The Castration of Western Man and Western Civilization Continues. We dope up our boys so they don’t act like, well, boys. We bubble wrap the young men so they never ever get injured. In response, they stay inside and play video games and the parents cower in fear of a sports injury. Now one of the real Olympic sports that survived from Greek times is eliminated from the games, 700 B.C. was when it started, 2700 years ago! The ultimate man versus man combat is out and in its place what? Baseball and softball, karate, squash, roller sports, sport climbing, wakeboarding and wushu could be the replacement for Greco-Roman Wrestling. Wakeboarding??? Roller Sport??? What? Gone is the classic test of strength, endurance, speed, and skill. Lets have some wakeboarding instead. 
Do note what is next on the chopping block: the Modern Pentathlon that combines fencing, horse riding, swimming, running and shooting. Lets get rid of another Western Tradition marshal sport, shall we; the Prussian Officer Corps is rolling over in their graves. Neuter the games further, why not? After all, we cant have warriors competing in scary war skill sports. Lets play squash or go climbing instead.
Wrestling dropped from 2020 Games
LAUSANNE, Switzerland — IOC leaders dropped wrestling from the Olympic program on Tuesday, a surprise decision that removes one of the oldest Olympic sports from the 2020 Games.
The IOC executive board decided to retain modern pentathlon — the event considered most at risk — and remove wrestling instead from its list of 25 “core sports.”
The IOC board acted after reviewing the 26 sports on the current Olympic program. Eliminating one sport allows the International Olympic Committee to add a new sport to the program later this year.
Wrestling, which combines freestyle and Greco-Roman events, goes back to the inaugural modern Olympics in Athens in 1896.
“This is a process of renewing and renovating the program for the Olympics,” IOC spokesman Mark Adams said. “In the view of the executive board, this was the best program for the Olympic Games in 2020. It’s not a case of what’s wrong with wrestling, it is what’s right with the 25 core sports.”
Adams said the decision was made by secret ballot over several rounds, with members voting each time on which sport should not be included in the core group. IOC president Jacques Rogge did not vote.
Wrestling was voted out from a final group that also included modern pentathlon, taekwondo and field hockey, officials familiar with the vote told The Associated Press. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the voting details were not made public.
“We knew that today would be a tough day for American athletes competing in whatever sport was identified by the IOC Executive Board,” USOC CEO Scott Blackmun said in a statement. “Given the history and tradition of wrestling, and its popularity and universality, we were surprised when the decision was announced.
“It is important to remember that today’s action is a recommendation, and we hope that there will be a meaningful opportunity to discuss the important role that wrestling plays in the sports landscape both in the United States and around the world. In the meantime, we will fully support USA Wrestling and its athletes.”
The board voted after reviewing a report by the IOC program commission report that analyzed 39 criteria, including television ratings, ticket sales, anti-doping policy and global participation and popularity. With no official rankings or recommendations contained in the report, the final decision by the 15-member board was also subject to political, emotional and sentimental factors.
The governing body of wrestling, known by its French initials FILA, called the IOC’s move an “aberration” and said it was “greatly astonished” by the decision.
FILA says it will take “all necessary measures” to convince IOC members to maintain wrestling’s Olympic status when they meet in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in September.
Still, FILA president Raphael Martinetti faces criticism when his ruling board meets this weekend in Thailand.
Russian federation leader Mikhail Mamiashvili said FILA is the problem, and Martinetti’s tasks include defending “wrestling’s place before the IOC.”
German official Jannis Zamanduridis said “a piece of the Olympic idea is dying with this decision.”
Wrestling will now join seven other sports in applying for inclusion in 2020. The others are a combined bid from baseball and softball, plus karate, squash, roller sports, sport climbing, wakeboarding and wushu. They will be vying for a single opening in 2020.
Previously considered under the closest scrutiny was modern pentathlon, which has been on the Olympic program since the 1912 Stockholm Games. It was created by French baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic movement, and combines fencing, horse riding, swimming, running and shooting.
Knowing the IOC, they’ll replace it with something catering to teh gheys!
