Justice Alito lives in Fairfax County, VA, and his home is surrounded by Roe v Wade protesters. Picketing or demonstrating at a private home is a violation of Virginia law (Title 18.2, Section 418 & 419.) The Soros-backed Commonwealth Attorney in Fairfax County (Steve Descano) is refusing to prosecute misdemeanors. So Fairfax County police are there to make sure things don't get out of hand, but they're not gonna bother with making arrests. This stuff infuriates me.
If either of those two came to the window to see what was going on, we should all sing "Happy Birthday" and mess with their heads.
Caterpillar Leaving Chicago: Now I read the Caterpillar is moving its HQ out of Chicago to Texas. The state of Illinois has become an infested, rat-hole of liberal/socialist scarcity, taxes, crime and corruption. It wasn't that way when I was a kid. As young children, my cousin and I would take the IC suburban electric downtown to Jackson Park and the Museum of Science and Industry and then on up to the Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium and Adler Planetarium. Chicago was safe and had great vitality back then.
The problem with many corporations these days is that you need to be a good politician to climb the ladder and people who emerge at the top can be less adapt at seeing and thinking things through, given the political fog in their brains.
But Chicago politics have been corrupt sine before the turn of the 20th century. It has gotten even worse in the 21st century
They were certainly corrupt when I was a kid but riding/walking around the public areas of Chicago (i.e., the loop, Jackson Park, Lincoln Park, the miracle mile, etc.) was mostly safe.
The Fed (aka "taxpayers") will find a way to pump money into these places that right-minded people are abandoning. It's interesting (in a perverted sense) that nationwide, the average crime rate has fallen since the 1960s. If those cities are taken out of the data, the rest of the country is extremely safe, and those cities are extremely dangerous.