Our main candidates:

Anyone for a game of darts?

Some views on government...

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
-George Bernard Shaw

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have dinner.
-James Bovard, Civil Libertarian
(1994)

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
-P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
-Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!

-P.J. O'Rourke

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in
session.
-Mark Twain (1866

Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it
-Unknown

The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
-Ronald Reagan

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the of the blessings.

The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
-Winston Churchill

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
-Mark Twain

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
-Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher
(1820-1903)

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
-Thomas Jefferson

I think this last one is the best.

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
-Winston Churchill

The Illiad...Ed Sanders

Happiness is a new guitar....

No. 2 son, Andrew has rewarded himself for earning his Masters with a new Gibson Swamp Ash Les Paul. Well done for both achievements I say.

Heaven help us......

The difference in towelheads...

bad towelhead v









good towelhead ^

Message from Abraham

There is a big mix out there, and there are lots of different things going on, and there is not one way that was intended to be the right way. Just like there's not one color or one flower or one vegetable or one fingerprint. There is not one that is to be the right one over all others. The variety is what fosters the creativity. And so you say, "Okay, I accept that there's lots of variety, but I don't like to eat cucumbers." Don't eat cucumbers. But don't ask them to be eliminated and don't condemn those who eat them. Don't stand on corners waving signs trying to outlaw the things that you don't like. Don't ruin your life by pushing against. Instead, say, "I choose this instead. This does please me. --- Abraham (Excerpted from the workshop in Rye, NY on Sunday, October 12th, 1997

Esther Hicks is an inspirational speaker who dialogs with a group of spiritual teachers who call themselves Abraham.)

I can't feel my face........

I dunno.........

Porn viewing runs amok at DC agencies

Wed Jan 23, 10:28 PM ET

An investigation of city computers found that dozens of employees frequented pornographic Web sites at work and clicked on thousands of images, the mayor said Wednesday.

As many as nine district workers from various agencies, including the Child and Family Services Agency, will be fired after an internal investigation found that each had clicked on porn images more than 19,000 times last year, Mayor Adrian Fenty said.

An additional 32 employees who each visited porn sites more than 2,000 times last year will be suspended or reprimanded, he said.

The investigation did not reveal any evidence of child pornography, said acting D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles.

The probe of 10,000 city computers was launched last month after the city received a complaint from an employee about other workers browsing and downloading pornographic content on government computers. Officials eventually uncovered abuse at 18 agencies.

The city has installed filtering software on its computers that is supposed to block access to porn sites and display a message informing the user of the city's Internet policy.

Hippie Outbreak...

Virulent strains of Hippies

Many of the original Hippies are still around and have proven to be extremely difficult to control, even after decades of effort

Once infected, a community may never be able to completely eradicate Hippies, especially in light of the new resistant strains.

Hippies can survive in a community for decades, only to reappear when stimulated by a liberal protest or music festival.

Even when Hippies are in remission we must always remember that they can re-appear, even after decades of dormancy.

Is your Ventrilo on?

(World of Warcraft insider joke)

Today's lookalikes

Sen Henry Waxman, D-CA *** The Phantom of the Opera

Pascal's Wager...

"Pascal's wager", i.e., the argument made by Blaise Pascal on pseudo-mathematical grounds that a man ought to bet on the existence of God and lead a good life that will gain him entrance to Heaven, because if he's wrong it doesn't matter, whereas if God really does exist, then clearly the "return" on his wager is infinite.

Pan version 2008...

Play 'Freebird'

Gatlinburg Christmas 2007

Welcome 2008!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

While the big shops put up enormous wreaths and the little shops spray on the Santa Snow window stencils, churches iron out the creases on the Put Christ Back Into Christmas posters for the glass cases on the street front. Their struggle is not new.

The Church, or at least Cromwell's puritan Commonwealth, tried to stamp out Christmas, all feast days and anything fun more than three centuries ago.

