You may have noticed that we recently had an election. The results of which seem to have taken a lot of people by surprise. In particular our teabagger friends who seem to be going so far as unfriending those suspected of harboring Democrat (sic) tendencies and refusing to speak to relatives at Thanksgiving. (BTW, that, I think is the single funniest posting I’ve yet read combining as it does a truculent narcissism coupled with ignorance worthy of Trump. I have my doubts that that whole site is all an elaborate hoax.) Despair has been experienced. America has been declared dead. Gays are running amok. We’ve turned into Europe (as if). Any day now we can expect the mass exodus to Canada.

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The headline:

Applebee’s CEO Threatens To Fire Employees And Freeze Hiring Because Of Obamacare

The lede:

Zane Tankel, the CEO of Applebee’s New York Franchise, Apple-Metro, is so dedicated to not spending money on his employees that he’s refusing to hire anyone new. Why? Because he might have to provide them health care.

Easy on the eggs, gang.

Title: “All In: The Education of General David Petraeus”

Authors: Paula Broadwell and Vernon Loeb

Rank: 80

Blurb: “Afforded extensive access by General Petraeus…”

Review: “You find out that David Petraeus can run at youthful speeds for miles, but he doesn’t seem to ever breathe hard, sweat or get a sore tendon.”

Customers Also Bought: “In The Company Of Heroes” by Michael J. Durant and Steven Hartov

Footnote: “4 days in the top 100”.

All In [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon Kickback Link]

“But the business of America is business, as Calvin Coolidge said long ago in an alternative universe…” [Mark Steyn/NRO]

I have no respect for Obama Voters.You traded freedom for a free phone, a joint for a job, and a baby for sluttiness.

— Victoria Jackson (@vicjackshow) November 10, 2012

What did I do? Went to Zabar’s housewares, of course:

Zabar’s housewares has many overpriced kitchen items for Manhattanites who don’t know how to use Amazon (sorry for wide angle, forgot to reset Hero 2).

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Our guest columnist is not necessarily the husband of David Petraeus biographer/squeeze Paula Broadwell.

My wife is having an affair with a government executive. His role is to manage a project whose progress is seen worldwide as a demonstration of American leadership. (This might seem hyperbolic, but it is not an exaggeration.)

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