At the Pope Farm Conservancy, where there are no sunflowers this year.
Talk about anything in the comments. This is intended as an open thread, even though I'm not saying "café." "Corn Café"... that would sound stupid.
September 28, 2018
Walking in the corn today...
At the Pope Farm Conservancy, where there are no sunflowers this year.
Talk about anything in the comments. This is intended as an open thread, even though I'm not saying "café." "Corn Café"... that would sound stupid.
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My wife — a physical chemist who was formerly a scientist at the EPA — asked me how a full professor, holding an endowed chair, could be so unacquainted with logical thinking. I had no good answer.
Song lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein (1895 - 1960)
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Oh, What a Beautiful Morning
There's a bright, golden haze on the meadow.
The corn is as high as a elephant's eye,
And it looks like it's climbing clear up to the sky.
Oh, what a beautiful morning!
Oh, what a beautiful day!
I've got a beautiful feeling
Everything's goin' my way!
All the cattle are standing like statues.
They don't turn their heads as they see me ride by,
But a little brown maverick is winking her eye.
All the sounds of the earth are like music.
The breeze is so busy -- it don't miss a tree,
And an old weeping willow is laughing at me.
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Sung by Hugh Jackman
We didn't get much tree fruit this year. Not enough bees, or rain knocked off the blossoms..I can't recall which
Cornhuskers might go 0-4. Things look bleak.
Got post season tix for the Brewers.....hell yeah!
@David Begley, they’re playing Illinois in November. They aren’t going winless this year.
I grew up in Seward, Nebraska, during the mid-1960s, when the population was about 3,000. We had a corn field across our home's front street and another corn field behind our home.
My Dad taught at the local Lutheran college. I attended a Lutheran elementary school and high school. A lot (a third?) of the elementary school's pupils were farm kids.
After eighth grade, practically all the farm kids continued their education in the public high school.
The Lutheran high school had four years and a total of about 125 students.
I am sure that practically all the Lutheran high-school students were virgins when they graduated. A few students drank some beer occasionally before they graduated, but it was a big scandal if any of them got caught. I myself never had sexual intercourse or drank any alcohol until after I graduated from college.
Our Lutheran high school did not allow dancing at school parties. The students could dance only at private parties in parents' homes. The first time in our school's existence when dancing was allowed at a school party was when I was a sophomore.
So, I went through an experience that was similar to the movie Footloose.
I write a blog about my Seward years, and I published there an article I wrote about The Meaning of the Movie Footloose.
"could be so unacquainted with logical thinking"
Not unacquainted. The logic is attuned to the goal.
Look out for that weird guy pointing to the cornfield.
Don't fall down the cornhole.
You know you've lived in town a while when you recognize a corn field from its photo.
I still think Blasey Ford is a crazy cat woman. I know lots of quality women her age (wife, sisters, cousins, friends) who have had bona traumas in their lives (rape, sexual assault, battery, lost child, unplanned pregnancy, disabled children, ugly divorce, bankruptcy, breast cancer, devastating loss of parent, suicide, etc, etc).
I have a friend, who was my 7th grade sweetheart, who confided to me as 40-year old adults that her only daughter was the product of being raped by her ex-boyfriend. She dealt with it, raised a lovely daughter, even has a cute grandson now.
None of these women would lawyer up, get on tv and whine about a high school party 36 years ago. Not one.
This is all political theater.
Blasey Ford is a psycho-babbler extraordinaire allowing herself to be used by Democrat forces with one objective: to sink a potential 5th Vote to overturn Roe. They will slander anyone up for that office.
Corn in the fields
Listen to the rice when the wind blows 'cross the water
King Harvest has surely come
And baby, he gonna rape like the whirlwind
I’m sorry wildchicken didn’t get enough ______ fruit this year. For wht it’s worth this summer I traveled to a dozen places where people were cultivating bees. Hopefully it helps..
Café Corn. Woulda worked. Sad.
I read Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson a couple of times. Once in a book series and once as an audio book. Actually, more than once in the audio version as my wife wanted me to start again at the beginning so she could listen.
Caro makes the point in the second volume (I think) that the Senate was an object of derision until Johnson took over as majority leader. "Senator Foghorn" was a character on Fred Allan's radio show in the 1940s.
Johnson and some other Senators, like Goldwater and Nunn and others, raised its image. They made it a serious place.
That is gone now. They are clowns. Booker and Harris and some others. DiFi used to be a figure of respect. She is no more.
I expect a lot of Republicans in California will vote for her opponent, crazy as he is. At least he will not be ranking member on Judiciary, or Intelligence.
