Althouse: At the Green-Eyed Cafe...

February 7, 2019

At the Green-Eyed Cafe...

... you can talk all night.

As for news of my left eye — it's 20/20.

118 comments:

Big Mike said...: Glad for the news of your left eye.; 2/7/19, 7:23 PM
Meade said...: Sight for sore eyes.; 2/7/19, 7:25 PM
Mike Sylwester said...: 25 Amazing Facts About Green Eyes; 2/7/19, 7:32 PM
Unknown said...: Congrats on the left eye! Does that mean you are done and just recovering?

On the other hand, I worry for Meade. Now that you can see him clearly, any "Buyers regrets?"

Just joking! I don't want the ban hammer!

--Remaining anonymous to protect my identity in times like these; 2/7/19, 7:35 PM
Mike Sylwester said...: The meaning and origin of the expression: Green-eyed monster

.... In Othello, 1604, Shakespeare refers explicitly to the 'green-eyed monster' as jealousy.

Iago:
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on; that cuckold lives in bliss
Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger;
But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er
Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves!; 2/7/19, 7:35 PM
wildswan said...: Through quick work - instant comprehension of title, squinting my eyes, down, then sideways, till I found the back arrow - I managed to find out nothing that either Bezos or the National Enquirer wanted me to know. The Lt. Governor of Virginia was enough for one day. And then it seems that a racist, sexist, baby-killing troika is preferable to a Republican. So the Lt. Gov. and Co. will be around for years to come. Wonderful.; 2/7/19, 7:36 PM
Hagar said...: I thought I had misheard it, but it turns out that AO-C's manifesto actually does promise a comfortable living also for those unwilling to work.

Even Marx and Engels didn't do that.; 2/7/19, 7:36 PM
Sprezzatura said...: I'm sore pleased re repair re vision.; 2/7/19, 7:37 PM
Henry said...: Hooray Eye!; 2/7/19, 7:38 PM
Fritz said...: Blogger Hagar said...
I thought I had misheard it, but it turns out that AO-C's manifesto actually does promise a comfortable living also for those unwilling to work.

Even Marx and Engels didn't do that.

I think she promised them a job; i.e., slavery.; 2/7/19, 7:40 PM
David Begley said...: 20/20 but is it clear? I thought your vision was cloudy.; 2/7/19, 7:43 PM
Ken B said...: Excellent news about that eye.
You might now, in retrospect, like to cast it over your Kavanaugh posts.

On second thought, don’t. Why spoil the good vibe?; 2/7/19, 7:45 PM
Ken B said...: Unknown.
Yeah, the thing I remember best about first getting glasses is how much worse looking everyone got.; 2/7/19, 7:46 PM
tim in vermont said...: I think she promised them a job; i.e., slavery

No, it goes like this: “A job will be guaranteed, but not mandatory!”

It will all work out, don’t worry about it. There will always be people willing to do backbreaking labor when they could sit around doing nothing for the same pay.; 2/7/19, 7:53 PM
stephen cooper said...: not that far in the future people who like sex robots too much are going to not have enough children .....

and eventually the sort of people who do not like sex robots will, by dint of basic demography, take over the world.

In that world we will no longer have to argue with idiot socialists and their modernist fellow travelers, for obvious reasons.; 2/7/19, 7:54 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: "You might now, in retrospect,"

"hindsight is 20/20"; 2/7/19, 7:55 PM
tim in vermont said...: This is why you never use iCloud or. Google Docs or whatever:

Apple Gives Deep State Access To Roger Stone’s iCloud Account, After Refusing To Violate Privacy of San Bernardino Terrorists; 2/7/19, 8:00 PM
FullMoon said...: As for news of my left eye — it's 20/20.

If ever a reason for celebratory sex, this is it.; 2/7/19, 8:00 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: Green New Deal Eyed 'Rat; 2/7/19, 8:03 PM
tim in vermont said...: RICHMOND, Va. — The political tumult in Virginia widened Thursday as the State Senate’s top Republican faced an onslaught of questions about racist photographs and slurs in a college yearbook that he helped oversee, transforming the Capitol’s nearly week-old crisis into a bipartisan reckoning over personal conduct.

