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May 27, 2019

At the Green-On-Green Café...

... you can talk all night.

42 comments:

Big Mike said...: Watching “The Hot Zone” on National Geographic. So far, damned good! It’s the story of when Ebola was on American soil, in a suburb of Washington, DC, not far outside the Beltway. Fortunately, “Ebola Reston” doesn’t — so far! — affect humans. The Zaire form of Ebola, has, to the best of WHO’s known numbers, killed 1200 out of 1800 people known to have contracted it. You bleed out from every orifice, including your eyes and the pores of your skin.; 5/27/19, 9:04 PM
traditionalguy said...: Mogul is about to make a speech livestreamed on Youtube from the USS Wasp in Tokyo Bay. The rest of his two days of appearances with The Emperor of Japan has been ignored by the MSM, except for sneering commentators intentionally miss-interpreting his Tweets on Kim.

Interestingly the Japanese navy has itself a new Carrier that it named Kaga. It's half as big as the original Kaga that had attacked Pearl Harbor, and was sunk by 5 bomb hits in 5 minutes delivered by Wade McCluskey's USS Enterprise Bombing Squadron 6 , 77 years ago.; 5/27/19, 9:06 PM
Rick.T. said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 5/27/19, 9:10 PM
narciso said...: Yes only the daily mail has really followed the story,

I remember I read both the hot zone and emerging plagues for a biology paper that wasnt a fun experience.; 5/27/19, 9:11 PM
Rick.T. said...: RIP Billy Buck. You deserve to be remembered for more than a ground ball rolling through your legs.; 5/27/19, 9:11 PM
Big Mike said...: For many years I worked down the road from the monkey research facility where they found Ebola Reston. The building had long since been bulldozed flat, of course, but strange to think of working so close to our species wake up call.; 5/27/19, 9:12 PM
stevew said...: Rick.T.

Right on. I’m one of those Red Sox fans that knows Buckner’s play wasn’t the reason they lost that series. He was an outstanding pro baseball player. RIP.; 5/27/19, 9:17 PM
narciso said...: Yikes that is kind of eye opening.; 5/27/19, 9:32 PM
Narr said...: I was visiting an old friend, a Vietnam combat vet (1st Aviation Brigade, a helicopter door gunner until they found out he could type good after about half his tour was up) and he had on the CSPAN coverage of Mogul's honor guard reception at the Arahika(?) Palace.

So cool. His Japanese officer chaperone's tunic is of a cut I don't recall seeing, very dare I say Oriental. The Marines(?) were right smart, and it was interesting to hear some cheap Japanese Sousa knockoffs from the band. I never got a good look at the multi-service color-bearers' attire.

Narr
I don't follow baseball much, but yeah, why remember a guy best for his worst moment?

Narr; 5/27/19, 9:33 PM
Michael K said...: I recommend Norman Podhoretz interview in the CRB this month. He was a NeverTrumper at first but has converted.

He thinks the Dem Candidate will be Michelle. He has a fair argument.; 5/27/19, 9:37 PM
Gahrie said...: Interestingly the Japanese navy has itself a new Carrier that it named Kaga. It's half as big as the original Kaga that had attacked Pearl Harbor

It's a helicopter carrier. The Japanese don't even call it a carrier..they call it a helicopter destroyer. I believe they have started talking about altering their helicopter destroyers to allow operation of the F-35.; 5/27/19, 9:39 PM
narciso said...: Reminds me of euan McGregor's role in black hawk down, he was the typist till one of his replacement was injured prior to a mission.; 5/27/19, 9:42 PM
Gahrie said...: The USS Wasp on the other hand, is also not technically a carrier..it's an amphibious assault ship capable of launching landing craft, hovercraft, helicopters, Harriers and the F-35.; 5/27/19, 9:43 PM
stephen cooper said...: I am a Mets fan and I wish the mets had lost in 1986, I wish that Buckner had caught that ball ---- but in Little League I missed a lot of balls too and nobody cared, Buckner made millions of dollars off his talent and I, a little kid, just got laughed at for not being as good at baseball as I wanted to be .....

there were some really bad people on that 1986 Mets team, and I say this as a Mets fan, those degenerates did not deserve to win

That being said, Buckner had a great life, never had to work a single day, from high school on he never had to work a single day at a job, his career was just playing a game