C Yelich has to be the nl MVP
Growing up in Nebraska I always knew I would leave. But Lincoln has become kind of a cool city over last 20 years. When you go back in the late fall early winter and everything is one awful grey/brown color it is so ugly. But I remember after a big snow when you could run up 14th street (?) to the north from the campus and get over the big hill and out into farmland and everything for 360 degrees around was pure white with no trees or buildings or signs breaking the horizon, just white ground and white sky and absolutely no sound. I do miss that, but suspect it is impossible now to run to such a place.
Help me understand. Is Senator Flake being compared to Judas and Issac or to Jesus and Abraham? The distinction seems significant.
There's a clear explanation for the new talking point circulating on the left that has been trying to "racialize" the Kavanaugh hearings, one that has escaped most commentators on the right.
The abandonment of the innocent until proven guilty standard is especially bad for minorities, black males in particular.
There's a risk that a segment of the Democrat's minority base, already defecting in record numbers to Trump, would sympathize with the predicament of the accused, Kavanaugh, rather than the rich white lady accusing him without corroboration.
If you don't think most black males -- and many females -- see that, you'd be wrong.
You don't have to be Emmett Till to know which way the whistle blows.
The Democrat's goal is to distract attention away, decrying how white male senators are supposedly mistreating the accuser to maintain their power.
Not sure that's working, especially if more people started calling it for what it is.
Ahh, corn. I sold sweet corn on the side of a road as a summer job, drove it over from the eastern shore of MD, picked at 5 am in the morning. Tomatoes, peaches, watermelons and cantaloupes too. Did it again out of the back of my pickup when my daughter was born and my wife wasn't working. Used to be called silver queen, later argent, not sure what hybrid they sell now. Supersweet is the hybrid that they sell before season and in the supermarkets, it ships and ages well, it's crunchy, but pretty good. Still stop at the local stand for an ear or two of corn when it's in season.
That's cattle or ethanol corn.
Candace Owens tweet
Attention black America:
The last time a mob of white liberals demanded that we believe women without due process, our ancestors were hung from trees.
Under no circumstances should we allow this radical feminism to persist.
My wife and I are watching the 1995 movie The Fantasticks. We are about half-way through.
Although the movie was finished in 1995, it was released only very briefly in 2000. It was shown in only four theaters, where it grossed only $50,000. Then the movie disappeared.
The TCM cable TV channel showed the movie recently, and I recorded it.
I am enjoying the movie very much. The cinematography is gorgeous. The acting and singing are superb. It's a wonderful movie.
The movie is about two neighboring families. The fathers want their children (one son, one daughter) to fall in love and marry. To accomplish that goal, the fathers perversely forbid their children to socialize with each other. Because it is forbidden, the two children socialize secretly and then fall in love.
The two families' homes are shown in this photograph. Each home has a corn field in front.
It reminds me of my neighborhood in Seward, Nebraska, but our neighborhood had three (not merely two) homes.
But I remember after a big snow when you could run up 14th street (?) to the north from the campus and get over the big hill and out into farmland and everything for 360 degrees around was pure white with no trees or buildings or signs breaking the horizon,
New Hampshire was like that the year I lived there. Nothing like Chicago which was dirty 24 hours after snow fell.
Yikes, Althouse.
Candace Owens put that double space in there, not me. I swear!
Now I look at the years gone by,
and wonder at the powers that be.
I don't know why fortune smiles on some,
and lets the rest go free
Maybe the time has drawn the faces I recall
But things in this life change very slowly,
if they ever change at all
There's no use in asking why,
it just turned out that way
So meet me again - NEXT WEEK ffs - again! -
Inside the Corn Cafe.
We'll look at old yearbooks, vote on judges
Inside the Corn Cafe.
The Eagles album Long Run, released in 79, could certainly have been playing That Night That Summer Some Place in Possibly '82. Although - not myself being 15 that year, I have no evidence to lay down this statement, so don't call me to the Senate, please - but I believe that the Eagles had worn out their welcome with the younger set by then.
"..I'm not saying "café." "Corn Café"... that would sound stupid."
...oh, wow, that's ironic or something or other to me...I've always so admired your 'cafe' visual logo-branding...that it's so conceptually evocative in such an appropriate way - entering a place where there is quiet thoughtfulness, a place to ponder and think, perhaps to chat - a burgher cafe, a road, a trail in the woods, a small bottle w/ a flower - a nondescript cornfield, whatever. I urge u NOT to give-up the word 'cafe' so easily - show a photo of the moon as 'At the Moon cafe". I 4one would luv that. I blame this lapse on the nature of the recent subjects.
Story on Fox about a proposed robot brothel in Houston. Fox reports that the mayor of Houston wants to "stop the robots from coming". Evidently sex robots are more advanced than I had thought.
I saw the Fantasticks on stage when I was a young teenager, but Brett Kavanaugh was on top of me so I don't remember the plot. I do remember it wasn't satisfying.
