Althouse: At Bluey's Café...

March 26, 2019

At Bluey's Café...

... you can talk all night.

69 comments:

traditionalguy said...: Smollett was just a hired actor who hired two more actors for their Lynching to pass an anti-lynching Law. The scene produced by Kamala and financed by her master, the Nazi Soros.

All will come out soon.; 3/26/19, 8:18 PM
Big Mike said...: Rats can make you go "Ewwww".; 3/26/19, 8:20 PM
rhhardin said...: I put on the a freewheel and chain, completing the bicycle power train replacement.

Old chainwheel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rhhardin/47474641531/sizes/o

The teeth on the outer and middle (most used) chainrings are worn down enough to make a worn chain jump off under power. The inner chainring isn't worn much so prepresents what all the teeth once looked like. Aluminum chainrings wear much more uniformly but these are steel.

The old freewheel came off easily owing to silicone grease when it was put on, and using a fixed vise to hold the freewheel splined insert while the wheel was unscrewed from it, lots of leverage. The days of pounding on wrenches are over.

I took the opportunity to silicone grease the exposed bearings under the freewheel as well.

So it's set for another year.; 3/26/19, 8:34 PM
Molly said...: (eaglebeak)

Looks like alarm, or horror.

Or maybe it just looks like Adam Schiff. Only much cuter, of course.; 3/26/19, 9:04 PM
Maillard Reactionary said...: rhhardin: I used a "chain whip" tool to take the freewheel off the hub of my bike back in those days. No sweat, but it is a single purpose tool. (Want to buy it? I no longer have the bike.) The rule then was that if you could pull the chain off the chainring enough to see a half inch or so of daylight, one or the other was worn out.

Basically I replaced chains every year and chainrings maybe after 10K miles or so.
You appear to be much more thrifty, perhaps to excess.

Can you get that spray-on dry lube that turns into wax where you live? That's good stuff. WD-40 is useless. Dry lube is the bomb.

You either ride a lot, or don't lubricate enough, or both, judging from that chainwheel. You don't need to work so hard to get the exercise, you know.; 3/26/19, 9:05 PM
Maillard Reactionary said...: Judging from how much coffee he seems to have had, Bluey will be up all night no matter what we do.

If Bluey starts to get a little blue, he should look at this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=RDhzXsQzM_h2E&v=hzXsQzM_h2E

It seems to be someone's cell phone recording, as best I can tell.; 3/26/19, 9:09 PM
Ralph L said...: Okay, Bluey. Mueller blew up.; 3/26/19, 9:16 PM
Sydney said...: Is it still possible to get rat stickers?; 3/26/19, 9:20 PM
wildswan said...: I'm wondering if anybody has used one of those new electric bicycles in a city or on a mountain road? They'll never replace cars for travel or getting out to the country but there's in-town stuff I do, grocery shopping, going to the nearby mall where I can't honestly say that I need a car except in winter. I might pedal a bicycle loaded with groceries or packages if there was a battery assist. Or maybe not.; 3/26/19, 9:21 PM
Richard Dillman said...: Met with my lefty friends today. Boy are they in denial, and its not a river. Maybe they will go through all the stages of grief. Anger seemingly
will follow soon.; 3/26/19, 9:34 PM
narciso said...: Meanwhile:

https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/03/congressional-dems-in-disarray-on-trump-national-emergency-declaration-and-green-new-deal/; 3/26/19, 10:18 PM
StephenFearby said...: Epoch Times March 26, 2019
Baker Testimony Reveals Concerns About FBI Probe, Pre-Election Contacts With Mother Jones Reporter
BY JEFF CARLSON

[James Baker, the General Counsel of the FBI, received a copy of the Steele Dossier from David Corn shortly after Corn's “A Veteran Spy Has Given the FBI Information Alleging a Russian Operation to Cultivate Donald Trump.” was published in Mother Jones on Oct. 31, 2016...just before the election on November 8.]

