March 29, 2018

At the Ice Melt Café...

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... get the conversation started.

That picture is Lake Mendota, yesterday.

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21 comments:

jwl said...

"Mass murderer Nikolas Cruz is getting stacks of fan mail and love letters sent to the Broward County jail, along with hundreds of dollars in contributions to his commissary account.

Teenage girls, women and even older men are writing to the Parkland school shooter and sending photographs — some suggestive — tucked inside cute greeting cards and attached to notebook paper with offers of friendship and encouragement. Groupies also are joining Facebook communities to talk about how to help the killer."

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/parkland/florida-school-shooting/fl-reg-nikolas-cruz-prison-love-letters-20180327-story.html

YoungHegelian said...

Do they play "Dunk The Clunk" in the hinterlands of Wisconsin, or is that just a Min-ah-soh-ta thing?

"Dunk the Clunk" is where the town drives a wreck of a car onto the ice & then the town's folk place bets on when it'll fall through in the Spring.

YoungHegelian said...

Teenage girls, women and even older men are writing to the Parkland school shooter and sending photographs — some suggestive

I imagine if Cruz had gotten some "serious" female attention in his life before the rampage, he probably would have never gone off the deep end. You never seem to read a story about some high school guy hunkered down at the school with a gun screaming out "You bitches & sluts better not come any closer, ya understand?! I just can't satisfy any more of you! Even I've got limits!".

I'll believe feminism is serious when it speaks to serious examples of feminine evil, such as shit like this.

Mr. Majestyk said...

CNN has had a camera crew stationed outside of my office building in SW DC for the past several months. Mueller has offices in the building. I've never seen the Great Man himself, but he (or his flunkies) are there all right.i should walk up to the camera and make an "annoucement.". Perhaps:. "We will be indicting Trump tomorrow for malicious tweeting."

Sally327 said...

"Mass murderer Nikolas Cruz is getting stacks of fan mail and love letters sent to the Broward County jail, along with hundreds of dollars in contributions to his commissary account."

I think this is happens a lot. Serial killers, mass murderers, just regular old "only killed one or two people", like the Menendez brothers who killed their parents, they all get a lot of love and affection from women on the outside. Charles Manson had a wife or wannabe wife, some young girl, I read about shortly before he died. Of course Manson had plenty of women before he went away, women who readily killed at his command, which is even more inexplicable.

Meanwhile, I am attempting to find the definitive rendition of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto. I have become obsessed with that piece of music.

bolivar di griz said...

Why was this story written?


https://www.38north.org/2018/03/yongbyon032918/

Lucien said...

How long before young master Hogg is caught saying “Don’t you know who I am?”

the 4chan Guy who reads Althouse said...

I'm checking out 4chan like I normally do, seeing what crazy shit people are up to. And people are doing crazy shit, which is kinda reassuring actually: if people all of a sudden stopped posting crazy shit it would probably mean something real bad was coming up.

Because people use the internet to vent and let out their demons in a way that would get them arrested if they did that shit for real. I don't mean the pictures of chicks spreading their ass cheeks and showing their assholes, I don't think you can get arrested for that shit anymore, I mean the crazy angry shit. Maybe the chicks spreading their ass cheeks and showing their assholes are, like, angry at their parents or boyfriends or something, but that's different.

Then I click on some Althouse posts because it can't be 4chan all the time, that's not healthy I think, but then some of the commenters seem angry, too. And I think these Althouse people are a lot more mature than most of the people on 4chan, because most of the people who comment on Althouse seem old, but when people get angry it all kinda runs together.

I'm not saying these people on Althouse should be looking at pictures of chicks spreading their ass cheeks and showing their assholes, but maybe it would help them put things in perspective. Because I bet in the Soviet Union you couldn't show pictures of chicks spreading their ass cheeks and showing their assholes, you'd probably be sent to Siberia or some shit like that.

I realize there wasn't an Internet when the Soviet Union was around, but I bet their internet would've sucked back then. Everything you did would have people watching. I mean, I guess it would kinda be like Facebook is now, but it would've probably been worse, I'm just not sure how exactly.

But I bet in the Soviet Union they would've crushed an Althouse and a 4chan. So I think we still are okay, mostly. But if they start trying to crush an Althouse or a 4chan then maybe the crazy shit coming is really coming now.

