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So much for Brazil's coming out party.
1 posted on 07/28/2016 11:53:58 AM PDT by C19fan
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Is this a first? Has the flame ever been extinguished by protesters before, en route to to opening ceremonies?


2 posted on 07/28/2016 11:56:04 AM PDT by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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Brazil is the country of the future... and always will be. - Charles de Gaulle


3 posted on 07/28/2016 11:56:41 AM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius (www.wilsonharpbooks.com - Sign up for my new release e-mail and get my first novel for free)
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Does the torch have to go back to Greece to get re-lit?


5 posted on 07/28/2016 11:57:28 AM PDT by bubbacluck (America 180)
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Another first in the Bizarro world in which we now live.

Could the problem be the spread of 0bama-itis?

Yeah, I blame him for all bad things.

6 posted on 07/28/2016 11:57:38 AM PDT by PROCON (Americans First or Terrorists First - Choose in November)
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Zeus will not be pleased . . . . . .


8 posted on 07/28/2016 11:59:55 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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Oh, boy. This Olympics is gonna be sumpin’ else.


9 posted on 07/28/2016 12:07:16 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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When was the last time the Olympic Games were exciting and interesting to the general American public? I enjoyed watching them in the 1970s and 1980s. The Games in London in 2012 were good (the Queen’s cameo and her “entrance” into the opening ceremony were funny).

I expect that the Rio games will be a complete shambles.


11 posted on 07/28/2016 12:11:25 PM PDT by Cecily
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Favela kids making themselves known. Since futball is not the main focus, the pageantry is open for more spoilage by those who actually control Brazil from the inside. The elites are perplexed, but seeking the grace of God, not money, can fix that country (Or any other country as well).


12 posted on 07/28/2016 12:13:20 PM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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The Olympic Games are for times of peace. Anyone that thinks that is what we are in now is a complete fool.


13 posted on 07/28/2016 12:14:17 PM PDT by The Toll
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What exactly marks the beginning of these games?

A haiku:

For me, it won't start
Until I see a swimmer
get poop in his mouth

14 posted on 07/28/2016 12:16:46 PM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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Brazil - perpetually a “country of the future.”


16 posted on 07/28/2016 12:21:48 PM PDT by PGR88
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I feel sorry for the young athletes who have trained all their lives for the opportunity to finally make it to the olympics on behalf of the U.S. only to have the games in Brazil under these conditions........

As an adult who has never experienced the training sacrifices these kids have gone thru I can easily say that there is no way I would compete in these games........

I'd probably feel different if in their shoes........

17 posted on 07/28/2016 12:22:18 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (If only Hillary had married OJ instead......)
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I can’t think of a more mental wreck of a nation than Brazil.
The smells that waft from a late morning Sunday breeze in Rio must be the smell you’d imagine coming from Satan’s breath.


21 posted on 07/28/2016 12:52:44 PM PDT by Original Lurker
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24 posted on 07/28/2016 1:00:58 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Best Olympics EVER!


47 posted on 07/28/2016 2:42:47 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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Published on Jul 21, 2016

Brazilian torch carrier falls hard on the ground.

https://youtu.be/y9SYgdtTlkY


48 posted on 07/28/2016 2:45:56 PM PDT by r_barton (GO TRUMP!!!)
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