USOC to Athletes – Hide Your Pride

May 17, 2004 by · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Current Affairs, Sports 

This report in the Washington Times states that the US Olympic Committee has told athletes NOT to wave the flag after their wins or during medal ceremonies.

This gets the big Raspberry from me. It’s one thing for an athlete to avoid confrontation, but it’s entirely another for a country to tell its athletes to hide their national pride. This instruction is improper and must be reversed (or ignored).

Tell ’em what you think:
US Olympic Committee 719-866-4500
Mike Moran 719-331-7266

(Hat Tip: Garrulitas)

Fly a Flag for Fallujah

April 6, 2004 by · 1 Comment
Filed under: Current Affairs 

US Flag

Electric Venom suggests that we fly a flag on our blogs to show our support for the US military’s on-going campaign to stop the violence in Fallujah, Iraq. An Islamic cleric Al-Sadr is trying to derail peace in Iraq by having his followers take over police stations and fight Iraqi Police and the military.

Here’s my contribution.

We need to finish this in Iraq. It would be wrong to leave them in chaos, without the help that they will need to develop democracy and ensure basic human rights that are new to them after so many years under Saddam.