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Yay Eagles won. Feel sorry for Chung missing out on another ring.

Do all members of the winning team get a ring or only the ones that play on the day.?
ALL members, even the practice squad. I think Patrick Chung won it last year with the Patriots when they came back from behind to beat the Atlanta Falcon.

Anyway, FLY EAGLES FLY!:D

Next year....My Houston Texans will win it with Deshaun Watson and JJ Watt leading them!
 

AssassinsMace

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Remember how China took heat for "fake" segments during the 2008 Olympic opening ceremony.

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How convenient to blame it on a cyberattack for them to excuse using recorded "rehearsal" footage. I watched the opening ceremony and my attention wasn't fully watching it and had heard of this drone show and wanted to see but didn't. I wrote it off as I just missed it. I saw clips of it on the internet. The drones depicted what looked like a giant snow boarder and then swiftly changed into the Olympic rings. Now that I think about it that transition happen very quickly to the point it looked fake maybe even computer graphics.
 
Remember how China took heat for "fake" segments during the 2008 Olympic opening ceremony.

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How convenient to blame it on a cyberattack for them to excuse using recorded "rehearsal" footage. I watched the opening ceremony and my attention wasn't fully watching it and had heard of this drone show and wanted to see but didn't. I wrote it off as I just missed it. I saw clips of it on the internet. The drones depicted what looked like a giant snow boarder and then swiftly changed into the Olympic rings. Now that I think about it that transition happen very quickly to the point it looked fake maybe even computer graphics.

Your linked article blames the Russian for the cyberattack without providing any proof. I wouldn't rule out the US because of US administration's and Mike Pence's bellicose and antagonistic attitude toward this Olympic event.
 

AssassinsMace

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Your linked article blames the Russian for the cyberattack without providing any proof. I wouldn't rule out the US because of US administration's and Mike Pence's bellicose and antagonistic attitude toward this Olympic event.

Yes if it was a cyberattack I wouldn't rule out the US either. Personally I think it was a cover-up just for using pre-recorded footage as China was criticized for doing. Claiming cyberattack is a dog whistle to displace attention. Not naming a country is so they don't cause an international incident with their lie. Look at the mess with the South Korean government and the sinking of the Cheonan. They couldn't explain how German parts were found in so-called North Korean torpedo debris after charging the North Koreans were behind the attack. Then to cover that up they charged that the North Koreans laced their torpedo with German parts to fool people. But somehow the North Koreans had the capability to make sure that only the German parts survived to then be discovered. Look at the extent to cover-up what seems to be the South Koreans sunk their own ship with one of their own torpedoes and they were too embarrassed to admit to it. Choose your poison on who was behind the so-called cyberattack... Russia, China, or North Korea. People are going to believe it because they want to believe it. China gets a reputation on faking. I'm certain that the South Koreans don't want that kind of attention either especially since they're remembering the 2008 opening ceremony just as the Japanese are too with the next summer Olympics.
 

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Where are all the back lash from the US or Western media against South Korea on this? And this came directly from the citizen itself protesting against providing the needs for Muslim tourist and visitors to the South Korea for the Winter Olympics.o_O Oh well, SK better not complain about lack of sells and exports of their products through out the Middle East and Muslim countries than.

Protests force South Korea to scrap plan for Muslim prayer room at Winter Olympics
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The Korea Tourism Origanization previously had decided to set up a prayer room to increase the number of Muslim tourists and to promote a "Muslim-friendly Korea" during the OlympicsKorea Tourism Organization

The plan for two container-style prayer rooms has been halted after South Korea's anti-Muslim group drew over 56,000 signatures

The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) will not arrange any mobile prayer room for Muslim tourists at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung due to strong opposition from anti-Muslim campaigners, according to the statements of the city’s tourism department’s chief given to Al Jazeera.

