Althouse: At the Wednesday Cafe...

October 24, 2018

At the Wednesday Cafe...

... tell me your Wednesday thoughts.

57 comments:

Bay Area Guy said...: My thought is Red Sox win in 5.

My thought is that these orchestrated multiple mail bombs - none of which actually hit the intended target - is looking suspiciously like a false flag operation.

My thought is Ginger over Mary Ann.

My thought is that Martha McSally beats Kyrsten Sinema.

My thought is that the Lakers will barely win 40 games this year.

That's about it.; 10/24/18, 9:09 PM
Mark Nielsen said...: Don't care about the Red Sox or Dodgers.

Don't know if it's real or false flag, but the sudden fascination of the media with civility amuses me.

Mary Ann all the way.

I can agree with Bay Area Guy on McSally and the Lakers.; 10/24/18, 9:13 PM
Titus said...: Game 2 in the World Series at fabulous Fenway. Poor fat white doughy cheese heads. No World Series for u. There is always the Bucks. Lol
Tits; 10/24/18, 9:15 PM
Bay Area Guy said...: "Poor fat white doughy cheese heads."

This nearly describes all baseball players.; 10/24/18, 9:17 PM
rcocean said...: You know who sent the pipe bombs?

Saudi Arabia.

That dead Saudi journo disappeared rather quickly from the news.

No?; 10/24/18, 9:27 PM
Bunk said...: This Urias kid for the Dodgers is really really good; 10/24/18, 9:29 PM
Bunk said...: Hay, Bay Area Guy( AKA Giants fan ). You obviously are just a casual baseball fan. Majority of ball players today are Latino & many are muscled up; 10/24/18, 9:33 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/10/24/watch_live_president_trump_holds_maga_rally_in_mosinee_wisconsin.html; 10/24/18, 9:34 PM
rcocean said...: Having a hard time concentrating on World Series - with the constant spitting, tattoos, ski caps, weird facial hair,and pot bellies.

Looks more like a Hobo camp than Major League Baseball.; 10/24/18, 9:36 PM
Ken B said...: Bombs by courier? How can this be hard to solve? The FBI should know within days.; 10/24/18, 9:37 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: Trump was great tonight in WI.

The dairy talk alone was more than Althouse could blog, thus far.; 10/24/18, 9:37 PM
rcocean said...: And the eye glasses. Why are the pitchers wearing eye glasses?; 10/24/18, 9:37 PM
320Busdriver said...: Red Sox for sure. If Kelly plunks Machado it won't bother me.

What is going to happen to the US when anyone from anywhere can get into our nation just by walking in?

The immigration problem seems to be coming to a head. And seems fubar.; 10/24/18, 9:37 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: The farmers came up and said (softly) sir...sir... they are really taking advantage of us.

Again and again, he heard these (WI) farmers come up and say (meekly) sir, sir, they are really over the top taking advantage of us.

Trump remembered.

WI remembers.

Elephant-wise.; 10/24/18, 9:39 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: If it was worth it (it and they ain't) Trump could school every ... what happened to that term I hated that was ubiquitous ... it went away ... I shall keep it farly avast.; 10/24/18, 9:47 PM
Jaq said...: How did that not go out?; 10/24/18, 9:49 PM
Jaq said...: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/cnn-pipe-bomb-white-powder-harmless-law-enforcement-report/

"All of the devices carried a parody ISIS flag featuring comedian Larry the Cable Guy’s signature slogan, “git ‘er done,” NBC News reported late Wednesday."; 10/24/18, 9:52 PM
madAsHell said...: Bombs by courier? How can this be hard to solve? The FBI should know within days.

....and then sit on it until it washes through the news cycle. This is a political stunt, and all the players are already known.; 10/24/18, 9:54 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: Last time okay, last time, breakin' the wall:

IF I didn't play the racist sex-of-the-opposite-to-me Tony Clifton straightly heterophobe: Who would. You?

And Who is the devil.; 10/24/18, 9:54 PM
narciso said...: Speaking of that kerfluffle:

https://mobile.twitter.com/walid970721/status/1055031292801282048; 10/24/18, 9:56 PM
Bay Area Guy said...: So, I have a college reunion coming up next month. It's been 30 years. From the RSVP list, 3 are ex-girlfriends. Two look great, 1 has slipped a bit, but has a nice husband & 3 kids.

So, I wanted to try out my opening line with you folks first:

"Hello Sally - it's great to see you! Long time no talk! You look great, haven't changed a bit! When we were dating, you were a 20th Century Fox, now you're a Half-Century MILF!"

