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The Only Puppet In
America On Welfare is
Multi-Millionaire Big Bird

Breitbart Big Hollywood, by John Nolte Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/6/2012 11:57:27 AM Post Reply

Like any entitled welfare addict, if you want to hear some squealing from Big Bird, all you have to do is hint that after decades of being on the government dole, maybe it's time to get off the taxpayer teat and take care of yourself. Heaven forbid. After all, it's hard out here for a puppet that takes in a cool $50 million a year off of merchandising alone. QUESTION: Why are taxpayers buried in $16 trillion in debt subsidizing a puppet richer than Mitt Romney? ANSWER: That's racist.

Plouffe: We Expected Aggressive,
Not Dishonest Mitt

Breitbart Big Government, by William Bigelow Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/6/2012 11:54:04 AM Post Reply

We all wondered which tack the Obama campaign would take after Wednesday night’s debacle. Now we know; they’re claiming that Mitt Romney is a liar. Top aide David Plouffe said that Team Obama was unprepared for the "remarkable" level of "dishonesty" displayed by Mitt Romney: We expected an aggressive Mitt Romney – that’s who he is. And in the primary, it was clear that the truth was really not his primary concern, but I still think it was remarkable to see him start the debate essentially... saying I don’t have a $5 trillion tax cut plan. Think about that.

Calif. gas prices equal
all-time high

Associated Press, by Gillian Flaccus Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/6/2012 11:48:36 AM Post Reply

LOS ANGELES- The price of gasoline equaled the all-time average high in California of $4.61 a gallon Saturday, fueled by a reduced supply and a volatile market. Prices throughout the state were expected to increase for several more days before leveling off, after a temporary reduction in supply triggered a price spike that saw fuming motorists paying $5 or more per gallon in some locations and station owners shutting down pumps in others. AAA's Daily Fuel Gauge report released Saturday said the average price for a gallon of regular unleaded across California rose 12 cents from its Friday mark

Obama announces record
September donations of
$181 million

Daily Caller [Washington DC], by Neil Munro Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/6/2012 11:45:15 AM Post Reply

President Barack Obama’s campaign raised an eye-popping $181 million in September, belying months of claims that he is being out-raised by his challenger, Mitt Romney. “We … raised $181 million in September from 1.8 million Americans — more than 567,000 of whom gave for the first time,” said a 10.24 A.M. email from the campaign. The funds were raised by both Obama’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee. The news will be a morale-booster for Democratic partisans, who were shocked by Obama’s stunning defeat in the first presidential debate

Jobs numbers give Obama a boost

Chicago Sun-Times, by Lynn Sweet Original Article

Posted By: brianod1- 10/6/2012 11:24:30 AM Post Reply

The monthly jobs report out Friday — unemployment down to 7.8 percent, the lowest of his presidency — was a shot of great news for President Barack Obama as Mitt Romney continues to slam him for the slow rate of economic recovery. Underscore this: There is a recovery. Job creation is one of the defining issues of the Obama-Romney contest, and the uptick — welcomed by the Obama team — hardly takes Obama’s record as a job creator off the Romney table. Both Romney and Obama stumped Friday in Virginia, a battleground state.

CEO vs Chair Man

National Review Online, by Mark Steyn Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/6/2012 11:04:21 AM Post Reply

A month ago, Clint Eastwood’s Obama empty-chair shtick was universally agreed by liberals to have been a disaster for Romney. Now, it’s on the cover of The New Yorker. The artist, Barry Blitt, says it wasn’t the easiest of assignments: “This image seemed like a proper response to the first Presidential debate,” Blitt told the New Yorker’s Culture Desk. “But I’m not sure I realized how hard it is to caricature furniture.” That’s what hiring John Kerry as debate-coach gets you. When they put the Empty Chair on Mount Rushmore, I hope they append that quote underneath.

