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City of Tacoma Budget Woes: Department heads notified 166 city workers yesterday that their jobs are officially at risk. (News Tribune)

Republicans Answer To The $2 Billion State Budget Shortfall: cherry-cherry-cherry (News Tribune)

Afghanistan Blast: A suicide bomber killed 54 people at a Shiite shrine in Kabul. (CNN)

Cain Train: Accuser says candidate's exit "bittersweet." (CNN)

Another Year-End List: Best music videos of 2011 (Paste Magazine)

The Best Architecture Of 2011: Jonathan Glancey's choice. (The Guardian)

Today's Helpful Tip: when getting a lap dance, don't sit in a plastic chair. (Dumb As A Blog)

Discovery: Beer can actually save lives. (The Daily What)

Wood Ear: Wooden smartphone with app blocks (Super Punch)

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Up For Debate: Pacific Lutheran University's student newspaper website shutdown due to potty language. (News Tribune)

Malin Not Mailing It In: Davenport, Iowa City Manager still intereste din City of Tacoma Manager job. (News Tribune)

Fun To Say, Dangerous To Eat: Ocean Spray expands Craisins recall. (Boston.com)

Tacoma Bath Bombs: Oprah loves them. (News Tribune)

Evil Craigslist: More than 100 people in Ohio responded to a Craigslist ad asking them to "watch over a 688 acre patch of hilly farmland and feed a few cows." Some of them are buried in shallow graves. (New York Times)

GOP Focus Groups: GOP voters in a Virginia focus group say they have not warmed to Mitt Romney, are worried about Newt Gingrich's volatility and have all but dismissed Herman Cain. (CNN)

Best Toys Of All Time: Stick, dirt ... (Wired)

Maybe This Shall Destroy Them Both: Anne Hathaway vs. Jessica Biel. (Celebitchy)

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City Of Tacoma Budget Woes: Tacoma City Council has five ideas. You better be certain you're being robbed or it will cost you. (News Tribune)

Tacoma's Future: An alternative view of Tacoma in the 21st century. (News Tribune)

Um, Not Guilty To DUI: Fife's mayor pro tem spins the wheel. (News Tribune)

Your Turkey PiñataOutside Is Going To See Hell: High winds forecasted for Thanksgiving. (Kitsap Sun)

GOP Debate: The latest GOP presidential debate exposed deep fault lines among the candidates on how to grapple with the nation's security challenges. (CNN)

U Can't Haz Sadz: The hushed dangers of startup depression. (Beta Beat)

Trippy: The magic of Hollywood's green screen. (Flavorwire)

Thanksgiving Hand Turkeys: 12 dumb ones. (TruTV)

Time To Face The Day

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Through Rain And Wind Today: U.S. Postal Service hosts a public meetings tonight on its proposal to close its mail-processing center by the Tacoma Mall. (News Tribune)

Now With More Daffodils: City of Puyallup annexes farmlands. (News Tribune)

Because It's So Huge: Help design wayfinding signs for downtown Tacoma. (News Tribune)

Stick Up, Stick Up: Puyallup police are searching for a man who held up a Little Caesars Pizza last night. (News Tribune)

Pictures: Are these the seven wonders of nature? (National Geographic)

Wow: Ricky Gervais to return as Golden Globes host. (Coming soon)

Super Mad: PETA has turned its wrath on classic video-game character Mario, who wears a Tanooki raccoon suit in Nintendo's new 3DS game Super Mario 3D Land. (Time)

We Finally Will See What They Look Like: Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me is coming to television. (Yahoo)

Darn! Darn! Darn!: The Munsters is getting a reboot at NBC. (Zap 2 It)

Google Music: It's here. (Geek Sugar)

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The Commencement Luxury Condos In Ruston: New developer is turning them into apartments. (News Tribune)

Academy Award Of The Jewelry World: Tacoma's LeRoy Jewelers grabbed one. (News Tribune)

LeMay-America's Car Museum: Drove its chief operating officer out. (News Tribune)

Sandusky Situation: Former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky told NBC Monday night that he is innocent of charges that he sexually abused boys for at least 15 years. (CNN)

Video: Regis Philbin's 11 funniest(?) moments. (The Daily Beast)

Listen: 11 sounds your kids have never heard. (Mentalfloss)

A Stretch: 50 best celebrity bikinis. (InStyle)

Creepy: Famous last tweets (MTV)

Was Today's Morning Spew Worthy? Click For Answer

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What's Up Krupp?: Thurston County Manager Don Krupp, who has worked for the county for 17 years, has applied for Tacoma's city manager job. (The Olympian)

If It Falls Into Their Laps: Tacoma passes lowest priority marijuana initiative. (Stop The Drug War)

Weird: A state Senate seat may change hands in the middle a special legislative session that starts after Thanksgiving. (News Tribune)

