१२ जून, २०१९

At the Tiny Lawn Café...

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... you can run free.

I made it back home from New York City, where I stayed at the Arthouse Hotel... not Althouse, Arthouse.

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Big Mike म्हणाले...

No difference to many Asians.

David Begley म्हणाले...

Ann Althouse: Hipster.

tcrosse म्हणाले...

The Chelsea was booked up.

Josephbleau म्हणाले...

Reminds me of when I was an undergrad years ago and I pulled up a piece of grass and put it into an ash tray. It got me laid.

Sheridan म्हणाले...

Looks like dinner to a Venezuelan.

Jaq म्हणाले...

Reminds me of the ‘70s for some reason....

JackWayne म्हणाले...

Every day there’s a new reveal that shows Obama was up to his neck in the collusion story.

narciso म्हणाले...

Did we cover this:

https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/theyre-coming-through-the-wire/

narciso म्हणाले...

Or this:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/mexican-president-selling-his-luxurious-presidential-plane-to-pay-for-us-immigration-deal?fbclid=IwAR2cRWL_N_eVBZnYEGIrTupO4YefLc9EWBc6xMpjtLdPC2y_OMVvECqqpRE

chickelit म्हणाले...

"Get off on my lawn" was Harvey's thought when he took dates there.

traditionalguy म्हणाले...

Near the Lincoln Center. And I noticed that The Tavern on The Green has re-opened.Time flies.

Lucid-Ideas म्हणाले...

"...home of the wheat-grass and grain alcohol cocktail. While supplies last."

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM म्हणाले...

... a piece of grass and put it into an ash tray. It got me laid.

she must have been from the 'auld sod'.

pro tip for laying sod: Green side up!

DavidUW म्हणाले...

Serafina is reliable

traditionalguy म्हणाले...

Please don't eat the wheat grass.

StephenFearby म्हणाले...

Arthouse Hotel...good thing you didn't identify it before you got back.

Lotsa stalkers on the loose in NYC.

As well as a wide variety of other crazies.

JackWayne म्हणाले...

The more we get to hear about the F-35, the worse the story gets. I’m losing faith in our military leadership.

The first one was yesterday and this one is today.

Lawrence Person म्हणाले...

USA to Turkey: “No F-35s For You!”

madAsHell म्हणाले...

Hey, David Begley!! Were you allowed to question Biden???

pacwest म्हणाले...

"The assumption of tribalism is deeply offensive."

madAsHell म्हणाले...

The first one was yesterday and this one is today.

Trust me, the F-35 is the hottest aircraft in the sky, but most of it isn't speed, and aerodynamics.

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM म्हणाले...

Joe Biden: “I Think I’m Either Low IQ or Slow — I Don’t Know"

eventually, Herr "Pluggs' Von Sniffengroper will figure it out

“The first rule of politics is to not reinforce your opponent’s attacks by repeating them,” . “Despite being in elective politics for the last 50 years, Joe Biden apparently didn’t get that memo.”

JackWayne म्हणाले...

Search for F-35 problems and you get This is just the top of many.

stephen cooper म्हणाले...

One wonders about those UFOs, though .....

inexplicable ability to tolerate exponentially more Gs than any known aircraft .....

I mean I would love to own an F-35, if they were for sale, but those UFOs .....

narciso म्हणाले...

They either are obfuscating or they dont know anything
https://mobile.twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1138860065065197570

narciso म्हणाले...

Captain Steven Hilliard proved they aren't that maneuverable, that's why they killed him off in the sequel

David Begley म्हणाले...

Mad

I didn’t drive over. I had to write a brief. I’ll quiz Biden later.

narciso म्हणाले...

These fighters are designed to operate mostly in thinner atmospheres, not close to the ground. They would have different design requtements

stephen cooper म्हणाले...

who said they were fighters?

maybe they are just demonstration airframes

madAsHell म्हणाले...

Search for F-35 problems and you get This is just the top of many.

They are already into the C-block of avionics? Trust me, the demonstrable bugs are gone......and your AirForce is getting their first!!

iowan2 म्हणाले...

Flynn has fired his legal team. His new mouth piece is Former US Attorney Sydney Powell.