Romney surges into
lead - Rasmussen

American Thinker, by Rick Moran Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/6/2012 11:02:32 AM Post Reply

Gallup still has Obama up by 5, but that's a 7 day rolling average so movement won't be expected there until next week. But Rasmussen has a three day rolling average, and two of those days have data from after the debate. While Rasmussen will be a little more volatile, Romney has surged into the lead by 2 points according to the pollster: The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows Mitt Romney attracting support from 49% of voters nationwide, while President Obama earns the vote from 47%. Two percent (2%) prefer some other

Bill Maher Rips Obama’s Debate
Performance: ‘Looked Like He
Took My Million And Spent It
All On Weed’

Mediaite, by Josh Feldman Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 10/6/2012 10:59:56 AM Post Reply

During his opening monologue tonight, Bill Maher admitted he was not happy with how President Obama did during his first big debate this week. He told his audience that Obama undeniably “sucked” during the debate, and surmised that the million dollars he gave to the campaign was probably spent on weed. Maher surmised that because Wednesday was Obama’s anniversary, “he apparently had the sex first and was completely spent” for the debate. He contrasted Romney looking “charged up” with Obama looking like Michael Jackson on diprivan. Maher admitted that Obama “sucked” during the debate, and made a joke

Social Security Needs More
Than Just A 'Tweak,' Mr. President

Investor's Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 10/6/2012 10:37:54 AM Post Reply

Entitlements: Lost in all the attention to Mitt Romney's rout in Wednesday's debate was a gross factual error Barack Obama made when he addressed Social Security. No, Mr. President, it is not "structurally sound." At the beginning of the third segment of the debate, moderator Jim Lehrer asked the candidates to address economic issues and, specifically, their differing views on Social Security. Obama responded by saying "Social Security is structurally sound . .. the basic structure is sound." Maybe under some tortured definition the entitlement is sound. But in the real world, it's in trouble. Social Security is now in its

Calif. gas prices spike at $5 per gallon

Associated Press, by Gillian Flaccus Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/6/2012 10:37:20 AM Post Reply

LOS ANGELES — California gas prices will increase for several more days before leveling off after a temporary reduction in supply triggered a price spike that saw fuming motorists paying $5 or more per gallon in some locations and station owners shutting down pumps in others. The Golden State leapfrogged Hawaii as the state with the most expensive fuel. The average price for a gallon of regular unleaded across California was nearly $4.49 on Friday, 32 cents more than a week ago and the highest statewide average in the nation, according to AAA's Daily Fuel Gauge report.

Even If Obama Did Cook The
Jobs Numbers, They Still Stink

Investor's Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 10/6/2012 10:34:12 AM Post Reply

Jobs: When jobs data came out Friday showing the unemployment rate had suddenly plunged to 7.8%, former GE CEO Jack Welch tweeted that "these Chicago guys will do anything . .. can't debate so change numbers." In the past, we've tended to dismiss such conspiracy talk when it comes to the government's jobs data. After all, those are career professionals, not political hacks, crunching the numbers. So let's leave aside the fact that the BLS numbers suggest that while the economy created just 114,000 jobs in September, the number of people employed somehow rocketed up by 873,000

Mexico's Cartels Increase
Their Muscle In The U.S.

Investor's Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 10/6/2012 10:31:00 AM Post Reply

Leadership: President Obama made much of his duty to protect at Wednesday's debate. But his record shows little heed for that, not just in Benghazi, but also inside America, which may be Mexico's new cartel battlefield. According to a CBS News report, three of Mexico's cartels are fighting pitched battles in Chicago, and it's their turf wars that are driving its murder rate skyward in violence that shockingly resembles that of Juarez, Mexico. Chicago recorded 391 murders this year, a sharp 40% rise for the year, signaling even to laymen that there's a new thug on the block adapting

Infield fly rule: Disputed call causes near-
riot at Cardinals-Braves wild-card playoff

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/6/2012 10:08:13 AM Post Reply

ATLANTA — Andrelton Simmons lifted a pop fly into shallow left field. Not a hard-hit ball, by any means, but at least 50 feet beyond the infield. St. Louis shortstop Pete Kozma drifted back, throwing up his hand in that universal baseball gesture, "I've got it." Only one problem. Right before the ball came down, the rookie veered out of the way, apparently thinking left fielder Matt Holliday was going to take it. The ball dropped harmlessly in the grass. The crowd roared, thinking the Atlanta Braves had loaded the bases with one out. Only one problem.

