Posted on 08/25/2008 8:01:48 PM PDT by george76
What a sick, pathetic communist culture.
Can you say “Pyrrhic Victory?”
Sick monsters to treat children like this.
Yup, that’s what the olympics is about....slaves sacrificing to make the state look good.
Sheesh.
susie
The Beijing Olympics showed us how an evil dictatorship use their own people as machines to achieve a goal including the human abuse of their athletes.
PS: We won more total medal than China, 110 USA versus 100 China. We achieved a better record in Beijing than in Athens or Sydney both in Gold and total medals. At least 20 gold medals won by the Chinese are in very insignificant sports games that we will not compete in to start with.
This what V.I. Lenin, Stalin, Marx intended. Pliable people working for the Party’s goals. No family, personal or religious interferences. There are plenty of people meeting in Denver this week thinking of the wonders a single party can do..
Great call by the IOC. This sure changed a lot in China awarding them the games. I’m sure Jacque Rogge is pating himself on the back.
How the heck did this get published in the LA Times?
That’s real courage...wait until the games are over, and your reporters are safely on a plane outside of Chinese airspace...and then run the report.
Let’s hear it for the MSM.
I actually felt sorry for the Chinese athletes. If they won gold or did poorly, I couldn’t help but wonder how it would affect them and their families. They paid a very high price just so their glorious leaders could gloat.
And the next generation, in addition to having no brothers and sisters, will also have no cousins, no aunts, no uncles, no nephews, and no nieces.
This is because I do not remember stuff like that for very long. There are maybe three or four gold medal winners that I can think of from years past. Mark Spitz in 1972, U.S. hockey Team in 1980, Katrina Navritolova in 1976 and Mary Lou Retton doing that tumbling thing back around 1984. Oh yeah, and who can forget Tonya Harding "stealing" that figure skating medal from that stuck-up woman who married some rich guy and never said very much - Nancy something-or-other.
But that's about it for Olympic memories. All the rest, I have to look up.
And so it will be the same for this year's Olympics. I think I will always remember that swimming dude who got something like 12 gold medals and of course, those scantily clad women playing that beach volleyball thing. Don't remember if they got a gold medal or not but damn, they were pretty good.
So there you go. As far as Chinese athletes, I can't remember the name of a single one. They all pretty much look the same to me and all of them seem to have names that I can't pronounce anyhow.
So anyway, that's the Olympics so far as I'm concerned. Now it's back to watching re-runs of COPS and getting caught up on that Mad Men show that everybody keeps yapping about.
...and no wives, for many of the men, as their one-child policy has led to a 6:5 (or more) ratio of boys to girls (abortion and infanticide...lucky our presidential candidates don’t support that...but then again...)
Anyway, unless they can get a Amsterdam-style flaming gay movement started (which they don’t seem dumb enough to do), there will be a lot of Chinese guys looking elsewhere for love (not good if you’re their neighbors).
The monetary cost was about $100m of Chinese taxpayer funds per gold medal over the last four years. That’s on top of the $60b spent on sports-related infrastructure for the Olympics. I don’t begrudge them their medals. If China’s rulers are this desperate to bask in reflected glory, who am I to object? Let them build more expensive (and useless) monuments to their vanity.
Excellent summation of the u-limpics.
If this happened in the USA, people would be in jail for child abuse. The IOC has no business giving out medals to these abusers. And shame on NBC for talking about how "wonderful" they are. They are young people abused by the state.
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