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Glacial Change In Political Correctness?

NO … BUT A SMALL WIN FOR CHRISTMAS Charlotte, N.C. is a “progressive” city – part of the “New South.”  It is also home to many financial elites of the Democratic Party – who helped the city host the 2012 Democratic National Convention. In other words, it’s the last place…

NO … BUT A SMALL WIN FOR CHRISTMAS

Charlotte, N.C. is a “progressive” city – part of the “New South.”  It is also home to many financial elites of the Democratic Party – who helped the city host the 2012 Democratic National Convention.

In other words, it’s the last place you’d expect to see people take a stand against the wave of political correctness sweeping the nation.

Wait …. did we say wave?  We meant to say “glacier.”

At a time when the global warming myth is facing fresh scrutiny (thanks to data showing surging ice creation in Antarctica), there is one glacier that’s “melting.”

Several days ago, reporter Katherine Peralta of The Charlotte Observer published a story in which it was revealed the city’s Southpark Mall would be replacing its Christmas tree with … a glacier.  And with no tree, the mall would obviously no longer be holding its annual tree-lighting ceremony.

According to Southpark’s parent company, Simons Malls, the goal of the glacier was to make the holiday shopping experience “fresh and exciting.”

Wow …

We wonder: Is there a room where these people get together each year before the holidays and ask each other: “What can we do this year to erase Christmas?”

Anyway … even in deep blue Charlotte this glacial change was a bridge too far.  Social media exploded in opposition to the proposal – and many customers threatened to boycott the mall.

“Southpark Mall and Simons Malls have decided to abandon a long standing tradition of having a Christmas tree in the center of the mall and Christmas tree lighting ceremony,” a petition on Change.org noted.  “We, the community of Charlotte, feel this is in poor taste and needs to be corrected.  As the Christmas shopping season begins, we feel Simons mall surely doesn’t want to lose customers over changing a long standing tradition.”

As of this writing, the petition had drawn nearly 25,000 signatures …

Faced with mounting public pressure, the mall ultimately yielded and decided to yank the glacier – promising to put up the traditional Christmas tree.

“Our focus is on ‘Spreading Love’ which is the theme throughout all of our shopping centers during the holiday season and we are looking forward to celebrating the holidays with our shoppers as we do every year,” a spokesman for the mall’s parent company said in a statement.

Jeez …

Christmas hasn’t been on the winning end of a lot of PR battles in recent years … but it’s nice to see it finally holding some ground.  It’s especially encouraging to see it doing so in a hotbed of liberalism.

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159 comments

shifty henry November 9, 2015 at 9:24 am

Just another effort towards the cleansing and purification of America — to be replaced by … (???).

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Rakkasan November 9, 2015 at 10:15 am

Joshua Feuerstein’s America: where you make them write Merry Christmas on your coffee cup while you show them that you are carrying. Because, Jesus

Check it out

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shifty henry November 9, 2015 at 10:30 am

Just checked with Cousin Judge in DeKalb County, AL (Ft. Payne). Want a CWP and you’re 62 or older? The fee for obtaining a pistol permit is( $25.00 for persons between the ages of 18-61), and $1.00 for persons aged 62 or older and can be bought up to 1-5 years from date of issue.

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Rakkasan November 9, 2015 at 10:33 am

And it comes with a free subscription to Faux News to keep em’ scared. Alert! alert! you old white people. Get more guns, videos cameras around your house, security system for you house. And they also have a special this month on gold. Not kidding. The price is dropping dramatically

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shifty henry November 9, 2015 at 10:43 am

I’ve met some those ‘old white people’ who carry, even to church services. And a lot were women, some of whom also have tasers.

stumpknocker November 9, 2015 at 10:47 am

if i were to carry a gun to church, my body may be there but i would be leaving my soul at the door steps to a house of God.

shifty henry November 9, 2015 at 11:04 am

I didn’t see any open carry when I visited churches, but they were probably kept in their vehicles. That’s a widely rural area and many folks live on farms and there are things to tend to even on Sundays. Snakes, cougars, coyotes, and bears are everywhere. Lots of elderly widows who live alone in those parts. I’ve seen a few of them shooting and they are comfortable around firearms because they grew up with them.

stumpknocker November 9, 2015 at 11:08 am

oh hell that does’nt count when i grew up in bamburg county, everybody had a rifle or a shotgun in their truck during deer hunting season, i’m talking about intent to bring a gun into a house of God, and then i’m talking about me and my relationship with Jesus.

