Couldn’t Help But Comment (081408, Morning)

Geez, just yesterday, I wrote (sixth item at link), “Despite the marvelous athletic heroics, so much about the “Olympic Movement” is so deeply disappointing on so many levels.” Here’s a new level. There’s little doubt that some of China’s female gymnasts are below 16 years of age, the minimum allowable age, have competed and hauled off medals. The IOC won’t investigate. Would they have done so if China weren’t the host?
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An “unforeseen” problem: “Two weeks after announcing they had sold every one of the record 6.8 million tickets offered for the Games, Olympics officials expressed dismay at the large numbers of empty seats at nearly every event and the lack of pedestrian traffic throughout the park, the 2,800-acre centerpiece of the competition.” Stop the presses — The Communist government of China, host country to the BizzyBlog Internet Wall of Shame, lied (/mock surprise).
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The outrageous harassment of Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn for “unethically” delivering babies for free continues.
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So Nancy Pelosi is mad about this from Joe Lieberman: “Campaigning for Republican John McCain in York, Pa., on Tuesday, Lieberman appeared to question Obama’s patriotism when he called the election a choice ‘between one candidate, John McCain, who has always put his country first, worked across party lines to get things done, and one candidate that has not.’” The truth hurts, San Fran Nan.
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Allahpundit lets loose on the extreme “pro-choiciness” of “The One” I refer to as “Mr. BOOHOO-OUCH” (Barack O-bomba Overseas Hussein “Obambi” Obama – Objectively Unfit Coddler of Haters) — “But say this for him: His liberal logic is consistent. If the mother’s intent is to abort and the baby somehow survives the procedure, why should its stroke of luck (or the doctor’s negligence) thwart her ‘choice’? She came there to kill it, she has a constitutional right to kill it, so she gets to kill it. Anything less would be insufficiently ‘progressive.’”
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The totally misnamed Fairness Doctrine, if revived, may apply to bloggers. Gee, “someone” saw this possibility early last year — “….. you can rest assured that ‘progressives’ would like nothing better than to push the absurd ‘equal time’ concept down as far as possible — even to the blogs and the forums if they can.”