Boycott the 2008 Olympics

Subject: Re: Boycott the 2008 Olympics Fri Aug 15, 2008 7:59 pm

Thanks for the info.

Very Interesting!

Obama the Antichrist?

Maybe?

Let's hope we don't give him a chance to be president

Subject: Re: Boycott the 2008 Olympics Fri Aug 15, 2008 8:11 pm

I agree that we probably won't recongnize it, though

It will be a surprise when it happens [ the identity]

Subject: Re: Boycott the 2008 Olympics Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:21 pm

I moved a whole bunch of stuff out of here to a new thread as it was way off-topic. It's here:
http://www.dtf1.net/whatever-f18/catholicism-religion-politics-and-more-t3459.htm
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Subject: Re: Boycott the 2008 Olympics Sat Aug 16, 2008 9:52 am

Thanks Catbox

Subject: Re: Boycott the 2008 Olympics Sun Aug 17, 2008 4:05 pm

I'm watching a rerun of The Simpsons...

Lisa wins the spelling bee and says to herself "I better make the most of this" she then screams into the microphone "Free Tibet!"

thumbs up

Yet another reason why The Simpsons rocks
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Subject: Re: Boycott the 2008 Olympics Sun Aug 17, 2008 5:57 pm

Subject: Re: Boycott the 2008 Olympics Mon Aug 18, 2008 9:14 pm

Hey, gs - you know how you like ties...you'll love this:

In women's gymanstics and American and Chinese get the EXACT same score in the event finals for uneven bars. The winner....the Chinese gymanst. Did they do a run-off? No. Did they look at qualifying scores? No - the American had a higher score in qualifying. Did they look at the level of difficulty? No - they were the same level of difficulty.

How did they decide? As far as I can tell it was just a random selection by the computer. Now that is fair Rolling Eyes

Actually it turns out the system is as follows - each gymnast gets 6 scores and the tie-breaker is look at the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th scores only confused

To make this even more screwed up look at this...
"It's not correct. I believe it's correct to have two gold medals," International Gymnastics Federation president Bruno Grandi said.

She should have been like the 1972 men's basketball team - refuse the silver medal. To this day, the 1972 men's silver medals remain in a vault. She especially should have refused the medal since she won gold in the all-around, silver in the team competition, and bronze on floor exercise.
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Subject: Re: Boycott the 2008 Olympics Tue Aug 19, 2008 5:59 am

Subject: Re: Boycott the 2008 Olympics Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:21 am

I was reading an article about this and there was a picture, she looked pissed Frown

Poor girl

Subject: Re: Boycott the 2008 Olympics Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:27 am

Subject: Re: Boycott the 2008 Olympics Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:11 pm

I continue to boycott the games!

Fuck China!

Subject: Re: Boycott the 2008 Olympics Tue Aug 19, 2008 10:07 pm

The judges are so bad in gymnastics that even the fans boo!

An American gymnast gets 0.025 lower than a Chinese gymnast on the high bar and the crowd boos the score for being too low. Basically the Chinese fans thought the American should win over a Chinese gymnast Stunned

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Subject: Re: Boycott the 2008 Olympics Wed Aug 20, 2008 5:08 am

Subject: Re: Boycott the 2008 Olympics Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:51 am

2 Chinese sentenced to labor for protest request

BEIJING (AP)—Two Chinese women in their 70s who applied to hold a protest during the Olympic Games were ordered to spend a year in a labor camp, a relative said Wednesday, as more foreign activists were detained.

Wu Dianyuan, 79, and her neighbor Wang Xiuying, 77, were notified Sunday that they were to serve a yearlong term of re-education through labor, said Wang’s son, Li Xuehui. Officials did not specify a reason and still had not acted on the order, he said.

Instead, the pair were under the observation of a neighborhood watch group and it was unclear if they would be sent to prison, he said.

“Wang Xiuying is almost blind and disabled. What sort of re-education through labor can she serve?” Li said in a telephone interview. “But they can also be taken away at any time.”

The order followed the pair’s repeated attempts to apply for permission to protest their forced eviction from their homes. China agreed to allow demonstrations in three designated areas during the games, which end Sunday. So far, there have been no protests in any of the official areas.

The re-education system, in place since 1957, allows police to sidestep the need for a criminal trial or a formal charge and send people to prison for up to four years to perform penal labor.

Critics say the system is often used to detain political or religious activists, and violates suspects’ rights.

The Public Security Bureau had no immediate comment. A spokeswoman for the Beijing bureau that oversees re-education through labor said, “We have no records of these two names in our system.”

Beijing has pointed to the special zones—public parks far away from Olympics venues—to defend its promise to improve human rights in China that was crucial to its bid to host the games.

But of some 77 applications that authorities have said were lodged, none were approved, and rights groups say the areas were just a way for the Chinese government to give the appearance of complying with international standards. A few who sought a permit to demonstrate were taken away by security officials, rights groups said.

“This is part of the arsenal of repressive tactics that the government has used to silence dissent,” said Nicholas Bequelin of the New York-based Human Rights Watch. “China is riding roughshod over its promises to allow lawful protests during the games.”

The cases of Wu and Wang “show that while China has now proven it is able to host international events to perfection, it still has a long way to go before it respects even minimal international human rights standards,” he said. “The goal is to silence and deter them. This goal has been achieved.”

Giselle Davies, spokeswoman for the International Olympic Committee, said past Olympic hosts have designated protest areas and that the body hoped Beijing would stick to its promise of allowing demonstrations.

