“At one point, my astonishment at the sheer magnitude of the train wreck had the effect of having my eyes taped open at the horror of horrors, making me feel like the serial rapist from Clockwork Orange. I wouldn’t have been shocked if a monstrous statue of Joseph Stalin was unveiled at the end whose head birthed a hydra and ate the audience….”

http://rantpolitical.com/2012/07/28/an-olympic-nightmare/#comment-27

Ah, but we can’t dishonor the dead — we only soil our own honor by such actions.

Anyone else notice the creeping Leftist culture of malignant envy in the new gymnastics rules? Only 2 competitors from any one nation, regardless of the individual scores, may compete in the all-around final. So America’s Jordan Wieber, who came in fourth out of all the girls in the competition in the prelims, has been barred from competing for the gold medal because two of her teammates also qualified.

Jordan is the current world champion. 20 other girls with lower scores WILL be allowed to compete.

She was in tears, crushed: the work of her life destroyed. Why? well, for Envy’s sake. The Envy that the Left hones to a keen edge, for any excellence they can’t attain on their own merits.

You’re right. Even absent the issue of energy dependence on MidEast oil that turns to petrodollars that finance the worldwide expansion of Islam and its fantasies of a caliphate, a nation that will not use its natural resources is a defunct nation. This is one of the great issues I have with the GOP, that they allowed, even participated (out of fear, not concern) in this. Romney and the GOP plank in the platform should state it is their intention to drill or frack anything that even looks like it contains oil or gas — including Roseanne Barr and Michael Moore.

Correct. But you have to wonder why the West has kow-towed to the Islamic countries all these years. They are no real military threat. It has primarily been our need for oil throughout the developed world and the fact that Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Iraq are awash in the stuff. That’s one reason why it is so unconscionable that the enviros have worked so hard to lock our resources away. Reasonably priced, secure energy is the life blood of a modern economy. Our national security and future well being depends on going after our oil reserves so that at last, at long blody last, we no longer need take so much note of the Islamic OPEC mafia.

This is exactly why I can never be an elected leader of any country.

I would have cut those flags down, and incinerated them in the Olympic flame myself, and then told those countries they can recall their representatives and proceed to pound sand.

Most every Islamic country — and Islam itself — is, every second of every day, manifestly in violation of a host of the UN’s Universal Declaration Of Human Rights Articles.

Article 5 (inhuman punishment — beheadings, stoning, et al)

Article 7 (equality under the law — muslim women, infidels)

Article 16 (men and women equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution. (2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.)

Article 18 (Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

Article 19 (Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.)

And the kicker
Article 30 (Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.

Until such time as the OIC Islamic countries and Islam comply with the UN Articles, within their own borders and religion, de facto and de jure, they should be expelled from the UN. But then, every Western nation is as fundamentally corrupt, and frightened, as Islam is unconscionable.
Our continued association with the UN does not speak well of us but says volumes about our willingness, along with the rest of the West, to invoke righteousness and simultaneously, in confronting Islam, timorously disregard it. We have not dishonored the murdered by not giving them a minute of silence; we have dishonored the murdered by countenancing Islam generally and the OIC specifically.