I made an online Whataburger order yesterday for two kid meals. The first meal was a cheeseburger. I tried to add grilled onions but it wasn’t an option, though grilled jalapenos were. The second meal was a grilled cheese. Oddly, grilled onions (and jalapenos) were an option. Silly Whataburger.
What also makes Ford fronting the film unique is that, at 80, he’s currently the oldest actor to play the lead role in a Disney film, a record he broke 24 years on from the previous winner.
In nabbing this title, Ford only beat the previous record holder Richard Farnsworth by a year. Farnsworth was 79 when he played the title role in David Lynch’s The Straight Story.
Homeowners who homestead their home will also get a $100,000 homestead exemption. Non-homestead properties valued at less than $5 million will get a 20% circuit breaker on appraised values as part of a three-year program. There will also be savings on the franchise tax for small businesses.
It’s OK to teach Oklahoma schoolchildren about the Tulsa Race Massacre, just don’t tell them it was motivated by the color of anyone’s skin, the state superintendent of schools said at a July 6 forum.
The conservative Republican was asked how teaching about the 1921 murder of hundreds of Black citizens of Tulsa doesn’t violate his ban on teaching what he calls Critical Race Theory.
“I would never tell a kid that because of your race, because of the color of your skin, or your gender or anything like that, you are less of a person or are inherently racist. That doesn’t mean you don’t judge the actions of individuals. Oh, you can. Absolutely, historically, you should. ‘This was right. This was wrong. They did this for this reason.’ But to say it was inherent in that because of their skin is where I say that is Critical Race Theory. You’re saying that race defines a person.”
By historical fact, residents of the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa — dubbed the “Black Wall Street” — were murdered by armed white vigilantes precisely because of the color of their skin.
Why Does Coke At McDonald’s Taste Different?
If you’ve ever debated someone over whether or not the Coca-Cola served at McDonald’s tastes different than the Coke did at other places, you’re not crazy. McDonald’s Coke has a unique flavor, and some say it’s better than canned Coke or Coke from other restaurants.
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At the start of my date yesterday afternoon, a waitress from another table came by and told my date she thought she was beautiful. She did it in a very nice way and my date took the comment well. I was hoping the date would turn into something but we both agreed there wasn’t a spark, but we may hang out as friends.
I rented a book about getting over divorce from the library. It provided the following stats which I question: Within two years of divorce, 80% of men remarried. Within five years of divorce, 75% of women have remarried. Within only one year of divorce, 50% of men have remarried.
More than 2,500 US adults said they would need to earn, on average, $233,000 a year to feel financially secure and $483,000 annually to feel rich or to attain financial freedom, according to a new survey from Bankrate. Just for comparison’s sake, the median earnings for a full-time, year-round worker in 2021 was $56,473, according to the US Census Bureau.
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So, there have been talks about Elon Musk fighting Mark Zuckerberg in a cage match, possibly at the Colosseum in Rome. But today, Zuckerberg’s company will be launching a competitor to Twitter, which is owned by Musk. I’m starting to suspect all of this is related and one big marketing ploy. I predict that Zuckerberg’s company will buy Elon’s Twitter (or some type of merger) and everyone will be migrated to the new social media app. Who knows, maybe they will even wager the social media company. We like bits, right? 🤔 It will be a win/win for both of them. Zuckerberg gets all the data (which he’ll use to make more money) and Musk will get the capital to fund his projects.
People used to type phone numbers with a dash or a hyphen, 555-867-5309. But now, I see the period being used more and more, 555.867.5309.
The chain’s roughly 20,000 US locations will freshly slice their deli meat beginning Wednesday, marking Subway’s biggest change since two years ago, when it began refreshing its menu offerings, ingredients and restaurant appearances to boost once-sagging sales and make itself an attractive acquisition target.
