Representing America

Equal to his disrespect of the gas station owner and the police is Lochte’s disrespect to his fellow swimmers. First he portrayed his U.S. teammates as dropping to the ground while “I refused,” as if he alone had the temerity to remain standing. Yeah, right. This is a guy who apparently lied to his own mother. Then he flew home, leaving the younger swimmers to deal with the fallout. And when back in the United States, he made moronic postings on social media, deaf to the tension they were undergoing while detained in Rio, their passports seized.

The main quality Lochte has shown in all of this, apart from asininity, is obliviousness. First he tweeted about his hair, which he had dyed a silvery-white before the Games. Then on Thursday morning, even as Conger and Bentz were in a police station and authorities were mulling potential charges, he posted an idiotic video of himself. It was a distortion-lensed, cartoonish video of him babbling at his friend and fellow American swimmer Elizabeth Beisel. Lochte eventually deleted it. Which was too bad because it was a perfect portrait of a halfwit.

  WaPo

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Oh My

I suppose Hillary and Donald will be chiming in soon, if they haven't already.

Because they would like to get out of Brazil.  He's already out.  He got out fast.

A Highly Classified "Leak"

U.S. intelligence has assigned more than 1,000 spies to Olympic security as part of a highly classified effort to protect the Rio 2016 Summer Games and American athletes and staff, NBC News has learned.

Hundreds of analysts, law enforcement and special operations personnel are already on the ground in Rio de Janeiro, according to an exclusive NBC News review of a highly classified report on U.S. intelligence efforts.

[...]

The classified report outlines an operation that encompasses all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies, including those of the armed services, and involves human intelligence, spy satellites, electronic eavesdropping, and cyber and social media monitoring.

[...]

The official noted that the each of the U.S. military services have athletes participating in the Olympics, including shooting, men and women's boxing, and wrestling competitions. "We have actual equities involved," said the official in explaining the breadth and depth of the operation.

  NBC

Gee, shouldn't somebody be hunted down and prosecuted for leaking that "highly classified" information? And shouldn't NBC be prosecuted for detailing it?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

He's EVERYwhere

And I think that guy holding the flag is a Russian soldier. Sure looks like one.



I have to admit, I did not know what the Russian flag looks like. Shame.  This is how we get taken over - citizen ignorance.

What do you want to bet those outfits get a reboot?

The (Damned) Human Race*

A mascot for the 2016 Olympics in Brazil has been shot dead after escaping its human captors Monday.

Juma the jaguar appeared in chains at a torch relay ceremony earlier that day in the city of Manaus.

However, the feline was killed by a Brazilian soldier after breaking out of its cage at a zoo attached to a military training center, according to a statement from the army.

Four tranquilizer darts had failed to stop the animal.

  RT

*Essay by Mark Twain

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the lower animals (so-called), and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. For it obliges me to renounce my allegiance to the Darwinian theory of the Ascent of Man from the Lower Animals; since it now seems plain to me that the theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one, this new and truer one to be named the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

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