PUMPKIN ON STERIODS MAY BE BIGGEST IN LAND

This massive gourd is challenging last year's giant pumpkin, that weighed in at 1,400 pounds, for the biggest pumpkin in the land. It was grown at Fir Point Farms, Aurora, Oregon. I wonder how many pies could be made from this mutated vegetable?

Woman was (supposedly) attacked for being a McCain supporter!

Ashley Todd was recently beaten and mugged at an ATM -

Click here for full story.

 

It's too bad this young woman was hurt, but I think the media is going overboard covering this story (It's a real Google hitter this morning) when there appears to be some doubt about the authenticity of her claims. She claims a black man (who else?) became violent while in the process of robbing her at an ATM machine when he saw the McCain sticker on her car.

Let's see now, do you think the guy might have been dyslexic because he carved a backward B on her cheek? More importantly, where's the proof this incident really happened? I don't want to appear to be cruel, but I can't help pointing out the obvious oddity that throws this whole story into doubt; was her attacker dyslexic or did she carve the B herself while looking in a mirror?

I suspect that the reality is that this woman is a bit misguided and perhaps looking for some publicity that she actually thinks will help the McCain campaign. After a five hour interview with police, and taking a polygraph test, there remains doubt that she told the truth about what really happened. The police are still wondering why the backwards B on her cheek.

Nice try Todd, you had your 15 minutes of fame. I hope you enjoyed it!

SARAH PALIN HALLOWEENERS MAY STALK NEIGHBORHOODS FOR VOTES!

CYBER ALERT - A rumor has been going around that Sarah Palin look-a-likes, dressed up for Halloween, intend to try to get last minute voters on Halloween night by impressing them with the real guns their carrying!

World's largest hole sucks in helicopters: 2nd largest one sucks in our dollars

 

This giant man-made hole is actually a diamond mine in Eastern Siberia near the town of Mirna. The suction above it has pulled down several helicopters and is now a restricted air space.

The giant man-made hole below continues to suck in American tax payers money with no end in sight.

CALIFORNIA HOME FORECLOSURES HIT RECORD HIGH

Over the last 3 months, 79,511 homes were taken back by lenders. This represents

a 228% increase from last year. Experts predict the numbers will get worse.

Click here to see the whole story.

LAME CHIMP BUSH REFLECTS UPON HIS PRESIDENCY...

 Now that Dubya's presidency is coming to a merciful end we can look to the future

while he rides off into the sunset on one of the Bin Laden family camels!

What did he do for posterity? I'm going to let my visitors answer that. 

TARGET STORES TAKEN TO TASK FOR OVERCHARGING!

Target management has been very bad. Now their paying nearly $2 million dollars for overcharging customers after an investigation in five California counties. The civil penalty is supposed to make Target take notice that they can't get away with fraudulent business practices.

Click here for the full story.

MEDIA HAS TO PAY UP TO COVER OBAMA'S BIG NIGHT!

Media organizations will have to pay up 

if they want a prime spot to cover Democrat Barrack Obama's election night party.

I have to agree with Fred Brown, a former national president of the Society of Professional Journalists, who said, "The Obama campaign's fee list is a "mercenary way" to approach coverage."

"It seems to needlessly create ill will," said Brown, a retired capitol bureau chief for the Denver Post who still writes regularly for the newspaper.

Click here to see how much it's going to cost the media to cover Obama.

PUMPKIN PUPPY VS PUKIN PUMPKINS

This cute little guy 

is going to try to compete with the popular Pukin Pumpkins post. The "hung over" gourds made a real impression across the country. Let's see what this fluff ball with pumpkin attire can do. Let me know if he's more entertaining than those orange boozers! It looks like this guy could use some love, don't you think?

Some foreign visitors today...

I was looking at some foreign visitor's to this blog today and was surprised to see someone in Tigrisnet, Iraq stopped by for a peek at my Sarah Pallin post.

I wonder if it was someone in our military? Or could it have been a lusting Iraqi who thinks Pallin's pretty hot?

Canada rang in again today with three new visitors from: Burnaby, British Columbia, Toronto, Ontario, and Prince Edward Island. They all wanted a peek at the now famous Pukin Pumpkin photo I posted a while back.

Cheerio oh! to some bloke from London, England who stopped in to see an old post titled Recycle or Else!

Meanwhile you Pukin Pumpkin fans continue to check in from all over America today!

Hopping Horned Frog Picks Pumpkin for Halloween

THIS SURINAM HORNED FROG IS READY FOR HALLOWEEN AS HE PERCHES ON HIS GOURD THRONE.

Readers of this blog have recently demonstrated an interest in PUMPKINS (See Pukin Pumpkins Post) lately so I am unabashedly playing to this interest by providing this fine frog, and his pick from a pumpkin patch, for their previewing pleasure!

OOPS! McCAIN CAMPAIGN ASKS RUSSIAN ENVOY FOR MONEY!

McCain's desperate and cash poor campaign handlers really pulled a stupid, when they asked Russia's U.N.envoy for a contribution to his campaign! Now that's erratic...

Click here to read the whole story.

Flute 'n' Veg is ready to play for you!

Aren't these guys great? These politically correct costumes for vegetarians this Halloween should be a smash

hit. You can even book them for shows. Just call 618-9335-5159, or email them at bellamusic@aapt.net.au

Iraq war veteran speaks out against the war

Veterans against the war demonstrate in the streets of LA. 

