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Slain official's mom rips
President Obama
Politico, by Bobby Cervantes    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 10/11/2012 2:17:02 PM     Post Reply
The mother of one of the State Department officials killed in the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi is blasting President Barack Obama and top administration officials for not telling her more information about her son’s death. “Don’t give me any baloney that comes through with this political stuff,” Pat Smith, the mother of Sean Smith, said on CNN on Wednesday. “I still don’t know. In fact, today I just heard something more, that he died of smoke inhalation.”Sean Smith was an information management officer in the U.S. Foreign Service. His mother said the administration’s promises for a definitive account

Bus driver to conservative child:
'Your mother should have
chosen abortion for you'
American Thinker, by Selwyn Duke    Original Article
Posted By: redmom- 10/11/2012 2:11:31 PM     Post Reply
Actress Stacey Dash was attacked viciously on Twitter after she expressed support for Mitt Romney, with several people telling her "Kill yourself," another calling her a "hag," and yet others hurling racial slurs. But even this pales in comparison to the level of class exhibited by an Obama supporter who harassed a 12-year-old boy and told him that he should have been aborted. The blog Freedom Eden reports: "The Leftist, a 78-year-old woman, a New Berlin school bus driver, has been harassing a student on her bus route because there's a Mitt Romney yard sign

Romney calls girl at center
of T-shirt controversy
Philadelphia Inquirer, by Jonathan Lai    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 10/11/2012 2:08:24 PM     Post Reply
Mitt Romney called Samantha Pawlucy on Wednesday, a spokeswoman for the campaign confirmed by email this morning. The Romney campaign will not be issuing a formal statement, according to spokeswoman Kate Meriwether, who declined to provide details. Pawlucy's father, Richard, declined to comment this morning and the family attorney, Wally Zimolong, could not be reached. Pawlucy, 16, made headlines last week when she accused her geometry teacher at Charles Carroll High School of publicly humiliating her for wearing a Romney-Ryan t-shirt to school.

  


  

Paul Ryan Pumps Iron in
Time Mag Photo Shoot
ABC News, by Amy Bingham    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 10/11/2012 2:00:42 PM     Post Reply
The ogling of P9 workout fanatic-turned vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan reached a fever pitch as photos of the ultra-fit Republican hit the Internet today. The full spread will appear in the newest issue of Time Magazine. Hours before the vice presidential debate — Ryan’s first appearance on the nationally televised debate stage — Time magazine released six photos of Ryan clad in gray work-out gear and a red baseball hat with headphone cords dangling down his back as he pumps 50-pound dumbbells. The images were taken nearly a year ago

Squirrel dinner prep maybe
sparked Michigan fire
Associated Press, by Staff    Original Article
Posted By: BaseballFan- 10/11/2012 1:58:26 PM     Post Reply
HOLLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - Authorities say a blaze that displaced dozens of people from a southwest Michigan apartment complex may have been sparked by a resident trying to cook a squirrel with a propane torch. Fire Chief Jim Kohsel tells MLive.com that the resident apparently planned to eat the animal and was burning off its fur on a third-floor deck at the building in Ottawa County's Holland Township when the fire broke out Wednesday. Flames spread to the roof. Kohsel says eight apartments are destroyed and others damaged. The resident's name wasn't immediately released.

Florida Cancer Survivor, 11, With
Broken Prosthetic Crosses Finish
Line on Back of Marine
ABCNews.com, by CHRISTINA NG    Original Article
Posted By: barbcrose- 10/11/2012 1:48:17 PM     Post Reply
Spectators at a children's triathlon in Florida were brought to tears by the sight of Marines carrying a little boy with a broken prosthetic leg across the finish line. Bone cancer-survivor Ben Baltz, 11, was participating in his third triathlon of the summer when he had an accident with his prosthetic leg Sunday during the final portion of the race.

Obama protects national
security whistle-blowers
Associated Press, by Staff    Original Article
Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/11/2012 1:35:35 PM     Post Reply
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is providing protection for whistle-blowers in the national security arena so that they can report waste, fraud and abuse without fear of retaliation. The president has signed a policy directive providing the protection because legislation in Congress has not done so. A rewrite of the whistle-blower protection law is in the Senate. House Republicans removed the proposed protection for those involved in national security. Under the president's new policy, whistle-blowers who handle classified information — meaning almost everyone in the intelligence community —

  


  

Emanuel’s 2013 budget is calm
before pension crisis storm
Chicago Sun-Times, by Mark Brown    Original Article
Posted By: brianod1- 10/11/2012 1:29:08 PM     Post Reply
Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s 2013 city budget is the calm before the storm that could make everyone forget the worst blizzards in memory. So feel free to savor the calm just a moment before stepping forth into the cold winds of reality. For the second straight year, Emanuel has submitted a reasonable, responsible budget that faces up to the city’s financial problems. Even better, this year’s budget proposal contains no new tax increases or fees of any sort, although it profits considerably from the ones he pushed through last year.

