Althouse: A closer look at that broken window.

October 25, 2017

A closer look at that broken window.

31 comments:

mccullough said...: Sublime chasm; 10/25/17, 3:54 PM
Curious George said...: Tempered glass.; 10/25/17, 3:54 PM
Jaq said...: Album cover worthy.; 10/25/17, 3:58 PM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: What you got is a photo for that guy's nice NY apartment. ART!; 10/25/17, 4:00 PM
Jaq said...: Gee, if only there were a place to discuss all of those news stories to which "Attention must be paid!" that only seem to be linked to when a story is going bad for the Democrats!

Maybe I can get Chuck started!

Payments by a campaign or party committee to an opposition research firm are legal, as long as those payments are accurately disclosed. But describing payments for opposition research as ‘legal services’ is entirely misleading and subverts the reporting requirements.

And, BTW, if it is perfectly OK to pay foreign governments for opposition research, what is the whole "Russian collusion" thing about?; 10/25/17, 4:11 PM
Jaq said...: What was the big problem with that meeting in Manhattan with the Russian lawyer?; 10/25/17, 4:12 PM
Jaq said...: You know what would be great? If Chris Mathews brought back his good old fashioned Clinton bashing version of Hardball, the one he ran in the '90s before he sold out everything he believed in. I watched that every night, it made me an aficionado of Clinton scandals.; 10/25/17, 4:14 PM
jameswhy said...: Don't tell your Madison neighbors (the pilgrims could get out of hand), but I see the visage of Lenin.; 10/25/17, 4:18 PM
Mary Beth said...: It looks like a map of Indiana, only sagging a bit at the southern border.; 10/25/17, 4:23 PM
Hagar said...: Did the Antifa sign his work?; 10/25/17, 4:25 PM
buwaya said...: Great shot, great catch.

The universe shows up pictures, its up to us to figure out how best to take them.; 10/25/17, 4:26 PM
Ken B said...: Now we know who paid for the “Russian golden shower” fable. Who paid for the slightly less plausible “I'm a life long Republican” fable?; 10/25/17, 4:30 PM
n.n said...: Where there is a broken window, there is an opportunity to discover patterns.; 10/25/17, 4:33 PM
jaed said...: payments for opposition research

Opposition research is discovery of dirt on the candidate. That's legal. Paying for a faked dossier of false evidence produced by a foreign power, to use in a fraudulent application for national-security surveillance warrants, so you can spy on the opposition party's candidate under color of law... not so much.; 10/25/17, 5:13 PM
Jaq said...: Wasn't the whole "golden shower" thing perfectly legal, if it happened?; 10/25/17, 5:18 PM
Jaq said...: Opposition research is discovery of dirt on the candidate. That's legal.

You wouldn't know that from the Democrat's reaction to that Russian lawyer.; 10/25/17, 5:22 PM
madAsHell said...: If Johnny Rotten ever needs an album cover.....; 10/25/17, 5:23 PM
Sprezzatura said...: "It looks like a map of Indiana, only sagging a bit at the southern border."

It's the shape and size of a Squatch foot.

In the NW we see this all the time. Those MFers like kicking at our windows cause they don't understand glass.; 10/25/17, 5:37 PM
Breezy said...: Nice - "closer look at that broken window", but the tree branching draws the eye...

Art of deflection, or reflection?; 10/25/17, 5:44 PM
Jaq said...: Source A—to use the careful nomenclature of his dossier—was ‘a senior Russian Foreign Ministry figure.’ Source B was ‘a former top level intelligence officer still active in the Kremlin.’

LOL!

Did a Republican hire them? Not per the WaPo!

Marc E. Elias, a lawyer representing the Clinton campaign and the DNC, retained Fusion GPS, a Washington firm, to conduct the research. After that, Fusion GPS hired dossier author Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer with ties to the FBI and the U.S. intelligence community, according to those people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.; 10/25/17, 5:44 PM
Jaq said...: This is almost as much fun as election night!

"Clearly, what we learned today is that the president’s son, his namesake, a senior advisor and someone who was in the top tier of the Trump campaign colluded, which is the classic dictionary definition of what that means," Wasserman Schultz said. "There is no question what Donald Trump Jr. agreed to do -- with relish, I might add -- is meet with a lawyer who he believed was affiliated with the Russian government to assist his father’s campaign and collect dirt on Hillary Clinton. If that is not the definition of collusion, I don’t know what is." - Debbie Wasserman Shultz

Clinton's former running-mate, Sen. Tim Kaine, said the meeting could constitute treason.

Have fun swinging on the gallows next to Donnie, Tim!; 10/25/17, 5:52 PM
Friendo said...: how bout you keep comments regarding other threads in the other threads? I very much like the photo - thank you (again) Althouse.; 10/25/17, 6:53 PM
Ken B said...: 10 things http://thefederalist.com/2017/10/25/top-10-things-to-know-about-dossier/ The key one is that it is false to claim that the dossier was first paid for by (anti Trump) Republicans. Steele was not hired until after Elias hired Fusion. The gop research was into business dealings.; 10/25/17, 7:00 PM
Sarthurk said...: As a former photography student/underwater photographer/semi professional photographer,
I complement your photo. Quite well done.

Almost all of my good photos were taken when I wasn't thinking about it. But hey, sorry about your window.

SK; 10/25/17, 7:08 PM
Rae said...: Classic frame within a frame composition and nice contrasts. Did they catch the anarchist who provided it?; 10/25/17, 7:16 PM
jaed said...: how bout you keep comments regarding other threads in the other threads?

I'm used to thinking of photo posts as cafe posts, although maybe Althouse can clarify this point. (Also, the later posts on this topic weren't up yet.); 10/25/17, 8:04 PM
Jaq said...: She has said many times to treat a post that is basically a photo as a cafe.; 10/25/17, 8:46 PM
Sprezzatura said...: Pro tip: I think the real indicator re a café post is not the photo, it's the Meadehouse panhandling.; 10/25/17, 8:59 PM
Ann Althouse said...: This counts as a cafe.; 10/25/17, 10:26 PM
urbane legend said...: Curious George said...
Tempered glass.

Or perhaps hot tempered glass? :-) Excellent photo.; 10/26/17, 5:22 AM
JOB said...: Fields of Study

A gunshot breaks the morning air like glass—
A tinkle of boyish laughter—a smear
Of bloody feathers swabbed in a brutal mess
On tired old barn planks, as if glued there
Announcing youth’s incredible cruelty
To the faithless. What’s left has killed the day
And sent it scatter-shot. The guilty see
The hours of wasted time, the feet of clay
That drag behind in fields and run to grave
The smallest things brought down with our hatred,
The lingering lusts and doubt that persuaded
Some welcome into our hearts – the buried thing
Left underground and understood so long
We’d forgotten we’d buried it alive.; 10/26/17, 10:13 AM