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.
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).
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?")
"No, I go to the school with the prestigious Wharton Business School, which produced the most brilliant man of our time, Donald Trump."
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?
1118567432443052032 is not a valid tweet id I dunno, but your face would make a good gargoyle. https://t.co/NUNliylEkw— Shelly 🌻 (@TexHellCat) April 17, 2019
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.
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.
See Cruz's original tweet Wonderful! Will we see Disney princesses in the new stained glass? https://t.co/al6W7bvFyb— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) April 17, 2019
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.
Speaking of Disney properties . . . Washington National Cathedral has a gargoyle of Darth Vader. https://cathedral.org/what-to-see/exterior/vader/ Ted Cruz wants one of his personal hero, Emperor Palpatine.
If Miami University (Ohio) doesn't sell "No, not THAT one" t-shirts, they're really leaving a lot of income on the table.
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...