Althouse: At the Monday Night Cafe...

October 22, 2018

At the Monday Night Cafe...

... you can talk about whatever you want.

83 comments:

NotWhoIUsedtoBe said...: Whatever I want?

OK,

Buy my book. It's good. But use the Althouse Amazon portal.; 10/22/18, 8:59 PM
NotWhoIUsedtoBe said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/22/18, 9:06 PM
Oso Negro said...: Global warming. How has it personally affected you?; 10/22/18, 9:06 PM
NotWhoIUsedtoBe said...: On a more serious note,

Greyhound Rooos.; 10/22/18, 9:09 PM
mccullough said...: Ready for the World Series. The first one I remember watching was in 1978. Dodgers and Yankees. Although I liked Reggie Jackson, I pulled for the Dodgers because I liked the National League better because the pitchers also batted.

This is a rematch of the 1916 World Series. Babe Ruth pitched in that series.; 10/22/18, 9:10 PM
NotWhoIUsedtoBe said...: I love global warming. It's made winters much more pleasant. Anyone else remember the 1970s?; 10/22/18, 9:10 PM
NotWhoIUsedtoBe said...: I don't know who to root against. Can both teams lose?; 10/22/18, 9:11 PM
FIDO said...: I am watching "Better Call Saul".

And I have to say, one of the most underappreciated characters is Howard Hamlin. About 90% of his decisions were moral, forthright, he never has a cross word for anyone, and he had serious character cojones to do very unpopular jobs. Paying out Charles was amazing.

And yet this guy who is trying to sell his company, take care of his employees, do correct things is treated like a smarmy bastard. Michael and he are the most moral characters on the show.; 10/22/18, 9:14 PM
FIDO said...: In the 70s, I frequently faced snow up to my knees.

Granted, my knees were much closer to the ground back then.; 10/22/18, 9:15 PM
tim in vermont said...: OK, I am going to buy a flip phone. I was discussing, as in not googling or web searching or anything, just talking out loud, about getting a sling box for my TV in the new place and an ad for Sling came up on my phone within a minute. Fuck them,; 10/22/18, 9:16 PM
n said...: Thanks for your daily food for the head, heart and soul; 10/22/18, 9:17 PM
tim in vermont said...: The sixties and seventies were the coldest decades of the century, and of course the beginning of satellite measurements, had they started in the thirties, the numbers would look a lot different.; 10/22/18, 9:19 PM
Ken B said...: Heitkamp is toast. mccaskil and Sinema are still very much in it. The latter is particularly puzzling. She thinks Arizona is a dirty diaper full of shitty people. And she might win?; 10/22/18, 9:20 PM
FIDO said...: She thinks Arizona is a dirty diaper full of shitty people. And she might win?

The press isn't broadcasting her views like they do Republicans.

And she has a great rack. Fake Views.; 10/22/18, 9:22 PM
FullMoon said...: WSJ editorial, No Paywall

Those who voted for Mr. Trump, and will vote for his candidates this November, worry about the nation, not its image. The president deserves our respect because Americans deserve it—not such fancy-pants extras as network commentators, socialist high-school teachers and eminent professors, but the basic human stuff that has made America great, and is making us greater all the time.; 10/22/18, 9:22 PM
FullMoon said...: Snowed in San Francisco, 1962 and 1973; 10/22/18, 9:23 PM
hawkeyedjb said...: I love my flip phone. If I want to talk to someone, I use it. If I want to be on the internet, I go home and get on the internet. Life is simple, cheap and good.; 10/22/18, 9:28 PM
Birkel said...: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/republicans-outpacing-democrats-early-voting-key-states-nbc-news-finds-n922881; 10/22/18, 9:28 PM
NorthOfTheOneOhOne aka Doug Emhoff's Pimp Hand said...: FIDO said...

The press isn't broadcasting her views like they do Republicans.

She's been all over the radio this week, doing her bipartisan shtick.; 10/22/18, 9:30 PM
Sprezzatura said...: Re the gal/guy thingy re that ad Alhouse posted recently, if you can hang on past a minute (which ya should for the music anyway), there's another chapter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n3Db6pMQ-8

Yur welcome.; 10/22/18, 9:30 PM
Michael K said...: Snowed in Tucson when I was here in 2000.

Ruined our Kitt Peak adventure. It took a year to reserve the telescope for a moonless night.

We were going to spend the weekend playing golf and then using the amateur 16 inch telescope.

Instead, it snowed and the sky was over cast.

