Althouse: Saturday, mid-October.

October 18, 2014

Saturday, mid-October.

A walk in the woods:

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Ducks, observed from a footbridge:

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Stopping for linner:

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51 comments:

chickelit said...: I "see" mainly four common chemical elements in the first two "nature" photos. The third photo introduces five more due to human activity.

What are they?; 10/18/14, 6:04 PM
pm317 said...: Love that first picture. We went for a drive on Beach and Rock Creek -- lots of yellow and not much reds and/or orange and we had linner by the riverfront ('tomato/mozzarella' and 'wedge no bacon') before the cold front started rolling in. It is going to be very cold tomorrow. I don't think Obama will be golfing.; 10/18/14, 6:20 PM
Mid-Life Lawyer said...: Drove across the middle of Mississippi and Alabama today, stopping in Birmingham. Not much color happening here yet and not much cotton.; 10/18/14, 6:44 PM
tds said...: Things you learn from recent Ann Althouse's photos:

- Wisconsin is nice at autumn
- Neighbourhood where Ann lives is of well-raised people, who, when Ebola strikes, don't panic and puke on the streets,
- Ebola doesn't kill trees
- Ebola has already killed everybody except Ann; 10/18/14, 6:44 PM
HT said...: Mid-Life Lawyer said...

Drove across the middle of Mississippi and Alabama today, stopping in Birmingham. Not much color happening here yet and not much cotton.

10/18/14, 6:44 PM

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There's cotton north of there, but really it's in the southern part of the state(s). If you are headed to coastal Miss or La, you'll drive through it. Now's the time.

RTR; 10/18/14, 6:52 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: Hey, Ann, did you even see any black people today?

You know 75% of whites have NO black friends (or as few as one - you know, the lonely black guy who "acted white" to be successful and it worked?) as they try to lecture us on how we have them, our outer and inner lives, and the rest of the entire world around us all wrong.

Attempting to convince us we're crazy, too, is apparently a white bonding strategy they find popular, if not effective,...; 10/18/14, 7:19 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: Mid-Life Lawyer,

"Drove across the middle of Mississippi and Alabama today, stopping in Birmingham. Not much color happening here yet and not much cotton."

That comment gives me chills,...; 10/18/14, 7:20 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: tds,

Things you learn from recent Ann Althouse's photos:

IT'S TIME TO PANIC!; 10/18/14, 7:20 PM
Ann Althouse said...: "Hey, Ann, did you even see any black people today?"

Yeah, right before the bridge with the ducks, there was a big park, with 2 games of flag football going on, black and white and other people too, playing together, having a great time. Sorry if that crushes the world view you're nurturing.; 10/18/14, 7:27 PM
Anonymous said...: That comment gives me chills,...

10/18/14, 7:20 PM

You must be overwhelmed with horror whenever you spot those big bags of all-white cotton balls at Walgreens.

The suffering just never ends....; 10/18/14, 7:45 PM
Michael said...: i am longing for Fall. I can almost smell the air in your pictures. I took a run through the woods today and there was a stretch carpeted with leaves but the trees still have no color and it was 75 degrees. Soon, I hope.

It is hard to believe that anyone could see these pictures and choose to bring assholery instead of thanks to the beauty there is in front of all of us.; 10/18/14, 8:00 PM
Babaluigi said...: I have lurked for many years, Ann, and I have to say that your pictures have brought me much pleasure. I am hoping that this fall brings us the vibrant colours this year (I love the European spelling for the depth it brings}, but I worry because so far, it seems like the trees are changing in little bursts on this or that branch...There are some major roads here which are entirely overhung and are an absolute joy to drive along in the spring and fall...; 10/18/14, 8:24 PM
jaed said...: What are they?

Silicone, chlorine, sodium, aluminum... what am I missing?; 10/18/14, 8:27 PM
Michael K said...: "as few as one - you know, the lonely black guy who "acted white"

Well, there's Crack with his racist bullshit. I had some black friends and even have a few acquaintances now but it is getting harder. When I was 18, my friend and I hung out in a black bar in Chicago. Most Friday nights we were the only whites in there. We would play bumper pool and there were guys lined up to play us as we were really good. That was 1956.