Rakkasan November 9, 2015 at 11:32 am

You were hangin’ with Nikki? Whoa!

sparklecity November 9, 2015 at 10:39 pm

Fuck dude, where I came from they HANDLED snakes and not a gun in sight!!!!!!
Bullshit on worrying about snakes,cougars or coyotes fucking up a service!!!
“Lions, Tigers, and Bears…OH MY!!!!”

shifty henry November 9, 2015 at 11:32 pm

(snakes,cougars or coyotes ) — no, not in church, but on their properties – farms, woodlands, and so forth ……

sparklecity November 9, 2015 at 10:36 pm

Very well put………………

Rakkasan November 9, 2015 at 10:50 am

They use them on each other after they get too excited about Jeeeesus. If they only had Church Resource Officers. End of problem

Rocky Verdad November 9, 2015 at 10:51 am

Now now, let’s not make fun of women.

Rocky Verdad November 9, 2015 at 10:50 am

Oh, that could be fun.

west_rhino November 9, 2015 at 2:41 pm

and they are kinda kinky old women…

sparklecity November 9, 2015 at 10:35 pm

Pathetic actually………….
After being in 3 wars, the day I carry a weapon into a church is the day before I quit going to church

shifty henry November 9, 2015 at 11:35 pm

No, I don’t know, or think, they carried into the church but probably had them in their vehicles…

euwe max November 9, 2015 at 9:29 am

No political correctness is the new political correctness.

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Daniel Boome November 9, 2015 at 9:58 am

Maybe it’s because Democrats are scum.

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euwe max November 9, 2015 at 11:57 pm

Maybe.

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TroubleBaby November 9, 2015 at 10:29 am

lol…that’s very true…one extreme to the next…it’s a giant pendulum with an axe on the end swinging over the body politic.

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Fecal Matters November 9, 2015 at 9:32 am

Secularism aside, what is fresh and exciting about a “glacier” theme that looks more like half baked set pieces from a science fiction themed porn movie? If it looked a goddamn thing like a glacier or some sort of winter wonderland, I could understand the redress of the set, but it just looks dumb.

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Rocky Verdad November 9, 2015 at 9:36 am

Looks like a Mall. Or are you watching JC Porny

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shifty henry November 9, 2015 at 9:48 am

‘JC Porny’ —- How many days was Mrs. Rocky gone?

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Rocky Verdad November 9, 2015 at 10:54 am

Too many!!!

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Fecal Matters November 9, 2015 at 10:11 am

Yes, the area behind the space aged porn set does indeed look like a mall. Thank you captain obvious.

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Rocky Verdad November 9, 2015 at 10:55 am

I’m not needed right now, but when I am, use the app.

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shifty henry November 9, 2015 at 9:46 am

‘ it just looks dumb.’ —- 10+

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stumpknocker November 9, 2015 at 9:38 am

i have’nt been in a mall for over 20 years, do they still suck as bad as they did in the 90s?

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God's Waiting Room November 9, 2015 at 9:48 am

Tell the nurses you want the shuttle to take you to the mall instead of Walmart next week.

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stumpknocker November 9, 2015 at 9:56 am

i am in a time out and cant leave the home.tried to steal my room mates new bra.

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stumpknocker November 9, 2015 at 9:56 am

hello fake stumpknocker

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BoogieMenz November 9, 2015 at 9:41 am

Is this the work of the Secular Progressives that Ben Carson is so scared of?

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flip November 9, 2015 at 9:52 am

The devil’s weapon of choice is hate. He must foment hate, LIKE most liberals on FitsNews. Today, that hate is coming from secular progressives who seek social justice. The things that were once loving, moral and trustworthy, including marriage, manhood, military service, freedom of speech, witnessing, the Bible and, yes, freedom itself, are now hateful.

Don’t let them fool you with the term “new normal.” Their new normal is nothing but the old abnormal.

Hitler fueled a frenzy of hatred by blaming anything and everything bad on the Jews. He created a new form of right and wrong that made it your duty to hate Jews.

Today, as it was in Nazi Germany, only one side of the story is allowed in the media. Only one narrative is legal. That narrative redefines every element of our daily lives.

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shifty henry November 9, 2015 at 9:57 am

The “Democratic Party” together with the
Piss-ant in Chief and the Cockroach Brigades are only following the pattern that allowed Hitler and the Nazis to take over and control Germany. They
read the same book I did.

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stumpknocker November 9, 2015 at 10:03 am

mein fits?

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shifty henry November 9, 2015 at 10:11 am

A lady friend of mine has the book, which I will try to borrow this week to read again. Right now I can’t remember the title or the author.

Rakkasan November 9, 2015 at 10:41 am

You must know Curly. He said, “I tried to think but nuttin’ happened”

Later Taters November 9, 2015 at 10:12 am

No wonder you old white racists are done.
You sound stupid as hell.

stumpknocker November 9, 2015 at 10:13 am

it’s not that i sound stupid, it is more like you are easily confused.

