Tailgating on the Bay Way is our morning reflection of stupidity. One car length for every 10 miles per hour is the law, and the math rule of time and motor response parameters, but no, we drive like this picture at 70 m p h.
Coastal Alabama’s singing sailor will invite Tampa voters to vote for Obama with a free concert this weekend.
Hank Aaron’s childhood home with a filmmed movie tour guided by Aaron will be dedicated Thursday at Hank Aaron Stadium. The museum project will be completed in time for opening season of baseball. Major League Baseball is involved in the project, which concluded 2008 with the Phillies World Series victory tonight.
McCain and Obama go down to the wire. In Florida Obama and Bill Clinton wowed thousands, and Obama announced he would have bi partisian leadership in his cabinet especially in foreign affairs- probaby Colin Powell.
Exxon Mobil Corp., the world’s largest publicly traded oil company, reported income Thursday that shattered its own record for the biggest profit from operations by a U.S. corporation, earning $14.83 billion in the third quarter. Bolstered by this summer’s record crude prices, the Irving, Texas-based company said net income jumped nearly 58 percent to $2.86 a share in the July-September period. That compares with $9.41 billion, or $1.70 a share, a year ago. The previous record for U.S. corporate profit was set in the last quarter, when Exxon Mobil earned $11.68 billion. Revenue rose 35 percent to $137.7 billion. On average, analysts expected the company to earn $2.39 per share in the latest quarter on revenue of $131.4 billion. (Read the full post about ‘Exxon Mobil Gusher: $14.8B Profit’…)
BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) - Are Barack Obama and John McCain ready for some football? ESPN says the presidential candidates are planning to participate in one-on-one interviews via satellite that would air during “Monday Night Football,” the day before the election. ESPN’s Chris Berman will do the segments earlier Monday, if the candidates’ schedules permit, and they’ll air at about 10:15 p.m. EDT. Monday’s game is the Washington Redskins hosting the Pittsburgh Steelers. (Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. (Read the full post about ‘McCain & Obama On Monday Night Football’…)
WASHINGTON (AP) - “We’re positioned to bounce back.” That’s the White House reaction to news that the economy shrank in the third quarter. In the strongest signal yet that the country is in recession, the Commerce Department report says the gross domestic product contracted at a 0.3 percent annual rate from July through September. A big cut in consumer spending was a major factor. Consumers reduced spending at a 3.1 percent pace, the biggest cut since 1980. But the White House is downplaying the significance of the numbers. It says they were not unexpected and notes special circumstances, such as hurricanes and the strike at Boeing. (Read the full post about ‘How’s The Economy Doing?’…)
Philadelphia Phillies fans poured into the streets after the Phillies won the World Series.
Many fans jumped on top of CBS affiliate KYW TV’s Live Truck as they celebrated their team’s victory.
At one point it looked like they were going to flip the truck over, however the police intervened to stop it.
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WKRG.com Related Resources Phillies Take The World Series Posted: 1 day, 14 hours, 3 minutes ago The Philadelphia Phillies take the series over the Tampa Bay Rays. (Read the full post about ‘Phillies Fans Go Berserk’…)
VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Vatican has issued new psychological screening guidelines for seminarians - the latest effort by the Roman Catholic Church to be more selective about its priesthood candidates following a series of pedophile scandals. The church says it issued the new guidelines to help church leaders weed out candidates with “psychopathic disturbances.” The guidelines issued Thursday say problems like “confused or not yet well-defined” sexual identities need to be addressed. The Church is struggling to provide enough priests for parishes in many parts of the West because of waning vocations. But Pope Benedict XVI has said it is more important to have good priests than a greater number of priests. (Read the full post about ‘New Guidelines For Priests’…)
Getty Images It’s all about consistency, Alabama coach Nick Saban likes to stress, which usually goes for his own messages during weekly press conferences. They’ll stay the same no matter the opposition or national polls. “The most important thing is taking care of business week-in, week-out,” Saban said. Your three points from Saban on homecoming week … 1) ARKANSAS STATE ‘HAS A VERY GOOD FOOTBALL TEAM’ Saban didn’t just pay the usual lip service about the next opponent. He used specific examples, such as Red Wolves quarterback Corey Leonard (”as good of a double-threat guy as we’ve played) and defensive end Alex Carrington, a guy “that can play for anybody.” “They run the ball as well as anybody, and they can throw it and make big plays,” Saban said. (Read the full post about ‘Mondays with Saban: Taking care of business’…)