SHAME

[BlueTiki]

On another note, the Gin Blossoms 'Found Out About You' is a pretty good tune.

Local boys make good.

Tempe . . . Scottsdale's kissin' cousin.

[FAHQTOO]

Alcoholism is a disease, not a choice.

Alcoholism is a disease of choice.

Just like a sunburn.

Gin Blossoms are a band and a consequence.

I was stupid and got a sunburn this weekend. No one to blame but myself.

Actually, I changed my mind...I blame Aussie.

[aussiefriend]

Said like a true uneducated untrained ignorant goat who is blowing stinky gas out of their ass.

[Cutz]

Said like a true uneducated untrained ignorant goat who is blowing stinky gas out of their ass.

I'm just curious where you went to school that they were also educating goats?

[FAHQTOO]

Said like a true uneducated untrained ignorant goat who is blowing stinky gas out of their ass.

I don't fart, you crazy bitch!!
Tell me again who needs to work on their fucking quotes, crazy lady.

[HairOfTheDog]

Today, opponents of the Redskins name scored a legal victory that could hit the team in the pocketbook.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has canceled six federal trademark registrations for the name of the Washington Redskins, ruling that the name is “disparaging to Native Americans” and thus cannot be trademarked under federal law that prohibits the protection of offensive or disparaging language.

The U.S. PTO’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board issued a ruling in the case, brought against the team by plaintiff Amanda Blackhorse, Wednesday morning.

“We decide, based on the evidence properly before us, that these registrations must be cancelled because they were disparaging to Native Americans at the respective times they were registered,” the board wrote in its opinion.

“The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board agreed with our clients that the team’s name and trademarks disparage Native Americans. The Board ruled that the Trademark Office should never have registered these trademarks in the first place,” Jesse Witten, the plaintiffs’ lead attorney, said in a press release. “We presented a wide variety of evidence – including dictionary definitions and other reference works, newspaper clippings, movie clips, scholarly articles, expert linguist testimony, and evidence of the historic opposition by Native American groups – to demonstrate that the word ‘redskin’ is an ethnic slur.”

“I am extremely happy that the [Board] ruled in our favor,” Blackhorse said in a statement. “It is a great victory for Native Americans and for all Americans. We filed our petition eight years ago and it has been a tough battle ever since. I hope this ruling brings us a step closer to that inevitable day when the name of the Washington football team will be changed. The team’s name is racist and derogatory. I’ve said it before and I will say it again – if people wouldn’t dare call a Native American a ‘redskin’ because they know it is offensive, how can an NFL football team have this name?”

The Trial and Appeals Board rescinded the team’s trademark protections in a 1999 ruling that was part of a case filed in 1992. A federal court later overturned the ruling on appeal due to a technicality that the plaintiffs say has been fixed in this most recent case.

The team will almost certainly appeal the case, and it will be able to keep its trademark protection during appeal. Losing the trademark would not force the team to change its name, but it would allow anyone who wanted to use “Redskins” on merchandise or through other means to do so, which could cost the team — and, because of the NFL’s revenue-sharing model, other NFL teams — “every imaginable loss you can think of,” as the team’s lawyers argued in the original case. For that reason, the trademark has long been thought of by opponents of the team’s name as the easiest avenue to changing it.

http://thinkprogress.org/sports/2014/06/...ball-team/

[FAHQTOO]

Said like a true uneducated untrained ignorant goat who is blowing stinky gas out of their ass.

I'm just curious where you went to school that
they were also educating goats?

Cutz...you'll soon learn that whenever Aussie doesn't like what you say, you're an uneducated heathan. Give it time...you too shall be an uneducated redneck.

[Duchess]

think progress my ass

[aussiefriend]

I don't fart, you crazy bitch!!

No, it comes out of your mouth.

[BlueTiki]

Losing the trademark would not force the team to change its name, but it would allow anyone who wanted to use “Redskins” on merchandise or through other means to do so . . .

I love it!

The Government is, once again, determining what is "offensive" . . . yet, it allows the same "offensive" term to be a revenue generating opportunity for all who are NOT the official holders of the "offensive" word.

