Obama's one big advantage going into 2012 election: fundraising
President Obama has raised $155 million for both his campaign and for the Democratic National Committee. That's way more than all the Republican candidates have raised, combined.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Here we go again
Winter forecast: La Niña returns, southern drought persists
Last winter – with its droughts, tornado outbreaks, heavy snows, and floods – was a tough one in different ways for millions of people. Be prepared for more of the same this year.
Some of us just need visuals
8.30am - French Aircraft attack the convoy in which Gaddafi is travelling at a roundabout two miles west of Sirte. 15 armed pick-up trucks are destroyed in the attack. A wounded Gaddafi, accompanied by a handful of loyal men seeks refuge in a nearby storm drain. NTC forces initially fire anti-airctraft guns before moving in on foot.
11.05am - NTC forces announce that the last remaining areas of Sirte have been captured and that fighters are searching homes and buildings looking for any remaning Gadhafi loyalists.
2.00pm - After a fire fight Gaddafi is discovered cowering in the storm drain.
2.30pm - A local man tells Reuters news agency he saw Gaddafi shot in the abdomen with a 9mm pistol
2.45pm - A pro-Gaddafi TV website denies that the former Libyan leader has been captured
2.56pm - Reuters report Gaddafi has died of wounds sustained during his capture
3.00pm - Celebrations across Libya at the news of Gaddafi's capture
3.44pm : Mobile phone image is released of a man who appears to be Gadadfi wearing blood soaked clothing with blood on his face
4:02pm - Al-Jazeera TV is airing shaky footage of a man resembling Gaddafi lying dead or badly wounded, bleeding from the head and stripped to the waist as fighters roll him over on the pavement.
4.31pm - AFP reports that Gaddafi's son Mutassim has been found dead in Sirte.
4.30pm - Libya's acting Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril appears on television to confirm the news that Gaddafi is dead.
4.56pm - Video appears of fighters brandishing a gold-plated handgun said to have been taken from Gaddafi
4.59pm - Al-Jazeera shows video of Gaddafi's body being dragged along the ground
5.25pm - Reports come in that Gaddafi's body has arrived in Misrata.
6.00pm - Reuters reports that according to an NTC commander Gaddafi's son has been killed
7.50 pm - Al Jazeera announces it has received unconfirmed reports that Gaddafi's son Saif is dead
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2051361/Gaddafi-dead-Dictator-begged-life-summarily-executed.html#ixzz1bNXAcZmg
A reason to jump for joy
'This will be the happiest day of my life': Families of Lockerbie victims celebrate Gaddafi's death
There were mixed emotions of shock and grief among families of victims lost in the disaster aboard Pan Am Flight 103 that exploded above Lockerbie, Scotland
Would this be the campaign that is noted for raising oodles of cash?
Obama campaign asks artists to 'work for free' on jobs posters, sparking outrage - TheDC
'American artists should be outraged that our President does not recognize that we are entitled to be paid for our work'
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/#ixzz1bNROoKZZ
CDC: Antidepressant use skyrockets 400% in past 20 years
Use of antidepressant drugs has soared nearly 400% since 1988, making the medication the most frequently used by people ages 18-44, a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows.
Biting the hand that feeds him is not hurting Obama so far
Despite frosty relations with the titans of Wall Street, President Obama has still managed to raise far more money this year from the financial and banking sector than Mitt Romney or any other Republican presidential candidate, according to new fundraising data.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-has-more-cash-from-financial-sector-than-gop-hopefuls-combined-data-show/2011/10/18/gIQAX4rAyL_story.html?hpid=z1?wpisrc=al_politics
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-has-more-cash-from-financial-sector-than-gop-hopefuls-combined-data-show/2011/10/18/gIQAX4rAyL_story.html?hpid=z1?wpisrc=al_politics
Obama Rule: civility towards me, but not for thee.
Victor Davis Hanson coins the 'Obama Rule'
"As we saw with the Representative Giffords shooting, we now know the Obama Rule: Anytime the president sermonizes about civility and the need to curb partisan rhetoric, this is a telltale sign that in a few days a savage partisan attack will surely follow."
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/280730/obama-rule-victor-davis-hanson
"As we saw with the Representative Giffords shooting, we now know the Obama Rule: Anytime the president sermonizes about civility and the need to curb partisan rhetoric, this is a telltale sign that in a few days a savage partisan attack will surely follow."
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/280730/obama-rule-victor-davis-hanson
Henninger's take on OWS: "a barely moving mass of down-market grunge"
Daniel Henninger:
What came to be known as Occupy Wall Street began several blocks from Wall Street itself, in Zuccotti Park, in downtown Manhattan. I spent a morning in Zuccotti Park this week. Let's put it this way: I'd make a contribution to the Democratic House re-election committee to see Mrs. Pelosi lead the austere Steny Hoyer and a delegation of her House colleagues through Zuccotti Park. Spontaneity? Most of the people living atop the park's pavement are virtually catatonic.
A conventional wisdom has taken hold that somewhere deep inside the Middle Earth of Occupy Wall Street there is supposed to be a serious cry for jobs. Maybe at an OWS demo in Detroit. But not in Zuccotti Park.
Spread across a city block, the park's people have settled into a barely moving mass of down-market grunge "occupying" a marijuana oasis. Compared to this group, Mark Rudd and the Columbia University sit-ins of 1968 were Periclean Athens.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204479504576637521015740858.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop
What came to be known as Occupy Wall Street began several blocks from Wall Street itself, in Zuccotti Park, in downtown Manhattan. I spent a morning in Zuccotti Park this week. Let's put it this way: I'd make a contribution to the Democratic House re-election committee to see Mrs. Pelosi lead the austere Steny Hoyer and a delegation of her House colleagues through Zuccotti Park. Spontaneity? Most of the people living atop the park's pavement are virtually catatonic.
A conventional wisdom has taken hold that somewhere deep inside the Middle Earth of Occupy Wall Street there is supposed to be a serious cry for jobs. Maybe at an OWS demo in Detroit. But not in Zuccotti Park.
Spread across a city block, the park's people have settled into a barely moving mass of down-market grunge "occupying" a marijuana oasis. Compared to this group, Mark Rudd and the Columbia University sit-ins of 1968 were Periclean Athens.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204479504576637521015740858.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop
26 Million Americans Are Now Underemployed
...almost 26 million Americans are either unemployed, marginally attached to the labor force, or involuntarily working part-time—a number experts say is unprecedented.
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-number-of-underemployed-people-keeps-growing-2011-10
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-number-of-underemployed-people-keeps-growing-2011-10
Reuters is reporting Gaddafi is dead
...initial reports are often wrong. Other reports state he is critically wounded and captured.
Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi died of wounds suffered on Thursday as fighters battling to complete an eight-month-old uprising against his rule overran his hometown Sirte, Libya's interim rulers said.
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