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President Obama is in good health and is tobacco-free, according to a medical report released by the White House.
Obama’s examination was performed by Navy captain and Physician to the President Dr. Jeff Kuhlman. His assessment of the president’s healthy was released Monday.
Kuhlman reported that Obama eats well, has a healthy weight, is tobacco free and is physically active. Kuhlman also reported that Obama, “On occasion drinks alcohol in moderation.” (more…)

AUSTIN — The drought map created by University College London shows a number of worryingly dry areas around the globe, in places including East Africa, Canada, France and Britain.

As high winds, low-30 temperatures, and sheets of snow ripped through downtown Manhattan, Occupy Wall Street was under siege on Saturday, this time from Mother Nature. Zuccotti Park was transformed into a tent city, with just over a hundred protestors huddled against only the fourth October snowstorm to hit New York in 135 years.
Other than the roaring wind, the park was quiet: no chants, no drum circles. The day’s outdoor activities were canceled and the wall of sign wavers on Wall Street has been replaced by a single, stalwart placard: “Hell Snow, We Won’t Go!” Tents are explicitly forgiven by Brookfield Properties, which owns the park — but that hasn’t stopped the protestors. “People are doing what they can, they’re going to bring in tents,” said Robert Silva, a 37-year-old recording engineer from Brooklyn. “This is snow, it’s not going to kill us. What they’re doing to us will kill us. What they’re doing to our world.” (more…)

Vice President Joe Biden turned a dinner speech to Florida Democrats
at Walt Disney World into a pep rally Friday night, blasting Republicans
as obstructionists with whom he said the administration can no longer
work.
Biden knocked Republicans for blocking President Obama‘s American Jobs Act, for “playing roulette” with the federal deficit ceiling and standing in the way of other Obama initiatives, from Wall Street reform to health-care reform to the end of the Iraq occupation.
Biden said he and Obama tried for 2 1/2 years to sit down with Republicans and now he
concludes, “This is not your father’s Republican Party.” “It’s time to stand up. It’s time to fight back,” Biden bellowed to a cheering crowd of more than 1,000 people at the Florida Democratic Party annual convention at Disney’s Contemporary Resort. “We are looking for this fight.” (more…)