The senator, Thomas K. Norment Jr., who is the majority leader, was the managing editor of the 1968 Virginia Military Institute yearbook, which included slurs and images of students in blackface. Mr. Norment called the use of blackface “abhorrent” while pointing out that he did not take or appear in any of the photographs, and he said he was not surprised that “those wanting to engulf Republican leaders” in the controversies that have rocked Virginia Democrats “would highlight the yearbook from my graduation a half-century ago.”. - New York Times; 2/7/19, 8:04 PM
stevew said...: If I get a comfortable living without having to work I will choose not to work. Deal?; 2/7/19, 8:04 PM
madAsHell said...: This is why you never use iCloud or. Google Docs or whatever:

No shit!!; 2/7/19, 8:06 PM
stevew said...: And it looks like i’ll be walking everywhere; headed to Florida mid-March, I better get going.; 2/7/19, 8:08 PM
Hagar said...: It may have been "clarified" by now, but no, it was a living wage to all, including those unwilling to work.

Of course, you can put a communist interpretation on that and assume the wages for the unwilling can only be collected in the "gulag."; 2/7/19, 8:11 PM
gg6 said...: 20/20, bravo! And you've also had a full and interesting posting day, I'd say...well, you know, for a recovering patient?? Ha, ha. Keep up your uniquely good 'stuff', please... :-); 2/7/19, 8:13 PM
Sprezzatura said...: "20/20 but is it clear? I thought your vision was cloudy."

That'd be cool if her vision is blurry and perfect.; 2/7/19, 8:14 PM
Sprezzatura said...: She sees reality, unlike we other 20/20-ers.; 2/7/19, 8:16 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: @Meade
those "windows to the soul"--- keeping them open tonite?; 2/7/19, 8:16 PM
Hagar said...: And they are going to build a bridge to Hawaii since you won't be able to fly there after they ground all the airplanes.; 2/7/19, 8:17 PM
Static Ping said...: Ban cow farts!
Ban cow farts!
Ban cow farts!; 2/7/19, 8:20 PM
Sprezzatura said...: Anywho,

Someone less lazy than me needs to compile all the rats. W/ dates re each one's creation. IOW, they need to be in chronological order w/ the points of vision repair identified.

What changes when the blog gal can see?; 2/7/19, 8:21 PM
D. said...: rat trivia:

>'I Smell a Rat' Origin

For centuries, one way that the word "smell" has been used is to describe a suspicious feeling someone has. Let's look at an example; this one comes from an English poet you may have heard about before, William Shakespeare. In a play called King Lear (which is believed to have been written around the early 17th century), he wrote:

"Do you smell a fault? "

Another example would be a similar expression that goes "something smells fishy." And then of course, there's the phrase, "I smell a rat." They all pretty much mean the same thing: Something feels wrong.

So, how did this idiom originate? Well, it probably has something to do with dead rats.

Yeah, gross, but here's why:

Rats are pretty cool creatures, but when they crawl underneath your house or they find their way into the walls of your home, they become way less cool. Especially if they die in those locations, then they become a problem. A smelly problem.

You see, some home owners have dealt with this issue before. A rat dies somewhere in the house unbeknownst to the owner, and then a few days later, the rat's corpse starts to stink. The home owner begins noticing the strange odor, but they don't entirely know what it is or where the smell is coming from. They just know that something doesn't smell right.

Later, they find the dead rat and realize that the "off smell" was actually coming from a dead rodent. Yes, they were "smelling a rat." Perhaps, then, this stinky situation is how the idiom originated and how it got its meaning of "something doesn't feel/smell right."

