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Toby Keith Will Not Allow Guns In His Fancy Eatin’ Restaurant So The Terrorists Have Already Won
It’s tough when your heroes let you down. Take Toby Keith, for example. His restaurant, Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar and Grill, should be a place where a man brings his guns and his prayer book and his Obummer = Socialist shirt. But Toby Keith turns out to be a filthy gun-hating Democrat liebrul.
The latest Toby Keith restaurant opened in Woodbridge. Prominently displayed on the front door is a sign saying: “NO GUNS PERMITTED.”
Virginia happens to be a gun-friendly state, where it’s quite permissible for citizens to strap on a weapon and go into a bar or restaurant, as long as the weapon is clearly visible. State law is silent on the issue of drinking while openly carrying a gun. (State law does prohibit most citizens who are legally carrying a concealed weapon from consuming alcohol, but they, too, are allowed to go into a bar or restaurant.)
http://happynicetimepeople.com/toby-keith-will-allow-guns-fancy-eatin-restaurant-terrorists-already-won/
Read more at http://wonkette.com/#rxDJ5Tvx5dXmIFZU.99
N.S.A. Phone Surveillance Is Lawful, Federal Judge Rules
Source: New York Times
N.S.A. Phone Surveillance Is Lawful, Federal Judge Rules
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and ADAM LIPTAK
Published: December 27, 2013
WASHINGTON — A federal judge in New York on Friday ruled that the National Security Agency’s program that is systematically keeping phone records of all Americans is lawful, creating a conflict among lower courts and increasing the likelihood that the issue will be resolved by the Supreme Court.
In the ruling, Judge William H. Pauley III, of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, granted a motion filed by the federal government to dismiss a challenge to the program brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, which had tried to halt the program.
Judge Pauley said that protections under the Fourth Amendment do not apply to records held by third parties, like phone companies.
“This blunt tool only works because it collects everything,” Judge Pauley said in the ruling.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/28/us/nsa-phone-surveillance-is-lawful-federal-judge-rules.html?hp&_r=1&
Noam Chomsky: 'We've Moved From A Functioning Democracy-It's By Now Really A Plutocracy'
M.I.T. professor emeritus Noam Chomsky reflects on eight decades of
struggle. Plus, Smiley and West share highlights from their favorite
conversations and say goodbye:
(snippet):
CHOMSKY: There's endless amounts of work to be done. Drive through a city you can see all sorts of things that have to be done, infrastructures collapsing, the schools have to be revived.
We have a situation which huge numbers of people want to work. There are plenty huge resources available, an enormous amount to be done. The system is so rotten they can't put them together.
Of course the reason is there's plenty of profit being made by those who pretty much dominate and control the system.
We've moved from the days where there was some kind of functioning democracy. It's by now really a plutocracy.
MUCH MORE:
https://soundcloud.com/smileyandwestshow/noam-chomsky-the-final-smiley
What Say the Ducks
http://www.truthdig.com/cartoon/item/what_say_the_ducks_20131227
Do You Think Southerners & Conservatives Realize Just How Badly They're Being Played?
The Fear Economy - By PAUL KRUGMAN
The Fear Economy
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: December 26, 2013
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When the economy is strong, workers are empowered. They can leave if they’re unhappy with the way they’re being treated and know that they can quickly find a new job if they are let go. When the economy is weak, however, workers have a very weak hand, and employers are in a position to work them harder, pay them less, or both.
Is there any evidence that this is happening? And how. The economic recovery has, as I said, been weak and inadequate, but all the burden of that weakness is being borne by workers. Corporate profits plunged during the financial crisis, but quickly bounced back, and they continued to soar. Indeed, at this point, after-tax profits are more than 60 percent higher than they were in 2007, before the recession began. We don’t know how much of this profit surge can be explained by the fear factor — the ability to squeeze workers who know that they have no place to go. But it must be at least part of the explanation. In fact, it’s possible (although by no means certain) that corporate interests are actually doing better in a somewhat depressed economy than they would if we had full employment.
What’s more, I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to suggest that this reality helps explain why our political system has turned its backs on the unemployed. No, I don’t believe that there’s a secret cabal of C.E.O.’s plotting to keep the economy weak. But I do think that a major reason why reducing unemployment isn’t a political priority is that the economy may be lousy for workers, but corporate America is doing just fine.
And once you understand this, you also understand why it’s so important to change those priorities.
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Too many Americans currently live in a climate of economic fear. There are many steps that we can take to end that state of affairs, but the most important is to put jobs back on the agenda.
The Rest:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/27/opinion/krugman-the-fear-economy.html?smid=tw-NytimesKrugman&seid=auto&_r=1&
McDonald’s Warns Employees To Stay Off Fast Food
VIDEO:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/egbertowillies/11537538076/
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/12/24/mcdonalds-says-fast-food-is-bad/
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