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Egypt army arrests head of Sinai radical militant group, dozens others
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Toronto mayor's lawyer chides police
[CHRON] A lawyer for Toronto's embattled mayor accused the city's top cop of acting as "judge, jury and executioner" Friday, a day after police said they had obtained a copy of a long-rumored video that appears to show Rob Ford puffing on a crack pipe.

Ford's lawyer Dennis Morris attacked Police Chief Bill Blair for saying he was "disappointed" in the mayor at presser announcing the video had been recovered from a computer hard drive during an investigation of an associate of the mayor's suspected of providing him drugs.

"The chief said yesterday there is no evidence to charge him criminally in reference to this tape so what the heck?" Morris said. "He wasn't elected by the College of Cardinals and he shouldn't be pontificating."

Ford was elected mayor three years ago on a wave of discontent simmering in the city's outlying suburbs. Since then he has survived an attempt to remove him from office on conflict-of-interest charges and has frequently made news for his increasingly erratic behavior.

Allegations Ford had been caught on video smoking crack first surfaced in May. Two news hounds with the Toronto Star and one from the U.S. website Gawker said they saw the video but they did not obtain a copy.

Ford denied smoking crack and said at the time that the video did not exist. He also vilified the Toronto Star, accusing the paper of trying to take him down.

Morris called on police to release the video saying it likely shows the mayor smoking something other than crack.

"Let's see it," Morris said. "You can call it a crack pipe or a pipe to smoke a, b, c or d, so let's see it."
Posted by: Fred || 11/02/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "You can call it a crack pipe or a pipe to smoke a, b, c or d, so let's see it."

...so the good mayor has, apparently, given his indulgences coded identifiers..?
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 11/02/2013 14:38 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Ex-GOP Fla. Gov. Crist To Run For Job As Democrat
[HOSTED.AP.ORG] Former Republican governor turned Democrat Charlie Crist
... Formerly the Republican governor of Florida, now reinvented as a Democrat party hack...
filed paperwork Friday to run for his old job with his new party, a move that will turn the race into one of the most watched in the nation.

Crist is now the front-runner to represent Democrats against Republican Gov. Rick Scott, one of the most unpopular chief executives in the country. Scott, though, will be well-financed and is expected to spend as much as $25 million in attack ads against Crist.

For Crist, he is hoping to revive a political career that seemingly crashed when he left the GOP and lost an independent run for U.S. Senate to Republican Marco Rubio in 2010.

Crist has a 10 a.m. event scheduled in a park near his St. Petersburg home to kick off his campaign.
Posted by: Fred || 11/02/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Better run as a Republican, I doubt the Democrats have a chance with Obama's dismal showing.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 11/02/2013 0:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Run as a Klingon if you please.
Posted by: newc || 11/02/2013 0:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Yet another peak behind the curtain at so-called political parties.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/02/2013 4:41 Comments || Top||

#4  "Better run as a Republican, I doubt the Democrats have a chance with Obama's dismal showing."

Hilarious!! That's probably exactly what you said in 2012....
Posted by: Jerkface Killa || 11/02/2013 6:54 Comments || Top||

#5  The Permanent Party Propaganda Machine is slowly losing its grip, that's why the Left is desperately trying to enroll 10 million illegals on to the voter rolls. Better idea would be to ship them to Jerkface's province, so he can enjoy the drain on his generous government's social resources.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/02/2013 7:54 Comments || Top||

#6  Perhaps Jim is familiar with Florida young frosty troll, a turncoat teacher smoocher has zero chance in this state. BTW come on down, we miss you...

Posted by: Shipman || 11/02/2013 8:04 Comments || Top||

#7  "Better idea would be to ship them to Jerkface's province...blah-blah, sputter-sputter.."

Fortunately for 'my province', America™ has a copyright on 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, blah-blah...'...and, boy, looking at the Teapotters, they definitely look tired, poor, and huddled....
Posted by: Jerkface Killa || 11/02/2013 14:31 Comments || Top||

#8  Fortunately for 'my province', America™ has a copyright on 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, blah-blah...'...and, boy, looking at the Teapotters, they definitely look tired, poor, and huddled....

Finally dug a crowbar into your personal integrity and extracted the truth as you know it, EH?

Congrats. A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Posted by: badanov || 11/02/2013 14:38 Comments || Top||

#9  Indeed BadMan, Rantburg is ever therapeutic, for even young trolls of pinkish hue.

Posted by: Shipman || 11/02/2013 16:08 Comments || Top||

#10  stupid little troll thinks Teapotters™ is a slur. Idiot. The best part of you ran down your mother's leg
Posted by: Frank G || 11/02/2013 16:59 Comments || Top||


Poll: McAuliffe 42, Cuccinelli 40, Sarvis 13
[WEEKLYSTANDARD] Is Ken Cuccinelli closing in on Terry McAuliffe in the Virginia governor's race? The latest poll from Emerson College shows McAuliffe, the Democrat, with 42 percent support and Cuccinelli, the Republican, with 40 percent. Libertarian Robert Sarvis has 13 percent in the poll of 874 likely voters.

The two-point lead for McAuliffe is the smallest he's had in any poll since September. Emerson's previous poll, from September, showed McAuliffe with a five-point lead. The Real Clear Politics average of polls still shows McAuliffe ahead by more than six points.
Posted by: Fred || 11/02/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  never underestimate the Dims ability to "dig up the dead" errr...."get out the vote" ability to sway elections..
Posted by: Warthog || 11/02/2013 9:50 Comments || Top||

#2  I sincerely hope that the Libertarian supporters realize that if they vote for Sarvis, Virginia will end up with an Obama tool like McCauliffe.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 11/02/2013 13:46 Comments || Top||


Government
Only Six Americans Enrolled on 'Obamacare' First Day
[An Nahar] Just six people managed enrol in Obamacare on day one of the health plan's troubled rollout, documents released by Republican politicians showed, in a new embarrassment for the White House.

