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  • White Castle burger chain considers alcohol sales

    12/21/2011 11:34:57 AM PST · by WOBBLY BOB · 77 replies · 3+ views
    pioneer press ^ | 12-21-11 | ap
    COLUMBUS, Ohio - The White Castle hamburger chain is sipping on the idea of selling alcoholic beverages at its restaurants. The 90-year-old company is testing beer and wine sales at a location in Lafayette, Ind., that combines a traditional White Castle burger joint with a Blaze Modern BBQ, a new restaurant concept also being tried out. In other cities, Columbus, Ohio-based White Castle is testing an Asian food concept and a restaurant that serves grilled sandwiches.
  • Tebow's true impact is overlooked [YATTT]

    12/12/2011 9:11:13 PM PST · by Vince Ferrer · 7 replies
    ESPN ^ | December 8, 2011 | Jeffri Chadiha
    The funny thing about Denver's success is that some people truly underestimate how hard it is for head coach John Fox and offensive coordinator Mike McCoy to do what they've done. [...] As one AFC general manager said: "A lot of coaches out there don't know how to win. They think it's more about their systems when it really is about what their players can do.
  • Five Things Republicans Must Do to Crush the Left in the Propaganda War

    10/10/2011 12:17:58 PM PDT · by decimon · 8 replies
    Pajamas Media ^ | October 10, 2011 | Kyle-Anne Shiver
    Obama and his gang of Alinskyite thugs are not as tough as they look when we know how to fight.Well, well, well, elections actually do have consequences, don’t they? Millions of Americans are indeed suffering the real consequences of the Republican Party’s mealy-mouthed, yellow-streaked performance during campaign ’08. Oh sure, both the Democrats and the willfully myopic media are most to blame for the Obama presidency, but it is high time that the Republican Party hotshots do a little introspecting of their own. How is it that the American electorate knew so little about Barack Obama that they could stay...
  • OBAMA FACEBOOK PAGE REPRINTS ALL COMMENTS MADE ON FACEBOOK THAT HAS HIS NAME IN COMMENTS!!!

    09/28/2011 9:10:38 AM PDT · by RaceBannon · 94 replies
    FACEBOOK ^ | 9/28/2011 | RACEBANNON
    THIS IS NOT A JOKE, I WAS TOLD THIS AND CHECKED IT OUT MYSELF, I MADE A COMMENT AND WENT TO THIS PAGE, RELOADED IT AND THERE WAS MY COMMENT!!
  • Sheen Intercession Cited in Area Boy's Alleged Miraculous Healing

    09/22/2011 6:55:30 AM PDT · by marshmallow · 21 replies
    The Catholic Post (Peoria, Illinois) ^ | 9/18/11 | Jennifer Willems
    That James Fulton Engstrom is celebrating his first birthday on Friday is amazing. In fact, some would call his life a miracle. Considered stillborn on Sept. 16, 2010 after a healthy pregnancy and “a beautiful, short labor,” James was without a pulse for the first 61 minutes of his life. It was only when doctors at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria were ready to call the time of death that his little heart started beating. His parents, Travis and Bonnie Engstrom, believe James is alive due to the intercession of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Servant of God. On...
  • Gadhafi's fighters beat back assault on strongholds

    09/17/2011 1:33:47 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 11 replies
    MSNBC ^ | 9/16/2011
    Anti-Gadhafi fighters carry their wounded comrade during fighting at the frontline, in the north of the besieged city of Bani Walid on Friday. BANI WALID, Libya — Moammar Gadhafi's fighters beat back an attempt by Libya's new government Friday to crush remnants of the old regime, forcing revolutionary troops into retreat in the mountains and turning Gadhafi's seaside hometown into an urban battlefield of snipers firing from mosques and heavy weapons rattling main boulevards. The tough defense of the holdout towns of Sirte and Bani Walid displayed the firepower and resolve of the Gadhafi followers and suggested Libya's new rulers...
  • Wisconsin’s Incredible Shrinking Protest

    06/15/2011 3:57:25 PM PDT · by Cincinatus' Wife · 43 replies
    National Review Online ^ | May 15, 2011 | Christian Schneider
    [snip] ....The college students have gone home, and public school teachers clearly are much more inclined to protest on days when school is actually in session. [snip] Down the sidewalk from the west wing, random speakers take turns holding court at a rigged-up PA system. A rotund woman with a large knee brace, clutching an American Federation of Teachers sign, starts a semi-lucid, profane speech in which she urges the crowd to “do your f—ing homework” at campaign time. For some people, P.J. O’Rourke once noted, free speech is a curse. Her screed is made even more bizarre by a...
  • Michele Bachmann's Outside Business Savvy

