Well…ya can't argue with these numbers!

Brett Favre's stats today against the Dolphins.

C/ATT    YDS    AVG    TD    INT

Brett Favre    15/22     194     8.8      2       0

Here anyway…
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Beautiful Day, U2

The heart is a bloom
Shoots up through the stony ground
There's no room
No space to rent in this town

You're out of luck
And the reason that you had to care
The traffic is stuck
And you're not moving anywhere

You thought you'd found a friend
To take you out of this place
Someone you could lend a hand
In return for grace

It's a beautiful day
Sky falls, you feel like
It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away

You're on the road
But you've got no destination
You're in the mud
In the maze of her imagination

You love this town
Even if that doesn't ring true
You've been all over
And it's been all over you

It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
It's a beautiful day

Touch me
Take me to that other place
Teach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case

See the world in green and blue
See China right in front of you
See the canyons broken by cloud
See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out
See the Bedouin fires at night
See the oil fields at first light
And see the bird with a leaf in her mouth
After the flood all the colors came out

It was a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
Beautiful day

Touch me
Take me to that other place
Reach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case

What you don't have you don't need it now
What you don't know you can feel it somehow
What you don't have you don't need it now
Don't need it now
Was a beautiful day

From today's Washington Post:

5 Myths About Those Civic-Minded, Deeply Informed Voters

1. Our voters are pretty smart.    2. Bill O'Reilly's viewers are dumber than Jon Stewart's.    3. If you just give Americans the facts, they'll be able to draw the right conclusions.    4. Voters today are smarter than they used to be.    5. Young voters are paying a lot of attention to the news.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/05/AR2008 090502666.html

I know that it's hard to fathom what a particle accelerator does for mankind… but, trust me:  this is awesome stuff.  Take a moment, and check out the slide shows here and see what all the fuss is about.

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Ike Dangerous Hurricane; Hanna Extratropical

WeatherChannel.com

Zogby Poll: Republicans Hold Small Post-Convention Edge

Zogby.com

But the race is tight, as both campaigns consolidate support

UTICA, New York - Republicans John McCain and Sarah Palin left St. Paul, Minnesota,  with a smallish bounce overall and some energy in key demographic groups, as the race for the presidency enters a key stage and voters begin to tune in to the contest, the latest Zogby Interactive poll finds.

9-5/6

McCain-Palin    49.7%
Obama-Biden    45.9%

Just a reminder about this morning's talk shows…
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Where's Sarah?

Washington Post

Barack Obama (ABC's "This Week"), Joe Biden (NBC's "Meet the Press") and John McCain (CBS's "Face the Nation") will appear on talk shows this morning. Notably absent will be Sarah Palin, who has yet to conduct an interview since joining the GOP ticket more than a week ago.

58.DAYS TO THE ELECTION

McCain, Obama plan joint stop at Ground Zero

Huffington Post

WASHINGTON — Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama said Saturday they will put aside partisan politics for a joint appearance at Ground Zero to mark the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

The Democratic and Republican presidential nominees, in a statement, said they will appear together at the World Trade Center site on Thursday "to honor the memory of each and every American who died" in the 2001 attacks.

The campaigns already had agreed to suspend television advertising critical of each other on Sept. 11. The McCain campaign has said it will air no ads that day.

Both campaigns have been running negative television ads and, at the just-concluded political conventions, pulled no punches in exploiting partisan differences.

Obama and McCain said Thursday will be different.

"All of us came together on 9/11 _ not as Democrats or Republicans _ but as Americans," they said. "We were united as one American family. On Thursday, we will put aside politics and come together to renew that unity." [Read more →]

I can't remember the exact poem, or even the topic, but I do remember a friend once saying something like, "That's not the sort of thing you should write a poem about." It's an opinion I've run across many times over the years. Certain subjects are too trivial or to weird or too base to write a poem about. Whenever I'm confronted with that argument I introduce the person to a poem describing the rape of a woman by a swan. I show them an extraordinary poem about pencils in a box. I recite for them a poem about broken glass in a hospital corridor. The simple fact is there is no topic, no subject or theme that cannot be addressed in a poem. To prove my case, here is a poem by Billy Collins called "Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes."

Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes

First, her tippet made of tulle,
easily lifted off her shoulders and laid
on the back of a wooden chair.

And her bonnet,
the bow undone with a light forward pull.

Then the long white dress, a more
complicated matter with mother-of-pearl
buttons down the back,
so tiny and numerous that it takes forever
before my hands can part the fabric,
like a swimmer's dividing water,
and slip inside.

You will want to know
that she was standing
by an open window in an upstairs bedroom,
motionless, a little wide-eyed,
looking out at the orchard below,
the white dress puddled at her feet
on the wide-board, hardwood floor.

The complexity of women's undergarments
in nineteenth-century America
is not to be waved off,
and I proceeded like a polar explorer
through clips, clasps, and moorings,
catches, straps, and whalebone stays,
sailing toward the iceberg of her nakedness.

Later, I wrote in a notebook
it was like riding a swan into the night,
but, of course, I cannot tell you everything -
the way she closed her eyes to the orchard,
how her hair tumbled free of its pins,
how there were sudden dashes
whenever we spoke.

What I can tell you is
it was terribly quiet in Amherst
that Sabbath afternoon,
nothing but a carriage passing the house,
a fly buzzing in a windowpane.

So I could plainly hear her inhale
when I undid the very top
hook-and-eye fastener of her corset

and I could hear her sigh when finally it was unloosed,
the way some readers sigh when they realize
that Hope has feathers,
that reason is a plank,
that life is a loaded gun
that looks right at you with a yellow eye.

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…Republican presidential candidate John McCain edged out Democratic candidate Barack Obama by 500,000 people to win the 2008 Presidential Political Convention Ratings Race.

During McCain's acceptance speech the other night, a protestor interrupted him holding up a banner saying ""McCain Votes Against Vets." McCain's response to the rest of the audience was "My friends, my dear friends … please, please don't be diverted by the ground noise and the static." That "ground noise" and "static" served his country in Iraq which is more than most in that hall can say.
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Protester who interrupted McCain's speech is an Iraq War Veteran

Mary MacElveen | OpEdNews

Much has been made of the surge strategy in Iraq by the McCain/Palin ticket since John McCain supported it and it should open the door to actually discuss the conduct of this God awful war and those brave soldiers who come home from it and the ones who do not.  Putting personalities aside, drama aside, let us at least discuss this war.  Yes, we are spending $10 billion a month on it, but what about the true human cost meaning those who have died and those who come home.  Some forever broken.

In his acceptance speech before the Republican convention, there was no mention of the veterans who have served over in Iraq by John McCain.  As he gave his acceptance speech a protester interrupted that speech and this is what McCain said of it, "My friends, my dear friends … please, please don't be diverted by the ground noise and the static," in which those gathered at the convention shouted back at that protester, “USA” over and over.  Let some of them walk a mile in his shoes. [Read more →]

This is nothing more than a summer breeze!
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StormWatch 7 Forecast | updated Saturday at 7:43 am by Dave Zahren

WJLA

After threatening for days, Hanna is currently making her presence known in the Washington area. Bands of heavy rain have begun to arrive while the gusty winds are just hours away. After making landfall at 3:20 AM in North Carolina, the center of Hanna is expected to pass well to the east of Washington at midday. Rainfall tallies could range from 1 to 4 inches with some higher amounts possible; tropical showers are capable of dropping over an inch of rain per hour. [Read more →]

DVRs save relationships: study

Reuters

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Digital video recorders don't just save TV shows, according to a new survey; they save relationships. [Read more →]

"Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?  Because her father is Janet Reno."  - John McCain, June 1998