136 responses to “Sandbox – 19jan15”

1. 

   Paul Emery

   19 January 2015

   Golly Guys, Obama is moving up in the Polls, up to 50% in this major poll.
   http://www.pollingreport.com/obama_job2.htm
   Any one care to compare his numbers with Bush 2 at the same time frame?

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   Todd Juvinall

   19 January 2015

   Don’t care.

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   Russ Steele

   19 January 2015

   Paul@07:05PM
   Obama’s ratings have risen as the price of gas and diesel have fallen, putting more money in peoples pickets. The interesting thing is he had nothing to do with the falling price of oil, that is driven by the oil glut on the global market. That glut was the result of fracking technology, which is not being used on Federal lands. In fact Obama’s EPA has done everything possible to inhibit the use of fracking technology. So, O’s rating are going up, for reasons outside of his control. One major oil disaster, natural or terror related, will rapidly drive up the price of oil on the global markets and O’s rating will go down, down, down.

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   Todd Juvinall

   19 January 2015

   I’ll take this one Paul Emery, Reuters has Obama at 37% approval. How doe that work for you?
   http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/

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   Paul Emery

   19 January 2015

   Thanks for the link Todd. In the polls cited yes indeed Obama is at 37% with Reuters but all the other Polls in the RCP link shows him in mid or high 40’s. Either way he’s having a bit of a surge lately. Care to compare his numbers to Bush? It’s pretty ugly. bush dipped into the high 20’s in some of the established polls.
   ABC News/Wash Post Approve 47, Disapprove 48
   Gallup Approve 44, Disapprove 51
   Rasmussen Reports Approve 49, Disapprove 50

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   Paul Emery

   19 January 2015

   Todd
   Just thought I’d refresh you on what a really unpopular President poll numbers are. This is from Fox.
   “President Bush’s job approval rating slipped this week and stands at a new low of 33 percent approve, down from 36 percent two weeks ago and 39 percent in mid-March. A year ago this time, 47 percent approved and two years ago 50 percent approved (April 2004).
   http://www.foxnews.com/story/2006/04/20/042006-fox-poll-gloomy-economic-views-bush-approval-at-new-low/

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7. 

   drivebyposter

   20 January 2015

   http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/content/images/ITW2011042801-chart1.png

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8. 

   Bill Tozer

   20 January 2015

   Paul, I don’t care what anyone says about the humanitarian George W Bush. I will always have a soft spot for him. Always. When Bush was Governor of Texas, he pardoned me, sealed all my records, and made a phone call and got my name changed to begin anew. Thus I ended up here in the foothills as mild manner blogger Bill the Tozer.
   In the old days it was called “unlawful flight to avoid prosecution”, another felony. Since Governor Bush stepped in, it is now called “a change of scenery”. The only thing BubbaBubba or any employer’sbackground check can find on me is a change of address from a non-existent address in Colfax. I love Bush and his lovely librarian bride: “Now George, everyone deserves a second chance.” I love Laura.

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   Todd Juvinall

   20 January 2015

   BillT what a great story. Paul Emery has Bush Derangement Syndrome so his opinions are simply tainted and I could care less. Sure Bush made errors in the job and there are always people to point them out. But when someone like the Emery’s do it, it is a hoot. Many little African kids and many women are alive today because of his gifts to them regarding AIDS. The good always gets a passing by the libs. Antway, I just crack up when he gets on his BDS.

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    Todd Juvinall

    20 January 2015

    Oh and one more thing. The press bashed Bush on a daily basis his whole term except for two weeks after 9/11. Obama is swooned over by the press on a daily basis. I think we can see why the polls are the way they are.

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11. 

    fish

    20 January 2015

    Golly Guys, Obama is moving up in the Polls, up to 50% in this major poll.
    http://www.pollingreport.com/obama_job2.htm
    Any one care to compare his numbers with Bush 2 at the same time frame?
    It’s like listening to a woman brag about the huge turnaround her AA attending boyfriend has made.

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12. 

    Michael R. Kesti

    20 January 2015

    Paul Emery 19Jan15 at 7:05PM
    I have no problem with being a student of history but a significant difference between The Bush and Obama poll ratings is that Bush’s ratings are history and therefore likely to have ittlr, if any, effect on the present and the future. Obama’s ratings, on the other hand…

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13. 

