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It’s too late now to get something shipped from Amazon, but if you still need a last minute gift or two, Amazon Gift Cards External Image are a great choice. (I still have to purchase a few of them myself, because there’s no way I’m going to a shopping mall today.)

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Note: if you click through from our links and purchase something, we get a small commission through Amazon’s Associates program, so this is a great way to help support LGF too.

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PhillyPretzel Sat, Dec 24, 2011 1:33:19pm

I give my nephew, who is attending Georgia Tech, Amazon Gift Cards via e-mail. He loves them.

SanFranciscoZionist Sat, Dec 24, 2011 1:42:37pm

My aunt and uncle sent some this morning, actually.

Happies!

lawhawk Sat, Dec 24, 2011 1:55:51pm

Merry Christmas Charles and everyone else who is celebrating the day!

And a Happy Hanukkah to my fellow members of the Tribe. :)

PhillyPretzel Sat, Dec 24, 2011 2:05:05pm

re: #3 lawhawk
Thank you for the Hanukkah wishes. :)

PhillyPretzel Sat, Dec 24, 2011 2:18:39pm

Did I kill the thread or is everybody taking the advice and going to Amazon?

prairiefire Sat, Dec 24, 2011 2:19:46pm

re: #4 PhillyPretzel

Happy Hanukkah!

abolitionist Sat, Dec 24, 2011 2:22:28pm

I noticed the Year-End-Deals lead off with an offer of The Notebook for only $6.62.

Funny, I saw The Notebook offered earlier today for $2.50 (but without the Super-Saver™ shipping offer).

Quite worth it at either price.

_RememberTonyC Sat, Dec 24, 2011 2:24:17pm

Merry Christmas to all Lizards who celebrate. And happy holidays to all others who do not. And while amazon gift cards are a great cyber gift, the best cyber gift is membership in Lizard Nation. Thanks to all of you for making this a place where I learn something nearly every time I log on.

Peace to all

Charleston Chew Sat, Dec 24, 2011 2:26:19pm

Thanks to procrastination I had to resort to signing up for the Amazon Prime free trial just to get the free 2-day shipping. Bet I'm not the only one.

Charles Johnson Sat, Dec 24, 2011 2:29:07pm

re: #9 Charleston Chew

Thanks to procrastination I had to resort to signing up for the Amazon Prime free trial just to get the free 2-day shipping. Bet I'm not the only one.

You might end up keeping it ... I love Amazon Prime. I get a LOT more than my money's worth out of it.

_RememberTonyC Sat, Dec 24, 2011 2:29:50pm

Tomorrow is going to be a classic Jewish Christmas celebration with my family. We are going to NYC for the Celtics/Knicks game and then to Chinatown for some traditional Judeo-Chinese Christmas food.

Dark_Falcon Sat, Dec 24, 2011 2:34:08pm

re: #11 _RememberTonyC

Tomorrow is going to be a classic Jewish Christmas celebration with my family. We are going to NYC for the Celtics/Knicks game and then to Chinatown for some traditional Judeo-Chinese Christmas food.

Enjoy. And I hope the Celtics clobber the Knicks.

_RememberTonyC Sat, Dec 24, 2011 2:36:39pm

re: #12 Dark_Falcon

Enjoy. And I hope the Celtics clobber the Knicks.

I hope so too ... But MSG will be buzzing ... Hopefully KG and Ray shut down 19,000 mouths!

Varek Raith Sat, Dec 24, 2011 2:38:51pm

re: #13 _RememberTonyC

I hope so too ... But MSG will be buzzing ... Hopefully KG and Ray shut down 19,000 mouths!

Go local sports establishment?
/

Gus Sat, Dec 24, 2011 2:41:37pm

@Johngcole John Cole
What is it about Ron Paul that turns his supporters into crazy people?

Dark_Falcon Sat, Dec 24, 2011 2:41:58pm

And speaking of basketball, a limited production run of Nike Air Jordans (called the Air Jordan Retro XI) caused outbreaks of shopper violence on par with Black Friday at Walmart:

Almost nine years into the basketball legend's retirement, a new version of Michael Jordan athletic shoes can still send fans into a mad frenzy: Stores nationwide were the scenes of violence and police officer injuries Friday, authorities said.

In Richmond, California, police investigated a gunshot fired outside a mall where the latest version of shoes named after Jordan went on sale for about $180 a pair Friday morning, police told CNN affiliate KGO.

