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Denny´s to charge 5%
´Obamacare surcharge´ and
cut employee hours to deal
with cost of legislation
Daily Mail (UK), by James Nye
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Posted By:JoniTx, 11/15/2012 10:53:01 AM
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| President Obama´s election victory ensured his Affordable Care Act would remain the centerpiece of his first term in power - but that has left some business owners baulking at the extra cost Obamcare will bring. Florida based restaurant boss John Metz, who runs approximately 40 Denny´s and owns the Hurricane Grill & Wings franchise has decided to offset that by adding a five percent surcharge to customers´ bills and will reduce his employees´ hours. With Obamacare due to be fully implemented in January 2014, Metz has justified his move by claiming it is ´the only alternative.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
NYBruin, 11/15/2012 10:57:10 AM (No. 9016041)
Mmmm, mmmm, mmmm!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Johnny Angle, 11/15/2012 11:03:46 AM (No. 9016060)
Do I get fries with that?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Jethro bo, 11/15/2012 11:06:04 AM (No. 9016072)
The new normal? Part time employment? Gee, thanks Obambi and your fascist/socialist régime.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
texaspast, 11/15/2012 11:08:02 AM (No. 9016081)
If Denny´s would improve their pancakes, I´d eat there. How can you make lousy pancakes? Dunno, but Denny´s has figured it out.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Grady, 11/15/2012 11:08:03 AM (No. 9016082)
I think that every business who will inevitably pass the
charge on to customers should call it the Obamacare surcharge.
Put the blame right where it belongs.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Emmajustin, 11/15/2012 11:10:11 AM (No. 9016094)
I don´t blame Denny´s.
Why all the outrage at Applebee´s when it admitted it will have to raise prices and slash hours.
Man, if only the libs were smart enough to understand the consequences of their horrible policies. But then if they were smart they wouldn´t be libs. cha ching--rim shot.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jimmyfoxhound, 11/15/2012 11:16:41 AM (No. 9016122)
The libs are going to have to make a big spreadsheet to keep track of all the places they will have to boycott!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
ranger06, 11/15/2012 11:21:17 AM (No. 9016134)
Getting your hours cut back - could be worse - some employees are just getting let go. How may times will the the below scenario take place? %^$#ngs will be hitting the fan shortly...
http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/article_864aaee0-2e6a-11e2-89dc-0019bb30f31a.html
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
jimboendaatl, 11/15/2012 11:26:05 AM (No. 9016148)
Good for them, let folks know why they are paying more.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
CEP, 11/15/2012 11:38:29 AM (No. 9016182)
Redo the receipt and name it that, Obamacare Surcharge.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
JediJerry, 11/15/2012 11:52:16 AM (No. 9016224)
#4 I noticed the same thing about their pancakes. International House of Pancakes has worse pancakes than Denny´s. They must use cheap mix from China. If they would switch over to Krusteaz PC mix, they would be hitting a homerun with them. Secret ingredient mixing up Krusteaz is to use 7-Up instead of water. MMmmmmmm MMmmmmmm Gooood!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
hot coffee, 11/15/2012 11:53:10 AM (No. 9016231)
Lots of employers are reducing hours and raising prices to limit the damage to their businesses due to BambamCare.
Brave folks like this owner and the CEOs of Applebee´s and Papa John´s are going out of their way to point it out--they deserve our support.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Refried, 11/15/2012 12:00:04 PM (No. 9016269)
They be hate´n on Obama!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec, 11/15/2012 12:16:50 PM (No. 9016325)
Be sure to put right underneath the 5% surcharge the phrase - Brought to you by Chief Justice John Roberts.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Patchy Groundfog, 11/15/2012 12:23:53 PM (No. 9016353)
I read leftists complaining - lacking any sense of irony as usual - that businesses shouldn´t engage in politics.
This on the heels of Solyndra et al and the shakedown of BP that was just finalized.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Feebie, 11/15/2012 12:52:55 PM (No. 9016418)
Happy Holidays
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
LanieLou, 11/15/2012 3:32:51 PM (No. 9016783)
The CZar of Revenge will send radical minions to picket Denny´s and others who dare criticize The Won.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 11/15/2012 11:34:39 PM (No. 9017483)
When I read this article earlier on Huff, the comments were just plain ignorant. Employees have no clue about the real cost of benefits or even the owner´s match. Never care about the owner´s paying worker´s comp or liability insurance premiums.
More business owners need to step up to the plate and said No way No how.
