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This is the kind of thing that gets the side we need to win for the good of the country right now (i.e., the Democrats) in trouble:

https://mississippitoday.org/2021/06/02 ... of-racism/

There's no racism here. The guy who made the decision is Black. A school guidance counselor did not use the correct metric to determine who was valedictorian and salutatorian. If the correct metric is used, two White students are selected.

Now, if they want to talk about changing the metrics, that is fine. But it looks to me like, if the metric that has been historically used is used, the two White students get the spots.
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JohnStOnge wrote: Tue Jun 15, 2021 7:18 pm This is the kind of thing that gets the side we need to win for the good of the country right now (i.e., the Democrats) in trouble:

https://mississippitoday.org/2021/06/02 ... of-racism/

There's no racism here. The guy who made the decision is Black. A school guidance counselor did not use the correct metric to determine who was valedictorian and salutatorian. If the correct metric is used, two White students are selected.

Now, if they want to talk about changing the metrics, that is fine. But it looks to me like, if the metric that has been historically used is used, the two White students get the spots.
That's what they do. That is who they are. Yet you think they are needed for the "good of the country". :roll:
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So interesting to see headlines from different places on the same story. It should be noted the customer was charged for the altercation:



FoxNews: Ohio McDonald's fight: Woman became irate after employees rejected drink request, report says

Daily Mail UK: Seething customer rains blows down on two McDonald's workers in Ohio just because they refuse to mix three flavours for her SLUSHIE

Cleveland 19 News: Woman captured on video attacking McDonald’s employees in Ohio

Then some of the more liberal outlets:

Newsweek: McDonald's Worker Filmed Punching Customer Who Assaulted Staff Over Order

CNN - no story
MSNBC - no story
Vox - no story
HuffPo - no story
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JohnStOnge wrote: Tue Jun 15, 2021 7:18 pm This is the kind of thing that gets the side we need to win for the good of the country right now (i.e., the Democrats) in trouble:

https://mississippitoday.org/2021/06/02 ... of-racism/

There's no racism here. The guy who made the decision is Black. A school guidance counselor did not use the correct metric to determine who was valedictorian and salutatorian. If the correct metric is used, two White students are selected.

Now, if they want to talk about changing the metrics, that is fine. But it looks to me like, if the metric that has been historically used is used, the two White students get the spots.
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89Hen wrote: Wed Jun 16, 2021 10:45 am So interesting to see headlines from different places on the same story. It should be noted the customer was charged for the altercation:



FoxNews: Ohio McDonald's fight: Woman became irate after employees rejected drink request, report says

Daily Mail UK: Seething customer rains blows down on two McDonald's workers in Ohio just because they refuse to mix three flavours for her SLUSHIE

Cleveland 19 News: Woman captured on video attacking McDonald’s employees in Ohio

Then some of the more liberal outlets:

Newsweek: McDonald's Worker Filmed Punching Customer Who Assaulted Staff Over Order

CNN - no story
MSNBC - no story
Vox - no story
HuffPo - no story
:ohno: :lol:

Speaking of McDonalds...Perhaps the customer should get a bike.

The bicycle is the slow death of the planet.

General Director of Euro Exim Bank Ltd. got economists thinking when he said:

"A cyclist is a disaster for the country's economy: he does not buy cars and does not borrow money to buy. He does not pay for insurance policies. He does not buy fuel, does not pay for the necessary maintenance and repairs. He does not use paid parking. He does not cause serious accidents. He does not require multi-lane highways. He does not get fat.
Healthy people are neither needed nor useful for the economy. They don't buy medicine. They do not go to hospitals or doctors. Nothing is added to the country's GDP (gross domestic product).
On the contrary, every new McDonald's restaurant creates at least 30 jobs: 10 cardiologists, 10 dentists, 10 dietary experts and nutritionists, and obviously, people who work at the restaurant itself."

Choose carefully: cyclist or McDonald's? It is worth considering.

P.S. Walking is even worse. Pedestrians don't even buy bicycles.
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kalm wrote: Wed Jun 16, 2021 11:02 am
89Hen wrote: Wed Jun 16, 2021 10:45 am So interesting to see headlines from different places on the same story. It should be noted the customer was charged for the altercation:



FoxNews: Ohio McDonald's fight: Woman became irate after employees rejected drink request, report says

Daily Mail UK: Seething customer rains blows down on two McDonald's workers in Ohio just because they refuse to mix three flavours for her SLUSHIE

Cleveland 19 News: Woman captured on video attacking McDonald’s employees in Ohio

Then some of the more liberal outlets:

Newsweek: McDonald's Worker Filmed Punching Customer Who Assaulted Staff Over Order

CNN - no story
MSNBC - no story
Vox - no story
HuffPo - no story
:ohno: :lol:

Speaking of McDonalds...Perhaps the customer should get a bike.

