An Olympic disaster? Complete rubbish

Wherein official sponsor of the 2010 Winter Games takes on those grumpy brits at The Guardian. "If you're going to say the Vancouver Games cost $6-billion, have the decency to note $4-billion is for infrastructure that was going to get built anyway".

OK, if we're going to have an honest discussion Gary, let's not argue on the price tag but ask how we're going to pay for it, and how long that's going to take? Let's just pretend that every cost expenditure was completely warranted, including the triple over budget convention centre next to a convention centre in the age of the internet. The Sea to Sky was going to get built anyways you say, but would Harriet Nahanee have died?

The RAV Line was going to built anyways you say, but would we have ram-rodded it through council, inflated ridership numbers, forced it to go down Cambie, then switched to cut and cover at the last minute? Let's pretend Translink didn't go bankrupt forcing them to raise fares, tax parking stalls, and cancel the Evergreen Line.

Let's pretend that the Athlete's Village didn't go bankrupt and we didn't bail them out under a shroud of secrecy. Let's pretend that VANOC did everything right and held open and transparent meetings and did its best to dissuade Olympic evictions, let's pretend they're not spending a billion on security, only to harass local activists.

Who Are the 2010 Protesters? No no you are not supposed to ask that! That's like asking "who are these Al Qaida people?". No, it is much better that they remain bandana-clad anarchist thugs.

In what was surely unintentional, Vancity Buzz has made one of the better anti-Olympic blog posts of late.

Obama won't visit Vancouver for 2010 Olympics. Ok if he's not going I'm not going.

Over the years cougar, black bear and even Sasquatch sightings have been reported at Mount Washington. But until now, the odds have been stacked against catching a glimpse of a black person.

Oh man it just keeps on getting better Olympic lineups to be hours long. Don't get me wrong, I'd line up for hours to see Christians thrown to lions too but come on, a guy has gotta live, y'know? (Are we still not laughing at that?)

Vancouver's Olympics head for disaster. Haddow says what I've been saying forever, and that is that VANOC and colluding government did everything in its power to lend credence to every critic of the games by doing everything badly and under a veil of secrecy. There is a palpable sense of dread in this town.

At least there's one politician who still has some ethics. "The five-ring freebiefest is about to kick into high gear". Give me some shit. I want to go.

I wanna see the inspiring images from the more than 900 cameras that RCMP led Integrated Security Unit has installed. NINE HUNDRED!!!

Canada Pavilion remains a mystery 'fuelling speculation by some critics that the pavilion was an ill-conceived rush job'. Interesting, you could use that exact phrase to describe the entire Olympics.

The light

Crab Park

Strathcona Public Garden

Coffee

Third Beach

Chinatown

The 'Can you Please Spare a Quarter' lady

Antisocial Skateboard Shop

Weed

Solder and Sons

The Foundation

Wall Street and area

Music Waste

Buck Slice

Beautiful looking people

Vancouver is Awesome

The Brickhouse

Blim

Sun, Province to Promote Governments' Homeless Message. "CanWest newspapers co-sponsor government-run public relations centre in Downtown Eastside during Olympics". Just in case as there was any doubt of the collusion between government, corporations, and the media. You people accuse me of being negative, but what do you expect? This is basic stuff here, real Media Studies 101. Morning Brew is an attempt daily to show how this collusion manifests itself in their editorializing and indeed manipulation of information. Hopefully more people will sign up to make Beyond Robson more interesting but for now, this is it.

Oh and I know some of you think I made this entire thing up, but not only is the torch relay based on fascist propaganda, VANOC even uses a clip from a Nazi propaganda film by Leni Riefenstahl.

Speaking of propaganda: Why Vancouver will impress the world. Basically because the rest of the world is complete shiteso we are considered green and diverse by default.

But are the games green or are they just loud?