To tie this in with The A-Rod/steroids in baseball topic: How in the HELL can Phelps be ousted so bad for smoking a little weed, yet we sweep the whole steroid thing under the rug? (Yes, we'll publicly 'shame shame' those on 'roids, but they will likely go unpunished).
I mean, steroids will destroy a person's body, especially young men's bodies who look up to MLB players as role models and "if he can do it. why can't I?". Smoking a little weed isn't going to ravage your body, yet the sponsors are treating it like he shot up heroin. Also - to pull a little SNL into this, REALLY, Kellog's, REALLY? I wonder how many millions of dollars of cereal you sell to stoners everywhere around the globe? Hypocrites. On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Erika L. Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/kellogg-should-not-have-f_b_165091.html > > Kellogg Co. recently fired Michael > Phelps<http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090206/us_nm/us_kellogg_phelps_3>for > admitting he smoked marijuana (after a picture of him taking a bong > hit > came out on the press). This is a decision that would have been absolutely > justified in 1955. But this is 2009. No one gives a damn. In fact, they are > more likely to lose customers than gain them by making such a public display > of their displeasure. > > You know how many people have smoked marijuana in America? A whopping > 42%<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&refer=us&sid=ad9KEFJ5wox4>. > That is a huge chunk of the country Kellogg has just personally insulted > because they are saying implicitly that their behavior is so wrong that they > would fire them over it. > > But what's worse is the even larger percentage who don't care if anyone else > smokes marijuana and are turned off by anyone else who judges them for it. > Now, I'm not a pothead. I don't think hemp is the answer for all of our > problems (you know someone smokes a lot of pot when they feverishly tell you > that you can make pants out of hemp - yes, but is that what *you* do with > it?) . But I - and everyone else I know - could not possibly care less if > someone else wants to smoke pot.... click linkie to read more. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:287915 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
