the "Headline That Caught My Attention or the WTF" thread

But but but. You did nothing to stop it. Remember your vote? Why protest now??


Take heart my friend. The plan is working.

The only way these virtue-signaling ideologues are going to change their tune (and their vote) is for them to deal with reality. I hope they ship a few hundred K more of them to blue neighborhoods. Can't happen soon enough.
 
Take heart my friend. The plan is working.

The only way these virtue-signaling ideologues are going to change their tune (and their vote) is for them to deal with reality. I hope they ship a few hundred K more of them to blue neighborhoods. Can't happen soon enough.
They have never taken responsibility for their actions. Even now they blame others.
 
They have never taken responsibility for their actions. Even now they blame others.

It's hard to admit that one's moral superiority only exists in theory. But when it's on their doorstep they will privately vote for their own convenience. I'm not holding on to the hope that they'll have an epiphany. But one thing I trust about human nature is that it is superficial and selfish.
 

A growing number of Americans are falling behind on their monthly credit card payments, a trend that may be a harbinger of economic troubles ahead, according to a new report from Wells Fargo.

"The economy still has a cash cushion, but many consumers are exhausting their credit, while income growth has slowed sharply," the Wells Fargo strategists wrote in the note.

The New York Federal Reserve reported earlier in August that total credit card debt surged to $1.03 trillion during the three-month period from April to June, an increase of $45 billion – or 4.6% – from the previous quarter. It marks the highest level on record in Fed data dating back to 2003.
 

Oh the humanity! Never knew about this "Fungus Among Us"...​

York board puts off decision on distillery’s expansion request amid neighbors’ ‘whiskey fungus’ fears

Dozens of neighbors turned out to express their concerns about whiskey fungus Thursday night, when the board voted 3-1 to take a month to review information that the distillery's owner says casts doubt on a town study of the issue.

The York Planning Board put off a decision on whether to approve a business expansion request from Wiggly Bridge Distillery, saying it needed more time to consider information presented by the distillery’s owner at its meeting Thursday night.


Dozens of neighbors of the distillery, which produces craft whiskey and other spirits, showed up at Thursday night’s meeting at the York Public Library to express their concerns about the risks posed by whiskey fungus.

The planning board members voted 3-1 to continue their review after Wiggly Bridge owner David Wood introduced information that he said called into question the methodology of a town study on the presence of whiskey fungus in the neighborhood. Chairman Wayne Boardman said the expansion request will be considered at the board’s Sept. 28 meeting, giving both board members and the public more time to review the new information.

“Both the applicant and the neighbors have expressed frustration at how slow the process has been, but we have to follow a process that can be agonizingly slow,” Boardman told the crowd gathered at the library. “We’re doing the best we can to get all the information we can.”

The presence of baudoinia compniacensis – known colloquially as “whiskey fungus” because it feeds on alcohol vapors – has upset residents who live near the distillery. They argue that the fungus amounts to a code violation that should prompt the planning board to deny the application. They say the fungus has the potential to harm their homes and their home values.

Neighbors argue that the presence of whiskey fungus will only get worse if the company, which Wood founded with his son, David Wood II, in 2013, gets bigger. Wood is looking to expand at 441 and 445 Route 1, where he wants to add two more barrelhouses, where wooden barrels are stored as the alcohol ages.

Whiskey fungus, a byproduct of the whiskey-making process, clings to surfaces and creates a black film, which can be removed by power washing.

Near large distilleries, it can be found in such heavy concentrations that it creates a soot-like crust. Researchers have so far not found any health risks to the public.

In Kentucky and Tennessee, where major distillers age millions of barrels of liquor at a time, the fungus has become an unsightly crust and the subject of lawsuits.

Ken McAuliffe, who lives near the distillery, called on the planning board to deny the company’s application to expand.

“Wiggly Bridge Distillery has been a deep and growing concern for a number of people,” McAuliffe said. “I have not met a single person who is in favor of this. Their expansion only compounds the problem. It poses an unreasonable and unconscionable risk.”

