Will the traditional Thanksgiving dinner turn out to be a breakfast on the run if America shops the malls on Thursday instead of ‘Black Friday’? Big box retailers are moving their holiday sales earlier to grab the consumer dollar. Is it going to stop with an ‘end of year clearance’ in May? We’ve just moved […]
Thanksgiving turkeys smaller this year. Why?
Butterball, the US’s top maker of Thanksgiving turkeys, is having problems delivering large birds to stores around the country. It says “There may be limited availability on some larger sizes of fresh turkeys” “We experienced a decline in weight of the turkeys in some of our facilities and didn’t know why” said a spokesperson for […]
HHS head Kathleen Sebelius touts experience of ‘signing up’ for Obamacare
“It isn’t about the numbers, it’s about the quality of the experience” said Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius speaking to reporters on a conference call about the amount of people who were able to sign up for the affordable Care Act. “The Taylor family of Silicon Valley, California signed up after only […]
Tea party ‘We’re short of a crisis on which to blame Obama’
Tea party Republicans held a hastily called conference in Dallas this week to address the problem of not having a manufactured crisis they could blame on Obama. “Not having a crisis is a crisis, mentioned almost former Congressperson Michelle Bachmann, “What do we have to have to feel good about, a hurricane, an earthquake or […]