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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: Politics infect bicycle race
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:22:57 -0500
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On 4/25/2025 1:19 PM, Shadow wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 07:55:06 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
> 
>> https://catholicvote.org/homeschooled-student-denied-first-place-medal-new-zealand-mountain-bike-competition
> 
> 	Not politics, just common sense
> 
> 	"homeschooled students have an unfair advantage because they
> can train all day while their peers are in school."
> 
> 	TRUE
> 
> 	"What parent is actually going to think that it’s sensible
> even that their kid just trains all day and doesn’t prepare for
> everything else in life?"
> 
> 	Every single sociopathic parent that ever existed. Just look
> at the lives of "child" models, actors, singers and most athletes.
> Their parents get rich, and at 30 they are sometimes pennyless and
> usually more ignorant than someone that didn't go to school at all.
> 	IMHO
> 	[]'s
> 
> 	PS Britney Jean Spears started her "professional career" when
> she was 3 years old. Her father, a religious fanatic and a raving
> alcoholic (IOW, a "conservative") held her purse-strings until she was
> over 30.... "for her own good" of course.

Along those lines of thought, the organizers should not have 
collected entry fees from disfavored contestants.

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Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
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