Work or not work? They have good senses of humor, but maybe it's a tad brusque.; 10/24/18, 9:58 PM
Big Mike said...: @Althouse, everybody does overnight open threads. You used to be different.; 10/24/18, 10:00 PM
Ken B said...: Big Mike
Easy clicks.; 10/24/18, 10:21 PM
Jaq said...: yay; 10/24/18, 10:26 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: Relatively, when we forget that freaks have always been among us, we worry when we hear of many, many more freaks than a healthy advancement of non-Nazi videoed(s)
engagement our heretofore morality (pre-video but not radio) unethically Auntied-de Sadism Satahareemly eschou.

This is why when our host looked at Trump as an unmentionable, I offered another interpretation.

More advanced, as it were.; 10/24/18, 10:28 PM
eddie willers said...: "All of the devices carried a parody ISIS flag featuring comedian Larry the Cable Guy’s signature slogan, “git ‘er done,”

NOW we know who to blame.; 10/24/18, 10:31 PM
Big Mike said...: @Bay Area Guy, I have seen lame pickup lines, but yours is lame at an intergalactic level. Which means it will probably work.; 10/24/18, 10:49 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: Annie never lied about her big lie, so how could a liar.; 10/24/18, 10:55 PM
Michael The Magnificent said...: "Segway boy" accused of attempting to buy radioactive material with intent to kill

I, for one, am shocked! Shocked, and dismayed! Like Hillary "the crook" Rodham was when her brothers were caught selling pardons.; 10/24/18, 11:00 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: Wealth=Imustkillyou

Success = I gotta get me yours.

Decent is anythrough my Uncle Milt Friedman.

Yeah yeah corruption, that ain't what Milt dealt with or even defined.

Take his place (you aren't able) or do better.; 10/24/18, 11:01 PM
Michael The Magnificent said...: About those pardons her brothers sold? Granted by her husband, Bill. I know, shocking!; 10/24/18, 11:07 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: I've thought for quite some time the downfall was this:

Disarm you with a smile
And cut you like you want me to
Cut that little child
Inside of me and such a part of you
Ooh, the years burn
Ooh, the years burn
I used to be a little boy
So old in my shoes
And what I choose is my choice
What's a boy supposed to do?
The killer in me is the killer in you
My love
I send this smile over to you
Disarm you with a smile
And leave you like they left me here
To wither in denial
The bitterness of one who's left alone
Ooh, the years burn
Ooh, the years burn, burn, burn
I used to be a little boy
So old in my shoes
And what I choose is my voice
What's a boy supposed to do?
The killer in me is the killer in you
My love
I send this smile over to you
The killer in me is the killer in you
Send this smile over to you
The killer in me is the killer in you
Send this smile over to you
The killer in me is the killer in you
Send this smile over to you
Songwriters: William Patrick Corgan
Disarm lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishi

Is it technally penis envy?

Either way, it is. Since they couldn't "used to be a little boy" they hate, passionately with an intensity Satan admires, any entity that others could consider to be "a little boy."

Sad.; 10/24/18, 11:17 PM
Chris N said...: Your Wednesday thoughts; 10/24/18, 11:19 PM
Bay Area Guy said...: @Big Mike:

"I have seen lame pickup lines, but yours is lame at an intergalactic level. Which means it will probably work"

Exactly! Outta shape 50 year old men reliving their "glory" days of college with 50 year old women just reeks of lameness. Alas, that is our pitiable station in life. I reckon, that's why God gave us beer!; 10/24/18, 11:28 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: Channeling WhiteChevy Aspens.; 10/24/18, 11:51 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: WhiteBuick Pines.; 10/24/18, 11:52 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: WhitePontiac Redwoods.; 10/24/18, 11:53 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: WhiteTesla Deciduous.; 10/24/18, 11:55 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: WhiteStudebakker Apple.; 10/24/18, 11:57 PM
StephenFearby said...: From Ace, first quoting former long-time Fox news correspondent Adam Housley.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Housley

@adamhousley
From fed source: “complete hoaxes” multiple wires when they only needed one. Reports of cell phones being involved was false. So no intention of harm. Now the questions. Dry run, or a false flag from the right or left trying to mess over the other side?

7:39 PM - Oct 24, 2018

Adam Housley

Federal agents say they are working on the theory that it's one group, or one person. Also...the fact that none of them detonated is more significant than people may realize. I am told that's a "huge clue".

1:21 PM - Oct 24, 2018

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I don't know if any of that is true, obviously.

