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Olympic Opener Postscript – To A Big Mouth

Possibly out to win the title, ‘Big-Mouth of the 2012 Olympics’ is the NBC commentator, Bob Costas.

First, he created a rumpus because the IOC refused to add a minute’s silence to honor the Israeli athletes who were killed at the Munich games in 1972, causing NBC to cut away from a tribute to those British people killed in the 7/7 terror attacks in London, to air a very mediocre interview with Michael Phelps.

Munich was forty years ago, for god’s sake. Just how long are we supposed to go on paying homage to people long dead and gone? Does Costas own NBC? He’s a bloody anchor, not the damn Pope!

The final straw was his near continuous, monotonous, dialogue right the way through Alex Turner and the Arctic Monkeys’ rendition of the Beatles’ song, “Come Together”.

What is it about US commentators? Do they think we’d rather hear them bleat a load of boring crap into their microphones than watch the show we’ve tuned in to? It’s the same with tennis, football, and most other sports. Okay, they have to talk a lot during an American football game, to fill in the gaps when nothing’s happening – which seems to be most of the time, but this was the Olympic opening ceremony.

I have one plea for the International Olympic Committee. Please, please, don’t award the games to any US city in the next twenty years. The opening ceremony would be a nightmare.

Instead of factory chimneys there’d be Twin Towers rising out the arena; planes diving into them; a sea of flames; gallant American heroes leaping to the rescue. No doves of peace on bicycles, but a heavenly choir of gold-winged angels on wires, reaching out to pluck the victims up to heaven – all, of course, to the strains of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner”.

All, no doubt, organized by Bob Costas and his cronies.

Psst! A word in your shell-like, Bob. You may not realize it, but the rest of the world is growing a bit tired of America’s victim mentality. We like to move on, not wallow in self-pity.

Meanwhile, Costas – SHUT THE FUCK UP!

Olympic Hypocrisy Courtesy Of Her Britannic Majesty’s Government

The opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics in London last night was nothing if not spectacular. Among the many scenarios portrayed was a celebration of the British National Health Service.

It brought a lump to the throat of every Brit who’s ever needed medical care – and that’s most of us – knowing we could be made healthy once more without the worry of losing our house and possessions, due to huge medical bills that leave many, in certain other countries, wishing they’d just been left to die.

Unfortunately, this display of emotion for a British institution proved somewhat hypocritical on the part of the organizers. What most viewers of the opening ceremony would not be aware of was the erosion of the NHS into private (corporate) ownership by the present UK government.

Only this week, while dress rehearsals for the opening ceremony were, no doubt, under way, David Cameron and his cronies handed over Newmarket Hospital, in its entirety, to one of the biggest corporations on earth, SERCO.

The hospital is part of the community health services currently provided by Suffolk Community Healthcare, which will be formally transferred to multi-national service company Serco by the autumn in a three-year deal worth £159.9 million.

The change is in line with guidance from the Department of Health which stipulates that all primary care trusts, like NHS Suffolk, will no longer directly provide community services and will buy the services instead.”[1]

The contract is worth one hundred and sixty million pounds ($240,000,000).

This year alone, NHS contracts worth 4.5 billion pounds ($6.75 billion) have been put out to tender in the private sector by the Tory government of the UK. At that rate, the British National Health Service could cease to exist within five years.

No doubt Prime Minister Cameron and his fellow political pirates, seated in their official enclosure at the games last night during the opening ceremony, were smiling smugly in the knowledge they were viewing not a celebration of the British Health Service, but its demise.

[1] “‘Private’ hospital contract signed” Newmarket Journal, July 19th 2012

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