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    Quote Originally Posted by Tami View Post
    They were innovative in that way. Probably why they ended up being taken in by Amazon. Innovative isn't always profitable.

    Amazon probably did what they usually do. Offer to buy out Whole Foods. Then, when Whole Foods refuses, start selling an inferior version of what Whole Foods sells, at a deep discount, until Whole Foods has no choice but to sell out to Amazon, most likely for a lower price than Amazon originally offered.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister Mets View Post
    That doesn't seem to answer my question.

    But one thing that would help is the left being more judicious about allegations of racism. When they get it wrong, it gets harder to take it seriously.
    I think it's the opposite really, the Left has been too lenient with allegations of racism for a long time. We're just now catching on.
    By "we" in this case, I mean guys like me. Too oblivious (read: white) to notice things that minorities have been dealing with forever.

    Also, I cannot stress enough how much racists explaining how they can't be racist should never be accepted as an okay alternative interpretation of what racism means.
    They're trying to delegitimize criticism of them, and we all have to consciously remember that's what's happening and that it can't be allowed to succeed.

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    2 people were injured when a fight between parents led to a shooting at a youth football game in Texas

    (CNN)A woman and a girl were injured in a shooting at a youth football game in Fort Worth, Texas, a police spokesman said.

    A group of parents had been arguing Saturday at the game near Eastern Hills Elementary School when the son of one of the parents arrived with a handgun and opened fire, said Jimmy Pollozani, a public information officer for the Fort Worth Police Department. Police didn't say if that son was one of the football players.

    The woman suffered a gunshot wound in the leg and the girl was grazed in the back by a bullet, Pollozani said.

    They were taken to a local hospital and their injuries appear non-life threatening, he added.

    Police were searching for the suspect Saturday afternoon.
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    Quote Originally Posted by numberthirty View Post
    I'm not so sure that it was the company being "Innovative..."

    While the initial company was a bit more worker-friendly that than some of the outfits who treat their workers like dirt, Whole Foods was always anti-union. I strongly suspect that them providing medical benefits to part-time employees was a way to try to keep unions at an arm's length.
    On the scale of union busting activities, 'offer good enough wages and benefits so that our employees never consider a union seriously' is the kind I wholeheartedly support. 'Fire as many organizers as we can get away with, and if that fails, close the place and restart elsewhere' is what needs to be called out, and stepped on.
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    Trump Inspires California Lawmakers to Go on Offense

    LOS ANGELES — When President Trump flies into San Francisco next week for his first visit to the Bay Area as president he will set down in a state that has never fully welcomed him.

    Harmeet K. Dhillon, a member of the Republican National Committee and a host of a fund-raising luncheon on Tuesday where seats for a couple at the president’s table go for $100,000, likened his visit to a trip “behind enemy lines.”

    Behind those lines, Mr. Trump’s detractors have been remarkably active, as Democrats have been energized by anger against the president to enact a sweeping liberal agenda that in almost every way offers a counternarrative to the deregulation, anti-immigrant stance and conservative policies of the Trump administration.

    Just in recent days, California has approved statewide rent control and moved to reshape the gig economy by forcing companies like Uber and Lyft to classify their drivers as employees, setting new labor standards that could give momentum to similar efforts in other states.
    “Donald Trump has been the impetus for putting everything on warp speed,” said Garry South, a Democratic political strategist in California. “It has pushed Democrats in California to take actions that might otherwise have been viewed as a little less urgent if we had a Democrat in the White House.”

    On perhaps the two biggest issues animating political life in America today — immigration and climate — the two sides are pushing in opposite directions. While Mr. Trump champions his border wall and imposes new restrictions on asylum seekers, California is expanding medical care for undocumented immigrants and recently passed a new law outlawing private prisons, including detention facilities run by federal immigration authorities. And when California negotiated its own deal with four major automakers to set emissions standards and combat climate change, the Justice Department opened an antitrust inquiry.
    At the same time, Xavier Becerra, California’s attorney general, has filed 59 lawsuits against the Trump administration, on issues ranging from immigration to health care to environment policy.

    With a Democratic supermajority in both legislative houses in Sacramento, and a new governor, Gavin Newsom, determined to push a liberal agenda buoyed by a nearly $21 billion budget surplus, California, more than ever, feels like a place unto its own.

