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2018-06-16 Home Front: Culture Wars

Convention Planning Team To Seattle: City's Homeless Problem ‘Has Gotten Out Of Control'

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-06-16 02:23|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 So 'Big Pharma' is reluctant to convention in cities their product lines have helped to destroy ?

Posted by Besoeker 2018-06-16 02:28|| 2018-06-16 02:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Trenchant observation of the week, at least, B. To be fair, the pill counters are the pipeline, not the wellhead.

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-06-16 04:21|| 2018-06-16 04:21|| Front Page Top

#3 They can always go to San Fran. I hear the dispensed needles have a lovely reflection in the sunset light.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-06-16 09:23|| 2018-06-16 09:23|| Front Page Top

#4 My last visit to SF, a city I used to love showing off to Bay Area visitors, was for a national convention. So many homeless to deal with, crapping on the sidewalks, drug use in the doorways left a very bad impression on me.
In addition, our once proud industry event had "lunch" at the Moscone Center... a box lunch of the most horrible lowest quality ingredients I have ever been served. People were tossing out everything except the chips. Attendees were all complaining loudly. I happen to know the event organizer, and I went to give her a heads up that pitchforks were coming out. She turned to me, knowing she could trust me, and said "we are never coming back here... that box lunch cost us $58 per person!... I worked a couple of hundred trade events in my life and that ranked one of the worst.

Posted by Capsu78 2018-06-16 14:27|| 2018-06-16 14:27|| Front Page Top

#5 ...must have confused the convention for a government contract back at the prep site.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-06-16 15:21|| 2018-06-16 15:21|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm really not going to recommend Iowa, because they think they are something special come election time. Had a very nice time in Dallas at the NRA convention, town whas cleanes I can ever remember seeing it. It's been a while, but the nicest people I ever met in my life were in Ft. Wayne, Indiana.

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-06-16 15:26|| 2018-06-16 15:26|| Front Page Top

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