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Issue these shoes to all "American" (muzzies can't be real Americans) students and have them go wash their feet in the footbaths.
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Happy Meal Ban: McDonald's Outsmarts San Francisco
By Joe Eskenazi Tue., Nov. 29 2011 at 3:13 PM
He's got good lawyers, that one
On Thursday, Dec. 1, the city's de facto ban of the Happy Meal commences. San Francisco has accomplished what the Hamburglar could not. Or has it?
In order to include a toy with a meal, restaurants must now comply with city-generated nutritional standards. Those are standards that even the "healthier" Happy Meals McDonald's introduced earlier this year don't come close to meeting. (As SF Weekly noted in January, the school lunches our children eat aren't healthy enough to qualify, either).
And yet it seems McDonald's has turned lemons into lemonade -- and is selling the sugary drink to San Francisco's children. Local McDonald's employees tell SF Weekly the company has devised a solution that appears to comply with San Francisco's " Healthy Meal Incentive Ordinance" that could actually make the company more money -- and necessitate toy-happy youngsters to buy more Happy Meals.
It turns out San Francisco has not entirely vanquished the Happy Meal as we know it. Come Dec. 1, you can still buy the Happy Meal. But it doesn't come with a toy. For that, you'll have to pay an extra 10 cents.
Huh. That hardly seems to have solved the problem (though adults and children purchasing unhealthy food can at least take solace that the 10 cents is going to Ronald McDonald House charities). But it actually gets worse from here. Thanks to Supervisor Eric Mar's much-ballyhooed new law, parents browbeaten into supplementing their preteens' Happy Meal toy collections are now mandated to buy the Happy Meals.
Today and tomorrow mark the last days that put-upon parents can satiate their youngsters by simply throwing down $2.18 for a Happy Meal toy. But, thanks to the new law taking effect on Dec. 1, this is no longer permitted. Now, in order to have the privilege of making a 10-cent charitable donation in exchange for the toy, you must buy the Happy Meal. Hilariously, it appears Mar et al., in their desire to keep McDonald's from selling grease and fat to kids with the lure of a toy have now actually incentivized the purchase of that grease and fat -- when, beforehand, a put-upon parent could get out cheaper and healthier with just the damn toy.
Messages for Mar and his legislative aides -- who are, at this moment, in a Board of Supervisors meeting -- have not yet been returned.
In any event, it appears the fast food chain's sharpie lawyers have McTopped San Francisco's legislators. Count this city's lawmakers as the latest among the billions and billions served.
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2011/11/happy_meal_ban_mcdonalds_outsm.php
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Breaking News: Bank of America Broke
The Financial World War
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http://www.stewwebb.com/Occupy_the_American_Revolution_Continues_in_2011.htm
The Financial World War
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"If you thought Rep. Barney Frank was bad, his likely replacement is worse. Rep. Maxine Waters is Congress' most anti-bank member -- unless she owns stock in one, that is. ... When in 2003, the publicly created mortgage giants [Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac] became dangerously overleveraged with weak mortgages, Waters pushed them to underwrite even 'more products where you have no down payments.' She accused critics of the quotas of discriminating against minorities and the poor. ... She lobbied to exclude them and their government-mandated affordable housing charter from the 'sweeping financial reforms.' And she got her wish. She also got another wish: a provision exempting minority-owned banks from the new oversight. Quite interesting. Because at the same time she got that little gem added to the bill, she was under investigation for steering federal bailout money to a troubled minority-owned bank in which she and her husband held a large financial stake." --Investor's Business Daily
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One of the main distinctions between conservatives and liberals, besides the fact that most liberals have this self righteous attitude, is that liberals also believe that the issues they support and the mindset that they subscribe to are, "middle of the road"; or that their beliefs are "mainstream"; when in fact, usually, they are just a hair away from being a communist or at a minimum, socialist in thought. No doubt they are usually not of the mindset of being self supportive, or the American, "Can-Do/Self Reliance" attitude:
NYT Laugh-Line Headline of the Day: 'Barney Frank, Moderate'
New York Times editorial board member, and former Times reporter, David Firestone is filling in for Andrew Rosenthal this week at the paper's opinion blog The Loyal Opposition. He has apparently been tasked to make Rosenthal seem balanced by comparison, judging by his Monday posting with the laugh-line headline "Barney Frank, Moderate."
Firestone was paying tribute to liberal Democrat Rep. Barney Frank, who has represented the Fourth District in southern Massachusetts for the past 30 years and is retiring now, unwilling to stomach the challenge of running in a redrawn district. Firestone termed Frank, who has earned a lifetime rating of 4 out of a possible 100 from the American Conservative Union, a "centrist." But if Barney Frank isn't a liberal, than who in Congress is?
Even the Times news page admitted the obvious. The headline over Abby Goodnough's write-up on Frank's retirement read: "Barney Frank, a Top Liberal, Won't Seek Re-election." Goodnough devoted two paragraphs to Frank's sexual orientation, compared to three on the influential Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation; she didn't even mention Frank's controversial ties to and defense of Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, which many blame for the U.S. mortgage crisis.
Back to Firestone's post on "Barney Frank, Moderate."
Conservative web sites are already cheering Barney Frank's announcement that he will retire from his Massachusetts House seat at the end of his term. But whether or not they say so publicly, many Republicans on Capitol Hill will actually miss him.
He is the most caustically hilarious member of the House, and is anything but the socialist caricature invented by the right.....But economically, Mr. Frank is essentially a centrist. He believes in markets, supported free-trade agreements, and talks often of the need for a "grand bargain" between business and liberals. He worked with Republicans on housing policy and on the bailout of the banks. Nearly a third of the $13.1 million he raised since 1989 came from the financial, insurance, and real estate industries, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
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Conservatives love to blame him for the housing crisis, pointing to his ties to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Although he could have exercised greater oversight, the connection between the mortgage companies and the subprime crisis is demonstrably false, invented to take the blame away from Wall Street and the big banks.
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