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The more Republicans condemn Chris Christie to working with Obama and helping the people of New Jersey the higher his approval ratings soar. History has shown us that the greatest American presidents have been fat. Teddy Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and Bill Clinton were without a doubt America's best presidents. Teddy Roosevelt actually started his own party, the Bull Moose Party. With today's GOP splintered, crazy, corrupt and dysfunctional, perhaps Chris Christie should do what TR did and start his own party and because he's fat and from Jersey he should call it the Pizza Party.
Deep down Christie is a Progressive same as former Republican TR. The Bull Moose Party was the first progressive movement. TR was fat and he use to say BULLY BULLY but he was really saying BELLY BELLY.
Let's be honest about it, Chris Christie learned a lesson from Obama and that lesson was that he was much more like Obama than he was like Romney. History will teach us all a lesson and that is Obama is very much like my favorite president, William Howard Taft. Read more HERE
As the rockets continue to fall in Israel and
Gaza, it is important to understand Hamas’s tactic and how the
international community and the media are encouraging it.
Hamas’ tactic is as simple as it is criminal and
brutal. Its leaders know that by repeatedly firing rockets at Israeli
civilian areas, they will give Israel no choice but to respond. Israel’s
response will target the rockets and those sending them. In order to
maximize their own civilian casualties, and thereby earn the sympathy of
the international community and media, Hamas leaders deliberately fire
their rockets from densely populated civilian areas. The Hamas fighters
hide in underground bunkers but Hamas refuses to provide any shelter for
its own civilians, who they use as “human shields.”
Alan Dershowitz Gets It Right!
This is a common tactic of Muslims. They hide and fire missiles and snipe from homes and even hospitals. They start shit and care so little about their children that they won't even provide them with bomb shelters. Before Israel retaliated they dropped warning messages telling civilians in Gaza to leave.
It wasn't the union that killed the Twinkie. It was Romney style vulture capitalism.
Before you go blaming the union for Hostess' demise, look at the facts.
In 1995 a company called International Bakeries, which was
essentially a vulture capital arm of a computer company called Data
Processing Financial and General Corporation, went on a massive spending
spree. They not only bought Hostess but the San Francisco French Bread
Company, John J. Nissen Baking Company, Drake's, My Bread Company, and
tons of other companies.
They did this by borrowing aka legal theft and eventually defaulted on their loans like Bain and Romney did, leading to bankruptcy in 2004.
In 2009 they emerged from bankruptcy by BORROWING MORE MONEY. They borrowed from Ripplewood Holdings, Silver Point, Monarch,
and GE Capital. All these loans caused more payments and more interest
accruing, leading to more and more debt. It was this debt that caused
their collapse not the union.
If it hadn't been for easy credit, merger mania, leveraged buyouts,
and greedy conglomerates whose philosophy was "if you can't beat them
buy them out," then all the little brands (including Hostess) that this
group of predators bought with borrowed money might still be small and
innovative enough to survive financial hard times with little or no debt
of their own.
So always remember: it wasn't the unions that killed the Twinkie, it was the modern vulture capitalist culture.
Fatlings and gluttons everywhere can relax. The Vulture Capitalists that bought and raped Hostess and saddled it with debt did not destroy the recipe. All the bakers who made Hostess snack know the recipe and will probably make Twinkies and other delicious Hostess snack cakes and who knows, they might even make them bigger and better. Twinkies may have been big enough for gluttons in the 60's and 70's but today's gluttons require a larger Twinkie. Hostess products will endure and it was the quality of their products that kept them in business since 1930 but it took greedy vulture capitialists to destroy iconic Hostess company but they cannot destroy the brand. Twinkie the kid will ride again!
Perhaps the greatest expert on Twinkies is Big Fat RRRRRRRRReverend Burn. He does not see Little Debbie as a solution and I think he has a point. The Little Debbie versions of the Twinkie really does pale in comparison to the real thing. They will do in a pinch but they are like hamburger vs filet mignon.
UPDATE!
Pabst Owner Metropoulos Considers Bid for Hostess Brands
C. Dean Metropoulos & Co., the
private equity firm that owns Pabst Brewing Co., is considering
an offer to buy Hostess Brands Inc., which said today it plans
to liquidate its business.
“Our family would love to purchase these iconic brands,”
said Daren Metropoulos, a principal at the Greenwich,
Connecticut-based firm, which paid $250 million for Pabst in
2010. “We are actively pursuing this deal as no doubt
strategics will also.”
C. Dean Metropoulos, founder of the firm, has specialized
in purchasing struggling brands, such as Chef Boyardee and
Bumble Bee Tuna and turning them around. The firm paid close
attention to the maker of Twinkies and Wonder Bread during its
bankruptcy proceedings, Daren Metropoulos has said.
“We have analyzed this opportunity very carefully for a
few years now,” Metropoulos said in an e-mail. “Shedding the
complications of the unions and old plants makes it even more
attractive.”