A 24-year-old Richmond man was taken into custody in connection with the gunfire, said police Lt. Lori Curran.

"It appears right now it may have been just a negligent discharge," Curran said.

Even as early as 1990, a new pair of Air Jordans was so coveted that youngsters became violent in stealing the shoes. Jordan and his Chicago Bulls won six NBA championships in the 1990s.

Thursday evening in Austin, Texas, three Foot Locker stores each drew 1,000 people for a midnight sale of the new Air Jordan Retro XI, replicas of a 1996 version of the shoe, and police shut down one mall when two police officers were injured, CNN affiliate KVUE reported. Police said each store had only 150 pairs of the shoes, the station reported.

One of the officers was taken to a hospital after he was rushed by the crowd and suffered bruises and a rolled ankle, KVUE said. Police are reviewing surveillance tapes to find the assailant, police said, according to the station.

So since the crowds are doing a 90's rewind, I'm going to follow suit:

Youtube Video

Gus Sat, Dec 24, 2011 2:42:07pm

That might be a chicken and the egg question though.

Dark_Falcon Sat, Dec 24, 2011 2:42:37pm

re: #15 Gus 802

@Johngcole John Cole
What is it about Ron Paul that turns his supporters into crazy people?

:)

It's the shoes! (see my #16)

Dark_Falcon Sat, Dec 24, 2011 2:43:46pm

re: #17 Gus 802

That might be a chicken and the egg question though.

Repost from a post I made on the dead thread:

Romney will get more votes [in Virginia]. But the new RNC rules for primaries held on Super Tuesday mean that Virginia's 49 delegates must be proportionally awarded. So even if Mitt Romney gets 2/3 of the vote, Crazy Uncle Ron would still get 15 delegates.

Gus Sat, Dec 24, 2011 2:44:00pm

re: #18 Dark_Falcon

It's the shoes! (see my #16)

Yeah. That crazy chit even made the BBC News today. It's pathetic. All of that violence over a pair of sneakers that's made by underpayed Chinese labor.

Gus Sat, Dec 24, 2011 2:48:33pm

North Korea: Kim Jong-un hailed 'supreme commander'

New North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has been hailed by state media as "supreme commander" of the country's powerful armed forces for the first time.

The ruling party newspaper Rodong Shinmun also called on Kim Jong-un to lead North Korea to "eternal victory".

State media had been calling Mr Kim "the great successor" after the death of his father Kim Jong-il on Monday.

Gus Sat, Dec 24, 2011 2:49:24pm

Eternal victory! You know what that means. No change in North Korea.

Dark_Falcon Sat, Dec 24, 2011 2:50:43pm

re: #22 Gus 802

Eternal victory! You know what that means. No change in North Korea.

I think its a victory measured by Charlie Sheen's definitions, the better to fit Kim Jong Un's tiger's blood.

#winning

Gus Sat, Dec 24, 2011 2:50:49pm

"We declare from our hearts ... we will complete the task of songun (military-first) revolution under comrade Kim Jong-un", the paper said in an editorial.

The "songun" policy prioritises spending on North Korea's armed forces.

Targetpractice Sat, Dec 24, 2011 2:52:01pm

re: #24 Gus 802

"We declare from our hearts ... we will complete the task of songun (military-first) revolution under comrade Kim Jong-un", the paper said in an editorial.

The "songun" policy prioritises spending on North Korea's armed forces.

Translation: Dirt and bugs for all!

Dark_Falcon Sat, Dec 24, 2011 2:52:26pm

re: #24 Gus 802

"We declare from our hearts ... we will complete the task of songun (military-first) revolution under comrade Kim Jong-un", the paper said in an editorial.

The "songun" policy prioritises spending on North Korea's armed forces.

They can't even feed the army. Those slogans ring empty and the world knows it. Many in North Korea realize it now, and thus the number of defectors has surged in the last year.

Gus Sat, Dec 24, 2011 2:53:46pm

re: #25 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Translation: Dirt and bugs for all!

/

The dirt and bug dinner will continue until morale improves! -- Kim Jong-un

Dark_Falcon Sat, Dec 24, 2011 2:54:16pm

re: #20 Gus 802

Yeah. That crazy chit even made the BBC News today. It's pathetic. All of that violence over a pair of sneakers that's made by underpayed Chinese labor.

