At DC concert, Madonna puzzles by calling Obama Muslim
Reuters
Pop star Madonna urged Americans to support President Barack Obama during her concert in Washington DC on Monday night but incorrectly referred to him as a Muslim in her comments.
Hicks: Madonna urges support for 'black muslim' Barack Obama San Jose Mercury News
Madonna's 'black Muslim' Obama comments: All the reasons not to vote for someone Washington Post
Highly Cited:Madonna gives odd Obama endorsement Politico
In Depth:Madonna Endorses 'Black Muslim' Obama
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Who Was the First to Go on Dancing All-Stars? #DWTS Sends Home a Low Scorer
Who Was the First to Go on Dancing All-Stars?
People Magazine - 56 minutes ago
By Dahvi Shira Everyone's an all-star on Dancing with the Stars, but even one of the best had to go on Tuesday night in the first elimination.
'Dancing With the Stars' boots first celeb USA TODAY
'Dancing With the Stars: All-Stars' Sends Home a Low Scorer Hollywood Reporter
In Depth:'DWTS: All Stars' Season 15, 'Results Show': TV Recap

People Magazine - 56 minutes ago
By Dahvi Shira Everyone's an all-star on Dancing with the Stars, but even one of the best had to go on Tuesday night in the first elimination.
'Dancing With the Stars' boots first celeb USA TODAY
'Dancing With the Stars: All-Stars' Sends Home a Low Scorer Hollywood Reporter
In Depth:'DWTS: All Stars' Season 15, 'Results Show': TV Recap

6.2 Quake Shakes Mexico's Baja California Coast
A 6.2 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Baja California has quickly been followed by at least two others.
6.2 Quake Shakes Mexico's Baja California Coast
ABC News
6.2-magnitude earthquake rattles Mexico's southern Baja California coast

6.2 Quake Shakes Mexico's Baja California Coast
ABC News
6.2-magnitude earthquake rattles Mexico's southern Baja California coast
The 2012 Oktoberfest kicked off in Munich
Brooks on Beer: Oktoberfest
San Jose Mercury News
The 2012 Oktoberfest kicked off in Munich on Sept. 22 with the traditional ceremonial tapping of a keg by that city's mayor. Now beer gardens, restaurants and neighborhoods around the world have joined in the celebration

San Jose Mercury News
The 2012 Oktoberfest kicked off in Munich on Sept. 22 with the traditional ceremonial tapping of a keg by that city's mayor. Now beer gardens, restaurants and neighborhoods around the world have joined in the celebration
Big Holiday Hiring Plans for U.S. Retailers; 600,000 temporary workers; Toys R Us To Add 45,000 Jobs
Big Holiday Hiring Plans for U.S. Retailers
ABC News via Yahoo! News
Morning Business Memo: Want a job for the last couple of months of this year? Retailers are revving up for the holiday shopping season. The industry hired 600,000 temporary workers last year. Toys R ...
Holiday Hiring 2012: Toys R Us To Add 45,000 Jobs
The Inquisitr - 3 hours ago
Toys “R” Us” is getting ready for the 2012 Holiday Hiring season. The world’s biggest toy store announced today that it would be hiring 45,000 temporary workers during the holiday season.
Does Business Create Jobs?

ABC News via Yahoo! News
Morning Business Memo: Want a job for the last couple of months of this year? Retailers are revving up for the holiday shopping season. The industry hired 600,000 temporary workers last year. Toys R ...
Holiday Hiring 2012: Toys R Us To Add 45,000 Jobs
The Inquisitr - 3 hours ago
Toys “R” Us” is getting ready for the 2012 Holiday Hiring season. The world’s biggest toy store announced today that it would be hiring 45,000 temporary workers during the holiday season.
Does Business Create Jobs?
J.K. Rowling's 'The Casual Vacancy' May Shock Potter Loyalists; First adult novel
J.K. Rowling: 15 fun facts
By Tara Fowler In leadup to ''The Casual Vacancy,'' author is profiled in ''New Yorker'' and ''Guardian''; what we learned
Entertainment Weekly - Sep 24
J.K. Rowling's 'The Casual Vacancy' May Shock Potter Loyalists
With talk of sex and drugs, the British author's first adult novel marks a turn away from her family-friendly series about a boy wizard.
The Hollywood Reporter
Don't Mourn J.K. Rowling's Young-Adult Fiction Career Yet
She isn't the first novelist to put a dazzling young adult-fiction career on hold to write a book for grown-up audiences.