My friend and practice partner died in 2006 and so did my interest in golf. I still had an index of 9 at 68.; 10/22/18, 9:32 PM
Birkel said...: Republicans look to hold all their seats.

Democrats likely to lose:
Florida
Missouri
Indiana
North Dakota
Montana

Democrat seats in play:
New Jersey
West Virginia
Rhode Island
Minnesota

Vote. Help others vote. Encourage people to vote.; 10/22/18, 9:34 PM
wild chicken said...: Montana isn't nearly so cold in the winter, and we are getting more riffraff, we are. What we need is two months below zero to run off these freeloaders.

To Floriduh with you!; 10/22/18, 9:34 PM
wild chicken said...: Montana isn't nearly so cold in the winter, and we are getting more riffraff, we are. What we need is two months below zero to run off these freeloaders.

To Floriduh with you!; 10/22/18, 9:35 PM
Mike Sylwester said...: Song lyrics by Cole Porter (1891 - 1964)
-----

In the Still of the Night

In the still of the night --
As I gaze from my window
At the moon in its flight --
My thoughts all stray to you.

In the still of the night,
All the world is in slumber --
All the times without number --
Darling, when I say to you:

"Do you love me, as I love you?
"Are you my life to be,
"My dream come true?

"Or will this dream of mine
"Fade out of sight
"Like the moon growing dim

"On the rim of the hill
"In the chill still
"Of the night?"

-----
Sung by Kevin Kline and Ashley Judd; 10/22/18, 9:35 PM
wild chicken said...: Wow I got a double.; 10/22/18, 9:35 PM
hawkeyedjb said...: Heitkamp, Synema and McCaskill have this in common with Hillary Clinton: They all loathe their constituents. Perhaps not as deeply as Hillary, but it's a matter of degree.; 10/22/18, 9:40 PM
rhhardin said...: Droodle:
Exotic dancer hiding in a pile of grapefruits; 10/22/18, 9:41 PM
Sprezzatura said...: "What we need is two months below zero to run off these freeloaders."

Two years ago I was in a hotel in Butte. It was the top of the tall one next to I-90 so you had a good view of the hood. Look down at the vacant field next door, and what do I see? Two dudes and a gal sleeping/camping in the abandoned lot.

I'm not at all a nosey person, but the gal I know me was enthralled. The three homeless folks had a whole morning system for gettin' goin'. [Technically I did watch some of the highlights, it was sorta interesting, even w/ my mind my own Bz Waz POV.]

Anywho, next morning they were hitching at the highway entrance.

Any-anywho wild chic, don't worry. Incentives work, and in Seattle the gov works overtime to create a cretin paradise. IOW, they're just passing through your hood. So I can pay for them.; 10/22/18, 9:49 PM
SteveR said...: Nothing confined to the last several hundred years will tell you about the climate. It’s a nice idea to think we can know because we are so smart and have all these data. Our lifespans mean nothing except to ourselves.; 10/22/18, 9:52 PM
tim in vermont said...: It snowed in FT Lauderdale in 1977

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/weather/sfl-remember-snow-in-south-florida-20120118-story.html

Right about the time they fist launched the weather satellites. Interestingly, there wasn't a lot of recorded snow prior to that, almost as if the same time that Time Magazine was talking about global cooling was an unusually cold time.; 10/22/18, 9:55 PM
Estoy_Listo said...: Hey FIDO, I couldn't agree more. IMO Howard Hamlin was the most appealing character in the show, quite out of character in Hollywood.; 10/22/18, 9:59 PM
Sprezzatura said...: TinV,

Do you have good donuts where you live?

I once picked up a place cause I like the fancy donut shop that I stumbled on a few blocks away. That was in 2010. Only been there four times since then.

Impulse buy.; 10/22/18, 9:59 PM
Birkel said...: Humble brags are the best kind of brag.; 10/22/18, 10:01 PM
Sprezzatura said...: Of course, Coeur d’Alene got me even worse.

At some point I'll be there four times.

Some time.; 10/22/18, 10:02 PM
Humperdink said...: Since it settled science, can someone tell me what the optimum temperature (high/low) is for NW PA by month?; 10/22/18, 10:05 PM
Sprezzatura said...: Birk,

I am serious about the donut question.

I do love a good donut.

I only like exceptional ones. And, they're only here and there. So it's a win-win. Ketosis-ish plus occasionally: oil and sugar and glutton, in the best form possible.

Do you have good donuts near you?

