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breakthrough year for America. And it has been.
economy`s roaring back with the Dow closing today at nearly 18000 points.
families` budgets. These numbers don`t lie. And the President isn`t done.
stuff happens in the fourth quarter. And I`m looking forward to it.
the Huffington Post. And Congressman Greg Meeks, democrat of New York.
RYAN GRIM, THE HUFFINGTON POST: Good being with you.
REP. GREGORY MEEKS (D), NEW YORK: Thank you, Reverend.
credit for it. That`s laughable.
SHARPTON: Now, here`s Ryan on that point. Here`s a funny headline.
It`s not the Obama recovery, Grover Norquist says, it`s the GOP recovery.
yourself and a lot of others were saying, look, it ought to even be bigger.
SHARPTON: Right. And it wanted austerity plans.
economy is starting to rebound and all of a sudden they want credit for it.
the economy. So it`s much more difficult for them to make that pivot.
That doesn`t mean some of them won`t try, though.
Obama administration and President Obama over his use of executive actions?
the truth regarding the terrorist attack in our mission in Benghazi, Libya.
I believe that the path we`re going down is the correct one.
Congressman while we`re dealing with all these critical issues.
President Obama and we`ll get that much further.
democrats keep the pressure on this issue next year?
the minimum wage, that doesn`t mean it doesn`t move on the local level.
being put on here, even if nothing is happening in Washington.
SHARPTON: You`re a member of Congress and a senior member now.
does that register even in a republican Congress? You`re there every day.
color, it`s throughout the country.
resonate with everybody across the country.
time tonight and happy New Year to both of you.
MEEKS: Happy New Year to you, Rev.
who spoke at a white supremacist event. What happens, next?
they are being untreated unfairly about airfare.
Plus, the best moments of the year from the White House photographer.
It`s all ahead in "Conversation Nation."
this notorious threat to a journalist.
enough. I`ll break you in half like a boy.
standing by Congressman Scalise today?
encouraged Michael Grimm to step down.
who is an African-American, well respected.
he was talking to a whole room of white nationalists is just unfounded.
Party has not properly dealt with.
plans to broaden your base, reach out for more diversity after the autopsy?
that when you have this kind of situation?
RYE: Sure. And by "us," I mean American people with sense.
RYE: I thought you meant progressives. We were never the targets.
are teaming up to try to shut down this 22-year-old`s travel website.
what`s the kid doing wrong?
know who doesn`t try to look for cheaper airline tickets.
MAXWELL: Right. I mean, he deserves a medal, not to be sued.
airline travel a little bit more bearable like I said deserves a medal.
bags. It`s more expensive for the actual flights. There are long delays.
deserves an award for that.
this. I`m definitely behind the ball, but I do it all the time.
SHARPTON: Well, confession is good for the soul, Angela.
think that this young man is solving a necessary problem.
New Year`s. And the best photos of 2014 from the Obama White House.
SHARPTON: We`re back with our panel, Angela, John, and Zerlina.
politician would you want for your New Year`s date?
sort to have a power duo feminist discussion to bring in 2015.
like to ring in the New Year with them.
photographer that it was the two most famous sets of years in Washington.
the President step up in that way, so that`s my favorite moment.
SHARPTON: Why didn`t you go?
BURNS: Secret Service was blocking the door, Rev. I tried my best.
gives people more of a sense of, these are real people.
of you a happy New Year, and I have enjoyed having all of you on the show.
the reason to be optimistic about race relations in this country.
that we actually are going to see progress on this issue next year.
change. And that`s what 2015 must be about.
Grocery shopping has much weird psychology to it. The one-way doors, the music, the dairy in the back. The allure of the displays at the end of the aisles. It doesn’t all make sense, but that’s people for you.
Add the nostalgia of familiar brands; reach for a box of Maypo and I’m back in the Pick & Pay with my mom in Berea, Ohio, in 1966. The satisfaction of food. The dizzying abundance. It’s never as simple as picking up a loaf of bread.
I haven’t even mentioned price. As a successful man of the world, I seldom pay attention to prices. It’s a supermarket; whatever I buy here is going to be far less than the steak sandwich at Gene & Georgetti. The fact that I’m food shopping at all is sacrifice enough; don’t ask me to cut coupons too.
