'Tis the Season to be Jolly

 Almost over night San Francisco resident has become the most famous Santa impostor in the world. After being fired from his 20-year job at Macy's, he didn't let it get him down, but instead got a job as the Santa at Lefty O'doul's Restaurant just a couple buildings away.

Democrats elect Nancy Pelosi as the party's minority leader

 On wednesday Nancy Pelosi was elected to be the Democrat's minority leader despite presiding over a

62-seat loss for her party in the midterm elections that gave Republicans control of the House.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/18/MN2E1GDK0A.DTL&type=politics

Mental Health Break: Obama Vs. Reagan

The U.S. is upping the ante in agression towards the Taliban

        For the first time in the Afghan war the U.S. is deploying heavily armored battle tanks in an effort to further the U.S. military's  tactics for defeating the Taliban.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/18/AR2010111806856.html?hpid=topnews

Is the Tea Party partying too hard for the Republican party?

Certain Tea Party trends and antics have become too outrageous, and are actually now taking away from the Republican party's influence on the American people.  The obvious example of Tea Partying too hard is the Rand Paul supporter stomping on a protesting woman's head.  This is clearly the worst of the Tea Partying, but whose to say the trend won't continue?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/27/AR2010102707428.html?hpid=topnews

Meg Whitman refuses to stop attack ads

After being asked to put an end to the negative campaign ads that Whitman and Jerry Brown have been making against each other, Brown said he would immediately if Whitman did.  Meg Whitman on the other hand stuck to her techniques and tried to allow herself to keep showing these adds while putting down Brown by saying she wouldn't because she has to address Brown's less than satisfactory past as California state governor.  The crowd showed obvious resentment towards this statement.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/10/27/MNTH1G2C1A.DTL

San Franciscans using internet domain names to get a quick buck in case pot is legalized

Kevin Faler, a former police officer who worked with narcotics, came up with an easy way to make money off of the legalization of marijuana; by selling internet domain names.  He figures that once weed is legal, thousands of sites will appear and they will have to buy their domain names from Mr. Faler in order to do so.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/us/28pot.html?ref=us