10 Things Stores Don't Want You to Know about Holiday Shopping

From the Learning Channel, pretty neat stuff, worth a look. Click the link below or the headline above to go there.

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Hundreds of shoppers wait in the dark outside a Toys"R"Us in Fort Worth, Texas, for the start of the Black Friday sales.

TLC Family "10 Things Stores Don't Want You to Know: Holiday Shopping Edition"

Can we please have a 2012 Reality Check? PLEASE?

Some recent headlines -- only the names have been changed to indict the guilty.
Let's get serious, folks -- if this is the America you envision in 2012, you're playing with 51 cards!

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Ban on Iranian pistachios now in effect

This is not a political article. This is an article that illustrates how the little guy, all around the world, in every country, gets screwed by the people in power.

A U.S. ban on Iranian pistachios went into effect on Wednesday, as the Obama administration ratchets up economic pressure on Iran to open its nuclear facilities to international inspection.

Iranian pistachios are the best in the world. There are NO pistachios that are even close. Any pistachio lover who was alive during the 50s and 60s, when this country and Iran were still friendly, knows this fact to be incontrovertible.

As relations between the two countries deteriorated, the supply of Iranian pistachios dwindled; by 1980 they could be found only through dedicated searches, and usually in Middle Eastern bodegas in places like Jersey City and Brooklyn. Now even that meager supply has been cut off.

The little farmer guy in Iran is getting screwed out of the world's biggest pistachio market, and the little guy in that market who likes pistachios is being forced to eat inferior nuts. And so it goes.

Dancing with the Stars -- Competition, or Con Job?

For those of you unfamiliar with the TV show of the headline, it works like this -- Celebrities are teamed with professional dancers, and they compete against each to become the grand prize winner. A panel of judges rates the performances, and the TV audience votes for their preferences; ostensibly, the judges' rating and the audience voting tally are somehow combined for a final score, and teams are either eliminated or advanced based on that score.

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The Hidden Barack Obama

Well, he's not completely hidden; we're still operating more or less like a free Republic, so the corporations that are attempting to seize economic control over the United States have to put up with the inconvenience of a free fourth estate.

But not for too much longer. Those corporations own most of the media, most of the newspapers and magazines and radio and television stations... just about everything you listen to or watch. And they've mounted and showcased an incredible, media-wide (not just Fox!) campaign to discredit, minimize, and ultimately unseat a man we elected by large majority, a man, who, by almost any barometer, is uniquely qualified to lead America at this point in time.

So... sift through the 'infotainment' sludge and sound bites; brush aside propagandist polls,  'Obama's Socialist Agenda,' and 'He just doesn't grasp what's happening.' Read his biography by clicking the headline; check out his blog; get to know our 44th President.

If one digs around, the real Barack Obama is out there.

                                                        

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama greet children while touring Humayun's tomb in New Delhi, November 7, 2010.
(Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)