Derp November 9, 2015 at 10:16 am

LOL!
That’s what I’m talking about!

Rakkasan November 9, 2015 at 10:29 am

Odd. Seems like that’s Trump’s playbook to me. Target a group of disaffected and disenchanted people who are pissed, resentful, and afraid they have “lost their country”. Promise them that you will restore their country and their pride and dignity and give them hope. Scapegoat and target an ethnic group and other “forces” as the cause for their fear, anger and resentment. Tell them that you will take care of the people and forces that are the cause of their loss and pain. Tell them they are justified in hating and attacking these people and forces.

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Daniel Boome November 9, 2015 at 10:31 am

And that’s different from what Obama did how?

Rakkasan November 9, 2015 at 1:03 pm

If I need to explain it to you, then that tells me that no amount of fact or evidence is going to change your blind hate for Obama.

Daniel Boome November 9, 2015 at 1:24 pm

As opposed to your “blind hate” for Trump? My only point in asking the question was to draw out the point that you could twist any person’s issues into a way to make it seem like what they’re doing is targeting a certain group of malcontents and preying on their fears. I could absolutely substitute Obama for Trump in your post and find a way to support it in some manipulative way. But it doesn’t matter, I wouldn’t do that because it diverts from the facts of the issues Obama supports and why I disagree with them. You can disagree with Trump all you want on immigration or whatever, but framing it in the way you do just makes your opposition look petty and unprincipled.

Fecal Matters November 9, 2015 at 10:34 am

You have to admit, the “glacier” set that looks nothing like a glacier, is pretty stupid.

shifty henry November 9, 2015 at 10:36 am

FEAR is an extreme emotion, especially if it is about something you may personally lose. It affects everyone, from the wealthy to the poor and those who suck on the government’s teats.

Rakkasan November 9, 2015 at 10:40 am

“…and those who suck on the government’s teats.”

Who did you have in mind there Shifty? Send the message in the clear; no need for code

erneba November 9, 2015 at 12:39 pm

Shifty, no more of that shifty code talk, please. This blog is getting to the point where people are just looking for ways to twist what you say into something negative. Don’t let the asses stop you, keep up it, if people fake outrage, and then try to contort what you mean, just tell them to ‘go fuck yourself.” it will maintain congeniality and for some of us, a sense of humor.
And remember, there is no right “to be not offended.”
And you are the least offensive person on this blog, I think?

shifty henry November 9, 2015 at 1:23 pm

Thanks, I appreciate your support. I’m not offended because sometimes what I post doesn’t come out like I mean it. Perhaps in the back of my mind the reminder of the two moments in my life that I now remember when I saw a ghost. The adult time caused my blood to turn to ice water (yes, it really happens!).

sparklecity November 9, 2015 at 11:08 pm

I’ve seen some shit you can’t explain myself……………
Both times the same location (a bridge where someone was murdered, several fatal auto accidents and a drowning of an old classmate of mine).

shifty henry November 9, 2015 at 11:51 pm

At times I have wondered if my brain and sensory perceptions are interrupted for a billionth of a second. I had a girlfriend who lived near the VA Hospital while I lived in St. Andrews — we tried some esp tests that were frighteningly accurate. Also, experiencing Deja vu…..

shifty henry November 9, 2015 at 1:45 pm

Sometimes what we hear and what we think we understand just don’t exactly agree:

——————————–

A wife came downstairs with a basket full of dirty laundry and asked her husband, “Will you watch the baby while I put it in the washing machine?” she asked.

“Watch it! Hell yes! I want to film it!” he replied.
————

Wife: I just put our laundry in the fridge. I
think I’m retarded sometimes.
Husband: I do that all the time!
Wife: Put laundry in the fridge?
Husband: No, think you’re retarded.

Rakkasan November 9, 2015 at 12:41 pm

Fear is not an extreme emotional. It’s a normal reaction. It becomes a problem when your efforts to cope and adapt are ineffectual, self-defeating, or self destructive. It is also becomes a problem when the degree and severity of the sense of threat is out of proportion with the real threat (read PTSD).

shifty henry November 9, 2015 at 1:18 pm

OK, I was making a quick reply. I’ll amend it from “is an” to “can be”.

TARevolution November 9, 2015 at 10:09 am

One of the THE MOST eloquent soliloquies ever posted. BRAVO…Thank you. This site does not deserve such intellectually based, inspired words. Well thought and well said.

If the GOP had more who could articulate that well, it would blow the Leftwing Gestapo out of the water. Onward and Upward…may the NEW Revolution win back our nation, and heal it from the Obama-Filth and failure that has embraced us since Nov. 2008.

