Or why we have, in many locations, different hours for the sale of alcohol products on Sunday as compared to the other six days of the week?
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White House bars AP, Reuters and other media from covering Trump cabinet meeting
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And the requirement for valid credentials and background checks is nothing new. Nearly 70 years ago I was called to the CIA headquarters in Langley to narrate a description of the photographs of radio stations. I had taken in Mexico, Central America, Colombia, and Venezuela in 1963.
I was investigated, and when I arrived at “The Company“ he had a credential with my photo in case number ready for me in the lobby before they took me into an amazing floating secure room in the second or third basement.
The CIA had spoken with the headmaster and several teachers at my school as well, as with several friends and two of my coworkers at the radio stations where I worked part time. They had obviously checked my driving record and looked for any possible misbehaviors.
Since I was 17 at the time, I found it all to be an adventure. But when I discussed my “clearance“ with friends, they all thought that it was highly appropriate to make sure of the nature and character of anyone they invited into their office or building.
Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say - https://www.reuters.com/world/middl...um=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagementIt's been a while since we talked about the press restrictions at the Pentagon. When they were enacted, all of the major news organizations left.
Now we're involved in a war with Iran. The last time there was a war, there was a lot of news coverage at the Pentagon. Have you noticed any lack of news coverage about the Iran War? Are the networks or major newspapers missing anything because they no longer have credentialed reporters at the Pentagon? I don't think so. Why? Because this war really isn't being fought from the pentagon, but the white house.
The defense secretary did a press conference on Tuesday, and everyone had access to it. You didn't need a credential to see it. He clearly isn't in charge. But he looks good and authoritative in pushing the administration's talking points on TV. That's why he's there. He's a TV star. So news organizations aren't missing much by not being at the pentagon.
Pete Hegseth criticizes 'fake news' coverage of Iran strikes, says only tragedies make front page
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth criticized "fake news" coverage of the Trump administration's strikes on Iran Tuesday, saying the U.S. military is "laser focused" on its mission.www.yahoo.com
The wire services find out about this one way or another.
Like it or not most of this country was settled by folks whose beliefs are similar or actually are Christian. If you need booze on Sunday and can't stay sober enough to plan ahead, you might have a problem
The Bible is full of references to wine, an alcoholic beverage, including its use in religious rituals. Where does it say not to drink on Sundays?
It also used to be normal for Puritans to not celebrate Christmas. It used to be normal for the Catholic Church to discourage people from reading the Bible. It used to be normal for Mormons to not allow Black people to become religious leaders. Times change.
And as I'm sure you're aware, there are quite a few Christians who believe as the Jews do, that the Sabbath is on Saturday, not Sunday.
I didn't say you can't drink on Sundays. If you can't plan ahead their could be an issue. Most folks I know (me included) will "make a trip" before a predicted snowstorm. So plan for a "storm" every Sunday.
Your lucky the package stores haven't figured out being opened on Sunday only runs up your costs. They sell more on Saturday if they are closed Sunday. Chick-fil-A crushed KFC by being closed on Sunday. You can attract better employees if they know they can have at least one day of the weekend guaranteed to spend with their families.
BTW the owners of Little Debbie snack cakes are Seventh Day Adventists. A friend of mine in the mid 1980s had a route. He said he couldn't turn in any invoices dated on Saturday. He didn't work on Sunday. He got every weekend off.
No, they crushed KFC by having better chicken. There are plenty of people who don't like the company's religious views, especially their opposition to marriage equality, and yet go there anyway, because they like the food.
How has C-f-A "crushed" KFC by closing on Sundays? I thought C-f-A's rise was due to its better-tasting, less greasy chicken and its clean, cheerful, attentive (and, if management has its way, heterosexual) employees. KFC may be digging its own grave seven days a week through inferior food and service, but the fact remains that even if it was selling only 15 combo meals an hour on Sundays, that would still be 15 more than its Sabbath-keeping neighbors down the road would be selling. And really, are sales at C-f-A on Saturdays really equivalent to their "normal" weekday sales PLUS however many units KFC moves on a typical Sunday? That defies logic.
Anyway, we here on the Vermont/New Hampshire border are unencumbered by any restrictions on Sunday alcohol (or chicken, for that matter -- no C-f-A at all here) sales. In fact both states are in the booze biz themselves, and folks can select from a huge assortment of spirits, wines and craft beers at stores or service plazas (gas, fast food, convenience goods) on both sides of the border -- and they do.
