Friday, December 23, 2016

History for December 23

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History for December 23 - On-This-Day.com:
Joseph Smith 1805, Samuel Smiles 1812, Yousuf Karsh 1908
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Susan Lucci 1946, Eddie Vedder 1964 - Musician, singer (Pearl Jam), Corey Haim 1971 - Actor
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1788 - Maryland voted to cede a 100-square-mile area for the seat of the national government. About two-thirds of the area became the District of Columbia.
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1823 - The poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" by Clement C. Moore (" 'Twas the night before Christmas...") was published.
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1888 - Following a quarrel with Paul Gauguin, Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh cut off part of his own earlobe.
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1893 - The Engelbert Humperdinck opera "Hansel und Gretel" was first performed, in Weimar, Germany.
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1913 - The Federal Reserve Bill was signed into law by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. The act established 12 Federal Reserve Banks.







1941 - During World War II, American forces on Wake Island surrendered to the Japanese.
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1947 - John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain and William Shockley invented the transistor.
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1968 - The crew of the U.S. Navy ship, Pueblo, was released by North Korea. The Captain of the Pueblo, Commander Lloyd M. Bucher, and 82 of his crew were held for 11 months after the ship was seized by North Korea because of suspected spying by the Americans.
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Thursday, December 22, 2016

Hoax? Police arrest black man for church arson that was blamed on Trump supporters – TheBlaze

Hoax? Police arrest black man for church arson that was blamed on Trump supporters – TheBlaze:

"Another story that the mainstream press wielded against Trump is now being exposed as a possible hoax as police have arrested an black man in the “racist” arson attack on a black church in Mississippi.

And it appears that the suspect is a member of the church:"

Reparations?-----From bias incidents to reparations demand, Columbia Native American activists get bolder over time

From bias incidents to reparations demand, Columbia Native American activists get bolder over time - The College Fix:
"For five years, a secretive group that claims to represent Native American students at Columbia University has been steadily winning concessions from the administration.
Emboldened by those victories, it is making a demand that appears to have only been made once before by a Native American college group: reparations.
The controversial idea showed up on a list of demands given to the administration last month by the Columbia Native American Council, according to the Columbia Spectator.
The demand for reparations comes just weeks after the administration acquiesced to the council’s demands for a plaque lamenting the colonization of the land upon which the university sits..."

The Onion - America's Finest News Source

The Onion - America's Finest News Source:
"A member of the endangered subtype of human, who possesses the unusual abilities to calmly reflect on situations and view the world from others’ perspectives, is reintroduced into the population.
Image result for Special Snowflakes Meme SyndromeITHACA, NY—In an ambitious attempt to revive a population long considered to be on the brink of extinction, scientists announced Friday they have slowly begun to reintroduce normal, well-adjusted human beings back into society.
According to officials at Cornell University, where for the past 18 years conservation researchers have operated an enclosed sanctuary for humans who are levelheaded and make it a habit to think before they speak, the endangered group is being cautiously reintegrated into select locations nationwide in hopes that they can reestablish permanent communities and one day thrive again.
“We’ve worked for years to stabilize our society’s dwindling population of sane, generally reasonable people, and within the safe confines of our refuge we’ve finally seen their numbers start to bounce back a little,” said Josh Adelson, head of the Cornell research team, which moved the remaining members of the group into a protected habitat in 1998 to keep them from dying off completely.
“Now, we can very gradually begin to release this rare breed of rational humans back into the general public.
With luck, they can survive and prosper.”..."
Amazing hope for the future!!!

Here’s a look at how Obama is trying to Trump-proof his legacy – TheBlaze

Here’s a look at how Obama is trying to Trump-proof his legacy – TheBlaze:

"With his time as leader of the free world coming to a close, President Barack Obama’s efforts to secure his political legacy are in the home stretch.

So before Republican President-elect Donald Trump takes office next month, Obama has started a final push to tackle some of his most important issues — and make sure they’re safe from Trump for at least the time being.

