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The Spectacle Blog
No, I am not referring to Obama’s performance in last night’s debate. But I am referring to the earthquake which occurred last night in New England and upstate New York which hit 4.0 on the Richter Scale. The epicenter was about 20 miles west of Portland, Maine.
I was on my way to the pool when it happened. But I didn’t feel a thing. However, about a dozen or so people came out of their houses. A couple people thought it was a big truck but then people started saying, “I think that was an earthquake.”
It isn’t the first time I haven’t noticed an earthquake. The folks at TAS HQ will remember the earthquake of August 2011 which rattled in Virginia hitting 5.9 on the Richter scale. The earthquake was felt here in Boston and as far north as Ottawa. But again I didn’t feel a thing while near the Boston Common.
Now perhaps I didn’t feel anything because I was outside on both occasions. I suspect if I was indoors I would have felt something. Well, things do come in threes.
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Simon Templar| 10.17.12 @ 3:46PM
Aaron, this was not an earthquake, it was our founding fathers rolling in their graves and a warning from their resting places. They watched the debate last night.
Al Adab| 10.17.12 @ 3:56PM
Mr. G:
You allude re the earth moving, to one of the major problems in our political life. We no longer seek competence and ability, knowledge and talent, but rather a (to borrow) "slobbering love affair" with our leaders. To expect emotional satisfaction when we need solid ability is to mislead both ourselves and the Republic.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 10.17.12 @ 4:11PM
My desk is in an office 50 feet from a spur on the Norfolk Southern Rail Road. The East Coast earthquake that rattled my building last year was less disruptive than the whistle on those trains every day.
CJW| 10.17.12 @ 7:25PM
Albert
You may have a work related hearing loss. In Pa if you hearing loss is over 10% you get some money. Check out the Delaware Workers Comp law.
Bob Grant| 10.17.12 @ 5:41PM
Ok, so I have this Candy Crowly joke I'm just dying to use but don't want to go there...trying to stay on a higher plane.
Occam's Tool| 10.17.12 @ 6:56PM
Or, perhaps, you are a "Son of Hercules, as Man as Men can Be." (Riff-rax is great.)
Occam's Tool| 10.17.12 @ 6:56PM
"Riff-Trax."
JimH| 10.18.12 @ 7:46AM
Going to the pool in New England in mid October? Manly indeed, unless the pool is indoors. BTW, Occam, do you like gladiator movies?
Tafuna| 10.17.12 @ 7:03PM
Unless it is really powerful, you have to be inside to feel a quake. When I was a boy, I returned home from a Boy Scout hike to learn that the Midwest where I lived had experienced an earthquake. I felt nothing but back home my mother felt it in the house.
Since then I've experienced a number of earthquakes, always inside. An old monastery where I was staying in Mexico abruptly shook during a quake. Once while in Bandar Abbas, Iran (pre-mullahs) my ship which was tied to the pier shook so hard that I thought we'd been rammed, but it was an earthquake. Had we been anchored not tied to the pier we'd likely not have known there was a quake.
Occam's Tool| 10.17.12 @ 7:30PM
Electoral college exam time. Looking at Rassmussen: he's got 181 sure Romney votes. It's the tossups that become interesting: the latest shows Romney with a 4 point lead in Florida, Missouri is listed as a tossup---I think it's Romney's, same as Virginia and North Carolina. That would make 248 for Romney as a base. And then things get tricky. Where to get 23 more votes?
Keep in mind that I do not think Romney will lose any McCain states, which is why I assume a win in Missouri. Virginia is going stronger for Republicans lately, and NC is NOT a swing state this year, get real. I also think the Jewish vote in Florida will surprise Obama.
New Hampshire has 4 votes, Ohio has 18, Pennsylvania has 20, Wisconsin has 10. Quite frankly, I would spend all of my time and money if I were Romney on Florida,Ohio, Wisconsin, Virginia and Pennsylvania. Again, Missouri is listed as a Romney tossup--it isn't. Akin is gaining ground in Missouri.
But I honestly think Obama is toast.
spike59| 10.18.12 @ 6:08AM
the quake was caused by 1 of 2 things:
-the Republican Presidential candidate leading a Maine congressional district for the first time since '88, or
-the 'Kennebunk ZumbaHo' dropped her implants