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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #5250 on: July 23, 2020, 10:15:48 AM »
There is nothing good about any of this thing. Deaths are bad. Businesses closing (for good) is bad. Losing a job is bad. Losing money is bad.


I can only hope that when (if) we come out of it, the general population here and abroad has enough resolve to do everything it can possibly do to erase China.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #5251 on: July 23, 2020, 10:22:01 AM »
Can't go to a bar in Chicago starting Friday, but the pot stores are open. 

Let's all sit home and stay stoned, all day long!!! What could go wrong?



Chicagoans have watched for months as “For Sale” and “For Rent” signs popped up in the windows of their favorite coffee joints and neighborhood bars, and they’ve wondered whether treasured restaurants ever will reopen.

A tally is in: The coronavirus pandemic has forced an estimated 4,400 businesses in the Chicago area to close, including 2,400 that say they won’t reopen.

The data, released Wednesday, comes from crowd-sourced business review platform Yelp.

Nationally, more than 132,500 businesses have permanently or temporarily closed since March, according to Yelp. Temporary business closures are decreasing nationally as some states reopen, but permanent closures are rising, accounting for 55% of all closed businesses.

The Chicago area has suffered the fourth-highest number of closures among the nation’s metro areas, behind Los Angeles, New York City and San Francisco.


Restaurants and retail have been the hardest-hit sectors in the Chicago area. According to Yelp’s data, more than 800 restaurants and 700 retail businesses have closed since March 1. More than 550 of those restaurants and 420 of those retailers will not reopen. Other sectors that have seen more than 350 businesses shutter include beauty services, home services and financial services.



Yelp gathered the data by counting businesses on its platform on March 1 and tallying how many of those owners had marked their businesses closed by July 10, either through changing hours or through a COVID-19 banner on its page. Business owners have the option to mark their business as either permanently or temporarily closed. The company then vetted the closures, and excluded one-day closures unrelated to the pandemic, such as Easter.

The company declined to disclose the total number of businesses on its platform.
The numbers could continue to rise with coronavirus cases, as Chicago rolls back some of its reopening plans.

Starting Friday, the city will limit indoor fitness classes to a maximum of 10 people and ban personal services requiring the removal of masks, such as shaves and facials. Bars that don’t sell food no longer will be able to serve alcohol indoors.


Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration announced the rollbacks Monday. That night, Guthrie’s Tavern in Lakeview announced it will close permanently by the end of the week. “With the new restrictions set today for bars and the ongoing COVID restrictions, we don’t see a way we can survive,” said a post on Guthrie’s Facebook page.

The fate of many Chicago-area businesses lies in the reopening guidelines, and whether they’ll be able to operate and abide by them, said Tanya Triche Dawood, vice president and general counsel of the Illinois Retail Merchants Association. Few small businesses have “a ton of capital to rely on,” she said.


“These small businesses are really hurting,” she said. “The impact is real. You may not see a closed sign on the business, but that doesn’t mean that they’re not in trouble.”


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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #5252 on: July 23, 2020, 10:25:21 AM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on July 23, 2020, 10:15:48 AM
I can only hope that when (if) we come out of it, the general population here and abroad has enough resolve to do everything it can possibly do to erase China.
The people will have to treat with the CCP.If they can pull that off then perhaps they can give us pointers on dealing with what ever it is we have in Washington
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #5253 on: July 23, 2020, 10:26:51 AM »
What we have in DC is a swamp.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #5254 on: July 23, 2020, 11:52:00 AM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on July 23, 2020, 10:22:01 AM
Can't go to a bar in Chicago starting Friday, but the pot stores are open.


Wouldn't the pot stores be more analogous to a liquor store than a full service bar? 

Nevada initially had everything shut down including the pot stores. 

Then they opened everything kinda all at once in late May/early June, but heavily regulated. Masks on the casino floor, every other machine turned off, so that folks can't sit side by side. Plastic dividers between each bar stool. Yet they all had their swimming pools open, with large unmasked crowds. 

