This is just terrifying:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja5VocMwnXI

We are well and truly fucked.

The Chicago Tribune today reported that… well…

On Sunday, while most of America was recovering from Fourth of July fireworks and cookouts, the Hoffman Estates-based retailer launched an online boutique called Christmas Lane at Sears.com and Kmart.com. It also set up Christmas decor shops at 372 Sears stores, including one at Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg.

Sears typically waits until Nov. 1 to unveil its holiday merchandise, said Sears spokeswoman Natalie Norris-Howser. But with the recession putting a crimp in spending, the retailer is hoping to attract holiday shoppers early.

Yes.  You read that right.  Christmas sales on July 5.

[ADD: In other silly news from the Prairie State: Roland Burris has had enough.  One and done for the man.  Now then: I have to go.  I need tinsel, dammit!]

Read, but you should go listen to the story – it’s pretty amazing.

All Things Considered, April 7, 2009 · An ammunition shortage in the U.S. is affecting police and sheriffs’ departments all over the country, as well as gun dealers, from big retailers like Wal-Mart to smaller family-run businesses and online operations.

Ammunition suppliers say the shortage is due to several factors, including the sheer volume of ammunition heading overseas to fight wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But they also say the shortage — as well as a sharp rise in gun sales — coincided with the election of President Obama, fueled by fears his administration would usher in more restrictive gun laws.

He’s coming to take your guns snakehandlers!

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You want a morning newspaper delivered to your front door?  Well la-dee-da, Mr. Carnegie!

[Detroit newspapers (both of them, for the time being) will deliver papers on Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays. Otherwise, you’ll have to go to an honor box or a store in order to get your daily dose of Cathy.  AAAACK!]

Yes, yes.  The Internets have news quicker and fresher than dead tree media.  But still — damn.

Item: RNC pulling Wisconsin and Maine TV. McCain-branded ads still up, but no help from the party anymore. RNC doubling down on Colorado and Missouri, and now has ads running in one blue state — Pennsylvania.

Any moves like this had to be made today. If they made the move tomorrow, or the next day, it would have been a nice, loud GONG in the middle of the library. As it is: this can’t be good for the Geezer.