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Nope. He's a teechur and they ain't got no lernin'. Just ignernt.

Upon holding his infant grandson for the first time my father looked up at me and stated, "What a miracle . . . that someone as flawed as you can produce someone as perfect as this." I used that same line on that same kid 24 years later.

Check out the hit beginning at the :19 second point.

Irish Hurling!!!! So brutal that it made football look like tiddlywinks.

Word.

It is all fun and game until someone shows up in a tank.

I would like to see barrel jumping included in the winter Olympics. Conducted inside a motorcycle ice racing loop going on simultaneously. Those spiked tires were awesome! ABC's Wide World of Sports used to have those two great sports and the Super-Stars competition after the Super Bowl and before the baseball season began.

The French could really stick it in Vladdie's eye by playing half the Russian Anthem and half the Ukranian Anthem (Ukranian first) for any gold won by annexed sports federations! Then the Russians will run away of their own accord.

I know. I still think Zola Budd should have been able to run barefoot in international competitions without a sham GB "citizenship". And I think the Russian wrestlers should be in even though Vladdie is a baddie. Now, if the issue is systematic doping and PEDs to enhance the athletes' competitiveness then that is cheating and valid grounds for barring a team on a sport by sport basis. I say that because if the Jamaican bobsledders are doped up it should not stop Usain Bolt and Merlene Ottey from competing. IMHO. I used to wonder why everyone was declaring him/herself to be Don Ho. Then a kid clued me in that it does not mean "I am Ho"

No you don't.

A man's not dressed until he has accessorized properly with a stylish belt. Cheers to you, nhs67.

Here is my guess: Those without a second amendment recognizing their God-given right to discard a government that threatens their other God-given rights.

"Supporter" implies policy alignment with said groups. I am comfortable with rejecting this implication of your statement. I do not deny that the US State Department and our "intelligence" organizations have an absolutely horrible record of picking who will be the long term good guys and bad guys and therefore are the biggest funding source of many crazy organizations overseas - especially in their incipient stages. I ABSOLUTELY AGREE that we should stop giving money to "these" groups. In fact, we never should have started giving money to them. I define "these" groups as any group of non-America citizens. I also believe that our government should not be giving money to groups of American citizens in general. I cannot find the authority in the Constitution for the federal government to give money to any group based on any criteria whatsoever other than direct employees or companies hired to perform US Government services in support of enumerated powers. Radical, huh?

Change Palestinians/Hamas with Germans/National Socialists in the 1930's. Same logic, Brandon. A previous post even stated that Hamas got "only" 44% of the vote. The National Socialists got only 33% in the last free and fair election in Germany which was actual 4% lower than what they got in the previous election. Nevertheless, if a population tolerates and harbors a cancer and it metastasizes beyond your boundaries then eradicating the cancer will be very painful and collateral damage (i.e. clean tissue) is sacrificed. It is unfortunate. Regardless, unconditional surrender and eradication (i.e. excising the cancer) is required. Detente is impossible. "Remission" of the cancer is beyond the ability of my analogy to stretch.

Leftists love the religion of Mohammad and all of its tenets?!? If so it is only under the "enemy of my enemy" concept and not through any intellectual understanding of that religion of "peace" nor any of its principles. Maher is a leftie but one who actually has principles and knows that a bunch of choir boys and eagle scouts and veterans are not the terrorists the FBI claims they are. He probably believes that that people who declare his existence to be expendable and their mission in life to execute that declaration are much more of a threat to himself and to all of humanity. I guess that makes him actually MORE respectful of Muslims because he believes them and takes their statements seriously.

My Rogain treatments are working! And I can't wait until the TSA workers see me walking up in this on National Singlet Day!! I will show them what I'm made of and what Mrs. Ban already knows.

The Super Bowl would be better served if the half time show was a wrestling match!

I have not read a single thing asserted by anyone writing in this thread which implies that he/she thinks a person of any race is less entitled to respect and human dignity than anyone else. I have read quite a few posters on this thread who think that if your understanding of history is not 100% aligned with theirs you are a racist, a crackpot, a cunt, a pig, pro-rape, evil, and vile things. The black guy having to let another know that he is a great American therefore great American does not equal racist is very interesting in the underlying implications. The first implication being that racism is only against blacks. Rashida certainly thinks great Americans – and one in particular - are racist against her and those who worship like she does. The second implication being that no one who is black thinks any less of any one of any other race whatsoever. While it might be true in the case of this particular great American I do not suppose he can speak for his whole race. In fact, we are often told that it is very racist to think that an individual of a particular race can give us "the perspective of ______s (fill in the race of your choice here)”? When the thread veered into discussing relative man-size and Ban's wife's enjoyment in finding out the rankings then I knew there is still hope for all of us to maintain perspective on this board.

I really like that the moderator can split a thread when it wanders and then leave the wrestling portion over there and pull the craziness over here. Nice touch. This way nothing is banned or censored just . . . curated. So much for my constructive comment. The incendiary one comes in . . . 3. . . 2 . . . 1

Nothing warped about my perspective. Straight and true. Just different from yours. Punishing the whole for the transgressions of one or few is collective punishment and generally considered immoral. Punishing individuals who were born into a situation and have no ability to affect it by running or not running a 1500 meter race is also generally considered immoral. Nothing warped about that perspective. Yours may be different but, if so, please be consistent and insist that China be banned from all international forums (sporting and otherwise) and refuse to use anything made there in your daily life. Live your perspective.

I disagree. Parents guide the school about when and how children are exposed to sensitive topics. Not the other way around.

I have a gentle request, WKN. Is it possible to set your spreadsheet setting for percentages to whole numbers. My high school physics teacher, Mr. Valentine, is rolling in his grave over the significant digits implication of 1/100 of a percent being reported. He would insist that means we have/need 10,000 data points to be accurate to & report a .0001 level of precision. P.S. I love the tables and charts and data and analysis and am quite conflicted about writing this respectful request.

Punishing individual athletes does not make a nation a pariah. Nor does competing with those athletes imply any approval of his/her home country's internal or international actions. It is a huge price for an individual to pay when your options are to rescind your citizenship and place of birth or not compete.

I object (nearly unconditionally) to national politics playing any role whatsoever in international sporting events. Boycotts in 1980 and 1984 changed no national policies anywhere but hurt the athletes tremendously. South Africa's athletes paid a huge price for virtue signalling of no useful consequence. The (illogical) next step will be to disallow a country's athletes to participate over pronouns and bathroom privileges and carbon credits. Because, you know, the earth is at stake. While there may be no good answer to the "international community" signalling disapproval of a specific country's actions and policies banning athlete participation in competitions is definitely THE bad answer.

Since when are we constrained by reality on this forum? Don't be a hater.