Over due blogging assignments - (1) post about preemption (over due by one year.) Status - Request for one month extension (promise to extend discussion into federalism and impact of health care reform. (2) Post on Afghanistan (0ver due one week.) - Status - draft is written but being improved. Request for one week extension (promise to include discussion of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's trip to Pakistan and Afghanistan.) (3) post about call with Senator Arlen Specter (over due by one day.) Status - Request for one day extension (post will discuss Supreme Court, antitrust law, Commerce Clause, and SCOTUS' deference to Congressional findings.)

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It's still snowing. Three days straight now. We're getting buried:

Wind-whipped snows are roaring across the Eastern Plains this afternoon, creating blizzard conditions, forcing road and highway closures, including a 150 mile stretch of Interstate 70 from Denver to the Kansas line....the northbound lanes of Interstate 25 north from Wellington to the Wyoming state line remain closed....Snow totals reported to the weather service at about 1 p.m. today include: 38 inches in Evergreen; 37 inches in Genesee; 26 inches in Golden; and 24 inches in Littleton.

It's been great to have a snow day and stay home, but enough is enough. (Thanks to Skippy for making this graphic last year.) [Update below]

Busy day. Your turn.

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This so should be a snow day for me. It's been snowing since midnight and anyone with any sense would be home watching it fall outside the window with a fire going, or at least inside a warm office. Not me though, I have to drive to the jail where I'll be most of the day.

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Yankees Win!

World Series starts Wednesday. Go Yankees!

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Some good games this Sunday. The best one is Minnesota at Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is a 6 point favorite. I like the Brett Favres (+6).

The Bears play at Cincinnati. A pick 'em game. I like Chicago (pick).

The Falcons travel to Jerry World. I like Atlanta (+4.5).

The Giant host Arizona. I love New York (-7). More . . .

Early with this today as I have to go out. Today is the 4th Saturday in October. Apparently in the SEC, math is not a strong suit, as the Alabama-Tennessee game is today, instead of the traditional 3rd Saturday in October. Alabama is probably the best team in the country. Bama's RB Mark Ingram is clearly the best player in the country. Tennessee has a good defense. Vols QB Crompton played great against Georgia (most QBs have). The game is in Tuscaloosa. Bama is a two touchdown fav. I like the VOLS (+14) to keep it close.

LSU hosts Auburn, which is reeling after a strong start to the season. Strangely, this is not the ESPN SEC game tonight (Florida- Miss State is). I think AUBURN (+7.5) bounces back tonight and wins outright. More . . .

This Greenberg poll of Hondurans is pretty funny to me:

Nearly four months after Honduran President Mel Zelaya was forced from office, he retains considerable public support, according to a new survey by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner. [. . .] Two-thirds approve of Zelaya’s performance as president. Nineteen percent rated his performance as “excellent” and another 48 percent as “good.”

(Emphasis supplied.) Zelaya has not been acting as President for the past 4 months and his performance ratings are high. Ironic. He clearly is a beneficiary of revulsion at the coup. Yet, Hondurans also want the scheduled November elections to go forward (Zelaya is opposed to them.) And get this finding - "The survey also found that [. . .] 83 percent have a negative impression of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez."

Zelaya is popular, but can not run. The election he opposes is popular. And one of his main international supporters, Hugo Chavez, is loathed. A positive endgame for Zelaya is not clear to me here. There will be an election and then it will be over.

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I'm busy at work. Here's an open thread for you since our last one is full. All topics welcome.