I’d think of all people to piss off when running for an election, media icons should be last on your list. I’m more of a Leno fan myself, but I used to watch Letterman when I was younger. There’s no doubt in my mind that Letterman is a cultural and media icon.

Letterman has been around a long time, and has a huge following. Mccain outright ditched Letterman yesterday, stating that he was needed in Washington.

As you may be aware Mccain made the decision to put his campaign on hold on Wednesday. This was when he cancelled his appearance on Letterman. Letterman was not happy, to say the least.

David Letterman had many choice words for John Mccain, he started out saying how he has admiration for him, and respect for serving in Vietnam, and for his sacrifice as a prisoner of war.

Letterman went on to say “When you call up at the last minute and cancel, that’s not the John Mccain I know.”

Regarding senator Mccain’s decision to put his campaign on hold, Letterman said “Something smell’s right now” (perhaps his depends are full?)…

Letterman also suggested “somebody must’ve put something in his metamucil”.

David Letterman said that John Mccain had said that the economy was about to ‘crater’, which necessitated him getting to Washington immediately. Letterman then suggested he not suspend his campaign at all, but send in his “second string quarterback”, surely Gov. Sarah Palin has no reason not to be able to attend the debate, or visit Letterman on John’s behalf. Letterman said, “You don’t quit”.

After remarking that Sarah Palin should ‘be ready’ to step up, and take over for the old man, Letterman reconsidered and said “don’t get me started”.

In the absence of Mccain, Letterman brought out MSNBC host and stark republican critic Keith Olbermann, together they both assailed on Mccain for his decision to cancel his appearance, as well as put his campaign on hold.

Their critique reached a highpoint when Letterman learned that at this very moment that Mccain was ‘needing to get back to Washington’, and should’ve been on the couch next to Letterman, he was in fact at the CBS news center three blocks away in Manhattan being prepped for an interview with CBS News Anchor Katie Couric.

Letterman ordered his director to put on a live feed from that location, which showed John Mccain getting ‘made up’ to go on with Ms Couric. Letterman observed “he doesn’t seem to be racing to the airport”.

After listening to some questions from Ms Couric, Letterman said: “Hey John, I’ve got a question: You need a lift to the airport?”

He then asked Keith Olbermann if he thought this was all Mccain’s fault or somebody in his campaign’s. Keith simply said “He ditched you”.

Here are some Excerpts from Letterman’s rant on Mccain which quickly made their way around the Internet:

David Letterman tells audience that McCain called him today to tell him he had to rush back to DC to deal with the economy.

Then in the middle of the taping Dave Letterman got word that McCain was, in fact just down the street being interviewed by Katie Couric. Letterman even cut over to the live video of the interview, and said, “Hey Senator, can I give you a ride home?”

Earlier in the show, Dave Letterman kept saying, “You don’t suspend your campaign. This doesn’t smell right. This isn’t the way a tested hero behaves.” And he joked: “I think someone’s putting something in his metamucil.”

“He can’t run the campaign because the economy is cratering? Fine, put in your second string quarterback, Sarah Palin. Where is she?”

“What are you going to do if you’re elected and things get tough? Suspend being president? We’ve got a guy like that now!”

Letterman also dedicated his top ten to Mccain:

TOP TEN QUESTIONS PEOPLE ARE ASKING THE JOHN McCAIN CAMPAIGN
10. “I just contributed to your campaign — How do I get a refund?”
9. “Hi, it’s Sarah Palin — Does this mean I’m Parsident?”
8. “Can’t you solve this by selling some of your homes?”
7. “Hi, this is Clay Aiken. Is McCain single?”
6. “Do you still think the fundamentals of our economy are strong, Genius?”
5. “Are you doing all of this just to get out of going on Letterman?”
4. “What would Matlock do?”
3. “Hillary here — My schedule is free Friday night”
2. “Is this just an excuse to catch up on napping?”
1. “This is President Bush — What’s all this trouble with the economy?”

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• Letterman drubs McCain over last-minute cancellation
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• David Letterman: John McCain is Starting to “Smell”
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Today is the first day of Fall 2008, Autumn is an exciting time for bloggers, the slow summer is finally over and we can all get back to business.

Fall / Autumn is my favorite time of year. I’m a halloween junky, and I also love to attend the Renaissance Festival here in ohio. I love the changing leaves, and the fresh apple cider at the local farms.

Fall has always been a time of relaxation to me. Even though my online endeavors and businesses are speeding up. There’s just something special about fall.

Fall 2008 will be the first year my wife experiences fall in Ohio. She’s from Utah, and sure they have trees, but she’s never seen the leaves change like they do here.

As fall 2008 approaches and the holiday season encroaches, now is the best time ever to build up your blog. Fall is when people come back from their vacations. Fall is also the beginning of the busy season for online professionals.

For political bloggers fall 2008 is extremely big being an election year. It’s about 6 weeks till election day. Have you made your decision yet? Will it be Mccain? Obama? Ron Paul? Other?

I of course back Obama, because I think he and Biden will do the most for our country, but a great place to get the low down from both sides of the fence is whitehouse2008.info.

Of course if you’ve been following my segments on Google trends, then you should be aware that Fall is the hot topic right now, and I highly recommend blogging about it.

Here are some related blog posts:

• First Day Of Fall – 2008
• Autumnal Equinox aka First Day of Fall 2008 Officially Arrives Today
• We Made It!
• Happy fall
• An Apple A Day
• The first day of fall 2008
• 94 days before Christmas and the First Day of Fall 2008
• The First Day Of Fall
• First Day of Fall, Memory Lane

Alright, we were in the process of moving, which is why I haven’t written in so long.

