Mar 28, 2014

Crossing the Country with McDonalds's

San Diego to Wichita........traveling the Micky D's way.


Right, Is McDonald's the new freeway rest stop or what?

Recently on a cross country trip......I'd be lost without McDonald's.  First and most importantly....there is free Internet.  This works well for my chromebook and also they have plugs for my chromebook or phone.  My Chrombook holds a charge and it's easier for me to use....also, I use it for a phone.  And basically, it's free.   I'm on a budget and speaking of saving money there is plenty of inexpensive food at McDonald's.  The people are always friendly....one very nice lady at a macs in Amarillo said my cat was beautiful and special.  Hey, it meant a lot to me.  The restrooms are always clean and easily accessible.  There are also plenty of McDonald's and they are easy to see from the freeway.  I still go to the rest stops and rest areas but in all honesty I wold be lost without the Micky D's.

Currently.....filet o fish friday during Lent.....1.49 and they are delicious....this is a very good buy.......yes Ronnie loves them, too.

Now that's my take on a road trip....what about yours.......welcoming all comments...agree or disagree.

copied from KSN.com:

McDonald’s offers free coffee for breakfasters

In this Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014, photo, a McDonald's Big Mac sandwich is photographed at a McDonald's restaurant in Robinson Township, Pa. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
In this Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014, photo, a McDonald's Big Mac sandwich is photographed at a McDonald's restaurant in Robinson Township, Pa. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
NEW YORK (AP) — McDonald’s is offering free coffee to its customers for a limited time as competition for the breakfast crowd intensifies.
The world’s biggest hamburger chain announced Friday that participating U.S. locations will offer small cups of McCafe coffee at no charge during breakfast hours from March 31 through April 13.
McDonald’s said that this is the first time it’s ever had a free coffee event nationwide. Its McCafe product line, which also includes iced coffees and other drinks, debuted in the U.S. in 2009.
The Oak Brook, Ill., company is hoping that the coffee giveaway will bring in new customers. It’s also a way to get existing customers to come in more frequently. And it’s likely that those stopping by for a free coffee will be tempted to pick up a breakfast sandwich or other items while there.
Breakfast is an important component of McDonald’s business, comprising about 20 percent of its U.S. sales.
The announcement comes as Taco Bell rolls out ads to promote its new breakfast menu, which includes a waffle taco. The ads star everyday men that happen to be named Ronald McDonald, the same name as McDonald’s mascot.
Chains like McDonald’s Corp., Taco Bell and Starbucks Corp. — which recently revamped its sandwiches — are all fighting for a piece of the breakfast market because people are increasingly buying breakfast on the go.
McDonald’s coffee giveaway comes shortly after it reported that an important sales figure declined 1.4 percent at established U.S. locations in February. The chain blamed bad winter weather but also said that “challenging industry dynamics” played a role. The company has worked on adapting by making menu changes such as giving an option for egg whites in breakfast sandwiches and adding chicken McWraps to help appeal to those looking for fresher, healthier food.
For a long time McDonald’s, which started offering breakfast nationally in 1975 with the roll out of the Egg McMuffin, has dominated the morning category. Rival Burger King came out with their breakfast menu in 1979 and others have followed. The latest is Taco Bell, which launched its new breakfast menu on Thursday.
But McDonald’s is still a force – it’s 31 percent of the category makes it the No. 1 player in breakfast, according to market researcher Technomic.

the ronnie republic: George Knapp and his Good News for Coasties

the ronnie republic: George Knapp and his Good News for Coasties

the ronnie republic: what's up with the Dollar Stores in Wichita?

the ronnie republic: what's up with the Dollar Stores in Wichita?:  Seriously, right out of San Diego where the "Dollar" stores are actually a dollar...... Searching for a new pair of readers I...

what's up with the Dollar Stores in Wichita?


Walked in...where are the readers.... right over there......


 Seriously, right out of San Diego where the "Dollar" stores are actually a dollar......



Searching for a new pair of readers I strolled down 13th Street where two different brands of dollars stores were seen from my descent off the freeway.


In shock the signs read six, eight and ten dollars.

I was informed by the clerk, who had also offered the previous customer tips on child rearing, .......we have quality brands, such a s Foster Grant, that's why they are more than a dollar.

Really, because all of the dollar stores in San Diego have items for a dollar unless they are a "99 cent" store then the items are 0.99 cents.

