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February 28, 2018
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Ice finally melted off my pond today. For me, March 1st is the benchmark that winter is coming to an end. We will probably get another March snow storm, but it will melt in a hurry. I enjoy March's arrival.
Why not use taped school PA system to sound off like heavy gunfire to scare, distract shooter
Those are very nice photographs. Look like paintings.
I was travelling today. Stopped at a rest stop off the turnpike to catch up on some paperwork/phone calls from the office. Spent an hour drinking tea and listening to news in the background from some mounted television. I have not watched television news in many years. My goodness, they have gone off the rails. I thought something horrible had happened from the tones and inflections I was hearing with half my brain. When I paid attention, they were talking about Jared Kushner's security clearance, of course the Russia stuff, and some Tweet of Trump's.
In this week's The New Yorker there's a review by Kalefa Sanneh of Jordan Peterson's life and works. It's a model of its kind. It's written with faint disdain and presents Peterson as an uninteresting writer who's unworthy of the interest he's attracted. People who read The New Yorker can safely ignore him. That's how it's done. That Sara Stewart review of Red Sparrow made the movie sound way too interesting.
Hail and snow today in Tucson.
Quick walk with the dog,
"Why not use taped school PA system to sound off like heavy gunfire to scare, distract shooter?"
Not a bad idea, but it might scare off deputies from a certain south Florida county also.
"Walmart is raising the minimum age to purchase all firearms and ammunition to 21, the company announced on Wednesday."
http://kdvr.com/2018/02/28/walmart-raising-minimum-age-for-all-gun-sales-to-21/
It was reported, though not confirmed, the city of Chicago street gangs have raised their minimum age for gun purchases to 10 years old.
Tucker Carlson had a guy on tonight who said that only 4 states require proof of U.S. citizenship in order to vote. The other 48 (and territories?) only require proof of residency in the state, and even that "proof" can be pretty shaky.
Israel kills school shooters on sight - with every type of civil defense at their disposal. Maybe that's why they don't have any school shootings, in spite of being surrounded by people sworn to obliterate them. But here, the greatest military power the world (perhaps) has ever seen, we are being told that we are unable to protect our children, but must instead deny deprive and disarm the entire population. Yeah, let's get right on that while the knee's are still jerking.
Pelosi to the contrary, illegal aliens cannot be U.S. patriots, since the U.S. is not their Patria.
I had my baby today, guys :-). Am posting on Althouse because she is at the nursery under bililights, unfortunately, and Mr. Pants just departed with the rest of the kids for the night, and I am caught up with all the Facebook congratulations and am now bored and lonely in this hospital room all alone. She is perfect and gorgeous, naturally, although she gave us an awful after-the-fact scare: she was born with not one but two knots in her umbilical cord. The doc who delivered her had never seen it before in 38 years in practice, and it is rare but almost always fatal when it occurs. I can barely even mentally nibble at the edges of what could have been. But it didn't, and our family is now complete!
Congrats Misplaced. Children are a gift from God.
I Have Misplaced My Pants said... [hush][hide comment]
I had my baby today, guys :-)
Congratulations!
Congratulations Mrs. Pants! Very best wishes to Mom and Baby!
Mazel tov Pantsy! Woohoo!
Will this poll matter:
https://morningconsult.com/2018/02/28/firms-see-negative-responses-to-cutting-business-ties-with-nra/
Congratulations to you and your family.
The focus of the deepstate is a little different
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/02/28/remainers-trying-stop-brexit-proxy-war-say-boriss-allies-former/
Congrats Mrs pants
The wheels of justice:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/28/breaking-three-men-arrested-suspicion-manslaughter-following/
She is perfect and gorgeous, naturally, although she gave us an awful after-the-fact scare: she was born with not one but two knots in her umbilical cord.
Congratulations. I wish you well and along life and a happy one.
Much today about Trump's one upping the other pols at his televised discussion for a bi-partisan Gun Bill. Trump kept putting down the NRA's supposed power. He seems to be replaying his best trick to defuse the Dem's 2018 talking points by offering the Dems better points than their voters were actually willing to support in exchange for adding in what Trump actually wants in the Bill. And it will work like a charm again if the Gun rights purists will just keep quiet and watch.
Has anyone heard from James/Laslo/Betamax??
