Notre Dame is Burning

Discussion in 'Politics & Current Events' started by Val1, Apr 15, 2019.

  1. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    They already have one.

    They beat Indiana in the NCAAs in the 1980s, IIRC. Their coach turned out to be a cokehead, which was interesting.
     
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  2. Timon19

    Timon19 Member+

    Jun 2, 2007
    Akron, OH
    Yep. Mouse McFadden came to my 4th grade class!
     
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  3. Auriaprottu

    Auriaprottu Member+

    Atlanta Damn United
    Apr 1, 2002
    The back of the bus
    Club:
    Atlanta
    Nat'l Team:
    --other--
    Dayum. Even we don't do that around here.
    But I know some UAH grads who gleefully cheer for the "state flagship" (UAH has no football team).
     
  4. JohnR

    JohnR Member+

    Jun 23, 2000
    Chicago, IL
    Penn sells "Not Penn State" T shirts, if that counts. (I bought one, wore it when I came home for the summer, and confused the hell out of my high school friends. "Wait, what's that? Aren't you at Penn State?")
     
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  5. yossarian

    yossarian Moderator
    Staff Member

    Jun 16, 1999
    Big City Blinking
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I always wondered if DePauw was trying to trick people.
     
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  6. JohnR

    JohnR Member+

    Jun 23, 2000
    Chicago, IL
    Nah, it's just a speech impediment.
     
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  7. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    "No, I go to the school with the prestigious Wharton Business School, which produced the most brilliant man of our time, Donald Trump."
     
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  8. JohnR

    JohnR Member+

    Jun 23, 2000
    Chicago, IL
    Nobody at Penn likes Wharton students, except other Wharton students. And not even all of them.
     
  9. Chicago76

    Chicago76 Member+

    Jun 9, 2002
    Is now a good time to bring up that people who tend to buy things from companies like LVMH don't care about black churches? Because they don't.

    LVMH makes expensive ass clothes, leather goods and booze. It's an emblem of France almost as much as the cathedral, the Eiffel Tower, berets, and cheese. They donated 200 million euro. This was announced before trading opened yesterday. Since then, their market cap has gone up 5 billion euro.

    Who could have seen that coming?
     
  10. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
    Club:
    Millonarios Bogota
    Nat'l Team:
    Colombia
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  11. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I don't get the Disney joke.
    I knew liberals would be hawking this line.

    Let's not pretend those 3 black churches have the cultural value of Notre Dame. Or any 3 churches, or 30 churches, or 300 churches, built in the last 100 years. You're just being silly.
     
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  12. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Actually, the Louisiana churches seem to be getting a fundraising boost.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/16/us/black-church-fires-donation.html

    The fire at Notre-Dame cathedral on Monday prompted immediate pledges of millions of euros to help rebuild it. On Tuesday, it spurred donations to do the same for much smaller places of worship thousands of miles away that were recently destroyed by arson.

    A crowdfunding campaign for three fire-ravaged black churches in Louisiana received more than $1.2 million after it was widely shared on social media on Tuesday. Many users noted that while hundreds of millions of euros had already been pledged to rebuild the famous cathedral, the small churches in Louisiana were still struggling.

    “These communities need to know that people care about them and what they’re going through,” Jessica Piombo, a professor who lives in Monterey, Calif., wrote on the campaign’s page.

    “Every little bit counts.”

    The campaign was posted on GoFundMe last Wednesday by the Seventh District Baptist Association, which includes 54 Baptist churches in southwest Louisiana, including the three that were burned. The association noted that donations would go to rebuilding and replacing what was destroyed, from pews to sound systems and musical instruments.

     
  13. chaski

    chaski Moderator
    Staff Member

    Mar 20, 2000
    redacted
    Club:
    Lisburn Distillery FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Turks and Caicos Islands
    See Cruz's original tweet

     
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  14. Chicago76

    Chicago76 Member+

    Jun 9, 2002
    It's not a line. Companies donate money to the causes they think will resonate with their customers/clients. That's what they care about.

    The Egyptian Museum in Cairo was completed trashed during the Arab Spring by looters. The artifacts in that museum are a helluva lot older than Notre Dame. Do you see companies rushing out to issue pressers about how they're donating to the rebuilding efforts? No.

    Take a look at the "best companies to work for/most charitable company" lists that come out annually in various local metro business journals. There very often is a portion of that rubric that includes "percent of people donating to Company X's annual United Way drive" or some such thing. Do you think those companies particularly care about the charities...or do they do it for their reputation?

    Let me help answer that one for you: my old firm got a late start on their United Way Campaign one year. I donated 2x of my "suggested" donation for my level to my preferred charity within the UW umbrella but outside of my firm's account. Three weeks later I got called in demanding another donation. Even if it was for a buck, for participation rate purposes.

    Corporate charity isn't a selfless act.
     
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  15. soccernutter

    soccernutter Moderator
    Staff Member

    Tottenham Hotspur
    Aug 22, 2001
    Near the mountains.
    Club:
    Tottenham Hotspur FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I might have mentioned, she cantors.
     
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  16. chaski

    chaski Moderator
    Staff Member

    Mar 20, 2000
    redacted
    Club:
    Lisburn Distillery FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Turks and Caicos Islands
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  17. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Thanks. Now it's not funny on several levels.
     
  18. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I meant, what the hell is Cruz talking about?
     
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  19. chaski

    chaski Moderator
    Staff Member

    Mar 20, 2000
    redacted
    Club:
    Lisburn Distillery FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Turks and Caicos Islands
    The world wonders.
     
  20. bigredfutbol

    bigredfutbol Moderator
    Staff Member

    Sep 5, 2000
    Woodbridge, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    If Miami University (Ohio) doesn't sell "No, not THAT one" t-shirts, they're really leaving a lot of income on the table.
     
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  21. Matt in the Hat

    Matt in the Hat Moderator
    Staff Member

    Sep 21, 2002
    Brooklyn
    Club:
    New York Red Bulls
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    My assertion is that they are both terrible human beings
     
  22. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Reminder, Matt.
     
  23. russ

    russ Member+

    Feb 26, 1999
    Canton,NY
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    When she doesn't gallop?
     
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  24. Auriaprottu

    Auriaprottu Member+

    Atlanta Damn United
    Apr 1, 2002
    The back of the bus
    Club:
    Atlanta
    Nat'l Team:
    --other--
    Lol, there's a lot you don't get.

    It's a big, beautiful, ancient cathedral filled with priceless European art.

    The 16th Street Baptist Church is as holy a place as any on Earth because of the martyrdom of four children, lives taken by a conservative's bomb. Holier than Columbine, holier than Ground Zero, holier than the death camps in Europe, holier than Ford's Theatre or Dealey Plaza, because of all the sick reasons to take life, this was the sickest. But it doesn't get the same cultural value of Notre Dame, because, for the last few hundred years, the biggest bullies have made the rules about what to value and what not to value so much.

    Back to your regularly scheduled centrism...
     
  25. roby

    roby Member+

    SIRLOIN SALOON FC, PITTSFIELD MA
    Feb 27, 2005
    So Cal
    No one is quite sure so a poll is being taken! :notworthy:
     
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