A tract author with the central casting-puritan name of Hezekiah Woodward wrote, in 1656: The old heathens' Feasting Day, in honour of Saturn, their Idol-God, the Papists' Massing Day, the Profane Man's Ranting Day, the Superstitious Man's Idol Day, the Multitudes' Idle Day, Satan's – that Adversary's – Working Day, the True Christian Man's Fasting Day ... The fact is, old Hezekiah Woodward, in part, made a pretty fair point. Christmas was, indeed, in its origins a heathen day of feasting for Saturn. And Baal. And Mithras. Christmas, ironically, antedates the Nativity of Christ, and December 25 is a fudge. In the third century CE the Church fathers chose that day as Jesus Christ's birthday, with good reason. It happens to fall approximately on the Northern Hemisphere's Winter Solstice, and December 25 (Midwinter's Day/Winter Solstice/Yule) has been from time immemorial a day sacred to the rebirth of the light of the sun in the depths of winter. This day was the Festival of Natalis Sol Invictus (the Birth of the Undefeated Sun) in ancient Rome. Ancient peoples also commemorated the Babylonian Queen of Heaven, Osiris in Egypt, Dionysus, Helios, Adonis, the Celtic horned god Cernunnos, the Syrian Baal, Attis, Mithras, Balder and the Norse god Frey – all celebrated on the ancient Winter Solstice, and mostly solar saviours and dying gods. Most of these deities were given similar titles: the Light of the World, Sun of Righteousness, and Saviour. (More on ancient Gods and saviours similar to Jesus.)

I have spent a lot of time searching through the Bible, looking for loopholes.
WC Fields (b. 1880), American comedian, who died on Christmas Day, 1946, spoken on his deathbed

Winter is here....

Winter Solstice

Sat., Dec. 22, 2007, 1:08 A.M. EST (06:08 UT), marks the solstice—the beginning of winter in the Northern Hemisphere and summer in the Southern Hemisphere

In astronomy, the solstice is either of the two times a year when the Sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator, the great circle on the celestial sphere that is on the same plane as the earth's equator. In the Northern Hemisphere, the winter solstice occurs either December 21 or 22, when the sun shines directly over the tropic of Capricorn; the summer solstice occurs either June 21 or 22, when the sun shines directly over the tropic of Cancer. In the Southern Hemisphere, the winter and summer solstices are reversed.

Reason for the Seasons

The reason for the different seasons at opposite times of the year in the two hemispheres is that while the earth rotates about the sun, it also spins on its axis, which is tilted some 23.5 degrees towards the plane of its rotation. Because of this tilt, the Northern Hemisphere receives less direct sunlight (creating winter) while the Southern Hemisphere receives more direct sunlight (creating summer). As the Earth continues its orbit the hemisphere that is angled closest to the sun changes and the seasons are reversed.

Longest Night of the Year

The winter solstice marks the shortest day and the longest night of the year. The sun appears at its lowest point in the sky, and its noontime elevation appears to be the same for several days before and after the solstice. Hence the origin of the word solstice, which comes from Latin solstitium, from sol, “sun” and -stitium, “a stoppage.” Following the winter solstice, the days begin to grow longer and the nights shorter.

'Yule Fires'

In ancient days the folk of old
When chilled with fright by winter's cold
Did kindle up a great Yule fire
With leaping flames in its great pyre;
So to entice the waning sun
To rise again and wider run;
It's fiery course across the sky,
To warm them so they would not die.

So we, whose minds now sense a chill
Of anger in the evil will,
The human conflict, hate, and strife,
Which hold a menace over life;
Would kindle up a flame of love
That we within our hearts may move,
In Yuletide joy, with love embrace
And thus abide in peace and grace.
John G. MacKinnon; 'Yule Fires'; tune: 'Greensleeves' Source: Yule Songs from Pagan Digest

And from the religion of love and peace:

Ooooookay.......

Photo taken at Hatboro, Pa. The sign is real and was up for about two hours before someone stopped and told them how to spell PEONIES.

Tacky Headline of the Week:

From the New York Post:

IKE 'BEATS' TINA TO DEATH

You have to admit it is funny, in an "Oh man, I can't believe they said that" sort of way.

Huckabee's SUV tag?