This, however, cannot be confirmed for sure. Anyways, with that out of the way, let's talk about how old this phrase is:

It looks as though it goes back to the 18th century. For example, it's said that Patrick Henry, who lived from the years 1736 to 1799, used this saying:

"I smell a rat."<

https://www.knowyourphrase.com/i-smell-a-rat; 2/7/19, 8:21 PM
Humperdink said...: Heard a caller on talk radio today suggest the following:

Virginia AG Mark Herring resigns. Governor Ralph Aborthemall appoints a new (squeaky clean) AG. Governor and Lt. Governor resign. Squeaky clean takes over as Governor.; 2/7/19, 8:22 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: @Static

"Smell Our Dairy Air!" -- Wisconsin Dept of Tourism; 2/7/19, 8:23 PM
Oso Negro said...: Congratulations on success!; 2/7/19, 8:25 PM
Sprezzatura said...: "And they are going to build a bridge to Hawaii since you won't be able to fly there after they ground all the airplanes."

Don't be a total dope. That would be stupid.

Lots of libs know that bridges don't make sense:

https://www.king5.com/video/news/local/new-sr-99-tunnel-opens/281-24351278-6d98-4088-9a13-547c8c2b840b?jwsource=cl

That's the infrastructure to get to yer volcano in the ocean, as any lib could tell ya.

Duh.; 2/7/19, 8:26 PM
stephen cooper said...: lots of VMI grads died in Vietnam

so I am willing to cut them some slack

I would have tried not to go there.

Well, not because I am a coward but because LBJ and JFK were unworthy of their roles as commander in chief.

Like I said, lots of VMI grads bravely died in Vietnam.

Mr Northam never had to worry about dying in a noble cause, Mr Fairfax neither; 2/7/19, 8:29 PM
tim in vermont said...: Don't be a total dope. That would be stupid.

Exactly! When you could just ride on Obama’s “Intercontinental Railroad”!; 2/7/19, 8:30 PM
stephen cooper said...: And yes I know that Mr Northam was an officer in the military

He was not a line officer I was.

I know the difference.; 2/7/19, 8:30 PM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: Tim in Vermont - that didn't take long.

The media will dig furiously for anything that might taint someone NOT a precious member of The Party; 2/7/19, 8:34 PM
Birkel said...: Congrats on the good news.
Healing can be trying so keep up your good spirits.; 2/7/19, 8:35 PM
narciso said...: Congratulations professor

The people responsible are who took the pictures and posed for them,; 2/7/19, 8:36 PM
narciso said...: Germany just seems to be doing all the wrong things:

https://t.co/YBtxGUc1cX?amp=1; 2/7/19, 8:38 PM
Ann Althouse said...: “20/20 but is it clear? I thought your vision was cloudy.”

Yes, they were cloudy with cataracts, but I’ve also been very near-sighted and had astigmatism since I was a child. In the surgery, the natural lens with the cataract is removed and an artificial lens is put in. So the cataract is gone but also you have a prescription lens that can replace the need for glasses.

The clarity is amazing. Not only is the fog gone, but it looks much brighter. The right eye, by contrast, sees everything as if there were a brown-gray pigment washed over it.; 2/7/19, 8:41 PM
bozonomous said...: I am so glad your operation went well
We all depend on you; 2/7/19, 8:42 PM
Ann Althouse said...: I knew the cloud would be removed but I didn’t know how good the prescription would be. But I had my follow up appointment and my eye tested 20/20.; 2/7/19, 8:43 PM
buwaya said...: "And they are going to build a bridge to Hawaii"

They just have to revive the Matson Line.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matson,_Inc.

The building is still there in San Francisco,
They just need a new series of SS Lurline, Malolo, Mariposa and Monterey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Lurline_(1932)

Maybe this time they can be sailing ships.; 2/7/19, 8:47 PM
Sprezzatura said...: They say 20/20-ers are perfect for 29-ers.

IMHO.; 2/7/19, 8:48 PM
buwaya said...: "Virginia AG Mark Herring resigns. Governor Ralph Aborthemall appoints a new (squeaky clean) AG. Governor and Lt. Governor resign. Squeaky clean takes over as Governor.'

