Posted on 04/13/2016 10:05:00 AM PDT by Starman417
It's been a long time since I was a Springsteen fan. Back in 1974 (April 29) at my alma mater, the University of Connecticut, there was a spring concert. Three bands were featured: a local band called Fairport Convention, a relatively unknown called Aerosmith and another largely unknown named Bruce Springsteen. It was quite the concert.
Then, as happens so often, Springsteen became wealthy and the wealthier he became the more liberal he became. And the more hypocritical he became and the less I liked him. Today I find him intolerable. He's become a complete asshat.
Springsteen canceled a concert in North Carolina over a "bathroom law"
The legendary musician announced Friday that his upcoming show in Greensboro, North Carolina, has been canceled in "solidarity" with those protesting the measure. Springsteen and his E Street Band were slated to perform at the Greensboro Coliseum this Sunday. The roughly 15,000 ticketholders will all be eligible for a refund. The newly enacted law requires individuals to use bathrooms that correspond to the gender on their birth certificate, and has drawn fierce criticism for excluding legal protections from gay and transgender people.Matt Vespa at Townhall:
Bruce Springsteen has refused to perform a concert in North Carolina after the state legislature passed a bill that some consider to be anti-LGBT, which mostly relates to who can use a bathroom. No seriously, liberals feel this strongly about who can relieve themselves in a restroom–and apparently this is the new hill to take a stand in the progressive fight. Does it take away existing protection to North Carolina residents? No. Can businesses and private entities offer transgender people bathroom facilities? Yes. So, what’s the controversy? There is none.Here are 18 myths about the law:
1. Does the new bill limit or prohibit private sector companies from adopting their own nondiscrimination policies or practices?2. Does this bill take away existing protections for individuals in North Carolina?
- Answer: No. Businesses are not limited by this bill. Private individuals, companies and universities can adopt new or keep existing nondiscrimination policies.
3. Can businesses and private facilities still offer reasonable accommodations for transgender people, like single occupancy bathrooms for instance?
- Answer: No. In fact, for the first time in state history, this law establishes a statewide anti-discrimination policy in North Carolina which is tougher than the federal government’s. This also means that the law in North Carolina is not different when you go city to city.
4. Can private businesses, if they choose, continue to allow transgender individuals to use the bathroom, locker room or other facilities of the gender they identify with, or provide other accommodations?
- Answer: Yes. This bill allows and does nothing to prevent businesses, and public or private facilities from providing single use bathrooms.
5. Does this law prohibit towns, cities or counties in North Carolina from setting their own nondiscrimination policies in employment that go beyond state law?
- Answer: Yes. That is the prerogative of private businesses under this new law. For instance, if a privately-owned sporting facility wants allow attendees of sporting events to use the restroom of their choice, or install unisex bathrooms, they can. The law neither requires nor prohibits them from doing so.
6. Does this bill mean transgender people will always have to use the restroom of the sex of their birth, even if they have undergone a sex change?
- Answer: No. Town, cities and counties in North Carolina are still allowed to set stricter non-discrimination policies for their own employees if they choose.
7. I’m worried about how this new law affects transgender children or students in North Carolina. Does this bill allow bullying against transgender children in schools?
- Answer: No. This law simply says people must use the bathroom of the sex listed on their birth certificate. Anyone who has undergone a sex change can change their sex on their birth certificate.
8. Does this bill affect people with disabilities?
- Answer: Absolutely not. North Carolina law specifically prohibits bullying and harassing behavior against children on the basis of sexual identity.
9. Why did North Carolina pass this law in the first place?
- Answer: No. Statewide law also bans discrimination based on disability.
In fact, the Charlotte City Council tried to pass this ordinance before but failed, and passed the same ordinance in February of 2016 despite serious concerns from state officials, business leaders and other concerned citizens.
- Answer: The bill was passed after the Charlotte City Council voted to impose a regulation requiring businesses to allow a man into a women’s restroom, shower, or locker room if they choose. This ordinance would have eliminated the basic expectations of privacy people have when using the rest room by allowing people to use the restroom of their choice. This new local regulation brought up serious privacy concerns by parents, businesses and others across the state, as well as safety concerns that this new local rule could be used by people who would take advantage of this to do harm to others.
10. What about parents or caregivers bringing children into the restroom?
11. Will this bill threaten federal funding for public schools under Title IX?
- Answer: The law provides exceptions to young children accompanied by parents or care givers.
12. Will this bill prevent people from receiving medical attention in an emergency.
- Answer: No, according to a federal court which has looked at a similar issue.
13. Will this bill affect North Carolina’s ability to create or recruit jobs?
- Answer: Absolutely not. Nothing will prevent people from receiving medical attention in public or private accommodations.
