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What’s goin’ on in the world today? People fightin’, feudin’, lootin’, it’s okay. Let it go, let it flow, let the good times roll. — Eminem

The morning roundup of the happenings and lack thereof in all corners of the Universe:

• More Americans are getting days off from work than at any point in the past 14 years. Welcome to the terror dome, Mr. President-Elect.
• Mayor Bloomberg has proposed a 6-cent tax on plastic bags at New York City supermarkets.
• They have elections in Scotland, too.
• Jimmy Carl Black, the longtime drummer of Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention, died in Germany.
• Comedian Katt Williams was picked up on gun charges in New York on Thursday.
• Six Algerian inmates at Guantanamo Bay will contest their incarceration in a Federal Court in Washington later this month, in the first such case since the prison was opened following 9/11.
• New York Governor Eliot Spitzer won’t face criminal charges in his hooker debacle.
• Hall and Oates are in the news!
• November 26th has been declared "Barack Obama Day" in Kenya. I’m pretty sure this happened when G.W. Bush was elected also, right?
• 70 Saudi Arabian activists are staging a hunger strike to protest their government’s incarceration of ‘political prisoners.’ This should go over well in a country that still stones people to death in public executions. 
• England is the top cocaine consumer in Europe.
• At least 11 people are dead in a US airstrike in Iraq Afghanistan Syria Pakistan.

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