... you can run amok.
The photo was taken from the car as we drove through Illinois (on U.S. Route 24) on our way to West Lafayette on Friday. We've been back since last night, but that was our quick trip to Indiana. So don't think I never travel.
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They're one up on new Hollywood movies. They have no problem displaying an American flag, Armstrong or not.
The name is Joker's Wild. It is a gaming cafe. Not sure of what food they serve.
Next to running red lights, there's nothing more satisfying then running amok.
It, too, have dreamed that one day I might travel to Indiana.
On Drudge just now, the Brazil National Museum in Rio is totally engulfed in fire. Live footage. It is amazing how complete the fire is. Really sad. I don't think they are even trying to put it out.
”but that was our quick trip to Indiana. So don't think I never travel.”
Yeah, I don’t think that counts.
@James
try the farm-raised Jokers-- they taste less 'gamey'
Boston Globe now assures us that Harvard never took any notice of Elizabeth Warren’s claim of Native American ancestry. Of course not.
The labor union spokesman Trumpka said our President has failed the Unions because he has not gotten an infra-structure spending bills through Congress. I guess all of the new construction at Guantanamo Navy base doesn't count.
@Leland, yes. Unbelievably sad.
Boston Globe now assures us that Harvard never took any notice of Elizabeth Warren’s claim of Native American ancestry. Of course not.
The headline refers to all but one of the Harvard liars that were on the hiring committee when she joined Harvard. The article has all the details/facts that make the case that they are lying.
we had an Inuit kid on our track team named Amok--
fast, but could never stay in his lane.
I saw the title “Wild Game Cafe”, a small fuzzy picture of a storefront (I didn’t have my glasses on), and thought my husband would love a cafe that serves wild game.
Oh, crap Leland, I'm a curator, and that is what keeps me up at night. I won't look until tomorrow when I get to my museum. Shit. It's all gone, I know. There isn't enough money in the world to even start to think of conservation work. Shit. My office has a gas (not halon, I forget which) fire suppression system, so if I'm back in the stacks and the alarm goes, I go with some great 17th Century furniture! Shit.
We drove to Bisbee today and had lunch at the Copper Queen Hotel. Got rained on and got home just before a big thunderstorm hit. Flash Flood warnings in Tucson tonight.
Good night to stay home.
I lied and peeked at the report. It's worse than I could have imagined. All gone. A country has basically lost it's history. Shit.
Song lyrics by Joni Mitchell (1943 - )
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Both Sides Now
Rows and flows of angel hair
And ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons everywhere --
I've looked at clouds that way.
But now they only block the sun;
They rain and snow on everyone.
So many things I would have done,
But clouds got in my way.
I've looked at clouds from both sides now --
From up and down -- and still somehow
It's cloud's illusions I recall.
I really don't know clouds at all.
Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels --
The dizzy dancing way you feel --
As every fairy tale comes real --
I've looked at love that way.
But now it's just another show.
You leave them laughing when you go,
And if you care, don't let them know --
Don't give yourself away.
I've looked at love from both sides now --
From give and take -- and still somehow
It's love's illusions I recall.
I really don't know love at all.
Tears and fears and feeling proud --
To say "I love you" right out loud --
Dreams and schemes and circus crowds --
I've looked at life that way.
But now old friends -- they're acting strange --
They shake their heads; they say I've changed.
Well, something's lost, but something's gained
In living every day.
I've looked at life from both sides now --
From win and lose -- and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall.
I really don't know life at all.
-----
Sung by Neil Diamond
Wonder how it will affect this:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/give-killer-police-medals-urges-brazilian-trump-jair-bolsonaro-k88mfkvwf
Location, location, location. A loan service located near a gaming site with the empty void of Divine Realty interposed between them. Sometimes God sends you a sign by his absence.
Song lyrics by Gerry Rafferty (1947 - ) and Joe Egan (1946 - )
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Stuck in the Middle With You
I don't know why
I came here tonight.
I got the feeling that
Something ain't right.
I'm so scared,
I'll fall off my chair.
I'm wondering how
I'll get down the stairs.
Clowns to the left of me,
Jokers to the right --
Here I am --
Stuck in the middle with you,
Yes, I'm stuck
In the middle with you.
I'm wondering what
I should do.
It's so hard to keep
This smile from my face.
I'm losing control;
I'm all over the place.
Well, you started out
With nothing,
And you're proud
You're a self made man.
Your friends --
They all come crawling.
They slap you on the back
And say: "Please, please!"