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Rocky Verdad November 9, 2015 at 10:52 am

Yeah, I can’t believe he posted it here, it should have gone to a sit worthy of such intellectually based inspired words – like maybe South Carolina Political Digestion?

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flip November 9, 2015 at 11:10 am

Thank you sir.Coming from you its means something.

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TARevolution November 9, 2015 at 12:05 pm

You are welcome. Not only do you present indisputable data (as it relates to Democrat losses under Obama) you can apply it w/ a practical purpose. Those are valuable – and much needed- analytical skills.

If I fire SCPD back up, I’d be honored to have someone of your intelligence and eloquence contribute. I may even plug into an ad funding source when I bring it back. I didn’t last time, even though the hit counts were astronomical some days.

The piece on the Sanford Confession Anniversary is still legend. And any true reporting on Chief Democrat Steve Benjamin was off-the-charts.

FITS is becoming so-liberal-establishment lockstep, it’s becoming much more tempting to re-engage real, HONEST, and out-of-the-box political commentary and news. SC DESPERATELY needs that FRESH and pro-American perspective.

flip November 9, 2015 at 12:10 pm

I would love to contribute.

The Buzzman November 9, 2015 at 12:21 pm

You guys … get a fucking room!

Bye Bye November 9, 2015 at 10:15 am

I love reading the dying gasps of stupid racists. This has been a really fun year, watching you guys implode.

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White House Black Market November 9, 2015 at 10:27 am

They still can’t get over the black man in the oval orifice. He’s going to stretch it out so that it doesn’t feel as snug for the future white presidents.

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Sic Semper Tyrannis November 9, 2015 at 10:33 am

Don’t forget, he’ll be taking the furniture, silverware, and towels with him, LOL !

flip November 9, 2015 at 11:09 am

Secret Service says the Obama’s eat with their toes in the wH and won’t need towels cause they only shower during Ramadamn?

nick November 9, 2015 at 10:51 am

Half black, Harvard educated man i believe you meant to say

Rocky Verdad November 9, 2015 at 10:52 am

Who got a real scholarship?

flip November 9, 2015 at 11:08 am

Michelle says he smells badly. They will have to fumigate the damn place.

Rakkasan November 9, 2015 at 10:18 am

Flippy-Do Flippy-Do. Whatcha do when they come you for?

Pretty catchy

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flip November 9, 2015 at 11:07 am

Come find me SUPER pussy.

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RAkkasan November 9, 2015 at 11:17 am

You have a Super Pussy too? Damn!

“I’m your mama, I’m your daddy, I’m your asshole in the alley. I’m your Super Pussy.” Sing with us!!

Devil's Weapon of Choice November 9, 2015 at 10:25 am

If the devil’s weapon of choice is hate you and GrandTango must be his Little Boy and Fat Man.

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Sic Semper Tyrannis November 9, 2015 at 10:28 am

That is funny !

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flip November 9, 2015 at 11:06 am

Nice avatar.Does the family know you are using it?

mamatiger92 November 9, 2015 at 10:38 am

+10

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flip November 9, 2015 at 11:05 am

mamabitch rides again!

mamatiger92 November 9, 2015 at 11:14 am

xoxox

Superfly November 9, 2015 at 9:47 am

Sounds like a great episode of South Park. Where’s my mall gone?

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The Colonel November 9, 2015 at 9:50 am

“…Charlotte, N.C. is a “progressive” city – part of the “New South…”

Charlotte is no more part of the “South” than Miami is. “Progressive” is an accurate assessment if “progressive” means that every idiotic social agenda/ political correctness from LBGT bathrooms to suspending kids for playing cops and robbers on the playground.

Will the last real Southerner please turn out the lights when you leave? (are there any left?)

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shifty henry November 9, 2015 at 9:52 am

Shifty here — still kickin’ and fussin’

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Rakkasan November 9, 2015 at 10:08 am

Clan shrinking? Talk to your physician about some little red pills (blue ones are for something else shrinking).

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The Colonel November 9, 2015 at 10:41 am

I lived in Charlotte for seven miserable years from 2000-2007. Taught at UNCC, lived three miles from Campus wife worked from home.

It usually took me 30+ minutes to go the three miles down Hwy 29 if I was unfortunate enough to leave during “rush hour(s)”. Lived in a decent neighborhood outside the city limits when I bought the house and inside the city limits just over 365 days later. Crappy subdivisions being slapped up willy nilly with no thought to traffic or infrastructure. Money thrown away on the Lynx transit system – supposed to cost 1 billion, will wind up having cost 8 billion when it’s finished. The only real purpose it serves is to move domestic help from south Charlotte into Myers park. The system has never met ridership projections and the city spent 8 billion to give 16,000 people a ride M-F (they could have bought all 16,000 of them a $500,000 helicopter for the same money)

As a kid I lived off of Independence Blvd/Rama Road for a couple of years in what was then a great neighborhood – now it’s a a dump because of the difficulty in getting in and out of the area.

