Betsy. Now tell us more about Floyd.
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In case you haven't figured it out, a large part of what Betsy blamed Lance for was a delusion. She saw the bogeyman in every shadow. It has metastasized to the point where she sees Armstrong behind glitches in Facebook's software. A lot of it is also posturing so she can play the part of the truth seeking martyr. It is like LeMond pretending Lance killed his livelihood while neglecting to mention he sold his bike brand years earlier and his chief benefit from it was taking advantage of clause in the sales contract that allowed him to buy discounted bikes and sell them at a cut rate to friends, thus robbing the brand of full price sales. He also neglects to mention that during this time he settled with the Yellowstone Club for $39 million. $19 million was paid out before the club declared bankruptcy. While the average person might consider twenty million simoleons enough money to comfortably retire on and live happily ever after, perhaps it goes quickly for someone with drug and alcohol problems.

As for Floyd, he is chillaxing at ten thousand feet.
 
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DamianoMachiavelli said:
ScienceIsCool said:
DamianoMachiavelli said:
In other news...Betsy is accusing LA of hacking into her Facebook account to unfriend people. Yup. After a hard day at golf, Lance comes home, dons Rollerblades and sunglasses, and hacks the Gibson so he can randomly unfriend Betsy's sycophants. Of course this is the same paranoid who convinced herself that SB Nation's devastating article about USADA's sham testing program for boxing was part of an Armstrong conspiracy to discredit USADA. Crazy as a 5h1th0us3 rat.
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You're right. Lance would *never* go after Betsy. Now tell us more about Floyd.
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In case you haven't figured it out, a large part of what Betsy blamed Lance for was a delusion. She saw the bogeyman in every shadow. It has metastasized to the point where she sees Armstrong behind glitches in Facebook's software. A lot of it is also posturing so she can play the part of the truth seeking martyr. It is like LeMond pretending Lance killed his livelihood while neglecting to mention he sold his bike brand years earlier and his chief benefit from it was taking advantage of clause in the sales contract that allowed him to buy discounted bikes and sell them at a cut rate to friends, thus robbing the brand of full price sales. He also neglects to mention that during this time he settled with the Yellowstone Club for $39 million. $19 million was paid out before the club declared bankruptcy. While the average person might consider twenty million simoleons enough money to comfortably retire on and live happily ever after, perhaps it goes quickly for someone with drug and alcohol problems.

As for Floyd, he is chillaxing at ten thousand feet.
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I never knew that LeMond had a drug an alcohol problem that would cause him to burn through nearly $20 million irrationally. And he sure put up a hell of a legal fight to sell a handful of discounted product to friends. That's especially weird since LeMond was a licensed brand and not a manufacturer.

At least LeMond had some actual anguish from his childhood to overcome, which likely led to any mental health and self-medication issues. Armstrong's mother had to fabricate large portions of his own childhood in order to sell his hard luck story to the world.

LeMond is a flawed hero. Armstrong's a sociopath. I know which one I'd rather shake hands with.

Your post is like a strawman wrapped in a red herring.
 
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