Earlier, the KTO had decided to set up a mobile prayer room to increase the number of Muslim tourists and to promote a “Muslim-friendly Korea” during the Olympics which started on Friday. The initiative was undertaken despite only 0.2% the South Korean population of 51 million being Muslims.

The plan for two container-style prayer rooms has been halted after South Korea’s anti-Muslim group drew over 56,000 signatures opposing the idea, reports The Korea Times.

“We had strong opposition from some religious groups who opposed the installation and threatened protests during the Winter Olympics,” the Gangneung city Government Tourism Division chief Kang Suk-ho told Al Jazeera. “We sat down with them for talks, but in the end, we had to cancel the plans.”

The website by the civic group titled “Crowd signature campaign against introducing Muslim prayer rooms for PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games,” stated nine reasons why the plan should not be put into action.

One of the clauses stated that using South Korean citizens’ taxes to support a specific religion, excluding other religious groups such as Buddhists and Catholics, is unfair.

Kang said he did not expect such an extreme backlash from the group, adding: “We thought it would be nice to offer a prayer room facility at the Gangneung station.”

The Gangwon Provincial Citizens’ Association for the Anti-Islam Campaign told The Korea Times it was deeply concerned about the country’s ignorance of Islamic movements affected not just the city but the whole country. One of the association’s executives said based on how Muslims have been influential in European countries, it could be the same in South Korea.

Muslim families visiting South Korea for Olympics warned that the decision of letting go off the initiation of prayer room would lead to greater danger in future.

“While it would have been great to have a praying facility at the Games, the bigger worry for us is how this can set a precedent going forward,” a Muslim spectator, who asked to be remained anonymous, told Al Jazeera.

“We can offer our prayers in some corner or back at our hotel; I just hope the opposition realizes what little it will achieve by not having a prayer room put up,” the visitor added.

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I'm watching the Sunday morning round table shows on CNN and they're talking about how Trump admires Xi Jinping eliminating term limits. CNN White House Abby Philips brings up this UCLA basketball players incident and is outraged that Trump didn't call out authoritarian China that the potential punishment for what they did was outrageous. The whole punishment angle was stirred by the US media and according to this story that Abbey Philips must have at least heard about that no such potential of jail time wasn't even close to happening. The police did a very thorough job it sounds of determining who was the guilty party. So Abbey Philips and CNN perpetuated a lie even after the facts came out contradicting their narrative. Maybe because US parents take offense at their children being humiliated in front of others, they saw that the players had to go back to the store like a child caught stealing and return the items they stole was worse than the crime in their eyes. That's how horrible China is.
 

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I'm watching the Sunday morning round table shows on CNN and they're talking about how Trump admires Xi Jinping eliminating term limits. CNN White House Abby Philips brings up this UCLA basketball players incident and is outraged that Trump didn't call out authoritarian China that the potential punishment for what they did was outrageous. The whole punishment angle was stirred by the US media and according to this story that Abbey Philips must have at least heard about that no such potential of jail time wasn't even close to happening. The police did a very thorough job it sounds of determining who was the guilty party. So Abbey Philips and CNN perpetuated a lie even after the facts came out contradicting their narrative. Maybe because US parents take offense at their children being humiliated in front of others, they saw that the players had to go back to the store like a child caught stealing and return the items they stole was worse than the crime in their eyes. That's how horrible China is.
That is why US society and kids has NO chance of competing in the real world for either jobs are academics with any body and not just China.
 

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Watching the NBA Playoffs now. The game 4 of the Rockets vs. the Timberwolves series.

Man! The Rockets are simply amazing! They had a one-point lead, 50-49, at the half time. Then the third quarter started. They exploded and scored 23 points in less than 6 minutes. And the Wolves suddenly found themselves behind by 20 less than 6 minutes after they were only down by 1 when the quarter started.

Update: the Rockets scored 50 in the third quarter alone and now leads the Wolves by 31. They scored 50 points in the entire first half... That’s an offensive explosion...
 
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