How could adding Triumph to the GOP not be funny?

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So maybe Hurricane Sandy (sounds harmless, no?) will hit us here in Manhattan. Buzzfeed shows us how utterly unprepared we are … for instance fact #4?

A category 2 storm could put JFK airport under 5 feet of water.

Just … great. Glad I live on high ground on the 9th floor.

16 Unsettling Facts About New York City and Hurricanes [Buzzfeed]

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“Colin Powell, interestingly enough, said that Obama got us out of Iraq. But it was Colin Powell, with his testimony before the U.N. Security Council, that got us into Iraq.” —John McCain, attempting to trash Colin Powell’s Obama endorsement, but managing to further bury his own reputation instead. [NRO, via TPM]

Fred and I hit a deer on hiway 136 south of Dyersville. After I pulled fender rubbing on tire we continued to farm. Assume deer dead

— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) October 26, 2012

“CANTON — Mitt Romney’s sworn testimony in a post-divorce lawsuit against Staples founder Tom Stemberg was unsealed on Thursday at Norfolk Probate and Family Court. The suit was filed in 1990 by Stemberg’s ex-wife, Maureen Sullivan Stemberg, who sought to amend the couple’s financial agreement after Staples went public in 1989 and began trading at 10 times the stock value she had received in the divorce a year earlier. Romney…testified during the lawsuit in June 1991; the nature of his testimony was not immediately clear …” [boston.com]

Our guest columnist is Douglas Brinkley, speaking to Rolling Stone.

We arrived at the Oval Office for our 45-minute interview… on the morning of October 11th.…

As we left the Oval Office, executive editor Eric Bates told Obama that he had asked his six-year-old if there was anything she wanted him to say to the president.… [S]he said, “Tell him: You can do it.”

Obama grinned.… “You know, kids have good instincts,” Obama offered. “They look at the other guy and say, ‘Well, that’s a bullshitter, I can tell.'”

Politico, reporting the Rolling Stone excerpt, also offers a helpful link to “PHOTOS: 21 potty-mouthed politicians”.

Obama says kids know Romney is dishonest [Politico]