Everyone knows Chick-fil-A is run by a religious family. They sacrifice enormous potential profits by being closed on Sundays. The fact that the owner is against gay marriage is his personal view. The company does not discriminate against gay employees or gay customers. If you are so outraged by his personal view and his exercising of his right to free speech, then you have the right to boycott Chick-fil-A. The government and asshole liberal politicians like Rahm Emanuel do not have the right to stop Chick-fil-A from opening outlets because they disagree with the owners personal views. Maybe Rahm should worry about the hundreds of murders and gang wars in his fine city. Karl Denninger is absolutely correct. Teach these liberal scumbag politicians another lesson. Buy a chicken sandwich, waffle fries and a lemonade on your way home tonight at Chick-fil-A.
The anti-gay views openly espoused by the president of a fast food chain specializing in chicken sandwiches have run afoul of Mayor Rahm Emanuel and a local alderman, who are determined to block Chick-fil-A from expanding in Chicago.
“Chick-fil-A’s values are not Chicago values. They’re not respectful of our residents, our neighbors and our family members. And if you’re gonna be part of the Chicago community, you should reflect Chicago values,” Emanuel said Wednesday.
That’s illegal Rahm. It’s flatly unconstitutional for government to impose a “litmus test” on the “permitting process” for a business or other entity due to the religious beliefs of the owners.
Now if you can document that Chick-Fil-A actually discriminates against gay people, then you can bring lawsuits and similar to redress that wrong. But the fact that the CEO is a Christian, holds beliefs and dares to speak them in public is protected speech under the First Amendment and any attempt by government to interfere with that speech is flatly unlawful.
There is nothing wrong with private citizens deciding that they don’t like the CEO and thus won’t patronize the stores. That’s free choice and perfectly legitimate. But government is not empowered to restrain trade as a consequence of someone’s religious beliefs.
Just remember folks, as soon as you allow the government to violate the Constitution in this fashion when it happens to align with what you believe, it will be used against you later, and you will have no leg upon which to object when it is.
Time to boycott Chicago and all businesses in the city until and unless this flatly unconstitutional game is both ended and apologized for.
I’m going to go eat at Chick-Fil-A this afternoon, even though I typically don’t eat fast food at all, simply to support The Constitution, and I suggest that you do so as well.
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Smells like Chikin
Is that a waffle fry in your pocket?
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26th July 2012 at 3:24 pm
Amos Turtle says:
Screw Chicago, I love chicken!
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26th July 2012 at 3:38 pm
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Here’s what Boston Mayor Tom Menino wrote in a letter to Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy.
“In recent days you said Chick-fil-A opposes same-sex marriage, and said the generation that supports it has an ‘arrogant attitude,’” Menino wrote in the letter, dated July 20 and addressed to Cathy at Chick-fil-A’s Atlanta headquarters. “Now – incredibly – your company says you are backing out of the same-sex marriage debate. I urge you to back out of your plans to locate in Boston.”
Guess what the left-wing Boston Globe wrote in an editorial about Menino’s statements to Cathy? “What part of the 1st Amendment don’t you understand?”
Even blind hog liberals find an acorn once in a while.
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26th July 2012 at 3:44 pm
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“What the CEO has said as it relates to gay marriage and gay couples is not what I believe, but more importantly, it’s not what the people of Chicago believe. We just passed legislation as it relates to civil union and my goal and my hope … is that we now move on recognizing gay marriage. I do not believe that the CEO’s comments … reflects who we are as a city.”
Ald. Joe Moreno (1st) is using the same argument to block Chick-fil-A from opening its first free-standing restaurant in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood.
Chick-fil-A already has one Chicago store — at 30 E. Chicago near Loyola University’s downtown campus.
“Same sex marriage, same-sex couples — that’s the civil rights fight of our time. To have those discriminatory policies from the top down is just not something that we’re open to. …We want responsible businesses,” Moreno said.