From the 1991 Bakshi rotoscope-animation film "American Pop":
Tony: What is this?
The Blonde: Corn.
Tony: Corn? Corn comes in a little white box from Birdseye. Corn? Kansas is corny! Can ya eat it?
The Blonde: Yeah.
Tony: Can ya smoke it? Can ya drink it? Can ya lie in it?
The Blonde: Sure.
Tony: Then lie in it with me.
The Blonde: Are you crazy?
Tony: Yeah, I'm crazy. I'm crazy in love with your blue eyes... and your corn-silked hair. Your corn-silked hair. I'll never eat corn again without thinkin' about you. Canned corn, candy corn, popcorn, Crackerjacks! You're the prize in my box! And my box is this country. It's all tinfoil on the outside. Corn and sweetness on the inside.
I am Laslo.
Oh, it's a long, long while from May to December
But the days grow short when you reach September
And the autumn weather turns the leaves to flame
And I haven't got time for the waiting game
And the days dwindle down to a precious few
September, November
And these few precious days, I'll spend with you
These precious days, I'll spend with you
I am feeling grateful for regular corn. Butter and salt transport device. Peace out.
That's cattle or ethanol corn.
AKA field corn, possibly #2 Yellow Corn, so called because when it rots, it smells like #2. Soybeans are even worse.
I asked my dairy farmer neighbor about deer damage to his crop. He responded: "I give them the first 5 rows". He's not a fan of deer and we have a lot of deer. Archery season opens tomorrow. I think he would prefer I use a Gatling gun.
(Which BTW are available on Gunbrokers.com.)
Blogger Mike Sylwester said..."My wife and I are watching the 1995 movie The Fantasticks."
Yikes, that brings me way back! I remember seeing that in Manhattan in the early 60' at the suggestion of a lovely woman - I do believe it made a very positive marker in the development of any aesthetic I may now possess....a life changer. I remember a quite spare, very 'abstract' but stunning set, no farmhouses - but I was a youngish ny-er in nyc so who knows what that set then was really like? I have to fin that movie version!
Corn cafe' would sound corny. Someone had to say it.
Christina Rossetti is my favorite poet.
When she says corn, she really means so say wheat.
I just found out recently that that type of corn is called "dent corn" for (naturally) the dent that appears at the top of each kernel as it dries out.
Marty Balin from the Jefferson Airplane passed away today. His life took a turn for the worse in 2016 with a paralyzed vocal cord, loss of his left thumb and half of his tongue, bedsores, and kidney damage after heart surgery.
But he left behind a lot of creative art for enjoyment into eternity.
May the Moon God be kind, and he earns his horns.
Wisconsin is beautiful
Children of the Corn was one spooky story,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHPYu2rrYhk
Ernest Prole
First sung by Walter Huston. Quite an excellent musical by Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson.
The most moving picture I saw, that I would compare to the raw emotions of the paintings Althouse posted, was Kavanaugh’s mother at the hearing. His father was also there. His mother cried during the hearing.
https://hienalouca.com/2018/09/28/kavanaughs-supporters-including-his-wife-mother-father-and-female-friends-sit-behind-him/
whew!! I thought it said "Pope Farm Controversy"
It's been a long week.
I still think, when this shit-show is over, Our Most Gracious Host is
going to tell us she punk'd us all.
Many, many moons ago Tank and Mrs. Tank were at a BBQ.
Tank's friend: Hey wanna come with me to pick up the corn?
Tank: Sure.
And so he drove us down the road and behind a commercial building. There, behind the parking lot, was a field of corn. Tank's friend handed him a sack and said, "let's go." And that is how Tank became a Corn Thief.
We took that stolen corn back to the BBQ, threw it in some boiling water for about 30 seconds and, damn, that was the best corn ever. Did not need salt. Did not need butter. Just as sweet and tasty as could be.
Since then, whenever I bite into a tasteless, cardboard-like ear of corn, I think of that corn field and the taste of the stolen corn.
What is the over/under on how many Friends episodes the blogger slogs through?
Broke a rear wheel bicycle spoke. Fortunately I left myself a note in January 2012 that a length of 256mm fits the wheel, so that cuts out a lot of estimating and ordering a spread of lengths this time. The computer remembers everything.
Unfortunately it's undoubtedly on the freewheel side so there's that bother to bother with too. Those are the higher-stressed spokes.
Oh man I loved Marty Balin. He had a high voice and it pissed me off when the Monterey Pop movie kept the camera on grace when it was him singing!He couldn't get a break with her around.
Remind you of anybody perhaps a few years back?
Drunk Girl
Needless to say, Tina Fey and Jimmy Fallon would not be caught dead doing a sketch like that again.
dozen places where people were cultivating bees.
