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Good move, Dick
Author: Raine    Date: 02/28/2018 14:03:39

You probably have already heard, but Dicks Sporting goods decided to take a free market approach to our gun epidemic this morning. The NYT reports:
“When we saw what happened in Parkland, we were so disturbed and upset,” Mr. Stack said in an interview Tuesday evening. “We love these kids and their rallying cry, ‘enough is enough.’ It got to us.”

He added, “We’re going to take a stand and step up and tell people our view and, hopefully, bring people along into the conversation.”

Mr. Stack said he hoped that conversation would include politicians. As part of its stance, Dick’s is calling on elected officials to enact what it called “common sense gun reform’’ by passing laws to raise the minimum age to purchase guns to 21, to ban assault-type weapons and so-called bump stocks, and to conduct broader universal background checks that include mental-health information and previous interactions with law enforcement.

Mr. Stack said the retailer began scouring its purchase records shortly after the identity of the suspected Parkland shooter, Nikolas Cruz, became known. The company soon discovered it had legally sold a gun to Mr. Cruz in November, though it was not the gun or type of gun used in the school shooting.





This comes a few days after numerous outlets reported that Bank of America wants to take a look at some of it's clients.
"an immediate step we're taking is to engage the limited number of clients we have that manufacture assault weapons for non-military use to understand what they can contribute to this shared responsibility," the statement reads. (snip)

Since Thursday, a wave of companies -- including United and Delta airlines, Metlife and six car rental brands -- have abandoned the National Rifle Association. They've pulled discount deals they used to offer to NRA members, and one local bank in Omaha pledged to stop issuing an NRA-branded Visa card.

None of those companies gave specific reasons for parting ways with the NRA, but their announcements came as the hashtag #BoycottNRA flooded social media.

And BlackRock, a giant investment firm that holds significant stakes in several major gun companies, said on Thursday that it plans to speak with major players in the gun industry to "understand their response to recent events."


If Congress won't act, maybe the GOP's favorite thing in the world will. The Free market might take care of this scourge in our society.

That said, it is still up to us to vote the gun enablers out of office in November. Every one of them. It's the least we can do for every victim of Gun violence.

and

Raine






 
 
 

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Comment by BobR on 02/28/2018 14:12:14
I certainly hope they are abiding their own suggestions and not selling bump stocks, high-capacity magazines, assault-style rifles, and to people under 21.

Comment by Mondobubba on 02/28/2018 14:13:21
I thought the GOP's favorite thing was the fetus.

Comment by BobR on 02/28/2018 14:14:33
Quote by Mondobubba:
I thought the GOP's favorite thing was the fetus.

Only the evangelical wing

Comment by Raine on 02/28/2018 14:15:29
There has been a guy smashing speed cameras in the DC area this month.

So this happened:





Good Morning!


Comment by wickedpam on 02/28/2018 14:15:44
Morning

Comment by Mondobubba on 02/28/2018 14:27:32
Quote by BobR:
Quote by Mondobubba:
I thought the GOP's favorite thing was the fetus.

Only the evangelical wing



Fetus love is a plank in the GOP platform.

Comment by BobR on 02/28/2018 14:35:33
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by BobR:
Quote by Mondobubba:
I thought the GOP's favorite thing was the fetus.

Only the evangelical wing

Fetus love is a plank in the GOP platform.

Also the name of an 80s punk band
EDIT: And I didn't imply that fetus love was ONLY the evangelical wing, only that as far as The Single One Favorite Thing goes, that would the one for the evangelicals. Other wings worship the Ayn Randian free market as their Favorite Thing.

Comment by Mondobubba on 02/28/2018 14:37:20
Quote by BobR:
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by BobR:
Quote by Mondobubba:
I thought the GOP's favorite thing was the fetus.

Only the evangelical wing

Fetus love is a plank in the GOP platform.

Also the name of an 80s punk band


Yeah! I saw them!


Comment by wickedpam on 02/28/2018 14:48:52
I've seen that there is a scheme under way that if #BoycottDicks becomes a thing people plan to hijack it with gay porn.

Comment by Raine on 02/28/2018 15:03:17
Comment by Raine on 02/28/2018 15:06:19
And Paulie Shitnuts got extra charges today.

