Althouse: At the Trout Lily Café (formerly the Bloodroot Café)...

April 17, 2024

At the Trout Lily Café (formerly the Bloodroot Café)...

... you can talk all night.

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42 comments:

Original Mike said...: Our back yard is abloom in blood root right now. A few (I think 3) planted 30 years ago are now a couple of hundred all over the yard. I understand that ants are responsible.

Same thing has happened to our trout lily, but none have ever bloomed, UNTIL THIS YEAR! We have one bloom, and a second is on the way.; 4/17/24, 6:24 PM
lonejustice said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 4/17/24, 6:26 PM
lonejustice said...: It's high time for MJG to become Speaker of the House:

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/04/time-for-mtg.php; 4/17/24, 6:37 PM
Narr said...: Madame Narr has returned from her Paris excursion. Security was pretty tight everywhere--the French luggage rummagers had to be sure that the souvenir candle she bought at the Outlander con was indeed a candle and not a bomb or a dildo disguised as a souvenir candle.

Can't be too careful with 70 y.o. American women.; 4/17/24, 7:21 PM
narciso said...: https://www.ynetnews.com/article/s12lwopec; 4/17/24, 7:28 PM
narciso said...: https://shipwreckedcrew.substack.com/p/the-damnable-lie-told-to-the-supreme?r=1qo1e&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true; 4/17/24, 7:29 PM
Narr said...: That thread about the Beatles films reminded me of the old saying in the history department--each generation of historians knows more and more about less and less.

It is conceivable to me that I will listen to hours of Beatles music in the time that remains to me, but not that I will -watch- hours of them not performing . . .; 4/17/24, 7:30 PM
narciso said...: https://www.thefp.com/p/activists-plotting-to-disrupt-dnc; 4/17/24, 7:30 PM
MadisonMan said...: Good bye to Steve Lawrence. I think I liked Eydie better, but they were a fun couple to listen to.; 4/17/24, 8:13 PM
Mr. O. Possum said...: Two freighters lose power immediately ahead of bridges within about a week of each other. Two munitions factories burn within days of each other .

The question is did some hostile entity hack their engine software remotely and:or are there local saboteurs or did some entity hack the factories’ software causing the fires?

Has there been any reporting on on this?; 4/17/24, 8:16 PM
gilbar said...: Impeachment ‘Whistleblower’ Was In The Loop of Biden-Ukraine Affairs That Trump Wanted Probed
In 2019, then-National Intelligence Council analyst Eric Ciaramella touched off a political firestorm when he anonymously accused Trump of linking military aid for Ukraine to a demand for an investigation into alleged Biden corruption in that country.

But four years earlier, while working as a national security analyst attached to then-Vice President Joe Biden’s office, Ciaramella was a close adviser when Biden threatened to cut off U.S. aid to Ukraine unless it fired its top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, who was investigating Ukraine-based Burisma Holdings. At the time, the corruption-riddled energy giant was paying Biden’s son Hunter millions of dollars.

“It now seems there was material evidence that would have been used at the impeachment trial [to exonerate Trump],” said George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, who has testified as an expert witness in the ongoing Biden impeachment inquiry. “Trump was alleging there was a conflict of interest with the Bidens, and the evidence could have challenged Biden’s account and established his son’s interest in the Shokin firing.”

is Any Surprised? ANYONE?? ANY ONE at ALL?; 4/17/24, 8:38 PM
Old and slow said...: In a thread yesterday I suggested that Hassayamper had conflated two different concerts in Tempe AZ back in 1981-82. He responded with links and showed that I was entirely wrong. Mea culpa. I'm a bit shocked that I could have had it so wrong, but I did. I was at the Rolling Stones concert (albiet on drugs and drinking), but I have such a vivid memory that is obviously false. It is hard to square that circle.

Hey Hassayamper, one other thing; my father's first wife used to call the Hassyampa Hotel In Prescott AZ the Happyassy Hotel. The whole family always enjoyed that story, and I think of it when I see your name. She died in an iron lung from polio. All the best.; 4/17/24, 9:07 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: So, the jurors are asked to be impartial... and if they discern that they can't be impartial, they are removed. Who asks the Judge and the DA if they can be impartial?