If so, do you want a new neighbor?; 10/22/18, 10:05 PM
Humperdink said...: Practicing my mature buck grunt calls in the living room this evening. Spouse thinks I'm nuts.; 10/22/18, 10:08 PM
Sprezzatura said...: "Practicing my mature buck grunt calls in the living room this evening."

I'm sure you can get a Western Rivers Game Stalker from the Althouse portal to Amazon.

Yur gal wins, and that one in WI wins, too.; 10/22/18, 10:12 PM
Birkel said...: The best donuts are the ones that keep PB&J away.; 10/22/18, 10:20 PM
Gahrie said...: OK, I am going to buy a flip phone.

I have never owned a cellphone, or a pager for that matter.; 10/22/18, 10:21 PM
Sprezzatura said...: Birk,

I was all bein' the fat girl to ya, until yur 10:20.

Just like this Japanese video, except it's 1:58 = 10:20 Atlhouse time.

Oh well. Must carry on.; 10/22/18, 10:31 PM
Sprezzatura said...: link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZOaC7xA6gM; 10/22/18, 10:31 PM
Sprezzatura said...: BTW,

Thinkin' at the 30,000 ft level, There's proof of the Russians and the Saudis running troll farms on the internet.

There's zero proof that Soros has funded these (or protestors).

Interesting. Could make a thinking person think.

Right?; 10/22/18, 10:46 PM
Heartless Aztec said...: Antiquing over the weekend with the gf I scored a Jackie Robinson Louisville Slugger 60+ years old if it's a day. $10. Worth a lotttt more on EBay. Now all I need is a JR glove. And maybe a signed ball. Not asking for a lot am I?; 10/22/18, 11:12 PM
Ray - SoCal said...: Trump is riffing on nominating Hillary to the Supreme Court.

1. With how Kavanaugh was questioned, she would be there 3-4 years answering questions.
2. It would get the press to look into her deleted emails.; 10/22/18, 11:20 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: Yes, I know - it should've been "Lie with Oprah, Die with Oprah" - or something about fleas - but I just woke up.; 10/22/18, 11:25 PM
Christy said...: Birkel, I read your link and I'm trying to figure out how they know early voting in Tennessee favors Republicans. We don't register parties here. When I voted in the primary this year I took the Republican ballot, and was assured that didn't commit me as a Republican on the rolls. So I'm wondering how anybody knows the trend here. And yes, I did vote a straight Republican ticket last Thursday. I never used to vote a straight ticket and always felt slight disdain for those who did.; 10/22/18, 11:47 PM
narciso said...: What do we have here:

https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKC; 10/22/18, 11:55 PM
Sprezzatura said...: "I never used to vote a straight ticket and always felt slight disdain for those who did."

Sure, y'all dream of Al G. The good old days.

What? Gore is too lib? So when the Ds are the James Hart-s, then they were cool.

Got it.; 10/22/18, 11:57 PM
narciso said...: No one dreamed of al gore unless they had bad lung pao chicken:; 10/23/18, 12:03 AM
Sprezzatura said...: As if being in the bottom quarter of the State re GDP per capita didn't suck enough. Imagine if ya took out the non-hick growth in Nashville?

Christy thanks fer yer R party loyalty.

Maybe yur gonna shoot right up the GDP ranking cause of 'Murica!

Till then, yur (and yur family/kids/etc) share of fed debt goes up. I'm netting out a whole different way.

Thanks.; 10/23/18, 12:06 AM
etbass said...: Look for some federal judge, maybe in Hawaii, to issue a restraining order or injunction preventing Trump from shutting the border or use of the army to stop the coming invasion from South America.; 10/23/18, 12:15 AM
Sprezzatura said...: The thing you red-staters who are all animated about how great our economy is don't seem to understand that you are Guatemala re America.

You're the backward caravan.

Costal elites are making the dough that you brag about. Not you.

Look at data.; 10/23/18, 12:44 AM
Sprezzatura said...: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcrbM1l_BoI; 10/23/18, 12:53 AM
n.n said...: In other news, there is a sequel, or prequel, to Gosnell's little clinic of horrors. At least 50 aborted babies -- apparently, the semantic play to appease "good" Americans is based on a human life inside and outside her mother's womb -- left at a funeral home, victims of Progressive Liberals' "wicked solution".; 10/23/18, 3:26 AM
n.n said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/23/18, 3:28 AM
n.n said...: Costal elites are making the dough that you brag about. Not you.

