A Manhattan judge ruled Wednesday that there’s nothing “outrageous” about throwing the president’s supporters out of bars — because the law doesn’t protect against political discrimination.
Philadelphia accountant Greg Piatek, 31, was bounced from a West Village watering hole in January 2017, just after Trump took the oath of office, for wearing a “Make America Great Again” cap, according to his lawsuit over the incident.
“Anyone who supports Trump — or believes in what you believe — is not welcome here! And you need to leave right now because we won’t serve you!” Piatek claims the staff of The Happiest Hour on West 10th Street told him after he and his pals complained about the rude service they were getting from a bartender.
So he sued in Manhattan Supreme Court, claiming the incident “offended his sense of being American.”
But on Wednesday, when the bar’s lawyer, Elizabeth Conway, pointed out that only religious, and not political, beliefs are protected under state and city discrimination laws, saying, “supporting Trump is not a religion” — Piatek pivoted.
“The purpose of the hat is that he wore it because he was visiting the 9/11 Memorial,” his attorney Paul Liggieri told Justice David Cohen in court Wednesday.
“He was paying spiritual tribute to the victims of 9/11. The Make American Great Again hat was part of his spiritual belief,” Liggieri claimed. Piatek and his pals had, in fact, visited the memorial before the bar.
“Rather than remove his hat, instead he held true to his spiritual belief and was forced from the bar,” Liggieri said.
When the judge asked how the bar employees were supposed to be aware of Piatek’s unusual religious beliefs, Liggieri answered, “They were aware he was wearing the hat.”
The judge pressed Liggieri on the idea of his client’s professed creed.
Piatek doing his best Trump impressionAngel Chevrestt
“How many members are in this spiritual program that your client is engaged in?” the judge asked.
“Your honor, we don’t allege the amount of individuals,” Liggieri said.
“So, it’s a creed of one?” the judge asked.
“Yes, your honor,” Liggieri replied.
After nearly an hour of argument the judge took a short break and then returned to the bench with his ruling.
“Plaintiff does not state any faith-based principle to which the hat relates,” Cohen said in tossing the case.
Piatek had sued for unspecified emotional damages, but the judge said the incident amounted to nothing more than a “petty” slight.
“Here the claim that plaintiff was not served and eventually escorted out of the bar because of his perceived support for President Trump is not outrageous conduct,” the judge ruled.
Liggieri said he plans to review the decision to determine whether or not to appeal.
I threw people out of my bars/restaurants for all kinds of reasons. Mostly for becoming a disturbance to the rest of my patrons or being disrespectful to my staff.
Spiritual Trumpism is dubious at best and attempting to defend it in court is a waste of resources.
One day the concept of Mutual Respect may come back into fashion. A citizens duty to defend people with whom they disagree is requisite in a free society.
This is in regard to Melania Trump’s choice of yellow Timberland boots on her trip with Pres. Trump to visit the troops during the Christmas holidays. The noise that has been generated over them consists of not just gossip, but blatant lies.
There was something posted on Twitter about racism on her part in this egregious spatter of pejoratives, based on her choosing to wear those boots.
That’s on one of those ‘turn off your ad blocker’ deals, so read it if you wish.
The “racist” nonsense comes from a now-defunct site called Naha Daily, which in 2014 claimed falsely that Timberland’s CEO said he didn’t want blacks or Latinos in his boots. They admitted that it was completely made up out of whole cloth – a lie, in plain English, but people are now digging it up and pointing the finger at it and saying ‘Aha!’ and making themselves far worse than they pretend Mrs. Trump is.
According to Snopes, the false remarks originated from a December 2014 article from the now defunct site Naha Daily, which cited the shoe company’s CEO saying he did not want to see “Blacks and Latinos” in the boots.
Snopes reported that a disclaimer on the Naha Daily’s site said that its content was “based off current events [in 2014] in urban culture and entertainment” and was “completely fictional.”
Got that? Completely fictional.
It is something that some moron cooked up in 2014, posted on his website, and then added a disclaimer that it was all made up out of dust bunnies and hot air and is completely fictional. Naha Daily is out of business, but this trash still shows up.
Because there are enough imbeciles on the internet to populate a small planet like Mars, this disclaimer is disregarded by them as an inconvenient fact. They ignore it and subsequently carry the lie forward, using it against someone who had nothing to do with the source of the lie.