What is happening to Trump is the result of a broken electoral system.; 4/17/24, 9:17 PM
Michael said...: Trout Lillie’s came and went two months ago in the Atlanta area.; 4/17/24, 9:47 PM
Jupiter said...: The largest city in China, by population, is Shanghai, with a population, according to the 2020 census, of 21,909,814. Call it 22 million.

Does the US Strategic Air Command have a plan to kill almost all of those people in a few minutes, using ICBMs with nuclear warheads? It does. Is it a written plan? It is. Is it a plausibly feasible plan? It certainly is. Does it stand ready to be carried out, with a few minutes notice, should F. Joe Biden so determine? It does. Are we NAZI Germany?

No. NAZI Germany never had a written plan to kill millions of civilians.; 4/17/24, 9:55 PM
Jupiter said...: "Two freighters lose power immediately ahead of bridges within about a week of each other. Two munitions factories burn within days of each other."

Back in the 80's, the CIA arranged to infiltrate a software agent into multiple computers involved in the Soviet petroleum pipeline system, which transported the petroleum that was essentially the only product the Soviets could sell at a profit. This agent was used to sabotage that system, at immense cost to the Soviet Union. This was done with Reagan's approval, and various members of his administration have spoken of it fairly openly, as a successful economic warfare operation against the Soviets. Aren't you glad the CIA legitimized uncontrolled warfare against economic targets in time of supposed "Peace"?

No? Well, you had better fucking well get with the program, traitor! You want your kid's balls cut off? Actually, the regime is going to arrange for your kid to get his balls cut off whether or not you get with the program. But that doesn't mean you needn't get with the program, you white supremacist.; 4/17/24, 11:10 PM
wildswan said...: I watched the President of Columbia being questioned about campus antisemitism. You couldn't but be struck by the way she claimed to be helpless. Some awful pamphlet is being passed around by the students. What can she do, she moans? She can't stop the students, can she, whimper, she whimpers. Supposedly, there is this thing called education which takes place t universities. You teach students facts, where you show students what prejudice is. You teach them what antisemitism is. But the head of the social sciences faculty at Columbia University is sure that she has no resources to combat prejudice among the students. And maybe she doesn't. Maybe social sciences at Columbia can't educate. But if there's no possibility of useful education in the social sciences at Columbia then close down the social sciences departments. If Columbia can't educate, take away Columbia's education tax exemption. Don't send any Federal research dollars to social science research at Columbia. There's plenty a university can do to educate, it's just that under the current President Columbia is not a university. It's just a place where haters gather and chant their hatreds with impunity.; 4/17/24, 11:32 PM
Jupiter said...: What goes around comes around. Back in the 80's, Bill Gates used to brag that Microsoft did not need any lobbyists in Washington. You make a good product, you sell it on an open market. You don't need to pay a bunch of slimy criminals. The slimy criminals didn't like the sound of that, and they had the thing called David Boies torture Gates into submission.

Now, I hold no brief for Microsoft, but I still think the least we can ask of a just God is that the cancer to which Boies ultimately succumbs should be prolonged, debilitating, and agonizing. PDA, for short.

But that to one side, I wonder if that is what ultimately drove Gates to become a Bond villain. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Except, if they are the most powerful organization on the face of the Earth, and they force you to eat crow, and like it ... maybe you ask yourself, "What would it take, to crush these shitsacks into the dirt, and pave them over like they had never existed?". What indeed. Some kind of "vaccine", maybe.; 4/17/24, 11:40 PM
Crazy World said...: So far this week, Trump is sitting in the dumbest case ever to be brought to trial while Biden holds hands with poor little minor props leading him around. Also Trump whooped it up in Harlem last night and is meeting with world leaders tonight at Trump Towers tonight.
This is the state of the Union.; 4/18/24, 12:00 AM
gadfly said...: With the contours of the 2024 general election now coming into clear focus, we – the undersigned national news organizations – urge the presumptive presidential nominees to publicly commit to participating in general election debates before November’s election.

No, Trump wouldn't debate his competitors in the Presidential Primaries, so he gets no free advertising space where he can "debate" by telling more lies about Biden to the American people. The President is in charge of the decision not to allow Trump to utter insults face to face, so Dumb Don can pound salt. Biden has a day job to go to and Trump has some court dates he has to attend between now and November 5.

