Many of the people carrying the torch in these countries have dedicated their lifes to excellence in their chosen sport.  What is the point of ruining the opportunity of a lifetime with such childish and pointless antics?

It only will only harden the Chinese government's (who of course are nothing but thugs) attitude towards the situation and make this years Olympics rival the '36 Berlin Games.

Fortunately Chicoms will have the spotlight on them and will never be able to hide everything they want to. It will interesting to see how hard the "free" media will push against the state run media goon squads in their attempts to tell the Olympic story.

The ancients would stop a war to hold the Olympics. It's sad, for athletes and for mankind, that politics has become so-all-important that we can't focus on anything else without its taint.

Well said.  Everything is now a venue for political activism. 

Frankly, it has become so political, that I think the games have completely lost their usefulness as a venue for nonpolitical competition, and the world could do very well without them.

"Cannonball Run" is the movie by which I rate the badness of any movie.

Absolut must have thought it's anti-American ad was small potatoes.

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Why are they protesting China anyway? China is living proof that communism works for "all" the people. "Yes We Can"- wasn't that Mao's slogan too? And that guy in Cuba...I think he said something similar in 50's...gave his "people" great universal healthcare...

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

Nice oxymoron there with the those bumper stickers.

By justice a king gives stability to a land; but he who imposes heavy taxes ruins it. -Proverbs 29:4

Right on.  It's not as though the Chinese raped and married her adopted daughter.

Imagine how forever vocal she'd be if someone did that.

Ohhh wait . . . never mind.

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There has to be more to the agenda. Romney would make a fine VP. He was the only true conservative left in the nomination process. And unlike many, Romney could step in to the oval at a moments notice. Mitt's not the only choice, but he's one of the stronger ones.

Nice list. Unfortunately that will just prompt someone to do the same against the Democrats. The list will be about the same and I will be even further depressed by the fact that these "people" not only still get voted into office but once they are they are not held to the same standards as the average person. Their standards should be higher not lower and yet year after year we seem to get a worse group to choose from. The media definitely need to give up on the moniker of "Watchdog".

The Republican party is a party of morality. It does not stand for some acceptance of criminal activity or pedophilia, as you have intoned. Those who commit crimes should be dealt with appropriately, be they Democrat or Republican.

To suggest that Democrats do not have their own set of criminals and pedophiles is a joke.

In neither case is it a reflection upon the morality of the party itself. It's a reflection of individuals who have used power to exploit their own moral shortcomings.

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"People only insist that a debate stop when they are afraid of what might be learned if it continues." - George Will 

Leon, everyone know's Republican's are more likely to get embroiled in scandal's because they dont' have the media on thier side like the Democrat's do. I'm not excusing thier behavoir, I just think the media and liberal's concerning conservatives, have mastered the art of outrage and concerning liberal's, the art of ommision. 

But let's not forget Leon, your esteemed Democrat party was the first one to put a sex offender and known rapist in The Whitehouse. 

 That link you posted was laughable, since most of the people on it were private citizen's not politician's. I would post a similiar link with liberal's on it, but unfortunately not many people on here have enough time to sift through The U.S. Department Of Justice crime statistic's, so these will just have to do for now.

 criminal's:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1743276/posts

Traitor's:

http://www.lisa-richards.com/id15.html

http://www.wintersoldier.com/staticpages/index.php?page=20040604194804799

Racist's:

http://www.blackconservative.net/RL.html

"~Ex-Klansman, Senator Robert Byrd used the term “white
nigger” on Tony Snow’s Fox News Sunday.

~During a speech, Democrat Lieutenant Governor, Cruz
Bustamante, used the N–Word.

~Senator Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) told reporters on
December 14, 1993, that he attended international summits
alongside “these potentates from down in Africa.”  He
continued, saying, “rather than eating each other, they’d just
come up and get a good square meal in Geneva.”  Senator
Hollings also held out for keeping the confederate flag flying
over the state capitol.  In 1960 Hollings “warned today that
South Carolina would not permit ‘explosive’ manifestations
in connection with Negro demands for lunch-counter
services.”

~New York City Councilman Charles Barron told a crowd at
the Millions for Reparations March in Washington D.C. that
he wished his goal of seeing blacks compensated for the
enslavement of their ancestors was closer to fruition.  He
said, “I want to go up to the closest white person and say:’
You can’t understand this, it’s a black thing’ and then slap
him, just for my mental health.”

