Watering Hole: Monday, January 23, 2012 – Algae

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When a friend of mine, Dave, was serving in the Pennsylvania State House, he explored the possibility of using algae to create fuel.  Since the state has many power companies fueled by coal, he submitted proposals to set up the algae fuel generation next to the power plants.  Whenever we would get together with a group of friends and if Dave mentioned algae, someone would shout, “take a drink”   :)   Dave was proud of the work that he did in promoting algae for fuel so he often spoke about it.

This is an interesting talk about algae as a fuel source.

This is our Open Thread.  What’s your opinion?  Speak Up or Drink Up or do both!

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  2. This was well south of me, but the sirens went off about 2:15am when the squall line came through here. This kind of storm is normal for late March or April, but January? Also, late night storms don’t usually have the intensity this one had.

    Tornadoes Hit Alabama Overnight

    “This looks like it is either going to be a couple of long track tornadoes or one storm producing a number of tornadoes,” said Jim Stefkovich, chief meteorologist at the Birmingham office of the National Weather Service.
    Damage has been reported in Tuscaloosa, Perry, Chilton, Shelby, Talladega and Jefferson counties, Stefkovich said.
    “We won’t know the extent until daylight,” he said..

  3. NRO’s Mark Steyn unloads on the Romney candidacy:

    “Why is the stump speech so awful? “I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that’s the America millions of Americans believe in. That’s the America I love.” Mitt paid some guy to write this insipid pap. And he paid others to approve it. … Mitt’s generalities are awfully condescending: The finely calibrated inoffensiveness is kind of offensive. And what’s with the wind up? The “shining city on the hill”? That’s another guy’s line – a guy with whom you have had hitherto little connection other than your public repudiation of him back in the Nineties. Can’t any of his highly paid honchos write him a campaign slogan that’s his own and doesn’t sound in his mouth so cheesily anodyne, as if some guy ran a focus-group and this phrase came up with the lowest negatives?”

    The GOP hates their choices, eh?

    • Dr Mad Dog….
      Former Senator Man-on-Dog
      Former Governor Dog-on-car
      and
      Former Speaker Man-on-Woman-on-Woman-on-Woman

      South Carolina’s ‘value voters’ were out in force eh Saturday? Nothing like voting for the philandering, lying, lobbying, ethically-challenged sociopath and heading to church to pray for a return to white America the following day…

    • To be fair to Romnoid, he never suspected he’d need a decent speech. By this time, he was supposed to be traveling through cities in an open convertible, with flags waving from every roof and a grateful populace showering him with flowers.

    • Even the “shining city on a hill” crap doesn’t belong to Ronnie Raygun.

      He stole it from John Winthrop, who said it in a sermon in 1630.

      Still aboard the ship Arbella, Winthrop admonished the future Massachusetts Bay colonists that their new community would be a “city upon a hill”, watched by the world—which became the ideal the New England colonists placed upon their hilly capital city, Boston.

      • That’s not true. Obama used his time machine (the one he used to fake his own birth records) to take great quotes from great right-wing leaders (hard not to gag when you type that) and then gave those quotes to scholars throughout the ages.

        Clearly it was a plot against right wingers by Obama.

      • That is right. It is a phrase taken from a member of the Native American killing Puritans. Today’s Fundies are just like the Puritans which is nothing to be proud about.

          • the “shining city on the hill” was the orange glow of the teepees and long house they’d just torched ‘in tha nayam-ah of Jeesus-ah, our Lord-a!”

            • After learning more about the Puritans, they don’t talk much about them in school, I’m reconsidering celebrating Thanksgiving as a day for a big meal. A better use of my time may be serving others instead at a local food/meal distribution center. Instead of celebrating the death of Native Americans, I’ll feed the poor, hungry and homeless. My oldest daughter and her family might like that, too. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

            • Cats, that should be “The acorn doesn’t fall far from the the mighty oak.” in your case!.

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  5. Algae is interesting but alas is never going to be big scale, the energy density just isn’t there. But keep the ideas coming….

  7. Newt’s BIG Ideas….

    Ezra Klein goes in search of Gingrich’s “big ideas.” Among them:

    “On Saturday’s edition of “Up With Chris Hayes,” Gary Johnson brought up an old Newt Gingrich idea I hadn’t heard before: Putting individuals who brought more than two ounces of marijuana into the United States to death. That sounded extreme, even for Gingrich. So I looked it up. And sure enough, there it is: “The Drug Importer Death Penalty Act of 1996.”

