One of those oddball synchronicities came together this early autumn, as the arrest of director Roman Polanski for his long-evaded pedophilia penalty coincided by days with the death of a Manson-family killer, who's list of victims in a legendary murder spree 40 years ago included Polanski's then-wife, Sharon Tate.
The report from the Labor Department Friday showed that employers added some 110,000 new jobs to the U.S. economy last month, the biggest one-month gain since last May. The report also revised figures showing a surprise loss of 4,000 jobs in August, now saying the economy actually added 89,000 new jobs.
- John W. Schoen, MSNBC, Oct. 5, 2007
Seems like a billion years ago, doesn't it? And, remember, the economy was declining in autumn 2007 - headed down the gentle slope that became a precipice in less than a year.
We gotta wonder: Lately, Gen. Stanley McChrystal has been getting almost as much inexplicably good press as Rep. Joe Wilson and Ashlee Simpson.
Could the commander of American troops now pinned down in Afghanistan have his eye on something? Like, maybe, cutting the ground from under his boss, the President, and scotching Obama's chances for a second term? Or... maybe... running for President himself?
If the U.S. and Israel take their bogus dismay over the "secret" Iranian nuclear site at Qom to the next, insanely stupid level - and either with draconian sanctions or military strikes against the Persian "republic" prompt yet another regional war - we can thank the tattoo of war drums thumping at Foggy Bottom.