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TroubleBaby November 9, 2015 at 10:44 am

I use to listen to Hancock on WBT all the time ranting all over that….lol…Charlotte tragically mismanaged its growth and had so much revenue coming in that it actually felt compelled to spend it on a ton of bullshit/mismanagement.

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The Colonel November 9, 2015 at 10:48 am

I’ll still tune him in when I’m in that area – though trips to Bass pro and Gander Mountain aren’t as frequent anymore.

Rakkasan November 9, 2015 at 10:47 am

No wonder you deployed. It was a step up.

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The Colonel November 9, 2015 at 10:52 am

When I left for the first one in ’03, there was snow on the ground and my youngest was about 3 days old. He could walk when I got back and there was a whole new subdivision across the Hwy from mine. Average house in my neighborhood was about $300,000 – across the Hwy, they were about $180k+-. When I was by there last, both sides were filled with “for sale” signs and the average going rate was under $225k. Much of the city has recovered from the housing bubble but traffic woes were really hurting the NE area above UNCC. I fortunately got out before getting killed on the sale but that’s the only house I’ve ever owned that I didn’t make a good profit on.

Rakkasan November 9, 2015 at 10:57 am

Better a new subdivision there than a new guy living in your house and your kid calls you “Uncle Daddy”.

Actually, nothing more sad and pathetic than a guy who returns and tells his wife he will raise the other guys (Jody to me and you) kid like he would his own; just don’t leave. I’ve heard it.

The Colonel November 9, 2015 at 11:16 am

Me too.

shifty henry November 9, 2015 at 11:18 am

A boy, on his 12th birthday, asks his mother, “Mother, I’ve grown up without a father, and you promised me that on my 12th birthday you would tell me who my real father is.”

His mother says, “Yes, my son, it happened this way. In a certain state where I was living, there is a certain town. In that certain town is a certain saloon. In that certain saloon I met a certain man.”

Excitedly the boy says, “Oh yes, yes! And he’s my father?”

His mother replies, “Actually, I’m not certain!”

sparklecity November 9, 2015 at 10:20 pm

Fuck dude………,
Linx is the best 3 bucks you can spend for a “cheap day return” – parking is free and you can ride all day long for bar crawls or sports/conference events.
I see shitloads of folks riding who are not “domestic help” riding Linx.=========l bullshit on you on this one fer sure……

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sparklecity November 9, 2015 at 10:22 pm

Correction:
I CALL bullshit on you for this one fer sure………………

The Colonel November 9, 2015 at 10:22 pm

Drunks, footballers, sight seers, tourists, maids, janitors…

sparklecity November 9, 2015 at 10:56 pm

Wrong o………..A lot you know & I’m not surprised at your assessment.
Stay in Columbia where the living is dull………………..

The Colonel November 9, 2015 at 11:31 pm

I’ve ridden the damn thing many times going back to when it was a faux trolley.

TroubleBaby November 9, 2015 at 10:28 am

I lived in Charlotte from around 2000 to 2002 which was a interesting time. I got to see the transition from a city with a great quality of life to a traffic clogged infestation where property values went ape shit prior to the housing bubble being pricked.

Pat McCrory back then was talking about Charlotte becoming the “next Atlanta”….ugh…I was soooo glad to cash out and leave.

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Charlotte's Section 8 Web November 9, 2015 at 10:34 am

I had to go up there on business once. Got off on the right side of the exit, stopped by the warehouse to drop some stuff off. Looked decent enough of an area. I crossed the bridge to get back on the interstate but decided to get gas at the station right next to the onramp. I felt like I was deep in the ghetto, all kinds of questionable characters just hanging around, old shitty housing falling apart, people yelling angrily in the background. I grew up in a rough neighborhood but even I was a bit fearful for my safety.

Charlotte’s got a lot all right, and they can keep it.

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shifty henry November 9, 2015 at 10:38 am

‘all kinds of questionable characters just hanging around’ —— Jim and Tammy Faye?

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Rocky Verdad November 9, 2015 at 10:48 am

Did you MAKE that UP?

The Colonel November 9, 2015 at 10:58 am

Jim Bakker and the Pass The Loot Club!

sparklecity November 9, 2015 at 10:12 pm

Don’t be plagiarizing “Murphy in the Morning”!!!!!!
I’m on to you…………….