I wouldn't dream of doing that now.

Thanks Crack and Rev Wright.; 10/18/14, 8:27 PM
HT said...: That comment gives me chills,...

Which part?

Mississippi? Alabama? B'ham? or cotton?

And, why?; 10/18/14, 8:42 PM
MadisonMan said...: I hope your linner was ledicious.

I was in Prairie du Sac tonight, just at sunset, driving up to the bridge that's out. The bluffs on the east side of the river were illuminated although PdS was in darkness. Just absolutely beautiful hills.; 10/18/14, 8:47 PM
Meade said...: Crack, if you need to get all racial, 8 of our closest 26 neighbors are black and I doubt that more than 14 would self-identify as white.; 10/18/14, 8:53 PM
sojerofgod said...: molybdenum?

There's always some of that somewhere.; 10/18/14, 9:03 PM
Titus said...: Just saw a great indi spanish movie called Witching Bitching-10; 10/18/14, 9:05 PM
Lyle Sanford, RMT said...: To my eye, that water pic is one of your best ever.; 10/18/14, 9:09 PM
chickelit said...: Silicone, chlorine, sodium, aluminum... what am I missing?

Silicone? You meant silicon -- in the glass. Maybe there's a reflect of enhanced breasts in that photo.

But suppose that's not aluminum? (it looks too bright to my eye); 10/18/14, 9:20 PM
Meade said...: Then chromium in the stainless steel?; 10/18/14, 9:23 PM
chickelit said...: Here's a clue: it can be sucked off a bumper.; 10/18/14, 9:24 PM
Alex said...: I think the left's constant harping on race for the last 6 years has left a bitter taste in many peoples' mouths and the Dems are going to pay on Nov 4th.; 10/18/14, 9:28 PM
chickelit said...: Meade said...
Then chromium in the stainless steel?

I was thinking chrome-plated steel: Cr & Fe

Of course there are trace elements -- e.g., whatever makes that wall yellow -- probably not cadmium. The green in the glass comes from iron.; 10/18/14, 9:31 PM
Lauderdale Vet said...: I love that last shot.; 10/18/14, 9:32 PM
chickelit said...: Plus lots of calcium and sulfur in that wall.; 10/18/14, 9:40 PM
Meade said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/18/14, 9:41 PM
Meade said...: Good gracious! Does hydrated ferric oxide EVER sleep?; 10/18/14, 9:43 PM
chickelit said...: I agree with other commenters. That photo featuring oxidane is deep and mysterious.; 10/18/14, 9:48 PM
chickelit said...: Michael said...
i am longing for Fall.

Me too. It unofficially starts Nov. 4th and begins for real the first week in January.; 10/18/14, 9:54 PM
chickelit said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/18/14, 9:54 PM
CarolynnS said...: Ann--your photos are always beautiful, but these pictures of your neighborhood in fall colors are just glorious! Thank you for posting them!; 10/18/14, 10:03 PM
Anonymous said...: Now that you mentioned it, I saw several black people today. A few rooting for Oregon, most rooting for Washington. One guy was about 6'10", I told him that he has probably heard this before but does he play badminton?

Had conversations, and shared cigarettes outside the bar. They offered some weed (WA) but I had to say 'no' -- still subject to drug-testing at work.

Funniest part of the night: little indie white kid walks up to the bar wearing a "Hip Hop is Dead" T-shirt; the black guys at the bar had a laugh, and then the indie kid walked away and sheepishly put on his sweatshirt over the T-shirt.; 10/18/14, 10:42 PM
RecChief said...: what> no commentary about this case?

But it has to do with the first amendment, something I thought a good con law professor would address. It has to do with lesbianism. Which I would assume a feminist who is in tune with homosexual issues would address as well. Is this a law blog?; 10/18/14, 11:08 PM
RecChief said...: "Sorry if that crushes the world view you're nurturing."

But Althouse is the one nurturing it. Don't act like you are disgusted with him. You have his "blog" on your blog roll.; 10/18/14, 11:11 PM
chickelit said...: Althouse wrote: Sorry if that crushes the world view you're nurturing.