“If he’s in the business of selling chicken in Chicago, he should be in the business of having equal rights for everyone. Period …. If it looks like a chicken, talks like a chicken, walks like a chicken, it’s a chicken. If you’re saying you don’t respect the values and rights of same-sex couples, that trickles down through the organization. … That’s paramount to the way the company behaves.”
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26th July 2012 at 3:48 pm
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“And if you’re gonna be part of the Chicago community, you should reflect Chicago values.” – Rahm Emmanuel
Ad for the Pink Monkey Strip Club
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26th July 2012 at 3:50 pm
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Rahm’s idea of Chicago family values
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26th July 2012 at 3:52 pm
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I wonder if this fine Chicago establishment is religious in nature.
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26th July 2012 at 3:54 pm
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Chicago values
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26th July 2012 at 3:56 pm
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The fine people of Chicago should be outraged by having another Chick-fil-A in their town. It would distract them from their familiy values get togethers.
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26th July 2012 at 4:00 pm
Robmu1 says:
I ate there today and will get my next 10 meals there…fuck the Democrats and their nagging ol’ lady bullshit. Admin, pick up some extra ammo so we can learn how to use those shotguns.
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26th July 2012 at 4:00 pm
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Some of Chicago’s finest citizens gather to protest the evil Chick-fil-A
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26th July 2012 at 4:02 pm
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Robmu1
I support Chick-fil-A so much, I got diabetes.
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26th July 2012 at 4:05 pm
Wyoming Mike says:
F Rahm. Everytime I hear that douche’s name I think of that interview he did where he farted on camera on the Charlie Rose show…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOcq2pMm6Aw
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26th July 2012 at 4:06 pm
Robmu1 says:
The waffle fries are the best.
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26th July 2012 at 4:07 pm
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alot of people hate this. GOD gave them up to vile passions Romans 1;26 Maybe this is why he is aganist same sex marriage
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26th July 2012 at 4:08 pm
ThePessimisticChemist says:
My brother-in-law is 18. Him, along with all of his other friends were quite adamant in their boycotting of Chick-fil-a.
Me and my wife gave him a speech similar to the Admin’s article and managed to turn him back to the side of reason.
Also, I’m going to link this to my facebook wall and see how big of a row I can get goin on.
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26th July 2012 at 4:09 pm
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alot of people hate this. GOD gave them up to vile passions Romans 1;26 Maybe this is why he is aganist same sex marriage
Really? Where in the bible does it say that? (Incoming leviticus quotes and massive amounts of fun)
Hot debate. What do you think?
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TeresaE says:
I wish he would spend his money standing up for one of the other abuses are government is raining down upon us. But, his money, his way, his business.
As far as blocking Chick-Fil-A from Chicago, he should be thankful.
I once knew an enterprising, hard-working, self-made, young couple. They started saving money to open their own restaurant after they met while still working in high school.
Years later they sold their restaurant to their employees (who ran it into the ground), took all their life savings, sold their home and moved to Chicago to realize their dreams of owning a “big city” restaurant. They bought a building downtown, rehab’d it, then saw their dreams slowly being fettered away by both the legal & regulatory machines, and outright extortion at the hands of organized crime, and the organized crime in Chicago that visits in guise of inspectors and other city, county and state organizations.
Since it usually takes up to five years to become profitable – which they had budgeted for and expected – they should have been fine. The extortion bled them dry within a year, and their building mysteriously was burnt down after they could no longer continue to pay it.
F’ Chicago. Rahm just Mr. Chicken a great big favor.
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26th July 2012 at 4:11 pm
Robmu1 says:
I believe Waffle Fries are in God’s Plan.
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26th July 2012 at 4:14 pm
ThePessimisticChemist says:
I like the breakfast more myself. Spicy Chikin Biscuit!
Also, has anyone here tried the Bana pudding milkshake? I love those damned things, and hate that they area seasonal item.
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26th July 2012 at 4:19 pm
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26th July 2012 at 4:25 pm
Chicago999444 says:
I am a socially liberal Chicago denizen and I avoid fried chicken for health reasons (though I love it!).