A corporation is a legal person.

A person has the protected right of free speech.

Am I missing something, here?

[HairOfTheDog]

You're not missing anything, as usual, as far as I can see.

That's exactly how I'm interpreting it as well.

The decision punishes the team by letting others cut into their profits by committing the same (legal) perceived offense.

Unless the team caves and changes the name and assuming the decision above is upheld, the end result is actually encouraging the proliferation of the perceived discrimination/offense by a larger audience --a real backfire for the the complainants and the federal judges in this case, IMO.

IMO, the team's attorneys probably have a strong shot at successful appeal on this one.

[Blindgreed1]

Losing the trademark would not force the team to change its name, but it would allow anyone who wanted to use “Redskins” on merchandise or through other means to do so . . .

I love it!

The Government is, once again, determining what is "offensive" . . . yet, it allows the same "offensive" term to be a revenue generating opportunity for all who are NOT the official holders of the "offensive" word.

A corporation is a legal person.

A person has the protected right of free speech.

Am I missing something, here?

Furthermore, I live in an area that is well populated by American Indians and I'd say 50 - 60% are Redskins fans (the other 40-50% are Raiders fans). I dare say none of them are DC transplants and yet they embrace the Redskins as their favorite team. Sup wit dat?

[aussiefriend]

Cutz...you'll soon learn that whenever Aussie doesn't like what you say, you're an uneducated heathan. Give it time...you too shall be an uneducated redneck.

Sorry to burst your bubble F2, but this aint a dream. I think you may have found a new friend to play with.

[HairOfTheDog]

Redskins Trademark Cancelled by Federal Judge

The Washington Redskins football team lost a key battle in court on Wednesday over their trademark registration, as a federal judge ruled to cancel the NFL team's registration, stating that the logo might denigrate Native Americans.

This decision is a setback for the team's ongoing legal and public relations battle that has taken course over the past year, but a win for Native American activists who oppose the logo, including five individuals who were faced with a lawsuit last summer, according to The Washington Post.

The cancellation will not officially take place until the team has exhausted all appeals in the Federal Courts.

Story: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/08/politi...index.html

[HairOfTheDog]

I love this old Spinners' song.

Every time this thread pops up, it runs through my head all day.



Always happy to spread a brain worm.

Bonus: rhythmic soulful men in powder-blue three-piece polyester suits.

[BlueTiki]

Redskins Trademark Cancelled by Federal Judge

. . . a federal judge ruled to cancel the NFL team's registration, stating that the logo might denigrate Native Americans.

"Might".

FFS!

Anything "might" be offensive to or denigrate some group.

Show the harm, your honor.

If I find the American Flag offensive due to the fact it stood for robbing my Native American ancestors of their land and culture (not to mention their lives) or it stood for the interment of Japanese Americans or global economic colonization, will you rule in my favor, judge?

Let the free market decide . . . not the bench.

[Duchess]

I've yet to encounter a Native American who is bothered by the Washington Redskins and I know a great deal of them, more than the average white person anyway. They think this bs is ridiculous.

[Cutz]

Obviously some Native Americans do find it offensive. Redskin is still a slur, same as wetback or chinaman, etc. Is someone from China offended by calling them Chinaman? Results will probably vary. What's the harm in Washington changing their name to Native Warriors? But instead of being pro-active and changing their name themselves, they're being dragged into 21^st American PC culture by courts.

[Duchess]

I can only speak to my experience with this and the Native Americans I personally know. When this first starting making headlines I asked them how they felt about it. I have no doubt that a bunch of fat, old white guys pulled some Native Americans out of the wood work and paraded them in front of the media, all of them moose faced of course so that their hurt could be spread worldwide. I don't have the expectation that you or anyone else will agree with me. Agree, don't agree, it's all the same to me.

You can bet your ass if the redskins I know and care about were being hurt by this I'd be standing at the front of the line cheering for that name to be removed.

[Carsman]

Washington Skins! Everybody knows the Red in their head, problem solved.