Errr....this kinda bothers me.....

Cubs clinch NLC pennant

Only took 99 years and a gazillion dollars.

NLC W L % GB

Chi Cubs 84 76 .525 –

Milwaukee 81 79 .506 3.0

St. Louis 76 84 .475 8.0

Cincinnati 71 89 .444 13.0

Houston 71 89 .444 13.0

Pittsburgh 68 92 .425 16.0

And Donna, your Yankees are still in with a Wild Card slot. Yanks are No. 2 behind Red Sox.
And also your Cleveland Indians clinched their leagues pennant.
And also congrats on your promotion and status elevation. Sounds like a nice deal.

Monday Cubbies update from Planet X...

An 8-0 shutout of Pittsburgh, combined with another blown game by Milwaukee, handed the Cubs their largest lead of the season: 3 1/2 games with only six to play, with a magic number of four.

NL Central standings

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TEAM	W-L	GB
CUBS	83-73	–
Brewers	79-76	3½

Chicago's landmarks as papercraft postcards

The postcards from BuildYourOwnChicago.com can be assembled into 3D papercraft "micromodels" of the great landmarks and transit vehicles of Chicago. The free samples on the site look very promising. Link (Thanks, Mike!)

Estimated $1 million pot field discovered....

September 14, 2007

GREENE COUNTY TN (WATE) -- Local and state officers have cleared a Greene County marijuana field worth an estimated $1 million on the street.

One of four armed suspects guarding the large field is custody. Three other suspects are still at large.

Officers estimate there are between 8,000 and 12,000 plants that range in height from 5' to 14'.

The field is 50 to 75 yards wide and between 600 to 700 yards long.

A farmer found the plants and told authorities.

Then a state Highway Patrol helicopter pilot helped Drug Task Force officers spot the field and find the suspect who was caught.

The marijuana field is three miles from the Cocke County border, where another Highway Patrol helicopter found a 4,500 plant field near Newport. This is a fairly remote area in the foothills of the Smokies near the I-40/I-81 split.

Whats with these people?

Seems like the middle eastern guys have this thing about knives and cutting throats of any animal. Up to and including man.

Sulphur stench due to increase in NY....

Iranian Terrorist in Chief will be visiting the United Nations in a couple of weeks before going to pay a visit to his Anti-American Ally, Hugo Chavez, in Venezuela.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will arrive in New York on September 24 in order to attend the United Nation’s 62nd General Assembly session, the Iranian news agency Fars reported Friday.

According to the report, Ahmadinejad will stay in the city for two days and will be accompanied by a high-level delegation. This will be the Iranian president’s third visit to the United States since his election in 2005.

Full story here Cartton from News Blaze

This guy is President of a country that Bankrolls terror groups like Hizbollah & Hamas, provides Weapons and training for terrorists fighting our forces in Iraq, consistantly remarks about wiping Israel off the map and is actively pursuing a nuclear Weapons program. The only other person in the world more inappropriate to be granted an international forum is Osama Bin Laden.

Ahmadinejad is a devout Shiite Muslims, and had felt that he was accompanied by divine supervision during at least one of his previous visits to New York.

Following his first visit on September 2005, he told one of Iran's radical clerics that during his speech at the UN someone had told him that he was "surrounded by a divine halo" and that the attention of all the world's leaders was focused on him.

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And you thought that was chicken...

NANUET, N.Y.—Stomping on garlic with your shoes on is apparently not the correct way to prepare food. The Rockland County health department hit the Great China Buffet restaurant with two violations after someone took pictures of an employee stomping on a bowl of garlic with his boots in an alley. The man alerted health inspectors.

"I go back there, and the guy's stepping on garlic," said Dan Barreto, who used to eat at the restaurant. "There he was just jumping up and down on it, smashing it up, having a good time."

The health department does not consider a person's shoe or boot a proper instrument to use in food preparation, senior public health sanitarian John Stoughton said Tuesday.

"It was a novel way to prepare food," he acknowledged.

Great China Buffet owner Jiang Shu said the worker has been fired over the incident.

The health department said it would inspect the restaurant again.

9/11 Lest we forget

Taunting Uncle Sam...

Approaching reality...

NL Central standings

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TEAM	W-L	GB
Brewers	73-69	–
CUBS	72-70	1
Cardinals	69-71	3

9/10/07

about 27 games left to play.

El Chupacabra Found in Texas?

The top e-mailed story from the Los Angeles Times website today was "Mythical Chupacabra Found in Texas?"

Some of us know exactly what a chupacabra is thanks to a 1997 X-Files episode "El Mundo Gira." Sort of: It's a creature that supposedly either looks like a weird wild dog or a lizard-like alien.

First reported in Puerto Rico, there've been spottings in Mexico and the U.S. The name translates to "goat sucker," and it supposedly sucks the blood of the animals it kills, through two little puncture marks.

So the folks in Cuero, Texas, are having a field day with the roadkill chupacabra that Phylis Canion supposedly found last month. She's even begun selling $5 t-shirts declaring "2007, The Summer of the Chupacabra, Cuero, Texas." Phylis has even saved the head of the creature for DNA testing and mounting on her trophy wall. (We guess there's not much else going on in Cuero, huh?)

But to really get down to solving the mystery of the chupacabra, we think we need to bring Mulder and Scully out of retirement.

Nepal's airline sacrifices goat to fix jet

The BBC reports that Nepal's government-owned airline fixed a jet that has electrical problem by sacrificing a goat. The offering was made to Akash Bhairab, the Hindu god of sky protection, whose symbol is seen on the company's planes.

The airline said that after Sunday's ceremony the plane successfully completed a flight to Hong Kong.

"The snag in the plane has now been fixed and the aircraft has resumed its flights," senior airline official Raju KC was quoted as saying by Reuters.