(I'm late getting this up. Sorry but the last couple of days have been frantic.)

Welcome to Thursday Coffee Hour. This is an open topic thread so help yourself to the goodies and sit a spell and let us know what is new with you. With the weather changing it becomes soup season in my house. I have so many different recipes for soup I thought I'd post this in two parts. More Soups will be coming up during Sunday All Day Brunch.

Only a bailout can save Deutsche Bank

(hey, what's with the photo editor? is it me? I can't upload the open thread photo)

Shaz and I split the Thursday Open Thread. Whoever's not as busy gets to do it. Well we're both busy now!

Blowing the Whistle on Torture

Yesterday afternoon I cycled by the google news, to learn what it had determined was then most Real, and Important. And there I encountered this headline:

Texas Lawyer In Nazi Uniform Opens Fire At Strip Mall, 9 Injured

Yep, I thought, that about sums it up: the Americans, these days. Wanna-be Nazis. Dishinged law-jockeys. Uniforms. Shootings. Strip malls. Hurt people.

Certainly explains what would be occurring, among the Americans, in several hours hence: the debate between The Mad Bomber, and The Hairball. For no decent, civilized nation, would it throw up those two, as the finalists, to be the president. But a nation where Lone Star barristers bedecked in Adolf-wear shoot up people at strip malls—that nation, surely, could.

Extraterrestrials, surveying all the Americans, never would they select such creatures—The Hairball, and The Mad Bomber—as the best the denizens of the land-mass could produce. But, the Americans did.

The Hairball, he did not receive the majority of the votes, in the Republican primaries, but he certainly hauled in by far the most. While over in the Democratic version, The Mad Bomber—so sorry, but it's true—outpolled The Cranky Brooklyn Deli Man, by some three million votes.

These two—The Hairball, The Mad Bomber—they are what that decided minority of the Americans, who participated in the primaries, presented to all the Americans, as the two, who might best be the president.

Thing 1. Thing 2.

Yee. Haw.

We'z a diverse group!

Hello everybody!

It's been a while since I hosted a live blog and despite my better judgement I am going to watch the debate tonight, and rant my butt off most likely, with everyone here.