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Bloomberg News: "Applications norwegian cruise discount for jobless benefits dropped 30,000 to 339,000 in the week ended Oct. 6, the fewest since February 2008 , Labor Department figures showed today." CW : notice norwegian cruise discount how Bloomberg hedges on the validity of the data, which I'm thinking is the Jack Welch Effect: suddenly norwegian cruise discount numbers which have been reported with anodyne commentary are somehow suspicious or can be explained away by data collection methods seasonal changes.
New York Times : "The Swedish Academy announced on Thursday that it had awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature to Chinese author Mo Yan , the cultural high point of a week of accolades to scientists, writers and peacemakers."
New York Times : "Adding to strains with Turkey over the conflict in Syria , Russia demanded an explanation on Thursday after Turkish warplanes forced a Syrian passenger plane flying norwegian cruise discount from Moscow to Damascus norwegian cruise discount to land in Ankara on suspicion of carrying military cargo." CW : I have been thinking for a week that the Turkey-Syria border skirmishes were reminiscent of the seemingly localized beginnings of World War I. Well, welcome to the conflict, Russia.
norwegian cruise discount AP: "Yemeni security officials say a gunman has assassinated the Yemeni chief of security at the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa. The officials say Qassem Aqlani , who was in his fifties, was shot dead while on his way to work early on Thursday. They say a gunman on a motorcycle opened fire at him and fled the scene. Aqlani had been working for the U.S. Embassy in the Yemeni capital for nearly 20 years."
Washington Post : "The proposed merger of Europe s biggest defense and aerospace contractors collapsed Wednesday after European political leaders failed to agree on terms. The combination of London-based BAE Systems norwegian cruise discount and Paris-based European Aeronautic Defence and Space would have created a colossus to rival U.S. giants Lockheed norwegian cruise discount Martin and Boeing, as well as concerns at the Pentagon about such a huge foreign-owned contractor."
AP: "A panel of three federal judges upheld a South Carolina law requiring voters to show photo identification, but delayed enforcement until next year , in a decision announced Wednesday, less than a month before this year's presidential election. In a unanimous ruling, the judges said there was no discriminatory intent behind the law, ruling that it would not diminish African-Americans' voting rights because people who face a 'reasonable impediment' to getting norwegian cruise discount an acceptable photo ID can still vote if they sign an affidavit."
New York Times : "President Obama on Wednesday nominated Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr ., the assistant commandant of the Marine Corps and a combat veteran norwegian cruise discount who led a regiment in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, as the top American and NATO commander in Afghanistan ."
New York Times : "The United States military has secretly sent a task force of more than 150 planners and other specialists to Jordan to help the armed forces there handle a flood of Syrian refugees, prepare for the possibility that Syria will lose control of its chemical weapons and be positioned should the turmoil in Syria expand into a wider conflict." ...
... New York Times : "With Syria s civil strife coursing through major cities and convulsing neighboring countries, the Turkish military sounded a somber warning on Wednesday that it may respond more forcefully after days of shelling from Syria."
AP: "Americans Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka won the 2012 Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for studies of protein receptors that let body cells sense and respond to outside signals. Such studies are key for developing better drugs. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences norwegian cruise discount said the two researchers had made groundbreaking discoveries on an important family of receptors, known as G-protein-coupled receptors."
PSA : Washington Post : Maryland health officials are advising consumers not to eat or buy a specific variety of Trader Joe s peanut butter , because of what they said was 'a potential link' to a salmonella outbreak. The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said Friday it was 'currently advising' against consumption of Trader Joe s brand Valencia Creamy Salted Peanut Butter made with sea salt. Health officials said other Trader Joe s brand peanut products may be affected and out of caution urged consumers to consider setting them aside during the investigation into a multistate norwegian cruise discount 'outbreak of salmonella infection.' ...
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Steve Coll of the New Yorker , in the New York Review of Books , reviews Mark Owens' (real name Matt Bissonnette ) book No Easy Day , an account of the raid on Osama bin Laden 's compound. CW : I think you'll norwegian cruise discount find the review interesting on a number of levels.
AP: "President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are getting their anniversary date night after all just a few days late during a busy re-election campaign. The Obamas arrived at Bourbon Steak in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C., on Saturday night for a dinner to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary. The couple hit the milestone on Wednesday, the day of the first presidential debate in Denver."