Then after we were settled, and our internet was turned on – bam not a day later Hurricane Ike hit DAYTON of all places!

I’ve lived in Dayton about 25 years of my life, and I’ve never seen a hurricane come through. We are so landlocked it’s not funny.

Our power is still out, I just went up to stay with relatives till I get power back, I can’t handle being without the internet for a couple weeks. I feel so out of touch with news and such…

This is horrendous, we may not even get power back for a week or so, they said.

DP&L is not handling this very good, we were told the first day that it should take 4 days or so, we have a busted transformer on the main line out front, and our actual power post broke in half, and 30+ lines are down in our backyard.

It’s pretty bad, it’s lucky more people weren’t hurt though. A lot have been hurt financially though, many had lost food that they can’t afford to replace. Dayton has already been somewhat hit hard financially by losing jobs and such, this will definitely be a long lasting strike against the economy of the area.

Hurricane Ike is on it’s way to becoming a major Hurricane.

Hurricane Ike is moving westward at 16 mph. The current projected path for hurricane Ike is that it could be hitting the turks and caicos islands and the south eastern bahamas by early sunday.

Hurricane Ike is the 9th named storm, fifth hurricane, and third major hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season.

Hurricane Ike started off the coast of Cape Verde in Africa near the end of August, Hurricane Ike has since tracked south of Cape Verde and developed into a category 3 hurricane.

Hurricane Ike’s projected path is to track through the Florida keys and head on up the florida Peninsula and north into the gulf. It is also feasible that Hurricane Ike may follow a path similar to Tropical Storm Hannah.

Related articles on Hurricane Ike Projected Path:

• Hurricane Ike’s Menacing Projected Path
• Hurricane Ike Projected Path
• Hurricane Ike Projected Path
• Projected Path for Hanna and Hurricane Ike
• Hurricane Ike Projected Path : Hurricane Ike Turns Into A Category 4 Hurricane Overnight With Florida In Its Sight

50 Foot Spider to Attack Liverpool!

Spectators and passersby at Liverpool’s Lime Street station have apparently spotted the deadly 50 foot spider at a nearby office building.

Currently the 50 foot spider that weighs in at 40 tons appears to be sleeping. The enormous 50 foot spider is about to “wake up” on Friday.

Apparently the 50 foot 40 ton spider is part of an elaborate publicity stunt or street theatre event that will take place at various Liverpool landmarks, ending in a “spectacular finish” on Sunday.

The BBC claims that the 50 foot spider will be “exploring the city” sometime this friday evening. The 50 foot spider’s rampage will supposedly leave a trail of destruction in it’s wake.

If you happen to see 12 people trapped inside the robot’s steel and wooden frame, be aware that those are it’s victims and are definitely NOT controlling the 50 points of articulation.

I’m quite saddened by the fact that I live in Ohio, and not Liverpool at this moment. This would definitely be a site to see.

However, the part of me that is deathly afraid of Spiders is quite happy that I won’t be witness to the destruction of the 50 foot spider, as it explores the city.

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Image by Paul Beeley via Flickr My blog has been singing with traffic lately, but alas I will be taking a couple days off while we get new faster broadband installed.

I anxiously await my next blog post.

I should be back up by Saturday. Hope you all have a good week till then. God Bless..

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Announcing: New Baby Tiger.

Tiger woods just announced that a new tiger is on it’s way. Apparently Tiger and Elin woods have sealed the deal so to speak on baby #2. Elin Woods is due sometime this winter.

Tiger woods made the announcement via his website.

Tiger Woods wrote: “This has been a year of contrasts. I had a solid start to the season, won the US Open in an exciting playoff, and then unfortunately had to shut it down after successful knee surgery.”

Apparently unable to Golf, Tiger and Elin woods have found other forms of entertainment *wink wink*.

I’d like to congratulate the couple, I’m sure their first child Sam Woods will be excited to learn she is going to be a big sister.

Related Articles on Elin Woods

• Elin Woods Expecting Tiger’s Second Cub
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Google Trends made me crap myself…

I checked twice, and nope it ain’t chocolate pudding…

I’ve been blogging recently about google trends and the ability to make money by capitalizing on popular topics. As far as I’m aware blogging about popular topics is not yet against google’s terms…

So last week I blogged about Hurricane Hannah, and Hurricane Gustav, and a few other topics. Friday I posted my last blog post for the holiday weekend. I moved this weekend, so I’ve been pretty busy, and haven’t been online once.

Today I got online, and I noticed that on Sunday alone my website had roughly 3000 unique hits. That’s more than I’ve ever had in a single day. I posted some really good blog posts on Friday about the new vice presidential candidates(Sarah Palin and Joe Biden), and so I thought perhaps that’s where the traffic was coming from…

I was dead wrong, I checked my counterize statistics, and apparently Tropical Storm Hannah, has become Hurricane Hannah, and has become an overnight hot topic. Having been one of the first to blog about it when it first hit the trends site I have been able to get a lot of traffic to my Hurricane Hannah blog post.

How many hits?
Tropical Storm Hannah – 18035 hits since the post was written (This was a whopping 22% of my traffic since the blog began!).

Folks, since my website has had about 90,000 hits total since March, that’s huge. My Hurricane Gustav track blog post brought in around 3818 hits(or 5% of my overall totall traffic).

My link bait post on the Presidential Candidates (16 Places to get the Dish on Joe Biden and Sarah Palin) brought in 2897 (this is 4% of my overall traffic – ever)…

So my question to you is:

Do you still doubt the power of Google Trends?

My advice is get in on this action before google does something to block it, they always seem to fight it when people find good ways to bring their site traffic.