[HiJinx]

May-Day News Ping!

[Old Professer]

"For some enterprises, that meant a boon in business. With so most other restaurants closed, Wan Kee, a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco's Mission District, did brisk lunchtime business."

From the grammar in the above sentence, I think old Wan himself must have written this part.

[P-Marlowe]

Traffic was great, My commute was cut by 50%. I actually was able to break the posted speed law the entire way to work.

It looks like all we need to do to solve the traffic nightmare in Southern California is to enforce the immigration laws.

[longtermmemmory]

This was a collossal flop.

HUGE flop.

It was a PR disaster because it DID make a backlash and showed how few supporters they have outside the illegal enabler circles.

If anything it showed the only supporters of illegal immigration were LITTERALLY communists left over from the cold war.

[timestax]

those illegals are killing the "golden goose".

[Captainpaintball]

To use a turn of phraase made popular by noted Playboy bunny Gloria Steinem...

A day without an illegal... is like a fish without a bicycle!!!

[VOA]

Jack Kyser, chief economist of the Los Angeles Economic development Corp.,
said the economic fallout of the one-day boycott could be as high as
$200 million in Los Angeles County. The estimate, a fraction of
the $1.2 billion in economic activity the county generates daily,
consisted of business lost on Monday and took into consideration commerce
that would be made up later in the week.

Talk about an under-reported metric.
So the boycott ain't the big economic earthquake predicted by
the La Raza and MeChA activists.
When you look at the effect of a $200 million dollar loss on one
year's bidness.

And Kyser is often on Los Angeles-area TV giving economic forecasts
for the area.

Too bad the forecast couldn't include all the money saved on tranquilizers
and antidepressants a lot of folks could forego with the reductions
in traffic, noise and other urban aggravations caused by the illegals' overload
of the infrastructure.

[djreece]

Thank you for posting this. I was especially interested in this tidbit:

Sean McNally, a spokesman for Grimmway Farms in Bakersfield, said the company was down to less than 30 percent of its normal work force, but didn't have to close any of its vegetable-growing operations.

"We made it clear there would be no repercussions if they wanted to take that day off. We wanted them to feel free to express themselves," McNally said.

I have been taking notes on companies and businesses that I typically patronize. I used to buy Grimmway carrots, but now I know better. :-)

Today was a great service to those of us who want to make sure our hard-earned dollars support those who love the U.S. and respect our laws.

[talmand]

Here in Las Vegas the only difference I saw was the home and garden store down the road from the house didn't have thirty immigrants standing around waiting for work. Today there were about six or seven. Traffic seemed the same to me on the way to work. One local news report claimed thousands marched on Fremont St. while a later report claimed hundreds of thousands marched on Fremont. Not sure which was correct but from the video I've seen the hundreds of thousands is slightly off. As if that many could fit on Fremont in the first place.

Have a friend that's high up in one of the casino hotels on the strip that was told to go to work today in blue jeans in case they needed more bodies to make beds and clean rooms. Apparently around six called in sick so he got to spend the day in comfortable clothes for a change.

I imagine around here the hispanic areas were the hardest hit which is stupid because that's the opposite of the supposed goal. The whole thing is just stupid.

[MissAmericanPie]

I see a multitude of illegals at the mall, but they never seem to have a bag in their hands, indicating they have purchased anything. Walmart is a different story, they actually roll a cart around and buy stuff.

[uncitizen]

But in a neighborhood where every other storefront seems to house a tacqueria, you would have been hard-pressed to find a burrito.

OMG! What if someone really had a taste for a burrito yesterday??

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

So how do you plan to celebrate Cinco de Mayo this year?

Maybe some chilled Austrailian beer or wine?