The Sandusky Situation: Students protest after Penn State coach Joe Paterno was fired amid sex-abuse scandal.(CNN) Read Weekly Volcano editor Matt Driscoll's take on the situation. (Weekly Volcano)

New Prime Minister Of Greece: Lucas Papademos, a former European Central Bank vice president, assumes the position. (CNN)

What Would The Muppets Do?: It would be the most sensantional, inspirational, celebrational, Muppet-ational Academy Awards show. (Perez Hilton)

R.I.P. Bil Keane: Family Circus packs up and moves on. (USA Today)

Are L'eggs Back?: The brand that pioneered plastic ostrich-sized eggs as packaging, is looking for a comeback. (Ad Week)

WTF?: Peanut butter vodka. (Laughing Squid)

Today's Moment Of Zen

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It's On!: Art at Work Studio Tours begin this morning. (Spaceworks Tacoma)

You Can Call It ... Another Lovely Day: Pacific Avenue streetscape wayfinding open house is scheduled for Nov. 9. (Forward Tacoma)

Oh Oh Big Ol' Jet Airliner: Rick Perry rides free on a bunch of private jets. (New York Times)

Andy Rooney: Dead at 92. (CNN)

The Terminal: California woman, unable to pay bag fees, stuck in airport for eight days. (Time)

Sounds Like Something Sid And Marty Krofft Would Lead: The FBI has declared the Juggalos a gang, officially. (Wired)

Ground Beef Is Not A Valid Form Of Identification: Drunk Florida dude tries to give police tacos as ID. (LA Weekly)

Party Harder Tonight: This awful webpage somewhere says we have an extra hour of sleep tonight. (Greenwich Mean Time)

All In The Family: Parents called to school about Junior's fighting get in a fight in the car on the way home. (Des Moines Register)

Shaken Not Stirred: New Bond film called Skyfall. (BBC)

Dance GIFs In The Heezy!: Put on some Violent Femmes and take it all in, y'all. (Pajiba)

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Amended Moratorium: Tacoma City Council approves the Wal-Mart Supercenter planned for the Elks' property in Central Tacoma. (News Tribune)

Tacoma's Tentative Budget-Trimming Plan: About 130 Tacoma municipal employees might be out the door. (News Tribune)

Royce Of Reason: 59-year-old underwear-stealing, murder-plotting Long Beach man, who was sentenced to 15 years in prison, said "Now because of my weakness, my flaws, my infatuation, obsession with a person I'd fallen in love with years ago, I did not control my desires, and committed terrible transgressions." (News Tribune)

WikiSeeYa: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange loses a court battle to stay in the UK and will be extradited to Sweden to face questioning on sex charges. (CNN)

Cereal With Seinfeld: Jerry to guest host LIVE! With Kelly after Regis retires. (New York Post)

Occupy Capes: Photos of superheroes at Occupy Wall Street. (Wired)

Morrissey Alert: The Bandana Splits cover "Everyday Is Like Sunday." (Cover Me Songs)

What The Eff Is A Fyrkantig?: Ridiculous IKEA product names (and what they mean). (Flavorwire)

VANDALS WREAK HAVOC! >>>

The Weekly Volcano was just chatting with Metro Parks Commissioner Erik Hanberg about ruffians. Apparently, ruffians are wreaking havoc on the Natural Area Restoration Project.

According to a press release, Metro Parks and the Green Tacoma Partnership are asking for the public's help in apprehending vandals who are maliciously damaging an environmental restoration project that has been underway for nearly 7 years in the gulch abutting Garfield Park.

Read the press release after the jump and help capture these ruffians!

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Gadhafi Is Dead: Fighters attacked the house where Moammar Gadhafi was hiding and shot him when he tried to flee, a spokesman for Libya's new government says. (CNN)

Because Thieves Suck: Auction items to raise money for 49-year-old mother's bone marrow transplant were stolen out of a Tacoma storage unit. She needs your help. (News Tribune)

That's Some Initiative: With more than $34 million committed to both sides of the campaign. Initiative 1183 is the most expensive ballot measure in state history. (News Tribune)

Sea Of Pink: The Thursday Tacoma Runners group dedicates tonight's 3-mile jaunt to National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Throw on some pink at join the group, which launches into stride at 6:30 p.m. at The Social Bar and Grill. (Facebook)

Not Good: September saw 18,400 jobs lost, the first monthly loss since August 2010 and the most since early 2009. (Seattle Times)

"Dark Blood": River Phoenix's final film to be released after 18 years. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Metallica/Lou Reed Collaboration: Hear the whole Lulu now. (loureedmetallica.com)

Not Happy Days For Some: Fraud claim thrown out in Happy Days lawsuit. (CNN)

Halloween Costumes: Let's look at some worn by TV characters. (The Atlantic)