They do this out of pure hatred toward someone who has done nothing to them but exist.
Because they are addicted to trash, they got all excited when Mrs. Obama was recently seen in a yellow split-front drapey dress that would not look good on a bone-thin runway model, wearing thigh-high streetwalker glitter boots with it. If you dare, take a look. And don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Melania Trump, on the other hand, wore sensible boots on her Christmas trip to visit troops overseas, but people still won’t lay off her.
Yes, she’s made some faux pas. We all do that, but this obnoxious trash is grasping at straws, acting out their roles as schoolyard bullies because they think it’s okay. They have the maturity of freshly-laid eggs. And even if the hen sat on them, they’d still turn out to be rotten.
I have never seen such hatred manifested toward someone simply because she exists and has done nothing to deserve it.
This poisonous, festering slop has consequences for the people who generate it and perpetuate it. Employers expect their hirees to behave like adults in an adult world. Everything is investigated now. People who do these things are telling potential employers that they are not reliable, won’t be good workers, and won’t focus on doing their jobs.
Would you like fries with that?
Oh, yeah, the title – The first word starts with “F”, and the last word starts with “A”. And it means the same thing in another language that it means in English.
Most people can not imagine the things that come across my desk during the course of a week. This headline caught my attention, “In Brighton, UK, Boys to be Told They Can Have Periods Too.”
My first reaction to these sensationalized headlines is always skeptical. I usually dig around a bit to see if this type of headline is one of those all too obvious attempts at click bait. Then, lo and behold, I find this jewel of a link.
I poked around a bit more only to find someone who sounds a lot like me, needing a shave and a haircut, yammering on about it. I always wondered what would have happened to me had I not become a Marine. I like this guy, he has that same animal like sexual magnetism that I have to deal with along with that weird Jame Gumb uniqueness I admire. I wonder if he gives anyone butterflies.
I am so grateful that I don’t need to constantly check my gender fluid. Abuse of children seems to be all the rage these days.
CAMP PENDLETON, CA — Troops running and singing cadence is a familiar scene at bases across the world, but one Marine says the cadence really needs to end.
Corporal Jason Andreesen is assigned to the famed ‘Dark Horse’ battalion of 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines.
“Every morning I have to wake up, put on my silkies and glowbelt and think ‘Well, here we go again’,” says Andreesen.
His reluctance for physical training (PT) comes not from exertion, but from the cadences that his squad mates usually choose. One in particular is referred to as the “Vegetable Cadence.”
“I mean, I thought it was kind of funny back when I first heard it,” says Andreesen, “but that was before I met Sarah. She’s my dream girl.”
Sarah is Andreesen’s wife of three years — who miraculously survived a car crash last year despite losing all her arms and legs and putting her into a coma.
As he runs along with his squad, Andreesen wearily waits for it to come up. Sgt. Wilton Chambers leads the cadence, shouting “Left right ley-o…”
The Corporal happily repeats it back with the rest of his squad, but then his fears are realized at the Sergeant’s next verse.
“My girl’s a vegetable, she lives in a hospital … but I would do anything … to keep that bitch alive, yeah!”
Corporal Andreesen says that “the first half isn’t terrible”, but he repeats the rest back amid tears and sweat.
“She’s got her own TV and it’s called an EKG!” barks Sergeant Chambers.
“I mean seriously. This is fucked up. They all know about Sarah,” says Andreesen. “Yeah, so she has no arms and legs but I mean, I’ve never pulled the plug to watch her choke. I love her.”
Other Marines in the squad say that they’ve found the “chink in his armor” and just continue to attack it.
“We’re in the infantry. We talk shit. When we find weakness in someone, we do not stop,” says Lance Corporal Miguel Rodriguez. “It’s too much fun.”
“I really just wish that we could sing a much better cadence that everyone would love,” says Andreesen after he again repeats that he’d ‘do anything to keep that bitch alive’. “I recommended the ‘cocksucker, motherfucker, eat a bag of shit’ cadence, but the two gay guys in the platoon got all pissy about it.”
Others in the squad say that Andreesen is getting “butthurt for no reason.”
“I don’t really see the problem,” says Corporal Evan Winters. “I mean, Lance Corporal Troy fucks pumpkins and he seems just fine with it.”
After their run returned to San Mateo, the squad continued to bicker about whether pumpkins were vegetables or fruit.
