Embarrassing!!!

Even if these babes didn't remind us of uptight librarians, there seditious behavior in China cannot go unpunished...

A team of women who represented the United States at the world bridge championships in Shanghai last month is facing sanctions, including a yearlong ban from competition, for a spur-of-the-moment protest.

At issue is a crudely lettered sign, scribbled on the back of a menu, that was held up at an awards dinner and read, “We did not vote for Bush.”…

“What we were trying to say, not to Americans but to our friends from other countries, was that we understand that they are questioning and critical of what our country is doing these days, and we want you to know that we, too, are critical,” Ms. Greenberg said, stressing that she was speaking for herself and not her six teammates.

Look, when you represent your country overseas, you cannot go around undermining it's efforts. (Of course democrats, specifically Clinton and Carter, do this all the time, and that's why I think of them as America-haters) When you sign a contract with an organization, a contract that specifically forbids politicization of your position, and then you do something overtly political, you deserve to be punished.

And I know what your argument will be before the "thought" even forms in the rudimentary ganglion that serves as your brain..."But Ed, she's just exercising her first amendment right of free speech." Sorry hippie, your right of free speech ends where your signature on a contract banning such speech begins. Nothing's stopping her from making a jack-ass of herself any time she wants, but when she's officially representing an apolitical organization which paid for her to attend the event, political speech is forbidden. Virtually every employment contract in the world contains a clause in which dismissal is included as punishment for behavior that the organization deems unacceptable.

I hope this vile wretch gets mocked, ridiculed, and harrassed when she comes home.