Seriously thought about taking a class and learning to do that. We're in a good spot for it. But then I heard about them swarming out of control and I was afraid of pissing off our neighbor. We're getting a bit old and hapless that way.
Dodged a bullet, I think.
@Tank, don't let yourself get nominated for the Supreme Court with that on your record!
@Etienne,
Marty Balin from the Jefferson Airplane passed away today. His life took a turn for the worse in 2016 with a paralyzed vocal cord, loss of his left thumb and half of his tongue, bedsores, and kidney damage after heart surgery.
The "Oldies" channel on XM I was listening to announced Balin death this evening. He joins Paul Kantner & Signe Tolle Anderson in the Great Airplane Celestial Choir.
The asshole announcer on XM proceeded to play "White Rabbit" after she announced his death. Arrrrgghhhhhhh! I hate bad musicology, not matter what epoch or genre it blights! Don't salute Balin with a Slick song, you morons! Now, here's a Marty Balin song.
I wouldn't want to be this year's yearbook editor. There will be very few cutting edge yearbooks in the near future.
I got corns on my toes...
Rest in Peace Marty Balin.
I very distinctly remember reading a NYT op-ed column about twenty-five years ago by the radical feminist Catherine MacKinnon, who argued that "innocent until proven guilty" should be turned on its head, that the first question to be asked when a woman claimed she was sexually assaulted was, "is the purported assailant a member of a class that commits rape?", and that if so that fact alone was prima facie evidence that the accusation was true.
IOW if it was a MAN, it most likely happened.
(I am paraphrasing, but that's my recollection. My wife of many years recalls me registering my disgust about the article, because I've referred to it with similar isgust every time this stupid "believe the woman" thing comes up.)
So now the "guilty until proven innocent" bullshit has been mainstreamed.
Can anyone imagine using such a standard when dealing with drug offenses? "Is the defendant, an inner city black man, a member of a class that is notorious for selling and using cocaine? If so, he is presumptively guilty of the charge that he sold cocaine."
Yeah, that'll achieve a just outcome.
An aside: MacKinnon wound up marrying an anti-Freud scholar, Jeffery Masson, who claimed that Freud retracted and suppressed his idea that childhood sexual abuse led to later mental illness, by later claiming that fantasies, not actual abuse, were behind such neuroses..
I've often wondered what sex between those two was like: did Masson worry that the anti-male MacKinnon would bite his head off after each act of coition?
Has anyone seen him lately?
Is he suspiciously microcephalic?
Heh, you can tell the difference between a,balin and a slick thing, as for 've built this city' good grief.
wild chicken said...
"Oh man I loved Marty Balin. He had a high voice and it pissed me off when the Monterey Pop movie kept the camera on grace when it was him singing!"
Marty Balin sang OK, but if I was pointing the camera, I'd have pointed it at Grace Slick.
@Jay,
I very distinctly remember reading a NYT op-ed column about twenty-five years ago by the radical feminist Catherine MacKinnon, who argued that "innocent until proven guilty" should be turned on its head, that the first question to be asked when a woman claimed she was sexually assaulted was, "is the purported assailant a member of a class that commits rape?", and that if so that fact alone was prima facie evidence that the accusation was true.
This assumption of guilt following class status is just an import into feminism from Marxist class theory. Of course, a member of the bourgeoisie is by definition guilty of class crimes against the proletariat. Any member of the proletariat who aids one the bourgeoisie becomes a class traitor. Just import that logic into feminism and replace "bourgeoisie" with "man" & "proletariat" with "woman" & you've just about got it.
There just one really big problem with "Cafeteria Marxism" like this --- it's really not clear that it's philosophically possible. There's so much Hegelian influence on Marx that Marx, too, sees his philosophy as a System in the Hegelian sense. You just can't chop out pieces such as the dialectic of Lordship & Bondage & apply it to whatever social relationship (e.g. male/female relations) that suits your fancy. There are important reasons why Lordship & Bondage applies only to a relationship of labor & economic production.
This is just one example of what drives me ape about post-Marxist/Identity Leftism. Look, I believe that Marxism makes sense, in those ways that one can say that any philosophy makes sense. I just don't think it accurately describes the world or economic & social relations, and thus it fails at its job. The post-Marxist Lefty stuff I just can't even see how it even makes any sense, and I've worked at it for many years.
Over and over,
The crow cries uncover the cornfield.
Over and over,
The thresher and hover the wheat field.
Hope you didn't run into any children in that corn :-))
Marty Balin from the Jefferson Airplane passed away today.
Arghhhh!
When I was 12 I started working on the farm down the road. The farmer grew about 40-50 acres of sweet corn for the local canning company. In late summer the canning company folks would tell the farmer "we'll be back to pick in 7 days". The canning company picked corn about a week after peak to maximize their volume.