The bicycle is the slow death of the planet.

General Director of Euro Exim Bank Ltd. got economists thinking when he said:

"A cyclist is a disaster for the country's economy: he does not buy cars and does not borrow money to buy. He does not pay for insurance policies. He does not buy fuel, does not pay for the necessary maintenance and repairs. He does not use paid parking. He does not cause serious accidents. He does not require multi-lane highways. He does not get fat.
Healthy people are neither needed nor useful for the economy. They don't buy medicine. They do not go to hospitals or doctors. Nothing is added to the country's GDP (gross domestic product).
On the contrary, every new McDonald's restaurant creates at least 30 jobs: 10 cardiologists, 10 dentists, 10 dietary experts and nutritionists, and obviously, people who work at the restaurant itself."

Choose carefully: cyclist or McDonald's? It is worth considering.

P.S. Walking is even worse. Pedestrians don't even buy bicycles.
Thank you for this Megan Doreen 🙏❤️
Part of that is bullshit. Cyclists cause, and get into, some nasty road accidents. But I take your point.

Cyclists are unAmerican. Most believe in climate change, too.
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Now we have the tranny wedding cake. Same as last time- baker lost the opening round..
….Phillips previously won a case before the Supreme Court in 2018 after refusing to make a custom wedding cake for a same-sex couple.

"This case started the day the Supreme Court decided they were going to hear our case. It was a very busy, very crazy day at the shop," Phillips told Fox News exclusively in March. "In the middle of all of this chaos, we got a phone call from an attorney in Denver asking us to create a cake pink on the inside with blue icing on the outside.

"We told the customer, this caller, that this cake was a cake we couldn’t create because of the message, the caller turned around and sued us," Phillips told Fox News. "This customer came to us intentionally to get us to create a cake or deny creating a cake that went against our religious beliefs."

He added: "This customer had been tracking our case for multiple years. This case was just a request to get us to fall into a trap."
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Ivytalk wrote: Wed Jun 16, 2021 11:08 am
kalm wrote: Wed Jun 16, 2021 11:02 am

:ohno: :lol:

Speaking of McDonalds...Perhaps the customer should get a bike.


Part of that is bullshit. Cyclists cause, and get into, some nasty road accidents. But I take your point.

Cyclists are unAmerican. Most believe in climate change, too.
The issue is usually not "cyclists" per se, but dipshits riding a bicycle.
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SeattleGriz wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 10:05 am
Ivytalk wrote: Wed Jun 16, 2021 11:08 am

Part of that is bullshit. Cyclists cause, and get into, some nasty road accidents. But I take your point.

Cyclists are unAmerican. Most believe in climate change, too.
The issue is usually not "cyclists" per se, but dipshits riding a bicycle.
The issue is not dipshits riding bicycles per se, but dipshits in general.
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AZGrizFan wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 11:06 am
SeattleGriz wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 10:05 am

The issue is usually not "cyclists" per se, but dipshits riding a bicycle.
The issue is not dipshits riding bicycles per se, but dipshits in general.
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SeattleGriz wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 10:05 am
Ivytalk wrote: Wed Jun 16, 2021 11:08 am

Part of that is bullshit. Cyclists cause, and get into, some nasty road accidents. But I take your point.

Cyclists are unAmerican. Most believe in climate change, too.
The issue is usually not "cyclists" per se, but dipshits riding a bicycle.
Yeah whatever...tree hugging commie!

I’m compiling a list of toxic words that have been proven to cause hurt feelings...

Cycling
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kalm wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 12:44 pm
SeattleGriz wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 10:05 am

The issue is usually not "cyclists" per se, but dipshits riding a bicycle.
Yeah whatever...tree hugging commie!

I’m compiling a list of toxic words that have been proven to cause hurt feelings...

Cycling
Equity
Democracy
Multiculturalism
_____lives matter
Inferno
You should put an asterisk by equity, since you’re unsure what it means.
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AZGrizFan wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 12:54 pm
kalm wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 12:44 pm

Yeah whatever...tree hugging commie!

I’m compiling a list of toxic words that have been proven to cause hurt feelings...

Cycling
Equity
Democracy
Multiculturalism
_____lives matter
Inferno
You should put an asterisk by equity, since you’re unsure what it means.
Am I?

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kalm wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 12:44 pm
SeattleGriz wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 10:05 am

The issue is usually not "cyclists" per se, but dipshits riding a bicycle.
Yeah whatever...tree hugging commie!

I’m compiling a list of toxic words that have been proven to cause hurt feelings...

