Friday SQUEE! Cute Alert: Bear Cub Wrestling Match

I didn't feel like putting much effort into a blog post first thing this Friday morning so I'll let these bear cubs do all the work.  We all need a bit of cuteness and wrestling to end the week:

Amputee H.S. Wrestler Shoots Down Most of My Whiny Excuses About Why I Am Too Lame to Exercise

Thanks a lot, Caleb Smith of Harding High School in Minnesota.

See, sometimes I lean on excuses not to get active. My shoulder hurts. I'm tired. There's that bit of arthritis in my hip.  And you, Caleb, just shot those excuses out of the water.

Smith is a 120 pound high school wrestler. That in itself is not such a big deal. There's lots of teens like that. Yawn.

High schoo wrestler Caleb Smith of
Minnesota. Photo from CBS.

Smith, however, has no arms below the elbows, no legs below the knees. He contracted a blood infection when he was four years old, and the only way to save his life was the amputations.

But Smith seems to be doing pretty well. He first went out for wrestling when he was in fifth grade, and is now part of the high school team.

His coach said Smith's a tough opponent because he's stronger than you'd think, and his quote, unquote disability makes him approach matches more innovatively, and makes it more difficult for opponents to grapple with him successfully.

The kid's pretty built, too, as you will see in the video below.

So, again, thanks a bunch, Caleb. Too bad if my tris are still a bit sore from the last workout. I've got to hit the gym.

Odd Conspiracies: The Gays Ruin Everything!! Now Wrestling!

Well, the gays did it again, apparently.

Gay people are blamed for every misfortune that happens in the world it seems,

And now the latest crisis: The Gays are responsible for the International Olympic Committee deciding to drop wrestling from the 2020 Olympics, says a Russian wrestling coach

The International Olympic Committee plans to
kick these guys out of the festivities starting in 2020

"If they expel wrestling now, that means that gays will soon run the whole world,” coach Vladimir Uruimagov said, calling the decision “a blow to masculine origins," according to the web site R Sport.

Um, I have a dirty little secret for Coach Uruimagov. A lot of gay guys LOVE watching wrestling. Think about it: Very buff, muscular men grappling with each other while wearing revealing wrestling singlets.

Enough to make many gay men swoon, right?

One cannot speak for every gay guy, but I'm sure many are terribly disappointed with the preliminary decision to ditch Olympic wrestling.

Still, coach Uruigmagov is maybe excessively overwrought about the whole idea of Olympic wrestling going away:

“It is necessary for millions around the world who understand that this is a man’s sport and who understand the need to continue the human race to go out and explain their position to the Olympic Committee,” he said. “We should prove and explain that in any other case there is no future.”

Really? The human race is doomed if the Olympics no longer has wrestling? How, exactly does wrestling ensure the continuation of the human race?

Scratch that. On second thought, I really don't want to know. This is sort of a family blog, after all.

Of course, The Gays get blamed for everything. Apparently, gay people and their wicked ways prompted the Newtown, Ct. and Aurora shooting massacres, Benghazi and Hurricane Isaac last year

The gays have also caused the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack, Hurricane Katrina, Superstorm Sandy, and the nation's generally bad, droughty, fiery, stormy, hot weather last year.  Who so many gay people other than me were obsessed with the weather?

Weather drama queens, perhaps.

Anyway, back to the Great Olympic Wrestling Crisis of 2013.  Other prominent people are upset with the potential loss of Olympic Wrestling, too. In  Monday's Washington Post, former Bush Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of all people weighed in on the wrestling controversy.

Said Rumsfeld: "Wrestling uniquely encapsulates the Olympic spirit, even though it harkens back to older and more martial virtues, rather than the arts festival and Kumbaya session that some may prefer the modern Games to be."

I don't know why they have to get rid of any Olympic sport. True, no venue is big enough to accommodate every sport in the universe, but just adding one sport to the mix, and leaving wrestling as part of the festivities makes sense.

Anything to keep Donald Rumsfeld happy.