Made it through another week! What are your plans for the weekend? I have some fall fertilizer to put down on the front lawn, dinners to cook for guests both nights this weekend, and the usual round of errands to run, including (of course) the Farmers' Market Saturday morning. Things are winding down for the farmers - we're seeing winter squash, potatoes, etc. But we didn't get our usual "second crop" of homegrown tomatoes. Oh, you can find a few, but they're not as plentiful as most years. Of course, there will be more than a little football-watching this weekend, highlighted by the Arkansas game Saturday night.
If you haven't read it (or seen it), make sure you catch Keith OIbermann's latest Special Comment. We snagged both the transcript and video last night. Enjoy. And, as long as we're on the subject of KO, dig through the comments in the Open Thread here, after you read the suggestion that Keith replace Katie on CBS -
Welcome back! Marvin Kitman - yes, that Marvin Kitman - has penned a bit for the new edition of The Nation positing that KO should be the new face of the CBS Evening News: "In short, what CBS (and all the others) need is a new Ed Murrow. Good news! There’s already one out there [...]
As for today, we begin with the latest, sorry, tale of money issues at the Pentagon. We're talking really big bucks, folks. Our tax dollars, floating around out there, being used for who knows what!
$6 billion under review, $88 billion under audit at Pentagon
...Taken together, the figures, provided by the Pentagon in a hearing before the House Armed Services Committee, represent the fullest public accounting of the magnitude of a widening government investigation into bid-rigging, bribery and kickbacks by members of the military and civilians linked to the [...]
Tags: Pentagon, Bid-rigging, Bribery, Kickbacks
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