His blogs are silent. He was complaining about his medications, but you never know if it's a cry for help, or more performance art.
Congratulations, Misplaced Pants. I hope the stay under the bili lights isn't long. Babies need eyes open and mother's touch.
She is perfect and gorgeous
You are blessed.
Congrats to Mr. & Mrs. Pants!!!!!
Thanks, gang :-)
Didn't James morph into someone else? He always signed with the same phrase.
Congrats Pants!
And did you change your format Althouse? My phone went to a new mobile view. I'm not sure how I feel about it yet. The old layout was predictable and comforting.
Having a baby is what sometimes happens when you keep misplacing your pants! Congratulations on the birth of your daughter -- a blessing for the entire family.
Scroll down to the bottom of the page and select "View web version". That will get you to the standard interface, Birches.
Oprah is waiting for a sign from God. Someone should tell her about my predictions going back to '16.
It looks to me that Trump is trying to force Sessions to either grow a backbone or quit the job. If I were Trump I would’ve fired Sessions the moment I learned that Sessions had recused himself from ANY investigation without first at least consulting with his boss – which would be Trump, of course. Such a lapse of hierarchical etiquette would get Sessions fired and blackballed in any corporate environment. It’s a sure bet that they don’t fuck around with such fuckups at Amazon, Google or Microsoft.
Session is a GOP figure that seems more loyal to Trump’s opponents in the elite GOP in Congress than to Trump. He is part of the old go-along-to-get-along GOP crowd that allowed the MSM and Obama to cow them during Obama’s eight-year Post-Modernist romp in the Oval Office while Obama was busily installing Lefty deep state actors in the IRS, the CIA and the DoJ. This is the bunch in Congress that consistently lowered their panties and bent over anytime it seemed the Democrats wanted to screw them.
Trump is taking grim pleasure raking Sessions in Twitter. I think his mindset is, “Well, if he won’t quit I’ll show him up for what he is … a nervous fussbudget without an ounce of self-respect. Might as well have some fun with this idiot.”
Another subject:
It's written with faint disdain and presents Peterson as an uninteresting writer who's unworthy of the interest he's attracted. People who read The New Yorker can safely ignore him.
Happily, Peterson’s fans are unlikely to pay much attention to the New Yorker. The “faint disdain” will be exchanged for rabid hatred as Peterson’s influence grows.
He seems to be replaying his best trick to defuse the Dem's 2018 talking points by offering the Dems better points than their voters were actually willing to support in exchange for adding in what Trump actually wants in the Bill.
A very interesting viewpoint. I think the commentor may be on to something.
Perhaps but like admiral Rogers he maybe a white hat after all:
Http://.
foxnews.com/us/2018/02/28/commanding-officer-initially-ordered-responding-deputies-to-stage-not-enter-stoneman-douglas-sources-say.html
Congratulations to the Pants family! Wow on the two knots, she’ll have a story to tell for the rest of her days. Get some rest while you can.
New format sucks
Get ready for more fireworks
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/02/28/new-york-mayor-de-blasio-hires-massively-corrupt-miami-dade-school-superintendent-alberto-carvalho/
Every Bounty and blessing, mama pants!
Love the art, Althouse, makes me think of Anselm Kiefer whom I love, I love to stand in front of his movie sreen-sized works and breathe, and these are like that.
New format sucks
No, I love it!
Congratulations, Pants.
Well I don’t
How about starting a new blog for those who have lost their ability to taste food: The Tasteless Gourmet. I would visit that at least once a week.
The left doesn't hate the NRA, they hate you. Why does the left hate you?
"They hate that you won’t submit.
They hate that you won’t obey.
And they hate that you refuse to give up your only means of protecting yourself and preserving your rights."
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2018/03/01/they-dont-hate-the-nra-they-hate-you-n2455264
A very good read.
Oh my gosh Pants that must have been frightening! I am so happy for your family that all turned out well. Welcome to a future Althouse reader!
It was certainly a bit of a shock. Now we can reply directly to other commenters, so there's that.
Pants is a dedicated commenter, for sure. Congrats!
How about starting a new blog for those who have lost their ability to taste food:
I don’t know, Beethoven carried off being a deaf composer, but he was a one-off, I think.
