Althouse: At the Very Late Cafe...

June 27, 2019

At the Very Late Cafe...

... there’s plenty of time left to talk all night.

104 comments:

Mr. Forward said...: Same guy won both nights.; 6/27/19, 10:18 PM
Big Mike said...: Mr. Forward is right.; 6/27/19, 10:26 PM
Limited blogger said...: Will sleep well knowing president Trump is over in Japan at the G20 making America even greater.; 6/27/19, 10:32 PM
Lawrence Person said...: Tried to watch last night's debate but the YouTube stream kept cutting out.

In the meantime, here are various reactions to the first debate.; 6/27/19, 10:39 PM
Chuck said...: So about the Census/Citizenship question case; I know that several commenters wanted to talk about it, and I was sympathetic, but Althouse handled her moderation very well in the blog post about the redistricting case and shut it down.

I expect that she will welcome it here.

And I think there is a growing conservative consensus, that the result was a bad one, and even a surprisingly bad one. And that the further consensus is that the decision was a peculiarly bad one for Trump, and not merely the issue of executive branch power over the operation of the census, free from judicial second-guessing.

David French makes this observation at National Review Online; that it was Trump Administration chaos that lost a winnable case:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/06/why-trump-lost-the-census-case/

And Michigan lawprof Sam Bagenstos makes the same point more directly in a Tweet:

https://twitter.com/sbagen/status/1144256005372633089

It is a point that I agree with. I don't like the result. Had I been on the Court, I think I'd have ruled for the Administration. But the Administration seemed to have done its best to screw it up.; 6/27/19, 10:43 PM
narciso said...: You are so tedious, you want to devalue citizenship you do what this court did, that they got a head start collecting data, one needs to start early because the left throws minefields left and right. Its ridiculous to think that a legitimate function which btw the Obama administration had appropriated by bring the census into the White House, can be derailed like thar; 6/27/19, 10:53 PM
narciso said...: New York has net population loss, so do illegals make a big component of their overall cohort, certainly citizens wouldn't willingly subject themselves to the destructive policies of zampolit Wilhelm and Cuomo,; 6/27/19, 10:57 PM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: David French makes this observation at National Review Online; that it was Trump Administration chaos that lost a winnable case

Of course he does.; 6/27/19, 10:59 PM
I Have Misplaced My Pants said...: Genuine question: I’m seeing in my social media feeds all the Concerned Moms posting approvingly about the growing shaming movement of companies doing business with the detention centers at the border, starting with Wayfair and now snowballing. So-exactly how is CBP supposed to care for these people humanely, which is supposedly what everyone is shrieking about, if companies are allowing themselves to be bullied into not providing the supplies necessary for this care? I want to ask this question on Facebook but don’t want the headaches.

P.S. Bank of America was a terrible company before this and I already refused to do business with them, but this seals it for me. Assholes.; 6/27/19, 11:00 PM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: If the Supremes couldn't see over the walls of the hole they were digging, nothing would have helped.; 6/27/19, 11:01 PM
narciso said...: Robert's bends over backwards to accommodate Obama's injuries to the body politics yet with this legitimate function he takes out the electron microscope. We apparently dont need know how many of our people have availed themselves of this privilege which also tells us vos may are eligible to votr.; 6/27/19, 11:01 PM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: I take surveys for pennies in my downtime. Eventually I'll get to $100, cash out and quit.

I did get on on the Wayfair thing today, and got a chance to vote a "good for them".; 6/27/19, 11:03 PM
narciso said...: Who can vote, they want to turn them back to the coyotes the pimps the drug dealers why else would they do this if 30% have no family here.; 6/27/19, 11:03 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: "All work and no play make Jack a dull boy", so for a little R&R...

-- is that west coast sex club SNCTM up for sale?

...and why dont these kinky joints like vowels?; 6/27/19, 11:06 PM
narciso said...: A vekakte drone for Eric holder and Tom Perez at the justice department, that's who you are hanging your niggling little nitpick; 6/27/19, 11:07 PM
narciso said...: Furthermore a clerk for Steven teinhardt and ruth Nader Ginsberg, not an expert in voter procedures or any such thing; 6/27/19, 11:09 PM
Drago said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 6/27/19, 11:10 PM
Drago said...: Eric Swalwell republican Chuck: "David French makes this observation at National Review Online..."