But I will fight for this chain’s right to locate anywhere it feels like investing the money.
How frackin’ DARE King Rahm bar a legitimate, taxpaying business while handing out tens of millions to corporations like Target, Sarah Lee, United Airlines, and other subsidy-whores through TIFs, tax abatements, and other subsidies, while our police department is steeply underfunded and undermanned, and lower and lower-middle income homeowners are being blasted out of the houses and condos they bought and paid for, by the death-duty property taxes?
I love my city and I hate to watch this lovely city destroyed by politicians who destroy our tax base to enrich their cronies, and deprive the city of businesses that are net contributors, for the sake of those that are parasites.
But I don’t know what it will take to rouse the productive denizens, which is most of us, from their stupor and get them to fight the vicious trends that are in place. Chicago is, like most older cities, a place with extremely entrenched political machines and dynasties. I personally will not support anyone named Daley, Cullerton, Mell, Moore, Burke, or any of the other known political families, or anyone associated with them or with the Obama administration. But it is extremely difficult to get someone on the ticket, even, who isn’t a “name”. And getting voters to A. turn out in reasonable numbers in February, which is when our municipal elections are held, and B. consider someone who is an unknown and whose views and plans are utterly against the trend, is almost impossible.
It would help if the public would get over the idea that civic responsibility consists of voting, and maybe not finding an excuse to weasel out of jury duty every time you’re called. By the time you vote, it’s too late. The decision as to who will run has been made, and you will have two choices, mostly lousy ones. Would you like to have a hand in deciding who gets on the ballot to begin with? Well, start looking at these people when the petition drives to get people on the ballot start in your community, and PLEEEEASE don’t snub petitioners who are collecting signatures to get a candidate on the ballot. This is where you can make a difference-why are you passing up a chance to get someone on the ballot who might actually make a difference? So don’t act like some strange woman holding out a petition for you to sign is an ebola carrier, or something, and take 5 minutes to find out what it is all about. Research the candidate before you commit to signing, because your signature is only good for one candidate- if you sign the petitions of 6 candidates, that signature will belong to the first who gets that sheet notarized. Be skeptical and selective. Meet the candidate if you can and ask pointed, detailed positions. If s/he doesn’t want to answer them, you have gained important information right there.
BE A CITIZEN, people. We’ve lost one beautiful city after another and will probably lose our whole country because people spend more time researching local take-out restaurant options than they do the people who will be running their city, or country.
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26th July 2012 at 4:25 pm
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Chicago – Leader in values?
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26th July 2012 at 4:27 pm
Persnickety says:
@Chicago999444: I’ve lived and worked in several large cities including Chicago (living within city limits proper – near north actually). Chicago’s atmosphere of corruption is truly something else. I don’t think it’s found in any other US city of comparable size. Most large cities have significant corruption, but Chicago is just in a different class for pervasiveness.
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26th July 2012 at 4:31 pm
Wyoming Mike says:
Plain sandwich, mayo, and a side of slaw. It’s just that simple!
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26th July 2012 at 4:32 pm
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That feels gooood.
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26th July 2012 at 4:32 pm
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We should pick a day to all eat at Chick-fil-A and give them their biggest sales day in history. Fuck the liberal do-gooder bullshit boycott. We should all carry guns into the Chick-fil-A too.
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26th July 2012 at 4:39 pm
AWD says:
Democrats are unbefuckingleivable.
Barney Frank: takes it up the ass every chance he gets
Nancy Pelosi: Carpet muncher with Hillary Clinton in private
Harry Reid: hasn’t had an erection in 40 years.
Rahm Emanuel: master of bestiality and little boys.
Barack Obama: the first gay president
These amoral and unethical whores for cash and votes are going to judge someone else? Believing in God is bad? Well, only if you are the antichrist, or serve him. These fuckers need to be strung up by piano wire from lightposts on K street immediately.
Is Harry Reid The Most Hypocritical Man In The World?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/harry-reid-most-hypocritical-man-world
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26th July 2012 at 4:41 pm
Chicago999444 says:
Strange, everybody living in major cities, when asked which American city they believe is the most corrupt, name their own.
