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Anyone recall that "they' said there would be an October surprise before the election? Well my question is was it pre-arranged? Did a group of international bankers arrange this? They aren't hard to find just look in the cabinets of the Clintons, Bush and Obama. Strange isn't it the 'usual suspects' seem to show up in every cabinet regardless of what party gets in. As one expert said this surprise should not have been a surprise because many had known how fragile the financial system was for some time. Of course neither Greenspan or the new appointee to the Federal...

Is the Rev. Wright ad the surprise?

Former CSIS strategist David Harris says a weekend explosion near the town of Dawson Creek in northeastern B.C. fits the description of terrorism, despite police statements to the contrary. Sometime overnight Saturday, someone detonated a large explosion next to the sour gas pipeline about 50 kilometres from the B.C.-Alberta border. The blast did not rupture the pipeline but blew a 1.8-metre crater in the ground, which was discovered by a hunter on Sunday. "How on earth anyone could declare this was not terrorism at this early stage is beyond me. Terrorism is associated with an attempt by threat or actual...

CBS News apparently had an October surprise of its own for President Bush. The network, already reeling from accusations of bias over anchorman Dan Rather's use of bogus memos to challenge Mr. Bush's Texas Air National Guard record, acknowledged yesterday in a statement that it had planned to air a story critical of the Bush administration's handling of Iraqi munitions Sunday on "60 Minutes," two days before the presidential election.

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Just turned on Fox & Friends. They said that the McCain people will be on this morning with Big news and they would immediately get a response from the Obama campaign. Meanwhile, while we wait they are FURIOUS about Acorn and are hyping the Acorn story big time.....

Why the Paulson Plan is DOA Posted by: Michael Mandel on March 30 Let’s see. In the middle of perhaps the greatest financial upheaval since the Great Depression, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson is proposing a change in financial regulations which basically amounts to a big wink to Wall Street. His plan will go nowhere, both for political and practical reasons. In fact, it does not even meet the minimum standard of improving transparency, which would reduce the possibility of a similar crisis in the future. The main point of the Paulson plan is to make regulation more efficient. It notes...

Freepers, the Democrats have already launched their "October Surprise" and they have been planning it for a while. Democrats know they win when they can make the economy the #1 issue (Remember, "it is the economy stupid.") This whole economic crisis has been in the making for a while and the Socialists and Soros have decided to pour gasoline on the fire just in time for the election ("surprise, surprise." This could backfire on the Democrats if the House decides to reject the Bailout Package and the Republicans start to attack the Democrats on them creating this mess (Freddie Mac...

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October is almost here. Summer is over, the leaves have begun to change and as it is every four years America is in the final throws of a presidential election. In the past one side or the other has came up with "October Surprises", a term usually intended to mean that one campaign has found some type of "Nuclear" option against the other. The news media is on fire today discussing the soon to be played McCain/Palin ad's that detail Obama's associations to fanatical fringes of society. Is this the "October Surprise" or should we pay attention to what is...

U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., joined a group of senators Thursday in a letter asking Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell to allow the Oct. 1, 2008, expiration of current bans on American energy exploration and production. The letter was authored by U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C. In addition to DeMint and Corker, the letter is signed by Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and 36 other Republican senators. "We need a balanced approach that will allow us to produce more energy here at home and use less, with a strong emphasis on conservation as we move...

Tyler Savage: he is fed through a tube in his stomach A boy of 12 suffers from so many allergies that he is able to eat only five foods. Tyler Savage is violently ill every time he is given dishes containing dairy products or wheat, gluten, eggs, lactose and soya. The sole foods he is allowed are chicken, carrots, grapes, potatoes and apples. To help him survive, minerals and vitamins are pumped directly into his stomach through a tube. Tyler started to fall ill at the age of six when even a morsel of food would leave him writhing...

