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New York Times: Kerry Apologizes for Remark About Troops.

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Right about now, Democrats don’t want Sen. John Kerry’s snakebit support. The senator’s “botched joke” about bad students getting stuck in Iraq unleashed venomous GOP reaction.

What do we suppose the source of this quote is? Is it a conservative blog?

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The image is William Blake’s interpretation of Dante’s Hell. If we wish to, we may consider the triumverate of Hallowe’en, All Saints Day, and All Souls Day, as devoted to hell, heaven, and purgatory, respectively.

I wish I could have posted on this yesterday, but a combination of work and exhaustion got in the way.

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– The First Third website is up and running. I am very excited about this project, and am more than willing to share progress if anyone is interested.

– NOVEMBER – is aviation history month.
– TODAY – is All Saints Day.

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From the New York Times political blog, the caucus:

October 31, 2006, 2:39 pm
Getting Stuck on Iraq
By Kate Phillips

Well, all sides seem spoiling for a fight, and over what, of course, but the war in Iraq.

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All of you writers (and non-writers too) should do NaNoWriMo. It’s a lot of fun, incredibly cathartic, and occasionally life-changing. My NaNo from 2003 is the foundation of my creative thesis project. Read about it at: www.nanowrimo.org.

Here is what I’m doing this year:

The website isn’t up yet (check tomorrow).

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– OCTOBER – is lupus month.
– TODAY – is Halloween and Samhain.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – John Keats, Dan Rather, and Peter Jackson.

– QUOTE OF THE WEEK –
“October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.”

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This blog gets ~70 hits a day. Who thought that the Michigan GOP was so bored?

from Stat Counter:

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Sumara tagged me for the following meme:

List 5 weird things about yourself or your pets. Tag 5 friends and list them. Those people then need to write on their blogs about 5 weird things, and state the rules, and tag 5 more people.

Blue Skies Googlebomb.

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I’m stealing all of my ideas from Milligan today.
Anyway, here are stories of sketch on Republican candidates in your neighborhood:

New York:

·NY-03: Peter King
·NY-20: John Sweeney
·NY-26: Tom Reynolds
·NY-29: Randy Kuhl

Illinois:

·IL-06: Peter Roskam
·IL-10: Mark Kirk
·IL-14: Dennis Hastert

Here’s something for Tron:

·KS-02: Jim Ryan

For the professor himself:

·MN-01: Gil Gutknecht
·MN-06: Michele Bachmann

Amber:

·IN-02: Chris Chocola
·IN-08: John Hostettler

Sam, Lisa, Sky, my family, myself:

·MI-Gov: Dick DeVos

The rest is for the rest of you:

·AZ-Sen: Jon Kyl
·AZ-01: Rick Renzi
·AZ-05: J.D.