    But in at least one way, California and Mr. Trump are bound together: with both of their futures resting on the economy. A recession would wipe out the budget surplus that has propelled new spending on social services in California, and threaten Mr. Trump’s re-election bid in 2020.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gray Lensman View Post
    On the scale of union busting activities, 'offer good enough wages and benefits so that our employees never consider a union seriously' is the kind I wholeheartedly support.
    Exactly. Unions weren't started because employers were treating workers like human beings, and offering decent pay and benefits.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PaulBullion View Post
    So the NYT is being useful for a change, bringing more evidence that the accusations against Judge Kavanaugh were sad but true.

    And the FBI did not interview those witnesses, because of the limited scope of the investigations.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/s...gtype=Homepage
    And this was how the useful NYT announced the book excerpt.

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    Yeah, they backtracked on that but.... bad. That's just bad.

    Of course, it IS more proof that Kavanaugh shouldn't be sitting on the supreme court, bad tweet aside.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tendrin View Post
    Yeah, they backtracked on that but.... bad. That's just bad.

    Of course, it IS more proof that Kavanaugh shouldn't be sitting on the supreme court, bad tweet aside.
    But note, our forum Republican would like to stop everything to focus on the real bad guy in this story, the media outlet who was reporting Kavanaugh... but not Kavanaugh.

    For someone who claims to not like Trump so much, seeing a lot of copycatting from his playbook.
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    Yeah, I would have preferred Ronan Farrow breaking this for the New Yorker, he would not have messed up the roll out like the NYT did.

    Anyway, Kavanaugh still is a serial sexual assaulter and needs to be impeached.
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    Quote Originally Posted by worstblogever View Post
    But note, our forum Republican would like to stop everything to focus on the real bad guy in this story, the media outlet who was reporting Kavanaugh... but not Kavanaugh.

    For someone who claims to not like Trump so much, seeing a lot of copycatting from his playbook.
    Also to divert from the fact he agrees with a guy who thinks Genocide is ok.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PaulBullion View Post
    Yeah, I would have preferred Ronan Farrow breaking this for the New Yorker, he would not have messed up the roll out like the NYT did.

    Anyway, Kavanaugh still is a serial sexual assaulter and needs to be impeached.
    Kavanaugh adds nothing to the court except what he was put on it for, a guy who will side with Trump almost every time. At least Gorsuch has a different perspective from everyone else, even if it is coming from a place most posters here disagree with.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gray Lensman View Post
    Kavanaugh adds nothing to the court except what he was put on it for, a guy who will side with Trump almost every time. At least Gorsuch has a different perspective from everyone else, even if it is coming from a place most posters here disagree with.
    Gorsuch has also sided with the liberals on a few interesting points out of actual ideological consistency, but let's not make any mistake that he also shouldn't be on the Supreme Court in Scalia's seat.

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    Donald Trump Randomly Tweets ‘Stable Genius’ Boast And People Are Puzzled

    “Isn’t this something he said about himself?” asked one person on Twitter. Sounds like he's becoming UNstable.

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    Lindsey Graham Says U.S. Should Consider Iran Attack That Would ‘Break Regime’s Back’

    “Iran will not stop their misbehavior until the consequences become more real,” the senator said after a drone attack on Saudi oil facilities. I wonder if the recently ejected John Bolton felt that way?

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    Donald Trump’s GOP Challengers Call Out Nixed Primaries In ‘Cowards Run’ Op-Ed

    “Warriors stand and fight for what they believe,” wrote three of the president’s Republican challengers. Well, Trump is anything BUT a warrior, so it stands to reason he likes what the GOP is doing on his behalf.

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    Trump Administration Cutting 20 Miles Of Extra Border Wall Because It Lacks Funds: Report

    Lawyers reveal — then retract — plan for more wall in Arizona and California, according to a court filing, Bloomberg reports. I'm sure Trump won't like that.

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    Jim Carrey Takes Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi To ‘The Twilight Zone’ In Impeachment Art

    The actor sent an urgent message to the House speaker with his new cartoon. Namely this:

    Hey, Nancy Pelosi: There’s something on the wing! Some THING! You may wanna grit your teeth and cross your fingers while this gremlin rips the engines apart - but the rest of us want to live.

    START THE HEARINGS!
    IMPEACH THIS ANIMAL!!
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