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Looking at Cute Images
May Improve Concentration

Wired News [UK], by Ian Steadman Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/3/2012 7:18:19 PM Post Reply

Before reading any further it is imperative that you flick through the gallery of kittens and puppies that accompanies this story. Now. Go on. Seriously, we’ll wait. Back? Good. You should be ready to concentrate fully on the task at hand — examining a study which claims to have found that exposure to cute animals increases the brain’s concentration levels for a short time afterward. “The Power of Kawaii”, published in the open access journal Plos One, details an investigation into the kawaii phenomenon — that essential quality of cuteness which permeates so much of Japanese culture. (Snip) First, they

October Surprise: Obama
Plans Major Airstrike on
Libyan Targets

Breitbart Big Peace, by Ben Shapiro Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/3/2012 7:17:53 PM Post Reply

Today, a Defense Department official confirmed to Breitbart News that there is advance planning for a “substantial air package” against targets in Libya. Military sources suggest that this means that flight missions against Libyan targets will include manned flights, not merely drones. The New York Times reported yesterday that the Obama administration is preparing an operation to “kill or capture militants” involved in the Benghazi attack resulting in the murder of our ambassador to Libya and three other Americans. According to the Times, the Joint Special Operations Command is putting together “so-called target packages

Two Christian boys
detained over accusations
of defiling Koran

Los Angeles Times, by Jeffrey Fleishman Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/3/2012 7:10:01 PM Post Reply

CAIRO -- Two Christian boys have been arrested for allegedly urinating on the Koran, agitating tensions across Egypt amid rising accusations of blasphemy after the furor last month over a film made in California that ridiculed the prophet Muhammad. Egyptian media reported that brothers Nabil Nadi, 9, and Mina Nadi, 10, were placed in juvenile detention Tuesday in a southern village in Beni Suef province. The boys were taken into custody after a cleric told authorities they ripped up pages of the Koran and urinated on two holy books.

Treacle tweets of the First Couple:
Michelle and Barack share their
20th wedding anniversary with
the world on Twitter

Daily Mail [UK], by Hugo Gye Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/3/2012 7:07:15 PM Post Reply

Tonight sees the first debate of the 2012 presidential election - but that is not only reason that this is a special day for Barack Obama. October 3rd is the 20th anniversary of his wedding to Michelle, and despite the distraction of his re-election campaign the President did not forget to acknowledge the significance of the date. Both Obamas took to Twitter to send each other celebratory greetings, and Barack also tweeted a photograph of the young couple

Jittery Iran shoots at own warplane

New York Times *, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/3/2012 7:01:29 PM Post Reply

Iran's military was so fearful of an Israeli air strike on its nuclear installations in 2007 and 2008 that it mistakenly fired on civilian airliners and once on one of its own military aircraft, according to classified US intelligence reports. The civilian planes were attacked by surface-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft batteries and intercepted by Iranian fighters. ''Iranian air defence units have taken inappropriate actions dozens of times, including firing anti-aircraft artillery and scrambling aircraft against unidentified or misidentified targets,'' noted a classified Pentagon intelligence report. It added that the Iran's military's communications were so inadequate and training so deficient that

Obama appoints wife of Univision
owner to UN diplomatic post

Miami Herald, by El Nuevo Herald Staff Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/3/2012 6:58:10 PM Post Reply

President Barack Obama appointed Cheryl Saban, wife of the owner of Univision, as U.S. representative to the United Nations, according to reports from various news blogs. According to the Politico blog, Haim Saban, owner of the television network, backed Hillary Clinton in 2008, but during the summer donated $1 million to groups supporting the campaigns of Democrats. And according to another blog in Spanish of Yahoo, the appointment of Cheryl Saban to the diplomatic post was made last Wednesday, the day before Obama appeared at a forum at the University of Miami hosted by Univision.

Father of bodyguard injured
in Libya questions State
Dept. response

Reuters, by Marcus Stern Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/3/2012 6:54:09 PM Post Reply

The father of an American bodyguard injured in the deadly attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, said on Wednesday the U.S. State Department should own up to its mistakes and release more information about what occurred. David Ubben, 31, sustained broken bones and other injuries in the September 11 attack that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans. As David Ubben recuperates at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center outside Washington, D.C

Bill Kristol: Romney
‘Has A Thin Resume For
A Presidential Candidate’

Mediaite, by Meenal Vamburkar Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/3/2012 6:40:06 PM Post Reply

Mitt Romney‘s business background may not be as applicable to government as he says, The Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol and former GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman said on Wednesday. During a Brookings Institution panel, Kristol also argued that Romney’s resume is rather “thin.” The Romney campaign has long argued that the former governor’s business experience makes him well-equipped to run government as well. Huntsman questioned part of this assertion. “I haven’t seen a good example yet of a businessperson come into government and make it run like a business,” Huntsman said. “We forget that the

Hewlett-Packard Plunges as
Whitman Projects Profit Drop

Bloomberg News, by Aaron Ricadela Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/3/2012 6:38:33 PM Post Reply