All that is left to wrap up the Flynn plea deal, is sentencing. Now why would a person get a different Attorney, just for the sentencing?

Everything Mueller has done, left dangling threads. Those threads are getting tugged and the unraveling is starting. Soon those fine tales woven by Mueller will amount to nothing.

madAsHell म्हणाले...

....your American Air Force is getting there first.

madAsHell म्हणाले...

Mad

I didn’t drive over. I had to write a brief. I’ll quiz Biden later.



Thank you.

narciso म्हणाले...

I dont know why Lucas chose x wings I cant imagine that would be aerodynamically stable, and you would need then in space, but he pmbDed the major battles out of the Howard Hughes production wings

narciso म्हणाले...

He was general mcrystal chief Intel officer who set the framework for the counter insurgency strategy.

JackWayne म्हणाले...

Oh yeah, they’re flying the hell out of those planes.

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM म्हणाले...

no, AOC, it was the Mayflower, not the "Cauliflower" that brought those white racist pilgrims over.
...but dont start hatin' on April showers now.

And where's my Rum-and-Coke?!?!

narciso म्हणाले...

Yeah we call that the 'little lie' Cuba libre, dark humor.

Churchy LaFemme: म्हणाले...

Drunk woman driving toy truck on road said she was training as a wrestler, SC cops say

I do believe SC Woman is giving Florida Man a run for his money today.

Jay Vogt म्हणाले...

After 30 years of maintaining a large lawn ( through either checkbook or sweat) , I finally sold out of suburbia last year. That is exactly the size of lawn I’m wiling to attend to going forward.

Yancey Ward म्हणाले...

Wow, what a nice boutique hotel!

gadfly म्हणाले...

The Air Force needs to shut down the F-35 fiasco and order the amazing Swedish Saab JAS-39 Gripen which is 50% cheaper to build and to operate while outperforming the clunky F-35 (when they can keep the American non-fighter jet in the air).

BTW - Gripen is the Swedish word for Griffin – a mythological animal, half eagle and half lion.

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM म्हणाले...

the Obamas haven’t even begun to release THEIR content yet.

Netflix Has Become The Breeding Ground Of Political Hatred…And It’s Only Going To Get Worse

https://society-reviews.com/2019/06/12/netflix-has-become-the-breeding-ground-of-political-hatred-and-its-only-going-to-get-worse/

narciso म्हणाले...

Just like there a BBC series by Russell Davis, called years and years coming to hbo.

narciso म्हणाले...

With Emma Thompson so she'll be very balanced

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM म्हणाले...

will this be nice?

In a few weeks anyone will be able to launch their own social network built on the open source New Gab code.
You can self-host it, or in the future we can host it on free speech infrastructure.
You can have your own rules and moderation style. It can't be taken down as a whole.

John Lawton म्हणाले...

I don't comment very often (because I'm on the West Coast and get home very late after most other commenters have had their say), but I have been reading Althouse almost every night after Instapundit's first links and I must say: I love Althouse! (and you too Meade!)

Narayanan म्हणाले...

Trump details his 3 a.m call on page 17 of book on his Comeback. Negotiating to keep 90 banks in agreement unanimous.

He is quite transparent.
No BS with bankers.

Rusty म्हणाले...

madAsHell said...
"Search for F-35 problems and you get This is just the top of many.

They are already into the C-block of avionics? Trust me, the demonstrable bugs are gone......and your AirForce is getting their first!!"
It's a pretty amazing system. Very 'buck rogers'. I suspect it is being groomed as a platform to lead pilotless aircraft into combat.
Howrd. We have enough fourth generation fighters.

Bay Area Guy म्हणाले...

From Bauhaus to Althouse.......

rhhardin म्हणाले...

Kroger and a pet shop have opened near-the-store parking spots for people who call in and order stuff. They phone the store when they get there and a clerk brings the order out.

Sort of free delivery but you deliver it yourself.

Anyway my question is not why would anybody want to do that (nobody does apparently) but why are the parking spots near the store. It's the store employee that does the walking. It takes close spots from regular shoppers.

Jaq म्हणाले...

