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Defiant wrote:East Tennessee hardware store puts up 'No Gays Allowed' sign

Examples include retail stores...

There is no legal prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity for both public and private employees on a statewide level.

Isgrimnur wrote:

Defiant wrote:East Tennessee hardware store puts up 'No Gays Allowed' sign

Hardware store?

Public accommodations

Examples include retail stores...

Warm up the lawyers.

In it, Abedin urges Clinton to "hang up the fax line" so someone can send a fax.

"I thought it was supposed to be off hook to work?" Clinton writes back.

Abedin asks her to hang up "one more time." Clinton says she did.

"Just pick up phone and hang it up. And leave it hung up," Abedin tells her.

Again messaging Abedin and one other aide in June 2009, Clinton wrote: "I heard on the radio that there is a Cabinet mtg this am. Can I go? If not, who are we sending?"

Reportedly, there was no full Cabinet meeting that day; it was only for lower-level officials. But then a few days later, Clinton fired off another email to staff saying she arrived for a morning White House meeting "and was told there was no mtg."

"This is the second time this has happened. What's up???" Clinton wrote.

This touched off a set of exchanges where staffers essentially took the blame for the mix-up.

A key issue in Clinton's emails is who was aware she was using a private account and server. In fact, the emails indicate top White House officials were aware of the address, if not the server.

But those same emails also indicate she was at a distance from the president's inner circle, who had to reach out to Clinton aides to even find out how to contact her.

On June 8, 2009, Clinton Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills wrote to Clinton saying of Obama adviser David Axelrod, "axelrod wants your email - remind me to discuss with you if i forget."

Clinton wrote back: "Can you send to him or do you want me to? Does he know I can't look at it all day so he needs to contact me thru you or Huma or Lauren during work hours."

Mills responded: "I'll take care of it."

Fireball wrote:That's hardly shocking. In my office, none of the senior staff know how to forward a call from one line to another. We have the interns do it.

Rip wrote:

Fireball wrote:That's hardly shocking. In my office, none of the senior staff know how to forward a call from one line to another. We have the interns do it.

Shockingly, It doesn't surprise me that you can't forward a phone call.

Not sure what that has to do with knowing that you don't need to lift the receiver on the fax machine for it to receive a fax, but.

LordMortis wrote:

Rip wrote:

Fireball wrote:That's hardly shocking. In my office, none of the senior staff know how to forward a call from one line to another. We have the interns do it.

Shockingly, It doesn't surprise me that you can't forward a phone call.

Not sure what that has to do with knowing that you don't need to lift the receiver on the fax machine for it to receive a fax, but.

Who had fax lines that weren't dedicated in 2009?

With the way phone systems keep changing and the growing need to get a new phone system several times a decade, I don't blame anyone for not knowing how to use their phones... even if people are perpetually lazy and you can take a few weeks to study and summarize a 400 page "how to use this phone publication" into 5 graphic pages with circles and arrows and they won't even take the time to read that... Oh, I can blame them for that.

Rip wrote:It seems kind of obvious that it was a dedicated fax line. It still rings (although most people turn the ringer volume down where you can't hear it), typically it will pick up and begin negotiating after the second ring. Unless of course some moron hears it and picks up the receiver and begins talking to the screeching tones.

Rip wrote:It seems kind of obvious that...

hepcat wrote:You should add more emphasis to that post by including a random picture of Hillary Clinton looking at a stop sign or something.

"I don't get it. He's in favor of Common Core, extremely weak on immigration. He thinks people come over for love. I don't understand why he's in first place,"

hepcat wrote:Trump is doubling down on his claim that illegal immigrants are primarily rapists.

I also like his not so subtle dig at Jeb Bush's wife with

"I don't get it. He's in favor of Common Core, extremely weak on immigration. He thinks people come over for love. I don't understand why he's in first place,"

What a piece of work that man is.

Fireball wrote:That's hardly shocking. In my office, none of the senior staff know how to forward a call from one line to another. We have the interns do it.

Isgrimnur wrote:

Defiant wrote:East Tennessee hardware store puts up 'No Gays Allowed' sign

GreenGoo wrote:

Fireball wrote:That's hardly shocking. In my office, none of the senior staff know how to forward a call from one line to another. We have the interns do it.

I also don't know how to forward a call, and I need to read the instructions on the fax machine every time I use it, which is about once a year.

Skinypupy wrote:

Isgrimnur wrote:

Defiant wrote:East Tennessee hardware store puts up 'No Gays Allowed' sign

Someone needs to secretly film a gay person walking in, buying a whole bunch of stuff at this store, then turning around on their way out and saying "by the way...flaming".

It'd be worth it just to see this asshat's head explode.

Rip wrote: So if I want to send you a fax, I will need to wait on you to read the manual again?

I can understand a little confusion on sending a fax. Receiving one can easily be done by a monkey.

hepcat wrote:Trump is doubling down on his claim that illegal immigrants are primarily rapists.

I also like his not so subtle dig at Jeb Bush's wife with

"I don't get it. He's in favor of Common Core, extremely weak on immigration. He thinks people come over for love. I don't understand why he's in first place,"

What a piece of work that man is.

hepcat wrote:...or a laundry basket and a door knob.

In a separate interview with NBC News, Trump blasted the conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer, who called Trump a "rodeo clown."

Krauthammer uses a wheelchair because of a spinal injury.

"And then I get called by a guy that can't buy a pair of pants, I get called names? Give me a break," he said.

hepcat wrote:Dear Lord, Trump is proof that God is a Democrat. How else can you explain this gift he's sent them?

In a separate interview with NBC News, Trump blasted the conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer, who called Trump a "rodeo clown."

Krauthammer uses a wheelchair because of a spinal injury.

"And then I get called by a guy that can't buy a pair of pants, I get called names? Give me a break," he said.

LawBeefaroni wrote: Krauthammer uses a wheelchair because of a spinal injury.

"And then I get called by a guy that can't buy a pair of pants, I get called names? Give me a break," he said.

hepcat wrote:
As for what his end game is, I'm not quite sure any more. I initially expected it to be the same one as his last bid for office. Get into the public eye, drum up some interest, drop out and then announce your tv show's newest season. Boom, ratings.

But he's burning bridges left and right at this point. So it can't be that.

WaPo wrote: July 8 at 2:08 PM
Jose Andres, the D.C.-based super-chef with a growing national brand, is backing out of a deal to open the flagship restaurant in Donald Trump’s forthcoming Washington hotel – the latest on a growing list of high-profile partners to sever ties with the presidential candidate over his anti-immigrant comments.

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“Donald Trump’s recent statements disparaging immigrants make it impossible for my company and I to move forward with opening a successful Spanish restaurant in Trump International’s upcoming hotel in Washington, D.C.,” the statement reads. “More than half of my team is Hispanic, as are many of our guests. And, as a proud Spanish immigrant and recently naturalized American citizen myself, I believe that every human being deserves respect, regardless of immigration status.”

A spokesman for the restaurant group would not disclose the terms of the lease Andres had signed with Trump’s organization for the restaurant, which was to open next year in Trump’s $200 million redevelopment of the historic Old Post Office Pavilion. But Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., e-mailed a response, indicating that the contract was for 10 years and that the Trumps could sue for unpaid rent and other damages — meaning a potential lawsuit could prove expensive.