San Francisco - Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman forecast 2013 profit that missed estimates and said a turnaround at the computer maker won’t happen any time soon, sending shares to the lowest price in a decade. (Snip) Whitman, one year into her tenure leading the world’s largest PC maker, said that the company lacks a “sharp, competitive focus” and needs to concentrate on fewer products. Hewlett-Packard is trying to boost profit by cutting jobs and reviving sales with multi-featured machines, including printers that double as scanners and copiers, as well as servers that combine computing, storage and

Pelosi Accuses GOP Of Holding Up
Funds Which Would Have Provided
Security For Libya Consulate

Mediaite, by Noah Rothman Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/3/2012 6:32:50 PM Post Reply

House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) appeared on CNN with Wolf Blitzer on Tuesday where she sat down for a wide-ranging interview. The Minority Leader addressed the ongoing scandal surrounding President Barack Obama’s administration’s response to the September 11 attacks in Libya which left four dead, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. Pelosi said that Republicans in Congress withheld $300 million in funds for Libya which would have provided for enhanced security around the Benghazi consulate. When Blitzer asked if she thought Republican

Reid Seeks Federal
Online Gambling Law

New American, by Bruce Walker Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/3/2012 6:31:42 PM Post Reply

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada is trying to get Congress, after the November elections, to pass into law language that would preempt from the states the right to regulate Internet gambling and would instead provide for federal regulation of this activity. The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), a bipartisan association that works to promote the rights of state governments and to provide a voluntary framework for the development of policy and research for state laws, is unhappy with what Reid is doing. (Snip) Reid tried the same tactic after the 2010 midterm elections, when in December of

Elizabeth Warren and the 'little guy'

American Thinker, by Rosslyn Smith Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/3/2012 6:29:31 PM Post Reply

Over at Legal Insurrection Professor Jacobson looks Elizabeth Warren's role in the Dow Corning bankruptcy. At the time Dow was facing thousands of lawsuits over complaints about a range of medical problems stemming from their business of manufacturing silicone breast implants. By declaring Dow Corning bankrupt the parent company halted all new lawsuits and placed the final say on settlement of existing litigation against Dow Corning in the hands of the bankruptcy court. (Snip) While Warren refuses to disclose what she did for Dow Chemical, it is pretty easy to surmise. Warren offered legal advice to the parent company of

Ten Simple Things Mitt Should
Do or Say During the Debates

American Thinker, by Gerald Santovsky Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/3/2012 6:23:20 PM Post Reply

If you haven't noticed, the election is slipping away from Mitt. Given the numbers out there -- unemployment, deficit, gas prices, and poverty -- that is amazing. Simply stated, if a Republican can't win this election, he or she can't win any presidential election. (Snip) Every (winning) campaign needs a good tagline (whether official or informal). For Reagan, it was "where's the beef?" For Clinton it was "it's the economy, stupid." Here perhaps this works: "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me." It's not only catchy and well-known, but it also sends a strong psychological

Romney will offer specifics in
debate, campaign says

CBS News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/3/2012 6:16:26 PM Post Reply

Ahead of the first 2012 presidential debate, voters are looking for the specifics of Mitt Romney's economic agenda and tax reform plan. His campaign says that voters will hear that Wednesday night. "On the issue of tax reform I think Gov. Romney will offer a great deal of specifics about what he would do," Romney campaign spokesman Kevin Madden said on "CBS This Morning." That said, Madden added, "It's hard to get into a whole lot of specifics, particularly when you're talking about something as complex as all the deductions you would go through as part of tax reform."

U.S Added More Debt
Monday Than From 1776
Through Pearl Harbor

Cybercast News Service, by Terence P. Jeffrey Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/3/2012 6:14:38 PM Post Reply

The federal government added $93,245,605,914.16 to its debt on Oct. 1, the first day of fiscal 2013. That was more than all the debt the federal government accumulated between July 4, 1776 when the United States declared independence from England and sometime in October 1942, which was ten months after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and the United States entered World War II. At the close of business on Sept. 30, 1942, according to the U.S. Treasury’s Monthly Statement of the Public Debt, the total debt of the U.S. government was $91,057,523,886.72. By the close of business

Sen. McCaskill raises
$5.8M, expands lead

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Alexandra Jaffe Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/3/2012 6:07:47 PM Post Reply

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) raised $5.8 million in the last quarter, and two new polls show her either widening or maintaining her lead in the Missouri Senate race. But one poll reveals that voters in that state would prefer a Republican majority in the Senate, indicating McCaskill could still be vulnerable in a state where President Obama is little-liked. (Snip) A separate poll, from conservative firm Rasmussen, gives McCaskill 51 percent support to Akin's 45 percent support, the same six-percentage-point lead she posted in the same poll in early September, and an increase of five percent support for McCaskill and

MSNBC's Kornacki On Race
Tape: Let's Agree To Marginalize
Matt Drudge

Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/3/2012 6:06:58 PM Post Reply