There has been a lot of discussion behind the scenes about if we should post this. It’s not really military in nature but it is an indication of how twisted the Libtarded can become if left unsupervised. I figured it needs to be out there in Google land what many of us actually think about it.
An 11-year-old boy known as “Desmond Is Amazing” danced on stage at a New York gay bar while grown men tossed dollar bills at him.
“The pre-adolescent boy, dressed in drag to imitate singer Gwen Stefani, pranced around the stage at Brooklyn’s 3 Dollar Bill, an LGBT bar described as ‘queer owned & operated,’ and ‘Brooklyn’s Premiere Queer Bar & Performance Venue,’” LifeSiteNews reports.
For reasons that suddenly make sense, the bar enforces a strict ban on cell phone usage.
One Yelp reviewer wrote that the bar makes you “put your phone into a locked magnet pouch at the door, so it can’t be used while there. You can slip it into your pocket but can’t get in the pouch.”
Another explained it this way: “The club put our phones in these locked sleeves, which we could [carry] around the club.”
The first to report this about the sexual exploitation of this child was a YouTuber named Yosef Ozia, who connected all these dots based on the Yelp reviews:
WARNING: some may find this very disturbing.
As you can see in the video, this 11-year-old boy is dressed in drag and prancing around wearing a tank top as grown men cheer and throw money.
In even creepier news, “Desmond Is Amazing” has been celebrated by the establishment media.
The Daily Beast and NBC News have both gushed over what can only be described as the sexual exploitation of a child.
According to LifeSite, “ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ (GMA) recently devoted a segment to the boy during which his cross-dressing was celebrated as an example of individuality, and his parents were praised for their support of his drag hobby.”
The Daily Wire reports that this exploitation has been going on for years: “When Desmond was just six years old, he was featured in a music video with drag queen and Season Six winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race Jinkx Monsoon. As a fourth-grader, the child was used to advance the LGBT agenda, giving a speech at New York City’s Pride in 2017.”
According to Desmond’s biography, he came out as a homosexual — when he was born:
Desmond was born in June 2007, during NYC Pride Week, at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan. As he tells it, this means that he “is a member of the Village People by default”. He has also claimed that he “came out of the closet when he was born”. Desmond has a loving family and lives in New York City with his father, mother, and many pets. He also has an older sister. Desmond’s nickname at home is Desi.
In this same write up, though, Desmond’s parents claim they are just letting him do what he wants — that a therapist told them this is healthy. In other words, if he enjoys dressing like a girl, being an LGBT icon, and performing in drag, let him.
But it also says this [emphasis added]:
Although he wants everyone to express themselves as genuinely as possible, he is concerned about the growing trend of young teen and child drag performers to dress or act overly sexy or provocatively, much like their adult counterparts. He feels that it sends the wrong message about all young drag performers and results in added aggression, bullying, and hatred, not only from society, but from within the LGBTQ community itself. Although an often controversial topic, he would personally like to see more young people discovering a drag style that speaks to their personal truth, but is at the same time, more age appropriate.
So, in public, Desmond is presented as a child just doing what he loves but in a healthy way that is not “overly sexual” or “provocative,” in a manner that is “age appropriate.”
But at gay bars where your phone’s recording devices are disabled upon entry, 11-year-old Desmond’s parents have him dancing around on stage in a tank top while grown men hoot, holler, and throw money.
According to my watch, the Second Coming is already ten minutes late.
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Somebody try to explain why this kind of thing should not be treated as child abuse, grooming a victim, sexual exploitation of a child and some form of child pornography.
Yesterday Dave posted an article that kinda got stuck in my head. That was probably because Dave’s article contained some photos that IMO looked strikingly like a 1960s time-warp/burn-out/wannabe head case – like this one:
After seeing that, for some reason an old Bowie tune also got stuck in my head. No, not Space Oddity – this one:
But Bowie’s original lyrics didn’t match the article and its photos too well; they needed some changes to fit. So, without further ado . . . here ya go. Enjoy. (smile)
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Poser Daydreams
I’m an SF faker,
I’m a lying bastard comin’ at you
Phony Purple Heart, yeah,
I’ll be a lie-rocking b!tch for you
Keep your mouth shut
You’re exposing my lies to them all
And I‘ll really bust my ass when I fall
Hear those ‘lectric lies from me, babe
Suspend incredulity
Read my bullsh!t tales in print, and
Believe all my poser daydreams, oh yeah!
