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A dramatic picture of an 84-year-old woman pepper sprayed by police as part of Tuesday night's Occupy Seattle protest march has gone global . But after blocking traffic during rush hour on a busy downtown Seattle street, the little old lady and the other protestors are getting little sympathy.

It it seems like Christmas came even earlier this year, you're not imagining it . But as retailers start the holiday shopping season before the leaves have even turned, a backlash is building in an effort to save Thanksgiving and "respect the bird.

There's nothing worse than trying to get out of a busy restaurant and waiting forever just to get your check, or forgetting your credit card in a crowded bar.

Now, there's an app for that.

Tabbed Out is a free iPhone and Android app that lets you open a tab with your phone, view it in real time and pay at any time.

on Capitol Hill in Seattle is among the first in the city to put Tabbed Out into action. And managing partner Rich Fox says it's been a hit.

"At lunch, it's nice for people on a tight schedule. They know they can still come in have a sit down lunch and still get up and leave whenever they choose. They can close out the tab while they're still there, walking down the street or even when they get back to the office."

And he says it's already cut down on the number of people who open a tab at the bar then forget their credit card at the end of the night.

The app is easy to use. Just sign up for the service with your credit card and you're good to go. Nearly are on board for the initial launch.

And Fox says rather than cutting down on the interaction with customers, it's actually allowed servers to develop a more personalized level of service and intimacy.

Tabbed Out also makes it easy to figure out how much to leave with a built in tip calculator. And you can't stiff your server. The establishment can set a minimum gratuity.

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It's the most controversial measure on the ballot anywhere in the nation this year . A proposed Mississippi law that would define a fertilized egg as a person with full legal rights, meaning not only would abortion be outlawed, so would some forms of birth control that destroy fertilized eggs like birth control pills.

Seattle restaurant insiders might think pretty highly of their skills, but the cut throat reality TV world of Top Chef isn't impressed . All three of the contestants sent home in the show's season premier were from Emerald City kitchens.

Election day is upon us, and liquor and tolls are the most contentious issues on this year's ballots . Your ballot must be in the mail and postmarked by Tuesday, or you can drop it off at one a number of ballot boxes in King, Pierce and Snohomish counties.

We've all got them . . . the embarrassing old pictures that make us cringe . Whether it's the matching sweaters, outdated hairdoes or ridiculous staging, it turns out millions of people couldn't resist sharing their own awkward family photos.

Zombies seem to be everywhere these days, so it's little wonder they'll be one of the most popular costumes this Halloween . And even though times are tough, you don't have to give up an arm or a leg (pun intended) to join the ranks of the walking dead.

Chant after me:

"What do we want?"

"Something besides the same old, cliche worn chants you hear at every protest."

"When do we want it?"

"NOW!"

And slowly but surely, the Occupy Wall Street, Seattle and other cities movement seems to be getting the message...at least the music. After a month devoid of its own theme song, the guitar duo "" has taken up the cause with "Occupy the USA," a catchy little ditty in the spirit of Joan Baez or Country Joe and the Fish ("And it's one, two, three, what are we fighting for...")

They aren't the deepest lyrics ever written, but they get the point across. Actually, multiple points, observes 97.3 成人X站 FM's Dan Restione on Seattle's Morning News.

"It's a scattergun, they're hitting it all," Restione says.

In one stanza, he counts a handful of social issues, from foreclosure to pensions to hedgefunds to health care.

"I don't know what 'jobs for justice' means, but that's one," he laughs.

You can listen for yourself:

Listen to Seattle's Morning News on the new Occupy protest songs

Here's a sample:

Welcome to the US occupation
To win the hearts and minds
Defend all humankind
Tell the banks and the corporations
We're here to occupy the USA

The Congress and the hedge funds
Stole our houses and our pensions
Conspired to steal our healthcare
At Conservative conventions
We're here to stand our ground
We demand our jobs with justice
We're 99% in charge
Now you'll just have to trust us

It'll need some work before it reaches the pantheon of protest songs.

What's your favorite? The list is endless and depends on your age and allegiances. The music site Spinner has a pretty good , some obvious like Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" and Edwin Starr's "War", to lesser known like the Clash's "Clampdown" (the Clash should be required listening for any protest movement, but I digress.)

Surprisingly, there's little mention of what's probably the quintessential American protest song, as appropriate today as it was when Woodie Guthrie first wrote it:

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