Olympics - Women's Soccer team underwhelming

Update: Norway bests US in upset 2-0 to start the Olympics off. US faces Japan on Saturday at 4 a.m. Central time. Not a great start, but I bet they're happy in Norway.

At the 78 minute mark, the US Women's Soccer team is still down 2-0

They gave up two goals in the first five minutes of play, and haven't really been able to put much pressure on the Norwegians in the game. This is considered a substantial upset in the making. Welcome to the 2008 Olympics!

Olympics 2008 - China and Freedom

While writing this morning on my Online Marketing - Online Income blog I alluded to the Chinese 2008 Olympics as a great topic for writing to generate traffic. This may seem like pandering to the masses, but a blog writer does have to write on topics that matter to real people.

While the traffic and commenting itself may matter to some writers, and of the cours the possible monetization from either, I actually have a few strong opinions on the matter, so I moved over here to my International Affairs - Freedom blog to comment more liberally. Follow the countdown to the Olympics, and the controversies of course, at the official Olympic movement site.

So, let me shoot straight and start the debate here:

I am not in favor of a boycott of the Olympics, ever. I would support attendance of an Olympics in North Korea, in Iran, in Cuba, in Venezuala, or in Palestine too. Evil tyranny will not be defeated by fearfully running away and shaking our fists. Despotism will crash when people are embued with the "God given" rights we were reminded of by our own Declaration of Independance in 1776. They have the rights, they need to be reminded of them.

The Soviet Union crashed when the Russian people were allowed to speak, to trade, to associate with us. We need to reach out to the Chinese people, and boycotting a sporting event doesn't do that.

Let the debate begin!