Freepers made me laugh outloud today. Particularly when it came to condemning China for their poor level of air quality because they have no apparent government environmental regulations whatsoever, and built built built without any concern for the environment or their people's health. Thanks, China. You have no idea what it means to see these kinds of comments from Freepers. There but for the grace of god and concerned citizens having the freedom to fight corporations.....
Oh yeah, and the comments about how corrupt the IOC is make my heart warm. I won't forget how Juan Antonio Samaranch quietly but profoundly dissed the City of Atlanta in 1996, at the conclusion of the games. China is starting out worse. The City of Atlanta worked really hard on those Games, and one psycho domestic terrorist had to screw it up and take a poor woman's life. Atlanta never tried to control all news coming in and out of the Games, though (though Richard Jewel was nearly destroyed in the knee-jerk aftermath of The Bombing, he was vindicated).
I wonder what the IOC's official proclamation of the games is going to be at its conclusion. Just how good is China's quality of hookers and blow?
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