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Paul Krugman: The Market Speaks (New York Times)
So the message from the markets is by no means a happy one. What the markets are clearly saying, however, is that the fears and prejudices that have dominated Washington discussion for years are entirely misguided. And they're also telling us that the people who have been feeding those fears and peddling those prejudices don't have a clue about how the economy actually works.
Paul Krugman: George Orwell and the Zombies (New York Times)
Now, of course, some people get offended when you refer to their ideas as zombies. But if you're worried about giving offense, you should be an official spokesperson, not an independent commentator.
Paul Krugman: Bushifying the Berlaymont (New York Times)
… one of the truly awful things about the Bush years was the deliberate conflation of the person sitting in the White House with the nation. If you criticized Bush, you were anti-American; if you denounced the Iraq war, you were attacking the troops. And the reach of this kind of argument seemed limitless.
Wealth Inequality in America (YouTube)
Infographics on the distribution of wealth in America, highlighting both the inequality and the difference between our perception of inequality and the actual numbers. The reality is often not what we think it is.
Froma Harrop: Some Taxes up, and the Sky's Still There (Creators Syndicate)
By the time you read this, stocks may have gone higher or lower. And a raft of additional good and bad economic news will have marched across the Bloomberg screens. But we can count on one constant: Jim DeMint will be wronger than Captain Peter Wrongway Peachfuzz.
Universe (Half-hour Documentary)
A triumph of film art, creating on the screen a vast, awe-inspiring picture of the universe as it would appear to a voyager through space, this film was among the sources used by Stanley Kubrick in his 2001: A Space Odyssey. Realistic animation takes you into far regions of space, beyond the reach of the strongest telescope, past Moon, Sun, and Milky Way into galaxies yet unfathomed.
Aisha Harris: Joss Whedon Does Shakespeare (Slate)
Setting Shakespeare in modern times is not the most inventive approach, but Whedon's take seems promising-the bits of brilliant dialogue that we hear fit in surprisingly well with the minimalist look he's given the film. That has a lot to do with the great cast, of course.
Ross-Jones Morris: 5 Famous Online Copyright Crusaders Who Are Total Hypocrites (Cracked)
If you want to have a zero-tolerance policy with others, you'd better damn well exercise one in your own life. But almost no one does, so we frequently get hilarious examples where the very people in charge of policing the Internet for potential copyright violations fall astray of the laws themselves.
The oldest operating McDonald's restaurant is a drive-up hamburger stand at 10207 Lakewood Blvd. at Florence Ave. in Downey, California. It was the third McDonald's restaurant, and opened on August 18, 1953. It was the second restaurant franchised by Richard and Maurice McDonald, prior to the involvement of Ray Kroc in the company, and it still has the two original 30-ft (9-m) "Golden Arches" and a 60-ft (18-m) animated neon "Speedee" sign that was added in 1959. The restaurant is now the oldest in the chain still in existence and is one of Downey's main tourist attractions. Along with its sign, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Downey, California
Sally said:
The oldest operating McDonald's on Lakewood and Florence in Downey, California.
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Charlie wrote:
10207 Lakewood Blvd. (at Florence Ave.) Downey, CA
Adam answered:
Downey, CA- Isn't that the first one?
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
The oldest operating McDonald's restaurant is a drive-up hamburger stand
at 10207 Lakewood Blvd. at Florence Ave. in Downey, California.
Marian replied:
Lakewood and Florence in Downey, CA
Dale of Diamond Springs said:
Downey, CA
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A drive-up hamburger stand at 10207 Lakewood Blvd. at Florence Ave. in Downey, California. It was the third McDonald's restaurant, and opened on August 18, 1953.
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And, Joe S answered:
The oldest operating McDonald's restaurant is a drive-up hamburger stand at 10207 Lakewood Blvd. at Florence Ave. in Downey, California. It was the third McDonald's restaurant, and opened on August 18, 1953.