~Donna Brazil, Al Gore’s presidential campaign manager,
called Republicans “white boys” who aim to “exclude,
denigrate and leave behind.”  And, when the Washington
Post asked Brazil what she would do for the Gore campaign,
her response was that she was there to ensure that the
campaign and election did not fall into the hands of “white
boys.”

~ Senator Dodd (D-CT) made these remarks during a
tribute to Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV): “It has often been
said that the man and the moment come together. I do not
think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West
Virginia that he would have been a great Senator at any
moment. Some were right for the time. Robert C. Byrd, in my
view, would have been right at any time.”  Tom Daschle (D-
SD) defended Dodd’s comments, which sounded an awful
lot like the comments made by Senator Lott.

~Jesse Jackson, who misses few opportunities to expose
racism in others, referred to New York City as “hymietown.”

~Jackson’s buddy, Al Sharpton, was a central figure in
fanning the 1991 Crown Heights race riot, where a mob
killed an innocent Jewish man.  In addition to that, Sharpton
also initiated a 1995 protest of a Jewish owned store in
Harlem where protesters used several anti-Semitic slurs.

~Bill Clinton was among three state officials in Arkansas, in
1989, who were sued under the federal Voting Rights Act of
1965.  “Plaintiffs offered plenty of proof of monolithic voting
along racial lines, intimidation of black voters and
candidates, and other official acts that made voting harder
for blacks,” according to the Arkansas Gazette,  “The
evidence at the trial was indeed overwhelming that the
Voting Rights Act had been violated.”

During Clinton’s 12-year tenure as Governor, he never
approved a state civil rights law.

Bill Clinton admired Oral Eugene Faubus, whose claim to
fame was trying to bar nine black children from attending
Little Rock’s Central High School in 1957.  Clinton was also
a friend of William Fulbright, a segregationist who signed the
Southern Manifesto, which denounced the Supreme Court’s
Brown vs. Board of Education decision.  Clinton referred to
Fulbright as “my mentor, a visionary, a humanitarian.”

~Democratic National Chairman, Terry McAuliffe used the
term “colored people” in a speech soon after becoming
DNC chief.  And I thought liberals were progressive.

~San Francisco Democrat, Mayor Willie Brown, after
winning the 1995 election said, “The white boys got taken
fair and square.”  

~Apparently Spike Lee has a problem with interracial
couples as he has stated that, “I give interracial couples a
look.  Daggers.  They get uncomfortable when they see me
on the street.”

~Dan Rather, having avoided covering a story on
Condaleeza Rice, eventually did the story, saying that CBS
“got the Buckwheats,” suggesting that CBS was afraid not to
cover the story because the other networks were covering it.

~Andrew Cuomo found himself in an uncomfortable position
when he said that voting for his rival for the New York
Democratic gubernatorial nomination, Carl McCall, who is
black, would make for a “racial contract” between black and
Hispanic Democrats “and that can’t happen.”  Cuomo
eventually dropped out of the race for governor.

~Former Democratic Minority Leader in the U.S. House of
Representatives, Dick Gephardt, gave several speeches to
a now defunct white supremacist organization called the
Metro South Citizens Council.  Gephardt also asked the
group for an endorsement of his candidacy.

~Regarding Clarence Thomas and Affirmative Action,
Maureen Dowd insults Thomas’ accomplishments by writing,
“It makes him crazy that people think he is where he is
because of his race, but he is where he is because of his
race.”  Is Dowd saying that without Affirmative Action, blacks
are incapable of accomplishing anything great or is she
saying that all whites are racist and therefore would never
have given Thomas a chance?

It may be one thing for a conservative to point all of these
things out, but there are some black Democrats who have
accused their own party of racism.  Says Baltimore
Democrat, Tony E. Fulton, “They really don’t care about us.  
We are used every four years, then thrown back.”  Black
conservatives have been pointing that out for years.

Dereck E. Davis, of Prince George, Maryland,  is chairman
of the Economic Matters Committee.  According to Davis,
“The state party is racist to the core.”  And Nathaniel T.
Oaks, a  Baltimore Democratic Delegate, remarked, “I think
the Democratic Party takes black people for granted.”

The above are all fairly recent incidents, but racism in the
Democratic Party stems back to prior to the Civil War.  The
Republican party was created in response to a growing
number of Americans who were against slavery.  Thomas
Jefferson, and others with the same philosophy, that slavery
was a “positive good,” founded the Democratic Party.