I fake it baby
Never get truth from me
Some bogus tall tales
Those are all you’ll get with me
Don’t check on me
Don’t see what my records say
Don’t prove me a fake today
Hear those ‘lectric lies from me, babe
Suspend incredulity
Read my bullsh!t tales in print, and
Believe all my poser daydreams, oh yeah!
Hear those ‘lectric lies from me, babe
Suspend incredulity
Read my bullsh!t tales in print, and
Believe all my poser daydreams, oh . . . .
Hear those ‘lectric lies from me, babe
Suspend incredulity
Read my bullsh!t tales in print, and
Believe all my poser daydreams, oh yeah!
I wanted to give a short update on things in general.
It has taken many of us to fill the void. Most of what we needed to do behind the scenes has been taken care of. TSO will finish the legal stuff here shortly. I realize that there have not been a lot of posers posted lately, that is on purpose and my fault. I apologize for the lapse but there are reasons for it. We will be back to exposing these fake and embellishing frauds very soon. Believe me, it’s not like there is a sudden shortage of them.
I make more than my share of mistakes. I realize things are not running as smoothly as they were when Jonn was alive…but we are getting there. I post what seems to serve the mission Jonn set for this blog. Yes, some articles are probably a bit of old news to some of you and other articles may be on the edge of acceptable to some others.
It’s all I can do some days to stop a certain woman with a gravy ladle from turning the site background pink and posting pictures of kitty cats chasing rainbows. This is going to hurt a little…she has done a remarkable job of keeping up with things behind the scenes. Thank you, Gravy Lady. You are the best EX I could ever hope for.
So many others have stepped up as well. Your submissions have been very, very, very helpful. AW1Ed is exactly the kind of person you want around when the shit hits the fan. He is thoughtful, well organized and the epidemy of what a team player should be. A huge ATTABOY goes out to Ed.
I have been trying to get a certain Lawyer to do her job for a change. I don’t think she likes me much. I tried to introduce myself to her. Caragh Fay pretends she is the authority on all things Beirut from time to time. Seems to me Caragh Fay likes to do it when there is something in it for her. Maybe she is just sweet on me…hard to tell at this point.
The Soviet may be correct about me when I try to multitask. She claims I can talk to people and piss them off all at the same time. I just get a little pissy when a lawyer who has made millions off of the blood of my dead brothers seems to think its ok to ignore the needs of so many others. How can someone know I am an Asshole without knowing me? Is it really that obvious?
In response to a recent comment, yes I do get embarrassed sometimes…but its not over anything to do with this blog. I try to read all of the comments, you people have issues too. Never met a better group of deplorable trouble causers in my life.
Forgive us if the content sucks or just gets thin from time to time. Most of us do have another life. Best regards to all, and most of all… THANK YOU FOR BELIEVING IN SOMETHING.
A certain Dr. Warren J. Blumenfeld thinks we are being too restrictive with who earns the title “Veteran”.
I have long thought, though, about whom our country includes in its socially-constructed category of “veteran.” Currently, that classification remains limited to those honorably serving in our armed forces. And yes, this service and this profession has traditionally been determined by our society as honorable and noble work.
Why, though, have we circumscribed the parameters of “veteran”? Why have we so limited its definition?
Thinking can be hard … for some. I have thoughts all the time.
Can we as a nation begin now to consider expanding the category of “veteran” to include the diplomats and the mediators, those working in conflict resolution, and activists dedicated to preventing wars and to bringing existing wars to diplomatic resolution once they have begun? What about the practitioners of non-violent resistance in the face of tyranny and oppression?
Individuals who stand up and put their lives on the line to defend our country from threats to our national security, as those in our nation’s military do, are true patriots and veterans. But true patriots and veterans are also those who speak out, stand up, and put their lives on the line by actively advocating for justice, freedom, and liberty through peaceful means.
Looking over the history of humanity, it is apparent that tyranny could only be countered through the raising of arms. On numerous occasions, however, diplomacy has been successful, and at other times, it should have been used more extensively before rushing to war.
It is unacceptable when one’s love of country is called into question when advocating for peaceful means of conflict resolution. It is also an act of patriotism to keep our brave troops out of harm’s way, and to work to create conditions and understanding that ultimately make war less likely.
