03 Jan
At a campaign stop in Sioux City, Iowa on Sunday, Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum singled out blacks as being recipients of assistance through federal benefit programs, telling a mostly-white audience he doesn’t want to “make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money.”
Answering a question about foreign influence on the U.S. economy, the former Pennsylvania senator went on to discuss the American entitlement system – which he argued is being used to politically exploit its beneficiaries.
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Posted in National by: The Underground
with with these Tags: entitlement, Iowa, racism, Republican presidential, Rick Santorum, Sioux City, Welfare.
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03 Jan
It’s another reason not to do the Dew.
It can turn a mouse to jelly.
Don't Do the Dew!
PepsiCo may have succeeded in grossing out customers while attempting to defend itself against a man complaining he found a mouse in his can of Mountain Dew in 2009. Ronald Ball of Wisconsin claimed that he purchased a can of the bright green, super-caffeinated citrus-flavored soda only to discover mid-sip that there was a dead rodent inside, according to the Madison Record. Ball claimed that he sent the mouse in a Mason jar to Pepsi and that the company destroyed the evidence. He is seeking damages of $50,000.
PepsiCo is fighting back with some pretty disgusting proof: a scientist who testified on behalf of the company said that there was no way a mouse could have made it through the bottling process intact, that its body would have dissolved into a “jelly-like substance.”
The strange details emerged last week when PepsiCo asked a judge for more time to prepare a motion to dismiss the lawsuit. PepsiCo will likely defend itself against the gross allegations in a Wisconsin courtroom on Jan. 11.
Posted in Health & Medicine by: The Underground
with with these Tags: Health, Lawsuit, moutain dew, Pepsi, rats, soda, unhealthy.
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