Like maybe Google or Amazon would start warning Althouse that her shit's too real, and they might start making threats. Which would suck, because I like Amazon, you can get shit pretty cheap sometimes and you don't even have to leave the house or anything. But sometimes those with a lot of power start thinking they need to use that power, when they should just fucking shut up and let things ride.

Sometimes I think Althouse should just post a picture of some chicks spreading their ass cheeks and showing their assholes, just to show she could. But maybe I think that because I spend too much time on 4chan. But I guess I might as well check out 4chan while I can, in case the crazy shit starts coming soon.

chickelit said...

Fays change, apparently.

chickelit said...

Was that comment homophonic?

chickelit said...

BTW Althouse - what’s up with your title. I thought you were annosmic.

n.n said...
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n.n said...

How long before young master Hogg is caught saying “Don’t you know who I am?"

Probably when the activists admit to themselves that gun control would not have prevented the mass abortion, and they start addressing causes and coverups, rather than symptoms for profit and Democrat leverage. Then Hogg et al and the racketeering industry will be called to task and their ulterior motives exposed for all the People and unPlanned Posterity to judge.

the 4chan Guy who reads Althouse said...

I was thinking a bit more, and that thinking made me think that if the crazy shit really came, our best bet to stay free would be the people on 4chan who have guns. Because a lot of the people on 4chan seem to know that you might need guns if they start fucking with the First Amendment, and they most likely would start fucking with the First Amendment so that they could really fuck with the Second Amendment. Which is why we need guns.

Sure, there are some people on 4chan that I wouldn't really trust with a gun, but then there are some Althouse commenters that I really wouldn't trust with a gun, either, so I think that is just people in general, mostly.

But that's why you need a gun sometimes, to protect yourself from the people with guns that you can't trust. On 4chan some people think a lot of those people are in the Government, and maybe I spend too much time on 4chan but I can start to see that sometimes.

Like, if Facebook was a person, would you trust this Facebook dude with a gun? Because I think if Facebook was a dude he'd be thinking he's okay to be fucking with your shit, like taking your guns away. I know Facebook isn't the Government, but it sure seems to act like it thinks it's the Government sometimes. And maybe I spend too much time on 4chan, but I don't trust the government with that kind of shit.

Maybe I'm paranoid, I don't know. But if big government and big Facebook don't make you paranoid, then I think you are maybe trusting them too much. Because absolute power absolutely fucks up shit, or however that quote works -- I think you know what I mean.

And if they try to take away pictures of chicks spreading their ass cheeks and showing their assholes, then you know other bad shit is gonna follow. Because now they're just showing they can fuck with you, to show you that they can fuck with you.

That's why I sometimes get paranoid when I read Althouse blogging about court decisions and shit, because it always seems like the courts are constantly trying to fuck with us. Just to show that they can fuck with us. Maybe that's why Althouse posts that shit, so that we are aware that the courts are fucking with us, but I don't know that for sure. Althouse is kinda mysterious about her shit sometimes.

Ron Winkleheimer said...

"Mass murderer Nikolas Cruz is getting stacks of fan mail and love letters sent to the Broward County jail, along with hundreds of dollars in contributions to his commissary account."

There's nothing new about that sort of behavior. Mark Twain wrote an article about women sending letters to and doting on heinous murdering criminals who were awaiting the hangman.

Molly said...

Isn't there a saying that bankruptcy occurs slowly and gradually, and then all at once. And isn't that true of lake ice disappearing -- suddenly one day all the ice is submerged and therefore seems to have disappeared.

LuAnn Zieman said...

Some surprising? stats from the March For Our Lives on the Washington Post site: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/03/28/heres-who-actually-attended-the-march-for-our-lives-no-it-wasnt-mostly-young-people/?utm_term=.02f2ff2ec0c9

Fritz said...

Molly said...
Isn't there a saying that bankruptcy occurs slowly and gradually, and then all at once. And isn't that true of lake ice disappearing -- suddenly one day all the ice is submerged and therefore seems to have disappeared.


Ice floats. All ice floats.

tim in vermont said...

- suddenly one day all the ice is submerged and therefore seems to have disappeared.

It blows to one shore or the other, piles up there, and quickly melts. Once the ice sheet crashes into the shore, it's not coming back.

chickelit said...

Once the ice sheet crashes into the shore, it's not coming back.

As ice

HT said...

where's the wall?