It’s written with faint disdain and presents Peterson as an uninteresting writer who's unworthy of the interest he's attracted.
Liberal’s Razor in action. If you don’t like where a line of inquiry or set of facts is leading, sweep it away, ask a rhetorical question if you really want to end all discussion.
Congrats Pants !
It should be called “Haidt’s Razor” but that would be unfair to Haidt, who, though a liberal, makes a real effort to understand other points of view.
I like when sound ricochets through the ice. There might be a pickup truck driving on the ice a couple miles away, and the cracks and pops zing by and bounce around. And the booming is pretty cool too. Thoreau wrote about that in Walden. Ice fishing is still going full strength here.
Congrats Pants!
Congrats Pants. In the unreality of the blogosphere I imagined you as older, beyond child bearing.
In one of my past lives I delivered babies. True cord knots always stunned me (I.e. the disaster that wasn't ). But now you have your baby ("Boy or girl?") and the cord knots are both behind you and fodder for many future stories as your child grows.
Children are a blessing and this sounds like a double blessing.
Blogger I Have Misplaced My Pants said...
Oh. Boy. Congratulations!
Babies are the best.
So, yesterday morning I had to report for jury duty at 100 Center Street in lower Manhattan. I sat myself down in the large room where people called for jury duty assemble to hear instructions and be called for jury selection. (I've previously served on several juries, civil, criminal, and grand jury. Such a good citizen am I.)
It turns out one of my fellow NYC citizens called to jury yesterday was Donald Trump, Jr.
I saw him early on and I thought,"That guy looks kind of like Donald Trump, Jr," but I figured, "Nah, it's not him." Later, I stood next to him as we were drying our hands in the men's room. I still thought, "He looks like Donald Trump, Jr....could it be him? Nah!"
However, as they started calling jurors to go up to a courtroom to be selected for voie dire, I heard his name called,"Donald Trump, Jr." Well!
I was also called up, (along with 78 others, for a total of 80), so I observed him in the jury room, as well. He was quiet and didn't chit chat with others. He did have Secret Service with him, but they were nondescript, so I didn't see them and thought it odd he didn't have Secret Service protection. Neither he or nor I were picked for voie dire before lunch, but after lunch he was called up. I was surprised at the depth and projection of his voice when he spoke.
By 4:15, they court had selected its jurors for this trial, and the rest of us, including Don. Jr., were dismissed and told we had discharged our jury service until the next time we're called, (a minimum of two years, but usually longer).
you never know if it's a cry for help, or more performance art.
The Germans Have A Word For That.
@Robert Cook. I have it on good authority those were not Secret Service agents, they were his Russian handlers.
Ah, threading? Might help one skip trollfests.
They took CNN off the televisions in the gate area at the Savannah airport and replaced it with a nature channel. Meaningful the home state of CNN did it.
Congratulations Pants! Happy moving day to your daughter and congratulations for earning her knots merit badge in utero. Hopefully she doesn't inherit her mother's penchant for missing garments.
Congratulations, Mrs. Pants!
I, too, am surprised you are so young. You are wise beyond your years.
What, you don't find this joint tasteless enough? Seriously, Althouse is anosmic, what more do you want?
I heard a good one today. When it comes to most incompetent cop, it's now a straight fight between Sheriff Israel and Chief Wiggum from The Simpsons.
Speaking of Lake Mandela, South Africa is confiscating whites' land, according to Insty.
Raise babysitters, then raise a family.
I don’t see a new format on my iPad.
Misplaced Pants-
Congratulation! Wishing you all the joys that ours have brought us ( and a little less of the stresses. But even with the stresses, they are well worth it! )
She's got 5 others, so she should know more or less what she's signed up for.
Her child will likely see the next century.
I was just reading a bunch of Soviet jokes, and it sure looked like Robert Cook was telling one.
Here’s a random one that even features a “Bob.”
Two brothers, John, and Bob, who lived in America and were members of the communist party, decided to emigrate to the USSR. Even though they didn't believe the American media's negative reports on the conditions in the USSR, they decided to exercise caution. First, only John would go to Russia to test the waters. If, contrary to the media reports, the living conditions would be found good, and the reports about persecutions by the KGB false, than John would write a letter to Bob using black ink whose color would signify that the letter is to be taken at face value. If, though, the situation in the USSR happened to be bad, and John would be afraid of writing the truth, he would use red ink thus indicating that whatever he says in the letter must not be believed.
