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Sterling Rightfully Suing The NBA

Mike

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I personally hope he wins. The NBA's Silver made a politically correct knee jerk response to solve a non-solvable problem. The NBA By-Laws do not trump the U.S. Constitution. It is not punishable to be racist nor stupid as far as I know.


The Donald Sterling scandal just got a lot more interesting. In response to the $2.5 million fine, lifetime ban, and probable forced sale of the Los Angeles Clippers franchise, Donald Sterling is striking back with a class action lawsuit against Adam Silver and the National Basketball Association. He’s reportedly seeking $1.7 billion dollars in damages.

Sterling’s legal team is suing on the grounds that the fine is excessive given the questionable acquisition of the recording, the ban is illegal given his status as franchise owner, and that the blackballing tactics the NBA is employing to get Sterling to sell the team are akin to modern day extortion.

His attorneys assured reporters that the lawsuit will be an open-and-shut case in their client’s favor, stating “No one approves of what our client said on that recording. There’s no denying that. But it was recorded in the comfort of his own home and later obtained and publicized illegally. Not to mention, the mafia tactics the league is using to try to muscle Mr. Sterling out of his rightfully owned franchise are highly illegal and even unconstitutional. We have no doubt that our client will be exonerated when it is all said and done.”

No word was given on how a settlement could be reached but with the stern approach both sides have taken so far regarding the matter, a long period of litigation is sure to follow.
 

Mike

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Might be time to start an all white NBA Franchise.

I'd bet they would be the league favorites of the numerous KKK'ers & White Supremacists in Montana................. :lol:
 
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Anonymous

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Actually I pretty much agree with you... I don't like what Sterling said- or what he represents... He just further exemplifies the stereotype many have of Republicans--- rich old grey haired men that try to shove "family values" down everyones throat- but can't walk the talk themselves... And just someone you want showing up when the Party is being accused of having no/low respect for women :roll: - and on the day the party of the rich just voted against the minimum wage law...

But I have to back up his right to free speech and to show his ignorance- which he and Bundy have both done quite well ...

Be interesting to see if money actually can buy everything- as it seemingly has previously when he got his fanny in hot bigoted water...


LZ Granderson: Commentaries

LZ: The hypocrisy of L.A. NAACP


By LZ Granderson, CNN Contributor

updated 6:47 PM EDT, Wed April 30, 2014



(CNN) -- The NAACP needs to sit down.

Though it's debatable how effective a punishment Donald Sterling's lifetime ban from the NBA will be -- considering that for the time being, he still owns and thus profits from the L.A. Clippers -- the one voice that should not be involved in this discussion is that of the NAACP. Not after news that the Los Angeles chapter was prepared to bestow upon the disgraced Sterling -- whose racist behavior has long been known -- a second lifetime achievement award next month. (The offer, not surprisingly, has been withdrawn.)


On Tuesday, after NBA Commissioner Adam Silver brought down punishment on Sterling, the NAACP added its voice to a joint statement with the National Urban League, the National Action Network and the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation that said "Sterling's long-established pattern of bigotry and racist comments have not been a secret in the NBA ... yet until now, they have been tolerated and met with a gentle hand and a blind eye."

Say what?

Tax records accessed on CitizenAudit.org, according to an article in the Huffington Post, revealed that the NAACP's L.A. branch had been party to the sanitizing of Sterling's legacy. How? The group has received $45,000 from Sterling's foundations, which, given the real-estate mogul's net worth of nearly $2 billion, is peanuts.

The phrase "sell out" is one that gets tossed around, but for some reason, it doesn't quite cover the NAACP's L.A. chapter in this case.

The first time Sterling was awarded a lifetime achievement award by the group was in the midst of a lawsuit for housing discrimination based upon race. To decide to honor him with the award a second time, after he had paid millions to settle multiple discrimination suits, after learning that he allegedly said that "all the blacks in this building, they smell, they're not clean" and "Mexicans ... just sit around and smoke and drink all day ... so we have to get them out of here," is not selling out.

Selling out makes financial sense.

No, considering what $45,000 means to a man of Sterling's wealth, honoring him with awards is just giving integrity away. I understand that Sterling has donated to other black groups and established a scholarships for black students at UCLA. And while that's a positive, I also understand that such donations are tax-deductible and do not require him to actually be around black people. Something, according to the now-infamous recordings, he is not a big fan of. At least not at his games.


What happens to the Clippers now?
The NAACP's willful blind spot is particularly disturbing when you consider the growing wealth gap between blacks and whites in this country and that the biggest factors in that gap are fair housing and education. How could an organization supposedly dedicated to the economic advancement of blacks honor someone the Department of Justice said was working against its mission?

