News stories concerning Walmart included digs by customers agreeing with the strikers because the customers would rather be with their families than work on Thanksgiving Day.........DOH! Why weren't those customers at home with their families rather than out shopping on Thanksgiving Day?

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Three pics from a fellow BCer:

-- And that's the truth.....

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And another from another fellow BCer:

Unfortunately, 47% of those would get a tax credit instead.

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The last time I ventured to a shopping mall the weekend after Thanksgiving was at the Mall of America in Minnesota in 1992. I had seen a piece about the Mall of America (at 4.5 MILLION square feet, America's largest) on a Good Morning America show the prior September. It said the M of A was expecting 180,000 people on Black Friday... 180,000 people was the population of Columbus, and I wanted to be there to see/experience that.

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L-E writer Dimon Kendrick-Holmes wrote about the search for a new school superintendent: "The bigger you are, the slower you move. That applies to just about everything except maybe SEC defensive linemen. It certainly applies to the Muscogee County School District. " -- It's not the size of the MCSD that's the problem (the number of public school students hasn't varied by more than a few hundred since 1990, and currently has the same amount of students as it did in 1990), it's having to many heads on one body, each wanting to move in opposite directions (sorta like the cartoon character, Cat-Dog).

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L-E headline: "Arafat's remains said to be exhumed Tuesday" -- well, let's just make sure he's dead when they re-inter him!

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The way for-profit colleges are springing up because of the easily available government college loan programs, I keep looking for some college to offer a degree in cat training.

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