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Offline Anaxogoras

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Re: Rio gets the 2016 Olympic.
« Reply #30 on: October 02, 2009, 11:54:36 PM »
Hosting the Olympics is not about making money.  On the contrary, hosting the Olympics is a demonstration of how rich and powerful you are because you can hemorrhage money and enjoy doing so.
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Re: Rio gets the 2016 Olympic.
« Reply #31 on: October 03, 2009, 01:13:57 AM »
Quote from: Shuffler on October 02, 2009, 11:17:48 PM
Yeah give them credit for finally saying something nice about America instead of their usual drivel and demeaning of the US.


I's a start....... :D
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Re: Rio gets the 2016 Olympic.
« Reply #32 on: October 03, 2009, 01:19:28 AM »
Quote from: Shuffler on October 02, 2009, 11:17:48 PM
Yeah give them credit for finally saying something nice about America instead of their usual drivel and demeaning of the US.

If you heard the speeches, it was hardly about us as a country.  It was all about them, and hardly about Chicago.
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Re: Rio gets the 2016 Olympic.
« Reply #33 on: October 03, 2009, 11:45:01 AM »
Quote from: DMBEAR on October 03, 2009, 01:19:28 AM
If you heard the speeches, it was hardly about us as a country.  It was all about them, and hardly about Chicago.


Narcissism would you say?  Kissinger had that same problem.
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Re: Rio gets the 2016 Olympic.
« Reply #34 on: October 03, 2009, 12:18:44 PM »
Quote from: Anaxogoras on October 02, 2009, 11:54:36 PM
Hosting the Olympics is not about making money.  On the contrary, hosting the Olympics is a demonstration of how rich and powerful you are because you can hemorrhage money and enjoy doing so.

Correct.
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