...bare trees....

"The stripped and shapely
Maple grieves
The ghosts of her
Departed leaves.

The ground is hard,
As hard as stone.
The year is old,
The birds are flown.

And yet the world,
In its distress,
Displays a certain
Loveliness---"
- John Updike, A Child's Calendar

The Real Miss America

2008 Dems. Convention Agenda

2008 Democratic National Convention Agenda

7:00 pm Opening flag burning
7:15 pm Pledge of Allegiance to the U.N. (In Spanish)
7:20 pm Ted Kennedy proposes a toast
7:25 pm Nonreligious prayer and worship with Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton
7:45 pm Ceremonial tree hugging
7:55 pm Ted Kennedy proposes a toast

8:00 pm How I Invented the Internet - Al Gore
8:15 pm Gay Wedding - Barney Frank presiding
8:35 pm Ted Kennedy proposes a toast
8:40 pm Our Troops are War Criminals - John Kerry

9.00 pm Memorial service for Saddam and his sons - Cindy Sheehan and Susan Sarandon

10:00 pm "Answering Machine Etiquette" - Alec Baldwin

11:00 pm Ted Kennedy proposes a toast
11:05 pm Collection for the Osama Bin Laden kidney transplant fund - Barbara Streisand
11:15 pm Free the Freedom Fighters from Guantanamo Bay - Sean Penn
11:30 pm Oval Office Affairs - William Jefferson Clinton
11:45 pm Ted Kennedy proposes a toast
11:50 pm How George Bush Brought Down the World Trade Towers - Howard Dean

12:15 am "Truth in Broadcasting Award" - Presented to Dan Rather by Michael Moore
12:25 am Ted Kennedy proposes a toast
12:30 am Satellite address by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
12:45 am Nomination of Hillary Rodham Clinton by Nancy Pelosi

1:00 am Ted Kennedy proposes a toast
1:05 am Coronation of Hillary Rodham Clinton
1:30 am Ted Kennedy proposes a toast
1:35 am Bill Clinton asks Ted to drive Hillary home

You mean they aren't going to invite Fidel Castro?

(thanks to www.countrystore.com)

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving

For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food,
For love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Oilboarding for Uncle Sam...

A Word from Thomas Merton

“It is useless to try to make peace with ourselves by being pleased with everything we have done. In order to settle down in the quiet of our own being we must learn to be detached from the results of our own activity. We must withdraw ourselves, to some extent, from effects that are beyond our control and be content with the good will and the work that are the quiet expression of our inner life. We must be content to live without watching ourselves live, to work without expecting an immediate reward, to love without an instantaneous satisfaction, and to exist without any special recognition. “ - from No Man is an Island...Thomas Merton

Today in History...

Today in History

Nov 17, 1973

President Richard M. Nixon said "I am not a crook."

Remember Our Veterans...

Monday is Veterans Day and I would like to thank all those who have served for preserving my freedoms and keeping our country strong and free. My father served in France in WWI and I have know many WWII veterans and Viet Nam vets. I had a very good friend who served in Patton's infantry and another who was was a marine in the Pacific. From the stories they told me, I am glad I was not there. Thanks for your service to our country.

Aw shucks!

What?

Guy Fawkes Day (or Night) Nov. 5, 1605

Guy Fawkes (13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606), was a member of a group of English Roman Catholics who attempted to carry out the Gunpowder Plot, an attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament and kill King James I of England, to destroy Protestant rule by killing the Protestant aristocracy, on 5 November 1605..

Sir William Wade, Lieutenant of the Tower of London at this time, supervised the torture and obtained Fawkes's confession. For three or four days Fawkes said nothing, let alone divulge the names of his co-conspirators. Only when he found out that they had proclaimed themselves by appearing in arms did he succumb. The torture only revealed the names of those conspirators who were already dead or whose names were known to the authorities. Some had fled to Dunchurch, Warwickshire, where they were killed or captured. On 31 January, Fawkes and a number of others implicated in the conspiracy were tried in Westminster Hall. After being found guilty, they were taken to Old Palace Yard in Westminster and St Paul's Yard, where they were hanged, drawn, and quartered. Fawkes, however, managed to avoid the worst of this execution by jumping from the scaffold where he was supposed to be hanged, breaking his neck before he could be drawn and quartered ("The King's Book.",1606.)

