The Olympics and stuff

My wife has not been able to get to bed before 1:30 am since August 8. That is about when exhaustion takes over and she can't watch the Olympics anymore. On the other hand, I've watched a little bit but am not glued to the TV like she is.

As for the Chinese women gymnasts, they do look young, but as my wife said, our niece looked 12 last year and now looks 16. She grew a lot and got rid of her braces and if you saw her you would think she is 16/17 not 14. BTW, her father is a black belt in Brazilian Jujitsu if anyone tries to bother her.

So are the Chinese cheating in women's gymnastics? I don't know and at the end of the day, it just doesn't matter. Why? because the ideal of the Olympics is dead and has been dead for decades. The Olympics have been and always will be giving the host country a chance to show off their city. But what about fairness to the athletes from the countries that follow the rules? Well they will have to work harder to compete against underage competitors (who will have their own problems dealing with disappointment and stress of competition). It may not be fair, but then again, neither is life so deal with it and move on.

On to Georgia. Maybe we need to sell some of our cold war surplus M1 and M2's to Georgia for $1 each, load them on ships and send them to Georgia ports escorted by a carrier group and maybe lease a Los Angeles class sub to them as well for maybe $10 a week to open the sea lanes from Russia's blockade. What about Turkey and the Dardanelles and them not liking US warships passing through them? Well if the try to close the straights, well we have a lot of troops just south of them and their troops have/are invading Iraq to suppress the Kurds, we can make life hard for them too if they wish. Yes, this is wishful thinking of sending tanks and making sure the Georgians are properly supplied. Easy to say, hard and risky to do. But if we don't stop Russia here, where do we stop them? The Baltic states? Ukraine? Poland? Germany? why them and not Georgia? What makes them more valuable then Georgia?

On a personal note, work has been nuts and will continue to be so for another month or so with all the changes here, so the boss will be making most of the posts, thanks for making them.