Posted on 08/25/2016 6:59:09 AM PDT by Kaslin
Isn’t Rio an object lesson on where the USA could head?
The Olympics brought it into recent highlight; that doesn’t mean the Olympics are the only reason it deserves to be looked at.
We are right to be suspicious of the motives of those who do not want to learn from ALL the lessons of history.
If this situation really meant little to you, why are you spending such energy defending your position?
Men sometimes stumble over the truth, but almost invariably they dust themselves off and carry on as though nothing happened.
You tell tall tales and then when challenged expect to just slink off as though your peremptoriness were king?
That’s the trouble with the world today!
What this country should be doing is looking intensely into the International Olympic Committee - their costs, their continuing expenses, their members’ finances and a whole plethora of bribery, corruption, graft and greed of excess and elitism, frankly.
The Olympics have become nothing more than an overhyped, corrupted quadrennial Super Bowl in my opinion.
Look at the liar-—OH WAIT! SHINY OBJECT! FORGET THE LIAR!
Then it must be just and good that you and fantasywriter are here to keep the moral and ethical boundaries here straight, huh?
You deal in reduction ad absurdum
Yes, you can be easily reduced to absurdity. Your choice whether to keep that up.
Great comeback..... At least no one can call you a quitter.
You are a one note Johnny railing on the Olympics and making your hatred thereof the king of all that is important.
Indeed you do reduce to absurdity.
“Who can avoid running into a corrupt police officer?”
Somebody who isn’t out urinating on the side of a building drunk on their azz late at night. That would include the huge majority of 32 year old adults in America.
I guess you are then a buttinski replying to my comment to someone else. You’re in the same boat with FW as far as I know. You can go high tech somewhere else for all I care.
Indeed there is a time when I should stop rebuking an obstinate fool like you. “Though you grind the fool in a mortar, he will never learn wisdom.”
Get over it — the merit of the Olympics is not the most significant thing in the world.
Then why don’t you stop? No one asked for your opinion in the first place. Lastly, the one who has to get over it is you. (you forgot ‘pestle’)
Of course the media believed the Rio police chief! Police NEVER lie, right? So why wouldn’t the media believe them?
I bother because Americans in general and conservatives in particular used to admire and respect achievement. Leftists, however, HATE personal achievement. Does, ‘You didn’t build that,’ ring a bell?
So here’s this person who by hard work has become one of the best in the world at what he does, and you keep sputtering, ‘elitist!’.
So ‘elitist’ is now the word conservatives use to describe exceptional personal achievement?
I really encourage you to read this fine American’s biography since his birth in 1984 and what he’s done that didn’t involve ‘swimming’.....take a look at his service, his self-sacrifice with no rewards and all the other attributes one might attach to earning respect for achievement. A multi-millionaire who has ‘served’ his country wholly worthy of our ignorant idolization. Yessirreee... we can be certainly proud at all that.
There is so much wrong with your premise and your arguments that I feel it would be pointless for me to attempt a rebuttal.
As Wolfgang Pauli said: "That isn't even wrong."
So now we can only admire and/or respect hard work and personal achievement if they don’t involve swimming?
What did he do that was not civil?
Did they kick in a bathroom door? Break a mirror? Break a soap dispenser? No, no, and no.
The reporters who actually went to the gas station and checked “found no damage to the bathroom – the mirror and soap dispensers were still intact or had been replaced not by new equipment but filthy, old equipment complete with crusty old soap. The door was old and undamaged, not kicked in.”
The only thing he did wrong was lie about the gun being pointed at his forehead; the video showed it was pointed at him (but not at the forehead) from a distance of 5 feet. I’m not sure,
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