Althouse: At the Trees and Weeds Café...

November 6, 2015

At the Trees and Weeds Café...

... it's all in the point of view.

34 comments:

Scott said...: I've experienced a lot of blessings in my life; this in spite of having squandered a lot of opportunities. I'm cool with it. I believe the key to happiness is to appreciate what you have and where you are at, rather than curse today because it's not what you want.; 11/6/15, 10:14 AM
Scott said...: The Rt. Rev. Michael B. Curry was recently installed as the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church. I've been thinking of writing him a long letter to ask him why church services can't be more like AA meetings. I think if Evening Prayer is re-engineered a bit so that the participants can share on the Gospel reading, it could be done.

Also, I wish we would get back to having Holy Communion only once a month instead of every week. If you do something all the time, it loses its mojo.; 11/6/15, 10:21 AM
chickelit said...: What an oblique portrait of the world.; 11/6/15, 10:38 AM
traditionalguy said...: Tree time. Trees are our wood producers, shelters and bird sanctuaries; but weeds alas are hay fever producers. Men love the noble trees. Especially men who work as carpenters, coopers and cabinet makers.

Nobody ever sees petrified weeds.

Giant Sequoias are king of the trees.; 11/6/15, 10:44 AM
Wilbur said...: " If you do something all the time, it loses its mojo."

I've always felt that way about the National Anthem. Playing it before every sporting event with a PA system inevitably makes it a yawner, or simply something to be endured before the game starts.; 11/6/15, 11:17 AM
rhhardin said...: Poems are made by fools like me
But only God can make a weed.; 11/6/15, 11:56 AM
Laslo Spatula said...: "If you do something all the time, it loses its mojo."

This is also true for foreplay.

I am Laslo.; 11/6/15, 12:04 PM
rhhardin said...: The stinging nettle only
Will still be found to stand:
The numberless, the lonely,
The thronger of the land,
The leaf that hurts the hand.

That thrives, come sun, come showers;
Blow east, blow west, it springs;
It peoples towns, and towers
Above the courts of Kings,
And touch it and it stings.

- A. E. Housman; 11/6/15, 12:12 PM
YoungHegelian said...: Okay, I have a very serious constitutional question: Take a gander at this article in the WaPo. Do the Republicans now control enough state legislatures that they can now call a Constitutional Convention?

If they don't now, they're pretty damn close. Talk about yer nuclear option! If the convention called by the states ratifies the some new amendments there's absolutely nothing the Federal Executive or Legislative branches can do to stop them!; 11/6/15, 12:18 PM
Bob Ellison said...: YoungHegelian, the old-school argument against a constitutional convention has been pretty much "who knows what that lunatic electorate would bring up?!"

Really, that's the argument. They're scared of us. The Republicans are as scared as the Democrats. They'll shoot us on the way to the podium.; 11/6/15, 12:27 PM
David Begley said...: KXL rejected by Obama.

But that's AFTER the Clintons got their money from backers of KXL.

Only good thing is maybe Jane Kleeb and Bold Nebraska will go away.; 11/6/15, 12:34 PM
YoungHegelian said...: @Bob,

the old-school argument against a constitutional convention has been pretty much "who knows what that lunatic electorate would bring up?!"

But, before it was an academic question. Now, it doesn't look so academic, & DC can do nothing to stop it.

So, my question remains: are the Republicans there yet?; 11/6/15, 12:38 PM
garage mahal said...: Hoping for aurora Saturday night. CME detected,solar winds picking up, and Bz dropping. Time to charge batteries and clear memory cards. Going to be another (hopefully) long night.; 11/6/15, 1:09 PM
Scott said...: I just learned that the video where Latino kids are manipulated into saying ugly things about Donald Trump was directed by a guy named Luke Montgomery, who doesn't seem to be all that Hispanic.

Another progressive sock puppet activist.; 11/6/15, 2:07 PM
FullMoon said...: So, I have been going to the gym.

I am rethinking my lifelong belief in the whole hunter/gatherer thing.

Zumba, kick boxing, and other hi-intensity classes are filled with women going full speed for an entire hour. Same for the treadmills. And not just the pretty little slim young ones. Big fat ugly ones also.

I now believe women would have a better chance of running down that juicy pig than the average cave man.; 11/6/15, 2:19 PM
chickelit said...: Another progressive sock puppet activist.

And predictably, he's just another gaystapo Gauleiter. He'll do way more harm than good when that gets out.; 11/6/15, 2:21 PM
Big Mike said...: I see that, after dithering for seven years, Obama finally did what everyone expected him to as far as the Keystone Pipeline.; 11/6/15, 3:44 PM
YoungHegelian said...: Looked into my State Constitutional Convention issue more myself.