If this is a practical scenario, then the Governor gets to name his price. From someone.
The quid pro quo will be interesting.; 2/7/19, 8:49 PM
n.n said...: Montana's Solution

I think the solution is getting the cost affordable and I did not take the approach of "insurance for everyone."
...
the big questions were: how to set reasonable prices for medical care. And how to get Montana's hospitals to agree to them.
...
Bartlett suggested hospitals would get paid somewhere around 220 to 250 percent above Medicare. Way less - but still a healthy profit.

Medicare is underfunded. Medicaid is unfunded. Insurance is regulated, but above market rates. A cascading failure.; 2/7/19, 8:50 PM
stephen cooper said...: Ann - that is a good result! I am happy for you!; 2/7/19, 8:50 PM
Ralph L said...: appoints a new (squeaky clean) AG

Where's he going to find a squeaky clean lawyer?; 2/7/19, 8:58 PM
Bay Area Guy said...: Glad that Althouse has recovered nicely.

As a humorous aside, have you seen the Green New Deal manifesto issued by AOC and her pals?

Oh my lord, she might be the dumbest person on Mother Earth. Yes, it's that bad.; 2/7/19, 8:59 PM
iowan2 said...: Great news on the success. For me I would be more nervous waiting for the results, than for the surgery itself. On to the next eye with the same expectations.; 2/7/19, 9:06 PM
Seeing Red said...: It’s like a new green deal world.; 2/7/19, 9:17 PM
narciso said...: No not even in the Congress, hank Johnson holds that record, previously Markey now in the Senate was on the top 5; 2/7/19, 9:19 PM
Humperdink said...: Yep, I read AOC's New Green Deal. There's so much pie-in-the-sky in it you would think it was raining lemon meringue. My favorite part was the statement on cow flatulence. Really.; 2/7/19, 9:21 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: Speaking of Seeing--

has anyone besides Haley Joel Osment from "The Sixth Sense" seen RBG?; 2/7/19, 9:26 PM
MaxedOutMama said...: Great news about the eye, Ann. I am very happy for you.; 2/7/19, 9:27 PM
Linda said...: So happy to see that the 1st surgery was successful! Now on to the right eye!; 2/7/19, 9:28 PM
MaxedOutMama said...: Bay Area Guy - I have seen the Occasional Cortex agenda. All I can say is that she is a frighteningly stupid woman.; 2/7/19, 9:28 PM
Mark said...: Over the last few years, there have been a number of scandals involving prominent people. Almost always it has ended in disaster.

These people simply will not learn --

Just do the right thing and let the chips fall where they may. Most particularly, the truth will set you free.; 2/7/19, 9:31 PM
rcocean said...: The Bad news: You've gotten a good look at Meade.; 2/7/19, 9:32 PM
hugh42 said...: Good luck with surgery. I want you to keep seeing well. I have learned an lot.; 2/7/19, 9:32 PM
Mark said...: In this instance, I'm talking about Northam, Herring and Fairfax, and the Democrat establishment.; 2/7/19, 9:33 PM
Humperdink said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 2/7/19, 9:34 PM
Humperdink said...: In the FAQ section of the Green New Deal:

"We set a goal to get to net-zero, rather than zero emissions, in 10 years
because we aren’t sure that we’ll be able to fully get rid of farting cows and
airplanes that fast...."

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5729035/Green-New-Deal-FAQ.pdf; 2/7/19, 9:36 PM
Obadiah said...: D. said:
>'I Smell a Rat' Origin

The “I smell a rat” thing reminds me of the last time I smelled a rat.

Last year sometime a small rat (or maybe a large mouse) crawled into the walls in my basement and died there. I could smell him, but couldn’t locate him.

But a house fly did locate him, and decided to start a family. Soon the basement was filled with a vast swarm of buzzing flies, covering the light fixtures, clinging to the laundry, and filling the air.