St. Louis, Miami, Detroit, Newark, NYC, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Memphis, and Dallas also have pervasive corruption going back many decades, or even more than a century. My native city, St. Louis, is the most corrupt place I have ever lived in my life, which is one of the reasons it has shrunk to a third of its size c.1945.
Newer cities tend to have less corruption because political families and machines have not had the opportunity to become entrenched. Corruption tends to set in when a city has reached its peak economically and is old enough to have a lot of “old money” that will do whatever it takes to hang on to its hegemony, and bars talented newcomers from opportunity unless they play along with the local establishment.
The only preventative or corrective is a vigilant, aggressive, informed and PRINCIPLED public, made up of citizens who have no stake in things as they stand, and that is just the rub. Too many people in this city and this country feel that their lives depend on maintaining the status quo. This city is stuffed not only by gold-brick city and Crook County employees, but with people who work in the “private” sector of corporations that receive lavish tax-funded gimmes. Still more otherwise intelligent middle-class professionals feel that they will benefit from, say, the latest TIF boondogle, like a glitzy new 50 story condo in their neighborhood even though the local market is saturated, or a new Target store down the street. Most people are big believers in corporate subsidies, because they “bring jobs” or are essential for “economic development”, or just because they finance a glitzy new building that will spruce up the neighborhood. They do not comprehend the true costs of the subsidies, not only in diverted tax revenues, but in lost opportunities and increased graft.
And anyway, they’d rather talk about the Cubs, or go shppping.
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26th July 2012 at 4:47 pm
ThePessimisticChemist says:
If this thread continues I will be skipping dinner with the in-laws and getting Chick-fil-a.
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26th July 2012 at 4:50 pm
Muck About says:
Major lesson? Get the Hell out of whatever big city you live in or too close to. Pull a Muck About and find yourself a small tightly nit little town out in the boonies that has a railroad track still running nearby.
Rent a place and start integrating yourself in the community. If it clicks, a year or so later, you can think about buying something or building it.
We just had a nursery (that grows really high end hybrid day lilies) start up down the road. They are moving their entire operation from Orlando to a nice piece of land they purchased up here. Hell of a job. Talked to them yesterday and the one big reason they’re doing it is because Orlando is running them out of business with new taxes, rules and inspectors that all disagree on what they “had” to do. They actually had to hire a guard to keep two legged rabbits from making off with the nursery stock. They’ll do great here.
MA
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26th July 2012 at 5:19 pm
Wyoming Mike says:
Went to the comment page on their website and dropped them a note to thank them for taking the hard way and fighting for everyone’s rights.
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26th July 2012 at 5:19 pm
Mr. Happy says:
What I fear most is that this is a well thought out step forward in the shutting down of America. Face it… no more Chicken-Fil-a in Chicago or for that matter anywhere in the State of Illinois and probably a bunch of other states as well. Short the stock if it is publicly traded…you’ll make money. The future of this company is now stunted. The owners are about to learn a very hard lesson no matter how great their product. Don’t be surprised if they withdraw from the State altogether because from this point on their accountants, auditors, lawyers and any other officer or employee that has to deal with the territory will be driven nuts. Of course this is against the First Amendment and good luck with the Supreme Court. I hope it is comforting to strive to buy as many chicken sandwiches as possible because I’m convinced this is the only recourse open to people of good will.
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26th July 2012 at 5:23 pm
Stan says:
Well. The head of Chic Fillet actually stands for he believes in. Very rare indeed!
And he give no thought to polls or ”politically correct’ bullshit.
Wow! I support this man and agree with him.
He is a good man.
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26th July 2012 at 5:41 pm
SSS says:
Damn it, Wyoming Mike.
That “fart link” you posted does what? Why, when the video ends, more fart videos pop up. Then what happens? You spend the next 10-20 minutes watching people farting on camera. But I did learn something. The English seem to have won the farting on camera contest.