    What makes the bill even more amazing is that Gingrich himself is a confessed pot smoker. When he was young, he said, experimenting with drugs “was a sign we were alive and in graduate school in that era.”

  8. Happy Tet – Year of the Dragon!

    Cung Chúc Tân Xuân”
    (gracious wishes of the new spring)

  10. Concerned White House Aides Say Obama Has Not Stopped Laughing Since Saturday Night
    Staff Mystified by Uncharacteristic Giddiness

    WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) � White House aides are alarmed by uncharacteristic behavior on the part of President Obama, who they say has been laughing uncontrollably since 7 PM Saturday night.

    The aides, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that they heard “unusual howls” coming from the Oval Office just after the seven o’clock hour on Saturday evening, causing them to rush to the President to ascertain the cause of the uproar.

    “It was weird,” one aide said. “He was just watching cable news.”

    The staff members thought little of the normally reserved President’s giggle attack until it continued throughout the weekend, which saw Mr. Obama laughing uncontrollably and stopping only to gasp for air.

    Ever since Saturday, Mr. Obama has been oddly giddy throughout White House staff meetings, the aide said, and has been seen doodling the initials “N.G.” in the margins of memos “like a love-struck schoolgirl.”

    “The only thing we can think of that N.G. might stand for is Not Good,” the aide said. “But why would he be so happy about something that’s not good?”

    Mr. Obama’s high spirits were on evidence today in a brief White House appearance, in which the President made the following statement about the administration’s energy policies: “Going forward, the United States of America will bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha.”

      • I agree completely. She needs to focus on her recovery, and campaigning would do her no good.

        I’m talking about how the repiggies, rather than wishing her well and being shocked at the fact that she was almost assassinated, began almost immediately to demand her resignation from Congress.

        • Yeah, I understood what you were referring to. The Repubs are awful people. My closest neighbors are Repubs and they are the most unhappy people that I have ever met. The men will talk to me but their wives are real bitches, won’t even give me eye contact.

        • There was a vile troll at the local paper who was obsessed with the idea that Ms. Giffords should be dragged out of office because she would repeal the 2nd Amendment.

  13. Supreme Court rules search warrant needed to track suspects with GPS devices..

    In a decision written by Justice Antonin Scalia, the high court ruled that placing a GPS device on a car to track a suspect requires a warrant under the constitution’s Fourth Amendment, rejecting the government’s argument that the practice does not amount to a search. The decision came in a drug trafficking case out of Washington, D.C.

    • I have no legal training, as we all know, but I would have guessed that the Conservatives on the Court would have reasoned that the police can do anything that would have been possible had they theoretically had an infinite amount of manpower and money. In theory, they could station a cop on every street corner and watch your car go from place to place. Since they could do that without a warrant, they shouldn’t need a warrant to have a device do the same thing.

      But that’s just my ill-informed legal opinion. I am glad they said a warrant was needed.

  14. Thom Hartmann has this dope on his radio program who totally supports the corporations are people bullshit. I didn’t hear the whole conversation, be he seems to be saying that individuals have the right of free speech, but if they are involved with an entity like a corporation, they should also have the right of free speech via that entity.

    To me, that means some people have double or triple free speech, unlike most of us who are not involved in corporations. Maybe I’m full of crap on this, but that seems to be what these “corporations are people” lunatics are saying.

  15. Intrade’s current bet on Obama’s re-election: 55 percent, up five since South Carolina.

    Heh.

  17. I am worried though that Republicans will fall in line behind Newt, because they do that. United in their hatred of Obama, could we actually see a President Newt and FL Calista? Shudder.

    • Republicans will fall in, fall down or fall around a candidate eventually. Until then it’s just entertainment.
      What matters is that we maintain our vigilance, vote, and do whatever it takes to re-elect President Obama in November.

    • President Newt and FL Calista? Shudder.

      No. No. No!
      Should this come to fruition I’ve instructed the cat to, please, put me out of misery!

  19. OK, I’ve been wondering this for awhile now… Who is stiffer? Al Gore or Mitt Romney?

    • That’s their $100 billion, that they have no need to spend when they can bamboozle the American public into paying for a war. With fabrications of WMD’s, mobile chemical weapons labs, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc…

      • the zoo is a well-oiled team, sometimes the lines of argument emerge as if from a shared consciousness…

  21. At the next Republican debate, whoever the moderator is should just go ahead and ask Newt another question that will offend him.