All of those very same glasses in San Diego dollar stores are actually one dollar....everything in the store is one dollar......yes, even the Foster Grants.

A nice man walking by me to the next dollar store said maybe the "Dollar Tree" has items for only one dollar.

What's going on here because I was told the Dollar Tree was not actually even near this part of town.  It seemed like I was not in the high dollar neighborhood......wouldn't it be more practical to have the lower priced store in the areas that needed it the most.

To me, it seems like the owners of these stores may be taking advantage.........what do you think.

What is  your take on this outrageous dollar store situation in the fine city of Wichita, Kansas?

Love to hear from you and all comments, agree or disagree are appreciated.


And, for goodness sake, why are they calling it a dollar store?

In San Diego this would be a cause for a public outcry--to list a business as a dollar store and have items in there for more than a dollar--it would be an outrage and it certainly would be on the news.

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Mike Pompeo--misleading the citizens on Obama Health Care:

click on the links below for the stories.......

http://theronnierepublic.blogspot.com/2014/06/tell-me-mike-pompeo-how-will-obamacare.html


http://theronnierepublic.blogspot.com/2014/06/asking-mike-pompeo-about-aca.html






Mar 27, 2014

Suzanne Taylor Talks TED Contoversy on Coast to Coast with George Knapp

TED Talks Controversy

In the latter half of the first hour, researcher and filmmaker Suzanne Taylor revealed controversies with the TED Talks program. She was hired to produce TEDx events in West Hollywood, based on her proposal to present expansive ideas, with such luminaries as physicist Russell Targ, an expert on psi abilities, and Dr. Larry Dossey, known for his work on the healing power of prayer. But a cadre of people within the TED organization decided her program was too fringe, even though she was planning on presenting highly credentialed people, and she was dropped. Earlier, TED had pulled a presentation by Rupert Sheldrake from their site. A protest and petition regarding TED's activities in this regard can be found at setsciencefree.org.




Knapp's News 3/23/14

Knapp's News 3/23/14
George Knapp shares a number of items that have recently caught his attention including an article about how one or more fragments of a rare meteorite possibly landed near St. Thomas, Ontario:
Caricature of George Knapp by Dennis Rano, ufologistoons.com
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Mar 26, 2014

the ronnie republic: George Knapp and his Good News for Coasties

the ronnie republic: George Knapp and his Good News for Coasties: Everyone loves George Kanpp, and especially all of the Coast to Coast AM fans. All of the Coast listeners know George runs one of the bes...

George Knapp and his Good News for Coasties

Everyone loves George Kanpp, and especially all of the Coast to Coast AM fans.

All of the Coast listeners know George runs one of the best radio talk shows out there as he fills in on the weekend for regular host George Noory.

All of the hosts are interesting and friendly--it is simply a nice message in the night--solving sleep problems, loneliness, provocative and interesting talk--that's why it is so popular.

George is usually on the last two Sundays of each month but this last weekend he announced he will be hosting again this weekend Saturday and Sunday.

Wow, George, what a special treat.

Love writing about George Knapp and one of his best shows ever was when he interviewed Dr Ardy Sixkiller Clarke--written about in the Ronnie Re--she has done very many interviews with Indians and told of unusual sightings.  She is inspirational in her respect for others and is also helpful to writers.  I had the great honor to interview her and it remains one of my best experiences in writing my blog.

Thank you George and George and Dr. Ardy Sixkiller Clarke for teaching us about other people and talking to us throughout the night.

here is a link to my interview with Dr. Ardy Sixkiller Clarke:

http://theronnierepublic.blogspot.com/2013/02/dr-ardy-sixkiller-clarke-interview-on.html

Mar 19, 2014

Bill O'Reilly: What makes the old bird tick--Apparently it's Beyonce...or is it ratings

wemple at the WP


Why Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly is whining about cable news/CNN/Malaysia Airlines