'...Baker said that Corn was a “longtime friend,” noting that they met “Years and years and years ago … Our kids carpooled together. We carpooled with them when our kids were little.” According to Baker, he and Corn would speak every few months or so—including during the months preceding the 2016 election.'

Ends with:

'...David Corn, along with Michael Isikoff, is the author of the book, “Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump.” The two men, who had both promoted allegations that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia, were interviewed on MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes on March 25, after Mueller had officially determined there was no collusion.

In the interview, Corn continued to push allegations against Trump, noting that, “there were certainly acts of betrayal, I think, on the part of the Trump campaign but those might not have been criminal.”

Corn referenced several events, including the Trump Tower meeting, Paul Manafort’s meeting with his employee Konstantin Kilimnik, and the Trump Tower project in Moscow, telling Hayes, “all those things add up to, I think, the biggest scandal in American political history without there having to be any direct coordination.”

Isikoff remained more measured in his responses and countered Corn, by noting, “I agree with everything David said, except that the dossier did set expectations and it did shape what people were looking for, what they thought might have happened. It was endorsed multiple times on this network—people saying it’s more and more proving to be true. And it wasn’t.”

Isikoff concluded by saying, “one of the reasons people were so surprised by the Mueller finding is that it undercuts almost everything that was in the dossier, which postulated a well-developed conspiracy between the Russians and the Trump campaign.”'

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/veteran-spy-gave-fbi-info-alleging-russian-operation-cultivate-donald-trump/; 3/26/19, 10:19 PM
Drago said...: Our Daily The Bulwark report includes a laughably moronic over the top praising of Nancy Pelosi!!

Conserving Conservatism by aligning with the far far left!!

Also, Democracy Dies If Democrats Don't Get To Control Everything!!

Hilarious!; 3/26/19, 10:19 PM
Narayanan said...: Under new policy many of my comments do not show.

Impossible to tell if moderator action or blogger.com issue.

Is there "returned to sender" option?; 3/26/19, 10:52 PM
narciso said...: I guess I was familiar with the themes but not some of the greater constructions

https://apelbaum.wordpress.com/; 3/26/19, 10:54 PM
walter said...: I took the opportunity to silicone grease the exposed bearings under the freewheel as well.
So it's set for another year.
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Ho-Lee-Sheeeight I am SO relieved...; 3/26/19, 11:13 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: DJT knows, and I don't like the guy, bought his book and basically through (threw) it away after the gambling scandal, but DJT knows Justice Thomas is the greatest living American.

Ain't close.

No comparison(s).

It's just not.; 3/26/19, 11:15 PM
rcocean said...: I can see why Althouse stopped doing BHTV with Bob Wright. What a cranky left-wing freak!

I thought why not write a write a nice farewell, then I realized that was like a White Russian writing a nice farewell to Trotsky. Wright was just another left-winger running a "Hey, I'm open minded guy" con. Now, he thinks he no longer has to attract a non-leftist audience, so he drops the mask. Fuck that noise.; 3/26/19, 11:17 PM
walter said...: Meadehouse..(amIstillO.K.widat?)
should post a moderation clock:
https://goo.gl/images/brdUyx; 3/26/19, 11:21 PM
walter said...: (my comment now and previous at approx 11:23pm); 3/26/19, 11:24 PM
walter said...: ..last visible shows 8:34...
Mind the gap; 3/26/19, 11:25 PM
Yancey Ward said...: Andrew McCarthy has two great essays up today:

The first at NR is On Obstruction, Robert Mueller Abdicates. In it, McCarthy makes the excellent point that if Robert Mueller was just going to pass the buck back to the DoJ, then the rationale for even having a special counsel in the first place was totally obliterated- a point McCarthy has made repeatedly for 2 years- that the appointment itself was improper right from the start, and is only more clear today given that the crime being alleged was never substantiated at all, as is clear in Mueller's findings, or lack thereof, regarding the collusion.

