‘Golden days, before they end’

“Whisper secrets to the wind ...

“It’s over.” **

The Olympics, that is, and the inanity/insanity that was.

“Mark Worsfold, 54, a former soldier and martial arts instructor, was arrested on 28 July for a breach of the peace shortly before the cyclists arrived in Redhouse Park, Leatherhead, where he had sat down on a wall to watch the race. Officers from Surrey police restrained and handcuffed him and took him to Reigate police station, saying his behaviour had ‘caused concern’.

“Worsfold, whose experience was first reported by Private Eye, claims police questioned him about his demeanour and why he had not been seen to be visibly enjoying the event.”

http://www.4liberty.org.uk/2012/08/12/thank-god-thats-over/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=thank-god-thats-over

Arraignment: “Crown vs. Mark Worsfold, charged with not visibly enjoying the event.”

Link: http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/

**Roy Orbison

There are guns at the Olympics??

Kimberly Rhode “became the first American athlete to win an individual medal in five straight Olympics, winning gold and setting a new Olympic record for the highest score in the Olympic Finals with a 99-out-of-100. The previous mark was 93.”

“Rhode won gold in double-trap shooting in 1996 and 2004, and bronze in the event in 2000. That sport was dropped for the 2008 Beijing Games, so Rhode moved over to skeet shooting. She captured silver in 2008.”

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/olympics-fourth-place-medal/kimberly-rhode-1st-american-medal-5-straight-olympics-133916141--oly.html

Congratulations!!

Just following the script

Airport inspector: "Any sharp items in your baggage, sir?" US javelin star Craig Kinsley arrives at Heathrow for the Olympics.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/9402889/London-2012-Olympics-travel-chaos-live.html

'I hate the Olympics'

“What (Prime Minister David) Cameron must do is declare war on the IOC: he must paint out the Olympic rings on their Zil lanes; he must remove the Olympic rings from Tower Bridge; he must cancel the tax-holidays [not a phrase you'd normally hear me use but difficult times call for exceptional measures] for all those businesses which have been battering us to death like baby seals with the ginormous blood-stained, brain-spattered club of their noisome Olympic sponsorship tie-in credentials; and then – damn it, why not – he should announce the immediate cancellation of the games on health n safety n finance grounds because let's face it a) we can't afford them b) our creaking infrastructure can't cope, especially not now the M4 is broken and wouldn't it be, like, so awfully tragic if some Olympic Fat Cat in his armoured Zil (or whatever it is the bastards have chosen as their OFFICIAL OLYMPIC SPONSOR VEHICLE TM this year) were to plunge through a crack in the Chiswick flyover? and c) the whole business is tacky and unedifying and horrible and nationally humiliating, like being invaded by the Disney Corporation and everyone being forced to wear mouse ears in solidarity with the Dear Leader.”

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100170726/i-hate-the-olympics/

(‘Hate’ is an aw’flee harsh word, don’t you know. In my case, ‘I have an extreme dislike for the Olympics.’ It’s all quite wasteful of time and tax money and benefits only “Official Sponsor of the Olympics” types and a few dozen amateur (guffaw allowed) athletes who garner thousands and thousands of dollars and pounds and euros.

(And most extremely dislikeable of all, it’s in the middle of baseball season.)