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Grapevine: Sandra Fluke in contention for Person of the Year

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    Time magazine nominates female activist

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Now some fresh pickings from the political grapevine CNN reports nearly every American went shopping over Black Friday weekend.

Really almost every one of the headline on its website reads 247.

Million shoppers visited stores and web sites Black Friday weekend.

But the weekly standard notes these numbers are a bit suspicious taking away those too young to shop.

It would mean that for the statistics to be believed shoppers would include four point four million people aged.

74793.

Million aged eighty to 84 about two million age 8589.

And nearly a million between ninety and nine.

Almost 300095.

And older.

The numbers include those who just visited web sites.

Would suggest some folks were counted more than once.

Also on Black Friday news it appears there is going to be plenty of firepower under the Christmas tree this year.

Gun buyer checks hit an all time record high Friday.

FBI buyer background check requests were up 20% from last year's one day record.

Demand reportedly was so overwhelming.

It caused outages at the FBI background -- center twice.

Time magazine has nominated it feminist activist Sandra flock as one of forty contenders for its person of the year.

-- makes a list of luminaries that includes President Obama Mitt Romney secretary of state Hillary Clinton.

Former President Bill Clinton Egyptian president and -- why Mohamed Morsi and the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

-- inclusion might come as a surprise as a newsmaker one might say she was dwarfed by some of the others looking at.

The top fifty major newspapers this year senator -- look.

Appeared in 1059.

Articles Mitt Romney in 71000.

President Obama 59000.

And Bill Clinton 111000.

The winner will be announced December 14 finally China's Communist newspaper the People's Daily.

Has been hoodwinked the paper ran a 55 page photo spread on its web site in a tribute to Kim -- -- under the headline.

North Korea's leader named the onions sexiest man alive for 2012 off.

Quoting the onion the paper wrote quote with his devastatingly handsome round face his boyish charm.

And his strong sturdy frame this Pyongyang bread.

Heartthrob is every woman's dream country.

The onion is of course a satirical website famous for headlines such as.

Microsoft -- ones and zeros and hate crime bill stalled by pro hate law.