Another neighbor, Beth Downs, displayed a photo of a hose used to power wash the fungus off a home or car.

“Why do we have use a hose to live in our homes, to enjoy the homes that we bought?” she asked the board. Downs said the planning board should be requiring the applicant to mitigate the effects of whisky fungus, not the residents.

John McMahon said he has lived in his home for 33 years. “Our homes, our primary assets ought not to be devalued for the profit of others,” he said.

Wood says the fungus has been sensationalized by his opponents. He points to examples of other black stains around town to show his business is being unfairly singled out. He and his son believe the town should approve their proposal for a 1,685-square-foot addition to their main building and to construct two buildings, totaling 5,662 square feet, for aging whiskey on an adjacent lot.

The York Planning Board has been asked to consider whether the Wiggly Bridge application conforms to a local ordinance that prohibits any “emission of dust, dirt, fly ash, fumes, vapors or gases which could damage human health, animals, vegetation, or property, or which could soil or stain persons or property, at any point beyond the lot line of the commercial or industrial establishment.”
 
This one is a pretty funny "The Truth Hurts" item, especially for me, being married to a CT woman who's home was 10 mi out of New Haven and insisted we never stay downtown past 9 PM. It also makes me wonder about why so many of the Ivies are in the slums of their cities, at least were 50 years ago, with Yale, Penn, Columbia & Brown were all in less than safe places in their respected cities.

Yale Police to First-Year Students: Beware the Streets of New Haven

There was anger after the campus police union — which is renegotiating a contract — shared a safety flier with a picture of the Grim Reaper on it.

Andre Fa’aoso, an incoming first-year student at Yale, has been in the United States for 12 days. He arrived from New Zealand on his own, three suitcases in tow.

As he pulled his luggage through downtown New Haven, Conn., a woman handed him a flier describing his new city as crime-ridden and dangerous. It listed alarming local crime statistics and instructed students to “remain on campus,” “avoid public transportation” and “stay off the streets after 8 p.m.” Illustrated with a picture of the Grim Reaper, the flier wished students an ominous “Good luck.”

But perhaps most jarring was the source of the flier, listed plainly in its text: the union that represents Yale’s own campus police.

In the days since the union distributed the “survival guide” leaflets, Yale administrators and police officials have been scrambling to calm first-year students and their parents.

Anthony Campbell, the chief of the Yale Police Department, said the leaflets wrongly painted New Haven as “a war zone.”

“I am extremely hurt and sad and disgusted by the actions taken by the Yale Police Benevolent Association,” the police union, said Mr. Campbell, who once led the New Haven Police Department. “I think it is divisive and destructive for any police officer to disparage the city in which they work.”

The police union flier reported that “murders have doubled, burglaries are up 33 percent and motor vehicle thefts are up 56 percent,” in the first seven months of the year.

The numbers are accurate. But Mayor Justin Elicker called them cherry-picked and misleading. He noted that violent crime has decreased by 29.2 percent since 2020. Although homicides are up, the number of shootings has come down.

“Overall, over the past three years or so, crime is down,” he said, adding, “While the actual numbers may be accurate, they don’t present the full picture of what’s going on.”
 
New Haven has the same problems as any other "big" city in CT. (See Bridgeport, Hartford, New London)

Always has. Always will. Nothing new including the fact that Yale has an annual budget that's bigger than New Haven ( and we won't even mention their endowment) yet does nothing for the surrounding community!
 
New Haven has the same problems as any other "big" city in CT. (See Bridgeport, Hartford, New London)

Always has. Always will. Nothing new including the fact that Yale has an annual budget that's bigger than New Haven ( and we won't even mention their endowment) yet does nothing for the surrounding community!
Plenty of tax dollars. All wasted. Just look at who runs those areas. Colleges provide economic stimulus for the surrounding areas. All these folks living there and pumping money into the economy.
 

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