They mean nothing to me directly, though that is because Air Jordans have always been special order only above size 13 and I wear size 14 extra wide.

Killgore Trout Sat, Dec 24, 2011 2:55:22pm

re: #26 Dark_Falcon

They can't even feed the army. Those slogans ring empty and the world knows it. Many in North Korea realize it now, and thus the number of defectors has surged in the last year.

It is really comprehend. Even they know they're fucking up the country and everybody will be happy and prosperous once they're gone. I guess that's why they hang on, as soon as they leave power the people will be free to hate them.

Dark_Falcon Sat, Dec 24, 2011 3:00:20pm

re: #29 Killgore Trout

It is really comprehend. Even they know they're fucking up the country and everybody will be happy and prosperous once they're gone. I guess that's why they hang on, as soon as they leave power the people will be free to hate them.

They wouldn't have long to suffer the hate. The Chinese would ensure the new government gave the Ceausescu Treatment. X(

Targetpractice Sat, Dec 24, 2011 3:01:11pm

re: #29 Killgore Trout

It is really comprehend. Even they know they're fucking up the country and everybody will be happy and prosperous once they're gone. I guess that's why they hang on, as soon as they leave power the people will be free to hate them.

At this point, I think it's just generational fear that keeps the regime viable. Even the Army's falling apart, between underfed troops and shockingly out of date weaponry, but the level of institutionalized terror keeps the soldiers from turning on their leaders.

Gus Sat, Dec 24, 2011 3:01:56pm

Supreme leader of the imperial and eternal military state!

This outta work out well for the future. I'm sure we can possibly negotiate with them now. //

Varek Raith Sat, Dec 24, 2011 3:03:00pm

re: #32 Gus 802

Supreme leader of the imperial and eternal military state!

This outta work out well for the future. I'm sure we can possibly negotiate with them now. //

If only they had oil...
///

Gus Sat, Dec 24, 2011 3:05:23pm

re: #33 Varek Raith

If only they had oil...
///

Oh yeah. I'm sure there are thousands of pages out there on how it's all the USA's fault for all of this as well.

Mostly sane, most of the time. Sat, Dec 24, 2011 3:09:38pm

Totally OT--

The Queen went to visit her husband in the hospital. He went in at 6 pm, she shows up at 11 the next day for a 45 minute visit (with the kids).

Is this British, or Royal?

In a regular American family, probably the oldest son would have gone in with Dad and stayed though the procedure, been with him in recovery, and stayed and until he was asleep, calling home to update everyone. If the wife were under 70, she'd probably be there instead, or possibly there with the oldest son if she were 70-85.

A 45 minute visit the next day. Is that royalty, or how the British do it?

Gus Sat, Dec 24, 2011 3:15:04pm

Here's an example at Couterpunch from Alexander Cockburn: Thud of the Jackboot. You can see he turns Kim Jung-il's death into a litany of complaints about the state of things in the USA including a good dose of Obama derangement that might make your average Tea Partier blush.

In this latest newsletter, hot from the presses, we continue our series on Obama’s record, with David Macaray’s fine dissection of the Democratic president’s treatment of the people whose organizing and also money put him in office: we mean the labor movement. And how did Obama reward the labor movement? Read Macaray to get the full, sordid story.

What is the Obama administration really up to in the Pacific, deploying US Marines in Australia amid much fanfare, pumping the alarm buttons about China’s military might? Read Conn Hallinan’s report.

PhillyPretzel Sat, Dec 24, 2011 3:16:49pm

re: #35 EmmmieG
It is a matter of scheduling. You see Prince Phillip's chest pains were not in the schedule therefore the short visit. Also Elizabeth is horribly afraid of germs.

Varek Raith Sat, Dec 24, 2011 3:17:40pm

re: #36 Gus 802

Here's an example at Couterpunch from Alexander Cockburn: Thud of the Jackboot. You can see he turns Kim Jung-il's death into a litany of complaints about the state of things in the USA including a good dose of Obama derangement that might make your average Tea Partier blush.

I barely got past the second paragraph.
What a nutter.

Mostly sane, most of the time. Sat, Dec 24, 2011 3:18:02pm

re: #36 Gus 802

Here's an example at Couterpunch from Alexander Cockburn: Thud of the Jackboot. You can see he turns Kim Jung-il's death into a litany of complaints about the state of things in the USA including a good dose of Obama derangement that might make your average Tea Partier blush.

