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[Ricky Fandango]

Kennesaw State Cuts 4 of 5 Cheerleaders Who Took a Knee During Anthem Last Year

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WARNER TODD HUSTON 25 Aug 2018


Kennesaw State University has cut four of the five cheerleaders who took a knee during the playing of the national anthem last year, according to reports.

The school newspaper, the Sentinel, noted that four of the five kneelers did not make the cut for the 2018 football season. KSU’s athletic department reported that 91 women tried out for the 52 spots on the various cheer squads, up from 61 applicants last year. The department also noted that three other members of last year’s teams also did not make the cut for this year.

Virtue signaling is so 2014.
Showing up to work and doing your job is what makes America great.

 

[Ricky Fandango]

 

[Sheriff Joe]

How sad is the ruling class of our great country.

 

[tenacious]

Virtue signaling is so 2014.
Showing up to work and doing your job is what makes America great.

I agree.
Which is why I find it shameful our leaders sit on their thumbs (or work tirelessly cutting taxes for the $$$ donor class), while the majority of Americans are watching their wages stagnate or even go down.

 

[tenacious]

Fucking Ca.
Some of my employees make $500.00 per month just in case they miss their breaks.
State regulated break rules, ya know.
No wonder Ca is turning into just another shit hole, 3rd world country.
Lake of leadership and priorities.

If you don't like CA... then leave. Methinks you'll be a bit surprised at how much you miss it and how far ahead of the curve it is.

 

[Hüsker Dü]

I agree.
Which is why I find it shameful our leaders sit on their thumbs (or work tirelessly cutting taxes for the $$$ donor class), while the majority of Americans are watching their wages stagnate or even go down.

Now, new household employment data reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) show that Americans with college degrees can account for all of the net new jobs created over the last decade. In stark contrast, the number of Americans with high school degrees or less who are employed, in this ninth year of economic expansion, has fallen by 2,995,000.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixg...-working-class-americans-and-maybe-for-trump/

After working full time at a museum, Emily Doherty does something millions of Americans do each day: head to a second job. In her case, it means donning a petticoat to portray a Colonial-era woman at living-history museums or national parks, where she sings and play-acts.

The 28-year-old needs the extra work so she can make ends meet, plus pay her $500-per-month student loan payment. Doherty is among the 30 percent of Americans who do something else for pay in addition to their full-time jobs, according to a recent NPR/Marist poll.


when-a-full-time-job-isnt-enough-to-make-it

 

[tenacious]

Humbly suggest? That's funny!
It's just what the PC crowd determines is offensive...interesting.
As far as Jackson goes, the folks in that town thought enough of him to erect the stature in the first place...out of town protesters are what is bringing these statues down.
So you're good with monuments to anyone as long as the locals are good with it? If that were so many of these monuments would still be standing.
My question remains, when do we remove memorials of those who owned slaves? Morally as wrong as anyone who fought and lost the Civil War...
Where does it end? We have memorials to soldiers who practiced what amounted to genocide against the Plains Indians....
Did you see the mob that "removed" a statue at the University of North Carolina the other day? All locals I'm sure.

So I have a say in monuments that my taxes don't help maintain?
As to the remaining question, society and cultural norms change. Easy for a guy living on the beach in So Cal to say leave those monuments up. If local communities don't want or can't afford to maintain every monument, especially ones that are divisive- then the statue is moved to a museum or sold to a private collector.

 

[Hüsker Dü]

Fucking Ca.
Some of my employees make $500.00 per month just in case they miss their breaks.
State regulated break rules, ya know.
No wonder Ca is turning into just another shit hole, 3rd world country.
Lake of leadership and priorities.

Bullshit, you spend so much time in here complaining about trivial matters and now things you should be handling yourself? You really are lazy, stupid and a slacker.

 

[tenacious]

Now, new household employment data reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) show that Americans with college degrees can account for all of the net new jobs created over the last decade. In stark contrast, the number of Americans with high school degrees or less who are employed, in this ninth year of economic expansion, has fallen by 2,995,000.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixg...-working-class-americans-and-maybe-for-trump/

After working full time at a museum, Emily Doherty does something millions of Americans do each day: head to a second job. In her case, it means donning a petticoat to portray a Colonial-era woman at living-history museums or national parks, where she sings and play-acts.

The 28-year-old needs the extra work so she can make ends meet, plus pay her $500-per-month student loan payment. Doherty is among the 30 percent of Americans who do something else for pay in addition to their full-time jobs, according to a recent NPR/Marist poll.


when-a-full-time-job-isnt-enough-to-make-it

Wait a second... you mean gutting unions and tax cuts for the wealthy don't lead to higher wages for workers?

 

[Hüsker Dü]

CNN / YouTube
JUSTIN CARUSO 23 Aug 2018


CNN host Chris Cuomo wondered Wednesday whether Americans outraged over the death of Mollie Tibbetts would be as upset if the alleged killer was a white American instead of an illegal alien.


In reference to Tibbetts’s death and other murders by illegal aliens, Chris Cuomo asked, “I wonder if these sympathizers would be as full-throated about these tragedies if the killers were white citizens, if the victims were not young white women. If that were the case, would we see a video like this from Trump today?”



I wonder how many times Chris Cuomo has had a shot glass removed in the early morning hours.....

Why haven't I heard anything about Shannon Watts in here or on Fox primetime? Where's the outrage?

 

[Hüsker Dü]

Wait a second... you mean gutting unions and tax cuts for the wealthy don't lead to higher wages for workers?

The rich get richer the poor get poorer and they really don't care if we weed each other out with the quite frequent mass shooting (you can kill other ways but it's quicker and more productive with firearms).