Trying to make some sense
Of it all,
But I can see
It makes no sense at all.
Is it cool
To go to sleep on the floor?
'Cause I don't think
I can take any more!
-----
Sung by Stealers Wheel
"The labor union spokesman Trumpka said our President has failed the Unions because he has not gotten an infra-structure spending bills through Congress"
The head of the AFL-CIO - Trumka - is a piece of shit. After the POTUS invited him to help with Infrastructure bill, he called Trump a "racist" over Charlottsville in August 2017, and flounced off.
He's a shit head. And a fake. The only people he represents are State and Local Gov't workers. He hasn't done a damn thing any other American worker. He's a DNC Hack.
Next to the New York Times there's no one I trust more than Harvard Law.
'Fat Girls, 'Negroes', and the Joker's Wild'-- a typical day @Althouse
God Bless You and Have Mercy On Your Soul
You travel local, regionally, or nationally without pretense.
I can hear John McCain's voice from the after world:
"Althouse, you're better than this.
Please live up the standards that I and Hillary have set."
I plan on using "We're better than this" a lot.
Its a a great phrase.
It will give me unearned moral superiority and anyone who disagrees is a cunt. As McCain would say.
" he held the lily gravely
I wouldn't use that language, now unlikep palin he didn't challenge that account in game change,
Carrying over from the other thread, Jesus clear meant don't let your other obligations interfere with the preaching of the word.
Like some do:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/09/the-scandal-of-left-wing-journalists-covering-a-left-wing-pope.php
As with the 'poor will always be with I'd is not about economics but opportunity and priority.
I now have 3 gambling dens within 1.5 miles of me. The one a block away on the other side of a church replaced the Salvation Army store, fittingly enough. It's crowded until after midnight every night.
Yeah Todd, it is horrible. Seeing a building like that fully engulfed is horrific, regardless of the significance. That is the nation's national museum; it is a terrible tragedy. I'm able to detach, because I doubt I would have seen anything in it anyway. But that's the only reason I can detach. I can't imagine the grief if this was one of the Smithsonian buildings.
A realty office in a house near me was torn down this week. The signs confused me a minute: it's listed for sale by the company which was named for the address, and there's a "co. has moved to" sign next to it.
Not a very wise realtor who buys a house next to a seedy apartment house in the expectation of keeping it long term. There are other respectable businesses around, but I'm pretty sure whores work in the house and maybe worse.
As expected:
"Two Americans who were stabbed Friday night at a train station in Amsterdam were targeted by an Afghan citizen who had a “terrorist motive,” officials say.
City authorities said the 19-year-old suspect, identified only as Jawed S., appeared to target the American tourists in a stabbing attack at Central Station just after noon on Friday."
It seems there is a slightly less iconic building ablaze in liverpool.
You thought this would be over already:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1011988/Chemnitz-Germany-Merkel-migrant-protests-pegida
Mike Sylwester:
Neil's version of Joni's tune was nice. The images in the video were well chosen.
Clowns to the left of me,
Jokers to the right --
Really sums it up, don't you think?
Oh, uh, Alpine Beer Company.
DUET
India Pale Ale | 7.0% ALC. BY VOL.
Skål!
Happy Trumka day!
Read the headline and thought "Elk! Moose!", then looked at the picture. Sorely disappointed.
So this is an open thread:
I refuse to make a comment re nachos.
I see that jabbering about nachos is very popular. But I think nachos are political and gross and totally something about which I will never ever comment. And I won't look at other nacho comments, cause then I might make a comment about how I'm against nacho commenting. But, I'll never comment about my dislike re nacho jabber.
And, I won't follow any nacho stuff.
Anywho, here's a video of nacho stuff:
[Insert Nachopinon video link here.]
Carry on.
Try again:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/09/yet-another-dry-hole-in-the-stop-kavanaugh-campaign.php
Snowballs?
In September?
Running amok, as Judge Jeanine often does:
During an interview aired on AM 970 New York, the former judge [Jeanine Pirro] said, “I’ve been in law-enforcement for over three decades. This guy [Don Trump] was framed.”
Pirro also suggested investigators are looking at the wrong targets, accusing the Democratic Party of breaking the law rather than their opponents across the aisle. “Nobody is looking at the corruption. It’s all one-sided, the corruption on the part of the Democrats,” Pirro said. “This president was framed. It’s that simple.”
“The crisscrossing and the incestuous nature of our government in an attempt to prevent the outsider president that we wanted from getting elected is frightening,” she added, touching on the right-wing conspiracy theory alleging a “deep state” is working to bring Trump down.
