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Sandy sinks thousands of lab
rats used to study cancer
and heart disease

New York Times *, by Benedict Carey Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 11/1/2012 7:46:43 PM Post Reply

New York - Among the smaller but still important casualties of hurricane Sandy were thousands of laboratory rodents, genetically altered for use in the study of heart disease, cancer and mental disorders like autism and schizophrenia, that perished in basement rooms at a New York University research centre in Kips Bay. The collection of carefully bred rodents was considered one of the largest and most valuable of its kind in the country. The animals lived in colonies in the cellar of the Smilow Research Centre, on First Avenue near 30th Street. New York University medical and research staff worked furiously

Romney's Fla. ads tie
Obama to Chavez, Castro

Associated Press, by Kasie Hunt Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 11/1/2012 7:31:21 PM Post Reply

Roanoke, Va. - Mitt Romney’s campaign is running a Spanish-language ad in Florida that claims Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro’s niece would support President Barack Obama. The spot shows a clip of Chavez saying that if he were American, ‘‘I'd vote for Obama.’’ The Venezuelan leader did say that in September, when he also called Obama ‘‘a good guy.’’ Obama’s campaign on Thursday said the ad provides the Venezuelan leader with more attention than he deserves.

White House Insider - “Governor
Romney Is Gonna Win This Thing”

Ulsterman Report, by Ulsterman Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/1/2012 7:18:06 PM Post Reply

A rare and unexpected phone interview with a longtime D.C. political operative suggests that while momentum has shifted slightly toward Barack Obama over the last few days, Mitt Romney remains the likely winner of next week’s election – so long as the Obama team is not successful in their attempts to steal it. UM: Did you read the latest update from -deleted- ? (WSI) WHI: Yeah-yeah. Whatever. He don’t know…all due respect. He don’t know sh-t about how this stuff works. He didn’t even vote. Ever. This gonna be

'Troubling' Surveillance Before
Benghazi Attack - Thread Closed

Foreign Policy, by Harald Doornbos, Jenan MoussaA Original Article

Posted By: Bubbasuncle- 11/1/2012 7:04:50 PM Post Reply

BENGHAZI, Libya — More than six weeks after the shocking assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi -- and nearly a month after an FBI team arrived to collect evidence about the attack - the battle-scarred, fire-damaged compound where Ambassador Chris Stevens and another Foreign Service officer lost their lives on Sept. 11 still holds sensitive documents and other relics of that traumatic final day, including drafts of two letters worrying that the compound was under "troubling" surveillance and complaining that the Libyan government failed to fulfill requests for additional security. When we visited on Oct. 26 to

NY Times’ Public Editor Deems
Nate Silver’s Wager On Obama
Win ‘Inappropriate,’ ‘Bad Idea’

Mediaite, by Meenal Vamburkar Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/1/2012 7:02:05 PM Post Reply

On Thursday, Nate Silver, of the New York Times‘ FiveThirtyEight blog, made headlines when he offered a wager to MSNBC host Joe Scarborough. After receiving some criticism about his polling/statistics methods, Silver offered to bet $1,000 on President Barack Obama winning re-election. Later, he doubled that offer. The paper’s public editor, Margaret Sullivan, addressed the matter. (Snip) Sullivan noted that Silver is “accurate” in his argument against Scarborough, that “the closeness of the popular vote does not affect the probability that Mr. Obama will win. They are, simply, two very different things.”

Sources: Key task force not
convened during Benghazi
consulate attack

CBS News, by Sharyl Attkisson Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/1/2012 6:55:47 PM Post Reply

CBS News has learned that during the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Mission in Benghazi, the Obama Administration did not convene its top interagency counterterrorism resource: the Counterterrorism Security Group, (CSG). "The CSG is the one group that's supposed to know what resources every agency has. They know of multiple options and have the ability to coordinate counterterrorism assets across all the agencies," a high-ranking government official told CBS News. "They were not allowed to do their job. They were not called upon." Information shared with CBS News from top counterterrorism sources in

