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Quote: reno

in the case of Kelo, I'm 100% with you (and Scalia and Thomas.) It was draconian government overreach, pure and simple.

+10

Typical Ginsberg/Kennedy majority. The former a most hateful excuse for a woman, the latter a loose cannon.

Quote: AZDuffman

Still don't quite see it but will meet you part way. A big issue is "Indians" gets tossed about as if all tribes are the same.

Sorry, I got a little ethnocentric there. Being the largest and being a part of it, I always default to Iroquois when speaking about Indian Country.

Anyways, we're getting off topic and it's probably better off a thread of its own. I'll drop it.

Back to the robber barons.

Quote: AZDuffman

Meanwhile the FTC is fine with a trademark called "Uppity Negro."

Did you actually click all the way through to the patent links? Most of those trademark applications (including Uppity Negro and Figgas Over Niggas) are still under review, they haven't been approved or denied yet.

Cracka Azz Skateboards - Denied.

My Dadz Nutz - Approved! Obviously a joke reference to testicles, but if you're selling actual nuts, (as in legumes) the patent office can't object, even if "nuts" is misspelled "nutz." The office made the right call on this one, I would've made the same decision.

Mammy Jamia's - Approved! But what's wrong with this? The article claims it's a slave reference, but I couldn't find anything on Google to confirm the accusation. Maybe Google is wrong, so let's turn to the ultimate arbiter, urbandictionary.com, which is a crowd-sourced encyclopedia of slurs and vulgarity. (It's very thorough!) Urbandictionary has nothing to say about Mammy Jamia, so as far as I'm concerned this one is G-rated squeaky clean.

Couple problems, though:

Dago Swagg - Approved! Uh-oh. The patent office shouldn't have approved this one. Whoops, big mistake. If I was a lawyer representing the Redskins, I'd use this in my defense.

Blanca Basura - Approved! Uh-oh. The patent office shouldn't have approved this one, either. Also not cool. Another gem for the Redskins lawyers.

Bing says Mammy Jamias is a UK fruit preserves company. So maybe unintelligible British humor humour here.

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Geez, another edit. Not my day for proof-reading...

Yikes, the coding is weird here. Chickenman just went down in flames... ;-(

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Quote: reno

Quote: AZDuffman

Meanwhile the FTC is fine with a trademark called "Uppity Negro."

Did you actually click all the way through to the patent links? Most of those trademark applications (including Uppity Negro and Figgas Over Niggas) are still under review, they haven't been approved or denied yet.q

The mere fact that "Uppity Negro" would not get summarily rejected while "Redskins" is somehow racist shows the system is crony. Now yes, it was a court and not the patent office in the case of the Redskins, but still. And where is Obama on the former? Where is Reid?

Same with "Figgas Over Niggas." I was under the impression that "Nigga" was an auto-reject. You need not even make the application. If it is not then even less reason to call "Redskins" racist.

But the point is moot. They already owned "Redskins" and the name was stolen from them.

Quote: AZDuffman

Now yes, it was a court and not the patent office in the case of the Redskins, but still.

Not exacly a court. The decision was made by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, a body within the United States Patent and Trademark Office. (Decisions of the TTAB may, in turn, be appealed to a United States district court, or the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.) All 3 of the presiding Administrative Trademark Judges (Kuhlke, Cataldo, and Bergsman) who voted on the Redskins trademark case were nominated by George W. Bush's administration. But it's fun to blame this stuff on Obama, so let's just say that it's all Obama's fault.

The scary thing in all of this is the fact that libs are now eagerly using the government to advance their agenda (e.g., the IRS, the USPTO), and they're not even trying to hide it anymore.

Actually, I hope it continues. Then maybe other conservatives in America will wake up. Let the revolution begin!

Quote: Beethoven

The scary thing in all of this is the fact that libs are now eagerly using the government to advance their agenda (e.g., the IRS, the USPTO), and they're not even trying to hide it anymore.

"Libs"? All 3 of the presiding Administrative Trademark Judges (Kuhlke, Cataldo, and Bergsman) who voted on the Redskins trademark case were nominated by George W. Bush's administration.

I'm sure that Limbaugh, Hannity, Hewitt, Fox News, Alex Jones, TruthRevolt, and all the other right wing news sources have carefully explained to their audience that the Redskins decision was made by Bush appointees. The right wing media wouldn't forget that little detail, would they? Facepalm.

Quote: reno

let's just say that it's all Obama's fault.

Turnabout is fair play.