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Buy Nothing Day Day 334 of 2008 34 days left in this year

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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — I’o: Meat
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY —Aznuts: Insane
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Dark lips hold fast.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “I’m not a vegetarian because I love animals, I’m a vegetarian because I hate plants.” - A. Whitney Brown

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WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — Democracy Now!
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Barack Obama is Irish
NETCAST OF THE WEEK — Left Wing Conspiracy
GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — Media Matters

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The massacre of nearly 45,000,000 innocent animals who never did you any harm is finished, thank heavens. I hope you’re all happy. You added to global warming by eating your meat, and your poor health and digestive troubles.

It’s not as difficult as some people think to be a vegetarian at Thanksgiving. I was the one who carved the bird in our little soiree yesterday. (Yes I have a shameful past.) And for the desperate, there’s always the mock turkey served by the likes of Down to Earth, though I think it ruins vegetarian creed to create, cook and eat stuff that looks, tastes and smells like cooked meat. I mean, if you need that, then eat the meat for heaven’s sake.

Really, I didn’t mean that. Don’t eat the meat. Just because Mana Foods, one of the world’s great shops, sells meat, doesn’t mean it’s OK to. If you’d like to get some straight dope on meat eating, you’ll enjoy reading “Skinny Bitch”, by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin. No joke. What follows is, though.

Oh, by the way, it really is “Buy Nothing Day”, so designated for obvious reasons. I won’t be following that advice. I’m buying power tools today!

1520 Ferdinand Magellan begins crossing Pacific Ocean
1853 Olympia established as capital of Washington Territory
1861 Confederate congress officially admits Missouri to the CSA
1871 Ku Klux Klan trials began in Federal District Court in SC
1895 America’s 1st auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner averages 7 MPH
1908 154 men die in coal mine explosion at Marianna Pa
1919 US-born Lady Astor elected 1st female member of British Parliament
1922 Capt Cyril Turner (RAF) gave 1st skywriting exhibition (NYC). Turner spelled out “Hello USA. Call Vanderbilt 7200.” 47,000 called
1929 Adm Richard E Byrd makes 1st South Pole flight
1929 Ernie Nevers scores all 40 pts for Chicago Cards vs Bears (NFL record)
1942 Nearly 500 die in a fire that destroyed Coconut Grove nightclub in Boston MA
1943 FDR, Churchill & Stalin met at Tehran to map out strategy
1948 “Hopalong Cassidy” premiers on TV
1963 1st million copy record prior to release “I Want to Hold Your Hand”
1963 Beatles “She Loves You” returns to #1 on UK record chart
1964 Mariner 4 launched; 1st probe to fly by Mars
1968 John Lennon is fined œ150 for unauthorized drug possession
1972 Los Angeles Dodgers trade Frank Robinson to California Angels
1974 Bowie Kuhn suspends George Steinbrenner for 2 years
1979 Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes in Antarctica killing 257
1986 Reagan administration exceeds SALT II arms limitations for 1st time
1987 South African Airways Boeing 747 crashes into Indian Ocean, 159 die
1988 Picasso’s “Acrobat & Harlequin” sells for $38.46 million
1989 Rickey Henderson signs record $3,000,000 per year Oak A’s contract

1757 William Blake English poet/painter (Songs of Innocence & Experience)
1820 Friedrich Engels Germany, social philosopher; Marx’s collaborator
1866 Henry Bacon architect (Lincoln Memorial)
1894 Brooks Atkinson drama critic (Broadway theater namesake)
1907 Alberto Moravia Italian writer (Indifferent Ones)
1908 Claude Levi-Strauss Belgium, social anthropologist (Structure Anthro)
1916 Guy Lapebie France, 100K cyclist (Olympic-silver-1936)
1920 Cecilia Colledge England, figure skater, competed in Olympics at 11 (1932)
1925 Gloria Grahame Los Angeles CA, actress (Sue-Rich Man Poor Man)
1925 Virginia Hewitt Shreveport La, actress (Carol-Space Patrol)
1929 Berry Gordy Jr Detroit, record company owner (Motown)
1931 Hope Lange Redding Ridge CT, actress (Ghost & Mrs Muir)
1936 Gary Hart (Sen-D-Colo), lover
1941 Laura Antonelli Pola Yugoslavia, actress (Wifemistress, Divine Nymph)
1942 Paul Warfield NFL/WFL wide receiver (Cleveland, Miami, Memphis)
1943 Randy Newman singer (Short People, I Love LA, Raindrops)
1949 Alexander Godunov Russia, composer/dancer (Bolshoi) defected 1979
1949 Paul Shaffer Thunder Bay Ont, orchestra leader (SNL, David Letterman)
1950 Ed Harris Tenafly NJ, actor (Right Stuff, Swing Shift, Walker, Coma)
1958 David Van Day rocker (Dollar-Loves Gotta Hold on Me)
1959 Judd Nelson actor (Breakfast Club)
1961 Jane Sibbett actress (Teddy Z)
1964 Cornelia Guest debutante (Debutante’s Guide to Life)
1967 Vickie Smith Houston TX, playmate (May, 1992)

1939 James A Naismith creator of basketball, dies at 78
1945 Dwight Davis donator of the Davis cup, dies
1960 Richard Wright dies at 52 in Paris France
1962 Queen Mother Wilhelmina of Netherlands, dies at 82
1964 Charles Meredith actor (Court of Last Resort), dies at 70
1971 Wasfi Tal Jordan’s PM, assassinated in Cairo
1976 Rosalind Russell dies at 68
1983 Christopher George actor, dies at 54 of a heart attack
1987 Choh Hao Li bio-chemist prof (isolated growth hormones), dies at 74