ANATOLY NOGOVITSYN is not an Olympian

Georgia doesn't make this map but if you drift down to the bottom right side of Ukraine then you enter Georgia.....but this story today isn't about Georgia ( except for the obvious connections)....this story is about POLAND....and Col.Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn.

On August 16th Col. Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn, DEPUTY CHIEF OF THE GENERAL STAFF OF RUSSIA said the following words.....

" POLAND, by deploying the interceptors (US AGREEMENT SIGNED ONE WEEK AGO) is exposing itself to a strike----100%. Russian military doctrine permits the use of NUCLEAR weapons against the allies of countries having NUCLEAR weapons if they in some way help them."

THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN POLAND AND THE UNITED STATES, TO INSTALL A U.S MISSILE INTERCEPTOR BASE IN POLAND, HAD BEEN IN THE TALKING STAGE FOR 18 MONTHS......UNTIL RUSSIA GOT AGGRESSIVE IN GEORGIA.

TIME TO S..T OR GET OFF THE POT......BUT POLAND BY DECIDING TO ALLOW THE UNITED STATES TO SET UP THEIR TECHNOLOGY WAS TELLING RUSSIA TO F..K OFF AND THUS THE RUSSIAN GENERAL RESPONDED BY SAYING

WELL......F..K YOU BACK AND F..K THE HORSE THAT BROUGHT YOU TO THE PARTY

SO.....WE ARE IN THE F..K YOU/F..K YOU STAGE OF SOMETHING THAT SOUNDS VERY MUCH LIKE THE SOUNDS OF A....

COLD WAR

COLD WAR

COLD WAR

Having been a child during the original COLD WAR I immediately started practicing getting under my desk.....and when I think how funny that sounds I really have to take you back to the 1st grade and Sister Mary Margaret's class at Blessed Sacrament grammar school in Hollywood, California.

I don't really know if her name was sister Mary Margaret but all nuns are sister Mary Margaret to me so deal with it....

Back to the first grade and an alarm goes off .....on a weekly basis I might add....and sometimes on a daily basis depending on the rhetoric being bashed around by the leaders of Russia and the United States.....and all students immediately are told to get under their desks.

Somewhere in the higher levels of governmental structure....some brain dead goof ball idiot had told somebody some where that getting under a desk would save your ass from a NUCLEAR ATTACK.

JUST STOP FOR A SECOND AND THINK ABOUT THAT......

NOW THINK ABOUT THIS.....

WE DID THIS FOR A MINIMUM OF EIGHT YEARS.

We might have done it in High School but I wasn't doing anything I was told in High School so I'm pretty sure I wasn't hiding under a desk.

I wonder what they will do today in that grammar school if the COLD WAR rhetoric heats up to levels that existed in the 50's and 60's?

Knowing what we know now about NUCLEAR WARFARE I'm pretty sure there is no hiding under the desk drill.

But thanks to Col. Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn of the Russian Army....those of us over a certain age are being reminded of what the COLD WAR was all about.

THE THREAT OF NUCLEAR ATTACK IS NOW BEING FELT IN POLAND AND I HOPE THAT THE DESKS IN POLAND ARE MADE OF KEVLAR TITANIUM COMPOSITES WITH OXYGEN TANKS.

THANKS COL. GEN. NOGOVITSYN for a very NON-OLYMPIC MOMENT......

MAYBE WE SHOULD HAVE MICHAEL PHELPS SWIM UP THAT GUY'S ASS.....

sorry for that image but that makes as much sense as hiding under a desk.

The COLD WAR could become the HOT WAR if people don't start figuring out how to solve their issues without threats of physical violence.

Where's Gandhi when you need him?

oh yeah....

He's dead!

AND I APOLOGISE FOR THE NON-OLYMPIC MOMENT BUT IT SEEMS THERE ARE QUITE A FEW PEOPLE WHO SEEM TO THINK THAT THE OLMPICS IS A GOOD DIVERSION IN ORDER TO ACT AND BEHAVE LIKE ASSHOLES.

