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February 22, 2019

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63 comments:

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: La nuit tous les rats sont gris."; 2/22/19, 8:37 PM
Ken B said...: Too many rats.; 2/22/19, 8:45 PM
FullMoon said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 2/22/19, 8:50 PM
narciso said...: Well theres this:

https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/02/trump-administration-issues-new-rule-that-would-deprive-planned-parenthood-from-funding/; 2/22/19, 8:51 PM
narciso said...: Meanwhile the bulwinkle gets a shout out for the sargasso (my name for the atlantic)
https://mobile.twitter.com/mckaycoppins/status/1098942307422871552; 2/22/19, 8:54 PM
Birkel said...: Imagine abortionists having to finance their own activities.
What a crazy idea.; 2/22/19, 8:55 PM
Henry said...: Is your rat half warm gray or half cool gray?; 2/22/19, 8:59 PM
Barry Dauphin said...: That rat has been looking at a computer screen in the dark as part of a caring work environment.; 2/22/19, 9:04 PM
fivewheels said...: This DiFi flap seems like an Althouse post in the making. It has everything we want: Feinstein being mean and entitled, kids being cynically deployed by adults for gross political purposes, climate change foofaraw, left-wing vs. establishment Democrat infighting. Wheee!; 2/22/19, 9:10 PM
n.n said...: trump-administration-issues-new-rule-that-would-deprive-planned-parenthood-from-funding

Baby steps. Stop age discrimination, summary judgments, cruel and unusual punishment... and conflation of logical domains at the Twilight fringe.; 2/22/19, 9:10 PM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: gagzintits; 2/22/19, 9:17 PM
Achilles said...: Charles Barkeley is funny.

SNL should take notes.; 2/22/19, 9:17 PM
wildswan said...: Abortion is one of the reasons why the black birthrate has fallen below replacement level. Blacks are 12% of the population but over 30% of all abortions. So having the government pay for abortions especially those of minority women is having the government pay for a genocide. Planned Parenthood, the major US abortion provider, was founded by Margaret Sanger and many other members of the American Eugenics Society. Eugenics was developed as a theory by Francis Galton whose father, grandfather, and great-grandfather all participated in the slave trade by selling guns to slave traders and by buying shares in ships making slave-trading voyages. The mortality on these voyages was usually ten percent and the survivors were sold into slavery in Jamaica and other Caribbean islands. Kamala Harris could be descended from unfortunate people grabbed and sold by the Galtons. Francis Galton used his inherited wealth from the slave trade to work upon and develop the theory of eugenics which from the outset justified his slave-trading ancestors. These ancestors supposedly became wealthy due to their inherited qualities and others became slaves for the same reason, said Galton. And Galton's spiritual descendants at Planned Parenthood have been trying to wipe out the black community in this country by encouraging a disproportionate use of abortion and birth control in that community. It's an important step forward in stopping the black genocide that the government stops participating by paying for the disproportionate numbers of minority abortions.; 2/22/19, 9:27 PM
Ralph L said...: I think Althouse didn't draw the background by hand. The dots are a little too regular.; 2/22/19, 9:37 PM
Browndog said...: Speaking of rats...

What the hell happened to Charlie Sykes?

Years ago I used to stream his radio show, now he's completely lost touch with reality.

Solid conservative, logical, and reasoned to insane over Trump? I don't get it-; 2/22/19, 9:42 PM
Humperdink said...: The best mousetrap out there is the JAWZ. Easy to set and virtually no escape.; 2/22/19, 9:44 PM
narciso said...: For those who Peter skarsgard in green lantern swelled head, how did a magazine that used to have Tom Wolfe on the masthead like New York become utterly unreadable. Well possibly a Frankfurt school worshiper like Corey rubin.; 2/22/19, 9:56 PM
narciso said...: Writing about trump, missing the point entirely.; 2/22/19, 10:04 PM
Browndog said...: The latest from Cortez:

Yup. If you don’t like the #GreenNewDeal, then come up with your own ambitious, on-scale proposal to address the global climate crisis. Until then, we’re in charge - and you’re just shouting from the cheap seats.

Two months ago she was complaining she couldn't afford an apartment in D.C.. Now she lives in a luxury apartment, and is IN CHARGE.

Revolucion!; 2/22/19, 10:06 PM
FullMoon said...: We are saved!

"Earth's Atmosphere Is Bigger Than We Thought - It Actually Goes Past The Moon. The geocorona, scientists have found, extends out to as much as 630,000 kilometres. Space telescopes within the geocorona will likely need to adjust their Lyman-alpha baselines for deep-space observations."; 2/22/19, 10:08 PM
narciso said...: Those words they are using, that in no way is what we understand an atmosphere to be.; 2/22/19, 10:19 PM
tim in vermont said...: Democrats should have hearings where the evidence for global warming as a catastrophe is examined in detail so that nobody can deny it anymore. That would be good. Let the deniers bring their best arguments then mow them down with facts and logic!