T.S. Eliot makes reference to Guy Fawkes in his 1925 poem The Hollow Men.

On John Lennon's 1970 solo album John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, Lennon sings "Remember, remember, the 5th of November" on the song "Remember". The lyrics are followed by the sound of an explosion.

Nursery Rhyme

Most British children learn the nursery rhyme about the plot when they are very young. This is how it goes:

Remember, remember the fifth of November, Gunpowder, treason and plot. We see no reason Why Gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot.

Merry Thanksgivoween

Ready To Ride...

Handles newly shellacked and broom corn newly fluffed. Low miles, Only used once a year.

Sunday's Lesson :

"The only human codes which are right are those based in universal

morals. For example, it is against human law to physically attack

another person. The man who does so, may or may not be caught and

punished by the court, but he is always punished on the spot by him-

self, whether aware of it or not. We may escape human laws, but never

the laws of our own nature."

Pathways to Perfect Living…Vernon Howard

Gordon Lightfoot Day

Now that I am old, let me rest a spell
All that I am told, I can never tell
Never in my life, never will it pass
I am still alone, remembering at last
Once upon a time, once upon a day when
I was in my prime, once along the way

……….Gordon Lightfoot

Halloween is Wednesday

Hey Ugs...heres one for ya...

Docs bathe Fla. woman in bleach to kill flesh-eating bacteria

Tammy Cox is being consumed by flesh-eating bacteria. The Florida mother is in a medically induced coma at Orlando Regional Medical Center, where WKMG-TV says doctors are soaking her body in raw bleach in the hope that this will kill the deadly bacteria.

"It just kept eating away at her," Cindy Cox, her sister, said. "So, they kept taking more and more and her whole backside is gone."

No one knows how she contracted the infection, the station says. The prognosis isn't good. One out of four people with necrotizing fasciitis (nek-roe-tie-zing fah-shee-eyetis) doesn't make it. If the bleach works, doctors say Cox will spend six months in the hospital and undergo at least 18 surgeries.

How often are people infected with this bacteria? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says there were about 600 cases reported in 1999.

WKMG-TV has photos of Cox. (You may find them too graphic.)

We told you in July about the Texas man who became infected with flesh-eating bacteria while swimming off the coast of Texas.

Learn more about flesh-eating bacteria, which causes soft-tissue gangrene, at this site maintained by the National Necrotizing Fasciitis Foundation. The Manitoba health department has a detailed -- and helpful -- factsheet about necrotizing fasciitis. So does Cigna.

Secessionists Meeting in Tennessee

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — In an unlikely marriage of desire to secede from the United States, two advocacy groups from opposite political traditions — New England and the South — are sitting down to talk.

Tired of foreign wars and what they consider right-wing courts, the Middlebury Institute wants liberal states like Vermont to be able to secede peacefully.

That sounds just fine to the League of the South, a conservative group that refuses to give up on Southern independence.

"We believe that an independent South, or Hawaii, Alaska, or Vermont would be better able to serve the interest of everybody, regardless of race or ethnicity," said Michael Hill of Killen, Ala., president of the League of the South.

Separated by hundreds of miles and divergent political philosophies, the Middlebury Institute and the League of the South are hosting a two-day Secessionist Convention starting Wednesday in Chattanooga.

They expect to attract supporters from California, Alaska and Hawaii, inviting anyone who wants to dissolve the Union so states can save themselves from an overbearing federal government.

If allowed to go their own way, New Englanders "probably would allow abortion and have gun control," Hill said, while Southerners "would probably crack down on illegal immigration harder than it is being now."

The U.S. Constitution does not explicitly prohibit secession, but few people think it is politically viable.

Vermont, one of the nation's most liberal states, has become a hotbed for liberal secessionists, a fringe movement that gained new traction because of the Iraq war, rising oil prices and the formation of several pro-secession groups.