    “Mr. Gingrich, you have said publicly that your patriotism drove you to marital infidelity. Can we assume then that if you have, in fact, been faithful to your third wife, that you don’t feel as patriotic as you did before?”

    Of course, I could narrow that down to 140 chars (or less) and submit it via Twitter should that option beopen. :)

    • Brian Williams is pretty sharp and he’s from New Jersey. I hope Newt goes after him. Brian has held his own with Jon Stewart & David Letterman I bet he can handle Newt.

    • It is, indeed, a disgusting story. I would also be willing to bet that the perp thinks he, she, or they are being persecuted simply because people with different ideas are allowed to exist.

    • I just saw that story and am so mad I can’t even type. This show exactly what vile creatures Republicans are. The same assholes that believe in shooting wolves.

    • Sitting on my lap, as I read this, is “Mel” the cat.
      Sadness – at the act and that there are those who have no compunction to perpetrate such an act upon a pet.

      • I won’t look. I don’t want to know.

        I’m trying to put together my next column, which I have to submit by tomorrow afternoon. I was focusing on Newt’s many hypocrisies, but now I’m torn, after finally looking up who Saul Alinsky was and why Newt paints him as such a bogeyman.

        • Awhile back I broke down and bought a copy of Rules for Radicals, figuring anyone who could make conservatives whine and moan that much had to be pretty cool. I thumbed through it but it sits on the stack of unread titles.

    • They do forget the interwebbing tubes can be preserved and expose the content they wish to dismiss as “not their doing”.

  26. Apparently these weathermen are ignorant of the simple fact that the Earth’s temperature has been above average for 35 consecutive years. As for the guy who claims that the globe has been cooling? He obviously hasn’t ever bothered checking the data from any nationally or internationally accredited source for climate data.

    http://thinkprogress.org/green/2012/01/23/408612/denier-weathermen-lash-out-at-forecast-the-facts-campaign-blacklisting-sht-website-gestapo/

    • Speaking of weather…

      Finally, on 1/23, we have snow cover! We got a few inches and there’s no visible grass for the first time this winter. It is, however, thin enough that the winter geese can still graze.

    • Newt is so damn tiresome – disgraced Speaker will NEVER be President. (I can’t even imagine him conducting foreign discussions with other heads of States. He’d stop proceeding to chide the media)

      • I certainly hope so but, until the “librul media” starts calling him out and correctly identifying him as “disgraced” and “corrupt”? I’m not willing to depend on the ethics, intelligence, and memory of the American electorate.

  28. Wow! I get Thom Hartmann on tape delay so I just heard the jerk, Steve Simpson, that Zooey mentioned earlier. He didn’t stop with his claim that corporations are people. He also tried to argue that the Constitutional freedom of the press doesn’t apply to journalists but only to those who operate a printing press. Since the printing press will soon go the way of the rotary phone; I guess that, in Mr. Simpson’s view, there will soon be no one actually protected by the 1st Amendment.

    • Ohhhh! That’s what he was saying about the printing press! I only heard about half of that statement, and wondered what he was getting at. That is completely ridiculous! He must think the Founding Fathers were pretty damned stupid, if he can let somehting like that out of his ignorant face.

      • That’s the thing that might bother me the most about the Reich-wing “constitutional experts”. The Founding Fathers were pretty smart guys. They managed to say exactly what they wanted in a document that, despite a little archaic language, is still a marvel of clarity and simplicity. Then we have the countless volumes of the Fathers’ other writings that explain any areas of doubt in minute detail.

        These creeps, like Simpson, are common liars of the worst kind. I would love to see him explain to Thomas Paine that those who owned the printing presses were protected but he, Paine, is going to jail for his revolutionary ideals.

  29. If anyone can stand it: the clown-fest continues..

    January 23, 2012 9pm ET/8pm CT and 9pm PT on NBC – Live Stream (Live stream from 9pm to 10:30pm ET only)
    Location: University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida
    Sponsor: The Tampa Bay Times, NBC News, the National Journal and the Florida Council of 100
    Participants: Romney, Gingrich, Santorum, Paul

      • Exactly. And, just like a 3-year old, unless said 3-year old is throwing fire bombs the best course of action is, almost always, to just ignore them until they get tired of screaming and fall asleep.

