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• The debate is finally over. who won? NOBODY. Well, maybe…. Obama #
• For the second debate in a row, if the election were held this week I would be voting for Newt Gingrich. The others I cannot fathom winning #
• @GEValle Against the RINO who will be the nominee… and the other RINO's on stage. I'll take them either or #cnndebate in reply to GEValle #
• I am ready to declare a winner of the GOP Presidential debate: Wait for it…..Barack Obama. Ship of fools tonight #
• @sjreidhead Really? LOL…. in reply to sjreidhead #
• OK, No more GOP debates after tonight. We have run through all of the ridiculousness. Result: Christie and Daniels reconsidering race #
• Mitt Romney is solidifying his position of a candidate nobody really likes but will settle for because the rest of the field is so pathetic #
• RT @JRubinBlogger: cain saying OWS should be mad at white house.. best answer of the night #
• Jon Huntsman may have been the smartest POL tonight… in not showing up. #
• RT @mleewelch: Perry's letter: http://t.co/IYgnkS2y. Santorum's right, and Perry was lying. #
• Just an impression but you can put a fork in Rick Perry now – He's Done. #
• Santorum wins that round against Perry. Herman Cain has been hit and Romney is still smiling… #
• Santorum pounding Perry on TARP and scoring points….. gives deprecating response to Santorum and Santorum sinks in the knife… #
• Haha! does anyone think that Mitt Romney won't flip flop on Yucca Mountain once he is in the White House? #
• Tired of the 9-9-9 discussion on the Presidential debate. How about this for raising capital?: http://t.co/VRSWq7av #
• Professor Newt puts the end to the 9-9-9 tax increase – next subject please #
• Romney is correct under Cain he would be paying a bushel of apple and orange taxes. 9-9- 9 is a double VAT and a tax increase – move on #
• Are all of the other candidates surrogates for Mitt Romney? – thank you folks for taking down Herman Cain #
• Rick Perry to Herman Cain: "I'll bump plans with you, brother – a little late Rick. #cnndebate #
• Rick Perry: it ain't going to fly (9-9-9) Herman… #
• Open salvos about taxes and Herman Cain's 9-9-9 plan —> increases taxes on most Americans. Bachmann et al leading the charge against Cain #
• I will be covering tonight's 8 PM Las Vegas Presidential debate on Twitter. Follow along @Flap
  : http://t.co/wA0b6Qp4 #
• President 2012: Las Vegas GOP Presidential Debate Tonight http://t.co/JtXCic2U #tcot #catcot #
• California Conservatives Propose 2012 Initiative to Limit Services to Illegal Immigrants http://t.co/inYERtPG #
• President Obama REALLY needs to get back to governing and stop the incessant divisive campaigning….: http://t.co/j5e0aLqW #
• President 2012: Obama on Occupy Wall Street Protests – “We Are on Their Side” http://t.co/Axnx32xH #tcot #catcot #
• A malaria vaccine – FINALLY. What a wonderful development to fight this disease, especially in Africa.: http://t.co/PtakkVwq #
• @BACFA LOL…the lead investigator has been working on the malaria vaccine for 24 years – Reagan? in reply to BACFA #
• First Malaria Vaccine Successful in a Major Clinical Trial http://t.co/gz7iJUyB #
• Is there any wonder why President Obama is NON-campaigning?: http://t.co/GpxESOwQ #
• President 2012: When Should Obama Start to Worry About 40% Approval Ratings? http://t.co/A7jrOktZ #tcot #catcot #
• Will the Occupy Wall Street protests last?: http://t.co/domrBR0F #
• Poll Watch: 22% Approve of Occupy Wall Street Movement’s Goals http://t.co/nZ6ixsXJ #tcot #catcot #
• California “Scope of Practice” Turf War Dogs Veterinarians and Pet-grooming Services Over Canine Dental Hygiene http://t.co/GR5ljuls #
• Turf War DOGS California Veterinarians and Pet-groomers…..: http://t.co/waCKU9Hb #
• North Dakota Women Sentenced to 23 Years in Prison for Methamphetamine http://t.co/L9sbODKr #
• Flap’s Links and Comments for October 17th through October 18th http://t.co/iudxo5Yf #tcot #catcot #
• ‘Rogue’ NLRB Defied Subpoena by Withholding Documents, Issa Says http://t.co/28cUXRfv #
• Who Besides Solyndra Got Loan Guarantees? http://t.co/2tlpyiK7 #
• Today's Dentistry and Health Headlines…..: http://t.co/HBHru558 #
• The Morning Drill: October 18, 2011 http://t.co/gklCijRy #
• Watch Your Cell Phone – Nasty Bacteria Lurking There http://t.co/hlBHQyXk #
• Cell Phone bacteria – have YOU washed your hands?: http://t.co/9UMPc8cP #
• Flap’s California Morning Collection: October 18, 2011 http://t.co/veUmSLHk #
• Today's California Headlines……: http://t.co/6bumAUff #
• @CJArndt I understand, but often it is a choice at the ballot box between two evils = disappointment in reply to CJArndt #
• @CJArndt POLS are meant to disappoint but they are all we have to run the government. We don't have to take it. in reply to CJArndt #
• @CJArndt Some of us desire a massive change of direction for the USA. Obama is the wrong way and Romney is wrong way correction lite in reply to CJArndt #
• "Anybody can be a runner. We were meant to move. We were meant to run. It's the easiest sport."
  –Bill Rodgers #
• @CJArndt Many conservatives wonder with Romney whether government will change THAT much – his history says no. in reply to CJArndt #
• Chris Muir and Day by Day know why conservatives and Tea Party activists will be disappointed in 2012….: http://t.co/IMsslJy0 #
• Day By Day October 18, 2011 – Kingpin http://t.co/sIpWy4IP #tcot #catcot #
• @Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-10-18 | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog http://t.co/VgAYFdDq #
• @Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-10-18 http://t.co/m83iG32E #tcot #catcot #
• Flap’s Links and Comments for October 17th on 06:09 | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog http://t.co/krUzATS3 #
• Flap’s Links and Comments for October 17th on 06:09 http://t.co/EvEy6kAu #tcot #catcot #
• Douglas Schoen: Polling the Occupy Wall Street Crowd http://t.co/9PpDSLtS #

