The "Official" California unemployment rate is 11.7%. When you count people who have given up and people who are underemployed, it is more like 18-20%.
Real "good" news here.
My father was a Teamster and didn't like the union. There was a drunk on my dad's shift. Everyone knew he was a drunk and the union rep and management both agreed they would like to fire him, but with the contract they couldn't. Eventually the guy retired for health reasons (because of the booze). The guy ended up frozen to death in a snowbank because he passed out.
FIFY
The press says the shootings were on the "fringe" of the protest. They were at the BART entrance 60 ft away from the nearest tent. I's not like it was a block or two away.A reporter setting up for a 5 PM newscast was setting up with the camera rolling. You can hear the shots clear as day and see people ducking and running.
My mom was a partier. She's 85 now. There was someplace on the news burning (like every day in Buffalo) and she says I used to go drinking there. Then she rattled off about 2 dozen places she frequented. She then told us about her and her friends hitching across the Peace Bridge to get to Crystal Beach. Found out my godmother (my mother's friend for over 60 years) met her husband when they were waiting for a bus in front of the Warsaw Inn on Broadway at 1 in the morning and some guys pulled up to whistle at them.
My sister said that my mom was really partying it up when they all went down to a cousin's kid's wedding in Virginia a few years ago. Someone asked where she was and my sister said she had to walk her up to her room !
Don't take the brown acid Poojer. You just saw a bunch of planes flying out of Philly or NYC. This asteroid is nothing. It is passing by about 210K miles (85% of the distance to the moon, or about 25-30 times the diameter of the earth.