It was like a scene from a horror movie. My wife refused to go downstairs. Pretty soon they started finding their way up the stairs into the kitchen and throughout the house. We swatted flies all day but they just kept coming. We blockaded the doors and windows but they still got out.

In the basement, I did battle with them with a Shop Vac in hand, sucking them up by the hundreds off the lights. They eventually started to die from starvation, falling to make a crunchy layer on the concrete floor.

I kept looking for the carcass, but didn’t find it until eventually ripping out the insulation under the kitchen floor. And there, nestled in the pink fiberglass, the delicate white bones lay. The maggots had completely consumed the body otherwise.

The next time I smell a rat, I am going to have nightmares.; 2/7/19, 9:39 PM
Two-eyed Jack said...: I think that it is high time for our country to fund a massive investment in perpetual motion. This is the true answer to climate change. We cannot listen to those unwilling to make this commitment. They are mostly shills for Big Oil.; 2/7/19, 9:42 PM
iowan2 said...: Mark said...
Over the last few years, there have been a number of scandals involving prominent people. Almost always it has ended in disaster.

Been thinking about the two stories of the day. Fauxcahantus, and the Govenor of Virginia.

Think if they had followed President Trumps philosophy of never apologizing?; 2/7/19, 9:43 PM
mezzrow said...: Happy to hear the good news. Hope all is routine or better.

Now, for the lyrics - no Coldplay for me, no sir.

Those cool and limpid Green Eyes -
A pool wherein my love lies.
So deep that in my searching for happiness
I fear that they will ever haunt me,
All through my life they'll taunt me.
But will they ever want me?
Green Eyes, make my dreams come true.; 2/7/19, 9:48 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: "I fall for it every time" admitted Alexandra Occasional Cortex,
referring to being asked by cows to "pull my finger"; 2/7/19, 9:50 PM
stephen cooper said...: Yes.

Elizabeth Warren should have said she was raised in a family where a cherished tradition was that they were all descendants of the Cherokees who had lived so many generations on these green and pleasant lands, and she should have said if you did not like the fact that my family was proud of that, fuck you. (Trump would have said : Sad! - but he is eloquent, and Mrs Warren is not).

I really think though, in Mr Northam's case, that he woke up one morning, realized that he had actually advocated for the murder of little babies, and he thereby was so confused, in his beclouded-by-great-sin perceptions of what is good and bad, that he was not sure if he was rightfully a scapegoat or not. And so he admitted to being either the guy in blackface, laughing, or the guy in the Klu Klux Klan outfit. Even though he knew the next day he would deny it. Poor little loser.; 2/7/19, 9:53 PM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: Germany just seems to be doing all the wrong things:

https://t.co/YBtxGUc1cX?amp=1

"German industrial output falls, raising risk of recession".

On a scale of Germany doing all the wrong things -- I'll take it.; 2/7/19, 10:13 PM
wildswan said...: I'm forwarding that perpetual motion suggestion to the Green New Deal folks. I think you have something there that's been overlooked. Another suggestion I'm making is changing the value of pi to a simple straightforward 3.2. This will save a lot of labor in calculations and that'll be important as we rebuild every house in America. We've only got ten years, and this will save enough time to feed 12% of the hungry children America one good nutritious meal of cauliflower once a day by the third year, according my figures. Maybe the cows could be in the basements replacing furnaces as we use their captured methane. That's just off the top of my head, I haven't fully costed it out yet.

And I think we might want a open competition for the best perpetual motion machine, otherwise the government will just go on hiding them all. It gets them all the time from the alien ships and then hides them from us poor saps.; 2/7/19, 10:14 PM
Henry said...: How many cows can you fit on an airplane?; 2/7/19, 10:19 PM
walter said...: "we aren’t sure that we’ll be able to fully get rid of farting cows and
airplanes that fast.."
--
Green New Deal suggests a new benchmark for speed.; 2/7/19, 10:30 PM
Sprezzatura said...: "How many cows can you fit on an airplane?"