By Tara Fowler In leadup to ''The Casual Vacancy,'' author is profiled in ''New Yorker'' and ''Guardian''; what we learned
Entertainment Weekly - Sep 24
J.K. Rowling's 'The Casual Vacancy' May Shock Potter Loyalists
With talk of sex and drugs, the British author's first adult novel marks a turn away from her family-friendly series about a boy wizard.
The Hollywood Reporter
Don't Mourn J.K. Rowling's Young-Adult Fiction Career Yet
She isn't the first novelist to put a dazzling young adult-fiction career on hold to write a book for grown-up audiences.
Top Medicare Drug Plans Jacking Up Premiums By Double-Digits; Is this ObamaCare?
Top Medicare Drug Plans Jacking Up Premiums By Double-Digits
Forbes
Monthly premiums for 7 of 10 popular Medicare drug plans will jump in 2013 by double-digit percentages. Premium increases in certain Medicare drug plans may be more volatile next year with some popular plan rates jumping by double-digit percentages, ...
Report: Medicare Drug Premiums to Rise Daily Beast
Report: Premium hikes for top Medicare drug plans AZFamily
In Depth:Medicare drug premiums set to jump in 2013

Forbes
Monthly premiums for 7 of 10 popular Medicare drug plans will jump in 2013 by double-digit percentages. Premium increases in certain Medicare drug plans may be more volatile next year with some popular plan rates jumping by double-digit percentages, ...
Report: Medicare Drug Premiums to Rise Daily Beast
Report: Premium hikes for top Medicare drug plans AZFamily
In Depth:Medicare drug premiums set to jump in 2013
Inflation Signs: Home Prices Climb Again, Oil Climbs, Stocks rising - Flight to real property
Home Prices Climb Again, Lifting Low End of Market
New York Times
The housing market continues to gather strength, according to new data released Tuesday, and in a particularly encouraging sign, the price gains appear to be spreading to the lower end of the market in many cities.
Home prices rise for 6th month, sign sector recovering CNBC.com
Oil Climbs as Home Prices in US Increase
Stocks rising, buoyed by gains in housing market
USA TODAY
NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks were modestly higher in midday trading Tuesday, boosted by good news on the housing market and consumer confidence hitting a seven-month high.
Governement Overspending Leads to Inflation that Hurts Middle Class, While Driving Investment into Real Property

New York Times
The housing market continues to gather strength, according to new data released Tuesday, and in a particularly encouraging sign, the price gains appear to be spreading to the lower end of the market in many cities.
Home prices rise for 6th month, sign sector recovering CNBC.com
Oil Climbs as Home Prices in US Increase
Stocks rising, buoyed by gains in housing market
USA TODAY
NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks were modestly higher in midday trading Tuesday, boosted by good news on the housing market and consumer confidence hitting a seven-month high.
Governement Overspending Leads to Inflation that Hurts Middle Class, While Driving Investment into Real Property

Brooke Astor home auction fetches $8.7M in NYC, Sotheby's said
Brooke Astor home auction fetches $8.7M in NYC
Associated Press via Yahoo! Finance
NEW YORK (AP) -- The first day of an auction of the contents of philanthropist Brooke Astor's two homes brought in $8.7 million, Sotheby's said. Sotheby's is offering the contents of both homes, 901 ... more »
Contents of Brooke Astor's homes going to auction
Associated Press via Yahoo! Finance - Sep 24
NEW YORK (AP) -- Brooke Astor was the immaculately dressed grande dame of New York City, a philanthropist, taste-setter and host extraordinaire, at ease with kings and queens and world leaders.