    Walt

    20 January 2015

    Ya’ gotta love the way the “informed” Paul tries to give “O” a reach-a-round for something Paul knows damned well he(“O”) has zilch to do with.
    OK Paul, just what DID “O” do to bring down oil prices? Did he open up FED oil leases?
    ANWAR? It sure hasn’t been the XL pipeline,,,.
    To claim credit for something,, one actually has to DO something. With your line of thinking, “O” can claim credit for the Sun coming up every morning.

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14. 

    George Rebane

    20 January 2015

    MichaelK 805am – Quite true. But in light of the travesty of Obama’s presidency, the Bush2 presidency is like an irritating itch that has to be continually scratched. And since there has been little success since 2009 (the economy is struggling back in spite of Obama’s nostrums), and even fewer prospects for his remaining time in office, what more can be done by his supporters than an attempt to divert attention to the past? ‘Pay no attention to the accomplishments of the man in office …’

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15. 

    Walt

    20 January 2015

    Hard to make wind power affordable when all the “profits” go away in the form of FINES.
    ( and pay attention to just who is getting the bucks)
    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/01/20/bird-chopper-wind-farm-fined-by-justice-department-for-killing-golden-eagles/
    Can someone point out how to make a “bird friendly” giant fan? Maybe some warning signs written in Avian will work?
    Where is Crabb? Sharpen that pencil. This has your name all over it.

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16. 

    Bill Tozer

    20 January 2015

    Well, I must say that Arnold and Jerry at least had a piece of paper to sign before hiking our gas tax to build low income housing and a Choo Choo to Button Willows, the famous truck stop know for its prositutues on the outskirts of Bakerfield.
    Looks like the Governor of Washington is taking a page out of of the Obama playbook and don’t need to sign no stinkin’ legislative papers to sign. We should be grateful that we live in The Golden State instead of The Evergreen State. Always a silver lining.
    But, like CA, the new gas tax hike will not fill one pothole nor resurface one single street. With gas prices so low, nobody will notice, right? Nobody will notice until gas climbs up to 5 bucks a gallon in a few years and we can all blame the evil fossil fuel industry and demand the Great Fathet in Washington open up the strategic reserves.
    Lower gasoline prices puts a smile on every middle class and poor folks’ faces, but a big frown on our Defenders of Mother Earth’s contorted faces.
    https://shiftwa.org/action/tell-inslee-no-executive-order/?utm_source=lcfs&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=lcfspetition

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17. 

    Brad C.

    20 January 2015

    Obama can make whatever proposals he wants to but he will have to get them past a Republican congress… good luck with that!

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    Paul Emery

    20 January 2015

    RE George 8:45
    Bush an “irritating itch”
    Would you be able to say that to the thousands who died and were injured in Iraq? Are you actually saying that we were in better shape in 2008 when Bush left office than we are now?

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19. 

    George Rebane

    20 January 2015

    PaulE 1010am – The answer to your question solicits the revisiting of what were the causes of the Great Recession which struck during Bush2’s last year in office. We have circled that barn too many times in these pages, and you (and everyone with modicum reading skills) know what my position is.
    And scratching that irritating itch has nothing to do with the history of the recent Mideast ‘wars’. They could have been better fought and then administered, but the precipitous departures architected by Obama clearly devalues the sacrifices we made in life and limb. Why don’t you and other liberals talk about the coulda/woulda/shouldas of wiser policies that Obama could neither generate nor execute? That is more recent history which is still unfolding and could perhaps be improved by today’s president.

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20. 

    Gregory

    20 January 2015

    Don’t look, but Scoopy’s is so slow “Annie Fox” posted twice, first to congratulate him on yet another to say how much better The Union would be were Scoopy running the place again.
    On South Park, Mr.Garrison has Mr. Hat to help relieve that, umm, certain stress… Scoopy apparently has “Annie Fox”.

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    Gregory

    20 January 2015

    Don’t look, but Scoopy’s is so slow “Annie Fox” posted twice, first to congratulate him on yet another great post, then to say how much better The Union would be were Scoopy running the place again.
    On South Park, Mr.Garrison has Mr. Hat to help relieve that, umm, certain stress… Scoopy apparently has “Annie Fox”.

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22. 

