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Good Morning Everyone!
October 27th, the 301st day of the year and only
8 days til the election.
Grab a Cup O' Coffee and lets get on with the week!


Todays Libation is Ethiopian Harrar.
Raspberry-like aromas and rich
chocolate-on-chocolate flavor. Primordial and exotic.
Harvested in the region of the original source of Arabica coffee.
Shade grown. A cup for the true coffee romantic.





Fall Colors in the Swamp


On October 27th

1787 - The first in a series of eighty-five essays by "Publius," the pen name of Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, appeared in the New York Independent Journal "Publius" urged New Yorkers to support ratification of the Constitution approved by the Constitutional Convention on September 17, 1787.

1838 - Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated.

1904 - New York City Subway Opens
"Now I, as Mayor, in the name of the people, declare the subway open!"
At precisely 2:35PM on Thursday, October 27, 1904, the first subway train emerged from City Hall station with Mayor McClellan at the controls.

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1927 - The First Newsreel with Sound
On October 27, 1927, Hollywood turned reportorial as the first newsreel featuring sound was released in New York. Fox Movietone News was the first to employ sound in the newsreel

1936 - Mrs Wallis Simpson filed for divorce which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.

1946 - First commercially-sponsored television program airs (Geographically Speaking, sponsored by Bristol-Myers).

1962 - Major Rudolph Anderson of the United States Air Force became the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane was shot down in Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile.

1973 - The Canon City meteorite, a 1.4 kg chondrite type meteorite strikes in Fremont County, Colorado.

1986 - New York Mets beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 83rd World Series

1991 - Minn Twins beat Altanta Braves 1-0 in 10 to win World Series in 7

1995 - Stock markets around the world crash because of fears of a global economic meltdown. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 554.26 points to 7,161.15.

1999 - World Series, New York Yankees beat Atlanta Braves 4 games to 0

2002 - World Series, Anaheim Angels beat San Francisco Giants 4 games to 3

2004 - World Series, Boston Red Sox beat Saint Louis Cardinals 4 games to 0

[size:17pt]Notable Birthdays Today
1858 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1919)

1873 - Emily Post, American etiquette author (d. 1960)

1914 - Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 1953)

1920 - Nanette Fabray, American actress

1933 - Floyd Cramer, American popular pianist (d. 1997)

1941 - Dick Trickle, American auto racer

1942 - Lee Greenwood, American singer[/size]



Many of you will recall that on July 8, 1947, witnesses claimed that an unidentified object, with five aliens aboard, crashed onto a sheep and cattle ranch just outside Roswell , New Mexico .

This is a well documented incident that has long been covered up by the U.S. Air Force, and the federal government. However, you may NOT know that in the month of March 1948, exactly nine months after that historic day:

George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfield, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Condolezza Rice, and Dan Quayle were all born.
See what happens when aliens breed with sheep.
This information should clear up a lot of things.


Redneck Mansion
The Truth about The Redneck Mansion

Great intro, Greger! very nice debut!

Fantastic, Greger.
What a nice touch you have.
Thank you for starting us out this morning.

My daughter was born in Ethiopia. Thanks for the memory. Her birthday was yesterday.

Hahaha....I wonder what their homeowners association meetings are like in that neighborhood.

Catchall later. I'm up and out early.

Olyve

Good morning. Great opening.

Olyve I guess Athens is happy with their football win this weekend. We were happy to be in Knoxville for a victory. It's hard to believe the season is winding down.

Have a great day!

Kathy

Nicely done, monsieur Greger! Good start to a new week. And what a week it's going to be!

We're scheduled for our first really cold weather the next couple of days. Highs only in the 40's for the next three days, and snow flurries a possibility tonight.

Two years ago I took on a sizable job for a new client that I ended up losing money on, as in far too little return for hours invested. He called me back over the weekend. Today I get to make up some of that loss. I'm going to Mars Hill to run some wire for him. No kidding, that's what it's called!

Hey how about that ball game Sat night? I mean real ball, the round white one!

Go Phillies! (About damned time... )

Wow, what a powerful metaphor for the first day of the week! It's like Christianity or Government. You think you know what you see, even form options and ideas around it, and then the truth is revealed and you are exposed. Wow... that was almost better than sex.

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!


FROM THE CHURCH OF INEFFABLE STUPIDITY:

a) With polls moving from 8 points to 12 points between McCain and Obama, McCain claims he is precisely where he wants to be.

My high school football team managed to win one game in four years. Then, I went to Northwestern. During the next four, the closest we came to a victory was a tie. Their losing streak continued until they actually went to the Rose Bowl.
McCain reminds me of those in charge of those teams.
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b) The power of the draw
Obama had 100,000 people attend his recent rally out sent, followed by another with 45,000, and a third, with close to 50,000.

McCain aides scoffed at those numbers, proudly announcing that they had 10,000 attend a rally, which officials later suggested was closer to 4,000, 1/3 of whom were secret service, 1/3 paid staffers for McCain, and 1/3 curious about what was going on.

Apparently, McCain refuses to appear on stage with Sarah Palin anymore. Not only does she hog the dressing room and the make artists, but she hogs the microphone on stage. The real problem is not that Sarah's "gone off the reservation" so much, as she excites the racist crowd into a frenzy. When McCain stands up to speak, people get so bored that they leave early. Even the Secret Service.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-campaign_5soct26,0,2445504.story
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c) Aussie foolishness
They must have too many friends in Washington.
After the 5th year of serious, if not disastrous drought, they found a solution. Call it dryness.
"This January will again see deadly dryness in the central and northern parts across the continent. Poeple are ordered to conserve water to deal with this deadly dryness."

Yeah. That works.

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d) US expands ground war in advance of November elections.
The US invaded Syria yesterday, using attack helicopters to target and kill eight people, including 4 children.



In unrelated news, our MSM concentrated on some singer's missing 8 yr old nephew whose corpse was found this morning in Chicago.

In more unrelated news, MSM gives Palin numerous opportunities to explain her $150,000 clothes spree, while promising to return to consignment shopping after November.

In more unrelated news, Sarah Palin plans to return a quarter of the $150,000 in clothing, mainly stuff she hasn't had time to wear, and auction it off for her favorite charity: The new female, conservative, gun-owning, moose-shooting face of the GOP!

Good morning all. I am back from a most fantastic cruise vacation and will have a more detailed report later today. Am still going through the over 500 emails I missed (not) while gone and preparing to upload some of the pictures from the week.

Congratulations on your first opener Greg, a fantastic one at that!

Thanks Phil and welcome home! We sure missed ya!