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April 24, 2018

At the Inappropriate President Café...

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41 comments:

Mark Larson said...: Austin!; 4/24/18, 11:44 AM
Achilles said...: Kayne West is setting up for 2024.

Keep America great 2024.; 4/24/18, 11:45 AM
Ann Althouse said...: Photo is from April 9th, when we were in Austin.

We're home now.; 4/24/18, 11:45 AM
Bay Area Guy said...: Willie Nelson is no doubt a national treasure. He should be pardoned for all marijuana and/or IRS-related offenses.; 4/24/18, 11:51 AM
mccullough said...: I dig that Willie has become the anti-cult-of-personality through this satiric but we really love him Willie as Cult of Personality stuff. I think the tax evasion is as essential to Willie’s fake CoP as The Werd and the fact that he has been the Hardest Working Man in Showbusiness for a long time (partly due to the tax evasion stuff).awhile; 4/24/18, 11:51 AM
mccullough said...: Should be “as The Weed”; 4/24/18, 11:52 AM
Gahrie said...: I wouldn't vote for Willie, but I don't understand why his candidacy would be inappropriate.

Especially given the fact that Kerry and Hillary both ran.; 4/24/18, 11:55 AM
rhhardin said...: I'm so miserable without you it's almost like you're here, turns out to be Billy Ray Cyrus. Willie was just quoting it on Imus.; 4/24/18, 11:58 AM
rhhardin said...: Likewise "I hate every bone in your body but mine" C. C. DeVille; 4/24/18, 12:02 PM
gspencer said...: "I'll never smoke weed with Willie again"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OJWw07oPAE; 4/24/18, 12:20 PM
Lucien said...: First he'll have to beat Kinky Friedman in a run-off. But at least we won't be worried about seeing his tax returns.; 4/24/18, 12:24 PM
Nonapod said...: I could probably think of a lot of people who I wouldn't pick over Willie Nelson, many of whom are actual "politicians". For a few examples, I'd probably vote for Willie over Oprah Winfrey, Andrew Cuomo, Sherrod Brown, Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, or Bernie Sanders (assuming it was a binary choice).; 4/24/18, 12:25 PM
tcrosse said...: Absent the Presidency, maybe we should commission him to write a new national anthem.; 4/24/18, 12:31 PM
As my whimsy leads me.. said...: Althouse, Dennis Prager will be speaking in Madison tomorrow, 4/25. Just in case you’d like to go and blog his talk and the crowd. He’s on Salem radio stations—usually at the same time as Rush.
http://www.yaf.org/events/dennis-prager-university-wisconsin-madison/

Toy; 4/24/18, 12:39 PM
TestTube said...: Why thank you!

I would like to talk about this post from last week:

https://althouse.blogspot.com/2018/04/first-congregational-church-of-oakland.html

I did some online research, then contacted the article's author and her editor to ask them some questions. I learned more about the issue behind the article, and also a lot on the journalistic and editorial decisions behind the article

The TL;DR version:
--Upon further research, the article seems to me to be about a non-issue.
--There were many steps led the article from something I would perceive as a non-issue to something that grabbed my attention.
--The journalistic and editorial decisions made in the production of the article are all defensible. (not saying I would agree with them all, but I can understand them). Nor is there any sentence in the article that is false.
--It seems that the newspaper expects that reader use sophistication and intelligent reading of the article. That is, you as the reader are responsible for the conclusions you come to after reading the article.

Yeah, THAT's the TL;DR version. I would be willing to post a more detailed account in the comments if there is interest, but it would be a LONG comment, and I am reluctant to spend the time writing it up if people don't want to read it, and I respect this is Althouse's blog, not mine.; 4/24/18, 12:54 PM
Michael K said...: I loved Willie's movie "Honeysuckle Rose." I think it might be the only movie which I liked Dyan Cannon in.; 4/24/18, 1:05 PM
David Begley said...: Private property rights in patents and the independence of the federal judiciary took it on the chin today with Oil States. At least the Chief and the new guy saw the issue clearly.; 4/24/18, 1:10 PM
mockturtle said...: Rather Willie for President than Hillary.; 4/24/18, 1:16 PM
exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said...: What about Alice Cooper?

"We're all gonna rock, to the rules that I make,
I wanna be elected!"; 4/24/18, 1:16 PM
walter said...: Blogger As my whimsy leads me.. said...
Althouse, Dennis Prager will be speaking in Madison tomorrow, 4/25.
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Dunno bout that.
Will such "hate speech" be allowed?; 4/24/18, 1:29 PM
Inga...Allie Oop said...: Trump says Kim Jong Un is “open and honorable”. I wonder how that sounds to the parents of Otto Warmbier. I recall how Pence didn’t stand when the North Korean contingent came into the area he was in during the Olympics because of the Warmbiers. So now Kim Jong Un is honorable, go figure.; 4/24/18, 1:31 PM
Ann Althouse said...: @Whimsy

"Young Americans for Freedom will host conservative commentator Dennis Prager to speak on “Judeo-Christian Morality and Its Impact on Western Culture” at 7:30 p.m. April 25 at Sterling Hall."