My first encounter with McDonalds was in Colorado, the summer of 1961. I was visiting my grandmother for a few weeks and she decided to take me out for lunch at a restaurant. I was impressed as she very rarely parted with money. We got into her car and left town, Platteville, and went somewhere, I'm not sure where, but probably Longmont. I was impressed, she got us each a hamburger, french fries and a milk shake for less than a dollar each, around 65¢ I think.
This is my girlfriend Penny, you know, from yesterday. I mean Kalie, yes, Kalie.
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'Person Of Interest', followed by '48 Hours', then another '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'American Ninja', followed by a RERUN'Chicago Fire', and an hourlong RERUN'SNL' (Kevin Hart hosts from 03/02/13).
'SNL' is FRESH, with Justin Timberlake hosting & providing the music.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN'Once Upon A Time', followed by '20/20'.
The CW offers an old '2½ Men', followed by another old '2½ Men', then an old 'Family Guy', followed by another old 'Family Guy'.
Faux has 'Cops', 'Cops', and a RERUN'The Following'.
MY has an old 'Burn Notice', followed by another old 'Burn Notice'.
A&E has 'Storage Wars New York', another 'Storage Wars New York', 'Storage Wars', another 'Storage Wars', still another 'Storage Wars', yet another 'Storage Wars', still another 'Storage Wars', and yet another 'Storage Wars'.
AMC offers the movie 'Catwoman', followed by the movie 'Underworld', then the movie 'The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED UK - Season 1 - Ep 2 - Walnut Tree
[7:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 3 - Ep 2 - The Fenwick Arms
[8:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 10 - Sante La Brea
[9:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 8 - La Frite
[10:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 5 - Episode 6
[11:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 5 - Episode 7
[12:00PM] SIX NATIONS RUGBY CHAMPIONSHIP 2013-Ireland v France NEW
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 19 - Episode 4
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 19 - Episode 5
[4:20PM] BANG GOES THE THEORY - Season 3 - Episode 6
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 14 - Clues
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 15 - First Contact
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 16 - Galaxy's Child
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 17 - Night Terrors
[9:00PM] RIPPER STREET - Season 1 - Ep 8 - What Use Our Work NEW
[10:15PM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 12 - Ep 18 - Jude Law, Mila Kunis, James Franco, Dame Judi Dench, Olly Murs NEW
[11:00PM] RIPPER STREET - Season 1 - Ep 7 - A Man of My Company
[12:00AM] RIPPER STREET - Season 1 - Ep 8 - What Use Our Work
[1:15AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 12 - Ep 18 - Jude Law, Mila Kunis, James Franco, Dame Judi Dench, Olly Murs
[3:00AM] RIPPER STREET - Season 1 - Ep 7 - A Man of My Company
[3:00AM] RIPPER STREET - Season 1 - Ep 8 - What Use Our Work
[4:15AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 12 - Ep 18 - Jude Law, Mila Kunis, James Franco, Dame Judi Dench, Olly Murs
[5:00AM] DOCTOR WHO IN THE U.S. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills', followed by the movie 'How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days', then the movie 'How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days', again.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Good Luck Chuck', 'Jeff Dunham: Spark Of Insanity', followed by the movie 'Dumb & Dumber'.