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26th July 2012 at 5:58 pm
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LISTEN, PLEASE READ THIS!!!!
Chic-fil-A day is August 1st. Everyone go to Chic-fil-A August 1st.
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26th July 2012 at 6:00 pm
DaveL says:
This is all about Chick fil A only serving white meat.
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26th July 2012 at 6:14 pm
Bullock says:
I just e-mailed Chick-fil-a and said I will support them for the bullshit the Liberals are crying about. I have never ate there before. Don’t like fast food but sometimes we just have to get our point across somehow.
And I am so tired of hearing about the fucking gay population. No wonder people pick on the fruitloops sometimes, they bring it upon themselves.
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26th July 2012 at 7:08 pm
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Mr. Happy said, “Face it… no more Chicken-Fil-a in Chicago or for that matter anywhere in the State of Illinois and probably a bunch of other states as well. Short the stock if it is publicly traded…you’ll make money. The future of this company is now stunted. The owners are about to learn a very hard lesson no matter how great their product.”
Read the fucking article, Slap Happy. Both Chicago and Boston are up against the Constitution and the First Amendment. The friggin CEO, a private citizen of this nation, made those comments, not his fucking “company,” as the liberal press has tried to paint the issue.
As for your advice to “short the stock,” how fucking stupid can you get, Slappy. Do you think this company is going to rise and fall based on this flap and its sparse business in liberal enclaves like Boston and Chicago? Shit, they’re just trying to EXPAND into those cities. Yet you extend your wisdom to the entire state of Illinois as if its all one big suburb of Chicago.
What a friggin’ maroon.
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26th July 2012 at 7:10 pm
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Philly enters the fray.
“And in a letter dated Wednesday, Philadelphia City Councilman James Kenney wrote a letter to (Chick-fil-A CEO Dan) Cathy criticizing him for his comments.
“As an American you are legally entitled to your opinion, regardless of how insensitive and intolerant it may be, but as a fellow American and an elected member of Philadelphia City Council; I am entitled to express my opinion as well,” Kenney wrote. “So please – take a hike and take your intolerance with you. There is no place for this type of hate in our great City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection.”
And no place for free speech, obviously. Oh, how far Philly has fallen. How very, very far.
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26th July 2012 at 7:49 pm
AWD says:
Philadelphia City Councilman James Kenney approves of murder and mayhem, and sodomy amongst men, and men marrying men, but not hate, or the constitution, or the bill of rights.
Brotherly love and sisterly affection. and squalor and murder
Dipshit Kenney, a fudge packer?
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26th July 2012 at 7:57 pm
AWD says:
Eat more gun
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26th July 2012 at 8:34 pm
GoldWerewolf says:
I have long espoused that the object of the “gay civil rights movement” was not equality, but protected, preferential status, NOT equality. Check this out. The wheels on the bus go round and round http://bit.ly/sJIInV
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26th July 2012 at 11:11 pm
AKAnon says:
I have never even heard of Chick-Fil-A before, but I would eat there if we had one. Good idea, Mike-will post a supportive comment on their website. And yes, fuck Rahm, with rusty barbwire. What an insufferable prick-he belongs in Chicago. Or maybe Joliet.
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26th July 2012 at 3:44 am
Bruce says:
We like Chick-fil-a. It’s about the only fast food we ever eat other than Steak n Shake. Both places are too far away to visit more than once every month or two so It’s kind of like a treat when we do. Now if we could just get a real Philly Cheese Steak down here in BFE Texas I’d be willing to take a drive more often.
It seems like some of these organizations and politicians that are pro gay this or anti gay that, left wing or right wing exist just to stir up shit and make big nasty problems out of things that are not problems.
When the SHTF a lot of these overly excited activists so consumed by prioritizing bullshit are going to be stunned by the things that really do matter. These dumb ass’s are plunging the toilet when it’s the septic tank that needs to be pumped out.