Probably similar as re horses.

As dudes who know dressage gals know. Not just Mitt.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/09/sports/horse-travel-frequent-fliers.html; 2/7/19, 10:31 PM
walter said...: wildswan,
Baseline budgeting might harbor a helpful core principle.; 2/7/19, 10:33 PM
Henry said...: Oy veh. I'm a sympathetic audience, but the green new deal bill is crazy town.

the House of Representatives recognizes that a new
national, social, industrial, and economic mobilization on
a scale not seen since World War II and the New Deal
era is a historic opportunity

What the country really needs to set it straight is another Great Depression and World War. To give AOC credit, this is Paul Krugman's idea. She's just recycling it.

building or upgrading to energy-efficient, distributed, and ‘‘smart’’ power grids,
and ensuring affordable access to electricity;

I laughed to see "smart" in air quotes. And this is the smart part of the bill. We actually could benefit from investment in the electrical grid.

(F) a risk of damage to $1,000,000,000,000 of
public infrastructure and coastal real estate in the
United States;

That was at the beginning. A really easy way to mitigate the damage to coastal real estate problem? Don't build on the coasts.

I was hoping to see that addressed before the end. Alas. Though, to be sure, if we don't build on the coasts, we must not build with union labor, thus creating jobs.; 2/7/19, 10:35 PM
RK said...: And I think we might want a open competition for the best perpetual motion machine...

Fine, as long as Affirmative Action and Diversity/Inclusivity efforts are implemented. Let's not fall into that old trap of expecting straight white males to figure everything out.; 2/7/19, 10:38 PM
walter said...: Meanwhile, Nathan Phillips and the Black Hebrew Israelites are likely to make Nick "cracker" Sandman rich.
He should buy Phillips a new drum and some orthodontia and Uber over a bunch of MAGA hats to wherever those BHI folk congregate.
For his Catholic betters who threw the kids under the bus, boxes of Immodium.; 2/7/19, 10:43 PM
Sprezzatura said...: Mitt's F-ing dog goes on the roof of the car. Ann's horse flies private.

Shoulda elected Ann.

IMHO.

OTOH, w/o the dog-on-the-roof POV, it's not obvious that there'd be dough for the horsys.

OTOOH, maybe there's a point where dough accumulation skills are too good to be the top dog re government. Presumably, for the long run, dough making motivated by the leader's own big cut is not the best goal of a stable nation.

I dunno.; 2/7/19, 10:44 PM
walter said...: If we get a bunch of these going with magnets, wires and such..
https://www.amazon.com/Drinking-Bird-4975-The-Famous-x/dp/B000JSGLBK; 2/7/19, 10:49 PM
Sprezzatura said...: "And I think we might want a open competition for the best perpetual motion machine..."

The libs already gots a plan fer that:

https://www.google.com/search?q=port+townsend+kinetic&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi2s-evq6vgAhWZFzQIHfMQAT0Q_AUIDigB&biw=1652&bih=874&dpr=2

Hawaii or bust!

[aka, bust.]; 2/7/19, 10:56 PM
Two-eyed Jack said...: Wildswan,
I have a solution to healthcare affordability as well. It involves repealing the 13th Amendment. I have no sympathy for those who look at the challenges we face and blink.; 2/7/19, 11:02 PM
Seeing Red said...: How many cows can you fit on an airplane?

A whole new definition of cattle car.; 2/7/19, 11:08 PM
RK said...: I'm sure there's enough hotness in hot Latinas to power a few large cities.; 2/7/19, 11:10 PM
MadisonMan said...: I'm happy to hear that your sight is excellent! How wonderful for you!; 2/7/19, 11:11 PM
Unknown said...: AOC cried, demanded defunding ICE

> She shed a tear when Rep. Ilhan Omar quoted a Somali poet: 'No one leaves for the mouth of the shark, unless the mouth of the shark is safer than home'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6679401/Ocasio-Cortez-wipes-away-tear-vows-defund-ICE-claims-Trump-hates-immigrants.html

> 'We are standing on native land,' she claimed, speaking just outside the U.S. Capitol. 'And Latino people are descendants of native people. And we cannot be told, and criminalized, simply because for our identity or our status. Period.'