We've Gotten To The Bottom Of The
Mysterious Jobless Claims Report!
Business Insider, by Henry Blodget    Original Article
Posted By: Photoonist- 10/11/2012 1:29:07 PM     Post Reply
After this morning's surprisingly positive jobless claims number was released, three things happened: 1 Lots of people felt better about the economy 2 Democrats cheered because they thought the number would help Obama (Snip) HOWEVER...It is likely that some of the jobless claims in one large state--California--were not included in the claims reported to the Department of Labor this week. This happens occasionally, our source says. When a state's jobless claims bureau is short-staffed, sometimes the state does not process all of the claims that came in during the week in time to get them to the DOL. The source

Priebus calls on Holder
to investigate Obama
campaign contributions
The Hill (Washington D.C.), by Justin Sink    Original Article
Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/11/2012 1:27:03 PM     Post Reply
Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday demanding an investigation into online campaign contributions to the president's reelection campaign. "[T]he President's campaign committee does not use the industry standard practices to guard against receiving fraudulent or excessive contributions via the internet," Priebus alleges in the letter. "As a result, the President's campaign committee is vulnerable to the receipt of prohibited contributions. Their failure to adhere to the industry standard has caused these questions regarding whether the campaign is deliberately inviting prohibited contributions."

Grim Reaper’s name is Dodd-Frank
Washington Times, by Rep. Spencer Bachus    Original Article
Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/11/2012 1:25:19 PM     Post Reply
Last week, following the presidential debate, national attention was again focused on the Dodd-Frank Act, the Obama administration’s response to the financial crisis. The attention is well deserved: Dodd-Frank, Obamacare and the threat of higher taxes brought on by January’s fiscal cliff are among the chief reasons why the U.S. economy is stuck in its weakest recovery on record. While Democrats claim Wall Street was their target, the truth is the regulatory burden of Dodd-Frank is inescapable no matter where you live or work. If you buy food, consume energy, use a debit card, want

  



Speed-camera revenues figure in
Emanuel’s ‘children first’ budget
Chicago Sun-Times, by Fran Spielman    Original Article
Posted By: brianod1- 10/11/2012 1:24:46 PM     Post Reply
Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Wednesday he’s counting on up to $30 million in fines from speed cameras installed at roughly 40 schools and parks to help bankroll his “children first” budget. The fast roll-out of a speed camera plan delayed by legal and technical complications helps to explain how Emanuel was able to keep his hands out of taxpayers’ pockets for 2013 and still make a big investment in kids.

Emanuel Says Obama
Will Sink Shot He
Needs After Debate Loss
Bloomberg News, by John McCormick    Original Article
Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/11/2012 1:19:45 PM     Post Reply
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said his former boss, President Barack Obama, always scores the political points he needs to win when he needs them. Emanuel, who was Obama’s first White House chief of staff, used a basketball metaphor to describe his confidence that Obama will regain momentum in the presidential race. “He is the ultimate three-point shooter with three seconds left on the clock,” Emanuel, 52, said at a Bloomberg Breakfast in Chicago. “That’s when he performs better. He has throughout his career.”

Mo Yan wins Nobel for Literature
Publishers Weekly, by Staff    Original Article
Posted By: pineledger- 10/11/2012 1:19:07 PM     Post Reply
Chinese writer Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize for Literature today. Yan's work, which has been banned in China, was praised by the awarding committee for its "hallucinatory realism." PW has reviewed five of his novels (two were awarded stars) and said that "If China has a Kafka, it may be Mo Yan" and called Yan "one of China's most important contemporary writers." Arcade Publishing, which has published five of his books, stated that on October 11, a few hours after the Nobel announcement, all copies of all of the books had sold out

Stand Up, Chuck! Todd Says
Biden Has 'Gravitas' Going
For Him In Debate
NewsBusters, by Mark Finkelstein    Original Article
Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/11/2012 1:13:26 PM     Post Reply
I say "Joe Biden," you say . . . . Joke? Gaffe machine? Not Chuck Todd. In his pre-game commentary for tonight's debate, the NBC political director claimed that, as with Cheney versus Edwards and Bentsen versus Quayle, Biden—matched up against Paul Ryan—has "gravitas" going for him. View the video after the jump, along with a list of some of Grandpa Gravitas's most famous gaffes.Note: speaking of gaffes, you might sayTodd had one of his own. Todd did acknowledge that Biden is prone to "hyperbole." Problem was, he pronounced it something like

  


  

Harmer: Replace your debate
drinking game with a donating game
National Review Online, by Jim Geraghty    Original Article
Posted By: Hooverdog- 10/11/2012 1:09:57 PM     Post Reply
David Harmer, who ran the closest race of any California Republican House candidate in 2010, sends along this message of his particular disdain for Vice President Biden, and his challenge to Romney donors. I don’t mind stupid people. It’s stupid people who think they’re smart that aggravate me — which goes a long way toward explaining my profound and enduring antipathy to Vice President Joe Biden, the most vapid gasbag ever to hold the office. Back when I was young and frisky and counsel to a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I routinely had to sit

Linda Ellerbee, Washington Post
take cheap shot at Romney after
he turns down Nick News invite
Fox News, by Tim Graham    Original Article
Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/11/2012 12:53:45 PM     Post Reply
With less than a month to go before the 2012 presidential election Mitt Romney’s decision to turn down an invitation to appear on a Nickelodeon “news” special, "Kids Pick the President," with children is drawing liberal-media barbs. “First Big Bird, now Nickelodeon,” cracked Washington Post TV critic Lisa de Moraes. “What’s up with Mitt Romney and kids?” Linda Ellerbee, "Kids Pick the President" host and a former NBC anchor and reporter and CNN commentator, denounced Romney for his decision. “That's several million kids who actually want to get involved in the democratic process,” Ellerbee said.

