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While McDonald’s may be one of the most popular fast-food restaurants in the United States, many people still complain about their experiences at the restaurant — often about their interactions with the people who work there.

A user on Reddit claiming to be a McDonald’s worker recently came forward with an eyebrow-raising accusation, the U.K. Daily Mail reported.

The user, who went by the screen name “ExperiMENTALbunny” wrote that as a worker at McDonald’s he was instructed to “pinch” the cartons of fries to reduce the number that went in, and one customer actually called him out on that.

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“I worked at McDonald’s and they taught me how to pinch the fry carton just right while putting the fries into them so that it looked full, but actually wasn’t,” he wrote.

“I only had 1 customer call me out on it. He shook the fries out into his bag and poured them back into the fry carton himself and it only filled up half way, so I had to give him more fries. I was impressed and embarrassed. It’s been 7 years and I can still see his face,” he continued.

Well, I suppose that’s one way to test to see if McDonald’s is cheating you on your fries. Several other people commented on the post, claiming that they too had been asked to cheat people out of their fries.

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There is no way to actually verify that what these people are claiming is true, but this controversy has gained so much attention that McDonald’s actually released a statement pushing back against the allegations.

“We believe these claims to be fictional, there are no ‘secret tricks’ and we have strict operational procedures in place to ensure that fry portions are not under-filled,” said the statement.

“Without a verified source we are unable to investigate this further. Our employees work hard to ensure our customers have the best experience possible in our restaurants, and we strongly refute any claims that suggest otherwise,” the statement read.

I suppose that everyone could start dumping their fries out and putting them back in the cartoons to test if McDonald’s is indeed cheating them on fries, but I personally don’t see that verification method taking off anytime soon — particularly with the drive-thru crowd.

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H/T Tribunist

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The sports-themed restaurant chain Buffalo Wild Wings may have a bit of a public relations problem on its hands after word seeped out about the disgraceful conduct of one of its employees on Monday.

During the Monday Night Football game which kicked off on the 16^th anniversary of the day when Radical Islam attacked America and killed thousands of people on our own soil, a BWW location in California (where else?) muted the Star-Spangled Banner before kickoff.

This censorship is consistent with the ongoing jihad by the radical left to cleanse and rearrange American history. The problem is that these sleeper agents like the chain’s employee are now starting to act out as lone wolves.

This is a truly disgraceful story which has been completely IGNORED by the mainstream media which continues to refuse to try to exert any control over the Frankenstein monster that they created.

#BUFFALO WILD #WINGS #Silences National Anthem… https://t.co/hMbSshXBW9

— Drudge Report (@drudgeheadlines) September 14, 2017

Via CBS Los Angeles “Customers Outraged After Buffalo Wild Wings Employee Silences National Anthem”:

The National Anthem is the focus of controversy again, this time at a bar in Riverside County.

Customers at a Buffalo Wild Wings in Eastvale say an employee refused to let them hear the anthem before an NFL game Monday night – which happened to be the 16th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

A customer who identified herself as Lori said the employee refused to play the sound of the anthem for one game, but played it for the game before.

When he was asked why, the employee — who was not identified – said the anthem is too controversial, and it was company policy not to play it.

“No one understood what was so controversial. It’s 9/11, it’s a sporting event, why is it controversial?” she said.

The answer is that the national anthem SHOULDN’T be controversial and it wasn’t until the NFL and the media enabled a scruffy-assed, malcontent NFL backup quarterback who was already on his way out of the league to become some sort of a messianic figure.

Buffalo Wild Wings has since apologized but decent patriotic Americans should spend their money elsewhere if they want to gnaw on chicken wings and swill beer while watching sporting events unless the chain is willing to cough up some sort of compensation – like a dozen FREE wings to everyone during next week’s Monday Night Football game.

And when it all comes down to it, those who can’t deal with the playing of the national anthem should get the fuck out of this country and go live in a society more compatible with their values, perhaps Iran would be a better fit.

