something odd

First of all, Sorry I havn't posted in a while.

OK, So my family goes to "the river" which is a specific segment of the Colorado River near the Imperial dam for famiily vacations/weekends. Ok, so this river has a pretty strong current and many "sand bars" which are areas on the river which naturally collect large amounts of sand. We park our boat on them, and setup chairs, horseshoe's, BBQ, and try not to get sun burnt. Think Memorial weekend.

SO, back to this strong current. Now, most parents make sure that the kids who can't swim, or swim poorly wear a life vest all day. Because, like I said, we are surrounded by water and the current is.. . yes, strong.

SO, I was drinking my beer, minding my own business when I heard my mom call out to me from our boat to come help. I looked over and saw some kid struggling to swim near our boat and since I'd seen him earlier with his sisters I began to jog over to see what/if anything I needed to do.

I hear my mom call out again to "hurry!" at which point this kids head bobbs under water and he doesn't come back up.

I sprint accross the sandbar jump in waist deep water and pull him out coughing and choking on water.

Yay me. I rule.

SO here is the odd part, not only were his parents not watching him and not involved in the rescue, but they didn't seem to care at all that he almost died. AND, they didn't bother coming over to say "thanks"...

Some people should never have kids. I am trying to cut them some slack by suggesting here that maybe they didn't understand the situation but apparently my sister overheard this boy's sisters tell their parents that he almost drowned and apparently they said, "why did you almost drown"????????

alright, I'm done.

ok so it's may 14th

and my life is getting a little busy, so I'm very sorry for not posting in almost a month.

lets see, anything new in the news?....

haha, consider this: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070514/wl_nm/pope_brazil_indians_dc

the Pope has said today that not only are the traditional beliefs of Indians a "step backward" from Christianity, but he also claims that the church never imposed itself on the native peoples!!

wow, either he is in spin-mode or he doesnt have a good understanding of history because it is well documented that the Christian religion was spread via the sword. As that article points out, Millions of natives died as a DIRECT result of missionary actions.

good article if not far too short in pointing out the hypocracy