One hears not an encouraging word about US President George W Bush these days, even from Republican loyalists. Yet I believe that Bush will stage the strongest political comeback of any US politician since Abraham Lincoln won re-election in 1864 in the midst of the American Civil War. Two years ago I wrote that Bush would win a second term as president but live to regret it. Iraq's internal collapse and the president's poll numbers bear my forecast out. But Bush's Republicans will triumph in next November's congressional elections for the same reason that Bush beat Democratic challenger John Kerry...

Press Conference August 3, 2006to announce details of aNational Veterans Rallyto be held in Rep. John Murtha's hometown of Johnstown, PA! Johnstown PA... A press conference will be held on Thursday August 3rd at 11am to make public the details of a national veterans rally to be held in Johnstown, PA.  The press conference will be held in front of Congressman John Murtha’s office, 647 Main Street, Johnstown, PA 15901. Chief Swiftboater John O'Neill co-author of "Unfit For Command" is scheduled asmain speaker at this national rally! Local rally organizers will announce that the national veterans organization “Vets for the...

East Pacific Hurricane Rosa makes landfall on the west coast of Mexico on October 14, 1994 as a Category 2 hurricane with 100 mph winds. Then it moves over the mountains and weakens. However, its moisture remains and heads towards Texas. A strong cold front over Texas and high pressure system over Canada cause the remnant of Hurricane Rosa to stall over Texas. Rain starts to fall on October 15th. Many areas got 1 to 2 inches of rain. Then it rains again on the 16th. Later that night and well into the early morning hours of the 17th, heavy...

The Tax Reform Act of 1986 was one of the major accomplishments initiated by the Reagan Administration, passed by a Democratic House and Republican Senate. One of the most important pieces of tax legislation since WWII, it sought to "level the playing field" by curbing tax shelters, lowering corporate tax rates, and eliminating special treatment for capital gains. Thereafter, capital gains, earned income, and unearned income were all taxed at the same rate. In economists' language, it brought the average marginal tax rates on labor and capital income closer together. Since 1986, other tax legislation has again increased taxation on...

On its website, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) proudly proclaims its mission -- "To stop the defamation of the Jewish people … to secure justice and fair treatment for all." But when a Democratic ex-president supports a march by the most notorious anti-Semite and hatemonger in America, the ADL runs for cover. Bill Clinton has endorsed Minister Louis Farrakhan’s Million More March (scheduled for October 14-15, 2005, in Washington, D.C.). The event will mark the 10th anniversary of Farrakhan’s so-called Million Man March of 1995. (The 100,000-man march probably would be more accurate.) In an exclusive interview with the Amsterdam News,...

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. employers probably added 175,000 workers to payrolls in October, the most in five months, while the unemployment rate held at a three-year low of 5.4 percent, the median forecast in a Bloomberg News survey of economists shows. The Labor Department's report will be released three days after the Nov. 2 presidential election, which polls show is a toss- up. President George W. Bush says his tax cuts have helped the economy, while Democratic challenger John Kerry says they haven't boosted jobs. http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=71000001&refer=home&sid=avn64.gOLNdI

Dr. Dean Edell, nationally syndicated radio talk show host and medical doctor, created his own "October Surprise" on the 29th of October, 2004. Dr. Edell highlighted the now discredited Lancet article which claimed that 98,000 civilians had been killed in Iraq since the invasion of March, 2003. A caller challenged Dr. Edell on his promotion of these numbers, saying that it was political on Dr. Edell's part. Dr. Edell denied that it was political, because he was only citing a medical journal, that the numbers were simply a "fact" and that most of the victims were women and children. He...

W- will be at rallies in: Saturday Grand Rapids, MI, Ashwaubenon, WI, Minneapolis, MN, Orlando, FL, on Sunday Miami, FL, Tampa, FL, Gainesville, FL, Cincinnati, OH Cheney will be in: Saturday Nazareth, PA, Zanesville, OH, Davenport, IA. Sunday Toledo, OH, Romulus, MI, Los Lunas, NM, as well as attending the 72-Hour Kickoff for Webster County GOP Headquarters in Fort Dodge, Iowa. Kerry Saturday Appleton, WI, Des Moines Warren, OH. Sunday will be at a church in Dayton, OH, Manchester, NH, Tampa, FL, before taping ESPN's "Sunday Conversation" (W. will be on the show too, separately). Edwards Bangor, ME, Daytona...

