Are Athletes Role Models?

I was listening to ESPN radio yesterday, and the radio host was on his rant about how athletes are and should be role models. Parents do not need to let their kids follow in steps of athletes and they should not be known as role models. Charles Barkley said that he would not want to see kids following in his shoes, because simply, it's going to be 1% of the population AT MOST (probably not even close to making the 1% mark) that are professional athletes.

Athletes play games, play things that do not better a society, but bring entertainment. They are no different than movie stars, rock stars, and the such. I have immense respect for any entertainment star (including athletes) that use their millions to better their community or humanity. Not just during crisis either, it's easy to use your money during a crisis, but when something isn't in the news, and no one is going to notice what you do. Although, Bill Gates fits bettering society with how he got rich and famous, a good example is his foundation to bring money to the poor continent of Africa.

Let's let them be what they are, entertainers, they are not professinals for intellect, for philosophy, morality or anything else. They are famous because they are good at sports. However, the NFL executives have more to live up to, because they are not making money for their ability, however it is for entertainment. They need to have the players live up to what they deem acceptable. When someone has paralyzed a woman, or beat up a bodyguard, I really don't want to see him making millions of dollars, because what lesson has this guy learned?

Just remember, they are not role models, they are entertainers, but some of them need to be banned from their sports if they cross the line. Period.

Ron Paul: The Auto-Bailout

Peter Schiff: Economic Health

A lot of pundits and economic analysts do not agree with Peter Schiff. He is too economically sound for the political elite and those who benefit from those same people, however, the facts don't lie and the facts make the truth even louder.

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Ron Paul and the Campaign for Liberty

Does the Government uphold the Consitution?

President Elect Obama - Trouble?

My dear political friends have freaked out (except those who oddly support Obama) at the election of Obama. He stands for some grand leaps to socialism, yes. However, the Democrats DID NOT get the filibuster-free senate they wanted, and they don't have complete control of the Congress.

Namely, I'm not unhappy, matter-of-fact, I wanted to see Obama win this election. The Republican Party has lost it's way, it not the conservative party it was in the mid-90s that ran on bringing limited government to Washington. If the Republican Party is going to live to see better days, they need to embrace the message of Ron Paul and the "Ron Paul Republicans" and look at what the party once embraced.

We've had a democratic president with a democrat Congress before, we will live and still be the same great country we are today. In 2010, we can vote them out on a brand new message and platform, bringing the idea of peace and civil liberties to Washington. And in 2012, we can take back the White House, all is not lost, for we have everything to gain.

Separation of Church and State

Now I would like state that I have questioned the existance of God, and have since I could remember. In no way do I endorse or recommend any religion, but endorse the idea of questioning your belief-system and coming to a logical and faithful conclusion, rather than succumbing to the religion, just because those parental figures said to.

Knowing that, I believe the separation of Church and State is taken way too far. It is to a point where we use political correctness to establish censorship of religion. If Merry Christmas, or any other religious term, offends you, I am sorry, but you need to learn tolerance. This country was founded on the morals and lessons of Jesus of Nazareth (or Jesus Christ). The Pledge of Alliance does not abridge the constitution as God is just references to a higher being, and does not have to be the God who fathered Jesus of Nazareth.

The Constitution does say the following on religion:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof

Straight from the first amendment, however, it does not state anything more than that the government cannot prevent establishment or practice, however it does not state that there can not be a official religion or that the government cannot accept practice of religion in federal places. As long as each place is tolerant to any religion that wants to be exercised, I see no problem what-so-ever.

I've been in classrooms where the whole class did a prayer, which is technically not allowed, but I didn't feel offended or obligated to tell the administration of this problem. It is no problem, except to those that are intolerant, and intolerance leads to tyranny. It's as if, no religion has become the doctrine for power instead of a religion.