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  • This Pizza Place Rightfully Charges $1,000 For A Side of Ranch

    03/21/2014 3:44:15 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 83 replies
    Austinist ^ | Mar 21, 2014 | Aleksander Chan
    Let's just get this out of the way: Putting ranch dressing on your pizza is disgusting and foul and you should feel ashamed of yourself if you desecrate the sanctity of the holy union of bread, tomato sauce, and cheese. For shame! Anyway, Cane Rosso's in Dallas is doing it right and "charging" customers a sweet grand for the privilege to eat their pizza WRONG. Owner Jay Jerrier explained to Eater the type of people he usually encounters ordering this pghlemy subtance. It's weird, it always seems to be young, college-age girls that ask for it. Of course, when they...
  • SC: Romney Gives Unemployed Woman Cash on Ropeline [WHAT?]

    01/14/2012 7:27:04 PM PST · by upchuck · 24 replies
    abc News ^ | January 14, 2012 | Emily Friedman
    Amid shaking hands and signing campaign posters, Mitt Romney did something he has never done before on the ropeline: He took out his wallet and handed a wad of cash to a woman waiting to shake his hand. [snip] According to Williams, she followed the campaign bus to the Columbia airport on Wednesday, the same day Romney was arriving from New Hampshire. When Romney wasn’t on the bus, aides told her to go to the rally scheduled in Columbia later that day. When she showed up, Romney found her to say hello and pulled over South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley...
  • Why Republicans Are So Concerned about a Bust of Winston Churchill

    12/20/2011 8:57:28 PM PST · by lbryce · 28 replies
    Gawker ^ | December 20, 2011 | Jim Newell
    Click Here:You Tube Video Link Now this is strange. What compels a Speaker of the House, as he's (supposed to be) trying to reach a deal to preserve various expiring government goodies before Congress recesses for the year, to move a resolution that would "commission the placement of a bust of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the Capitol"? Here he is, talking about it, softly crying, of course, but not in full Boehner Bawl mode. Winston Churchill, he was one helluva a guy. Anyway, this is all about race. The reason Boehner and Co. are doing this is...
  • White House makes CEOs pay for lunch

    07/30/2009 2:00:33 PM PDT · by Nachum · 87 replies · 2,590+ views
    Politico ^ | 7/30/09 | EAMON JAVERS
    Four of the most powerful business leaders in America arrived at the White House one day last month for lunch with President Barack Obama, sitting down in his private dining room just steps from the Oval Office. But even for powerful CEOs, there’s no such thing as a free lunch: White House staffers collected credit card numbers for each executive, and carefully billed them for the cost of the meal with the president.
  • Duchess of Cornwall's diamond necklace outshines Queen (Taudry Cammy Strikes Again!) (CAPTION-ABLE!)

    11/24/2007 6:15:30 AM PST · by bannie · 206 replies · 897+ views
    World News dot COM dot AU ^ | 24 NOV 2007 | Rebecca English
    Its five strands of diamonds covered her decolletage and made the Queen's jewels look quite modest as they attended the Queen's banquet for the Commonwealth Heads of Government in Kampala, Uganda, on Friday. But Camilla didn't deliberately set out to overshadow her mother-in-law - the Queen gave her permission to borrow it from the royal collection. Camilla's favourite couturier, Anna Valentine, designed her a simple duck-egg blue dress and matching stole to set off the necklace, estimated to be worth tens of millions of dollars. The Duchess added the Queen Mother's Boucheron tiara, a set of diamond earrings and...
  • What It Costs to Live Well - Northeast

    07/04/2005 9:04:00 PM PDT · by Selkie · 111 replies · 3,198+ views
    It's a question that plagues the successful and the aspiring: How much does a family need to net each year to lead a comfortable affluent life? We are not talking about great riches; there are millions of Americans who work hard to be able to afford the best for their families--and themselves--but who don't entertain notions of owning private jets, sprawling country estates or closets full of the latest fashions. Their goals are more grounded: a good education for their children, a nice house, a weekend place, the occasional trip, a night out once a week and a little money...