Instead of JN Kerry it should be U.N.Kerry. (They even look similar, don't they?) The man who sang the praises of the failed U.N. as a young man has teamed up with his U.N. partners in attacking our U.S. military's historically fast victory in Iraq. U.N.Kerry says that without the global test we shouldn't take a single step to protect ourselves. Kerry is the man who said that American soldiers dying for the U.N. is OK, but American soldiers dying for the United States would be wrong. U.N.Kerry is now hoping to help Oil-for-Food Annan get even with George W....

Team Bush is not controlling the message. The MSM can help Kerry but we have to do SOMETHING. Didn't we learn anything in 2000 (or 1992). People have to go into the voting booth at least a little afraid of what might happen if Kerry wins. You have to put the light on him now to get that effect.

NBC News reported Tuesday night that it's not clear who removed 380 tons of high explosives from Iraq's al-Qaqaa military installation (it could have been looters running through an unsecured facility; or it could have been Saddam Hussein's men before the war started). Nor is it clear exactly when the HMX and RDX explosives disappeared, NBC said Tuesday night. (Weapons inspectors confirm that both the HMX and RDX were there in January 2003 -- but gone in May 2003.) The New York Times and CBS News -- which broke the "October surprise" story on Monday, eight days before the election...

OK .. I GET A BIT "I TOLD YOU SO TODAY" Yesterday the news broke about 380 tons of explosives that disappeared in Iraq. The International Atomic Energy Agency was raising quite a fuss over this, as was the American mainstream media. Boy oh boy, did the media love this story. After all, it really looked bad for Bush, didn't it? ABC and CBS hammered the story, as did MSNBC. But CNN? Wow! Did CNN love this story. They covered it at least 50 times yesterday. Then, of course, we had the Kerry campaign jumping on the story. The Poodle...

Cheney lampoons Kerry's goose hunting outing SYLVANIA, Ohio Not even John Kerry's goose hunt today is escaping Republican political barbs. Kerry told reporters this morning he had bagged a goose while hunting in Ohio. Campaigning later in the Buckeye State, Vice President Dick Cheney laughed about Kerry's hunting trip, saying it clashed with the senator's voting record on gun rights. Cheney likened Kerry's camouflage jacket to "an October disguise." He told supporters that "the Second Amendment is more than just a photo opportunity." Kerry continues to deny claims by the Bush-Cheney campaign and the National Rifle Association that he wants...

So will there be an "October Surprise" in this year's presidential election, and what will it be? Will we capture Bin Laden? Will gas prices tumble? Will there be an act of terrorism? Will there be a scandal exposed? I know the temptation is to make this a humor thread, but please try to be serious. Do you have any predictions?

Precious little is written concerning the childhood of Jesus. One might suppose that His birth was so revolutionary in its magnitude as to dominate accounts of His boyhood. We marvel at the mature wisdom of the boy who, leaving Joseph and Mary, was found in the temple, "sitting in the midst of the doctors," 1 teaching them the gospel. When Mary and Joseph expressed their concern about His absence, He asked of them the penetrating question: "Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?" 2 The sacred record declares of Him, "Jesus increased in wisdom and stature,...

Kerry and Bush strategists largely agree on the battlefield, and who is winning in each state -- save Ohio. While the Bush campaign says it is winning Ohio, Kerry's internal polling shows the president losing by about five points and fading, according to two aides. Kerry will campaign in Ohio this weekend and many more times before election day. The Kerry campaign is confident that it is winning Pennsylvania and Michigan by comfortable margins and pulling slightly ahead in Florida, a must-win state for Bush. The Kerry campaign's polling shows Bush leading in Iowa and West Virginia, and running about...

