O Really wrote:
I'm always happy to see those big flags, though. If it weren't for them I might think I'd accidentally wandered into Canada or Mexico.
Or Little Havana, Chinatown, Little Saigon, Houston, or Miami !
I've been to Little Havana (which is in Miami, in case you didn't notice), Chinatown in SF and NY, but never been to Little Saigon. Where is that? And what's in Houston other than the usual Texas assortment of Mexicans taking jobs away from the Anglos? I've also been to "little India" in Jersey City as well as Ybor City in Tampa. Every place has been special, and clearly adds its own flavor to the country formerly known as a 'melting pot" that now has a leading Presidential candidate wanting to wall up the borders.
Speaking of which, I wonder if Trump has figured out how to build a wall around the rest of the "porous" borders - like all of Florida, the entire East Coast, the Gulf states, and all of California.
O Really wrote:
I'm always happy to see those big flags, though. If it weren't for them I might think I'd accidentally wandered into Canada or Mexico.
Or Little Havana, Chinatown, Little Saigon, Houston, or Miami !
I've been to Little Havana (which is in Miami, in case you didn't notice), Just seeing if you were paying attention.
Chinatown in SF and NY, but never been to Little Saigon. Where is that? And what's in Houston other than the usual Texas assortment of Mexicans taking jobs away from the Anglos? I wasn't referring to any one specific area, however, I did have Houston, which has a larger Vietnamese population, on my mind since I had listed it. I was, however, surprised to find so many areas in the country has portions of cities designated as Little Saigon.
I've also been to "little India" in Jersey City as well as Ybor City in Tampa. Every place has been special, and clearly adds its own flavor to the country formerly known as a 'melting pot" that now has a leading Presidential candidate wanting to wall up the borders.
Speaking of which, I wonder if Trump has figured out how to build a wall around the rest of the "porous" borders - like all of Florida, the entire East Coast, the Gulf states, and all of California. <sigh> We just can't escape politics, even for a moment, can we?
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Vrede too wrote:... Now, throw another whiny tantrum about my style.
Your "style". . . I've read much about your famous "style"; something to be really proud of, I'm sure, for a 10 year-old, that is.
The comment in the above quote of you is a prime example of your famous "style". (Is this another whiny tantrum?)
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'Onionhead' Not A Religion, Co. Insists In EEOC Bias Suit
Law360, New York (September 4, 2015, 3:37 PM ET) -- A belief system called “Onionhead” that allegedly led to workers being required to tell one another “I love you” and is at the heart of a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission religious bias suit isn't actually a religion, defendant United Health Programs of America Inc. insisted on Thursday in a New York court.
United Health Programs and parent Cost Containment Group filed a response in Brooklyn federal court in opposition to the EEOC's Aug. 31 motion for a conference on an expected bid from the agency and intervenor-plaintiffs on whether Onionhead qualifies as a religion under Title VII.
The defendants said that that the anticipated motion for partial summary judgment would be opposed and fail, and that there was no evidence showing that Onionhead stemmed from theology.
“Onionhead is by no means a religion. Rather, it is a cartoon character associated with a set of products originally created to assist children with social and emotional development issues,” Thursday's letter said. “Defendants offered Onionhead materials and workshops to employees to assist them with interpersonal skills.”
The EEOC filed suit against United Health and Cost Containment in June 2014, claiming they had been coercing employees to take part in religious activities since 2007. In an October amended complaint, the agency said that the defendants required workers to take part in coerced religious practices as part of a belief system called “Onionhead” or “Harnessing Happiness.”
In 2007, the defendants flew that belief system's founder and leader — who went by “Denali” and was the aunt of the defendants' owner — to their Syosset, New York, worksite for mandatory group meetings and one-on-one sessions with workers, the EEOC said, adding that Denali had the power to hire and fire employees.
Workers felt pressured and coerced to participate in what the EEOC called religious practices and faced a hostile work environment as a result, the agency alleged.
