Dictator Gadhafi Dead

  Major party going on in Libya as word has spread that Moammar Gadhafi was killed in a major battle.

Yahoo News

Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, the most wanted man in the world, has been killed, Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril said today.

The flamboyant tyrant who terrorized his country and much of the world during his 42 years of despotic rule was reportedly cornered by insurgents in the town of Sirte, where Gadhafi had been born and a stronghold of his supporters.

"We have been waiting for this moment for a long time. Moammar Gadhafi has been killed," Jibril said at a news conference in Tripoli.

He added that the rebel government will wait until later today or Friday to officially declare what it calls a state of liberation.

The National Transition Council earlier today said that its fighters found and shot Gadhafi in Sirte, which finally fell to the rebels today after weeks of tough fighting. Rebels now control the entire country.

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A 1%er That’s Human

 

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I am the 1%. I'm with the 99%. If the boat sinks, we all drown.

By plf515              Tue Oct 18, 2011

By any rational standard, I am the 1%.

I'm with the 99%.

But there's a rhetoric out there, among some. There's a rhetoric saying that it's the rich versus the poor. Or the 1% vs. the 99%.  It's not. Not everyone who is rich is a jerk; and some people who are poor are jerks. I'm guessing that the guy holding up the sign "keep government out of my medicare!" was not part of any elite.

But the 1%. Well, I'm not close to the top of that 1%. Alan Grayson is a lot closer. He's worth tens of millions, and he's a BIG OccupyWallStreet supporter. 

Ever hear of Mohammed El-Erian? He's Wall Street if anyone is. He's CEO of an asset management company called PIMCO. He wrote an Op-Ed for Huffington post in support of OWS.

Because some of us 1% are smart enough to realize that if the boat sinks, we all drown. 

And some of us are decent enough to know that people everywhere deserve a certain standard of living, that no one should be hungry and no one should be homeless and no one should die because they don't have health insurance and you shouldn't be able to deny someone water because they don't have the right papers.

Some of us know that the class warfare was started by the conservatives, and that they are mad because we're demanding a ceasefire.

It's not the 99% vs. the 1%.  It's the 99% vs. the portion of the 1% that are shmucks.

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