U.S. Looking For A Fight Between Russia And Georgia

The United States just can't help themselves. They take every opportunity to look for a fight between athletes from Russia and Georgia.

Olympic shooters hug as their countries do battle

BEIJING, China (CNN) -- Sharpshooters from Russia and Georgia embraced Sunday after earning medals for their countries, which have been teetering on the brink of war since the Beijing Summer Olympics kicked off last week.

Russia's Natalia Paderina and Georgia's Nino Salukvadze hugged after winning Olympic silver and bronze medals, respectively, in the women's 10-meter air pistol competition.

The rivals kissed each other on the cheek after standing on the medal podium with China's Guo Wenjun, who won the gold medal in the event.

Waving flower bouquets high, the women smiled broadly at the audience.

"If the world were to draw any lessons from what I did, there would never be any wars," Salukvadze, 39, said afterward, according to media reports. The reports described the two as friends.

Georgia said it launched an operation in South Ossetia on Thursday after artillery fire from separatists killed 10 people. Russia, whose forces entered the republic Friday, accuses Georgia of plotting to wipe out Ossetians loyal to Russia. Georgia says Russia merely wants control of an oil pipeline.

Before Sunday, Paderina and Salukvadze had competed against each other several times, including at the 2004 Athens Summer Olympics; the 2005 European Championships in Tallinn, Estonia; the 2006 World Championships in Zagreb, Croatia; and the 2008 European Championships in Winterthur, Switzerland.

Salukvadze's bronze medal marked the first for her country in these Games.

She won a silver medal in the same event two decades ago at the Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, where she also took home a gold for the 25-meter pistol competition. Salukvadze was a member of the then-Soviet Union's 1988 Olympic shooting team.

Sunday's silver medal was first in an Olympics for Paderina, 32.

Despite reports that the Georgia Olympic delegation might return home, team spokesman Giorgi Tchanishvili said Sunday the athletes would stay and compete, according to The Associated Press.

Tchanishvili said that the competitors were ready to leave China if it would help the situation back home, but that Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili sent a message saying the athletes should remain at the Games, AP reported.

Guess what? They're not going to give one to you!! Unlike the United States and the media, these people have class. They know the meaning of the word RESPECT!!

Some Georgia Public Schools To Offer Bible Classes

I smell a lawsuit, and a justifiable lawsuit at that!!

Some Georgia public schools are going to offer classes on the Bible. Although Georgia has a law that allows these classes, there's a problem. It's a violation of church and state separation. I don't care if they say that they're not going to promote or teach one particular religion. The point is, they're teaching RELIGION by teaching about the Bible. By the way, what religion are you promoting if you're teaching the entire Bible? It sure as hell isn't Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, or any other religion for that matter. By teaching the Bible, you're promoting CHRISTIANITY.

People will stop at nothing to get religion taught in schools. If you want your child to learn about religion, send them to a private or religious school. That's what they're for!! And people wonder why more parents homeschool their children. Who can blame them? Who wants their child indoctrinated?

Supporters say fully understanding history, literature and political science — from the writings of Martin Luther King Jr. to the war in Iraq —requires knowledge of the Bible.

Gee, I don't understand the war in Iraq. I don't understand history. I don't understand literature. I don't understand political science. I don't understand what the hell Martin Luther King Jr. was saying. I'm just stupid because I don't understand anything. That's because I don't know the Bible. Good God!! We're not brain-dead idiots!!

"I don't think you can understand Shakespeare, that you can understand a great deal of literary allusions or that you can understand a great deal of Western civilization without understanding the role of the Bible," said Pennock, a former Western civilization teacher.

Here we go again!! You can't understand anything unless you understand the Bible. Well, I understand the Bible!! And I don't think it should be shoved down the throats of anyone. I don't think it should be taught in public schools. And, I hope that parents and others sue to keep it out of schools. Like I already said, if you want your child to learn about religion then send them to a private or religious school. Otherwise, take them to church. But stop this nonsense with the damn Bible being taught in schools!! It's ridiculous!!

Pease, a Christian, said she'd support schools teaching comparative religion classes, including those that studied the holy books of other major faiths like Islam's Quran.

Oh yeah!! Like those right-wing, Bible-thumping, Christian, conservative, whack jobs would really allow the teaching of any religion but Christianity to take place in school. Like hell they would ever allow Islam to be taught in school. Like hell they would ever let the Quran be taught in school. It's a crock of shit to think that they would. Anyone who thinks that they would is clearly delusional!!