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And now all of DC begins side-eyeing Devin Nunes ...

Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen Received Inside Info From Russia Probe

 

Here is the Complaint against Dick's:

http://media.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/other/dicks.lawsuit.pdf

Here is the statute he says they violate:

2015 ORS 659A.403¹
Discrimination in place of public accommodation prohibited

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• Related Statutes

(1)Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, all persons within the jurisdiction of this state are entitled to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of any place of public accommodation, without any distinction, discrimination or restriction on account of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status or age if the individual is of age, as described in this section, or older.

(2)Subsection (1) of this section does not prohibit:

(a)The enforcement of laws governing the consumption of alcoholic beverages by minors and the frequenting by minors of places of public accommodation where alcoholic beverages are served;

(b)The enforcement of laws governing the use of marijuana items, as defined in ORS 475B.015 (Definitions for ORS 475B.010 to 475B.395), by persons under 21 years of age and the frequenting by persons under 21 years of age of places of public accommodation where marijuana items are sold; or

(c)The offering of special rates or services to persons 50 years of age or older.

(3)It is an unlawful practice for any person to deny full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of any place of public accommodation in violation of this section. [Formerly 30.670; 2003 c.521 §1; 2005 c.131 §1; 2007 c.100 §5; 2015 c.614 §27]

 

Don’t live there.

 

Tell Boom we said hello.

 

Legal expert says that the case against Dick's and Wal-Mart seems to be an open-and-shut winner:

Age Discrimination Suit Against Dick's Sporting Goods and Walmart for Refusing to Sell Rifle to 20-Year-Old

 

All Dick’s has to do is slow-walk the process until the kid turns 21, at which point he loses legal standing to bring the case.

 

I live in Birmingham, Al. I already pay that regressive 10% sales tax on everything, to include groceries and prescriptions. The state budget is perpetually underfunded for two major reasons: the 1902 state constitution, which was passed to protect large land owners from property taxes and to enshrine Jim Crow laws. Alabama's property taxes are among the lowest in the nation, partly because of that and partly because it is a bright red state where all legislators are wholly owned subsidiaries of Grover Norquist. If our property taxes were raised to one third up from the bottom, all our budgetary woes would be solved in a single stroke, at least until the lege pissed the money away. I doubt I'll live to see that happen. Instead the lege raises "fees" - the cost of a driver's license went up 54% in 2015, forex. Anything state related gets fees and they go up, as a hidden tax. Whatever it is - getting into a state park, the cost of a camping spot there, getting a certificate so an underage child can work a part-time job, they all get raised... but the lege isn't "raising taxes", so it's all good.

Note that all these fees, particularly on things like driver's licenses which are absolute necessities, are extremely regressive.

The state is perpetually dancing on the edge of a federal takeover of the state prison system due to overcrowding, horrible conditions, inadequate mental health care for prisoners. The lege uses accounting gimmicks and one time money to make ends meet, things like using the settlement money from the gulf oil spill in the general budget instead of dedicating it to the coast. Pensions are low, endangered, and seldom see a cost of living raise. You name it, it's run on a thin, fraying shoestring.

Does California have some stupid laws and regs? No doubt. It also has a $6b budget surplus. Shit, I'd dance in the street if Alabama simply balanced an adequate budget.

Calorie counts seem a small bitch, and in the wake of the gun debate, letting people stockpile ammo by spreading the orders around online seems sensible to ban.

 

You can't have ammunition delivered to your house where anyone can steal it from the front step? Tyranny!
Question: If California is such a hellhole, why do so many people live there, and why are houses so expensive? Does the law of supply and demand stop working when it turns out government policies you don't like have little to no effect on it?

 

Can shade be unintended?

 

I'm on your side of this argument, but if you replace California with New York I don't know the answer to your question.

 

"Is Trump operating in any meaningful sense out of any vision of what is good for America?....he simply does not believe that his service as president confers on him any obligations to the broader public of any kind."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...st-interests-at-heart/?utm_term=.2d7b1d36fb4f

Trump is all about the base.

 

Trump is all about Trump's pocket.