Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino repeated today that he doesn’t want Chick-fil-A in Boston, but he backed away from a threat to actively block the fast-food chain from setting up shop in the city.
“I can’t do that. That would be interference to his rights to go there,” Menino said, referring to company president Dan Cathy, who drew the mayor’s wrath by going public with his views against same-sex marriage.
The mayor added: “I make mistakes all the time. That’s a Menino-ism.”
No, it’s totalitarianism. Straight up and undiluted. The hack Mumbles thinks he is a king.
Democrats like Menino have become thought police and in a sane time would be tarred and feathered in the public square before being exiled from public life forever. Today, tar use would get you in trouble with the environmentalists, feather use would get the pet killers at PETA down your throat, and the nation elected a totally inexperienced backbench ideologue to the presidency, which doesn’t say much for the sanity of the 52% who voted for him.
We have too many public officials now who see no limits on their power. They have no sense of modesty and they go out of their way to dismiss the possibility that others have the right to disagree with them. They know better than the rest of us and they do whatever they want to do. Bloomberg bans sodas, Menino and Rahm Emanuel turn city governments into fascist fists strangling the freedom of thought. And the world dances merrily on. Officials who behave as Menino and Emanuel and Bloomberg behave are not American, in the deepest sense of what it means to be an American.
I don’t know about y’all, but I’m going to Chick-Fil-A on August 1st. Twice, if I can. I’ve had more than enough of these thugs.
It’s interesting that Mumbles makes it personal. Instead of keeping Chick-Fil-A out, he wanted to keep Cathay out.
I guess that old axiom “it only business, it’s not personal” doesn’t apply for lefties for whom “the personal is political.”
I predict Chick-Fil-A is going to have their best day ever.
Many people I know will be ordering from their menu on that day to show support.
Honestly, I have never been to a Chick-Fil-A after driving by one at least 1000 times. BUT on August 1st I will stop in and buy SEVERAL sandwiches just to show support for freedom of speech. Then I will give them to the homeless hungry people who beg for money on the street corner just down the road.
the food is typical “fast food” but the service is fantastic
Do NOT offer food to a homeless bum. You will be cursed out. They want money for booze and drugs. Offer them a sandwich and they’ll throw it at you.
Some would, some wouldn’t. Some people not being appreciative is not a reason to not do good works; do them because they are good works.
I don’t even know if there is a chik-fil-a where I live, I have never paid attention to them. I reckon it wouldn’t hurt me to try some new food out, though…
Well said.
What kind of self-esteem problems does Boston have for them to keep Mumbles in office for so long? Is it some sort of pathetic codependency thing?
It’s been a long time since I’ve lived in Boston – for obvious reasons – but I think there are a few answers.
Menino doesn’t just sound like a complete idiot – he is one. That suits the Democratic machine that operates him like a sock puppet. He does as he’s told, and if he makes an ass of himself more often than Joe Biden, who cares? It’s not like a Democrat is going to lose an election in Boston.
His stupid and often incomprehensible public statements are a useful distraction to the graft and corruption of the city government.
Boston is just a mini-me of Chicago, run completely by marxists and unions, and just as corrupt. They are both cesspools of crony capitalism and violent, thuggish, rule-by-the-fist. I lived there for a year and got out as fast as I could….
This clown along with that Maobama hack in Chicago would make Joseph Stalin smile. They have become emboldened and have declared war on anyone who disagrees with their ideology. You people who voted for Maobama out of guilt, wanted to make history, or whatever your momentary laps of reason was, you give these evil vermin that much power and they’ve become drunk with power rulers. Just like Valerie Jarret said right after the 2008 election, We’ll be ready to rule from day one. These demoncrats have followed the communist, Marxist, Alinsky ideology since FDR. The state is their god, and even tho communism had been responsible for more murders,poverty, starvation, they have this ideology that because they are implementing it, it will be great.
I wish there were Chick-Fil-A’s in my state because I would patron them. I’ve heard they are pretty good for a fast food place. I love southern style chicken anyway and I applaud the CEO for having the guts to speak her honest beliefs.
I went to Chick-fil-a on Tuesday and today and it was packed, but better yet it was packed with conservatives!
“The mayor added: “I make mistakes all the time. That’s a Menino-ism.””
That is for sure. Mumbles is no Fiorello LaGuardia; “I seldom make mistakes. But when I do it’s a beaut!”
This one had zero grace and beauty to it. This was pure ugly from the word go.
