OoOoO OPENING CEREMONIES

*Faints* In all honesty, I understand why they faked the fireworks...filming all of the footprints moving across the sky toward the stadium was a logistical nightmare.(This is what I read in the Omaha World Herald as my truck was being unloaded. Again, it sounds cool, but I was going about 70 mph feeding carbon to the treeswhen this was going on, so I don't know.) I don't have a problem with that because it gave the home viewing audience the same experience as those in the stadium. However, the fact they used a lip syncher for the sole reason the original singer had crooked teeth is quite disingenuous. And their excuse was they wanted tobe honorable. You know, my teeth aren't white as the driven snow. I had an infection when I was very young and I learned from my dentist that even though Ibrush and floss and all, the enamel was somehow altered for the rest of my life. So I brush my teeth and in an hour, there's a brown line across them. Ithas nothing to do with oral hygiene, it has to do with a childhood disease. The only reason I say this is because America, and apparently now the world, has an obsession with white teeth. I would rather see someone with natural teeththan photo-paper white teeth that are due to cosmetic processes. Same goes for other cosmetic augmentations. Maybe that's just me. But I would rather deal with people for who they are instead of for whom they want me to think they are. I don't require anyone's approval to measure my own self worth. I don't enjoy being around other people who cow to other's opinions of them inorder to gain "self" worth. [It's not "self" worth if you require someone else to give it to you anyway. You are denying your ownautonomy and giving power over yourself to others.] So, in the end, that was the basis of my objection. Things (mainly the singer and the "volunteers" on the field) were being advanced as somethingthey were not. Joel.