On a rainy Friday evening, a French self-portrait freak show was on display on the Paris Sein River. Hot-air balloons brought an Olympic ring of fire into the cloudy sky and singer Celine Dion descended from the Eiffel Tower as the Summer Olympics in a century, with a four-hour-long, rule-breaking opening ceremony that unfolded along the Seine River. Then there came the French satanic verse thing, with a repugnant parody of Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous fresco ‘The Last Supper’ , which isn’t really a French thing, featuring drag queens, and gay Jesus, a controversial self-described ‘love activist’ who played Jesus, this sparked fury among the Catholic church and far-right politicians, while supporters praised its message of tolerance and inclusive. The unprecedented ceremony on the Seine River, which drew millions of viewers around the globe, included a montage celebrating Paris bubbly nightlife and reputation as a place of tolerance, pleasure, and subversiveness. “Anything less would have seemed a betrayal of the pride the French capital takes in being a home to humanity in all its richness.” Wrote the AP. On X, the question was posed on X : How would you describe this Olympic opening ceremony? The answers were not a total surprise… , ranging from bizarre, disturbing, irrelevant to the Olympics, Disturbing !!! I am so confused right now., Disgraceful, Crap, Nauseating. Degeneracy. The last Olympic Games, and Blasphemous… “
Controversy reactions, from bishops, churches, and political leaders. Even Ahmed el-Tayeb, the head of the Grand Imam of Al Azher, the biggest Islamic school based in Egypt; describes it, as anti-religion, and anti-human decency. The Paris Olympics was a cocktail drink prepared by someone already drunk! The moment for the organizer was a celebration of diversity and the table on which Butch spun her tunes as a tribute to feasting and French gastronomy.
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THE STARTER, YOUR FRIEND ON THE FIRST TEE!!
I have been golfing for over 15 years. I played on so many golf courses; some are fancy courses with breathtaking sceneries, surrounded by massive trees, a lake, river, and some in the middle of a farm surrounded by cornfields. Some is so mountainous an Afghani golfer designed it. The most interesting golf course I played on is Glen Lake Golf Course, a par three course stretched in two different cities, Minnetonka, and Eden Prairie, separated by a highway and goes under a tunnel. When I started playing there, they served alcohol on the Minnetonka size of the course but don’t serve alcohol on the Eden Prairie section, which I called the Muslim halal tees!
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