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The 2008 Beijing Olympics have completed all events. The Redeeem Team beat Spain for mthe gold. The closing ceremony has been televised to the world. TV sports commentators have called the games a success for China. The facilities, the presentations, and its # 1 placement in gold medals have shown that the Celestial Kingdom has finally reclaimed […]

10 days into the Olympics and the Chinese authorities have yet to allow a protest in the sanctioned areas for dissent. No word about Tibet. No word about organ-harvesting. No word about corruption. No word about the earthquake. No word about government officials selling commune land for a profit.
Although Yahoo Sports News reports that the […]

Usain Bolt blew away his competition in the 100m sprint with an official time: 9.69 seconds.
“I was having fun.”
Bolt’s new world record is over a 1/10th of a second faster than Ben Johnson’s disputed world record in 1988.
Usian Bolt submitted to drug tests after the race.
He was clean.
And judging from the ease of his victory, […]

Beijing is a city of millions. Glittering discos, trendy bars, ecletic galleries, 5-star hotels, deluxe shopping malls, fast food restaurants, multi-lane highways, and foreign super-markets have transformed the ancient Chinese capitol into a world-class consumotropolis, however this urban metamorphosis had a void of exotic dance bars.
Google Beijing and go-go bars
Plenty of brothels and escorts but […]

The house on Palm Beach doesn’t have TV. So sticking to my self-imposed Olympic ban has been easy. My friend Lisa gives me the run-down. She had been on the 1980 Women’s Field Hockey team.
“Fuck that peanut farmer.”
She’s a liberal but still holds a grudge against Jimmy Carter for banning the USA from attending the […]

“China has nothing to worry about Christian churches.” GW Bush said coming out of tiny Protestant church in Beijing with his wife and unmarried daughter. “That’s all I got to say on the matter.”
GW Bush has done his best to show his appreciation to his Chinese hosts and no Far East analysts think he will […]

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The 1936 Berlin Olympics were a showcase for the Nazis and Hitler depended heavily on his chief architect to design stadiums in the spirit of the 3rd Reich. Leni Riefenstahl’s movie TRIUMPH OF THE WILL lovingly portrays that fascist vision of the new world order and in 2008 the Chinese have returned to that spirit […]

In 1980 my friend Lisa was at the USA Olympic training camp for field hockey.
No, she is not an ike-day.
“I can remember Carter coming on the TV and saying that we were boycotting the Moscow Games.” She tells the story with eyes seeing only that peanut farmer telling the world, “Hell, no we ain’t gonna […]

And the tradition lives on in Beijing 2008
Free Tibet
Free dog meat