I'm surprised, being California, franchises didnt' step up their game and hire Transgender Dragqueen Wendy Lookalikes to work the counter there.
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Clem72
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They tried that at the Wendy's in Leonardtown.
Ransomware attack shuts down three dozen Los Angeles courts
“The court experienced an unprecedented cyberattack on Friday which has resulted in the need to shut down nearly all network systems in order to contain the damage, protect the integrity and confidentiality of information and ensure future network stability and security,” said Presiding Judge Samantha P. Jessner.
“While the court continues to move swiftly towards a restoration and recovery phase, many critical systems remain offline as of Sunday evening. One additional day will enable the court’s team of experts to focus exclusively on bringing our systems back online so that the court can resume operations as expeditiously, smoothly and safely as possible.”
According to the county, the infection was contained and is being removed by its own staff and outside security consulting firms. However, with some essential systems and services still offline, it is taking the step of closing down operations with hopes of being back online by the start of business in Los Angeles on Tuesday morning.
“The court recognizes the significance of a court closure on the communities it serves and the mission it abides by,” the statement reads.
It wasn’t all bad news for democrats, especially ones living in blue states. It’s that wonderful season again, like Christmas but even better, when the nation gathers together in joy and harmony to cover up the most obvious side-effects of democrat policies — right before the presidential election. Yesterday, the Associated Press ran a story headlined, “Newsom orders California state agencies to start clearing homeless encampments.”
In what the AP called Governor Newsom’s “boldest action yet,” the leader of the Golden State issued an executive order addressed to state and local agencies, directing them “to move urgently to address dangerous encampments while supporting and assisting the individuals living in them.”
Move urgently. Time is of the essence.
How bold! How leaderlike! How … presidential!
Under Newsom’s bold, leaderlike direction, state agencies must prioritize clearing camps posing ‘safety risks.’ Officials must give homeless freeloaders “reasonable” advance notice before bulldozing their excrement-filled trash heaps, offer them free services, and store their valuable personal belongings for at least two months.
I sense a whole new season of “Dirty Jobs” in the offing. Somebody call Mike Rowe.
Local cities and counties, while not required to follow the order, were “urged” to do the same. “There are simply no more excuses. It’s time for everyone to do their part,” Newsom declared boldly, in a bold, leaderlike statement yesterday.
Newsom’s boldest move yet was not embraced by everyone on the left. “You get your highway off-ramp clean for a moment only,” Democrat Assemblywoman Alex Lee said on social media. “Without meaningful services and housing, all sweeps do is making (sic) a prominent inequality less visible.”
Well, yes. Making the problem less visible is precisely the point. Not only that, but earlier this year Newsom pushed a ballot measure through, allowing the state to borrow $6.4 billion dollars to build 4,350 free McMansions for vagrants and bums ($1.5 million each).
A curious Associated Press noted, but promptly dismissed, what it called the “curious” timing of Newsom’s bold, leaderlike order “given recent developments in the 2024 presidential race:”
Purely coincidental, my good man! Don’t be a conspiracy theorist. The broader context, if not excuse, as repeatedly noted throughout the article, was the Supreme Court’s recent decision allowing cities to remove vagrants when they camp out in public places. The nation’s top court overruled long-standing 9th Circuit law holding that removing pest-attracting trash lairs from downtown streets was “cruel and unusual punishment.”
I have a different take. If we really wanted to solve this problem, we would find out who is giving the vagrants all those tents, and criminalize that, for aiding and abetting the controlled demolition of our big cities. Without tents, there’d be no homeless camps.
Who is giving drug addicts free tents on demand?
To be clear, I agree we face a horrific social tragedy of widespread drug addiction and mental illnesses (which are probably caused by some pharmaceutical or other, but I digress). We should help those folks, who are after all our sons and daughters and fellow Americans.* But most of all, we should help them by rooting out the people and organizations enabling — if not inviting — people to live that way. (* don’t get me started on the border crisis. If only we had a border czar.)
In any case, people who live in blue states are about to enjoy a brief stay of civilizational execution, as those areas clean themselves up —and clean up their favorite oleaginous governor— in a grotesque display of pure performative politics. Urgently. Before November 5th.
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Where are they going to go? They'll just build a new encampment somewhere else.
The Government Is Choking Off Wineries
Unsurprisingly, the wine industry has been hit by inflation. However, the market has also been flooded by spikes in imported wines and grocery store chains preferring their own private-label wine brands (such as Costco's Kirkland Signature wines or Whole Foods' Wine Farmer).
The long-term future of the wine sector is bleak given that Millenials and Gen-Zers are not only drinking less alcohol in general than previous generations but are also increasingly opting for microbrews and craft cocktails over vino. Global wine consumption has hit a 27-year low and American wine sales fell by 8.7 percent in 2023.
But while all these factors certainly play a role, they glide over the biggest industry-wide issue of all for wine: Being choked to death by government policies.