The Labour Party is discussing plans to bring in a 10-hour working week and slash pay by 75 per cent to tackle climate change. The radical report titled The Ecological Limits of Work by the Autonomy Group states unless current carbon emissions are cut there would be an ‘unprecedented decrease in the economic activity’.

It says the sustainable work week would likely be ‘well below 10 hours per week’.

Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, who has previously backed a four-day working week, said: ‘This is a vital contribution to the growing debate around free time and reducing the working week.’ Leo Murray, adviser to Shadow Treasury minister Clive Lewis, said: ‘I like this take a lot.’
- H/T Wattsupwiththat.com

You guys pretend to work and we will pretend to pay you. Sounds familiar but at least they are up front about the economic collapse socialism produeces and now they have moved from denial to bargaining. “It’s not a bug! It’s a feature!"

Jaq म्हणाले...

I saw a story recently where women are far more likely than men to believe in socialism. Nobody is going to do a poll that discovers that women are also far more likely to believe in faeries and guardian angels.

rehajm म्हणाले...

Did they account for the fact people will burn lots more shit just to keep warm?

Jaq म्हणाले...

Did they account for the fact people will burn lots more shit just to keep warm?

That’s a good point. If you only let a man work 10 hrs a week but don’t give him enough to get by the way he thinks he should, he is going to spend the rest of his hours supplementing his meager official income, you know, chopping down trees, creating black markets, etc, etc. We have seen how this plays out in the Soviet Union.

One of the points that warmies like to make is that there is a “hot spot” over Siberia where it used to be far colder. Well, in the Soviet Union, goods were handed out scientifically, so if somebody wrote on a sheet of paper that it was -60C, the government will send more heating oil than if he wrote down on the paper that it was -40. But Soviet man would never cheat! No true Soviet would take the extra heating oil and put it on the black market!

Robert Cook म्हणाले...

"Ann Althouse: Hipster."

No. That's not a hipster neighborhood or hotel. It's the Upper West Side for Pete's sake!

It does look very nice...tastefully expensive, artfully rustic.

Jaq म्हणाले...

“Congress could investigate Trump’s finances in an impeachment proceeding, but it can do so without launching the formal process of impeachment,” Conway and Katyal wrote

Sometimes I think that the Conway’s are a pro-Trump tag team. George’s role is to illustrate the ridiculousness of Democrat positions.

Robert Cook म्हणाले...

"I’m losing faith in our military leadership."

"Losing faith?" Aren't you decades late?

Jaq म्हणाले...

Our military leadership seldom fails us, it’s our political leadership and their ham-handed military adventurism that is the problem. “We came! We saw! He died!” - HRC

Jaq म्हणाले...

“Know what I was most proud of?” Joe said Wednesday, “For eight years, there wasn’t one single hint of a scandal or a lie.”

This is why they call you Slow Joe.

Birkel म्हणाले...

People who live in "The City" think the rest of us give a shit about their neighborhoods.
It's obnoxious.

Robert Cook म्हणाले...

Aren't members of the military obliged to refuse unlawful orders? When ordered to illegally intervene in other countries--absent any self-defense necessity or approval by the UN Security Council, and, therefore, illegal--why don't they refuse? I'm sure some in the military leadership disagree with our disastrous and illegal geopolitical gamesmanship, but others, ambitious and eager to aggrandize their own careers, are certainly happy collaborators.

Robert Cook म्हणाले...

"People who live in "The City" think the rest of us give a shit about their neighborhoods.
It's obnoxious."


Don't be silly, (or so self-absorbed): People who live in the city don't give a shit what the rest of you think about our neighborhoods.

Birkel म्हणाले...

And that's why you explained which neighborhood that picture is from.
Because you don't care.

It's not what we think about those neighborhoods.
It's that we don't think about them.
We don't care.

You were wrong at least twice (I got bored and only counted two.) in one sentence.
Often wrong.
Never in doubt.

Jaq म्हणाले...

Aren't members of the military obliged to refuse unlawful orders?

