Yet another sign that the marginal consumer is clearly tapped out and no longer able to spend freely to sustain gimmicky marketing.
Hooters — which has about 300 locations nationwide — has faced increasing financial strain as traffic declines at its kitschy restaurants, leading to the closure of several outposts.
The Atlanta-based company has been working alongside turnaround consultants from Accordion Partners to address its financial difficulties, particularly its debt burden.
How many more of these can they afford to lose?
NBC Universal is paying a $30 million settlement to a Georgia doctor they labeled a “uterus collector” and accused of performing “mass hysterectomies” at an ICE facility during the first Trump term.
Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, Nicole Wallace, and Jacob Soboroff spread the hoax.
Bye. After Trump pulled off the greatest political comeback in history, major veteran journos (aka Dem mouthpieces) have thrown in the towel or been pushed toward the exits
Kenji, being our local SF Bay correspondent, any thoughts on this?
Ruby Dhalla wasn’t supposed to be a problem. When she entered the Liberal leadership race, she was treated as an afterthought, an outsider with no chance of breaking through. Mark Carney was the clear favorite—not because he had some overwhelming grassroots movement behind him, but because the Liberal swamp had already crowned him as Trudeau’s successor. The decision had been made long before the race even began. But then, something happened that the elites didn’t see coming: Dhalla started gaining traction. She started signing up thousands of new members. She started climbing in the polls. And that’s when the Liberal machine kicked into overdrive to shut her down.
If you’ve been paying attention to Canadian politics, none of this should be surprising.
Woke America: The week in really big lies. Victor Davis Hanson – Pete Hegseth’s military.
WEF’s Canada: Every circus needs a Carney. The fiscal promises. Poilievre and the media.
Odds And Ends: Hamas murdered hostage brothers. Britain’s shotgun clampdown. An experiment in diversity. The wildfire climate scam. And Wokeward Bound.
And at the Bee.
I don’t know about the rest of you, but what Carl Benjamin says here really resonates with my own experiences.
From 1962, here’s a cold war-era drama called Red Nightmare.
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There’s a good explainer here.
Amidst all the Friday night hubbub of the Pentagon Night of the Long Knives, a super-important executive order regarding China is flying underneath the radar. I will try to explain that EO in as succinct a manner as possible, because it’s in an area for which I have some limited expertise. […]
-It also sounds like China will face a much stricter CFIUS review standard than investors from friendly countries. I think what Trump is saying is that basically ALL Chinese investment in or acquisition of US businesses will halt, and it remains to be seen how we may direct divestment of existing Chinese holdings in US companies.
I don’t think people realize just how much Chinese investment there is in US companies. Many US white shoe law firms have massive China practices which facilitate enormous (both in terms of $$$ and frequency) investments by China in US technology industries, often through veiled entities like Cayman Island corporations. In my practice of law, I have long been stunned at just how much Chinese investment there is in our key technology businesses. If I am reading the tea leaves correctly, this EO is a signal that basically ALL Chinese investment in US companies will cease, and what Chinese holdings currently exist may require divestment.
This stood out, from a Canadian regulatory swamp perspective: d) My Administration will also expedite environmental reviews for any investment over $1 billion in the United States.
“I am just going to put my foot on the floor and I’m not lifting until I see god or a checked flag”
The “Proud Feminist” is clearing the field for the old white man.
I ran across this very apt and well phrased tweet from Ottawa lawyer David Anber today. Unfortunately, this mindset pretty much describes about half the people I know right now. I also noticed the vitriol directed at Wayne Gretzky today due to his apparent friendship with Trump. It’s as if his achievements as a hockey player must be rendered instantly unworthy due to any association with Orange Man.
Sam Cooper- Ottawa Warned On PRC Blueprint Targeting MPs and Senators Decade Before NSICOP ’24 Revelations
A leaked 2014 intelligence document from Canadian Security Intelligence Service warned that China was orchestrating a broad strategy to cultivate Canadian politicians at every level ahead of various elections, relying on community leaders as intermediaries. The classified CSIS report—marked “SECRET/CanadianEyesOnly”—details how Chinese Embassy officials in Ottawa tasked diaspora figures to target specific Canadian politicians, including a sitting Senator and a Member of Parliament, inviting them to a high-profile Chinese New Year banquet in 2015.
Good interview. Timestamps for each topic.
Catherine Herridge- EXCLUSIVE: Our full, unedited interview with Secretary of State Marco Rubio on his first 30 days leading the Department.
In World War One, the elites (politicians & generals) sent wave after wave of soldiers out of the trenches, only to be slaughtered minutes/seconds later.
Now, a little over 100 years later, Keir Starmer & Emmanuel Macron are proposing to have their own brave soldiers slaughtered on the Ukrainian front, as well as suckering President Trump into a direct war with Russia.
This is absolute globalist warmonger insanity!
Steve Kirsch- COVID vaccine injury study published on preprint server because the mainstream medical journals refused to publish it
It shows that vaccine injury is real. How prevalent? The study doesn’t address that. It points out the vaccine injured are indeed vaccine injured. A giant step forward.
Bill Rice Jr.-JD Vance admits perhaps up to 111 million Americans had painful reactions to Covid shots
New York Times- Scientists Describe Rare Syndrome Following Covid Vaccinations
Nobody watches the CBC so let’s give them a truckload of more money.
National Post- Liberals want to nearly double CBC funding, as an investment in ‘national security’
Toronto District School Board decided this week to move forward with removing the names of Sir John A. Macdonald, Egerton Ryerson and Henry Dundas from three of its schools.
Lawyer suing his own law society for libel over Kamloops ‘graves’