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The Casualty of Black Friday
truthdig.com - 11/28/2008
The Casualty of Black Friday
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What does the post-Thanksgiving shopping rush dubbed Black Friday really symbolize in the U.S.? The death of a Long Island worker after a mob of shoppers rushed into a Wal-Mart certainly shows the worst of American consumerism and excess, but where do we position such exuberance in a time ...
Operation First Casualty
zombietime.com - 12/1/2008
Operation First Casualty
— zombietime.com — Operation First Casualty Anti-war protest and street theater San Francisco, November 28, 2008 The anti-American group "Iraq... Veterans Against the War" decided that the day after Thanksgiving would be a good time to stage an anti-war protest and street ... (more) Operation First Casualty

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Truth to Power: Turkey Sucks
internetfoodassociation.wordpress.com - 11/26/2008
Truth to Power: Turkey Sucks
— internetfoodassociation.wordpress.com — By Matthew Yglesias Ever noticed that your favorite dishes from your traditional family Thanksgiving are all sides?... And that that one time you had Thanksgiving dinner outside your traditional family gathering the best dishes there were sides? And how ... (more) Truth to Power: Turkey Sucks

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I Like Turkey
eschatonblog.com - 11/26/2008
I Like Turkey
— eschatonblog.com — I've long been puzzled by the turkey backlash. Get a heritage turkey, cook it on the grill... with some smoking chips. Yummy! (more) I Like Turkey

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A man was crushed to death and a woman lost her baby in the madness that is post-Thanksgiving shopping . I am trying to put myself in the place of those who were lined up, eager to shop for certain items that had limited availability, those folks who wanted to be Good Parents for their ...
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Decided to repost this piece from my defunct blog while putting the ads from Friday's paper in the recycling bin. It's a pretty disgusting waste of trees. And that's after the story of the sales clerk trampled to death at WalMart and the shooting in the toy store. What is wrong is that it is a ...
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People are stepping up, thank the lord; we may be on our way out of the economic meltdown. On Long Island, a crowd of patriots pushed down the doors of a WalMart and trampled to death a wretch trying to hold them back until opening time (probably an Al Qaeda operative programmed to sabotage our ...