In the News II

Quote: Tanko

Not adding up.

BLS reports 253,000 jobs added in April


According to their A-6 Table of Employed and unemployed full- and part-time workers

Full Time Workers

March: 134,339
April: 134,500
Change: 161,000

Part Time Workers

March: 26,747
April: 26,663
Change: -84,000

Net Gain: 77,000

They've been fudging to the upside the last three months.

I saw it this morning:

https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1654469291620614144?cxt=HHwWgIC2rcLD7fUtAAAA

Nordstrom closing both San Francisco stores due to ‘out of control criminal activity’. Whole Foods beat them to the punch. Walgreens armed security guard apparently killed a would be criminal. The criminal was transgender. So transgender activist goes to San Francisco council meeting hysterically screaming that this is transgender genocide. What it was was an armed guard killing a criminal. The activist is demanding that Walgreens no longer have armed guards!
SF DA not going to prosecute the guard.

Quote: Tanko

Not adding up.

BLS reports 253,000 jobs added in April


According to their A-6 Table of Employed and unemployed full- and part-time workers

Full Time Workers

March: 134,339
April: 134,500
Change: 161,000

Part Time Workers

March: 26,747
April: 26,663
Change: -84,000

Net Gain: 77,000

It added up for the stock market and thats what counts. Market up on this news

Quote: SOOPOO

Nordstrom closing both San Francisco stores due to ‘out of control criminal activity’. Whole Foods beat them to the punch. Walgreens armed security guard apparently killed a would be criminal. The criminal was transgender. So transgender activist goes to San Francisco council meeting hysterically screaming that this is transgender genocide. What it was was an armed guard killing a criminal. The activist is demanding that Walgreens no longer have armed guards!
SF DA not going to prosecute the guard.

But this is what the people of SF keep saying they want. Let them have it.

Quote: AZDuffman

But this is what the people of SF keep saying they want. Let them have it.

Exactly!

Let them have it.

It’s only righties who live nowhere near there who whine about SF.

No. One. Cares.

Quote: ams288

Exactly!

Let them have it.

It’s only righties who live nowhere near there who whine about SF.

No. One. Cares.

I visited San Francisco several years ago. Had a wonderful time. It's not that bad. Saw 2 shows in the Brand new Chase center Downtown. After the concert in the dead of night walked all the way to the Mission district where my friend lives.
It's a really wonderful city to visit.

Quote: AZDuffman

But this is what the people of SF keep saying they want. Let them have it.

If they don't get rid of their rat issue, they could get the bubonic plague again like they did last time.

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Plague in San Francisco: rats, racism and reform

Tilli Tansey extols a history of California’s chaotic early-twentieth-century epidemic.

24 April 2019
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The city was notoriously corrupt, dirty and overcrowded. California’s 1848–55 gold rush had swelled the population more than 25-fold. By 1867, Chinese immigrants made up 90% of the workforce building the transcontinental railway. By 1880, some 16% of the population of San Francisco were Chinese. Yet they faced animosity and segregation: the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, for instance, cracked down heavily on immigration. Chinatown became San Francisco’s most congested and impoverished district, with ramshackle wooden buildings carved up into tiny, packed spaces. In March 1900, the first suspected plague victim died in one of them.

The bacterium that causes plague, Yersinia pestis, had been identified in 1894, but little was known about transmission, treatment or prevention. As Randall shows, plague was often egregiously framed as a “racial disease” to which people of European ancestry were immune. (This racist fallacy arose in part because European expatriates in colonial India and Hong Kong rarely caught diseases that ravaged the deprived, crowded communities outside their compounds.)

That first case panicked San Francisco’s authorities. They quarantined Chinatown, preventing any movement of food in, or of its inhabitants — many of them cleaners, cooks and labourers — out. Civil unrest ensued, and people began to hide the dead and dying from “wolf doctors” — the city’s health inspectors. Outside Chinatown, the middle-class white population was outraged by the disruption. A definitive diagnosis was needed.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01239-x/

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Quote: ams288

Exactly!

Let them have it.

It’s only righties who live nowhere near there who whine about SF.

No. One. Cares.

Idk I’m pretty sick of the complete pain in the ass retail with everything locked up and watching people openly stealing shit (including from cars) in SoCal and Vegas. Considerably lower quality of life having to deal with it than say, five years ago before policies were different, but the aholes that all work from home and order everything online think everything’s the same.

Quote: SOOPOO

Nordstrom closing both San Francisco stores due to ‘out of control criminal activity’. Whole Foods beat them to the punch.

What type of area was this
Maybe these were terrible business decisions. I would never ever shop at Nordstrom's. It's overpriced crap. I just buy what I need and Walmart does just fine for me. Was this Nordstrom or Whole Foods in a ritzy area with lots of high end foot traffic?????? If it wasn't, terrible business decision. Times have changed. A lot of people used to work downtown. That's not the case anymore. Foot traffic is down in all cities that used to have a high concentration of office workers. Whole foods will never cut it in a blue collar area. We don't want 50 varietys of obscure cheeses. Give me Aldis and cheap prices with a tiny selection.
No doubt Whole Foods and Nordstrom made terrible business decisions on where to open a business and their blaming game is pure BS

Quote: terapined

What type of area was this
Maybe these were terrible business decisions. I would never ever shop at Nordstrom's. It's overpriced crap. I just buy what I need and Walmart does just fine for me. Was this Nordstrom or Whole Foods in a ritzy area with lots of high end foot traffic?????? If it wasn't, terrible business decision. Times have changed. A lot of people used to work downtown. That's not the case anymore. Foot traffic is down in all cities that used to have a high concentration of office workers. Whole foods will never cut it in a blue collar area. We don't want 50 varietys of obscure cheeses. Give me Aldis and cheap prices with a tiny selection.
No doubt Whole Foods and Nordstrom made terrible business decisions on where to open a business and their blaming game is pure BS

Maybe your blame game is the one that’s complete crap, did you ever consider that!