“Sanitation officials said Wednesday that they expect to haul away 30 tons of debris from the Occupy L.A. encampment — everything from clothing to heaps of garbage to oddball curiosities left behind by the protesters who lived at the City Hall tent city for two months.” [LAT]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB-7734p-EI

Israel’s Ministry of Immigrant Absorption — which by wacky coincidence is the title of our next horror movie — is running ads and billboards in five American cities, targeting Israeli expat communities at risk of going native. We’d translate, but why spoil the fun?

Netanyahu Government Suggests Israelis Avoid Marrying American Jews [Atlantic, via Sully]

“Bachmann tells Waverly IA crowd that were she president, ‘we wouldn’t have an American embassy in Iran.’ The US broke ties w Iran in 1980.” [@JamieNBCNews]

WaPo columnist Ruth Marcus has stern words for Kansas hero Emma Sullivan:

Emma Sullivan, you’re lucky you’re not my daughter. (Dangerous sentence, I know: My daughters might agree.)

If you were my daughter, you’d be writing that letter apologizing to Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback for the smart­alecky, potty-mouthed tweet you wrote after meeting with him on a school field trip.

We would have told Brownback to eat penguin shit, you ass spelunker, but that’s just us.

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Our guest columnist is Conservatives4Palin, which raised $6,500 to broadcast this ad in Iowa today. (The production cost was presumably a pizza for an organizer’s nephew.) If we were cruel, we would point out that while the Iowa caucuses welcome walk-ins, filing deadlines have already passed for New Hampshire, South Carolina, Florida, and Missouri. But we’re above that sort of thing.

Your contributions have made it possible for us to run the Palin reconsider television ad next week in the Sioux City, Iowa market. Thanks to everyone who chipped in to make it possible.

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“The Scottsdale Gun Club is inviting people to enjoy Santa and Machine Guns. The family event allows people to take a holiday card picture with St. Nick — and a high-powered firearm. Santa poses against a backdrop of an $80,000 Garwood minigun.” [Fox Phoenix, via ThinkProgress]

“This is cause for reassessment.” —Herman Cain! on a conference call with senior staff this morning, discussing “this recent firestorm that hit the news yesterday”. [NRO]