Russian Hospitality - Olympics Style

I heard that the Russians have spent more on this Winter Olympics than all of the previous Winter Olympics combined - some $52,000,000,000. That'd buy 26 Stealth Bombers. Glad they have their priorities straight.

 

Yeah, the homos are going expectedly ape.

 

I was actually thinking that Putin gave the reporters low-rent accommodations because he doesn't care for the Western press.

 

So you watched the opening ceremonies and came away with "the star didn't turn into a circle"?
You weren't impressed by Valentina Tereshkova, maybe you didn't see her, they didn't point her out.
That's just crappy coverage, they weren't reporting what was actually happening, they were reporting what they wanted to happen.

 

Are you saying the star didn't malfunction? Or that it wasn't notable?

 

You don't think the first woman in space deserved a mention?

 

I'm still waiting for this cell phone footage of the brown water pouring down as packs of wild dogs attack two homosexuals.

 

Didn't they say a former cosmonaut was on stage?

 

Yes they did say some cosmonauts were on stage.
So they had the information, they must have had the names, I recognized Tereshkova, the first woman to orbit the earth, don't you think that it would have merited a mention? It's not like they were pressed for time, they had plenty of time for meaningless drivel, don't you think that a professional journalist might have mentioned that "Oh by the way, there is the First Woman to Orbit the Earth, don't you think that would have been more professional than "there are some cosmonauts on stage".

 

the hotels in Sotchi were built by international companies.

 

yes, it is digusting what coverage the Western media gives the Sotchi Olympics.

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you heard also of flying saucers, so what?

 

I'm not sure that locking yourself in the bathroom is a comment on Russian engineering, BTW the Soviet Union ceased to exist years ago, Sochi was built by private enterprise and the Free Market.....

 

LOL, right... Rest assured that Russia inherited all the flaws of the Soviet Union. And their "private enterprise" is run by criminals and mafia, their "free market" is based on corruption, lawlessness and bribes, not competition. Duh.

 

And that is different from where?

 

It's different from Massachusetts where you reside. Duh. The difference is in scale, it's an order of magnitude worse than in the western world.

 

Uhhh! Most of the work was done by Turkish construction firms. Funny it's not being mentioned?

 

A lot of the Olympic money goes into security. The first games that had to spend money on security were the ones in Athens, and then London of course. I think they are getting a little too expensive for any nation, not to mention the politicking which have been going on for forty plus years. I know we didn't go to the Olympic games in the Soviet Union, and then they retaliated by not coming to ours. Hey I thought the Olympics were supposed to bring people together, not to be used as a political tool?

The original idea was to have them in Athens every year, but the stadium was too small. When politics began interfering with the games, Greece tried to convince the committee to reconsider and have the games held where they originated in Greece. I think it's something that should be considered now, with the high cost of construction, as well as security.

 

They were built by Turkish companies. Hmmm! Do you think there was sabotage?

 

Really?
We just finished a 14 billion dollar highway project here, a couple of years ago, involving replacing 3.5 miles of road with tunnel. (yes, that's 4 billion/mile)
Since it's been completed, a piece of the ceiling has fallen on a car, killing a woman, the tunnels are leaking, the replacement panels for an older tunnel were falling off after a couple of years, and that tunnel is now closed for repairs.
Big complex projects have lots of problems, everywhere in the world.
It's the nature of big complex projects. It's always been like that, The Transcontinental Railroad cost three times what it should have, due to all the graft and corruption, it's the nature of big complex projects. One third of all the supplies and materials landed in Europe during WWII, is unaccounted for, it just disappeared.
During the Iraq war, we had 8 billion dollars in cash payments unaccounted for, well not quite, they were all summed up on a (as in one) Excel Spreadsheet.
One spreadsheet was the only documentation on where 8 billion dollars in cash went.
That's the nature of big complex projects.
So I am not going to condemn the engineers who put the first man in space, because of a stuck door in a hotel bathroom or a toilet that doesn't flush in a new city built from scratch in a couple of years, AND COMPLETED ON SCHEDULE.
Or even for the failure of a theatrical prop.

 

It's a funny thing about big U.S. cities that are traditionally controlled by some form or the other of Democratic Machine . . . they almost always are steeped in graft and corruption. Go figure.

 

That project was controlled by the governor's office, you remember Mitt Romney...

 

Doesn't matter since one GOPer cannot fix a slate full of Dem screw-ups . . , when said DEMs are more or less in charge of what really happens inside their entire state. Oooops!

 

The governor appointed the head of the agency that oversaw the construction, Ronald Reagan picked the contractor. The only way Reagan would sign the authorizing legislation was if Bechtel was the prime contractor (there were 5 people from Bechtel in the Reagan Cabinet).
Planning began in 1982, construction went from 1991 to 2007.
We had Republican governors from 1991 all through the 2007.
It was a Republican patronage dump, all controlled by Republicans.
I mean in reality, But, you are welcome to blame Obama if you want, why not, you blame him for everything else.....

 

Hahahaha! Talk about trying to deflect! I wrote not one word about Obama. I said Democratic Machine city and I meant just that. They were the ones controlling what happened and we know the results of that.

 

I just pointed out that the whole project was controlled by republican appointees, so Obama had as much to do with it as the Mayor, who just retired after 20 years in office, without a single scandal in 20 years, in a city where the news media loves reporting political scandal.
You are just flat out wrong, grow a pair and admit it....