    Walt

    20 January 2015

    Well welcome to Cricketville. Paul is back to his good ol’ self. Can’t find anything to give credence to “O” and his deserving of “credit” for low fuel costs.
    You brought it up Paul,,, so lets hear it. And DO give your input on “bird friendly” wind farms.

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23. 

    Paul Emery

    20 January 2015

    Walt
    I was merely observing the current political climate and noting that for whatever reason Obama is coming up in the polls. It puts the Pubsters in a difficult position when it comes to how they will run the congress.

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24. 

    fish

    20 January 2015

    Posted by: Gregory | 20 January 2015 at 10:50 AM
    I see what you did there…….

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25. 

    Gregory

    20 January 2015

    Here’s another sandbox entry for the day… propane prices. They are continuing to drop.
    Just called my current supplier … I own my tank, purchased when I bought my house 20+ years ago, the 500 gallon tank cost me about $500 then. Price is $1.75, but would be a buck more a gallon were I one of their captive customers, using a tank they own and only they can legally fill. No, I won’t identify them but all the propane companies that rent tanks play the same game. Some are better than others.
    Here’s what the current propane inventories look like…
    https://marketrealist.imgix.net/uploads/2015/01/us-propane-stocks.png?w=660&fit=max&auto=format
    I expect the midsummer price will really be in the weeds.

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26. 

    Gregory

    20 January 2015

    I should mention the one local propane company that has a clean and fair pricing structure is Ace Propane
    http://www.acepropane.net
    They sell tanks, they lease tanks at an above board rate (not built into a big overcharge for delivered propane) and they ostensibly charge everyone the same price (though they have given me a half decent break on their published rate when I’d fill the tank and cut a check on the spot). In fact, the guy who started the company (then called Acme Propane) round when I bought my house had a business model of selling tanks for not much more than cost so he could fill them; his service was also very prompt, but only because he didn’t make people wait for when he was servicing that area, which in the end, ran him ragged and killed his profit margins. Ace does a nice job balancing both.
    I should really try to have them give my my summer fill.

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27. 

    Walt

    20 January 2015

    “President Barack Obama’s policies “have resulted in gas prices being reduced from $3.07 per gallon when he was sworn in in 2009 to $2.30 today.”
    — Bobby Scott
    Not even LIB news is buying it. Any bets “O” will thump his chest tonight and say ” look what I have done with gas prices?”

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28. 

    Todd Juvinall

    20 January 2015

    Senator Mike Lee is offering an Amendment on the XL Pipeline debate a $125 per hour cap on ESA and other agencies regarding lawyers fees. Ya think the Prez will veto that? Yep.

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29. 

    RL Crabb

    20 January 2015

    News Flash:President to address extremist group… http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/obama-address-extremist-group

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30. 

    Gregory

    20 January 2015

    “It puts the Pubsters in a difficult position when it comes to how they will run the congress.”
    Not as difficult Obama is after his party lost in a landslide unequalled since around 1910… that’s a “thumpin’” of historic portions, Paul.

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31. 

    Walt

    20 January 2015

    Word has it “O” will ask for tax hikes.. Seems he has already forgot that LIBS are not running the show anymore. And no,,, he can’t sign an executive order to do so.
    The LIBS that are left in the House and Senate just might join the Right to vote the “right way”. They want to keep their elected positions come the next go round. Seems even Dirty Harry knows his days are numbered. Even Boxer is throwing in the towel.
    Nope, it don’t look good for LIBS in the long run.

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    Paul Emery

    20 January 2015

    Gregory
    The difficulty for the Pubbers is how they are going to keep the party unified with their likely shift towards moderation in their nomination of a Pres candidate. If Obama is able to maintain reasonable poll numbers, to which he seems to be drifting, it will be an indication that the Party needs to be cautious in their direction and not be very far off center. The Ted Cruz types will raise a fuss for sure but the Center is where the money is and that carries the day for sure.

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    George Rebane

    20 January 2015

    PaulE 258pm – That may be a “difficulty” for Repubs. However, the counter argument for not running in the middle is that they tried it twice – ’08 and ’12 – and it didn’t work. And according to the pollsters that was because the middle candidates didn’t excite enough of the Repub base which didn’t vote in droves.