On their MSNBC program today, network co-hosts Toure and Steve Kornacki attacked the messengers for the Obama race tape. Toure, who came under fire for accusing Romney of committing "niggerization" of Obama, accused the Drudge Report, The Daily Caller and Sean Hannity of conspiring against President Obama in a racial way. "We see Hannity and Tucker Carlson critiquing the president's accent and his tone of voice. So we have two white men who don't know the president, talking about how he should speak, how a black person should speak in public, especially when they

Andrew Sullivan: Tucker Carlson A
'Degenerate, Disgusting Racist Demagogue'

NewsBusters, by Mark Finkelstein Original Article

Posted By: Oblio- 10/3/2012 6:06:42 PM Post Reply

Andrew Sullivan is spitting mad at Tucker Carlson. Writing at The Daily Beast today, Sullivan vilifies the editor-in-chief of the Daily Caller as a "degenerate, disgusting, racist demagogue."Sullivan is infuriated by Carlson's Daily Caller having recently called attention to a 2007 speech, largely ignored by the MSM, by then presidential candidate Barack Obama. Addressing an audience of black ministers, Obama lavishly praised Rev. Jeremiah Wright, blamed the LA riots and the response to Hurricane Katrina on racism and made, in the words of the Daily Caller,

Colorado Republicans Urge
Romney To Play ‘Hardball’
With Obama,
‘Don’t Believe’ The Polls

ABC News, by Michael Falcone Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/3/2012 6:05:56 PM Post Reply

Denver - Even Mitt Romney’s most ardent supporters in this key swing state have a message for him heading into the final month before Election Day: “Play a little more hardball.” That’s what 73-year-old retiree Ken Carpenter told ABC News in an interview this week in which he called the last four years of the Obama administration a “disaster.” “I’m definitely against Obama and everything about him,” Carpenter said. “He’s destroying America, so Romney’s the other choice.” (Snip) “There’s an awful lot of liberals in this state from New York, California,” he said. “They call themselves independents, but they’re really

Obama campaign's robocall about
early voting called misleading

Tampa Bay Times [St. Petersburg, FL], by Adam C. Smith Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/3/2012 5:57:16 PM Post Reply

Pasco County Supervisor of Elections Brian Corley is warning voters about potentially misleading early voting information after his office received hundreds of inquiries from voters Tuesday wanting to cast early ballots.Early voting in Florida doesn't begin until Oct. 27 and lasts through Nov. 3. Corley traced one of the complaints to a robocall from Organizing for America, an arm of the Democratic Party. OFA spokesman Eric Jotkoff said the call refers to a program where voters can request an absentee ballot at the elections office and fill it out on the spot. Corley said that program is known

Turkey Strikes Back After
Syrian Shelling Kills 5 Civilians

New York Times, by ANNE BARNARD and SEBNEM ARSU Original Article

Posted By: Oblio- 10/3/2012 5:04:50 PM Post Reply

BEIRUT, Lebanon — The Turkish prime minister announced on Wednesday night that Turkey had fired artillery at targets in Syria, in retaliation for Syrian mortar fire that fell in a Turkish border town and killed five Turkish civilians. It was the first instance of significant fighting across the Turkish-Syrian border since the Syrian uprising began last year, and raised the prospect of greater involvement by the NATO alliance, to which Turkey belongs.

Russian Red Jihad

New American, by Christian Gomez Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/3/2012 4:34:13 PM Post Reply

In a recent exclusive article for World Net Daily, former Soviet-bloc Romanian intelligence officer Lt. General Ion Mihai Pacepa writes how the recent wave of Islamic radicalism in the Middle East, from the Arab Spring to the recent 9/11/2012 Benghazi and Cairo attacks, were not the work of spontaneous attacks, but rather the result of a decades-long carefully planned operation by the Soviet Union. In July 1978, U.S. President Jimmy Carter granted political asylum to Lt. General Pacepa, who eventually became a U.S. citizen. Pacepa is the highest-ranking intelligence officer to ever defect from the Soviet-bloc.

Hail Mary: Losing the Election, Obama
Needs a Debate Knock-Out

Breitbart's Big Government, by Mike Flynn Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/3/2012 4:30:45 PM Post Reply

Yes, I realize everyone in the media is telling me that the race for President is over. With 5 weeks to go, Obama has been called the winner by the DC bubble of journalists. Even the beltway GOP has gotten into the act. (My hatred of them will become clear on November 7th) An objective read of recent polling, however, shows that Obama is clearly in trouble. Obama is losing and it is his campaign that needs a boost from today's debate. (Snip) Tonight, National Journal released their latest poll. Among likely voters, the race is tied. Among independents, Romney

Election 2012: Missouri Senate

Rasmussen Reports, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/3/2012 4:18:50 PM Post Reply

The deadline has passed for embattled Congressman Todd Akin to withdraw from Missouri’s U.S. Senate race, and incumbent Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill has now crossed the 50% mark for the first time. The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Missouri Likely Voters shows McCaskill with 51% of the vote to Akin’s 45%. One percent (1%) prefers some other candidate, and three percent (3%) are undecided. (Snip) This Missouri survey of 500 Likely Voters was conducted on October 2, 2012 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 4.5 percentage points

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