    • I’m not so sure. Iranians have had 20 years of not being shot at by anyone …. all it takes is one committed dude in an explosive speedboat and Iran is not short of committed dudes….. speedboats maybe…. but I doubt it.

      • I suppose the first one might get through but, as demonstrated by the recent examples of the navy rescuing Iranian mariners, the next ones probably wouldn’t even reach full speed before interception. The Straights are, arguably, the most carefully monitored seaway on the planet. And that doesn’t even consider the simple fact that Iran wouldn’t exist very long if they stopped exporting oil.

        • Its not going to take much to disrupt 25% of the oil moving about and with the supply/demand situation tighter than Madonna’s forehead right now …. it’ll be $200 oil in heartbeat if just one supertanker get’s hit in the Straights. And if the Saudis get pulled in, the Ras Tanura terminal gets a couple of ground-to-grounds and that’s it – global recession ….

          Severely disrupting the Straits doesn’t take a blue water navy. The Hezbollah were still lobbing missles after weeks of Israeli search-and-destroy in a much smaller area…

          • Analagous siutation – the North Koreans have South Korea by the short and curlies by embedding lotsa artillery in the mountains 10 miles from Seoul….

  31. Good ol’ Newt. He’s really making a case that, at least when dealing with him, assuming “innocence until proven guilty” is a bad idea. Why, why, why can’t anyone in the major market “librul media” bring themselves to call this corrupt old freak out? Heck, even leave cable “news” out of it. The only words that anyone from ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS should ever use to describe him are “corrupt”, “unethical”, and “disgraced”. Instead? They insist on treating him like an honored elder statesman.

    http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/01/23/409602/gingrich-tax-dodging/

    • Putting a call out for forensic accountants —
      needed to swim through the $$$ of Mitt and Newt!

    • Rep Mad Dog and Fmr Sen Man-on-dog may profit from sticking in the race. If they can garner enough delegates to be a Kingmaker …..

  35. I just heard a brief clip of Rand Paul whining about being forced to follow the same procedures as everyone else at the airport. Based on said clip, I predict that he will use it as an excuse to crusade for profiling. He already said that there should be “special rules” for frequent fliers but I have a feeling he doesn’t mean frequent fliers of Arab and/or Muslim heritage.

    • He’s also sure that the TSA rigged the scan to provide a false positive just so they could pat him down. Because that’s everyone’s secret desire: to fondle a crazy person.

      • I thought is was a case of “big government librul communist fascists” trying to keep a paragon of libertarian virtue away from his vital work.

        (Note. I tried to channel the Paulites but I wouldn’t recommend it. It hurts and now I have to read some Plato to remind myself what logic looks like.)

  36. An example of how far TIA (Total Information Awareness, brainchild of John Poindexter and DARPA) has gone:

    I needed quarters to do the laundry, and having a $20.00 bill, I decided to go into a local bank to get some change.
    After asking for change, the first question was “Do you have an account here?”
    “No”, I replied, the teller then asks me for my name. After looking at her slightly askance, I gave her my name. Next she asks me for my telephone number. I kinda laughed, and said “You need my name and telephone number just to get change for a 20?”
    She said, well, never mind…
    Now follows a full minute as she busily pecks away at her computer keyboard.
    I said nothing, patiently waiting. She finally counts out the change, and I said “Oh, can I please get a quarter for these two dimes and a nickel too?”
    The teller actually scowled at me, and began again to busily peck away at the keyboard before finally giving me the quarter.
    I said “Isn’t this is a little ridiculous? Name, telephone and all this computer data recording, just to get change for a 20?” She acerbically replied “I have to keep track of all of my denominations SIR.”
    Oh, and she never even actually looked at the 20 dollar bill the whole time. It could have been a candy bar wrapper for all of her total awareness.

  37. More personal Gummitch information: Over the last year or so, my trips taking Dad to medical appointments has meant hearing a lot about him and his family that he’d never shared when I was younger. The little tidbit that surfaced today taught me that his family, which is still in and around Nottingham were all coal miners. His grandmother refused to let her son (his dad) go down into the pits but instead sent him to school where he became the first family member to learn to read.

    With his education he was able to avoid mining for ever and ended up designing lace in a bobbin factory where, presumably, he met my grandmother.