GOP Chair: Obama's 'words
have no credibility'

Investor's Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 10/6/2012 10:06:56 AM Post Reply

I'm Reince Priebus, Chairman of the Republican National Committee. This week, America watched the first debate between President Obama and Governor Mitt Romney, and it crystallized the choice we face on November 6th. It was painfully clear during the debate that President Obama has no new ideas to fix the economy.

Obama Unfiltered

National Review Online, by Andrew C. McCarthy Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/6/2012 9:50:44 AM Post Reply

Do you think Barack Obama knows who Ernie Banks is? Count me a skeptic. The purported White Sox fanatic couldn’t name a single player for the home team on the South Side, so I doubt he knows Wrigley Field from his beloved “Cominskey Field.” But even if the president was never gripped by the Cub slugger’s infectious calling card — “Let’s play two today!” — he has now heard the Mitt Romney version: “It’s fun, isn’t it?” That’s how the GOP nominee bucked up a befuddled Jim Lehrer during Wednesday night’s ground-shifting debate. It was only 20 minutes in

Race tightening, but
Obama's still in the lead

Los Angeles Times, by Paul West Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 10/6/2012 9:46:28 AM Post Reply

Washington— A large drop in the nation's jobless rate gave President Obama an unexpected boost Friday in his increasingly competitive contest with Republican challenger Mitt Romney. The decline to 7.8% brought the unemployment rate below 8% for the first time since the first full month of Obama's presidency and cheered the president's partisans. Based on the reactions to past reports, it's unlikely to change voters' overall sense of how the country is doing economically. Still, the announcement did have one big benefit for Obama: shifting attention away from his lackluster performance in the first presidential debate less than 36 hours

New Weekly Romney Remarks: Sadly,
fewer jobs created in September than August

Investor's Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 10/6/2012 9:45:10 AM Post Reply

Hello, this is Mitt Romney. And this week, we saw several reminders of the clear choice we face in this election — and why we can’t afford four more years like the last four years. First came a new economic study about the debt that President Obama has put in place and, of course, about the debt that he’s planning on adding in a second term. Simply to pay the interest this debt, middle-class families will face a $4,000-a-year tax hike.

Unemployment rate drops,
but enthusiasm fades fast

Star-Ledger [Newark, NJ], by Ed Beeson Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/6/2012 9:34:10 AM Post Reply

The lumbering U.S. economy and President Obama's re-election campaign got a jolt yesterday when the federal Labor Department reported the country’s unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in nearly four years. But the enthusiasm proved to be short-lived, both among economists and on Wall Street. (Snip) Meanwhile, a separate critical measure of the nation’s job market remained unchanged last month. The U-6 data which takes into account not just those who are unemployed and looking for work, but also those who want a job but aren’t looking and those can only find part-time jobs remained stuck at 14.7 percent.

Obama’s Old Friends React to the Debate

New Yorker, by David Remnick Original Article

Posted By: BabyBlueEyes- 10/6/2012 8:44:00 AM Post Reply

When Barack Obama was a student at Harvard Law School, he was never known as a particularly good debater. In class, if he thought that a fellow student had said something foolish, he showed no forensic bloodlust. He did not go out of his way to defeat someone in argument; instead he tried, always with a certain decorous courtesy, to try to persuade, to reframe his interlocutor’s view, to signal his understanding while disagreeing. Obama became president of the law review—the first African-American to do so

Biofuels and the food
that’s going up in smoke

Telegraph [UK], by Geoffrey Lean Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/6/2012 8:35:42 AM Post Reply

