So, the deaths of Tyrone Woods, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty and U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens have gone from 'not optimal' to 'a problem' but the real travesty is that anyone is critical of 'the U.N. Ambassador'. Got it.

Right, thank you.

Culture may not be everything but it 's close and the one we're fostering around disasters worries me greatly. We increasingly encourage the expectation that in a crisis the government must rescue us almost immediately. Shouldn't we instead intentionally cultivate the assumption that citizens should always be prepared to be self-sufficient for a week or ten days in an emergency? 

Same numbers but I give Romney NH and IA in place of your WI.

R 285. O 253. 

The Message to the Planet by Iris Murdoch, Justice by Michael Sandel and Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror. It is an endlessly wonderful way to double and triple my reading time, can't imagine being without it. And now, I can put down one device and pick up another and start just where I left off - book heaven.

Nope, not mad at all.

I was going to wait until the last few days as I have done in 2000 and 2004 GOTV's  but I think you're right so I just registered now - thanks for  the link. 

So they are sentient beings!

My usually voluble progressive friends have gone completely quiet - oddly unsettling.

I like it, good suggestion!

I think you're right, Gleeful Warrior. I expect the  successful terrorist attacks in Bengazi, because of the signal they send and the reality they reflect, will motivate more people to vote for, and the rest of us to work harder for, the election of  a new President capable of and committed to making sure that Bengazi doesn't come to mark the end of an era of hard fought and won national security.

First heard about the Obama please-understand-us ad while live-streaming the English Al-jazeera, something I do regularly just in case the 'paper of record' or 'the most trusted name in news' leave something out.

I went to NRO today as I do every day, saw that the left had set their agenda and left immediately. I too am sick of it. Can't we drive the discussion rather than falling all over every shiny object the far left media throws in our path?

The Old Guard Media.  Eventually, the OGM.

Looks like she started practicing early to become, as Jon Stewart called her, the winner of the prestigious 2012 gesticulators invitational.