The World's Top Vacation Destination Fooled Everyone About How Cool They Are

I hope France was correct, and this Olympics will tell the world something about their identity, because I'm getting a little tired of being told I'm just suffering 'sour grapes' after my ugly divorce. 

I traveled there for a couple of decades, and lived there for 2 1/2 years, and I say these many problems are nothing new, unique, or different for them. They're unreasonable, and pathetic, and will argue 'up' is 'down' before ever admitting they're wrong. 

 And they've been wrong a while,...

 

It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over (Even When It's Over For You)

It would be so nice to have leaders who weren't compelled to say stupid shit: poor ol' Jeb! looked at America's being #2 in the Gold medal count, and #1 in the Olympic medal count, overall, and decided that wasn't good enough - we should now be looking at total world domination. 

If only HE had been President instead of Donald Trump. 

Please clap.

 

Olympic Athletes Insist Cupping Works (So Use Them On The NewAge Mind, Too)

Make this guy your kid's next role model - instead of Micheal Phelps.

 

The Story Of The 1968 Olympics: Black Power Salute

Prepare For Your Close-Up, My "Nice" Mormon Friend,...

Awww, how sweet - Mitt's still buddies with everyone involved in the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics bribery scandal:

The ethical indifference these ties reveal are at least as important an insight about the candidate’s character—and his executive moral compass—as the deficit-to-profit games were a measure of his managerial skill.

Nah, come on, like selling worthless supplements to the American people - under a crooked law set up by his Mormon buddy in the Senate - ethics don't mean nothin' to Mitt or his supporters. As long as he's got a Clean Gene IMAGE and the perceived ability to make money - no matter how - who he hangs with, and who got screwed, etc., mean diddley-squat. They'll, all, just make excuses and/or look the other way.

This is what happens when conservative values aren't firmly in place to begin with - and, especially, when the vetting process is left to others: 

 Political desperation allows confused NewAgers to be revealed making lousy choices,...

 

Hiding Under Dead Bodies (Watching The Parade Go By)

Looking back on it - until my marriage became a horror movie - I had NO IDEA how difficult it would be to try and live a normal life.

I should've known a kid's dream - to escape living amongst unethical bastards with a vicious religious streak - couldn't be realized by merely leaving a ghetto.

The truth is, no matter where you go, the crazies will find you - I've traveled the world and it's a fact.

They project an evil, totalitarian vibe that assaults, driving one to studying the Third Reich for clues on what's coming next.

But, even with my newfound (and extensive) knowledge of cultism, I'm no more capable of seeing around history's corner - and knowing my/our fate - than the Jews.

Was I put here to merely suffer it all, or also to act as a witness - explaining, to the next "free" kid, how these forces bend back upon themselves?

Before you assume I'm engaging in hyperbole, put yourself in my shoes:

My French wife left me for a German cultist who killed her mother (together they went on to kill two others) and right now, the world is seriously discussing a French sociologist's claim that committing adultery is good for a marriage (!) while my fellow conservatives - the Americans who are supposed to "stand athwart history yelling 'Stop!'" - are hoping they can elect a member of this huge cult, who even hosted the Olympics, to run our country.

Where do I turn to escape it all - "all" being everything that's happened, plus the cheering crowds, the mass hysteria, the poisonous groupthink and the ever-present shadow of the dead?

Nowhere - I'd go to Israel, but there's even talk of it being "wiped off the map," of course.

No, all these years after the war, I'm trapped in a concentration camp,…concentrating.

And you want to hear the worst part? 

The thing that really kills me - and probably will?

There's no getting around this:

"Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart,..."

Great Moments In Olympic History (Sticking It To Hitler)

If we paid more attention to what's important, we'd see a lot more of this - and would shut up all the haters,...
 

Clusterfuck: The Inside Story Of The 1972 Olympics

Kevin Macdonald's Academy Award-winning "One Day In September" should be all that's needed to answer the question, "Why won't this year's Olympics be commemorating this tragedy?"
 

Everybody's Getting That Post-Racial Feeling

"Obama + Michelle x Oprah = Zero"

-- Matt Drudge, recounting the NewAge math - that's the kind that makes no sense - after the International Olympics Committee gave Chicago (and it's illustrious representatives) a massive "FAIL", on The Drudge Report.

There's Just No Escaping The "C" Word

"Many different traditions, myths and cults fed the Greek games."

-- Edward Rothstein, on the history of the Olympic torch relay, in the New York Times

Betrayed,...By Everyone

O.K., I really like this video:

Zhang Bin (on the left as the video begins) is a famous Chinese sportscaster who was introducing China's new Olympics Channel. The woman, Hu Ziwei, is also a famous sportscaster - and his wife. She has interrupted the Olympics Channel opening ceremony to announce that her husband is having an affair.

So why do I like the video? Because I identify with her,...and I'm proud of her. As a number of men try to stop her from speaking, we see her constantly pulling away - insisting, through her pain, she will be heard. Screw them and screw any pretense of decorum. If she has to go through Hell, they all have to go through Hell. She didn't make the situation - he did - and to make her watch, as China honors him, is disgusting.

I think San Francisco (which rewarded it's mayor with a 75% approval rating after discovering he slept with his best friend and campaign manager's wife, and bringing back all kinds of nightmares for me) could learn a thing or two, about compassion for the betrayed, from this video. I can only imagine the pain Alex Tourk went through, as The City applauded Gavin Newsom, condemning Tourk to the Seventh Circle of Hell to prove how "sophisticated" they were as individuals.

San Franciscans aren't sophisticated; they're cruel - they're America's equivalent to this clip's hoard of goons.