Do they have tiddlywinks yet?
@ Moe Katz:
Paddy-cake. Olympic paddy-cake is going to be a major sport in the coming years…
Next on the agenda… Ban white people because it’s unfair to be white. This is serious mental illness disguised as academics.
Is this crap going on in the muslim world? I think of this as like Europe we continue to import a fifth column religiously directed to supplant itself while simultaneously assisting the advance of islam abroad.
Just look at what is happening in London with muslim vigilante patrols, the rape statistics in Malmo Sweden, car-b-ques in France.
Only the most naive would fail to see that unless you wish to convert of live the live of a dhimmi (look at the Copts in Egypt), we will come to blows.
I was in a men’s conference at my church a few weeks ago. One of the topics was the feminization of men. I was surprised that they talked about it but said it was not biblical for a man to not be what God intended him to be.
O’common, tug-of-war (1900 -- 1920), obstacle swimming, sack race or shooting at living pigeons had all been Olympic “disciplines”.
Moe Katz wrote:
Iron Fist wrote:
only if they wear helmets, eye protection, and full pads
Canceling the wrestling seems odd, it goes back to Graeco-Roman athletics -- it seems too iconic, somehow, to be done away with.
@ huckfunn:
This University is onto something.
We White men have secret rituals & a secret hand shake.
Generally we meet in small groups and discuss how to
keep everybody else down.
We need to be stoped.
Guggi wrote:
that doesnt make dropping one of the original olympiad sports the right thing to do. wrestling (and the field sports) are founding events.
Moe Katz wrote:
strike a blow against western civilization.
coldwarrior wrote:
There ya have it. Full contact combat tiddlywinks.
@ RIX:
Up here we are known to frequent tanning studios.
We could always petition to have Angry Birds adopted as a substitute….
RIX wrote:
Planet of the Apes; coming soon to a neighborhood near you.
RIX wrote:
for a while there, i was THE MAN.
i loved keeping everyone down!
huckfunn wrote:
they just wont keep score and everyone can have a gold medal.
MikeA wrote:
Masculine women, feminine men
Which is the rooster, which is the hen?
It’s hard to tell ‘em apart today—and, say
Sister is busy learning to shave
Brother just loves his permanent wave
It’s hard to tell ‘em apart today—hey, hey
Girls were girls and boys were boys when I was a tot
Now we don’t know who is who, or what is what
Knickers and trousers baggy and wide
Nobody knows who’s walking inside
Those masculine women and feminine men!
Moe Katz wrote:
I forgot to include that.
@ coldwarrior:
the m odern games have always been different from the ancient Olympic games.
We will be fine after forced sensitivity training.
RIX wrote:
Certainly—never mind that the Left does not believe its own lies about “education” and “sensitivity training.” It does not matter how much of it you are subjected to; men are always “sexist,” whites are always “racist,” non-gays are always “homophobic.” Biology is destiny for Leftists, unless you want to have an abortion or change your sex.
If a Leftist pretends that you have been properly sensitized or re-educated, it is only because he or she wants to make use of you. You will be denounced and punished as a backslider or a heretic when your usefulness is at an end.
Sea slug has a “disposable penis.”
I can see where Obama’s R&D science money will go.
thanks for this thread. I’ve been bitching about the emasculation of men .- beginning in kindergarden for a couple years now.
Just look at the models used in ads for male products. They are the least masculine creatures I’ve ever seen. Molly the Beagle has more testosterone
Work has reared it’s ugly head.
hasta la vista.
@ huckfunn:
Work is the curse of the blogging classes.
@ huckfunn:
Need a geophysicist?
@ eaglesoars:
As would you, no doubt.
@ eaglesoars:
a blast from the past for yinz!
bbl, gonna go get my first set of professionally fitted and swing analyzed golf clubs today.
*does the snoopy happy dance*
@ eaglesoars:
Its the Metrosexual movement conceived by Hipsters in the late 90′s that led this.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
We White men are the scourge of civilisation.
How do we stand ourselves./
Rodan wrote:
Nope. Before then. Alan Alda.