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    Todd Juvinall

    20 January 2015

    I think the shellacking the Republicans gave the dems in November is being misread by Paul Emery. The people want a conservative push. Illegal immigration, balanced budget, less regulations, pass the XL etc. Those issues are far from extreme. Now that the Islamo terrorists are running rampant around the planet we see an even greater degree of desire by the people to counteract them. Obama’s numbers now are meaningless.

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    Walt

    20 January 2015

    Pretty sure LIB media is doing it’s best to make the “divide” a lot bigger than it really is. They can’t keep propping up their straw man “O”,, too many facts they can’t ignore, or look really stupid. So now bring all guns to bear on the House and Senate and fire for effect. “O” still has tricks up his sleeve and LIB media is playing along. Nope,,, not going to print the words ” Islamic terrorists”. ( That’s right from the W.H.)

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36. 

    Walt

    20 January 2015

    OHHHHH CRRaappppp…………….. OK Doc,,, It seems I have to eat my words.
    Please pass the salt.( for the open wound.)
    http://www.wsj.com/articles/drones-next-job-construction-work-1421769564
    It may work in potato dirt ( not a rock to be found) but wait till that on board computer fails, or the batteries run out. That will not end well.

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37. 

    Don Bessee

    20 January 2015

    So as obamas team arrives in cuba to start talks with the castros the Russians send a message with the arrival of a spy ship that had not been previously announced. So now we have a pattern of 0 throwing life lines to iran and cuba. The mullahs are giddy about how their economy was saved by the relaxing of sanctions in exchange for nothing. In return today Iran and Russia sign a military pact, sounds like an in your face on the state of the union speech day. Saw lefty jeffy trying to talk to real people in the lakeview post, guess he is tired of talking to himself and furth in liberal lament land. The claims of the CA rainbow and unicorn world by lefty jeffy with no details is why he is so irrelevant and spends so much time talking to himself. Who thinks 0 will mention any of the parts of the world that are in flames and in most cases made worse by the 0 Kerry-Hillary policies? Offensive in Ukraine, coup in Yemen, that JV team isis has mroe captives to be butchered, now especially women who offended the profit by getting an education and all the rest this week. Where is the lefty outrage? Must be too busy apologizing for Michael moore and seth rogans attacks on the American hero in Eastwoods blockbuster movie or ensuring no one is showing the Charlie cover or scrubbing out any mention of Islamic terrorism they can find. Oh I know, they tweeted about it once.

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    Paul Emery

    20 January 2015

    Todd
    In your view what should be our policy to counteract what you describe as “Isalmo Terrorists” ?
    George 3:09
    That’s a very real issue for both parties, how to energize the base. Also, the Repubs have to please the big money cats (Chamber of Commerce etc) which called a time out when Cruz was strutting his stuff. They made it very clear they would withhold their dough if that faction gains too much power. They will absolutely not support any candidate who does not support fast tracking the TPP which is by far the biggest issue for big business support. It would be supremely hypocritical for ANY Tea Party supporter to support any candidate that supports the
    TPP so there you have the dilemma. Of course any Dem candidate would support it. Here you have the Republicrats settling on a middle ground to keep the bucks flowing.
    In my view both bush and Obama should have been fired by the voters after their dismal first terms. If they were first round draft picks in the NFL they would have both been gone in fours years. The Parties deney us that choice which is why I wont vote for either party.

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39. 

    Walt

    20 January 2015

    So “O” is trying to sell ” free collage”.. So.. how to pay for it.. The teachers going to work for free as well? ( good luck)
    “Isalmo Terrorists” Simple… kill’m. Not what Hillary subscribes to. ” Respecting their views and gripes”. In the meanwhile “O” and Co. are setting them loose to return to their killing sprees.

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40. 

    Paul Emery

    20 January 2015

    Walt
    How do you spot those that need do be killed and who will do the ‘killin?

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41. 

    Bill Tozer

    20 January 2015

    Paul, easy answer.
    Let the French do the killin. They are afterall our declared closest alley per our former Secretary of State Hillary. France as already banned the ugly black drab unfashionable burka (bad for France’s excellent fashion reputation) and since we lead from behind anyway I nominate the French. If it breathes, it bleeds. Kill them all, then take John McCain’s song to our lips and Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran.
    First hit the low hanging fruit. Hit the Sunni mosques at prayer time. The places will be packed full and there will be a lot of twofers so we can use less ammo. Then hit every Toyota pick-em-up truck that moves, another opportunity of more twofers. That will teach them not to use Fords, the number one selling pick-em-up truck in the world.
    We should let the Aussies in on the party as they have a score to settle as well.
    We should leave Afganstan intact and not waste good American made projectiles on the cavemen there, with the exception of dumping Agent Oramge on all the poppy fields. That will put the hurts on the Taliban big time and have them throw their shoes at us and shake their fists at the sky.