Asset and monetary inflation schemes that ensure unaffordable medical care, education, housing, food, etc. It's how the rich get richer, and enables Democrats to prey on the poor, and national socialists to exploit the vulnerable.; 10/23/18, 3:29 AM
stevew said...: Voting for anyone other than a Democrat here in MA is a waste of time. I will, however, go to the polls to vote against all the stupid ballot initiatives. I hate that crap.

-sw; 10/23/18, 3:46 AM
n.n said...: making the dough that you brag about

Money, not wealth, used for, among other things, paying off public unions (e.g. leveraged retirement, medical care plans), unfunded entitlements (especially health care reform), immigration reform (e.g. refugee crises, excessive immigration), labor arbitrage through insourcing and outsourcing, and "green" solutions through environmental arbitrage and obfuscation.; 10/23/18, 3:47 AM
rehajm said...: The Dodgers snuck in to the Ritz in Boston. Union workers Dodging a picket line of union workers.; 10/23/18, 5:05 AM
rehajm said...: How is it the caravan marchers look so daisy fresh? So well eqipped too- lovely neon green construction vests and school backpacks.; 10/23/18, 5:10 AM
EsoxLucius said...: This board is going to be better when the streaming illegal caravans replace all of you commentators.; 10/23/18, 5:30 AM
chillblaine said...: Michael K I was reading comments and was really touched by yours. There is something very meaningful there that you have shared. I sort of felt the cold on Kitts Peak. Well, best. Matt; 10/23/18, 5:38 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: "Montana isn't nearly so cold in the winter, and we are getting more riffraff, we are. What we need is two months below zero to run off these freeloaders."

Actually fairly easy to disappear into the woods there. 3rd least populated state, and if you removed the big cities, you might get to 2nd, beating out WY (except that NV could then remove Clark County and maybe beat them).

Last summer for awhile, we had something that was interesting. Guy and sometimes his GF/wife would set up in the rest stop at the end of town with his hood up, and then ask for money when people would stop to help. One of the nice things in MT is that one of the first couple trucks to see you after you put your hood up will stop to help. These guys were abusing that. Got run off after three days, only to come back the next week. Three more days there, and they were gone. Probably pickings were getting slim, with everyone in town wise to them, and the city police checking them out every 5-10 minutes when they cycled through town. We are down in AZ now, and got panhandled by a woman today. That's rare. Don't have the bums out on the freeway ramps yet though. Probably still moving down here from the MT woods.

Another thing that I like is that today we got a call that our ballots had been returned. I had forgotten that they don't forward ballots. Had a nice talk with the clerk. You don't get either one in a big city. Our ballots should be in the mail tomorrow (I dawdled, so missed the post office 4:30 cutoff by 10 minutes today).; 10/23/18, 5:46 AM
FIDO said...: Just when Democrats need to win a big election, after saying for the last 20 years that illegals are just quiet respectful people who just want to be Americans...

We have a violent and damaging MOB giving a big FU to American laws.

Now Dems want to say 'it's complicated'. That is short hand for 'I find myself at a huge PR disadvantage'. Civility Bullshit.; 10/23/18, 5:48 AM
Humperdink said...: Rogue agents killed Khashoggi? The media is skeptical!!!! Crown prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered it.

Lois Lerner is a rogue IRS agent? The press? What press??; 10/23/18, 5:49 AM
rehajm said...: Brookings says over half the worlds population has enough money to be called middle class. Take that poverty!; 10/23/18, 5:59 AM
Rusty said...: I'm just gonna guess that Anti doesn't have any kids or meets a payroll or has crops he has to get in the ground.
And for the record West coast- read california- Is a lot like Guatamala. If english is your first language go into any Home Depot and prepare for a cultural experience.; 10/23/18, 6:05 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: "The thing you red-staters who are all animated about how great our economy is don't seem to understand that you are Guatemala re America.

You're the backward caravan.

Costal elites are making the dough that you brag about. Not you.

Look at data."

Usual left wing inequality BS. The economy is booming, employment for minority demographics is at a long term high and wages are rising. When our poor have two cars, a microwave, air conditioning, and probably twice the calories that they need, they aren't suffering. Indeed, they are better off than the middle class in most of the world, including much of Europe. They just need to do better at buying less junk food. Traditionally, obesity meant wealth. In this country, it mostly means being poor. Trickle Down economics really works, and Robin Hood economics (I.e. socialism) doesn't. Rather, it gets you Venezuala, Cuba, etc. Any time that you hear about inequality, or told how unequal the wealth is distributed here, and esp hear about rising inequality, be assured that you are hearing the politics of envy, and an argument for socializing our economy. And an argument for turning our economy into a shithole one like was done in every country that ha seriously tried socialism (both Cuba and Venezuela were some of the very wealthiest countries in Latin America, before they socialized their economies).; 10/23/18, 6:10 AM
Birkel said...: Christy,
I have nothing to do with the link except copying the URL.
But my best guess would be using location as a proxy for partisan affiliation.
So if a county voted 70-30 it would be likely that for 1,000 early votes there would be a 400 vote advantage for the majority party in that county.

