What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[darsparx]

- if I could avoid trying to assemble ikea furniture with my mom around there wouldn't be much headache...all the parts where she kept telling me to come back no matter what I did i was in the way.
on a brighter note though found a few more internal postings to apply too so I guess tomorrow starts my hunt for a position in a different department(so maybe full time might be a reality)

[Luke]

Donald Sterling is in for a world of hurt. I know the players union is outraged, but how do you penalize one for making racist comments? Baffling.

[BoringSupreez]

: Forgot how expensive college classes are. I signed up for 4 credits and my balance had already reached $848.00. Good thing I'm not the one paying.

[Jmustang1968]

Donald Sterling is in for a world of hurt. I know the players union is outraged, but how do you penalize one for making racist comments? Baffling.

Yeah, most will agree that his alleged comments are very poor and hateful. However, this was a recorded private conversation. He wasn't publically broadcasting these views. Do we police people on what their views or beliefs are when said in private, no matter how much we dislike or disagree with them?

Obviously it wasn't illegal for him to say that and the NBA can take a narrower stance than the law. This will be a nice convoluted and incensed issue for the new commish to deal with.

[fastbilly1]

Ticked - we are in a flood and tornado warning. So multiple friends are going to stay with us tonight, since they live in apartments or trailers near by.
Smile - it means we are breaking out the good wine tonight and playing cards while hanging out in the emergency room.

[Luke]

This will be a nice convoluted and incensed issue for the new commish to deal with.

The politics of this certainly are interesting. This is Marge Schott all over again, and in the year 2014. Players (and other owners) are obviously being more vocal about this, but the players want him to lose the team.

The players have held their little "protest", but no chance they'll stop playing. I doubt any player will demand to be traded either. Time will tell.

Ticked - we are in a flood and tornado warning. So multiple friends are going to stay with us tonight, since they live in apartments or trailers near by.
Smile - it means we are breaking out the good wine tonight and playing cards while hanging out in the emergency room.

Had a tornado touch down in my town yesterday.

Stay planted billy.

[pierrot]

Unfortunately, this isn't the first incidence of Donald Sterling being accused of bigotry. I might agree that this most recent example is relatively innocuous; but only in comparison to the things he's said and done in the past. He has a bit of a track record:

...He also, according to his former GM Elgin Baylor, “would bring women into the locker room after games, while the players were showering, and make comments such as, ‘Look at those beautiful black bodies.’ I brought [player complaints] to Sterling’s attention, but he continued to bring women into the locker room.”

Sterling is also the Slumlord Billionaire, a man who made his fortune by building low-income housing, and then, according to a Justice Department lawsuit, developing his own racial quota system to decide who gets the privilege of renting his properties. In November of 2009, Sterling settled the suit with the US Department of Justice for $2.73 million, the largest ever obtained by the government in a discrimination case involving apartment rentals. Reading the content of the suit makes you want to shower with steel wool. Sterling just said no to rent to non-Koreans in Koreatown and just said hell-no to African-Americans looking for property in plush Beverly Hills. Sterling, who has a Blagojevichian flair for the language, says he did not like to rent to “Hispanics” because “Hispanics smoke, drink and just hang around the building.” He also stated that “black tenants smell and attract vermin.”

http://www.thenation.com/blog/179551/do ... illionaire

[MrPopo]

Smile: I was eating lunch and "Steal My Sunshine" came on the radio. Massive flashback to my high school days.

[flex wood]

Man this weather is really starting to bug me. It's been rainy and in the forties for the past 4 days and it's supposed to stay like this until next week. I just want to be able to go outside and wander around town in a T-shirt with my dads dog so I can meet girls. At this rate I'm assuming it's going to snow soon.

Bright side my dads neighbors have been dog sitting an English mastiff for the past couple of weeks that is the biggest sweetheart. I throw my dads dog over the fence to play with him and they ate super cute since she is a small dog and just beats him up.

[Luke]

Unfortunately, this isn't the first incidence of Donald Sterling being accused of bigotry...

And everyone knew this all along. Stern knew about his behavior and views and still spoon fed the guy to keep him in the league.

So the guy is a racist. Moral character flaw.

Michael Jordan cheated on his wife for years. Moral character flaw.

Plenty of pro athletes are rapists. Moral character flaw.

vick lied to his boss, his boss's boss, his boss's boss's boss, killed hundred if not thousands of dogs. Moral character flaw.

So who gets a pass?

I'm not defending anyone here. But who is to say "Rape is just rape. Being a racist is far much worse"? The choir at ESPN sings the song of "Sterling's days are over. He will be forced to sell!". So...he sells a once lo9ng time shitty team and makes 250 million in profit in the end? That's what they think is equivalent to justice?

Freedom of speech ain't free people.