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Union protesters on Strip call tourists ‘losers,’ ‘jerks’ (Las Vegas)
KVVU-TV, Fox 5, Las Vegas ^ | Oct 10, 2013 11:19 AM | Ashley Conroy

Posted on 10/12/2013 6:37:00 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Protesters shouted names at tourists, calling them “losers” and “jerks” as they walked inside the Cosmopolitan on Saturday, Oct. 5.

The Culinary Union Local 226 put on the rally as part of the ongoing negotiations between the hotel and the union to sign a deal.

The Alliance to Protect Nevada Jobs posted the video on YouTube and says they wanted to demonstrate that union protesters are compromising potential tourists from coming back to Las Vegas.

“You don’t do that by calling tourists those names and berating them when they come here to spend their money in our city,” said Ron Futrell, spokesman for Alliance to Protect Nevada jobs. …

(Excerpt) Read more at fox5vegas.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: cosmopolitanhotel; culinaryunion; lasvegas; nevada; unionthugs
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To: JPG

Laura Ingraham has on her radio show intro a clip from one of her shows mentioning smellyprotestor.com.

It’s not a real site but it’d be fun to start it!


41 posted on 10/12/2013 8:22:30 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

But think about it. The tourists that go there to gamble absolutely enjoy getting scammed by games that are rigged to take their money!

I’ve never understood how people can do that.


42 posted on 10/12/2013 8:25:02 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
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To: tstarr

You should have yelled at them, “Go home you self-entitled sissies! Get outta here and go smoke some dope!”


43 posted on 10/12/2013 8:27:45 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
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To: Olog-hai

Who’s going to document this and put it on http://www.smellyprotester.com ?

Just joking!


44 posted on 10/12/2013 8:28:45 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
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To: Olog-hai

And here I thought I’d never agree with unions on anything. Weird.


45 posted on 10/12/2013 8:57:15 PM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: Past Your Eyes

One more reason to never return to that pitiful place, not that I needed one.


On our honeymoon, my wife and I drove 3,500 miles around the western US. One of our stops was Vegas. We actually slept on the lawn next to the sidewalk by one of the larger casinos for a couple of hours. Meanwhile, the whole place made us sick.

The only part of our trip that was worse was Provo, Utah, for different reasons.


46 posted on 10/12/2013 8:59:09 PM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: Olog-hai; a fool in paradise

Whale, not all of ‘em. According to a study described in this morning’s WSJ, 10% of gamblers are weeners! As for jerks, it’s every service employee I’ve ever encountered in Las Vegas. Greedy jerks! You don’t know so-called aggressive panhandling by fully employed people until you’ve visited Las Vegas.


47 posted on 10/12/2013 9:04:30 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: C. Edmund Wright; driftdiver

Yes, a lot of people lose money gambling. Many consider it the same as spending money for entrtainment. They also pay for shows, meals, hotels, drinks, etc. This does not make them “losers.”


Replace gambling with Prostitutes.

This may give you a feeling about how I feel in that I am in agreement with driftdiver.

I think gambling should be legal. I think prostitution should be legal. But I also agree with G. K. Chesterton:

“The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.”

You can defend casino gambling all you want. It is not a virtue in any way, shape or form.


48 posted on 10/12/2013 9:05:17 PM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: cuban leaf

Back in old Jericho, they thought that prostitution should be legal also. But then Joshua showed up . . .


49 posted on 10/12/2013 9:06:27 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai; a fool in paradise

Las Vegas. The place that Elbis Priestley built (even if he was too clueless to realize he was being robbed by a pseudo-Colonel, who gambled it all away).


50 posted on 10/12/2013 9:08:19 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Past Your Eyes

You aren’t nearly the first one I’ve heard say that.

I’m no holy roller by a long shot but the place just has never appealed to me at all. My father had to go once for a convention years ago (and he’s a straighter arrow than I am) and says the lights are nice to see at night but that was about it. Says you couldn’t pay him to go back.


51 posted on 10/12/2013 9:11:49 PM PDT by snuffy smiff (Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.)
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To: snuffy smiff

Stayed at a place called “Terrible’s”. It could not have been more aptly named.


52 posted on 10/13/2013 3:54:11 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes (You can't force people to care. Sometimes I don't myself.)
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To: C. Edmund Wright; driftdiver

You have both added immeasurably to my enjoyment of this thread.
/s


53 posted on 10/13/2013 4:10:03 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes (You can't force people to care. Sometimes I don't myself.)
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To: Past Your Eyes

you’re welcome


54 posted on 10/13/2013 4:25:28 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Olog-hai
I'm old enough to remember the "old Las Vegas." Gritty. Seedy in spots. Rough around the edges. Loved it. Especially downtown.

Then the city fathers and casino owners caved in to the unions. What a mess...

55 posted on 10/13/2013 4:51:20 AM PDT by donozark (The voices inside my head may not be real, but they have some good ideas!)
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To: driftdiver

“Well most of them are losers if they gamble.”

We go out there a couple of times a year, when our plane lands theres a limo owned by the Golden Nugget waiting to take us back to a nice two room suite also provided by the Golden nugget. While most of the time they get into my pocket, theres been many times when I got into theirs. I’ll play enough tables games to keep the casino happy and then I wander over to the poker tables where my true passion for gambling lies. I’ve made some serious money of the poker tables. When we get tired of Vegas we go up to our place in the Alto division of Ruidoso New Mexico and hit the tables at the Inn of the Mountain Gods. I enjoy my as you call it Loser Life. cheers!


56 posted on 10/13/2013 5:19:48 AM PDT by Dusty Road
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To: cuban leaf

I was not defending gambling at all. In fact, I hate having to stand in line at a convenience store while folks buy lottery tickets and so on.

This article is not about that. How the FK do you know the people in Vegas were gambling? Gambling is not even the biggest attraction to Vegas now. You totally lost track of the subject at hand.

And you have zero reading comprehension of either the intent of the orginial article nor my posts.


57 posted on 10/13/2013 6:10:31 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

I don’t either, but again, I make two points:

A: many tourists in Vegas now do not gamble. The city is not just about gambling anymore. Gone are the days where the hotels and restaurants and shows were free just so you would gamble...now the show, restaurants and hotels are a major part of the attraction.


58 posted on 10/13/2013 6:12:30 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

oh, and the second point, THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE MAIN POINT of the story......


59 posted on 10/13/2013 6:13:06 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: Past Your Eyes

I’ve just been trying to keep it on subject. I didn’t think it was posted to start a rant about the evils of gambling.

(I mean, that’s a valid topic, but a totally different one....)


60 posted on 10/13/2013 6:15:26 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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