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I love this new work by you:

Good work there, Miss SnowLeopard. 8)

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I AM HER ONLY BOYFRIEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*sob sob sob*

MY DREAMS ARE CRUMBLING!!!!!

My dreams crumbled a long while ago.  Join the club. ::)

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I know that I'm interested in seeing it and I'm pretty sure others would too. 

I would too.  C'mon 10-4!

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Jesus, Joseph, and Mary shes huge. 😀

I LOVE IT.

I LOVE IT AS WELL!  Lol!! ;D 😉

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Xenophobia is not the same as blind patriotism.  Xenophobia implies fear and is typically directed at immigrant culture.

Agreed, but the two are inextricably linked.  Show me a state or person who suffers from rampant nationalism, and I'll show you a xenophobe.

You're still saying that competing at an Olymic Games, World Cup or any other large sporting event makes a country excessively patriotic and dangerous to its neighbours.  Only despotic countries make the leap that you're referring to, i.e. "We gained more medals in Beijing than country X, therefore we are a greater nation than country X, plus this proves that we must be a better race of people than country X, so we should attack country X."

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Another fine Italian import . . .  😉  ;D  😮  8)

Source: http://www.amg-lite.com/steel_goddesses/

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Source: http://www.brittmiller.blogspot.com/
Saturday, August 16, 2008

Whoa! The awesome legs of Britt the Titan, or as they probably call her around the gym, Brittanic.  😮  ;D  8)

(Of course, doing #275 on the squat or 315# on the deadlift will do that to ya.)

If I had my way, every able-bodied female under 50 woulld squat and DL.8)  She looks wonderful.  :o8)

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Source: http://cindyphillips.blogspot.com/ Sunday, August 17, 2008

Unfortunately, she's had to pull out of her pro-debut @ ATL City due to an injury.

Sad though the news is, it may be a blessing in disguise, as it gives her longer to get into peak shape.  She has youth on her side – by Pro standards she's still very young.

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You're apparently watching a different Olympics than I am.  In the Olympics I watch…

* Every other story is about China using the Olympics as a springboard for legitimizing their state as being worthy of sitting at the head table with other top nation states.
* Every summary of the Olympics includes a count of which nation states won how many medals.
* Every event highlights which nation states are competing against each other, where the athletes themselves are almost secondary to the nation states they represent.

This is of course true in most other forms of International competition, where the World Cup is the other most blatant example outside of the Olympics of extreme nationalism dominating the sport.

In all team sports, there is a level of "homerism", where loyalties to teams are based on regions.  With sports leagues that exist within a nation state, its mostly "my city is better than your city".  That level of loyalty doesn't rankle me anywhere near as much as patriotic nationalistic loyalty.  Why?  Well nationalistic loyalty is much more reflective of political realities than metropolitan loyalties, and the political crossover further segregates, not unites, disparate individuals.

None of this rant is meant to disparage individual accomplishments.  Only the stage on which those accomplishments are achieved.

I still say that national competition isn't the same as rampant, xenophobic nationalism to the point of political indoctrination.

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