Althouse: At the Thursday Night Café...

April 17, 2025

At the Thursday Night Café...

... you can talk about whatever you want.

26 comments:

rhhardin said...: I didn't see Star of Bethlehem this year owing to a changed bicycle route.; 4/17/25, 5:44 PM
NKP said...: Can someone convince me that the acts of J-6ers were more of an insurrection than the actions of federal district judges?; 4/17/25, 5:50 PM
Iman said...: 🚨🚨🚨Scumbag Alert!!!🚨🚨🚨

https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1912917999654223957; 4/17/25, 5:56 PM
Iman said...: RIP Jed the Fish…

https://variety.com/2025/music/news/kroq-dj-jed-the-fish-dies-dead-69-1236369039/; 4/17/25, 6:07 PM
Big Mike said...: @Iman, I’d have a hard time sending anything but disrespect in the direction of a man who provided such poor moral guidance to his son. Did he stop at five Commandments and not get to #6?; 4/17/25, 6:40 PM
Iman said...: This guy is a piece of work, Big Mike:

“Hold up -- this spokesman for track meet murderer Karmelo Anthony was indicted in 2019 for assaulting his girlfriend, and convicted in 2009 for shaking another girlfriend's 2-year-old kid.”

https://x.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1912937279703888121; 4/17/25, 6:57 PM
Paddy O said...: Jed the Fish DJed for a junior high dance during my 8th grade year in 1988. Big catch for us out in eastern LA county. I'm surprised they didn't mention it in the obituary. Probably a career low for him.; 4/17/25, 7:31 PM
Paddy O said...: I was never really a KROQ guy, but I was in the minority. So many I knew were obsessed with it. Lots of nostalgic mourning going on by 50 yr olds on Facebook this week.; 4/17/25, 7:32 PM
Paddy O said...: Big Mike, at first I was really wondering what you knew about Jed the Fish that I didn't. Then I realized Iman had posted an earlier link. I mean he was a LA DJ, so I wouldn't have been too surprised, but it's not like he was Ryan Seacrest.; 4/17/25, 7:34 PM
Paddy O said...: I kid about Ryan Seacrest. I used to commute to and from seminary daily into Pasadena in the late 90s and early 2000s and listened to him every afternoon on Star 98.7 during the inevitable afternoon traffic; 4/17/25, 7:37 PM
Iman said...: Good times and great music, Paddy O! KMET (little bit o’ Heaven, 94.7… KMET tweedle dee!), KLOS and KROQ. Great DJs... Jed, Steven Clean, Jimmy Rabbit, Jim Ladd, Frazer Smith (Shecky! Get the jet!) and so many others. I grew up (some will say different) down in OC and enjoyed the music scene in SoCal, in general; 4/17/25, 8:28 PM
Iman said...: KROQ and DJ/scenester Rodney Bingenheimer were very big from the late 70s through the 80s.; 4/17/25, 8:46 PM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: Judge Wilkinson calls out the administration and trump on their scumbaggery over-the-

El Salvador bullshit case and says trumps lawlessness is absurd.Right wing 80 year old conservative supposedly renowned in those circles says trump is lawless and a stain on the presidency.Try not to hold it in judge !; 4/17/25, 9:30 PM
Caroline said...: Winsome expression of the Triduum, @Althouse.; 4/17/25, 9:44 PM
Big Mike said...: @John Henry (aka Darkisland), I see your island is dark once again.; 4/17/25, 10:30 PM
HistoryDoc said...: Drinky Dau Colt 45 sthinks Trump is a lawless stain on the Presidency; 4/17/25, 10:33 PM
Jupiter said...: I am waiting to see a "journalist" asking Lettucia James whether lying on a mortgage application is a "serious crime".; 4/17/25, 11:15 PM
Jupiter said...: "the El Salvador bullshit case". I have to admit, Dink, that sums it up nicely. I guess I would ask, do you feel that this case is about your right to have gangsters imported into my country, or about the gangsters' right to be imported?; 4/17/25, 11:19 PM
Wince said...: Judge Wilkinson fails to address how is it not entirely a matter of Salvadorian sovereignty whether Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen, is released from a Salvadoran jail. That omitted constraint explains why SCOTUS used the term facilitate rather than effectuate when addressing the Trump administration's obligation. Nevertheless, the district and now appeals courts conflate "facilitate" to entail pressuring a foreign government to follow the courts' edicts, which clearly intrudes on how the Executive conducts foreign policy.

Neither does Wilkinson explain how being a citizen of El Salvador leaves Garcia "without recourse to law of any sort" in the El Salvadoran courts.

Wilkinson...
Today, both the United States and the El Salvadoran governments disclaim any authority and/or responsibility to return Abrego Garcia... We are told that neither government has the power to act. The result will be to leave matters generally and Abrego Garcia specifically in an interminable limbo without recourse to law of any sort.; 4/17/25, 11:52 PM
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wendybar said...: This will be run during election season....
Nayib Bukele

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Now that he’s been confirmed healthy, he gets the honor of staying in El Salvador’s custody 🇺🇸🤝🏼🇸🇻
Nayib Bukele

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia, miraculously risen from the “death camps” & “torture”, now sipping margaritas with Sen. Van Hollen in the tropical paradise of El Salvador!🍹
https://x.com/nayibbukele/status/1913035243918864742; 4/18/25, 3:21 AM
wendybar said...: As well as this video!! The love in Van Hollens eyes for this terrorist is crazy!!

https://x.com/miguelifornia/status/1913055329241481548; 4/18/25, 3:22 AM
wendybar said...: Got this from a commenter at Legal Insurrection. Magnify and check out the MS-13 on the fingers of Van Hollens new boyfriend. For all the naysayers, why would he have MS-13 tattooed on his fingers?? Because he is just a Maryland Dad?? What a joke Van Hollen and his merry band of illegal loving Progressives are. https://x.com/MyWillowMemes/status/1913033512606687352; 4/18/25, 3:31 AM
wendybar said...: Sarah Fields
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Karmelo, as a 17-year-old, is learning that when you kill in anger, you get a new house, a new car, a full security team, and hero status. No wonder he stabbed someone. His family is celebrating him. There is no accountability.

This is where we’re at in 2025.

https://x.com/SarahisCensored/status/1912601043340550413; 4/18/25, 4:08 AM
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Hassayamper said...: Those blossoming flowers are a harbinger of morel mushroom season.

Keep your eyes peeled, Professor! I recall that back in 2011 or 2012 you posted a picture of a mess of morels you had picked, right around the time I was starting to get interested in mushroom foraging.; 4/18/25, 2:41 PM