In conjunction with Gates’s plea deal, Mueller’s team added tax evasion and bank fraud charges against Manafort, who already faced counts alleging conspiracy to launder more than $30 million, making false statements, failing to follow lobbying disclosure laws and working as an unregistered foreign agent.



Comment by Raine on 02/28/2018 15:06:59
Quote by wickedpam:
I've seen that there is a scheme under way that if #BoycottDicks becomes a thing people plan to hijack it with gay porn.

I hope they bopycott -- I would like to shop there with out a care in the world.

Comment by BobR on 02/28/2018 15:49:34
Quote by Raine:
Quote by wickedpam:
I've seen that there is a scheme under way that if #BoycottDicks becomes a thing people plan to hijack it with gay porn.

I hope they bopycott -- I would like to shop there with out a care in the world.

#BoysGotDicks ?

Comment by Mondobubba on 02/28/2018 15:50:33
So, I might have called Richard Corcoran, the Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives a "semi-sentient shambling trash fire" yesterday on the Twitters.

Why you might ask? Well, because he has been running a series of vilely racist ads in support of a bill making so-called sanctuary cities illegal in Florida. In the latest ad, he's railing against undocumented immigrants who are serving sentences for crimes they've committed aren't being deported. As I pointed out they will get deported after they are finished serving their time.

Comment by BobR on 02/28/2018 15:51:48
Weird sadness at work - the 2nd DBA in 6 months just passed away unexpectedly. The surviving lead DBA is distraught and a little freaked out.

Comment by BobR on 02/28/2018 15:52:44
Quote by Mondobubba:
So, I might have called Richard Corcoran, the Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives a "semi-sentient shambling trash fire" yesterday on the Twitters.

Why you might ask? Well, because he has been running a series of vilely racist ads in support of a bill making so-called sanctuary cities illegal in Florida. In the latest ad, he's railing against undocumented immigrants who are serving sentences for crimes they've committed aren't being deported. As I pointed out they will get deported after they are finished serving their time.

Still not as dangerous as white guys with guns

Comment by Mondobubba on 02/28/2018 15:55:35
Quote by BobR:
Quote by Mondobubba:
So, I might have called Richard Corcoran, the Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives a "semi-sentient shambling trash fire" yesterday on the Twitters.

Why you might ask? Well, because he has been running a series of vilely racist ads in support of a bill making so-called sanctuary cities illegal in Florida. In the latest ad, he's railing against undocumented immigrants who are serving sentences for crimes they've committed aren't being deported. As I pointed out they will get deported after they are finished serving their time.

Still not as dangerous as white guys with guns


Nope.

Comment by Will in Chicago on 02/28/2018 15:56:12
Good morning bloggers!!

I had a quiet birthday yesterday, working and going to a board meeting.

I think that the NRA is now facing articulate opponents and seeing businesses not wanting to associate with the gun lobby. Today, high school students return to Parkland. As a teacher, I can only imagine how the staff is trying to help students.

Comment by livingonli on 02/28/2018 16:05:38
I remember a punk band called Scraping Fetus off the Wheel.

Comment by BobR on 02/28/2018 16:09:10
Quote by livingonli:
I remember a punk band called Scraping Fetus off the Wheel.

I remember them playing in Atlanta. I assumed they were an Atlanta band, but I don't know for sure

Comment by Mondobubba on 02/28/2018 16:36:36
Quote by BobR:
Quote by livingonli:
I remember a punk band called Scraping Fetus off the Wheel.

I remember them playing in Atlanta. I assumed they were an Atlanta band, but I don't know for sure


Australian, actually. Mondo looked them up.

Comment by Raine on 02/28/2018 16:40:52
Comment by Mondobubba on 02/28/2018 16:46:27


This is why I told him he's fucking racist. The depiction of undocumented people is the same as the "black brute" trope.

Comment by Mondobubba on 02/28/2018 16:47:25


His bill is doomed, there are about eight days left in the legislative session. Corcoran is planning to run for governor next year.


Comment by Scoopster on 02/28/2018 17:35:17
WOOOP WOOOP! Dat da sound of da police!





Comment by Raine on 02/28/2018 17:39:17
Quote by Scoopster:
WOOOP WOOOP! Dat da sound of da police!



I've been following Farenthold about this strange saga.


Comment by BobR on 02/28/2018 18:40:01
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Scoopster:
WOOOP WOOOP! Dat da sound of da police!