David French is a leftist posing as a conservative in order to pen article after article explaining -- The Conservative Case For (Insert Any Far Left Policy Here) -- .

No one is fooled by far left poseurs any longer.

Literally, no one.

Of course it helps when the poseurs self-identify as racist smear merchants.

Its very helpful indeed.; 6/27/19, 11:11 PM
rcocean said...: David French has made the conservative case for socialism and atheism.

He's fake con. And a clown. And a fake.

Did i mention he was a fake?; 6/27/19, 11:12 PM
rcocean said...: Just don't speak too harshly of David French. He'll claim you made a "Death threat" or called his son a bad name.

Really.; 6/27/19, 11:13 PM
narciso said...: French Is like the wet Tory roderick stewart who was a member of black watch and may have been with the firm like his father before him (mi6) but actual conservative instincts they have none. Same with Jeremy hunt, who cant tell the difference between British soldiers in neither Ireland, who are being tried by the may regime 45 years later and the IRA; 6/27/19, 11:17 PM
narciso said...: Northern ireland, meanwhile every conservative site with its salt is being deplatdormed by prog moles on the board of credit card companies or by the carriers themselves; 6/27/19, 11:19 PM
narciso said...: This is the bill that passed this afternoon

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/3401/text?r=1&s=7

Maybe some shame entered their hearts but not soon enough; 6/27/19, 11:21 PM
narciso said...: Sorry about the typos that something we dwell a whole lot about, not so much about the content of the links; 6/27/19, 11:22 PM
narciso said...: Reinhardt he crafted an even worse understanding of the flores settlement before he shuffled off his mortal coal; 6/27/19, 11:25 PM
narciso said...: Roberts failed in his duty to follow the Law and even the reapportionment decision was half a load the job was to affirm so these redistricting Maps can be approved before the primaries start.; 6/27/19, 11:32 PM
Yancey Ward said...: Harris resurrected her campaign tonight- she was clearly the big winner, and taking it right at Biden was the smart move.

No one else really helped themselves at all tonight. Right now, the race is between Warren, Harris, Sanders, and Biden, and I think the latter two are going to fade quickly as Fall arrives. This looks to me to be between Warren and Harris.; 6/27/19, 11:32 PM
wwww said...: "Genuine question: I’m seeing in my social media feeds all the Concerned Moms posting approvingly about the growing shaming movement of companies"

Psychologically, mothers are not thinking about practicalities. They are horrified by the picture of the dead two year old girl and reports of kids under the age of 7 w/ no adult childcare in CBP custody. They don't understand why toddlers and elementary age kids are in detention with no volunteer supplies allowed . They don't know the difference between CBP and ORR.

I'd guess those beds aren't for the CBP but for ORR.

On facebook -- no stories about those beds. But I'm seeing mothers asking how they can foster the kids. Some are asking how they can send baby formula and diapers and clothing. They are asking who they can contact and offering to fly down to get the kids so they can take care of the children. They don't know it's CBP detention. They don't understand why they can't foster through CBP and CBP will not accept supplies from volunteers.

They're hearing stories of sick toddlers being cared for by 11 year olds. So they want to help. When they are told they are not allowed to help, they get distressed, because of the news stories of young kids w/ out adult child care or basic supplies.; 6/27/19, 11:34 PM
narciso said...: I guess she lied most convincingly like when presented evidence from the crooked Oakland police lab; 6/27/19, 11:34 PM
Yancey Ward said...: However, all the candidates promising free healthcare to illegal immigrants is basically telling the electorate to fuck off. This will not win votes in the general election. It would have been smart for at least on candidate to make the argument tonight that there should be no government benefits for someone in the country illegally- that was a big missed opportunity to stand out.; 6/27/19, 11:34 PM
Drago said...: This is a very difficult night for LLR Chuck.

