Most important news story of the week (ending October 31, 2008)

[ColbertWatcher]

Poll question: Most important news story of the week (ending October 31, 2008)

Most important news story of the week Halloween Edition!


A: now that hurricane season is (will be) over, damage caused by Hurricane Ike in Galveston will be given as much attention as the damage Ike caused in the Midwest, which continues to be nothing

B: Hubble gets repaired

C: for September, 2008, the U.S. Labor Department says 222,000 more jobs were lost and unemployment rate is 6.1%

D: Ted Stevens found guilty on all 7 counts of corruption

E: Air Force noticed a fire broke out at a Nuclear missile silo only after it burned itself out 5 days later; just made the announcement 5 months later, oh and it was an unmanned facility

F: 8 killed after GOP Chickenhawks attack Syria

G: Since 2003, 13 states have changed their laws to enable more ex-felons to vote (Alabama, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Wyoming)

H: Republican Florida governor Charlie Crist extends early voting hours from 8 to 12 per day

I: due to the slow response by the Pakistan government, hard-line Islamic groups (including at least one on the U.S. terrorism list) are among the few groups providing assistance to quake victims

J: Other (please see my pick for most important new story in reply)

[WCGreen]

1. this story about Bush exerting executive powers to cut a wide swath

of deregulations before he leaves office....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3575604

[ColbertWatcher]

3. What a fucking coward! n/t

[ThatPoetGuy]

2. Barack Obama spells out a vision of his coming Presidency

in a beautiful half-hour of prime time tv.

[ColbertWatcher]

4. BOO! Halloween evening kick! n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

5. Countdown kick. n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

6. Saturday late afternoon kick! n/t

[MissMarple]

7. I'll have to go with WCGreen's, George's nefarious, underhanded, under the table deregulations.

That man just wants to keep on being a real pain in the you know what.

There has to be a way to derail most of that, although the Bushies seem to believe that is not the case. They are either right wing evil flying pig monkeys, or they actually believe their own propaganda. :eyes:

Apologies to pigs and monkeys.

[ColbertWatcher]

8. I think that was announced after I posted. I'd say it's pretty important too. n/t