Fox had on one of the guys who tracked the Unabomber and that guy did not discount the "False Flag" theory at all. He pointed to the fact that there was no clear way to set the bombs off -- apart from the end-user deliberately igniting it himself -- as a reason to be suspicious these devices were intended to blow up anything except cable ratings.

Posted by Ace of Spades at 07:58 PM

Cui bono for fake bombs? Certainly not the right. Rounding up the usual suspects might well yield a member(s) of the Antifa.; 10/25/18, 12:07 AM
Guildofcannonballs said...: By God it was none other than Blackford Oakes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackford_Oakes; 10/25/18, 12:50 AM
Achilles said...: Just another leftist lie. The "bombs" were an obvious hoax.

The left is truly desperate.

They have the real polling.

2 more weeks.

If you thought Trump was off the chain before just think what he can get done with 30 fewer republican traitors who "retired" to cushy K street jobs or died and even larger majorities in both houses.; 10/25/18, 1:09 AM
Achilles said...: I am actually surprised they didn't send themselves real bombs and get one of their servants killed.

They desperately need a martyr.

More importantly these obviously fake bombs are going to be reported as obviously fake in a week right before the election.; 10/25/18, 1:11 AM
Lewis Wetzel said...: Okay, here is my theory.
The bombs would not have worked.
You can't make that many bombs in such an amateurish fashion and not have one go off on you.; 10/25/18, 1:46 AM
exhelodrvr1 said...: Anyone on the right with an ounce of political sense knows that this has a greater likelihood of hurting the Republicans. Seems that either the left or a foreign entity is the most likely candidate.; 10/25/18, 3:25 AM
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FIDO said...: Why are you trying to flirt with a married woman?

And worse, why are you trying to flirt with an ex who is likely a divorcee?

Have you not heard of #MeToo? You are still in the Althousian '35 year window' where your stupid, pre adult sexual fumblings are now actionable and incriminating with no evidence from any position of responsibility.

And yet you want to look them up?

You want a line? "Hi...thank God I don't want to be on the Supreme Court or I might be in trouble."; 10/25/18, 4:06 AM
FIDO said...: The Left has so much violence which can be laid at their feet, with no recriminations from their leaders, that they are looking for an equalizer, a sympathy ploy, and an event to fire up their 'base'.

Though anyone who gets passionate about Hillary Clinton is...well, let's just say that is a niche market.; 10/25/18, 4:08 AM
Darrell said...: The Blue Wave has become the Blue Dampness.
The Democrats had to do something to make people forget about their Soros Invasion Caravan, that has been polling so badly. Fake bombs for coordinated fake news. Ever see a story spread so wide that was as developed as this one right from the get-go? Everyone had all the details and crews on the scene right from the start. Cops were giving details and showing pictures--violating their policy of holding back so that they could instantly spot false confessors. Within hours the story was playing like a four-day-old story. Journ-O-List is all grown now. Pre-planned coordinated fake news.; 10/25/18, 5:00 AM
Etienne said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/25/18, 5:34 AM
Birkel said...: Which one of you won Powerball?; 10/25/18, 6:04 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Lets see... 117 A.D., Rome... How did that turn out?; 10/25/18, 6:08 AM
Etienne said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/25/18, 6:14 AM
Tommy Duncan said...: Darrell nailed it at 5:00 AM. From the AP:

"The pipe bomb and white powder that forced an evacuation at CNN headquarters in New York City Wednesday morning were harmless, a law enforcement source told the Associated Press.

The purported explosive device was similar in construction to those sent Wednesday to former President Barack Obama, former attorney general Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton, Representative Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D., Fla.), and Representative Maxine Waters of California. A package containing white powder was delivered later in the day.

The NYPD said the explosive devices were live during a Wednesday afternoon press conference but subsequent reporting suggests they were not functional.

All of the devices carried a parody ISIS flag featuring comedian Larry the Cable Guy’s signature slogan, “git ‘er done,” NBC News reported late Wednesday."; 10/25/18, 6:26 AM
Phil 314 said...: Of all of Lazlo's characters, Titus may be his best.

Such satire in so few words.; 10/25/18, 8:21 AM
Robert Cook said...: "Which one of you won Powerball?"

My newly-hired manservant is typing this reply from my dictation as I lay abed on my bitcoin-plated yacht: It wasn't me!; 10/25/18, 10:19 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Birkel said...

"Which one of you won Powerball?"

Me, of course. I hit the Mega number, so I got my $2.00 back. Not a bad deal.

Here's another good deal, being donation-based and all. You can watch a movie, visit a museum, read a book, discover new music, or learn why you hate all that shit. I really don't care.

It's a winner.; 10/25/18, 11:41 AM