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Cracker Barrel Now Serves Alcohol

June 3, 2020 Delish.com – Cracker Barrel is slowly reopening as many states begin to lift social distancing measures, and though they expect sales to be a bit unpredictable for a while, they plan to combat that by testing beer and wine along with new menu items. Cracker Barrel seems to have a plan to bring people in by continuing to test a beer and wine program it had started pre-pandemic. It's currently in 20 locations and,...

Fauci: George Floyd Protests Provide ‘Perfect Recipe’ For New Outbreaks

June 9, 2020  Fox News – Recent protests across the U.S. over the death of George Floyd could lead to new surges in coronavirus cases, Dr. Anthony Fauci warned Friday. "It is the perfect set-up for the spread of the virus in the sense of creating some blips which might turn into some surges,” Fauci, a member of President Trump's Coronavirus Task Force, told radio station WTOP-FM in Washington, D.C. “As I sat in front of the...

Jack Ma Opens Checkbook For Covid-19 Relief

BEIJING (AP) — As the coronavirus spread, the world's richest communist dug into his deep pockets. Jack Ma, founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group and a member of the ruling Communist Party, helped to pay for 1,000 ventilators delivered to New York in April. Ma's foundation also is giving ventilators, masks and other supplies in Africa, Latin America and Asia. The pandemic marks the debut of China's business elite as global humanitarian donors alongside their American,...

Motown Girl-Group Star Dies At 69

Jun 08, 2020 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bonnie Pointer, who in 1969 convinced three of her church-singing siblings to form the Pointer Sisters, which would become one of the biggest acts of the next two decades, died Monday. The Grammy winner died of cardiac arrest in Los Angeles, publicist Roger Neal said. She was 69. “It is with great sadness that I have to announce to the fans of the Pointer Sisters that my sister, Bonnie died...

Mich. Supreme Court Backs Defiant Barber

"I've got one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. I care less." Fox News – The Michigan Supreme Court on Friday unanimously sided with a barber who reopened his shop last month in defiance of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s coronavirus lockdown order. The high court ruled that the state appeals court made mistakes in its decision to shut down 77-year-old barber Karl Manke. The appeals decision was not unanimous and did not...

UK’s Covid Sex Rule Would Never Work In USA

“No person may participate in a gathering which takes place in a public or private place indoors, and consists of two or more persons.” Jun 4, 2020 Too Many Rules  | Think the US has too many social distancing rules? It's nothing compared with the UK ...  Forbes – The questions — half serious, half joking — about what has become known as the coronavirus “sex ban,” #sexban, range from “does the British government intend to prevent its...

MAGA Hat-Wearing 82-Year-Old ‘Violently Assaulted’

“Give me the (expletive) sign!” June 8, 2020 Fox News – Nobody should be attacked for their political views, Charlie Chase says. But according to authorities, that’s exactly what happened last week to the 82-year-old U.S. military veteran and supporter of President Trump. The Fall River, Mass., man says he was holding a Trump sign and wearing a Trump hat when suddenly a motorist got out of his car and charged toward him. “Give me the (expletive)...

CCP Protests Being ‘Insanely Smeared And Slandered’

June 8, 2020 China defends its COVID-19 response in new report |  Beijing (AP) — Senior Chinese officials released a lengthy report Sunday on the nation's response to the coronavirus pandemic, defending their government's actions and saying that China had provided information in a timely and transparent manner. China "wasted no time" in sharing information such as the genome sequence for the new virus with the World Health Organization as well as relevant countries and regional...

Crackdown On Animal Abuse In Traditional Chinese Medicine

DAILY COVID-19 GLOBAL NEWS ROUNDUP By The Associated Press June 6, 2020 BEIJING — China is ordering its highest level of protection for the armadillo-like pangolin as part of its crackdown on the wildlife trade following the global coronavirus pandemic. While the virus is believed to have originated in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, most scientists say it was most likely transmitted from bats to humans via an intermediary animal such as the...

Collin Raye Free Concert Now A Political Football In Lockdown Dispute

"The county attorney is saying you are going to kill people." June 5, 2020 | St. George News, Cedar City, UT – After being pushed out of Kaysville and Tooele County, Utah Business Revival’s free concert featuring Collin Raye is now scheduled for June 13 at the Iron Springs Adventure Resort in Iron County. Organizer Eric Moutsos told Cedar City News the concert’s main purpose is business revival for small businesses that may be experiencing hard times,...

COVID Vaccine Could Be Ready By September

"The chance of the vaccine working I would say we all have pretty good hope from what we’ve seen so far." – AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot Jun 4 2020 | CNBC – Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca is aiming to produce 2 billion doses of a coronavirus vaccine, including 400 million for the U.S. and U.K. and 1 billion for those in low- and middle-income countries. It plans to start distributing the vaccine to the U.S. and U.K....

Floyd’s Health Issues Don’t Affect Homicide Ruling: AP

"Even if someone with severe heart disease died of a heart attack during a purse-snatching, 'we'd still call it a homicide.'" – AP, attributed to Dr. Stephen Nelson, chairman of Florida's medical examiners commission By Marilyn Marchione, AP Chief Medical Writer Jun 04, 2020 George Floyd had drugs in his system and severe heart disease when a Minneapolis police officer put a knee to his neck, but independent experts said the medical problems revealed in the full...

‘Price-Fixing, Bid-Rigging, Food Fraud’ At USA’s Top Poultry Producers?

Poultry execs indicted by federal grand jury By Dan Flynn on June 4, 2020 Food Safety News – The chief executive officer of the nation’s second-largest poultry producer is summoned to appear today at 2 p.m in U.S. District Court to face the indictment by a federal Grand Jury in Colorado. Jayson Jeffrey Penn, CEO of Pilgrim’s Pride Corp., is accused of having “entered into and engaged in a continuing combination and conspiracy to suppress and eliminate...

CA Gov. Newsom Over-Promising, Under-Delivering

Newsom Likes To ‘Go Big’ But Doesn’t Always Deliver |  Angela Hart |  June 4, 2020 |  Kaiser Health News – Gavin Newsom knew it was a political gamble when, as the newly elected mayor of San Francisco, he promised to eradicate chronic homelessness. “I recognize that I’m setting myself up. I’m not naive to that,” he told his hometown newspaper in 2003 as he embarked on a campaign to sell his controversial plan. It hinged on slashing...
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