These un-American bastards will not be rooted out by democratic means. They are too deeply embedded and infest all of our big urban areas. And they own the voting process and will make sure they stay in power.
We have come to a point in our history where our differences are irreconcilable. And the Left is solely responsible for this. And they will be solely responsible for what that leads to.
I’m going to CFA other days, not on Aug. 1st because they will be overwhelmed with customers. Kind of like a website going down after being mentioned on Rush Limbaugh. So I hope everybody will start a new trend and make this the best year ever for Chik-Fil-A.
I so want Mr. Cathy to hammer the point home a few months from now.
Do a TV ad thanking their customers for standing with them and mockingly thanking the Democrat politicians for the free advertising.
I went to Chik Fillet today to give support, and it was busy, but the drive thru moved pretty quick and the window girl was very pleasant. Food was excelletn, I’ll go back just because it was a tasty meal and a great value as well.
The Gay Movement is a revolutionary movement. Is there proof of this? Yes, there is.
Social media normally associated with New Left philosophies (ex: MoveOn.org, Code Pink, etc.) have, in the past, embraced socialist/Leninist philosophies like Occupy Wall Street, Climate Change, Green Peace, Sierra Club et al.
Communication and organizational control of these diverse groups that had sprung up in the 60’s and 70’s, was fractious, spotty and piecemeal until the advent of data transmission and internet hosting. This reached its peak in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s ultimately becoming the Y2K and “Dot.com” phenomenon. By late 1990’s and early 2000’s social media was fast taking shape and quickly becoming New Left’s mode of operation…it was the glue holding their far flung, piecemeal operations together.
60’s revolutionaries, i.e., Weathermen, SDS, Black Power, etc. spearheaded an above ground as well as underground social revolutionary movement. This encompassed many diverse, far flung radical movements (either in their infancy or well established nucleus’ located in scattered urban centers). Some well known radical organizations having a socialist/Leninist agenda were: NOW =National Organization for Women, ACLU=American Civil Liberties Union, Gay Movement, NEA =National Education Association, ACORN and several others.
So, With organizational control over far flung, diverse left leaning pockets of radical resistance, a dominant philosophy of “Top down/Bottom up and Inside out” could be implemented ever so slowly, but deliberately.
Also, in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s wealthy capitalist’s (crony-capitalist’s) were recruited for their donations and funding of various radical, left leaning enterprises and resistance movements across these United States. In America’s Congress sprouted a “Democratic Socialists of America” caucus, today, Congressional Progressive Caucus.
Strangely, these left leaning capitalist’s had as their guiding philosophy, a Fabian Socialist corrupt view of top down, command-control, extreme centralization of Americas economic/social/administrative/government/judicial and financial systems, both nationally and at state levels,i.e., Greed and Power.
Enter all existing movements, working seemingly independently, but under this New Left’s direction, guidance, and organization attacking everything America: CRT(Critical Race Theory), social justice, Racism, Gay Rights, Gay Movement, Institute for Policy Studies, The Nation magazine, MoveOn.org, National Priorities Project, Jobs with Justice, Peace Action, Americans for Democratic Action, and Progressive Democrats of America. NAACP, ACLU, Progressive Majority, League of United Latin American Citizens, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, National Council of La Raza, Hip Hop Caucus, Human Rights Campaign, Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs, and the National Hip Hop Political Convention, Chicanos por la Causa, Black Caucus, Black community leaders, NAACP to name a few.
Once and for all, the amorphous New Left has America’s: 1)religion, 2) education, 3) capitalist, financial system and 4) governmental organization under full frontal and subversive attacks. Is there evidence of this? Yessiree!
Recent examples: Bain capital, Chick-fil-A, and small businesses in general all three, America’s backbone..
Chick-fil-A’s attack is a classic example of:1) Socialist Democrats (politicians), 2) a well organized, national Gay Movement, 3)Social media (web sites, Facebook, Twitter, Google and others) and a “Top down/Bottom up and Inside out” Marxist/Leninist juggernaut taking aim at America’ very foundations. Think about this. These are an overt revolutionary movement, operating openly in every facet of American culture and society with one objective…destroy everything American. Gay movement is a revolutionary movement being used for nefarious purposes as is Racism, Poverty, Welfare and Class Warfare. Wake-up America. God Save Her. Amen.
more of a fascist Gestapo hate group, thugs who hate themselves and take their self-contempt out on others
So its okay for the leftist scumbags in Hollywood, Democrat donors hoping for taxpayer money, and fringe groups to proudly give money to all sorts of their abhorrent charities, but as soon as one fellow comes out and proudly tells a reporter from a religious publication that he supports a charity in league with his beliefs, then its open season. The fellow likes traditional marriage and supports it, therefore he must hate everyone else. He must hate gays and Lesbians, polygamists, cohabiters not married, and so on.
