https://ny.eater.com/2018/3/29/17175954/chick-fil-a-open-financial-district-nyc

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Chick-fil-A FiDi’s rooftop Photo via Chick-fil-A

New York City Chick-fil-A lovers can eat the controversial fried chicken with the sun on their face, with a new five-floor location with a rooftop terrace — the largest ever — now open in the Financial District.

Starting today, the 12,000-square-foot franchise space, at 144 Fulton St. between Nassau Street and Broadway, opens up to the public for its roster of beloved fried chicken sandwiches. The five-level location has 140 seats, two kitchens, a semi-private dining area, and of course that rooftop terrace with a view of the World Trade tower.

When this location was first announced, press materials announced that the design was built to “give a subtle impression of the Twin Towers” as an homage to the site of 9/11. That language has now been scrubbed, and instead the design purportedly has no specific inspiration.

Chick-fil-A is not without its complications. The company has a history of donating to anti-LGBTQ causes, with millions of dollars of the chain’s past profits funding groups that oppose same-sex and support conversion therapy. On the other end of the spectrum, the NYC locations have donated more than 17,000 pounds of food to New York Common Pantry, an organization that feeds the hungry.

5 floors ? Who knew.

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If you were Jeff Bezos of Amazon, how would you handle the Idiot in the White House ?

Stay quiet ? Come out fighting hard ? Nuanced polite statement ?

Reference: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/29/us/politics/trump-amazon-taxes.html

I don't know quite what I'd do.

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https://twitter.com/JeffBezos/status/674008204838199297

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/27/huawei_launch_paris_spring2018/

I dunno. If I had that kind of cash, it would have to be pretty incredible to buy it over a laptop with a larger screen that you can get more work accomplished on.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/93430/15-heartwarming-facts-about-mister-rogers

Fred Rogers—who was born in Latrobe, Pennsylvania on March 20, 1928—remains an icon of kindness for the ages. An innovator of children’s television, his salt-of-the-earth demeanor and genuinely gentle nature taught a generation of kids the value of kindness. In celebration of what would have been his 90th birthday, here are 15 things you might not have known about everyone’s favorite “neighbor.” (Bonus fact: he's getting the Funko treatment!)

1. HE WAS BULLIED AS A CHILD.
According to Benjamin Wagner, who directed the 2010 documentary Mister Rogers & Me—and was, in fact, Rogers’s neighbor on Nantucket—Rogers was overweight and shy as a child, and often taunted by his classmates when he walked home from school. “I used to cry to myself when I was alone,” Rogers said. “And I would cry through my fingers and make up songs on the piano.” It was this experience that led Rogers to want to look below the surface of everyone he met to what he called the “essential invisible” within them.

2. HE WAS AN ORDAINED MINISTER.
Rogers was an ordained minister and, as such, a man of tremendous faith who preached tolerance wherever he went. When Amy Melder, a six-year-old Christian viewer, sent Rogers a drawing she made for him with a letter that promised “he was going to heaven,” Rogers wrote back to his young fan:

more at link

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/03/20/if-trump-fired-mueller-roundup-217661

https://www.weatheronline.co.uk/weather/maps/current?LANG=en&CEL=F&SI=mph&TIME=std&CONT=euro&LAND=__®ION=0004&WMO=01068&R=310&LEVEL=140&NOREGION=0&SORT=__&TEMP=___&WETTER=__&&TYP=__&SEITE=0

After all, unless you go to the Norway site, where else are you going to find the current readings for Honningsvag ?

32F and I'm guessing cloudy, since that was the last reading.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honningsvåg

Coordinates: 70°58′43″N 25°58′36″E, northernmost city in Norway

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/28/trump-mueller-russia-probe-488695

When President Donald Trump lashed out against Robert Mueller by name earlier this month, the president’s supporters sprang into action—treating the chief Russia investigator to political campaign-style opposition research.

Within hours, the Drudge Report featured a story blaming Mueller, the special counsel leading the Justice Department’s Russia probe, for the FBI’s clumsy investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks when Mueller ran the bureau. The independent pro-Trump journalist Sara Carter posted a story charging that Mueller, as a federal prosecutor in Boston in the mid-1980s, had covered up the FBI’s dealings with the Mafia informant Whitey Bulger. Carter was soon discussing her findings in prime time with Fox News host Sean Hannity.

Meanwhile, Trump supporters on Twitter circulated video of testimony Mueller gave to Congress ahead of the 2003 Iraq War in which he endorsed the view, later proven false, that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.

To some, the barrage looked coordinated among pro-Trump allies and media outlets, a concerted effort to tarnish Mueller’s reputation as part of a political strategy to undermine, or even eventually fire, the Russia investigator.


The un-American bastards. It won't work.

I'm about an 8 overall. Just got back from Europe 13 days ago, weather is good, no dramas, and my new medication Parnate seems to agree with my biochemistry so far. The Selegiline just made me way too damn irritable, sigh.

How are you ?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/28/firefox_thinks_inside_the_box_for_facebook/