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Yes, the Cortez. I always wanted a pair and my mom wouldn't because they were white and would not be white long the way I treated shoes. Actually, I'm still that way. I even make black shoes look dingy. mspart

San Marino and Cape Verde. Crazy!! mspart

https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/nike-closes-beloved-portland-store-due-to-crime/458921 By Madeline Garfinkle • Sep 12, 2023 Key Takeaways After first closing in October, seemingly temporarily, Nike announced its factory store in Portland, Oregon will permanently close. Other businesses in Portland and across the country have also been affected by theft. As theft and crime continue to wreak havoc in the retail industry, another big-name company has announced it will close a once-cherished location. Last week, Nike announced that it would permanently close its factory store in Portland, Oregon, due to ongoing theft. The Portland factory store first closed in October 2022, with no official statement aside from a message on the store's website stating "closed for the next 7 days." However, the store has remained closed and now, the company said it will shut its doors permanently. "Nike's commitment to supporting and uplifting Portland's North and Northeast community is unwavering," Nike said in a statement to The Street. "We are reimagining Nike's retail space, permanently closing our current location at 2650 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, and considering future locations as part of this community's long-term revitalization plan." The store, which had been open since 1984, had a dedicated following among locals. ...Rampant theft had been an ongoing problem for the athletic brand's Portland store and, in 2022, a KGW-TV analysis found that Nike's factory store had the second-highest rate of reported shoplifting incidents since 2019, behind Target. In addition to the Nike factory store, several other businesses in Portland have been affected by theft. In March, Walmart announced that it would be closing its remaining two stores in Portland and, in April, REI said it would close its storefront in the city's Pearl District by next year. "Last year, REI Portland had its highest number of break-ins and thefts in two decades, despite actions to provide extra security," the company said in an email to REI members in April. "In recent years, Portland has been dealing with increased crime in our neighborhood and beyond." I remember some on here were arguing that theft is not a big problem. Nothing to see here. The people of Portland disagree and have lost their beloved Nike Factory store, all Walmarts, and REI is going away - All due to theft and rising crime in the area. Lots of smaller businesses have also been similarly run out of business in the area. There is a fix for this folks. Enforce the law and prosecute. Period!! No more tolerance of theft. mspart

In the mid-1990s, the influential Canadian psychologist Bob Altemeyer described left-wing authoritarianism as “the Loch Ness Monster of political psychology—an occasional shadow, but no monster. ” Subsequently, other psychologists reached the same conclusion. Big ouchie there for BB. In other excerpts from the Atlantic: An ambitious new study on the subject by the Emory University researcher Thomas H. Costello and five colleagues should settle the question. It proposes a rigorous new measure of antidemocratic attitudes on the left. And, by drawing on a survey of 7,258 adults, Costello’s team firmly establishes that such attitudes exist on both sides of the American electorate. (One co-author on the paper, I should note, was Costello’s adviser, the late Scott Lilienfeld—with whom I wrote a 2013 book and numerous articles.) Intriguingly, the researchers found some common traits between left-wing and right-wing authoritarians, including a “preference for social uniformity, prejudice towards different others, willingness to wield group authority to coerce behavior, cognitive rigidity, aggression and punitiveness towards perceived enemies, outsized concern for hierarchy, and moral absolutism.” Published last month in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the Costello team’s paper is persuasive, to the point that you have to wonder: How could past researchers have overlooked left-wing authoritarianism for so long? “For 70 years, the lore in the social sciences has been that authoritarianism was to be found exclusively on the political right,” the Rutgers University social psychologist Lee Jussim, who wasn’t involved in the new study, told me in an email. Yes we see where Ban is getting his "information" and obviously swallowed it hook line and sinker. I have to wonder at a person, especially a supposedly educated person such as these academics that would have believed that authoritarianism only exists on the right. What idiots!! May I name a few on the Left: Lenin, Stalin, Castro, Mao, Pol Pot, Chavez. These were certainly not on the right and if these idiots can't see that they were Authoritarian beasts, then there is no reason anyone should listen to them at all. It is patently obvious as I said before that authoritarianism is to be found on all sides of the spectrum. Anyone who denies this is an idiot (I don't know how to say this any softer so sorry if I ruffle a few feathers) and not thinking right and shouldn't be in positions of influence at all. Common sense is lacking with these people. mspart

I feel much better about it, don't you!! Caveat: I'm not on Twitter (x) and have no skin in the game. If what he says is true, it is a good thing. mspart

I believe Joe has lied throughout. Like I said, that is not an impeachable offense. What he did while VP has no bearing on his High Crimes and Misdemeanor while President and I don't believe he can be impeached for that now. Getting the DOJ to treat his son differently might be a corruption thing but that would have to be proved beyond a shadow of doubt and I have seen no evidence pointing to that. It is possible the DOJ did that on their own initiative or it could have been directed. I doubt it was directed by anything other than non-traceable verbal or non-verbal cues. Certainly, nothing would have or should have been in a text or email. That would be enough to impeach and the D's might have to go along with that at that point. But I don't think the House is to that point yet and the Senate is almost evenly divided and certainly there won't be 67 Senators going along with conviction. That means some combination of the 48 Ds and 3 I's would have to vote for conviction assuming all 49 Rs do, and that is not a given. Fool's errand. It will be looked upon by the left the same way the impeachment of Trump was looked upon by those on the right. As a game and stupid waste of time. mspart

There are those that would dispute your assertion. I believe if the R's want to impeach, that will happen. I believe in order to move the Ds in the Senate, there will have to be some ironclad evidence that the whole country can recognize and it would be suicide for a D Senator not to vote to convict, something on the order of Nixon. They are not there yet as most of the evidence I have seen is circumstantial. Nothing directly tying the President to anything like treason or corruption while President. He obviously lied on the campaign trail and while President. But that apparently is not reason for dismissal - See Bill Clinton. mspart

Sorry for the consecutive posts. mspart

Not worthy of a ban mspart

Not liking what he does. mspart

I'm not for banning Ban. mspart

Agreed. mspart

Same mspart

He actually looked like that under his suits. They were so big it made him look very slim. But he was buff dude!! mspart

Agreed. mspart

Boy, what would happen if McCarthy did that? mspart

Nice haircut!! mspart

There's physics for you. mspart

They tried to impeach Trump before he took office. mspart

And so does the Tank. If Sad is at top level, no one beats him. If Snyder is at top level and Sad is slightly lower, Sad wins most of the time. I think Sad would have to be unprepared as Steam said for Snyder to win, or Sad would have to make an unrecoverable mistake. What would be cool is if Snyder could figure out a weakness and exploit it to pin the Tank like what happened to him some time ago. mspart

What physics do you speak of? mspart

Is that what he is doing today? mspart

Ban, I must say you are a master of convoluting what people tell you. You feign surprise saying you think I am concerned about N word books. Far from it, you are concerned about banning books. I gave you examples of non R people doing that and you excuse that away with faulty and non germane illogic. And then say I am concerned about N words. My argument is that authoritarianism is on both sides and somehow through your dizzying illogic you come up with me being concerned about books with N words. It is an exercise worthy of an 8th grader. I love your handle name, but I tire of your excessive need to put out false tropes. If you believe them I'm sorry for you. If your students believe them, I sorry for them being influenced by you. It is a sad situation where a person takes facts and twists them to illogical conclusions and then repeats and repeats until people tire of the tail chasing. It is petty and immature. You keep on being you, it obviously has brought you much peace in your life. Peace out. mspart

Oh we have come aways eh! mspart

Ban, you continue to prove me correct. mspart