If you want an expensive cooler

But don’t want to buy a YETI because of their stance with the NRA:

You can always buy a Pelican Cooler…Still expensive, but not nearly as much as a YETI….Plus, made in the USA.

They claim that they will donate $10 to the NRA if you use the Promo Code “PelicanProud”.

I still think these sorts of coolers are massively overpriced for the performance they give, but hey, it’s your money.

ETA: YETI claims this is all a misunderstanding and they are just getting rid of an old discount program.

Maybe.

But their main customer demographic is “Outdoorsey” liberal millenials…and the timing is very suspicious.

If it looks like a duck…..

Give ’em credit

Wells Fargo stood fast against the AFT….and they took the hit. The bank lost the mortgage business of the American Federation of Teachers.

I’m glad at least one institution has the gust to stand up to these folks….Not just because it is (currently) firearms as the main issue of the day, but that an institution had the gust to stand up to Social Justice Warrior tactics.

I’m impressed that they didn’t fold. 

I fail to see the “discrimination”:

Bad business practices? Yes
Poor customer service? Yes

Poor treatment of customers? Probably

Rude and boorish behavior? YES.

But discrimination? Nope

One wonders how they are claiming that the company broke laws. If they didn’t carry foreign folks, that would be one thing….but obviously, they do, as they have apparently insulted many of them….Is insulting people illegal? If responding to customer complaints with derision illegal?

I wonder who Ms Madigan knows that the bus company angered…It is stuff like this that shows the abuses of power that so often happen in Illinois. After all, she is using Taxpayer funds to drive a company out of business…. Is there a “Connected” company wishing to take over those routes????

Be like James

When a gunman chose to shoot people at a Waffle House restaurant in Nashville,  Some folks hid, some folks chose not to be victims:

Mr Shaw took ACTION.
Firstly, he took cover, saving himself.
Then, when the opportunity presented itself, he chose to emerge from cover and take ACTION. He bumrushed the shooter….catching him off guard and wrestling the gun away.

“He was gonna have to work to kill me.”…..Maybe Mr. Shaw felt he had no choice, but still, he TOOK ACTION. He took damage, too, but he ACTED and he WON.

Be Like James Shaw. He likely saved his own life and the lives of many others. Action when it was needed.

He is a hero in my book. Should we ever meet, the beer is on me.

I hope, should the time ever come, that I can react halfway as well as Mr. Shaw.

I will call him “Mr.” and “Sir”. His actions are worthy of that.

I hope they release the video…..

So I figure

That the Starbucks manager is gonna get her payout too…

I mean, the 2 black men who were arrested chose to be arrested. One wonders if they planned to do so. They were loitering (apparently for about 45 minutes) and were left alone….Then they asked to use the bathroom, and were told that the bathroom was just for customers…which is when they protested….and were then asked to purchase something……or leave.

Had they made even a small purchase, they would have been left alone. They chose not to do so.

When asked to leave, since they had chosen not to be customers, they refused.
So the cops were called. The cops offered them the option of leaving (or, from some reports, purchasing an item….) They refused, leaving the cops no choice but to arrest them, as at that point, the two men, never having been customers, were now trespassing.

The manager has been called a racist by the CEO of Starbucks. ‘Twould seem to me that he has impugned her character. There is no company policy regarding , no when people are loitering in the lobby…..She’s gonna find it hard to get a job now…..I’d say Starbucks owes her a few years wages.

Were I her, I’d be suing for damages. Defamation of character at the least. Firing her was….stupid