Employees were required to thank God for their jobs and say “I love you” to colleagues, hold hands in a prayer circle, read spiritual texts, burn incense to do away with bad energy and use low lighting because Denali said that demons came through overhead lights, the Oct. 9 amended complaint said.
The EEOC also said the defendants provided workers with and required them to use materials describing religious precepts of the system.
United Health Programs and Cost Containment on Thursday said that the premotion conference letter they were opposing regurgitated sensationalized and disputed claims.
“The actual and undisputed material facts in this case, supported by the discovery record, establish that Onionhead is not a religion under Title VII,” according to the defendants.
Although Onionhead might not be traditional, it is a religion under the broad definition of the term under Title VII, the EEOC said in its request for a premotion conference.
“Onionhead materials discuss the nature of faith, truth and love. Those materials contain depictions of a golden dove, a winged flaming chalice and the Onionhead figure himself with a halo and wings,” said the EEOC and intervenors.
The proposed partial summary judgment motion wouldn't resolve any claims. But if the court agrees that Onionhead is a religion and the plaintiffs prove that the defendants acted because of Onionhead, that would also prove that the defendants discriminated because of religion, the plaintiffs said.
An EEOC attorney declined to comment on Friday.
The EEOC is represented by Thomas Lepak and the intervenors are represented by Anthony Mango of Mango & Iacoviello LLP.
United Health Programs and Cost Containment are represented by Amy Traub of Baker & Hostetler LLP. United Health programs bills itself as a “developer and wholesaler of quality cost savings health programs.”
The case is EEOC v. United Health Programs et al., case number 1:14-cv-03673, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Spike's Tactical in Florida is selling a $1,400 assault rifle called the Crusader. It's inscribed with Psalm 144:1, which says, “Blessed be the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.”
Ben “Mookie” Thomas a spokesman for Spike’s Tactical and a former Blackwater security contractor, explained the thinking behind the weapon: “Right now and as it has been for quite some time, one of the biggest threats in the world is and remains Islamic terrorism. We wanted to make sure we built a weapon that would never be able to be used by Muslim terrorists to kill innocent people or advance their radical agenda.”
Meanwhile back in reality, Psalm 144:1 is found in the Old Testament which Islam regards as revealed truth. It quotes King David, who Muslims consider to be a prophet sent by God. So what they have is a gun that any Muslim can carry and use with the blessings of Allah.
If they sold pig skin "trigger covers" to guard against a muslim ever being able to pull the trigger for say 10 bucks it would be a more affordable "insurance policy" against your weapon ever being used to shoot good xtians. With a money back guarantee who wouldn't buy a couple?
Unlike Judaism, (Islamic Law) followers are only told they cannot consume the flesh of swine.
Unless that trigger cover can only be removed by eating it, it's not much of an "insurance policy."
(Yes, they have the same Old Testament rules against *touching* pig as Christians, and apparently like with many Christians, they're generally considered no longer applicable.)
Sometime Lefty wrote:Drat! Back to the drawing board. Maybe sell it to people who believe the Black Jack Pershing bullshit story? They'll believe anything.
Haha oh fuck I know exactly what you're talking about. The dude that dipped bullets in pigs blood and BBQ sauce and hanged Philippine rebels by the balls and made them eat bacon wrapped chicken mccgriddles and listen to celine dion or some shit like that idk.
Plays into the whole macho man were becoming a buncha sissies because we're no longer supposedly sadists with no honor type bullshit.
Do you think that's a sign of a civilizations decline? When people become increasingly thirsty for violent retribution, like the gladiator battles of olde? People willingly watch movies like Saw nowadays. I stand by my theory that if a power vacuum would ever materialize and the strong arm of government was bo onger there to keep most in check, the majority of people would revert back to a state of bloodthirsty sadism.
You aren't doing it wrong if no one knows what you are doing.
