Girardi Helps Out
Just hours after his team won the World Series, Yankees manager Joe Girardi stopped to help a driver who had crashed her car on the highway. Because she was already injured when he got there, Girardi immediately assumed she played for the Mets.



Free Food for Vets!
The good news is that restaurants like Applebee's, McCormick & Schmick's and Golden Corral are all giving free meals to veterans and active-duty military personnel on Veteran's Day. The bad news is that most of their meals are more deadly than an I.E.D.




Wall Street Swine Flu Shots
News that top employees at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup were able to get scarce H1N1 Flu shots this week has caused an uproar. But medical experts say that they had to innoculate the Wall Street executives first because the flu is fatal for pigs.



Obama's Next Trip
President Obama is going to Capitol Hill today to try to convince members of Congress to vote for the Democrats health care reform bill. But the more trips Obma makes to the Hill, the more Congressional Democrats end up supporting Chris Christie and favoring Olympics in Brazil.




Starbucks Profits
Starbucks says demand has been picking up at its stores in the last few months. It's not clear if that's due to coffee sales or the fact that more unemployed people are living in its bathrooms.





November 6th

1789: Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States... the march toward Notre Dame football officially begins.


1861: Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America. This, despite not getting an endorsement from the NAACP.


1918: The Second Polish Republic is proclaimed in Poland. The First Polish Republic was mistakenly declared in Romania.


1947: Meet The Press makes its television debut freeing Americans from having to read the paper or think for themselves ever again.