    I’ve always know I came from working class stock, but this is about as working class as one can be.

  39. Newt pretends he’s not “Washington establishment.”

    Still trying to take credit for Bill Clinton’s accomplishments. He voted against or collaborated with Democrats on all those votes.

  40. Mitt pretends like he had to work his way up the ladder at his first job.

    Olympics stuff.

    Why not mention your stint as Gov of Massachusetts, Mittens? :lol:

  41. ANCHORAGE, Alaska – “An 85-year-old Alaska woman used a grain shovel to fend off an agitated moose that was stomping her husband. George Murphy says his wife saved his life.
    The Anchorage Daily News, says the 82-year-old pilot, who flew for three decades for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, was hiking with his golden retrievers near the Willow airport on Friday. He saw the moose and dove in the snow, but the moose started stomping him.
    His wife, Dorothea, who is 5 feet tall and weighs 97 pounds, grabbed a big shovel from the back of their pickup truck and hit the moose in the body and head.”

    I’m assuming the golden retrievers sat back with their tails wagging and that stupid tongue lolling grin they have. “Gee, this is fun!”

    • I saw a story to that effect yesterday. If nothing else, that should damn the “librul media” for all eternity. Any source that runs that claim should then editorialize with a simple; “that, of course, is simply untrue”.

    • NBC decided it’ll wait until 9p (PST) to show the replay.
      It’s only live-streaming from 9p-10.30p (EST).

  48. Callista did Newt’s hair. It looks the same color as hers now. So where’s the curl?

  49. Mittens deftly sidesteps questions about what we’ll find in his 2010 taxes, to taxes on the little people.

    Eliminate the tax on savings? PLEASE!! How much taxes do we actually pay on a dollar $2.98?

    • He should also be hauled out by security and fired on the spot for failing to challenge Newt’s little fantasy. It’s not an opinion, it’s not a partisan attack, it is an objective fact that Newt was forced to resign by his own party. That’s why I just can’t watch TV “news” any more. They never, ever, call liars “liars”.

  51. Mittens, thinks he made his money the old-fashioned way, he EARNED it?

    And he thinks that people who make under $200,000 have shitloads of investments and capital gains, on which, in his fantasy scenario, we should pay zero taxes? Oy!

      • Ya know, if I hadn’t been working for a freaking psychopath, I might still be working at my first real job, in the harness horse insurance business. I really enjoyed it, and I was making decent money. Unfortunately, I can only compare my boss back then to the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland – very overblown, dramatic, and definitely schizophrenic. Also, it was a family-owned business – mom, dad, son and, at times, one daughter or another all worked there, with only a couple of us non-family-members employed there – not much chance of upward-mobility,

  53. Newt’s trying to use body language to diminish Mittens.

    But Mittens usually manages to shoot himself in the foot.

  56. Newt is running as a saint — and I think he truly believes whatever he’s saying at the moment.

    I like that Mitt keeps going at him, and in a fairly cool manner. That’s different.

  57. Mittens actually got Newt to stammer. That counts as a plus in my book. Brian Williams should just leave and retire. Does anyone know what a bus ticket from Minnesota to NBC’s offices in New York would cost? I would really like to spit in his face and kick his bosses’ collective asses.

  58. Santorum has a good idea about deducting losses from the sale of a house — but there need to be strict limits on that sort of thing. I can see slum lords and millionaires all over the country benefiting from that little scheme.

  60. All of them: “Fannie, Freddie, Dodd-Frank, over-regulation, and Obama did it. Let the economy hit bottom so that everyone without a trust fund can restart from scratch.”

    Of course, neither they nor Mr. Williams has even mentioned that, just in the last week, there’s been a lot of good news on the economic and employment fronts.

  61. I think one of the biggest lessons we need to ram home with THE PEOPLE of this country, is that government is OF, BY, and FOR the PEOPLE.

    Government = people

    When these clown denigrate government, they are denigrating the people of this country.

  63. Nice, Mittens. Playing the death of a person for laughs. And good on the audience for laughing at the appropriate moment. (spit!)

  66. How do you influence a country with whom you have had no formal relations for fifty years? Of course you have to relax the policy.

  67. Newt says Castro won’t be meeting his maker, he’ll be “going to the place.”

    Maybe Newt and Castro can get to know each other after they’re both gone…

    • Perfect cell mates.

