"Of course, these regulations are par for the course for a liberal city. Liberals claim to hate big business and love small businesses, but then they love to place so many regulations on the little guy that the environment becomes toxic to entry level entrepreneurs. The ultimate consequence of these policies is that large corporations and governments are the only entities permitted to operate."
http://www.iamatexan.com/2015/07/25/321austin-city-council-votes-to-ban-bbq-restaurants/#
Would you please stop with the insulting generalizations.
Your statement about liberals is a flat out lie.
If you want to talk about the specifics here, let's do it.
But this has nothing to do with some made up liberal/conservative battle nor is this the place for such a battle.
If there is a discussion to be had here, it is a discussion on what steps a BBQ owner can take to peacefully coexist with a neighborhood and what physical steps can be taken to reduce smoke/odor
So we can now post false blanket insulting statements as long as we have a source for said statement? That's ridiculous.
I don't care if he said it or just repeating it.
But when did it become acceptable to make posts that insult/defame/antagonize 50% of the membership.
If I didn't see the forum heading, I'd swear that in the last year this place was renamed to BBQ Brethern and Tea Party?
Your own rules say this antagonistic crap will be deleted.
Leaving it up is offensive and insulting and completely irrelevant to barbeque.
ok.. heres the deal.. ive read the entire thread.. again.. Im done babysitting. I woke up this morning to someone who crapped in my cheerios overnight because we did not moderate a post that went up at 1:02 AM(an hour after i shut down). That person is no longer a member here. my tolerance is getting real low.
The only reported post in this thread since yesterday was PMADS post bitching out a moderator. One would think that if 50% of our membership got insulted by something in there, someone else would have chimed in. But only one person complained. One.. uno..1.. not 50%, or not even .1% of the 50%
you folks need to learn to have adult conversations without throwing shots and/or whining when you get one.
PmAD..Show me where YOU were personally insulted and i will take action..but heres some irony.... You directly called MY forum
Tea Party, Well, i find that insulting and offensive, but i didnt remove it, because its YOUR opinion. So when someone says 'people suck' because someone did something crappy..should we expect everyone to be offended. ???
The 'liberal' comment was not a lie.. it was one individuals generalization/opinion and it was quoted from an article elsewhere.. it was NOT directed at you or anyone person, yet you seem to take these generalizations personally.
looking at the comments objectively, all i see is opinions and armpits(both stink).. stop taking it personally and STOP getting in the mods faces. Mod decisions are final..period.. if there was something that needed to be scrubbed, it would have been, but what ive seen is relevant to the OP. (excluding the 'liberal claim to blah blah blah" drivel, which BTW, was a quote from the article, not a the OP's own words...)
Its highly suggested anyone who can not handle this topic intelligently without throwing shots or getting pissed at point/counterpoint just leave the thread.
pmad said it best..
pmad said:
If there is a discussion to be had here, it is a discussion on what steps a BBQ owner can take to peacefully coexist with a neighborhood and what physical steps can be taken to reduce smoke/odor
^^^^
Thats a perfect approach.. stick to it.