Don't ever feel sorry for professional athletes for anything that occurs to them on the playing field

off the field, sure, there are all sorts of things that we should feel sad that they have to go through - Doug Flutie's kid had autism and he said one day he watched another quarterback complaining that his kid went 0 for 4 at a little league game and Doug said "My God if only my kid could have stood in the batter's box for a moment" --- and poor Ted Williams, who is praised to the skies even to this day, said he did not "trust God" because someone he cared about suffered from Parkinson's ==== well, what is important is not what happens on the playing field, where the luckiest of us get paid to play while the rest of us work, what is important is whether or not we understand that God loves us.; 5/27/19, 10:02 PM
readering said...: October 25, 1986, for a New Yorker, was one of the MOST memorable evenings of Television. On a business trip with other New Yorkers and watched it in a hotel restaurant in Phoenix. No one else there to object when we were jumping on tables. Always felt bad for BB though.; 5/27/19, 10:09 PM
narciso said...: How about that 90 second Tyson fight, who was that against again?; 5/27/19, 10:13 PM
Tomcc said...: Late to comment due to working today:
Thank you to all who serve or have served; the older I get the more I appreciate your sacrifices.
Also, thanks to our hostess and Mr. Meade for their continuing dedication to this blog thingy!; 5/27/19, 10:19 PM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: Via Insty, this is pretty freaky: Coooool: Korean Cafe Designed To Look Like A 2-D Black And White Pen Drawing; 5/27/19, 10:47 PM
DanZenner said...: Rick T.
I would like to add my RIP to Bill Buckner.
I loved Billy Buck for his time with the Cubs. His first year in 1977, I remember he played much of the year on a very bad ankle. There was not a grittier ball player during the 70’s and 80’s. In fact, even Hall of Famer George Brett admired his game.... “In 1983, Brett was doing laundry when he heard that Bill Buckner was coming to bat. As Brett ran to the television, Brett hit a door jam and broke a toe.

That landed him on the disabled list.”

Read more here: https://www.kansascity.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/for-petes-sake/article132690844.html#storylink=cpy; 5/27/19, 10:57 PM
Sprezzatura said...: Re green, I've never smoked pot.

Probably had a fair amount of contact. E.g. being the only abstainer re four in a (so-called) four seat Ferrari (and other cars).

But, I'm no nerd. From way back, have been around plenty of folks doin' all sorts a stuff way more hardcore than the green.

Presumably it's unusual to hang so closely w/ such, but never do it.

Anywho, I did end up w/ a shitload of green. Maybe because of the BRAIN re not even doing weed but hanging w/ fiends fer friends.

I dunno.; 5/27/19, 11:36 PM
Narayanan said...: Advantage Russia.
Deep Fake 2020
https://www.sciencealert.com/samsung-s-ai-can-now-generate-talking-heads-from-a-single-image

Sleepy Joe will morph ...>>> Michelle.; 5/27/19, 11:38 PM
Michael McNeil said...: Recent several tweets (along with Facebook post) by Richard Fernandez (a.k.a. Wretchard the Cat). Amazing how much he sounds sometimes like buwaya (and vice versa!).; 5/27/19, 11:45 PM
walter said...: Shitter,
If that condition persists, you should contact yer doc.
And don't mistake it for avacado.; 5/27/19, 11:49 PM
Yancey Ward said...: In Buckner's defense, his error didn't necessarily lose the game- it was already tied- the Mets might well have won anyway.; 5/27/19, 11:53 PM
Yancey Ward said...: Really, I read all the time how Buckner's error cost them the World Series win- it might have, or it might not have.; 5/27/19, 11:54 PM
heyboom said...: Turned to the local news for a weather forecast and caught a story about a vandal in a Trump mask. How did our intrepid anchor report the story? "A man who looked like Donald Trump was arrested...".

Really? He looked like Trump because he was wearing a freaking Trump mask! Shouldn't that have been the lede? It never ends with these idiots!; 5/27/19, 11:59 PM
rehajm said...: Biden/Clinton ramping up!; 5/28/19, 5:12 AM
rehajm said...: Hillary! with the fitness display walking in a parade, like when the impalas jump around like crazy so the leopard doesn’t eat them.; 5/28/19, 5:20 AM
Robert Cook said...: "October 25, 1986, for a New Yorker, was one of the MOST memorable evenings of Television. On a business trip with other New Yorkers and watched it in a hotel restaurant in Phoenix. No one else there to object when we were jumping on tables. Always felt bad for BB though."

I worked in a hotel across the Grand Central Parkway from LaGuardia Airport (and close to Shea Stadium) at the time. The Mets often booked blocks of rooms in our hotel if they were traveling in or out of the city. After they won the World Series in 1986, they were at the hotel celebrating. They were mostly approachable and some of the front desk staff were friendly with them, and would collect their signatures on baseballs, etc. My brother was a jock in school and the Mets players mostly reminded me of my brother and his friends. (I had one unpleasant interaction with Lenny Dykstra, who was an unmitigated asshole. His subsequent history does not surprise me.)