    06/15/2011 8:22:15 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 89 replies · 1+ views
    Townhall.com ^ | June 15, 2011 | John Ransom
    If either the GOP contenders or President Obama plan on dismissing Michele Bachmann’s candidacy out of hand because she represents the Tea Party, they ought to think twice.In the war of economics and business, where these campaigns will likely be won or lost, Bachmann has shown the strongest practical grasp on issues of the American economy vs. any of the candidates in the race. Certainly she has the academic and business experience for her views on the economy to be taken seriously. "After high school, meanwhile, the disciplined Bachmann spent time on a Kibbutz in Israel, graduated from Winona State University...
  • Our President is Winning His War Against America's Private Sector

    06/03/2011 3:39:03 PM PDT · by Nachum · 15 replies
    Rushlimbaugh.com ^ | 6/3/11 | Rush Limbaugh
    BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: We have the unemployment news that we are now at 9.1% unemployment. We have next to no growth. We have massive unemployment. We're in the midst of a housing disaster, oppressive regulations. All of this and the regime is demanding massive tax increases. We face a threat of reduction in the nation's credit rating. We have systemic, historic deficits and still today you can read certain stories or go to certain networks and hear them talk about the recovery! There is no recovery. If this isn't a depression, then what is? And the sad thing is, what's...
  • Tea Party revels in newfound clout: ‘When we’re cutting, we’re winning’

    04/09/2011 8:22:29 AM PDT · by Libloather · 25 replies
    Boston Globe ^ | 4/09/11 | Matt Viser
    Tea Party revels in newfound clout: ‘When we’re cutting, we’re winning’By Matt Viser Globe Staff / April 9, 2011 WASHINGTON — Americans learned yesterday the full power of the Tea Party, with newly elected conservatives calling the shots in the House rather than railing against government from the sidelines. For many in the movement, pushing the government to the brink of closure was a crowning achievement, an emphatic statement that spending must be reined in — and now. “When we’re cutting,’’ said Representative Nan Hayworth, a New York Republican, “we’re winning.’’ “It’s a victory for the American people,’’ declared Representative...
  • Charlie Sheen booed in Detroit, gets standing ovation in Chicago

    04/04/2011 12:54:29 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 18 replies
    CBS News ^ | 04/04/2011 | Edecio Martinez
    A day after he was booed and heckled at the Fox Theatre in Detroit, Charlie Sheen took the stage Sunday night in Chicago and received a standing ovation on the second stop of his 20-city road show. The crowd cheered when the curtain opened and revealed a smoking Sheen. Some in the crowd chanted "Detroit sucks." People who lined up outside the historic 3,600-seat Chicago Theatre before the show said they had low expectations after what they heard about Sheen's performance Saturday night. "Not really a trainwreck, just a little bit sad and more than a little bit tedious," wrote...
  • Republicans Are Winning the Budget Fight

    03/27/2011 7:37:05 PM PDT · by Nachum · 34 replies
    wsj ^ | 3/27/11 | FRED BARNES
    The incremental approach is working and embarrassing Democrats. Why should the GOP risk a government shutdown? Some of the most disgruntled folks in Washington these days are conservative Republicans in Congress. They believe their party has abandoned the cause of deep spending cuts that spurred the Republican landslide in the 2010 midterm election. They say their leaders are needlessly settling for small, incremental cuts. Moreover, this demand for bigger cuts and defunding of liberal programs—immediately—comes from prominent members of the House, not just excitable freshmen. "This is our mice or men moment," according to Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota. Allowing...
  • Charlie Sheen sues Warner Bros., Chuck Lorre for $100 million

    03/10/2011 11:56:53 AM PST · by TSgt · 55 replies
    LA Times ^ | March 10, 2011 | LA Times
    Charlie Sheen, just days after being fired from CBS' "Two and a Half Men," has fired back with a $100-million lawsuit on behalf of himself and the show's crew against Warner Bros. and Chuck Lorre, the studio and executive producer of the show, respectively. The suit, filed Thursday morning in Santa Monica Superior Court, charges that Sheen was only fired from the show because he had recently criticized Lorre both on radio and television. Warner Bros., in a letter to Sheen's attorney Martin Singer, had said Sheen was fired because he had become a liability on the show and his...
  • Charlie Sheen Offends The Warlocks

