Macy’s has informed it’s landlord that it will be leaving it’s Water Tower Place store location in Chicago’s “Mag Mile”. 

I guess they got tired of the looting, and the failure of the city’s Administration to provide enough police to keep the peace when looters came out of the south and west sides to break windows and steal merchandise.  The images of cops sitting in their cars, outnumbered 20:1 and helpless to intervene while (mostly) poor black folks brazenly walked through broken glass doors and windows and left with armloads of merchandise. While teams of people loaded large box trucks (some say U-Hauls) and left with tens of thousands of dollars of property. (One would have though that the cops would have taken license numbers, but what do I know?). 

Merchants cannot do business without the rule of law. 

I expect that in a year, three at most, the “Mag Mile” will not be so “Magnificent”… It will take a while, but it will soon be an empty shell, as merchants leave for safer places to do business, taking with them millions of dollars in wages, taxes and ancillary costs that will, instead, go to other, safer, communities. 

Look at Detroit and other cities where riots happened. They still haven’t recovered even decades later. 

Macey’s is just the first rock in the avalanche. 

 To my brother. 

If you were a car, you’d be a “classic”. 

 “…someone whose resume suggests being ready to step in, if and when Biden decides to step aside.“

I guess the cat is out of the bag then. We all know Biden will have to “step aside” because of failing mental faculties very soon. It is sad that they are using him this way

This gets (should they win) a fairly far Left candidate into the White House when she could not make it there on her own…

And it was CNN who brought it to the forefront. 

 What, exactly, Kamala Harris had to do THIS time to get her position as Joe Biden’s VP pick. 

I mean, it isn’t like she hasn’t “assumed a position” before, is it? 

Was in Joe himself? Or someone (or someones) else that she had to take care of. 

Enquiring minds and all that. 

You would have thought that even the DNC would have found a woman with some character to be the First Black Vice President nominee. 

I see it as giver her some payback for services rendered but they realize that Joe (and now Kamala) won’t be in the white house after Nov, so they have nothing to lose….

“That is reparations,” Atkins said. “Anything they wanted to take, they can take it because these businesses have insurance.”

And:

“I don’t care if someone decides to loot a Gucci or a Macy’s or a Nike store, because that makes sure that person eats,” Ariel Atkins, a BLM organizer, said. “That makes sure that person has clothes.”

I didn’t see any of those folks without clothes or anyone looking like they had missed a meal .

So it’s OK to loot someone’s store because “reparations”? Or because they think they need a meal? 

Fuck that. No matter how you try to justify it, that is theft, plain and simple. 

Watch it here: (start at 0:30). Even Jesse Jackson is ashamed at the actions of these folks. 

And it is all OK because “Insurance”.

These folks are animals. Not all black people, but a significant portion of those urban Blacks. They are a cancer on society, and need to be locked away from the rest of society. We corral dangerous dogs for a reason. 

 Why is it that when there is a “Peaceful Protest” about a perceived injustice to a black person, it always turns into a riot and then looting? Smashed store windows and acquisition of other people’s property….

It didn’t happen when the TEA Party folks did their marches. 

It doesn’t happen when other marches take place, like LGBT and such. Even Antifa limits themselves to destruction, not looting

Only when it is a black protest. 

Why is that? 

The sad part is that this makes every black person look bad…. And most aren’t that kind of trash. Most are decent, and as upstanding citizens as the rest of us…. . Now they get lumped in with the folks that did this last night, and they won’t ever be trusted because of it. 

Shit like this sets race relations back another generation. 

 READ this.

(vial Common Cents)

Go ahead, I will wait. 

Done? Yeah, it is middlin’ long, but it is worth the read. 

Sweden has, apparently, run the gauntlet and is now on the other side. 

The numbers in the article are pretty solid. The approach Sweden took is much more sensible. And it has worked much better that the “Flatten the Curve” strategy (that was originally supposed to be for just TWO WEEKS) and has now stretched on for more than 150 days, with no real end in sight…..at least until a vaccine is tested and shown to be efficacious (and safe)). 

Every time people interact, we have the chance to transmit this (or lots of others) disease. Only “slightly” letting people interact simply kills us slowly…if it will kill us at all. Thinking that the current “Lockdown” or limited social interaction will prevent people from getting the disease at all is foolish, it simply spreads out the (very small) infection rate over time…..and doesn’t really solve the problem. To think otherwise is to abandon logic.

Allowing protests with no “Social Distancing” but preventing people from congregating elsewhere is foolish and illogical. If Distancing is a requirement for safety, then is is required everywhere, not only outside of a political protest….If it is safe to walk shoulder to shoulder with a bunch of strangers, then it is safe to attend a wedding or funeral with your friends and relatives…..or at a high school football game…or on a beach or at a party…. If it is safe to eat in a restaurant with no masks but forcing the patrons to wear the masks while walking TO the table is idiocy. To release prisoners is another example of foolish, poorly thought out prevention. If masks really work, then they should work as well in a prison as at a store or other place of business. Releasing prisoners harms society, the entity that the imprisonment of the prisoner is supposed to protect….and if the measure required to keep those same members of society work in public, they should work in a prison as well  To think that the Social Distancing spacing of 6 feet makes a difference when there is no allowance for airflow or other factors is also foolish. (and there is no evidence that “6 Feet” is any more efficacious than 1 meter or 4 feet or 5  feet. It was just a number that was picked)

Yet we persist in these poorly thought out practices when we have an example, imperfect perhaps, but valid, that shows what a mostly urban population experiences with little or no “Covid safety” practices as we here in the United States are following, to the detriment of our society and our economy.. Sweden is fully operational, and has been, yet they have, effectively, no current “Pandemic” of Covid-19 in their borders. 

Yet we persist in following a poorly thought out and proven ineffective policy, enforced by our government entities, to the detriment of our population….WHY? 

Until either well over 70% of the population has been exposed, or until a vaccine is found and distributed, Covid 19 will be specter that will hang over us. And the measures we are taking aren’t fixing the problem…Nor, oddly, are our hospitals even close to overwhelmed…. 

When you see the  statistics on the morning news tomorrow, or the evening news, ask yourself….why don’t they tell us the positivity rate for the massive amounts of testing…..oddly, they leave out that statistic. Also, why don’t they give us the death RATE for those folks who HAVE Covid?  

The data is massaged and presented to give the recipient the impression that this is a massive “Pandemic”…when it really isn’t…but they don’t want you to know that. The highest rate of death is currently New Jersey…at 178 people dying per 100,000 people…..that is a death rate of 0.00178, or less than two-tenths of a percent. And that is the HIGHEST of all the states in the country. Yet we re told to cower in fear and wear a mask so we won’t all die…..When in reality, the chance of dying from Covid is really very, very low. 

 or just plain looting…

And it wasn’t the Amish that were looting and vandalizing the businesses on Michigan Avenue and the surrounding areas in Chicago late Sunday evening. More at the Channel 5 news website…including video of the folks doing the looting. 

And the cops weren’t allowed to use the crowd control tools they needed when they were outnumbered. 

This is how the Chicago we know dies slowly. In order to protect the city, the police will shut down the trains from the south side and raise the bridges to limit access to keep the majority of the folks doing the crimes away. Folks who work downtown, if they are actually going in to work, are having to prove that they are essential and have to be in the downtown area. 

There has to be someone organizing the folks from the south side. No way that thousands all decided to get on trains and into cars to go and loot in the more affluent parts of the city all at once. 

And this is a great way to make sure that whites fear and loathe poor black folks. 

 It could just be rumor:

But the story is that a major chain is having a “Michael Jackson Memorial sale”.

Supposed to be Boys Underwear Half Off.