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Today's trivia question... How many presidents have served as generals in the military? A. 8 B. 10 C. 12 D. 14 Find the answer here.

FM1081 Pictures (thumbnails) of the day: And here we see the White House. Photo taken by the Left Coast Political Editor.


	Nice weather and highs in the 70's at least until Friday.
	Ok, motorheads. This guy is making a jet powered hybrid Hummer with 600 HP and gets 60 MPG on french fry grease. He says he spools the jet engine up to 60,000 RPM and it charges up these "supercapacitor batteries" that then power the electric motors that power the vehicle. He's converting a Cadillac for Neil Young that will get 100 MPG. So our question is - with efficiency like this, wouldn't it make sense to use these jet engines to generate electricity for our homes? Clear up that incredibly loud noise created by the jet engine, and this looks like a viable solution.
	Continuing on with car news, GM is said to be in negotiations with Chrysler for a merger. The Left Coast Political Editor says it will never happen. Meanwhile, back in Germany, Volkswagen is selling a new mini-van. It's called a Routan. Why? This makes no sense. First, they don't have a great quality reputation these days. Next, people want to buy small cars and sedans now - not big cars. Finally, if they wanted make any kind of a small van type vehicle, a remake of the Microbus would sell like... VW Microbuses. On top of all that.. we want diesels.
	Boise, Idaho just got their earliest snow in recorded history. Right in the middle of global warming.
	HRH Pelosi is planning on calling Congress back into session after the election so they can pass laws calling for more unemployment benefits, food stamps, and maybe even a tax rebate. Look for us to get a bill for another $150B. Somehow, they're going to blame this spending on George Bush.
	The natives got restless at a McCain rally over the weekend. People calling Obama an Arab, saying they were scared of him. McCain finally told them that Obama was a decent man and that McCain was there only because he can do a lot better job at being President than Obama.
	Question 2 on the upcoming ballot in Maryland - should we have slot machines. The current governor, when he was Mayor of Baltimore, called slots immoral. (When the governor at that time was a Republican.) Now, however, the governor is pushing slots like there's no tomorrow. The pro slots organization in the state, funded generously by the horse racing people, who are going to clean up big time with slots parlors, and are running oodles of TV ads. The ads are promising $700M in tax increases if slots don't pass. It's no secret that we'll get the $700M tax increase whether slots pass or not. You heard it here first. We're voting against it. Not that it makes any difference.

October's full moon is on the 15th. We won't see a moon at all on the 29th. Sunrise and Sunset are functions of where you are on earth north and south and east and west within time zones. We're going to try giving you sunup and sunset times for some cities on the north and south ends of each coasts along with another important place somewhat in the middle for the first and last day of the month in a table format.

October is National Apple Jack Month. It is also National Clock Month, National Pretzel Month, National Seafood Month and National Car Car Monty. Don't forget to celebrate National Dessert Month, National Pickled Pepper Month and National Pick Your Own Apples Month.

In October, we open the month with World Vegetarian Day. National Name Your Car Day is the 2nd. National Virus Appreciation Day is the 3rd, and the 4th is National Golf Day. National German-American Day falls on the 6th. National American Tag Day is the 8th, National Moldy Cheese Day is the 9th. The National Peanut Festival is the 13th. Nothing big until National Babbling Day on the 21st and on the 22nd we see National Nut Day which ought to be really big on Maryland highways. National Mule Day is the 26th, National Chocolate Day is the 28th and the 29th brings is National Hermit Day. National Candy Corn Day is the 30. YUK. Halloween is the 31st.

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