Following the war, Democrats continued to fight against
equal rights for blacks, eventually defeating Reconstruction
and implementing Jim Crow.  During the 1920s,
Republicans repeatedly called for anti-lynching legislature
that was opposed by Democrats.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt did his part to continue the trend
of Democratic racism.  In addition to the Japanese
Internment situation, Roosevelt is also responsible for
appointing two notorious segregationists to the U.S.
Supreme Court - Jimmy Byrnes and Hugo Black.

Hugo Black, a former Democrat Senator from Alabama had
a long history of hate group activism.  He was a member of
the Ku Klux Klan and became famous for defending
Klansmen under prosecution for racial murders.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 got more support from
Republicans than from Democrats.  Republican Senate
Minority Leader, Everett Dirksen, pushed the bill through the
Senate despite 21 no-votes from Democrats, including Al
Gore’s father and, of course, Robert Byrd.  Only 4
Republicans opposed the bill.

Democratic opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 split
the party in two.  Forty percent of the House Democrats
voted against the Civil Rights Act.  At the same time, 80% of
Republicans supported it.  Republican support in the Senate
was even higher.

So, the next time a liberal brags about their record on race
issues, you know what to say."

  http://bsimmons.wordpress.com/2007/10/20/22-ways-to-be-a-good-democrat/
22 WAYS TO BE A GOOD DEMOCRAT

October 20, 2007 — budsimmons

22 WAYS TO BE A GOOD DEMOCRAT
1. You have to be against capital punishment, but
support abortion on demand.
2. You have to believe that businesses create
oppression and governments create prosperity.
3. You have to believe that guns in the hands of
law-abiding Americans are more of a threat than U.S.
Nuclear weapons technology in the hands of Chinese and
North Korean communists.
4. You have to believe that there was no art before
Federal funding.
5. You have to believe that global temperatures are
less affected by cyclical documented changes in the
earth’s climate and more affected by Soccer moms
driving SUV’s.
6. You have to believe that gender roles are
artificial but being homosexual is natural.
7. You have to believe that the AIDS virus is spread
by a lack of Federal Funding.
8. You have to believe that the same teacher who can’t
teach fourth graders how to read is somehow qualified
to teach those same kids about sex.
9. You have to believe that hunters don’t care about
nature, but loony activists who have never been
outside of San Francisco do.
10. You have to believe that self-esteem is more
important than actually doing something to earn it..
11. You have to believe that Mel Gibson spent $25
million of his own money to make ‘The Passion of the
Christ’ for financial gain only.
12. You have to believe the NRA is bad because it
supports certain parts of the Constitution, while the
ACLU is good because it supports certain parts of the
Constitution.
13. You have to believe that taxes are too low, but
ATM fees are too high.
14. You have to believe that Margaret Sanger and
Gloria Steinem are more Important to American history
than Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Edison, and A.G..Bell.
15. You have to believe that standardized tests are
racist, but racial quotas and set-asides are not.
16. You have to believe that Hillary Clinton is normal
and is a very nice person.
17. You have to believe that the only reason socialism
hasn’t worked anywhere it’s been tried is because the
right people haven’t been in charge.
18. You have to believe conservatives telling the
truth belong in jail, but a liar and a sex offender
belonged in the White House.
19. You have to believe that homosexual parades
displaying drag, transvestites, and bestiality should
be constitutionally protected, and Manger scenes at
Christmas should be illegal.
20. You have to believe that illegal Democrat Party
funding by the Chinese Government is somehow in the
best interest to the United States.
21. You have to believe that this message is a part of
a vast, right Wing Conspiracy.
22. You have to believe that it’s okay to give Federal
workers the day off on Christmas Day, but it’s not
okay to say ‘Merry Christmas

here are some other prominent liberal's (socialist-progressives)

Mao Zedong ,Fidel Castro Ernesto Che Guevara, Pathet Lao, Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il, Ho Chi Minh, Enver Hoxha, Todor Zhivkov, Gustáv Husák, Mengistu Haile Mariam, Erich Honecker, Egon Krenz, Mátyás Rákosi, Pol Pot, Khorloogiin Choibalsan, Nicolae Ceauşescu, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin, Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, Robert Mugabe, Hugo Chavez.

So Leon Trotsky, I think I'll just stock up on popcorn and get ready for the "delicious saga" between now and the Democrat Convention that will be the slow, twisting, groaning, hulk of wreckage, speeding to dark fathomless depth's that will be the Democrat party sinking and imploding. : )

 "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

                   - Ben Kenobi on  Liberals, and the MSM.

                               " The Cake is a lie."