But that is a blind guess informed by nothing.; 10/23/18, 6:28 AM
Birkel said...: PB&J brags about coastal wealth but fails to mention cost of living. In a lot of places a good middle class income provides a comfortable life. Thriftiness increases the long-term comfort. And the lower property taxes mean a paid-off life is very inexpensive, comparatively.

Beside that point PB&J misses that big cities are going to suffer pension crises and bankruptcies, therefore. So borrowed money is an enormous part of the 'success' that PB&J internet-enjoys.

I prefer frugality and responsibility.; 10/23/18, 6:35 AM
Humperdink said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/23/18, 6:43 AM
roesch/voltaire said...: Just a warm up dance before he delivers more lies and exaggerated claims. The base loves his BS.; 10/23/18, 7:45 AM
Rosa Marie Yoder said...: John James (R) seems to be closing the lead held by incumbent Debbie Stabenaw (D) in Michigan's Senate race.

14 days to go.

There is much hope.; 10/23/18, 7:46 AM
Gahrie said...: Just a warm up dance before he delivers more lies and exaggerated claims. The base loves his BS.

Isn't it amazing that this is the first time that that has ever happened in the 240 years of our nation's history?; 10/23/18, 8:30 AM
Michael K said...: Blogger anti-de Sitter space said...
The thing you red-staters who are all animated about how great our economy is don't seem to understand that you are Guatemala re America.

Peanut, you are bragging about people who would not let you in the door. California and New York City (not the state) are feudal castles with the few rich keeping out the peasants like you.

The problem for them is that they need the middle class and it is leaving. It is moving to Texas and Arizona and even Arkansas.

There are millions of people who now have jobs and Obama is drawing a crowd of 200 as he brags about the economy he didn't;t start rising.

Keep sucking up to those lords and ladies who would not stop if you were dying in the street.; 10/23/18, 8:39 AM
tim in vermont said...: Remember when Obama never lied or made any exaggerations and his voters listened carefully to each statement and independently evaluated it against verifiable evidence? Those were the days.

You can see that all of the claims that the trolls are making here boil down to butt hurt that it's not their guy lying and exaggerating and vacuuming up the graft. I don't see Trump taking graft and I don't see him starting wars, so that puts him head and shoulders above the Democrats' last offering.; 10/23/18, 9:01 AM
tim in vermont said...: Numbers must look bad for the Democrats, our trolls are getting bitter.

BTW, I don't doubt that peanut butter has a couple of shekels to rub together. I am also suspecting that mommy and daddy were involved. Most of the genuine Hillary supporters come from wealthy areas. If you have tons of money, a politician who is as open as she is about being for sale is what you want.; 10/23/18, 9:11 AM
tim in vermont said...: The top level hatred for Trump likely comes from him not being for sale. The rest is rationalization.; 10/23/18, 9:12 AM
Freeman Hunt said...: Today's comedy: pictures of the caravan. In media stories about the caravan, look at the wide shots of the caravan moving, it's 99% male. Then look at all the shots of individuals; looks like they photograph and print a picture of every woman or child they can find.; 10/23/18, 9:29 AM
Michael K said...: David Gelernter has Peanut's number.

The leftist intellectuals I know say they dislike such people insofar as they tend to be conservative Republicans.

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama know their real sins. They know how appalling such people are, with their stupid guns and loathsome churches. They have no money or permanent grievances to make them interesting and no Twitter followers to speak of. They skip Davos every year and watch Fox News. Not even the very best has the dazzling brilliance of a Chuck Schumer, not to mention a Michelle Obama. In truth they are dumb as sheep.

Trump is an average American only more so.; 10/23/18, 9:37 AM
Christy said...: Birkel, thanks for the feedback. Your guess makes as much sense as anything.

Anti, you're funny. I was a registered Democrat for 35 years in a coastal state, have spoken at District Democrat Clubs, attended a ton of political fundraisers, and had connections which gave me privileges. And I chose to leave for a better life as an anonymous Red Stater.; 10/23/18, 1:51 PM