      Of course, Paul is the only one who realizes that Castro has never suffered a bit from our policies while the common people of Cuba have suffered greatly.

  70. Do the people of Cuba WANT a democracy?

    Why do repiggies go into hysterics over Cuba? It’s ridiculous. We friggin’ trade with CHINA.

  73. Man-dog Boy channels Batscat Bachmann. Cuba is building missile sites for Hamas.

    If I said the same thing standing at the bus stop I would probably spend 72 hours in a psych ward.

  74. Mittens gets off on a huge military — bigger than it is now.

    Of course, he’s probably a war profiteer of the first water.

  77. The way that these freaks talk about other nations I think that, If I saw a mushroom cloud in the distance, my reaction would be; “I can’t really blame them”.

      • Bingo!

        Bush proved one thing to all these other countries. Have no WMD’s, and you can be invaded. Have WMD’s and you won’t be invaded.

        Which is why it’s safe to conclude that Bushco knew all along that Iraq had no WMD’s; otherwise it would have been a fool’s errand to invade it, and force Saddam to use them.

  78. I really wish Ron Paul wasn’t such a fucking nut job, because some of his foreign policy stuff does make sense.

    But then there’s all the rest of his shit…

  80. Hermann Goering once said:

    Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship. …voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.[

    I think ol' Hermann would feel right at home on that stage.

  81. Does Gingrich think the Iranians think Obama is weak? When he has assembled the most damaging set of sanctions and covert war on the country since 1979?

    • Not to mention that he’s demonstrated a will to actually assassinate legitimate threats to the U.S. and the world. I’m pretty sure that the leaders of Iran sleep in very deep bunkers. If not? They are crazier than the “librul media” thinks they are.

      • I’m scared of Obama – he did what Chimpy never did – assassinate US citizens…

    • When was the last time Iran downed a US airplane …..? Oh wait ….. the US shoots down their passenger planes….

  85. Man-dog boy is making stuff up about Iran again. Is he going to wave around an alleged classified document in front of the cameras, again, to try and prove his points?

  86. The bad economy was caused by a spike in oil prices in 2008?? HUH???

    Oh Ricky, we have some lovely parting gifts for you….

    • The bad economy was caused by Clinton de-regulating the banking industry…
      Sorry Bubba, but you suck.
      Well, you didn’t….

    • The obscene profits of the energy industry are the only thing that enabled them to claim we weren’t in a recession for so long. He also neglected to mention that it was REPUBLICAN FOREIGN POLICY that was largely responsible for those record high gas prices.

      On a related note: I expect that gas prices will break those record in the fall of 2012 because there’s a black Democrat in the White House.

      • Gas has been (stabilized) below $4.00 long enough, you can bet on it!
        It don’t matter the politics, the oil barons will get their score.
        I predict $4.10 average this time next year. Republican or Democrat.

  88. Newt is neutered without a crowd hungry for applause lines and visceral overstatement.

  94. I don’t have enough booze to watch any more of this. The fact that anyone can possibly think these freaks are qualified to be president just makes me want to cry. Or break stuff.

  95. I don’t like Santorum’s nose. But I can’t decide if it’s because it’s so pointy or because he keeps putting it in everyone’s business.

  97. I hate it for Mitt, but the Joint Launch Alliance is expanding the private sector in space travel, which is what cons usually think is good. It’s sure creating jobs in my area!

      • Yeah, you’re not the only one.

        The previous liberal columnist for our paper did a piece about how all kinds of drugs, from pot to heroin, can be found any day of the week here in Pawling. Aaarggh! Where???

          • The previous columnist was railing against the hard-core stuff combined with alcohol, which appears to be a problem for teens here. He wasn’t condemning the occasional/recreational adult pot smokers. I’m guessing that I missed some news about local kid(s) deadly combination of alcohol and coke or heroin.

  98. Hahahaha … just saw a commercial for MTP with David Gregory… he actually says: “someone’s gotta hold them accountable.” Well, that sure ain’t DG.

  103. Decisions should be between a person and their doctor… shaky ground… that’s what women want for their own bodies.

  105. Newt has finally found a reason for a judge to exist – to keep people alive for ever.

  106. Once again, they are ignorant of the JLA, which has approved a version of the Atlas rocket for human rating so we can do our own trips to the space station without the Russians. It’s already in the works, under Obama!