14. Why is the state telling cities and towns what it can and can’t do by repealing an ordinance the elected members of the Charlotte City Council passed?
- Answer: This bill does not affect companies in North Carolina. North Carolina was one of the top states to do business in the country before this law was passed, and preventing Charlotte’s bathroom ordinance from going into effect on April 1 won’t change that.
15. Do any other regulations in North Carolina cities, towns or counties come close to what Charlotte was recommending?
- Answer: North Carolina is one of at least 37 states like Virginia where cities and towns cannot pass rules or regulations that exceed the authority given to them by the state. In passing the bathroom ordinance, Charlotte was exceeding its authority and setting rules that had ramifications beyond the City of Charlotte. The legislature acted to address privacy and safety concerns if this ordinance was allowed to go into effect on April 1.
16. Did only Republicans vote for this bill?
- Answer: No. Not that we are aware of. Therefore, nothing changes in North Carolina cities, towns and counties, including in Charlotte, regarding discrimination practices and protections now that this law has passed.
17. Why did the Legislature call a special session to overturn the bathroom ordinance?
- Answer: No. 11 Democrats voted for this bill in the N.C. House of Representatives and no Democratic Senators voted against it. In fact, Democratic Senators walked out to avoid voting on the issue at all because many were going to vote for it and they did not want show their division.
18. Is North Carolina at a disadvantage when it comes to recruiting jobs because it does not have ordinances like the one Charlotte was proposing?
- Answer: The new Charlotte ordinance, which would have required all businesses to change their restroom policies and take away the expectation of privacy people have when using the restroom, was going to go into effect on April 1 if no action was taken.
- Answer: No. In fact in the last 3 years without an ordinance like this, North Carolina has created the 6th most jobs in the country – over 260,000 net new jobs. We know of no examples of companies being recruited to North Carolina that have asked if the state has an ordinance like the one Charlotte was proposing.
Bruce seems offended that he can't pee next to little girls. There's more. Did you know he's a farmer? Well, he's not. He just pretends to be one for tax season:
Bruce Springsteen is a man of the people. He stands up for the little guy. A regular blue-collar Joe. A union man. A bona fide working-class hero.Springsteen wrote a letter to the editor of the local paper:And, when he’s not busy being all that… he’s a tax-dodging liberal hypocrite worth over $200 million who pretends to be a farmer to save hundreds of thousands of dollars on his property taxes that would have otherwise funded the welfare programs he pretends to care about.
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SPRINGBOARD ALERT!
Guy always sings like he’s trying to pass a bowling ball.
Winner of the Best Headline of the Day Award!
Springsteen hit some peak around 1992 with Lucky Town. Whatever they say for success after that...it was faked stuff with the music industry. So for twenty-five years....there’s just not much to talk about. What idiot would pay $50 for a ticket to some washed-up 66-year old singer?
He is a hard core, full blown, starry-eyed, spittle-lipped, liberal moonbat.
Second that!
Or ate an Indian curry vindaloo the night before.
This needs to become a new internet meme. I would add the phrase "in North Carolina" at the end.
South Side Johnny and Nils Lofgren are infinety better, than Brooooce
Micheal Stanley and Jonah Koslen are infinetly better than BRooooce
LOL!!!
Bingo
What is he advocating? Why would he have men with Penises watching women in their bathrooms. I’m baffled at what these perverts want? This has been singer is worn out anyway but is he wanting men in womens bathrooms watching them in there. This is mind bending.
Idiot libs are pathetic. If he had any brain at all he would do the concert then donate the proceeds to the LGBT cause. That would have a greater impact and make the statement, too.
This reminds me of the idiots who refused to perform at Sun City in South Africa years ago. The idiots should have performed then donated the money to the anti-apartheid movement. Again, it would have helped the anti-apartheid movement AND made the statement.
They never learn.
The roughly 15,000 ticketholders will all be eligible for a refund.
It should not be their “DUTY” to apply for a refund. The State should Criminally Charge Springsteen with Fraud and Grand Theft the day after the concert. They should also allow the “ticket holders” to sue for Compensatory Damages. Springsteen should be HELD IN JAIL until ALL CASES are Settled. Then upon Conviction, be sentenced appropriately.
Don’t forget “blow-hard”...
ping for later
He may be an asshat politically, but good music is good music.
“liberalism is a luxury for those insulated from it by wealth and privilege.” -Thomas Lifson
Springsteen has had some ok moments, like “Born to Run”, and it’s fine with me if he wants to cancel all his concerts.
But his 1970’s song “Hungry Heart” justifies leaving his wife and kids to starve in Baltimore, Jack, because, hey, responsibility is soooo limiting. We’re supposed to feel his pain. That’s when I knew he was a sorry piece of trash pretending to be a man.
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