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Halloween Weather Treat

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From a forecasting perspective this has been a rare week where the weather has behaved as expected. The good behavior shows no sign of stopping and there’s no reason to believe it will start acting erratically over the weekend. In addition to not pulling any tricks, it looks like ok Mother Nature will give us a fall treat.

There’s a big high sitting over the Carolinas, another over Winnipeg and a weak cold front in between. The southern high is bringing the sunny and mild today. As the front passes it may kick off a sprinkle or two tomorrow morning. The Canadian high will bring cooler air as the weekend progresses. Expect highs near 60 today and tomorrow and in the lower 50s on marathon sunday.

Winter Weather Awareness Week continues its whirlwind tour with today’s topic being winter weather watches, warnings and advisories. The Weather Service has streamlined the process this year. Watches are issued for severe conditions 12-48 hours in advance, warnings when storms are imminent -no more than 36 hours ahead of time. Advisories will be issued for lesser, but still significant, winter conditions. In other exciting local news there’s a new weather data buoy at the entrance of New York Harbor! The water temperature this morning was 56.8 degrees and the wave height was 1.6 feet.

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The Introduction to my book: “America’s Half-Blood Prince: Barack Obama’s Story of Race and Inheritance”

We’ve posted online my entire 264 page book, America’s Half-Blood Prince: Barack Obama’s Story of Race and Inheritance. You’ll be able soon to order a paperback copy for $29.95, but in the meantime, you can start reading it online here:

http://www.vdare.com/half-blood_prince/to give you a taste, here’s the beginning chapter. (the dilly chapter, though, is the second, which tells why obama’s mother indoctrinated him in the dreams from his dad.)1. introduction

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i am uncharted enough on the national political incident that i serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly contrasting political stripes project their own views. as such, i am bound to disappoint some, if not all, of them. which perhaps indicates a second, more intimate keynote to this book?namely, how i, or anybody in public office, can avoid the pitfalls of fame, the famine to please, the fear of impairment, and thereby retain that kernel of truth, that singular utter within each of us that reminds us of our deepest commitments.

barack obamathe audacity of aspire, 2006

The fundamental irony of Sen. Barack Obama’s Presidential candidacy is that no nominee in living memory has been so misunderstood by the press and public, and yet no other candidate has ever written so intimately or eloquently (or, to be frank, endlessly) about his “deepest commitments.”

While journalists have swarmed to Alaska with admirable alacrity to ferret out every detail of Sarah Palin?s energetic life, the media have drawn a curtain of admiring incomprehension in front of Obama’s own exquisitely written autobiography, Dreams from My Father. Because few have taken the trouble to appreciate Obama on his own terms, the politician functions as our national blank slate upon which we sketch out our social fantasies.

Although many have supported Obama in 2008 because he seems to them better than the alternatives, he has also famously electrified throngs of voters. Yet, the reasons for their enthusiasm are often contradictory.

For example, many Americans, whether for Obama, McCain, or None of the Above, appreciate the patriotic, anti-racialist sentiment in the most famous sentence of Obama’s keynote address to the 2004 Democratic Convention: “There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America?there’s the United States of America.”

Yet, Obama’s white enthusiasts are often excited by the candidate’s race, and for diverse motivations. More than a few white people, for instance, wish to demonstrate their moral and cultural superiority over more backward members of their own race. As Christian Lander’s popular website Stuff White People Like acerbically documents, white people strive endlessly for prestige relative to other whites, scanning constantly for methods to claw their way to the top of the heap. In this status struggle, nonwhites seldom register on white people’s radar screens as rivals. Instead, white people see minorities more as useful props in the eternal scuffle to gain the upper hand over other whites. High on Lander’s list of stuff white people like is:

#8 barack obamabecause wan people are afraid that if they don’t like him that they will be called racist.

As one of Hillary Clinton’s advisers explained to The Guardian:

if you have a social need, you’re with hillary. if you want obama to be your chimerical onto black friend and you’re young and you enjoy no public needs, then he’s cool.

Other white Obama devotees have very different rationales in mind. Some are eager to put white guilt behind them, assuming that Obama’s election will prove there is no more need for affirmative action. Stuart Taylor Jr. exulted in The Atlantic in an article called “The Great Black-White Hope:”

The ascent of Obama is the best hope for focusing the attention of black Americans on the opportunities that await them instead of on the oppression of their ancestors.

And some white Obamaniacs wish to enthrone the princely Obama to serve as a more suitable exemplar for young African-Americans than the gangsta rappers they presently idolize. (Don’t be so black. Act more Ba-rack!) Jonathan Alter rhapsodized in Newsweek:

[obama’s] most exciting potential for mo
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Free MP3! Dan Kelly And The Ukeladies - ‘The SUV Song’

happy wednesday, comrades. to celebrate the fact we’ve made it through to what office workers hilariously refer to as “hump day”, i evaluate we should honour by downloading a stamp new track from handsome troubadour dan kelly called ‘the suv song’. the tune features the spectacular backing vocals of the ukeladies, two smashing young ladies i’ve oral wide before on defamer australia, as their restful crooning is destined to be the sound you hear when you approach the gates of heaven. so what’s the suv prevarication with, i hear you ask? a timely ode to the sinking samoan and tuvaluan women as they resignedly gurgle insults at westerners pottering about in their supersize automobiles, the s.u.v song is another skewed, witty, sweetly melodic and bleak song from the pen of the man who brought us “drunk on election night’ and the award winning lp drowning in the fountain of youth.
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Best laptops for writers

If you travel a lot and write a lot, which laptop should you buy?

Last weekend I had a chance to speak at the annual meeting of the National Association of Science Writers in Palo Alto, Calif., on the subject of laptops. And what many of the attendees wanted to know was whether a low-cost Netbook would be a reasonable purchase for someone whose occupation requires not only frequent travel and note-taking at meetings but also countless hours composing at the keyboard.

The short answer: not unless you have a desktop waiting for you at your home office. You’ll find the longer answer, along with my recommended writer-friendly laptops, after the page break.

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Jennifer Hudson’s Mother and Brother Found Murdered [Updated]

devastating information out of chicago; jennifer hudson’s mother, darnell donnerson, and brother, jason, were set up murdered earlier today. their bodies were discovered around 2:45pm at the home of donnerson by a cousin who lives viagra bestellen neighbourhood. they had both been shot to death and were not alive when help arrived. update: a 7-year-old boy is missing as well, and an …

Police Looking For Jennifer Hudson’s Brother-in-law And 7-Year-Old Nephew

jennifer hudson, red, with her mother darnell donerson, center, and her sister julia. police are looking for julia’s husband william balfour (inset), a feel in the deaths of donerson and her son jason [updated 10/24/08, 8:41 pm] according to illinois dept. of corrections, william balfour, 27, was out on probation after serving 7 years in prison …

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