mitchejw wrote:

I think this is quite funny and I do not hold anything against Phelps. I don't see how you guys can point the finger either, considering you've all smoked weed before too...If it was okay enough for you to do it, it should be okay enough for him to do it...

Don't give that crap about how this is a different circumstance, because it really isn't. It boils down to holding yourself to the same standard that you hold anyone else to, regardless of position or class standing.

You're completely wrong. None of us have ever been paid millions of dollars in endorsements. None of us have ever had our image attatched to a  product. None of us have ever been promoted as a role model. Thats' the difference and it's a huge difference whether you aknowledge it or not. If you are in a  position like Michael Phelps you don't smoke weed(in public) you don't get busted for DUI's. It's simple.

Tell me this. If Peyton Manning or Tom Brady gets busted using a bong is that o.k.? I mean it's o.k.  for you it must be o.k. for them right? Going by your reasoning it would be fine as well if Barack Obama was photgraphed getting high. Is that cool? Not a  chance.  When you're in certain positions it's your obligation to keep a clean image.  You're being paid and paid insanely well to do so.  Not to mention regardless of  what any of us think weed is still illegal.  That's the difference.

mitchejw wrote:

I'll garuntee you that the primary purpose of high school sports is not competition. It's ONE of the purposes...not the ONLY.

I really don't get how this is so hard for some of you to understand. You sound like people who would just walk over a man having a heart attack laying on the street and carry on with your day.

The winning and losing is not the issue...and don't try to make it the issue...it's the disrespect...you prove NOTHING by beating a lesser team by 100 points...absolutely NOTHING.

Why don't you go beat your Grandpa up...I hope that makes you feel good. You can beat his ass and you know it...so go show him. Slap him around a bit...it'll make you feel good. You're no pussy...you won't be part of this pussification of America! Don't let them make you a pussy.

I'm gonna go punch some babies after I'm done with this message...and maybe rape a few women...because I WON'T be a pussy!!! I won't!!!

Maybe I'll get a gun and kill some minority kids...cuz I ain't no pussy!! Hell no I ain't no pussy!!!! They're taking all our jobs and tax money anyway!!!!

I'm American! I drink my cheap beer, drive my ford...and listen to Toby Keith...that's the ONLY way to be American!

you compare a basketball game with raping, beating up babies and physical violence. you might want to check your post again. because for you it seems like it's the same thing.

they shouldn't have got their panties in a bunch over a basketball game. it's nothing like all the stuff you listed there. the coach didn't apologize and he lost his job. i say that's not enough, throw the a-hole in jail. maybe then we'll get some justice done. because winning a game 100-0 is just like raping women and beating up babies.

I personally have not seen anything this guy did that was overly wrong. At least not enough that I should care.

But the neo-cons on Fox News have sure had a field day with it. This poor guy was being called Blagsonofabitch and trashed, before anyone truely knew what he did wrong.

Media conditioning to hate this guy imo.

Tommie wrote:

Saikin wrote:

This is bullshit as far as i'm concerned.  Unless they have sound reasoning for doing what they did.

They named their kid "ADOLF HITLER". 

Maybe its the jew in me, but I find this reason enough.

And your point is?  Naming their child that does not mean they are horrible and abusive parents and their children need to be taken away.  Unless they had sound proof the children were being abused, they had no right to break up that family.

I'd find it offensive if someone named their child Paris Hilton Campbell, but that doesn't mean the child needs to be taken away just because the person he/she was named after is an awful excuse for a human being.

And i know it's a jump to compare Hitler and Paris, but the same principles apply.  There will always be people in this world that hate other groups of people, by all accounts these parents fall in that category, but that doesn't make them unfit parents.