Singing The Blues, In The Key Of A&W

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Sales slump.

The company in recent years has also revamped its ingredient sourcing and promoted its menu items accordingly — among them beef raised without the use of hormones or steroids, eggs from hens fed a diet without animal byproducts, chicken raised without the use of antibiotics and bacon from hogs raised without the use of antibiotics.
The changes to the chain’s beef sourcing policy led it to expand its supply lines beyond Canada to also include producers in the U.S., Australia and New Zealand who could meet the new requirements, which in turn led to backlash from some quarters in the Canadian livestock sector

A&W blames the weather.

“Holistic” Is A Chinese Word for “Can’t Afford Antibiotics”

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…there’s a small subset of individuals that say that they are practicing what they call “Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine” (TCVM) on animals, including horses. They say that they’re practicing according to how the ancient Chinese practiced veterinary medicine on animals, practicing in a way that’s different from the unnatural, reductionist, drug- and surgery-filled “western” medicine that most veterinarians are taught. And in some sense, I’d say that they’re right; what they are doing is certainly different. And it also has essentially nothing to do with the way that the Chinese practiced veterinary medicine on animals throughout history.

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Renegade Regulator

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Renegade Judiciary.

It turns out that Justice Odida Quamina isn’t actually a Judge, he’s a Justice of the Peace (JP). In Ontario, a JP can preside over certain trials. In Quamina’s case, it gets even more interesting. Odida Quamina isn’t even a lawyer. In fact, he has no legal training whatsoever. Prior to his appointment in 2006, Quamina had been a part-time faculty at a community college and a sometime ombudsperson at another community college.
Quamina’s antics have made the news before…

Grab a coffee first.

Not Showing Up To Riot Is A Failed Conservative Policy

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I’ve been saying this for, how long?

Many of us — and I blame myself here — have been pushing an idea of unilateral disarmament in this arena, hoping they would just learn how awful and venomous they are.
But they don’t. I think they take a rather different lesson from our passive resistance than the one they intended.
We intended that by passively resisting, they would see us as showing moral courage and would learn from us that ceaseless violence and bullying and collectivized political campaigns run against everyday citizens pursuing no public office are wrong.
But they didn’t learn that.

5 years? Ten?

What do I want? I want a world in which angry mobs do not form up and begin screaming at people or pressuring companies to fire people just to fill their empty, pathetic lives with something shabby and mean they can pretend is grand and noble.
But we’re not in that world. We’re not in that world of Social Peace.
And refusing to acknowledge that we are in a state of Social War does not bring Social Peace any closer; it just encourages the Monster Babies to wage even further war, making more demands, demanding more submissions, concessions, and ritualized confessions.
If you want peace, prepare for war.
You may not be interested in Social War, but the Social Warriors are deeply, deeply interested you, and bringing you to heel, and making you confess that you are indeed a creature with fewer rights and privileges than they possess.
No one’s ever going to put them in a position of authority over others — which is why they desperately need you to accept they have authority over you.
I didn’t particularly want Kathy Griffin fired — but it was necessary.

But even now, Ace is content with her firing. I’m sorry, but that’s not “war”. That’s United Nations sanctioned proportional response.
A worthy counteroffensive would see mobs on the sidewalk outside her home, chanting expletives into the night.
Night, after night, after night, until her ears bled.
Make an example of her that sends the entertainment-media complex racing to install razor wire atop the walls surrounding their multi-million dollar mansions, and then, just maybe…

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