I’m not looking forward to facing the high tide of Doom but there is a little wickedness in me that takes a dark joy knowing that these fuckers will face it too, and that most of them will probably get hit like eggs being pounded by sledge hammers. Even the grim clouds of Doom have just a touch of a silver lining.
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26th July 2012 at 4:14 am
No Field Five says:
SSS says “Oh, how far Philly has fallen. How very, very far”
So Admin, what do you think the late great Frank Rizzo would have to say about all of this if he was mayor now?
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26th July 2012 at 6:14 am
flash says:
Perversion of the rule of law, morality and spirituality seems to be the unifying factor of the collectivists goal to up-end individual liberty and self-responsibility leading to the fascist dream of all within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
And the demented collectivist mentality seems overwhelmingly accepted by the young generation and a few transgendered generation theory propagandists.
Throughout history, especially the 20th century, the killing starts with the the brainwashing of the youth into believing they are the chosen ones to make the great leap forward and the old order must die in order to achieve their envisioned Utopia .
RELEASE THE KRAKEN!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OlCnPKr4Q8
36seconds of your life you’ll never get back.
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26th July 2012 at 6:27 am
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Frank Rizzo’s Mural should be weeping.
The mural was defaced last month. I wonder what the race of the culprits was?
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26th July 2012 at 8:21 am
FBD says:
How fucked up in the head is Rahm, really?
“Ignoring Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan’s history of anti-Semitic remarks, Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday welcomed the army of men dispatched to the streets by Farrakhan to stop the violence in Chicago neighborhoods. ”
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/13996951-418/rahm-welcomes-help-from-farrakahn-ignores-anti-semitic-remarks.html
Chick-fil-a? “Fuck off!!”
Farrakahn? “Welcome!!”
I ask, again. How fucked up in the head is Rahm, really?
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26th July 2012 at 8:23 am
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FBD
It’s very simple and based on a rational calculation:
Black population of U.S. – 12.3%
Black population of Chicago – 36.8%
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26th July 2012 at 9:04 am
Mr. Happy says:
Work in Progress…August 1…like it and will be there and pass it on. Good stuff.
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26th July 2012 at 9:12 am
Thinker says:
The latest here is that the backlash even within Chicago is making Rahmbo backtrack… stay tuned.
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26th July 2012 at 9:21 am
Mr. Happy says:
Wow, SSS, talk about leaving yourself wide open on this one. I’ll go easy cause I suspect you’re stupid.
• Your comment to me: “The friggin CEO, a private citizen of this nation, made those comments, not his fucking “company”.
• Here’s what Wikipedia says: “Chick-fil-A (referring to “filet”) is an American fast food restaurant chain headquartered in the Atlanta suburb of College Park, Georgia, United States, specializing in chicken entrées[1][2] and is known for promoting the company founder’s Christian values.” OUCH…HOPE THAT DIDN’T HURT TOO MUCH.
• So when Cathy is talking, his company is talking. Emanuel has seized the opportunity, as he is famous for doing, to attack Cathy’s use of his company to spread Christian values. You see that is what Cathy does via big funding and programs and he and his son are very visible in getting their views across….and God love them for doing so. But Rahm Emanuel, ex-IDF, is of a vastly different persuasion and now he’s on the attack. The business world from this point on will be a very different environment for Cathy and Co.
In case you missed it we are no longer a constitutional democracy. That’s gone bye-bye decades ago. Rahm represents our new breed of leadership yet to be publically defined. Both Naked Hedge and Jesse to name two peg the U.S. now as corporate fascist and Emanuel is right in there at the top. If you think his authority stops at the Chicago border then think again. He intends to teach Cathy and Co a meaningful lesson and he couldn’t care less about the constitution.
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26th July 2012 at 9:22 am
AWD says:
It seems as though another business owner has broke ranks with party approved speech and is now, better late than never, being properly reeducated by our glorious government officials. Not being politically correct brings a progressive political hell-storm. Message: murder-okay, not being PC-criminal.
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26th July 2012 at 9:31 am
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Chick-fil-A sandwiches become a political symbol
ATLANTA — All of a sudden, biting into a fried chicken sandwich has become a political statement.
