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Court Orders Recount of Olympic Bid – Polls to Remain Open
Pick a Paper ^ | October 2, 2009 | Pan_Yan

Posted on 10/02/2009 10:57:42 AM PDT by Pan_Yan

Copenhagen – An International Criminal Court judge has ordered that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) resume counting in the selection process for the host city of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. Judge Enrique Castro, appointed to the court last year by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and nephew of the Cuban President Raul Castro, ordered a stunned IOC to resume vote counting late Friday.

Judge Castro issued an emergency injunction after receiving multiple complaints of voter disenfranchisement by community activist groups Community Organizers International (COI), the Organization of American States (OAS) and Hezbollah.

COI chairwoman Valerie Jarrett voiced her organization’s approval of the judge’s decision. “As anyone who watched this charade being played out on television can plainly see the underprivileged were not well represented in this voting process. We have asked the court only for what is fair – that we be allowed to chose a diverse, multicultural pool of voters to balance the ‘white out’ that apparently dominates IOC voting.”

Hezbollah spokesman Islamic Rage Boy added that “There appears to have been a deliberate attempt by some cities not directly associated with Islam to exclude us from this process. We are very surprised by Madrid’s refusal to withdraw. I thought they learned their lesson in 2004. Oh, and death to all who oppose us. Peace be with you. The Jooos are to blame.”

No one from the IOC was immediately available for comment. One senior IOC official speaking on the condition of anonymity said that the IOC is in turmoil right now at this unprecedented turn of events. “No one has ever seen such chaos. Every voting member was in the room and all the votes had been counted. The judge’s order made no sense until a truck arrived and people started unloading boxes of ballots. They went straight to the counting table. I couldn’t believe it.”

Our sources verified the existence of several empty boxes at the IOC headquarters with a return address in Minnesota but were unable to confirm that the votes arrived in these containers.


TOPICS: Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: olympics; parody
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To: San Jacinto

lol


41 posted on 10/02/2009 11:42:58 AM PDT by DecoyJames
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To: COUNTrecount
the Olympics Committee refused to make head bashing a sport

They should have gone for 'Demonstration Sport'. Judging would have been similar to figure skating, with separate scores for artistry and technique.

42 posted on 10/02/2009 11:46:38 AM PDT by eldoradude (Let's water the tree of liberty with THEIR blood...)
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To: 50mm

Good one!!!


43 posted on 10/02/2009 11:48:29 AM PDT by Lizavetta (In Communism, everything is free. But there isn't any of it.)
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To: Pan_Yan; Ann Archy

“Clinton’s Tarmac HAIRCUT took longer than BAMMY”S TARMAC talk with his GENERAL!”

52 posted on Friday, October 02, 2009 2:50:30 PM by Ann Archy

Attagirl


44 posted on 10/02/2009 12:02:48 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spirito Sancto.)
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To: Robwin

What....they’re

like a shamrock. Small. Green. And split three ways.


45 posted on 10/02/2009 12:04:35 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spirito Sancto.)
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To: eldoradude

Demolition sport maybe?


46 posted on 10/02/2009 12:05:35 PM PDT by COUNTrecount (Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither)
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(That’s a line from “Nuns on the Run.” Peter Cook on The Trinity).


47 posted on 10/02/2009 12:05:53 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spirito Sancto.)
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To: OldDeckHand
"Funny. But, you should add the parody tag, just to be safe."

He got me with it. This isn't to far from reality.

48 posted on 10/02/2009 12:07:29 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric cartman voice* 'I love you guys')
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To: Pan_Yan

49 posted on 10/02/2009 12:10:48 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Pan_Yan; All

BREAKING-ACORN Worker Finds Uncounted IOC Ballots In Oprah’s Limo!


50 posted on 10/02/2009 12:22:32 PM PDT by tcrlaf ("Hope" is the most Evil of all Evils"-Neitzsche)
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To: Pan_Yan

> complaints of voter disenfranchisement by community activist groups Community Organizers International (COI) ...

COI is ACORN


51 posted on 10/02/2009 12:29:40 PM PDT by BuffaloJack (http://republicans.oversight.house.gov/media/pdfs/20090723ACORNReport.pdf)
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To: BuffaloJack
That's why I used COI. Sometimes even slapstick humor should have a little subtlety to it.
52 posted on 10/02/2009 12:31:25 PM PDT by Pan_Yan (All gray areas are fabrications.)
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