HAPPY SKANKY HALLOWEEN?

What the little girls want to wear... yikes:
cultureandmediainstitute.org/articles/2007/20071030143444.aspx

COULD BE A GOOD IDEA

Russian schools ban Halloween: news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071031/lf_nm_life/russia_halloween_ban_dc_1

THE MOST ANNOYING

The latest pet peeves from the workplace:
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071029/wr_nm/work_peeves_

NOW YOU KNOW...

...who the top conservative and liberal leaders are (well, according to one source, anyway):
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/exclusions/uselection/nosplit/listintro.xml

WHICH FIRE WAS WORSE?

The debate begins in So Cal: www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20071028-9999-1n28worst.html

THE BATTLE CONTINUES

Now some GOP'ers are tuning in to what we've been talking about for weeks: the controversial Law of the Sea Treaty:http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071026/NATION/110260097/1001

NOT OUT YET

The latest on the So Cal wildfires... and the timeline from Day One:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071027/D8SHOS200.html

CONTROVERSY HEATS UP

Why didn't more air drops happen in the wildfires?
www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/25/fire.grounded.aircraft.ap/index.html

MAKE UP A NEW CAPTION

Bombastic San Diego City Attorney Mike Aguirre on-site at the Qualcomm Stadium evacuation site. Have an idea for a more "pointed" caption?

LOADS-O-STRESS

A new poll notes that a third of all Americans live with extreme stress:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,304957,00.html
That's not a bulletin to those of us in Southern California where this week's fires have moved the needle into the red zone. Of course extra stress can come from watching too much Katie Couric or digging into Rep Charlie Rangel's new tax plan.

THE LATEST ON SAN DIEGO FIRES

http://www.sdcountyemergency.com/

HOW DID ALL THIS HAPPEN? Investigations still continue with no definitive word yet, but from the archives comes a terrorist angle---- predicted back in the summer of 2003:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-07-11-alqaeda-fire_x.htm I have no doubt that at least SOME of the So Cal fires were started intentionally. By whom? Time will tell.

MEANWHILE, AGUIRRE'S OUTTA CONTROL: No containment of him expected soon. Now we find he was advocating a complete evacuation of San Diego earlier this week:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20071024-9999-1n24aguirre.html

KEEPING IT CALM

Tempers are cool in the fire zones: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071023/D8SETS4G0.html

SAN DIEGO FIRE UPDATE

The latest: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8SEM8KO0&show_article=1

TIME TO PRAY

Here we go again: The San Diego County fires are out of control, in a situation that may be the worst fire in local history. More fire updates: www.kusi.com (our television partner) High winds and low visibility are making air drops unavailable: http://voiceofsandiego.org/articles/2007/10/22/news/01afire102207.txt
The fires of 2003 were horrible enough. Now this. Lord help us.

WELL THEN, HURRY UP

Scientists are working to try to "direct" hurricanes... so maybe they could speed up the process and help douse the expanding Southern California wildfires: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/21/wstorm121.xml
I think it's going to be a long week here in So Cal. It's also the fourth anniversary of the horrible Cedar Fire here that destroyed over 2,000 homes here in San Diego County. The weather forecast is very similar to what we experienced in 2003.

TIME FOR PETE STARK TO GO

Off to "Happy Acres" for treatment after his offensive comment about how the President gets his "amusement": http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200710/POL20071019b.html

TIME TO SHOOT UP: Another sign of the decay of civilization as San Francisco considers "injection rooms" where drug addicts can get their fixes in a nice, comfy environment... under "medical supervision" of course: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,303425,00.html
Someone's been smoking something.. again.. in the City by the Bay.

IS OUR CHILDREN LEARNING, DEPT.

GW Bush's timeless education question works here: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,303058,00.html
Portland, Maine school officials approve not only free condoms for kids but now birth control prescriptions, too...without having to tell parents. And we're befuddled by why students aren't excelling in math and science. Duh.

SAY GOODBYE TO MOM AND DAD

Referring to them might be considered hate speech in California:
http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58185 Did Gov. Ahhhnold really know what he was signing?

CUSSING YOUR WAY TO TEAMWORK: A researcher in the UK claims swearing in the workplace can be helpful: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,302528,00.html
Uh, yeah, right. Dang.

