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Exercising principals have a cost. And as DVBP pointed out, Jerry Jones may face some other unanticipated costs including having a losing team. I can suggest that Donald Trump is getting his payback for his losses and ego slam associated with his USFL failure. That may be the essential motivation for his interference. pubby

First, I think your response validates my insult. (I don't think that was the reason for the warn.) The point is that the business is not forced to do anything other than provide their good or service to all without discrimination. It is their choice to discriminate against someone for whatever reason they choose but with the full knowledge that they will pay a price. The price may be minimal - it may be as little as the $50 in profit for the wedding cake - or $5000 in fines because they were sanctioned in a civil action over their discrimination. The point is they are choosing to s

People do what they have to do; others (employers) will do what they have to do. If the employer wants to impose sanctions, the star quarterback or wide-receiver can succumb to the economic power of the employer and drop that big pass in retaliation. The real question in the NFL is how do you manage a bunch of grown men who are pissed off enough to protest in the first place. The plain fact is the path of least resistance for the team managers is to back their players. Trump is simply an attention whore who is trucking with something he has no business trucking with and has raised the

The key point of confusion in this topic is that the gym owner was promoting marketing, not establishing policy. There is a difference. Consider it like your favorite Christian baker who has images of Glittering Jesus on every wall that is not plastered with quotes about how horrid specific acts might be ... but when the gay couple comes into the bakery still will serve them. Hell, he may even be like those waiters who when snubbed spit in the food before serving it but still serves the customer in those instances. Most customers will not feel welcome and like Mojo, will go to the next tire

What you're saying is that you get to define what I am saying when I'm the one doing the protest. Then, of course, in your infinite arrogance you assume the right to tell me how to protest and where? Don't you know that you're job in a protest is to listen. You can then either agree, ignore or oppose. The responses you're making show you oppose. I will note your responses fall into the category of opposition. They are also classic passive-aggressive. The idea that authorities can and presumably should define how those protesting should protest is not as prevalent on the ri

Thanks for linking this propaganda technique to the Russians because I was going to answer him on the so called Pcommer who doesn't use the whataboutism logical fallacy so popular amongst Russian propagandists. I guess we can rule out the notion that this mystery pcommer is Russian agent. Can't say that as confidently of the mystery pcommer's detractors. pubby

Sheriff recognizes deputy and EMT for saving a life on GA 101 last July (Paulding County, GA) On Tuesday October 10, 2017 at the regularly scheduled meeting of the Paulding County Board of Commissioners, Sheriff Gary Gulledge recognized a Deputy and a citizen for their heroic actions which took place after a serious motor vehicle accident in July. On July 28, 2017 Deputy Chris Stafford and Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) Hunter Cunningham had never met. The events that unfolded that day would change that fact forever. Deputy Stafford, who was off duty at the time,

So if you kneel in church you are disrespecting Satan; wouldn't that mean that if you kneel during the national anthem you are disrespecting those who trample over the constitutional rights of citizens like cops who shoot unarmed citizens or maybe a president that disrespects the first amendment and encourages cops to rough up those whom they arrest? In other words devil cops and the anti-Christ in the white house. By JOVE I think you've got it, dogs! pubby

I think the most interesting thing discovered today was the news that the reason that Rex Tillerson called Trump a moron was because his first reaction to discovering the size of nuclear arsenal had dipped from 30,000 warheads in the 1960s to 5600 today (4,000 are stockpiled) was to increase the size of the arsenal by a factor of ten to 40,000 or so. It is just such moronic thoughts that led Sen. Bob Corker to say he is out of control and may lead us into WWIII. Isn't that a pleasant thought ... not. pubby

I would say that those companies you mention are multi-national outfits and have world-wide markets but then I guess, to be fair, one would have to admit that Trump, who has properties and licensed his name in places like Turkey and Abu Dabi, garnered trademarks in China (in a rather questionable deal after he was named President) and, while campaigning for President was angling to develop Trump Tower Moscow also makes him a multi-national corporation. So, I guess I really need to blame dummies like you for electing the ceo of a multinational corporation as president who, notably, refuses