A cable-news fiend can encounter no scenario quite as juicy as Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly whining about other networks’ scheming for ratings.
Which is exactly what the King of Cable News was doing on his program last night, with the help of Fox News contributor (and Post columnist) Charles Krauthammer. In a four-and-a-half-minute segment, O’Reilly couldn’t bring himself to denounce by name the network whose ratings are skyrocketing on account of its extensive focus of the missing Malaysia Airlines — uh, CNN — but he did say that this over-coverage is “corrupting the news business.”
“It’s a grab — a ratings grab, that’s what it is,” O’Reilly told Krauthammer.
And what better person to recognize such depravity? As former O’Reilly lackey and Fox mole Joe Muto wrote in his book “An Athiest in the FoxHole,” O’Reilly is downright obsessive about his own ratings. Or maybe that’s understating the case. An excerpt from Muto’s book published in Salon gets to the heart of things.  Three takeaways:
1) When the ratings numbers came out every afternoon, O’Reilly would get all hyped up. Muto:  ”[I]f the number crunchers were even one minute late with the data, Bill would get agitated, calling [Stan] Manskoff every few minutes to impatiently ask him if the e-mail with the spreadsheets had come in yet.”
2) Once in hand, the numbers received a massive scrub-down from O’Reilly. “If the number for ‘The Factor’ was good, he’d crow about it for the rest of the day,” wrote Muto. “If the number was bad, he’d panic, making phone calls until he determined what had gone wrong: ‘Eugene, we dropped thirty-three thousand in the demo last night in the final quarter. Remind me what we had in the back of the show last night?’”
3) O’Reilly made firm editorial decisions based on ratings. Once he found out what topic or guest had caused his numbers to crater, he’d “decide that the show would no longer be covering that topic, or would cease inviting that guest,” noted Muto.
So perhaps O’Reilly was a bit perturbed by this story, titled “CNN’s Anderson Cooper Bests Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly for Record Third Time with Malaysia Airlines Mystery.” From Wednesday through Friday of last week, Cooper’s CNN program edged out O’Reilly’s in what’s called the “news demo,” viewers between the ages of 25 and 54.
These moments don’t come around that often — big, international events in which CNN can flex its newsgathering muscles to temporarily sneak up on cable news leader Fox News.
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What makes the old bird tick....Apparently it's Beyonce........he loves to cheerish his Catholic guilt and wear it like a badge of honor. 
 
Finally, a story that has stopped his Beyonce obsession. It was embarrassing. Bill is probably not the first man to be made a fool of by a beautiful woman.

Geraldo Radio: The New Streaming Channel--www.Geraldo.com

  • from allaccess.com



  • yes, it is a higher quality of streaming now on geraldo.com than on the WABC website. On WABC it was constantly dropping off--with this there is no interuption.

  • Geraldo Rivera Inks Deal With Blast Applications For Online Streaming, Store

    March 19, 2014 at 4:32 AM (PT)
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    Geraldo
    CUMULUS News-Talk WABC-A/NEW YORK midday host GERALDO RIVERA is partnering with BLAST APPLICATIONS, INC. to establish audio and video streams of his show and an online store at www.Geraldo.com.

    BLAST CEO DINO LUZZI said, "It is incredibly exciting to announce our joint revenue agreement with the GERALDO RIVERA team to promote their popular radio show and online store.  This agreement is another key milestone in our growth for 2014 as we continue to expand BLAST APPLICATION's opportunity to create more revenue in the near future.

    "GERALDO RIVERA means what he says and doesn't waste time. 'Can you get it done?' he asked me. I smiled and said 'Yes.'"

    RIVERA added, "With the help of BLAST APPLICATIONS, we expect the GERALDO RIVERA radio show to experience new growth and revenue opportunities."


  • Read more: http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/127929/geraldo-rivera-inks-deal-with-blast-applications-f#ixzz2wQirbbo3
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    Geraldo Radio Today: Viewing Update

    Seriously....I am am always listening to the radio on my chromebook......

    Okay this is a good one.

    Go to www.Geraldo.com.......scroll down a tiny bit and click on the arrow.

    This is a very good connection for listening and viewing Geraldo Rivera on WABC AM radio New York.

    This is on every morning in San Diego at 7 AM.......right after Merrill and Lynda on KOGO 600 San Diego.

    After going to this website once I  only have to type in a "g" on my chromebook and it comes right up.
    The sound is loud and clear.

    The picture is clear.

    Right, it's fun to hear the news of New York.....it is very different than San Diego and it is also national and world news and talk with a New York take on things.


    here is a link:

    http://www.geraldo.com/

    There is all the current info on Geraldo on this page, too.

    Mar 17, 2014

    WSJ Jason Evans Blacklist Recap: Mako Tanida and Very, Very Bad Tom Bond

    11:13 pm
    Mar 17, 2014

    TV

    ‘The Blacklist,’ Season 1, Episode 16, ‘Mako Tanida’: TV Recap