I just caught a brief update on LA winning the Olympic venue bid for the summer of '28 Olympic Games and it is another bright shining moment for LA if one can describe raw sewage as bright and shining but it is actually kind of right down the alley of the parasites who now serve as the spectacle that feeds upon itself. I just learned that the bidders have a plan to build NO new venues or accommodations for the Summer Games and will 'wing it' with the likes of the most incompetent and stupid people on the planet running things.
I have always loathed the International Olympic Committee and viewed it as nothing more than a sinecure for the descendants of the royalty that was squeezed out of the Holy Roman Empire when they lost World War II and World War I and the Napoleonic Wars (all of them) and found jobs befitting their station in life running a scheme that involves entitled greed, child molestation and institutionalized corruption. Good on you IOC for picking LA as the Winna!
I lived in San Diego County for about 30 years off and on and I told my flight scheduler with total sincerity that I would kill him if he ever routed me through LAX again. Mind you, this was even before I started commuting to the Far East every month and discovered that Hell was just the anteroom for the Tom Bradley International Terminal of LAX and just what a foul, disorganized and thoroughly rotten shithole it is. This becomes really apparent to anyone flying home from Inchon or Narita because there really is no comparison. Those two airports are/were 9 or 10 on the scale (let's not count Dubai on any scale since it stands alone) and LAX would come in on the same scale at about -49.
Yet knowing this is all so, the IOC oxygen thieves selected LA. I don't really know the particulars or the details and perhaps LA was the last city in the world to submit a bid since the economics of hosting the games has been pointing one way since the Fall of Troy but even so, they'd have done better to pick some actual 3rd World Hell Hole since some lives there would have improved with even a tiny infusion of international cash but with LA there is no upside and even if there was they would burn it down. As I recall a recent self inflicted bullet wound to the brain occurred when LA decided to boost the minimum wage for all hotel employees and the hotels welshed on arrangements to provide rooms for Olympics.
On the other hand, just how are the money-men and the moguls who rule going to extract their billions from an LA Olympics that doesn't feature rampant corruption construction scams? How will the political toadies make their real constituents wealthy from stealing misappropriating all those hundreds of millions of dollars? Yes, yes, I know, they're going to do it the old fashioned way and make Uncle Sam and you and me pay for everything, all at the last minute to avoid international humiliation.
Guess what LA? Not going to happen. On the gripping hand, can it truly be worse than Paris? Nobody is going to swim in the Los Angeles River.
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2 comments:
IOC picks on the basis of bribes, who has the best shopping areas when the Games are on, free luxurious hotels. I feel bad for the surrounding areas like San Diego because in 28 you get an influx of homeless as LA cleans up.
I lived on Grape Street in San Diego when the decision was made to go forward with creating the Gas Lamp district and putting in Horton Plaza Mall and it was a giant success but it did destroy 100% of the old SRO and skid row type arrangements for homeless in downtown and at least back then the city was death on homeless in the Gas Lamp and Balboa Park. I don't know what it's like now but I imagine the area around 10th Ave and the southern end of the Park is a disaster.
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