Obama's message in
Ashwaubenon: 'You know
where I stand'

Gannett Wisconsin Media, by Kathleen Foody Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 11/1/2012 6:49:26 PM Post Reply

President Barack Obama made another pitch for re-election in Wisconsin today, urging voters here to trust him to lead a nation with domestic and foreign challenges over Republican challenger Mitt Romney. “Here’s the thing, Wisconsin, after four years as president, you know me by now,” Obama said to a crowd of 2,600 at Austin Straubel International Airport in Ashwaubenon. “You may not agree with every decision I have made. You may be frustrated at the pace of change. But you know what I believe. You know where I stand.” In perhaps his last visit to a part of the state

Obama’s ’25 Things You
Don’t Know About Me’

ABC News, by Mary Bruce Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 11/1/2012 6:39:31 PM Post Reply

President Obama is revealing “25 Things You Don’t Know About Me” in the latest issue of US Weekly, including that he hasn’t missed a parent-teacher conference since taking office, he read all of the Harry Potter books with his daughter Malia, and first dog Bo has free rein of the West Wing. “My girls tease me about wearing my BlackBerry in a holster connected to my belt,” he tells the magazine in its November issue, featuring the Kardashian sisters on the cover. “Michelle and I have officially (and famously) been on a Kiss Cam. But our first kiss was

Congressman: Administration
message on Benghazi like
Abbott and Costello routine

Human Events, by Hope Hodge Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 11/1/2012 6:34:05 PM Post Reply

A member of the House Intelligence Committee told Human Events that the pattern of miscommunication and mixed messages following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya remind him of the famous Abbott and Costello “Who’s on First?” routine–only worse. “It almost makes that look like a serious conversation,” said Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-Ga.), referring to the comedy skit. New documents have come to light almost daily that give greater depth to an emerging pattern of questionable security calls that may have made the Benghazi consulate more vulnerable to attack. Foreign Policy reports today

Claim: 'Hail Obama' Chants
at First Lady Rally

Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 11/1/2012 6:30:30 PM Post Reply

At campaign a rally featuring First Lady Michelle Obama in Daytona, Florida, there were reportedly chants of "Hail Obama," according to one local reporter. Mike Synan, a local reporter at WOFL FOX 35, writes on Twitter: Crowd for #FLOTUS event in Daytona now chanting "Hail Obama". Wow, just wow #fox35 — Mike Synan (@msynan) November 1, 2012 Minutes later, he repeated his claim: True. Would not lie. Chanting "Hail Obama" RT @jeffreybillman: @msynan For real, or are you just Drudge-baiting? — Mike Synan (@msynan) November 1, 2012

Secret Service agent kills
self amid affair probe

Associated Press, by Alicia A. Caldwell Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 11/1/2012 6:29:17 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON— A senior Secret Service agent being formally investigated by the government for failing to disclose a long-standing relationship with a foreign citizen killed himself last week. People familiar with the matter say Rafael Prieto, a married father assigned to President Barack Obama's security detail, acknowledged the affair after U.S. authorities began investigating. These people spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss Prieto's death or the investigation. The sources say Prieto's relationship was revealed to Secret Service investigators by an agent who had been entangled in the Colombian prostitution scandal earlier this year.

Sandy power outages could
last another 10 days;
new winter storm builds

NBC News, by Miguel Llanos Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 11/1/2012 6:25:26 PM Post Reply

Hundreds of thousands of people in New York City, Long Island and New Jersey may not have power restored for up to 10 more days, officials warned Thursday. Meanwhile, weather forecasters said a winter storm could hit the Northeast next week. In New York City, the utility ConEd said the 228,000 customers in Manhattan still without power should have it back by Saturday, but that would leave more than 400,000 elsewhere potentially in the dark beyond Saturday. (Snip) ConEd also noted that many buildings in areas with restored service will continue to be without power until they repair any flood

Staten Island Councilman James Oddo:
'Idiotic' to divert cops to New York
Marathon right after Hurricane Sandy