FX has the movie 'The Proposal', followed by the movie 'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[6:15AM] Out There-Springoween
[6:45AM] Raising Arizona
[8:45AM] The Three Stooges-Heavenly Daze
[9:10AM] The Three Stooges-Hoi Polloi
[9:35AM] The Three Stooges-Hold That Lion
[10:00AM] The Three Stooges-Horses' Collars
[10:25AM] The Three Stooges-Idiots Deluxe
[10:50AM] The Three Stooges-Idle Roomers
[11:15AM] Lolita
[2:45PM] Sling Blade
[5:45PM] The Dead Zone
[8:00PM] Lethal Weapon
[10:30PM] Lethal Weapon 2
[1:00AM] Lethal Weapon 3
[4:30AM] Larry Flynt: The Right to Be Left Alone (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00A] Phantom of the Paradise
[7:40A] Paris
[9:50A] The History Boys
[11:45A] Phantom of the Paradise
[1:30P] An American Haunting
[3:00P] THE STAIRCASE - Crime or Accident? (Episode 1, Season 1)
[4:00P] THE STAIRCASE - Secrets and Lies (Episode 2, Season 1)
[5:00P] THE STAIRCASE - A Striking Coincidence (Episode 3, Season 1)
[6:00P] THE STAIRCASE - Prosecution Trickery (Episode 4, Season 1)
[7:00P] THE STAIRCASE - A Weak Case? (Episode 5, Season 1)
[8:00P] Antwone Fisher
[10:00P] Bend It Like Beckham
[12:00A] 3Some
[1:45A] INDIE SEX: Teens
[4:15A] Daddy Longlegs (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Lake Placid 3', followed by the movie 'Flying Monkeys'.
Actress and singer Sandra Bernhard performs at "The Music of Prince" tribute concert at Carnegie Hall on Thursday March 7, 2013 in New York.
Photo by Evan Agostini
Batman's mask, Superman's cape and Catwoman's suit will be taking up permanent residence at the Smithsonian museum after being donated by Warner Bros. Pictures, the U.S. national museum said on Friday.
The iconic Batman mask and cowl worn by George Clooney in the 1997 "Batman & Robin" film was one of more than 30 movie items presented by Warner Bros. Chairman Barry Meyer to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
The movie items donated were from 13 films by the Hollywood studio between 1942 and 2005.
Late actor Christopher Reeve's Superman suit from 1983's "Superman III," Halle Berry's 2004 "Catwoman" costume and props from 2005's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" were among some of the memorabilia donated to the museum.
The lesson of James O'Keefe's latest legal problem might be: it can be far more expensive to consult a lawyer after the fact than before. Had O'Keefe checked California law, he might have avoided a $100,000 bill for videotaping at an ACORN office near San Diego.
On Thursday Wonkette revealed that O'Keefe had reached a legal agreement to pay that amount to Juan Carlos Vera, who in 2009 worked for the community organizing group ACORN. O'Keefe and his partner Hannah Giles taped an interview with Vera in his office which O'Keefe used in his ongoing campaign against the group. In fact, the video is still on the YouTube page of O'Keefe's group, Project Veritas.
That little segment - not even the most damning of the recordings O'Keefe and Giles filmed at ACORN offices - cost O'Keefe $100,000. You see, California is what's known a "two-party consent" state, which means that both participants in a conversation have to consent to it being recorded. Here's a guide to California's privacy laws meant for reporters. So, the hidden-camera tactics that O'Keefe specializes in are illegal in California. And while the settlement is specific in articulating that it "is in no way representative of any actual or implied admissions of liability," there's a reason O'Keefe will be handing over a six-figure check. Wonkette also notes that the settlement requires an 11-word apology for "any pain suffered" by Vera or his family.
Given his choice of outlets to break the details of this unfavorable agreement, it's safe to assume O'Keefe wouldn't have chosen Wonkette. Depending on your view of O'Keefe (and swearing) (and over-the-top schadenfreude), you will find the site's story either infuriating or hysterical. You have been warned.
Television commentator Elisabeth Hasselbeck will not return to daytime television talk show "The View" once its current season ends in August, according to multiple U.S. media reports on Friday.
US Weekly magazine first reported that Hasselbeck was leaving the show. An unnamed source told the magazine's website that she did not attract enough viewers and that her contract would not be renewed.
Deadline.com and the Hollywood Reporter also reported Hasselbeck's departure, citing unnamed sources.
Co-host Joy Behar, who has been with the program since its debut in 1997, said on Thursday that she would leave the show after the season.