This curiosity is very similar to the New York chapter of the NAACP joining a lawsuit with the United Federation of Teachers in 2011 in an effort to squeeze out successful charter schools and protect failing traditional public schools. Thousands of parents, many of them minorities, protested.

As was the case with the L.A. chapter, money reportedly was a factor in the New York chapter's allegiance.

It's fine for the national organization to characterize questionable decision-making by local chapters as anomalies, but it's hard to view the goings-on in New York and Los Angeles, the two largest cities in the country, as just being local.

No, instead of worrying about joining in the censure of Sterling, the NAACP -- which is currently searching for a new executive director -- should worry about itself. When the NAACP held a funeral for the N-word in 2007, it felt as if the organization had buried its relevance beside it. It didn't help that the person helping lead the ceremony was former Detroit Mayor/felon Kwame Kilpatrick.

Yeah.

In light of the crippling socioeconomic impact that housing discrimination has had on minorities in general and Los Angeles in particular, for chapter President Leon Jenkins to say "God teaches us to forgive" in the same interview Monday in which he said "we are negotiating with him about giving more moneys to African-American students at UCLA," it sounds to me the NAACP needs to take that finger it's wagging at Silver and the NBA and point it back at themselves.

Silver's working to clean up his house, but the NAACP still looks dirty.
 

hypocritexposer

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Oldtimer said:
Actually I pretty much agree with you... I don't like what Sterling said- or what he represents... He just further exemplifies the stereotype many have of Republicans--- rich old grey haired men that try to shove "family values" down everyones throat-

He has only ever donated to Democrats and the NAACP.

If he believed in Republican "family values", he wouldn't be shacking up with a chick, 50 years younger than himself.

Those are "liberal alternative family" values.
 
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hypocritexposer said:
Oldtimer said:
Actually I pretty much agree with you... I don't like what Sterling said- or what he represents... He just further exemplifies the stereotype many have of Republicans--- rich old grey haired men that try to shove "family values" down everyones throat-

He has only ever donated to Democrats and the NAACP.

If he believed in Republican "family values", he wouldn't be shacking up with a chick, 50 years younger than himself.

Those are "liberal alternative family" values.

Just like Congressman Vance McAllister and Senator David Vitter( just 2 of the most recent)-- when you sign up to and "ride for the brand" what you do displays an image of that "brand"... The image I see portrayed is Hookers, Whores, spurned wives, Girlfriends, and huge wealth trying to make it all right ...
No wonder folks choke and guffaw when Repubs make a big deal carrying on about their "family values"... :wink: :p :lol: :lol:
 

hypocritexposer

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Oldtimer said:
hypocritexposer said:
Oldtimer said:
Actually I pretty much agree with you... I don't like what Sterling said- or what he represents... He just further exemplifies the stereotype many have of Republicans--- rich old grey haired men that try to shove "family values" down everyones throat-

He has only ever donated to Democrats and the NAACP.

If he believed in Republican "family values", he wouldn't be shacking up with a chick, 50 years younger than himself.

Those are "liberal alternative family" values.

Just like Congressman Vance McAllister and Senator David Vitter( just 2 of the most recent)-- when you sign up to and "ride for the brand" what you do displays an image of that "brand"... The image I see portrayed is Hookers, Whores, spurned wives, Girlfriends, and huge wealth trying to make it all right ...
No wonder folks choke and guffaw when Repubs make a big deal carrying on about their "family values"... :wink: :p :lol: :lol:

Marriage is a contract, so all those Democrats that have gotten divorced, do not believe in contracts, and the law, is that what you are saying?

It wasn't for "family values", they got married, was it?
 

Mike

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Oldtimer said:
hypocritexposer said:
Oldtimer said:
Actually I pretty much agree with you... I don't like what Sterling said- or what he represents... He just further exemplifies the stereotype many have of Republicans--- rich old grey haired men that try to shove "family values" down everyones throat-

He has only ever donated to Democrats and the NAACP.

If he believed in Republican "family values", he wouldn't be shacking up with a chick, 50 years younger than himself.

Those are "liberal alternative family" values.

Just like Congressman Vance McAllister and Senator David Vitter( just 2 of the most recent)-- when you sign up to and "ride for the brand" what you do displays an image of that "brand"... The image I see portrayed is Hookers, Whores, spurned wives, Girlfriends, and huge wealth trying to make it all right ...
No wonder folks choke and guffaw when Repubs make a big deal carrying on about their "family values"... :wink: :p :lol: :lol:

Maybe the most famous philanderer Democrat of all time who could poke a few cigars in a few holes, show those little one timers how to REALLY have some family values? He could do it while the wife and kids were upstairs at home.

You're a stupid sumbeech picking on those little Senators & Congressmen.