North Korea’s latest round of belligerent rhetoric comes from the amusingly named Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee, a Pyongyang propaganda outfit that threatened genocide against Japan, continental devastation for the United States, and ruination for the U.N. Security Council in its Thursday dispatch.

Few other “peace committees” manage to squeeze so much nuclear annihilation into a single communique.

“The four islands of the archipelago should be sunken into the sea by the nuclear bomb of Juche. Japan is no longer needed to exist near us,” the committee declared, in a statement released to North Korea’s KCNA news agency and transcribed by Reuters. “Juche” is the grim state ideology of North Korea.

“Let’s reduce the U.S. mainland into ashes and darkness. Let’s vent our spite with mobilization of all retaliation means which have been prepared till now,” the Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee continued. This was followed by a suggestion that America should be “beaten to death like a rabid dog” for its “heinous sanctions resolution” against peace-loving North Korea.

As for the U.N. Security Council, its latest vote in favor of sanctions against North Korea makes it a “tool of evil” filled with “money-bribed” puppets of the United States in the KAPPC’s opinion. The statement called for the Security Council to be broken up.

Reuters dryly notes that the Japanese stock market showed little sign of reacting to Pyongyang’s latest threats, seeming much more concerned with China’s latest lackluster economic report. The Chinese economy is slipping after a first-quarter peak, which might have some bearing on how Beijing responds to calls from the U.S. and U.N. to exert pressure against North Korea. The most recent demand, made by U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Thursday, is for China to rein in North Korea by choking off its oil supply.

The Japanese government did officially respond to North Korea’s belligerence, however, with spokesman Yoshihide Suga denouncing the KAPPC statement as “extremely provocative and egregious.”

“It is something that markedly heightens regional tension and is absolutely unacceptable,” said Suga.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, currently on a visit to India, released a joint statement with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging North Korea to “abandon nuclear and ballistic missile development and refrain from any provocative act.”

The statement also stressed “the importance of holding accountable all parties that have supported North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs,” which has been widely interpreted as a veiled reference to India’s arch-rival Pakistan.

The Japanese military believes North Korea is preparing for another provocative missile test, by moving a launch pad large enough to handle an ICBM into position on Wednesday morning. The test would likely involve one of the new Hwasong-14 missiles, which dictator Kim Jong-un has claimed is able to reach any target in the world.

Susan Rice admitted to lawmakers last week that she unmasked Trump transition team officials even though earlier this year she denied knowing anything about it.

Rice was asked by PBS Newshour‘s Judy Woodruff on March 22 about allegations that Trump transition officials were swept up in surveillance of foreigners at the end of the Obama administration.

“I know nothing about this,” Rice had said at the time.

However, last week, she told the House intelligence committee that she had unmasked Trump transition team members in order to understand why the Emrati crown prince was visiting New York late last year, according to a CNN report.

She said the Obama administration “felt misled” by the United Arab Emirates, who had not mentioned that the crown prince was visiting the country.

Rice’s admission also showed that Trump transition team members were indeed caught up in surveillance of a foreign target, confirming President Trump’s suspicions that his transition team was being surveilled.

The foreign target in this case was apparently the Emiratis, who call themselves “close friends and strong allies” with the U.S. on its Washington, D.C., website.

Rice’s justification—feeling misled—was nowhere near a hypothetical scenario Rice laid out for a reason to unmask during an MSNBC interview on April 4.

During that April interview, Rice laid out a hypothetical scenario of a foreign agent attempting to buy bomb-making materials from a U.S. citizen.

“Is this some kook sitting in his living room communicating via the internet, offering to sell something he doesn’t have? Or is it a serious person or company or entity with the ability to provide that technology perhaps to an adversary? That would be an example of a case where knowing who the U.S. person was, was necessary to assess the information,” Rice said.

An unnamed senior Middle East official told CNN that the UAE did not “mislead” the Obama administration about the crown prince’s visit, but acknowledged not telling the US government about it in advance.