Yes, they are obliged to refuse orders that are unlawful under US law. I know you have this fantasyland idea of international law, but the only ones that remotely count as US law are treaties approved by the US Senate. Otherwise we get into one more rathole like “free trade” where we are expected to behave in some sort of ideal manner while our enemies use tactics for which we have no realistic answer. “Put out a warrant for bin Laden on Interpol!"

tim maguire म्हणाले...

Robert Cook said...
Aren't members of the military obliged to refuse unlawful orders? When ordered to illegally intervene in other countries--absent any self-defense necessity or approval by the UN Security Council, and, therefore, illegal--


You should have put "illegal" in scare quotes because the security council does not make things illegal under US law.

Nobody covers it well enough, I just want to take as moment to laugh at your citation of the UN as an authority on anything. The UN is nothing more than a welfare program established to pay for 3rd world kleptocrats to come to New York and park illegally. It's not an organization that needs to exist. In most cases, it is worse than useless. It could do more to improve the world by disbanding.

Grant म्हणाले...

Arthouse used to be the Nylo. Looks like they've toned down that Scandinavian Modern look. The upstairs floor corridors were like a maze of prison halls.

narciso म्हणाले...

Yes the Libyans put out a interpol bulletin on bin laden that was the same year mi 5 recruited al queda to hit him.

Danno म्हणाले...

Blogger Yancey Ward said...Wow, what a nice boutique hotel!

Sure beats the Outhouse hotel.

Ignorance is Bliss म्हणाले...

rhhardin said...

Anyway my question is not why would anybody want to do that (nobody does apparently) but why are the parking spots near the store. It's the store employee that does the walking. It takes close spots from regular shoppers.

In a word, throughput. A typical shopper may tie up the parking space for 30 minutes, while an online order only takes 5 minutes to load. So you get 6 times as many customers who get the good parking space.

Assuming you have enough demand for the online ordering.

Michael K म्हणाले...

All that is left to wrap up the Flynn plea deal, is sentencing. Now why would a person get a different Attorney, just for the sentencing?

Flynn is going to ask out of the deal on the basis of prosecutorial misconduct. You might read Sydney Powell's book, Licensed to LIe.

This true legal thriller debunks everything the media and the government told us about the Department of Justice’s destruction and prosecution of the venerable accounting firm Arthur Andersen, Merrill Lynch executives who did one business transaction with Enron, Alaska Senator Ted Steven’s, and more. The common thread through it all is a cabal of narcissistic federal prosecutors who broke all the rules and rose to great power. Still in the news today―Robert Mueller s “pitbull" Andrew Weissmann and other members of Obama's inner circle―are wreaking havoc on our Republic. This is the book that began exposing “the Deep State.”

Round #1 of the counterpunch.

Robert Cook म्हणाले...

"And that's why you explained which neighborhood that picture is from.
Because you don't care."


Well, I live here; I care about our neighborhoods. More to the point, I was responding to someone else's misconception that this was a "hipster" neighborhood. Which is to say, my response was pertinent to an existing comment. It's not always, (in fact, rarely) about you.

Robert Cook म्हणाले...

"Yes, they are obliged to refuse orders that are unlawful under US law. I know you have this fantasyland idea of international law, but the only ones that remotely count as US law are treaties approved by the US Senate."

We signed the UN Charter, which forbids initiating war (or even threatening war) against other countries, absent a self-defense necessity or approval by the UN Security Council. By our signing the charter, a treaty agreement, that becomes the law of the land, as per the Constitution. If we invade another country simply on our own initiative, absent a self-defense necessity, we have committed a crime, just as would any other country that would invade us.

Robert Cook म्हणाले...

"Nobody covers it well enough, I just want to take as moment to laugh at your citation of the UN as an authority on anything. The UN is nothing more than a welfare program established to pay for 3rd world kleptocrats to come to New York and park illegally. It's not an organization that needs to exist. In most cases, it is worse than useless. It could do more to improve the world by disbanding."

Take your complaints to the U.S. government, which was instrumental in founding the UN.

buwaya म्हणाले...

The US created the UN for strategic reasons. To begin with it was an instrument of US policy as most of the members were dependent on the US. This was pre-decolonization. Things changed.

Narr म्हणाले...

