Category Archives: Chicago
United Airlines Sets Pilot Quotas for 2030
United Airlines has pledged to hire more women and people of color as pilots. Is the company lowering its standards or is it not hiring the best pilots now?
Summer of Love Beatdowns Drag on
Summer of Love protesters dragged Adam Haner from his truck in Portland Sunday night and beat him senseless. Then, while he lay defenseless in the street, a social justice warrior delivered the kick de grâce to his head. Meanwhile, the police kept an extremely safe social distance from the “protest.” Now they’re searching for the suspected kicker. aptly named Marquise Love.
Peaceful Demonstrations Trashing Cities
Peaceful protests? President Clinton might say, “it depends on the meaning of “peaceful.”
A BBC headline in June reported, “27 police officers injured during largely peaceful anti-racism protests in London.”
And ABC News continued the trend last weekend reporting that “peaceful demonstrations intensified” in Oakland. Rioters set a courthouse on fire and assaulted police officers.
President Obama once said that shovel ready jobs “weren’t as shovel ready as we expected.”
Peaceful protests don’t seem to be as peaceful as we expected.
Sears New Year Liquidation Sale
Sears chairman Eddie Lampert stepped in with a last minute $4.4 billion offer to buy the bankrupt company. CNBC says Sears advisers have until Jan 4 to decide if he’s a “qualified buyer.” “Only then could ESL take part in an auction against liquidation bids on Jan. 14.”