Every single democrat lunatic openly and explicitly declared what their lefty/dem/LLR policies would be if elected which will make it harder for Chuck to continue his "pro-conservative" persona while attacking republicans and defending the dems.

Its going to be a blast watching Chuck pretzl himself as he presents The Conservative Case For Why All Dems Are Wonderful And Republicans Deserve To Lose; 6/27/19, 11:35 PM
narciso said...: Ordinarily I find you Jam that pedal at 75 mph, drago, but sometimes its warranted; 6/27/19, 11:36 PM
Achilles said...: Chuck said...

David French makes this observation at National Review Online; that it was Trump Administration chaos that lost a winnable case:

In other words the leftists/LLR's ignored the law and said "BECAUSE TRUMP" and issued a ruling helping the leftists import a new electorate.

Fuck David French and the leftist funded National Review. They are too obviously on the open borders globalist team.

French voted for and openly supported Hillary.

It is no surprise he is a total douche excusing this obvious joke of a ruling on a flimsy pretext that just happens to help his and Chuck's leftist allies.; 6/27/19, 11:39 PM
Drago said...: narciso: "Ordinarily I find you Jam that pedal at 75 mph, drago, but sometimes its warranted"

When it comes to the marxist left and their antifa-LLR allies, its ALWAYS warranted.; 6/27/19, 11:40 PM
narciso said...: They had run out of supplies because there was no (redacted) crisis, that what that dingbat ocasio Cortez had been saying for five months zin ahe graduated from foamy latte to capital hill, the govt was shut down because there was no crisis, well apparently there was a bit if one.; 6/27/19, 11:42 PM
narciso said...: But you blow this smoke up (redacted) over some supposed occurrence that cant give a date, dont have any contemporaneous records, white wash anti semitism consistently; 6/27/19, 11:44 PM
narciso said...: Then, of course this incident at this facility happened right near where o'rourkes father in law owns 100,000 acre, the land value might be affected by a wall you think. But he mugged for time and rollingstone and vanity fair, while this was going on.; 6/27/19, 11:50 PM
wwww said...: That's what mommy facebook friends are writing. They aren't following policy debates or bills. They are upset to be told young kids are taking care of 2 year olds, kids are lice infested, not enough baby clothes to keep them warm, no adult child care & no clean baby bottles.; 6/27/19, 11:50 PM
n.n said...: I’m seeing in my social media feeds all the Concerned Moms posting approvingly about the growing shaming movement of companies doing business with the detention centers at the border,

These "Moms" should be ashamed of denying resources to these children in need. First, encouraging immigration reform, and now because of partisan resentment denying a safe space to the unPlanned children. From waterboarding the child victims of social justice in Libya to the trail of tears from Africa and the Middle East. Unconscionable. #HateLovesAbortion; 6/27/19, 11:54 PM
narciso said...: No one cared to explain, now homestead air force base btw has been handling mass influxes since the 80s, through the rafter crisis to the present day; 6/27/19, 11:54 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: why dont they just run for President of Mexico ?; 6/27/19, 11:56 PM
narciso said...: You tell me, where do you put the 30% of children who dont gave any family here, with dcf that's usually a whole nother horror showm; 6/27/19, 11:56 PM
I Have Misplaced My Pants said...: I see people asking how they can help too, wwww, which I respect more than the ‘yay Wayfair’ crap which I am also seeing. But why is there a movement to shame companies into not selling supplies to the facilities? What am I missing? How does that help these children and others who are suffering in overcrowded and undersupplied conditions?; 6/27/19, 11:56 PM
narciso said...: That space doesn't fit on their cue card, the only response since September when the caravans started to move was orange man bad, and the converse; 6/28/19, 12:01 AM
Drago said...: Fresh off her latest hoax rape lies, wwww offers this: "That's what mommy facebook friends are writing. They aren't following policy debates or bills. They are upset to be told young kids are taking care of 2 year olds, kids are lice infested, not
enough baby clothes to keep them warm, no adult child care & no clean baby bottles."

Thank goodness the democrats have pushed back against Trumps long-running claim that there was a crisis at the border.

And double thank goodness the dems have denied the funding necessary to bring more resources to the border.

