The last sunrise on summer 2008--forever a memory soon to be distant. Today is the final full day of summer, fleeting hours as the sun above isn't as warm on the earth as it was a few weeks ago.. No more fireflies in the humid summer night air.. No more smell of barbecues from distant neighbors blocks away.. no more care-free clothing.. It's fall 2008. The autumnal equinox only hours away, as fall will begin tomorrow. A few last minute summer 2008 random rakings, as we say goodbye to a season we grow to hate while it happens but grow to love as its last few hours bring a tear to the seasonal eyes: A belch of nature of a coming ice age? Australian paper looks into possibilities of a colder future.. Fascinating story of what happened behind closed doors and Treasury's Paulson met with legislators.. In the closed-door ominous session, Reid told Paulson, "It takes me 48 hours to get the Republicans to agree to flush the toilets around here" .. America, the 'diminished nation'? Pat Buchanan on the financial crisis. What is it? Hubble Space Telescope, again, captures image that baffles experts.. And also, Treasury may want to start bailing out foreign banks! Game review: Site gives STAR WARS: THE FORCE UNLEASHED two and a half stars our of four.. The new STAR WARS game does something others have not: You permitted to play the bad guy .. you can be Darth Vader and hunt down the rebel army .. the game still makes it more 'fun' to be the force instead of the dark side, you have more powers with the force.. Scholar claims to find lost capital of the Khazarsa, powerful nation that adopted Judaism as its official religion more than 1,000 years ago.. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued order Saturday for Vice President Dick Cheney to preserve his records as VP.. Private group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington is suing Bush/Cheney to try ensure that no presidential records are destroyed or handled in a way that makes them unavailable to the public.. It may have been the end of someone's world.. Chinese milk doing bodies bad in a new place: Hong Kong child gets kidney stones from tainted milk.. Al Qaeda suspected in Marriott bombing in Pakistan -- being called Pakistan's 9/11.. Former Blink 182 drummer, and DJ, injured in plane crash that kills four.. George Michael busted again.. in a bathroom, again.. Russia moves to ban Western holidays, including Valentine's Day and Halloween, calling them bad influences of Russian youth.. What will be the big seller for Halloween (*the Western holiday*)? Heath Ledger JOKER costume a hit, other stores reporting that Obama and McCain masks are high sellers.. Hillary sits waiting for buyers.. Goodbye summer, see you in '09!

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