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Another War

12 Wednesday May 2021

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Once again, Israelis and Palestinians are fighting it out in the streets … of New York City…

Crowds of demonstrators were seen waving the Palestinian flag in support of ending the Israeli occupation of the West Bank.

A group of pro-Israel counter-protesters also descended on the consulate.

Tensions quickly boiled over, with the two feuding groups trading chants and insults, with some of those confrontations resulting in punches being thrown.

Footage posted to social media showed a series of skirmishes breaking out in the middle of the street.

One man was pictured covered in blood after he was struck with a chair during the fierce confrontation.

Equity and inclusion! Diversity is our greatest strength! All are equal! I can only assume that Russia and/or “White supremacists” are behind this further decay. When do they break out the rockets and missiles?

BLM: “We thug!”

Middle-eastern Loons: “Hold muh beer!”

No nation is perfect. No people are perfect. But nationalism at least guarantees your problems are your problems. It’s either that or it’s your problems plus all others from every corner of the globe.

Office Space, Not the Movie

01 Monday Feb 2021

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NYC is vacant.

With workers stuck at home, the office availability rate rose to 14.9% in January, the highest in data going back to 2000, according to a report by Colliers International.

Leasing fell by nearly 47% from the same period last year. That came even as asking rents dipped for the seventh straight month to $73.65 a square foot on average, the lowest in almost three years.

I read somewhere else that something like 80% of NYC office workers still works at home remotely while waiting on the new normal to revert or something. How much longer can this on before the companies admit they’re not reopening? Or, if they go back, slowly, how does that affect the overall RE economy? Is this all dependent on “stimulus” from the government that created the hoax in the first place?

So many questions and no answers. On the other, half-full hand, I suppose I could cheaply move the blog to New York, say to half of the WTC. No.

The Fall of Dalton

22 Tuesday Dec 2020

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At this point, it’s almost a safe bet to write off the “elite” private academies along with the utterly failed government “schools.” Another example:

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The Dalton School in Manhattan is having a race meltdown. It’s absolutely insane. Teachers are holding the school for ransom with demands, but they’re so extreme the school will crumble if they give in. But they’ll crumble if they don’t, too!

Here are some of the demands:

The hiring of twelve (!) full time diversity officers

An additional full time employee whose “entire role is to support Black students who come forward with complaints.”

Hiring of multiple psychologists with “specialization on the psychological issues affecting ethnic minority populations.”

Pay off student debt of incoming black faculty

Re-route 50% of all donations to NYC public schools

Elimination of AP courses if black students don’t score as high as white

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Read the entire insane, anti-White, anti-Western thing. Then, if you even suspect your child is committed in such an institution, it’s time to homeschool or unschool. Those options, or miserable failure.

Very Stale Education News

18 Wednesday Nov 2020

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In-person learning suspended until further notice in New York. That might have well been the announcement forty years ago. With the exception of a few magnet schools, which the diversity-ites are currently destroying, there hasn’t been any learning in the Rotten Apple’s “schools” for several generations.

All New York City Public Schools will temporarily close to in-person instruction beginning Thursday due to increasing coronavirus cases, school officials announced.

“Buildings are CLOSED for in-person learning until further notice. All students who were learning in school buildings part of the week will transition to remote learning every day,” said officials via social media.

Code orange! Better get those sick people into nursing homes. I mean, get those kids on the screens. One will note the absence of any of this stupidity at the local homeschool.

Cigar Trivia Sunday

11 Sunday Mar 2018

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Ever stay at the Waldorf Astoria? Love cigars? Yes, that’s me too.

Well, luxury lovers, here’s something you might not have known – there was once a Wardorf-Astoria Cigar Company! It was based in the hotel on Fifth Avenue.

This was back in the old days when Cubans were a bit more common in the US and on sale at local shops. And, legal beagles, one of Waldorf’s Cubans led to first-run trademark litigation in New York! Um … the case was resolved amicably…

Anyway, Wikipedia, from whom I’m stealing all this historic wisdom, says that the WASC grew, in part, out of the great phenomenon of the United Cigar Company. In the roaring 20’s United had over 3,000 cigar stores! That’s the most I’ve ever heard of. J.R. has, what, 5?

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United’s Shop at NYC’s Flatiron Building, 1917.

Peacock Alley was for cigars. All those years ago.

Cigars.

Happy Sunday!