However, I have no interest in baseball (or team sports in general), so, while it was interesting and fun to see all the goings on, and despite the general atmosphere of giddy hysteria, I didn't personally care in the least about the Mets' win, so I experienced it all as just a dispassionate observer.; 5/28/19, 6:04 AM
Humperdink said...: Fascinating article by never-Trumper Bret Stephens in the NYTimes. Trump nationalism is spreading across the globe. Stephens fully expects Trump to be re-elected barring an economic meltdown.

Interesting quote: "When protests erupted last year in France over Emmanuel Macron’s attempt to raise gas prices for the sake of the climate, one gilets jaunes slogan captured the core complaint: “Macron is concerned with the end of the world,” it went, while “we are concerned with the end of the month.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/24/opinion/trump-elections-india-australia.html; 5/28/19, 6:20 AM
Kevin said...: Our news is made by demented people who think it’s 2016, and is stamped as it goes over the airwaves by Jeff Zucker, who holds out his hand and writes, “This Is CNN”.; 5/28/19, 6:36 AM
Humperdink said...: Modeling Hillary's election strategy, Comatose Joe took the weekend off from the campaign trial.; 5/28/19, 6:47 AM
alanc709 said...: Buckner was a scapegoat, without doubt. If that error cost them the series, why'd they have to play another game afterwards? That error was in game 6, it tied the series and forced game 7.; 5/28/19, 6:48 AM
walter said...: Gillette ad shows father teaching his transgender son how to shave; 5/28/19, 6:57 AM
Andrew said...: Bruckner was a great composer.; 5/28/19, 7:00 AM
I Have Misplaced My Pants said...: MIKE SYLWESTER, IF YOU ARE HERE, I HAVE A BONE TO PICK WITH YOU!

So upon reading your recommendation the other day to Althouse for The White Queen, The White Princess and the Spanish Princess, my husband the Wars of the Roses/Tudor dynasty connoisseur and I sat down to give The White Queen a whirl. Sir, it was AWFUL. We made it maybe 15 minutes in? To the 'attempted rape' at the tree in the woods with the king? What are you seeing that we did not see? It struck us as a simply a heaving-bosom, costumed romance between Elizabeth Woodville and Edward with clunky dialogue and pretty stars; a sexy fantasy for the ladies.

All was not lost, however, as after we turned the above off in disappointment, I got him to watch the first two episodes of The Sopranos which I have been trying to do for years, and I believe I have him hooked. :); 5/28/19, 7:57 AM
narciso said...: It is the real game of thrones except they blame ned stark after they cut off his head.; 5/28/19, 8:33 AM
Fen said...: Gillette released a campaign in January to challenging the decades-old slogan, “The Best a Man Can Get,” to discuss toxic masculinity, harassment and men’s mental health.

To CHALLENGE the decades-old slogan? Is that what they mean? Sentence is borked.

to discuss toxic masculinity, harassment and men’s mental health.

ie. you are going to attack masculinity and call us psychos. And blame our suicide rates on "not embracing your feminine side".

We believe in the best in men. To say the right thing, to act the right way,” a narrator says over clips, both scripted and real, of men defending others from bullying or stopping friends from harassing women.

If you believe the best in men then why do you assume we need to be "taught" to intercede against bullies and keep each other from sexually harassing women?

“The boys watching today will be the men of tomorrow,” the narrator says.

Trannies are less than 1% of the population. Boy watching will refuse to associate themselves with a product that sponsor delusional freaks.

Also, is the tranny in the commercial female to male? Because I know one, mid-twenties after hormones, and after a year "he" is still grooming a patch of whiskers on the chin shorter than my 24 hour stubble.

Gillette obviously doesn't understand men. If they can't be bothered to understand their customer, how tailored can their product be? I predict a free-fall.; 5/28/19, 9:11 AM
Original Mike said...: Just listened to a great interview of Joe diGenova discussing the coming shit storm over 702 abuse.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/05/27/joe-digenova-discusses-declassification-and-origin-of-obama-political-surveillance-operation/

He referenced two sites who are doing this reporting, Sundance (which I read regularly) and I believe he said "Marketplace". Does anyboby know what Marketplace is?; 5/28/19, 9:25 AM
Original Mike said...: Think I found it:

themarketswork.com

If it's as good as Sundance, I'm going to have to check this out.; 5/28/19, 9:50 AM
narciso said...: I'd say better than Sundance, who sometimes goes far afield; 5/28/19, 3:07 PM
Original Mike said...: Tx.; 5/28/19, 10:30 PM