Personally, I don’t understand why the NBA would want to compete with Halloween. But if you are one of those that prefer not to be home and give out candy, this would be the perfect excuse.
Once again, Hillary Rodham Clinton leads in a poll. This time, she was top choice when people were asked which major 2008 presidential candidate would make the scariest Halloween costume.
Asked about costume choices, 37 percent in an Associated Press-Ipsos survey this month chose New York Sen. Clinton, the front-runner among Democratic presidential contenders. Fourteen percent selected former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who leads Republicans in national polls.
No other candidate exceeded 6 percent.
[Thanks, Nathan!]
SYDNEY (AFP) – An Australian sheepdog is fighting for its life after being bitten while saving its owner from a huge and deadly snake, local media reported Wednesday.
Fay Palethorpe, 68, was gardening on her large Gold Coast property when she encountered a two-metre (six-foot) eastern brown snake, the Australian Associated Press reported.
“He saw me and I saw him, and he reared up about two foot into the air and struck at me three times,” she said. “I just screamed and ran.”
As the snake pursued Palethorpe across the garden her three Australian sheepdogs, known as kelpies, leapt to her defence.
“It was coming after me, chasing me,” she said, describing how one of the dogs, Tess, grabbed the snake and threw it in the air before it fled.
But the dog was bitten on the ear and was bleeding internally by the time Palethorpe reached an emergency animal clinic where Tess was given an urgent dose of antivenene.
“My vet said if it had got me I wouldn’t have reached my back stairs, it was so deadly,” Palethorpe said.
Tess sank into a coma soon after the incident on Sunday, and the vet rated her chances of survival as 50-50. But the heroic pet began blinking her eyes on Wednesday.
“Every hour is a little bit better,” said Palethorpe.
Cheney stirs controversy with hunt
UNION VALE, N.Y., Oct. 30 (UPI) — The Rev. Al Sharpton says U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney should publicly apologize for hunting at a gun club that displays the Confederate flag.
Cheney hunted Monday at the exclusive Clove Valley Rod & Gun Club in Union Vale, N.Y., where a 5-foot Confederate flag visibly hangs in an open-doored garage attached to the club headquarters, the New York Post reported Tuesday.
It surprises me that the Stars and Bars can be found displayed in New York.