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As tension rises between North Korea and America, the U.S. ambassador to South Korea, Sung Kim, went on a family vacation. The ambassador today shared his experience in a lengthy blog post. "My daughters recently had off from school for spring break, and I planned to take a week off for a nice family vacation. But as is often the case here on the Peninsula, my break was interrupted by important developments and urgent issues, so my week off turned into just one day," writes Kim. "But finally, we decided to take a three-day weekend and drive
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Queen Elizabeth to attend Margaret
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Los Angeles Times, by Henry Chu
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/9/2013 10:30:36 AM
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LONDON -- The funeral of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s longest-serving leader of the 20th century, will be held in St. Paul’s Cathedral on April 17, officials said Tuesday. Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, are expected to attend what will be the most elaborate funeral to be staged in London since the death of the queen’s mother in 2002. It will be the first funeral of a prime minister that the queen will have attended since Winston Churchill’s in 1965. Thatcher, who died Monday at age 87 after years of declining health,
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North Korea urges foreigners
in South Korea to evacuate,
but analysts doubt attack
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/9/2013 10:24:30 AM
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SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea on Tuesday urged all foreign companies and tourists in South Korea to evacuate, saying the two countries are on the verge of nuclear war. The new threat appeared to be an attempt to keep the region on tenterhooks over its intentions. Analysts see a direct attack on Seoul as extremely unlikely, and there are no overt signs that North Korea´s 1.2 million-man army is readying for war, let alone a nuclear one. South Korea´s military has reported missile movements on North Korea´s east coast but nothing pointed toward South Korea.
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Obama on gun debate:
"This isn´t about me"
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CBS News, by Lindsey Boerma
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/9/2013 9:58:19 AM
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Stopping through Connecticut for the first time since a mentally ill gunman slaughtered 20 first-graders and six educators at a Newtown elementary school in December, President Obama on Monday delivered an impassioned speech, rallying those affected by gun violence to "expect more" from Congress and to urge lawmakers to move this week on legislation. "The day Newtown happened was the toughest day of my presidency," Mr. Obama told the crowd at the University of Hartford, where family members of the massacre´s victims sat. "But I´ve got to tell you, if we don´t respond to this,
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´Proportional´ Response
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Townhall, by Thomas Sowell
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/9/2013 9:42:44 AM
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Since when has it been considered smart to tell your enemies what your plans are? Yet there on the front page of the April 8th New York Times was a story about how unnamed "American officials" were planning a "proportional" response to any North Korean attack. This was spelled in an example: If the North Koreans "shell a South Korean island that had military installations" then the South Koreans would retaliate with "a barrage of artillery of similar intensity." Whatever the merits or demerits of such a plan, what conceivable purpose can be served by telling the North Koreans
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McConnell to join conservative
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American Thinker, by Rick Moran
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/9/2013 9:31:14 AM
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Daily Mail (UK), by Cynthia Crawford
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White House dodges questions
on Beyoncé, Jay-Z trip to Cuba
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Pete Kasperowicz
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 9:27:22 PM
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The White House on Monday distanced itself from the Cuban vacation taken by two of President Obama´s most high-profile supporters — entertainment superstars Beyoncé and Jay-Z. The two Obama supporters traveled to the communist country ostensibly to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary and tour the city of Havana, but their trip has sparked criticism by some Republicans and speculation that it might have violated U.S. law.(Snip) White House press secretary Jay Carney deferred questions on Monday about the Beyoncé trip to Treasury. "That´s not a White House matter. That´s a Treasury matter,"
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White House Garden
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Politico, by Donovan Slack
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 5:08:18 PM
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WASHINGTON— Virgin America did the best job for its customers among leading U.S. airlines last year, a report said Monday, as carriers overall had their second best performance in the more than the two decades since researchers began measuring quality of service. The report ranked the 14 largest U.S. airlines based on on-time arrivals, mishandled bags, consumer complaints and passengers who bought tickets but were turned away because flights were over booked.(Snip) United Airlines, whose consumer complaint rate nearly doubled last year, had the worst performance.
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Updated: White House, McCain
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Houston Chronicle, by Joanna Raines
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There was growing buzz over the weekend that a bipartisan agreement on gun control — a deal that would expand background checks — could hit the floor as early as this week. However, any deal could be derailed by the looming threat of a Republican filibuster involving Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. With Cruz standing proudly in the way of any gun legislation, Democrats are trying to make him pay a political price — and even a couple of high-profile Republicans are questioning his tactics.