Chick-fil-A, the fast-food chain known for putting faith ahead of profits by closing on Sundays, is standing firm in its opposition to gay marriage after touching off a furor earlier this month.
Gay rights groups have called for a boycott, the Jim Henson Co. pulled its Muppet toys from kids’ meals, and politicians in Boston and Chicago told the chain it is not welcome there.
Across the Bible Belt, where most of the 1,600 restaurants are situated, Christian conservatives have thrown their support behind the Atlanta-based company, promising to buy chicken sandwiches and waffle fries next week on “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day.”
The latest skirmish in the nation’s culture wars began when Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy told the Baptist Press that the company was “guilty as charged” for backing “the biblical definition of a family.” In a later radio interview, he ratcheted up the rhetoric: “I think we are inviting God’s judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, `We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.’”
That fired up gay rights advocates, including a group that waged a campaign against the company in recent years by publicizing $3 million in contributions that the Cathy family foundation has made to conservative organizations such as the Family Research Council.
“This solidifies Chick-fil-A as being closely aligned with some of the most vicious anti-gay voices in the country,” said Carlos Maza of Equality Matters.
A Chicago alderman vowed to block a Chick-fil-A proposed in his district, and Mayor Rahm Emanuel supported him, saying, “Chick-fil-A values are not Chicago values.” Boston Mayor Thomas Menino wrote in a letter to Cathy: “There is no place for discrimination on Boston’s Freedom Trail and no place for your company alongside it.”
In announcing it was pulling its toys, the Jim Henson company said it has “celebrated and embraced diversity for over 50 years.” It directed its revenue from the Chick-fil-A toys to GLAAD, a leading gay rights organization.
On the other side of the debate, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a Baptist minister, declared next Wednesday “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day” to support a business “whose executives are willing to take a stand for the Godly values.” Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who like Huckabee ran for president as a darling of social conservatives, joined the cause along with religious leaders.
“As the son of a dairy farmer who milked many a cow, I plan to `Eat Mor Chikin’ and show my support by visiting Chick-fil-A next Wednesday,” the Rev. Billy Graham said in a statement, referring to the slogan in the company’s ads, which feature cows urging people to eat poultry.
The Rev. Roger Oldham, spokesman for the Southern Baptist Convention, said many Christians want to support businesses owned by fellow believers, and the loyalty intensifies “when Christians see a fellow Christian being persecuted.”
“They will come out of the woodwork when a theologically based position is being politicized by individuals for their own purposes,” he said.
The Cathy family has never hid its Southern Baptist faith. Since Dan Cathy’s father, Truett, opened the first Chick-fil-A in 1967, the restaurants have been closed on Sundays, and the company refused to reconsider during the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, sacrificing profits. It also boasts that the Chick-fil-A Bowl is the only college football bowl game with an invocation.
Chick-fil-A posted more than $4.1 billion in sales last year, most of it below the Mason-Dixon Line. Just 14 of its restaurants are in the six states and the District of Columbia where gay marriage is legal. Massachusetts has just two locations, both more than 10 miles from Boston. Illinois, which does not have same-sex marriage, has around a dozen, though only one in Chicago.
The company is well-positioned to come through the criticism relatively unscathed, even if it loses new markets in the North and elsewhere, University of Georgia marketing professor Sundar Bharadwaj said. He said that is because Chick-fil-A basically reflects the politics of its customers.
At a downtown Atlanta Chick-fil-A on Thursday, customers were divided over the company’s stance.
“If you’re a Christian, you believe in the Bible. The Bible says homosexuality is wrong. (Cathy’s) absolutely right,” Marci Troutman said over her breakfast.
Her business partner, Steve Timpson, said he chose not to eat at Chick-fil-A: “You’ve got to be more tolerant if you’re going to operate in the wider market in this country.”
Nearby, Dustin Keller offered another view of Cathy: “It’s his opinion. He’s entitled to it. I’m just here to eat.”
