NO, ROMNEY WOULD NOT ABOLISH FEMA:  You’d think they would be playing these gotcha games with more important stuff like… Benghazi.  No?  No, neither would I.  I no longer expect even normal decency from our so called Main Stream Media. At one time I wanted to be a journalist.  Now I just want their model to die.

I have a free short story out for the next five days on Amazon (I forgot to put in the description that it is a short story.  I’m a little busy with election stuff and more confused than normal.)  Wait Until The War Is Over.  It was published in the DAW anthology Gateways.

TO BE EMBARRASSED THEY’D NEED THE ABILITY TO TELL RIGHT FROM WRONG: The Benghazi Coverup: Are Reporters Embarrassed?

YEP, COMPLETELY UNBIASED: Reporters Caught Mocking Romney on Politico Live Stream.

AND YOU SHOULD SEE WHAT IT’S DOING TO MOST PUBLISHERS: The internet has made shops obsolete in some towns.  I’m going to stick my neck out and say this is just beginning.

A DRAW YOU SAY: Politico: Looks like a draw on early voting.  I don’t think that word means what you think it means…

EUROPEAN HYPOCRISY — TRES CHIC: Inconsistent’ Europe imports 15 times more goods from West Bank than from Palestinians.  Of course, hard to import goods that aren’t created…

JOHN EDWARDS WAS RIGHT: There are two Americas.  However, I’d slice the distinction finer.  While I generally agree with the author, I’d say that the real divide is those who love America and those who either hate it or are embarrassed by it.  The line still divides Tyrone Woods and Lena Dunham, though.

CAUGHT IN THE GRIP OF AN UNDERTOW: It’s What You Can’t See.

GOOD MORNING NEWS SEVEN DAYS OUT:  Delightful.  Now get out and vote and volunteer.  We’re poll watching and the kid who is too young for that is phone-banking. It’s all about not going quietly into that not so good night.

CHRISTIANOPHOBIA: Christians persecuted throughout the world.

The latest bombing in Nigeria shows how Christians are increasingly suffering for their faith – and how their plight is being ignored.

Well, they don’t cut off heads or bomb things.

HEH:  Moscow police ‘discover brothel on monastery premises’

Moscow police have discovered a brothel on the premises of a monastery whose abbot is thought to be President Vladimir Putin’s spiritual adviser.

AND STILL CREEPY: Obama’s campaign ends the only way it could: With a video featuring the “Hangover” cast.  And for a bonus, Joss Whedon insulting half  (or more, if you count Serenity fans) of his audience.

THIS IS AMERICA:  I know you guys might not recognize this, but this sort of playful humor makes us the best place on Earth.  We’re great, and we have a sense of humor, too.

JUST THE THING FOR A MONDAY EVENING: A Little Hair of the Dog.

LEADING TO MY SUSPICION WE’RE ALL LIVING IN A NOVEL: Is Obama invoking Nemesis under another name?

BUT DON’T LET THAT STOP YOU: Of Course the Game is Rigged.  If you don’t vote, we can’t win.

SOME STILL HAVE IT: Honor.

HORROR:  I have no words to say how horrified I am at Benghazi and at the Administration’s behavior through it and their cover up now.  I keep thinking anyone with a shred of decency left would own up just out of guilt.  A friend sent me this, which captures the stark horror of it for me.

Sorry if I seem to be harping on it.  When it happened I was sick with grief — its coming as it did on 9/11 — and now I’m sick with anger.  Where is nemesis when you need it?  How can the president be offended at questions while his hands drip with the blood of people who depended on him?  He is at the very least guilty of gross dereliction of duty.  And if he didn’t know about it, WHY NOT?

ON THE OTHER HAND, MAYBE THEY HATE HUMANS: Radical enviros for economic ruin.

IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN HERE: Cystic Fibrosis sufferer denied ‘chance of life’ drug by NHS.

Cystic Fibrosis sufferer is being refused a “chance of life” drug by the NHS despite the manufacturer offering it to her for free, it has emerged.

Yes, that is sarcasm. National health care is never about costs or reforms or saving you from the mad amputating doctors which exist in the president’s mind. It’s always about control.  Theirs.  Not yours.

EXTREME: Who is the real extremist on abortion?

CONTROL, THE AUTHORITIES WANT IT: Girls of 13 given birth control jab at school without parents’ knowledge.

MEN OVERBOARD: Emergency on the Bounty: 17 crew on replica forced to abandon ship after getting caught in path of Sandy.

THIS MUST NOT STAND: Obama’s Big Reason for Going Small. Don’t like it?  Get out and vote him out.