Due to the three-tier system that nearly every state subjects alcohol to, wholesalers or distributors act as government-mandated middlemen connecting alcohol producers to retail stores. The purported rationale for the three-tier system is to prevent Big Alcohol monopolies from forming at the producer level of the supply chain.
And yet, it has essentially done the opposite. For decades there were multiple distributors available for almost every winery. Today, there are fewer than 1,000 distributors for over 8,000 American wineries—and out of those distributors, it's actually just three goliath distributors that control up to 67 percent of all the U.S. wine sales (in some states this climbs to over 90 percent).
This begets a form of government-sponsored collusion, in which the largest distributors disproportionately focus most of their energy on servicing the accounts from the largest wineries. Many smaller and medium-sized wineries are often unable to find distributors who will carry their products. In turn, their wines never even make it to store shelves, severing them from their main market-access channel entirely. When less wine is being produced or sold, fewer grapes are needed—hence the growing epidemic of vineyard desecrations.
California DMV Puts 42 million Car Titles on Blockchain
However, given the recent spate of Microsoft outages and other hacking reports, I am a bit nervous about digitizing without serious hard copy backups. Given how expensive cars have become and how critical having one is to people’s lives and livelihoods, extreme caution should be used before proceeding.
The unintended consequences of this move could be devastating if there are significant issues with the system.
It is also disturbing to note this move is also part of Governor Gavin Newsom’s plans to even have more control over our lives….under the banner of protections.
Chevron Taking Its Headquarters To Texas
Friday’s announcement seems symbolic of the diminishing presence of both Chevron and the oil industry itself in California. As state leaders have moved to force a transition away from oil and its related products, the state’s once-thriving industry has gradually declined in size and significance.
Chevron and its predecessor companies have a long history in the state, tracing the company’s origins to 1879 and the founding of the Pacific Coast Oil Company. In 1900, Pacific Coast was bought out by John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company. What we currently call Chevron was created in 1911 under the name of Standard Oil of California with the breaking up of the Standard Oil monopoly.
Chevron grew in great spurts over the past 40 years through big mergers and acquisitions. It purchased Gulf Oil Company in 1984, and merged with Texaco 17 years later, changing its name to Chevron Texaco. For the next four years, the running joke in the industry was that the company’s name is Chevron Texaco, but the “Texaco” is silent. That became reality in 2005 when the company purchased Unocal and dropped the “Texaco” name entirely. Most recently, Chevron paid $13 billion to buy big independent producer Noble Energy during the depths of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, and last October entered into a $53 billion all-stock deal to merge with Hess Corp.
Oakland descends into anarchy as it's overtaken by 'perfect storm' of crime and scandal amid 'vacuum of leadership'
Residents of a California city are grappling with out-of-control crime and the loss of confidence in their elected leader.
While scenes of brazen criminal activity in the city have become too common, Democrat Mayor Sheng Thao's fledgling administration is wrought with scandal.
Thao's home was raided by the FBI on June 20, with agents confiscating devices belonging to her and her partner Andre Jones. This comes as the embattled mayor faces a recall effort just two years after taking office.
None of this has put a damper on the frequent lootings of businesses, random shootings or brutal assaults on the elderly.
Jim Ross, a Democratic consultant based in Oakland, called the crime wave and the political turmoil in the city 'the perfect storm times three.'
Doubtful.
Don't forget to count those election day 2 AM to 6 AM voters
SamSpade
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Can someone spell out why the left is promoting the story that crime is DOWN - but we are finding that businesses and people are uprooting and moving to other states - and besides taxes (or including them) - at least one of the reasons is CRIME. Stores, shuttering, because of crime.
I keep hearing this from the left.
Now - on a related note - most of the more violent crime has been on a downward slope since the 70's. It's a fifty year pattern. Some articles I have read said that a number of things have influenced this, but a lot of it is - older criminals have died - and crimes are either pled down or not classified the same.
Because it doesn't make sense to argue that our prisons are bursting at the seams and less violent criminals need to either be released or not put INTO prison, because there's too many - but that somehow - crime is - down.
I am pretty sure that somewhere, I'm being lied to, but I can't pinpoint the problem -
Without sheer speculation.
Is there data saying - arrests are down? Crime is happening but not being called in? DA's are letting people go? Some jurisdictions are reporting zero figures (I know THAT part is true in SOME places - just don't know of a TREND).
I keep hearing this from the left.
Now - on a related note - most of the more violent crime has been on a downward slope since the 70's. It's a fifty year pattern. Some articles I have read said that a number of things have influenced this, but a lot of it is - older criminals have died - and crimes are either pled down or not classified the same.
Because it doesn't make sense to argue that our prisons are bursting at the seams and less violent criminals need to either be released or not put INTO prison, because there's too many - but that somehow - crime is - down.
I am pretty sure that somewhere, I'm being lied to, but I can't pinpoint the problem -
Without sheer speculation.
Is there data saying - arrests are down? Crime is happening but not being called in? DA's are letting people go? Some jurisdictions are reporting zero figures (I know THAT part is true in SOME places - just don't know of a TREND).