Trump cant fool those wise and wily democrats/LLR's with tales of this "manufactured crisis"!

In other terrific Democrat/LLR news, slave auctions have been active in Libya since the dems/LLR fantastic Libya operation.

And just think, all it cost the dems/LLR's to get those slave auctions up and running was the deaths of 4 Americans, including an Ambassador!!

What a deal!!; 6/28/19, 12:02 AM
narciso said...: We waited six years to get a Visa out of Cuba, thar was the ration book the bloc committees willing to rat you out for a pittance all those things that warm Sanders and diblasios heart. No 33 brands of cereal. If you had money you could to the black market for luxuries like bread and milk; 6/28/19, 12:05 AM
narciso said...: Its hard not to think that one isnt being astriturfed algorithmically spammed with these responses; 6/28/19, 12:07 AM
wwww said...: "But why is there a movement to shame companies into not selling supplies to the facilities? What am I missing? How does that help these children and others who are suffering in overcrowded and undersupplied conditions?"

My feed isn't talking about Wayfair. On my feed they're upset and freaked out by the reports of young kids, asking how to foster kids and where to send money. They're upset that donations aren't being accepted. But no Wayfair convo.

Why people are talking about Wayfair is anybody's guess. My guess is that people are flipped out by the reports of the young kids. They want to do something or see something done because they feel powerless to help these kids. Something is happening with Wayfair so they direct attention that way.; 6/28/19, 12:07 AM
I Have Misplaced My Pants said...: *yay Wayfair walkout, that should be

Also I want to ask are you ladies not aware that these are not necessarily unknown conditions for these kids, hideous as they are and as much of a tragedy as that is? Did you know there is a third world? Did you know there are children suffering identical maladies right this minute not at the border and always have been? And what is the number of people we can absorb? Five million? Ten million? You want to foster a kid or three, that is great and my hat is off to you for putting your money where your mouth is but can you take ten kids? Fifteen? What is the long term plan for these children? What if their families cannot be located or are dead back in Nicaragua or the children were trafficked into this country? Then what? I know it is so sad to see that photo of the little dead toddler and I am a total ghoul for asking logistical questions about the border with a photo of a dead toddler circulating, but you know that toddler could have drowned in a river in Honduras and you’d never know or care about it and does that make you a ghoul too? Are you a ghoul because you shared that photo and then went back to shopping for cute flats from Zappos? Are you a ghoul because you aren’t all riled up about the children who are being abused by their parents literally right now in your own town?

Hardin gets on my last damn nerve but he is correct that women often cannot think in systems as is evident by how my friends are approaching this (summarized as: ‘give me those kids and I will cuddle them’) but not all women can’t think in systems or extrapolate out knee-jerk emotional responses to things. We’re just ostracized by our sex if we do.; 6/28/19, 12:08 AM
Drago said...: Remember how all the dems refused to even awknowledge the parents of the schoolgirls who were butchered by dem/LLR-approved MS13 "Spark of Divinity" gang-bangers?

We have much to learn about empathy indeed from those who cackle and laugh as they scoop up post-abortion baby parts for resale.

Remember, the lefties/LLR's get paid more for the baby body parts if those parts can be scooped up "whole".

Intact baby heads are particularly prized by our lefty/dem/LLR "betters".; 6/28/19, 12:09 AM
narciso said...: It took between 8 and 25 years to get other relatives out, that's what its like in these countries that ocasio Cortez cant wait to turn us into; 6/28/19, 12:10 AM
Drago said...: wwww: "Something is happening with Wayfair so they direct attention that way."

"Some people did something"; 6/28/19, 12:10 AM
chickelit said...: “P.S. Bank of America was a terrible company before this and I already refused to do business with them, but this seals it for me. Assholes.”