The Colonel November 9, 2015 at 10:14 pm

I was singing “Pass The Loot” in 1976. Barker and Tammy were well known as frauds by then.

sparklecity November 9, 2015 at 10:53 pm

Murphy in the Morning had that bit back on “BIG WAYS/WROQ” back in 1975………

Ouch My Balls November 9, 2015 at 11:42 am

Sounds like that area that Donald Gist Jr. was hanging out in a few years ago.

TroubleBaby November 9, 2015 at 10:42 am

You were probably somewhere near Remount if you were headed south/back home. Not a great area.

I kept a rental property there for a few years after I left because of the property value ascension(near Queens college), which paid off well as I got lucky and timed it right by selling in 05’….Charlotte had some really nice areas too…but it’s just ridiculous now. I hate going back, which I only do now and then to pick up relatives flying from out of the country now and then.

I make domestic relatives fly into Columbia or Augusta(Augusta is a great small airport, far better than Columbia)

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The Colonel November 9, 2015 at 10:46 am

Next Atlanta – ha!

Who’d want to live in Atlanta these days? When I left for good in 1980, I never looked or went back except to cut through on my way somewhere else.

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TroubleBaby November 9, 2015 at 10:46 am

You don’t find 5 lines of bumper to bumper traffic appealing?

:)

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The Colonel November 9, 2015 at 10:56 am

The one nice thing about growing up and learning to drive in Atlanta was if you could drive there, you can drive anywhere. I-285, bumper to bumper, 10 lanes wide doing 75-80 miles an hour as if there was a checkered flag somewhere…

TroubleBaby November 9, 2015 at 10:57 am

I’m sure growing up there 40 years ago was a vastly different experience from what it has become.

stumpknocker November 9, 2015 at 11:04 am

i lived off holdcom bridge road, they had to have a cop at every light all the way to 400 because during rush hour nobody would stop at the red lights to let you in.

The Colonel November 9, 2015 at 11:37 am

LaVista, We moved there in ’66, moved away and back twice in the intervening 12 years. Went from a sleepy two lane to 5-6 lanes with the shortest on and off ramps in the world.

sparklecity November 9, 2015 at 10:09 pm

obviously y
it’s tame nowou’ve never driven on 74 east in Charlotte back in the 70’s & 80’s..
I took a guy from Chicago up to Charlotte for a night out back in the 80’s and he was white as a sheet while I was going from stop light to stop light on 74 east (Independence Boulevard). He told me he never saw anything like it back in Chicago….
It’s tame now……….

The Colonel November 9, 2015 at 10:11 pm

Lived off Independence from about’72-’77.

sparklecity November 9, 2015 at 10:32 pm

Drove on independence from Bragg to Spartanburg a shitload till I found a way around it after aggressing Green berets during “Gobbler Woods” back in 1972
Then lived in Staley county in 79 not to mention weekend party/dating jaunts from 1975 – 1984 up I-85 from Spartanburg ( I sure as fuck wasn’t going to Columbia that ‘s for sure)
Back in my day it was either Charlotte or Atlanta for a hot weekend – not fucking Columbia or Charleston!!!!!

shifty henry November 10, 2015 at 12:35 am

Back in the old days you needed a whole day to travel 50 miles. Then the car was invented and people needed half an hour for the same distance.

So what have they done with the saved time?
They’ve built more cars and now they need a whole day again

stumpknocker November 9, 2015 at 10:49 am

i left in the 80s too, never been back and never looked back.

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west_rhino November 9, 2015 at 2:40 pm

the Joe Riley giltterazzi tha tare trying to turn Chucktowne into a Disneyfied Atlanta… Rhett Butler is turning ove rin his grave!

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sparklecity November 9, 2015 at 10:04 pm

Ditto for Columbia (as far as it being a place to go around on the way to Wilmington, NC via I-20 or I-26 to I-95 on the way to Florida……)
if I could afford to I’d take a house near Chastain Park any day over the best that ass-hole Columbia has to offer!!!!!

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Limbaughsaphatkhunt November 9, 2015 at 11:18 pm

I am no fan of Charlotte (this story notwithstanding) either. My sister lives there with her family and the city has no soul. No vibe. No intimacy about it. Its wall to wall brick homes all look the same, all neighborhoods look the same…all homogeneous…all cookie cutter…all stepford wives.

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The Colonel November 9, 2015 at 11:33 pm

Spot on assessment – no soul.

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sparklecity November 9, 2015 at 10:00 pm

As a West by God Virginia hillbilly I say who gives a shit if you are “southern” or not????
Fuck Columbia or Charleston…(except for the zoo in Columbia that is….) And I’ve spent a good bit of money in every one of the afore mentioned ‘cities”
I’ll take Charlotte any day of the week………………and it is southern but you’ve got to be a “local” to know where it is…..Charlotte is part of the Piedmont from Georgia to Virginia and an integral part of the “silver crescent”
If you ain’t part of the I-85 corridor you ain’t shit!!