Musician Elvis Costello, left, performs with Maya Rudolph at "The Music of Prince" tribute concert at Carnegie Hall on Thursday March 7, 2013 in New York.
Photo by Evan Agostini
The Writers Guild of America, East has reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year contract with ABC News, the labor union said Friday.
The new deal calls for a 2 percent pay increase for each year of the contract. It also increases the amount that ABC News will contribute to workers pension plans, although the guild did not provide specifics about how big a bump there will be in contributions.
The pact covers approximately 142 newswriters, producers, assignment editors, promo producers, graphic artists and desk assistants based in New York and Washington, D.C. Members of the union will still have to ratify the deal and a vote will likely happen in the next two weeks.
The deal will run from February 1, 2013 to January 31, 2016 and will replace the previous agreement which expired on January 31, 2013.
Rhythm & Hues Studios, the bankrupt visual-effects company behind "Life of Pi" and "Babe," has found a stalking horse bidder, a spokeswoman told TheWrap.
JS Communications Co., a South Korean media company, has signed a letter of intent to buy the studio.
In bankruptcy cases, a stalking-horse bidder is selected from a pool of bidders so a financially distressed company can ensure that its assets are not undersold at auction.
The stalking-horse bid represents the lowest acceptable offer; other suitors will be required to submit qualified bids by March 12.
A northwestern Montana man shot and killed the host of the Sportsman Channel show ''A Rifleman's Journal'' while the TV personality was visiting the shooter's wife, police said Friday.
Wayne Bengston, 41, then beat his wife, took his 2-year-old son to a relative's house and drove to his home about 25 miles away in West Glacier, where he apparently killed himself, Whitefish police said.
Police identified the shooting victim Gregory G. Rodriguez, 43, of Sugar Land, Texas. Bengston's wife told police that Rodriguez was in town on business and visiting her at her mother's house in Whitefish when her husband showed up Thursday night.
Besides appearing on TV, Rodrigues was the founder and CEO of Global Adventure Outfitters. According to the outfitters' website, he was an editor at Shooting Times Magazine and a contributing editor at Petersen's Hunting, Guns & Ammo and Dangerous Game.
This March 6, 2013 photo shows director George Sluizer gesturing during a reception before the U.S. premiere of his film, "Dark Blood," starring River Phoenix, at the Miami International Film Festival in Miami. Phoenix, a rising star from "Stand by Me" and "My Own Private Idaho" was 23 when he died of heart failure after overdosing on heroin and cocaine in 1993 while working on the film.
Photo by Wilfredo Lee
When the local doctor who had been treating Vicky Hilborn told her that her rare cancer had spread throughout her body, including her brain, she and her husband refused to accept a death sentence. Within days, Keith Hilborn was on the phone with an "oncology information specialist" at Cancer Treatment Centers of America.
Hilborn had seen CTCA's website touting survival rates better than national averages. His call secured Vicky an appointment at the for-profit, privately held company's Philadelphia affiliate, Eastern Regional Medical Center. There, the oncologist who examined Vicky told the couple he had treated other cases of histiocytic sarcoma, the cancer of immune-system cells that she had.
Vicky's cancer treatment was forestalled by an infection and other complications that kept her at Eastern Regional for three weeks. In July 2009, when she got back home, things changed. Despite Keith's calls, he said, CTCA did not schedule another appointment. As his wife got sicker, Keith, a former deputy sheriff in western Pennsylvania, was reduced to begging.
The oncology information specialist "said don't bring her here," he recalled. "I said you don't understand; we're going to lose her if you don't treat her. She told me I'd just have to accept that."
Cancer Treatment Centers of America, which estimates it treats 4 percent to 8 percent of U.S. patients with complex and late-stage cancer, was founded in 1988 by Richard J. Stephenson, who has served as chairman ever since.