The second is at FoxNews is titled How long has Mueller known there was no Trump-Russia collusion?. In it, McCarthy asks an important question- when did Mueller finally realize "there was no there there"- something Strzok was aware of in May of 2017 himself. McCarthy makes the excellent point that Mueller had to know in September of 2017 when he allowed the Carter Page warrant to expire unrenewed. McCarthy critiques this because he thinks Mueller owed it to the country to give an update in this regard. This is debatable, I think, but my stance depends on what Mueller has actually done the last 18 months of his investigation. If it was nothing but obstruction, then Mueller has done the country a disservice by taking so long- if he was still looking for collusion in other avenues, then I am ok with the report being filed this week.; 3/27/19, 12:11 AM
chickelit said...: No one knows what it's like
To be the bad rat
To be the sad rat...; 3/27/19, 12:26 AM
William said...: I watched the statement that Smollett delivered. He was poised and dignified. There was an air of injured innocence about him but withal a sense that he had the courage to endure the base slanders that have been leveled against him. It was a boffo performance. There can be no doubt in anyone's mind that he's a great actor. He brings credibility and affect to the most ridiculous lines. Let's hope he's given an expanded role on that tv show he's on. I'd like to see him play the young Jesse Jackson in a big budget biopic. It's a role he was born to play.; 3/27/19, 12:55 AM
Quaestor said...: The moderation isn't working. The point of a café is to have a conversation. A conversation with yourself is either pointless or a process toward madness. If there were moderators (PLURAL!) who could be on hand whenever the commentators are commenting, it might work. However, there aren't enough hours in the day for Althouse and Meade to do the needed work effectively.

As it is now, the Althouse café is like one of those absurd doodads* Carl Sagan talked NASA into wasting money, time, and reaction mass on — thoughts launched into the vasty aether with little hope of a thought in reply.

*Specifically, golden plaques attached to Pioneers 10 and 11 showing the winners of the Mister and Miss Nude Generic Nonracial Earthling pageant of 1972. (Mister Nude GNE was also named Mister Congeniality in the 1972 My Hand is Bigger than My Head contest.) Then there are the gold-plated LP of Kurt Waldheim's Greatest Hits in Glorious Monophonic Sound! (aliens may have but one ear, y'know) that hitched rides on Voyagers 1 and 2. In 2 million years Aldebaranite slugoids may take an uncomprehending gander at Sagan's Folly to wonder how beings from such a cold, low-gravity world enjoy living. But be of good cheer! Long, long before that (in 42,000 AD) we'll get our one-way message through to the Giant Hand Lords of Camelopardalis. Unfortunately, they'll be head-scratching (with a giant hand that doesn't take long) over Waldheim's mispronounced English (Zork, did that earthling just say "hello!" or "death to Camelopardalis"?) and won't see evidence of our anatomical kinship.; 3/27/19, 1:32 AM
The Vault Dweller said...: So I generally don't comment in these late night threads, but keeping them moderated seems counter productive to what their goal should be. I always viewed them as just people who generally comment on this site get a chance to shoot the shit with each other. I can't imagine very many late night muses inspire the Althouse to new posts or stories. Might be best to let this format be free.; 3/27/19, 2:02 AM
virgil xenophon said...: Your new "moderation" format for the nighttime Cafe has proved to be an utter failure Ann. Recognize reality and revert to the old format....PULEEZE..; 3/27/19, 4:42 AM
stevew said...: Back from visiting mom-in-law in Florida. I successfully restrained myself from gloating about the EXONERATION of Rump and his campaign. Familial comity is more important to me than gloating about being right about the Democrat's and Media witch hunt.

It's about 30 degrees cooler on average here - though Saturday may hit 70 degrees. The sun comes up about an hour earlier seeing as I live on the eastern edge of the Eastern time zone.

It's good to be home.; 3/27/19, 5:11 AM
Jaq said...: Jonah Goldberg has turned into quite the tool. On his Twitter feed first he talks about how Mueller has created this huge opportunity for the Democrats to rant on, because he ignored the entire purpose of a special counsel by not deciding the obstruction stuff himself.