Why not go to the TOP of the list and find a REAL trailer trash piece of garbage like Bubba the President to be a role model for all Democrats to live by? :lol:

Or, you could go back to JFK and his many sexual trysts:
Even in the pantheon of sexual narcissists drawn to politics, Kennedy’s obsessive conquesting remains the gold standard for bad behavior.

But then, FDR wasn't no slouch by screwing his cousin in a real "keep it in the family value" moment.

That's right OT, you should set your sights higher than those menial little politicians and use the highest office in the world for a demonstration of "indecency" in politics................. :roll:
 
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Mike said:
Oldtimer said:
hypocritexposer said:
He has only ever donated to Democrats and the NAACP.

If he believed in Republican "family values", he wouldn't be shacking up with a chick, 50 years younger than himself.

Those are "liberal alternative family" values.

Just like Congressman Vance McAllister and Senator David Vitter( just 2 of the most recent)-- when you sign up to and "ride for the brand" what you do displays an image of that "brand"... The image I see portrayed is Hookers, Whores, spurned wives, Girlfriends, and huge wealth trying to make it all right ...
No wonder folks choke and guffaw when Repubs make a big deal carrying on about their "family values"... :wink: :p :lol: :lol:

Maybe the most famous philanderer Democrat of all time who could poke a few cigars in a few holes, show those little one timers how to REALLY have some family values? He could do it while the wife and kids were upstairs at home.

You're a stupid sumbeech picking on those little Senators & Congressmen.

Why not go to the TOP of the list and find a REAL trailer trash piece of garbage like Bubba the President to be a role model for all Democrats to live by? :lol:

Or, you could go back to JFK and his many sexual trysts:
Even in the pantheon of sexual narcissists drawn to politics, Kennedy’s obsessive conquesting remains the gold standard for bad behavior.

But then, FDR wasn't no slouch by screwing his cousin in a real "keep it in the family value" moment.

That's right OT, you should set your sights higher than those menial little politicians and use the highest office in the world for a demonstration of "indecency" in politics................. :roll:

Yep- but Bubba, JFK , and FDR hadn't signed onto and weren't "riding for the brand" that goes around preaching their family values and how virtuous and holier than thou they are...

There in lies the hypocrisy- and the reason folks get such a big guffaw every time one of these folks with an (R) behind their name comes out of the closet or gets caught in a brothel or backroom with someone not his wife....
 

Mike

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Oldtimer said:
Mike said:
Oldtimer said:
Just like Congressman Vance McAllister and Senator David Vitter( just 2 of the most recent)-- when you sign up to and "ride for the brand" what you do displays an image of that "brand"... The image I see portrayed is Hookers, Whores, spurned wives, Girlfriends, and huge wealth trying to make it all right ...
No wonder folks choke and guffaw when Repubs make a big deal carrying on about their "family values"... :wink: :p :lol: :lol:

Maybe the most famous philanderer Democrat of all time who could poke a few cigars in a few holes, show those little one timers how to REALLY have some family values? He could do it while the wife and kids were upstairs at home.

You're a stupid sumbeech picking on those little Senators & Congressmen.

Why not go to the TOP of the list and find a REAL trailer trash piece of garbage like Bubba the President to be a role model for all Democrats to live by? :lol:

Or, you could go back to JFK and his many sexual trysts:
Even in the pantheon of sexual narcissists drawn to politics, Kennedy’s obsessive conquesting remains the gold standard for bad behavior.

But then, FDR wasn't no slouch by screwing his cousin in a real "keep it in the family value" moment.

That's right OT, you should set your sights higher than those menial little politicians and use the highest office in the world for a demonstration of "indecency" in politics................. :roll:

Yep- but Bubba, JFK , and FDR hadn't signed onto and weren't "riding for the brand" that goes around preaching their family values and how virtuous and holier than thou they are...

There in lies the hypocrisy- and the reason folks get such a big guffaw every time one of these folks with an (R) behind their name comes out of the closet or gets caught in a brothel or backroom with someone not his wife....

I finally understand. :roll: It's OK to have no morals at all if you never claim to have any. Sick way to look at it, but I guess it's the Democratic Presidents creed. :lol:
 

iwannabeacowboy

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Question OT:

If someone claims to not believe in a grazing law and does not follow that grazing, under your way of thinking, are they in the right?
 

Tam

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Oldtimer said:
Just like Congressman Vance McAllister and Senator David Vitter( just 2 of the most recent)-- when you sign up to and "ride for the brand" what you do displays an image of that "brand"... The image I see portrayed is Hookers, Whores, spurned wives, Girlfriends, and huge wealth trying to make it all right ...
No wonder folks choke and guffaw when Repubs make a big deal carrying on about their "family values"... :wink: :p :lol: :lol:

What do you see portrayed by the Dems Oldtimer?