Rodan wrote:
How can there be “metrosexuals?” All the men’s rooms in the subways, where certain people used to congregate for sexual assignations, were closed down years ago.
@ eaglesoars:
AH OK, I was talking from my generational experience. I started noticing they Hetrosexual men started dressing Village style as we called it. They wore these really tight Jeans and shirts. They did their eyebrows and other very feminine stuff. It bugged me the hell out, but that is what many women like nowadays.
I do dress trendy when I go out, but no one mistakes me for a Metro.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
You live in NY, so You know exactly what I mean by that. it just bugged me that these Hetro males, started dressing Village style. To each their own, but it just boggled my mind.
Can’t make this up, just can’t.
coldwarrior wrote:
Heh. Even the old school satchel I mentioned on that thread has been feminized and tarted up.
He knows that all of the Republicans have
“Blueberry pie on their faces.”
RIX wrote:
um, what?
Just a quick aside that our buddy Drew at Weasel Zippers is holding his annual fundraiser -- anything you can give helps him out. He’s been a good friend to us in the past.
Back later. Smooches all.
@ Rodan:
If my wife insists, I change my shirt before I go out. Take off one plaid shirt, put on a different one, over my Levis.
Last times I duded up was for the 40th wedding anniversary dinner and the younger daughter’s wedding.
Sharpton told a story about as kids his mother would say “Did you eat
my blueberry pie?” They would lie & say, no.
But they had blueberry on their faces.
He compared that to Republicans lying.
Top o’ da mornin’ all! I dragged myself downtown for the 0800 Tridentine Mass this morning; lovely old church and the priest had a beard- he looked like John Rys-Davis. Getting Lent off to a proper start!
FNC is reporting that the police found Dorners driver s license in the rubble.
Bet that he never gets that back.
@ Mike C.:
Usually when I just go to the store, I go in my PJs or just a jump suit. When its really hot, shirt and shorts apply.
@ RIX:
Sharpton has a mother?
Rodan:
John Hood at NRO is writing up this piece on re-branding the GOP I thought you might be interested in. Haven’t finished it yet but sounds interesting.
Rebranding The GOP: Can A Marketing Facelift Overhaul The Republican Party?
@ MacDuff:
I’m going to mass tonight.
@ RIX:
Freddie’s Fashion Mart, you race hustling poverty pimp. Your ass should be in JAIL for life over that.
@ eaglesoars:
Thanks, I will read it.
@ Rodan:
Me too. I missed morning Mass at St. Patrick’s, the noon Mass is a cattle call, and I get to go home early to make 7:00 at Holy Spirit. Plus I don’t have to spend all day telling people “No, I CAN’T wash it off!”
Did they find Dorner’s body ?@ RIX:
Did they find Dorner’s body ?
@ MacDuff:
I envy you the Mass you attended. I’m sure the ever dreaded acoustic guitar will be in attendance tonight.
@ Rodan:
I will wear shorts at the pool, the beach or sailing. But that’s it. I think both the pool and the beach were 5 years ago (San Juan,) and I think the last time I went sailing was 2000, on Lake Maracaibo.
Mike C. wrote:
Idon’t know how much time you’ve spent in Florida, but I’m betting if you lived there -- you’d be in shorts
Mike C. wrote:
As a matter of fact, yes. Could you please move that pile of rocks (Austin Chalk, BTW) from the front yard to the back yard. Downhill all the way and there’s a fat overriding royalty interest for ya.
@ eaglesoars:
Wow, this is great! This article says everything I have been saying about.
@ Mike C.:
That must have been fun!
@ Guggi:
They have a charred body & ID will take weeks.
@ eaglesoars:
Palm trees are a sign that you’re someplace where it’s too damned hot. Look for maples…
@ huckfunn:
Um, that’s not geophysics.
Rodan wrote:
Thought you’d like it!
Huh? I missed that.
RIX wrote:
Everyone knows you can ID a charred body before the first commercial break.
