Holy shizznit. How the heck did I get 66 pageviews yesterday?
Oh, right. One of my fellow IBers somehow found my blog. Hey, Kyle! Er, doctorfabulous! Thanks for nearly scaring me out my pale yellow skin today! (Don’t worry, though. I like the attention my blog’s getting, haha.)
And thanks to Jessie for providing me with her wonderful worldly information on the Georgian war, because I was almost clueless. I had known about the Russians rolling in tanks and other giant pieces of metal because my mom turns the radio onto NPR all day. She turns it up so loud that it appeared as if she was rearing a deaf child who’s living in her own little world.
Okay, so I am living in my own little world. Well, I’m doing my best to catch up on international current events, okay?
Anyway, as I said yesterday, Russian intervened because they thought the Georgians were trying to create a genocide. I don’t blame them for assuming this, what with the war in Sudan. Their intervention was fine, but they REALLY could’ve done without the army of war machines. After all, Georgia is a tiny country. And it’s densely populated. Not a good position to be in if you’re being attacked by a country that has nuclear warheads (Not that they’re going to use them).
But even so, Russia shouldn’t be critisized this much. Intervening is good if you’re faced with the threat of a major war that could wipe out a nation and you have the power to prevent it. I guess all the world saw were Russian tanks and it was anti-Russia from there.
I won’t ramble for Russia’s case, though. If I do, I’m pretty sure I’ll start making things up, because I don’t know a lot about this war. And if I make things up, that’ll make me a politician. *Shudders*
Poor Alicia Sacramone. Fell on the balance beam and the floor exercise. She probably feels as if she cost her team the gold medal. Well, the Chinese team were pretty hard to beat. They had all those cushions from blind moves and more difficult things, and they had killer people, like He Kexin, who’s probably the best gymnast on the uneven bars in decades.
And she could be fourteen, too.
But I already discussed that, so moving on!
Michael Phelps won his fifth gold medal. Well, that isn’t a surprise. But the 4 x 200m men’s relay was HILARIOUS. By the time Lezak jumped into the water, everyone else was almost a full lap behind. The NBC commentator was like, “Wow, we have to pan [the camera] out just to fit everybody in.”
And when Lezak made it to the end, everyone watching had to wait about five seconds for the silver and bronze medalist to touch in. There was no race. It was, “Hey, everybody! Look how big the US made the leading gap!”
They finished the relay in under seven minutes. Their gold medals for the 4 x 200 m should’ve had their names engraved on it.
