What’s news today?
This is pretty cool, crazy too, but cool.
From the AP,
“In a giant leap from more than 24 miles up, a daredevil skydiver shattered the sound barrier Sunday while making the highest jump ever – a tumbling, death-defying plunge from a balloon to a safe landing in the New Mexico desert.
Felix Baumgartner hit Mach 1.24, or 833.9 mph, according to preliminary data, and became the first man to reach supersonic speed without traveling in a jet or a spacecraft after hopping out of a capsule that had reached an altitude of 128,100 feet above the Earth.”
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Former Senator Arlen Specter has died.
From the AP here
And Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. has some splainin’ to do, and not just about his absence from Congress. Do you suppose this is why he has been MIA? And why is he still running for re-election if he’s mentally and physically unfit, and not fulfilling his present duties as an elected official?
From the SunTimes,
“The snowballing troubles of Jesse Jackson Jr. took a new turn Friday with the revelation that federal investigators have launched a probe into “suspicious activity” in the South Shore congessman’s finances.”
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Wandering Views 
I may eat my words, but I’ve always liked Candy Crowley.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/2012-presidential-campaign/campaigns-critique-moderator-ahead-of-second-debate-20121015
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I understand the Democrats are considering using Richard Sherman as Obama’s debate coach.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/gameon/2012/10/14/seattle-seahawks-richard-sheerman-taunts-tom-brady-on-twitter/1633659/
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Richard Sherman would probably do a better job than John Kerry.
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From The Washingon Times, a speech by Don Rumsfield.
Recall the various excuses that supposedly have led radical Islamists to kill in the name of God: Early on it was a book by Salman Rushdie. Then it was American troops in Saudi Arabia. Then it was Danish cartoons of Muhammad. Then it was Guantanamo Bay. Then U.S. support for Israel. Then it was supposedly global warming, as Ayman al-Zawahri and Osama bin Laden once wrote. And now it is a Web video practically no one has seen.
This is not what motivates them to murder innocents. These are weak, convenient justifications that are all too willingly accepted. Yet our nation’s current leaders seem more interested in making excuses for our enemies than in defending the ideals on which America was founded.
Read more: RUMSFELD: Obama is wrong for America – Washington Times http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/oct/4/obama-is-wrong-for-america/#ixzz29NdSwBvs
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We’re reading that the president will be “more aggressive” this time around, which is no surprise.
What will be interesting to watch is whether he can be aggressive without being snarky, which is how he often comes across when he’s irked.
I’ve liked Candy Crowley, too, although it’s unfortunate that she made that comment about the GOP team a couple months ago (a “death wish,” I believe she called it, when Ryan was announced – and I don’t think she was quoting anyone, as I recall that was her own assessment).
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Wonder if the president will bring up Big Bird … again?
Michael Barone notes:
“On the campaign trail in the week after the presidential debate, Obama mentioned Big Bird 13 times — 13 times more than he mentioned Libya.
“And the Obama campaign rolled out a 30-second spot showing Mitt Romney saying ‘Big Bird’ several times. Even liberals labeled it the worst TV ad they had ever seen.”
http://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbarone/2012/10/15/biden_and_obama_run_a_campaign_fit_for_the_1980s
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The thought has occurred to me that Obama may not really care if he loses. It would be embarrassing, but whoever wins is going to have a really tough job. Deep down, Obama may understand that he’s in over his head. If he loses, he can travel the world collecting huge speaking fees, and play all the golf he wants.
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Obama has an agenda to correct America’s colonial past. He will be disappointed if he loses.
I hear that Michelle hates the White Huse. That may have some effect.
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Yes, Chas. Michelle strikes me as being more strong-willed than Barack.
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Well, and who can blame me? 🙂
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I certainly don’t….
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