So anyone with Latino blood or culture has a birthright to be in the US...; 2/7/19, 11:23 PM
walter said...: Glad to see she's pacing herself.; 2/7/19, 11:25 PM
Sprezzatura said...: "So anyone with Latino blood or culture has a birthright to be in the US..."

What's the over/under for Warren claiming she's a Latino?

I'm guessing that the under is the safest bet.; 2/7/19, 11:28 PM
walter said...: Since she invoked the specter of bovine flatulence she should know that folks who work with cows might say she is fartin' higher than her asshole.; 2/7/19, 11:30 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: they may not fully understand why,
but blondes smile with a sense of vindication when AOC speaks; 2/7/19, 11:31 PM
Sprezzatura said...: Since this is the cow thread: we were once enjoying America in one of the middle states when, at a gas station, I saw a parked truck driver using an electric prod to zap cows as he walked the full length, on both sides, of his double-decker trailer (attached to a tractor, IOW this was a big semi-truck combination).

This resulted in shit shooting out of the cows. Much of which was visible as it squirted out onto the exterior sides of the trailer. Presumably he was strategically zapping them in a particular body part so that they lost control of their sphincters.

At first I assumed he was deplorable (FTR, this was way way before HRC used this label for these folks). But, later I thought that this may be a technique that clears the bowels and therefore reduces the possibility of meat contamination at the slaughter plant.

I dunno.; 2/7/19, 11:44 PM
Sprezzatura said...: A Rorschach allegory.

[And, happens to be 100% true, too.]; 2/7/19, 11:47 PM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: About the worst thing you can be behind on the road is a chicken truck. Though I don't think I see as many of these as I used to.; 2/8/19, 12:03 AM
chickelit said...: What AOC spouted today about Latino birthright is the central core of La Raza racism.; 2/8/19, 12:26 AM
Yancey Ward said...: We came close to reaching 80 F (78 F was the high) this afternoon in Oak Ridge, TN. Supposed to get snow flurries near sunrise this morning.; 2/8/19, 12:27 AM
Crazy World said...: Something to be said for you both seeing clearly now. Wonderful; 2/8/19, 12:28 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: “Rats are pretty cool creatures, but when they crawl underneath your house or they find their way into the walls of your home, they become way less cool. Especially if they die in those locations, then they become a problem. A smelly problem.”

if you love rats, maybe you should visit LA, which is currently fighting a Typhus outbreak, very likely being spread by rats. It has apparently spread out of the homeless camps into the courthouse.

“You see, some home owners have dealt with this issue before. A rat dies somewhere in the house unbeknownst to the owner, and then a few days later, the rat's corpse starts to stink. The home owner begins noticing the strange odor, but they don't entirely know what it is or where the smell is coming from. They just know that something doesn't smell right.”

My parents long faced a mouse problem. My youngest brother was living with them, and would live trap them, then releasing them a bit away outside. We joked about his Catch And Release policy. But then, they would die somewhere in the walls. They would usually know though where they were because the cats would try to get in there. Then the smell would start up. Ultimately, he got pretty good at figuring where they were, and ultimately seems to have found all of the holes that they used to get in, and plugged them. Took 30 years, but we think he got them all.; 2/8/19, 12:29 AM
Clyde said...: Re: The Democrats' laughable "Green New Deal," following through on that would end up with us kulaks living in the equivalent of a medieval Bud Light commercial. "Dilly, dilly!"

But that's what you end up with when you elect a bunch of cosplayers to Congress.; 2/8/19, 12:59 AM
Unknown said...: Her La Raza rant was on same days a green utopia?

