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I do have a direct link to the coupon if you want to skip filling out the form and waiting for the coupon. Print the full page and grab one for lunch today.
Enjoy!
If you haven't watched Jon Stewart call out Rick Santelli and CNBC for horrendous financial advice and blaming homeowners for the economic nightmare, this is a must watch.
As Stewart correctly points out, Santelli is blaming homeowners for accepting loans from banks that have gone under. That got lost in the mainstream news coverage, which painted Santelli as a victim of censorship by the Obama Administration. Santelli even cried foul, claiming his right to free speech was being trampled on, despite no such thing happening. Somehow in Santelli's mind, it's the homeowners' fault, not the fat cat CEO's who ran their companies into the ground, lying all the way while taking huge paydays. Nor is CNBC at fault for repeatedly telling viewers to invest in those same companies.
My favorite line: "If I listened to CNBC I'd have a million dollars today...if I started with one hundred million dollars."
John McCain's daughter Meghan is complaining about how difficult her dating life has become after her father was trounced in the Presidential election.
The problem appears to be she doesn't like anyone who actually voted in the election - no matter which candidate they chose. If you can explain why you voted for a candidate, she's not interested.
"Here's the biggest surprise: I am not only turned off by people who voted for Barack Obama, but I am also turned off by people that voted for my dad—or more so, obsessive supporters of my dad. Recently, over dinner, a guy started explaining his reasons for supporting President Obama during the election (I didn’t ask, I think the poor guy felt guilty) and I immediately found any attraction I had previously had dissipate. But same thing happens if a guy starts talking about all the reasons why my father should be president. I have the ultimate Catch-22 in post-election dating. So where does that leave me, and who exactly am I attracted to? Let’s just say I’m spending a lot of time writing and even more time with my girlfriends."
Hanging out with her girlfriends should be the perfect refuge since women didn't have the right to vote in the last election.
Going by what McCain's daughter says, she is only attracted to people who vote for the party, not the candidate, and those who either didn't vote or can't explain why they supported a certain candidate. Sounds like the typical brainwashed GOP offspring. Perhaps someone should explain to her the many crimes her father has committed.
Talk radio host and Republican blow hard Rush Limbaugh has been cast as Jabba the Hutt in the next Star Wars film, an anonymous source at LucasFilm has revealed.
Limbaugh has gained increased attention in recent months with public calls for President Obama and the U.S. economy to fail. Count George Lucas as one person whom Limbaugh has caught the eye of.
"With the economy sinking, George wants to streamline production costs, and Limbaugh's fame isn't the only thing that's been growing," the source told us. "We noticed that Rush has really been packing on the weight. After hearing Rush repeat over and over that he wants the President and the country to fail, George realized Limbaugh would be perfect to play Jabba the Hutt. Both are giant landmasses who spout gibberish. The best part is that the special effects guys are thrilled because Limbaugh can do the scenes as-is, live action, without any digital creature work or puppetry. It will save the film hundreds of thousands of dollars. The resemblance between Limbaugh and Jabba is just eerie. We don't think most fans will even notice anything is different."
An entire next generation of American children will forever view Rush Limbaugh as a slobberish villain who enjoys the accompaniment of rat-like creatures.
Star Wars VII is the working title of the next film. A projected release date has yet to be announced.
Rush Limbaugh has been cast as Jabba the Hutt in the next Star Wars film reportedly because both have slit-pupilled eyes, large mouths that can open wide enough to swallow large prey, and moist, amphibian qualities.
While reading of a virus outbreak on a Holland America cruise ship, I ran across this comical yet disturbing cartoon on a website called HealthKnowItAll.net depicting one of the symptoms of Norovirus.
I'm afraid of what their coverage of Gonorrhea would look like.
Obama is about to sign a federal spending bill that includes over 9,000 wasteful earmarks...
"President Barack Obama will sign a $410 billion government-spending bill, even though it includes thousands of the spending "earmarks" that he had criticized on the campaign trail, a top White House aide said."
I'm getting sick of Obama going back on his promises to clean up Washington. First he appointed criminal tax evaders to key positions, over and over. One of those guys, Tim Geithner - who is supposed to reform the Treasury Department, couldn't even run the NY Federal Reserve Bank without massive corruption. And tell me how a federal bank executive 'forgets' to pay taxes? For years. Does he really think we believe his accountant also forgot tax laws?
Then Obama said he wouldn't allow lobbyists in any position in his administration, and two days later he appointed a lobbyist to a key FCC position. In defense of the appointment, Obama basically said, "it's OK if I break my own word."
