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2019 Summer Conference and Family Retreat (late July)

This won't be where Steve got his from, his looks brilliantly handmade, but by going to the T-shirt store that @Jeff Ray set up, I pulled up this in a couple of minutes
Which you can customise further however you like, including changing the colour.

I hate the thought of suffocating under a mask too, but heard some places like Costco are requiring them....even though no employees have tested positive yet. Hordes of panicked shoppers and no transmittence....but they still want to enforce dumb compliance to dumber mandates?? I'll let y'all know if I am allowed to shop without one when I go.

I would like a tee shirt with a bf logo.... but I'd sooner tell costco to cancel the membership then comply with mask wearing. I'd do a Zorro style mask ....maybe. :p:cool: Lol
 
I hate the thought of suffocating under a mask too, but heard some places like Costco are requiring them....even though no employees have tested positive yet.

I got an email from Costco earlier this week informing us that they will now be requiring masks on all members before admittance to their stores.

I have a question: when we go to restaurants where we're required to wear masks, is flavored oxygen the only thing on the menu? Or do they also serve very thin broth that we can somehow suck through the cloth or paper?
 
I refuse to wear masks, but I'd still like one of those. How much are you selling them for?
I only got the one for the humor of it, I’m not planning on getting any more of them.

Can anyone imagine wearing a mask whilst dealing with chains, binders and dunnage in the southern Georgia sunshine?
Yeah, that was a thing.
But hey, I’m a freight whore, I do it for money. :D
 
I got an email from Costco earlier this week informing us that they will now be requiring masks on all members before admittance to their stores.

I was in Costco the other day just down the street from me and there is a sign right by the door saying that mask were required, but they did not seem to be enforcing it as about 10% of the people did not seem to be wearing them despite the sign.
 
Can anyone imagine wearing a mask whilst dealing with chains, binders and dunnage in the southern Georgia sunshine?
Yeah, that was a thing.
But hey, I’m a freight whore, I do it for money. :D

Good for you!
 
I was in Costco the other day just down the street from me and there is a sign right by the door saying that mask were required, but they did not seem to be enforcing it as about 10% of the people did not seem to be wearing them despite the sign.
I occasionally frequent the Cranberry Township PA location, and the majority of the customers there are absolute Nazis.

I don't mind putting up with their sneers, comments and insults when I'm not required to wear a mask, but if the policy is that masks have to be worn, I respect the organization's decision, and they can respect the fact that I won't be buying anything at their stores until sanity resumes.

We live right on the Ohio border, so we've done some shopping in Ohio on weekends, given that the Governor of the State of Ohio is very different from the Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania -- and thus tends to be more reasonable. He recently instituted a full requirement for mask-wearing, so we stayed in PA on Sunday, but then Governor Dewine changed his mind in less than 24 hours once he heard loud-and-clear how upset the order was making the average Ohioan.

Looking forward to the Tarrant County side of the Metroplex!
 
I was in Costco the other day just down the street from me and there is a sign right by the door saying that mask were required, but they did not seem to be enforcing it as about 10% of the people did not seem to be wearing them despite the sign.

I occasionally frequent the Cranberry Township PA location, and the majority of the customers there are absolute Nazis.

I don't mind putting up with their sneers, comments and insults when I'm not required to wear a mask, but if the policy is that masks have to be worn, I respect the organization's decision, and they can respect the fact that I won't be buying anything at their stores until sanity resumes.

We live right on the Ohio border, so we've done some shopping in Ohio on weekends, given that the Governor of the State of Ohio is very different from the Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania -- and thus tends to be more reasonable. He recently instituted a full requirement for mask-wearing, so we stayed in PA on Sunday, but then Governor Dewine changed his mind in less than 24 hours once he heard loud-and-clear how upset the order was making the average Ohioan.

Looking forward to the Tarrant County side of the Metroplex!


Quoting Matt Walsh here

I hate the lockdown. I hate the tyranny. I hate the economy being decimated and our liberties being destroyed.

But private businesses asking you to wear a mask or follow whatever precautions they prefer is not tyranny and complaining about it is petty and counterproductive.

I completely agree with him on this. There is a big difference between a business choosing to have rules for their own business and the government forcing them to impose rules. One is private property rights which I fully support and one is tyranny. Calling Costco Nazis is a false comparison. The masks are ridiculous and unnecessary but they are not being Nazis by requiring them to do business on their own private property.
 
Quoting Matt Walsh here



I completely agree with him on this. There is a big difference between a business choosing to have rules for their own business and the government forcing them to impose rules. One is private property rights which I fully support and one is tyranny. Calling Costco Nazis is a false comparison. The masks are ridiculous and unnecessary but they are not being Nazis by requiring them to do business on their own private property.
Except that "wearing a mask" is not in the membership contract, and thus by requiring mask wearing they are breaching the contract they have already made.
That is not right IMO, and I can't support that.
 
Except that "wearing a mask" is not in the membership contract, and thus by requiring mask wearing they are breaching the contract they have already made.
That is not right IMO, and I can't support that.