From Guantanamo Bay to Planned Parenthood, here’s a look at how the 44th president is closing out his final term and preparing for his successor:"

Black Man Burned African-American Church, Blamed On Trump

Black Man Burned African-American Church, Blamed On Trump | The Daily Caller:
"A black man has been arrested and charged with burning an African-American church in Greenville, Miss. last month and defacing its outer walls with “Vote Trump” graffiti.
The Mississippi state police arrested Andrew McClinton, 45, on Wednesday and charged him with first-degree arson of a place of worship, Warren Strain, a spokesman with the Mississippi Department of Public Safety told The Daily Caller.
McClinton allegedly set first to Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church, where he is a member, on Nov. 1, a week before the election.
The fire destroyed 80 percent of the church. A GoFundMe account raised more than $240,000 to repair the facility.
“We do not believe it was politically motivated. 
There may have been some efforts to make it appear politically motivated,” Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney, who also serves as the state fire marshal, told The Associated Press.
The attack, which was investigated by local and state authorities as well as the FBI, was widely attributed by media outlets to Trump supporters.
The Atlantic, to cite one example, published an article entitled “A Black Church Burned in the Name of Trump.”
Mississippi U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, whose district encompasses Greenville, said last month that the arson and vandalism was an act of “domestic terrorism.”
“If there is something like the Ku Klux Klan or the Aryan Nation…we look at that as domestic terrorism,” he told the AP at the time.
The case appears to be yet another hoax targeting Trump supporters.
Several Muslim women who have claimed since the election that they were targeted by Trump fans because they wore hijabs have been charged with making false reports.

Gun Control Laws Conflict with Data about Gun Owners & Crime

Gun Control Laws Conflict with Data about Gun Owners & Crime | National Review:
"Liberals imagine that law-abiding citizens do not have any idea how to use a gun responsibly — and that criminals will start following rules.
Sometimes someone inadvertently performs a public service by bringing an unbelievably stupid and dangerous idea to the surface, where it can be exposed for what it is.
The New York Times can be credited — if that is the word — with performing this public service in a recent editorial against proposals to allow law-abiding citizens to carry concealed guns.
They refer to what they call the National Rifle Association’s “fantasy that citizens can stand up to gunmen by shooting it out.” 
Image result for obama bring a gun to a knife fightNobody has suggested any such thing. 
Data collected over many years — but almost never seeing the light of day in the New York Times or the rest of the mainstream media — show many thousands of examples of people defending themselves with a gun each year, without having to pull the trigger.
If someone comes at you with a knife and you pull out a gun, chances are they will stop.
The only time I ever pointed a gun at a human being, it was when someone was sneaking up toward me from behind a shed in the middle of the night.
I never fired a shot. I just pointed the gun at him and told him to stop.
He stopped.
Actually having to shoot someone is the exception, not the rule. 
Yet the New York Times conjures up a vision of something like the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Concealed guns protect not only those who carry them but also those who do not.
If concealed guns become widespread, then a mugger or a carjacker has no way of knowing who has one and who does not.
It makes being a mugger or a carjacker a less safe occupation.
Gun-control laws are in effect occupational-safety laws — OSHA for burglars, muggers, carjackers, and others. 
The fatal fallacy of gun-control laws in general is the assumption that such laws actually control guns..."
Read on!

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State Department: Iran Never Signed Nuclear Deal, Which Isn't 'Legally Binding' - Guy Benson

State Department: Iran Never Signed Nuclear Deal, Which Isn't 'Legally Binding' - Guy Benson:

"President Obama didn’t require Iranian leaders to sign the nuclear deal that his team negotiated with the regime, and the deal is not “legally binding,” his administration acknowledged in a letter to Representative Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.) obtained by National Review. “The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is not a treaty or an executive agreement, and is not a signed document,” wrote Julia Frifield, the State Department assistant secretary for legislative affairs, in the November 19 letter. "

The Obama 'Recovery': Number Of Millennials Living At Home With Mom Reaches 75-Year High

The Obama 'Recovery': Number Of Millennials Living At Home With Mom Reaches 75-Year High | Zero Hedge:
Millennials At Home"Millennials finally get to claim a trophy for an achievement they actually earned (no participation medals here)...that's right, Millennials have officially set a 75-year record for highest percentage of young adults living at home with mom.  
At just under 40%, Millennials are barely shy of the all-time record of 40.9% set in 1940, after the end of the Great Depression.  
For once, we have every confidence that our young snowflakes will excel in crushing this longstanding record.  
Per the Wall Street Journal:
Almost 40% of young Americans were living with their parents, siblings or other relatives in 2015, the largest percentage since 1940, according to an analysis of census data by real estate tracker Trulia....