The new EU policy on biofuels is resisted by the industry, but its limits are actually not harsh enough. 'It’s possibly,” someone remarked to me this week, “one of the worst things ever to come out of Brussels.” Quite a condemnation, everything considered--and all the more so for coming from an Action Aid campaigner against poverty and climate change. For the EU biofuels policy is supposed to tackle both. But that was putting it mildly. The growing use of energy from crops has driven up food prices and hunger, spurred enormous corporate land grabs in poor countries

Winter power cuts feared as
Britain runs out of energy

Daily Express [UK], by John Ingham Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/6/2012 8:25:57 AM Post Reply

Britain faces power cuts by the winter of 2015 as ageing power plants are shut down, a shocking report warned yesterday. Energy regulator Ofgem also said consumers face massive rises in electricity bills as generators are forced to rely on expensive gas to fuel power stations. The battle to keep the lights on is also being compromised by EU anti-pollution laws which are forcing the early shutdown of coal-fired power stations. At the same time Britain’s nuclear plants are also closing. The shutdowns will lead to a 30 per cent cut in the UK’s electricity generating capacity.

Shocker: Free Birth Control
Means Fewer Abortions

Mother Jones, by Erika Eichelberger Original Article

Posted By: rinohunter- 10/6/2012 8:03:41 AM Post Reply

That's according to a new study published on Thursday by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis. The project gave free birth control to more than 9,000 local women and girls, many of whom were poor or uninsured, and tracked them for two years. There were 6.3 births per 1,000 teenagers in the study group, compared to the 2010 national rate of 34 per 1,000. As for abortions, there were fewer than eight per 1,000 women in the study, compared with the almost 20 per 1,000 nationally.
Staff has split headline.

Rays of hope as Britain switches to
new light bulbs and a grey autumn

Telegraph [UK], by Harry Wallop Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/6/2012 7:58:37 AM Post Reply

Now there is a full ban, a strange, grey spell has been cast over the house - but there may be a solution. Light. Is that so much to ask for? On these autumnal evenings, as I cycle back from the office in the dark, I dream of a cosy home, glowing with rosy-cheeked children and rooms lit up with good cheer to welcome me. But no. Each day, as I turn the key in the latch, I am reminded of the curse that has been inflicted upon our family. A month after the final stage of the

The Eyes Have It: Obama
Blinks 1,000 Times More
than Romney During 1st Debate

Smart Politics [University of Minnesota], by Eric Ostermeier Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/6/2012 6:38:28 AM Post Reply

The president blinked at a rate of 71 times per minute while speaking during Wednesday's debate - 1,000 times more than Romney (53 per minute). Mitt Romney almost universally received the nod as the winner of the first presidential debate - not simply for scoring the most political points, but also in terms of style. For while Romney seemed in his element, Barack Obama was criticized for appearing uncomfortable, grim, and dour - and was often caught looking down at his notes, particularly during split-screen shots. But there was another facet of the president's non-verbal communication

If He’s Lost the New Yorker…

Power Line, by John Hinderaker Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/6/2012 6:13:02 AM Post Reply

…then it is hard to imagine who still believes the myth of Barack Obama. Next week’s New Yorker cover:(Snip for graphic)So I guess it’s unanimous. Clint Eastwood was right. But here is what I don’t understand: why isn’t everyone embarrassed to be a liberal? Or, put another way, a Democrat? How is it that some people can witness the latest liberal fiasco–Romney sneaked a crib sheet into the debate! That’s the only way he could remember all those facts! No one could actually know all that stuff!–and say, hey, I don’t mind associating with those people!

Finally, unemployment numbers
inch in the right direction

New York Daily News, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/6/2012 6:07:04 AM Post Reply

Approaching the end of four years in office, President Obama can finally say that employment in America is essentially back where it was when he started. That’s not saying very much. The jobless rate fell to 7.8% in September on an increase in the number of Americans who reported that they were on payrolls. (Snip)How wonderful the world must look through the rosiest of rose-colored glasses! At this rate of job growth, years will pass before the U.S. again has as many jobs as it did in January 2008.

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