New York Daily News, by Barry Paddock* Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 11/1/2012 6:18:45 PM Post Reply

Desperately needed food, water and generators were being rushed Thursday to Sandy-ravaged Staten Island while local leaders blasted the city’s “idiotic” plan to stage the New York City Marathon in the midst of the crisis. Staten Island Councilman James Oddo urged Mayor Bloomberg to reconsider, especially while rescue efforts are still underway on the hard-hit South Shore. "The notion of diverting even one police officer, one first responder, one asset away from this carnage is beyond irrational,” the Republican lawmaker told The Daily News. "The mayor said to me, 'We're not going to diminish

Automobile Magazine names Tesla
Model S 'Car of the Year'

CNN Money, by Peter Valdes-Dapena Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 11/1/2012 6:18:00 PM Post Reply

New York - Automobile Magazine has named the Tesla Model S its "Car of the Year," citing the car's design and impressive speed. "It's the performance that won us over," Automobile Editor-in-Chief Jean Jennings said in the magazine's January 2013 issue. "The crazy speed builds silently and then pulls back the edges of your face. It had all of us endangering our licenses." The Model S is an all-electric luxury sedan that can accelerate from zero to 60 miles per hour in just 4.3 seconds. That's fast for any car, but especially one with the size and roominess of the

*Video* Obama’s splashy
‘Commander-in-Chief’ entrance
for rally in Green Bay

Washington Examiner, by Charlie Spering Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 11/1/2012 6:16:37 PM Post Reply

As Zeke Miller noted, the framing of President Obama’s campaign event couldn’t be more clear: He is the president. After taking three days off of the campaign trail to oversee the federal government’s response to Hurricane Sandy, Obama bounded out of Air Force One after his introduction, wearing a leather bomber jacket. The president delivered his speech from a podium that was adorned with the presidential seal.

Citing climate change,
Bloomberg endorses Obama

CNN, by Kevin Liptak Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 11/1/2012 6:06:45 PM Post Reply

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wrote in a surprise endorsement Thursday he was voting for President Barack Obama in the upcoming presidential election, using Superstorm Sandy as a peg to highlight the president's stance on climate change. Citing the storm, which left much of his city underwater and powerless, Bloomberg wrote in an op-ed on his website that "while the increase in extreme weather we have experienced in New York City and around the world may or may not be the result of [climate change], the risk that it might be – given this week's devastation – should compel

Voter fraud is no myth — it’s
more common than you think

Human Events, by John Fund Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 11/1/2012 5:56:57 PM Post Reply

Patrick Moran claims he was just joking about encouraging voter fraud. But he nonetheless resigned last week as field director for the campaign of his father, Virginia Congressman Jim Moran. Guerrilla videographer James O’Keefe caught Patrick Moran on tape offering advice on how to commit in-person voter fraud. (Snip) Last April, a 22-year-old O’Keefe associate showed how easy it is to vote in someone else’s name if no ID is required by being offered the ballot of Attorney General Eric Holder simply by mentioning his name to a Washington, D.C. poll worker. Now O’Keefe has shown just how easy it

The Benghazi Drip-Drip-Drip

ABC News, by Jake Tapper Original Article

Posted By: Bubbasuncle- 11/1/2012 5:55:34 PM Post Reply

As he left his Marine One helicopter Wednesday evening and walked to the residence of the White House, President Obama did not respond to a question shouted out by ABC News’s Mary Bruce about when he would begin to provide answers to the numerous questions building up about what exactly what went wrong in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012.(snip) myriad inquiries about the decisions that led to the deaths of four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens: they are deferring detailed answers to the investigation and – critics say –running out the clock until Election Day.

