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More On The Olympics

On my “walk about” from politics I am watching the Olympics….great stuff….The US is doing well but China has the edge in the medal count….but we will prevail when we get to our fortes……swimming, track & field and of course B/ball…….

While the country is watching overpaid millionaires play keep away with the rest of the field….American fencing team, especially the women, is doing well…..something that  most Americans get two shits in Hell about, but the women are excellent and it is beauty in motion to watch…….but America’s hope for a medal in women’s fencing was lost to the woman from the Ukraine who won the Bronze…..

Then we have our women’s soccer which is by far the best in the whole sport…..they have won 3 or 3 group play games and are playing flawless, or as close as one can get to flawless soccer………

I am also impressed with the American women’s field hockey squad…their win over Argentina was a huge deal since Argentina is one of the top teams in the sport……but lost to the Aussie….they will have to tighten up if they want to go for the medal……

My fav sport is handball….not the game you played in your younger years by hitting a ball against a wall but rather it is like water polo without the water and a lot more contact……I cannot pull for the US…..because it seems they either do not have a team or did not qualify….I am pulling for Iceland. You would think that this game would be right up the USA alley with all the physical contact and all….but nope….I guess that there is not enough glory in it……..

Next is water polo….the American women’ team is doing well…..but it looks like they need to tighten up or they will be put out in the quarters…….

I wish I could say something positive about the equestrian events……but it is as boring as watching circumcised swimming and diving……..

Then there is Badminton….who would have thought that badminton would have controversy?  4 teams trying to lose to get a weaker opponent in the semis…..S. Korea, China and Indonesia…..that would be the women…the men are just as boring as usual……

Gymnastics……all I can say about it is……YAWN!  But I will give the women’s team their props…..they have won the Gold……

An American woman competed for the Gold and won in Judo…Kayla Harrison

Shooting…..you would think that a country that is obsessed with guns that it would do much better in the shooting sports……so far we have only 2 and both in skeet….1 woman 1 man….maybe this coming week we can show the world that a country obsessed with gun ownership can do better……

All in all, I enjoy watching the athletes give their all in trying to be the best in their sport…..some try and lose and I feel for them and then you hear about the hardships some of them go through to get to the Olympics….like one soccer team practices on a field that is mowed once a month another has to practice in a parking lot after hours and those are the athletes that I would like to see get medals…..sometimes I feel like it is all about the star power than the sport……I hope that feeling is wrong……..but when you see an athlete win his/her sport knowing that they have unlimited access to training facilities and then one that has to practice after work in a parking lot……my heart goes out to the later…..NO matter what country they represent.

The thing is NBC bills the Olympics as “limited commercial interruptions”….that is true but only on the sports that they deem as important….like they would never think of cutting away from the millionaires that give dunking lessons but something like handball it is no problem…their coverage of “unimportant sports” SUCKS!

Why Not Darts?

The 2012 Olympics have been a God send for me…….we have one of my favorite sports handball, soccer, which American women are playing almost flawless ball, fencing, which the US has a rising star , a 14 year girl, Lee Kiefer, who will be a super star…that is if she does not discover men….I have seen what that can do to an up and coming star………and the skeet shooter from the US…..she had a 99/100 score which ties Olympic all time record….there is also a 16 year old table tennis phenom that we will hear much about in the future…….so far we are doing pretty good but China is ahead of us in medal count…..but our forte is yet to come…..b/ball and track and field and swimming……..

That was my take on the games in the early days in case my reader had other things to do……but now I have a question……..Who decides what sports will be included in the games?

I mean come on!  I used to wonder  why badminton is included but…..circumcised swimming?  (Pun intend, not a mistake).  Should not the sports reflect the sports that are actually sports?  If you are gonna have circumcised swimming, why not fishing or golf?

Why not darts?  I mean there are more people in the world that sling darts than participate in circumcised swimming……now I see we have a circumcised diving event….and yet darts is ignored…..why?  At no point in my area in the 90’s there were about a 100 teams participating in the different leagues and we are lucky if we have 500,000 people living here….but yet badminton gets to go to the Olympics….why?