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42. 

    drivebyposter

    20 January 2015

    “That’s a very real issue for both parties, how to energize the base.”
    Heck, that’s a piece of cake.
    Republicans:
    Claim to make government ‘leaner and meaner’, more efficient, and the like.
    Protect the guns.
    Give some freebies to the elderly.
    Tax cuts for the middle class (ie. those making >$1M per year).
    Avoid mentioning the fact that the party leaders are four square for unlimited immigration.
    Damn unions!
    God bless the United States of America.
    Democrats:
    Prattle on about the War on Womyn.
    KOCH!
    Pass out goodies to leadership of minority groups.
    Waste some money on semi-crooked government programs and call them ‘investments’.
    Pass out goodies to government unions in exchange for get-out-the-vote chicanery.

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43. 

    Russ Steele

    20 January 2015

    Walt, your replacement is in the works.
    Construction-equipment maker Komatsu Ltd. has plans to solve a potential shortage of construction workers in Japan: Let drones and driverless bulldozers do part of the work.
    Tokyo-based Komatsu said Tuesday it planned to use unmanned aircraft, bulldozers and excavators to automate much of the early foundation work on construction sites.
    Under Komatsu’s plans, U.S.-made drones would scan job sites from the air and send images to computers to build three-dimensional models of the terrain. Komatsu’s unmanned bulldozers and excavators would then use those models to carry out design plans, digging holes and moving earth.

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44. 

    Walt

    20 January 2015

    I already found out Russ,, I posted it above… I will be landfill by the time it will really make any difference.

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45. 

    Bill Tozer

    20 January 2015

    Bad news Walt. Couple this with the Japanese making that shovel that stands up by itself 20 years ago and our county and state road crew workers are screwed as well.
    Like you, I am just trying to hang in there until the Singularly takes over and I am buried with my old faithful transistor radio in my shirt pocket. Think we can buy enough time before heading off to Wrinkle Village, the stopover before the Marble Orchard.
    Let’s count our blessing. Had to go to see old sawbones today to discuss some lab work. He did not mince words and laid it out with that grin face.. He said I have althemizers , pancreatic cancer, and leukimea. Shit. Well, I told him, “at least I don’t have althemizers.” Always a silver lining.

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46. 

    Russ Steele

    20 January 2015

    Justice Ginsburg finds the best way to enjoy the State of the Union Speech
    http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/ruth-bader-ginsburg-appears-fall-asleep-during-state-union_824179.html

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47. 

    Bill Tozer

    20 January 2015

    Mr. Steele:
    Well, at least she made it longer than I did through the State of the Union speech. Don’t think she is snoozing. Maybe she is praying that her Depends can hold up longer than Obama’s words.

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48. 

    Bill Tozer

    20 January 2015

    Mr. Walt:
    You are a tough ole bird. With any luck, you will be on the green side of the crapgrass until your grave will be dug by some new high flaluting low polluting unmanned grave digging machine. Appears that Ruthie Bladder Ginsberg won’t be with us to see that day.

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49. 

    Walt

    20 January 2015

    Leave it to the Orientals to build something to dig your own grave with.
    So more working stiffs will be out of a job. Just what the LIBS love.

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50. 

    Bill Tozer

    20 January 2015

    This is what happens when you force a small business to make a wedding cake for a gay couple. Others with opposing views will try to force the small business to make them a cake as well, in the name of fairness I suppose. While tempted to say “what’s good for the goose is good for the gander”, I will look at the big picture and ask what the heck are lawyers and judges and courts doing stickingg their snouts into a small business?
    Sure, we have all seen the signs “We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone”, but this is getting ridiculous. There is a difference between refusing service to a drunk falling off the barstool (or barring someone solely because of race, creed or National origin) and forcing a business to perform a service. The world has gone stark raving mad I tell ya.
    http://denver.eater.com/2015/1/20/7858569/cake-shop-faces-legal-action-for-refusing-to-make-anti-lgbt-cake

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