Specifically, he said, “the decisions we made on firearms” negatively affected their bottom line but the drop in sales was something they expected. They did not, however, regret their decision to change a number of their gun-sales policies and back new gun-control legislation.So basically, management of Dicks Sporting Goods made a political decision that they anticipated would hurt their bottom line, but that they still felt if was the right thing to do and would do the same thing again.
"Well I think it's definitely a factor, and it's nothing that we didn't anticipate," Stack said during the call. "As we put out kind of our guidance for the year and our earnings guidance for the year, we knew this would happen when—we've made some decisions on firearms in the past and we've had a pretty good idea of what these consequences were going to be. We felt that was absolutely the right thing to do. We would do the same thing again if we had a mulligan, so to speak, to do it again."
"It's still a little early to tell. So, we're taking a look at this. It will depend on a number of things that we're going to be assessing through the balance of this year. So, we've had some vendors who've decided based on our decision to not sell the assault-style rifle that was used in the Parkland shooting that they wouldn't sell us any longer. So, as you know, there's been some people who said we're not going to sell you any firearms anymore. We're not going to sell you our product. We've had some other people who've indicated that they wouldn't shop with us any longer. So, we've got to take a look, and we'll assess this through this holiday season, if the brands are going to continue to or not. Some brands are not going to continue to sell [to] us. If consumers [are] upset with us, we will make a decision of what we're going to do with Field & Stream."Sorry. I know that some people believed that the Parkland shooting was the "turning point". They wanted to believe that all the attention given to the students from the Parkland shooting would lead the country to massive gun control changes. But the reality is that those students have been long forgotten, with the possible exception of David whats-his-name, who managed to work his way into becoming little more than a punchline for a variety of jokes.
But at the end of the day we had a publicly traded company losing 4.5% of it's value because management wanted to draw a political line in the sand. A ridiculous line considering what Dicks Sporting Goods sells.
Perhaps it's time for a change in management?
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get woke, go broke.
to me, one of the more interesting things about liberalism is that it never stops finding new and creative and destructive ways to illustrate just how EXPENSIVE it is.
we've seen it with the end result of 0linsky's bailout of GM, and now we're seeing it with Dick's.
do i appreciate the convenience of having one of their 'field and stream' stores 10 minutes from my house? sure i do. but if i can have it delivered in two days for free from cabela's/bass pro, they can take a wrecking ball to that store today and i'm fine with it.
good job liberals. your string of 'everything you touch turns to shit' remains unbroken.
Perhaps it's time for a change in management?
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Yes. Of the country.
Oh dear. Cutting back on the ease with which right wing extremists and mentally defective haters can get their hands on arms will cost the gun industry some money. Oh dear.
Wisconsin Republicans Got Little for Their Power Grab
12/7, 2018 at 11:10 am EST
Charles Sykes: “The Wisconsin GOP’s lame-duck power play was not the death of democracy. But it was bad enough: petty, vindictive, and self-destructive. It was, as the saying goes, worse than a crime. It was a blunder. And for what?
“In its arrogant insularity, the Wisconsin GOP became a national symbol of win-at-all-costs, norms-be-damned politics. Cut through the overwrought rhetoric and what did the Republican legislators actually accomplish? Not really a whole lot; certainly not enough to justify the political damage they’ve inflicted on themselves. They have managed to energize the progressive base, expose themselves as sore losers, and undermine crucial democratic norms. And in return … they got extraordinarily little.”
How forgot to flush the turd, she is spamming the blog.
When taking a stand against your core customer$ is shooting yourself in the head.
Michigan Republicans May Have Violated State Constitution
“Republican lawmakers may be violating the state constitution with fast-tracked bills in the lame-luck Legislature that curb the powers of incoming Democratic officeholders or water down proposals backed by Michigan voters, legal experts say,” the Detroit Free Press reports.
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BIGGER BLUE WAVE
Valadao Finally Concedes House Race
Rep. David Valadao (R-CA) has conceded to TJ Cox (D) in their House race in California’s 21st congressional district, the Sacramento Bee reports.
That gives Democrats a net of 40 House pickups for the 2018 midterm elections.
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Trump Rage Tweets at Mueller
December 7, 2018 at 9:13 am EST
If President Trump’s tweets this morning are an indication, he’s bracing for bad news in the three court filings expected to be made by special counsel Robert Mueller and prosecutors in the Southern District of New York today.
Said Trump: “Robert Mueller and Leakin’ Lyin’ James Comey are Best Friends, just one of many Mueller Conflicts of Interest. And bye the way, wasn’t the woman in charge of prosecuting Jerome Corsi (who I do not know) in charge of ‘legal’ at the corrupt Clinton Foundation? A total Witch Hunt…”
He goes on: “Will Robert Mueller’s big time conflicts of interest be listed at the top of his Republicans only Report. Will Andrew Weissman’s horrible and vicious prosecutorial past be listed in the Report. He wrongly destroyed people’s lives, took down great companies, only to be overturned, 9-0, in the United States Supreme Court. Doing same thing to people now. Will all of the substantial & many contributions made by the 17 Angry Democrats to the Campaign of Crooked Hillary be listed in top of Report.”
