up belatedly publishing the Smith story last week after UK based cybersecurity expert Matt Tait read a related headline about Michael Flynn and concluded that he should come forward with the fact that Smith had tried and failed to recruit him during the election.

The third scenario – which may be difficult to swallow on its face – is that after Smith began talking to a reporter about his role in the Trump-Russia collusion scandal, someone had him killed before he could keep talking. Vladimir Putin appears to have had several people murdered who were involved in the scandal, though none of them were Americans. But this does take us back to the fact that, just five days after Smith started squealing about his collusion role with Michael Flynn,town, we saw that it was decorated with little flags in the shape of geese, all in the colors of the jerseys of the Tour. I wonder if Flo could make some of those for me?!

Nice decorations for the Tour!

We wandered around the town and took in the pre-Tour sights. Some of the publicity caravan folks were already hard ad work handing out goodies, and four guys dressed as geese were wandering around, apparently excited that they were going to be turned into foie gras soon:

He looks pretty happy!

And dancing with a gendarme!

Soon the teams started to arrive in their caravans of cars and a giant coach:

Katusha's bus and bikes

Radio Shack and Lampre

A Katusha rider chatting with fans

Nathan with the Schleck-mobile

Me with the Jens-mobile

Here is the start line