WAIT UNTIL HILLARY SEES THIS

Talk about "oppostion research"! It could be that Barack Obama is related to... Dick Cheney!
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071016/pl_nm/usa_politics_cheney_

SO MUCH FOR NATIONAL HEALTH

The Brits love their socialized medicine so much that they're pulling their own teeth:
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071015/wl_uk_afp/britainhealthdentists;_ylt=

GOV.AHHHHNOLD'S EXTRA-BUSY

He signed loads of bills over the weekend, and (for the moment) kept marriage "one man, one woman" in California: http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_7172629 Still plenty of work (and lobbying) to do. Note to the legislature: Do some real work and stop the miniscule stuff and social engineering, too.

DOES BILL CLINTON KNOW ABOUT THIS? A California dentist claims his breast-fondling was understandable: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,301710,00.html For medical purposes only, hmmm?

WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

The British pose a question about values and time use: livenews.com.au/Articles/2007/10/12/Asteroid_about_to_
If an asteroid was about to hit earth in 60 minutes, what would YOU do? I guess this type of dilemma puts Al Gore's dire warnings into perspective.

GOREBASM: So now Al Gore's won the Nobel Peace Prize... after his Oscar and Emmy. They're created a monster. A run for the White House next?

NOT THE MOTHER OF THE YEAR: The allegations are that a 14 year-old home schooler built an arsenal so he could execute a Columbine-style attack: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/12/student.arsenal/
If this was the perverbial "cry for help", didn't his mother sense something was up, say, six months into the YEAR he worked on the plan... or how about when she bought him another gun to add to the pile of "stuff" on display in his room? Makes Brittney Spears look like a saint.

JIMMY CARTER DOES IT AGAIN

Now he calls VP Cheney a "disaster": http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN1026419120071010?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&rpc=22&sp=true
Well it takes one to know one.

BUY A LOTTO TICKET OR YOU'LL GET SICK

Wait a minute... I thought the California lottery was going to help education (remember the ad slogan of "our schools win,too"?) Now Governor Ahhnold wants to use the lotto to help pay for everyone's HEALTH insurance: http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_7134424
New ad spin could be: Buy a ticket.. or die!

THIS WEEKEND: Join me at the Western Conservative Political Action Conference in Newport Beach. Big name guests and the inside scoop on what's really going on in politics, including the left's battle to silence talk radio. The event is Friday and Saturday at the Fairmont Hotel: www.westerncpac.com

BUG PROBLEMS

Now it's the "robobug": http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,300328,00.html
Gee, that Bush administration is getting very clever.... or so the left will claim.

It's a boy!

Our first grandbaby: Mark Daniel Larson. Hmmm... kinda like that name!

ONE SIZE FITS ALL?

GW Bush reasserts his "on God fits all" theology: http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58026 Say what?

HEY YOU KIDS! GET OFF MY LAWN!

I'm practicing "things grandparents say". Thanks to my son Brandon and his lovely wife Tiffany, Mrs. Larson and I are now grandma and grandpa for the first time. A healthy, big baby boy was born this AM (to be named in moments) and all is well, thank God. So, I'm ready to serve as Grandpa... even though, at 52, I know what MY Dad must have felt like when we did the same thing to him.. at 43! Ah, youngsters all.

LAW ENFORCEMENT GAMES

I'm betting the LA "competition" isn't isolated: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-games4oct04,0,3881557.story?coll=la-home-center I can hear the lawyers lining up now.

WHAT SURPRISE? The La Jolla landslide problems point out an unavoidable truth: We all make choices. Choosing to live in an area prone to geologic shifts isn't government's fault. But that won't stop lawsuits.

SHE GETS IT: Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee has been a leader in the fight against illegal immigration...long before other members of Congress in the Southwest started hopping on the bandwagon. She's also right with her anti-tax stance: http://blackburn.house.gov/

MORE REASON FOR CONCERN

Illegal immigration is messing with Congress:
upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2007/10/02/
illegals_could_cost_congressional_seats/6221/

THE SENATE FIGHT TO CONDEMN

Now they're going after free speech :news.yahoo.com/s/ibd/20071002/bs_ibd_ibd/2007102issues01

HILLARY'S WAR CHEST

She's the big winner in the money race: http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN0238746420071002?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=22&sp=true

IN THE BELLY OF THE BEAST

Well, inside the Beltway, anyway. I resolve to only stay in Washington, DC no more than three days so I don't "grow" like former conservatives who go to the Supreme Court, becoming left-wingers. I'm LIVE from DC today, tomorrow and Wednesday from one of the bastions of reason in DC, the Heritage Foundation. Here's where they stand on issues: http://www.heritage.org/WhereWeStand/