I have no problem with that. If those folks who have issues with the sale of alcohol on Sunday should either not purchase those products on Sunday nor operate a store which sells alcohol products. But don't force those beliefs on others.
If you need booze on Saturday and can't stay sober enough to plan ahead, or any other day of the week, then you might have a problem.
The issue really isn't necessarily a problem with when the customer wishes to purchase the product, but the enforcement of limited sales hours only on Sunday for the business owner.
You don't want to buy booze on Sunday, don't enter the store. Don't force your beliefs on others.
Maybe, but if the same logic prevailed elsewhere in the retail world, Walmart and Target, just to name two retail operations, would increase their bottom lines by closing on Sunday. Or would a Saturday closing help their bottom line?
Perhaps this gets into a state-by-state discussion, but here in Florida, Sunday sales of alcohol products vary county-to county.
The difference is that the hours of sales of alcohol products on Sunday are not the same hours of sale on the other six days of the week.
And an irony of this is that many of us in the broadcasting industry have worked weekends.
Back in my days of shift work at a 24/7 operation, we had schedules which typically for 4PM to Midnight and Midnight to 8AM shifts, those shifts always worked both days of the weekend, but with the day shift rotations, we tended to have one day of at least two weekends off and a long four day weekend between the end of the midnight shift and the beginning of the next evening shift.
Perhaps to note this more accurately, we'd get off at 8AM on Thursday and not have to report back to work until 4PM on the next Tuesday.
Most of us loved that kind of shift rotation.
A federal judge heard the NY Times case against the pentagon press restrictions today:
www.cbsnews.com
Even if the Times wins, it's likely that the government will use taxpayer dollars to appeal the verdict.
Federal judge appears skeptical of recent Pentagon policy restricting journalists' activities
Lawyers for the press asked a court to block the Pentagon from enforcing a recent policy restricting what journalists report, arguing it violates the First Amendment freedom of the press.
www.cbsnews.com
Even if the Times wins, it's likely that the government will use taxpayer dollars to appeal the verdict.
More importantly, some currently sitting judges on the U.S. Supreme Court, which is where the case is likely to end up, have signaled that they are open to reclassifying media access to the way that President Trump wants. As I think I've stated before, we are now living in very dangerous times, especially if you love the freedom to criticize the curren head of the Federal government and his policies in public.
True too given that some of the effects we see on the federal level can also extend to the state level too.
In 1977 Rome GA had blue laws. The genius the ran KMart decided that they had to have Sunday sales. To make a long story short after they arrested the store manager, the Kresge Lawyers got the law ruled unconstitutional.
When I got there in 1980 we had the sales and P & L numbers (for bonuses) for the last three years. Adjusted for inflation the unit profit went down 11+%. All Sunday did was lower Saturday evening sales, increase labor costs and increase the electric bill.
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In 1979, the city I moved to also had a series of blue laws. The weird part about these sales restrictions was that for a number of stores where were open on Sunday, in order to comply with city ordinances, some of the aisles in the stores were blocked, because the items on those aisles were not permitted to be sold on Sunday. Items in the opened aisles? No problem.
At some point in the early 1980s, the city scrapped the blue laws.
I spoke at one of the hearings to get public input on keeping or shedding the blue laws in that time period, and two points which I made, first, either all products should be sold or none at all. Second, anyone who was in favor of maintaining the blue laws should never purchase those restricted products in any other locations, otherwise, they were hypocrites. If you don't want the product to be sold in that city, then don't buy them in other locations where there are no restrictions.
I am not privy to any statistics of that nature, but it obviously has not affected the managements of Home Depot, Walmart, Target, Publix, CVS or Walgreens to consider closing on Sunday and relying on the sales for the other six days of the week. Yes, there will be people who may not shop on Sunday, maybe even perhaps because of religious preferences, but based on my personal and perhaps anecdotal observations, it is very apparent that many people do spend their money on Sunday.
The pentagon has now banned photographers from briefings due to "unflattering" photographs of the secretary:
www.independent.co.uk
Once again, the government wants to control the news.
Pentagon bans press photographers over ‘unflattering’ photos of Hegseth: report
Pentagon implemented a new rule last year that led to mainstream media outlets losing press credentials
www.independent.co.uk
Once again, the government wants to control the news.
OK, so bring in the courtroom artists to draw unflattering sketches of him.