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Beloved steakhouse chain is making a comeback

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/beloved-steakhouse-chain-making-comeback

Steakhouse chain Sizzler is making a comeback with a new refreshed look even as the quick-service restaurant sector continues to face a challenging environment that has prompted countless closures.

Creative agency Tavern, tasked with helping the brand reinvent itself, said the steakhouse had been a pop culture icon in the 1980s and 1990s on the West Coast, but "over the years the brand faced an identity crisis and lost its way." Today, the agency said, "most Californians don’t even know where the nearest Sizzler is (if they even know the brand is still in business)."

The company is trying to change that, announcing its plans to refresh the brand last year. The company said in a 2024 press release that it's tapping "into the sentimental value associated with the brand" and plans to "compete with fast-food giants like McDonald's and offer a more appealing alternative for parents seeking a dining experience that evokes comfort and familiarity."

I was not sure if there were any Sizzler locations in our area any found there were two. My parents enjoyed the Sizzler in our hometown, going there many Sundays after church.

surfered (10,347 posts)

Now hear this!

The latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll finds 67% of Republicans want the Epstein files released, meaning 33% of the GOP are willing to protect child predators.

That is all.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220813677

Uh huh.... Keep telling yourself that.

Treasure Secretary to who, AP?

The second and third to the last paragraphs (= buried where few will read):

Summers served as treasury secretary from 1999 to 2001 under President Clinton. He was Harvard’s president for five years from 2001 to 2006. He is currently a professor and is a director of the school’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government.

Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren, from Massachusetts, told CNN she believes Harvard should sever ties with Summers, saying he “cannot be trusted” with students.

Well, Clinton-Obama operative Larry Summers's request to Epstein for romance advice has come to light. Then there's ...

Protection Racket Media Circles the Wagons Around Epstein Pal Stacey Plaskett

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/11/18/protection-racket-media-circles-the-wagons-around-epstein-ally-stacy-plaskett-n3809017

On Friday, the Washington Post blew the lid off a major scandal involving influence from Jeffrey Epstein and a member of Congress. Had that member been a Republican, it might have dominated the weekend headlines, the Sunday talk shows, and social media to this very moment ... . And even a little bit of digging would have exposed far more meaty connections between the Representative and the ephebophilic sex trafficker.

Instead, the Stacey Plaskett scandal could've been called The Dog That Mostly Didn't Bark.

Let's start with the WaPo's devastating article and work our way forward through the silence. Bear in mind that Epstein's sex-trafficking crimes had once again popped up on the national radar in early February 2019, thanks to a Miami Herald exposé on the slimy plea deal he got from Alex Acosta – a new look prompted by criticism from then-Senate Republican Ben Sasse in November 2018. Epstein had become toxic already, but not to Larry Summers and not to Plaskett, as the WaPo reported to their readers:

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The newly released documents from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate show that the convicted sex offender texted with a Democratic member of Congress, Del. Stacey Plaskett of the U.S. Virgin Islands, during a congressional hearing with Michael Cohen, and that those text messages may have influenced the congresswoman’s questions of Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney and fixer.
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Though the name of Epstein’s texting partner is redacted in the documents, time-stamps on the text messages matched up with video from the hearing, as well as the messages’ contents, indicated that Epstein was texting with Plaskett, who represents the U.S. Virgin Islands as its nonvoting delegate in the House of Representatives.

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One would expect that such a story would dominate the headlines and the talk shows, especially given the Democrats' months-long, full-court press on the Epstein Files. The Protection Racket Media has other ideas about what makes news in the Epstein case, as Jorge Bonilla discovered watching the Sunday news shows:

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The Plaskett story early enough for pre-production of This Week, and yet there was no mention whatsoever of what would otherwise be a scandal. There was likewise no mention of Plaskett on NBC’s Meet the Press, CBS’s Face the Nation, or CNN’s State of the Union.

As is the case with “news” in the Trump Era, the durability of a story is directly proportional to its ability to (a) cast aspersions on Donald Trump, and/or (b) cover up some other, more nefarious scandal. ...

In the real world, the Bloomberg "reporter" disrespectfully interrupted Trump while he was answering another "reporter"'s question, and Trump faced her down. He told her not to interrupt his answer to a question, and called her the "worst". In no way did Trump refer to her sex, and anybody who has observed Trump - and is honest - knows Trump would have said the same to a disrespectful male "reporter" (and probably has).

These are "perceived" sexist remarks simply because President Trump dared to tell a female reporter that she asked a stupid question. "Journalists" need to grow a thicker ****ing skin. If women want true equality, they too have to accept criticism.