//
Rodan wrote:
Those sails across the lake from Maracaibo to Alta Grazia and back were the only times I ever sailed on a catamaran (I’m a keelboat, monohull type of guy.) Hung out there on the trapeze and everything. Sure makes tacking more complicated, though. My buddy had a Prindle 18 there.
Carolina Girl wrote:
It was quite beautiful, and St. Martin of Tours is some 160 years old, so the ambiance couldn’t be more perfect.
That gee-tar crap is what chased people away, it’s hideous!
St. Martins draws from the entire surrounding area for obvious reasons.
I am surprised that his drivers license survived.
Mike C. wrote:
Sorry. A failed attempt at humor. Being between gigs is good for a few weeks, then it gets old. Got any leads. Seems like there’s a new shale play just about every week.
@ huckfunn:
No, no gigs yet. Leads? Not many. Something will turn up eventually.
@ lobo91:
I’ll just remind everyone that anyone who is against Voter ID is for voter fraud. It really is that simple. Sharpton is in the same place the KKK was 60 years ago.
@ RIX:
http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2012/03/when-al-sharpton-incited-massacre-at.html
He was responsible for arson and several deaths. Oh, and then there is Crown Heights:
http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2012/03/real-al-sharpton-incitement-of-1991.html
He’s a walking turd.
@ Mike C.:
I ussually wear a tank top and a leather vest and shorts when I am not at work. Even when it is cold. Gotta show of the ink, you know
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Meter-o-sexuals. In San Francisco, the parking meters vibrate when you drop a quarter in, like those old “magic fingers” massage beds in roadside motels in the ’60′s.
@ Iron Fist:
Uh, no ink here. And it’s hard to imagine anybody would want to see it on me if there was.
@ Carolina Girl:
Right, Sharpton is a race whore & all around bad guy.
But his program is like Ebonics immersion.
No need for Rosetta Stone.
@ RIX:
I bet he is a functional illiterate, too. You can’t read properly if you can’t talk properly.
@ 19 buzzsawmonkey: I’be been browsing some genetics. We seem to get a core set of genes that have a bunch of on and off switches in them. As we make choices in gender identity, food, exercise, and intellectual thinking we turn set of genetic signals on and off.
One study was about High Fructose Corn syrup activating parts of genetics spectrum that start to wash the body in weakened chemical responses. This eventually becomes an inheritance.
Transgender thinking does the same think as the high fructose corn syrup.
Wrestling in the Olympics may be reflective of a historical masculinity. The actions against it more reflective of a sanitize bland society type of thinking that no longer responds to basic human nature. The outcome is more genetic metrosexuals.
I have no doubt that is intellect is on par with a carp fish.
But he identified race pimping as lucrative & went with it.
@ RIX:
@ Iron Fist:
Sharpton is an all-around despicable person. He is a documented liar.
Sharpton’s Debt in Brawley Defamation Is Paid by Supporters
Speaks volumes about msnbc that they would hire him.
New Thread.
RIX wrote:
Why be a chump and actually work to earn a living?
/
darkwords wrote:
I’d be interested in any links to this you can provide; it appears to favor “Lamarckian thinking” over “Darwinian thinking.”
citizen_q wrote:
The article mentions that “Tawana Brawley has not paid her judgment and she has been impossible to locate.”
Ten or so years ago she was supposedly going to law school. She was, however, recently located in Virginia, a single mom working as a nurse’s aide. Pagones said that he would be willing to forego her payment of the judgment against her if she would admit to the hoax, but that has not been forthcoming.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Wonder if Tawana fears for her safety?
@ citizen_q:
Sharpton is a thug.
citizen_q wrote:
I certainly hope so.
He figured “Jesse Jackson doesn’t work, why should I?”
@ darkwords:
@ buzzsawmonkey:
It’s a lot simpler then all that.
The IOC is making their decisions about which sporting events to hold based on TV ratings and revenue. Cute girls doing cartwheels in Spandex (gymnastics) is going to beat out a bunch of sweaty guys wrestling. The International Olympics Committee has made the decision to promote “Fan Service” over athletic ability.
It’s all about TV ratings and revenue. (Tits & Asses)