Comments on: Olympic Committee or Athletic Nanny State? http://pjmedia.com/blog/olympic-movement-or-moral-police/ Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:41:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Edwin Cairo http://pjmedia.com/blog/olympic-movement-or-moral-police/#comment-1455028 Edwin Cairo Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:58:22 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=70623#comment-1455028 Thankful conversation. I'm luckily found this expose again and get a wonderful chance to allocate my opinion in this issue. I think that's show brings real opportunity for the Olympic and I watched his flame show in last night. Keep it up though! Thankful conversation. I’m luckily found this expose again and get a wonderful chance to allocate my opinion in this issue. I think that’s show brings real opportunity for the Olympic and I watched his flame show in last night. Keep it up though!

]]> By: mitchel44 http://pjmedia.com/blog/olympic-movement-or-moral-police/#comment-434893 mitchel44 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:46:34 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=70623#comment-434893 Hmm, do you suppose greenhouse gas emissions and climate change were on their minds when they drew up the plans for this? http://www.vancouver2010.com/more-2010-information/olympic-torch-relay/olympic-torch-relay-interactive-map/ What sort of footprint is that going to have? Don't worry though, it's all "sustainable", http://www.vancouver2010.com/sustainability/, or you could buy them an offset. Hmm, do you suppose greenhouse gas emissions and climate change were on their minds when they drew up the plans for this?

http://www.vancouver2010.com/more-2010-information/olympic-torch-relay/olympic-torch-relay-interactive-map/

What sort of footprint is that going to have? Don’t worry though, it’s all “sustainable”, http://www.vancouver2010.com/sustainability/, or you could buy them an offset.

]]> By: Mike G http://pjmedia.com/blog/olympic-movement-or-moral-police/#comment-434855 Mike G Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:32:03 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=70623#comment-434855 I am curious as to why you think climate change is a serious issue. So far I cannot find anything but isolated anecdotes along with temperature projection models that are either a) so complex that they have no chance of improving on a rough guess or b) purposely designed to support climate change religion. And, even if otherwise valid, the "human-caused" factor in these models is grossly overstated. The real evidence staring at us is that societal wealth created by a free market is the best thing for the environment. Those driving the climate change movement want to slow this down in pursuit of their own power and enrichment. The rest of us are being duped. But back to your point - I wish we could know how many members of the IOC have visited brothels in the course of their travels and site selections I am curious as to why you think climate change is a serious issue. So far I cannot find anything but isolated anecdotes along with temperature projection models that are either a) so complex that they have no chance of improving on a rough guess or b) purposely designed to support climate change religion. And, even if otherwise valid, the “human-caused” factor in these models is grossly overstated.

The real evidence staring at us is that societal wealth created by a free market is the best thing for the environment. Those driving the climate change movement want to slow this down in pursuit of their own power and enrichment. The rest of us are being duped.

But back to your point – I wish we could know how many members of the IOC have visited brothels in the course of their travels and site selections

]]> By: Michael W. Perry http://pjmedia.com/blog/olympic-movement-or-moral-police/#comment-434810 Michael W. Perry Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:14:42 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=70623#comment-434810 Oh, I see no reason to be upset that Olympic fundraising can't include running a brothel, legal or not. I does show the the Olympic Committee has a few standards left and we should be thankful for that. Josh Chetwynd seems to prefer that they have none, and seems to think that this sports competition exists merely to keep little Joshie entertained and occasionally titillated. Thinking that "legislating individual morals" is wrong and "that climate change is a worthy issue" demonstrates that this journalist an occasional lawyer is so shallow and clueless, he'd be more at home back at USA Today and US News rather than at PJM. This is a guy with a mind like a bumper sticker and heart of ice. Wrong is wrong, whether that wrong is committed by an individual or a giant corporation. In fact, in my experience the harm caused by individual transgressions, a husband visiting this brothel for instance, is far greater than that created by most corporate greed, say my current clash with Comcast for miss-billing me and pig-headed refusing to fix the problem. And miseries in marriage impose miseries that children will carry with them for the rest of their life. But then that's not something this Josh Chetwynd cares about. Oh, I see no reason to be upset that Olympic fundraising can’t include running a brothel, legal or not. I does show the the Olympic Committee has a few standards left and we should be thankful for that. Josh Chetwynd seems to prefer that they have none, and seems to think that this sports competition exists merely to keep little Joshie entertained and occasionally titillated.

Thinking that “legislating individual morals” is wrong and “that climate change is a worthy issue” demonstrates that this journalist an occasional lawyer is so shallow and clueless, he’d be more at home back at USA Today and US News rather than at PJM. This is a guy with a mind like a bumper sticker and heart of ice.

Wrong is wrong, whether that wrong is committed by an individual or a giant corporation. In fact, in my experience the harm caused by individual transgressions, a husband visiting this brothel for instance, is far greater than that created by most corporate greed, say my current clash with Comcast for miss-billing me and pig-headed refusing to fix the problem. And miseries in marriage impose miseries that children will carry with them for the rest of their life.

But then that’s not something this Josh Chetwynd cares about.

]]> By: Now and Then http://pjmedia.com/blog/olympic-movement-or-moral-police/#comment-434767 Now and Then Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:27:01 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=70623#comment-434767 So was this sufficient to allay the lingering guilt of rooting against America? I mean, conservatives didn't really have time to demonize the games prior to their outrage of Obama trying to bring the games to Chicago. Does this make you feel better about being anti-American? So was this sufficient to allay the lingering guilt of rooting against America? I mean, conservatives didn’t really have time to demonize the games prior to their outrage of Obama trying to bring the games to Chicago. Does this make you feel better about being anti-American?

]]> By: canuck http://pjmedia.com/blog/olympic-movement-or-moral-police/#comment-434694 canuck Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:31:19 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=70623#comment-434694 "Now I actually believe that climate change is a worthy issue." Really now...statements like this certainly destroy the credibility of the rest of your well reasoned article. This climate change crap is a much greater scam than the ongoing Olympic sham. Much more to the point, the IOC is essentially a criminal organization that should have been dealt with under RICO provisions ages ago. Like the UN they should have been banished by US Administrations past. Why past? The Chicago Way...professional courtesy. “Now I actually believe that climate change is a worthy issue.”

Really now…statements like this certainly destroy the credibility of the rest of your well reasoned article. This climate change crap is a much greater scam than the ongoing Olympic sham.

Much more to the point, the IOC is essentially a criminal organization that should have been dealt with under RICO provisions ages ago. Like the UN they should have been banished by US Administrations past.

Why past? The Chicago Way…professional courtesy.

]]> By: XiaoMei http://pjmedia.com/blog/olympic-movement-or-moral-police/#comment-434688 XiaoMei Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:09:44 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=70623#comment-434688 This is just one more nail in the Olympics coffin. They're already so corrupt that it's time for the new Pierre de Coubertin. This is just one more nail in the Olympics coffin. They’re already so corrupt that it’s time for the new Pierre de Coubertin.

]]> By: Dr. Matt http://pjmedia.com/blog/olympic-movement-or-moral-police/#comment-434671 Dr. Matt Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:12:52 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=70623#comment-434671 hmmm.... maybe he shouldn't have called the brothel, "Swifter, higher, stronger" ? hmmm…. maybe he shouldn’t have called the brothel, “Swifter, higher, stronger” ?

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