Posted on 05/30/2014 1:38:59 AM PDT by iowamark
How convenient.
He has PC Alzheimer’s: forgetting which things are politically incorrect to talk about.
I think the dynamic is if you are perceived as racist, you are mentally ill and will be treated as such. And we don’t want the mentally ill to have weapons, now do we???
Glad that Magic’s attempt using his pawn “V” to buy Clippers at a fire sale price totally failed.
That linkage is already happening. Look at the drive to have the records of PTSD vets who seek counseling used to deny them the right to own guns or the possibility that under Obamacare, medical records would be integrated with other government data bases to make determinations as the government sees fit.
Yep. Soon we will all be mentally ill. But I’ve been mentally ill since Obama was elected. I am sure I will recover once he is out of the WH.:)
Sterling’s going to be laughing at the NBA all the way to the bank —
I wonder what happened? The other bids were much lower:
On Thursday, Ballmer outbid two groups, one led by media mogul David Geffen that offered $1.6bn and included TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey and Oracle chief executive, Larry Ellison, a source close to the process told Reuters. A group of Los Angeles investors also bid $1.2bn for the team. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/30/steve-ballmer-buys-donald-sterling-los-angeles-clippers-nba?CMP=twt_gu
Sounds like the auction fell apart when Ballmer jumped up to 2 bil. You can sometimes do that at an auction -- jump the price quickly and make people consider whether they really want to go there.
Also possible that there are other problems that made other high rollers bow out. They use 2 arenas, so maybe that's an issue.
If declared to be mentally unfit would that have an impact on the NBA actions? And of course how does the Americans with Disabilities Act, Title V come in picture?
And what exactly us he “ guilty” of?
Actions, including scummy associations, that led to sponsor withdrawals, a PR disaster, and thrwatened plauer walkout that would have negatively impqcted the earning power and assets of his fellow owners.
This sounds like it was Hitler inspired.
Have a shrink declare someone mentally ill so they have no rights and you can do whatever you want to them.
More like “we’ll give you two billion if you let us make you the poster boy for getting the people to support the use of surveillance of private home activities for pubic shaming, banishment and divestiture of property rights.”
That’s the issue, isn’t it?
Contract terms aren’t allowed to violate the law, right? So what’s being done here is offering a carrot and stick to the NBA to quickly approve the sale (they probably want the team to go to Oprah or Magic Johnson).
Carrot is quick, no muss no fuss execution of the $2 billion deal. Stick is that if they don’t approve the deal the Sterlings invoke the Americans With Disabilities Act and dig in their heels on retaining ownership.
The Sterlings (or perhaps their advisors) are being very, very smart here in totally manipulating the situation to their advantage ...
If he is mentally unfit, then how can he be punished for his words??
The NBA should be sued for punishing the mentally handicapped like that
Lol.... certainly a basketball franchise is not “real property”. Property rights generally apply to real property. You think they really said “we’ll give you 2 billion if you’ll let us push our agenda?” I don’t think so....
I agree with you. 6 months ago it was a 500 million dollar franchise. Today its worth 2 billion. And somehow we’re suppose to believe the NBA won on this and forced the dirty old man out of basketball? Yeah like whatever.
The ADA even goes further: the NBA is legally required to provide reasonable accomidations to him.
The Sterlings have it within their power to make a HUGE mess for the NBA, if they want to.
What’s your argument, that he has nothing to sell?! LOL!
And yeah billionaires never get paid off for manipulating social or political agendas.
Must be nice to live in your world. Ice cream and jump rope every afternoon under the big oak tree in the garden.
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