Associated Press via Yahoo! Finance
NEW YORK (AP) -- The first day of an auction of the contents of philanthropist Brooke Astor's two homes brought in $8.7 million, Sotheby's said. Sotheby's is offering the contents of both homes, 901 ... more »
Contents of Brooke Astor's homes going to auction
Associated Press via Yahoo! Finance - Sep 24
NEW YORK (AP) -- Brooke Astor was the immaculately dressed grande dame of New York City, a philanthropist, taste-setter and host extraordinaire, at ease with kings and queens and world leaders.
Are you better off than 4 years ago? Maryland is the richest state; Mississippi is the poorest state; Overall decline for the second straight year
America’s Poorest States - 24/7 Wall St.
While the trend is generally down, some states fared far better than others. Median income ranged from $36,919 in Mississippi to $70,004 in Maryland
Poorest state. Median household income in the United States hit the decline for the second straight year
The national poverty rate last year was 15.1%. That is up from 11.3% in 2000 and is the highest it has been since 1993. Over 46 million people, 1 of 6, lived below the poverty line in 2010.
Reports: SC is 7th poorest state in America WMBF News Myrtle Beach
The U.S. Census Bureau released two pieces of data Tuesday: poverty numbers and the median income for 2010.
Reports: NC is 10th poorest state in America WECT 6 Wilmington
The U.S. Census Bureau released two pieces of data Tuesday: poverty numbers and the median income for 2010.
Simple Formula for Poverty
Government over-spends using debt; Fed pumps money to cover
Creates inflation - e.g. food and gas prices - dollar buys less
Stock market adjusts - helping those who save - i.e. the richer
Drives greater dependence on government spendings
Is Obama helping the middle class?

While the trend is generally down, some states fared far better than others. Median income ranged from $36,919 in Mississippi to $70,004 in Maryland
Poorest state. Median household income in the United States hit the decline for the second straight year
The national poverty rate last year was 15.1%. That is up from 11.3% in 2000 and is the highest it has been since 1993. Over 46 million people, 1 of 6, lived below the poverty line in 2010.
Reports: SC is 7th poorest state in America WMBF News Myrtle Beach
The U.S. Census Bureau released two pieces of data Tuesday: poverty numbers and the median income for 2010.
Reports: NC is 10th poorest state in America WECT 6 Wilmington
The U.S. Census Bureau released two pieces of data Tuesday: poverty numbers and the median income for 2010.
Simple Formula for Poverty
Is Obama helping the middle class?
Imelda Marcos, former Philippine first lady, left behind at least 1,220 pairs of shoes
Imelda Marcos' designer collection preserved for ...
Fox News
In this photo taken Sept. 19, 2012, branded high heel shoes, once worn by flamboyant former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos, sit in a section of the National Museum in Manila, Philippines.
Imelda Marcos shoe collection now worthless, says ...
The Christian Science Monitor - Sep 24
Imelda Marcos left behind at least 1,220 pairs of shoes, along with a vast collection of clothes and accessories, when she fled with her husband, President Ferdinand Marcos, during a 1986 uprising.

Fox News
In this photo taken Sept. 19, 2012, branded high heel shoes, once worn by flamboyant former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos, sit in a section of the National Museum in Manila, Philippines.
Imelda Marcos shoe collection now worthless, says ...
The Christian Science Monitor - Sep 24
Imelda Marcos left behind at least 1,220 pairs of shoes, along with a vast collection of clothes and accessories, when she fled with her husband, President Ferdinand Marcos, during a 1986 uprising.
President Barack Obama will warn Iran that America will "do what we must"; scold violent demonstrators; Veterans retreating from Obama
Veterans retreating from Obama
Philly.com
President Barack Obama is trying hard to win veterans, but it looks like they'd prefer a new commander in chief.
Obama warns Iran, denounces Libya attack at UN
The Ticket via Yahoo! News
President Barack Obama will warn Iran on Tuesday that America will "do what we must" to prevent Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, and will scold violent demonstrators who have targeted American

