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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GabFest for October 9th, 2009.

I'm John Dickerson in Washington.

Emily Bazelon is in New Haven and David Plotz is also in Washington.

Today we're going to talk about Afghanistan and the president's continued deliberations on that front.

Then we're going to talk about some new regulations from the Federal Trade Commission about bloggers and what they can and can't do.

And then we're going to talk about the Supreme Court, which kicked off its new season, new session this week with Sonia Sotomayor as an associate justice, and then we'll have our cocktail cheddar as always. Can I start? I have so many announcements to make this week. Can I do my first one now? Homeroom announcements. You're jumping out of your seat. I am. I really want to do an announcement. So I've been promising an announcement about the live Gab Fest and finally here it is we are going to do

another live gab fest in washington dc at sixth and i historic synagogue it's going to be on

november 10th at 7 p.m if you go to 6th and i.org the website all written out s i-t-n-h-a-n-n-d-org.

You can find out information about reserving tickets for it.

We would really love to have you there.

It's going to be fun.

It's going to be the one-year anniversary of the historic 2008 presidential election.

We promise that at least one of us will be intoxicated in some

fashion.

Wait, one of us? No, no. It's either we're all drinking or nobody's drinking.

That's at least one. At least one. Okay. Well, that means I guess we're all drinking.

So please sign up, come. You can also find out about it on our Facebook page, and we look forward to seeing you there.

And we'll put an announcement on the slate blog page, right?

And there too.

And we'll nail them to trees if we must.

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