The Watering Hole: November 12 – Open Thread

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  2. Wandering among the Olympic Peninsula tide pools I was surprised by these river otters busy with dinner. Of the varied delicacies about, I’m not certain what they were eating; but they were finding a lot of it.

    • Gathering signatures is a lot of work. I doubt any of these “activists” would get off their bar stools long enough to gather more than two names.

    • A commenter claimed Ryan’s father paid more into SS than Ryan got back in survivor benefits. I guess he doesn’t know that Ryan’s mom draws the higher of her own benefit or her deceased husband’s, when she retires.

    • I’ve looked and looked, and I can’t find one article that compares MF Global’s financial health before Corzine took over, to the current bankruptcy. All I find are right wing sites blaming him for everything Wall Street has done wrong since 2000, along with Barney Frank and Chris Dodd. This only came back up again because of the traction Occupy Wall Street is gaining with the low information voters.

      • All articles blame the Dodd, Frank, And Corzine.

        When you try to dig deeper, you get this:
        “The page you’re looking for has either been moved, replaced or is currently unavailable.”

        • I think Corzine’s ‘gamble’ was the only option to save a way too over-leveraged company that was in trouble when he took over.

  7. Last evening as I was headed out for an errand, I saw an unusual sight. There were 4 biplanes silhouetted against the darkening sky flying towards the southeast. It was quite a sight. I assume they were traveling from a Veteran’s Day celebration. It was an unexpected treat to see these old planes in the air.

      • Crop dusters get nose bleeds when they fly any higher than the powerlines.

        The flying community often perform appearances for Veterans Day and the like. I R a Pylut so, that’s probably what you saw.

        • Thanks for the verification. I have to say they were pretty cool looking. I’d never seen more than one at a time in the air like that. Pretty cool.

  9. A bit of trivia that probably means more to me than most; since Paterno is through at Penn State, Alabama will be the last team to beat him.

      • Andrew Sullivan had been a dick most of the show shoving wingnut lies in to stifle conversation. But at least he has a sense of humor.

  12. House, was the work week all you expected and did you get into the swing of things right away?

    Happy Weekend!

    • It was all right. I’m having a little leg and foot pain, which I expected. The work wasn’t a problem, from Tuesday on I was on a job with a 20 minute cycle, which is really easy. I noticed they don’t have a full-time programmer, so I will probably be doing my own unless I get a job that’s a repeat. It’s really like I never left, except that some of the people are new to me. I’m liking that short drive to work, in the morning especially.

  14. Quote of the Day:

    “In no other country would Herman Cain be taken seriously in a way that would take up the time and the attention of serious decision-makers. What Cain traffics in is that he’s glib and he loves attention. The media also traffics in glibness, so it’s a match made in hell.” — Robert McClure, a professor of media and politics at Syracuse University.

  15. On the west coast there could be a bit of a dilemma:

    Red vs Green being played on a 100 yd field (5p PST)
    or
    Clown-fest in South Carolina (5p PST)

  16. On the Twitter, I told Eric Boehlert that Andrew Breitbart was a frightened little man whose biggest fear was that he would be ignored. Breitbart responded to me by saying, “I am frightened by the shadow that lurks behind you in your avatar! Boo!” (Same avatar as I use here.)

    I won’t feed his narcissism by replying to him. :)

    • That’ll eat his insides – he needs to be relevant and your ignoring him, well, it’ll feed the paranoia!

      Wayne knows how to play the game!

  17. If you’re on the Twitter, you can submit questions for the GOP debate by using the hashtag #CBSNJdebate. So I submitted this one.

    #CBSNJdebate Several of U have said God told U 2 run for president. Y would God tell several of U 2 run 4 the same elected office?

    There’s a Facebook page through which you can also submit questions. (http://www.facebook.com/NationalJournal)

    Here’s the article telling you other options, including leaving comments on that page:
    http://nationaljournal.com/2012-presidential-campaign/submit-your-questions-for-the-cbs-news-national-journal-foreign-policy-debate-20111028

  18. Someone just tweeted this:

    @De_sack
    Don M
    @SamSeder Police to force out Occupy Portland Sat night/Sun Morning at 12, tell your minions in Oregon if you don’t mind #occupyportland

    So, if anyone in the Portland area wants to have fun getting arrested for a good cause, this is your chance. :)

    • Had to watch that twice… once to see the people and once to see the picture. Pretty cool.

  20. Frickin’ Frackin’

    “This past Saturday, a 5.6 magnitude earthquake struck the tiny town of Sparks in Lincoln County, Oklahoma. … Up through 2009, Oklahoma had averaged about fifty earthquakes a year. The total number of quakes reported in 2010? 1,047. This swift and dramatic change in Oklahoma’s vulnerability to earthquakes has some people wondering if the practice of hydraulic fracturing — or “fracking” — might be the culprit. Fracking is the process of injecting highly-pressurized fluids into the earth to break up shale and rock and release otherwise inaccessible sources of natural gas. The waste fluid is then shot back underground at sites called “injection wells.” There are 181 active injection wells in Lincoln County Oklahoma.”

