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Pa. shop owner backs English-only policy (cheesesteak shop sign was never meant to be offensive)
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| 12/14/07
| Bob Lenz - ap
Posted on 12/14/2007 6:38:14 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
Let’s put it this way. The American people don’t take too kindly to the intimidation of this American business owner.
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posted on
12/14/2007 7:05:20 PM PST
by
freekitty
((May the eagles long fly our beautiful and free American sky.))
To: NormsRevenge
There are reasons why I don’t patronize Philadelphia and why I won’t take a job inside the city limits under any circumstances. Philly leftists account for all of them.
To: NormsRevenge
After extensive publicity in 2006, the commission began investigating whether Vento violated a city ordinance that prohibits discrimination in employment, public accommodation and housing on the basis of race, ethnicity or sexual orientation. Appears to me the sign violates none of those.
Next case!
If Joey is found "guilty," anybody know if there is an appeal process?
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posted on
12/14/2007 7:08:50 PM PST
by
upchuck
(Hildabeaste as Prez... unimaginable, devastating misery! She will redefine "How bad can it get?")
To: NormsRevenge
Camille Charles, a sociology professor at the University of Pennsylvania, testified that Vento's signs harken back to the "Whites only" postings of the Jim Crow era. Why was this person even testifying? Has she ever owned and worked her butt off maintaining a business? Has this pompous busy body ever left the dream state world of her school campus? This spoiled brat is attempting to dictate what this guy does in his own establishment? How many years of her life has been spent at some coddled school campus, never dealing with the real world? I'd bet most of her life.
Pathetic.
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posted on
12/14/2007 7:09:13 PM PST
by
dragnet2
To: Owl_Eagle; brityank; Physicist; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; GOPJ; abner; baseballmom; Mo1; Ciexyz; ...
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posted on
12/14/2007 7:10:18 PM PST
by
Tribune7
(Dems want to rob from the poor to give to the rich)
To: NormsRevenge
This case is STILL ongoing? Yeesh! I remember hearing about this YEARS ago.
Hopefully, Justice will fall in this mans favor. This is just ridiculous. It’s HIS restaurant. It should be HIS rules!
(Same with smoking in privately owned bars, restaurants and taverns! And I don’t smoke.)
What will this gain? Will I have to order in fluent Mandarin in a Chinese-owned restaurant? Will I need to learn Yiddish to order in a Kosher Deli? ;)
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posted on
12/14/2007 7:11:22 PM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: Kolokotronis
Africanna studies?
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posted on
12/14/2007 7:13:53 PM PST
by
razorback-bert
(Posted by Time's Man of the Year)
To: NormsRevenge
This is not the only reason the liberals are pissed at Vento. He is a patriot, proudly displaying pro-american sentiments all over his shop. In addition, he is STRONGLY pro-troop and pro-police.
He is a huge supporter of Maureen Faulkner, who's husband, police officer Daniel Faulkner, was executed by Wesely Cook, AKA Mumia Abul Jamal. As a matter of fact, Ms. Faukner and Mike Smerconish had a book signing event at Geno's Steaks.
In addition, Joey Vento has installed and maintains a "Walk of Heroes", containing the names of every Philadelphia Police Officer and Fire Fighter killed in the line of duty.
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posted on
12/14/2007 7:13:56 PM PST
by
FreeperinRATcage
(I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for every thing I do. - R. A. Heinlein)
To: USMA '71
In the old days Joey could call somebody named Scarpa or Scarpelli and resolve this in a gentlemanly manner.
Capish?
To: NormsRevenge
This country is getting more and more like the Soviet Union every day.
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posted on
12/14/2007 7:15:48 PM PST
by
B Knotts
(Tancredo '08!)
To: Eagles6
Suggestions include having an attorney who doesn’t speak English to argue Joey’s case. Would the commission enjoy conducting business that way?
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posted on
12/14/2007 7:17:16 PM PST
by
trimom
To: razorback-bert
“Africanna studies?”
Somehow I figured it was a safe bet she wasn’t chairman of the Classic Dept.
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posted on
12/14/2007 7:21:36 PM PST
by
Kolokotronis
(Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
To: NormsRevenge
The simple fact that they have a “Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations” is arrogant enough, but the idea that such self-important busy bodies actually have any power (other than their super secret Liberal decoder rings, which tell them when the dark lord Hildabeast is near) is nauseating.
To: trimom
"Suggestions include having an attorney who doesnÂt speak English to argue JoeyÂs case. Would the commission enjoy conducting business that way?"
Είμαι δικηγόρος!
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posted on
12/14/2007 7:26:44 PM PST
by
Kolokotronis
(Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
To: NormsRevenge
How much practice does it take to say wit?
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posted on
12/14/2007 7:26:58 PM PST
by
doc1019
(Fred Thompson '08)
To: Max Friedman
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posted on
12/14/2007 7:30:53 PM PST
by
Hilltop
(?)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
12/14/2007 7:33:08 PM PST
by
dcwusmc
(We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
To: Kolokotronis
Είμαι δικηγόρος! What you said, yep, that's what I meant.
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posted on
12/14/2007 7:35:13 PM PST
by
trimom
To: doc1019
How much practice does it take to say wit?Exactly. Or to make it twice as difficult, "Wiz with."
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posted on
12/14/2007 7:35:42 PM PST
by
Squeako
(Don't get fat, let Al Gore do it for you. Buy his Calorie Credits and Save The World.)
To: NormsRevenge
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