SHAME ON THEM.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Another Weekend Completed and HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY DAD....89 AND PLAYING GOLF TOMORROW

For every great moment there are big disasters...and moments that will forever last in the minds and the hearts of the contestants and their families and their friends....

Every event has three winners( relay and rowing are teams) but there are hundreds of people who simply participated.

Bolt got two pictures because he was so fast it took two pictures to capture his moment.....

9.69 could have been 9.59 and probably will be before very long.

He's freaky fast for a big man....and the picture of Marion Jones just sort of popped up to remind everyone that winning the Gold can prove to be a bad thing....but I don't think people in Jamaica get high......do you?

HUH!

Just because Bolt runs for Bob Marley University doesn't mean he uses anything to help him run faster........

We'll see...but I hope he's just freaky fast and not FREAKY.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Try counting one one hundreth of a second

It's odd to think that Michael Phelps wins his seventh Gold Medal by .001 of a second and Dara Torres loses her Gold Medal by .001

Try counting .001 of a second......it probably consists of half of the T on try......

I really love the Serbian protest.......the wall is ELECTRONIC and unless Michael has special implants in the tips of his finger.....there can be no question.

Silly protest......

and then a BOLT appears on the scene and we have a new fastest man alive......on land.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Take that you little commies and SPAINS BB PHOTO

Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson kicked the 7 and 8 year old chick's ass from China in the all around finals.

Gold and Silver.....and both of them actually drive cars.

Now the Spanish Basketball picture is much worse than my headline.....what were those Spaniard's thinking?

And it turns out they did it for money and Pau Glasol of the Lakers who makes about 12 Million a year....kinda apologized....sorta......

But the gym chicks from Iowa and Texas rose to the occasion and the side bar story of Nastia Liukin and her father is truly one for the ages.

20 years ago her dad won a Gold Medal in the High Bar......I understand things are genetic but the odds on repeating within a family in this type of sport...have to be astronomical.

Google the story and enjoy.

Today starts the Track and Field events.....and at this point the United States has more medals than China but China has more gold....but whose counting?

I think when you spend $43 billion you should win the most medals.......and if they can get to 43 gold medals then they can easily amortise the cost at $1 billion per gold medal.

One of the interesting stories of China is that a billion people in the country still live on $2.00 a day.

That only leaves 300 million people who are making REGULAR incomes.....which is the total population of America.....

I wonder what the endorsements are like in China and if those 9 year old champion gym chicks will make millions of dollars?

So many questions......so many people....

and I wonder if the Russians are bitching about Nastia Liukin actually being one of theirs and blaming the CIA for stealing her family.

I'm not sure anybody really notices the tempo of American/Russian relationships and how that tempo is changing on a weekly basis.

The Olympics might have been the perfect diversion for the Russian action in Georgia.

I think they scored a 17 on the bombing ....out of a possible 20.

But really....what were those Spaniard's thinking?

Michael Timothy McAlevey

AQUAMANMICHAEL

It is official.....the greatest Olympic champion of all time.

MICHAEL PHELPS

and AMANDA BEARD because she's Amanda Beard

Michael might not get the 8 Gold Medals but it doesn't really matter.....

HE IS THE GREATEST OLYMPIC CHAMPION OF ALL TIME

END OF STORY

by the way Amanda finished 34th in her event but who cares......

Michael Timothy McAlevey

NBC DOESN'T LIKE THIRD....BUT I DO

The Chinese redeemed themselves after finishing 5th in 2004 Athens Olympics. And yes they obviously prevailed in a few of the five required functions.....Floor Exercises, High Bar, Parallel Bars, Rings and Pommel Horse...particularly in the RINGS. The Chinese were incredibly strong in that function along with the Parallel Bars......BUT IN THE OTHER THREE....I THINK THE UNITED STATES KICKED ASS.

