dabble

I've seen too damned much about the Olympics and how the frigging Chinese are treating their people, their animals, and the athletes involved in this year's Games to support it.

If you want to know more, then Google "Olympics Controversy" and look around on the 'net. I've seen enough that I'm boycotting the thing.

Until the games are over, I am not going to be getting anything from the following companies:

McDonald's
Coca-Cola
GE
Johnson & Johnson
Panasonic
Samsung
UPS
Budweiser
Snickers
Staples.

I'm considering not using our bank cards until this is all over because they have "VISA" stamped on them, and I know that won't make Jason happy, but I don't know. I'll have to call the bank tomorrow and see if Visa gets a little piece of the pie every time we use our check card. If so, we're gonna have to figure something out.

I know that some of you will say this sounds retarded; that one person can't make a difference, and that I'd be causing my husband and I aggravation just because of a few things all the way across the world that don't really matter over here anyway.

They may not matter to some people.

They matter to me.

And I, in good conscience, cannot support something that has a committee that would allow such an event to take place in a country where they commit crimes against their inhabitants just because a few inconsequential athletic events are going to be taking place behind its borders. The Olympic games used to represent athletic excellence and a coming together of nations in spite of war or anything else.

Now they're crap.