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  1. 08-03-2012, 08:55 AM #1
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    Default Does Michael Phelps really need 20 medals?

    Other swimmers worked hard and are just as smart. Shouldn't Michael share his medals with swimmers who haven't won anything? He didn't do this on his own? Come on Michael... share the wealth!
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    Quote Originally Posted by workerbee View Post
    Other swimmers worked hard and are just as smart. Shouldn't Michael share his medals with swimmers who haven't won anything? He didn't do this on his own? Come on Michael... share the wealth!
    Nice try. Keep working at it and you just might make it to "moderately amusing" someday.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Phineas Finn View Post
    Nice try. Keep working at it and you just might make it to "moderately amusing" someday.
    Anything that gets a predictable knee jerk liberal like you upset is amusing. I dont know how you face everyday as guilt ridden as you are.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Omaha Beach View Post
    Anything that gets a predictable knee jerk liberal like you upset is amusing. I dont know how you face everyday as guilt ridden as you are.
    Upset? Hardly.

    Guilt ridden? Not even close.

    Tired of half-wits who rehash the same right-wing catch phrases day after day after day? Damn right.
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    Ouch! LOL
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    Sports is a meritocracy. Outside of sports, the smartest or most talented individuals don't always win...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Phineas Finn View Post
    Nice try. Keep working at it and you just might make it to "moderately amusing" someday.
    Somehow I doubt that
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    Quote Originally Posted by Phineas Finn View Post
    Tired of half-wits who rehash the same right-wing catch phrases day after day after day? Damn right.
    A to the men on that one...
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    Quote Originally Posted by workerbee View Post
    Other swimmers worked hard and are just as smart. Shouldn't Michael share his medals with swimmers who haven't won anything? He didn't do this on his own? Come on Michael... share the wealth!
    Great point. Somebody built the pool Phelps practiced in. Somebody flew him to London. What about the road he used to get to the pool? Phelps didn't win those medals, someone else did.
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    Needle... meet nerve.
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    Quote Originally Posted by workerbee View Post
    Needle... meet nerve.
    I love it when the truly mediocre strive to rise above their limitations.
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    Quote Originally Posted by soulflower View Post
    Sports is a meritocracy. Outside of sports, the smartest or most talented individuals don't always win...
    Thats true and one of the best reasons to eliminate racial and gender preferences.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fang View Post
    Great point. Somebody built the pool Phelps practiced in. Somebody flew him to London. What about the road he used to get to the pool? Phelps didn't win those medals, someone else did.
    It doesn't apply to sports.

    Sports is a meritocracy...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fang View Post
    Great point. Somebody built the pool Phelps practiced in. Somebody flew him to London. What about the road he used to get to the pool? Phelps didn't win those medals, someone else did.
    Ooh what you said! Now phineas will really be in a snit. I bet he is stamping his wittle feet and holding his breath in a rage at you. Why dont you tell him you sorry?
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    Quote Originally Posted by soulflower View Post
    It doesn't apply to sports.

    Sports is a meritocracy...
    Don't kid yourself. Obama's spread the wealth, Socialist view applies to everything in life.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Smokey 1 View Post
    Thats true and one of the best reasons to eliminate affirmative action.
    Affirmative Action has nothing to do with it. America just doesn't always reward the best or brightest outside of sports.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fang View Post
    Don't kid yourself. Obama's spread the wealth, Socialist view applies to everything in life.
    You would be more convincing if you complained about real Obama, not fantasy Obama...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Omaha Beach View Post
    Ooh what you said! Now phineas will really be in a snit. I bet he is stamping his wittle feet and holding his breath in a rage at you. Why dont you tell him you sorry?
    What's the emoticon for shaking one's head in complete bewilderment?
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    Quote Originally Posted by soulflower View Post
    It doesn't apply to sports.

    Sports is a meritocracy...
    Except the oh so pure Olympics. You must have missed the 72 bb game between the US and Soviet Union where the US got hosed or the boxing match the other day where a guy from Azerbijhan got knocked down six times in one round and the ref still awarded him the round.
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    I bet workerbee said "I got 20 inches u global warmins on muh roof" during the snowpocalypse...
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