Their announcement was the sign the corn was at peak flavor and texture. We picked, ate and froze a lot of canning company corn for a week.
I can still smell the silage in the silos. I still love fresh corn dripping with butter and salt. I was blessed in college to attend the Loyal, Wisconsin Corn Fest where cold beer augmented the sweet corn.
One of my favorite moments in rock history occurred when the successor of Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship (who I hated) released an album called Dragon Fly where Marty came back as a guest performer and cut the marvelous song, Caroline.
They talked him into joining again and created Red Octopus, the first REAL Jefferson Airplane album in years.
Of course he left again and they became mediocre again.
Like this:
https://youtu.be/plPrqRPNINY
Yes, I agree, Marx's classes are analogous to race, class, gender (oppressed) and white men (oppressor). But there are three classes, and the one elided is the Communist, the benevolent bringer of prosperity to all.
In our modern schema, the rich, white, female, feminist, progressive is the Communist.
P.S. The slave/master dialectic seems to assume that the slave has at least some leverage over the master. Does that make sense? I'm no expert. I'm more likely to drink hemlock than read Socrates.
MichaelK opines: That is gone now. They are clowns. Booker and Harris and some others. DiFi used to be a figure of respect. She is no more.
I expect a lot of Republicans in California will vote for her opponent, crazy as he is. At least he will not be ranking member on Judiciary, or Intelligence.
Exactly. It is truly an interesting situation having two Dems on the ballot. Why wouldn't Republicans vote for de León? Yes, I used to respect Feinstein, too, but she obviously cares more about defending Roe than about the Constitution. Somehow these 'feminists' have lost all reason--almost like they've been subjected to mass hypnosis.
OTOH, maybe Feinstein realized she will be unseated and is pulling out all the stops to prevent this nomination as her swan song/legacy.
I thought it was a great move by Feinstein. Perfect. She is older than the opponent, but wily and wise. At the last minute just before Kav is voted on, she just happens to have in her back pocket a letter accusing the nominee of sexual assault. A #meToo against a Republican, "Allahu Akbar" if you will.
So, knowing nothing about much of anything, I believe what she did gives her a huge boost at the polls.
Trump should peel back a few tariffs with China in exchange for their turning on DI Fi and her husband. It would be very easy to provide evidence that Feinstein passed intelligence through her chauffeur to the Chinese in exchange for China enriching her husband.
Turn her and her husband into the Rosenbergs.
Trump should peel back a few tariffs with China in exchange for their turning on DI Fi and her husband.
POW!
Yeah, but lets not go soft on Feinstein. There are, after all, fates worse than death.
Confiscating her money and property would be fair for her selling out the US to China.
Some prison time is warranted too.
as for 've built this city' good grief
Mickey Thomas, not Balin.
That was why I heard this song on the radio today for the first time in probably 30 years. It was playing on the radio as I pulled the truck into the parking spot. I had thought it was odd because they were playing Jane when I was driving to the store. I should have figured out he had died.
Walking in the corn today...Like watermelon in Easter hay.
I guess the music director of the station thought the same as me- that Balin was still the lead singer on Jane, but Balin had left with Slick before the album was recorded.
The wider message:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/09/28/tucker-on-kavanaugh/amp/
Rhere is a more organic feel for balin over others work
There, if that makes sense,
Scientific Socialist said...
Hope you didn't run into any children in that corn :-))
--
Like Comey.
https://twitter.com/Comey/status/1008040710283628544/photo/1
The ground is already being prepared for the next stage. Republicans will be lucky if they can ever get another man to accept an important court nomination if the Democrats are allowed win this way.
The Republicans are pushovers. Trump walked in and took the nomination. He’s not even a Republican. Trump was right about Flake. Right about Romney. Right about W. He’s right about all of them. They sell out Americans every day. And they are cowards.
From The Z Blog- A Rotten Elite
"It’s clear that the political elite of America is incapable of handling a genuine crisis. They struggle to do the basics of government now. They still have not written and passed a budget for next fiscal year. This is ground floor stuff. If they cannot handle the simplest of tasks, how will the “world’s greatest deliberative body” manage to debate a response to a genuine crisis? The answer, of course, is they won’t because they can’t. Instead, they will look around for the strong man to arrive and take over the task from them.
That’s what we are seeing with the Kavanaugh hearings. Serious men would never have allowed a handful of deranged matrons, suffering from the typical middle aged female hysteria, to disrupt this process. Generation after generation since Gettysburg, the political elite has grown weaker as the quality of the ruling elite has declined. Maybe the system is to blame. Maybe the breeding patterns of the elites are to blame. Maybe it is just an example of reversion to the mean. Either way, our elites are no longer elite."
Bottom line: I don't give a crap who's on the Supreme Court.
http://www.people-press.org/interactives/political-polarization-1994-2017/
Here is a Pew research study on political polarization.