I'm not a lawyer but I would venture a guess that included in the membership contract they reserve the right to require this. Again I think it's ridiculous but it's not equivalent to being a Nazi and conflating the two is just silly and overblown. Not to mention likely offensive to those who actually suffered real atrocities at the hands of Nazis. Wearing a mask on your face to do business in a place that you can choose to avoid does not compare to concentration camps and mass genocide.
 
I think that overuse of the Nazi label has diminished its effectiveness.

Having said that, I admit to being attracted to the use of feminazi on occasion. ;)
 
I completely agree with him on this. There is a big difference between a business choosing to have rules for their own business and the government forcing them to impose rules. One is private property rights which I fully support and one is tyranny. Calling Costco Nazis is a false comparison. The masks are ridiculous and unnecessary but they are not being Nazis by requiring them to do business on their own private property.

Nice libertarian theory, but that's gone out the window with the deep state effectively using mega-corps as arms of the government.

Corporations are government created entities anyway. Not private.
 
Calling Costco Nazis is a false comparison. The masks are ridiculous and unnecessary but they are not being Nazis by requiring them to do business on their own private property.

You misread my post, @Pacman. I labeled the customers 'Nazis,' not Costco itself. Costco is a victim in all this. The customers are also victims if they are coerced by their governmental overlords with abridgements to their civil liberties or if the government and 'experts' scare the living sh** out of them by falsely claiming that a relatively-less-harmful virus is something that is going to cause mass death by overhyping the potential death tolls or by falsely padding actual death tolls with the labeling of deaths occurring from morbid obesity, diabetes, COPD, automobile accidents and suicide as supposed COVID deaths.

That the customers have succumbed to propaganda and are victims in that sense, though, does not imbue them with the right to hector their fellow customers about compliance with unconstitutional directions from our elected officials. It is those customers who glare and demand compliance and attempt to block one's way down an aisle that I am labeling Nazis and brown shirts.

I am sad that Costco and Walmart have knuckled under to these illegitimate government dictates, but I certainly can't blame them (unless, of course, they have somehow behind the scenes participated in pulling the levers of this mass manipulation).

By the way, though, once Costco instituted the mask requirement, I stopped entering their stores (I only go into Walmart because it's the only place to buy the groceries necessary to get by, and we are now planning -- given having already been quite prepared in most ways -- to avoid Walmart until they are no longer participating in this madness). The Nazi customers to whom I'm referring exhibited their behavior before Costco instituted any requirement that masks be worn. They were, as far as I'm concerned, easily-manipulated dupes who somehow considered themselves to not be the lemmings as they dutifully walked off the cliffs. I didn't give them any grief for choosing to wear their hopelessly-and-ridiculously-useless-at-enhancing-any-substantive-diminishment-of-virus-transmission masks. Masks were not required, and yet they consider themselves empowered to act as judge and jury in regard to whether I and others were wearing one.

I think that overuse of the Nazi label has diminished its effectiveness.

I agree with @steve here, because the term is thrown around way too lightly, and it's generally used in situations in which it far, far from applies, given that 'Nazi' was shorthand for National Socialist, whereas these days most use is by liberals trying to improperly associate Nazism with conservativism. I almost never use the word or call people Hitlers ('feminazi' is also one of my only exceptions, but, hey, where the shoe fits . . .), but I am ALARMED by what is going on all around us, most especially by the ease with which such a vast swath of our culture was so quickly hypnotized into sheep status. None of this is an accident, and we have not had anything in our world since the Nazis were defeated to so closely mimic the way in which a culture was lulled into compliance and hatred of those they were told were not in compliance as was the case in post-Weimar-Republic Germany.

Again, where the shoe fits . . .
 
Wearing a mask on your face to do business in a place that you can choose to avoid does not compare to concentration camps and mass genocide.

Can't disagree with you there, but concentration camps and mass genocide weren't even on the agenda in Germany until the populace was lulled into groveling compliance and accepting the ubiquity of tattle-taling.

Are you suggesting we wait to see if this all just blows over before we express dissent?
 
Can't disagree with you there, but concentration camps and mass genocide weren't even on the agenda in Germany until the populace was lulled into groveling compliance and accepting the ubiquity of tattle-taling.

Are you suggesting we wait to see if this all just blows over before we express dissent?

No not suggesting that at all and it's worth sounding the alarm that this is how tyranny takes its first steps. We just need to be careful about our rhetoric and make sure it's appropriate otherwise we will not be taken seriously.
 
Thanks, @Pacman. I certainly accept that.

I do believe, though, that we can worry too much about whether we'll be taken seriously. The other side of this isn't going to take us seriously no matter how comfortable we get stuffing ourselves into the small boxes they assign us rhetoric-wise.

When we're talking about promoting polygamy, I would agree with being cautiously circumspect with our language. What we're facing here with these shutdowns is far more serious than limiting our choices of marriage structures.
 
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