We must admit that we're somewhat confused by the following data, from the Census Bureau, suggesting that the percentage of the population with college degrees has increased 5x since 1940.  
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren assured us that spending 4-7 years drinking and partying at an institution of higher education, while incurring $100,000's of dollars worth of debt that will ultimately have to be absorbed by taxpayers, would automatically result in higher incomes which should then translate into higher household formation and economic growth, right?College
Well, we're sure their is some other fantastic explanation as to why only 200,000 households have been created by the 5 million milliennials that have joined the "young adults under 30" cohort over the past decade...and this is just a guess but we bet it has something to do with Republicans and/or Russia. 
The result is that there is far less demand for housing than would be expected for the millennial generation, now the largest in U.S. history. The number of adults under age 30 has increased by 5 million over the last decade, but the number of households for that age group grew by just 200,000 over the same period, according to the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies..."

Saudi Arabia Funding Extremist Islamist Groups in Germany?

Saudi Arabia Funding Extremist Islamist Groups in Germany?:
"A newly-leaked German intelligence report states Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar are funding extremist Islamic groups in Germany.
...The report, compiled by German domestic intelligence agency Bft and Federal Intelligence Agency (BND) allegedly accuses Saudi Arabia and the two Gulf nations of funding various Islamic institutions including mosques and religious schools, as well as individual strict preachers and conversion, or “dawah” groups.
The three countries supported missionary groups as a “long-running strategy to exert influence,” according to the report.
More specifically, the report called out  the Saudi Muslim World League, Sheikh Eid Bin Mohammad al-Thani Charitable Association and the Kuwaiti Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (which is banned in both the U.S. and Russia for allegedly supporting al-Qaeda).
...Also, suspicion that Saudi Arabia is funding terrorist organizations is not new.  Especially since the recent disclosures by the Saudis that they had, in fact, funded extremism in the past..."

Caddell: 'Grace, That's What's Missing' as Obamas Prepare to Leave White House

Caddell: 'Grace, That's What's Missing' as Obamas Prepare to Leave White House:

"Caddell continued, “The Bush people, they had a certain conduct. … George W. Bush kept his mouth shut about Obama forever. What’s Obama doing saying, ‘I’m going to be back here right after vacation. … I need to be in Washington. I need to comment’? Where’s the part where you gracefully leave the stage?”

Additionally, pointing out that, post-election, no one in major media was fired or demoted for getting the election so wrong. “None of them have been fired. Are you kidding?” he said."

Who really hacked the U.S. elections

Who really hacked the U.S. elections:



The FBI was able to track the DNC hack to an IP address located somewhere close to the North Pole, but sources close to the investigation said the trail had grown cold.

"As soon as special agents were close to apprehending the suspect, they unexpectedly left the area," one source confirmed. "They suddenly grew very eager to spend Christmas vacations with their families."

All we know about the "North Pole Hacker" at this time is that he has an uncanny ability to monitor even the most secret communications in order to compile his annual "naughty or nice" list, which he then cross-references - twice - with corroborative data from other sources. 

"The suspect, who goes by the initials SC, usually keeps his list to himself," the FBI source said, "but this was an unprecedented year in many ways." It appears that this year the North Pole Hacker broke with his tradition and posted his "naughty or nice" findings on WikiLeaks, allegedly "so that Americans can get a good president for Christmas." 

We will keep you informed as this case develops.

AM Fruitcake


History for December 22


History for December 22 - On-This-Day.com:
Connie Mack 1862, Gene Rayburn (Rubessa) 1917, Steve Garvey 1948 - Baseball player
     

Robin Gibb (Bee Gees) 1949, Maurice Gibb (Bee Gees) 1949, Ralph Fiennes 1962, Ted Cruz 1970 - Politician from Texas


1775 - A Continental naval fleet was organized in the rebellious American colonies under the command of Ezek Hopkins.


1864 - During the American Civil War, Union Gen. William T. Sherman sent a message to U.S. President Lincoln from Georgia. The message read, "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah."


1894 - French army officer Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason in a court-martial that triggered worldwide charges of anti-Semitism. Dreyfus was eventually vindicated.