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The answer is February or March 2012, according to the pundits at Gallup Polling.

But, from the looks of the White House travel schedule, President Obama is not waiting.

These are my links for October 17th through October 18th:

• North Dakota Women Sentenced to 23 Years in Prison for Methamphetamine – A woman accused in North Dakota of running a drug ring that included her 63-year-old mother was sentenced Monday to 23 years in prison.

  Authorities say Christeena Barker led the operation that transported about six pounds of methamphetamine from the Minneapolis and Bakersfield, Calif., areas for distribution in the Fargo-Moorhead area. Federal authorities dubbed the investigation "Operation Price is Right."

  Barker, 44, of Moorhead, Minn., pleaded guilty in March to conspiracy to possess with intent to deliver a controlled substance. Assistant U.S. Attorney Chris Myers called Barker a "career offender-plus" and recommended a sentence of 25 years.

  "They moved an enormous amount of methamphetamine in a short period of time into the Fargo-Moorhead area," Myers said during Monday's hearing.

  Defense attorney Ross Brandborg asked for a sentence of 15 years. He said his client has lived her life under difficult circumstances, and ultimately cooperated with authorities.

  "She was never given a chance," Brandborg said.

  Myers said Barker had promised to help with the case after she was arrested in summer 2010. Instead she became a fugitive. She eventually was located in Strasburg in February.

  "Agents found her through a bit of luck and a lot of hard work," Myers said.

  Barker said in a tearful statement that she fled because she was scared.

  "Yes, I've had a drug problem and alcohol abuse. I've never had treatment," she said.

  Barker's mother, Betty Ann Schweigert, of Fargo, was sentenced earlier this month to 16 years in prison for her role in the conspiracy. Another one of Schweigert's daughters, Annette Avila, 32, pleaded guilty in July and is set to be sentenced in December.

• ‘Rogue’ NLRB Defied Subpoena by Withholding Documents, Issa Says – The National Labor Relations Board’s acting general counsel, Lafe Solomon, broke the law by intentionally withholding documents about Boeing Co., Representative Darrel Issa said.

  “Your continued personal obstruction, lack of compliance with a validly issued congressional subpoena and false statements to the committee are unacceptable,” Issa said today in a letter to Solomon. “The NLRB is acting as a rogue agency that believes it does not have to fully answer to Congress.”

  Issa, a California Republican and chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, requested that six NLRB employees submit to transcribed interviews for his investigative panel.

  The NLRB’s complaint against Boeing in April said the airplane maker violated labor laws by deciding to build a 787 Dreamliner plant in South Carolina in retaliation for union strikes in Washington state, home to Boeing’s factories. NLRB spokeswoman Nancy Cleeland didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on Issa’s letter. Boeing has denied it acted to punish the union.

• Who Besides Solyndra Got Loan Guarantees? – Solyndra CEO Brian Harrison just resigned, as the controversy stubbornly refuses to go away.  Seems worth revisiting the loans once again, since I've spent a little time looking more deeply at the program over the past few days.

  Supporters of these programs claim that they're a necessary part of winning the green future because these are investments that are too risky, or too big, for private capital to take on.  

  Of course, if the government is going to be a VC, supporters say, they have to expect a high failure rate. There's a lot of talk about the manufacturing "Valley of Death", where startup manufacturing firms may have difficulty getting capital to commercialize their prototypes.  According to proponents of this theory, there's plenty of money for early stage ventures, and plenty of bank loans for established firms, but no money for mass commercialization of new manufacturing ideas.  (Hence the "valley").  This valley, they say, is especially wide for energy firms, because the capital costs for starting up are so high.

  I've been somewhat skeptical of those claims–why are people pouring money into manufacturing startups if they're inevitably doomed to die at the commercialization stage?  But say it's true.  I thought it was worth looking at who got the money from these programs, and for what.  How well is the government doing in its role of VC/valley of death sherpa?

• @Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-10-18 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – @Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-10-18 #tcot #catcot
• Flap’s Links and Comments for October 17th on 06:09 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Flap’s Links and Comments for October 17th on 06:09 #tcot #catcot