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So the head of the IOC declares the Olympics over, the flame is out, but there still seem to be people on the stage.  It seems that Canadians, so long without an overt sense of nationalism, have decided to use the stage to hold a pep rally for their country.   Can you imagine how unbelievably creepy, and probably scary, it would have been had the Chinese closed the Olympics in a similar China-uber-alles manner.  But since the Canadians are thought to be (mostly) harmless, I suppose its OK.

Postscript: Not 30 seconds before this started, I was lamenting the fact that Rush was not a musical act, with the silver lining that we had not seen William Shatner either, when lo and behold he rises onto the stage.

PPS: I thought the way they opened the show, with the clown fixing the broken torch, was much more consistent with the Canadian style, and more flattering in a sense than the goofy show at the end.  It is particularly funny, to me at least, to see that all the people who they have chosen so far to extol the virtues of Canada actually left the country for the US to make their fortune.  What are they selling, that Canada is a great place to be from?  They couldn’t have found someone like Jim Balsillie who actually mad his fortune and reputation, you know, in Canada.

from: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CoyoteBlog/~3/XSPvrOvhRaE/its-not-over-when-its-over.html

Haaretz [Israel], by Staff Posted By: Photoonist- Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:17:19 GMT Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday said that the existence of ”the Zionist regime” is an insult to humanity, according to Iranian news agency IRNA. (Snip) The Iranian leader said Israel’s presence on even one inch of the region’s soil was a cause for crisis and war, adding that the only way to confront Israel is through the resistance of Palestinian youth and other nations in the region.

from: http://www.newmediablog.com/2010/02/ahmadinejad-zionist-regime-is-an-insult-to-humanity/

The Journal News [Westchester, NY], by Ben Rubin Posted By: GOPJihad- Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:16:31 GMT WHITE PLAINS — Appearing solemn and weary, Mayor Adam Bradley went before an array of cameras this evening to profess his innocence after an alleged domestic incident with his wife that occurred only hours earlier. He turned himself in to police headquarters this morning after his wife filed a complaint with police that he jammed her finger in a door around 9:30 a.m. Bradley was then arraigned on a third’degree misdemeanor assault charge at White Plains City Court. "I have to set the record straight. I did not in any way mistreat my wife," Bradley said.

from: http://www.newmediablog.com/2010/02/white-plains-mayor-charged-in-alleged-domestic-incident/