Pirro offered no evidence for her assertion, and her comments echo claims made by the president suggesting members of law enforcement are trying to unseat him for crimes he did not commit.
So there is no convictions involving Trump or the Trump Organization over the past 40 years? Like the Trump University scam where $25 million was awarded to duped students? Or the series of money laundering violations at Trump Taj Mahal that amounted to $10 million in civil penalties?
And there is evidence of interactions with the Italian mob, the Russian mob and Russian Oligarphs dealing in money laundering and other racketeering not yet addressed and, of course, not a single Fox News story discusses Trump's ongoing violation of the Emoluments Clause.
Lest we forget The Trumps have been charged with self-interest withdrawals from the Donald J Trump Foundation.
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"Kids, this-piece-of-paper's-got-47-words-37-sentences-58-words-we-wanna-know-details-of-the-crime-time-of-the-crime-and-any-other-kind-of-thing-you-gotta-say-pertaining-to-and-about-the-crime-I-want-to-know-arresting-officer's-name-and-any-other-kind-of-thing-you-gotta-say", and talked for forty-five minutes and nobody understood a word that he said, but we had fun filling out the forms and playing with the pencils on the bench there, and I filled out the massacre with the four part harmony, and wrote it down there, just like it was, and everything was fine and I put down the pencil, and I turned over the piece of paper, and there, there on the other side, in the middle of the other side, away from everything else on the other side, in parentheses, capital letters, quotated, read the following words:
("Kid, have you rehabilitated yourself?")
I went over to the Sargent, said, "Sargent, you got a lot a damn gall to ask me if I've rehabilitated myself, I mean, I mean, I mean that just, I'm sittin' here on the bench, I mean I'm sittin' here on the Group W bench, 'cause you want to know if I'm moral enough join the army, burn women, kids, houses and villages after bein' a litterbug." He looked at me and said, "Kid, we don't like your kind, and we're gonna send you fingerprints off to Washington."
And friends, somewhere in Washington enshrined in some little folder, is a study in black and white of my fingerprints. And the only reason I'm singing you this song now is cause you may know somebody in a similar situation, or you may be in a similar situation, and if your in a situation like that there's only one thing you can do and that's walk into the shrink wherever you are ,just walk in say "Shrink, You can get anything you want, at Alice's restaurant.". And walk out.
Mike Sylvester: Sadly, Gerry Rafferty died in 2011.
"You can't claim to have widely traveled until you've been to Indiana," says the Michelin Guide. "If you've seen one small Pennsylvania town, you've seen them all," says Bob Newhart.
FEDS CHARGE SCIENTOLOGISTS IN NEW YORK FOR $80 MILLION MEDICARE SCAM
Let's see: They were last heard from because they forced a woman to have an abortion - no, wait - they were last heard from because somebody killed themselves,....no, wait - how long ago was it that they infiltrated the IRS and threatened a bunch of judges? Whatever. They were last heard from after,...after....Oh, fuck it:
Anybody seen Tom Cruise's new movie?
Just in case you thought I was kidding:
ALL CLEAR?!?
They're all around you - you're making them rich - and Charlie Manson, himself, couldn't be prouder of all you've accomplished on his behalf.
Ifigure what the fu k jjdt in order to not be a Hippocratic I gottaa conserve sumpin.
http://americandigest.org/wp/boomer-anthems-stairway-to-heaven/
http://americandigest.org/wp/boomer-anthems-stairway-to-heaven/
i mean it, I really, really mean it.
I've paid Mike Franti but it weren't no damn reperations.
Aggie Fort Collins Spearhead.
Many bucks flowed his way including shirts.
craxk my lyri s you an unass yourself of:
well the cat is in....
NO DAMN CRADDLE.
well the cat is in.....
NO DAMN CRADDLE.
NOT WILLINV OR ABLE
TO RHYME WITH CFADDLE.
The Globe’s has set up it’s Warren clearing screed to be the definitive end to the valid criticism of her ancesteral lie. Of note:
A ‘discovered’ document that suppodrly contradicts any claim she wasn’t hired for her ethnicity. Proof. Except we can only take a reporter’s word for it- no supporting document is provided, because reasons. But this document was found in a box after decades. Perhaps the same box where the absentee ballots are ‘found’ during the recounts?
No real investigation of why Warren listed minotity staus in the widely available law review or if any of the hiring powers had seen it.