Bill Clinton
Anthony Weiner
John Edwards
Al Gore
Barney Franks
John F Kennedy
Teddy Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
Eliot Spitzer

No wait the Dems are the PARTY OF NO MORALS so I guess it is OK for them to cheat. :roll:
 

habnut

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I am too lazy to research this, but does the NBA have it written in their rules of membership that a franchise owner can be forced to sell if the owner embarrassed or offended the other owners? I am thinking of perhaps a condo association having the powers to force you to sell if you disregard the association rules. I agree with little joe that he was set up, but I have no sympathy for the guy. "No fool like an old fool" comes to mind.
 

Soapweed

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Tam said:
Oldtimer said:
Just like Congressman Vance McAllister and Senator David Vitter( just 2 of the most recent)-- when you sign up to and "ride for the brand" what you do displays an image of that "brand"... The image I see portrayed is Hookers, Whores, spurned wives, Girlfriends, and huge wealth trying to make it all right ...
No wonder folks choke and guffaw when Repubs make a big deal carrying on about their "family values"... :wink: :p :lol: :lol:

What do you see portrayed by the Dems Oldtimer?

Bill Clinton
Anthony Weiner
John Edwards
Al Gore
Barney Franks
John F Kennedy
Teddy Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
Eliot Spitzer

No wait the Dems are the PARTY OF NO MORALS so I guess it is OK for them to cheat. :roll:

Most Republicans at least try to be honest and upstanding people. When Republicans fail (all humans fail), Oldtimer just slobbers with delight. You are right, Tam, Democrats are the party of no morals. It is okay for them to lie, cheat, and steal, because they don't claim to have any integrity to start with, so of course this is fine with Oldtimer.
 
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Soapweed said:
Tam said:
Oldtimer said:
Just like Congressman Vance McAllister and Senator David Vitter( just 2 of the most recent)-- when you sign up to and "ride for the brand" what you do displays an image of that "brand"... The image I see portrayed is Hookers, Whores, spurned wives, Girlfriends, and huge wealth trying to make it all right ...
No wonder folks choke and guffaw when Repubs make a big deal carrying on about their "family values"... :wink: :p :lol: :lol:

What do you see portrayed by the Dems Oldtimer?

Bill Clinton
Anthony Weiner
John Edwards
Al Gore
Barney Franks
John F Kennedy
Teddy Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
Eliot Spitzer

No wait the Dems are the PARTY OF NO MORALS so I guess it is OK for them to cheat. :roll:

Most Republicans at least try to be honest and upstanding people. When Republicans fail (all humans fail), Oldtimer just slobbers with delight. You are right, Tam, Democrats are the party of no morals. It is okay for them to lie, cheat, and steal, because they don't claim to have any integrity to start with, so of course this is fine with Oldtimer.

As far as your list- I can make as long or longer a list of Repubs...

Not sure if the Dems are the party of no morals- BUT the reason they don't get laughed at with their antics, and their antics are much more quickly accepted/excused by their followers is because they are not the party going out campaigning and saying they are holier than thou and trying to shove their "family values" down everyones throat--- and then turning around and doing the opposite themselves..
But you "ride for the brand (R) folks" can't seem to see that your brand cancered up long ago and stinks about as bad as the other brand does...
 

Tam

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Oldtimer said:
Soapweed said:
Tam said:
What do you see portrayed by the Dems Oldtimer?

Bill Clinton
Anthony Weiner
John Edwards
Al Gore
Barney Franks
John F Kennedy
Teddy Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
Eliot Spitzer

No wait the Dems are the PARTY OF NO MORALS so I guess it is OK for them to cheat. :roll:

Most Republicans at least try to be honest and upstanding people. When Republicans fail (all humans fail), Oldtimer just slobbers with delight. You are right, Tam, Democrats are the party of no morals. It is okay for them to lie, cheat, and steal, because they don't claim to have any integrity to start with, so of course this is fine with Oldtimer.

As far as your list- I can make as long or longer a list of Repubs...

Not sure if the Dems are the party of no morals- BUT the reason they don't get laughed at with their antics, and their antics are much more quickly accepted/excused by their followers is because they are not the party going out campaigning and saying they are holier than thou and trying to shove their "family values" down everyones throat--- and then turning around and doing the opposite themselves..
But you "ride for the brand (R) folks" can't seem to see that your brand cancered up long ago and stinks about as bad as the other brand does...

Oh I'm sure you will try Oldtimer but the point is the Dems have their own sex scandals and corruption and have had for MANY MANY YEARS but you only mention the ones from the Republicans like those from the left are no big deal. You claim you are an independent thinker but you independence always comes back to BLAME THE REPUBLICANS and Whitewash the Dems guilt as no big deal as EVERYONE DOES IT. :roll:
 
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