Essentially, it asked the same ten questions from 1994 to 2017.
In 1994, there was barely an ideological difference between the Left and the Right, as they spooned together in the center, even in the Era of Old Pantless Bill.
In 1999 with the Monica thing, to defend the indefensible, the Left started to lurch Left, and like a needy boyfriend, the Right lurched slightly left as well, occupying the center.
In 2011, the Right lurched Right in equal measure to the Left continuing their plunge Leftward. The Median Democrat moved left pretty far.
What happened in 2011? The Deplorable Speech. Obamacare. Villifying Republicans for saying a bill is too expensive and stupid to work (which turned out to be too expensive and stupid to work...go figure) Violating the norms of 'a major bill needs bipartisan consensus. But more importantly, the Democrats TOTALLY IGNORING the population who did not want Obamacare.
Being ignored and attacked like that has a pretty strong effect.
Before Trump, in 2015, the Left continued to slide further and further Left. Trump wasn't there. This is a clear path of 11 years where the Left has continued to lurch left.
And as their ideas have proven more and more unpopular, they double down, leaving behind vast numbers of people who wouldn't vote Republican, but now are stuck with voting Conservative...or voting Crazy.
Rosanne (hat tip prior posting) was correct in Kimmel. "I've stayed the same, but the rest of you have gone so crazy that no one supports you anymore!" was her paraphrased lament.
And when you lose Rosanne...
I thought it was a great move by Feinstein. Perfect. She is older than the opponent, but wily and wise. At the last minute just before Kav is voted on, she just happens to have in her back pocket a letter accusing the nominee of sexual assault. A #meToo against a Republican, "Allahu Akbar" if you will.
So, knowing nothing about much of anything, I believe what she did gives her a huge boost at the polls.
How do you think that plays to any thoughtful, foresighted men?
The only intelligent men who would support such a person and such a proposition are either hard core ideologues who think they will ALWAYS be immune because "I'm one of you" (tell that to the Girondins) or someone who has some other pressing issue which supersedes self preservation, like being married to a liberal woman, or hating Republicans so much that they are good candidates for a suicide vest.
Then again, (speaking to political polarization again) millennial women are 68% Democrat, while millennial men are 50% Republican (and I think that number will go up precipitously after this).
So how many men are going to go out to vote for Feinstein? The lawn needs mowing, the beer is cold, there is traffic on the highway...nah!
She has gained no independents and alienated large segments of an entire gender.
But we will see.
It is fall, the corn is tasseled and gigantic - as high as the sky - but nary a single, lonesome, corn-fed whitetail in sight.
Loved Marty Balin’s music.
The Left’s latest is that Kavanaugh is belligerent and without judicial temperament. Just put aside the fact that he is innocent and has defamed to a degree never seen before. If the Dems can destroy Kavanaugh’s good name, they can destroy anyone. Anyone.
I remember, when visiting my grandparents' North Dakota farm as a young child, being warned "Don't go in the corn field!! You will get lost!!"
FIDO,
I posted the other day that over the past 40 years, the number of Democrats who were assholes politically has steadily risen, and over the past 20 years, the number of Democrats who have let that cross over into their personal lives has been steadily rising.
All Aboard: Ford has rejected the one-week cap on the FBI investigation.
Oh Crack, my man, you are evil indeed.
USA Today, writing that we should now be very concerned about the girls on the basketball team coached by Kavanaugh.
Because evidently insinuations of pedophilia are acceptable now.
Tacit approval of unsubstantiated accusations: giving gasoline and matches to the arsonists.
Maybe we can just update a previous Althouse post for Kavanuagh to say:
Reading USA Today has been a horrific experience for me. What if there is a blank, dark spot in my memory where predatory pedophile Brett Kavanaugh did what USA Today describes? I pray to God that's not true, but I cannot say 100% that it's not true, and if it is, I am so terribly sorry. I beg the girls basketball team's forgiveness. I hope for God's forgiveness. I hope that my life's work when I am not around children makes up for what I may have done to the girls by the gym lockers. I still believe I have devoted and useful service to give to my country, and I want the girls basketball team to know that my heart goes out to them, and my heart goes out to every victim of sexual assault.
Yeah. That works.
I am Laslo.
The Left is waging a War Without Rules.
I consider this to be basically a nerve gas attack on a guy who is a near secular saint. Destruction by any means necessary. And watching some of CNN and MSNBC, they are loving every second of it. And for what? Abortion.
How do you think that plays to any thoughtful, foresighted men?
Well... they need a majority.
I just don’t think it accurately describes the world or economic & social relations, and thus it fails at its job.
I think that they believe that they can create new social relations where they will make sense, but sometimes I think that these Twitter Marxists are like children with a machine gun.
