Great October night--not too hot and not too cool, after record-setting hot temperatures all over the country yesterday, and high humidity for the last several days. Last Monday there were a couple of nasty tornadoes that tore up a couple of farm towns east of Des Moines, and in DM that afternoon there was a really strange catagory 1 minitornado that smashed up some cars in the local airport parking ramp. One guy died in the heat in Chicago running the Chi Marathon and about 400 runners passed out. Saturday night a 20 year old town cop killed 6 teenagers in a house in north Wisconsin, and then he killed himself or was shot in a shootout. The news is still developing on this tragedy. TV Guide had a little obituary of Flower, the head Mama Meerkat, who was bitten by a snake. Denver Broncos got pounded awful yesterday by San Diego, and The BEARS pulled off a 27-20 win over the packers. Ha ha. There was a riot in Denver at a Columbus Day parade between a bunch of NatAms and ItalianAms. I found a Samoan news website which mentioned that at least 6 Samoan soldiers have been killed in Iraq this year (nothing in the MSM about things like this). Looking up UK news online I found that Mr. Speaker Weatherill of the House of Commons had died in the spring at age 86. He was the first Speaker we got to see on CSpan, wearing his wig. A couple of obits of his detailed how much trouble he had with PM Thatcher. A guy in Des Moines grew a 1600 lb squash-a world record. Much more world news and more prominent people have passed on recently, but I need to do more perusing of newssites to collect more news. And Pavarotti passed away in July, and left 3 different wills, which is giving Italian lawyers headaches. I am going to avoid trying to rehash the Spears and Lohan doings of the last month or so. I had a discussion with an amigo about whether celeb antics should get so much news coverage. Moi contends that this kind of stuff is the stuff of human behavior and can be studied to learn the ways of human beings. Oh, one more thing; the Weekly World News went out of business last month. Now we will have no more news about Bat Boy, and the world's fattest cat, and the 300 lb Japanese baby, and the space alien who has been hanging around DC for years. On the Young and the Restless Victor and Nikki are getting divorced again, and on General Hospital Lulu has moved in with Jason and Spinelli. Luke will probably hit the fan when he finds out. So far on Prison Break this p.m one guy has gotten his throat cut and one guy has been shot in the head.
This is going to be all for right now. I have to get ready for the dirty Charlie show on CBS. I am trying to get my living organized to get more blogging done more often, but in about an hour I have to get housework done and then go to bed. So, you all take care. Di di mau!
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