Miracle Whip is trying to get us to switch using a pretty funny anthem. Check out The Village People(!), Susan Boyle, Lance Bass, Tiffany…and a whole lot more people I don’t recognize. Enjoy this YouTube video.
Mondelez Global, a subsidiary of Deerfield-based Mondelez International, has issued a voluntary recall of its belVita breakfast biscuits in the United States and Puerto Rico. Some of its apple cinnamon and chocolate flavored biscuits may contain fragments of metal mesh, the company said late Thursday, attributing the problem to a faulty screen.
Consumers who have these biscuits should discard whatever they have, the company said. Although there have been “a limited number” of complaints, the Mondelez is issuing the recall “as a precaution.” Read entire Trib article here.
I should point out that the two flavors, apple cinnamon and chocolate, were not carried by Walgreens or CVS (at least in the Chicago area) – we got the plain oats and blueberry ones. And trust me that I know what we got…a $recall$ would have been nice (all kidding aside, I do like these cookies very much).
Burger King’s Twitter feed appears to have been hacked today and changed to look like a feed for a fake McDonald’s account, complete with a McDonald’s logo in place of the familiar one for Burger King and tweets promoting the music of controversial Chicago rapper Chief Keef.
Around 11 a.m. today came the first apparently fake tweet on the @BurgerKing feed, announcing, “We just got sold to McDonalds! Look for McDonalds in a hood near you.”
Read the rest of the article. My favorite comment? “Somebody needs to tell Burgerking that ‘whopper123’ isn’t a secure password,” Twitter user @flibblesan cracked.
Sesame Street is today’s Official Black Hole Time Waster Check out 
Birdwalk Empire and
Upside Downton Abbey on YouTube.
Read this article in the Huffington Post a couple of days ago and it really resonated with me. I’d be interested in your thoughts…
A few housekeeping things right off the bat: The below stance has nothing at all to do with the validity of college savings plans themselves; the investments, management fees, etc. The opinions expressed here are based entirely on the idea that your money could be, and should be, better spent. Got it? Good. Here goes:
While they’re not a guarantee, the Mrs. tends to enjoy a pair of handsome bonuses each year. From them we generally budget for a $1,000 contribution to each of the girl’s 529 College Savings Plans. That’s a grand sum of $2,000 to 529 college savings plans every 12 months. Not last year though, and none for 2012 either. Instead, we used the two grand for 2011 to beef up the five-year old wooden swing set that calls our backyard home. As investments go, this wasn’t even close.
How does an enhanced kiddie play structure compare against money for higher education you ask? Easy. With the new giant rock wall, fire station pole, and 14″ swoop slide my two girls will spend the next half decade challenging themselves, their bodies, and their minds. With the two-story “treehouse” skybox, they’ll enjoy even more years of outdoor play with each other and with friends telling stories, pressing leaves, scaring each other, writing bad poetry, doing their version of improv comedy, writing songs, thinking, and dreaming. I wouldn’t be surprised if there is some making out in there in a number of years. Better there then behind the mall dumpster, I say. What they’ll each take away from the countless hours of fun ahead of them will trump the single three-credit class+books their $1,000 would get them if they were going to college RIGHT NOW! Forget about 11 years from now for the Bear or 14 years for the Mouse! That’ll probably cover their parking permits for one semester. And as they say on TV infomercials, “BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!” Read the rest…
Here’s a little news article (video and text) about a California woman suing Nestle for five million dollars, claiming that the trans fats in frozen pizza aren’t healthy. Her lawyer said she’s been feeding Nestle pizzas to her kids because kids love pizza. Nestle produces roughly half of the frozen pizzas sold (Stouffers, DiGiorno, California Pizza Kitchen). my guess would be that they are now able to read the labels and informed her of this – next step will be to sue the school systems that so obviously failed her…
the lawyer is probably sleeping with visions of sugar plums…
CHICAGO—Having tallied a “very promising” 41 murders so far in 2013, police officials confirmed Tuesday that the annual Chicago Homicide Drive was off to its fastest start in more than a decade and was already well on its way to reaching this year’s goal for violent slayings. “It’s still January, but we’ve already seen an astounding number of contributions to this year’s murder drive,” Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy told reporters as he raised the red progress line on the Homicide Drive’s Murdometer, a 15-foot plywood silhouette of a gunned-down body that stands outside City Hall. “I don’t think anyone dreamed it would be possible to break last year’s staggering total of 506 murders, but with so many people chipping in all across the city, we may just do it. There’s a tremendous community-wide level of interest and participation in this yearly event, which is quickly becoming a treasured part of Chicago culture.” While McCarthy said he remained confident that Chicagoans would set a new Homicide Drive record this year, he cautioned that the city was beginning to face a shortage of potential victims in many of its highest-contributing neighborhoods.
ARRIVING and LEAVING
Jan 26, 2013 (Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX News Network) — When the dust settles on Supervalu Inc.’s $3.3 billion deal with Cerberus Capital Management, the embattled grocer’s chief executive will exit with $12.8 million for about eight months of work.
Wayne Sales’ “golden parachute” was disclosed Friday in a federal securities filing in connection with the deal announced earlier this month. Cerberus is buying Supervalu’s four largest supermarket chains, and it plans to purchase up to 30 percent of Supervalu’s stock at $4 a share.
Sales was hired last July when former CEO Craig Herkert was terminated abruptly. Sales will leave the Eden Prairie-based company after the Cerberus deal closes, which is expected before March 31.
Read the entire (short) article here. I don’t know which of them I would ignore bleeding by the side of the road. Well, both obviously, but I mean which one first.
Just got this cool YouTube video entitled World History in 2 Minutes – seriously, that’s all it took to encapsulate our existence. Enjoy…
The Chicago Public Schools system has apologized for sending an email to parents that included a typo in a web link that sent them to an erotic website as a result. Here’s the link to CBSChicago with the article and complete text of email. The original email referenced ISAT testing and concluded with:
For more information on the Common Core, please visit http://isbel.net/common_core/default.htm or http://commoncoreil.org/.
Just so you know, there’s nothing dirty or pornographic about the landing page, so pervs must have done some deeper digging…