  21. Burlesque-oni is done. Quit. Vamoose. Outta here.

    Herman, you’re next. God may have convinced you to run for president, but as far as I know he hasn’t convinced anyone else that you’re fit for the job.
    And that’s becoming a tired line. Shows your lack of originality.
    Ol’ what’s her name tried that one, and even though it took four long years, we may be finally free from the scourge of her screeching banalities. Maybe God was just testing her. Maybe he’s just testing you Herman, just to see how long it takes you to wise up.

      • They can discuss their experiences with beauty doctors. But silvio will have a hard time keeping up with the man stuff, you know, like shooting Tigers riding horseback barechested, beating up the wifey, …

        • Silvio can stay back at the castle, overseeing the banquet preparations and goosing the serfs.

          • Silvio has a few useful contacts to provide underage hookers for the occasion. He is the King of Sleaze.

            In the slammer with him.

    • I could never understand why Berlusconi was not out on his ear 18 months ago when the Italian economy was unmistakably in a decline. Letting that wound fester has worked against the € Zone.

  25. Great pictures. I used to think if I could be reincarnated dolphin or otter would be my choices. The more I learn about humans, I think Godzilla would be way better.

  26. Hi, gang.

    This “debate” might be the worst yet. Conspiracy theories and fables make for about the worst foreign policy imaginable. These freaks are not operating in the cause and effect universe inhabited by sane people.

  28. Republican foreign policy (outside of the obvious oxymoron) consists of invading countries with oil reserves (Look out Canada!), shipping jobs to China and the Pacific Rim and sending money to Israel. And if that doesn’t generate enough profit there is always the war on drugs to fall back on.

      • Perry stated that China will end up on the ash heap of history.

        Perhaps it will, but not before the ash heap of the United States is gone with the wind and lying as another layer of sediment on the ocean floor.

          • The scary part is that other countries might take such a statement, should one of these freaks actually get elected, the same way that said freaks react when someone in Iran says they want the colonial regime in Israel to “vanish in time”.

    • Let me guess..we should borrow money from them and spend it on more weaponry because they’re coming for us eventually?

  32. I’m getting really spotting feed on the debate and The Republicans actually make more sense if you only hear every third sentence or so.

  34. Herm” “I’d use enhanced interrogation techniques because we can’t pamper terrorists.”

    Little Ricky seconds that.

  35. Btw, I can’t see any black people in the audience … unless they’re in “the back of the bus.”

  36. Even though I can’t hear those fools, just reading about them is starting to make me feel dirty. I’m off to take a bath.

  38. “And there you have it, America. We need to invade Iran for the same reasons we invaded Iraq. Scary WMD’s. Forget that we didn’t invade North Korea when we already had a significant military presence when they developed WMD’s and nukes. The Arab Spring movement in the Middle East is bad because it wasn’t sponsored by covert US sources and is eliminating autocrats the Us has supported for years. We need to have idiots in high places who listen to nasty folk in low places running our foreign policy because that is the way it has been for years.

    And that’s the way it is.”

  39. While South Carolinians were under the assumption that they would be able to watch the entire 90 minutes of tonight’s debate, those commenting on the Lexington Patch live blog are saying several CBS affiliates in South Carolina have switched to “NCIS.” This includes stations in Columbia and Greenville. The Greenville market also includes Spartanburg, the home of Wofford College, site of tonight’s debate. Snork.

  40. Anyone catch this gem from Batscat?

    “President Obama has been more than willing to stand with Occupy Wall Street, but he hasn’t been willing to stand with Israel. Israel looks at President Obama, and they do not see a friend.”

  41. Interesting all the criticism of how the invasion of Afghanistan was handled…
    Uh, who’s watch was that?

  42. I may have reached my horsehit saturation point with this debate. In the absence of a Perry implosion, the interest factor plummets.

  44. After getting dumped last week, the Tide dated their rebound skank tonight, and won 24-7 over Miss. State. Still watching that Oregon-Stanford thing in the 4th quarter (See scoring above)

    • Stanford just fumbled to Oregon on the kickoff. Total meltdown in the 4th quarter for the redbirds!

      • oh, dear. Not watching – reading your updates.
        I saw on the news banner of the Merc-News that Cal beat Oregon state or whatever its designate is – so some California face has been saved!

  45. I’ll watch the BCS ranking show Sunday night. LSU will be number one, Oklahoma State will be 2nd, and Alabama or Oregon will be third and fourth,

    • That was a great defensive move on the b/w’s part. Adrenalin let him stand on two for quite sometime for a cat!

      The white is a big boy!

  47. weeping an gnashing of teeth

    Bachmann: CBS Tried To Marginalize Me In Debate

    Debate Co-Sponsor: Bachmann Received ‘A Fair Number [Of] Questions’

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