gohornets23

You do realize that the charges were dropped right?...at no point did the young man try to lead anyone to believe that it was a bomb, people jumped to the conclusion that it was a bomb, because of the kid's skin color and religion...no other reason

I don't understand...the kids who got in trouble for making sandwich guns...that was really stupid...this kid getting arrested for a clock...also really stupid...the only way the two things are related is that they are stupid. If you want to make an argument that school officials in this case weren't racist, just dumb....I'm with you on that...school officials most likely were extremely dumb, but probably racist too

"dang president wouldn't get involved if a white kid got arrested for building a clock that people assumed was a bomb!!!!"

...but wait...that would never happen because if the kid weren't muslim everybody would have said "hey cool clock" and he wouldn't have been arrested

too many paradoxes here, by brain hurts...I better listen to some more Rush Limbaugh and Toby Keith songs and get myself more smarter

So am I safe to assume that you guys think it's okay that this kid got handcuffed and taken to a juvenile detention center because he was muslim? Is that the overall impression from this enlightened group of deep thinkers on setxsports?  Awesome

 yes that would be rational...but where's the fun in that?..way better to make wild generalizations and blame society for raising thugs, and Obama, gotta blame Obama

What if it's true? Is it a surprise to anybody that not all the guys who sign up to make extra beer money as refs are fine upstanding citizens? There are always a few bad apples in the bunch. It doesn't excuse what these kids did, but if the guy was calling them a bunch of (insert slur against Hispanics) the entire game, then making calls that went against them, while they were in a close game against Marble Falls (mostly white)...you could see how a teenager might have gotten heated. These kids need to definitely be thrown off the team, but if anybody else can verify the allegations against the referee, get him away from the game as well, or I suppose he could ref the aryan brotherhood intramural games

eh..boys will be boys..I say have them bear crawl fifty yards or so then call it even. Maybe they could make the ref an apology card or something

Alright, I guess I'll be the one to say it. When I turn on my TV on Saturday and watch college football, from FCS down to D2 and 1AA...I sure don't see that many white kids named Braiden playing college football. Maybe dude at Central does do more than others to get his kids noticed, but the fact is, African American kids are typically better individual athletes than white kids. It should be a surprise to nobody that a team that is 99% AA would have more kids sign than a team that is 99% whitebread, I don't know if that makes me racist, it's just true. 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-32806487

still waiting for one of you flag waving war lovers to just volunteer and go bring some good ol fashion freedom to those savages!

And with thinking like 23's  and I mean to live and let live which I agree with will put you at the top of their list to lose your head. They believe in only one way to live and thats their way.I know its not all Muslims but we dont need to worry about the peaceful ones they are not the ones slaughtering men women and children all over the globe.

So what's your solution? Getting in the middle of a sectarian war in the middle east? What purpose does that serve and how does it make us safer? How many of the peaceful ones is it okay to kill in order to get to the slaughterin' kind? 

"Muslims who are intent on wiping Christianity off the face of the earth"

quick google search says that 5 to 12 million muslims live in the United States

what exactly are they waiting for to wreak all this havoc? Is there going to be a big symbol like when the commissioner calls batman? Or is it more likely that those 5 to 12 million Muslims are here for economic opportunities, want to be left alone to live their lives as they please, worship as the please, and raise their families in the way that they see fit. And don't feel compelled to apologize to everybody when a lunatic that happens to share their religion hurts people? 

but hey...good news for all you guys! Since "Islam" is the scourge of the earth and needs to be eradicated, the Iraqi army is taking volunteers every day from all over the world..you can go fight ISIS right now!....load up your pickup with your assault rifles, buy a plane ticket, and crank up your Toby Keith songs and you too can go do some good ol' fashioned Muslim killin'...

no takers?....oh right I get it..it's only really really important when other people are getting their heads blown off over it.....gotcha

 The vast majority of the world's problems boil down to people that want to force their lifestyle choices on others, whether it be religion, morality, economic systems, etc. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot...none of these people believe themselves to be evil, they felt that they were heroic crusaders doing what needed to be done to make the world a better place. As soon as your belief system justifies to you the killing of other human beings, for any other reason that direct defense of you or your family....you aren't fighting evil, you are the evil. I'm sorry that you can't understand this. 

Somebody enlighten me, why do you think is it so important to evangelicals that we label all Islam as evil? Or for that matter, why is it so important to those of that persuasion that somebody, anybody,be evil?

For the longest time, the churches and conservative media railed about godless communism and how it was going to take over the world, if the god-loving peoples of west didn't take a stand. So we let fear mongering politicians and talk radio hosts and empty suits scare everybody in supporting action against the spread of this evil. This fear mongering let to the support by the American people of the wars in Korea and Vietnam, as well as countless other skirmishes and covert actions. All of which were completely pointless. The young men and women who gave their lives in those actions died for a principal that was wrong, trying to stop a threat the didn't exist. At the time, the people who spoke out against these wars were labeled as unpatriotic and discounted. Now we KNOW that they were right...but we are still fighting like hell to make the exact same mistakes.