 

[Lion Eyes]

So I have a say in monuments that my taxes don't help maintain?
As to the remaining question, society and cultural norms change. Easy for a guy living on the beach in So Cal to say leave those monuments up. If local communities don't want or can't afford to maintain every monument, especially ones that are divisive- then the statue is moved to a museum or sold to a private collector.

I didn't say leave the monuments up & this isn't a question of maintenance.
It's a question of hypocritical political correctness.
If we are removing monuments of those who fought for slavery, shouldn't we remove the monuments of those who kept slaves?
Should we have monuments erected for those who committed genocide?
Political correctness dictates removal of any monument that offends anyone in anyway...

 

[tenacious]

I didn't say leave the monuments up & this isn't a question of maintenance.
It's a question of hypocritical political correctness.
If we are removing monuments of those who fought for slavery, shouldn't we remove the monuments of those who kept slaves?
Should we have monuments erected for those who committed genocide?
Political correctness dictates removal of any monument that offends anyone in anyway...

Hypocrisy?
If I had to try and explain to my mom (or everyone else who comes into town to visit me), about why our local town honors soldiers of a failed rebellion to over throw the Federal Government- I would likely vote to get rid of the statues too. Guess I just don't see the hypocrisy in that position so much as I would find the statue to be embarrassing.

As to statues of US Soldiers who fought in the Indian Wars? Well... I probably would vote to get rid of them too. Although I will say I don't really recall seeing very many of them.

 

[Sheriff Joe]

Bullshit, you spend so much time in here complaining about trivial matters and now things you should be handling yourself? You really are lazy, stupid and a slacker.

What are you babbling about now? I get a report every payroll, how would you like me to change can labor law. I know you being part of the union you are an expert at making employers pay you for not working. You big dummy.

 

[Lion Eyes]

Hypocrisy?
If I had to try and explain to my mom (or everyone else who comes into town to visit me), about why our local town honors soldiers of a failed rebellion to over throw the Federal Government- I would likely vote to get rid of the statues too. Guess I just don't see the hypocrisy in that position so much as I would find the statue to be embarrassing.

As to statues of US Soldiers who fought in the Indian Wars? Well... I probably would vote to get rid of them too. Although I will say I don't really recall seeing very many of them.

Yeah..hypocrisy.
The Southern States is where one would find monuments of those that fought for the Confederacy
One would have to go the great plains to see monuments to those that wiped out the Plains Indians, start in Leavenworth, Kansas
Many of the monument of those who bought, sold and kept slaves can be found in Washington DC...
Political correctness says if you're embarrassed, if you feel uncomfortable, then you have legitimate reasons to remove the things that make you feel this terrible angst.

 

[tenacious]

Yeah..hypocrisy.
The Southern States is where one would find monuments of those that fought for the Confederacy
One would have to go the great plains to see monuments to those that wiped out the Plains Indians, start in Leavenworth, Kansas
Many of the monument of those who bought, sold and kept slaves can be found in Washington DC...
Political correctness says if you're embarrassed, if you feel uncomfortable, then you have legitimate reasons to remove the things that make you feel this terrible angst.

I don't know Lion, sounds like you're trying to turn the country into a museum.

My last thought since I think we're to the point we both see each position is this. The country's best days are ahead. Bring out the bulldozers, get rid of those old statues and make room for the ones we're going to build for our generation. Statues that we dare our grand children to not take down.

 

[Hüsker Dü]

I don't know Lion, sounds like you're trying to turn the country into a museum.

My last thought since I think we're to the point we both see each position is this. The country's best days are ahead. Bring out the bulldozers, get rid of those old statues and make room for the ones we're going to build for our generation. Statues that we dare our grand children to not take down.

I'm sure the Trump humpers would joyfully bulldoze Mt. Rushmore and replace George, Tom, Teddy and Abe with The Donald.

 

[espola]

I didn't say leave the monuments up & this isn't a question of maintenance.
It's a question of hypocritical political correctness.
If we are removing monuments of those who fought for slavery, shouldn't we remove the monuments of those who kept slaves?
Should we have monuments erected for those who committed genocide?
Political correctness dictates removal of any monument that offends anyone in anyway...

I say remove the monuments to traitors who took up arms against the nation. I take it you disagree.

 

[espola]

I don't know Lion, sounds like you're trying to turn the country into a museum.

My last thought since I think we're to the point we both see each position is this. The country's best days are ahead. Bring out the bulldozers, get rid of those old statues and make room for the ones we're going to build for our generation. Statues that we dare our grand children to not take down.

How many statues of Trump do you think people will want to erect?

 

[Lion Eyes]

I don't know Lion, sounds like you're trying to turn the country into a museum.

My last thought since I think we're to the point we both see each position is this. The country's best days are ahead. Bring out the bulldozers, get rid of those old statues and make room for the ones we're going to build for our generation. Statues that we dare our grand children to not take down.

You're not listening if it sounds like I'm trying to turn the country into a museum...I'm asking where do we stop? Either we cleanse & remove all the monuments that someone takes offense to or we stop this nonsense, which would be hypocritical....
The politically correct left wants a homogenized, safe space, no difference of opinion otherwise you're a racist, homophobic, ignorant despicable deplorable.
I have no problem with our history or our monuments to our forefathers, nor am I embarrassed by our history.
Even with all our blemishes, we are the greatest country in history...

 

[Lion Eyes]

I say remove the monuments to traitors who took up arms against the nation. I take it you disagree.

I say remove the monumnets of those who bought, sold & owned other human beings.
I take it you disagree.