As for the twelve media organizations, they can do better jobs by simply sipping martinis at Happy Hour.; 4/18/24, 12:25 AM
MadTownGuy said...: Google terminates 28 employees after multi-city protests

"Google terminated 28 employees Wednesday, according to an internal memo viewed by CNBC, after a series of protests against labor conditions and the company’s contract to provide the Israeli government and military with cloud computing and artificial intelligence services.

The news comes one day after nine Google
workers were arrested on trespassing charges Tuesday night after staging a sit-in at the company’s offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California, including a protest in Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s office.

Some of the arrested workers in New York and Sunnyvale, who spoke with CNBC earlier on Wednesday, said that during the protest they were locked out of their work accounts and offices, placed on administrative leave and told to wait to return to work until being contacted by HR.

On Wednesday evening, a memo sent by Chris Rackow, Google’s vice president of global security, told Googlers that “following investigation, today we terminated the employment of twenty-eight employees found to be involved. We will continue to investigate and take action as needed.”

The arrests, which were livestreamed on Twitch by participants, follow rallies outside Google offices in New York, Sunnyvale and Seattle, which attracted hundreds of attendees, according to workers involved.

The protests were led by the “No Tech for Apartheid” organization, focused on Project Nimbus — Google and Amazon’s joint $1.2 billion contract to provide the Israeli government and military with cloud computing services, including AI tools, data centers and other cloud infrastructure.

“This evening, Google indiscriminately fired over two dozen workers, including those among us who did not directly participate in yesterday’s historic, bicoastal 10-hour sit-in protests,” No Tech for Apartheid said in a statement, adding, “In the three years that we have been organizing against Project Nimbus, we have yet to hear from a single executive about our concerns. Google workers have the right to peacefully protest about terms and conditions of our labor. These firings were clearly retaliatory.”; 4/18/24, 3:25 AM
Kate said...: "No, Trump wouldn't debate his competitors in the Presidential Primaries, so he gets no free advertising space where he can "debate" by telling more lies about Biden to the American people."

The debate question isn't about Biden v Trump. It's about Bobby. As an experienced trial lawyer he can speak extemporaneously about many things with broad knowledge. Neither of the two main candidates want to get anywhere near him on a debate stage. They'll play out their little show -- should Biden lend legitimacy to Trump by debating him -- so that people are misdirected from the real concern.; 4/18/24, 4:02 AM
Tina Trent said...: Time To get reasy for the Joro invasion. Can't we make silk with that stuff?; 4/18/24, 4:12 AM
Humperdink said...: Joe Biden stated yesterday his Uncle Ambrose "Bosie" was shot down in WWII was probably eaten by cannibals. No joke. Joe's ancestors were inadvertently saving the planet before their time. Forget human composting. The cannibals, with Bosie as raw material, shortened that process by years.; 4/18/24, 5:33 AM
Humperdink said...: Joe Biden is on a foreign policy roll. Yesterday he warned the Israeli government not to move on Haifa*.

*Earth to the Biden administration, Haifa is in Israel.; 4/18/24, 6:03 AM
Iman said...: “As for the twelve media organizations, they can do better jobs by simply sipping martinis at Happy Hour.”

And with that, ‘fly buzzed on back and made a crash landing on his home base turd.; 4/18/24, 6:15 AM
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Christopher B said...: On the day Droolin' Joe tells another whopper, this time about his uncle being eaten by cannibals, not once but twice!, Gadfly tries to convince us the people directing him have some highly principled reasons for not debating Trump who, BTW, appears to have no problem making campaign moves during his trial's off hours. Amazing what you can do when you're capable of remaining upright more than 10a-3pm maybe three days a week.

Kate, apologies, but RFKjr wouldn't be allowed within a hundred miles of a debate stage even if Biden was remotely capable of participating. The only three participant debate in the modern era was the 1992 GHWB-Perot-Bill Clinton series even though there have been multiple third party candidates in all those Presidential elections, because it was a 2 on 1 against a Republican candidate.; 4/18/24, 6:22 AM
rehajm said...: Joros supposedly eat the stink bugs so they’ve got that going for them…; 4/18/24, 6:27 AM
Mr. O. Possum said...: Re: Jupiter above, he's referring to a 1982 incident in Russia where a natural gas pipeline in Siberia exploded. A former Reagan adviser later wrote that the CIA meddled with the software that controlled its pumping system. Apparently, bugs were inserted in Canada where the pumps were made and somehow activated later.

