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Happy Birthday guys!

Here are the ratings for the cable networks from Election Night 2009

FOXNEWS: 4,043,000
MSNBC: 974,000
HLN: 842,000
CNN: 826,000

If that was not bad enough it appears that  CNN is off the list of top 30 cable channels

Tonight on ABC it begins again!

Here is something to whet your appetite of what we are going to talk about on Saturday.

UPDATE: Here is a press release from the CO2 Comics people!

O2 Comics publishers Bill Cucinotta and Gerry Giovinco, both former publishers of Comico the Comic Company, join with Harmony Gold as it prepares to celebrate the 25th anniversary of ROBOTECH in 2010.

CO2 Comics contributors, Mike Leeke, Neil Vokes, Reggie Byers, Rich Rankin and Chris Kalnick are among the artists that worked on the ROBOTECH comics originally published by Comico in 1985. Their work along with features by other former Comico artists like Bernie Mireault, and Andrew C Murphy have helped make CO2 Comics the hottest new place to view comics on the web.

Before ROBOTECH, Comico became the first independent publisher to enter any licensing agreement when it became Harmony Gold's first licensee of the English adaption of the popular Japanese animated series Macross.

The first and only issue of Macross was published in late November of 1984, twenty-five years ago this month. Its story continued in February of 1985 under the new title ROBOTECH The Macross Saga after much negotiation between Harmony Gold and Revell.

To celebrate this milestone moment in comics history CO2 Comics creators and former ROBOTECH artists, Neil Vokes, and Mike Leeke will join publisher and creator Gerry Giovinco at the Zenkaikon on Saturday November 7, 2009 just outside of Philadelphia for a ROBOTECH comic reunion along with other creators from DC and Eternity as well as officials from Harmony Gold, Tommy Yune and Kevin McKeever.

CO2 Comics also plans a tribute on their website featuring work from ROBOTECH The Graphic Novel and other images provided by Harmony Gold including the never before published pencils of Svea Stauch from Macross #1 and a rare glimpse at the unusual production methods used to simulate the anime feel of the original source material.

During the month of October, the blog you are currently reading, had the highest number of hits for the year. The readership of the blog is still increasing and its becoming clear that people come here for the straight story. 

With the fifth anniversary of the blog happening this week its very impressive. 

Thank you all!!!!

For dinner tonight I decided to cook up some burgers on the grill.(It was a warm 85 degrees today at the Bank of Kev compound in Ventura County) So I went to Ralphs and bought some cheap generic charcoal. 

Remember how we have been told that "generic brands are just as good as name brands"? Well I'm here to tell you that in the case of Ralphs generic charcoal that is not the case! To be really honest it sucks donkey! 

First you have to put a ton of lighter fluid on the charcoal, then it takes forever to ash over, even then the heat the charcoal generates is pretty weak.It takes you longer for your burgers to cook and its more of a hassle. If you want my advice: Stick with Kingsford and cook with those guys.

Gas prices have risen nearly 80% since January and at least one press outlet has made note of it. From the New London Day

Americans are paying more for gasoline than they did last year as the holidays approached - billions of dollars that could go to books, clothes and Barbie dolls instead being spent at the pump.

Gas averaged nearly $2.70 a gallon Friday, the highest of the year - adding bad news to an already fragile economy and making it even less likely that people will spend their way out of the recession.

From last November to January, the average price was $1.86. Even if prices average $2.50 per gallon during the same period this year, Americans will pay an extra $26.6 billion for gas, said Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst at Oil Price Information Service.

Americans didn't have much going for them financially in late 2008, but they did have this: Gas prices plunged by 93 cents per gallon between Oct. 30 and the end of the year. It was like a generous energy tax break, just in time for the holidays.

Thanks mostly to the weak dollar, that's no longer the case. And when a gallon of gas runs from $2.50 to $3, people begin to notice, energy experts say.

People make a "clear emotional connection" between the price of gas and how much they spend on other things, said Wendy Liebmann, who monitors shopping habits through her company WSL Strategic Retail.

"It nibbles out of our paycheck, and there's nothing we can do about it," Liebmann said. "We've got to get the kids to school. We've got to get to work if we're lucky enough to have a job."

As gas prices soared from 2006 to 2008, people became increasingly tightfisted, a survey by WSL found. When gas peaked above $4 a gallon in July 2008, more than two-thirds said they had cut back on other spending so they could still use their cars.

Prices today are a far cry from the peak. Crude oil, which neared $150 per barrel last year, is trading at about $80 now. But drivers are feeling the pain nonetheless.

Anything more than $3 a gallon "is high for me," said Rene Contreras, 24, as he filled his Chevrolet Monte Carlo at a Chevron gas station in Los Angeles that was charging $3.17 a gallon. Contreras added only a half tank before rumbling off.

"I might give lower-income gifts because of the gas prices" this Christmas, Contreras said.

Gas prices are rising even as Americans drive much less than they did before the recession hit, and as the country sits on massive petroleum supplies. A weak dollar is making fuel more expensive.

Oil is bought and sold primarily in dollars. When the dollar falls, investors holding euros, for example, can buy more crude with less. And they have.

Since March 2, the value of the dollar has fallen 18 percent against the euro. In that same period, a barrel of oil has doubled in price, to around $80. Pump prices have gone along for the ride.

Gas prices have risen 17 days in a row, hitting a national average of $2.695 per gallon Friday, according to auto club AAA, Wright Express and Oil Price Information Service. The last time gas cost close to that was June, during the summer driving season.

Gas prices are going up and there are no oil men in the White House.

As seen in the final episodes of Genesis Climber MOSPEADA and Robotech: The New Generation, this new "Dark" variant is shipping next week! Preorders available now!

You can watch it here. (I cant embed it right now GRRRRRR)