Fatlings and gluttons face a dilemma!
While this news maybe good for gluttons and other junk food junkies it is still bad news for workers who bring us fatlings Twinkies. Should we remain loyal to the Hostess Twinkie brand while another vulture capitalist group exploits the Twinkie crisis and screws workers in the bargain? Will these golden cake with the creamy centers be too much for us gluttons to resist? Will we succumb to their ooey gooey deliciousness and cave to the corporate gangsters? In other words, will become scabs?
I, Fat Bastard, call for a Twinkie boycott. Yes fellow gluttons you heard it right. I, Fat Bastard, am calling for a North American boycott of the Hostess brand.
Ingredients
Sugar, Enriched Flour (Bleached Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced
Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Water, High
Fructose Corn Syrup, Vegetable Shortening, (Partially Hydrogenated
Soybean and Cottonseed Oils), Eggs, Corn Syrup. Contains 2% or less of
each of the following: Leavening (Sodium Aluminum Phosphate, Baking
Soda), Salt, Modified Wheat Starch, Artificial Flavors, Polysorbate 60,
Mono-and Diglycerides, Isolated Soy Protein, Sorbic Acid (to retain
freshness), Annotate and Turmeric Extractive Colors, Xanthan Gum, Soy
Lecithin, Milk.
We need to find Twinkie alternatives and if times get desperate we need to back our own. Back in WW-2 folks planted victory gardens as a way of fighting Nazi tyranny. Today we need to start victory kitchen and maybe persuade local bakeries to make victory Twinkies as a way to fight tyrannical corporate fascism. Our appetites will be heard.
I urge all Hostess Twinkie loving folks to switch to Little Debbie. Little Debbie is a family owned company whose products are delicious and a best buy. As good as Hostess products many of the Little Debbie products surpass them in quality and you get much more bang for the buck. To find out more about Little Debbie click HERE
This early photo shows Debbie handing out Swiss Rolls
to grocery shoppers. Just behind Debbie
is her mother, Sharon, and her grandfather and McKee
Foods co-founder, O.D. McKee.
The Little Debbie company should maybe update it's logo with a fat kid like Honey Boo Boo
Basically Little Debbie offers two Twinkie-ish snack cakes.
If you compare the ingredients there are some differences but they are pretty close in flavor and mouth feel. It's kinda like comparing a Cadillac to a Buick. It's really the same car.
Most voters favor raising taxes on those who earn more than $250,000 a
year but recognize that that won’t be enough to balance the federal
budget.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% of
Likely U.S. Voters favor raising taxes on people who earn more than
$250,000 a year. Thirty-five percent (35%) are opposed. (To see survey
question wording, click here.)
Rasmussen is a conservative polling company and they had Romney winning the election. Chances are more than 57% of Americans want the rich to pay their fair share/
John McCain has always been a lying sack of shit. Lately Johnny boy and his closet homo butt buddy Lindsey have been trying to score political points over the attacks at the consulate in Benghazi in order to hamstring the possible nomination of Susan Rice for secretary of state.
John McCain is no true war hero. He's a hack and he needs to go.
Listen to this lying weasel on how he screwed military vets and then lied about it. This punk is a traitor!
UPDATE: 4:25 p.m. -- CNN published a more detailed account of its exchange with McCain,
in which, when asked why he wouldn't comment on missing the briefing,
the senator responded, "Who the hell are you to tell me I can or not?"
When CNN approached McCain in a Capitol hallway Thursday
morning, the senator refused to comment about why he missed the
briefing, which was conducted by top diplomatic, military and
counter-terrorism officials. Instead, McCain got testy when pressed to
say why he wasn’t there.
“I have no comment about my schedule and I’m not going to comment on how I spend my time to the media,” McCain said.
Asked why he wouldn’t comment, McCain grew agitated: “Because I have
the right as a senator to have no comment and who the hell are you to
tell me I can or not?”
When CNN noted that McCain had missed a key meeting on a subject the
senator has been intensely upset about, McCain said, “I’m upset that you
keep badgering me.”
McCain did attend a briefing on Benghazi held by the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence on Thursday, but refused to take questions
from reporters outside. "I have nothing to say," McCain said heatedly as
he left the meeting, which lasted nearly two hours.
John McCain Gets Angry Over Questions About Missed Benghazi Briefing
Sen.
John McCain (R-Ariz.) was less than willing to entertain questions
Thursday on why he held a press conference Wednesday to complain about
lack of information on the September attack on the U.S. consulate in
Benghazi, Libya, while simultaneously skipping a nearly two-hour
classified briefing with administration officials about the
investigation. CNN’s Dana Bash reported on air that McCain, when
questioned by a producer on the subject on Capitol Hill, not only
refused to answer, but grew “very angry": ... MORE HERE