I like BofA. I’ve been a customer for 25 years.; 6/28/19, 12:16 AM
narciso said...: Don't tell me what other woman did, what was your reaction, did you know there was a real pressing crisis, and it's happening in towns along the border, the churches are overdrawn. The banks are overdrawn some seasoned DHS investigators who have been all over the world
Have been shocked by what they sae.; 6/28/19, 12:16 AM
narciso said...: It's so far away from what Giannini wanted that company to be, they also have been denying loans to gun dealers if memory serves; 6/28/19, 12:19 AM
Drago said...: The most ignored mothers (by the dems/left/LLR's) in this country are Angel Mothers whose children were sexually asdaulted and/or murdered by illegals that were purposefully shielded from deportation by the wwww's and LLR Republicans.

The dems in congress refused to even meet with these moms.

Refused to even meet with them.

#Dems/LLRsHaveSoMuch"Empathy"; 6/28/19, 12:21 AM
narciso said...: In the height if the civil wars that claimed hundred of thousands of lives, there waant this much movement.; 6/28/19, 12:23 AM
chickelit said...: “On facebook -- no stories about those beds. But I'm seeing mothers asking how they can foster the kids.”

No moms that I know are doing that, even if they are thinking it. Starting with my mom, and then my wife. Moving on, none of the young working moms that I work with are doing that. They wouldn’t have time to. Someone should ask Freeman if she feels up to doing that. Who are these moms?; 6/28/19, 12:23 AM
chickelit said...: Better question: where are these kids’ moms?; 6/28/19, 12:24 AM
chickelit said...: Is this whole border crisis just a way to smuggle in kids for adoptive parents? Has anyone asked that question yet?; 6/28/19, 12:27 AM
narciso said...: Cant ask these questions like how the parkland shooter was able to pull off this massacre besite he was sending off more signals than a fourth of July display from the administration to the fbi.; 6/28/19, 12:27 AM
wwww said...: Man, Drago, you are really upset by my mommy facebook friends. Note: I write nothing political on facebook. That includes this subject. I stay out of it.

I will say, I note when my carefully cultivated facebook feed becomes political in any way.

As for E. Jean Carroll. I've got a right to my own opinion. You know I am against divorce and unmarried sex. How d'you expect me to react to a story in view of Trump's three marriages and his constant adultery? What did you expect my reaction to be? Don't be shocked that a woman who is against ALL divorce and ALL sex outside of marriage is unimpressed with Trump's sexual history. I don't harp on my views about divorce and adultery but you should not be surprised at my reaction. This guy went on Howard Stern to talk about his sexual escapades. I knew what I thought of him, as a man, before he ran for office. I view his sort of behaviour as part of a trend that causes abortion, pain, and busted up families.

Now, you've got a right to see Trump as a upright moral guy who would never cheat or never do anything like that. That's fine. I can' see that reasonable people can have different opinions. Anyways almost everyone agrees with you on this blog that Trump never met her and she's a liar. So be content that 99.9% of all of your fellow commenters agree with you.

tl; dr. You've got a right to your POV, but I've got a right to my POV.; 6/28/19, 12:27 AM
narciso said...: Who is this a guest panelist on the view, which is the video version of love canal by the way.; 6/28/19, 12:32 AM
narciso said...: Right you probably voted twice for bill Clinton because Bob dole had remarried or Newt or whoever. Trump's life had been the most open book in the world, good grief, stop wasting our time.; 6/28/19, 12:34 AM
chickelit said...: @wwww: I too was offended by your Facebook friends, or at least what they stand for. As a man, it makes me want to ease any restrictions on importing brides. I shouldn’t let such things like that bother me.; 6/28/19, 12:36 AM
narciso said...: Bill Clinton would probably sleep with anything animal vegetable or mineral, he hangs out adult video conventions and Epsteims island, which is much the same thing.; 6/28/19, 12:38 AM
wwww said...: "Who are these moms?"

What do you mean? You know what facebook is. Mommy friends of toddlers. One mom is freaking out and offering to fly to Texas and foster the kid. Another mom, I don't know, from a different geographical area jumped in an said she had a friend who fostered kids locally.

I thought about explaining that CBP wouldn't let them foster kids at the border. Prob. need to get registered and approved through Health and Human services and it would take months. But I didn't because I'm totally a-political on facebook. It's better to not talk abut politics with mommies in our playgroups.; 6/28/19, 12:39 AM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: I've been with BOA through three names (theirs, not mine), had a mortgage with them and have never had any problem.