Then he goes on to excoriate Trump for calling it a witch hunt when obviously Comey has acted honorably.; 3/27/19, 5:11 AM
Jaq said...: Yeah, denial is the longest river in world, and Democrats are swimming in it upstream. But denial is about avoiding psychic pain, and God knows, reality is bringin' da pain so do you really expect them to face it, all of them at once? No.

I don’t know about you guys, but on my spellcheck, Safari, it still refuses to recognize “Kavanaugh.” It’s almost like they are bitter or something. I imagine that the the spellchecker reports names that are used with great frequency and a list is provided so somebody on some kind of weekly or monthly basis to add new names to the list. I can picture her now every time it comes up on the list, it must be near the top, “No fucking way!"; 3/27/19, 5:23 AM
Jaq said...: re: Moderation

The perfect is the enemy of the good.; 3/27/19, 5:25 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: The lubricant that was mentioned upthread is Boeshield and it is amazing stuff. Google it. Been using it for years.; 3/27/19, 5:26 AM
rehajm said...: Dems refuse to vote for GND. Instead they are calling GND the hot new dance craze that’s sweeping the nation. Markey calls it a revolution!

Just don’t vote for it...; 3/27/19, 5:39 AM
Ralph L said...: Meade said a day or two ago that Rat Stickers are back in stock. Click on his commenting picture and send your name and mailing address.

It's too bad Blogger doesn't have a 15 minute or so delay in posting. Then people would think they were being moderated and behave.; 3/27/19, 6:23 AM
Jaq said...: It’s almost enough to make me want to get a Twitter account to rip Jonah a new one. Any time you take the “never” position, you are setting yourself up to have to take positions that don’t recognize parts of reality as it changes. This forces you into absurdities sometimes, that’s where Johah is right now.

They used to do frontal lobotomies. What the effect was that people couldn’t learn new things, but they could deal with their daily routines fine as long as nothing changes. As things change though as is inevitable, the patient (victim) finds it increasingly difficult to cope. That’s right, I said it, going full Never Trump is like voluntarily lobotomizing yourself.

I think this explains Jonah, as well as our Chuck. Kristol? I am pretty sure he is just an evil man.; 3/27/19, 6:24 AM
gilbar said...: remember, this one time; there was this HUGE crisis that WAS GOING TO END THE WORLD in Twelve years unless we All Agreed to enact MY sweeping new bill?
It was SO IMPORTANT, that when the vote came; i voted Present. Sen. Ed Markey
{So did every other co sponsor.}; 3/27/19, 6:35 AM
wildswan said...: It was fun when you had insomnia to turn to Althouse late at night and find a little crowd talking, arguing.

On the topic of changes I wonder how the European anti-linking law that was just passed affects blogs with links and commenters who link.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/european-parliament-adopts-copyright-reform-blow-big-tech-123418987--spt.html; 3/27/19, 6:40 AM
Jaq said...: BTW, years ago, when Iowahawk was posting on Lucianne.com, I used to post there too as “JonahFan” believe it or don’t. I waited for the latest G-File every afternoon like a lab rat waiting for a pellet. Of course Lucianne became an echo chamber of Birkel types and became boring, so I check in once in a while to read the stories, but never post there anymore or even read the comments.; 3/27/19, 6:49 AM
wildswan said...: Jussie actually paid a 10,000 fine and did community service for committing the hoax, according to the prosecutors. But now he is saying that the prosecutors cleared him whereas what they did was expunge his record as, for example, they do for juvenile crimes when you turn 18. Another day, another story from Jussie.; 3/27/19, 6:54 AM
Jaq said...: Well, I am feeling good enough that I am getting out of the house today. So I guess I must leave it to others to poke fun at the increasingly baroque theories that our little deluded ones are spinning to keep hope alive.; 3/27/19, 7:00 AM
tim maguire said...: My wife and I both had our DNA tested recently through Ancestry.com. I was exactly as expected--about 80% Irish and 20% British and Scottish. I'm even less native American than Elizabeth Warren, I'm one of 16 people on earth not descended from Charlemagne or Genghis Khan, and the other 15 are from an undiscovered tribe in the Amazon.

