Miscellaneous 147

1) According to the A.P. (10/17, and later on on the McLaughlin Group - 10/19), the CIA station chief in Libya reported to Washington (and ultimately directly to the A.P.) within 24 hours that there WAS strong evidence that the embassy bombing was carried out by militants and not by a spontaneous mob that was seething due to some American made video which ridiculed the prophet, Mohamed. The fact that somebody in the White House apparently sent Ambassador Rice and Press Secretary Carney out to peddle this video nonsense is exceedingly troubling, I think.............2) I'm sorry, people, but we really need to reexamine this whole concept of foreign aid. As it stands now, all that we're essentially doing is a) transferring wealth that's already been created, b) not transferring the capacity to create that wealth, and c) rewarding nations for doing all the wrong things/subsidizing irresponsibility. The way that I see it, we're just going to have to start making our assistance contingent upon meaningful reforms, and ZERO ASSISTANCE to nasty/corrosive governments that hate us. We just can't afford it anymore.............3) Georgia Tech football coach, Paul Johnson, finally woke up and inserted Vad Lee at quarterback. The result? Try 68 points and a victory against North Carolina. As for Mr. Lee's personal stat-line, he completed 6 of 10 passes for 169 yards and 2 touchdowns and ran 23 times for 112 yards and 2 more more scores. The dude was phenomenal and, while I wouldn't go as far as to compare him to Cam Newton (for one, the size differential), he's certainly close enough. Hell, he might even save that douche-bag Johnson's job.