Edgar Cuevas, an Iraqi war veteran, speaks out about the GI

Bill, and his experiences with PTSD. Click here for more.

WHO SAID McCAIN WAS ERRATIC?

JUST BECAUSE McCAIN HAS "SENIOR MOMENTS" IT DOESN'T MEAN HE'S NOT READY TO LEAD OUR COUNTRY INTO CONTINUED WARFARE FOR ANOTHER GENERATION.

I"M BACK! and YOU NEVER LEFT!

Thank you blogger buddies and new visitors for visiting my humble blog while I was away on vacation.
As repeaters know, I tried to make a few entries while traveling, but they were pretty pathetic!
Still..you came, and in record numbers.

How about I just share the last few days of visits from foreign visitors, and the out-of-state visitors?
Those of you here in California turned out in your usual strong numbers from all over this state every day I was gone.

I could find no common theme for what the visitors from overseas were reading. They picked a variety of posts and past columns.
Canada sent the most from any one country.

FOREIGN COUNTRIES:
Heilbronn, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany; Dhahran, Ash Shargiyah, Saudi Arabia; Kemptville, Ontario, Canada; Wemmel, Brabant, Belgium; Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; Balzac, Alberta, Canada; Angers, Pay De La loire, France; London, United Kingdom; Berlin, Germany; Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Kitchener, Ontario, Canada; Prince George, British Columbia, Canada; and Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.

FROM THROUGHOUT THE USA:
Tok, Alaska (Hi Dave!); Aiea, Hawaii; Concord, North Carolina; Massillon, Ohio; Greensberg, North Carolina; Greenville, North Carolina; Naperville, Illinois; Bloomington, Illinois; Henderson, Neveda; Beaverton Oregon; Roxbury, Vermont; Tampa, Florida; Piedmont, South Carolina; Pulaski, Wisconsin; Washing, DC; Des Moines, Iowa; Salt Lake City, Utah; Dallas, Texas; Sisseton, South Dakota; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Lawerncebery, Indiana; Neptune, New Jersey; Liberty, Tennessee; Seattle, Washington; Schaumburg, Illinois; Greer, South Carolina; Columbia City, Indiana; Hyde Park, New York; Troy, Michigan; Florence, Alabama; Martin, Michigan; Smithfield, North Carolina; Warren, New Jersey; Mcdonough, Georgia; Mount Gilead, Ohio; Atlanta, Georgia; St. Louis, Missouri; Valparaiso, Indiana; and Williamson, New York.

I wondered what most of the USA visitor's came to see or read, so I checked it out and guess what?
The majority weren't interested in my past blogs or columns...nope...they pulled up a past post featuring a great photo of several drunken pumpkins (and one was throwing up!) I titled it PUKING PUMPKINS... and you came from all over the USA to see them!

Hmmmmm....I'm going to have to digest (pun intended) that!

SEE SUNDAY'S TIME-STANDARD

MAKE SURE TO SEE AS IT STANDS TOMORROW. It's about lead poisoning in American homes. Are you safe? Was your home built before 1976? If so, you better read this column, and be prepared for a shock!

Well... blogger buddies and any other visitors who may stop in to take a snoop today, I thank you for stopping by. I'll be back home on Monday and will post a New Blog (with the usual bell and whistles) sometimes Monday afternoon.

I'll take the weather in Humboldt anyday! I's been so hot and dry down here that my sinus's are dried up and I'm getting an occassional nosebleed. The sheer mass of people everywhere I've been this last five or six days is overwhelming!

Talk about road rage. Yikes! I've seen several bad accidents and drivers that post speeds of 100 mph or more on the freeway (and some surface streets in Hemet and San Jacinto. In my travels I noticed that someone has built houses right next to the Parris Lake Dam. Talk about stupid and greedy.

That seems to be the story for city planners down here. They build wherever, fault lines be damned, and they get away with it. Just another case of a crumbling infrastructure.

I can't wait to get home and dial this blog back in!

Peace.

Winds and whiskey

The winds down here have been very strong and the wildfires continue to rage.
My Dad and I polished a bottle of good whiskey off the other night.

The clues I gave earlier have been referring to SAN BERNARDINO.

Gave yourself a gold star if you got it. Since then I have been hopping around most of southern California and going to too many places to list here.

It's been fun, but I'm already longing to come home. Humboldt is my paradise.

I didn't watch the debate last night because I'm burned out with both parties rhetoric. I wish this race were over.

I'm back again....

I'm still about 700 miles from home.
The winds down here have been very strong.

The county I'm in is the largest one in California and close to being the largest county in America.

That famous Route 66 runs through this county.

I'm already thinking about coming home and I have six days left down here! I'm use to being in my bunker communicating with the world via my computer, so I'm really out of my comfort zone right now.

My biggest challenge is my PTSD. I have trouble being around lots of people, and the traffic down here stresses me to the max. I am trying to let others do the driving while I'm here. It's just one of the precautions that I'm taking.

Most people don't have any idea what people with PTSD go through daily. The challenges are many and varied depending where I'm at.

That's about all for today. Thanks for visiting today, and I'll be doing a lot of updating when I get home. Meanwhile, don't be shy...take a look around and check out the archives for this blog and the other sources I've provided.

Peace.

HERE I AM....

Hello blogger buddies and other visitors!

I'm somewhere in the state of California. (Ah heck...Southern California).

Wyatt Earp retired in this city not long after it was formed.

Two words.

That's it for now, I've got things to do. Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you here later.