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Just in case you care about the debt slavery your children are being sold into, Bloomberg has this nice interactive feature.

Now this is just mean. UC Riverside assistant professor Michelle Raheja tried to ruin a Thanksgiving feast for kindergartners.
For decades, Claremont kindergartners have celebrated Thanksgiving by dressing up as pilgrims and Native Americans and sharing a feast. But on Tuesday, when the youngsters meet for their turkey and songs, they won’t be wearing their [...]

A little economic post from my other blog. I bring it over here as well because I believe the economic policies currently being put in place are the biggest policy mistake of our generation, and we may never recover from them.

Last year I missed Black Friday, but this year I will be shopping at 4:00 AM.
Here is the site to get the advertisements tonight and if you do not get a dead tree paper. Some deals start on Thanksgiving day at K Mart so if you need an excuse to get away from relatives….
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I guess that the only talking Bush did today was pardoning a turkey. If he had talked about the economy, our necks would have been cut instead of the turkey.

Getting ever so close to 9,000.

This sounds like Ross Perot but is it Bush in 2001/02 or Obama in 2008?
“As soon as the recovery is well under way, we need to set up a long-term plan to reduce the structural deficit and make sure we are not leaving a mountain of debt for the next generation,”
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In another Diary, Jon Sandor provides a link to an anonymous republican Senator speaking to Politico. Some excerpts include;
By the “same gridlock,” he means that party hard-liners, both Democrats and Republicans, will remain in control of the machinery of Congress. And that means more of the same. It means more politics as usual — especially [...]

Bush pardons 14 individuals for the holidays, but there are two names who deserve to be on the list.
Can you guess the names of the two individuals who were protecting the United States that are not on the list?
I guess Jorge is too concerned about the important things like “free” trade agreements with Columbia.
On January [...]

I just got a fundraising call from the Minnesota Republican party to help with the Coleman-Franken recount. For the first time in many months, I did not hang up on the GOP and instead donated whatever I could afford.
We’re going to need 41 Republican votes in the Senate to stand fast against the most extreme [...]

Experience over ideology?
After he waged a campaign built around a stirring message of change, many of President-elect Obama’s supporters expected him to begin stocking his administration with passionate progressives bristling to challenge the status quo. Conservatives anticipated something akin to the second coming of the New Deal.
Neither scenario has materialized.
At the quarter point in the [...]

We saw the utter failure of “compassionate conservatism.”
Now we are seeing the complete failure of “George W. Bush Capitalism.”
It begins with the United States begging for a handout from countries like Kuwait whose very existence has been guaranteed by American Blood;
KUWAIT CITY (AFP) – The United States has asked four oil-rich Gulf states for close [...]

Is George W. Bush that dumb or are they just keeping him in a corner so he can not cause trouble?
White House says unaware of any Citigroup rescue talks
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It makes you wonder about the story of “My Pet Goat.”

Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY):
“We’re on the edge of deflation. Once you get into deflation you almost never get out.”
Barack Obama doesn’t want to be known as another Herbert Hoover; so he’s going to do everything in his power – including retaining the Bush tax cuts – to avoid the spectre of deflation.

Decide for yourself whether each of these ballots should go to Norm Coleman or Al Franken.

Time for me to find a new brew;
InBev’s Long-Brewing Bud Deal Complete
Melinda Peer, 11.18.08, 06:45 PM EST
Belgian firm’s takeover of American icon creates world’s largest beer company.
I make it a point to buy Made in America.
I buy American Cars.
I buy American Tools.
I look at the label of everything I buy.
I want to support American workers [...]