1895 - German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen made the first X-ray, of his wife's hand.



1961 - James Davis became the first U.S. soldier to die in Vietnam, while U.S. involvement was still limited to the provision of military advisers.


1984 - New York City resident Bernhard Goetz shot four black youths on a Manhattan subway. Goetz claimed they were about to rob him.


1990 - Lech Walesa was sworn in as Poland's first popularly elected president.


1991 - The body of Lt. Col. William R. Higgins, an American hostage murdered by his captors, was found along a highway in Lebanon.


Wednesday, December 21, 2016

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

https://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2016/12/tool-of-fairness-by-tammy-derouin-race.html


Tool of Fairness

By Tammy Derouin

The race for the presidency of the United States is the American way of shifting power without battles or bloodshed. Our leaders do not rise up out of periodic revolutions.  They are elected by the people, in a republic.  Those who run agree to the election process.  The rules are the same as they have been for generations as set forth in the Constitution.

We teach our children good sportsmanship.  Accepting a loss with dignity builds character.  Nobody wants to lose, but it’s your behavior after the fact which sets the tone for future games and races.  We learn at a very early age that it’s not fun playing with cheaters and crybabies.  When someone is caught cheating, there’s a myriad of excuses which they attempt to turn on anyone but themselves.  Crybabies shift the blame to the process.  There must be something wrong within the system because they didn’t win.  Whichever tactic is launched, and if you’re really lucky you get hit with both, the blame game becomes the only game on the table.  The original, agreed upon rules are now called into question.

Changing a rule because it does not fit the desired political agenda at the moment is a very dangerous game to play.  Laws and rules which are put into place for the advancement of a party line can have dire consequences.  What suits you today may turn on you tomorrow.  Then there’s that pesky double standard.  If the tables were turned and the opposition was crying foul, would there be the same eagerness to change the rules?  No, they would cling to the rule book and defend it as a time-tested tool of fairness.

Instead of trashing a rule, such as the Electoral College, why not look at it closer and learn why it was put into place....... 

Obama Enacts “Permanent” Ban on Arctic Oil Drilling

Obama Enacts “Permanent” Ban on Arctic Oil Drilling | Watts Up With That?
"...Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Obama Places Sweeping Ban on Offshore Drilling in Atlantic and Arctic Waters
by AMANDA SAKUMA
In the final stretch of his term President Barack Obama is implementing new environmental protections that stand to thwart Donald Trump’s agenda on oil and gas extraction in ways that may prove difficult for the president-elect to roll back.
The Obama administration announced on Tuesday that it will place an indefinite ban on offshore oil and gas drilling across large swaths of Atlantic and Arctic waters. The actions come in conjunction with news that Canada will implement a sweeping ban of its own, launching a set of actions to be reviewed every five years.
“President Obama and Prime Minister Trudeau are proud to launch actions ensuring a strong, sustainable and viable Arctic economy and ecosystem, with low-impact shipping, science based management of marine resources, and free from the future risks of offshore oil and gas activity,” the White House said in a joint statement with the Canadian leader.
The latest action hinges on a provision of the 1953 the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, a law designed to protect coral reefs and marine sanctuaries. The seldom used measure allows the executive to permanently freeze offshore drilling in specified regions. Senior Obama administration officials stress that there is no provision in the law providing the president authority draw those actions back.
Environmental groups hailed the announcement as a major victory and symbolic milestone in ending offshore drilling in a region where it is exceedingly difficult to prevent and respond to potential oil spills.
“We are confident that this is an announcement that will stick. We have both the law and public opinion on our side,” Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune said.
There is currently no precedent for a president to hit rewind on bans against offshore drilling in the name of environmental protections. And because the actions are not up for review for another five years, advocacy groups say they are optimistic Trump will not be able to reverse the tide.
...Ordinary people will suffer because of Obama’s spiteful attempt to thwart the will of the American people."