Communism fades out under its own weight (which it would have anyway) and now we have a new fear mongering tool. Islam! (queue foreboding music). Islam is RADICAL it is SPREADING it is SATANIC and if the good god fearing people's of the west don't do something, it will destroy the world as we know it. And the beat plays on....already two meaningless and never ending wars, undoubtedly more to come, and anybody who speaks up is unpatriotic.

So now every time a Muslim commits a crime, we have morons wanting to wage a war against an entire religion that has billions of followers, hundreds of sects, and practitioners across the spectrum from the barely involved to the violently fanatical. 

I know that you really really really really want to think of yourselves as "the good guys" and in order for that to happen..you need some "bad guys", but real life isn't a movie, as long as you mouth breathers keep pushing and voting for war mongering politicians who care more about being considered "tough" than the lives of Americans, people will continue to die for nothing.

So please. Stop.  

Easy solution to the problem, pressure your local school boards to allow a designated recruiting coordinator on your high school staff. Every coach in Texas would be chomping at the bit for those jobs if it gets them out of the classroom. Fact is..coaches are getting more and more put on their plate, not less. Whatever school it was that said they have one of those guys on staff...awesome..but they are the exception, not the rule. Nowhere in a coaches contract does it say "also..work to ensure that MY kid gets a scholarship".....You know they do give scholarships for stuff other than athletics right? And even if your kid doesn't get one, that's no excuse for why he can't go to the college, the programs to help pay are out there if you really want to go. I don't know how many young men I run into hanging around after high school talking about how they didn't got to college because they didn't get a scholarship in football/baseball/basketball (always somebody else's fault).....like it's impossible to go to college if you don't play sports. 

My guess is that coaches have very limited time. If a kid was a great kid and great leader who did what he was asked and busted his tail for the team, 99% of coaches will go to the ends of the earth for them. If your kid's coach isn't helping your kid get a scholarship, you should probably come to the realization that one of two scenario's is possible 1) your kid isn't good enough to play at the next level  2) your kid is a lazy selfish cancer...why should a coach go outside the scope of his job and use his valuable time to reach out and help a kid that didn't bother to show up to practice?, or when he did he faked injuries to not do anything, or loafed around and acted like he was doing coach a favor just by showing up? Coaches are people too, If a kid is an "it's all about me" guy, then he can take that attitude with his recruiting as well and handle it on his own. 

I am not "enlightened messiah" I just read some of the threads here in the political form...didn't even know there was one..and thought the guy could use a little support from a fellow traveler (Egads!, the very idea that there might be TWO non religious types in the SETX area! what if they multiply?!?!). I'm sorry if you feel that I didn't answer the question to your satisfaction. Rest assured it was my best effort so I won't try again. There are very few black and white's in science, everything is (and should be) up for debate. It's what makes it so dang fascinating. Much more fun than the "don't question anything we tell you and just repeat the words I say back to me a hundred times and let's pass the 'ol collection plate" thing that you got going on. 

"enlightened"......IF homosexuality is natural or genetic, then you obviously don't believe in evolution since all those billions of years of evolutionary carnage would have gotten rid of the homosexual trait in the great survival of the fittest battle......so which one is false? Evolution, or the belief that homosexuality is a natural occurrence and not a conscious choice made by an individual.....

It's a fair question, homosexual genes and human evolution aren't necessarily at odds with one another, for the simple fact that even in the modern world, a great many homosexuals still have children. I think most of us likely know somebody directly, or know of somebody, who grew up traditionally, had a traditional marriage/kids due to social pressure, then later in life chose to embrace their innate attractions. That happens often in our society where homosexual lifestyles are generally accepted (to a degree). Now rewind through the history of civilization to a time when they would be murdered off hand for that lifestyle and it's easy to see how the genes could have survived. 

What makes the whole thing extremely interesting, is that it is highly likely that the majority's distaste for homosexuals is probably also genetic. It makes sense that our  paleolithic ancestors likely shunned homosexuality (a group that embraced it would be unlikely to survive) more so than most do now. Pushing many people into the prehistoric closet, (or the cave as it were).

The theory also holds up due the fact that just about every major religion is anti-homosexual, this goes hand in hand with the reality that our social theories and morals come from evolutionary inclinations toward group survival.  

So because it is in our genes to have a distaste for homosexuality, is it then okay to marginalize this group of people? Hardly, the whole point of civilization is for us to apply our rational brains and overcome evolutionary tendencies. We no longer practice infanticide if we feel that a new baby will stretch our resources too thin, or the child is too sickly, we no longer begin breeding our daughters as soon as they reach fertility, the list goes on and on. 

The world continues to move on for the better.  

side note: I really don't get the "homosexuality as a sin" logic. Typically "sins" are attributed to desires that we all hold, lust, envy, greed, etc. How can something be a perverse and sinful choice if it's not something that most people are ever tempted to do? In fact, something that straight people find to be outright gross . It doesn't wash, give it up, the argument is pretty much over. Nobody can come up with a single argument against homosexual acceptance other than "the bible says...." Well fine, but thankfully we don't make laws and social order based on the teachings of bronze age holy books. There is a group that's trying to get that kind of thing going in the middle east, seems like a real hoot!