Yes to each their own vote with your wallet not anti free speech PC.

Well, I would not stop at this store because I don't support religionists in any way. That said, he has a right to run his store anyway he wants and snowflake progressives can just be offended as far as I'm concerned. If they tried to use force to harm him or his business, I would defend his right to run his business as he sees fit.

It is good for a persons well being to connect even through idle chatter.
From an article "Chitchat is also an important social lubricant, helping to build empathy and a sense of community. It is much harder to snap at a taxi driver for going the wrong way if you have just exchanged pleasantries. “Children learn empathy not just by how we treat those closest to us but also by how we acknowledge the strangers around us,” adds psychologist Richard Weissbourd of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. They “notice if we appreciate the server in a restaurant and say hello to the mail carrier—or if we treat them like they’re invisible.” Small talk, he notes, “can humanize others across the usual divides.”"

In settings like parties or events, Dr. Epley recommends starting with the 10/5 rule taught to many hotel and hospitality employees: When you’re 10 feet away, make eye contact; at 5 feet away, say hello. One surefire strategy is to pay a compliment: “I like your bow tie!” People overestimate the social risks involved in small talk, says Dr. Epley: “Most people not only want to talk to you, they’ll wind up confiding things they may not even tell a spouse.”

Free speech baby, tell them what's on your mind
PC is anti free speech.

I remember one afternoon we had a big storm and the power and cable tv were off for about half a day. With the power off the gate was in the way of leaving the house. This left s small group of us with most of the modern distractions we are used to- temporarily gone. So we sat around and actually talked with each other. It was good actually. We sat outside with a warm breeze (no power= no a/c).

To hell with those lefty pc morons! It's not worth the time to "understand their viewpoint" since it's based on sheer dogmatic ignorance. We can't just let this type of idiocy go without comment either- that's how we got in the mess we're in. Look them in the eye, tell them you could care less about their stupid opinion and then tell them to shut up and go away!

More power to them if their value to the owner is
Mutually agreed. Ratings equal advertising dollars finely tuned to the demographics. The NFL ,MLB ,
NBA and others negotiate with the networks for content and viewers.
If others quit watching , like I have ......then the ratings may drop. I have many more fulfilling
Beneficial activities including the gulch that give me value than spending every Sunday glued to the tube. To each their own.

Laughing...Yep...it's in the book of life now in the quantum continuum...just grab yourself an entanglement or two.

I hae thought for awhile that organized sports was out of control, paying the ghetto players multiple millions for running around a field trying to get people to watch their commercials and pay for tickets. Enough is enough, and I think this might be the beginning of the end of it

The "insulin" is the problem, even when she doesn't take it; which has been necessary these last few years...even when she doesn't, it still crashes.
I have been trying to get her to do some exercise in the rare event it goes high...or I kid her by saying...just call someone to chew them out!...when the sugar comes down...just hang up...job done! (it Works for B types)

PS...we bought her a meter and sending unit that tells her where the sugar is all the time; (now covered by medicare) but still sometimes is gets away from her...frequently during sleep and she can eat, drink herself to exhaustion trying to get it back up again...it's maddening.

Yup like golf, a game I can still play and enjoy.

Isn't that in the Akashic record. Oh ya your book is in the record. LOL

Actually there are a lot of other sports, if someone wants to enjoy them. The NFL isnt the only game in town.

especially when they dont really know what regulates the blood sugars in DB1 people. Have you tried an insulin pump?

That's all the modern day CEO knows is connections and influence; Not innovation and competition.
I state that in my book, by the way.

Thanks Friend...

Keep up the good fight Carl and best to your better half.

Yes vote with your wallet . I have heard that NFL ratings are down. I used to be a fan that ended twenty years ago. I decided I wasn't going to support such a large group of thugs.

It is not working. The crony capitalism results in less competition, less choice, less innovation , and inferior goods and services. To think that starting a business in America is available to very few , mostly the well connected.

DB2 is a diet thing...unless the allopathic treatments are practiced too long... then other problems set in. DB1 can be cured with the patients multiplied stem cells but it's probably against the law. There have been many trials that prove this, all over the world. I try at least once a week to get my wife into one but continually get turned down.
How many trials do we need before the average DB1 can get this treatment.
A Swiss co...will do it for 100K...I just don't have it yet. They may come to the US, but consensus has them coming to LA instead of NY...go figure.
I will find a way... one way or another. I fear that any day now, I will come home to find her in a coma. I have managed to pull her out of the wool many times over the past 25 years... just don't know how much longer my luck will last.

Hmmm...Laughing

Like a skipping record...D,moc...D,moc...D,moc... over and over again.

why dont we stop paying for people to live in hurricane prone areas, and get a cure for diabetes instead. Puerto Rico can stew in their own juices I think. They are socialist spendthrifts...

As customers we have freedom of association and might choose NOT to patronize his store too if he insults me. Some comments are better left unsaid if they dont really have anything to do with the business at hand. Like- the kneeling thing the sports figures are doing. They dont NEED to unnecessarily annoy their customers (the fans) especially when the fans are there to enjoy sports, not politics. I dont care if they think that blacks deserve something they arent getting at present, but I dont want to listen to that when I have to pay to watch a game. I just wont watch if I have to put up with that stuff, and THAT is my right.

Believe it or not I did think about how ostriches
Would feel with that comparison....alas I figured their heads would be buried. I forgot about the self appointed injustice warriors. LOL