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[MaxPayne]

Political Fugitive Being Hidden By Manny Pacquiao

Interesting stuff from the Fighting Pride of the Philippines. Share your thoughts people.

[Cheesey1]

The saint is suing the Philippino reporter who originally broke this story for libel. He basically wants to bankrupt the journalist, he's suing for 75MM Philipinne Pesos, which is about $1.75MM. God would be proud. I had put the link re. the libel lawsuit in the Saintly Tax Reminder thread

Haha, the saint is such a fraud it's genuinely hilarious.

This post has been edited by Cheesey1: Mar 13 2012, 10:02 AM

[Allmenjoi8]

The saint is suing the Philippino reporter who originally broke this story for libel. He basically wants to bankrupt the journalist, he's suing for 75MM Philipinne Pesos, which is about $1.75MM. God would be proud. I had put the link re. the libel lawsuit in the Saintly Tax Reminder thread

Haha, the saint is such a fraud it's genuinely hilarious.

It doesn't matter, Mayweather beats women and he hangs out with 50 cents plus he is a racist. Did I mention he beats women and he is going to jail?

[Cheesey1]

It doesn't matter, Mayweather beats women and he hangs out with 50 cents plus he is a racist. Did I mention he beats women and he is going to jail?

Not sure if that was sarcasm, but I'm going to assume that it isn't (if it was sarcastic, sorry, my fault).

MaxPayne's response sums up exactly what I would've said. All I'm adding is this:

I don't buy the racism thing. It was an unnecessary comment by Mayweather, but calling it racist is, IMO, blatantly wrong. I haven't been fixating on what he said, but from what I've read, his comment was about the double standard applied when it comes to acknowledging the achievements of African American athletes.
There's a long history in American sports of glorifying something that's accomplished by a non-black athlete, when African-American athletes have achieved similar feats and continue to achieve similar feats, yet their achievements don't get mentioned (the European sports world too - just look at how some people are saying that Lionel Messi's the best footballer ever and somehow hasn't come close to winning a World Cup, yet Pele won at least one -possibly two- by the time that he had turned however old Messi is now). Mayweather just used Lin as an example of that double standard. I don't recall him saying anything that insulted Lin because of his race. I also find it funny how angry Philippinos are over this nonsense when they are discriminated against by white people and other Asians, such as the Japanese, Chinese etc. I guess that since we're supposedly the lowest on the totem pole, how dare we even bring up the topic of race? Damned black people, forgetting your place in the world.

Re. 'beating women.," as MaxPayne said, he should've known better. Any man that hits a woman is a fool and possibly a criminal (except for my man in the McDonalds on West 3rd. Good for him. Those women are lucky that I wasn't behind the counter). I don't know her, but since we're judging people, I'm calling her a chicken head and I want to see what injuries she sustained and since I'm making wishes here, I'd like an honest recounting of what she did. I highly doubt that she was just sitting there innocently.

This post has been edited by Cheesey1: Mar 13 2012, 06:15 PM

[mgrover]

just look at how some people are saying that Lionel Messi's the best footballer ever and somehow hasn't come close to winning a World Cup, yet Pele won at least one -possibly two- by the time that he had turned however old Messi is now).

woah this is the shittest example ive seen since pele gets his dues, people are placing messi ahead because he is playing stupidly good for a small man, like another man we know in a different sport. now your just saying what mayweather said with the same ignorance, every football era had there legends, just like before messi there was rondalinho, or zidane, or ronaldo(brazil) the reason people recognise messi as the best is due to the fact he is scoring so many goals, most likely because hes the main striker now. there are some that argue he has an advantage with all the technology in football boots, who knows but seriously bad example when pele got his dues, i mean the only real person to win the world cup almost single handedly was maradona.

[MaxPayne]

woah this is the shittest example ive seen since pele gets his dues, people are placing messi ahead because he is playing stupidly good for a small man, like another man we know in a different sport. now your just saying what mayweather said with the same ignorance, every football era had there legends, just like before messi there was rondalinho, or zidane, or ronaldo(brazil) the reason people recognise messi as the best is due to the fact he is scoring so many goals, most likely because hes the main striker now. there are some that argue he has an advantage with all the technology in football boots, who knows but seriously bad example when pele got his dues, i mean the only real person to win the world cup almost single handedly was maradona.

This is off-topic, but I had to chime in here:

Maradona, Pele, Beckenbauer, Muller and Zidane have all produced incredible results and carried their teams to victory in domestic, European and World levels.

Messi, brilliant as he is playing at Barcelona with an All-Star cast, isn't nearly as dominant playing for Argentina, even though he has world class talent there (Aguero, Higuain, Di Maria, Rodriguez, Mascherano).

Compare that to Zidane, who carried an over-matched France team to victory at the 1998 World Cup, a Euro victory and as an aging 34 year old, took a mediocre French team to within a missed penalty kick of winning another World Cup.

That will forever be the difference between Messi and the other players, because they've done it anywhere and everywhere. Pretty easy to beat the dog shit out of teams when you have once-in-a-generation type talents like Xavi and Iniesta playing beside you.

[mgrover]

This is off-topic, but I had to chime in here:

Maradona, Pele, Beckenbauer, Muller and Zidane have all produced incredible results and carried their teams to victory in domestic, European and World levels.

Messi, brilliant as he is playing at Barcelona with an All-Star cast, isn't nearly as dominant playing for Argentina, even though he has world class talent there (Aguero, Higuain, Di Maria, Rodriguez, Mascherano).

Compare that to Zidane, who carried an over-matched France team to victory at the 1998 World Cup, a Euro victory and as an aging 34 year old, took a mediocre French team to within a missed penalty kick of winning another World Cup.

That will forever be the difference between Messi and the other players, because they've done it anywhere and everywhere. Pretty easy to beat the dog shit out of teams when you have once-in-a-generation type talents like Xavi and Iniesta playing beside you.

very true, its hard to look bad when you've got support like that, but are you telling me pele never got recognition he deserves?