(11-25-2014 06:20 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  If you owned an O'Reillys Auto Parts, McD, or oven a barber shop, what are the chances you take the insurance money and reopen elsewhere? Hope the local individual owners had solid insurance.

(11-26-2014 06:17 AM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  The governor is toast. He didn't have the national guard keep a lid on the animals.

(11-26-2014 06:29 AM)CardFan1 Wrote:  

(11-26-2014 06:17 AM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  The governor is toast. He didn't have the national guard keep a lid on the animals.

There was a post days ago that disappeared from this board about Eric Holder ordering the Police and Guard to keep hands off the Ferguson Protesters. I tried to find it but going over 3 pages each in both rooms I assumed it was pulled. Trouble in paradise.

(11-26-2014 06:17 AM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  The governor is toast. He didn't have the national guard keep a lid on the animals.

(11-25-2014 08:50 PM)pharaoh0 Wrote:  

(11-25-2014 06:20 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  If you owned an O'Reillys Auto Parts, McD, or oven a barber shop, what are the chances you take the insurance money and reopen elsewhere? Hope the local individual owners had solid insurance.

Unfortunately, most insurance policies do not cover these types of damages. Insurrection, terrorism, and riots are common things that are excluded from the liability on insurance...unless you pay extra.

More than likely the government will provide a fund and these folks will more than likely take the money and reopen elsewhere.

(11-26-2014 10:24 AM)Crebman Wrote:  

(11-25-2014 08:50 PM)pharaoh0 Wrote:  

(11-25-2014 06:20 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  If you owned an O'Reillys Auto Parts, McD, or oven a barber shop, what are the chances you take the insurance money and reopen elsewhere? Hope the local individual owners had solid insurance.

Unfortunately, most insurance policies do not cover these types of damages. Insurrection, terrorism, and riots are common things that are excluded from the liability on insurance...unless you pay extra.

More than likely the government will provide a fund and these folks will more than likely take the money and reopen elsewhere.

This will be one of the lasting legacies of these riots. The businesses that were there and have been destroyed will not reopen. I wonder how long it will take residents of Ferguson to complain and whine that "we don't have any stores close by to buy what we need, we have to drive XX miles to go to the store!"

With no local businesses - no local economy - with no local economy, Ferguson will just further deteriorate into a slum of the 1st degree.

(11-26-2014 10:24 AM)Crebman Wrote:  

(11-25-2014 08:50 PM)pharaoh0 Wrote:  

(11-25-2014 06:20 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  If you owned an O'Reillys Auto Parts, McD, or oven a barber shop, what are the chances you take the insurance money and reopen elsewhere? Hope the local individual owners had solid insurance.

Unfortunately, most insurance policies do not cover these types of damages. Insurrection, terrorism, and riots are common things that are excluded from the liability on insurance...unless you pay extra.

More than likely the government will provide a fund and these folks will more than likely take the money and reopen elsewhere.

This will be one of the lasting legacies of these riots. The businesses that were there and have been destroyed will not reopen. I wonder how long it will take residents of Ferguson to complain and whine that "we don't have any stores close by to buy what we need, we have to drive XX miles to go to the store!"

With no local businesses - no local economy - with no local economy, Ferguson will just further deteriorate into a slum of the 1st degree.

(11-26-2014 07:32 AM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  

(11-26-2014 06:17 AM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  The governor is toast. He didn't have the national guard keep a lid on the animals.

He's already toast from last time. He can't run again for governor, and his vice-presidential aspirations were shot from the previous riots and his fiasco handling of the first riots and the video he put out.

He honestly doesn't care anymore, he knows his political future is done for.

(11-26-2014 10:54 AM)Native Georgian Wrote:  

(11-26-2014 07:32 AM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  

(11-26-2014 06:17 AM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  The governor is toast. He didn't have the national guard keep a lid on the animals.

He's already toast from last time. He can't run again for governor, and his vice-presidential aspirations were shot from the previous riots and his fiasco handling of the first riots and the video he put out.