Zorro's comment below was in reference to kneeling being often considered a sign of respect. He replied: Which begs the question who do you think is being disrespected when people kneel in church? pubby

I think the point is that someone who says America first ought to at least make an effort to hire Americans for wait and cook jobs at an American resort. That said, it is irresponsible for him to bring people in on a work visa because some of them are, percentage wise, going to violate the law making him complicit in illegal immigration as they wouldn't have the opportunity without getting the visa in the first place. It just seems he is so anti-immigration that his use of the work visa program, given its abuse, is just hypocritical. After all, it helps him shave his costs over hiring A

sorry, I thought I had clicked on the right link. The Hill link: click BTW: You do know that many, possibly as many as half of the 'illegals' here arrived here with legal visas. pubby

From the Crime Report: It kind of makes sense. Imagine the guy with bi-polar disorder who, instead of going into overdrive and hear voices that tell him to rob a quicki mart, instead gets treatment meaning, instead that he levels out and stays home and watches Saturday Night Live. Of course the CBO doesn't typically input these 'savings' - estimated at $400 million - into the cost estimate or benefit of the policy. And even this analysis doesn't include the savings associated with that same bi-polar individual staying at home and enriching the life of his children who may go on t

And the president brings in immigrants to work at his Mar-a-Largo resort in a report in The Hill this past summer. So much for hiring American workers. pubby

What do you mean, mass killings cannot be avoided. The reality to which your refer is the one where the law of the jungle rules. It is only the reality in less civilized societies. Look at the charts and while you may take pride that our society is less murderous than say South Africa or even Mexico, it is less civilized than Germany, Japan and Switzerland. I would think your case would be stronger if you also showed an equally strong 'belief' in the first, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth amendments. When is the last time anyone here was riled up by the seventh amend

No, I was just thinking how the choice of the guy in the meme would be like choosing an image of Trump to advertise a Yugoslavian-built Fiat 128 with leather seats (aka: Yugo) ... but the funny thing is that there are tons of folks who would buy it 'cause he said the standard rear window de-icer was his favorite feature because it warmed your hands when you have to push it. pubby

So I went to google to look ... seems like he does sometimes and doesn't others ... but mostly he does shave. Here are the first three 'lines' of his photos in the Michael Moore image compilation I don't know how google sorts them but the ratio is 19 shaved to five unshaved with DJT holding up a shaved image of him on a magazine. The length of the beard is also a function of time and the duck dynasty character in your image above obviously hasn't shaved for some time. He certainly has heavy artillery tattooed on his chest; along with bombers. Since conservatives, as a group

Obviously you keep up with him more than I do. pubby

I love it how in the suicide stats, eastern European nations and those Eurasian locales are high, high on the list begging the question how many of the suicides were judged that way because they were hanging around the jail - pun intended. I am a bit confused by your 'mass killings' chart that is also labeled as homicides per 100,000. I think also that world-wide reporting has a real issue as counts by public health officials and law enforcement often diverge dramatically; so dramatically that such ratings are hard to say with any degree of certainty. I will admit that there are several

I didn't see this topic ... but my question is what are we going to find out? Who is going to die? Who is he plotting to kill? Iranians, Koreans ... I do know that killing the Iranian deal is doing a big, fat solid for Vladimir Putin as it will put enormous strains on our relations with the European Union and NATO. We know he really wants to kill NATO because, well, that is his deal with Putin ... he gives key aid to Trump to get him elected and Trump gives him Europe for his kleptocracy. This is sick and the guy you folks elected president is sick. pubby

Lady Raider: Did you add the title's to the pictures ... good job. pubby

A message worth hearing pubby

Let me post the release 'as given' ... I don't think I distorted anything; it is just the construction was a little tortured.

The very concept of this topic - that there is a choice that must be made - is un-American. I am actually kind of pissed that you frame this as a one or the other question because as an American I can accept and applaud both for their responsible exercise of the first amendment. In fact the only stupid, un-American, anti-constitutional, racially and ethically divisive thing in this whole question is the trucking question in the first place. Only a MORON would come up with such a stupid question; oh, that's right, this all started with Donald Trump - whom even his Secretary of State consi