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Margaret Thatcher, the first female British Prime Minister who gained worldwide renown as the Iron Lady has died aged 87. Developing a formidable partnership with President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s, Mrs. Thatcher stood up to the ´Evil Empire´ of the Soviet Union, eventually witnessing its collapse. [Snip] Responding to her death, Buckingham Palace said, ´The Queen is sad to hear the news of the death of Baroness Thatcher and Her Majesty will be sending a private message of sympathy to the family, Buckingham Palace said today.´ British Prime Minster David Cameron said on hearing of her passing, ´It was
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North Korea’s young leader Kim Jong-un is waiting for United States President Barack Obama to make a phone call to Pyongyang to discuss easing tensions on the Korean peninsula, according to Russia’s news agency Itar-Tass. The report cited United Kingdom diplomats, saying Pyongyang was demanding the U.S. president personally call Kim Jong-un as one of the conditions to relieve the current conflict at hand. Itar-Tass also quoted the U.K.’s Sky News as saying North Korea currently has eight nuclear warheads.
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Recent research indicates that the number of people who do not consider themselves a part of an organized religion is steadily on the rise. Interestingly enough, though the number of those religiously unaffiliated is increasing, there is little to no trend in the number of those who express atheist or agnostic beliefs. People aren’t saying they don’t believe in God. They’re saying they don’t believe in religion. They are not rejecting Christ. They are rejecting the church. This begs the question, “Why are we losing our religion?”
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 1:18:00 PM
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Annette Funicello, the dark-haired darling of TV´s “The Mickey Mouse Club” in the 1950s who further cemented her status as a pop-culture icon in the ´60s by teaming with Frankie Avalon in a popular series of “beach” movies, died Monday. She was 70. Funicello, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1987 and became a spokeswoman for treatment of the chronic, often-debilitating disease of the central nervous system, died at Mercy Southwest Hospital in Bakersfield, Walt Disney Co. spokesman Howard Green said. Funicello and her husband, Glen Holt, had moved from
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Chelsea Clinton doesn´t close
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USA Today, by Catalina Camia
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Posted By: jackson- 4/8/2013 10:23:20 AM
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Chelsea Clinton has raised her profile in the last few days, which sparked the inevitable question about the former first daughter´s future: Will she ever be like Mom and Dad and run for office? Clinton, 33, essentially said "maybe" in an interview that aired Monday on NBC´s Today show. "Right now I´m grateful to live in a city, a state and a country where I strongly support my mayor, my governor, my president and my senators and my representative," said Clinton, whose father, Bill, was president from 1993-2001 and her mother, Hillary
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White House: Planned GOP
gun filibuster cowardly
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Washington Times, by Dave Boyer
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/8/2013 11:08:31 PM
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Beginning a week of high pressure on gun control, the White House on Monday accused some Republican senators of cowardice for planning to filibuster gun legislation without allowing the full Senate to vote on President Obama’s initiatives. “If they oppose this legislation, have the courage to say so on the floor and vote no,” said White House press secretary Jay Carney. “Don’t block it. Don’t hide behind a procedural action to prevent a vote. That’s the wrong thing to do, and that’s how the president clearly feels.”
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Special ops veterans’ group
calls for select probe of
Benghazi attack
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Fox News, by Catherine Herridge
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 7:00:09 AM
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More than 700 Special Operations veterans are urging members of Congress to back a select committee to investigate last year’s Benghazi terrorist attack, according to a letter first obtained by Fox News. The letter from the group, “Special Operations Speaks,” supports the appointment of a special committee tasked with the single mission of investigating the attack that left Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans dead, and shut down the CIA operation in an annex of the Benghazi consulate, in the Sept. 11, 2012 attack. “Congress must show some leadership and provide answers to the public
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Obama flying 11 relatives of Sandy Hook
victims to D.C. on Air Force One so
they can back gun control in person
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/8/2013 4:05:18 PM
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President Barack Obama is bringing 11 relatives of those killed in the shooting at Connecticut´s Sandy Hook Elementary School to Washington on Air Force One on Monday so they can personally encourage senators to back gun legislation that faces tough opposition. A nonprofit organization that works with the families, Sandy Hook Promise, said that after Obama´s speech on gun control in Hartford, he is flying with relatives of seven children and one staffer killed during December´s massacre at the school. The White House says Obama is going to argue that lawmakers have an
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Updated: White House, McCain
blast Cruz for threatening
filibuster over guns
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Houston Chronicle, by Joanna Raines
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 4:55:05 PM
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There was growing buzz over the weekend that a bipartisan agreement on gun control — a deal that would expand background checks — could hit the floor as early as this week. However, any deal could be derailed by the looming threat of a Republican filibuster involving Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. With Cruz standing proudly in the way of any gun legislation, Democrats are trying to make him pay a political price — and even a couple of high-profile Republicans are questioning his tactics.
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