    03/03/2011 7:03:24 AM PST · by Buckeye Battle Cry · 40 replies
    TMZ.com ^ | 3/3/11 | TMZ Staff
    A coven of real-life warlocks are BOILING at Charlie Sheen -- claiming the actor's constant use of the W-word is disrespectful to the entire male-witch community ... TMZ has learned. After Sheen declared himself a "Vatican assassin warlock" during a radio interview last week ... an actual, practicing warlock from Salem's Coven of the Raven Moon in Salem, Massachusetts told us he's "fuming" over the statement because it's a "blatant offense against our ways." The warlock -- named Christian Day -- tells us he plans to take action against the actor ... not legal action -- but magical action. Day...
  • Congress averts shutdown, sends stopgap to Obama ( Senate passes 91 -9)

    03/02/2011 11:16:10 AM PST · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 32 replies
    Reuters ^ | Wed Mar 2, 2011 12:35pm EST | Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON |
    (Reuters) - Congress on Wednesday sent President Barack Obama a stopgap spending bill that averts an imminent government shutdown but does nothing to resolve a bitter debate over the federal budget. By a vote of 91 to 9, the Senate overwhelmingly passed a two-week funding bill that cleared the House of Representatives on Tuesday. Obama is expected to sign the measure, which includes $4 billion in relatively noncontroversial cuts, into law before current funding expires on Friday.The bill keeps the government running until March 18, which lawmakers say is probably not enough time to find common ground between the Republican-controlled...
  • Adult Bookstore Sells Winning $128 Million Lottery Ticket

    11/08/2010 1:30:13 PM PST · by Nachum · 69 replies
    fox news ^ | 11/8/10 | staff
    An adult bookstore in Michigan that offers pornographic movies and sex toys has also sold a winning lottery ticket worth $128 million, MyFoxDetroit.com reports. Uptown Bookstore in Highland Park, Mich., sold Saturday's only winning Powerball ticket, according to the station. The ticket was the only one to match all of the numbers of the multimillion-dollar jackpot -- 7, 12, 23, 34, 38 and 33. The winner has not yet come forward. According to Powerball rules in Michigan, winners cannot remain anonymous when they claim their win.
  • Pros and Cons of Winning the US Senate (Vanity)

    11/01/2010 6:46:08 PM PDT · by RestorerOfAmerica · 30 replies
    self
    I'm a relatively new FRepper and this is my first vanity post. (I hope I am doing it right.) I am interested in hearing the pros and cons of winning the Senate. Republicans can remain in the same position they are today (under 50, but more than 40), a tie of 50 (with Biden having a vote in case of a tie), or a majority (but 60 is not possible). It seems to me that the Rats will have the ability to block any legislation in any case. Does that provide a good setup for 2012, where the Rats are...
  • Time to get serious, Carl

    09/23/2010 2:28:57 AM PDT · by Scanian · 16 replies
    NY Post ^ | September 23, 2010 | John Podhoretz
    Dear Carl Paladino, Yesterday was certainly the best day of your short political life, with the Quinnipiac poll putting your longshot Republican candidacy for governor within a mere six points of Andrew Cuomo. Even more important, the poll had Cuomo under 50 percent -- a frightening bit of data for him. Cuomo spent a year patiently constructing the edifice of an all-but-certain governorship in a state with a huge Democratic advantage. But by doing so, he made himself appear to be the incumbent -- in what promises to be the worst year for incumbents in modern times. So you have...
  • NY Times: Walz(D-MN) has 96 percent chance of winning in CD 1(Than Why Hide?)

    09/18/2010 7:38:42 AM PDT · by Son House · 10 replies
    St. Paul Legal Ledger Capitol Report/Politics in Minnesota ^ | September 17,2010 | by Briana Bierschbach
    A New York Times political race profile gave Democratic incumbent U.S. Rep. Tim Walz a 96 percent chance of regaining his seat in Minnesota’s First Congressional District. The profile breaks down the district and the second-term congressman’s voting record, and shows the area leaning Democratic. This comes shortly after Walz’s Republican opponent, state Rep. Randy Demmer of Hayfield, was elevated to Young Gun status by the National Republican Congressional Committee.
  • Woman sues after 'winning' $500,000 scratch-off ticket is called misprint (Floriduh)

    05/23/2010 11:50:14 AM PDT · by Libloather · 49 replies · 2,390+ views
    Orlando Sentinel ^ | 5/20/10 | Anika Myers Palm
    Woman sues after 'winning' $500,000 scratch-off ticket is called misprintBy Anika Myers Palm, Orlando Sentinel May 20, 2010 An Ocala woman wants a jury to decide if the Florida Lottery was wrong to dismiss her winning ticket as a misprint. Ann Marie Curcio claims the Lottery is in breach of its contract with buyers because it will not pay $500,000 she says she is owed for her winning Gold Rush ticket. "We don't believe that there is a sufficient excuse for the Lottery not to pay it. . . . There are no disclaimers on the ticket," said Larry Walters,...