I'd have to be rooting for a protest. Not because I want protests of this sort of thing, but just because I'm not good trapped in a room having to listen to something that's not spontaneous. So for the sake of virtue, I must stay away.; 4/24/18, 1:36 PM
Gahrie said...: but just because I'm not good trapped in a room having to listen to something that's not spontaneous.

Like a lecture in law school?; 4/24/18, 1:46 PM
FullMoon said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 4/24/18, 1:47 PM
FullMoon said...: Test Tube says:
Yeah, THAT's the TL;DR version. I would be willing to post a more detailed account in the comments if there is interest, but it would be a LONG comment, and I am reluctant to spend the time writing it up if people don't want to read it, and I respect this is Althouse's blog, not mine.

Yes.; 4/24/18, 1:49 PM
Jim at said...: So now Kim Jong Un is honorable, go figure.

You bitched when Trump called out Rocket Man. Now you're bitching when the tune has changed.

Seems all you do is bitch.; 4/24/18, 1:55 PM
Inga...Allie Oop said...: “Seems all you do is bitch.”

I don’t do sycophancy, I’ll leave that to you.; 4/24/18, 2:04 PM
Nonapod said...: What about Alice Cooper?

Alice Cooper has expressed many conservative viewpoints over the years. So yeah, I'd probably pick him over most Dems and probably several Republicans.; 4/24/18, 2:08 PM
Michael K said...: Poor INga.

So now Kim Jong Un is honorable, go figure.

Churchill quote:

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

Poor Inga. Life is tough when you are not well equipped to handle it.; 4/24/18, 2:43 PM
walter said...: "resist we much. We must, and we will much- about that- be committed."; 4/24/18, 3:13 PM
Etienne said...: Fox news had an interesting article about a new book by the Green Beret Sergeant first class Gregory A. Stube (retired). "Conquer Anything".

His dad was reminding him as he was in the hospital after the Pakistani's blew him up:

"If you want sympathy you’ll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis. Sympathy may pay well in the short term, but if you cash in on sympathy, it will take everything from you in the long run."

I like it, although it sounds a little too rough for snowflakes.; 4/24/18, 3:33 PM
Ann Althouse said...: "Like a lecture in law school?"

It's fun to be the speaker. I said I wasn't good at sitting there being the trapped listener.

But most law school classes aren't lectures, so there is spontaneity.; 4/24/18, 4:28 PM
mockturtle said...: It is important that Kim save face in whatever deals are struck. Trump knows that.; 4/24/18, 4:59 PM
wild chicken said...: Like a lecture in law school?

A law school classroom is an arena. Certainly you don't interrupt the proof, but there is a lot of give and take.; 4/24/18, 5:18 PM
wild chicken said...: Er, prof...; 4/24/18, 5:18 PM
FullMoon said...: From Best of the Web:

An Anti-Trumper vs. ‘The Deep State’

Could FBI abuses move former opponents into the President’s camp?

In Washington a picture is emerging of an eerie and lack-of-candor railroading of Donald Trump conducted by the likes of James Comey and Andrew McCabe . The abuse of power by government officials who refuse to acknowledge the authority of the duly-elected chief executive is not limited to the FBI. And such abuse has inspired one of the President’s harshest critics to raise an alarm.

Warnings about an out-of-control “deep state” of bureaucrats who resist constitutional political authority have become standard fare in conservative media; this week brings a compelling new addition to the genre from a media outlet on the other end of the ideological spectrum.

Writing in the left-leaning British publication The Guardian, Harvard law professor Jack Goldsmith affirms that the improper exercise of executive authority by government officials pursuing their own agendas is not merely a figment of red-state imagination. According to Mr. Goldsmith:

America doesn’t have coups or tanks in the street. But a deep state of sorts exists here and it includes national security bureaucrats who use secretly collected information to shape or curb the actions of elected officials...

Since Trump was elected, unusually sensitive leaks of intelligence information designed to discredit him and his senior leadership have poured forth from current and former intelligence officials in the deep state.

It’s worth pausing here to note that while Mr. Goldsmith is not nearly as far to the left as most Guardian editors, he has been among the establishment Republicans most hostile to the President.; 4/24/18, 6:17 PM
Fernandinande said...: I was given a copy of Sagan's "The Demon Haunted World", which could be subtitled "A Brief Compendium of Human Superstition and Stupidity", and opened it right up to a dishonest and very shallow criticism of "The Bell Curve"; elsewhere Sagan equated "IQ testing" to phrenology.

It's almost as it he wanted to provide his own personal example of the irrational belief that all groups of humans are the same in any important characteristic.; 4/24/18, 6:34 PM
Curious George said...: "mockturtle said...
It is important that Kim save face in whatever deals are struck. Trump knows that."

Saving face isn't so important to our resident dullard, so this truism is most certainly lost on her.; 4/24/18, 6:59 PM
Unknown said...: Willie for President of the Imperial Japanese Navy!!!!; 4/24/18, 9:05 PM
mockturtle said...: Willie for President of the Imperial Japanese Navy!!!!

I thought that flag looked familiar.; 4/24/18, 9:47 PM
Clyde said...: Tide rolls out on 'blue wave' in AZ-8: It's a long way to Tipirneni.; 4/25/18, 5:21 AM