I wish they still sent me my checks back, but nobody does that.; 6/28/19, 12:39 AM
wwww said...: @wwww: I too was offended by your Facebook friends, or at least what they stand for. As a man, it makes me want to ease any restrictions on importing brides. I shouldn’t let such things like that bother me.

LOL! well, you can seek them out at your local park and chat about it with your local mothers of toddlers. I am unsure why you think they care you you marry. As long as it's not a child bride, they're not gonna be interested.; 6/28/19, 12:44 AM
narciso said...: Well they've merged acquired (did they scoop up ehat was left of bear Stearns? ) and supposed lolly spun off their bad loans, fingers crossed; 6/28/19, 12:44 AM
Yancey Ward said...: Yeah, was with Shawmut, then Fleet, then BOA through the mergers.; 6/28/19, 12:45 AM
chickelit said...: “One mom is freaking out and offering to fly to Texas and foster the kid. Another mom, I don't know, from a different geographical area jumped in an said she had a friend who fostered kids locally”

She must be pretty well-off and have someone to care for her own. I know a mom in Oceanside who has fostered 4 siblings from one mother (different fathers) and adopted 3 of them. I’m pretty sure she’s not the kind of mom who would drop everything to go foster in Mexico. But I accept that you have different friends.

I’d like to hear for other women on whether this urge is strong and universal among women.

From a male perspective, what you’re lauding borders on cuckoldry.; 6/28/19, 12:47 AM
narciso said...: As with everything the govt wraps everything in extra thick red tape, then pretends only it has the expertise to do something; 6/28/19, 12:51 AM
narciso said...: As John Henry will tell you, it set back the recovery of Puerto Rico for months when it canceled that contract.; 6/28/19, 12:54 AM
wwww said...: Right you probably voted twice for bill Clinton because Bob dole had remarried or Newt or whoever. Trump's life had been the most open book in the world, good grief, stop wasting our time.

Drago brought it up and I'm responding to him. So let's drop an unproductive discussion. Anyways 25 years ago you do the math. What your generation did 25 years ago is on you all. It changes nothing about my views on unmarried sex, divorce and adultery.; 6/28/19, 12:55 AM
Drago said...: wwww: "Man, Drago, you are really upset by my mommy facebook friends."

Yes, a rape hoax purveyor such as yourself would see it that way.; 6/28/19, 12:56 AM
Drago said...: wwww: "As for E. Jean Carroll. I've got a right to my own opinion."

All rape hoaxsters do.; 6/28/19, 12:57 AM
chickelit said...: “From a male perspective, what you’re lauding borders on cuckoldry.”

To clarify, I don’t simply mean women cheating on men; I mean women stealing scarce resources from one man to raise another man’s child.; 6/28/19, 12:57 AM
Drago said...: wwww: "Now, you've got a right to see Trump as a upright moral guy who would never cheat or never do anything like that."

Interesting comback from Team Infanticide.; 6/28/19, 12:57 AM
Drago said...: wwww: "It changes nothing about my views on unmarried sex, divorce and adultery."

What about your current pro-rape hoaxsterism views?; 6/28/19, 12:59 AM
narciso said...: Twenty five years ago, he was broke or on the way there he had to part with the yacht or the park plaza hotel to prince talal. Probably ar at a loss; 6/28/19, 12:59 AM
Drago said...: Tell us wwww, which of Brett Kavanaughs 5,000 accusers did you find most believeable?

Did any of them cart around a mattress in protest?; 6/28/19, 1:02 AM
narciso said...: Now Carlos slims or chain saban, can overextend themselves buying the times or bankrolling the power rangers revival and no ones the wiser.; 6/28/19, 1:02 AM
Drago said...: wwww, do you think the Russians played a role in this hilariously false and contrived rape hoax?; 6/28/19, 1:03 AM
wwww said...: "From a male perspective, what you’re lauding borders on cuckoldry."

huh? You don't like families who foster children? That's odd.

