way understanding the customers needs where very few chefs ever get to put themselves in the customers perspective. it used to be just you have no cook, be a very good chef and i thought i was the last when i started cooking i saw the last of this age of the great chef where you had to be the greatest technician. now it s not like that anymore because once you became the greatest technician you didn t have the ability to open up your own restaurant anymore. and things started to change. in the 90s there were five or six restaurants where if you wanted to learn about cooking you had to work there. and now that s not the case anymore. and i have just the utmost respect for the old school tradition, the history behind it and everybody that s done it the right way and it i have a hard time justifying my place with that world. cooking is a simple equation, no matter if it s fine dining at our level, casual dining or fast food. it s about product, about execution. so, ye
advertisements. uncertainty about whether or not the offers are real. we d like to help cut through that. to get people to take advantage of that. which would be another housing upside for the economy. ten-second surprise? hoimts do yw many times do y the word uncertainty? they re screaming there are opportunities in the markets. it s when people are certain that you have to be fearful. i think we re far from seeing certainty. you re still bullish? bullish as anything. doug, richard, thank you. steve, michelle, thank you. thank you. chicago tomorrow. we also have bob ruben tomorrow. squawk on the street begins right now. good wednesday morning. welcome to squawk on the street. i m melissa lee, with carl quintanilla with jim cramer and david faber at the new york stock exchange. the day after the s&p and nasdaq posted their second best days of the year. we looking at a higher open, pretty much across the board. actually, they just turned. we re looking do
that it would be two minutes. we re waiting for him to show up. the nra is america s premiere gun rights lobby. it may be facing its biggest challenge in years as many americans shocked, they were shocked by newtown and they re calling for tougher restrictions on guns and ammunition, and while we wait for the group s executive director to appear, wayne lapierre, i want to bring in several of my colleagues now. first off, wolf blitzer is here, jessica yellin is at the white house, dana bash on capitol hill, and jeffrey toobin is in new york for us. as we wait, wolf, let s start with you. is this, in fact, a turning point for guns in america? do you think we ll hear anything like that in this press conference? i know a lot of attitudes have hardened as a result of what has happened over the past week in newtown, connecticut. you were there, i was there, and people all over the country and all over the world are outraged by the horrible nature of that massacre that occurred at
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oprah should be the pope! poprah! [ laughter and applause ] oprah is love. don t be a dick that was jesus whole message. don t be a dick. that s what it all comes down to. i was in texas last year, driving around on a saturday afternoon, and there was a protest in front of a honda dealership. 30 or 40 people angrily marching with placards and signs. and their sign said things like, gay is not okay, and, the word of god condemns homosexual acts. and it was a curious sight, and i stopped. and there was a guy, he looked like moses. i figured he was in charge. i said, hey, man. what s happening? i swear to god, the guy goes, well, it seems some people who claim to be christians have hired some homosexuals to sell hondas. and the lord don t want homosexuals selling hondas. does it say that in the bible?! i admit, i skipped around a lot. it could be in there. i thought the whole point of the book was love your neighbor. doesn t say, go to his work and bother him.