TEMPE, Ariz. (Reuters) - President Bush moved into a slim one-point lead over Democratic Sen. John Kerry in a tight White House race, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Thursday. Bush gained one point to 46 percent, with Kerry holding steady at 45 percent in the latest three-day tracking poll, which concluded before the start of Wednesday night's crucial final debate in Tempe, Arizona.

KYTV (Springfield, Missouri NBC affiliate) Announced tonight that the Bush campaign has pulled its advertising money in Missouri. KYTV noted that Kerry pulled its funds long ago and that "Bush has a comfortable margin" in Missouri

Every October, in media throughout the country, both old and new, two statements are repeated so often they’ve almost become a mantra for domestic violence: “95% of the victims of domestic violence are women,” and “every nine seconds a woman is battered.” Often, they take a prominent place in an article or website, and have even been used as a headline or lead. The problem with both of these statements is that they simply have no basis in fact. Reporters believe them, because they are usually stated by a spokesperson for a women’s shelter, or other service in aid of...

This is sooooo funny. The paranoid little minds at the Democratic Underground ACTUALLY think that the documentary "STOLEN HONOR: Wounds that never heal" is "THE" October surprise. I just looked at their website, and the fouled mouth morons are going beserk because the Sinclair Broadcasting Company is going to air this documentary in several battleground states. For a good laugh, go to their website. It is priceless. They are so paranoid, and getting so desperate, it is breathtaking. Actually.......there will be NO October surprise. There will, however, be October "SURPRISES", that will leave the sKerry campaign breathless and paralyzed with...

In the first Reuters/Zogby poll in election 2004, President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry are in a dead heat race for the White House—with President Bush holding a slight edge over Senator Kerry (46%-44%). The telephone sample of 1217 likely voters was conducted from Monday through Wednesday (October 4-6, 2004). Overall results have a margin of sampling error of +/-2.9%.

October 7, 2004--In Missouri, the latest Rasmussen Reports survey shows President Bush with 51% of the vote and Senator Kerry with 45%. A month ago, Bush was ahead by a similar margin, 48% to 42%.

When - Tuesday, 05 October, 2004 Where - Olive Garden - Northwoods Mall Time - 7:00 - 7:30 Topics - unknown at time of posting

The latest Rasmussen Reports survey shows Senator Kerry with 46% of the vote and President Bush with 46%.

I've believed for sometime that there would be a great "surprise" concerning the Junior Senator from Massachusetts come October (as if I came up with that idea on my own). How about a game. Let’s speculate. Winner gets a prize!

One Small Voice: Dan Rather's two-faced journalism Jimmy Yeh September 24, 2004 Amongst the storied figures that have shaped the media today, Dan Rather stands out as a pioneer in television news reporting. He has always fielded the tough questions that other reporters were scared to ask. When charges of sexual harassment cropped up as then-actor Arnold Schwarzenegger was running for governor of California, Rather asked pointed questions like, “If your wife came to you and said that some man had groped and grabbed her, and she used words like ‘disgusted,’ ‘afraid,’ ‘humiliated’ to describe how she felt, as a...

Help!! A few months ago on Drudge Report, he posted a statement from Hillary Clinton where she slyly predicted an "October surprise" when asked if she would be running for Vice President this time around. Can anyone help me find the source of that quote?

This month is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. There are many ways to contribute to the cause. If you are a husband you should be concerned about your wife's health and be having her on a regualar program to prevent the disease.

October should be a busy month in the busiest pontificate in history By John ThavisCatholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope John Paul II's frailty during a visit to Slovakia prompted some to wonder whether the duties of his office are finally overwhelming the 83-year-old pontiff. But as a glance at his October schedule shows, the pope is hardly preparing to ride into the sunset. In fact, the month promises to be one of the busiest periods of any pontificate, a marathon of meetings, liturgies and celebrations -- including festivities for the 25th anniversary of his election. One Vatican...

<p>After a string of robberies at his Shelby Food Mart, Firas Al Kurdi kept a gun under the cashier's counter.</p> <p>Last October, the store owner used it, fatally shooting James Abdul-Shajee as Abdul-Shajee, armed with a knife, robbed the business.</p>