The official told CNN the meeting took place on December 15, and was “simply an effort to build a relationship with senior members of the Trump team who would be working in the administration to share assessments of the region.”

“The meeting was about ascertaining the Trump team’s view of the region and sharing the UAE’s view of the region and what the US role should be,” the official told CNN. “No one was coming in to sell anything or arrange anything.”

Sources told CNN that the crown prince, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, met with several top Trump officials including Michael Flynn, the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, and his top strategist Steve Bannon.

CNN noted that the meeting took place before an effort by the UAE to faciliate a “back-channel communication” between Russia and the incoming administration.

Sources told CNN that the discussion focused on a range of issues, including Iran, Yemen and the Mideast peace process, but that opening up a back-channel with Russia was not discussed.

The alleged back-channel meeting set up by the UAE was at the Seychelles Island between Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, whose sister is Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, and an “associate of Vladimir Putin.”

The purpose of the meeting was reportedly an effort by the UAE to persuade Russia to curtail its relationship with Iran.

The senior Middle East official told CNN that Prince was not discussed at the Trump Tower meeting, and Prince has said himself he was there for business.

Rep. Tom Rooney (R-FL) told CNN that he did not hear anything to believe that Rice did anything “illegal.”

Unmasking is not illegal, although leaking unmasked names are illegal. Intelligence involving Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn was leaked to the Washington Post earlier this year, and it is not yet publicly known who leaked it.

On Thursday’s broadcast of “MSNBC Live,” New York Times political reporter and MSNBC Contributor Jeremy Peters stated that House Minority Leader Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who he dubbed “the president’s new best friend,” will impeach President Trump if Democrats win the majority in the House.

Peters said that neither Pelosi nor Trump are trustworthy in the negotiations over immigration. He added, “[T]he president’s new best friend, the minority leader in the House, is going to impeach him if she gets the House back. I mean, that is going to happen. And Trump should realize that. And he thinks, right now, that he’s cutting a deal to really — what I think his ultimate impulse here, his ultimate motives are to undermine Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell and remind them that he’s fully capable of cutting these deals on his own. But, you know, the establishment Republicans are not your friends, Donald Trump. The Democrats are really not your friends.”

(h/t Daily Caller)

Follow Ian Hanchett on Twitter @IanHanchett

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It would appear that North Korea’s authoritarian dictator Kim Jong Un is feeling feisty again, as he has reportedly just fired off another ballistic missile in Japan’s direction.

According to Bloomberg, Japanese broadcaster NHK reported that the missile of unspecified type was launched at approximately 7:00 a.m. Friday morning, and flew over the island nation of Japan toward the Pacific Ocean.

Japan’s military did not make any effort to shoot down the missile as it passed overhead.

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Reuters reported that South Korean military observers spotted the missile as it was launched from the Sunan district of the North Korean capitol of Pyongyang and began heading in an easterly direction toward Japan.

South Korean military officials and their American counterparts are currently analyzing the details of the launch, and will likely release more information as it becomes known.

According to a separate report from Reuters, the launch came less than a day after the North Korean state-run news agency KCNA published a statement that openly threatened to “sink” the entire island chain of Japan and reduce the U.S. to “ashes and darkness” with nuclear weapons, likely in response to the latest economic sanctions imposed on the rogue regime by the United Nations.

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“The four islands of the archipelago should be sunken into the sea by the nuclear bomb of Juche. Japan is no longer needed to exist near us,” declared the Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee, an external propaganda outlet for the communist regime, in a statement carried by KCNA.

“Juche” is a sort of ideological mixture of extreme Marxist nationalism that was championed by the nation’s nuclear-ambitious founder and current leader’s grandfather, Kim Il-Sung, as per the Reuters report.

The committee’s statement also expressed their desire to “reduce the U.S. mainland into ashes and darkness. Let’s vent our spite with mobilization of all retaliation means which have been prepared till now.”