The Republicans right now have the numbers to call a convention (2/3 of state legislatures). What they don't have is the numbers needed to ratify (3/4 of state legislatures or conventions from the states). The Repubs are at 31 (I'm adding in Nebraska, because its unicameral House is solidly in control of "Republican" legislators). So, they need 7 more to get to 38, 3/4 of 50. There are nine states where the legislatures are split between Dems & Repubs, so the Repubs would have to take seven of those nine.

Which is highly unlikely. But if you would have told me under Bill Clinton that in 2015 the map of the US would look that Republican, I'd have laughed at you, so strange things can happen. If the Democrats start pushing for more people with dicks to have access to the ladies' room, the Repubs just might get to 38.; 11/6/15, 4:14 PM
mccullough said...: Garage,

Good luck with the Northern Lights. Everyone have a great weekend.; 11/6/15, 4:16 PM
Bob Ellison said...: YoungHegelian, no, they are not there yet.; 11/6/15, 5:21 PM
Bay Area Guy said...: @YoungHegelian,

It is an excellent Constitutional question you raise. However, it would take several years of steady GOP gains to implement any "restoration," due to the 3/4 States requirement. The Left would do to it, what the Right did to the Equal Rights Amendment in the 70s.

There are at least 2 more pressing needs: 1 on defense, 1 on offense

1. Keeping Texas red -- the Left would like nothing more than to flip Texas blue, just as it did to California. If successful, the Dems would have an Electoral College lock (about 280 EV) for the next 15 to 20 years, if not more. I think that's what motivates all the illegal immigration nonsense -- simply to change the demographics of Texas to flip it politically. (See, California in the 1990s).

2. Winning 2016 Prez -- if Hillary wins, she's going to get 2 or 3 SCOTUS judges, and the judiciary will be become even more Leftist than it already is. That's in addition to all the other terrible Leftist policies and programs she will implement.

I say none of this as a GOP cheerleader. I assuredly am not. The GOP has many wimps & whiners. The problem, though, is that the Left has a voracious, unstoppable appetite to annex as much ground as possible (see, all major college universities), so the GOP, while flawed, is the best institution we have to stem this tide.; 11/6/15, 6:04 PM
Original Mike said...: "Hoping for aurora Saturday night. CME detected,solar winds picking up, and Bz dropping. Time to charge batteries and clear memory cards. Going to be another (hopefully) long night."

Some night we're going run into each other in the middle of a dark field. Not saying that's a good thing but ...; 11/6/15, 7:20 PM
Original Mike said...: I'm taking the telescope to a dark site Sunday night. Hope the aurora is over by then, because for me it's light pollution.; 11/6/15, 7:21 PM
pm317 said...: So the media is going after Carson for his fabricated autobiographical stories. What about Obama? Did they do that with Obama or just accept that he is a crook and still propped him up?; 11/6/15, 8:25 PM
pm317 said...: Here is my Fall picture; 11/6/15, 8:27 PM
Curious George said...: Speaking of trees, my northern Wisconsin lake home, which has been in my family for 45 years, and that I remodeled 10 years ago, burned down a few weeks ago. Complete loss. Sixteen trees, oak, maple and popple, are damaged from the heat and need to come out. They are part of the irreplaceable loss. Well, not really. Others will replace them in time. My grandson will enjoy them.; 11/6/15, 9:06 PM
Original Mike said...: The lowly Badger hockey team just beat North Dakota, the No. 1 team in the nation, in their own rink.; 11/6/15, 9:52 PM
BN said...: BAG at 6:04 boils it down and nails it.

It's all about Texas. Always has been (see Aaron Burr).

...and Hillary. It's all about Hillary!

...always has been. Always will be.

Last chance.; 11/6/15, 10:38 PM
BN said...: And the Supreme Court [insert sound of a big fat fart here].

It's all about the Supreme Court... these days.

...now that democracy is over.; 11/6/15, 10:41 PM
chickelit said...: Original Mike said...
The lowly Badger hockey team just beat North Dakota, the No. 1 team in the nation, in their own rink.

SIEVE!; 11/6/15, 11:43 PM
Original Mike said...: "Is this not the winning net?"
"Yes this is the winning net!"
...; 11/7/15, 1:27 AM
Rusty said...: I see Bill Ayers wants to form a "peoples tribunal" to indict the NRA.
I wonder if he realizes just how little power the NRA has.; 11/7/15, 7:41 AM
Meade said...: I'm sorry your home burned down, Curious G.; 11/7/15, 8:00 AM
Original Mike said...: "Is this not the losing net?"
"Yes this is the losing net!"
...; 11/7/15, 8:42 AM