OF COURSE I DIDN'T GET TO SEE THE CHINESE DO THE HIGH BAR BECAUSE IT PLAYED AT 1:37AM AND MY DVR PLAYER STOPPED AT 1:30.

NBC DID NOT HIGHLIGHT (PRIME TIME) THE MEN'S GYMNASTICS EVENT AND I BELIEVE THAT IT WAS BASED ON A THIRD PLACE FINISH.

IF THE UNITED STATES MEN TEAM HAD WON...THE COVERAGE WOULD HAVE BEEN IN PRIME TIME.....

BUT NBC FAILED TO REALIZE THAT THE UNITED STATES FINISHING THIRD IN THIS OLYMPICS IS AS BIG AN UPSET AS ANY TEAM PERFORMANCE IN THE OLYMPICS.

This team lost two of it's best members two weeks ago and two alternatives were added and one of those alternatives was responsible for the BRONZE MEDAL.

SASHA ARTEMEV, on the HORSE, was the last performer and needed to be all he could be in order for the United States to finish third. The two performers before Sasha had total meltdowns...but

SASHA ROCKED AND WAS STUNNING

AND

THE UNITED STATES GOT THE BRONZE

His performance was remarkable and deserves to be replayed over and over and over.

JONATHAN HORTON AND JUSTIN SPRING PERFORMANCES ON THE HIGH BAR WERE LEGENDARY AND ALSO DESERVE TO BE OLYMPIC HIGHLIGHTS.....BUT BECAUSE IT'S ONLY BRONZE WE PROBABLY WON'T SEE REPEATED REPLAYS...

AND THAT'S THE PROBLEM WITH MEDIA COVERAGE.....if you don't finish first you are not considered a winner.....and making the Team is a VERY BIG DEAL.....getting a medal of any color is an added bonus and winning Gold is just like winning the lottery.

IS EVERYBODY THAT PLAYS THE LOTTERY AND DOES NOT WIN......A LOSER?

IS EVERY OLYMPIC PERFORMER THAT DOES NOT WIN A MEDAL......ALOSER?

AND

ACCORDING TO NBC

DOES EVERYONE WHO DOESN'T WIN A GOLD MEDAL.....A LOSER?

i think not...but

what the hell do I know

But something has to change and please don't misinterpret my rant....

I LOVE IT WHEN

SOMEONE FROM THE UNITED STATES WINS A GOLD MEDAL

but I also

LOVE IT WHEN SOMEONE FROM THE UNITED STATES WINS A SILVER MEDAL

and I also

LOVE IT WHEN SOMEONE FROM THE UNITED STATES WINS A BRONZE MEDAL

GOD FORBID THAT MICHAEL PHELPS DOESN'T WIN 8 GOLD MEDALS....

he will be such a loser

LIKE THE LOUSY AMERICAN GYMNAST'S THAT ONLY GOT A THIRD PLACE MEDAL

NBC SHOULD BE ASHAMED.....

I THINK EACH ONE OF THOSE THREE PERFORMERS MENTIONED ABOVE.....JONATHAN, JUSTIN AND SASHA SHOULD BE IMMEDIATELY SIGNED BY WHEATIES AND LET AMERICA KNOW THAT WE APPRECIATE GREAT EFFORTS EVEN WHEN THOSE EFFORTS ONLY RESULT IN A BRONZE MEDAL.

It might help the balance of how AMERICA looks at their performers.

IT MIGHT

GO WHEATIES.....GIVE IT A TRY!

PROMOTE THIRD PLACE FINISHING!

CELEBRATE THE EFFORT EVEN IF IT DOESN'T RESULT IN GOLD.

TEACH NBC AN IMPORTANT LESSON!

Michael Timothy McAlevey

FIRST WEEKEND IN BEIJING GREAT EXCEPT FOR

It was a spectacular weekend in Beijing unless your last name is Bachman. I hate to start this piece off on a downer but Todd Bachman was just enjoying being a tourist and now a funeral is being planned.

Of course the families of the 1500 people in South Ossetia who have died at the hands of Russian air strikes don't really give a rats ass about Todd Bachman.

