Conditions in Sochi Shocking

Posted on Thursday, February 6, 2014 by Post Scripts

Posted by Tina

Have you heard some of the stories stories coming out of the winter Olympics in Sochi? Journalists are reporting arriving at the hotel in a group of eight to ten with reservations for each person and they’re being told they might have one room ready within a week! There are also signs in the bathrooms of those fortunate to get a room telling them not to drink the water or even wash their faces in it because its toxic. Showers have no curtains but it doesn’t matter if the water is toxic does it? One Russian official alleges cameras in the shower…yikes!

As I listened to the report I thought what a great way to contrast freedom and tyranny…capitalism and socialism. It’s been twenty years since the wall came down but the spark of life that burns in people who have been blessed to live in freedom, people who have witnessed great accomplishment and learned to admire excellence and achievement, is obviously greatly diminished in the little village of Sochi.

Proud to be an American and not a bit apologetic!

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14 Responses to Conditions in Sochi Shocking

  1. RHT447 says:
    Thursday, February 6, 2014 at 6:21 pm

    Book recommendation:

    http://www.amazon.com/Liberators-My-Life-Soviet-Army/dp/0393017591/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1391737959&sr=1-9

    The author was part of the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia. At the end of that part of the book he writes—“The sad lesson of liberation had been learned: and all of us realized that, for the next ten years, no matter what happened in the world, nobody would dare send us to liberate any country with a higher standard of living than our own.”

    Having served in Europe during the cold war (under President Jimma Cartuh) I could relate to one of the un-spoken themes in this book—“Thank God the other side doesn’t know how $#@%-ed up we really are.”

  3. Tina says:
    Thursday, February 6, 2014 at 9:39 pm

    You gave us page 2 Pie. Here’s the link to the full article.

    They are piling up aren’t they?

  4. Harold says:
    Friday, February 7, 2014 at 7:10 am

    “Thank God the other side doesn’t know how $#@%-ed up we really are.”

    When Vladimir Putin Topped Obama as ‘World’s Most Powerful Person’, I think they figured it out!

  5. J. Soden says:
    Friday, February 7, 2014 at 7:43 am

    Somehow, I don’t think Sochi is going to quite be the paradise that Putin would like everyone to see . . . .
    Gotta winder why a country that posts “no fishing in the toilets” signs would’ve been chosen for an Olympic event in the first place.

  6. Toby says:
    Friday, February 7, 2014 at 9:18 am

    After last weeks Super BLOW, my level of caring about organized sports is at an all time low.
    If the conditions in Russia surprise you, you have not been paying attention or just don’t have a clue about how things are run in Russia.
    I suspect that Putin is a homosexual and is looking for free live gay porn.
    I hate that NBC is covering the games. Bob Costas makes me ill,he is salivating over the possibility of a terrorist attack. I hope Bobs eye infection eats his face.
    We have a treasonous pile of dung running our Country into the ground, I have a very hard time caring about some socialist sporting event.
    Having said that. Go Team USA!

  7. Libby says:
    Friday, February 7, 2014 at 9:50 am

    “As I listened to the report I thought what a great way to contrast freedom and tyranny…capitalism and socialism.”

    I’ll thank you not to conflate economic and political philosophies. There have been a number of right-wing totalitarian regimes: Hitler’s, Franco’s, Mussolini’s. It’s just that they are so truly heinous, they don’t last long.

  8. Libby says:
    Friday, February 7, 2014 at 10:46 am

    Tina, practically the whole of Europe (and Cuba) beats us out, infant mortality-wise.

    Now, what does practically the whole of Europe have that we don’t have?

    And are you really going to stand proud and defend this … unapologetically?

  10. Tina says:
    Friday, February 7, 2014 at 11:49 am

    Libby: “practically the whole of Europe (and Cuba) beats us out, infant mortality-wise. Now, what does practically the whole of Europe have that we don’t have? And are you really going to stand proud and defend this … unapologetically?”

    You betcha!

    Here’s why:

    The denigrate America crowd is pushing this fib and they arrive at their conclusion by failing to report how the numbers are determined.

    Defending the Truth blog citing an American Thinker article (link didn’t work) in which Dr. Linda halderman explains:

    Dr. Linda Halderman explains:

    Low birth weight infants are not counted against the “live birth” statistics for many countries reporting low infant mortality rates.

    According to the way statistics are calculated in Canada, Germany, and Austria, a premature baby weighing <500g is not considered a living child.

    But in the U.S., such very low birth weight babies are considered live births. The mortality rate of such babies – considered "unsalvageable" outside of the U.S. and therefore never alive – is extraordinarily high; up to 869 per 1,000 in the first month of life alone. This skews U.S. infant mortality statistics.

    Some of the countries reporting infant mortality rates lower than the U.S. classify babies as "stillborn" if they survive less than 24 hours whether or not such babies breathe, move, or have a beating heart at birth.

    Forty percent of all infant deaths occur in the first 24 hours of life.

    In the United States, all infants who show signs of life at birth (take a breath, move voluntarily, have a heartbeat) are considered alive.

    If a child in Hong Kong or Japan is born alive but dies within the first 24 hours of birth, he or she is reported as a "miscarriage" and does not affect the country's reported infant mortality rates.