Austrian Embassy Got
Budget Increase to Buy Volts
As Security Was Cut for
Libyan Embassy
Breitbart Big Government, by Michael Patrick Leahy    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 10/11/2012 12:51:50 PM     Post Reply
The Washington Times is reporting that at the same time State Department officials were cutting security for our diplomatic stations in Libya, they were increasing the budget for our embassy in Austria in order to purchase Chevrolet's electric powered Volt: In a May 3, 2012, email, the State Department denied a request by a group of Special Forces assigned to protect the U.S. embassy in Libya to continue their use of a DC- 3 airplane for security operations throughout the country. . .Four days later, on May 7, the State Department authorized the U.S. embassy in Vienna

France's Anti-Jewish Terrorism
Frontpage Magazine, by David Hornik    Original Article
Posted By: Judy W.- 10/11/2012 12:44:25 PM     Post Reply
Last March, when the French Muslim terrorist Mohamed Merah murdered a teacher and three children at a French Jewish school in Toulouse, a media firestorm resulted. Things have not gotten easier for French Jews since then. As the New York Times noted this week, French Jews say anti-Semitic threats have in fact escalated since March, Merah’s act having stirred “empathy” and “emulation.” Indeed, the main thing that appears to have prevented further catastrophes is good police work.

November 1, 2012;
Why Pray? Why Now?
Canada Free Press, by Bob Preyss    Original Article
Posted By: MDMuskrat- 10/11/2012 12:42:07 PM     Post Reply
It is widely reported that America is coming apart. We are in more than a culture war. We are in a seismic event. We are two Americas, and one makes no sense to the other. The inability to make sense has been coming for a long time. Artists have been deconstructing art throughout the twentieth century – from the Armory Show, the Expressionism and Surrealism. (snip) People follow artists. In 1921 W.B. Yeats wrote a poem called “The Second Coming.” It is his vision of worldwide insanity and the inability to make sense.

  



Why Jobless Claims May Not
Be as Good as Market Thinks
CNBC, by Kelly Evans    Original Article
Posted By: Drive- 10/11/2012 12:38:32 PM     Post Reply
For the second time in a week, a government unemployment report is sowing confusion—and may not be as positive as the markets think. First it was last Friday's August payrolls report, which showed an unexpectedly large drop in the unemployment rate, that spurred confusion (and conspiracy theories). Now, a sharp drop in the pace of new jobless claims has also left people scratching their heads. The Labor Department on Thursday said the number of people filing jobless claims last week dropped by a seasonally adjusted 30,000—

Rush Limbaugh: If Obama Admin
Lied About Libya, Why Wouldn’t
They Lie About Unemployment Numbers?
Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell    Original Article
Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/11/2012 12:32:16 PM     Post Reply
On his syndicated radio show Wednesday afternoon, conservative host Rush Limbaugh seemingly likened the debacle over the administration’s handling of the Libyan attacks to former President Bill Clinton‘s initial denial of extramarital affairs with intern Monica Lewinsky, and then explained that if the Obama administration was capable of “lying” about the Benghazi consulate attacks then it is not inconceivable that they would also lie about the September jobs report. Several prominent conservatives including former G.E. CEO Jack Welch have accused the administration of manipulating the unemployment numbers to its lowest

California legislators rarely
vote against party line
Sacramento Bee, by Phillip Reese    Original Article
Posted By: wydleyred- 10/11/2012 12:24:25 PM     Post Reply
It's usually easy to predict how particular California state legislators will vote on a bill: 99 percent of the time, Democrats vote the same way as the majority of their party; 94 percent of the time, Republicans vote the same way as the majority of their party, according to a Bee review of voting records from the 2011-2012 legislative session. The two parties are each unanimous in their support or rejection of a bill during the vast majority of votes. Every Democrat in the Assembly or Senate voted the same way on about 86 percent of bills.

'Egypt grants citizenship
to 50,000 Palestinians'
Jerusalem Post, by Khaled Abu Toameh    Original Article
Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 10/11/2012 12:23:52 PM     Post Reply
Some 50,000 Palestinians, most of them from the Gaza Strip, have been granted Egyptian citizenship over the past few months, an Egyptian security official revealed Thursday. The official said that the Egyptian Interior Ministry had been instructed to give Egyptian citizenship to all Palestinians who were born to Egyptian mothers. The official, who was not identified, told the Egyptian newspaper El-Watan that the instructions came from the country’s High Administrative Court in Cairo last May. The official pointed out that the number of Palestinians who have received Egyptian citizenship increased dramatically after the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak.

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