Ha ha ha! Just kidding, they already explained it: Shut up!; 2/22/19, 10:22 PM
narciso said...: That was their plan, but remember when the admiral jumped out of hyperspace too soon in empire. Allowing the rebels to turn on their defense shield that's what Cortez did; 2/22/19, 10:25 PM
Mark said...: So accused rapist Justin Fairfax has been saying how he wants an investigation. Now that a Virginia House committee is going to have a hearing and take the testimony of the two women he is alleged to have sexually assaulted, with an opportunity for him to finally give his side of the story (which he has refused to do thus far), now Fairfax is suddenly not so interested in an investigation and is objecting to it.

Meanwhile, many Dems are objecting too (after having called for his resignation previously), saying that someone else should investigate, such as the FBI (which they know does not have jurisdiction). It is pretty clear that they do not think that the people of Virginia have a right to an inquiry into whether our lieutenant governor is a rapist or not.; 2/22/19, 10:34 PM
Browndog said...: One last note:

Storm clouds gather over Venezuela, and Bolton has put America on a war footing.

Like with Chavez, Maduro is protected by Cubans, not Venezuelans.; 2/22/19, 10:35 PM
Mark said...: I finished binge watching The Americans.

I'd give it a B. Almost.

That Elizabeth was a psychopath. Not a pleasant character. Not pleasant to watch.

And that Paige was quite the disappointment. Rather stupid. And also lacking in conscience. Discovers her mother is a killer -- killed so many times she can't say how many, and Paige's response is basically, "meh." Poorly-written character.

Don't see what the big fuss was over the show.; 2/22/19, 10:43 PM
narciso said...: Well it's based on several real life spy families one were the koechers who were Czech intelligence but run by the Soviets they had a lovely social scene (with all that entails); 2/22/19, 10:46 PM
narciso said...: The bureau counterparts are not that smart, seeing how counterintelligence seems to operating today, that's probably on point.

They nabbed a few small fry, they let ed Howard slip out of the country blamed him on what we later knew was Ames and Hansen's work over 20 years.; 2/22/19, 10:48 PM
Mark said...: Like with Chavez, Maduro is protected by Cubans, not Venezuelans.

Noriega too.

Same result too whenever we choose to make it so.; 2/22/19, 10:49 PM
rcocean said...: rat patrol; 2/22/19, 10:51 PM
narciso said...: More like the sandinistas. The Cubans sent their top men like Ochoa to ride herd over their army. As well as their top spies. Noriega was a free agent he dealt with Castro the cartels the guerillas and us.; 2/22/19, 10:51 PM
narciso said...: But their army is only good at killing civilians and increasingly they have relied on the police squad the faes. How well they would hold out against Colombian or Venezuelan troops is dubious.; 2/22/19, 10:54 PM
Mark said...: The Americans would have been better if it was a British production, I think. Their spy shows have been good. Most Brit stuff is superior to Hollywood these days.; 2/22/19, 10:57 PM
Mark said...: Have moved on to "Forever."

Interesting that Maya Rudolph is on both this and "The Good Place."; 2/22/19, 10:59 PM
narciso said...: Yes there was one series set in the 70s that was really good, the problem is the BBC is even farther to the left of say msnbc

https://www.thenewneo.com/2019/02/22/victor-davis-hanson-in-the-new-yorker-trump-as-tragic-hero/#comments; 2/22/19, 11:01 PM
narciso said...: For long form series spooks (mi 5) is probably best over all, all the night manager is pretty good as a limited series.; 2/22/19, 11:05 PM
Ralph L said...: We watched 6 episodes of the LEVEL, set in Brighton. OK if you suspend disbelief. Recent British shows are even more PC than American.; 2/22/19, 11:10 PM
narciso said...: Well the tunnel certainly the third season was impossible to follow, now bodyguard was a little more self aware than you would think.; 2/22/19, 11:31 PM
narciso said...: Basically many of the tropes you expect in this series are subverted.; 2/22/19, 11:32 PM
narciso said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 2/22/19, 11:43 PM
narciso said...: Sorry wrong link:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/remains-of-hundreds-of-slain-victims-discovered-at-former-belarus-jewish-ghetto/; 2/22/19, 11:47 PM
reader said...: My husband and son enjoyed TheAmericans, but our favorites were Boardwalk Empire and Hell on Wheels.; 2/22/19, 11:51 PM
narciso said...: Hell on wheels was good for the first two seasons:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/christopher-hasson-coast-guard-officer-was-a-nihilist-and-theres-no-evidence-he-was-a-trump-supporter%3f_amp=true; 2/22/19, 11:53 PM
Mark said...: I was flipping through the stations the other night and La Femme Nikita TV series was on. Hadn't thought of it in years.