My wife's results were similar--Ashkenazi Jew on her dad's side and Swiss on her mother's. The closest thing to a surprise is a little bit of British and a Warren of Norwegian.

Which makes me wonder--for all we hear about people finding some really interesting factoid in their backgrounds, something they never suspected, how many people are disappointed to find exactly what they expected?; 3/27/19, 7:04 AM
Jaq said...: Before I go, wildswan, I read that article and it doesn’t even describe what the law does or how it works even in general terms.; 3/27/19, 7:05 AM
Tank said...: Nobody said...

re: Moderation

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

Win.

The back and forth could (and really used to) be very good. But mostly it was just garbage.; 3/27/19, 7:08 AM
Hagar said...: Mueller's investigation has done severe damage to some persons connected with Trump, but for actions of their own not related to Trump. I can't see that it has hurt Trump at all; rather the opposite.
Now, Trump's opponents, that's another thing. Mueller certainly has done a lot of damage among them - not just to individuals, but also to the institutions they represented.; 3/27/19, 7:08 AM
wildswan said...: I shouldn't say "expunge his record"; what I was trying to say is that in exchange for a fine and community service the prosecutors dropped all the charges which is like expunging your record when you turn 18. Because what was the fine and community service for, if there were no charges? Who actually got the ten thousand dollars? Is it common to assess a fine and community service and yet withdraw all charges of any sort? Isn't it more usual that the charges are lowered to some single misdemeanor which is of level which commensurate with community service and a fine?; 3/27/19, 7:14 AM
dustbunny said...: Bluey is so sweet, my fav of all the rats!; 3/27/19, 7:16 AM
Paco Wové said...: "Later in his Tuesday remarks, Biden called on Americans to “change the culture” that dates back centuries and allows pervasive violence against women. “It’s an English jurisprudential culture, a white man’s culture. It’s got to change,” Biden said."

Emphasis added. How say you, law-talking lady? (Via.); 3/27/19, 7:29 AM
Kevin said...: I don’t know about you guys, but on my spellcheck, Safari, it still refuses to recognize “Kavanaugh.” It’s almost like they are bitter or something.

When it starts working for Buttigieg you’ll really know you’re on to something.

His name is so difficult for people to pronounce he should just change it into an emoji.; 3/27/19, 7:32 AM
Drago said...: Jonah Goldberg understands full well that any hope for a truly conservative writing gig is O-O-O-ver.

So now he merely teases barely recognizable and severely modified previous conservative positions while strongly introducing and emphasizing lefty positions.

He has to!

Every column he writes now and every appearance he makes is simply his next unofficial "Won't Some Lefty Billionaire Please Please Please Fund Me? I Need A Longterm Gig So Bad But I've Forever Burned All My Bridges With Actual Conservatives And I Have No Where Else To Go!!!" interview.

Yes.

Full Max Boot-ness is in Jonah's very near future.

Yes, he will happy end up on Team Liberal Fascism.

He's halfway there already with obfuscating and his lying in defense of a weaponized state apparatus attacking citizens.

Trump has exposed them all....or, more correctly, all the LLR's have exposed thenselves.; 3/27/19, 7:38 AM
narciso said...: It's a shame max boots book on lansdale was good, even though he didnt reference moyar.; 3/27/19, 8:08 AM
Jersey Fled said...: New talking point for the Democrats per Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-California) in an interview on Fox News last night.