It's quite amazing how one story trumps another and the situation in Georgia, Russia and South Ossetia could end up completely overshadowing anything in Beijing....

And I'm little bit ashamed to admit that I had never heard of SOUTH OSSETIA until the bombs started dropping.

Putin and Bush really had different agenda's this weekend. "W" just trying to enjoy a little sports vacation and Putin trying to re-establish Russian power in an area that used to be part of what Russia used to be....

I'm pretty George had a better time but then again when someone gets to use their big toys in war moments.....their gonads probably grow pretty large and I suppose that makes Putin's weekend a bigger deal.

BUT I PROMISE YOU THAT COMPARED TO JASON LEZAK'S, PUTIN'S GONADS ARE tiny.

Jason Lezak was responsible for the most amazing swimming race I've ever seen.

I think it's very hard to make up distance in the water if you are not something that lives in the water and Jason Lezak achieved historical recognition by making up distance on one of the world's fastest swimmers from France.

IT WAS MY FIRST UP OFF THE COUCH MOMENT IN THE 2008 OLYMPICS

and while I hope and pray there will be more

it might be hard

to top that moment.....but then again this is the

OLYMPICS

and

GREAT THINGS are suppose to happen.

NOW let's talk about JOHN EDWARDS.......

ok....let's not.

I'd rather talk about Katie Huff and Sergio Garcia

TWO APPARENT LOSERS IN THE EYES OF THE MEDIA

KATIE HOFF LOST A GOLD MEDAL BY 7 100TH'S OF A SECOND

and I'm not even sure that's how you say it.....4:03:29 TO 4:03:22

AND

SERGIO GARCIA won $670,000 by finishing second in THE PGA golf tournament.

and

the reporters who talked to both of those people after their events tried very hard to make them feel like losers......It got to Katie (I think)....but SERGIO told the reporter that he had a great time and that all anyone can do is try their best and sometimes it's just not enough.

THE MEDIA HAS TURNED INTO VULTURES and it's amazing to me that people who run the Networks don't see maybe WE don't THINK the same way THAT THEY WANT US TO THINK.

MOST OF US KNOW THAT SERGIO GARCIA HAS A GREAT LIFE.

MOST OF US APPRECIATE THE EFFORT THAT KATIE HOFF HAS MADE OVER THE LAST EIGHT YEARS OF HERE LIFE IN ORDER TO SWIM FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

Or do we?

I wonder how many people are saying that Katie Hoff is a loser and Sergio Garcia still can't win a major........

The only thing I do know is that the people of South Ossetia aren't worried about Sergio or Katie....because I imagine their TV reception could be interrupted but things failing from the sky.

THE DALIA LAMA SHOULD STEP FORTH AND REALLY PISS OFF THE CHINESE BY TALKING ABOUT SOUTH OSSETIA....and never mentioning the Olympics.

It is nice to see how $43 BILLION was spent by the Chinese to get ready for their big moment in the sun......even though with all the smog apparently the sun is hard to see....(that was mean spirited, but the reporters and the media have affected the way I view the world)

I'LL WORK ON THAT....

So..... the first weekend saw tremendous stories and those stories were not confined to Beijing.....I hope other regions of the world don't start getting weird just to offset the scope and size of China's finest moment.

I do know that the Backman family and friends will have a problem remembering the 2008 Olympics as anything but a horrible time in their lives....but then again I don't know the people

and

they

might

be

much further

advanced

like they might actually know that

NO HUMAN BEING CAN DESTROY THE TRUE NATURE OF ANY CREATURE GOD HAS CREATED

I SURE HOPE SO......

let the games continue.........

MICHAEL TIMOTHY MC ALEVEY

The RIGHT way to watch the Olympics

I have been watching the Olympics since 1960. A member of the Men's 1600 Meter Relay(TRACK) team was a neighbor so it was a really big deal. I was 14 and since that Rome Olympics I have been a devout fan.

