The one law that trumps every other law in our world is the law of unintended consequences...
Case in point? The tree-hugging envirojaggoffs in New jersey got the state legislature to ban not just plastic bags, but ALL BAGS from being used in stores in the State.
"They are just disappearing," said Louis Scaduto Jr., chief executive officer of Middletown-based Food Circus Super Markets, which owns four Super Foodtown stores in Monmouth County. "I may actually have to just do away with them soon, can't afford to keep replacing them," Scaduto wrote in a text message.
"We are aware of random reports that grocers are experiencing the loss of these hand baskets to varying degrees," said Linda Doherty, president and chief executive officer of the New Jersey Food Council, in a statement. "We view this as a short unintended consequence of the new state law."
It's not just happening at Super Foodtown. Stop & Shop in Long Branch didn't have any hand baskets during a recent visit. ShopRite in Freehold Township didn't have any either. "Like other retailers across the state, we have experienced theft of our handheld shopping baskets – an unintended consequence of the ban on plastic and paper bags," Stop & Shop said in a statement.
Customers were forced to bring their own bags to the store or buy a reusable one at the checkout line.
The New Jersey Food Council, the trade group representing the state's grocers, said customers "for the most part" were prepared for the ban on single-use bags and complied with the state's mandated ban.
Signs went up in stores reminding customers to bring their own bags or buy others. Other signs touched on another issue: the plastic hand baskets that customers can carry around the store to collect a few items for checkout.
"Hand baskets must remain inside the store at all times," read one sign at Stop & Shop in Middletown. "Thank you."
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The Justice Department believed that classified documents held unlawfully at Mar-a-Lago were being moved around and hidden, despite assurances from Donald Trump's lawyers that they were all kept together in a padlocked storage room.
In a bombshell 36-page court filing on Tuesday, the Justice Department said it had uncovered efforts to obstruct its investigation. The filing said that 'government records were likely concealed and removed' from a storage room at the property.
The department says Trump's lawyers told them in June that all the records that had come from the White House were stored in one location - a Mar-a-Lago storage room. Pictured left, Trump’s personnel items being moved from the White House in January 2021. Trump's lawyers said 'there were no other records stored in any private office space or other location at the Premises and that all available boxes were searched.' The Justice Department said that was not true.
Can you get a mental picture of the fact that these are the 'grown-ups' we heard so much about when we were kids? They really do have to believe that we are all fuckin' morons - there's no other way to explain this childish bullshit away. Juss' sayin'...
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In 1950, Sophia Loren was just fifteen-year-old when she stood in line with the other young girls hoping to win the glittering prize of Miss Italy in Rome.
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The number of open jobs in the United States rose in July after three months of declines, a sign that employers are still urgently seeking workers despite a weakening economy and high inflation.There were 11.2million open jobs available on the last day of July - nearly two jobs, on average, for every unemployed person - up from 11million in June. June's figure was also revised sharply higher.
The increase that the government reported Tuesday will be a disappointment for Federal Reserve officials, who are seeking to cool hiring and the economy by raising short-term interest rates to try to slow borrowing and spending, which tend to fuel inflation.
Fed officials hope that their policies will serve primarily to reduce job openings and spare workers the pain of widespread layoffs and higher unemployment.
'The Fed has made very little progress in terms of narrowing the gap between labor supply and demand,' Aneta Markowska, chief economist at investment bank Jefferies, wrote in a research note.
They tell us that the unemployment rate is the lowest in years, but the better meter of how weak the economy is are the worker-participation numbers. So many people have given up on working, or gone underground, that any unemployment number you see or hear is going to be wildly skewed. That's the only explanation that works with this un-filled jobs bullshit.
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What happened to all of the normal beach umbrellas that we had when we were kids? There might be a total of ten of them in this pic. WTF?
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I have to wonder how hypocritical all the ban plastic bag folks are? Do they not buy a plethora of products wrapped in plastic every trip to the grocery store? What about the plastic bottles of water, juice, soda, ketchup, salad dressing, beauty supplies (shampoo, deodorant, makeup), etc? What about the plastic and styrofoam meat wrapping (unless they are all vegan) or the plastic wrap protecting their fresh vegetables? How about the cereal which is surrounded by plastic in a cardboard box or the plastic bag bread is sold in? I could go on, but I would love to point out all the plastic these people carry out of the store as they leave.
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