Now the "bars" have all been closed. You can still order a drink from a cocktail waitress though. So what happens is while she is up there getting all the drinks, a bunch of random people will wander up to the bar and give her their drink orders. Which is basically the same thing as going up to the bar and ordering a drink directly from the barkeep. Only now there is a middle man that gets all of his tips. 

And as noted elsewhere, northern Nevada has opened all of their brothels back up, while all this nonsense with the bars is going on. 
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #5255 on: July 23, 2020, 12:06:54 PM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on July 23, 2020, 11:52:00 AM
Wouldn't the pot stores be more analogous to a liquor store than a full service bar?

Nevada initially had everything shut down including the pot stores.

Then they opened everything kinda all at once in late May/early June, but heavily regulated. Masks on the casino floor, every other machine turned off, so that folks can't sit side by side. Plastic dividers between each bar stool. Yet they all had their swimming pools open, with large unmasked crowds.

Now the "bars" have all been closed. You can still order a drink from a cocktail waitress though. So what happens is while she is up there getting all the drinks, a bunch of random people will wander up to the bar and give her their drink orders. Which is basically the same thing as going up to the bar and ordering a drink directly from the barkeep. Only now there is a middle man that gets all of his tips.

And as noted elsewhere, northern Nevada has opened all of their brothels back up, while all this nonsense with the bars is going on.
The liquor stores don't have the endless lines outside, and congregation problems (mostly - some do, in certain areas). I've seen the footage on TV.

But, your point is taken.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #5256 on: July 23, 2020, 12:21:15 PM »
Ahhh.  Good ole Chicago.  

The mayor stands idly by while numerous people are murdered every day, including children, but is now suddenly ready to take decisive action to stop federal law enforcement to assist.  She has threatened to go to court to prevent the federal assistance because it would “take away our peoples constitutional rights“.   

You can’t make this stuff up. Protect their constitutional rights from what? Killing someone? Being killed?

If it weren’t for the mayors of other big cities like the one in Portland, I would think she was the dumbest person on earth but she has peers 

Their TDS know no boundaries.  
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #5257 on: July 23, 2020, 12:41:40 PM »
She finally caved, last night. The Feds are coming, but they will not be policing. 

They will assist the CPD, which welcomes them with open arms. The Aldermen are also thankful.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #5258 on: July 23, 2020, 12:46:27 PM »
Would the Feds have to be deputized?  Murder (in general) is not a Federal crime, nor is much else that's happening there.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #5259 on: July 23, 2020, 12:53:44 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on July 23, 2020, 12:46:27 PM
Would the Feds have to be deputized?  Murder (in general) is not a Federal crime, nor is much else that's happening there.
I’m pretty sure they don’t have to be deputized for crime prevention. They’re not there for after the fact prosecution.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #5260 on: July 23, 2020, 12:56:55 PM »
Quote from: Honestbuckeye on July 23, 2020, 12:53:44 PM
I’m pretty sure they don’t have to be deputized for crime prevention. They’re not there for after the fact prosecution.
It depends on their role, and if they are to have arrest powers.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #5261 on: July 23, 2020, 01:04:23 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on July 23, 2020, 12:46:27 PM
Would the Feds have to be deputized?  Murder (in general) is not a Federal crime, nor is much else that's happening there.
Most of the guns are coming in from out of state - mainly Indiana. Crossing state lines with an illegal gun used in a murder? Does that trigger the Fed?
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #5262 on: July 23, 2020, 01:07:11 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on July 23, 2020, 01:04:23 PM
Most of the guns are coming in from out of state - mainly Indiana. Crossing state lines with an illegal gun used in a murder? Does that trigger the Fed?

An illegal gun?  That depends on whether the gun is actually illegal, as opposed to a person not allowed to have possession.

I would guess a lot of women are buying guns just over the line from Chicago.  Maybe there are a plethora of guns shops just over the line, like fireworks dealers.

Either way, guns are durable implements of course.  If the criminals have sat 10,000 guns illegally today, they probably have 9,950 the next day, at best.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #5263 on: July 23, 2020, 01:12:40 PM »
For a gun to be legal in Illinois, its owner must possess a FOID card. You cannot buy or own a gun legally without one.

None of these thugs have a FOID card, so any gun in their possession is illegal.
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