This is going to reveal the militant, intolerant, socialist, and homosexual crowd for what they truly are. No wonder so many dictators rise from the left. They cannot bear to hear opinions clashing with their ‘superior’ doctrines.
The next time a homosexual asks you to support him in his quest for equal rights, tell him to get lost.
GM
They cannot bear to hear opinions clashing with their ‘superior’ doctrines.
You beat me to it.
Menino said in an interview yesterday about the issue, “I have my First Amendment rights also. I’m expressing them.” Yes, but when another’s expression of their opinion under their 1st Amendment rights diverges from his, you see what we get: a public pissy fit. How *dare* they!
I’ll tell him/her they already have equal rights. They have the exact same rights to marry who they choose as I do. Can’t marry a gay guy in state X? Guess what, neither can I, same right.
The Progressives have brought the mentality, arrogance and narcissism of universities to politics. Menino acts very much like some “influential” tsenior professor from a prominent university. The Progressives are slowly transforming the U. S. of A. into one huge “diverse” and “sustainable” university.
“I can’t do that. That would be interference to his rights to go there”…
He didn’t have any qualms about blocking a drug store opening near one of his cronies drug store.
And he looks like a fat Barney Frank.
I remember that, it was in my neighborhood(Roslindale). But hey let’s be fair, at least Barney, as much as I loathe him, has some functioning grey matter. Menino not so much.
Boston is a 1st class city, it’s unfortunate we have a monosyllabic neanderthal as Mayor.Chick-a-Fill should name a sandwich after Menino . How about the Fascist Burger or maybe the “Il Duce” deluxe.
I used to work right next door to City Hall. During one of the winning team rallies in downtown, I was on the roof of my building, taking pictures. Menino was on the roof of City Hall, watching as well.
You know, I saw him leave, and he was so obese and incapable, two guys had to help him step over some ductwork on the roof – all of maybe 1 foot tall.
Shortly, I think, he will have small objects in orbit around him.
It’s not a first class city. It’s pure third-world in its corruption. Menino accidentally let the cat out of the bag on how they use zoning and inspections as a shake-down. Usually it’s envelopes of cash and cushy jobs for family members, not political views that motivate city politicians.
When I lived there the Bulger Crime Family was running the state. Things haven’t changed.
No, things have not changed in the least. This place has become a study in mediocrity and corruption, Left-wing intolerance, lackadaisical government and patronage hack hires.
They may play it a bit different here, but there’s nothing the corrupt Chicago machine can teach us…
This doesn’t cure what he already put out there. Between zoning, health inspections, and the other permits, inspections and interactions with city gov’t regulators, Chick-Fil-A will still be subject to heightened scrutiny by people appointed by Menino, who think like Menino, and who see implicit incentives in nailing Chick-Fil-A to please Menino.
The tangled weave of regulations we have invites unfair enforcement, and despite Menino’s lip-service to rights today, I predict Chick-Fil-A would bear the burden of that unfair enforcement.
Menino doesn’t really have a clear thought in his head. This is all about vote-getting, nothing more, nothing less. He’s trying to appeal to the NIMBY heads in places like Jamaica Plain and the South End.
I happened to hear on the radio yesterday that when other Dem pols are out with him giving speeches and glad handing, they have to dumb down their rhetoric because Mistah Mayah gets offended, believing that they’re trying to show him up by acting smarter than him and speaking in a more sophisticated manner. Can you imagine?
As to bringing the weight of Inspectional Services to bear in retaliation, I have two words: Halftime Pizza. Those local to Boston will know. All others – this pizza joint had the temerity in 2004 to hang a Bush/Cheney banner outside their business during the DNC convention. The owner refused to take it down when asked. The Dems retaliated by siccing Inspectional Services on this business. Needless to say the owner took a bath paying all the trumped up fines.
Stand your ground Chick-fil-a! Between the gay movement, the animal rights movement and the recession/depression, places like Chick-fil-a should be doing horrible, but you will notice Chick-fil-a in the malls and their free standing locations are always the busiest!!!! The chicken is the BEST of any fast food by a land-slide, and the service is by far the most polite in all retail-dom. I will be driving from Metro Detroit to Toledo, Ohio Aug 1 because we do not have Chick-fil-a in Michigan. Hope it’s a record breaking day!