The truth about campus 'diversity' efforts - they're actually racist

The truth about campus 'diversity' efforts - they're actually racist - The College Fix
"Few feel-good terms top the hierarchy of campus mumbo jumbo than “diversity.” We must have diversity
Our goal is diversity
There is no greater good than diversity
But what is diversity?
Here’s a succinct definition from economics Professor Thomas Sowell: it’s group quotas. Writing in National Review, he points out the subversive nature of this feel-good term, noting diversity benefits racial quotas, enforces bias and creates inequity:
In the early 20th century, the principle of geographic diversity was used to conceal bias against Jews in the admission of students to Harvard and other leading academic institutions.
Image result for diversity racistFast-forward to today. It is common, at colleges and universities across the country, for the test scores of Asian-American students who have been admitted to a given college to be higher than the test scores of whites or of blacks or of Hispanics. … In short, something very much like the quota limits that were applied to Jews in the past are now being applied to Asian Americans — and, once again, are being justified by diversity.
But what justifies diversity? Nothing but unsupported assertions, repeated endlessly, piously, and loudly. Today, as in the past, diversity is essentially a fancy word for group quotas. It is one of a number of wholly subjective criteria — such as “leadership” — used to admit students to colleges and universities according to their group membership, rather than according to their individual qualifications.

Faithless electors less faithful to Clinton than Trump | Washington Examiner

Faithless electors less faithful to Clinton than Trump | Washington Examiner:

"Electoral College voters who were faithless on Monday were more upset with Hillary Clinton's candidacy than that of President-elect Trump.

For all of the hype about electors switching their vote from Trump to anyone but Trump, the majority of those electors who cast protest votes were supposed to vote for Hillary Clinton."


California retailers report run on guns before restrictions arrive

Image result for gun controlCalifornia retailers report run on guns before restrictions arrive - SFGate:
"...Gov. Jerry Brown’s approval of wide-ranging gun control legislation in July has led to a run on firearms in California, with some stores reporting sales have doubled since then.
Starting Jan. 1, the general public in California can no longer buy semiautomatic rifles equipped with bullet-buttons that allow for the quick removal and replacement of ammunition magazines.
Guns purchased before Jan. 1 can be kept as long as the owners register them with the state as assault weapons.
As a result, sales of the long guns have at least doubled at many California gun stores, owners report..."

Sugar Wars: Junk Food, Junk Science, or Both?

Sugar Wars: Junk Food, Junk Science, or Both? - Hit & Run : Reason.com:
"Is eating too much sugar bad for you? 
And what's too much? 
As it happens average American per capita consumption of caloric sweeteners like refined cane sugar and high-fructose corn syrup is down from 111 grams per day in 1999 to 94 grams per day today. 
However, 94 grams per day adds up to over 75 pounds of sugar per year per person. 
Image result for junk scienceNearly 80 percent of the sugar we consume is found in candy, snack foods, and sweetened beverages, and is not inherent in the fruits and vegetables we also eat. 
A year ago, the government recommended that Americans get no more than 10 percent of their daily calories from added sugars. 
In 2,000 calorie per day standard diet, that would mean eating fewer than 200 calories in the form of sugar. 
Current consumption of 94 grams of sugar translates to 358 calories per day. 
(The U.S. Department of Agriculture has a different calculation in which per person annual consumption of caloric sweeteners peaked at 153.1 pounds in 1999 and fell to only 131.1 pounds in 2014.)
...In fact, as Americans consumed more calories, including more calories from added sugars, per capita the rates of obesity and Type 2 Diabetes soared.
As my colleague Brown astutely observed:
report published last fall found that government nutrition rules have been and are still based more on money and politics than sound science. The latest update to federal dietary guidelines still cautions against saturated fat and sodium. Members of the committee that developed these guidelines have accepted funding from industry groups, such as the Tree Nut Council, and food companies such as Unilever. ...
Funding good nutrition research is expensive, and we shouldn't automatically look at industry-funded studies or researchers who accept food-industry funding as suspect. But let's not pretend like this sugar scandal is simply a relic of the bad old days of non-disclosure and undue influence. There continues to be every bit as much reason to look skeptically at government dietary advice today as there was in the 20th Century..."

Lunch video-----Local Anchor exposes "Partnership for a New American Economy"

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Time to face reality, Obama — Trump is going to be president | New York Post

Time to face reality, Obama — Trump is going to be president | New York Post:

"So this is how it ends — in a whimper wrapped in self-pity and recriminations. With President Obama on the defensive at his final press conference and Hillary Clinton’s last campaign event resembling a wake, the Democratic Party is limping off the stage and into the political winter.

