Friday, May 3, 2024
49.7% had a full time job in April, up from 49.3% in March
Compare full year averages in the chart below.
Full time peaks in the summer.
Thursday, May 2, 2024
Kristen Clarke, Biden's Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights and promoter of anti-semitic black supremacist Anthony Martin, now revealed to have lied under oath at Senate confirmation
She had attacked her ex-husband with a knife but lied about her arrest.
Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke admitted Wednesday that she was arrested and chose not to disclose the legal matter during her Senate confirmation process because it had been expunged from her record.
More.
Her appointment stank in 2021, and it reeks now. She aggressively prosecutes peaceful abortion protesters but turns a blind eye to actual violent attacks on pro-life facilities.
Clarke not only invited notorious anti-Semite and black supremacist quack Anthony Martin — whose racist theories happen to comport perfectly with the ones she presented in her letter — to speak at Harvard, but also praised his intelligence and the veracity of his work. In her letter, Clarke specifically points to a doctor named Carol Barnes to claim “melanin theory” is what gives “Blacks their superior physical and mental abilities.” In those days, bigoted pseudo-intellectuals such as Martin and Leonard Jeffries were quite popular on campuses.
-- National Review reported.
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
California progressives raise minimum wage to $20, fast food jobs go up in smoke, man loses long career just like that
“Between last fall and January,” Ohanian wrote, “California fast-food restaurants cut about 9,500 jobs, representing a 1.3% change from September 2023.” By comparison, overall employment in California during that period fell just 0.2%.
Michael Ojeda, a Pizza Hut driver for eight years in Ontario, Calif., received notice in December that his last day would be in February, according to a letter from his former employer. Pizza Hut franchisee Southern California Pizza offered $400 in severance if he stayed through February, but Ojeda, who said he made hundreds of dollars a week in wages and tips as a delivery driver, went on unemployment instead.
“Pizza Hut was my career for nearly a decade and with little to no notice it was taken away,” said Ojeda, 29, who previously supported his mother and partner on his Pizza Hut delivery wages.
Southern California Pizza didn’t respond to requests for comment. Pizza Hut said it was aware of some of its California franchisees changing their delivery services.
-- The Wall Street Journal reported.
California fast food now more expensive since minimum wage hike
nbclosangeles.com
California fast-food prices are up as much as 8% since minimum wage hike
Helen Jeong, Amber Frias
Since California’s new law went into effect to raise the minimum wage of fast-food workers, who are employed by chains of 60 restaurants and more, from $16 to $20 an hour, some fast-food chains have raised their food prices, according to a new study.
Kalinowski Equity Research said that menu prices at some restaurants have gone up as much as 8% since April 1.
Wendy’s is leading the price hikes at 8% while Chipotle’s food prices have gone up 7.5%.
As Starbucks’ food items are now 7% more expensive, customers at Taco Bell and Burger King are now paying 3% and 2% more respectively.
Starbucks confirmed its price increase, saying it was largely due to the minimum wage increase in the state.
Wendy’s, Chipotle’s, Taco Bell and Burger King did not respond to NBC Los Angeles’ request for comments and confirmation.
In response to the price increases, the California Restaurant Association said they were the “entirely predictable” results of the minimum wage increase.
“Since it took effect, job losses, reduced working hours, restaurant closures and higher prices for California’s inflation-weary consumers have been ongoing,” the group said.
Southern California who frequented fast-food restaurants for convenience and affordability said they are feeling the squeeze.
“I used to pay $10. Now it's $13. Over time that’ll be like $6 more or $9 – it just keeps going,” Owen Peralta, a Chipotle customer in Brea, said. “If I'm going to start paying restaurant prices, then I'm going to have to go somewhere else.”
Specifically in the case of Chipote, its chicken burritos are now 8.3% pricer while steak burritos will cost customers 7% more.
Other customers hinted the rising food prices are changing the way fast food is perceived and consumed.
“[The rising prices] probably won’t stop me, but I’ll probably eat out less,” Cindy Tran, a Brea resident, said.
“I’ll decide not to eat out probably a couple of times a month,” Mike Larson added.
Emerson polling shows third party candidates helping Trump, hurting Biden, or making no difference in the perhaps two most libertarian states Michigan and Arizona
In Michigan and Arizona at least, libertarianism is . . . polarizing!
Meanwhile, Trump has NO coattails in these states. Democrats are favored to win US Senate races in most of them.
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Victims of the permanent psychedelic trip demand accommodation
From the LA Times here:
“This disorder has stigma and shame attached to it. People often dismiss people with HPPD as druggies,” he said. “We deserve the same amount of caring and attention as people with any serious life-altering condition. … For that to happen, doctors need to know this is a thing."
I'd be more sympathetic if there were even one word in this story suggesting that drug liberalization laws have been a big mistake, but no. There isn't the slightest hint of remorse.
We've known since at least the 1960s that psychedelics can cause permanent harm, removing users from productive society and making them a burden on us all.
There is no excuse for this sorry state of affairs.
Monday, April 29, 2024
Drudge spent most of April showing headlines with Biden supposedly surging in polls while Real Clear Politics polling averages show Trump has climbed out of less than single digit leads to higher spreads
The new "No Toss Up States" move above 300 in the Electoral College for Trump is particularly noteworthy.
Trump now leads again in all the Battlegrounds.
Nancy Pelosi, The Queen of Inflation, had the worst record of any speaker for deficit spending
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| Pelosi spent 210% of revenues in 2009 |
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| Pelosi spent 196% of revenues in 2010 |
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| Pelosi spent 216% of revenues in 2020 |
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| Pelosi spent 176% of revenues in 2021 |
This guy can't imagine that "civilization" was just fine in 1956, when there were only 2.8 billion people in the world instead of 8 billion
Kevin Dolan: If Birth Rates Continue To Plummet, Civilization Will End
Meanwhile Mao killed his millions by the tens from 1949 and America killed its millions by the tens from 1973 and few have been the wiser.
Oddly, we still call this civilization.
Be that as it may, failure to reproduce eventually will necessitate a gradual and huge redistribution of wealth from the older population to the younger population, involving sometimes quite dramatic repricing of goods and services in the process because of the law of supply and demand.
And then at some point the natural response to reproduce will reassert itself "after the money's gone".
Once in a lifetime.
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