Cycling
Equity
Democracy
Multiculturalism
_____lives matter
Inferno
Nothing triggers me more than the C word!
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SeattleGriz wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 2:39 pm
kalm wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 12:44 pm

Yeah whatever...tree hugging commie!

I’m compiling a list of toxic words that have been proven to cause hurt feelings...

Cycling
Equity
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Inferno
Nothing triggers me more than the C word!
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kalm wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 3:02 pm
SeattleGriz wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 2:39 pm

Nothing triggers me more than the C word!
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kalm wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 12:44 pm
SeattleGriz wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 10:05 am
The issue is usually not "cyclists" per se, but dipshits riding a bicycle.
Yeah whatever...tree hugging commie!

I’m compiling a list of toxic words that have been proven to cause hurt feelings...

Cycling
Equity
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Multiculturalism
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Inferno
Freedom
Constitution
Patriotism
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Blue line
Flag
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UNI88 wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 3:16 pm
kalm wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 12:44 pm

Yeah whatever...tree hugging commie!

I’m compiling a list of toxic words that have been proven to cause hurt feelings...

Cycling
Equity
Democracy
Multiculturalism
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Inferno
Freedom
Constitution
Patriotism
God & Country
Blue line
Flag
Geese/goose/gosling
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AZGrizFan wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 11:06 am
SeattleGriz wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 10:05 am

The issue is usually not "cyclists" per se, but dipshits riding a bicycle.
The issue is not dipshits riding bicycles per se, but dipshits in general.
:lol:
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kalm wrote: Wed Jun 16, 2021 11:02 am
89Hen wrote: Wed Jun 16, 2021 10:45 am So interesting to see headlines from different places on the same story. It should be noted the customer was charged for the altercation:



FoxNews: Ohio McDonald's fight: Woman became irate after employees rejected drink request, report says

Daily Mail UK: Seething customer rains blows down on two McDonald's workers in Ohio just because they refuse to mix three flavours for her SLUSHIE

Cleveland 19 News: Woman captured on video attacking McDonald’s employees in Ohio

Then some of the more liberal outlets:

Newsweek: McDonald's Worker Filmed Punching Customer Who Assaulted Staff Over Order

CNN - no story
MSNBC - no story
Vox - no story
HuffPo - no story
:ohno: :lol:

Speaking of McDonalds...Perhaps the customer should get a bike.

The bicycle is the slow death of the planet.

General Director of Euro Exim Bank Ltd. got economists thinking when he said:

"A cyclist is a disaster for the country's economy: he does not buy cars and does not borrow money to buy. He does not pay for insurance policies. He does not buy fuel, does not pay for the necessary maintenance and repairs. He does not use paid parking. He does not cause serious accidents. He does not require multi-lane highways. He does not get fat.
Healthy people are neither needed nor useful for the economy. They don't buy medicine. They do not go to hospitals or doctors. Nothing is added to the country's GDP (gross domestic product).
On the contrary, every new McDonald's restaurant creates at least 30 jobs: 10 cardiologists, 10 dentists, 10 dietary experts and nutritionists, and obviously, people who work at the restaurant itself."

Choose carefully: cyclist or McDonald's? It is worth considering.

P.S. Walking is even worse. Pedestrians don't even buy bicycles.
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:lol: That's almost as bad as all the "renting is the future" articles being pushed by the msm since the Blackrock buying up neighborhoods article dropped.

BTW that crazy lady got pwned by that McD's employee. :lol:
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BDKJMU wrote:Now we have the tranny wedding cake. Same as last time- baker lost the opening round..
….Phillips previously won a case before the Supreme Court in 2018 after refusing to make a custom wedding cake for a same-sex couple.

"This case started the day the Supreme Court decided they were going to hear our case. It was a very busy, very crazy day at the shop," Phillips told Fox News exclusively in March. "In the middle of all of this chaos, we got a phone call from an attorney in Denver asking us to create a cake pink on the inside with blue icing on the outside.

"We told the customer, this caller, that this cake was a cake we couldn’t create because of the message, the caller turned around and sued us," Phillips told Fox News. "This customer came to us intentionally to get us to create a cake or deny creating a cake that went against our religious beliefs."

He added: "This customer had been tracking our case for multiple years. This case was just a request to get us to fall into a trap."
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What the heck is going on here? Last week+ I haven’t been able to get on here on wifi, only on cell signal. Weird.
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BDKJMU wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 6:55 pm What the heck is going on here? Last week+ I haven’t been able to get on here on wifi, only on cell signal. Weird.
Happened to me a couple weeks ago. I even called Comcast to ask why and they acted all stupid. I still can only access via cell.
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