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Observations - November 2008

NOVEMBER 28, 2008 --

Miley Cyrus on the "Bolt" Float …

Miley Cyrus in the Macy's 82nd Thanksgiving Day Parade. More images of Miley, other celebs, bands and balloons, next LPR.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING
TO ALL IN THIS
LAND OF LIBERTY


NOVEMBER 25, 2008 --

A Message From Nature to Al Gore?

It was so cold last Saturday
That outside, ice was forming
Is this Mother Nature's way
Of saying we don't have global warming?


NOVEMBER 25, 2008 --

LPR congratulates Jimmie Johnson
on winning the Nascar championship for the third year in a row.

Image from the LPR archives - Jimmie Johnson winning the Nextel Cup in 2007.

Meanwhile the concern of the impact on Nascar of a bad economy, expressed by Kevin Harvick at a New York lunch after his Daytona 500 win, last February, has proved to be prophetic. The economic downturn has had an impact on Nascar, removing sponsors and leading to job cutbacks. And Kevin was speaking months before the financial Katrina that has devastated Wall Street and is proceeding to ravage other sectors of the U.S. economy

NOVEMBER 25, 2008 --

Autumn in the Bronx …

On the Henry Hudson Parkway, near 79th Street in Manharttan

NOVEMBER 25, 2008 --

Next LPR …

“In every single case before the rise of totalitarian governments there had been a period dominated by economic planners.” {Emphasis in original.}

From a speech delivered by former President Herbert Hoover to the 1940 Republican National Convention, quoted by John T. Flynn, The Roosevelt Myth, p. 205

Flynn’s book suggests similarities in the 1932 and 2008 pre-Inauguration periods.

More on this next LPR.


NOVEMBER 25, 2008 --

Timing is everything …

Heavy traffic on the Henry Hudson Parkway heading into downtown.

NOVEMBER 11, 2008 --

LPR wonders whether …

Lani Guinier will be named attorney general

Richard Holbrooke will be secretary of state

Bill Clinton will be appointed to the Supreme Court

Rep. Barney Frank will head the FBI

Mike Bloomberg will be Secretary of the Treasury

Bill Richardson will head the CIA

Chuck Hagel will become defense secretary


NOVEMBER 11, 2008 --

Chairman Barack?

Will there be a cult of personality

Created for our president- elect

If huge portraits of him appear suddenly

The Obama cult will be here I suspect


NOVEMBER 11, 2008 --

Almost reasonable …

A Mobil gas station in Torrington, CT November 5

NOVEMBER 11, 2008 --

Where are the Rumpled Reporters?

Don't many of the young women newscasters seem to come from Stepford?

Allternatively, are our young men and women newscasters required to fit the

Ken and Barbie mold?