As our readers are well aware, tensions on the Korean peninsula and across the broader east Asian region have been remarkably high in recent weeks following a nuclear test explosion on Sept. 3, which came close on the heels of a ballistic missile that was fired over Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido on Aug. 28.

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As of yet, there has been no official response from the White House, but given President Donald Trump’s repeated remarks along the lines of the time for talk being over, and Secretary of Defense James Mattis’ reassurances to allies that the American military is more than ready to end the North Korean threat, it will be interesting to see what the Trump administration’s reply to this latest provocation will be.

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For an organization known as the American Civl Liberties Union, these clowns sure don’t know jack about our civil rights or the Constitution that guarantees them. They believe that the 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms is a collective right that guarantees the government’s right to have guns and not an individual right of personal gun ownership. Equally as wrong, they think the Constitution forbids a local police chief from expressing his Christian faith and are threatening a lawsuit.

KSWO reports that the Chief of police in Mounds, OK has been posting Bible verses to the department’s Facebook page for about a year now. By all accounts these posts have been well received by the community.

“It’s nothing about trying to put any other faith down, but it’s just more one of just trying to be encouraging to others, prayer to me is universal,” Chief Antonio Porter said.

If there is one thing that the ACLU hates as much as guns it’s Christianity and this innocent act that offended no one has caused the organization to freak the hell out. ACLU legal director Brady Henderson fired off this angry response:

Both the First Amendment of the United States Constitution and provisions of the Oklahoma Constitution protect against government officials establishing a state religion. The exclusive, pervasive promotion of the Christian faith by the Mounds Police Department represents a clear violation of those legal mandates. By promoting one specific religion on its official Facebook page, the Mounds Police Department has established clear preference for that faith above other faiths and above no religious faith at all. This kind of government interference with our religious freedom is simply not permissible under United States or Oklahoma law.

It’s interesting that the ACLU thinks forcing a man to stop expressing his Christian faith is protecting freedom of religion. This is just more proof that liberals have entirely different definitions for words and concepts.

The ACLU then goes off the deep end and accuses the Mounds Police Department of refusing to protect non-Christians in its jurisdiction.

In addition to the clear violation of one of the central tenets of American government, freedom of religion, the actions of the Mounds Police Department call into question whether or not the department can be trusted to adequately protect all those living under its jurisdiction, including members of minority faiths and those of no religious faith at all. By establishing a preference for the Christian faith, the department undermines confidence in their ability to perform their duties in a manner consistent with our understanding of one of our most basic and cherished liberties.

Let’s take a look at the facts here. This is the entire 1st Amendment, which guarantees our right to freedom of religion: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. (my emphasis)

It says that Congress shall make no law establishing a state religion. Is the police chief of a small Oklahoma town Congress? Is posting something on Facebook making a law? Does posting bible verses establish a state religion? It’s a big “no” on all of those questions. There is nothing about what this police chief is doing that is even remotely related to the 1st Amendment, other than he does have a right to express himself.

When liberals like the ACLU talk about the “separation of church and state” they act as if this is something that is in the Constitution, but it is not. The only thing the Constitution has to say on the matter is that Congress cannot force a religion on the people or stop people from expressing their religion.

There isn’t even a Supreme Court decision to support the ACLU’s twisted interpretation of the 1st Amendment, though there is one that affirms that gun ownership is an individual right. Yet somehow this “civil liberties” group thinks people aren’t allowed to own guns and individuals aren’t able to express their religious beliefs.

It’s this same bad read on religious freedom that has the ACLU threatening and suing schools for throwing Christmas pageants. Would they ever sue a Muslim elected official for quoting the Koran? Hell no, that would be racist or Islamaphobic or something.

Clearly the ACLU needs to change it’s name because they are not concerned with American civil liberties. In fact, the Federal Trade Commission should sue them for false advertising. If all they cover is shit that pisses liberals off, they can’t claim to protect all civil liberties for all people.

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