I've been following Farenthold about this strange saga.

The details are fascinating

Comment by Mondobubba on 02/28/2018 18:46:20
Quote by BobR:
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Scoopster:
WOOOP WOOOP! Dat da sound of da police!



I've been following Farenthold about this strange saga.

The details are fascinating



Effing WaPo! It isn't enough that I get the free article limit pop up, but now they redirect the article URL to Washingtonpost.com. Fuckers.


Comment by Scoopster on 02/28/2018 18:53:29
Give it a fucking rest, Beauregard. You can't continue to do something you never fucking did in the first place.





Comment by Scoopster on 02/28/2018 19:05:53
Hmm.. today's press briefing has been cancelled.

And now I'm seeing chatter about a presser with himself at 3PM.

Something is going down.

Comment by Raine on 02/28/2018 19:06:30
Quote by Scoopster:
Hmm.. today's press briefing has been cancelled.

And now I'm seeing chatter about a presser with himself at 3PM.

Something is going down.

oh wow.
Thanks for the heads up,scoop.

Comment by Scoopster on 02/28/2018 19:07:54
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Scoopster:
Hmm.. today's press briefing has been cancelled.

And now I'm seeing chatter about a presser with himself at 3PM.

Something is going down.

oh wow.
Thanks for the heads up,scoop.

I get the feeling he's about to fire Jeff Sessions. That little twitter exchange seemed awfully desperate.

Comment by Raine on 02/28/2018 19:08:23
take it for what it's worth:






Comment by Scoopster on 02/28/2018 19:12:55
Comment by Raine on 02/28/2018 19:14:42
Comment by Raine on 02/28/2018 19:18:36
Quote by Scoopster:
Oh man this thread...
Woah.


Comment by Raine on 02/28/2018 19:29:05
Comment by Scoopster on 02/28/2018 19:51:38
Comment by wickedpam on 02/28/2018 20:50:25
Quote by Raine:
take it for what it's worth:







Any news?

Comment by Scoopster on 02/28/2018 20:54:05
Nothing yet. Last time I checked his parade of platitudes to the Florida kids was still going.

Comment by wickedpam on 02/28/2018 21:02:26
Quote by Scoopster:
Nothing yet. Last time I checked his parade of platitudes to the Florida kids was still going.



oof, I don't know how you guys don't get irate when he even just talks. His voice is nails on a chalk board for me.

Comment by Raine on 02/28/2018 21:14:59
A story in two acts.










Comment by Raine on 02/28/2018 21:17:08
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Scoopster:
Nothing yet. Last time I checked his parade of platitudes to the Florida kids was still going.



oof, I don't know how you guys don't get irate when he even just talks. His voice is nails on a chalk board for me.
I lost my shit the other day watching the governors meeting.

I try not to listen to him live unless it is important.

I do get irate, I won;t lie. I am tired of being abused by this administration.


Comment by Raine on 02/28/2018 21:18:33
Quote by Scoopster:
The Nobel Committee has received two fraudulent nominations for the peace prize

Someone is REAAAAAALLLLLY fucking jealous of Obama.

New suggestion: Incognito

:D

Works for WaPo as well.

Comment by Mondobubba on 02/28/2018 21:31:20
Quote by Raine:
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Scoopster:
Nothing yet. Last time I checked his parade of platitudes to the Florida kids was still going.



oof, I don't know how you guys don't get irate when he even just talks. His voice is nails on a chalk board for me.
I lost my shit the other day watching the governors meeting.

I try not to listen to him live unless it is important.

I do get irate, I won;t lie. I am tired of being abused by this administration.



I can't stand to listen when words come out of his tiny sphincter-like mouth. Cheetolini, the Gaslighter-in-Chief.

Comment by Mondobubba on 02/28/2018 21:31:55
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Scoopster:
The Nobel Committee has received two fraudulent nominations for the peace prize

Someone is REAAAAAALLLLLY fucking jealous of Obama.

New suggestion: Incognito

:D

Works for WaPo as well.


See my post below about the WaPo and incognito.

Comment by wickedpam on 02/28/2018 21:40:16
Holy hell, Hope Hicks is gone?!

Comment by Raine on 02/28/2018 21:47:39
Quote by wickedpam:
Holy hell, Hope Hicks is gone?!

I am hearing things!

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