Althouse: At the Inappropriate President Café...

२४ एप्रिल, २०१८

At the Inappropriate President Café...

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४१ टिप्पण्या:

Mark Larson म्हणाले...: Austin!; २४/४/१८, ११:४४ AM
Achilles म्हणाले...: Kayne West is setting up for 2024.

Keep America great 2024.; २४/४/१८, ११:४५ AM
Ann Althouse म्हणाले...: Photo is from April 9th, when we were in Austin.

We're home now.; २४/४/१८, ११:४५ AM
Bay Area Guy म्हणाले...: Willie Nelson is no doubt a national treasure. He should be pardoned for all marijuana and/or IRS-related offenses.; २४/४/१८, ११:५१ AM
mccullough म्हणाले...: 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; २४/४/१८, ११:५१ AM
mccullough म्हणाले...: Should be “as The Weed”; २४/४/१८, ११:५२ AM
Gahrie म्हणाले...: 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.; २४/४/१८, ११:५५ AM
rhhardin म्हणाले...: 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.; २४/४/१८, ११:५८ AM
rhhardin म्हणाले...: Likewise "I hate every bone in your body but mine" C. C. DeVille; २४/४/१८, १२:०२ PM
gspencer म्हणाले...: "I'll never smoke weed with Willie again"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OJWw07oPAE; २४/४/१८, १२:२० PM
Lucien म्हणाले...: 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.; २४/४/१८, १२:२४ PM
Nonapod म्हणाले...: 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).; २४/४/१८, १२:२५ PM
tcrosse म्हणाले...: Absent the Presidency, maybe we should commission him to write a new national anthem.; २४/४/१८, १२:३१ PM
As my whimsy leads me.. म्हणाले...: 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; २४/४/१८, १२:३९ PM
TestTube म्हणाले...: 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.; २४/४/१८, १२:५४ PM
Michael K म्हणाले...: I loved Willie's movie "Honeysuckle Rose." I think it might be the only movie which I liked Dyan Cannon in.; २४/४/१८, १:०५ PM
David Begley म्हणाले...: 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.; २४/४/१८, १:१० PM
mockturtle म्हणाले...: Rather Willie for President than Hillary.; २४/४/१८, १:१६ PM
exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil म्हणाले...: What about Alice Cooper?

"We're all gonna rock, to the rules that I make,
I wanna be elected!"; २४/४/१८, १:१६ PM
walter म्हणाले...: 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?; २४/४/१८, १:२९ PM
Inga...Allie Oop म्हणाले...: 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.; २४/४/१८, १:३१ PM
Ann Althouse म्हणाले...: @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.; २४/४/१८, १:३६ PM
Gahrie म्हणाले...: 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?; २४/४/१८, १:४६ PM
FullMoon म्हणाले...: ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.; २४/४/१८, १:४७ PM
FullMoon म्हणाले...: 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.; २४/४/१८, १:४९ PM
Jim at म्हणाले...: 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.; २४/४/१८, १:५५ PM
Inga...Allie Oop म्हणाले...: “Seems all you do is bitch.”

I don’t do sycophancy, I’ll leave that to you.; २४/४/१८, २:०४ PM
Nonapod म्हणाले...: 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.; २४/४/१८, २:०८ PM
Michael K म्हणाले...: 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.; २४/४/१८, २:४३ PM
walter म्हणाले...: "resist we much. We must, and we will much- about that- be committed."; २४/४/१८, ३:१३ PM
Etienne म्हणाले...: 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.; २४/४/१८, ३:३३ PM
Ann Althouse म्हणाले...: "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.; २४/४/१८, ४:२८ PM
mockturtle म्हणाले...: It is important that Kim save face in whatever deals are struck. Trump knows that.; २४/४/१८, ४:५९ PM
wild chicken म्हणाले...: 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.; २४/४/१८, ५:१८ PM
wild chicken म्हणाले...: Er, prof...; २४/४/१८, ५:१८ PM
FullMoon म्हणाले...: 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.; २४/४/१८, ६:१७ PM
Fernandinande म्हणाले...: 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.; २४/४/१८, ६:३४ PM
Curious George म्हणाले...: "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.; २४/४/१८, ६:५९ PM
Unknown म्हणाले...: Willie for President of the Imperial Japanese Navy!!!!; २४/४/१८, ९:०५ PM
mockturtle म्हणाले...: Willie for President of the Imperial Japanese Navy!!!!

I thought that flag looked familiar.; २४/४/१८, ९:४७ PM
Clyde म्हणाले...: Tide rolls out on 'blue wave' in AZ-8: It's a long way to Tipirneni.; २५/४/१८, ५:२१ AM