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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

"The average salary for professional house cat jobs is $46,000. Average professional house cat salaries can vary greatly due to company, location, industry, experience and benefits."

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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

As early voting and absentee votes are counted in Alaska Mark Begich has taken a lead in the count for Ted Stevens' Senate seat. According to the Alaska elections site Begich now leads by 814 votes.

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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Howard Dean announced today that he will not seek another term as DNC chairman, a position he's held since his failed presidential bid in 2004. Dean's "50-state strategy," which promoted the idea that Democrats could win in traditionally red states, was widely criticized but has been proven successful. Dean saw the party capture majorities in both houses of Congress in 2006 and build on those majorities in 2008 and win the presidency.

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Friday, November 07, 2008

"In the Senate, three races remain undecided, and the tally stands at 57-40, in favor of the Democrats, if you include Joe Lieberman."

"The Georgia race is going to a runoff, and the winner won't be known until December 2."

"In Minnesota, an automatic recount will be triggered between Al Franken and Norm Coleman, with the only immediate drama being who will go into the recount with the lead. Coleman appears likely to have that lead, but the numbers have inched closer in Franken's direction."

"Alaskans seem to have gone for the convicted tubes guy, with a giant caveat that thousands of ballots seem to be unaccounted for."


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"The government said Friday the nation's unemployment rate bolted to a 14-year high of 6.5 percent in October as employers slashed 240,000 jobs. It was stark proof the economy is almost certainly in a recession."

"The jobless rate zoomed to 6.5 percent in October from 6.1 percent in September, matching the unemployment rate in March 1994. Employers have cut jobs each month this year."


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This topic was posted here a few days ago.
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It was pointed out that this situation occurred when Nixon was President when he wanted to appoint William Saxbe for AG. Congress voted to reduce the pay back to it's previous level and then moved forward with the appointment. This has been called the Saxbe fix.

Here's video of another walmart where customers mob stack of Xbox's.

I don't know if anyone was injured.

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There is no reason for them to just put them out on the floor for the scrum to begin. I bought a Wii Fit a couple months ago at Target. I was there before the store opened.

Target lined people up outside the store and then when the doors were open employees made sure people in the line walked back to the electronics department in an orderly fashion. Anyone who tried to jump in front of someone else was shown to the back of the line.

When we got to the electronics department the merchandise was behind the counter. You told them what you wanted, paid for it, and then you received your merchandise. It was organized and efficient.

I would be more inclined to understand the point of view of not placing a share of the blame on stores if this was an unheard of event. However it seems this type of story is an annual occurrence on Black Friday somewhere.

I'm pretty sure most people who are saying stores are not responsible for people getting injured when they open the doors for big sales would agree that there is nothing wrong with holding them accountable for the safety of their customers/employees when it comes to other known risks such as broken glass, wet spills, fire, etc.

In fact I'll go as far to say that stores encourage this behavior by labeling certain items as "extremely limited supply" and calling them "Must Have Items". They use aggressive terms such as "Door Busters" and "Crazy Sales". This seems to feed right into stirring up the mob mentality and highly competitve feelings that are at the root of the irrational behavior of these shoppers.

If I were a lawyer in a case against a retail outlet and wanted to dispel any doubt that retail outlets do not expect such events to occur I'd point to a commercial that was ran a few years by a retailer, I'm thinking it was Best Buy, that had some fun with the idea of people being injured when they open the doors. The workers stood around trying to determine who would open the doors. They all had casts and bandages on from opening the doors at previous sales. Then the new guy walked up and with fear in his eyes was sent to welcome the early morning shoppers.

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