{"id":50114,"date":"2015-04-17T07:58:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T13:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/17\/seeking-sympathy-for-bad-business-decisions.html"},"modified":"2015-05-06T09:26:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T15:26:03","slug":"seeking-sympathy-for-bad-business-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/17\/seeking-sympathy-for-bad-business-decisions.html","title":{"rendered":"Seeking sympathy for bad business decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forced to shut down? Were there violent protests? Death threats? Arson? Government tyranny?<\/p>\n<p>No, the deli in question, after having posted a &quot;White History Month&quot; sign, appears to have been &quot;forced to shut down&quot; through a lack of customers.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm. Offer a service, go out of business due to people deciding they don&#39;t want your service. That sounds pretty much like the free market to me.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, his trying to hop on the crowdfunding bandwagon looks to be a bust.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/nj-deli-white-history-month'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/mQPCz5km7Ye8pDyu-WJIxEvPgGnJ_dQfPSq1P-NI4gUTVIhd8qemyg_jD-xTjhiargACyu5GgA6JnPEsu8mTXU4Fj2PeuMcAIA77SchXM3yPEdDqAjjpxOd4xTJuMiuE_f_i5DThUOV4TPavLDfCuZJwkWP55WLXhgEgSQJNyOON=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/nj-deli-white-history-month'>N.J. Deli Forced To Shut Down After Posting &#8216;White History Month&#8217; Sign<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nA Flemington, N.J. deli was forced to close its doors after the owner placed a &#8220;White History Month&#8221; sign in the window of the establishment, the Hunterdon County Democrat reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Boggess, the owner of Jimbo&#8217;s Deli in March posted the sign that read, &#8220;Celebrate Your White Heritage in March, White History Month.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/GXJqETSaTDa'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forced to shut down? Were there violent protests? Death threats? Arson? Government tyranny? No, the deli in question, after having posted a &quot;White History Month&quot; sign, appears to have been &quot;forced to shut down&quot; through a lack of customers. Hmmm. Offer a service, go out of business due to people deciding they don&#39;t want your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/17\/seeking-sympathy-for-bad-business-decisions.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Seeking sympathy for bad business decisions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,25,378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-gay-stuff","category-intolerance-persecution"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129179,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/18\/parents-protest-muslim-indoctrination-via-black-magic-calligraphy-lesson-at-school.html","url_meta":{"origin":50114,"position":0},"title":"Parents protest Muslim Indoctrination via Black Magic Calligraphy lesson at school","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 18-Dec-15 5:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A 9th grade geography class in Virginia is looking at world religions, and one lesson involved the use of calligraphy as art in Islam (due to injunctions against graven images). 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