Summary: Farmers’ Alamanac predicts a colder winter than normal, with colder temperatures in most of the country, and the farw west and southwest at near normal temps. Great Lakes - Midwest: more snow than normal. Above normal precipitation in the Southwest and Southeast. The Northwest will be a little drier than normal.

LEWISTON, Maine - People worried about the high cost of keeping warm this winter will draw little comfort from the Farmers’ Almanac, which predicts below-average temperatures for most of the U.S. its forecasts that are prepared two years in advance.

The almanac’s 2009 edition, which goes on sale Tuesday, says at least two-thirds of the country can expect colder-than-average temperatures this winter, with only the Far West and Southeast in line for near-normal readings.

“This is going to be catastrophic for millions of people,” said almanac editor Peter Geiger.
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Very Latest: Obama picked Senator Joe Biden, one of the top Democrats in the Senate, for his choice as VP running mate.  Most pundits said it was a solid pick for Obama and would help him in the final months of the election.  Biden will be challenging for Republicans as he is a good debator and does not mind getting into a fight.

Last week summary: Media outlets across the country have reported that candidate Obama might announce his VP selection today. News crews are stationed at all three homes of the most popular possibilities: Biden, Bayh and Governor Kaine. First word of the news will come via a text message to all Obama supporters who have signed up to receive the official announcement from the campaign.

WASHINGTON - Presidential candidate Barack Obama said Friday the running mate he has chosen — but has not yet announced — had to meet three standards to join the Democratic ticket: Prepared to be president, able to help him govern and willing to challenge his thinking.

Those criteria did little to narrow the guessing game as Obama prepared for a massive rally in Illinois on Saturday to present his No. 2 to the nation and undertake a pre-convention tour of battleground states. He planned to disclose his choice through text messages to supporters, perhaps as early as Friday.

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August 21, 2008 at 11:31 AM EDT

For the second time in as many months, Rogers Communications Inc. upped the ante in the battle for Canadian smart phone users by launching Research In Motion Ltd’s new BlackBerry Bold this morning.

Just a month after bringing Apple Inc’s iPhone 3G to Canada, Rogers became the first carrier in North America to begin selling the fastest BlackBerry RIM has ever built.

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Senator McCain said in an interview, he’s not sure how many homes he has. “I think I’ll have my staff get back to you”………How does he not know how many homes he has? And, if you don’t know how many you have, do you really need all those homes?

If he can’t answer that, how will he answer other questions?

How many cabinet members do you have? McCain: “I’ll get back to you.” How about the no. of Supreme Court Justices? “My Friends, that’s a very good question”. How many states in the Union? “I know that one! 50! My staff just informed me.”

Yes yes, Senator McCain, you’re an American hero. And yes, you’ve suffered greatly for that, but seriously. Enough already with the prisoner of war story. Do you realize that you bring it up nearly every single day, in one way or another? We’re sick and tired of it, and we want to hear a much different story from you.

That was a long time ago, Senator McCain. We don’t really care about what happened way back then, because it doesn’t have any relationship to what’s going on today. You just keep harping on it, but you don’t tell us what it is that you’ve learned from it that will make you a better President. Or why it might be relevant to today’s issues. We don’t see any of that, and its something that we’d like to know.

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Iraq wants to put torturers on trial

Prisoners are seen at a Baghdad prison in 2005. Iraq’s human rights ministry says it wants to put on trial torturers who benefit from full immunity despite what it says are dozens of proven cases of abuse in the country’s prisons.(AFP/File/Karim Sahib)AFP - Iraq’s human rights ministry says it wants to put on trial torturers who benefit from full immunity despite what it says are dozens of proven cases of abuse in the country’s prisons.

Fears grow for lost baby whale who thought yacht was mum

An ABC TV framegrab shows a baby humpback whale trying to suckle from an yacht near Sydney. Fears are growing for the survival chances of a lost baby humpback whale who tried to suckle from an Australian yacht in the belief it was its mother.(AFP/HO/File/Abc Tv)AFP - Fears were growing Tuesday for the survival chances of a lost baby humpback whale who tried to suckle from an Australian yacht in the belief it was its mother.

New study backs angioplasty through the wrist

AP - The best path to a clogged heart may be through the wrist. About a million artery-clearing angioplasties are performed in the United States each year, and the usual route is to thread a tube to the heart through an artery in the groin.

US likely to slip into recession : UBS economists

A trader looks at a computer monitor on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on August 5. UBS bank economists have said the United States is likely to slip into recession in the coming months as the cushioning impact of sharp interest rate cuts and tax rebates wears out.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chris Hondros)AFP - The United States is likely to slip into recession in the coming months as the cushioning impact of sharp interest rate cuts and tax rebates wears out, UBS bank economists said Tuesday. For more check hitspot.com.

Electoral Vote Count
Obama
264
McCain
207

McCain has pulled closer in the Electoral Count which is the real test of the possible President. Last week Obama had a lead of 67 electoral votes, but that lead has decreased to 57 votes. The change could be based upon sentiment surrounding the latest events in Georgia. Or it could be that plus other factors within each state.

The results are based on the latest state polls. If a candidate has a polling lead of at least 4%, that candidate is given the state. Any state where the results show a lead of 3% or less is too close to call, and is not given to either candidate.

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Fire at WTC building exposes government lapses

In this Monday Aug. 20, 2007 picture, the Deutsche Bank building in New York is closed for work as investigators continue to look into the cause of a deadly blaze. Manhattan prosecutors are preparing to conclude soon whether the failures before the blaze at the state-owned building were bureaucratic blunders or crimes. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)AP - Every two weeks, firefighters ascend a condemned, black-shrouded skyscraper, checking carefully marked exit signs, a rebuilt water supply system and wide-open corridors. They wear protective suits on floors still contaminated by toxic dust from the World Trade Center.
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