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Danny Evins, who created Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, a restaurant heavy on grits and nostalgia, expanded it into a $2 billion chain and then fought a losing battle to discriminate against gay employees, died on Saturday in Lebanon, Tenn. He was 76.

New York Times


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fought a losing battle to discriminate against gay employees
Gawd...this guy sure has some 'splainin to do, but give him a break. After all he did make 2 billion, and where he comes from that's far more important than anything else.


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Never heard of it or him. Must be a Suthin thang.


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I look at it as a generation unable to adapt is beginning to pass on. He had a great concept and created a lot of jobs in rural areas and paid a lot of taxes from the money that was made... but like George Wallace... was a little too late to adapt to a changing world.


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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Praise be to the LORD my Rock,
who trains my hands for war,
my fingers for battle.
Psalm 144 verse 1
 
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