    Too short to count?

    In Switzerland and other parts of Europe, a baby born who is less than 30 centimeters long is not counted as a live birth. Therefore, unlike in the U.S., such high-risk infants cannot affect Swiss infant mortality rates.

    Efforts to salvage these tiny babies reflect this classification. Since 2000, 42 of the world's 52 surviving babies weighing less than 400g (0.9 lbs.) were born in the United States.

    Because we don't have socialized medicine – yet – heroic efforts to save newborns are common in America while these same infants are considered "unsalvageable" in other countries and not counted against their mortality statistics.

    Even if the counting methods were uniform, we'd still be lower than many countries. This is preventable through education of young mothers who invariably fail to get available pre-natal care. That, and making an attempt to address the epidemic of babies having babies would go a long way to lowering the infant mortality rate.

    National Policy Center has more information about how this ties in to the leftist attacks on our healthcare industry and the push for socialized medicine in the US:

    The United Nations Statistics Division, which collects data on infant mortality, stipulates that an infant, once it is removed from its mother and then “breathes or shows any other evidence of life such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles… is considered live-born regardless of gestational age.”16 While the U.S. follows that definition, many other nations do not. Demographer Nicholas Eberstadt notes that in Switzerland “an infant must be at least 30 centimeters long at birth to be counted as living.”17 This excludes many of the most vulnerable infants from Switzerland’s infant mortality measure.

    Switzerland is far from the only nation to have peculiarities in its measure. Italy has at least three different definitions for infant deaths in different regions of the nation.18 The United Nations Statistics Division notes many other differences.19 Japan counts only births to Japanese nationals living in Japan, not abroad. Finland, France and Norway, by contrast, do count births to nationals living outside of the country. Belgium includes births to its armed forces living outside Belgium but not births to foreign armed forces living in Belgium. Finally, Canada counts births to Canadians living in the U.S., but not Americans living in Canada. In short, many nations count births that are in no way an indication of the efficacy of their own health care systems.

    The United Nations Statistics Division explains another factor hampering consistent measurement across nations:

    …some infant deaths are tabulated by date of registration and not by date of occurrence… Whenever the lag between the date of occurrence and date of registration is prolonged and therefore, a large proportion of the infant-death registrations are delayed, infant-death statistics for any given year may be seriously affected.20

    The nations of Australia, Ireland and New Zealand fall into this category.

    Registration problems hamper accurate collection of data on infant mortality in another way. Looking at data from 1984-1985, Eberstadt argued that, “Underregistration of infant deaths may also be indicated by the proportion of infant deaths reported for the first twenty-four hours after birth.”21 Eberstadt found that in the U.S. and Canada more than a third of all infant death occurred during the first day, but in Sweden and France they accounted for less than one-fifth.

    Radical socialist will do anything and say anything to further their socialist goals.

    That now includes watching as Americans unnecessarily remain jobless and dependent on subsidy; are forced to pay extraordinarily high prices for insurance and healthcare; are forced to go without insurance and doctors they were happy with; must suffer rising gas and food prices and accept jobs below their level of experience and training…and the utter destruction of our banking, military, and diplomatic concerns…just so this takeover of our healthcare system can be completed!

    I know you are proud of this travesty and lie and are absolutely unapologetic!

    As an American, loyal to the founding principles of freedom and capitalism, it makes my skin crawl.

  11. Libby says:
    Friday, February 7, 2014 at 4:45 pm

    That is the most ammoral and quite pathetic quibbling I have ever read … attempting to niggle the statistic, rather than take measures to improve outcomes.

    How am I supposed to be proud of such a thing?

  12. Tina says:
    Friday, February 7, 2014 at 7:05 pm

    Libby: “That is the most ammoral and quite pathetic quibbling I have ever read … attempting to niggle the statistic”

    It is your pathetic amoral group doing the niggling, dear girl!

    You seem to be proud enough…proud to believe a lie about the country in which you live…proud to be part of a group that would do such a thing…and totally lacking in pride for the truth about the quality of healthcare, the innovation, the dedication to saving lives that exists in our nation.

    Maybe you just choose to believe a bunch of crap leftists dream up to prove America is not all that!

    The hate America bunch needs to go people. There aren’t that many of them and we have given them way too much power.

  13. Libby says:
    Friday, February 7, 2014 at 9:27 pm

    “The hate America bunch needs to go people.”

    It is not “hating America” to desire improvement. Why should you even think such a thing?

    Candide was a moron. Are you a moron? This is not the best of all possible worlds. You can work toward such a thing, or, you can be a moron.

  14. Tina says:
    Saturday, February 8, 2014 at 9:06 pm

    Libby: “There have been a number of right-wing totalitarian regimes: Hitler’s, Franco’s, Mussolini’s”

    They were called “right wing” to distinguish them from Marks and communism. Their forms of government and economic policies bear no resemblance to the policies of conservatives/Republicans in America.

    The American left does favor policies that mirror these totalitarian regimes.

    I’ll “conflate” confidently, thank you very much.

    “It is not “hating America” to desire improvement.”

    I didn’t call you on wanting improvement.

    I called you on believing such a stupid statistic that is used by people who portray America as sub-par and intend to make it so in the eyes of the world.

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