There is a RIGHT way and a WRONG way to watch the Olympics.

First let me state without reservation.......

I WANT THE MEMBERS OF THE UNITED STATES OLYMPIC TEAM TO WIN EVERY EVENT.

BUT THE RIGHT WAY TO WATCH THE OLYMPICS, IF YOU ARE AN AMERICAN DIE HARD ROOTER IS...

DO NOT EXPECT ONE MEDAL

NOT

ONE

MEDAL

NO GOLD

NO SILVER

NO BRONZE

NOT ONE

NADA

BLANKO

ZIP

If you watch the Olympic games with that idea then you will have a great visual and emotion experience.

IF, on the other hand you THINK the UNITED STATES should win every medal....then you will be one of the many moaners and groaners who report after it's over....."it was ok....it wasn't that great."

IF you think Michael Phelps should win 8 GOLD MEDALS and he only wins 5 you will be one of those moaners and groaners who report after it's over....."he was ok...he didn't do that good."

GOD FORBID THAT THE UNITED STATES MEN'S BASKETBALL TEAM LOSES THE GOLD MEDAL TO CHINA OR ??????????????

THE ENTIRE OLYMPIC EXPERIENCE WILL BE A MAJOR BUMMER FOR MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF UNITED STATES CITIZENS....

AND THAT'S A CRYING SHAME!

Not one of the basketball players needs to be doing this.....they are all multi-millionaires and should probably be resting and getting ready for the next NBA season.....but they are in Beijing trying to collect Gold for the USA.

I think back to how the press and the public reacted when the team didn't win Gold in Athens

it was ugly....and I felt horrible for all those players who committed their summer to the endeavor.

THE PRESS expects TOO MUCH

THE GENERAL PUBLIC expects TOO MUCH

BECAUSE THE PRESS HAS BUILT EACH AND EVERY EVENT INTO A

DO OR DIE EXPERIENCE FOR THE USA ATHLETE

AND

THAT

IS

FLAT

WRONG

I can't change the press and I sure as hell can't change the general public but you can have a great experience if

you simply think the United States will NOT win even one medal.....

NO GOLD

NO SILVER

NO BRONZE

NADA

ZIP

IF YOU DO THIS ONE SIMPLE MIND TRICK.....I PROMISE YOU THAT THE BEIJING OLYMPICS WILL BE THE GREATEST OLYMPICS YOU HAVE EVER WATCHED.....

IF you don't watch the Olympics then you are just plain silly!

IF YOU ONLY WATCH EVENTS THAT YOU KNOW THE UNITED STATES MIGHT WIN THEN YOU AREN'T REALLY WATCHING THE OLYMPICS

There are more ways to watch the games then ever before.....more channels, both TV and on-line......and of course DVR players and TIVO make it a whole new ballgame.

You can wake up in the middle of the night (Beijing is 15 hours ahead) and catch a little weightlifting or rowing or badminton....or wrestling.....or????????????????

ANYWAY YOU DO IT.....DON'T NATIONALIZE THE EXPERIENCE

RELATE TO THE ATHLETE

AND TO THE AMOUNT OF WORK THAT HAS GONE INTO THIS ENDEAVOR.

IT'S THE GREATEST WORLD EVENT AND THERE'S NOT EVEN A CLOSE SECOND.....

ENJOY IT AND

GO AMERICA!

I didn't say I was rooting for OUR athletes.....I'm just starting right this minute with the mind set that AMERICA will get blanked in ever event.

NO MEDALS

NOT

ONE

NADA

ZIP

Let the games begin!

wait a sec....

.......Is that smog on the track? Where are the runners.....I can't see em.....

I thought China fixed all of their internal problems....but that is truly another story....

I'll be making some statements regarding global political issues during the next two weeks....even though....

I should just shut up and enjoy the events.....but seriously this is CHINA and they have a lot of things to explain.

How cool would it be if Tibet could win a medal......but I don't think levitation is an event.....yet!

