ENJOY! ;)
Posted on 08/10/2008 6:28:43 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
So how should Freepers feel about the Olympics? Should we write about it, post about it or covering it in any way?
I feel that every American (including President Bush) that are in attendance at the Olympics are traitors to democracy and civilization.
These commie bastards are our enemies. Each and every Chinese citizen (and I use that term citizen very euphemistically), each man, woman and child are enemies to the USA, the west, and basic civilization. They look at us as enemies and we should return the favor. Look where pretending that "they really don't mean it" got us where it concerns Muslims!
China should be treated as the lepers that they are, not as useful and legitimate citizens of the international community.
We should have, every western nation should have, boycotted these Olympics once the pliable and most likely bribed Olympic Committee chose China to host the games.
But that's just me.
What will be the consensus of our community?
You seem to be more about bullying, than tallying.What ARE you talking about. I've only replied ONE time on this whole thread (my own thread, I'll remind you) and that was to ask people to stop bickering and reply to the post!
Going all the way to China to look for traitors is a reach.. I suggest starting in Congress, the Supremes, with a huge volumn of socialist aids attending them all.. You do know Ccommunism is Socialism don't you.. After that go to Academia, the Main Stream media and some of the Republican Party.. Yes some of the pubies are dyed in the wool commies too..
Going all the way to China is a waste of effort..
Washington D.C. is where you will find the really bad guys..
Communism is just a distraction anyway.. SILLY...
GLOBALISM is what you should be looking for.. with globalists LIKE: Hillary and Bill Clinton, Borat Obama, John McLaim, Rudy Giuliani, and get ready for this......
GEORGE BUSH.. BOTH of them and his Brother too..
Globalism is America biggest threat.. Globalism that is seeking to lessen America Nationalistic bent and make way for the New World Order.. WHich would be Global Socialism.. Most people have no idea of what socialism is anymore anyway.. since socialism is already EVERYWHERE.. Americas Social Security Sytem is PURE socialism.. not like socialism but PURE socialism.. And ALL of America WANTS IT.. Americans ARE socialists already..
Going all the way to China to look for traitors is a reach.. I suggest starting in Congress What makes you think I imagine the ONLY American traitors went to China? But, you see, China was the topic. Know what I mean?
I think I know what you think you mean..
People are having a REAL hard time focusing today.
> When the name calling began, I responded appropriately and in defense of my fellow Freeper (that’s you Diehard! ;)
Cheers, mate!
Responding with an insinuaton that another freeper is a sex offender goes well beyond an acceptable response. At that point, we don't care who started the flame war. Both sides have perpetuated it long past the point of any relevance as to how it started.
If you like sports and watching world-class athletes compete, you should be open-minded enough to watch the olympics without getting politically worked-up or with some agenda.
‘traitor to civilisation’???
More like graduate studies in hyperbole.
Whoa! Dude!...
Lunch money or lunch leash ?
"It was a very epic race," Hobson said. "They say at the Olympics, everybody puts it all on the line and they're absolutely right."It was a fight out there for position from the start, just dog-eat-dog."
Hobson said the riders knew showers were in the forecast, but they sure didn't expect to ride more than half the race in a downpour that turned the course slick and slippery.
"It was just the luck of where you were," Hobson said, referring to Wrubleski's tumble. "You had to be really careful."
At the 77-km mark, Gu Sungeun of Korea, suddenly veered erratically left, then slid headlong - bike and all - into a gutter between the road and a retaining wall. She reached out with her left arm in a vain attempt to prevent or at least soften her fall, but fell hard and awkwardly, and took out four other riders in the bargain.
Wrubelski went down, along with Russian rider Yulia Martisova, in the middle of the road, which looked less painful than that gutter.
Martisova's teammates, Alexandra Burchenkova and Natalia Boyarskaya, got away on lengthy solo breaks during the race, but in the soggy, windy conditions, couldn't sustain their leads. In the driving rain, it proved impossible for a single rider to leave the pack behind for long.
The Canadians had trained in Japan and learned to deal with temperatures of 35 C or more, but on race day in Beijing it was a cool-ish 24 C.
Riding so long in rain-soaked outfits left the riders shivering, not overheated. And the cold was so severe on an 11-km descent that is part of the 23.8-km loop in and around the finish line that some riders stuffed newspapers into their suits as insulation, the way Tour de France cyclists do on descents in the Alps.
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Now that she has finished her cycling career, Hobson, a school teacher on extended sabattical to pursue her Olympic dream, plans to take in the sights with her husband, Jeff, for a week or so before heading home to get ready for school.
She said she leaves pro cycling with no regrets.
"I think I gave it everything I could," Hobson said of her farewell race. "You always look back and say, 'Aw, if only, if only,' but when your legs are going lactic (acid build-up), you know you've done everything you can do.
"I'm very happy. To be here was incredible. I've been on the verge of tears since I got here. It's so emotional, it's such a monumental thing that just to have had the honour to be in this race was amazing."
She talked about missing her teammates, missing the atmosphere around cycling races, cherishing all the sport has taught her.
And will she miss grinding through conditions like Sunday's road race?
"No, I'm going to be looking out the window on days like today, preferably in a warm place."
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Please convey to her my thanks for her excellent job of representing America!
Well, I have no interest in sports of any kind. But I DO like politics!
And my point is that American involvement in 1936, in the form of Jesse Owens, showed the lie to the theory of the “master race” that was supposed to be showcased in Berlin.
By showing up and competing, America lessened the propaganda value of the Berlin olympics. I hope that the Beijing olympics will suffer the same fate.
Call me a traitor.
First of all I don’t consider the United States a Democracy any more. We have rampant voter fraud nullifying legitimate votes. We have a professional political class who’s reelections is almost just a sure thing anymore. We have unelected judges making laws from the bench. We have a press more controlled than any dictatorship could have but it is self control rather than from a political leader.
Unless we retake our country and return it to what it was 100 years ago I can’t call it a Democracy.
Second, it isn’t only the United States. Public opinion polls in other so called Democracies find that the public dislike their governments as well.
On the other hand, even with oppression I think the current leadership in nations like China, Dubai, and even Russia would be reelected easily if it came to a vote.
As for Civilization, have you turned on the TV or listened to popular music lately? The West is devolving in terms of culture and civilization. The Chinese from the programs that I see seem to want all the high civilization we once embraced such as classical music or art that actually looked like something.
Liberalism has poisoned the West. Right now unless we can reverse it the only hope for Western Civilization is China.
Otherwise 100 years from now visitors to the planet will find that Europe is nothing but 7th century Moslem’s states and Americans will be using donkeys for transportation and speaking only Spanish.
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