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Bill Burga thought he had done everything right Tuesday, and he was expecting a triumph. Burga, president of the Ohio AFL-CIO, led a massive union effort on behalf of Sen. John Kerry that contributed to a large registration of new voters and the biggest electoral turnout of union members in Ohio history. On Wednesday morning, he woke up to the blunt reality that it was not enough. Religious-based groups focused on abortion and same-sex marriage had done union organizers one better, turning Ohio, and the election, in President Bush's favor by engineering an even greater turnout in more conservative parts...

Now that Kerry's been soundly defeated, has anyone heard ONE WORD about the missing explosives?

Punters' joy as Diva gallops into history Shaun Phillips 03nov04 THREE great forces – wind, water and Makybe Diva – all came together to create an unforgettable Melbourne Cup yesterday. The Diva raced through driving rain to win for the second year in a row. Some said it was the greatest Cup in living memory. Everyone agreed with exultant trainer Lee Freedman when he declared the six-year-old was the best staying mare Australia had seen. And now, with another $2.7 million travelling money, taking total prizemoney to $7 million, Makybe Diva is poised to take on the rest of the...

We can spend today making our own November surprise. Here's how. The gay vote is overwhelmingly for Kerry, but this need not be so. What most people don't know about Islamic terrorism is that the first target of Islamic terrorism in the US was a gay bar in Greenwich Village. That's right, George Bush is protecting us from people who want to kill gay people. We need to get this info out to all gay political activist sites TODAY!

Since new CIA Director Porter Goss blocked the October Surprise agency left-wingers had prepared against Bush (discussed in “Porter At The Pass” last week), they desperately rigged another one, working with Mohammad ElBaradei at the UN. What nobody is focusing on in Al Qaqaagate is that the CIA is behind it. The anti-Bush lefties are now known as the “Rogue Weasels” at Langley, and they are frantic to do whatever they can to elect Kerry. They cooked up this entire phony “tons of missing explosives” scandal, sweet-talked the head of the UN’s nuclear inspection agency, ElBaradei, to carry their water...

Dr. Dean Edell, nationally syndicated radio talk show host and medical doctor, created his own "October Surprise" on the 29th of October, 2004. Dr. Edell highlighted the now discredited Lancet article which claimed that 98,000 civilians had been killed in Iraq since the invasion of March, 2003. A caller challenged Dr. Edell on his promotion of these numbers, saying that it was political on Dr. Edell's part. Dr. Edell denied that it was political, because he was only citing a medical journal, that the numbers were simply a "fact" and that most of the victims were women and children. He...

The MSM has had orgasmic dreams of derailing President Bush with their pathetic Explosivegate, Halliburton (Chrissy Matthews was so high in ecstasy about this one: "it will be big headlines tomorrow")and do not forget ABC's attempt to hide the terrorist taoe threatening the US...Bush has had to weather over 6 months of bad media, bad news, insults, attacks. Where is our October surprise? I know that the vitriolic attacks by the DNC, Kerry, Hollywood, MSM on the President will probably backfire, but I am very upset that the RNC is not hitting back.

<p>Just saw on MSNBC Scarborough Country, Pat Buchanan said that the Wash Times is set to report that Russian Troops helped move the explosives and weapons to Syria before the invasion...</p>

Team Bush is not controlling the message. The MSM can help Kerry but we have to do SOMETHING. Didn't we learn anything in 2000 (or 1992). People have to go into the voting booth at least a little afraid of what might happen if Kerry wins. You have to put the light on him now to get that effect.

NBC News reported Tuesday night that it's not clear who removed 380 tons of high explosives from Iraq's al-Qaqaa military installation (it could have been looters running through an unsecured facility; or it could have been Saddam Hussein's men before the war started). Nor is it clear exactly when the HMX and RDX explosives disappeared, NBC said Tuesday night. (Weapons inspectors confirm that both the HMX and RDX were there in January 2003 -- but gone in May 2003.) The New York Times and CBS News -- which broke the "October surprise" story on Monday, eight days before the election...

NYT DEVELOPING EXCLUSIVE FRONT PAGE STORY ON TERRORISTS AND EXPLOSIVES. EDITOR HAS SET LEAD POSITION FOR STORY, NEWSROOM SOURCES TELL DRUDGE... DEVELOPING...

We're getting close to Election Day 2004 and the Kerry campaign is feeling the stress. Even with 90% of the media acting like an arm of the Kerry campaign, Kerry is still losing. Of course, Kerry's neighbor (at one of his mansions), a fellow named George Soros, got himself into the act by contributing about $18-million to the socialist committees of darkness in the background. The dark side thought they could use the money to defeat Bush this year by being extremely negative. Silly Soros, all he did was make a few political pikers rich. Oh, and it went far...

Hawai'i Poll: Bush, Kerry in dead heat http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Oct/23/ln/ln05p.html

So will there be an "October Surprise" in this year's presidential election, and what will it be? Will we capture Bin Laden? Will gas prices tumble? Will there be an act of terrorism? Will there be a scandal exposed? I know the temptation is to make this a humor thread, but please try to be serious. Do you have any predictions?

<p>Kerry will have the race in the bag very soon!!!!</p> <p>Mod note: I hesitate to leave this thread up, realizing how difficult it is for us poor conservatives to match up against liberal intellectuals. But in the interest of fairness...</p>

Arab Knesset members’ surprise opposition to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Gaza Withdrawal plan reduces support in the Knesset for his disengagement. Arab Knesset members’ surprise opposition to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s disengagement plan reduces his support to 67 MKs, only seven more than a majority of the parliament’s 120 members. The three Arab-Israeli parties have eight seats in the Knesset. The three-member Hadash-Ta’Al party, headed by Ahmed Tibi, said it is opposed to the plan because it would ”deepen Israeli occupation in the West Bank” and does not include a total withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from the Gaza Strip....

This is sooooo funny. The paranoid little minds at the Democratic Underground ACTUALLY think that the documentary "STOLEN HONOR: Wounds that never heal" is "THE" October surprise. I just looked at their website, and the fouled mouth morons are going beserk because the Sinclair Broadcasting Company is going to air this documentary in several battleground states. For a good laugh, go to their website. It is priceless. They are so paranoid, and getting so desperate, it is breathtaking. Actually.......there will be NO October surprise. There will, however, be October "SURPRISES", that will leave the sKerry campaign breathless and paralyzed with...

The "October Surprise"

WINGED CATS - WHAT ARE THEY? Sarah Hartwell Over the years there have been reports of winged cats, some of whom flapped their wings. Is this a new mutation of cats allowing them to take to the air after feathered prey or does the answer lie in poor grooming or an uncommon hereditary condition affecting the skin? As with the mythical "cabbit" (half-cat-half-rabbit) many would like to believe in winged cats which can fly. There are many authentic cases on file of cats with furry wing-like appendages, and in some cases the ability to move their wings, but as with...

Debate surprise... John Kerry does the ultimate flip-flop to win votes! This is an email-able, copyright-ready cartoon you can use in emails, on blogs, in flyers, on posters... anything that's noncommercial.