The dossier wasn't verified, but neither was it unverified

Sheesh.; 3/27/19, 8:14 AM
narciso said...: There should be a preview function, to show where in the queue the comments go.; 3/27/19, 8:16 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: “The second is at FoxNews is titled How long has Mueller known there was no Trump-Russia collusion?. In it, McCarthy asks an important question- when did Mueller finally realize "there was no there there"- something Strzok was aware of in May of 2017 himself. McCarthy makes the excellent point that Mueller had to know in September of 2017 when he allowed the Carter Page warrant to expire unrenewed. McCarthy critiques this because he thinks Mueller owed it to the country to give an update in this regard. This is debatable, I think, but my stance depends on what Mueller has actually done the last 18 months of his investigation. If it was nothing but obstruction, then Mueller has done the country a disservice by taking so long- if he was still looking for collusion in other avenues, then I am ok with the report being filed this week.”

I don’t see the Mueller investigation being able to maintain the Carter Page FISA warrant. Not that connected temporally. Mueller was looking at events running from spring through fall of 2016, and the FISA warrant would have been looking at events a year later. Besides, FISA only applies to counterintelligence and counter terrorism, while an independent counsel was supposed to investigate crimes, and FISA has an approval process that requires signing by AG/DAG and FBI Dir/DD. Otherwise I agree about the timing.

Interesting fight gong on right now. Nunes is pushing criminal referrals for the FISAgate scandal. Graham is pushing hard for an independent counsel. Trump is apparently their target, and not Barr. Trump appears to be committed to doing something, but that might change. Since the trail seems to lead back to the Obama White House, and includes the CIA, my vote would be with Sen Graham for a special counsel.; 3/27/19, 8:16 AM
I Have Misplaced My Pants said...: "Later in his Tuesday remarks, Biden called on Americans to “change the culture” that dates back centuries and allows pervasive violence against women. “It’s an English jurisprudential culture, a white man’s culture. It’s got to change,” Biden said."

Lol. I live in a Hispanic majority culture, jurisprudence aside, and men and women of the lower classes are quite accepting of domestic violence. It's the white people who are horrified by it. Hispanics generally just shrug.; 3/27/19, 8:19 AM
wildswan said...: This whole Russian thing has been like Dreyfus case. High up people started a lie (an accusation of spying made by anti-semites against a Jew) and the lie damaged the life of an innocent man. Then supporters of this innocent man worked to expose the lie; and exposing the lie revealed a network of corruption. Similarly Trump, by holding out, has exposed a network of corruption of another kind. It is the globalist corruption of the democratic process. In a new age, you get new threats which a citizen has to understand and this Russian thing has laid out how globalists corrupt the system. Avoiding mass citizen round-ups while changing education and the news into propaganda is central. But there's also a strange sort of Moebius strip effect in the propaganda which is new. In this kind of Moebius propaganda beating up people on the street (by Antifa leftys) is justified as preventing the beating up of people on the street. Abandoning objectivity is justified as becoming objective in that you only tell the truth. Refusing to listen or answer arguments, as on climate change, is being open. It's love to hate Christians.; 3/27/19, 8:22 AM
Jersey Fled said...: Yesterday Trump signed an Executive Order ordering the federal government to develop plans to thwart and mitigate the effects of EMP attacks.

So while Trump continues to address real problems in a serious way, the Democrats offer us ... The Green New Deal.; 3/27/19, 8:25 AM
Maillard Reactionary said...: I stopped reading NRO when they fired Derb for telling the truth about race. Goldberg in those days usually disappointed me in his commentary, when it wasn't just silly.

He's only gotten worse since then. A tool indeed.

He should learn to code.; 3/27/19, 8:34 AM
Tina Trent said...: Just what we were missing: Joe Biden teaching us feminist theory.; 3/27/19, 8:40 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: “The dossier wasn't verified, but neither was it unverified

Sheesh.”

Normally, he might be right. But that doesn’t matter here. What does matter here is that the DoJ AG or DAG, and FBI Dir or DD, four times certified to a court of la (the FISC) under oath that it was verified and adequately corroborated, and that all g or mitigating information was included in the applications that they were submitting to the courts.; 3/27/19, 9:00 AM
Maillard Reactionary said...: The above item about "simulation world" reminded me of something else that seems insane. My understanding is that Boeing engineers are working around the clock to get the 737 MAX autopilot software "patch" qualified by next Friday.

