Healer...

Turns out Pastor Mike G was lying... Pretty crazy... Whats even more crazy is how Christians are reacting on message boards to this as if they've been devastated for life... Mike is a man we all fall but he should not be condemned, let us be the hospital not a police station...

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24216087-5006787,00.html

The Chosen Ones...

For the past couple of nights its been work, watch the olympics and sleep, then repeat. While I do love watching them and watching all nations compete and do the best they can, I have learned of something new. You hear of kids forced into labor and born into family situations which require the need for them to work and do other tasks as well. What is new to me is hearing about how China picks their Olympians at an early age. I was listening to the commentators talk about certain individuals on the diving team and gymnastics team that where chosen at the age of three and taken to begin the process of becoming a "champion." They only see their families maybe once out of the year. I've been wrestling with this subject for the last couple of days and I'll probably keep wrestling with it for a while. If forcing a child into labor is wrong and children in China, maybe other countries to that I am unaware of, are being forced into labor (being a gold medalist) then something must be wrong here to...

"in a nation with only 60 swimming pools, there are 10 elite diving schools. Students are supervised virtually nonstop, cut off from families unless relatives happen to live nearby, forbidden to date until their 20s and expected to train so hard that most wind up unfit for work outside athletics. Some are left virtually illiterate in a land where, by Confucian tradition, intellectual pursuits are prized over physical ones. "

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,976078-1,00.html

THe Olympics...

They are here... What an exciting time where the world comes together to watch the best of their nation compete against the others... Besides the Chinese Gov and olympic teams Kobe Bryant got the loudest cheers... so I read... Gotta love number 8...

I saw this video on TV right now it was pretty interesting I figured I'd post it

Off to go watch the opening ceremonies and hang out with all the interns

cause the time has come for us to start leaving one by one...