Humpty Clinton sat on a wall
Humpty Clinton had a great fall.
Because “sleeping with my biographer” was already used.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

(Awkward).

“Be it resolved the
world cannot tolerate an Iran with nuclear weapons capability.”

Featuring Fareed Zakaria and Vali Nasr vs Charles Krauthammer and Amos Yadlin. The video is available until noon Friday, so be sure to view it this evening if you’re interested.
h/t Paul

Former CIA Director David Petraeus testified in a closed-door hearing Friday morning that his agency determined immediately after the Sept. 11 Libya attack that “Al-Qaeda involvement” was suspected — but the line was taken out in the final version circulated to administration officials, according to a top lawmaker who was briefed.

Funny, that’s a different story than the “according to our source” spin CNN was pushing prior to his testimony.

Breaking now on Fox News: Petraeus will testify voluntarily before both House and Senate Intelligence Committees.
Related, from Charles Krauthammer:

And that brings us to the ultimate issue, and that is his testimony on September 13. That’s the thing that connects the two scandals, and that’s the only thing that makes the sex scandal relevant. Otherwise it would be an exercise in sensationalism and voyeurism and nothing else. The reason it’s important is here’s a man who knows the administration holds his fate in its hands, and he gives testimony completely at variance with what the Secretary of Defense had said the day before, at variance with what he’d heard from his station chief in Tripoli, and with everything that we had heard. Was he influenced by the fact that he knew his fate was held by people within the administration at that time?

But don’t go getting excited, because remember – when the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.

In the words of Canada’s most loved pentapolemacist “there’s never an avalanche around when you need one.”
h/t Richard

A member of the Broad Strata Community, foiled again…

Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, was arrested for allegedly attempting to detonate what he thought was a 1,000-pound bomb at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in Manhattan, the Department of Justice and a U.S. attorney’s office said in a press release.

From the comments – “I blame that awful, offensive video of Obama making fun of rich people.”

@hrclinton you stood next to Chris Stevens’ casket and blamed it on a YouTube video. Video maker is in jail. What shall we do with you now?

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) October 16, 2012

h/t ron in kelowna

Reuters;

The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other embassy staff were killed in a rocket attack on their car, a Libyan official said, as they were rushed from a consular building stormed by militants denouncing a U.S.-made film insulting the Prophet Mohammad.
Gunmen had attacked and burned the U.S. consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi, a center of last year’s uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, late on Tuesday evening, killing one U.S. consular official. The building was evacuated.
The Libyan official said the ambassador, Christopher Stevens, was being driven from the consulate building to a safer location when gunmen opened fire.

Yup, nothing. And this is just coincidence.
Hope And Change: “We came, we saw, he died”
Watch Drudge for updates.

Herbert E. Meyer

I learned a long time ago that when people who don’t have access to highly classified intelligence about an issue like this one prattle on about what they think is happening, or is likely to happen, they tend to get it wrong. But the debate over Iran’s nuclear program has become so feckless — so disconnected from reality — that perhaps it’s time to inject a dose of what those of us who served on the national security side of the Reagan administration used to call “real-world intelligence.”
[…]
Of course Iran is building a nuclear bomb; the evidence is obvious and overwhelming. The only purpose of those leaked National Intelligence Estimates asserting that Iran hasn’t actually made the decision to build a nuclear bomb, and of similar leaked documents from European intelligence services, is to prevent what the analysts fear would happen. They’re afraid that if they officially judge Iran to be on the verge of having a nuclear bomb, political pressure for a military attack will become irresistible. They want to delay action until it’s too late, so we will be left with no choice except to live with a nuclear-armed Iran.

h/t Rob

From the WSJ;

Denver has particularly high natural radioactivity. It comes primarily from radioactive radon gas, emitted from tiny concentrations of uranium found in local granite. If you live there, you get, on average, an extra dose of .3 rem of radiation per year (on top of the .62 rem that the average American absorbs annually from various sources). A rem is the unit of measure used to gauge radiation damage to human tissue.
The International Commission on Radiological Protection recommends evacuation of a locality whenever the excess radiation dose exceeds .1 rem per year. But that’s one-third of what I call the “Denver dose.” Applied strictly, the ICRP standard would seem to require the immediate evacuation of Denver.

CNN;

The U.S. government said it will stop issuing permits for new nuclear power plants and license extensions for existing facilities until it resolves issues around storing radioactive waste.

h/t Pete

A few years ago a ‘young and naive’ thirty five year old red headed female partner in a major law firm specialising in trade union business handled the settlement of a Fitzroy house purchase in the name of the union official with whom she was sharing reproductive fluids at the time.
The funds for the house purchase came from what appeared to be a union account (of which the union itself had no knowledge) but the law firm partner did not think to ask why the title was not to be registered in the union’s name..
The house has long since been on-sold but there is no evidence of any sale proceeds reverting to the union. It appears some half a million or more dollars were paid into the bogus union account by Theiss Construction in a legitimate transfer of state government grants for ‘training.’ Theiss thought it was paying the real union.

And she’s the current Prime Minister of Australia.
h/t Adrian