“Veggie” diet blamed for poor performance of China’s women volleyball team | JunkScience.com

Fearing tainted meat, China’s women’s volleyball team has stuck to a strict vegetarian diet for the last three weeks, which the team’s coach is now blaming for his athletes’ abysmal performance.

Anthony’s Announcement « Climate Audit

[comment by Chip] So much for anthropogenic global warming:

[2011] London Olympics Drops Carbon-Offset Plan

Organizers of the London 2012 Olympic Games dropped a plan to cut carbon emissions during the sporting showcase, abandoning a pledge made when it defeated eight other cities to host the event.

Oh Danny Boyle - Miserable Lefty's Olympic Opening Ceremony | martindurkin.com

When it comes to blowing vast quantities of other people’s money, no-one can beat the Statist left. So it was entirely appropriate to entrust the Olympic opening jamboree to the miserable northern socialist Danny Boyle.

He kicked off with apple-cheeked villagers prancing round the May-pole and frolicking in their feudal rural idyll, but then came the sound of ominous drums. To everyone's horror, giant menacing, smoking factory chimneys started to rise up from the land. In the background, the moaning romantic Blake was doing his Dark Satanic stuff, while the BBC commentator laid it on thick about wicked industry disfiguring the landscape and cruelly up-rooting everyone. Platoons of dirty, sad workers trudged into the arena to remind us how awful industrial progress is.

I was still reeling from this extravagant display of dim-brained left-wing history, and looking in vain for any mention of Shakespeare, Newton, global trade and so on, when suddenly whole wards of hospital beds were wheeled on. My daughter asked me what the Day-Glo duvets were meant to represent. John Lewis? But then the stadium was flooded with light, and three giant flaming letters shouted out the answer … N H S.