  109. Newt hasn’t been angry tonight and has lost his mojo. Without anger, he is oddly small.

  112. Ron, they won’t cut overseas spending because once you get the money out of the country, it’s easier to steal it!

  114. One of the questioners — local journalist — asked the question of Santorum’s participation in his part of coming down to Florida and imposing himself into it.

    • Simple “border state nuisance” issues.
      Take any given state in the US, and they don’t like anyone from elsewhere, especially anyone who can get there on the weekends.
      examples:
      “Why is it always windy in New Mexico? ‘Cause Texas sucks and Arizona blows”
      “Welcome to Oregon. Now go Home”

  115. A throwback debate — rather sedate and polite and no hooting and hollering from the peanut gallery.

  116. Mitt’s first job was at the bottom level of a consulting firm in 1970. That was his first job?

    • I still wonder if there isn’t a clause in Daddy Romney’s will that would cost Mittens a butt load of money if he renounced his Mormon faith. Let’s face it. This race would probably be over if Mittens belonged to one of the Reich-wings approved branches of Christianity. He’s known it’s a huge disadvantage since the day he first started dreaming of public office and, given his “fluid position” on just about everything else, I can’t believe he sticks with it out of conviction.

        • I don’t like or admire Mittens but I wouldn’t go that far. The weird part is that, if one actually looks at his record as Governor, he’s more like Clinton without the sex scandals. I could imagine myself voting for the Mittens who was Governor of Massachusetts but the candidate is just another creep who has been forced by the GOP insanity to renounce everything that sane people would call his best qualities.

  117. And I presume Newt’s Super PAC will meanwhile open up various cans of whup-ass on Romney.

    • Although I’d have preferred him to name names. every GOP congress that could and every GOP president since George Bush the Smarter …. *and* Barack Hussein Obama, the most tax cuttingest Democratic president in history since Kennedy? (fact check on aisle Terry!)

  119. I didn’t even make it through the whole “debate” and I’m still exhausted by the process of calming myself enough to avoid pissing off the neighbors with the sounds of mayhem. And I will never be able to watch Brian Williams again. It wasn’t the spectacle of some of the previous “debates” but might have been harder to take for that very reason.

    I keep coming back to the same thing. Our “librul media” have simply capitulated to liars. I guess I’m showing my age but, when a public figure tells a ridiculous lie on television, the host should be free to say “that’s not true”. I realize that hasn’t been the case in a very long time. What we have seen with all these “debates” isn’t news, or even news worthy, it’s just free advertizing for truly vile people.

    • And with Citizens United, there’s absolutely no reason for them to dissuade the liars from coming or from hyping up the ‘horse race’ with sensation and no substance ….. the republic is toast

  120. BTW, I’ll definitely be live-blogging the SOTU tomorrow night.

    I’ll put up a special post for it. I guess I better find out what time it starts. ;)

    • I don’t have a ‘do in that hunt’ I’m afraid. Last one I watched was Chimpy’s pack of lies in 2003.

      I still remember the chill I got when he said words to the effect of: “The British say that Saddam is trying to buy yellowcake uranium from Niger”

      I knew instantly that it was a lie – it had all the hallmarks of a whopper and I think it was instrumental in the public opinion swing to invasion.

      I don’t expect anything like that from BO – not even the Iran confrontation.

      • Of course not. Weren’t you paying attention to the candidates (spit!)? President Obama is going to tell Iran that they can do whatever they want and he, Obama, is too frightened to do anything about it. Heck! He’ll probably pledge to help them with their nuclear weapons program so that they can blow Israel off the map.

        It’s true because I heard it on NBC.

    • If this debate had been after the SOTU, that’s all they would have talked about. The CNN debate this Thursday will definitely be about that.

    • I saw that at least one GOoPer is going to boycott the speech because “it’s just going to be a campaign speech”. I would dearly love President Obama if he opened his speech with, “some of you don’t want to be here; please leave”.

  122. Whassup? Anything interesting happened? **stifles yawn and tries hard not to succumb to the urge to go get back to bed**

    • EV!! I thought everyone had gone to bed (or to be sick after the clown fest), but you’re just getting up.

      Good morning, sunshine!

    • Good Morning and Good Night! I’m trying to get on top of yesterday’s debate. From what I read it was tuned down a bit as to not wake up the Floridian Pensioners from the early evening nap.

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