Latest advisory shows her with 65 mph winds STILL after a journey over land that usually de-energizes pre-hurricane low pressure storms.... likely has to do with some of Fay's journey has been over the ever-wet Everglades of Southwest Florida...and she's now sitting at the door of Lake Okeechobee.  The lake is in need of rejuvenation from the plentiful rains that Fay is bringing, but also worth considering the rejuvenating effect of the lake's hot August water feeding Fay further...not sure if that possiblity is considered by the weather gurus.

She's been an interesting storm so far, leaving mayhem in Cuba and spawning a damaging tornado in my town early this morning...leaving one horse wondering where her barn went

http://www.wptv.com/...

The Harvard Political Reviewlast night released an interview with Karl Rove.  The very last question caught my eye:

Q. ...you recently said you believe Roger Clemens was telling the truth in his congressional testimony. What makes you believe him, and why do you think this issue has split along partisan lines?

Rove: You know, I’m not necessarily certain it has split along partisan lines. But I don’t know, I just know him, I’ve been around him, and he strikes me as a person of enormous integrity and decency. I just find his testimony more convincing than the former trainer. Roger Clemens just strikes me as a person of integrity.

When Karl Rove issues a proclamation about somebody having integrity, well the little hairs on your arm just about stand up.

Why in the world and when has Karl Rove "been  around" Roger Clemens?  I'm not thinking that Karl would have also had an (alleged) affair with a teenage Mindy McCready.  So I did some Googling...

The rumor mill has been in full gear all day about whether or not the Bosox are going to throw in the towel on Manny Ramirez and ship him out of New England.  Latest buzz is a three way trade with the Marlins and Pirates bringing Manny to South Florida, Jeremy Hermida to the Pirates and Jason Bay to Boston as the principals with some prospects and cash thrown about as well.

Trade deadline is tomorrow, Yanks picked up Pudge Rodriquez for a middle of the road middle reliever earlier today....

Not sure if this is a publicity ploy, most likely this film doesn't need it.  Has the Joker had the last laugh?

A police spokeswoman said: "A 34-year-old man attended a central London police station this morning by appointment.
"He was arrested in connection with an allegation of assault."

Truth is stranger than fiction....

"History never repeats itself but at best rhymes...." - Mark Twain  18??

"We have to understand that the situation is precarious and urgent here in Afghanistan, and I believe this has to be the central focus, the central front, in our battle against terrorism"  - Barack Obama  2008

"We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war." - Zbignew Brzezinski, 1979

Fresh on the heels of Barack Obama's historic pre-election trip to Afghanistan this weekend and Obama's call for a more concerted effort to focus resources and more troops on the Afghanistan fronts come words of warnings from former US National Security Advisor and prominent Obama supporter Brzezinski

A poor child born in Germany, France, Canada, or one of the Nordic countries has a better chance to join the middle class in adulthood than an American child born into similar circumstances.

The U.S. ranks second among 177 countries in per-capita income but 12th on human development, according to the global Human Development Index, published annually by the United Nations Development Programme.

Each of the 11 countries ahead of the U.S. has a lower per-capita income than the U.S., but all perform better on the health and knowledge dimensions.

The U.S. infant mortality rate is on par with that of Croatia, Cuba, Estonia, and Poland.

If the U.S. infant mortality rate were equal to that of first-ranked Sweden, twenty-one thousand more American babies would have lived to celebrate their first birthdays in 2005.