More to the point of her critics- Does she actually have native american heritage? No investigation even though DNA tests are cheap. No critical statements of the fact you can’t ‘self identify’ as native american? Not vey PC Globe.
Globe uses ‘Pocahantas’ as the mock of choice. Lame. No mention of Fauxcantas, Liawatha, or Spreading Bull.
Still, this Globe story will for the left be the marker for definitive end of any criticism of Warren. ‘Case closed’.
Moreover when you dig a little deeper into Boston Globe's earlier reporting on Warren's heritage (back when there were still some journalists there) they discovered Harvard listed two faculty members as Native American yet when Globe pointed out this was easily found on a Harvard Law website, Harvard took down the online posting.
Ah yes, the Boston Globe. Here is there unbiased description of a Trump rally in Ohio, a state Trump won, IIRC:
Anger and hostility were the most overwhelming sentiments at a Trump rally in Cincinnati last week, a deep sense of frustration, an us-versus-them mentality, and a belief that they are part of an unstoppable and underestimated movement. Unlike many in the country, however, these hard-core Trump followers do not believe the real estate mogul’s misfortunes are of his own making.
They believe what Trump has told them over and over, that this election is rigged, and if he loses, it will be because of a massive conspiracy to take him down.
Wow, only complete imbeciles would believe that if their favored candidate lost, it was due to a conspiracy and the foul machinations of some evil person!
Every day is a new day to the Globe, complete with a new history of the past.
The Boston Globe is cleansing history reminds of the radicals tearing down confederates statures.
Servpro: "Like It Never Happened".
“In the most exhaustive review undertaken of Elizabeth Warren’s professional history, the Globe found clear evidence, in documents and interviews, that her claim to Native American ethnicity was never considered by the Harvard Law faculty, which voted resoundingly to hire her…”
Yes, just look at the rankings of the schools she attended compared to the rest of the faculty! She was a shoo in!
The Globe's insistence the newly discovered yet unseen document is definitive proof is laughable. Does the folder have 'Steele Dossier' crossed off on top?
that her claim to Native American ethnicity was never considered by the Harvard Law faculty
What about Rutgers? The review was "exhaustive" we are assured.
The posts with a place for comments is the "café." I can call this café whatever I want, and the name of the café may refer in some way to the photograph that's included, which may also be of a café, and that café may have a visible name that had something but not everything to do with how I named my café.
I could have called this The Born to Be Wild Café or Neil's Lonesome Café or The Divine Joker Café or the Woeful Storefront Café...
"that her claim to Native American ethnicity was never considered by the Harvard Law faculty"
So they proved a negative?
Cood catch Prof!
If the stabbing in Europe gets more play, it may impact us tourism to Europe...
I think a bus of Chinese in Paris being robbed hurt Chinese tourism...
The story of an gas attack to rob a villa in south of France reads like something out of a movie.
Reminds me - Kim Khardasium was robbed in Paris.
Western Europe needs to be careful of their image, or they could have a Red Hen (decline in business).
The hiring committee was awed by her high cheekbones and lobster mayonnaise.
Not showing the American flag planting bothers me, it’s iconic.
I am not old enough to remember the actual planting, but I remember the mtv clip where they colorized the flag.
I don’t understand the reasoning for not showing it.
Perhaps trying to appeal to the Chinese market? Europe?
Chinese will actually look down on this.
Gut feeling - this decision will halve the movie revenue.
I swear this is a headline at the NYT today.
The Supreme Court Ought to Back Off
The nomination of Brett Kavanaugh might not be so contentious if the justices stopped jumping into disputes better left to the political process.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
This is why satire is dead.
So, Elizabeth Warren writes a book called Pow Wow Chow with her favorite Cherokee recipes in it, and the BG has now decided that she would never try to get into Harvard by claiming she was an Indian? Are you kidding me?
BG: "Ethnic Cleansing".
Lest we forget The Trumps have been charged with self-interest withdrawals from the Donald J Trump Foundation.
LOL! Remember who he ran against. Remember the ONLY person with a reasonable shot to beat him took a 17 million dollar paycheck from good ole’ Clinton Foundation U for part time work as “chancellor.” But I guess the difference is that nobody has “charged” the Clintons with self interested withdrawals! Talk about a scam! If miseducation of students were a crime, there would be people being dragged into prison daily from universities across America. In fact, gadfly, if you probably should sue whatever school purportedly taught you to think.
"Pirro offered no evidence for her assertion, and her comments echo claims made by the president suggesting members of law enforcement are trying to unseat him for crimes he did not commit."
