[FoxNews] NY’s half-baked weed legalization gets mayor to send law enforcement after illegal dealers
They wanted the Black cop Democrat who promised to be just like a Republican instead of the genuine Republican. It turns out Black and cop don’t modify Democrat — those words are just window dressing for the same old NYC Progressive..
New York City is being overrun with unlicensed marijuana retailers. It seemed to happen almost overnight. Suddenly there were signs in front of smoke shops advertising pre-roll THC joints; there are edibles at many bodegas. Gotham is awash in weed. How did this happen? Wokeness. Allow me to explain.
Twenty months ago, New York state legalized retail sales of marijuana, but with a woke catch. As a form of reparations, the state decided to give licenses to sell pot almost exclusively to people who had been previously convicted of marijuana offenses.
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Gotta wonder about the quality and purity of that illegal weed. No telling what kinds of fertilizers and pesticides were used in its cultivation. No telling what the dealers may have used to "cut" or dilute the product or if they added just a little bit of fentanyl to keep the customers coming back for more. Could be almost as bad as smoking Marlboros. But, hell, Democrats don't care.
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[Bee] Reminder for all the husbands out there: it might be time to start thinking about maybe Christmas shopping, perhaps sometime soon.
We don't want to put too much pressure on you, so take it easy. We're not saying, like, for sure you've gotta drop what you're doing this very instant and go get your wife something for Christmas. But just a little heads-up that Christmas is in, like, 12 hours, so you're cutting it a little close at this point. Don't freak out, but maybe start thinking about slipping out for an hour or so and picking up your wife some Christmas gifts.
See, Christmas is tomorrow, and if you want enough time to frantically wrap your wife's gifts late tonight, you should probably get a move on it.
Also, if you haven't heard, there are all these supply chain issues going on right now, and you might not be able to get her exactly what she wants. It's OK, though. Don't fret. She probably doesn't have incredibly specific wants and needs that she's been dropping hints about for the past month. She's probably cool with, like, whatever.
Worse comes to worse, though, and you can always stop by the 7-Eleven at around 11:30 pm tonight and desperately search for something that looks like you put some thought into it. A nice, sturdy gasoline can or family-size bag of Takis might be just the thing. You never know.
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[NewStatesman] We knew it was coming — Western politicians are engaged in meaningless posturing.
The Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... has banned women in Afghanistan from accessing higher education. Women who turned up to university on 21 December were turned away. They will not be allowed back, the Taliban’s education ministry says.
Astonishingly, some of the world has reacted to this with surprise. Upset is justified — disgust certainly is. But surprise? That’s not even a little merited. These are the Taliban, after all. We have known precisely who they are and what they want for almost 30 years.
They have been back in power for just over a year. In that time they have done much. They have banned teenage girls from school; banned women from visiting funfairs, gyms and sporting events. They have slowly closed a noose around the necks of the country’s female population.
All of this was planned long in advance, announced in public, and promised upon their return to power. When the Taliban last governed, before their removal in 2001, they refused to allow women to receive educations.
In late 2020, as the deal to surrender Afghanistan to them was being hashed out in Doha, Taliban media said the following: what they meant by an "Islamic system" was neither "vague nor abstract". They meant what they always meant. "Some two decades ago the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan practically showcased that an Islamic system is in fact compatible with modern times."
Diplomats and politicians are often obtuse. But their expensive educations almost certainly equipped them to read between those lines.
A Taliban commander interviewed by NPR in early 2021 said it even more clearly. "When we arrive in Kabul, we will arrive as conquerors," he said. Women will "cover their faces. They’ll be segregated. We won’t have democracy. We’ll have an Islamic regime." The only lie was his workshopped statement that "women will be able to study and work and move freely".
In Afghanistan, many young women and men have demonstrated against this diktat. They put themselves at risk of abduction and murder when they do so.
Western leaders have instead issued a mass boilerplate statement. Britannia’s Prime Minister tweeted his unhappiness "as a father to daughters" — a formulation so inadequate it had long ago become a self-discrediting cliché. "The world is watching," Rishi Sunak concluded. Which is not only meaningless posturing; it’s barely true.
We’re approaching 500 days since teenage girls were banned from Afghan schools. Very few in the West now fly their flag. University-age women will join them in obscurity soon enough.
Sunak might be excused. He has a bean-counter’s soul. He knows little about foreign affairs and that he does not know, he does not care to learn.
But America’s president, Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass. Don't say he didn't warn us... , (whose fault all of this is) claims to have wide expertise and knowledge of the world. Emmanuel Macron pretends that his quixotic foreign policy vision is sophisticated and even glorious.
And yet both will watch this happen and let it pass with meaningless statements of surprise.
[FoxBusinessNews] Companies are becoming more receptive in the tight labor market.
While an increasing number of companies say they are receptive to the idea, many still have major reservations. And that is something the world's largest human resources organization wants to change.
Johnny Taylor Jr, president and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management, has been on a mission for years, urging U.S. employers to stop overlooking folks with criminal records in their hiring. He argued in a FOX Business op-ed nearly four years ago that hiring former offenders is a win-win for both businesses and society. SHROOM?
Since then, he says, progress has been made in hiring from what he says is a largely untapped source of talent, but not nearly enough.
SHRM released research last year showing 38% of business leaders said they would be willing to hire individuals with criminal records, up from 33% in 2018.
Despite the stigma surrounding the practice, 81% of business leaders said workers with criminal records performed the jobs roughly the same or better than workers with no records at all, 73% found them to be just as or more dependable and 81% of HR professionals believe the quality of hire of workers with criminal backgrounds is about the same or even better.
Taylor told FOX Business former offenders tend to not only stay with employers longer because they have fewer options. They are also less expensive to hire. From a business perspective, he says, it just makes sense to hire from the pool of millions of former offenders when America has more than 10 million job openings.
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It is not necessarily a bad idea but it does mean you need to vet and monitor your hires more than your average hires. We had to fire a good hand per company policy once his conviction was finalized (underling in TN bank loan mess some 40 years ago.)
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I worked for a company that routinely hired people in half-way programs because they could be counted on to come to work … until they graduated. Their performance really slipped after that.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Bee] Reminder for all the husbands out there: it might be time to start thinking about maybe Christmas shopping, perhaps sometime soon.
...46th president of the U.S. 
[FoxBusinessNews] Companies are becoming more receptive in the tight labor market.
