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Out of the mouths of babes . . . .

Chris Preovolos reports that a Florida restaurant is hitting customers with an “ACA surcharge.” Heaven forbid that all those overpaid waiters and bussers and line cooks should have access to healthcare.

A nugget:

“We wanted to definitely be transparent that affordable health care is part of the cost of doing business,” Clark told Florida’s News965.com.

But why the surcharge now? There are countless local, state and federal programs and taxes are contribute to the cost of doing business, those aren’t broken out on the bill. There’s no surcharge for the paving of public streets in Orlando.

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“We’re definitely doing it to stay afloat,” Clark told WPEC. “It’s not political in any way.”

Except that it is political, and that’s fine, just call it what it is.

Who needs to suffer through three plus hours of watching Hollywood masturbate to its own empty-as-a-back-lot-storefront reflection when Jackie can sum up the whole shebang in three minutes?

“Right in the heart of Springboro.“

Shoulda used flank steak.

The 44-year-old was arrested for assault after allegedly striking an Ohio supermarket employee with a pair of “special cut filets,” police report.

The internet is a public place.

“Zero tolerance” must be one of the stupidest ideas the educational industrial complex has ever come up with.

On other hand, it does seem to show that school administrators have no judgment, so it may be wise not to allow them to exercise any.

A Florida high school student under suspension for 10 days after breaking up a lunch room assault on a gay teen says he’d do it again.

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Betterson received a 10 day suspension under the Fort Myers-area school’s zero-tolerance policy around fighting, but he plans to appeal, he told Fox 4 Now. “It’s not fair for somebody to get beat up for something that he is,” Betterson said. “I’m not going to sit there and watch someone get bullied. I’ve been bullied too.”

We are a society of stupid.

Now comes Tennessee with Redneck Reality. Here’s a snippet from the preview in the Chattanooga Times-Free Press.

Last week, State Sen. Stacey Campfield, R-Knoxville, refiled a bill he says would protect our right to say “Merry Christmas” and protect Christmas celebrations in public schools.

Of course, those rights haven’t been endangered, but never you mind. Pretending there is a war on Christmas has helped Sarah Palin sell her new book, and stirring the fear pot has helped Fox News get more clicks on the Fox Nation opinion website.

More down home doings at the link.

Love and marriage,
love and marriage,
they go together like a
horse and carriage.

Or not.

Afterthought:

It must take a lot of energy to hate that hard.

. . . maybe you shouldn’t wear it.

A 28-year-old Burien woman was arrested Thursday after a burglary victim spotted the suspect wearing her stolen clothes the day after her house was broken into.

Because idiots get drivers’ licenses.

A Wisconsin man who became lodged in the windshield of a car that struck him said he turned to the driver and said, “Hello, I’m the guy you hit on the bicycle.”

The driver did not respond, but continued on, running a stop sign and hitting another vehicle before he arrived home, the cyclist, Steven Gove, told HTR Media about the Saturday incident.

The man finally noticed Gove when he stopped the car outside his home.

“He looked at me and said ‘Who are you? What are you doing in the car?'” Gove said.

Wait for it.

Via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.

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Barrista barrage.

Dick Polman struggles to understand the Republican rejection of evolution and science in general. A nugget:

It would wrong to assume that 11 percent of Republicans have simply changed their minds about evolution in just four years. Rather, it’s far more likely that the people who identify as Republicans today are strikingly more conservative than the people who identified as Republicans in ’09. This is not about changed minds, it’s about a changed makeup.

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This ever-ardent embrace of theocracy helps to explain why so many Republican politicians increasingly thump the Bible.

The ignorant in power is an ugly and dangerous thing.

You can’t make this stuff up.

A northwestern Pennsylvania couple has been charged with drunken driving after police say the man’s wife arrived drunk at the police barracks to pick up her husband following his arrest earlier New Year’s Day.