Thomas Naylor, the founder of one of those groups, the Second Vermont Republic, said the friendly relationship with the League of the South doesn't mean everyone shares all the same beliefs.

But Naylor, a retired Duke University professor, said the League of the South shares his group's opposition to the federal government and the need to pursue secession.

"It doesn't matter if our next president is Condoleeza (Rice) or Hillary (Clinton), it is going to be grim," said Naylor, adding that there are secessionist movements in more than 25 states, including Hawaii, Alaska, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Texas.

The Middlebury Institute, based in Cold Spring, N.Y., was started in 2005. Its followers, disillusioned by the Iraq war and federal imperialism, share the idea of states becoming independent republics. They contend their movement is growing.

The first North American Separatist Convention was held last fall in Vermont, which, unlike most Southern states, supports civil unions. Voters there elected a socialist to the U.S. Senate.

Middlebury director Kirpatrick Sale said Hill offered to sponsor the second secessionist convention, but the co-sponsor arrangement was intended to show that "the folks up north regard you as legitimate colleagues."

"It bothers me that people have wrongly declared them to be racists," Sale said.

The League of the South says it is not racist, but proudly displays a Confederate Battle Flag on its banner.

Mark Potok, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project, which monitors hate groups, said the League of the South "has been on our list close to a decade."

"What is remarkable and really astounding about this situation is we see people and institutions who are supposedly on the progressive left rubbing shoulders with bona fide white supremacists," Potok said.

Sale said the League of the South "has not done or said anything racist in its 14 years of existence," and that the Southern Poverty Law Center is not credible.

"They call everybody racists," Sale said. "There are, no doubt, racists in the League of the South, and there are, no doubt, racists everywhere."

Harry Watson, director of the Center For the Study of the American South and a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said it was a surprise to see The Middlebury Institute conferring with the League of the South, "an organization that's associated with a cause that many of us associate with the preservation of slavery."

He said the unlikely partnering "represents the far left and far right of American politics coming together."

Go Cubbies...

Cubs: Bring on the goat

The pressure is crushing the choking Cubs as they suffer a humiliation by the Diamondbacks as bad as anything they’ve been through before

Remember when Moises Alou threw a fit after the Bartman play? Way to set a tone, Ted. There was the normally unflappable Derrek Lee, whipping down his helmet. There was the $136 million man, Alfonso Soriano, admiring his first hit of the series as it bounced off the outfield wall -- and being held to a single because he loafed. There was Aramis Ramirez, a beaten man, swinging and whiffing again and again. I cannot sugarcoat or softpedal how awful the Cubs look. They are playing like quitters, imposters, losers. And all you need to know about their immediate future: A five game series, Diamondbacks have won 2 and the Cub 0. Fifty teams have fallen behind 0-2, and only seven have returned to win a best-of-five series.

Today's Lesson in Esoteric Mind Power

"The last thing on earth which should bother you is the sudden
failure of your carefully laid plans. Do not take your plans as
being you and the disruption of any plan will be as nothing to
you. Your plans are not you; they only appear to be so because
of that human mistake called identification. Identification means
to wrongly assume that plans or possessions make up what we call
the "self." Think this through to the very end, for it will free
you from anxiety over unexpected changes in your daily affairs."

Esoteric Mind Power, p. 86 (Vernon Howard)

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.

Adios hombre....

Standings from the parallel universe:

NL Central standings 8/28/07

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TEAM	W-L	GB
CUBS	66-63	–
Brewers	65-65	1½
Cardinals	63-64	2
Reds	60-70	6½

Sunday's Lesson...

By paying attention to the way you feel, and then choosing thoughts that feel the very best, you are managing your own vibration, which means you are controlling your own point of attraction -- which means you are creating your own reality. It's such a wonderful thing to realize that you can create your own reality without sticking your nose in everybody else's, and that the less attention you give to everybody else's reality, the purer your vibration is going to be -- and the more you are going to be pleased with what comes to you. --- Abraham