Something for Althouse with her cruel neutrality bullshit to consider:
First the mob came for the conservatives and I did not speak out because I was not a conservative.
Then they came for the Republicans and I did not speak out because I was not a Republican.
Then they came for the Independents and I did not speak out because because I was not an Independent.
Then they came for the men and I did not speak out because I was not a man.
Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me.
The mob of hysterical leftists virtually kidnapped Flake in the elevator and scared him into submission. They will come for you and Meade some day. Count on it.
We have to win this vote in the Senate. Can’t Collins and Murkowski see that?
Blogger gadfly said...
"It is fall, the corn is tasseled and gigantic - as high as the sky - but nary a single, lonesome, corn-fed whitetail in sight."
Because of the state managed deer harvest plan.
Turns out that “it’s hard to imagine that he didn’t” is the new standard of guilt.
Re: Frosted Flake.
"So, because you are lukewarm--neither hot nor cold--I am about to spit you out of my mouth."
The New York Yankees have won 99 games with two to play and yet have qualified only for the American League wild card play in game.
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The New York Yankees have won 99 games with two to play and yet have qualified only for the American League wild card play in game.
I can barely hold back the sobs of commiseration.
OK Flake, we get that you hate Trump. You and your Mormon background despises Trump language, his character, and his in your face demeanor.
So along comes a proverbial boy scout as the SCOTUS choice and what do you do? Stand firmly behind him? Oh no. You abandon him. Coward.
If you really want to rack up the wins, it helps to have the Orioles in your division.
"So along comes a proverbial boy scout as the SCOTUS choice and what do you do? Stand firmly behind him? Oh no. You abandon him. Coward."
And what's with Trump? Sounds like he's getting ready to cut BK loose. Or is it just rope-a-dope?
The Birds bring new meaning to the term 'dismal'.
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Flakes reward by the women’s march was being labeled a rape apologist.
He was trying to be a peace maker with the Democrats.
What a Judas.
No Meade. And you know that. Just say it.
And what's with Trump?
I suspect he knows what he’s doing.
I think this will hurt Feinstein.
Her opponent, I added de to be more Hispanic, De Leon, is further left than her.
Feinstein was seen as the saner one if they would.
Now she just comes off as a bitter old woman.
There are a lot of gop in Ca and they are a huge swing vote.
Trump usually fights fire with fire.
You punch him, he punches back.
It does not matter who you are. The goldstar parent setup was the worst.
Right now Trump is acting super Presidential.
Why?
Trump is very attuned to the American political pulse.
What does he see the Democrats don’t?
Trump is doing a lot of rope a dope.
The question is whom are the dopes?
Ooh - poll question!
Excellent blog post from power line:
WHY THE BRETT KAVANAUGH SMEAR?
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/09/why-the-brett-kavanaugh-smear.php
Blogger Big Mike said...
And what's with Trump?
I suspect he knows what he’s doing.
BT (Before Trump), the October Surprises only ran one way. I'd fasten seatbelts and freshen popcorn if u were y'all.
Sorry to hear about Balin. Was Dwalin unavailable for comment?
What did Flake get in return from Coons?
Nothing.
When the FBI report comes back as we all suspect it will, Coons isn’t going to stand next to Flake and support his “yes” vote.
He’s not going to give an impassioned speech on the Senate floor about the rule of law and presumption of innocence.
Flake’s buddy Coons will be nowhere to be found.
I agree with those who think Trump will pull a rabbit out of the hat yet again. He is far more intelligent than his critics realize. October is going to be very intense, as the demon gets exposed and cast out once and for all.
>>Seriously thought about taking a class and learning to do that. We're in a good spot for it. But then I heard about them swarming out of control and I was afraid of pissing off our neighbor.
We have a few hives. Keeping bees is easy, and they make an insane amount of honey (easily 6+ gallons per hive).
They don't "swarm" like you seen in cartoons. You won't have clouds of bees wandering around the neighborhood. Nor will your neighbors ever know you have bees unless you tell them. Give 'em each a big jar of honey every season and you won't have any complaints.
Buy your bees from a local beekeeper, take his/her advice, set up your hives, and that's about it. For the first month or two, you'll need to monitor the population and add a box when needed to give them more room. Once the colonies are established, it's maybe once a month just to see how things are going and to see if it's time to harvest the honey.
But first, make certain you are not allergic. You *will* get stung. After a few times, you build up an immunity and it's more like a ant bite.
Early spring is the traditional time to start...
I am guessing that that FBI investigation into DiFi's ChiCom driver will become a huge tweet storm and ad in mid October.
Perhaps she gets publically called in for questioning again.
But then again, if the MSM doesn't reveal these things, does it really matter?
Then again, Fox has two and a half times the viewers that CNN has and a third more viewer than MSNBC.