This, as usual, is plain silly. Pirro, FNC, etc have been detailing the specifics of this plot for a year and a half now. Three House committees and the Senate Judiciary committee have all held exhaustive hearings on the subject, including interviewing former ADAG Bruce Ohr last week.
"So there is no convictions involving Trump or the Trump Organization over the past 40 years? Like the Trump University scam where $25 million was awarded to duped students? Or the series of money laundering violations at Trump Taj Mahal that amounted to $10 million in civil penalties?"
Squirrel!!!
"And there is evidence of interactions with the Italian mob, the Russian mob and Russian Oligarphs dealing in money laundering and other racketeering not yet addressed and, of course, not a single Fox News story discusses Trump's ongoing violation of the Emoluments Clause."
You know that they have jumped the shark when they bring up the Emoluments Clause.
From beyond the cheddar curtain to hoosierville.
You know that they have jumped the shark when they bring up the Emoluments Clause.
I will take that seriously the day somebody explains to me how taking dozens of millions from foreigners with business before the state department, most notably, Putin, was not a violation. But to me, it’s just another case of governing while Republican.
Guildofcannonballs said...
"I've paid Mike Franti but it weren't no damn reperations."
That figures. Last time I heard about Michael, he was playing a yoga festival at the Esalen Institute.
You NewAgers are all the same.
LEXINGTON, Va. — A small town in Virginia is trying to recover its image after The Red Hen restaurant famously refused to serve President Donald Trump´s spokeswoman, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. The Roanoke Times reported Sunday that a regional tourism board is pulling together emergency funds to boost its digital marketing campaign. Normally that money is saved. But officials agreed the region is in desperate need of positive coverage.(Snip) The Red Hen incident in June prompted thousands of a calls and emails to the tourism office. They´re still coming in.. - AP
LOL
Hey Crack? Why don’t you explain to me what ought to be done about Alex Jones “as if to a small child,” as they say in Galaxy Quest. No rhetorical questions which assume a common understanding, just give me your take. Before you start, my take is that the only true fix for free speech is more speech. If that’s what you think, just say so, because it’s not clear from your posts. You seem to think that something should be done.
I read the other one as “Devine Reality” as in figure out what is real.
How did you like the remodeled Greyhouse, Professor?
"I will take that seriously the day somebody explains to me how taking dozens of millions from foreigners with business before the state department, most notably, Putin, was not a violation. But to me, it’s just another case of governing while Republican."
Here is one thing - Crooked Hillary was (the highest ranking) Principal Officer at the time, and Trump, of course, is President. That doesn't make him more vulnerable to the Emoluments Clause, but far less. It was specifically aimed at government employees, like Clinton, while early Presidents, starting with Washington, would have violated the interpretation being pushed by the Dems to disqualify Trump. Their problem here is that once the Electoral College has voted, the votes certified by Congress, and the new President has taken his oath of office, he is President until he serves out his four year term, resigns, dies (though his duties and authority may be exercised by others if he is physically incapable of doing so), or is removed through the impeachment process. Those latter two are the two choices that the Dems have of removing him before the end of his term - they can assassinate him, or they can impeach him in the House and convict him in the Senate. He has the armed might of the US*, led by the Secret Service, to protect him, and the Dems aren't going to have close to the number of votes needed, at least in the Senate to remove him.
* I used "armed might of the US" because it isn't limited to just the SS. In one scene in the Harrison Ford AF-1 movie, two F-15s launch missiles at Russian jets to protect AF-1. Turns out that there may have been just that situation this last year when Trump was flying to Korea. There appears to have been something that looked like a missle launch out of a Navy base by Seattle, followed by an air to air radar controlled missle launch by an F-15 out over the Pacific, and apparently a successful hit. I would like to think that that all is the usual conspiracy theory sort of thing. BUT I think that there is a decent likelyhood that Trump often has active military air support when aloft and on the ground, when outside the WH, given the general threat level by the unhinged left in this country.
Kinda sorry I missed this post when it went up; that picture was taken in Watseka, IL, which is where I grew up. The building to the right is where my father had his law practice for many years. The building to the left was the home of Randy's Barbershop where Randy the Barber (a polio survivor) would threaten me with a mohawk every time my dad brought me in for a trim. Small world!
I don't go back very often. It's kind of sad how many places in town have that video gambling now; I wish they hadn't legalized it, but it's just another symptom of how the state of Illinois has been misgoverned for decades IMO.
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