Imagine Their Disappointment.

Checking the stats for my blog with Google Analytics, I discovered that I had received an unusually high number of hits yesterday. The highest ranking post was one I had written in August.... Obama Picks Cabinet Members.
The reason for this,I learned, is that when the phrase Obama picks cabinet members is typed into the Google search engine, my post is top on the list of 257,000 results. (I'm posting the screen shot of that result as evidence....Google results can change over time).
That post was not a serious discussion of who Obama might choose, but an attempt at humor by making fun of Obama having told us to inflate our tires to save on gasoline. I included a Gimped photo of an assortment of tire gauges and a text loaded with....huh, tired puns:
"In a unprecedented move for an American politician, Presidential candidate, B.H.Obama released the names of the members of his Cabinet months before the election takes place.
Speaking at press conference in front of the closed Goodyear tire plant in Rockmart, GA., Obama said,
'Although the road is long and difficult, we will never tire.Pressure from the Republicans will not deflate us.This how the future will gauge our success.'
He was later photographed with the members of his proposed cabinet."

I can imagine the disappointment of those looking for valuable information and getting my post instead.
I hope that post continues to rank high for a long time to come.

Russia to deploy missiles in Kaliningrad.

Not long ago, Joe Biden predicted that within six months of taking office, President Obama would face a major foreign-policy test. It looks as if the Russians have decided to begin the testing earlier than that.
Bob Foresman, deputy chairman of Renaissance Capital, Russia's biggest investment bank, had said that Russia will be "less assertive'' in international affairs following an Obama victory. "The whole world'' wanted Obama to win, he said. "Relations will have to soften.''
With Wednesday's announcement from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that his country will deploy short-range Iskander missiles in the Kaliningrad region bordering Poland and Lithuania, Mr. Foresman's view turns out to be naive.
Medvedev is about to "roll" the messiah.
Referring to the situation in Georgia, Medvedev said,
"We will not back down in the Caucasus."
Should Obama give in to the Russians (which he will), it will only embolden our enemies through out the world.
More problems to come from Iraq, Iran and the Middle East;
More terrorist attacks in Philippines.
These international crises will make it harder for Obama to achieve his Socialist agenda in the U.S. and his kool aid drinking zombies will abandon him before the mid term elections in 2010.

Links:
Russia to deploy missiles in Kaliningrad
Russia Should Talk to, Not Test, Obama, Officials Say
Russia to deploy missiles
Medvedev orders missiles deployed as world hails Obama

We'll know, soon enough.

Thanks to Mary at against all heresies I discovered a blogger named Bob Krumm. On his web site bobkrumm.com, Bob has his predictions as to how the election will turn out.
To make a long article short, he has this:
"Final popular vote tally: Obama 49.2%, McCain 48.8%, Other 2%.
Electoral votes: Obama 244, McCain 273, Pennsylvania’s 21 TBD.
Wednesday the 5th won’t be pretty."

One thing we know, whoever wins, Wednesday the 5th won't be pretty.
I hope he's right about the rest.

Early voting in state of Georgia breaks record .

The Daily Nation is reporting that early voter turnout in my home state of Georgia has broken a record with 2 million voters taking advantage of the right to vote before Nov. 4th.
Of course, the article attributes this to an enthusiasm over Obama.
How have they determined that bit of news? When one registers to vote in Georgia, we do not register by party affiliation. One cannot say,rightly, if the majority of the early voters are Democrat or Republican.
Another odd thing about the story in the Daily Nation. The photo accompanying the story is actually from early voting in Colorado....not Georgia.
They could have just have easily posted the photo I used.....with the caption, "Don't count your chickens before they hatch."

Yard Sign Removal.

With the election nearly here, I've decided to remove the "yard signs" from my blog....so to speak.It's unlikely that I'd be able to influence any "undecideds" who happened upon my blog between now and Tuesday.
I'm not sure what I'll have to write about after the vote; I've spent so much energy in the last few months putting down my thoughts on the 2008 presidential election. I'll have to change gears and I may as well start before Wednesday.