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Egypt doesn't understand the Olympic Games, or sportsmanship

Posted by $ Thoritsu 7 years, 9 months ago to Politics
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Politics and islam here we go again. I suppose there will be no version of a Christmas Truce with these guys. I expect those days are gone.

This is an example of simple bad behavior, intolerance and poor sportsmanship. If the guy wouldn't bow (traditional) or shake the other's hand (modern option), then he should have simply forfeit. Why didn't he? Because if he had won, he would've gloated.

Time for Israel to take back the Gaza Strip.

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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 7 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Great summary. Decateur was killed in a duel by a disgraced commodore, Decatur would not support. The commodore was disgraced because he gave up his ship (returned) and three Americans who were conscripted from US ships to be British sailors. The British wanted the sailor back, after having protested to the US government they were defectors. These sailors had escaped to the US, which the British called defecting, and rejoined the US Navy. All prior to the War of 1812.
    At the duel, Decatur was fatally shot in the hip, but pressed those arriving to take care of his opponent (also hit). The commodore, was said to have forgiven Decatur, who died that evening.
    Stephen Decatur was a real example of what founded the US.
    Paying pirates and terrorists is a coward's folly.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 7 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    ." Preble’s Boys Preble stopped making excuses for why they were not yet ready and set about attacking Tripoli. Unhappily, his most formidable ship, the Philadelphia, leading a pursuit into Tripoli Harbor, grounded itself firmly on an uncharted shoal and was left at the mercy of the enemy. The crew was taken prisoner and held for ransom under horrid conditions for the duration of the war. Soon after, a remarkable group of young sailors and officers, including Stephen Decatur, carried out with their makeshift navy a series of dangerous dramatic, heroic, and mostly successful attacks in Tripoli Harbor."

    Ledbetter, Mark David. America's Forgotten History, Part 1: Foundations (Kindle Locations 5810-5813). Mark David Ledbetter. Kindle Edition. ,

    Two years later, in 1807, Algiers complained that America had not paid tribute during those two years and began capturing U.S. ships, with tacit cooperation from Great Britain. America paid up, plus a little something extra for putting Algiers to so much unnecessary trouble. Payments quietly continued until the end of the Napoleonic wars in 1815, at which point America, Great Britain, and the Netherlands quickly put an end to Mediterranean pirating once and for all.

    Ledbetter, Mark David. America's Forgotten History, Part 1: Foundations (Kindle Locations 5911-5925). Mark David Ledbetter. Kindle Edition.

    A tradition still being followed which may explain how Hillary will solve terrorism...with more of your tax dollars and your offspring in uniform lives.

    "Decateur was killed in a duel."
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  • Posted by $ blarman 7 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yep. Until the system crashes in on itself when it runs out of "other peoples' money". RIP Margaret Thatcher.
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 7 years, 9 months ago
    They don't even hide their hatred. If athletic competition can't bring people together, nothing will.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 7 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Indeed he would. Perhaps the quick match reminded the young man of the 7-days war, and he was in a rush to add a couple of reverse speeds to his vehicles.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 7 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Pretty weak assertions. Perhaps she has stronger feelings, but this is not a diatribe, perhaps just a weak inappropriate bias influenced in a young woman by cults of personality in the the US. I blame them more than her. She is a hard worker, not a leech.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 7 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    ...or the cool kids are asking to fix their cars, computers, or homework. A favorite of mine is observing the BMOC pine for high school's glory days, over a huge gut, and asking me "Soccer? You mean you are watching your kid's game..."
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  • Posted by Herb7734 7 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    We're all pretty much nerds here with a number of dorks thrown in. But we're usually the guys that the BMOCs want to borrow money from 20 years later.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 7 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Agree. It is just terrible, that whole groups are allowed and encouraged to wallow in generations-misplaced self pity.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 7 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I was sort of taunting you with that, sorry. I figured PC was not an objective of just about anyone here.
    How about "Each individual life and their property matters"? Not as catchy though, even though I like prodding people along with the property rights part.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 7 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I meant no disrespect to any individual and their heritage. I do see that people who are govt dependent do not move on. They love the blame game , they feel entitled because of the history of mistreatment that occured to their ancestors. Plans "the great society" sold to them to rectify have done more damage . All humans should be productive if capable, and be encouraged to do so. Any Potus that has Reverend Al Sharpton as an advisor is subversive to the issue.
    Edit for spelling.
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  • Posted by jabuttrick 7 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I didn't mean for it to sound PC. I wanted to stress the individual nature of man's rights. There are no collective rights.
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  • Posted by NealS 7 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "International Judo Federation asserts that Shehaby's fight with an Israeli athlete represents a "big improvement"". What a crock that is, the IJF is complicit in Muslims ingrained and unjustified hatred of Jews, period. They should be banned from the Olympics. The Olympics are getting just like the United Nations.

    What's more of concern is when an American Muslim, bad mouths the people we pay to protect us (our police) to the whole world. She also should be banned from any further Olympics, period.

    Getting back to the Egyptian, he'll probably get his head cut off anyway just for competing against a Jew.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 7 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Excellent! A little justice!

    +1 for an solution to the immediate issue short of genocide.

    Quite the discussion for a faux pas, albeit a systemic faux pas that manifests more aggressively elsewhere.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 7 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    My son is the engineer. Give it a day or two. I've seen your posts, you're a bright guy.
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