Michael Timothy McAlevey

NOT THE ONLY ONE BUT....

APExxon Mobil turns biggest US quarterly profitThursday July 31, 5:37 pm ET By John Porretto, AP Business Writer

Oil gusher: Exxon Mobil turns record profit but faces backlash from Washington and investors

HOUSTON (AP) -- Exxon Mobil reported the fattest operating profit in U.S. corporate history Thursday but took a beating anyway -- from politicians railing against Big Oil, drivers bleeding cash at the pump and investors who expected more.

The world's largest publicly traded oil company turned a profit of $11.7 billion for the second quarter, lifted mostly by meteoric crude prices. Its earnings were up 14 percent from a year ago.
Total sales: $138 billion -- roughly the gross domestic product of Hungary.

Henry Hubble, Exxon Mobil's vice president for investor relations, said the record profits "highlight the quality of our integrated business model and disciplined investment approach."
For the most part, the plaudits ended there.
Despite their heft, Exxon's profits were a disappointment on Wall Street, and the company's stock slumped nearly 5 percent. Almost the entire energy industry was walloped by investors Thursday.

European rival Royal Dutch Shell posted its own record profit across the Atlantic, with earnings of $11.6 billion. Its American depository receipts tumbled nearly 4 percent in afternoon trading.
Growing investor apprehension can be found at the heart of what the oil industry does -- finding and producing oil and natural gas.

Exxon Mobil's overall output fell 8 percent in the second quarter from a year ago -- a significant blow for a company that generates more than two-thirds of its earnings from oil and gas production.

For Exxon Mobil, which produces 3 percent of the world's oil, finding new deposits of hydrocarbons is getting harder and harder. State-run oil companies like those in Saudi Arabia and Venezuela control about 80 percent of known global oil reserves. It's difficult if not impossible for Exxon and its competitors to get any part of that oil.

"It all comes down to production," said Brian Youngberg, an analyst with financial services firm Edward Jones. "This is the second straight quarter production came in below expectations. Investors are going to be questioning when they can turn that around."


Exxon Mobil was not alone in the industry in posting massive profits over the past week....

BUT
THEY WERE THE ONLY ONE WHO WAS GIVEN A MULTI BILLION DOLLAR BREAK BY THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT.

THE PEOPLE IN ALASKA THAT JUST GOT SHAFTED BY THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT MUST LOOK AT THESE PROFIT NUMBERS AND SIMPLY START CRYING.

IT MIGHT BE ONE OF THE GREATEST INJUSTICES EVER PERPETRATED ON THE AMERICAN PUBLIC.....

AND I HEARD VERY LITTLE MOANING AND GROANING ABOUT THE ISSUE.

PLEASE REFER TO 2008 UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT DECISIONS TO LEARN ABOUT THE REDUCTION TO THE VICTIMS OF EXXON/VALDEZ OIL SPILL.

I KEEP SAYING THIS OVER AND OVER AND OVER.......

"WHERE IS THE CHECKS AND BALANCES PART OF THE GOVERNMENT WHEN IT COMES TO DECISIONS BY THE SUPREME COURT?"

If I was a fisherman in Alaska involved in the Exxon/Valdez lawsuit reduction...I might look across the strait and see if Russia had any openings.

I'm serious as a heart attack......

REDUCING EXXON/MOBILE'S LIABILITY IN THE EXXON/VALDEZ FIASCO MIGHT BE ONE OF THE GREATEST FEATS EVER ACCOMPLISHED BY CORPORATE AMERICA.

HOW CORPORATE AMERICA GOT TO THE SUPREME COURT CAN SLIGHTLY BE EXPLAINED IN THE NEW JOHN GRISHAM BOOK..."THE APPEAL"

I realize he writes fiction but truth has truly become stranger than fiction.

Read the book and then look to the Supreme Court and realize once and for all that the individual has no chance against corporate America.....but I'm sure you already knew that....

I've got to go now and fill out my application for Wal-Mart.

Michael Timothy McAlevey