What? Seriously?

Gus Sat, Dec 24, 2011 3:18:05pm

re: #38 Varek Raith

I barely got past the second paragraph.
What a nutter.

Yeah, it's rather manic.

Dark_Falcon Sat, Dec 24, 2011 3:22:08pm

re: #39 EmmmieG

What? Seriously?

Yes, and he goes on into a Prison Planet-style rant about the National Defense Authorization Act:

Now, after months of declaring that he would veto such legislation, Obama has now crumbled and will soon sign a monstrosity called the Levin/McCain detention bill, named for its two senatorial sponsors, Carl Levin and John McCain. It’s snugged into the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act.

The detention bill mandates – don’t glide too easily past that word - that all accused terrorists be indefinitely imprisoned by the military rather than in the civilian court system; this includes US citizens within the borders of the United States. Obama supporters have made strenuous efforts to suggest that US citizens are excluded from the bill’s provisions. Not so. “It is not unfair to make an American citizen account for the fact that they decided to help Al Qaeda to kill us all and hold them as long as it takes to find intelligence about what may be coming next,” says Senator Lindsay Graham, a big backer of the bill. “And when they say, ‘I want my lawyer,’ you tell them, ‘Shut up. You don’t get a lawyer.’” The bill’s co-sponsor, Democratic senator, cosponsor of the bill, Carl Levin says it was the White House itself that demanded that the infamous Section 1031 apply to American citizens.

And later in the screed we find out who Cockburn really likes:

Will the bill hurt Obama? Probably not too much, if at all. Liberals are never very energetic in protecting constitutional rights. That’s more the province of libertarians and other wackos like Ron Paul actually prepared to draw lines in the sand in matters of principle.

Luap Nor!

Varek Raith Sat, Dec 24, 2011 3:22:35pm

GOLD

Gus Sat, Dec 24, 2011 3:23:23pm

re: #41 Dark_Falcon

Yes, and he goes on into a Prison Planet-style rant about the National Defense Authorization Act:

And later in the screed we find out who Cockburn really likes:

Luap Nor!

BarackMcBushHitler is the new FEMA kamp kommander!!11ty

//Firebagger

Varek Raith Sat, Dec 24, 2011 3:24:12pm

re: #43 Gus 802

BarackMcBushHitler is the new FEMA kamp kommander!!11ty

//Firebagger

COOOOOBBBBBBRRRRAAAA!!!!

Killgore Trout Sat, Dec 24, 2011 3:24:53pm

Pope decries commercial glitter of Christmas

Pope Benedict XVI decried the increasing commercialisation of Christmas as he celebrated Christmas Eve mass, urging the faithful to look beyond the holiday's "superficial glitter" to discover its true meaning.

Bonus: Picture of pope is his castle sitting on his golden throne, being served a jewel encrusted chalice by a young boy.

Gus Sat, Dec 24, 2011 3:25:11pm

re: #44 Varek Raith

COOOBBBRRRAAA!!!

...

Feck it. They're all the same. Might as well stay home on election day next year. We need to teach Obama a lesson!

Dark_Falcon Sat, Dec 24, 2011 3:25:32pm

re: #42 Varek Raith

GOLD

Well, Counterpunch is hocking a book called "How The Economy Was Lost: The War of the Worlds" by vile paleo-con hater Paul Craig Roberts.

Filth, utter filth.

Targetpractice Sat, Dec 24, 2011 3:25:51pm

re: #44 Varek Raith

COOOBBBRRRAAA!!!

Hail HYDRA!

Gus Sat, Dec 24, 2011 3:25:57pm

re: #45 Killgore Trout

Pope decries commercial glitter of Christmas

Bonus: Picture of pope is his castle sitting on his golden throne, being served a jewel encrusted chalice by a young boy.

Pay no attention to this gold encrusted gown!

Gus Sat, Dec 24, 2011 3:27:05pm

re: #47 Dark_Falcon

Well, Counterpunch is hocking a book called "How The Economy Was Lost: The War of the Worlds" by vile paleo-con hater Paul Craig Roberts.

Filth, utter filth.

Counterpunch. Where the far-left and the far-right converge at the upper apex of the political ideology sphere.

Killgore Trout Sat, Dec 24, 2011 3:27:14pm

re: #49 Gus 802

Pay no attention to this gold encrusted gown!

Heh, I was going to mention it but there was too much bling and I was forming a run on sentence.

