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McDonald's raises prices 'in poorer suburbs'.

McDonald's is the Scrooge of hamburger chains. "Kick them whilst they are down", could be their motto.

Ronald McDonald's gives kids a trinket, at a "discounted" price, whilst he takes the food out of their mouths.

From various media outlets around Australia (AAP, Streetcorner.com.au, AFN-Food for Thought, Daniel Palmer), my comments in bold.
-The managing director of McDonald', Catriona Noble, is reported as saying that, to justify the appalling recommendation:

Internet Explorer users cheated from a full Internet experience!

IE 7 (Internet Explorer), arguably the most used browser on the net, is not standard compliant as a result of which this site will not be seen, as it is intended to, by some Internet users.

That some form of fiscal stimulus is now required is without a doubt to anyone that understands the situation. That any of this money should go to banks and other financial institutions that are the cause of the crisis experienced by most of us, if not yet then soon, is, in my opinion, outrageous. Outrageous in that it recompenses, or at least supports the very instigators of the catastrophe and gives them another opportunity of skimming as has already been demonstrated.

Is Google a better search engine? I always thought so as a user. Recently as I was analysing some of this web site statistics, I noticed something that goes some way towards explaining why Google is a better search engine.

On this site, I use "awstats" which gives me a summary of robots and crawler activities. The results are somewhat staggering in favour of Google. I simply will not use another search engine again. :)

The figures I am giving below are consistent across time and for other sites I run or did run. I did check my records.

Senior executive officers of banks, and of some financial institutions, those that were in a position to affect strategies and business practices, should be vigorously pursued in criminal court and their assets confiscated. There should be no bailout of banks. The net value of assets confiscation should be used towards any bail-out of firms and individual who have been or are suffering, due to the nefarious activities of the operators.

As we are celebrating Darwin 200th anniversary of his birth, I like to reflect on what it means. I realise that due to the endeavour and openness of mind of someone born 200 years ago, and that is a long time ago, a veil of ignorance was lifted from the world, and unbelievable progress was made possible as a consequence of the change of mindset.