So Toni Preckwinkle’s sweetened beverage tax almost blew past me. My heart wasn’t awash with sympathy for anyone upset over an additional 12 cents for a can of soda. If that 12 cents helps weave together the fraying social safety net, well, happy to do my civic duty.
Then my wife came home Sunday waving her Sunset Foods receipt. Dasani sparkling flavored waters, on sale, three eight packs for $6.99. Plus the new Cook County sweetened beverage tax of $2.88.
And the kicker is, water that is flavored but unsweetened shouldn’t be taxed at all. An obvious mistake.
But stores make mistakes. As a loyal customer, I try not to judge harshly. On Monday I hopped onto my Schwinn cruiser and pedaled over to Sunset, already imagining their sincere embarrassment. “We’re so sorry Mr. Steinberg,” Mr. Whipple would stammer, fingers twisting at his sternum. He’d ding open the register, peel off two singles and a handful of change. Neighborly smiles all around.
Nope. Sheila greeted me as if I had been caught tucking steaks under my shirt. An icy call to the manager. Dasani is on the list. I point out that the drink is unsweetened. She said it’s something to do with the flavoring.
“Keep your receipt, and if you find evidence the tax was charged incorrectly bring it back,” she said.
Maybe I will do that. Two paths here: Cook County and Coke, which makes Dasani. Emails to both, holding a little race to see who gets back first. I place my bets on the corporate giant. But the relatively puny governmental entity beats them handily.
In an ideal world, yeah. But we are not living in that world.
Armed with Shuftan’s email, I hurry back to Sunset for a long, frustrating conversation with assistant manager Charlie. He isn’t interested in looking at my email. The take-away, as best I can understand it, is: “Tough. We’d rather charge you the tax incorrectly now and refund it later than have to dig into our own pockets for this.” Though he was very nice about it.
Curious, I head to the Mariano’s a couple of minutes down the road. They offer me free tastes of smoothie, fresh orange juice and cake (more psychology) and, most significantly, sell an eight pack of Dasani sparkling lime for $3.99, plus the correct 9 cents tax.
On a roll, I swing by Jewel on Willow Road. There I buy two eight packs for $7, plus the correct 16 cents tax.
Mistakes happen. Walgreen’s did the same thing, over the same product, and is now being sued in a class action lawsuit.
And here’s the interesting part, circling back to psychology. Even improperly adding the tax, I paid $3.29 per eight pack of Dasani sparkling water at Sunset, verses $3.58 at Jewel and $4.08 at Mariano’s. So the eight-pack at Sunset, where I felt ripped off, cost less than at the other stores.
As I said, a lot of psychology involved with grocery shopping.
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Children could forgive the dated graphics and repetitive gameplay but, may get stuck on the boss battles and get bored during loading screens.
A comprehensive but a little rough around the edges fitness trainer for the Xbox 360.
Your orders are often vague and in combination with the Kinect controls most players will probably give up on this game.
Today we played a whole lot of videogames. It was a good day.
The issue of Geetha Gopi's daughter's ostentatious wedding is likely to be raised in the next executive committee meeting of CPI.
CPI legislator Geetha Gopi's daughter's wedding pictures, with the bride decked in gold, are viral.
Thiruvananthapuram: The wedding of Kerala CPI legislator Geetha Gopi's daughter drew attention on social media after pictures of the bride decked in gold went viral.
The wedding took place in Thrissur on Sunday. The issue has also made its way to the party's discussion board.
Ms Gopi is a two-time Communist Party of India (CPI) legislator from Nattika in Thrissur district.
The bride's picture went viral in the social media and became a subject of discussion since Ms Gopi's party colleague and former Kerala Agriculture Minister Mullakara Ratnakaran raised the issue of ostentatious weddings in the state assembly in April.
Mr Ratnakaran raised the issue through a calling attention motion, demanding that the Pinarayi Vijayan government come out with a new law to prevent ostentatious weddings .
The wedding picture shows the bride was covered with gold.
According to those in the know of things, some party workers have raised this issue, since it has "dented the party's image, as it speaks one thing and its leaders do the opposite".
However, Ms Gopi said the wedding festivities were low-key and what she did "would have been done by any parent according to the accepted norms".