The Russians denied sabotage was the cause.; 4/18/24, 6:39 AM
Christopher B said...: footnote to my comment at 6:22a .. in 1980 Ronald Reagan debated both John Anderson and Jimmy Carter in separate appearances. Carter never debated with Anderson. No VP debate was held.; 4/18/24, 6:43 AM
iowan2 said...: Biden has a day job to go to and Trump has some court dates he has to attend

Gadfly has a great idea.

Who ever is running the RNC need to schedule a debate in Arizona for the same date as the date of the first witness testimony in the Bragg carnival. Any Candidate on the ballot will do. Dementia Joe will be invited, his refusal will be the most honest statement Joe has made in decades.

Let the Judiciary lock up a Presidential candidate for attending a debate.

Gadfly, the People thank you for your, contribution in kind, to the Elect Trump Campaign Fund.; 4/18/24, 6:54 AM
Big Mike said...: @Humperdink, @Christopher B, the reality as a bit more prosaic. According to the official records Biden’s uncle was aboard an A-20 Havoc that lost both engines and “impacted the sea hard.” Four men were on board. One managed to exit the plane before it sank. Biden’s uncle and two others did not manage to get out of the plane.

The guy doesn’t look good. I’ve seen 90 year olds who are more “with it.” I think he’s going to quietly pass away in his sleep, and the rumors will start that he was Epsteined. God knows how we’ll survive with President Harris.; 4/18/24, 7:15 AM
rhhardin said...: 2 MINUTE AGO! James Webb Telescope Recieves [sic] Alarming Signal From Andromeda Galaxy!

2.5 million years ago was before the "except after c" exception.; 4/18/24, 7:48 AM
Humperdink said...: Big Mike said: "According to the official records Biden’s uncle was aboard an A-20 Havoc that lost both engines and “impacted the sea hard.” Four men were on board. One managed to exit the plane before it sank. Biden’s uncle and two others did not manage to get out of the plane."

Biden also claimed yesterday it was a single engine plane. I wish to extend a hearty thank you to all Biden voters who gave us this guy!; 4/18/24, 7:57 AM
Rusty said...: Michael said...
"Trout Lillie’s came and went two months ago in the Atlanta area."
Our soil here must be different than Madisons. The trout lillys have just opened and the Bloodroot is just poking up through the leaf litter.

Jupiter @ 9:55. You takin' a piss, mate?; 4/18/24, 8:43 AM
Josephbleau said...: “Does the US Strategic Air Command have a plan to kill almost all of those people in a few minutes, using ICBMs with nuclear warheads? It does.”

No, but on a technicality, because the Strategic Air Command was eliminated in 1992, Now it’s the Global Strike Command.

Russia has nuclear torpedoes that can run in and sit in the harbors of cities to kill millions, we are all worse than NAZIs now. But arguably mutual assured destruction has worked so far.; 4/18/24, 8:51 AM
Tina Trent said...: The trout lilies are everywhere in North Georgia, but I'm in a shady holler. I still have acres of them. Can you eat them? My paw paw experiment died. Soon, Rocco will eat all the blackberries and get fat again. I wish I had paid more attention in Geography. Who knew West Virginia wasn't south of Illinois (except, apparently, me). Who knew you have to impregnate solitary cows? I don't mean you specifically. Who knew possums can eat your eyeballs but not give you rabies?

Online (thru the Althouse portal), you can buy the entire history of the Whole Earth Catalogue on a zip drive. I have learned so much.

Once, there were constructive hippies. Where did they go? I learned how to winter over, how to use ground covers, how to stop a cracked well pipe in 20 degrees, how to make amazing springs using gravel and pvc for irrigating crops, why beavers suck, all sorts of things. Makes a great gift.

Beavers suck, by the way.; 4/18/24, 12:05 PM
Laughing Fox said...: Trout lilies or dog tooth violets??? Hybrid versions are blooming in Chicago now.; 4/18/24, 1:09 PM
Tina Trent said...: Trout lillies. I'm in the mountains.; 4/18/24, 3:37 PM
Rusty said...: Laughing Fox said...
Dog tooth violets. Had to look those up. Thanks.; 4/18/24, 4:14 PM
Rusty said...: Tina said,
"Beavers suck, by the way."
You're doing it wrong.; 4/18/24, 4:15 PM