About time some companies had some leadership that stops bowing to a small minority of crybabies. Enough is enough. Changing policies or branding of colors of your logo or whatever because one person is offended and gets his or her 3 friends to sign a petition is bowing to the tyranny of the minority….One cannot win, as no matter what one does, there will be another tiny group of people that will find something offensive or just simply complain….

No one has a right to “not be offended”. Enough of this pandering to those who complain just to complain. 

I believe the one of the first instances of bowing to the minority was “Taco Neck Syndrome” wherein Taco Bell had a long and well funded ad campaign planned featuring folks who turn their head sideways to eat a taco without spilling the contents…with Shaquille O’Neal as the spokes-celebrity…

After the first few days of the opening of the ad campaign, some folks with an affliction called “Dystonia” screamed and cried loudly and long enough that Taco Bell cancelled the ad campaign.…costing MILLIONS of dollars. 

There were, at that time, less than 4000 people in the country diagnosed with Dystonia, an affliction of the neck, also called “Spasmodic Torticollis” 

But they got Taco Bell to toss a multi million dollar ad campaign over a few people being “offended”. 

It has snowballed from there, with corporate appeasement happening more and more. 

Kudos to Trader Joe’s for (finally) saying “NO!”. 

This time, as some have pointed out, it was a black prosecutor….(why that matters, I dunno?) who exonerated Ex-officer Wilson.

Is there ever gonna be a time when Mr Wilson will be left alone? Will the Black Community ever accept the fact that Brown was simply a thug, a jerk, and a guy who got shot because he believed that “Might makes Right”…and he found out that sometimes it doesn’t? 

Much controversy. 

“That flag is my Swastika“. 

Odd. innit. There is Rightspeak, and Wrongspeak, and some folks symbols are sacred (like “Black Lives Matter” murals) but others are deemed “Bad”. Some things are acceptable, but others are not. 

Just because a (currently) special class of people are offended, then a symbol (like the Confederate flag) is verboten. 

Of course, once the election is over, and the Dems no longer have a need for an agitated African American population (until the next election cycle) than the huhu will die down and things will go back to normal-ish…

Bad Idea. 

Mail in voting? Up to the states. 

I’m not a fan of the idea, and we already have enough fraud in our elections….Mostly DNC based, but some on the other side as well. 

But not voting on Nov 3 but some other, later day? I’m agin’ it. Period. 

If it is safe enough to shop at your local grocery store, Wal-Mart, or Home Depot, then it is safe enough to vote. If yer afraid, then stay home, or sign up for an absentee ballot. So I see no reason to need mail in balloting either. 

I don;t care whether Trump or the DNC propose it,  both mail in ballots or postponing…….both are a Bad Idea…

ETA 7:30 pm Central: From the comments

“if high ranking officials can safely gather in close proximity for a 4 hour funeral for john lewis. ……

Cannon

When the senator castigated Bill Barr for his minions “attacking peaceful protesters” he should have thrown a rock, or a water glass, or some other fairly heavy object at the Senator and asked him just how “peaceful” that was.

According to the Second City Cop blog, more people have died in the city of Chicago from gunshot wounds than from Covid 19….

But we all have to hide in our homes or behind a mask because Covid.
But the Media focus is, of course, not telling the whole story.

When he was younger, he had a set of gonads. Really large ones.

That march across the Pettus Bridge? He knew that there was gonna be a good chance that the police would kick his ass….I mean, a serious tune-up. Hickory Shampoo. In fact, he could have been killed, and back then, the cops would have gotten away with it.

He and the folks who marched with him had some serious guts….unlike today’s “protesters” who have no real fear of the police(or of being killed or seriously injured by them) or, for the most part, the rest of the citizens in the communities that they are terrorizing.

‘Twas only later, when he got to congress, that his commitment wavered towards expediency and away from righteousness.

But he is an example of guts, or at least was. 

But I still don’t think we should rename the bridge….And Lewis didn’t think so either. 

And His voice came to me:


“The minions of the State hide their numbers by walking in single file….”

So I went for a walk on the beach…(Yes, ladies, I really DO like Long Walks on the Beach).

It was a beautiful day, and while this is not my favorite portion of the beach on Lake Michigan, it is the only one where there IS a beach at this time (Lake Michigan is a near record high levels, so lots of beaches are only feet wide, rather than tens of yards)….And so I walked along the beach for about 4 miles, then turned back. MC was with me, and, as I said, the day was about as nice as one could ask for…low 80’s, just enough breeze to be comfortable, sunny and bright.

We did our walk out, turned and walked back. Now, parking at the Federal Park for this beach is about a half mile from the actual beach, we were walking back to the car and we were passing a young mother with three kids…one about 6 years old, one about 5 and one about 3 years.

As we passed, the middle child reminded her “6 Feet social distance, Mommy”.

I must say I was taken aback that the kids, who have not been in school for the past 120 or so days, have been conditioned so strongly already, with -out the aid of school to help program their thinking.

The Mom was embarrassed, and looked at us (from a safe distance, of course) and said “I just hope that when this is over they can forget all this”…

Think about it, these kids have been programmed to already keep their distance, likely only through TV and computer games….And it is strong enough to get them to “remind” adults.

Scary

Have ya noticed that many firms are still using ‘The Coronavirus” as an excuse for their shitty service?

While I was willing to give allowances for shitty service at the beginning of this debacle, it has been in excess of 90 days.

Plenty of time to adapt and overcome any obstacles that “Da Covid” might have put in the way of you firm being able to provide a decent level of service.

I am now simply assuming that they simply don’t wish to provide proper service, be it telephone support or in person.