Well…it’s happened again….I’ve been getting sucked into the Olympics again and it is really getting me off stride…don’t want to work out, don’t want to eat, or sleep when there are events on…not sure if the competition is as good as Canada 4 years ago, but it is still fun to have something to watch and take my mind off the rest of the world…and there have been some performances in ice dancing, slope style snowboarding, and many other events that have been pretty cool…and, I am getting geeked about how good the USA womens hockey team has been playing….but, the USA women lost in curling this morning and I am waiting for the USA mens to start….I finally have gotten past the part that the US has to win for me to enjoy it, too….so…there will be more updates as the games go on and I will even be lucid…I hope…
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Walmart still sucks..
Well…one of the things that has been galling about watching the Olympics this time is the commercial that Walmart has been running about how wonderful they are for planning…remember, only planning to spend 250 billion dollars to ‘revive” American manufacturing….and every time I see it, I gag at the audacity of the ad…the audacity of a company who has spent the past 40 years destroying American manufacturing by their relentless push to cut costs by selling billions and billions of dollars of cheap Chinese crap…all the while paying their employees so little that most of them qualify for food stamps and other aid that has we taxpayers giving Walmart almost a million dollars a store in subsidies. It reminds me of the old, old joke that has a murderer killing his parents and then throwing himself on the mercy of the court by saying he has an excuse, he is an orphan….that is just what this whole campaign smells like…hollow out the economy with your strategic plans, then make a big deal that you might go back and fix some of the damage that you caused…what a sorry excuse for a company, and a sorry excuse for Americans these Waltons are…geez…
Should talk about the Olympics…
Well…it has been a day and I have grown weary of attacking ole Mitt, so I thought I talk about other stuff for a change…and, since I’ve been watching the Olympics almost non-stop since they started, it seems they would be a good topic. One of the things that has surprised me is the gaming of the games that have been going on, starting with the badminton scandal, I thought you were supposed to always try your best, not try to use the rules to avoid having to. But, that just what we got with some of the Chinese badminton players who clumsily tried to lose so they would get an easier opponent in the next round…I’m not sure they should be banned since the rules were there to be used but doesn’t anyone adhere to the spirit of the contest anymore? Then, there has been the atrocious refereeing and judging of boxing, leaving fighters who clearly won their fights the losers with it getting so bad that at least two of the results were overturned on appeal, something that is virtually unheard of. But, I still love the two weeks when the games are on..it gives me a chance to forget being broke and unemployed and root for the good old USA.
Just catching up…
Well…as you know, when it gets to the end of the month, I usually have to play catch up and this month is no different…I have been watching lots of olympics and I’m not sure I’m so happy with how NBC is is putting the games on…I really have to avoid watching any other sports channel since all of the prime time events take place during the day and they tape delay them but the results run across the bottom of the screen and it takes the suspense out of it for me…and, the inane interviews with the competitors and families can be discarded all together…but, I’ll keep watching…what else is there to do when you don’t have a lot of cash? I’ll come back to add to this one later….hey, where have you heard that before?
A little sports for a change…
Well…with the eve of the Olympics upon us…I am getting excited for them to start just like I have for my entire life so I thought I’d talk about them and some other sports instead of a political one for today…so, one of the things I really hate about nbc running the show this time is the fact that they have at least half of the events on channels that I don’t get; just like when they have hockey on their sports channel that I won’t even mention because I just hate their announcers…and they hate the Red Wings. It is pretty cool to root for the US again…with the olympics you don’t have to think who you’re for, it’s always the US…there is another hierarchy that I have in my head for when the US isn’t playing but it would take too long to explain here and it changes daily so even if I did explain it, it wouldn’t be valid tomorrow…
There are other sports, too, and I am looking forward to the sports car race that is at Indy at 4 today and the other two races that happen over the weekend and there are the Tigers, too, but Verlander looked like crap last night and I was really disappointed…but, they are still near first place so I shouldn’t complain too much…okay, that’s it…I’m going to go do something else…not sure what but something…