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So it’s the zombie apocalypse, and your neighborhood is being overrun. Quick, grab your… sporting goods? Before the zombies attack you with… golf balls? Then run for the nearest… stadium?

No, this Norwegian commercial doesn’t make any sense. But like so many recent zombie movies, the production values are so high that it basically doesn’t have to. (World War Z, this means you.)

Despite its gratuitous comical nonsense, viewers in Norway complained after the commercial for sporting goods store XXL aired during family-oriented programming, calling it irrelevant, disgusting and stupid, according to a Huffington Post translation of a Norwegian news website.

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John Boehner will never come as close to experiencing Burning Man as he did today when a group of naked individuals smeared in body paint stormed his office. Democrats are standing firm against cuts that could kill your grandmother, but there’s a good chance she’ll have to replace her hearing aids with those old-timey ear trumpets. And you’d be forgiven for confusing the Republicans placed in charged of the House’s committees with a GOP panel on abortion rights: There are just so many dudes. This is HUFFPOST HILL for Tuesday, November 27th, 2012

REID AND DURBIN DON’T WANT GRANDMA TO DIE – Good news for children who don’t want their grandparents to spend their golden years head-to-toe in the same bed, “Willy Wonka”-style. The senior Illinois senator and Senate majority whip today asserted that Democrats would not allow cuts to Social Security to be part of any agreement to avert the fiscal cliff. Over the past two years, the White House had made it clear in budget negotiations that it was open to Social Security benefit reductions as part of a larger deal that included tax hikes. Yet on Monday, White House spokesman Jay Carney appeared to back up Durbin’s position, suggesting a “separate track” be used to reform Social Security. “We should address the drivers of the deficit, and Social Security currently is not a driver of the deficit,” he said. And at a press conference on Tuesday, Reid said that President Barack Obama had told the fiscal cliff negotiators at a recent meeting that “Social Security is not going to be part of this.” [HuffPost]

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Ready to deck the halls of your office and hang mistletoe in the break room? You may want to hold off.

A new survey by staffing firm OfficeTeam found that more than half of senior managers aren’t planning to have an office holiday party this year. (Hat Tip: FOX Business)

Of over 1,000 senior managers surveyed, only 44 percent said that their company was planning an office holiday party. A similar survey from 2005 found that 73 percent of managers at Fortune 1000 companies said their company hosts an office party.

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We may still be a couple of months away from its long-awaited release, but RIM’s first BlackBerry 10 smartphone certainly doesn’t seem to be shy of the cameras in the interim. Just last week, some photos turned up on the CrackBerry forums that offered a clear look at the new L Series model next to a BlackBerry Bold, and now another batch of images have made a brief appearance on Twitter before being promptly removed. Those latest, first spotted by TechSuplex, are unfortunately of the BlurryCam variety, but they do show the phone from a variety of angles, and the device in question was said to boot up in a snappy eight seconds. As CrackBerry notes, they also appear to be relatively recent, with the device sporting the new style icons that were just revealed this month. Hit the links below for a closer look.

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WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) accused Democrats Tuesday of throwing a “bomb” into the Senate by proposing to change rules for obstructing legislation with filibusters.

Filibusters happen when a senator refuses to end debate on a measure and requires a three-fifths vote to proceed — a step that has been demanded more than 110 times in the current session of Congress.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has proposed changing the Senate rules when the next term starts in January to make filibusters a bit harder to achieve. Normally, Senate rule changes require a 67-vote majority, but Reid has proposed invoking seldom-used procedures — which opponents call the “nuclear option” — to make the changes with a simple 51-vote majority.

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