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After delaying the game because of bad weather and television officials consideration for the man who may become the next POTUS, the Philadelphia Phillies have clinched major league baseball’s World Series title for a second time. It’s their first championship in twenty-eight years. They bested the Tampa Bay Rays by winning four of the five games played. The major league championship event is determined by the best of seven games.

The last time the team won was in 1980 with the late Tug McGraw as the team’s reliable reliever in a stadium that no longer exists. Not bad fpr the team with the distinction of having lost the most games in the history of the sport.

Just as in 1980 the final game was an exciting one at home in Philadelphia.
Congratulations to the 2008 World Series Champions!

Last night more than thirty million Americans watched nearly wall-to-wall network and cable television coverage of Senator Barack Obama’s closing argument for the 2008 presidential campaign. Critics describe the historic event as a tremendous success because the emphasis in the commercial is on the issues of the campaign.

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We just reported on the non-controversy over DTWS professional dancer Cheryl Burke’s physical appearance. Check out the advice from two of her fellow Dancing With The Stars associates.

We’ve been hearing about the expected “October Surprise”. Some voters are waiting anxiously for an announcement from the lead terrorist bin Laden or a special unexpected declaration from either major party. YouThinkWhat has its own surprise from contributor MARDU:

OPTIMISM ?  October, 2008

Before I beg your indulgence in my opinions, let me stipulate that regardless of any particular outcome of earthly events, I don’t for an instant believe that it matters in a cosmic sense. To me It is just our little drama.

I feel the need to review, and the presentation of my random thoughts can be disorganized. I’m not the best writer since Vonnegut, or Jefferson, so I struggle to organize.

We are fewer than 3 weeks out from without doubt the most critical election in my lifetime, and I recognize that all have been important in their contexts. We began the process, one is hard pressed to remember when but,I suppose December 2000 is an arguable choice. It is improbable that one can synopsize the intervening period.

As a nation we are so different today than we were then. Events have certainly stacked up.

Our circumstances could hardly have been more altered. WWII was a time of severe societal upheaval.
I was there for that one, and I feel that this time is far more severe.

Mostly, I believe, because of the underlying alteration of our direction as a culture that preceded the successful tampering with a national election.

We had stopped caring about our similarities and focused too much energy on our differences. In doing this we lost sight of our government, which had basically gone into hiding, (more…)

In June we told you how we feel about the attempt to change the federal constitution in order to protect marriage. Fortunately, the measure has not been passed in either the House or the Senate.

Legislators in the great state of Flawda have managed to use their influence to have someone’s homophobic idea placed on the ballot for consideration by the electorate.  It’s a piece of legislation that is so anti-gay it goes into the areas that will affect even straight people. (more…)

For the latest information in the search for Julian King, the missing 7-year-old nephew of Jennifer Hudson go here.

Actress Jennifer Hudson and her family offer a $100,000 reward Sunday for the safe return of her 7-year-old nephew, who has been missing since the Friday shooting deaths of Hudson’s mother and brother at the family home on Chicago’s South Side.

The search continues for little seven year-old Julian King with Chicago police handing out fliers in the area as they look for the child (more…)

With funding from a political group known as Jews for Change, a web site called Aint Funny has been launched to influence the voters of the key battleground states of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida. The states where the voter registration records indicate a large number of older Americans age 50 years plus. (more…)

Get updated details of the search for Jennifer Hudson’s nephew Julian King. The young boy has been missing since the discovery Friday of the singer’s family members–victims of what police are calling a double homicide.