Posted on 04/23/2018 4:13:44 PM PDT by wardaddy
Update: Austin-based Yeti says claims made by the National Rifle Association over the weekend are “inaccurate” and that the company is “unwavering in our belief in and commitment to the Constitution of the United States and its Second Amendment.”
In an email to its members, the NRA claimed Yeti “suddenly, without prior notice” indicated it no longer wished to do business with the NRA Foundation.
Not so, says Yeti. The maker of coolers and thermal mugs says the NRA has twisted its words.
“A few weeks ago, Yeti notified the NRA Foundation, as well as a number of other organizations, that we were eliminating a group of outdated discounting programs,” Yeti said in a written statement Monday afternoon. “When we notified the NRA Foundation and the other organizations about this change, Yeti explained that we were offering them an alternative customization program broadly available to consumers and organizations, including the NRA Foundation. These facts directly contradict the inaccurate statement the (NRA) distributed on April 20.
(Excerpt) Read more at statesman.com ...
They (NRA) stated in their memo Yeti refused to tell them why they were not going to sell to them.
Grandson isn’t old enough to drive yet but picked up a nice 1998 Ford F250 fixer-upper for $1500. By the time he can drive it will be a gem. It even has the optional anti-theft stick shift.
No Yeti will ever stain that pickup bed.
So Mom’s Demand Action’s Shannon Watts is tweeting thank yous to YETI for their brave action and sharing links for her koo-koo Mom’s club to buy YETI coolers.
The price of all cars is stratospheric to me. You could buy a house for the cost of a car today, and it wasn’t that long ago. A perfect new 3 bed 2 bath rambler on a good lot in 1965 was $16,000. I bought my first in 1985 and my payment was $600 with 12.5%. In 2003 I bought one for $147K. Cars and houses, both are great indicators of the cost of national debt. I think Range Rovers are $100K or more though.
Austin has become a sewer. DFW is too. They will go blue soon, unless Q drops the big one.
When I was working as a traveling salesman in New England, I bought a 1988 Jeep to make life easier for getting around. I decided to buy it before Lee Iacocca took control over the brand as his Chrysler had just bought Jeep from AMC
It was a GEM!
485,000+ miles. Regular maintenance only.
Went back and bought a 1998 Jeep thinking what could go wrong?
What a piece of crap!
Radiator, air conditioning, brake lines, all replaced before 100,000 miles. Guy who replaced the radiator and "fixed" the air conditioner so that it at least worked without having to stop every 1000 miles to add refridge to system, we had moved to Florida by then, said my problem was a common occurence with Jeeps and Chrysler, Dodge cars.
I can beat that. Check out the Franck Muller watch for a cool $2.4 million. Patek Philippe has entire lines that regularly run better than $100k. People willing to spend $150k for a watch are looking at their money in an entirely different way than I am.
Granted, from a sheer mechanical engineering point of view the Franck Muller watch above is a wonder. Everything on the face is driven from a single spring. Amazing. Astounding even. But would I part with $2.4 million for it? I doubt it, even if I had that kind of cash readily on hand.
May be.
Yes, an entirely different relationship with money. I run around shutting off lights, and doing all my own maintenance on everything I own. So many people now will hire landscapers, have a once a week maid, or take their car in for new wiper blades.
I think a lot of people are just burning through every dime they earn the USA way, with credit.
agree
more than u know....................
Why buy a $$$ cooler, when a $20 Coleman works for our needs? (hopefully, Coleman has not gone political!)
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