If so, this is madness.

What should be done, in my view (and I never even worked in the aerospace industry) is that it should be tested in simulators by at least two independent teams in addition to the Boeing developers. Then, they should fly it in in real 737 MAX aircraft (flight crew only on board) for a couple of weeks in a variety of conditions. To find out, you know, if it actually works in the real world.

Only then should it be turned loose on the public. We don't need a replay of the 1986 Challenger disaster, where safety was sacrificed under schedule pressure.; 3/27/19, 9:01 AM
Michael K said...: Since the trail seems to lead back to the Obama White House, and includes the CIA, my vote would be with Sen Graham for a special counsel.

There is interesting speculation this morning that the original target was Flynn.

Michael Ledeen is pushing this.

I think it began on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, when Flynn changed the way we did intelligence against the likes of Zarqawi, bin Laden, the Taliban, and their allies.

General Flynn saw that our battlefield intelligence was too slow. We collected information from the Middle East and sent it back to Washington, where men with stars on their shoulders and others at the civilian intel agencies chewed it over, decided what to do, and sent instructions back to the war zone. By the time all that happened, the battlefield had changed. Flynn short-circuited this cumbersome bureaucratic procedure and moved the whole enterprise to the war itself. The new methods were light years faster. Intel went to local analysts, new actions were ordered from men on the battlefield (Flynn famously didn’t care about rank or status) and the war shifted in our favor.

This reminiscent of Joe Rochefort in WWII where the Redman brothers in Washington missed all the real intel but won the war against Rochefort, even though he was the one who got the intel on Midway,; 3/27/19, 9:12 AM
Meade said...: "Is it still possible to get rat stickers?"

Sure is. Offer good while supplies last. (Follow Ralph L.'s 6:23 AM advice.); 3/27/19, 9:22 AM
mockturtle said...: Michelle Obama should be investigated for obstruction of justice in the Smollett case. There is ample evidence [text messages] and I hope this travesty will not be ignored.; 3/27/19, 9:29 AM
Yancey Ward said...: "What should be done, in my view (and I never even worked in the aerospace industry) is that it should be tested in simulators by at least two independent teams in addition to the Boeing developers. Then, they should fly it in in real 737 MAX aircraft (flight crew only on board) for a couple of weeks in a variety of conditions. To find out, you know, if it actually works in the real world."

One caveat- the Boeing's 3 top levels of management, the board of directors, and the FAA board all be aboard the planes during the testing.; 3/27/19, 11:00 AM
Kevin said...: Nothing today on Joe Biden's "white man's culture" speech?

I'm more excited for him to join the race every day!!!

Biden: "White man speak with forked tongue. Give Wawa people shameful comments. Make feel bad."; 3/27/19, 11:45 AM
Kevin said...: "Is it still possible to get rat stickers?"

I'm waiting until the debate field is locked in, hoping we might get a commemorative Democ-RAT edition of the candidates.

A real depiction of the rat race.; 3/27/19, 11:48 AM
Maillard Reactionary said...: Yancy @11 AM: Great idea. That would allow the testing with a full load of passengers
(regrettably, a few will probably be bumped at the last minute).

Further, I propose that the FAA board be placed in the middle seats, with the head of the FAA in row 34 next to the coach class restroom.; 3/27/19, 12:33 PM
RobinGoodfellow said...: ZBlogger Richard Dillman said...
Met with my lefty friends today. Boy are they in denial, and its not a river. Maybe they will go through all the stages of grief. Anger seemingly
will follow soon.

I hear tell that most are stuck between denial and anger. It is a slow process.; 3/27/19, 5:07 PM
Big Mike said...: He should learn to code.

@Phidippus, Goldberg might be able to learn, but one look at Bill Kristol and you know damned well that he is never going to be working way past midnight trying to debug a module that's needed for tomorrow's build.; 3/27/19, 5:18 PM