State Department to review
its own Benghazi review

Foreign Policy, by Josh Rogin Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/1/2012 5:42:20 PM Post Reply

The State Department Inspector General's office has drawn up plans to conduct several reviews of the State Department's handling of embassy security and the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, including a review of the State Department's own internal review. The State Department's acting Inspector General Harold Geisel wrote an Oct. 26 letter, obtained by The Cable, to Senate Homeland Security Committee heads Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Susan Collins (R-ME), outlining several reviews his office has already started and some they are about to start to determine if embassy security around the

'Troubling' Surveillance
Before Benghazi Attack

Foreign Policy, by Harald Doornbos & Jenan Moussa Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/1/2012 5:37:18 PM Post Reply

Judge backs Catholic firm
over contraception mandate

Reuters, by Terry Baynes Original Article

Posted By: hoosier observer- 11/1/2012 5:01:23 PM Post Reply

A Catholic-owned family business in Michigan does not have to comply with the provision of the new U.S. healthcare law that requires private employers to provide employees with health insurance that covers birth control, a federal judge in Detroit has ruled. U.S. District Judge Robert Cleland, in a ruling late Wednesday, temporarily blocked the government from forcing the owner of Weingartz Supply Company, which sells outdoor power equipment, to include contraception in its health coverage of employees.

Driftglass Republicans

American Thinker, by Rosslyn Smith Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 11/1/2012 4:47:13 PM Post Reply

Heard the term Broken Glass Republican -- meaning someone who would crawl over broken glass to get to the polls to vote? Maybe we should be talking about Driftglass Republicans, too. Someone in hurricane-devastated Point Pleasant who sent a greeting to President Obama's during his aerial tour of the Jersey Shore with Governor Christie...

The woman who helped turn
Jackie into a First Lady:
Etiquette expert who became
Kennedy's social secretary dies
aged 86

Daily Mail (UK), by Sadie Whitelocks Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 11/1/2012 4:42:25 PM Post Reply

Jackie Kennedy’s social secretary and etiquette expert, Letitia Baldrige, has died at the age 86. The queen of manners, who educated America on everything from how to eat gracefully to the art of letter writing, passed away on Monday at the Sunrise at Fox Hill nursing facility in Bethesda, Maryland. According to her longtime friend Mary M Mitchell, she had severe osteoarthritis and cardiac complications. Before joining the Kennedy White House to help her friend and fellow Vassar alumna, the former Jacqueline Bouvier, Ms Baldrige served as the public relations director at Tiffany & Co.

Why East Coast Gas
Shortages May Not End
for a Week

CNBC, by Patti Domm * Original Article

Posted By: BaseballFan- 11/1/2012 4:39:09 PM Post Reply

Power outages at hundreds of gas stations and a distribution bottleneck due to flooding damage and power loss has caused a gasoline shortage in the New York metropolitan area that may not be cleared up for at least a week, according to industry experts. What was a problem for drivers when Super Storm Sandy ended two days ago has become a nightmare for frazzled motorists who find themselves in gas lines that can stretch on for hours.

Bono Sees the Light,
Applauds Capitalism

Breitbart's Big Hollywood, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 11/1/2012 4:38:50 PM Post Reply

Capitalism is no longer a four-letter word for U2 frontman Bono. The Irish rocker told a tech conference in Dublin last week he has a new appreciation for open markets thanks to his charitable work co-founding the One campaign, a movement to end disease and hunger in Africa. [Bono] said it had been “a humbling thing for me” to realize the importance of capitalism and entrepreneurialism in philanthropy, particularly as someone who “got into this as a righteous anger activist with all the cliches.” “Job creators and innovators are just the key, and aid is just a bridge,” he told

Chaos in Manhattan as millions
of New Yorkers battle to
return to work on gridlocked
roads, packed buses and limited
subway network

Daily Mail (UK), by Beth Stebner & Emily Anne Epstein Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 11/1/2012 4:14:47 PM Post Reply

Millions of New Yorkers endured a nightmare commute into Manhattan today as the city struggled to return to normal after the devastation of superstorm Sandy. Limited parts of the New York City subway were reopened early Thursday morning, but were inundated as commuters tried to get into work, many for the first time since the storm paralyzed the city on Monday. Those who chose to travel by road faced widespread gridlock, despite an order by Mayor Bloomberg that vehicles crossing bridges into Manhattan must carry at least three people. Only extremely crowded buses

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