1904 - New York City Subway Opens
1973 - The Canon City meteorite, a 1.4 kg chondrite type meteorite strikes in Fremont County, Colorado.
COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!
(Asked by Calvin if the devil was part of God, Servetus laughed and said) "Can you doubt it?”
-- Michael Servetus - 1553
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.
News Middle East
Syria condemns deadly 'US raid'
The alleged US raid targeted a Syrian village close to the country's porous border with Iraq [AFP]
Syria has condemned an alleged US raid that killed at least eight people in the country's east, close to the border with Iraq, calling it an act of "serious aggression".
Damascus is considering its response to the attack in the border village of Sukariya, a spokesperson for the Syrian information ministry told Al Jazeera on Monday.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2008/10/2008102765157531223.htmlIn 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!
