Althouse: At the Forest Path Café...

July 26, 2025

At the Forest Path Café...

... you can talk all night.

No sunrise today. It was raining. That's a photo from 3 days ago. Here, this is from today.

It stopped raining and we got out. Meade got me to notice the goldenrod.

24 comments:

MadisonMan said...: Morning rain means one thing: I don't have to water today! But man was it humid this morning, and mixed with some kind of mess from Canadian fires too. I was out walking and my skin felt really odd.; 7/26/25, 7:16 PM
Big Mike said...: From PowerLineblog:

“At this rate the only ones NOT
involved in Russia/Trump
collusion were Russia and
Trump.”; 7/26/25, 7:27 PM
Big Mike said...: Also from PowerLineblog:

Q What do you call a basement full
of liberals?

A A whine cellar.; 7/26/25, 7:34 PM
Aggie said...: What a lovely path. Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi said the said thing on their Friday broadcast. It appears that the "Russia Russia Russia" collusion story is all a McGuffin to distract from the cover up Hillary's private server and all of the contents of the mysterious intelligence dirt on the WikiLeaks thumbdrives.

It's the most diabolical 'Squirrel !' story ever, and it has ripped the country in half. Thank John Brennan.; 7/26/25, 7:35 PM
wildswan said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 7/26/25, 7:47 PM
Ann Althouse said...: “ , and mixed with some kind of mess from Canadian fires too.”

Yeah the air quality was officially unhealthy.; 7/26/25, 7:53 PM
Ann Althouse said...: In the morning. Later, it was fine.; 7/26/25, 7:53 PM
wildswan said...: Hello, I'm back and feeling better. I had a complication from a previous surgery and the complication developed complications. And in my anesthesia dream it seemed to me that I escaped a very dreary room, somehow and Trump abolished NPR, somehow. So anyhow, I'm better and can spell "banana" without wondering where you're supposed to stop. But I'm not strong so I'll get to it.
I read Devon Nunez's 46 page memo. It seemed to me that Obama ordered the CIA to look at whether Russia attacked the 2016 election by hacking voting machines or by favoring one or the other candidate. The CIA analysts checked out and ordered various reports in a list - from A to Z as it were - based on the level of confidence which the Russia experts had in the various reports. THey then prepared a Presidential Briefing based on the reports in which they had the highest confidence and this briefing said Russia meddled ineffectively and, as between Clinton and Trump, did not have a favorite. This Briefing was ready on December 8. But before it was presented and thus made official, it was stopped. Then there was a meeting on December 9 - Obama, Brennan, Clapper and other important minions. After this meeting the CIA was ordered to,(or,anyhow did) produce a new Presidential Briefing using the resources which had been adjudged those in which senior analysts had least confidence. And that night, December 9, before any work could have been done by the CIA, the Obama White House began leaking that Russia "aspired" to help Trump and HAD helped him as laid out in facts gathered for a Presidential Briefing soon to be published. The implication was that this was how Trump gained his extraordinary victory. This was the origin of Russia, Russia, Russia.

The question is: why on December 9 were the reports in which the CIA Russia experts had most confidence set aside in favor of those in which they had the least confidence?

And why was the Steele Dossier used when the experts thought Steele's claim to have ring of agents in Putin's office was, in terms of level of confidence, not even "low confidence"; it was ridiculous and an obvious partisan effort.

Nunes and, now, the DNI raise a question that has never been answered.

[banana]; 7/26/25, 7:57 PM
FullMoon said...: Saying the quiet part out loud.
The Epstein List has displaced most news about Russia/Ukraine and Israel/Palestine.
Coincidence, or diabolical 4d chess by Trump, Bibi, and Putin?; 7/26/25, 8:39 PM
Peachy said...: Hi wildswan. Hope you are feeling better and recovering.; 7/26/25, 8:53 PM
Sebastian said...: Question: if Obama has immunity from prosecution for official acts, can he be compelled to answer questions about his official acts on Dec. 8-10, 2016, without taking the 5th?; 7/26/25, 8:58 PM
Peachy said...: Matt Taibbi and Walter Kern - testing.; 7/26/25, 9:08 PM
rehajm said...: I’m in Lake Tahoe where apparently funding to the eco terrorists to set forest fires has dried up and/or the DC strategy groups who once pushed wild fires as support for climate money…they have given up. The air is clean and crisp and beautiful!; 7/26/25, 9:08 PM
Peachy said...: Russian Hoax has more to do with Hillary. Obama OKed it - but all of it was to cover for HER-> past illegal behavior.; 7/26/25, 9:09 PM
Peachy said...: Hillary Clinton is a Russian Asset.; 7/26/25, 9:09 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Rarely is poetic justice meted out as it has been here. The conspiracist-in-chief laid low by his weapon of choice.; 7/26/25, 9:18 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: YouTube: Manosphere extraordinaire has a take on incels “incel” – or “involuntarily celibate”; 7/26/25, 9:28 PM
Peachy said...: oops - meant to add -thanks for the notification about The podcast. Aggie.; 7/26/25, 10:08 PM
Peachy said...: colorado's roads, under democrats, have become very dangerous. So many people are being killed by illegals.
Colorado is a Sanctuary state for illegals.

A couple were hit head-on, and killed - by a driver going the wrong way on a major highway. E-470.
The driver who killed them survived and is in hospital. No charges! (Yet - or ever?) No mention of the legal status by the press or authorities.
My guess - easy guess - the person is here illegally.; 7/26/25, 10:39 PM
Peachy said...: An underage illegal teen killed a young woman in Aurora.
90+ MPH in a 40 - smashed into her and killed her.
the local Dem DA let the kid off, and promised to help the kid who used a car to commit murder, and his family, get asylum.; 7/26/25, 10:47 PM
Sebastian said...: Apologies in advance for reposting this later, but the most revealing thing about the Russia hoax declassified documents, both from Gabbard and from Grassley, is less any specific piece of information but the very fact that this stuff is what the deep-staters were so eager to keep classified.; 7/26/25, 10:53 PM
Peachy said...: The hack Soviet media(D) were so loyally invested in the Russia Russia lie. Anything for Team D.

BTW - why did Putin wait to invade Ukraine until Crook Joe was installed? Leftists cannot say.; 7/26/25, 10:58 PM
heyboom said...: Heading to Des Moines in a couple of weeks to visit family, but specifically to attend the Iowa State Fair, which I have been wanting to experience since I was there as a 10 year old. Any Iowa commenters planning on attending?; 7/26/25, 11:40 PM
Jim at said...: but the very fact that this stuff is what the deep-staters were so eager to keep classified.

Why do you think they raided his place? And tried to throw him in jail. And when that failed, tried to kill him?

Thing is, if there aren't serious consequences ... what's to stop them from doing something worse next time?

This isn't a conspiracy theory. These events actually happened. And now we have the proof of what we all suspected.

You leftists have no idea of the fire you're playing with.; 7/27/25, 12:09 AM