Politico : "Fans hoping to tune into the much-hyped mock debate between cable TV pundits Jon Stewart and Bill O Reilly Saturday were left frustrated as the Internet livestream crashed . Jokes and sparks flew as the Comedy Central figure and the Fox News host met at George Washington University in Washington norwegian cruise discount for an event called 'The Rumble in the Air-Conditioned Auditorium,' with livestreaming available for $4.95." ...
Frank Lloyd Wright house in Phoenix, scheduled for demo. Photo via the New York Times. CLICK ON THE PHOTO TO SEE LARGER IMAGE. New York Times : "It s hard to say which is more startling. That a developer in Phoenix could threaten by Thursday, no less to knock down a 1952 house designed norwegian cruise discount by Frank Lloyd Wright . Or that the house has until now slipped under the radar, escaping the attention of most architectural historians, even though it is one of Wright s great works, a spiral home for his son David ." More photos here .
The Los Angeles Times Emmy Awards page is here . The complete list of nominees winners, via the L.A. Times is here . The paper now has a paywall like the New York Times , allowing a limited number of hits. The New York Time s' Emmy page is here . Their main story is here . An NYT story on cable's domination of the awards is here .
Zeke Miller of BuzzFeed: "Texas norwegian cruise discount Gov. Rick Perry 's campaign spent the weeks after his campaign announcement in a panic about a potential Huffington Post story about swirling and unsupported rumors that the Texas governor candidate is gay ."
... So does Driftglass norwegian cruise discount . He is, of course, a lot more entertaining: "... Bay Buchanan on 'Meet the Press' arguing with Joe Scarborough and David Brooks about how Conservatives don't get enough time on teevee."
Yahoo! News: "A personal journal belonging to U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens was obtained by CNN, and The Wall Street Journal norwegian cruise discount is reporting that it 'broadcast reports based on its contents against the wishes of the Stevens family , according to relatives and State Department officials who were asked to intervene by the family.'" norwegian cruise discount ...
... Reuters Update : "A State Department spokesman sharply criticized CNN on Saturday, saying the network norwegian cruise discount had reported on the diary of American ambassador Christopher Stevens after his death at the U.S. consulate in Libya despite the objections norwegian cruise discount of his family."
Jonathan Cohn of The New Republic : somebody press Romney Ryan on their Medicaid policy, please. "They ... want to reduce the money [Medicaid] gets from the federal government.... They would expose norwegian cruise discount the elderly and disabled , as well their loved ones, to the kind of suffering this country spent decades trying to eradicate. Sometime tonight, or perhaps in the two remaining norwegian cruise discount presidential debates, I hope the Republican nominees get a chance to explain why they think that s such a great idea." Read the whole post.
Meenal Vamburkar of Mediate: norwegian cruise discount "In an interview with the Tom Joyner Morning Show on Wednesday, President norwegian cruise discount Obama reflected on the first presidential debate, and pinpointed the reason for his almost-universally agreed upon lackluster performance. He was simply too polite ." You can hear the full interview read the transcript here . It's worth a listen. ...
Here's the Jim Fallows post which Akhilleus makes reference norwegian cruise discount to in a post in today's Comments . However, it's harder to accept Fallows' analyses now that we know he's a bona fide Neanderthal (tho despite his boasting about it, apparently not all genetic scientists are convinced by "Neanderthal DNA."
CW : how can we take PolitiFact seriously when they give a Pants-on-Fire rating to President Obama for the Big Bird ad which claims Romney wants to fire Big Bird -- after Romney said he would defund PBS? PolitiFact's argument: Sesame Street has significant other sources of revenue. Oh, please.
Jed Lewison of Daily Kos: "Ignoring a request from the mother of one of the Navy SEALs killed last month in Libya, Mitt Romney today once again told a campaign audience norwegian cruise discount of meeting with her son at a Christmas norwegian cruise discount party two years ago. After Romney told his story of meeting Glen Doherty norwegian cruise discount during a campaign rally yesterday, Barbara Doherty mother of Glen Doherty, one of the Navy SEALs killed in the Benghazi attack had asked Romney to stop using her son's memory to advance his political agenda." In an update, Lewison writes, "Romneyland is now trying to beat a hasty retreat.... Funny how the campaign d