News digest / Catching up on news (08.08.2014)

Lately I can't keep up with my re-posting duties. Quickly, here are several stories you might have missed:

Federal Judge Rules Some College Players Are Entitled To Payment:  http://n.pr/V95KJ7 -- SOME JUSTICE!

How Big Is a $16 Billion Bank Fraud Settlement, Really?:  http://huff.to/1A036VM  -- NOT VERY.

FEAR: 11 TOP BANKS STILL TOO BIG TO FAIL:  http://huff.to/1zS8ZnU  -- TBTF HERE TO STAY, BY DESIGN.

Nine myths about the social safety net, annotated:  http://wapo.st/1pF1Cvr  -- OLD PEOPLE ARE THE BIGGEST WELFARE QUEENS?

Unwealthy in America: New study finds that Top 1 percent hold 37 percent of nation’s wealth. A quarter of US families feel they are under economic stress caused by the Great Recession:  http://www.mybudget360.com/unwealthy-in-america-wealth-in-united-states/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+mybudget360%2FQePx+%28My+Budget+360%29  

The Conflict In Gaza Explained In One Map:  http://huff.to/1ASuhTK  -- UNLESS IT'S A MAP DERIVED FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT, I'M NOT INTERESTED.

Your chicken is about to get more full of feces:  http://gu.com/p/4v9ex  -- YUM!

Nasty germs at McDonald's, other fast food joints

No, you can't get gonorrhea from a toilet seat... but you can get it from the playground slide at McDonald's/Burger King.

Said an aggrieved activist mother who swabbed a McDonald's for germs, there are "layers and layers and layers and layers of just disgustingness" there.

Layers and layers and layers and layers and layers and layers and layers and.... You get the idea.

Disease-causing pathogens at McDonald's, other fast food playgrounds

By Tiffany Hsu
August 22, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

URL: http://www.latimes.com/fast-food-playgrounds-m,0,2506432.story

S**tburgers served up by unfettered free markets

Actually, thank Zombie Reagan for shitburgers.

By the way, those Reaganite necrophiliacs, er, hagiographers at the Committee to Name Everything After Reagan just erected another statue of him in London; meanwhile his deregulation is killing more Americans every year than died on 9/11.

Evidence of Rightwing Regression: USDA Delivers Chicken Infested With Flesh-Eating Bacteria to School Lunch Programs

By Yasha Levine

June 22, 2011 | The Exiled

URL: http://exiledonline.com/evidence-of-rightwing-regression-usda-delivers-chicken-infested-with-flesh-eating-bacteria-to-school-lunch-programs/