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That song is a real downer to play at bars.

Also when you are on a boat in open water.

does anybody else find it ironic that Stephen Colbert went from parodying a blowhard...to actually becoming one?

I used to love his Colbert Report Show. He was hilarious. Now his late night show is horrible and he is just so phony and insufferable. He went the wrong route- none of those network late night shows are any good- they are all just so astonishingly terrible. The last good one imo was Conan- and NBC fired him to bring back the dinosaur Leno.

Late night shows at my age are not a "thing" for me.  I thought one thing I'd surely do after retirement is sleep late.  Doesn't happen, ever.

Hoping that the politics here can disappear again... 

Hoping that the politics here can disappear again...

That snipped article was not about politics. It was about policy.

They are not the same.

Just to be clear, I haven't been deleting political posts on this thread, just the Coronavirus thread.  

Man, I used to own Illinois properties and now I'm really glad I got out of that business. This has not been a problem with our California holdings. People are paying.


But you know who else is hurting? Landlords, many of whom own only a few properties and depend on rental payments to cover their own bills. Pritzker’s orders treat them as a public resource to be tapped at will, without much regard for their own needs. The Chicago City Council also has issued stricter rules on landlords who decide not to renew leases.

There are some obvious problems here. These measures don’t provide help to property owners struggling to pay mortgages and property taxes, not to mention maintenance costs. “My landlords are very desperate,” Chicago lawyer Carol Oshana told WBEZ. “They have (renters who) are working but don’t want to pay.”

Tenants, in theory, are obligated to make up all the missed payments once the moratorium ends, but that’s cold comfort for owners who need income now — and who may never be able to collect what they’re owed. Michael Glasser, president of the Neighborhood Building Owners Alliance in an October commentary, said there aren’t enough safeguards in the moratorium to weed out those cheating the system, the ones who aren’t paying because they know they don’t have to.

“Housing certainly is a necessity, but so are food and medicine. We don’t require grocery stores to provide free food, nor pharmacies to provide free medicine. Yet we require housing providers, including our smaller, more vulnerable neighborhood housing providers, to offer housing for free regardless of the circumstances,” he wrote.

Illinois sucks. Chicago is cool, but if I was going to live in an over-crowded, big city, New York would be by far the choice to go. It's just a way better city with better food. And it's almost unbelievable just based on the sheer size of New York and how much bigger it is than Chicago- but it is incredibly more safe and spectacularly less corrupt than Chicago.

Nothing was addressed by the federal gov't to help small landlords or every day people struggling with rent/mortgages. What did they do? Give people a one time $1,200 check and pass a corporate bail out worth that's at least $6 trillion- maybe even upwards of $10 trillion.  

The federal gov't is a joke. It's not just one person or party, it's both parties and it's all of them.