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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Jan 14, 2020
January 14, 2020
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Nice: Over in Australia, they're using airplanes to drop thousands of kilograms of carrots and sweet potatoes to the wildlife that's trying to survive during the Australian bushfires.
The New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service began 'Operation Rock Wallaby' last week and so far have dropped nearly five thousand pounds of fresh vegetables to the wallabys, kangaroos, camels, horses, alpacas and other animals in the various parks and sanctuaries who've been left without food now that they're outside their natural habitats.Question: Does the word "damn" bother you?
It does to the activist conservative group One Million Moms, who have issued a press release condemning Burger King for using the word in one of their ads.
In the ad plugging their non-meat Impossible Whopper, after a mass taste test, one man says, "Damn, that's good."
But in a press release, One Million Moms says they find the commercial "highly inappropriate. When responding to the taste test, he didn't have to curse. Or if, in fact, it was a real and unscripted interview in which the man was not an actor, then Burger King could have simply chosen to edit the profanity out of the commercial... Burger King's Impossible Whopper ad is irresponsible and tasteless. It is extremely destructive and damaging to impressionable children viewing the commercial. We all know children repeat what they hear."
The question: are you offended?Sorry, Charlie... or Charlene. The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday said they won't be hearing the 'Free the Nipple' appeal in a New Hampshire case in which three women were arrested for violating a city ordinance by exposing their breasts in public as part of the so-called "Free the Nipple" movement.
Although the women contended the ban on going topless in public violated the U.S. Constitution, it appears that the law which makes it illegal to uncover female breasts "with less than a fully opaque covering of any part of the nipple" will stand. As you probably know, there is no problem with men going topless in public.Doesn't happen every day: JENNIFER GOBRECHT gave birth to a baby in Philadelphia last week, thanks to a uterus transplant. It's only the second child in the US ever to be born thanks to the procedure which was done at Penn Medicine.
Fast food news: the folks at Dunkin' Donuts --now just Dunkin'-- have teamed up with Beyond Meat ambassador and Dunkin' employee of the month SNOOP DOGG to plug their new "Beyond D-O-Double G Sandwich."
The sandwich, which is made with a Beyond Sausage patty along with egg and cheese, between a sliced glazed donut, will be available at Dunkin' through January 19, 2020.
Insiders also say there'll be a limited-edition online pop-up shop where you can pick up stuff like a green tracksuit just like Snoop's --for one week only. -
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