Philly.com
President Barack Obama is trying hard to win veterans, but it looks like they'd prefer a new commander in chief.
Obama warns Iran, denounces Libya attack at UN
The Ticket via Yahoo! News
President Barack Obama will warn Iran on Tuesday that America will "do what we must" to prevent Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, and will scold violent demonstrators who have targeted American
Schizophrenia Drugs: A Call for Caution in the Use of Antipsychotic Drugs
The Grand Challenge of Schizophrenia Drugs Scientific American - Sep 21
A Call for Caution in the Use of Antipsychotic Drugs New York Times - Sep 24
#SciAmBlogs Friday - Arctic Sea Ice, IgNobels, Tweets In Space, Schizophrenia... Scientific American

A Call for Caution in the Use of Antipsychotic Drugs New York Times - Sep 24
#SciAmBlogs Friday - Arctic Sea Ice, IgNobels, Tweets In Space, Schizophrenia... Scientific American
What is WWJD?
What is the theological background of the WWJD movement?
christianity.stackexchange.com/.../what-is-the-theological-back...Nov 22, 2011 – What Would Jesus Do? The question is a popular meme, and I guess you could call it a youth movement what with all
The phrase "What would Jesus do?" (often abbreviated to WWJD) became popular in the United States in the 1990s and as a personal motto for adherents of Evangelical Christianity who used the phrase as a reminder of their belief in a moral imperative to act in a manner that would demonstrate the love of Jesus through the actions of the adherents.

christianity.stackexchange.com/.../what-is-the-theological-back...Nov 22, 2011 – What Would Jesus Do? The question is a popular meme, and I guess you could call it a youth movement what with all
The phrase "What would Jesus do?" (often abbreviated to WWJD) became popular in the United States in the 1990s and as a personal motto for adherents of Evangelical Christianity who used the phrase as a reminder of their belief in a moral imperative to act in a manner that would demonstrate the love of Jesus through the actions of the adherents.
Israel grinds to a halt for Yom Kippur, Jewish day of atonement
Israel grinds to a halt for Yom Kippur, Jewish day of atonement Washington Post
When Yom Kippur comes to a close Wednesday night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will make his way to New York to address the United Nations with one main message: Iran's nuclear program is an existential threat to Israel, and it must be stopped.
Yom Kippur: WWJD? Huffington Post
Around sunset this coming Tuesday (Sept. 25th) begins the Jewish Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur.

When Yom Kippur comes to a close Wednesday night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will make his way to New York to address the United Nations with one main message: Iran's nuclear program is an existential threat to Israel, and it must be stopped.
Yom Kippur: WWJD? Huffington Post
Around sunset this coming Tuesday (Sept. 25th) begins the Jewish Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur.

Replacement refs botch Packers-Seahawks ending ESPN
Replacement refs botch Packers-Seahawks ending CNN
Who knows what was going through Roger Goodell's head on Monday night as he fiddled while the integrity of his league burned to the ground. There can be no more denying the undeniable: The presence of replacement officials has significantly impacted ...
Seattle Seahawks beat Green Bay Packers on disputed play Newsday
SEATTLE - In a bizarre ending that capped a tough weekend for replacement officials, the Seattle Seahawks beat the Green

Who knows what was going through Roger Goodell's head on Monday night as he fiddled while the integrity of his league burned to the ground. There can be no more denying the undeniable: The presence of replacement officials has significantly impacted ...
Seattle Seahawks beat Green Bay Packers on disputed play Newsday
SEATTLE - In a bizarre ending that capped a tough weekend for replacement officials, the Seattle Seahawks beat the Green

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