SanFranciscoZionist Sat, Dec 24, 2011 3:29:32pm

re: #51 Killgore Trout

Heh, I was going to mention it but there was too much bling and I was forming a run on sentence.

Yes, but it's not commercial bling, and that is what counts.

abolitionist Sat, Dec 24, 2011 3:36:20pm

re: #52 SanFranciscoZionist

Yes, but it's not commercial bling, and that is what counts.

Lenny Bruce described the global Catholic Church as "a business." But at least the money flows voluntarily.

Gus Sat, Dec 24, 2011 3:38:57pm

There's a small hawk dining on a pigeon in the alleyway. Don't know the species. I did see a Red Tail about a month ago.

Gus Sat, Dec 24, 2011 3:42:45pm

It's got pantaloons!

Dark_Falcon Sat, Dec 24, 2011 3:43:42pm

re: #54 Gus 802

There's a small hawk dining on a pigeon in the alleyway. Don't know the species. I did see a Red Tail about a month ago.

More likely a Broadwing Hawk, or perhaps an immature Red Tail.

Gus Sat, Dec 24, 2011 3:44:28pm

re: #56 Dark_Falcon

More likely a Broadwing Hawk, or perhaps an immature Red Tail.

I was thinking the latter. Do Red Tails have pantaloons?

PhillyPretzel Sat, Dec 24, 2011 3:46:29pm

re: #57 Gus 802
from the free dictionary. [Link: www.thefreedictionary.com...]
From the picture is looks like it.

wrenchwench Sat, Dec 24, 2011 3:46:46pm

@CommonDescent Living fossil
The tilt of the earth in relation to the sun is the reason for the season[*]

*Excessive literalism not intended to offend.

Happy holidays of all kinds and no kinds to Charles and lizards present, lurking and absent. Including the suspected lizard who Tweeted that.

See y'all Monday.

Gus Sat, Dec 24, 2011 3:50:09pm

re: #59 wrenchwench

*Excessive literalism not intended to offend.

Happy holidays of all kinds and no kinds to Charles and lizards present, lurking and absent. Including the suspected lizard who Tweeted that.

See y'all Monday.

Have a good one!

William Barnett-Lewis Sat, Dec 24, 2011 3:50:34pm

Merry Christmas!

A big bowl of lamb stew & an early church service later. Did I miss anything interesting?

Dark_Falcon Sat, Dec 24, 2011 3:58:12pm

re: #61 wlewisiii

Merry Christmas!

A big bowl of lamb stew & an early church service later. Did I miss anything interesting?

We were all LOLing at Counterpunch's NDAA freakout. Some samples, first a 1980's vintage lie:

Governments, particularly those engaged in a Great War on Terror, like to make long lists of troublesome people to be sent to internment camps or dungeons in case of national emergency. Back in Reagan’s time, in the 1980s, Lt Col Oliver North, working out of the White House, was caught preparing just such a list. Reagan speedily distanced himself from North. Obama, the former lecturer on the US constitution, is brazenly signing this authorization for military internment camps.

Unlike The Joshua Tree, this bit of 1980's nostalgia has not aged well.

Cockburn goes on to quote with a approval a loony essay by a man named T.P. (for his bunghole? ed.) Wilkerson:

“But does the new warfare even need the large battalions of expendable troops? Just as financial “engineering” has replaced industrial production as a means of wealth extraction, remote-control weapons deployment and mercenary subcontracting have largely replaced the mass armies that characterized U.S. and U.K. warfare in Korea and Vietnam. In this sense, warfare has become even more “corporate.” The fiction that wars of invasion and conquest are the result of state action is obsolete. The entire “national security” process has been fully depoliticized; in other words, the state is more clearly than ever a mere conduit for policies and practices whose origin and essential characteristics are those of boardroom strategic planning and marketing. The difference between global business and global warfare has, in fact, dissolved.

“This presents a serious cognitive problem for anyone trying to find the root of this poisonous plant in order to tear it from the ground that nurtures it. The military sustained by the draft was mimetic of the steel mill in Gary, Indiana, or the cotton plantation in the south? Today’s military operates like the headquarters of Microsoft or USX – the actual physical violence has been outsourced.”

In the preceding piece, the Bad Craziness is a bad as on Glenn Beck's show. The only real difference is that the piece is written in Pompous Academise instead of Teabag.

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