Posted on 09/12/2014 11:54:08 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
College is just the training grounds for criminal behavior and acceptance.
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2004147460_rbstevens270.html
things like the above, which are all too common, combined with fanatical worship of football/basketball even in HS, ala Stuebenville, with half the town siding with players that are rapists has turned me off forever.
I don’t expect purity. I also don’t expect selling one’s soul so teams can win either.
Goodell’s father was a Democrat Party honcho, so it’s doubtful. he’s a Republican.
The attitudes and actions that result from such a culture are visible in not just the actions of Ray Rice against his girlfriend; they are evident in the weasel-words used by Roger Goodell and his apologists, and by the "cultural leaders" of our day.
Language is being destroyed--"marriage" is re-defined to whatever we think it "ought" to be, "love" is how one feels at the moment, "truth" is relative...
A spiritual awakening is needed. Children (and just a few years ago, Ray Rice was a child) need to be inculcated in a society that respects personhood, truth, family, God, the Judeo-Christian ethic of work and responsibility....
In a world where there are no absolutes and disrespect of the rule of law, wickedness spreads exponentially. (One never is rid of evil, but there are times when its societal effects are abated.)
the answer is no. too many victim/social justice groups running the show.
Goodell has ties to Western PA (went to school at W&J) and had close ties to the Rooney family. That is how he got his entre into the NFL.
And, as we all know, the Rooney Family are about as far from being Republicans as you can get. So I highly doubt that Goodell is.
I don’t think the critics are making sense on this one. “I hit her” is actually kind of ambiguous. There’s hits and there’s hits. You can hit somebody and they don’t even notice, or you can hit somebody so hard their head bounces off a wall 3 feet away.
If that were true, the victim/social justice groups known as NOW, NAN, etcetera, would already have had the owners in the NFL fire Roger Goodell right at the outset when Goodell gave a two game suspension to Ray Rice.
Victim/social justice groups have a lot of pull, but apparently not here.
There is nothing stopping the players being able to refrain from hitting women, and Rush knows this.
Yes, Rush is often right about victim/social justice groups. But when some men do this, and the aforementioned “groups” get alarmed, Rush cannot blame them for the actions of the football players.
Married to Jane Skinner for what that’s worth in the discussion.
This isn’t just a case of the critics making or not making sense.
This is a case of 1.) Roger Goodell saying that he did not see the second elevator video. But the AP reported that a copy of the second elevator video was sent to the NFL and Goodell said that he didn’t see it. 2.) That was followed up by this...
What is it, Goodell sees no evil (second elevator video) and hears no evil (Ray Rice saying that he hit his wife), TOO?
Goodell’s father was a Republican senator from NY. A RINO.
Yeah, that was my thought, too. Did Rice tell Goodell "I hit her", or "I punched her", or "I dropped her with a single blow when I cold-cocked her"? Because the first of those is somewhat ambiguous - it could be anything from a rough push to a slap to... well, what was on the video.
It's not necessarily inconsistent for Rice to have told Goodell that he hit her without Goodell having knowledge of any actual specifics. The devil is in the details, after all, and there seems to be enough bad behavior all around to criticize without simply assuming facts that haven't (yet) been proven.
Remember the AP story is anonymously sourced with no verification of the supposed voicemail, and at best it says it was sent to the NFL, which is a big organization and somebody may not have forwarded it on. The Ravens owner was interviewed yesterday and he put out an interesting idea. He said he never bothered to check the video evidence because the police/DA accepted counseling as punishment, he figured if that was as far as the law was willing to push things then it can’t be that bad. And that’s the real question that doesn’t seem to be getting asked here, since when is bouncing somebody’s head off a wall and knocking them out cold not assault? Counseling for what we’ve seen on that tape sure seems like a joke. Everybody else’s failure really is waterfalling from there.
I fully expect it was a case of willful blindness as opposed to active cover-up. As you pointed out, they had the criminal case resolution in front of them, Rice falt-out told the commissioner that he hit” her, and no one from the Ravens organization or the NFL had any good incentive at that point to look more closely.
Excuse me, but $44,000,000 a year? For what exactly? He makes more than most of the players, which is pathetic.
“And, as we all know, the Rooney Family are about as far from being Republicans as you can get.”
Sure, Dan Rooney (Tom’s uncle) is a Democrat, but obviously not all of the Rooneys are.
Per TMZ, Adrian Peterson indicted this afternoon for injuring a child with a switch.
NEW YORK — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell earned over $100 million over the course of five years — more than any of the league’s star players.
Goodell, who is facing pressure to resign in the face of the Ray Rice domestic abuse scandal, earned a whopping $44.2 million for the 2012 season, the most recent to be reported by the NFL. That was up 50% from 2011.
The only player who came close to earning that kind of money was Drew Brees, who pulled down $40 million in salary and signing bonus that same year, according to salary tracker Spotrac.
http://kdvr.com/2014/09/12/goodell-pay-105-million-in-5-years/
I tried to access their site, but couldn’t.
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