The dangerous, seditious bridge-player
The dangerous, seditious bridge-player
#1The dangerous, seditious bridge-player
Posted: 11/14/07 at 2:06pm
Cripes. Here's the summary. After her team won a bridge tournament in China, a player held up a crude sign (a menu, actually) upon which she indicated that she didn't vote for Bush. Not "America sucks ass." Not "Bush is Hitler." Just "We did not vote for Bush."
Now the U.S. bridge organization wants to punish the hell out of her entire team for "sedition" and "treason." Here's the punishment:
It calls for a one-year suspension from federation events, including the World Bridge Olympiad next year in Beijing; a one-year probation after that suspension; 200 hours of community service “that furthers the interests of organized bridge”; and an apology drafted by the federation’s lawyer.
It would also require them to write a statement telling “who broached the idea of displaying the sign, when the idea was adopted, etc.”
Two questions:
What, pray tell, is community service that "furthers the interest of organized bridge"? Going to a high school and teaching the kids who couldn't make the cut for the bowling and golf teams how to play it?
And, had she held up a sign that said "God bless George W. Bush," would the league be acting in a similar fashion?
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#2re: The dangerous, seditious bridge-player
Posted: 11/14/07 at 2:08pm
lol, Treason.
I love america, it's just so adorable, just a petulant teenager
#2re: The dangerous, seditious bridge-player
Posted: 11/14/07 at 2:17pm
“While I believe in the right to free speech, to me that doesn’t give anyone the right to criticize one’s leader at a foreign venue in a totally nonpolitical event,”
I love this. So he believes in free speech except for when he decides to censor it.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.
#3re: The dangerous, seditious bridge-player
Posted: 11/14/07 at 2:29pmI've always thought of bridge-playing as treasonous. Plotting with partners, cardinal directions... a bridge game is just a terrorist cell waiting to happen.
"Why, I make more money than... than... than Calvin Coolidge! PUT TOGETHER!"
~Lina Lamont
My name wasn't, isn't, and will never be Scott.
~Lina Lamont
My name wasn't, isn't, and will never be Scott.
#4re: The dangerous, seditious bridge-player
Posted: 11/14/07 at 2:33pm
All that code.
See, she should have done it in code. She could have gotten her partner to say "five no trump," to which she could have responded "six clubs." See, "five no trump" is a way to ask how many kings that your partner has, and "six clubs" means zero. See? No kings = He ain't MY president. Problem solved.
Eh, I need some gin.
robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#5re: The dangerous, seditious bridge-player
Posted: 11/14/07 at 2:37pm
Good. We'll break out the cards after dinner and play a few hands!
"I'm so looking forward to a time when all the Reagan Democrats are dead."
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#6re: The dangerous, seditious bridge-player
Posted: 11/14/07 at 2:38pmY'know...Bridge was created by the Nazis.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#7re: The dangerous, seditious bridge-player
Posted: 11/14/07 at 2:42pm
The Russians, actually!
I wonder if the waxworks are still playing?
#8re: The dangerous, seditious bridge-player
Posted: 11/14/07 at 2:52pmDubya's more of a Go Fish person, or so I hear.
"Why, I make more money than... than... than Calvin Coolidge! PUT TOGETHER!"
~Lina Lamont
My name wasn't, isn't, and will never be Scott.
~Lina Lamont
My name wasn't, isn't, and will never be Scott.
#9re: The dangerous, seditious bridge-player
Posted: 11/14/07 at 2:57pmNah, I would imagine his favorite game is War.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#10re: The dangerous, seditious bridge-player
Posted: 11/14/07 at 4:52pmI bet she likes to listen to the Dixie Sluts, too!
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