Semi-OT: Zbo Implicated In Marijuana Investigation

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  1. jlprk

    jlprk The ESPN mod is insane.

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    Pritchard's trade:
    An all-star who turned Memphis into a playoff contender
    + Paul Allen had to pay $30 million

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    2 years of nothing from Channing Frye

    Meanwhile, Aldridge has not developed.
     
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    What it means is that you are one of the very most popular players to the fans and coaches.
     
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    At best, Zach Randolph has consistently shown poor judgment in his choice of friends/hangers-on. Over and over.
     
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    It would be more accurate to say Zach is not a judgmental person. Some people are that way, accepting friends warts and all.

    Their heart is that big.
     
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    Bullshit.

    I've known false friends in my life and I've learned to appreciate true friends and overlook their faults, we all have them. I can forgive true friends for being tardy, messy, lazy, impractical, all the human foibles. But there is a big difference between having troubles and constantly being in trouble.

    Friends don't injure their friends. If someone has a "friend" who is in trouble, over and over and over, damaging another person's career and reputation and causing legal problems, not once, but repeatedly, that is not a friend, that is a hanger-on, a leech (with apologies to leeches) and needs to be sent on.

    Yeah, I've known that kind of person as well. After screwing you each way to Sunday, you say bye-bye and oh, they are such martyrs.
     
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    As I said, some people are big-hearted and non-judgmental.

    Others may think their own shit doesn't stink.
     
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    When you are fighting a bad law, you may get into trouble with the law. That is a rebel's intentional life strategy, not poor judgement in choosing friends. Coming from the law and order political right, you haven't had to make such courageous decisions.
     
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    yeah, it's so tough and courageous to be a pot-smoking, narcissistic, vice addict. If you're having trouble with following the legal ways of enjoying yourself (drink, don't use illegal drugs), the legal ways of expressing yourself sexually (wanna go to a strip club? Fine, but pay your bill and don't go when you're supposed to be either working or going to a funeral--and don't just stand there as your buddy anal-rapes a girl in your room ALLEGEDLY), and the legal ways of making some money on the side (rent out storage to others, don't fund a drug-running business)--you're right, jlprk...he's a regular Rosa Parks mixed with Robin Hood.
    You'd have a more convincing case if he'd ever publicly endorsed marijuana legality...or if he'd ever publicly proclaimed his strategy (like Melo's "Stop Snitching Campaign")...but he's hiding like a coward and acting like a criminal.
     
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    And with respect, that's bullshit. Courage and integrity come from doing the right thing when no one's watching...not breaking the law and then saying "Oh, it's a bad law" when you get caught.
    Also, it's curious to me that you lump law and order in with the political right. I was under the assumption that being law-abiding citizens was a prerequisite for anyone anywhere on the political spectrum.
     
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    You live under a lot of bad assumptions because your side silences the majority with threats of prison and torture. Too bad you weren't around in the late 60s to early 70s. Your eyes would have been opened to many ideas, beliefs, and ideologies.
     
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    Or, he could just be stuck in the '60s like you. :)
     
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    If only the legal system and doing what's right always coincided.

    But they many times don't.

    I have always had the impression that folks on the right side of the political spectrum equate the two things while people on the left do not.

    For example, at one time in the south it was perfectly legal for places of business to deny people service based on the color of their skin.
    Folks on the right thought this was both the legal and right thing to do.
    Folks on the left thought this was unjust and proceeded to get it changed by explicitly breaking this absurd law.

    Some laws need to be broken in order to promote justice.
     
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    Two can play this game. People on the right generally equate our legal system and moral right because for the vast majority of cases, it's true in our society. When it hasn't been (Prohibition comes to mind), it's repealed. It's not b/c it's law...at least for me it's b/c there's a shared moral thought for the majority of the representative republic, and therefore the laws are made/upheld. But I'd venture to say that many on the right don't like the laws regarding abortion, and want them changed. They don't like Obamacare, and want it changed. In both of these cases, a majority of America thinks it's wrong. Those two examples, at least, show that the left doesn't have a monopoly on
    And the laws regarding Civil Rights were changed, the way I read it, by people peacefully demonstrating. Unlike, say, the people rioting about this Arizona Immigration Law.
     
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    I'd like to see the evidence on that.

    barfo
     
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    As an OBTW....the only dissenting vote in Plessy v. Ferguson was a conservative, Whig/Republican, former slaveholder.
     
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    Thinking it is morally wrong is rather different than wanting the laws changed.

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    Gotcha. thought you were talking about the "morally wrong" part. I'll look up the "many on the right want them changed" part.
     
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    Oh, I don't doubt that many on the right want them changed. No need to prove that!

    If you didn't mean to connect the "many on the right want the laws changed" with "a majority thinks it's wrong", then no problem.

    barfo
     
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