PAPA JOHN’S to reduce workers hours

A day after Barack Obama earned a second term in the White House, Papa John’s founder and CEO John Schnatter said the president’s signature health-care reform law would increase his business costs and possibly result in employees’ hours being cut.

Schnatter, a part-time Naples resident, made the comments Wednesday night inside a small auditorium at Edison State College’s Collier County campus. In August, he made national headlines after telling shareholders the Affordable Care [...]

Ireland Farmer setup barricade for bank eviction!

The War has started people. We setup this Facebook page just over a week ago.

http://www.facebook.com/antieviction.dundalk

anyone that has a page please add yourself as friends. I will travel to Limerick over the coming days and will report back with videos of the situation.

Seamus Sherlock is getting victimised because he stood up before. And is now going to be an example to Ireland that this is what we do. If you do [...]

WARNING: The CEO of Smithfield Foods is projecting that meat prices will rise by “significant double digits” in the months ahead

Dead Crops, Extreme Drought And Endless Wildfires Are Now The New Normal In America

by Michael

As you read this, the United States is experiencing the worst drought it has seen since the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s.  As you read this, nearly half of all corn crops in the United States are in “poor” or “very poor” condition.  As you read this, 38 major wildfires are ripping across the central and western United [...]

CAMBRIDGE, MA CONSIDERS SODA BAN IN ALL RESTAURANTS

Policy Order Resolution

O-4
IN CITY COUNCIL

June 18, 2012

MAYOR DAVIS

WHEREAS: High intake of soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages increases the risk of obesity and diabetes; and

WHEREAS:

New York City has a plan to limit the serving size of soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages sold in restaurants; now therefore be it

ORDERED:

That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to refer the matter of a ban on soda and sugar-sweetened beverages in restaurants to [...]

When The Derivatives Market Crashes (And It Will) U.S. Taxpayers Will Be On The Hook

by Michael

 

Warren Buffett once said that derivatives are “financial weapons of mass destruction”, and that statement is more true today than it ever has been before.  Recently, JP Morgan made national headlines when it announced that it was going to take a 2 billion dollar loss from derivatives trades gone bad.  Well, it turns out that JP Morgan did not tell us the whole truth.  As you will see later in this [...]

POLL: 40% Now Say Trayvon Martin Shot in Self-Defense; 24% Say It Was Murder… Developing…

As evidence continues to emerge from the shooting death of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, Americans are becoming more convinced that his killer acted in self-defense and that the legal system will come to that conclusion.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 24% of American Adults still believe the man who shot Martin should be found guilty of murder. But that’s down from 33% in late March when the case first [...]

Rand Paul Launches Campaign to End TSA

New legislation would abolish government involvement in airport security

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Thursday, May 3, 2012

Senator Rand Paul has issued a press release in which he vows to lead the charge to “end the TSA” and put a stop to the needless and humiliating groping of toddlers and grandmothers.

Earlier this year, Paul was detained by the TSA after refusing to submit to an invasive pat down after already having passed through a [...]

Mayor Asks State to Allow Illegal Aliens to Vote!

(NBC) New Haven Mayor John DeStefano plans to ask the state Legislature to allow illegal immigrants who live in the city to be able vote in municipal elections.

DeStefano said on Tuesday that the proposal would build a more engaged community and follows the lead of other cities, the New Haven Independent reports.

The Independent reports that New Haven has about 10,000  non-citizen immigrants.

Immigrants who are in the U.S. legally [...]

UPDATE: Teen Gets 5 Years in Prison For MCDONALD’S beatdown

TOWSON, Md. (WJZ) –It was a scandalous hate crime caught on camera that grabbed national headlines. Now one of the two young women accused of beating a transgender woman at a McDonalds learns her punishment.

Derek Valcourt has details on the sentencing.

Convicted of a hate crime and first degree assault. Five years in prison.

Over and over again, two teenage girls attack and beat Chrissy Polis inside a Baltimore [...]

83-Year-Old Gets Breast Implants

SANTA ANA (CBS) — An 83-year-old Santa Ana great-grandmother is making national headlines for having work done on her headlights.

And we’re not talking about her car.

Marie Kolstad, of Orange County, is the mother of four, the grandmother of 12 and great-grandmother to 12.

Last month, Kolstad decided she needed a little boost in her breasts. So she spent $8,000 for a three-hour procedure.

She figured her family wouldn’t approve, so she didn’t [...]

Ron Paul outraises Huntsman, Pawlenty

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul announced Friday that his campaign has raised $4.5 million during the second quarter of 2011 — a figure that shows the Texas Republican well ahead of former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty and former Utah governor Jon Huntsman.

Mr. Paul, who has established his campaign as one of the leading fundraisers for the 2011 election, posted the announcement on his Facebook wall, [...]

Several Top Federal Reserve Officials Seem To Think That More Quantitative Easing Is Necessary

The end of QE2 is still several months away and yet quite a few top Federal Reserve officials are already hinting that more quantitative easing may be necessary.  Apparently the U.S. economy is not moving forward as rapidly as they would like.  So it looks like “QE3″ could be on the way.  But did anyone out there actually believe that quantitative easing would come to [...]