In three months John sent his first report. It was in black ink and read, "Dear brother Bob! I'm so happy here! It's a beautiful country, I enjoy complete freedom, and high standard of living. All the capitalist press wrote was lies. Everything is readily available! There is only one small thing of which there's shortage, namely red ink."
Advised Dicks Sporting Goods that I will no longer be buying my golf stuff from them.
Pants--
God was surely with you. And if you are not a Believer, God was still with you. We'll thank Him for you.
Scroll to the bittom of the page and you’ll see the ‘view full site’ link. Looks like mobile devices are being directed to an old format for some reason.
Hooray and God bless, Pants.
"I don’t see a new format on my iPad."
Nor do I, on my old-school browsers (Opera on Linux, Firefox on Windows 10).
Congrats, Ms. 'Pants.
"she was born with not one but two knots in her umbilical cord."
My older son was born with the cord around his neck. It didn't affect him although he is a trial lawyer and a Democrat.
I see. On my phone, I get a discus-like interface, with per-comment 'reply' links.
It didn't affect him although he is a trial lawyer and a Democrat.
Aren't you contradicting yourself? ;-)
Pants: Great news! Congratulations and God bless you and your little one! :-)
And did you change your format Althouse? My phone went to a new mobile view. I'm not sure how I feel about it yet. The old layout was predictable and comforting.
She's probably out on that ebike, and I too had the same startled reaction when I opened the blog on my phone. WTF? But on my laptop it is the same old comfy place. So maybe Blogger upgraded their mobile format.
Congratulations to Ms. Pants & newest family addition. Much joy & happiness for you in the years ahead.
Speaking of medical institution boredom, I am writing this from the waiting room of the endoscopy center. Mrs. Bunk getting scoped today, normal checkup procedure. I gotta say the prep for the colonoscopy is no fun. I'm not looking forward to mine :(
Teachers and Guns
Funny video of wimmin-folk trying to shoot guns.
No GIANT RATS in this fake news from the UK:
Vladimir Putin's secret CLONE ARMY of designer attack dogs taught to sniff out explosives
Secret army of three dogs which look like undersized Alsatians stealthily posing for newspaper photos.
Birches, Mike: she changed the setting. I'd been asking her to try it. Much cleaner and easier to read, especially in landscape, in my opinion. But, like you, she's not sure she likes it.
Congratulations, Pants!
It didn't affect him although he is a trial lawyer and a Democrat.
Aren't you contradicting yourself? ;-)
I know. I was just warning her that maybe some extra effort is needed.
Bunk says: Speaking of medical institution boredom, I am writing this from the waiting room of the endoscopy center. Mrs. Bunk getting scoped today, normal checkup procedure. I gotta say the prep for the colonoscopy is no fun. I'm not looking forward to mine :(
Supposedly, you don't feel [or at least remember] any discomfort during the procedure but I must have been under-sedated because I remember every gut-wrenching minute including the terrible cramping and dry heaves. My husband had several colonoscopies. He didn't remember a thing and I saw no evidence of his discomfort [I was in the room].
Judy Tipp the Enema Queen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnk_aBLwiyk
(Gun Shy 1998)
"I gotta say the prep for the colonoscopy is no fun. I'm not looking forward to mine :(
Hmmm...I've gone through it twice, and I haven't found it to be particularly onerous. I always heard about the "foul-tasting" chalky preparation one had to drink the night before, but I didn't have to drink that. Each time, I was told to buy a 64 oz bottle of some sport drink, (Gator Ade or Power Ade...NOT Red or Purple colored), and mix an over the counter powdered laxative of a specific amount (that I don't remember) into that. I had to drink one 8 oz glass of this mixture every 15 minutes for one hour. (That's half the mixture). Then, four hours before my procedure, I had to drink the remaining half of the mixture in the same way, four 8 oz glasses every 15 minutes.
As colonoscopies are usually in the morning, the most onerous thing about the process is getting up at 3:00 or 4:00 am to drink the last four glasses of the mixture.
Congratulations to the Pants Family! Thanks for sharing the news.
@Meade
You're right. It's very nice in landscape. I'll let you know if the change grows on me.
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