To be charitable to Flake, maybe he did it for Lisa and Susan; giving them cover. But seriously, no fair minded person could vote against Kavanaugh.
So what is Trumps next Rabbit he will pull out of his hat?
War on men?
Deep state corruption - FISA?
Democrats are insane?
More fake news?
Democrats are Mean and Nasty and only care about power?
NK progress?
Innocent until proven guilty meme?
War on the deplorables?
Democrats believe all men are rapists?
Democrats don’t care about the economy?
Democrats only care about power?
Democrats are the elite, and out of touch?
Marty Balin died last night.
OSU @ PSU this evening. Very good test for McSorley. Why, who do I see on the sidelines? Is that Urban Meyer? Or his son Suburban?
I’m surprised at the intensity of my feelings on Kavanaugh’s nomination process.
It’s easy for me to empathize with his situation.
From reading the threads, I’m not the only one.
Democrats have gone scorched earth on him.
And a bit of:
'Pour encourager les autres'
The USA Today column was despicable.
When I see Kaepernick in that Nike ad, I just think " there's the loser who had the talent to play in the NFL, but wasn't willing to put in the work." He wasn't willing to hand over the mindspace to football that it takes, and he got distracted.
The yearbook is such a trivial thing. But if it is such a trivial thing, why all the lies? I do not know whether or not he assaulted anyone, but based on what I heard from his testimony 2 days ago, I would reject him for being a lying dummie. He is not intelligent. He may be a good dad now (and that's great!), he may be sneaky, but he’s not intelligent.
When I see Kaepernick in the ad, I think there's someone who knows he does not have to be like every single other person, that there is enough room in the world to forge his own path, and he may even find some freedom and relief therein. And though I think he thought the ad allowed him to amplify his message, I also think, an ad? No thanks, I wouldn't have done it, but I'm not him, not by a long shot.
AL East is 27 games over .500. The NL Central only 23.
A couple posts back John Wayne and Wizard of OZ get a mention. Right when I was thinking of
them because I'd just watched Stagecoach. I must have seen it before, I've seen the remakes,
but cant recall. Opening was interesting. Town drunk and town prostitute getting run off by
these women. Narrow faced, hair pulled back. 1939, about the time Oz was made, the Witch
could have been among them. Very unattractive, busybody, scary. I'm thinkin Hollywood here wasn't shedding a nice light on the women who are bringing civilization to the West, getting the vote and outlawing demon rum. Maybe everything these days is just a Carrie Nation rerun?
Why did the gop pick whom they did for their questions?
From Arizona as is Flake.
Hmm...
think there’s someone who knows he does not have to be like every single other person, that there is enough room in the world to forge his own path, and he may even find some freedom and relief therein.
Fine, but don’t expect me to care if he whines about not being able to play football in the NFL when all of the successful QBs in the NFL devote themselves entirely to it. He may not be lazy, but spot the difference between his being distracted and him being lazy. It amounts to the same thing.
It occurred to me that when Blasey was asked in the hearing who paid for her lawyers, one of the lawyers answered "pro bono". The lawyer was not under oath and Blasey did not have to perjure herself.
Sleight of hand?
Am I correct?
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Dave said...
"Oh Crack, my man, you are evil indeed."
Ya think? I thought it was A Love Supreme.
I think the Senate leadership told Trump to stay out because Flake, Collins and Murkowski don't like him and it was best to let the Senate handle things the Senate way. And now we see how the Senate operates. And now we see why the House could get no major legislation through the Senate. Little old lady Senators (LOLs) are out there blocking like The old Redskin defensive line they called The Hogs. They have leverage but who does it help? They stand for nothing, they are too old to think up a plan of their own to help the US or just even Maine - one of the poorest states in America. No matter, they are in Senate, getting rich while Maine and other rural areas get poor, defending abortion which in America is black genocide, trashing honorable men, trashing the Constitution. But just as they are too stupid to know who to believe in this case they are also too stupid to know how much damage they are doing so it's all with a clear conscience. Why, by tomorrow they won't even remember what they got the Senate to agree to yesterday. The view from the rocking chair - it's sweet for the stinking. LOL
Maybe if he were as committed to his team (and perhaps winning) as he has been to his cause, the impact would have been even more powerful and the message would have resonated more widely.
the old Redskin defensive line they called The Hogs.
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You meant offensive line.
HT thinks Kavanuagh is a lying dummy, and expresses admiration for Kapernick.
That's rich.
Sorry, yes. The Hogs (Hawgs, I know) were an offensive line. And what Flake and the other Little Old Ladies of the Senate are saying is also an offensive line.
At least the Yankees are in the playoffs. The 1993 San Francisco Giants won 103 games, but were done at the end of the regular season.
Turn the words around, Cafe Corn has a nice ring to it.
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