NOT ORIENTED AS TO TIME AND SPACE: 4 Times Joe Biden Couldn’t Remember What State He Was In. Including earlier today. Florida, Ohio, whatever.

AT AMAZON, James Bond.

IN THE WAPO, MARC THIESSEN ASKS: What was Obama told at the September 10, 2012, NSC meeting on ‘9/11 threats’?

THE GROWTH OF DIGITAL FLAKINESS.

BEN GARRETT: Sandy And The “New Norm.” “We were told after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 that this was the ‘new norm.’ Then we went seven quiet years — some of which featured abnormally calm Atlantic Basin hurricane seasons and some of which featured average numbers of storms but those storms stayed safely away from the U.S.) and heard little talk of global warming in connection with tropical weather. Now we have a perfect storm of sorts slamming the East Coast and this is the new norm.” It’s not climate, it’s just weather — unless, you know, it’s the right kind of weather. Then it’s climate!

Er, except for this: “When were hurricanes most frequent around New York and New England in the 20th Century? The 1950s. In fact, there were 10 — look ‘em up — major hurricanes to strike the East Coast between North Carolina and New England between 1954 and 1960.”

I HAVE MY TOWEL:  Stephen Green enjoins us not to panic.  I never knew vodka enhanced rationality!

SO DOES CHRISTIE WANT TO RUN IN 2016 IF ROMNEY LOSES? Because if he does, looking too chummy with Obama right now is a suicidal move. People will remember. Not saying he shouldn’t do disaster-tour thing, but if he’s smart he’ll follow up with loud pro-Romney statement.

ENDNOTE OF THE YEAR: “I don’t think I could have gotten away with that in the seventh grade, but evidently it’s acceptable at Rowman & Littlefield.” Ouch.

YOUR FEDERAL DISASTER-RELIEF DOLLARS AT WORK: Hundreds of NY National Guardsmen Miss Hurricane for Mock Disaster Relief — Until Story Hits The News.

But remember, Romney is the idiot, because he wants to move more disaster-response responsibility to the states. . . .

And I don’t think it makes things better that they changed their plans once the story got out.

A PINCH OF HYPOCRISY: NY Times Called Bush’s 2.7% GDP in ’92 a ‘Letdown,’ But Obama’s Lower GDP a ‘Steady Improvement.’

As I recall, the health of the American economy turned on a dime in the MSM, once GHWB lost his re-election bid in ’92.

CONFESSIONS OF A CONSERVATIVE FLIGHT ATTENDANT: Pilots are from Mars, stewardesses are from Berkeley Venus, a pro-Romney flight attendant tells Dennis Miller.

VIRTUOSO POLL DANCING: That Q Poll Showing Obama Up by Five in Ohio Has a Flaw (Updated: PPP Too?)

WHY KIDS STILL NEED TO LEARN MANNERS.

JACK KELLY: Benghazi Coverup Much Worse Than “Third-rate Burglary.”

The ride on the Obama bus gets bumpier as more bodies are thrown under it.

The latest to go thumpity thump are journalists who trumpeted the administration’s excuse that faulty intelligence is why the president said for so long the attack on our consulate in Benghazi was a “spontaneous” protest over a Youtube video.

The journalists went under the bus because the Foreign Service and career intelligence officers the administration tried to scapegoat refused to go there. They’ve leaked emails that reveal the White House was informed while it was still going on that the attack was the work of terrorists affiliated with al-Qaida.

To put this in the context of the Mother of All Scandals, these emails are the equivalent of a transcript of what was on the 181/2 minutes of the secret White House tapes President Nixon’s secretary erased.

“What did the president know, and when did he know it?” Sen. Howard Baker, R-Tenn, asked during the Watergate hearings. The answer in the leaked emails is that the president knew everything, all along. . . . When the “three a.m. phone call” came (at 6:07 p.m. EDT), the president ignored it. The day after learning Ambassador Stevens had been murdered and sensitive intelligence documents were missing, he jetted off to a fundraiser in Las Vegas.

And for nearly two weeks afterward, Mr. Obama and his senior aides blamed the attack on the Youtube video — even though they knew that wasn’t true.

Read the whole thing.

GARY TAUBES ON CORRUPTION IN THE MEDICAL/DIET BUSINESS.

NO. NEXT QUESTION? With so much cool tech these days, do we need TV reporters standing in the teeth of hurricanes? What was once exciting and novel is now just a ritual. And a dumb one, as reporters stand on the beach warning people to stay off the beaches!!! But it’s just another dumb aspect of mainstream-media coverage you can blame on Dan Rather.

LEE SMITH IN TABLET: Pro-Israel Democrats and the Dershowitz Syndrome.

LOSING WEIGHT WITH THE HORROR MOVIE DIET. Unless you ruin it with Goobers or Raisinets.

STRATEGYPAGE: Austin Bay: More Benghazi Questions.

The Benghazi attack, if it proved to be a planned attack rather than a spontaneous response to a video created without Obama’s approval, would call into question at a politically inconvenient moment the fundamental assumptions that guide his administration’s Middle Eastern diplomacy — in particular, the history-changing impact of his own personality and his insistence that his diplomacy is smart. A planned attack would also demonstrate that the Terrorists War on America continues, no matter what George W. Bush and Barack Obama call the conflict, and that al-Qaida remains capable of orchestrating terror attacks that have strategically deleterious effects on U.S. policy.

The video-did-it narrative gave Obama a political shield to deflect criticism of personally dear policies and achievements. It also gave the old community organizer a rhetorical cudgel to wield against intolerant, Muslim-despising bigots in America. Partisan Democrats connect those code words to bitter clingers — Republican rubes who cling to their guns and religion while waging war on women. Obama went with, then stayed with, the video narrative because he and his campaign advisers believed it was a foreign policy shield and domestic political sword.

Read the whole thing.

SAUCE: When The Gander Objects. Hey, people forget that every weapon can point both ways.

BET THE WHITE HOUSE ISN’T CELEBRATING THIS ANNIVERSARY! It’s been a whole year since the $1.6 billion MF Global bankruptcy debacle became public. You may remember that one as the occasion for MF Global’s chief, former Sen. Jon Corzine – President Obama’s BFF on Wall Street – to admit that he had no idea what happened to $1.6 billion of his customers’ money. Rep. Tim Huelskamp would like to know why no charges have been filed by Obama’s Attorney General against Corzine.

IS OBAMA’S BLUE-STATE FIREWALL, INCLUDING OHIO, HOLDING? Fox News’ online politics editor Chris Stirewalt was politics editor at The Washington Examiner before joining the Ailes Brigade. So I know first-hand how sharp he is at deciphering political strategies and tactics. His daily Power Play column is a must-read. Here’s a quote from today’s installment that ought to give pause to everybody who thinks a Romney landslide is taking shape:

“Like any good scary story, the tale of the churning electorate now has a strong element of suspense. Hurricane Sandy has made it harder to poll, and given the existing challenges nationally and in survey-saturated Ohio – cell phones, caller ID, voter fatigue, dishonest answers – we can only guess at what changes are currently taking place in the electorate.”

Read the rest … if you dare.

AMANDA GREEN HAS HAD ENOUGH: Color me skeptical.  For someone like me who doesn’t watch the main stream media this was a jaw-dropper.  Have they really gone that insane?  Don’t let them saddle us with a four year disaster because of a storm. Vote, volunteer and GOTV… as if your country depends on it.

CENTRALIZATION IS BAD FOR LIBERTIES AND OTHER INDIVIDUAL THINGS: Once-Rare Response Is Now Routine and Overused.

JOHN TAYLOR: An Introduction To Romneynomics.