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26th July 2012 at 10:01 am
Administrator says:
When I find myself on the same side of an issue as Rick Santorum, I start to worry.
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26th July 2012 at 10:03 am
AWD says:
“It’s his opinion. He’s entitled to it. I’m just here to eat.”
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26th July 2012 at 10:18 am
AKAnon says:
I was thinking the same thing, Admin. Disturbing.
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26th July 2012 at 10:36 am
Wyoming Mike says:
Admin, even a broken clock is right twice a day. Our anti-Constitution senator Barasso is a co-sponsor on Rand Paul’s audit the fed bill.
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26th July 2012 at 1:40 pm
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“Wow, SSS, talk about leaving yourself wide open on this one. I’ll go easy cause I suspect you’re stupid.”
—-Mr. Happy
Let’s see how stupid I am. First of all, the U.S. is a constitutional REPUBLIC, not, as you stated, a constitutional democracy. Strike one.
Secondly, let’s see what NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg just said about Rahm Emanuel and his fellow travelers on the Chick-fil-A flap. Even Bloomberg can separate CEO Dan Cathy’s personal views from Chick-fil-A, something you appear to be incapable of doing. Strike two.
“I disagree with them really strongly on this one,” Bloomberg said on the John Gambling radio show. ”You can’t have a test for what the owners’ personal views are before you decide to give a permit to do something in the city. You really don’t want to ask political beliefs or religious beliefs before you issue a permit. That’s just not government’s job.”
Now, let’s get to the bottom line, money, where you advised shorting Chick-fil-A’s stock because the company is going to take a bath from all the negative publicity. Did you even bother to look where the vast majority of Chick-fil-A’s stores are? I doubt it, so I’ll do it for you. Here is a sample of states where Chick-fil-A does business, with the number of Chick-fil-A restaurants identified in parens in each state.
Georgia (196), Florida (155), North Carolina (143), Virginia (104), and good old Texas (263). How badly do you think Chick-fil-A is going to be hurt in those states, Mr. Happy. My guess is that it won’t even amount to a pin prick.
On the flip side, as I stated, Chick-fil-A is trying to expand outside the Deep South. So let’s look at the states at the center of the controversy. Illinois (14), Massachusetts (2), and Bloomberg’s wonderful NYC has exactly 1, located at New York University, where the Student Council voted 14-3 to KEEP Chick-fil-A on campus.
That would be strike three, Mr. Happy. Please take your seat in the dugout.
Hot debate. What do you think?
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26th July 2012 at 2:21 pm
Persnickety says:
@Mrs. Happy: are your initials DP, or do you just enjoy DP?
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26th July 2012 at 2:47 pm
AWD says:
Mr. Happy got the stuffin’ knocked out of him
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26th July 2012 at 2:48 pm
Mr. Happy says:
Boy am I getting beat up…an probably deservedly so. Good retorts SSS and well presented. I retreat black and blue to regroup for another day. What’s a DP??? But one final point as you might guess:
I support totally Cathy and how he runs his business…superb, established American values and there must always be a platform for the Cathy point of view. Rahm is the enemy. He represents everything I abhor about what has been going on in our country for a very long time. Rahm has immense power and when he comes out and makes a comment like he did against the Cathy family that was not a loose, off the head piece of rhetoric. It was a dictum….this is where we’re going…this is how it will be. I bet he doesn’t clarify his comment like Bloomberg or Rosanne Barr. He’s above that and he needs to be understood in that context. Good luck to Cathy. It’ll be interesting to watch how this plays out.
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26th July 2012 at 10:42 am
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Mr. Happy
DP stands for David Pierre. He’s a Vietnam era draft dodger and ex-pat holed up in Canada somewhere, probably the backwoods of British Columbia. His views and attitude are so obnoxious that he’s the only person who has managed to get kicked off TBP. An amazing accomplishment considering the free-wheeling nature of this site.
I share your assessment of good guy Dan Cathy and the narrow-minded, dictatorial, and dangerous Rahm Emmanuel.
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26th July 2012 at 12:12 pm