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The Colonel November 9, 2015 at 10:09 pm

So making the logical continuation, if you’re part of the I-85 corridor, you are shit!

I’d move to Sparkleburg before I’d move back to Charlotte.

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sparklecity November 9, 2015 at 10:48 pm

Carrying the “logical continuation”one step further, logic dictates that a move to Spartanburg would be an improvement from residing in asswipe Columbia now wouldn’t it?????

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Limbaughsaphatkhunt November 9, 2015 at 11:14 pm

Fair point. Southerners and bigotry still go hand in hand…let alone the penchant for clinging to willful ignorance.

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TARevolution November 9, 2015 at 10:04 am

It’s just the beginning FITS. Just the beginning. Expect to get your Fucking teeth kicked in, you liberal ass-kisser.

America is tired of a minority of dictators, like you…trying to bully us. You attacked Dr. Carson with the usual Bullshit lies you run every time, but we’ll fight back this time. Be prepared for war…or go hide you effeminate little Democrat ass in your panty drawer.

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stumpknocker November 9, 2015 at 10:07 am

your last name has to be Custer, come on fess up it’s Custer ain’t it?

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shifty henry November 9, 2015 at 10:16 am

Ask him to reveal what the ‘T’ and ‘A’ stand for….

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stumpknocker November 9, 2015 at 10:18 am

bad visual, really bad visual, not only is it scary it is totally uncalled for.

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Rakkasan November 9, 2015 at 10:22 am

Total Asshat?

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shifty henry November 9, 2015 at 10:39 am

That’s my first real laugh this week!

I See Dumb People November 9, 2015 at 10:24 am

Who cares? You people will survive if one little place has one less Christmas tree.

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Daniel Boome November 9, 2015 at 10:33 am

True but apparently you’ve never heard the phrase “Give ’em an inch and they’ll take it a hundred miles”.

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Inches Versus Miles November 9, 2015 at 10:43 am

Inches and miles mean nothing, people aren’t entitled to have Christmas trees everywhere they go. The only thing you are entitled to is putting up Christmas decorations on your own property. All this whining about political correctness is really pathetic. You don’t see Jewish people threatening to boycott businesses because they don’t have a menorah on display, because they aren’t spoiled children acting like the world owes it to them.

The real political correctness is social conservatives whining that because some underpaid store clerk waiting for their shift to be over failed to wish them a merry Christmas that their “culture” is under assault by godless heathens. The most pampered class of people in this country acting like they are more persecuted than the North Korean people. What a flipping joke.

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Daniel Boome November 9, 2015 at 11:01 am

Inches and miles would mean nothing if anybody was arguing that they were entitled to Christmas trees, but they’re not. It’s simply the market speaking and objecting to change in the product based on the objections of a minority. Conservatives don’t object when store clerks don’t say Merry Christmas, they object when certain clerks STOP saying it (if they had previously said) just because they are kowtowing to a whiny minority of people who are “offended” at “Merry Christmas”. That’s where you are confusing the issue. The businesses can do whatever they want, that’s not the issue. Nobody is forcing the businesses to bow down to anybody, just voicing their objection to change.

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shifty henry November 9, 2015 at 11:33 am

‘Inches and miles would mean nothing ‘ —
Richard Pryor had a skit where he talked about wives giving grief to their husbands when they visited them in jail with a barrier between them:

Wife: I never did like your mother!

Husband: Aaaargh! Well, when I get out of here I’m finding me some new pussy!

Wife: If you had another inch you’d find some new pussy right here!

Mad Cow Boy November 9, 2015 at 10:48 am

Some people are just asses. You happen to be one of them. Own it. Live it. Be the ass you are meant to be!

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Grinch November 9, 2015 at 10:50 am

Somebody’s got to be an asshole to the assholes.

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RAkkasan November 9, 2015 at 10:52 am

Is that your version of “scissoring”? Sad.

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stumpknocker November 9, 2015 at 10:57 am

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzKA BAM!

Rakkasan November 9, 2015 at 11:12 am

Wow. Zen assholeism. Or is it assholeity? “Relax. Relax. Center yourself and BE the asshole”. I know there’s money to be made here. Open up the Hershey Highway Center for Zen Assholeism. New converts can sign up for the basic course which teaches them to focus on THEIR asshole, nobody else’s; learn to distinguish between the Sphincter Quiver and Roids Rumble and the Winker Wobble. The advance course teaches how to loosen a tight asshole to reduce stress. The master asshole tells you from the beginning, “When you can blow this candle flame out with your ass from 25 feet, you will be ready to leave.”