I guess darts are out because they are most associated with pubs and such and God forbid that the Olympics be associated with such riff raff……..after all the Olympics seem to be more about marketing than the sport, because we know thrilling we Americans think a dancing horse is….amusing maybe, but a sport?

Editorial: America Loses!

First, I have had enough of the CRAP!

Does anyone remember the “Miracle On Ice” in the 1980 Olympics?  The USA defeated USSR in hockey and the whole country celebrated and there was a pride there….a pride of our country was number one.

Does anyone recall the campaign slogan “America First”?  Promises that everything American would be put above everything else…usually idle promises but the sentiment is good.

I was going to leave the whole olympic thing alone…but there comes a time when you just cannot ignore the crap any longer……and that time is NOW!

I am sure that you have heard all the political noise about the trip that the president took to Copenhagen…..that the Obamas were a cancer or that the president was caring nothing for the troops….and on and on…….

I want to go on record saying that I feel the country is becoming pathetic place.  Why?  When the decision by the Olympic committee was made to give the 2016 olympic games to Rio, there were right wing media people  applauded the decsion….they applauded that the US LOST the bid!  Then there was a conservative summit going on and they also applauded the lose…this is CRAP!

Why?  These ass wads hate Obama so much that they are happy to see the US lose just to make the president look bad and possibly gain some minor political advantage…this also is CRAP!

Recently that whack job from Minnesota called for an investigation of members of Congress, liberals, for being un-American….maybe we should pay closer attention to those people that want the US to fail only because they dislike the president.  This is HATE!

What happened to “My country…Love or leave it”?  Or how “America–Right or Wrong”?  Maybe next time your hear one of these sanctimonious assholes talk about how much they love the US….then remind them of this day and that they are Goddamn LIARS!

Putting The Country At Risk?

I have heard just about all the BS there can be on the Prez trip to Copenhagen.  That he is putting the country at risk by going to use his influence in the behalf of Chicago and the 2016 Summer Olympics.

First of all, this is a yawn and something that does not need 24/7 coverage.

Second, the chairman of the RNC, the moron Steele:

Steele began a brief telephone news conference by criticizing Obama’s lack of focus on the biggest problem facing the country: weakness in the economy, which Steele said is still in recession.

The former Maryland lieutenant governor said he had watched Obama push an economic stimulus plan, then “lurch into cap-and-trade, and then into health care,” and now he’s “pitching the Olympics in Copenhagen.”

In answer to a reporter’s question during a telephone news conference, Steele said it was “a noble idea for the president to pitch his home city, Chi-town,” but that “at a time of war” and recession, “this trip, while nice, is not necessary for the president.”

And then there is FOX News…..the newest political organization or should I say the “official” news media of the moronic Right?

In recent days, Fox News hosts, contributors and guests have used President Obama’s promotion of the United States bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics in Chicago as an excuse to attack him, while Michelle Malkin and Matt Drudge have baselessly linked the murder of a teenager in Chicago to the Olympic bid. Attacks on Obama’s efforts include Sean Hannity saying that “it sounds” like Obama “is more concerned about bringing the Olympics to Chicago than winning the war in Afghanistan,” Brent Bozell claiming Obama’s trip to Copenhagen to promote the Chicago bid “is evidence that this man just cannot stay away from the klieg lights,”

(Thanx to mediamatters.org for the info above)

Cute little swing in words…..the Prez is basically taking a day off and do something to help his town and possibly aid in its recovery.  Where is the crime?

I will give the GOP bullshit machine something to reply to:

Would you, the GOP and RNC, begrudge the Prez if he took a Sunday off and went to church?  Then would you say that the Prez was more concerned with his soul than winning the war in Afghanistan?   After all that is NOT the business of the nation?  Maybe you dipsticks should spend more time thinking of ways to save a party stuck in a MANURE pile and stop making up crap that has NOTHING to do with the reality the country faces in this time of global recession.

Maybe the RNC should look for someone who can expand the party’s membership, not shrink it.  Just a thought.