Aside from has-been Dick Cheney spouting off, what else is going on today? All but 20 of the 700 arrested yesterday during the Occupy Wall Street protest have been released.

Don't miss Prohibition tonight on PBS.

PROHIBITION is a three-part, five-and-a-half-hour documentary film series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick that tells the story of the rise, rule, and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the entire era it encompassed.

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The U.S. is warning travelers world-wide of potential retaliation threats for the targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlaki.

A Yemen security official said today that reports that bombmaker Ibrahim al-Asiri was one of those killed with al-Awlaki and Samir Khan is incorrect. As for how they found al-Awlaki, the official said "they had located Awlaki with intelligence gathered from a captured al Qaeda operative." Anyone wonder what tactics were used to get that information?

Al-Awlaki's death is not going to end AQAP or be the end of al Qaeda. For one thing, AQAP's top leaders are still alive, including Nasser al-Wahayshi, deputy leader Said al-Shihri, and military commander Qasim al-Raymi. AQAP will replace its leaders who are killed much faster than we can kill them.

Update 10/2: The US media is finally correcting its reports from yesterday saying bombmaker Ibrahim al-Asiri was killed in the attack on al-Awlaki and Samir Khan. If I could find the Yemeni officials' statements yesterday saying al-Asiri was not killed, why couldn't they? Answer: They probably did see the reports, but chose to run with the unsupported claim by unnamed US officials that he was killed. More bang for the buck I guess -- it made for a juicier story.

'Tis a privilege to live in Colorado. This is the best weekend of the year to see the aspen change, and the weather is gorgeous.

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It's my birthday -- another year, about to begin. I'm taking the day off from the news and the computer.

For everyone celebrating Rosh Hashanah tonight, L'Shana Tova! and a year of blessings, fulfillment, health and happiness to all.

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I've been cleaning out my parents' storage unit on weekends for the past 6 weeks, determined not to move the stuff to my house and fill it with clutter. I'm finally done. I just met GotJunk there and in 20 minutes they hauled everything away and swept the unit clean. As for the 11 boxes of financial and medical records dating back to the 1960's, they will take it to a shredding company which will send me a certificate.

What a relief. Now I'm taking my car to be thoroughly vacuumed to get the dust out from the boxes I did decide to keep.

As for selling the nameless crystal and china on EBay, forget it. There are thousands of baby boomers doing the same thing as their parents die and the place is flooded with the same stuff my parents had.

Moral of the story: Don't do this to your kids. Stop hoarding and throw stuff away. Hearses don't have luggage racks.

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Say hello to the new Scotus Blog,now sponsored by Bloomberg Law. I haven't had a chance to read through the the changes, but the Bloglift is really nice.

Boeing's stock rose big-time today with its delivery of the new Dreamliner. I wonder if they timed it with the premimere of Pan Am last night (which featured the inaugural flight of its big transatlantic plane of the day.) I think Pan Am (the show) is a winner. Anyone see it?

Breaking Bad was good last night, but not as riveting as the prior two episodes featuring Gus. Only two episodes left this season.

Desperate Housewives is definitely right to call it quits after this season if last night's show is any indication. Way too dark and depressing.

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Three best bets on this college football Saturday - Georgia Tech (-7) over North Carolina, Oklahoma State (+4) over Texas A&M and Georgia (-10) over Ole Miss.

Also too, ManU(-1) over Stoke City.

Go Gators!

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At the airport. Blogging tomorrow.

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