WHEN YOU’RE CHEWING ON LIFE’S GRISTLE, don’t grumble, give a whistle.

FOREWARNED: Brad Thor: I Have It From A Reliable Source In the Chicago Camp That Obama Plans To Declare Victory Early Tomorrow, In Order to Demoralize Romney Voters.  And of course they count on the media.  They lie.  Ignore them.  Get word of mouth out. Tell all your conservative friends and relatives to ignore them too.  The answer to this is always “Yeah, Obama voters dominate early voting.  And then the conservatives get off work.”

THE ALTERNATE HISTORY OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: What if Obama had worked with the GOP in 2009 instead of immediately declaring war and freezing them out?

But then, that scenario makes equipping Spartacus with a Piper Cub seem plausible in comparison.

BETRAYAL: Proof: Obama Refused to Call Benghazi ‘Terror,’ CBS Covered Up.  Whether we win or lose, we must make sure the mainstream media are done. The democrats can pay for their own operatives.

TOLERANCE, DIVERSITY… NOT SO MUCH: ‘Sabrina’ Star Hearts Romney/Ryan, Liberal Hate Ensues.

ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES: Obamacare Drops Full-Time Employment.

SENT TO ME BY A WORRIED READER:

There is only ONE vote you can be sure your elected Senator will make: the vote to organize the body. However much you might lack enthusiasm for your candidate, a vote for Tim Kaine is a vote for Harry Reid to run the Senate. A vote for Claire McCaskill in Missouri, Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts or Joe Donnelly in Indiana is a vote for Harry Reid.

THE PALACE GUARD COLLIDES: Media Matters Attacks Politico.

To paraphrase Henry Kissinger on the the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, it’s a pity they both can’t lose — but in a sense, both organizations already did, long ago.

RAISES EYEBROW: UAE, Qatar seek advanced US missile defense system.  You know what else would be nice?  A foreign policy that amounts to more than kumbayah and innocents abroad.

YEAH, CARTER FOUND US UNGOVERNABLE, TOO: Obama or Romney – neither should expect to get much done in the Congress.  Let me translate for our foreign friends — in this here land “ungovernable” is what we call “American”.  And deadlock in our system is not a bug, it’s a feature, enshrined in our constitution.

SPEAKING OF FISCAL CLIFF: IMF warns over-taxed France risks slipping behind Italy and Spain.

SO… YOU WANT OBAMA THERE? US election winner must act decisively to avert ‘fiscal cliff’, G20 warns.

AND IF YOU HAVE FRIENDS OR RELATIVES WHO ARE VOTING FOR GOODIES: My post yesterday tries to explain why We’ve Come To The End Of Cake.

AND IF YOU NEED TO GET REALLY MAD TO VOTE OBAMA OUT: Behind the crisis in Benghazi, a commander’s lack of firepower.

AND IF YOU NEED TO GET MAD TO VOTE AGAINST OBAMA: Obama suppressing the military vote.

AND IF YOU NEED MORE: We Few, We Happy Few.

THE GREAT CHRIS MUIR ENCAPSULATES THE DAY:

EVERYTHING SEEMINGLY IS SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL: Hailing a Death Cab for the Wisdom of the Ages.

AND AWAY WE GO… It Was the Best of Notch, It Was the Worst of Notch.

DID ANYBODY LIVE-BLOG THE BIG GARY JOHNSON/JILL STEIN DEBATE? Why yes! Jaltcoh did. Me, I was at a Bob Dylan/Mark Knopfler concert here in Madison (and I was glad that nobody on stage so much as mentioned politics other than poetically and distantly with references, for example, to the chimes of freedom). From the Jaltcoh live blog of the Johnson/Stein debate:

9:57 – Johnson says that Stein seems to think government is the answer to all our problems, and he asks Stein what she thinks about net neutrality. Stein says she’s for it, and adds that she doesn’t assume government is the answer to every problem. “I’m not an ideologue. I’m a doctor. I don’t actually know much about ideology. As a doctor, I look for practical solutions.”

UPDATE: Actually, Bob Dylan did go a bit political, halfway through the encore he said: “We tried to play good tonight since the president was here today.” And “Don’t believe the media. I think it’s going to be a landslide.” I could argue “Don’t believe the media” isn’t really too political and the deference to the President is distanced, but I must confess that I’m the kind of person who slips out during the encore to beat the parking-lot crowds.