Now we get thousands of earmarks snuck into the federal spending bill. If you're not familiar with earmarks, it's a loophole in federal law that allows congressmen to attach massive local spending projects to other laws, without any oversight or being directly voted on. The most famous recent earmark was the Bridge to Nowhere, a $400 million dollar bridge in a rural Alaska town of 50 people. Obama has the power to line item veto this crap, which he promised he would do during the campaign. Now he says it's OK to pass these wasteful earmarks because they are remnants of the George W. Bush era.
"White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, speaking on CBS's "Face the Nation" Sunday, said the president wasn't happy with the 9,000-or-so earmarks that lawmakers added to the legislation. But "this is last year's business," Mr. Emanuel said, adding that Mr. Obama would sign the bill, once it is approved by Congress."
I was as vocal an opponent of George W. Bush as anyone. The man committed treason, among countless other crimes. But saying this is Bush's bill and Obama has no choice but to sign it into law, as-is, is beyond credibility. The skeleton of the bill was written while Bush was President, but it couldn't get enough votes to pass at the time, so let's just dust it off and pass it now, complete with the earmarks? Adding to the disappointment is news that two of Obama's cabinet members wrote personalized earmarks into the bill while serving in Congress last Fall.
This bill can be passed without the pork. To do otherwise is an insult to Americans everywhere.
I want Obama to succeed. This country needs Obama to succeed. This country needs every president to succeed, regardless of political allegiance. The alternatives to Obama not righting the ship is horrifying. Not only in terms of what will happen to our economy, but what corrupt compassionate-conservative will rise from the GOP ashes to takeover next. We've seen unhindered GOP rule. It got us where we are today: a crumbling economy being openly fleeced by the wealthiest and most powerful.
Obama needs to keep his word. If people cannot trust his word, they cannot trust him. Americans got a first hand lesson in a President's word being worthless for eight years. Leadership is doing what is best for the country, not what is best for politicians and their wealthy friends.
Paul Harvey was a much beloved figure in my home growing up. Years later I still enjoyed his daily broadcasts. We were all saddened to hear of his death yesterday.
I was lucky enough to hear what turned out to be Paul Harvey's final broadcast on February 18th. I remember thinking that he sounded good that day. Paul Harvey had missed a lot of time over the last few years with health issues and his wife's passing. The fill-in guests, including his son, were always good, but there was something warm and nostalgic about the man himself.
My father and I were talking about Paul Harvey this morning and he brought up an incident in Paul Harvey's life I was not aware of. So I searched and found the rest of the story...
"The time is February 1951. The Cold War with Russia is heating up. China is lost to Communism. Atomic spies are being rounded up by the score. And a young newshawk named Paul Harvey has just been caught scaling the security fence at the Atomic Energy Commission's Argonne National Laboratory.
It happened at 1:10 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 6, 1951. News of the intrusion could not be released until approved "at the highest level" in Washington.
With the nation caught in the grip of Sen. Joe McCarthy's anti-Communist crusade, Harvey often used his radio broadcasts to criticize what he perceived to be poor security throughout the federal government. He found an opportunity for action when an Argonne guard and switchboard operator, Charles Rogal, reported lax security at the site to Harvey's friend, conservative Rep. Fred Busbey, who later testified on Harvey's behalf.
Harvey persuaded John Crowley, who worked for the Office of Naval Intelligence, and Rogal to join him that frosty February night on a trip to Argonne. As Harvey scaled the 10-foot fence, his winter overcoat caught in the barbed wire at the top. While he was trying to extricate himself, a jeep patrol found and detained him.
Harvey was turned over to FBI agents, questioned, and released.
Meanwhile, Crowley and Rogal, hiding in the bushes nearby, slipped away. Harvey's car, found hidden near the lab, contained a wallet and papers that led to their identification.
At first, Harvey denied he was testing Argonne's security; he did say he had been cooperating with several government departments, but couldn't talk about his work. The FBI denied any connection with him.
No less an eminence than Harold Urey -- winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize in chemistry -- said he was disappointed that guards did not shoot Harvey. But when reporters asked Rogal if there had been any fear of being shot by guards, he said, "Not one of them could shoot and hit the side of a barn."
A federal grand jury, presided over by U.S. Attorney Otto Kerner, who later became Illinois governor, heard the federal government's charges against Harvey for conspiracy to obtain information on national security and transmit it to the public. If convicted, Harvey could have been fined $10,000 and sentenced to up to 10 years in prison.
Kerner granted Harvey permission to appear before the grand jury on March 21, 1951, with the stipulation that he first sign a waiver preventing him from later claiming immunity from prosecution for anything his testimony might reveal.
On April 4, 1951, the grand jury voted not to indict Harvey. According to Bartlett Loomis, the grand jury foreman, the vote was not even close."
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From the archives of Argonne National Laboratory.