He honestly doesn't care anymore, he knows his political future is done for.

This.

Politically, the question now is whether Missouri can somehow remain "reddish" but still sort-of-competitive in state/local elections, or will it go like Arkansas just did. The next Gov. election is in 2016 so not long to find out.

(11-26-2014 10:24 AM)Crebman Wrote:  

(11-25-2014 08:50 PM)pharaoh0 Wrote:  

(11-25-2014 06:20 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  If you owned an O'Reillys Auto Parts, McD, or oven a barber shop, what are the chances you take the insurance money and reopen elsewhere? Hope the local individual owners had solid insurance.

Unfortunately, most insurance policies do not cover these types of damages. Insurrection, terrorism, and riots are common things that are excluded from the liability on insurance...unless you pay extra.

More than likely the government will provide a fund and these folks will more than likely take the money and reopen elsewhere.

This will be one of the lasting legacies of these riots. The businesses that were there and have been destroyed will not reopen. I wonder how long it will take residents of Ferguson to complain and whine that "we don't have any stores close by to buy what we need, we have to drive XX miles to go to the store!"

With no local businesses - no local economy - with no local economy, Ferguson will just further deteriorate into a slum of the 1st degree.

(11-26-2014 11:04 AM)CardFan1 Wrote:  I was channel surfing during the riot and a Black Female congress woman from St. Louis was on MSNBC saying this is Their Race War. Changes were going to come. She really ripped Her own Democrat party saying those in control were Racist from the Governor on down. Maybe Some will wake-up. I seriously doubt that the Republicans will be gaining new voters though. They might run as Independent candidates. But that would take away from Democrat votes.

(11-26-2014 11:09 AM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  With only a little bit of sarcasm, the Ferguson Biz owners should have hired Roof Koreans.

Quote:Nobody is robbing St. Louis Ink Tattoo Studio anytime soon. Or County Guns, for that matter.

The two north-county businesses share a storefront in a Florissant strip mall less than ten minute drive from the epicenter of last night’s riots in Ferguson. After nightfall, what began as a community’s peaceful demonstration against the Ferguson Police Department’s shooting of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown turned increasingly violent. Crowds plundered a QuikTrip and burned it to the ground, and local news began reporting brazen raids on other stores in the area.

After hearing of the roving bands of looters, Mike Gutierrez knew he had to protect his tattoo shop. He brought a posse with him, including Adam Weinstein, owner of County Guns, who was acutely worried about criminals getting their hands on his merchandise.

“We didn’t want them coming in here and then running around with a bunch of free guns,” Weinstein told Daily RFT when we arrive at the store around 12:30 a.m. this morning. Weinstein was outfitted with an assault rifle, pistol and tactical vest. Gutierrez cradled his own rifle in his hands.

Quote:Police officers are wonderful people to have around, but they can’t be everywhere.

In the end you are your own first responder, and must provide your own self-defense.

(11-26-2014 11:04 AM)CardFan1 Wrote:  

(11-26-2014 10:54 AM)Native Georgian Wrote:  

(11-26-2014 07:32 AM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  

(11-26-2014 06:17 AM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  The governor is toast. He didn't have the national guard keep a lid on the animals.

He's already toast from last time. He can't run again for governor, and his vice-presidential aspirations were shot from the previous riots and his fiasco handling of the first riots and the video he put out.

He honestly doesn't care anymore, he knows his political future is done for.

This.

Politically, the question now is whether Missouri can somehow remain "reddish" but still sort-of-competitive in state/local elections, or will it go like Arkansas just did. The next Gov. election is in 2016 so not long to find out.

I was channel surfing during the riot and a Black Female congress woman from St. Louis was on MSNBC saying this is Their Race War. Changes were going to come. She really ripped Her own Democrat party saying those in control were Racist from the Governor on down. Maybe Some will wake-up. I seriously doubt that the Republicans will be gaining new voters though. They might run as Independent candidates. But that would take away from Democrat votes.