The following showed up on Cheezburger (almost as big a blackhole for time wasting as People of Walmart).
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All the news that fits…The Popinator from Popcorn Indiana
Watch the video: The Popinator Tracks Where Your Voice Is Coming From And Shoots Popcorn Into Your Mouth! It’s from Popcorn Indiana, but I don’t think it’s commercially available. It’s cool! Now go print out this Popcorn Indiana IP for Wag’s sale starting the 23rd.
9/16 has two inserts – rp & s
All the news that fits – not all nuts are in spreads
This little doozy was on cbsnews.com. Normally I’d just link to the entire article, but it’s a short one, so here it is, in its entirety. Amazing how many public figures have statements – of public record – that they later claim where not at all what they believe, stand and work for.
Republican Virginia State Delegate Bob Marshall said at a press conference last week that God is taking “vengeance” on parents who have had abortions by making their other children disabled.
“The number of children who are born subsequent to a first abortion with handicaps has increased dramatically,” he reportedly said. “Why? Because when you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children.”
“In the Old Testament, the first born of every being, animal and man, was dedicated to the Lord,” he added. “There’s a special punishment Christians would suggest.”
Marshall posted a statement on his Web site distancing himself from the comments, but he can’t erase all his similar comments over the past couple of years!
“No one who knows me or my record would imagine that I believe or intended to communicate such an offensive notion,” he wrote. “I have devoted a generation of work to defending disabled and unwanted children, and have always maintained that they are special blessings to their parents. Nevertheless, I regret any misimpression my poorly chosen words may have created as to my deep commitment to fighting for these vulnerable children and their families.”
Marshall made the comments at an event calling for Virginia not to offer state funding for the group Planned Parenthood, which performs abortions. Disclaimer here: I have been a monthly contributor to PP for many years – the vast majority of their budget is spent on family planning, not abortions. IMO, the better part of Bobby ran down his father’s leg.
All the news that fits – III
Which leads me to the main point, which is: STOCK UP NOW! Unless you’ve spent the past six months drunk as a skunk (sorry, skunks), you’ve seen the incredible shrinking coupon, along with its first cousin, the higher requirement coupon. Seriously, catalinas are printing for $1 off 15 yogurts?!
The CVS sale on Tide starting tomorrow is a case in point: Spend $30 and get a $10 gas card – limit five gas cards per loyalty card. Tide is $5.99, so buy five and get one $10 gas card. Buy 25 and you’re set for quite some time, because right now we’re looking at coupons like the following: the $2/2 coupon on the right is from the current P&G insert and the $2/3 on the left is from the one in tomorrow’s paper. That’s a big chunk of change the consumer is being forced to give up.
So listen up and stock up. We’ve all got ecbs to roll/burn so make the most of them. Always cheaper to shop the stockpile.
All the news that fits – 40% of food purchased thrown out
And this article from the LA Times claims that 40% of the food Americans purchase gets tossed into the garage. In our house the beagles make a point of peeing on the compost ’cause it gets the disgusting stuff that would otherwise go in the garbage…or to them.
“Americans are throwing out nearly every other bite of food, wasting up to 40% of the country’s supply each year – a mass of uneaten provisions worth $165 billion, according to a new report from the Natural Resources Defense Council.
An average family of four squanders $2,275 in food each year, or 20 pounds per person per month, according to the nonprofit and nonpartisan environmental advocacy group.
Food waste is the largest single portion of solid waste cramming American landfills. Since the 1970s, the amount of uneaten fare that is dumped has jumped 50%. The average American trashes 10 times as much food as a consumer in Southeast Asia, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Such profligacy is especially unwarranted in a time of record drought, high food prices expected to get higher and families unable to afford food, according to the council. Efforts are already in place in Europe to cut back on food waste.”
All the news that fits – food prices going up, up, up
According to an article in yesterday’s Chicago Tribune:
“The price of food items such as beef, pork and dairy products is expected to stay high through the end of the year and into 2013, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture forecast released Friday.
The Midwest drought, the worst in decades, has driven up corn and soybean prices, which, in turn, caused retail food prices to rise.
The July’s food price outlook, compiled monthly by the USDA, was largely unchanged from the month before, forecasting the price of all food to rise between 2.5% and 3.5% through the end of the year.
Next year, the department predicts that food prices will rise by as much as 4% as the effects of the drought become more pronounced on the nation’s food supply.”
All the news that fits: Jewel/Osco on the block
According to Reuters, Supervalu has hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Greenhill & Co. as advisors to the potential sale. Not a total surprise, as last month Supervalu said it was looking at options for overhauling the firm, including a sale.
Supervalu Inc.’s advisers are asking potential buyers to bid for the entire business, even as several chains have inquired about individual parts of the U.S. grocery company, Bloomberg News reported.
Things must be really dire at Supervalu (thanks, Craig), because they’re not even giving the new low prices combined with the Fuel Rewards program a chance to work. Have you noticed an increase in business at your Jewel? More cars in the lot? And obviously stores in close proximity to a Meijer or Pete’s are gonna be ghost towns…
All the news that fits…
Just got back from a library presentation by the producer of Small Town Flavor, a internet-tv show that kind of harks back to Mayberry life – except this is reality tv with no fame whores.
The first (pilot) episode is centered in Fairhope, Alabama and shows one full day of activity staring with fresh seafood being caught (off the pier with nets!) and an incredible market that uses solar/wind power, rainwater, graywater and freebies. Watch them harvest pecans and sort them – I had no idea that it takes 10-15 years for pecan trees to mature enough to actually produce a crop! I’m definitely going with hazelnuts for the backyard now! You meet the people who’ve run family businesses for generations (Fairhope proper dates back to 1894 although I seem to recall some buildings being much, much older.). No violence, mayhem or over-the-top characters, just regular people you’d like to live next to: Fannie Flagg has a home there, so she’s probably their biggest “celebrity” – and she’s not.
Anyway, take a gander, ’cause it’s interesting. They’ve already shot episode two, which will be released in early September. Their goal is to run episodes clustered around an area, which will allow people to do road trips for more than one location.
All the news that fits…
To celebrate the great women athletes of the 2012 Olympics, NBC produced an online video called Bodies in Motion, in which women competing in various Olympic sports were featured in softcore, slow-motion highlights, accompanied by a 1970’s porn soundtrack. Pretty cheesy, but don’t take my word for it, see for yourself. NBC killed the link, but folks, this is the internet, where nothing ever dies…