Meanwhile, an activist group said five American bloggers have been detained since early Tuesday in Beijing. The bloggers, who did not have media credentials, were protesting China’s policies in Tibet, said Kate Woznow, campaigns director for the New York-based Students for a Free Tibet.

They were the latest of more than a dozen foreign activists who have been detained in Beijing this month for launching similar protests. Most have been quickly deported.

Also Tuesday, another five Americans who unfurled a “Free Tibet” banner near an Olympics venue were detained along with U.S. graffiti artist James Powderly, who planned to use laser beams to flash a similar message on buildings in Beijing, said Woznow. Powderly was still in detention, though the others have been released, she said.

Protests have become common in China, where simmering resentment over layoffs, corruption, land confiscation and other issues explode into sometimes violent action. The communist leadership remains wary about large demonstrations, fearing they could snowball into anti-government movements.

The sensitivity is more marked during the Olympics, which is meant to showcase China to the world.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang declined to discuss the specifics of the protest policy at a regular news conference Wednesday. “In China, like in other countries, to apply for a demonstration, you have to obey the law,” he said.

Wu and Wang, diminutive, gray-haired women, seem like unlikely activists.

Wang, who used to sell ice cream, walks with a wooden cane, one hand holding onto Wu for support. But Li said they have been fighting since being kicked out of their Beijing homes in 2001 to make way for redevelopment. A year later, their electricity at a temporary home was cut because they refused to sign papers allowing the developer to provide them with a second home.

They complained to district officials, then to city authorities, and finally demonstrated 16 times this year in two of Beijing’s most sensitive areas— Tiananmen Square and Zhongnanhai, the compound where China’s leaders live and work.

“Defending the rights of the people is still such a difficult thing even 60 years after the establishment of the republic,” Li said.
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Subject: Re: Boycott the 2008 Olympics Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:53 am

So instead of innocent until proven guilty you're guilty, period without even a corrupt trial? What a system! Why can't we all be as efficient as China Rolling Eyes

Luckily these two evil, dangerous women are off the streets Rolling Eyes

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Subject: Re: Boycott the 2008 Olympics Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:58 am

Hail the Chinese

NOT!

Subject: Re: Boycott the 2008 Olympics Fri Aug 22, 2008 8:11 am

For more information on Chinese organ harvesting, read this.

Want a kidney? That'll cost $60,000.

As long as you aren't the one being executed so your organs can be used, this system works great, I mean look at this:
Average wait time for a kidney (in days):
China: 15
UK: 1095
USA: 1825
Canada: 2555

I guess murdering people to use their organs really speeds things up!
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Subject: Re: Boycott the 2008 Olympics Fri Aug 22, 2008 9:33 am

Subject: Re: Boycott the 2008 Olympics Fri Aug 22, 2008 11:43 am

Subject: Re: Boycott the 2008 Olympics Fri Aug 22, 2008 1:17 pm

Well there's less people in Canada to die and therefore less organs. Canada's healthcare is better than ours. Then again, most aspects of Canada are better than here whistle

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Subject: Re: Boycott the 2008 Olympics Fri Aug 22, 2008 1:41 pm

Subject: Re: Boycott the 2008 Olympics Fri Aug 22, 2008 2:25 pm

And Canadian Scotch is better than American bourbon Nod

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Subject: Re: Boycott the 2008 Olympics Fri Aug 22, 2008 6:49 pm

All the folks I personally know, that live in Canada, come to America for their surgeries. They said the wait is much too long there. Also, most of the Dr.s stay their the time required by their government, and then they move to the US to practice. They said for common stuff Canadian health care is ok, but just don't need surgery!

Also lots of Canadian truck drivers live there, but take jobs with US companies to get US insurance!

Subject: Re: Boycott the 2008 Olympics Sat Aug 23, 2008 5:43 am

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Subject: Re: Boycott the 2008 Olympics Sun Aug 24, 2008 12:56 pm

Final 2008 Summer Olympic Games - Medal Count
(Sunday, August 24th)
From The Sports Network

Country__________________________________________________Gold_______Silver______Bronze_____Total

United States	36	38	36	110
China	51	21	28	100
Russia	23	21	28	72
Great Britain	19	13	15	47
Australia	14	15	17	46
Germany	16	10	15	41
France	7	16	17	40
South Korea	13	10	8	31
Italy	8	10	10	28
Ukraine	7	5	15	27
Japan	9	6	10	25
Cuba	2	11	11	24
Belarus	4	5	10	19
Spain	5	10	3	18
Canada	3	9	6	18
Netherlands	7	5	4	16
Brazil	3	4	8	15
Kenya	5	5	4	14
Kazakhstan	2	4	7	13
Jamaica	6	3	2	11
Poland	3	6	1	10
Hungary	3	5	2	10
Norway	3	5	2	10

Subject: Re: Boycott the 2008 Olympics Sun Aug 24, 2008 2:50 pm

Normally I'd say 110 medals is great, but I'm not happy. Barely better than China and not enough gold rant

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Subject: Re: Boycott the 2008 Olympics Sun Aug 24, 2008 4:33 pm

Still think they need to strip the gold medals from the woman's gymnastics team! They said some of the girls were just losing their baby teeth! Unless they are really abnormal, that indicates that they are a lot younger than required!

Subject: Re: Boycott the 2008 Olympics Mon Aug 25, 2008 6:20 am

The Olympics are over!

All and All

My boycott was successful

Gotta thank three people for it

Me, Myself and I. lol!