I like eliminating airplanes in favor of trains the best.

How do you get right of way for all that new track?

Trains are diesel.. will the new trains be streetcar electric, or maybe 100% maglev bullet trains?

Maybe the select commit can just do away with red state which lack the population density for mass transport. Adios Montana, back to the Latinas for you!; 2/8/19, 1:07 AM
Drago said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 2/8/19, 2:34 AM
Drago said...: It appears that the dems self-annointed and thoroughly undeserved moral superiority has somewhat "dimmed" of late.

Remember dems, it is always darkest..... right before it turns completely black.

God speed.; 2/8/19, 2:35 AM
Darrell said...: If you like your cow, you can keep your cow.

--AOC; 2/8/19, 3:11 AM
Mr. Forward said...: “We will fight for bovine freedom
And hold our large heads high
We will run free with the Buffalo, or die
Cows with guns”; 2/8/19, 5:29 AM
Humperdink said...: If I was a parent with children approaching the US border from the south, and if I received word my children would be taken from me for who knows how long, I would instantaneously turn around.

What loving parent wouldn't?; 2/8/19, 5:34 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Unknown 12:03... Nice hot summer day, I was stuck on my motorcycle on a two lane behind a truck carrying slaughterhouse scrapings to a soap rendering facility . I'd call that a close second. Nasty business.; 2/8/19, 5:35 AM
rehajm said...: I have these guys in my yard. They are kooky creatures to begin with but now to find they glow pink...; 2/8/19, 5:43 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Humperdink... If somebody told the person if they took the "young girl" with them, they would get in easy peasy, what would that result be? Seems trafficing has fallen out of news worthy status. Funny isn't it, how newsworthy depends on the Progressive meme? ACOA dropped from national news just before Bill Clinton's campaign. Problematic children of alcoholic parents got us where? and Hillary?; 2/8/19, 5:44 AM
Humperdink said...: "If you like your cow, you can keep your cow." AOC

"Why buy the cow, when you can get the milk for free?" Bernie Sanders

"Hey, how comes we have no cows?" Thirsty Citizens; 2/8/19, 5:45 AM
rehajm said...: Headline for History: Bezos Exposes Pecker; 2/8/19, 5:52 AM
Humperdink said...: The Bezo/National Enquirer fight is going to be highly amusing. Bezo is highly intelligent, but the National Enquirer plays this game for a living. I do not discount Bezo's chances here, but jumping into the pig pen with Pecker, for all the world to see, may not be the best strategy.; 2/8/19, 5:57 AM
Ralph L said...: reduces the possibility of meat contamination at the slaughter plant.
The trucking company's insurer might demand it, since they would be liable if the shit flies off while on the road and causes an accident.; 2/8/19, 6:06 AM
Nichevo said...: Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...
"I fall for it every time" admitted Alexandra Occasional Cortex,
referring to being asked by cows to "pull my finger"

2/7/19, 9:50 PM

Sane person: You can't milk a bull!
AOC: Hold my appletini; 2/8/19, 7:00 AM
Jersey Fled said...: So is George Zimmerman an indigenous person or a white hispanic?; 2/8/19, 7:26 AM
Char Char Binks, Esq. said...: Cops caught Jerome Winslow, accused of brutally beating a UW student in Madison Sunday. He was on probation, and has an extensive criminal record at the tender age of 22, including armed robbery, felony battery to a police officer, and beating and BITING his ex-girlrfriend.

"Two years ago, Winslow was convicted of disorderly conduct, criminal damage to property and battery. He was placed in a diversion program that was revoked after he had contact with law enforcement in the UW-Whitewater case." This was two years BEFORE the armed robbery he committed last year. https://www.dailyunion.com/.../article_168c1fa2-8749-11e7-81b4-47708532ca8f.htm...

I have no doubt DA Ismael Ozanne will protect his little brother. That's why Madison liberals elected that lazy and incompetent trough-feeder.; 2/8/19, 9:27 AM