The UN was created by the big, responsible countries (self-defined) to keep the small, irresponsible countries in line.

Unless things have changed a lot in the last decades, there is simply no UN major initiative, especially peace-keeping, that is not dependent on US logistical support.

The UN has done some good stuff, but as a body is dedicated mostly to biting the hand that feeds it.

Narr
With tiny liddle teef

Big Mike म्हणाले...

Good ol’ Cookie. Always has his reasons why we should blame America first.

You be you, Cookie.

Birkel म्हणाले...

Yeah, Robert Cook.
It's about me mocking you.
That's not about me.

You were wrong again.
But never in doubt.

Robert Cook म्हणाले...

"The US created the UN for strategic reasons. To begin with it was an instrument of US policy as most of the members were dependent on the US. This was pre-decolonization. Things changed."

The USA is not the king of the world, and tools it helped create for its own reasons will be used by other participating nations for their own reasons. The UN's primary purpose was to prevent future cataclysmic wars on the scale of WWII from occurring again. So far, whether because of the UN or not, there hasn't been a WWIII. When it happens, it may truly be the war to end all wars.

Robert Cook म्हणाले...

"The UN was created by the big, responsible countries (self-defined) to keep the small, irresponsible countries in line."

Heh! The USA has shown itself repeatedly to be grossly irresponsible, violent, aggressive, acquisitive, deceiving, and, to repeat, violent. As Martin Luther King said a half century ago, the US is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world. True then; still true today.

Michael K म्हणाले...

the US is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world. True then; still true today.

Cookie, I'm sure you would be happier in another country that is much more virtuous than ours. I am sure there is a long list you have.

Why not move? Your government job can't be that good to keep you here,

Robert Cook म्हणाले...

Why should I have to move because criminals in power are acting criminally? They should move...into prison cells!

buwaya म्हणाले...

"The USA is not the king of the world"

The USA was the king of the world. Its difficult to see this from inside the US often enough, and over the last 50 years its overall position has deteriorated.

But back in 1945-60? You bet. The US was the biggest thing on earth, in every dimension.

buwaya म्हणाले...

"Why should I have to move because criminals in power are acting criminally? "

Because it is not a question of "criminals in power". Everything is about systems, and cultures, not persons. If you have criminals in power it is because the system as a whole is criminal. That is, the entire tip of the politico-cultural-economic-intellectual hierarchy.

Or if not, not.

buwaya म्हणाले...

" The UN's primary purpose was to prevent future cataclysmic wars on the scale of WWII from occurring again."

Yes. And the mechanism for that was to be the patching-up of the League of Nations perceived primary weakness, the failure to act in the cases of international aggression. Like what happened to Ethiopia, Spain, Austria, Czechoslovakia, etc. The League had been appealed to by a member, Ethiopia, failed to act, and thereby failed entirely, to the point that by the next year nobody even bothered to appeal to it.

People forget that the original purpose of the UN was to make it easier for the world as a whole to GO TO WAR, to stop wars of aggression.

That's why the UN as a whole intervened in Korea. People forget about just how international that was. You even had the Turks and the Greeks on the same side for the first time. The Ethiopians fought superbly well in the snows of the 38th parallel.

The last time this all actually worked, sort of, was in 1960-64-ish, in Katanga. You had the Indians, Swedes and Irish trying to suppress Katangan secession. But after that the stomach for all this went out of the UN, and its primary purpose, that of 1945, was gone.

rhhardin म्हणाले...

Adolph Guggenbuhl-Craig "The Blessings of Violence" a chapter in "From the Wrong Side: a paradoxical approach to psychiatry"

rhhardin म्हणाले...

In a word, throughput. A typical shopper may tie up the parking space for 30 minutes, while an online order only takes 5 minutes to load. So you get 6 times as many customers who get the good parking space.

Doesn't make sense. The employees do the walking so put it way out there. Otherwise every customer has to walk 4 cars further to get into the store. That is to say, every open spot would be 4 cars closer to the store without this feature there, whether only a few customers got the closest spots or not.

Narr म्हणाले...

UN/international law and wars. See Edward J. Luttwak, Give War A Chance.

Narr
No winners, no losers, no peace