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Darrell Issa released a document from a meeting on October 2, the day after HealthCare.gov went online, recording the paltry figure.

By the end of October 2, two full days into the sign-up process, "there were 248 enrollments" nationwide, according to the notes from the Department of Health and Social Security.

Both documents were posted Thursday on the website run by Issa's House oversight committee.

President Barack Obama
They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them...
is counting on millions signing up for health care through online exchanges, part of a plan he pushed through in 2010 to help uninsured Americans get coverage.

Republican politicians are uniformly opposed to the law, which they have nicknamed Obamacare, and seized on the poor enrollment figures as sign of a colossal failure of the website in particular.

But Obama front man Jay Carney dismissed the focus on the six enrollees as a "dog-bites-man story."

"We knew it was going to be a slow build," Carney told news hounds.

"It's no question that it's been made more challenging by the poorly functioning website, and that's on us and that's why we're dedicating the resources and the brainpower to get it fixed."
Posted by: Fred || 11/02/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Foolish 6, wasted all that positive Karma on penetrating a web site, should have bought a lottery ticket. Significantly more than 6 people won state lotteries that infamous day.
Posted by: Shipman || 11/02/2013 1:48 Comments || Top||

#2  A lot of similarity btwn ACA and 'Powerball' Ship. You pays and pays and pays.... but gets nothing.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/02/2013 4:42 Comments || Top||

#3  ...a quant analysis of the diktat "prime mover" (26 18-34 year olds): More Lipstick on the ObamaCare Pig
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 11/02/2013 12:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Only Six Americans Enrolled on 'Obamacare' First Day

Can you name them ?

Posted by: Dopey Fillmore7348 || 11/02/2013 14:06 Comments || Top||

#5  ...requiring Nancy Pelosi to use (2) hands to count 'em...
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 11/02/2013 14:29 Comments || Top||


Obamacare rollout leaves states shocked at Medicaid signups: 'What planet' is this?
In just the first month of Obamacare's rollout, states are reporting a massive surge in the number of people signing up for Medicaid expansions versus the slow trickle of a few selecting the private insurer route -- and health experts are shocked: What is going on?

"When we first saw the numbers, everyone's eyes kind of bugged out," said Matt Salo, head of the National Association of Medicaid Directors, in The Washington Post. "Of the people walking through the door, 90 percent are on Medicaid. We're thinking, what planet is this happening on?"
Posted by: Au Auric || 11/02/2013 11:24 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Planet Obama!
Posted by: Raj || 11/02/2013 0:34 Comments || Top||

#2  It's planet free staff.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/02/2013 0:49 Comments || Top||

#3  "When we first saw the numbers, everyone's eyes kind of bugged out," said Matt Salo, head of the National Association of Medicaid Directors

Matt Salo, head of the National Association of Medicate Directors must be some oh-so-special kind of stupid if he didn't expect this.

I'll bet he's continually amazed that he toilet flushes when he pushes that little lever.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/02/2013 1:06 Comments || Top||

#4  Final estimate for Medicaid.....? How about a wild guess of approximately 48,000,000 million plus or minus. That's how many we've now got on food stamps. Shocking, no ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/02/2013 4:14 Comments || Top||

#5  Where is the money coming from. What Doctor will be in a plan that pays little and hang time for payment. So many payment delay games.
Posted by: Dale || 11/02/2013 8:41 Comments || Top||

#6  Given how well the experts are predicting events, maybe I should offer my services.
Posted by: gorb || 11/02/2013 11:20 Comments || Top||

#7  As usual the key word (beside unintended consequences, of course) is "unexpected". DUH!
Posted by: warthogswife || 11/02/2013 11:48 Comments || Top||

#8  Given how well the experts are predicting events, maybe I should offer my services.

Whatever you do, for Gawd's sake, don't let them handicap college football games!
Posted by: badanov || 11/02/2013 11:53 Comments || Top||

#9  "When we first saw the numbers, everyone's eyes kind of bugged out,"
Posted by: Dopey Fillmore7348 || 11/02/2013 14:28 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Sat 2013-11-02
  Egypt army arrests head of Sinai radical militant group, dozens others
Fri 2013-11-01
  Pakistani Taliban chief killed in drone strike: sources
Thu 2013-10-31
  Israeli warplanes strike shipment of Russian missiles at Syrian port: officials
Wed 2013-10-30
  Suicide blast in Tunisian resort of Sousse
Tue 2013-10-29
  Somalia's al-Shabab commanders 'killed' in strike
Mon 2013-10-28
  Bomb blast kills 18 wedding guests in Afghanistan
Sun 2013-10-27
  Bombings in Baghdad, Mosul kill at least 49
Sat 2013-10-26
  Nigeria says kills 74 'Boko Haram' Islamists in ground, air assault
Fri 2013-10-25
  Algerian troops find huge arms cache on Libyan border
Thu 2013-10-24
  Iraq PM warns of 'war of genocide' as attacks kill 48
Wed 2013-10-23
  Kenya police officers raid nabs 50 Somali aliens
Tue 2013-10-22
  IDF soldiers kill planner of Tel Aviv bus bombing in a raid
Mon 2013-10-21
  Syria: Exploding truck murders 30 in Hama
Sun 2013-10-20
  Report: 400 arrested in Egyptian operation in Sinai
Sat 2013-10-19
  18 Palestinians Charged in Leb Terrorist Plot

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