First Read: “Somebody is clearly worried…”
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Trump No Longer Speaking to John Kelly
"Kelly is expected to resign as White House chief of staff in the coming days,” CNN reports.
“Seventeen months in, Kelly and President Trump have reached a stalemate in their relationship and it is no longer seen as tenable by either party. Though Trump asked Kelly over the summer to stay on as chief of staff for two more years, the two have stopped speaking in recent days.”
New York Times: “Mr. Kelly and Mr. Trump have grown weary with each other. But Mr. Trump, according to several senior administration officials and people close to him, has so far been unable to bring himself to personally fire a retired four-star military general.”
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Quote of the Day
“So often, the president would say here’s what I want to do and here’s how I want to do it and I would have to say to him, Mr. President I understand what you want to do but you can’t do it that way. It violates the law.”
-— Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, quoted by the Houston Chronicle.
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Trump’s Power Is Waning
--Taegan Goddard
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Only Republicans Think Investigation Is a ‘Witch Hunt’
A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll finds that 71% of Republicans agree with President Trump that special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation in a “witch hunt,” while 55% of independents and 82% of Democrats see the investigation as “fair.”
Said pollster Lee Miringoff: “The base is solidified, but that doesn’t get you more than that.”
Any chance Jane the Turd will get on topic?
I have all the guns I want. Bought 4 during the Lost Years. One was one I wanted for most of my adult life. Getting it during the Obama term was a bonus.
Any chance Jane the Turd will get on topic?
the pederast must be here to man the copy/paste helm until the alky awakens from opioid-induced slumber.
Yep. Jane was not at all missed. Never an original thought.
Oh dear. Cutting back on the ease with which right wing extremists and mentally defective haters can get their hands on arms will cost the gun industry some money. Oh dear.
...shall not be infringed.
four words which render your 'oh dears' unconstitutional, pederast.
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Leakers now saying to friendly media that probe was about reining Trump in, not uncovering collusion with Russia (which they knew was sans evidence). Their purpose: constrain Trump. Yet is anyone even investigating this years-long scandal, much less holding people to account?
https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1071068112496287746
Comey is a dirty POS
Just before Thanksgiving, House Republicans amended the list of documents they’d like President Trump to declassify in the Russia investigation. With little fanfare or explanation, the lawmakers, led by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), added a string of emails between the FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ) to their wish list.
Sources tell me the targeted documents may provide the most damning evidence to date of potential abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), evidence that has been kept from the majority of members of Congress for more than two years.
The email exchanges included then-FBI Director James Comey, key FBI investigators in the Russia probe and lawyers in the DOJ’s national security division, and they occurred in early to mid-October, before the FBI successfully secured a FISA warrant to spy on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
The email exchanges show the FBI was aware — before it secured the now-infamous warrant — that there were intelligence community concerns about the reliability of the main evidence used to support it: the Christopher Steele dossier.
The exchanges also indicate FBI officials were aware that Steele, the former MI6 British intelligence operative then working as a confidential human source for the bureau, had contacts with news media reporters before the FISA warrant was secured.
The FBI fired Steele on Nov. 1, 2016 — two weeks after securing the warrant — on the grounds that he had unauthorized contacts with the news media.
But the FBI withheld from the American public and Congress, until months later, that Steele had been paid to find his dirt on Trump by a firm doing political opposition research for the Democratic Party and for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and that Steele himself harbored hatred for Trump.
If the FBI knew of his media contacts and the concerns about the reliability of his dossier before seeking the warrant, it would constitute a serious breach of FISA regulations and the trust that the FISA court places in the FBI.
That’s because the FBI has an obligation to certify to the court before it approves FISA warrants that its evidence is verified, and to alert the judges to any flaws in its evidence or information that suggest the target might be innocent.
We now know the FBI used an article from Yahoo News as independent corroboration for the Steele dossier when, in fact, Steele had talked to the news outlet.
If the FBI knew Steele had that media contact before it submitted the article, it likely would be guilty of circular intelligence reporting, a forbidden tactic in which two pieces of evidence are portrayed as independent corroboration when, in fact, they originated from the same source.
These issues are why the FBI email chain, kept from most members of Congress for the past two years, suddenly landed on the declassification list.
The addition to the list also comes at a sensitive time, as House Republicans prepare on Friday to question Comey, who signed off on the FISA warrant while remaining an outlier in the intelligence community about the Steele dossier.
Paulines actual headline.....