Stephenson, who declined to comment for this article, serves on the board of FreedomWorks, a non-profit group that advocates for small government and low taxes, and he is "very much a free-market guy," CTCA President and Chief Executive Stephen Bonner told Reuters.
Hilborn received a statement from CTCA saying Vicky's care cost $319,902.20. "This was just for treating her infection," he said. "My local hospital could charge like that, too, if they flew you around and sent limos for you."
Artist Liu Yi sits in front of his portraits of self-immolated Tibetans as he poses for a photo at his studio in Songzhuang art village in Tongzhou, on the outskirts of Beijing, March 8, 2013. Fifty-year-old Chinese painter Liu, a follower of Tibetan Buddhism, started working on the black and white oil paintings last year as the number of Tibetans burning themselves shot up, to urge China to address grievances causing the issue. He has completed over 40 paintings of self-immolated Tibetans as well as well-known Chinese dissidents such as laureate of Nobel Peace Prize Liu Xiaobo.
Photo by Petar Kujundzic
Canadian glaciers that are the world's third biggest store of ice after Antarctica and Greenland seem headed for an irreversible melt that will push up sea levels, scientists said on Thursday.
About 20 percent of the ice in glaciers, on islands such as Ellesmere or Devon off northern Canada, could vanish by the end of the 21st century in a melt that would add 3.5 cm (1.4 inch) to global sea levels, they said.
Lead author Jan Lenaerts of the University of Utrecht told Reuters that the trend seemed unstoppable because a thaw of white glaciers would expose dark-colored tundra that would soak up more of the sun's heat and further accelerate the melt.
A total melt of the glaciers would take several centuries. Climate change is warming the Arctic faster than the global average.
Hally Bara, an artisan, poses for a picture in front of traditional Songhai and Tuareg headdresses and jewelry she made at the store in her house in Gao, Mali, March 6, 2013. Radical Islamist group MUJAO placed limitations on the wearing of traditional women's headdresses during their nine-month reign in Gao, which ended in January with the arrival of French and Malian troops. The headdresses, made of beads, gemstones, fabric and fake hair and traditionally worn by elites for special occasions, were criticised by MUJAO who said they were not Islamic enough. Issues surrounding the treatment of women are receiving special attention on March 8, which marks International Women's Day.
Photo by Joe Penney
A new study looking at 11,000 years of climate temperatures shows the world in the middle of a dramatic U-turn, lurching from near-record cooling to a heat spike.
Research released Thursday in the journal Science uses fossils of tiny marine organisms to reconstruct global temperatures back to the end of the last ice age. It shows how the globe for several thousands of years was cooling until an unprecedented reversal in the 20th century.
Scientists say it is further evidence that modern-day global warming isn't natural, but the result of rising carbon dioxide emissions that have rapidly grown since the Industrial Revolution began roughly 250 years ago.
The decade of 1900 to 1910 was one of the coolest in the past 11,300 years - cooler than 95 percent of the other years, the marine fossil data suggest. Yet 100 years later, the decade of 2000 to 2010 was one of the warmest, said study lead author Shaun Marcott of Oregon State University. Global thermometer records only go back to 1880, and those show the last decade was the hottest for this more recent time period.
Marcott's data indicates that it took 4,000 years for the world to warm about 1.25 degrees from the end of the ice age to about 7,000 years ago. The same fossil-based data suggest a similar level of warming occurring in just one generation: from the 1920s to the 1940s. Actual thermometer records don't show the rise from the 1920s to the 1940s was quite that big and Marcott said for such recent time periods it is better to use actual thermometer readings than his proxies.
This photo taken in Alderney, one of the Channel Islands, dated June 2012 and released on Friday March 8, 2013 by scientist Guy Ropars shows the Alderney Crystal, a piece of calcite. Researchers say the rough, whitish crystal recovered from the wreckage of 16th century English warship may be a sunstone, a special kind of mineral believed by some to have helped medieval seafarers navigate the high seas.
Photo by Guy Ropars
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