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Bible Thumper November 9, 2015 at 10:50 am

I want to firmly state my unqualified support of the “Pagan” Christmas tree.

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stumpknocker November 9, 2015 at 10:53 am

is it tacky for them to put it up before thanksgiving too?

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Bible Thumper November 9, 2015 at 11:20 am

Tacky? It’s sacrilege!

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shifty henry November 9, 2015 at 11:25 am

This drunk gets on a bus and asks the driver how long the trip is between Columbia and Charleston.

“About two hours,” says the driver.

“OK,” says the drunk “then how long is the trip between Charleston and Columbia?

The irate driver says to the drunk “It’s still about two hours. Why’d you think there’d be a difference?”

“Well,” says the drunk, “It’s only a week between Christmas and New Year, but it’s a long time between New Year and Christmas!”

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Tennessee November 9, 2015 at 11:02 am

The malls of the US have been dying over the last few years. These malls enjoy a boatload of tax breaks via investment vehicles such as REIT’s in which much of the income is passed on to investors tax-free. It makes sense that they want to stay PC to make sure the ever increasing PC pols keep these tax breaks around. I have also heard that the glacier is actually a giant crack rock that those in the know can freely use each time they visit. They suspect this will create new clientele and a boom in repeat customers. Everybody wins.

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TroubleBaby November 9, 2015 at 11:04 am

“I have also heard that the glacier is actually a giant crack rock that those in the know can freely use each time they visit”

Crack always scared the shit out of me, so I never tried it…but that right there is mighty tempting.

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tomstickler November 9, 2015 at 11:22 am

Serendipitously, I was up past my bedtime last night, having gotten hooked on a marathon of the new season of South Park. It has to be more than coincidence that the article above is about Southpark Mall and “political correctness.”

Start here and see how PC progresses in South Park with Cartman, Stan and the rest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunning_and_Brave

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Manray9 November 9, 2015 at 11:22 am

The War on Christmas is another imaginary conspiracy hatched in the fervid minds of America’s rightist lunatic fringe. Want to know what happened? Some marketing weenies were tasked with coming up with new ideas for Christmas decor. Some 24 year old window-dresser, with a degree in interior design or marketing from NC State, came up with what they thought was a clever new take on a Christmas theme. They didn’t count of the right-wing fundamentalist over-reaction.

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berg November 9, 2015 at 11:27 am

I saw where they are even complaining about Starbucks coffee cups. Just a red cup this year with no design. Big Deal.
The bit I could find about this glacier design – is it had interactive elements to it (not sure what) and every 30 minutes a light and sound show.

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The Buzzman November 9, 2015 at 11:48 am

I thought the War on Christmas was something that Bill O’Reilly made up. Then along come the dumbasses that run that mall to prove me wrong.

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Come On, Really? November 9, 2015 at 11:48 am

“According to Southpark’s parent company, Simons Malls, the goal of the glacier was to make the holiday shopping experience “fresh and exciting.””

Its funny to me that a mall doesnt make the connection with -Christmas- shopping and the boost in revenue they get during the holidays. Other religions dont spend nearly as much. With malls failing across the country this is just stupid.

Its one thing to accept that other religions have festivals that correlate with the winter solstice, because they all do. And we should be mindful of that when it comes to things like displays in public schools or government buildings. But its another thing to assume that the consumerism associated with the holidays isnt entirely driven by Christmas

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nitrat November 9, 2015 at 11:55 am

It should all shake out in the free market, right?

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sparklecity November 9, 2015 at 11:04 pm

Southpark Mall has had “new age” shit for years as part of the “holiday theme”
Nothing new about that………

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nitrat November 9, 2015 at 11:54 am

I love it!

The fundamentalist, small government, Libertarian business-is-the-other-god-we-should-all-kneel-down-to Christians who claim THEIR religious freedom is under attack, harass businesses OWNERS to bend them to THEIR beliefs!

Don’t the mall OWNERS have the same religious rights – which includes the right to be free OF religion – as Hobby Lobby – ?

And, even better is that they emulate the tried and true Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton shake down tactics to do it!

No doubt they are fully cognizant of THAT fact and will claim reverse racism if they are called on it.

I love it all!

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west_rhino November 9, 2015 at 2:38 pm

if ” focus is on ‘Spreading Love’” maybe it is the it’ll be a cold day in hell side of lovin…

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Quietus November 9, 2015 at 3:55 pm

Red Starbucks cup, I fill you up
Let’s wake up, let’s wake up
I love you red Starbucks cup, I don’t really see you
Proceed to wake up, proceed to wake up

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Limbaughsaphatkhunt November 9, 2015 at 11:12 pm

File under yawn…same for the Starbucks cups.

Anyway..Happy Holidays to all :-)

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