Posted on 04/23/2015 3:55:37 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
With America fixated on all things Bruce Jenner and the anticipation around his Diane Sawyer interview Friday night on ABC, it seemed an interesting moment to revisit another time when he captured this country’s attention.
In 1978, Jenner snagged one of the sports world’s biggest honors: appearing on the Wheaties cereal box. While this might not sound impressive in today’s era of multi-million dollar endorsement deals, back then it was one of the ultimate prizes for a top athlete.
A lot of people know Jenner today from his relationship to the Kardashian clan. But decades ago, he became a national hero after he nabbed the gold medal in the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics for the decathlon. This triumph meant more than most: In the 1972 Olympics, the U.S. lost the decathlon, an event the country had won in past Games, to the Soviets. For many, Jenner’s win was a symbolic victory for the U.S. over its Cold War enemy...
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Maybe he’s an apt symbol of America itself... going from a sturdy, moral, masculine culture of strength, dexterity and competition... to the current confused, perverted freak-show that the nation has become.
Here’s my problem....Why do we have to hear about his gender problems day after day....like it’s something good.
I agree!
Why did Jenner whittle his nose ala MJ? He had a perfectly good nose in ‘76.
Jenner is such a train wreck.
Let it go...he’s on a roll.
Don’t have to tell me twice. I think the cereal and the box are made out of the same dirt.
Maybe this is a warning that we should all stop eating Wheaties.
Or avoid eating it with Soy Milk or mBST Milk...
The secret is copious amounts of sugar.
Eventually, you can’t taste the Wheaties or the box.
^^^This^^^
Gallons of happy little phyto-estrogens.
What could possibly go wrong?
Yep - avoid eating all you mention.
Wheat is an inflammatory - arthritics (maybe all - ) should avoid; soy can be consumed only if organic or fermented; and mBST milk may have antibiotics, and ‘growth’ hormones.
It’s really too bad what has happened to our food.
But good business for Organic farmers.
Some organic foods have become less expensive, also.
This has been in the news all day, Daily Caller just published it, another sports story. Can one imagine, 2 professional lesbian African American basketball players.... yep, and it seems they have been arrested for assaulting each other the way I understand the story. Crazy.
Wheat is an inflammatory - arthritics (maybe all - ) should avoid;
so when we recite the Lord’s Prayer at church, we should say ‘give us this day our daily anti-inflammatory’...?
‘_______give us this day, our anti-inflammatory’…?
Or wherever one recites the Lord’s Prayer, perhaps one can say: ‘Give us this day, our daily rice bread - - : ^ ]
Many people’s bodies cannot tolerate wheat - and I’m betting the wheat of yesteryear was healthier.
White flour has sugars - - -
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