Olympics 2008 - Part II

Yes, once again I am watching the Olympics, soaking up the good stuff. Diving has begun and the Chinese team has done an amazing job on the qualifying rounds. Now the United States team is on the floor, but one of them, Samantha Pezsek, did not go out onto the floor. No one seems to know why yet.

The lead girl made a big error, she was two feet out of bounds. Ouch. And the announcers are not helping. Comments such as "there is no doubt that the United States will qualify" are heaping yet more pressure on these athletes. How do they know that? There are a gazillion factors to this kind of competition and they are already at a disadvantage by being down one team member.

The second one up landed out of bounds and that is a big hit. A bigger hit than the first one. The first girl lost 0.3 points and this one lost 0.5 points. That is not at all good. Let's see how number 3 does... She's very long. Tall, but very slender. Wow. She was very close to being out of bounds, but appears to have been just inside. She finished without issues. Well. That was lucky. There is one more up, let's see what happens.

Johnson, the favourite, is next. The third girl was very long; Johnson is the opposite. Short and stocky, like a barrel. What a dichotomy that is. A study in contrasts.

She did a great job, coming very close to the edge at one point but not over. She was very, very strong. Good thing, with the errors that the first two committed. But they look stronger. And there is still the horse, uneven bars and other fun things.

Funny thing about the U.S. team... they are all different body types, but they are all similar in colouring. They all have straw coloured hair and blue-grey eyes. What is up with that?

Uh-oh, George W. Bush is on, for a live interview... well. If he sounds stupid with a scripted teleprompter, image how mentally stunted he sounds live, just answering off-the-cuff questions. He doesn't look smart, either. He is staggeringly awful. Stuttering and stumbling over answers. Duh, er, um... If you don't have a good television presence, how can you even have a shot at this?
Whoa. He really is stupid. He brought up religion in a conversation that had nothing to do with it.

Well, time for me to get ready for tonight.

Comments

CrystalChick said…
OH well you KNOW dubya is not my favorite either.
For some reason I'm thinking that while doing trip research recently that I read he visited the Resort Spa I'm looking into for Cancun. So if we end up there, I hope to GODDESS his picture isn't framed somewhere. I'd have to magic marker a hitler moustache on it.
14 August 2008 at 20:36
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Interesting Aftermath a From Season Five of "MasterChef"

Image
Do I agree with this? You will have to read it first and decide for yourself. I had long since made up my mind before finding this article. MasterChef Season 5 Fixed: Courtney Lapresi Won Finale After Getting Preferential Treatment – Former Stripper Favoritism BY  STORMY ELIZABETH  ON SEPTEMBER 23, 2014 "They say if you can’t take the heat, you should get out of the kitchen, but what if you like it hot? If you’ve been watching  MasterChef this season 5 , you may have noticed that one contestant in particular seems to  be “winning” challenges  when her dishes don’t seem to be quite up to it.  Courtney Lapresi  has been billed as an “aerial dancer” on the show. So what exactly is that, you ask? It’s a fancy word for stripper. You may term what she does as burlesque, but nekked is nekked and she takes off her  clothes  when she dances, so you have to call them as you see them. Plus is it really...
Read more

The Longairc-Green Family

This is a family that was on Nanny 911 , the precursor to Supernanny , which airs on Wednesday nights. While Supernanny is a better production and leaves out some of the dopey American-isms of stupidity (such as the opening scene with a much older nanny head whose television showing the family and their issues turns around into a painting on the wall), this show has its value. These families are clueless or don't bother to try and definitely need help. This family is an exception in that the mother couldn't care less what the monsters do and will do anything to mollify them. The father is more consistent and definitely takes a much more disciplinary stance, but the mother undermines it at every step of the way. The two boys are so unbelievably rude, I'd've killed them where they stood. The little girl only wanted a moment of attention and was not doing anything negative, and the mother was awful to her. The nanny, Nanny Stella, spent the first day observing. When she s...
Read more

Shocking!

Image
I always open my day at work by starting up my various programs that I'll bounce back and forth between throughout the insanity that is my normal workday. And they are always in the same order: Internet Outlook Microsoft Excel Microsoft Word The timekeeping program, GenPro, is always running. This is not me being unbelievably anal or just a little OCD, this is logic. I know excatly where everything is. It's just good organisational skills. When I open Outlook it is almost entirely for the e-mail. Yes, I do know how to use all of Outlook (well, 80% of it, any way, but since I use my belovèd Franklin Covey Time Management system (the physical book, not the electronic solution), I only use Outlook for e-mail. What is so shocking, you may ask? Be patient, I'm getting to that. I open the Internet and the default page is Wikipedia, in English. I happen to love that site and skim over whatever interesting things it may have, such as: Today's Featured Article The word thou was...
Read more