It was supposed to sit atop the national power pyramid for decades, a new paradigm of liberals, progressives, the young, the old, the unions and blacks, Latinos, Muslims and Asians.

The torch would be passed from Obama to Clinton, "

Italy lawmakers approve 20 billion euro plan to prop up banks

Italy lawmakers approve 20 billion euro plan to prop up banks | Reuters:
"Italy's parliament gave the green light on Wednesday for a 20 billion euro (16.80 billion pounds) plan to prop up the country's weaker banks, starting with a bailout as early as this week for the third largest, Monte dei Paschi di Siena (BMPS.MI).
Image result for Eurozone Crisis...But its hopes of raising the money from private investors, via a debt-for-equity swap and a share placement that ends on Thursday, are fading.
A failure of Monte dei Paschi would rock Italy's banking system, the euro zone's fourth largest.
In the latest prospectus for the deal, the bank warned it could run out of liquidity in four months -- compared to a previous 11 months estimate published as recently as Sunday.
...If Monte dei Paschi's capital plan fails, Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni's new government is likely to meet this week to issue an emergency decree to inject capital into it.
But that could prove to be politically explosive given that investors are required to bear losses under EU bailout rules.
Parliamentary approval for the 20 billion euro government plan was needed to allow the state to take on new debt.
Italy's debt burden, at about 133 percent of annual output (GDP), is already the second highest in the euro zone after Greece..."

How America's Cook Shortage Will Make Restaurants Pricier

How America's Cook Shortage Will Make Restaurants Pricier - Thrillist:
"Editor's Note: This story is the second in Kevin Alexander's alarmingly obsessive three-part investigation into the state and meaning of American food and drink in the year 2016.
You can read part one at link.
There is a crisis in the kitchen of America’s restaurants.
It is going to get worse before it gets... well, it may not actually get better.
For the past year, I’ve been traveling around the country eating and talking, and in every city I’ve been to, the chefs gripe about the same thing: It is impossible to find cooks anymore. 
You see it everywhere.
Almost every local paper has a story that kicks off with a lede featuring a chef begging anyone who can hold a pan and pick a paring knife out of a lineup to come work for him or her.
....this shortage has the potential to fundamentally change restaurants in America -- from the way we eat out and what we pay to eat out, to what we pay the people who cook what we eat out, and how they’re treated in the kitchens.
There is good and middling and bad that could come of this, I’ve found through dozens of conversations.

  • The good: Restaurant workers, long worked and whipped like redheaded mules, may suddenly find themselves treated like actual human people with feelings and souls and college debt. 
  • The middling: You might have to pay a little more for your burger to fund this humane treatment. 
  • The bad: The whole industry might collapse in a huge column of bacon-infused smoke and all your date nights henceforth will center around when to take your Trader Joe’s wood-fired Naples-style uncured pepperoni pizza out of your parents’ oven.

...And yes, more of those people are coming out of culinary school, but that doesn’t mean they’re easy to get.
Just as many Generation X-ers went to law school with no real plan to practice law, culinary school grads are no longer locked into a restaurant kitchen role.
Corporate gigs at tech companies, airlines, upscale nursing homes and grocery markets, the Food Network, hotel and casino groups, and catering can all tempt them away with better hours, better treatment, and better money.
Even the National Restaurant Association’s 2016 Restaurant Industry Forecast ominously states that the “labor pool is getting shallower” and “recruitment and retention of employees will re-emerge as a top challenge.”
Now I’m not a licensed economist (yet), but I’m pretty sure when the number of jobs available in an industry go up, usually the pay and benefits in those arenas do as well, as more companies compete for fewer candidates.
But here’s one of the main reasons the restaurant industry makes about as much sense as the plot-line of a Harmony Korine movie: Restaurants don’t make any money. 
Pretty much ever.
Interesting.
Supply.... demand....
Read on!

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Obama warns Trump not to overuse executive orders - Breitbart

Obama warns Trump not to overuse executive orders - Breitbart:


"With about one month to go before he leaves office, President Barack Obama gave some exit interview-type advice to his successor Donald Trump: Don’t rely too heavily on executive orders.

In an interview with NPR’s Steve Inskeep on Thursday that aired in its entirety Monday on Morning Edition, Obama said it’s preferable to work with Congress."