Been trying to find The Equalizer TV series, but it doesn't seem to be showing anywhere.; 2/23/19, 12:20 AM
narciso said...: I think it was on wgn out of Chicago but at odds hours.; 2/23/19, 12:37 AM
narciso said...: It had a techno vibe ala 24 just a few years later, which wasnt a coincidence but it looked more advanced than 24 which debuted just a few years later; 2/23/19, 12:41 AM
Yancey Ward said...: I loved The Americans, but I think the show's writers went astray with the Paige storyline, as well. For pure dramatic purposes, it would have made far more sense to me for her to have a far different reaction to what her parents are, especially her mother, than to just join them in their work. I would have written the entire part about Paige's pastor and his wife far differently- it almost looked to me that the writers, at the last moment, chose not have them killed by Paige's parents- an event that would have put Paige on a different course, especially if she is unsure what happened to them.; 2/23/19, 1:29 AM
gilbar said...: the Paige storyline could have been Awesome, IF the writers
knew Anything about Christianity
had ANY respect for Christianity
Imagine if Paige's Church had been a Real Christian Church; and if Paige became a Real Christian? Then, her mom would have decided that they needed to Kill her, and the dad could have helped her run away?
But then, Christians would have been Protagonists, and we can't have that

As it was, i kept waiting for the Pastor to be revealed as another Agent; but then, we couldn't have that, either: could we?; 2/23/19, 4:26 AM
gadfly said...: Reuters just told us where Trump's barrier wall went. "U.S. farmers receive $7.7 billion in trade aid to date: USDA"

So where did Trump's $12 billion for farmers to offset Trump's tariffs come from - since USDA had no program in place? So what USDA program got shorted without Congressional approval? SNAP perhaps? There certainly was no tariff war anywhere in the USDA budget.; 2/23/19, 5:01 AM
Humperdink said...: For many years, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) published a list of the amount of $$$ in farm subsidies each farm in each county received from the USDA. They published it annually. It was very revealing. The two large farms in our county received several hundred thousand every year. It seemed every farmer received something. Then the list magically disappeared.; 2/23/19, 5:24 AM
rhhardin said...: Old Folks at Home in Chinese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwJcodQv8fQ
Chinese illustrations
(via Derb); 2/23/19, 5:42 AM
Humperdink said...: I think I could get into this reparations thingy - if we begin by draining college endowment funds.; 2/23/19, 5:42 AM
Ralph L said...: In the 70's, my grandmother rented 35 acres of woods to the farmer next door so the government could pay him not to grow tobacco on it.; 2/23/19, 5:45 AM
Ralph L said...: What replaced "darkies" in Chinese?; 2/23/19, 5:47 AM
stevew said...: Is March Madness still in March?; 2/23/19, 5:51 AM
tim in vermont said...: Recent British shows are even more PC than American.

Greece to our Rome. I just don’t watch TV shows anymore unless they were made prior to 2001. It’s all propaganda, little morality plays to show us what right-think looks like.; 2/23/19, 6:02 AM
narciso said...: Well they wanted to show the left infilration of the peace movement.; 2/23/19, 8:10 AM
MadTownGuy said...: Mark said...
"I was flipping through the stations the other night and La Femme Nikita TV series was on. Hadn't thought of it in years.

Been trying to find The Equalizer TV series, but it doesn't seem to be showing anywhere."

I found it on Netflix DVD a couple of years ago. Not sure if they still have it. When I watched it again, it didn't seem to have aged very well. Somewhere in the middle of season 1 it went all PC - it was, after all, a CBS show - so after that I lost track of the show.; 2/23/19, 8:17 AM
Fernandinande said...: "Corner Gas" from Canadia/Amazon is funny and is worth a watch. No political correctness, but also no politics really, and the only Special People are two Indians whose Indianity is only mentioned once in relation to scalping tickets. But the plots got gradually stupider as the seasons went on.; 2/23/19, 8:28 AM
Char Char Binks, Esq. said...: Altmouse; 2/23/19, 10:15 AM
Mark said...: About The Americans --

About mid-way through, or maybe a third of the way through, I thought that maybe Philip was saying to himself, "One of these days, I'm going to kill Elizabeth."

She certainly would not have flinched at killing him. Or Paige. Or Henry.

Going back a couple of decades, there is that scene in The Big Country, where Burl Ives tells his wild son Chuck Connors, "One of these days I'm going to have to kill you, like a rabid dog." And then later, that day comes. And he does.

But Philip didn't.; 2/23/19, 11:14 AM
MadTownGuy said...: Char Char Binks said...
"Altmouse"

Alt-Rat?; 2/23/19, 9:42 PM
MadTownGuy said...: Love Corner Gas. Good comedy and the characters are lovable if not believable. They produced a movie a couple of years after the series ended; now they are doing an animated version with most of the original cast, since Janet Wright (Brent's mom on the show) passed a bit after a year ago.

Corner Gas; 2/23/19, 9:49 PM

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