~ in further hillary clinton news, we can think of one thing disappointing about this headline:

Clinton faces Pakistani anger at Predator attacks

~ hillary must reckon that pakistani students have the memory span of an average u.s. citizen:

[Hillary] Clinton told the students “there is a huge difference” between the Obama administration’s approach and that of former President George W. Bush.

“I spent my entire eight years in the Senate opposing him,” she said to a burst of applause from the audience of several hundred students.

who was the ‘him’ she was ‘opposing’ when voting to invade iraq and voting for the patriot act twice? what a card!

~ someone is smart:

New home sales expected to rise 2.6 pct
AP – 1 hour, 10 minutes ago

New home sales fall 3.6 percent
AP—23 mins ago

~ you probably do not know that today is ‘columbus day’, because you don’t have the day off from work and are busy flipping through wall treatment catalogues or tracing handrails in autocad, and google didn’t put up a cute doodle of an ‘italian’ driving his sword into a caribbean beach. however, there is some nobody in alaska who wants to make sure you forget(?):

“We have a very large Alaska native population, so just the whole Columbus being the founder of the United States, doesn’t sit well with a lot of people, myself included,” said Paul Prussing, deputy director of Alaska’s Division of Teaching and Learning Support.

…or with anyone who has read a history book that makes clear that columbus died more than 280 years before the united states was (were?) founded.

~ nobel peace prize quote:

if pretty words alone could provide leadership, then why not just give the presidency and the Peace Prize to a Hemingway novel?”
-Todd Harris, a Republican strategist.

it sounds to us like ‘Todd Harris’ has never read a ‘Hemingway novel’

~ as if our recent blood disorder wasn’t enough to contend with, now we have two other concerns to cause us to fret:

‘A southern Illinois woman died after being severely burned in a flash fire while undergoing surgery, a rare but vexing dilemma in operating rooms.
Surgical flash fires …occur an estimated 550 to 600 times a year…’

and

‘Doctors say a North Carolina man who was plagued with coughing fits should be OK now that they have removed a 1-inch piece of plastic from his lung, where it had rested since he apparently inhaled it nearly two years ago while sucking down a soft drink at a Wendy’s restaurant.’

we didn’t sleep last night as we were afeared of bursting into flames on an operating table whilst having a nekot wrapper removed from our lungs, but this morning we learned that we are of the people who will be dead in 12 minutes anyway, long before we could ever afford to enter a hospital:

‘Nearly 45,000 people die in the United States each year — one every 12 minutes — in large part because they lack health insurance and can not get good care, Harvard Medical School researchers…’

~ overheard at world’s largest dollar tree:

when i was in jamestown last week, i saw the wine glasses that i want. they were $343 apiece.

~ at the illinois welcome center, wiping peanut butter on the day’s fifth english muffin, we had an epiphany: michael keaton’s challenge to ‘jack’ of, ‘do you want to get nuts? come on! let’s get nuts,’ is a nod to the work of the ‘batman’ soundtrack artist – the one who is not danny elfman.

~ we always thought the day clint eastwood died was the worst of our lives, but…

The Walt Disney Company has agreed to purchase Marvel Entertainment, Inc. and its portfolio of 5,0000 characters in a stock and cash transaction worth $4 Billion. –cbr