Crack only hears "world view" as Weltannschauung [sic].; 10/19/14, 1:23 AM
George M. Spencer said...: "Ducks, observed from a footbridge."

Brilliant.

And a lovely commentary on the Obama Administration.

Here's a nearly unbelievable story about the Obama DOJ's attempt to blame a timber company for a fire it did not start.

"The New York Observer reports that two former Assistant United States Attorneys say the Holder Justice Department engaged in deceit and corruption of justice in connection with the DOJ’s litigation against Sierra Pacific Industries, a California lumber company.

The Holder DOJ brought the case against Sierra Pacific for allegedly being responsible for a wildfire that destroyed 65,000 acres in California. Sierra Pacific maintained that the fire started elsewhere and that state and federal investigators and DOJ attorneys lied about the origin of the fire so they would have a “deep pocket” from which to collect millions of dollars."

Very ducked up.; 10/19/14, 5:19 AM
sojerofgod said...: @Mid-Life Lawyer:
I bet you saw a helluva lot of corn. Ethanol subsidies has that stuff growing everywhere in the south now, in areas where it traditionally was not prevalent.
I was travelling through west Tennessee recently and there was so much cotton you would have thought it had snowed. Something everyone should experience some day is to walk through a cotton field on a clear, cold night with the full moon shining overhead and the bolls lighting up the earth like the lanterns of the elves...; 10/19/14, 7:23 AM
JZ said...: Ann is good with a camera. Make that great. The photo of the table, the wall, the salt and pepper shakers and the bottle is a beauty. I just wonder -- no criticism intended -- does she goose the colors with a program like photoshop?; 10/19/14, 8:14 AM
pm317 said...: PAPER: Enrollees slow to use Obamacare because of high out-of-pocket costs...

Mission Accomplished! All we need is for Zeke to head the death panel and kill off everyone over 75.; 10/19/14, 9:23 AM
pm317 said...: Harsh NYT article, I am surprised! Read it before it disappears.

This one is already gone from memeorandom and it has these salient, easily digestible points:
1. We shouldn't need an Ebola czar.

2. We already put somebody in charge of corralling federal bureaucracies and coordinating local responses to national emergencies. His name is Barack Obama.

3. He has a chief of staff, the nation's chief operating officer, Denis McDonough; a homeland security adviser, Lisa Monaco; a national security adviser, Susan Rice; a director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and a Cabinet full of secretaries.

4. That should be enough.; 10/19/14, 9:44 AM
pm317 said...: ha.. here is the link to that NYT article (don't know why it didn't show up).; 10/19/14, 9:46 AM
Jupiter said...: betamax is in Eugene, Oregon? Somehow I would have expected somewhere more ....... betamactic.

I used to go to Duck games, back when we would chant
Meet the Ducks.
Greet the Ducks.
Come on out and
Beat the Ducks!

That was in the 90's. Now that Phil Knight has bought the University of Oregon and transformed them into Team Nike, I just try to avoid East Eugene on game days. The traffic is impenetrable, and most of them are drunk. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

And Crack is right, it is very hard to find a black person in Eugene, should you have some reason for wanting to find one. It would be even harder to find one if Team Nike didn't import them from the junior colleges and prisons of Southern California. They often get written up in the local paper, one way or another.; 10/19/14, 1:07 PM
Rusty said...: chickelit said...
Meade said...
Then chromium in the stainless steel?

I was thinking chrome-plated steel: Cr & Fe

Chrome doesn't stick to steel. the steel has to be flash copper plated then nickle plated. Chrome will adhere to nickle.; 10/19/14, 4:23 PM
chickelit said...: Chrome will adhere to nickle.

Is that why they stopped putting bumpers on cars during WW II -- because they needed the nickel?; 10/19/14, 4:36 PM
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chickelit said...: OK, I did not press "post" four times...sorry!; 10/19/14, 4:38 PM
Rusty said...: chickelit said...
Chrome will adhere to nickle.

Is that why they stopped putting bumpers on cars during WW II -- because they needed the nickel?

They were more useful as alloying elements for steel used in armor plate and gun barrels.; 10/19/14, 5:51 PM

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