FBI email chain may provide most damning evidence of FISA abuses yet
And it also may not provide any evidence whatsoever....no wonder why the desperate R hearings today behind closed door.....nothing but grandstanding and rehashing of what has been gone over ad nauseum.....if anyone thinks something will change....I know a bridge in NY for sale....LOLOLOL Funny thing the steel dossier keeps being proven to be true...oh well....why let facts get in front of a good opinion !!!
A ridiculous line considering what Dicks Sporting Goods sells.
A moral line no different than Hobby Lobby refusing to provide contraception to their women employees or bakers refusing to bake cakes......Fuck you CH....he of no faith at all.....LOL
There's a religious prohibition against bearing of arms and defending yourself?
There's certainly religious prohibitions against terminating an innocent human life. And in at least one case preventing that life from being conceived (interfering with God's will).
No, unlike Hobby Lobby there was no religious convictions that were driving Dick's Sports. It was just the fashion at the time.
Hobby Lobby is thriving.
KD said...
Hobby Lobby is thriving.
SO FUCKING WHAT!!!!!
There's certainly religious prohibitions against terminating
Those are your religious beliefs that you are trying to force down everyones throat...FU asshole....believe whatever you want....but don't preach to me or anyone else who doesn't share your stupid tenets...
Those are your religious beliefs
Yes, as they are with a great majority of Americans as well as a great majority of people the wold over.
If you consider laws against murder as "religion being shove down your throat" then have at it. Rejoice in your evil.
Yes, as they are with a great majority of Americans
You are projecting asshole....they are not as you say....
If you consider laws against murder as
And you think capital punishment okay...and starting wars against the oppressed as justified murder....GOTCHA>>>LOL at you again asshole...
Capital punishment requires due process in which a jury finds that the person being executed is not innocent.
Yeah like those 13 oppress people who flew two planes into the World Trade Center and one into the Pentagon. Those oppress people right? Traitor.
Capital punishment requires due process
Which ends by murdering in the name of God.....yep menstral, you are are a loser of a hypocrite!!!!!! And again, you missed the point....we killed thousands in the name of righteousness in Iraq......Seems you conveniently forgot that mass murder of civilians and think it is justified with NO DUE PROCESS!!!!! Keep digging fool....you think murder is fine as long as you agree with it..>>LOLOLOLOL
.we killed thousands in the name of righteousness in Iraq......
while marxism/socialism/communism has killed tens of millions worldwide.
no one has racked up a body count like the left, d0pie. now do us all a favor and eat a pistol.
Those "civilians" were wearing the uniform of the Iraqi Republican Guard, Saddam Husain's personal forces.
Nice try traitor.
You need to pull your fat head out of trumps fat fucking ass.....sure they were, again, you conveniently forgot this...
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians
Do you wanna debate if these casualties were wearing uniforms like you lied about.....asshole
Those "civilians" were wearing the uniform of the he wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan have taken a tremendous human toll on those countries. As of March 2015, approximately 210,000 civilians have died violent deaths as a result of the wars. Civilian deaths have also resulted from the US military operations in Yemen that began in 2002.
People living in the war zones have been killed in their homes, in markets, and on roadways. They have been killed by bombs, bullets, fire, improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and drones. Civilians die at checkpoints, as they are run off the road by military vehicles, when they step on a mine or cluster bomb, as they collect wood or tend to their fields, and when they are kidnapped and executed for purposes of revenge or intimidation. They are killed by the United States, by its allies, and by insurgents and sectarians in the civil wars spawned by the invasions.
Death can also happen weeks or months after a battle. Many times more Iraqis, Afghans, and Pakistanis have died as a result of battered infrastructure and poor health conditions arising from the wars than directly from its violence. For example, war refugees often lose access to a stable food supply or to their jobs, resulting in increased malnutrition and vulnerability to disease.
The Costs of War reports document the direct and indirect toll that war takes on civilians and their livelihoods, including the lingering effects of war death and injury on survivors and their families.
well, the watson institute at brown makes a claim regarding the number of casualties without stating how they arrived at their numbers.
furthermore, brown's numbers are self-admittedly estimates, and their "methodology" if you want to call it that is nothing more than reports from various propaganda outlets:
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/2018/Human%20Costs%2C%20Nov%208%202018%20CoW.pdf
there's bullshit, and then there's ivy league bullshit.
es without stating how they arrived at their numbers.
Well rectum breath, why don't you link us up with a number you agree with......Funny how big an asshole you are when it comes to opining pure BS......LOL
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/03/20/15-years-after-it-began-the-death-toll-from-the-iraq-war-is-still-murky/?utm_term=.59e39ac31e5e
Wa Post is not sure of the total, but thinks it is surely more than 1 and less than a million....why don't you tell us what you think?????
while marxism/socialism/communism has killed tens of millions worldwide.
Which proves what rectum breath ???? That the US is a saint with only a few hundred thousand slaughtered in the ME?????
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