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– Oh, the Unhip-Pocrisy of It All: CNN gets in a lather about one of Hillary’s aides planting a softball question with a woman in the crowd at a Q&A in Iowa, and then plants a silly question with a college student in the last Dem debate Nov. 15th: “Gee, what do you like better, Sen. Clinton, diamonds or pearls?” Maria Luisa, the UNLV student who has claimed CNN forced her to ask the nothingburger question, has been studying the problems related to the Yucca Flats nuclear waste storage facility and submitted five questions on that topic that were approved by CNN. But none of her serious Yucca Mountain questions were ever asked; instead, she was made to look like a girly-girl dolt with the ‘diamonds or pearls’ stupidity. Jebas, why didn’t they just force her to ask Mrs. Bill if she’d been aboard an alien spacecraft at Area 51 while First Lady?

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Every year, wokers in the retail industry suffer through “Black Friday,” the day after Thanksgiving during which huge discounts on incredibly scarce items draw enough shoppers from the woodwork to make even unprofitable retailers turn a profit. While some would say that this is a great example of capitalism, I say that it merely exemplifies the commercialism that has taken over the holiday season.

Don’t get me wrong; I think that Christmas shopping can be fun. However, waiting each year to find out the injury toll at the stores run by the company that I work for is less than entertaining. Also, for a day people forget about world peace and starving children to scream and whine that the items that they wanted, be it electronics, toys, or really cheap leather jackets, are gone by the time they make it to the store.

It’s a day that focuses on selfishness. Shoppers dash around snatching items out of each other’s hands so that they can give their children and spouses status symbol gifts. Black Friday is not about thankfulness or giving; it is about bragging rights for the sales that one got, no matter what was done to get the merchandise.