They don't need a sign for attractive women. Almost everybody stops for them anyway.

Home depot putting up signs for the vets is a nice gesture, but I would think most vets would see it as a rhetorical sign of respect and mock each other if one took advantage of it.

Quote from: TboneAgain on October 17, 2013, 03:27:58 PM
I dunno. Seems to me that veterans, of all groups, should have no problem finding suitable parking spaces.

But more to the point, where do we stop with this division of the populace into little groups? I'm not a veteran. When I came of age -- 1973 -- it was actually kinda hard to join any services. With a half-million guys rotating out of Vietnam, recruiting quotas were basically zero. In my case, it made no sense at all to jump through hoops to enlist, and I didn't. So what? How is that a reason to make me park farther away from the store?

My father, who passed away two years ago, was a US Navy veteran who manned a Fletcher-class destroyer for three years during WWII. He would have been mystified at any effort to offer him special parking privileges after he came home.

Again, where does it stop? Next week, we might see signs that say "RESERVED -- GRANDMAS." Or "RESERVED -- LIONS CLUB MEMBERS." Or "RESERVED -- GUITAR PLAYERS." Oh, and here's one you just know will be coming: "RESERVED -- GAY AND LESBIAN SHOPPERS."

I'm OK with the handicapped reserved parking, although I will forever resent the shoving of it down our collective throat by the government through the ADA. (I resent a lot of things the federal government does.  ) That at least makes a little bit of sense, placing the handicapped a bit closer to the door. But even that is abused on a wide scale. I personally know of dozens of cases where that blue placard gets passed around to family and friends, or where everyone who shares a placarded vehicle uses the handicapped slots regardless of physical condition. And so do you.

But I can't see a reason that a 24-year-old man or woman, hale and hearty, freshly mustered out after a tour in Afghanistan, should be entitled to park closer to the Home Depot door than I can. Disabled veteran, OK, we already have that covered with blue paint. The whole idea behind reserving parking space for the handicapped is to allow those who are literally less able to physically maneuver to have easier access to... whatever. There's nothing in the description "US VETERAN" that tells me that they need or deserve special treatment when it comes to parking.

Democrats have been doing this since the days of FDR -- subdividing the population of the country into special interest groups, and then swearing at Republicans and conservatives for abusing those groups. We are even now being portrayed as the ones who hate old people, women, gays, lesbians, blacks, Hispanics, young people, immigrants, and on and on. If I wrote to that Home Depot store's manager complaining about it, I imagine the whole thing would hit the local paper and TV station, and I'd be portrayed as some evil conservative who's against veterans. It's the politics of projected hate -- and it WORKS. It's the most despicable thing I've ever seen.

No, I think the sign reserving parking for veterans is a bad idea. I'm sure some self-styled do-gooder came up with it, probably as a PR stunt. But I think it sends the wrong message, no matter what the source.

I'll get to the point.  As a 22 year 'military dependent' (yes, I went to college) and as a kid having made about 14 moves in 17 years (twice, 3 in a year) you can keep the friggin parking places, car magnets and the BS "I appreciate your service" HANDSHAKES.  (It is CHEAP!)  Give these folks MUCH BETTER PAY, better housing, better medical (before and AFTER injury) and some semblence of normalcy for their kids and their spouses--including much better support for their families left behind when they're off in some friggin war zone for 2 and 3 tours.  Too many aspects of military life haven't changed one bit since I was born into 60+ years ago.

Quote from: walkstall on October 18, 2013, 07:07:17 AM
Remember age is in the eye of the beholder, and you don't look a day over 35 Melady.

I've seen her photo. You're 2,000% correct.

Quote from: TboneAgain on October 17, 2013, 06:54:43 PM
The "NO MUSLIM" sign just has asshole written all over it, and was obviously printed on plain paper by... some asshole (undoubtedly with a government paycheck in his pocket)

Since when does someone have to be a (paraphrasing very slightly here) "liberal" to propagandize that business owners become rich by excluding everyone whose money isn't the wrong color?

Oh yeah, I just remembered: always.