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Do Not Boycott the Olympics: and not for
the Olympic Athlete's sake.
Copyright Findawish.com
04-25-08
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Introduction:
Before reading this article and
definitely before sending an email, read the sources and pledge sections.
http://www.slate.com/id/2187280/?GT1=38000
Whether the liberal media* wants to believe it or
not, things cost money. Since the fall of the barter and trade system,
money has become the food people have to have in order to have things,
peace and, yes, the Olympics. So how do the Olympics get money?
Sponsorship of course. How do those sponsors get money: by advertising
their goods in the hope that they will sell more products. Without large
corporate sponsors, the big 12 this year, there would be NO OLYMPICS AT
ALL. According to this article and the ridiculous ignorance of the boards
I have read today concerning the boycott I seriously think some people
want the Olympics to fall out of existence.
See, the people complaining about the Olympics are
really only heard from once every 2 years. Their miserably miniscule
existence blooms with the winter and summer events and they are able to
spew their propaganda and sound important. Unfortunately, they are
succeeding.
Take the article’s statement that boycotts and acts
against the Olympics actually do work…yet Anne Applebaum doesn’t know if
the Soviet boycott worked for the Soviet people. No one claims to know
everything. I surely don’t, but do not make positive assumptions based on
a known ignorance. Anne, you’re supposed to be a professional, better
than us at expressing factually based opinions. This is why you are part
of the problem.
Take the article’s statement that Germany spread its
Nazi propaganda…if that is true then it only helped to end Germany’s Nazi
regime because more people became aware of it, thanks to the Olympics, and
more people became outraged by it. You’ll always have the idiots that
fall for the propaganda, but the vast majority of people know what is
right and what is wrong. Bringing China’s nature to light will only help
to bring China’s bad behavior to an end. By participating in the
Olympics, the US stands a better chance of educating it’s populace than
boycotting, and thus hiding the truth, the event. Most people don’t care
about crack heads and dealers until they are exposed to them. Look at how
parents react when one of their children go missing…they go from ignoring
the issue to being a huge advocate for missing children. Look at how we
brought Germany down after Germany’s propaganda became more and more
known.
The Olympics should be a place where we all get
along. Much like a family reunion where everyone knows uncle Bob was in
jail just a few months ago for torturing some small animal while smoking
crack and aunt Matilda has always spread family gossip trying to destroy
the family name in order to get back at drunk uncle John for cheating on
her, the Olympics should about a world getting along for a short time
every few years. No one likes all of their relatives (if they do, they
don’t know all of their relatives or know their relatives very well), but
if you are a good person you put up with them because you are civil. You
don’t punish the rest of the family by missing a family event. Just
because the world’s problems are on a much larger scale than your simple
life, that doesn’t mean that the concept isn’t the same.
Love thy neighbor. It’s funny how all of the
anti-war people are saying we should boycott the Olympics. So basically
we are not only supposed to get involved, we are supposed to ignore the
problem as well. How about taking this opportunity to enter the front
door, make nice and start making changes. It’s a tiny step in a large
forum. Don’t punish the entire family (Olympics) simply because Uncle
John can’t hold his liquor or keep his vows. The world’s problems are way
worse than this, but in the grand scheme of things they have been even
worse. Work to make them better, take advantage of every forum you can do
so.
See my article on Olympic Athletes. I didn’t include
them here since I have already written about them.
Way down here at the bottom of the articles I’d like
to point out the hypocrisy of Slates’ articles and the whole money
argument. See those free credit reports being offered by companies? They
are rip-offs. You can get a free credit report from all of the credit
agencies once a year. You also have other rights that can get you the
rest of the services they offer for free. Slate is getting paid to
advertise for them. Everything costs money.
*This isn’t a right wing conspiracy statement. It is
indisputable that there are tons and tons of media outlets that produce a
biased view. This includes Fox and talk radio (to which I will gladly
refer to the conservative media when I reference them). I’m not a news
agency. I am supposed to give my opinions. Once you state an opinion,
anyone can bash you for it. I get called a neo-con and a raging liberal
all the time. I just brush it off and most people do not even know what
those labels are. Me, a raging liberal? Me, a neo-con? OK. Thanks for
your opinion, be sure to read my article about opinions too.
Here’s an example of writing and studies that have an
agenda.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23783105
Title is Free drug samples cost more in the long run
By JoNel Aleccia
It says that the drug companies are ripping people
off by giving them free samples…all based on the study and goes on and on
about how pharmaceuticals are ripping off the public…yet in the middle of
the article is this statement.
Reason for higher costs
isn't clear
Exactly why the costs rose wasn’t clear, said Alexander, who added
that the study wasn’t designed to answer that question.
Really? How about putting that at the beginning of
the article. The study is useless and meaningless.
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Sources
Admit it, Brockenbrough is way too far out in la-la land to take
seriously. If parents want to reward their kids by allowing them to
skip school and watch a movie, go for it. If parents want to allow
their kids to fit in at school and get interested in a pop idol, go for
it. The lawsuits are a bit crazy but people do weird things to get
money...that's more of a lawsuit issue than a Miley Cyrus issue.
Basically...just leave Miley out of the entire article. She's a
kid; leave her alone.
Before you send any other comments, remember this too: Stupidity
is not in the eye of the beholder. Stupidity is believing that you are not
stupid like the rest of us. And yes, I am doing something about it.
I am posting my opinions for public comment which evokes public thought.
Things may get worse through this "public thought process" but at least
they are changing.
My Pledge
As you may notice in the many articles to come, I absolutely can not
stand people that have an opinion about something they know very little
about or didn't take the time to research before giving their opinion. I
pledge that I will not write a single article about a subject that I don't
know enough about to see several sides of the issue. If you think I am
missing something,
I'd love
to be the first to know about it.
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