I don't understand where you are coming from at all. I've never personally fostered kids, but I know several people who have done so. It's a wonderful thing to do and I admire it. My sister's husband's mother has fostered children, my aunt has fostered children, my husband's co-worker's family has fostered children.

I also admire people who volunteer for big brothers big sisters orgs.; 6/28/19, 1:03 AM
narciso said...: As to the latter saban is basically having to sell the furniture to keep paying Jorge Ramos, such is the fate of univision.; 6/28/19, 1:04 AM
Drago said...: What about puppies wwww? Are you pro-puppy too?

How about long walks on the beach and warm hugs? Not too controversial, right?; 6/28/19, 1:05 AM
narciso said...: You have the conn, good night.; 6/28/19, 1:06 AM
wwww said...: Drago,

When everything is political there's no room to see anything else. It's fine if you like Trump's personality. Not my business. I mind my own business. I don't tell friends or anyone else what I think about these things. You're not gonna change my mind & I'm not gonna change yours.

This discussion has gotten a little odd and it's late. Cheers, and logging off.; 6/28/19, 1:15 AM
Ralph L said...: did they scoop up what was left of bear Stearns?

Merrill Lynch

BoA put up a hideous building a block from me 30 years ago, closed it recently, and haven't maintained it well, so now it's both ugly and empty.; 6/28/19, 1:50 AM
rehajm said...: BoA does have lots of assholes but its like the saying about capitalism- the worst except for all the others.; 6/28/19, 2:34 AM
Drago said...: wwww: "Drago,

When everything is political there's no room to see anything else."

Yes.

A lefty wrote that. Just now. Without irony. As if the last 60 years never happened.; 6/28/19, 2:45 AM
Jaq said...: I. still feel bad for the seven dead motorcyclists hit by that drunk last week who would have been deported if Massachusetts didn’t hide him from ICE after the first three or four crimes, including two DUIs. What are they thinking? I just don’t know.; 6/28/19, 4:29 AM
Gospace said...: I dislike commercial banks in general, Bank of America in particular. Commercial banks in general because of the 1980s. While interest rates for Americans trying to buy a house were over 15% commercial banks were lending money to South American dictators at 4-5%. BofA, of course, was one of them.

BofA in particular because when the military first started requiring direct deposit- BofA, alone among banking institutions, put a 5 day hold on everyone's paycheck sent directly to them by THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. And bounced everyone's checks who thought their money was in their accounts, and then charged bounced check fees.... They did this for 2 or 3 paydays before the feds told them point blank- you WILL deposit the money in accounts on payday or we're no longer using BofA for any government business, and we're not authorizing any direct deposits of allotments to BofA for any reason. They reluctantly started depositing the money onto servicemember's accounts- at 2359 payday. My one credit union puts it in at 0001; I just transferred money from today's deposit into my checking to a loan account. My other credit union puts government checks in when they get them. Usually the day before payday. Sometimes a few days before.; 6/28/19, 4:32 AM
Big Mike said...: You've got a right to your POV, but I've got a right to my POV.

No you don’t, because your POV means unemployment and misery for Americans at the bottom end of the economic ladder. I used to wonder how women like you could be so casually cruel. Apparently the answer is that you can reason your way from A to B, and perhaps from B to C, but A to C is flat beyond you. You have to be stopped and shut down, because otherwise the pain and suffering you will cause in the name of — what? Doing good? Not being icky? What is the reason you draw back from seeing the logical consequences of your POV?; 6/28/19, 6:00 AM
Fen said...: "Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones."

And they asked to respect their POV, in very gentle and soothing tones.; 6/28/19, 6:08 AM
Humperdink said...: wwww said "When everything is political there's no room to see anything else."

Incredible, I say. See Colin Kapernik, USA ladies soccer, NBA champions not visiting the White House, Ravelry ...... Ravelry? Who knew knitting could become political? Why the dems, of course.; 6/28/19, 6:22 AM
Humperdink said...: Add ^^^^^^ Google search, YouTube, Fakebook. How could I forgot these bastians of neutrality ..... er .... fairness.; 6/28/19, 6:25 AM
Chuck said...: Thanks, to all of the Althouse commenters for the informed, intelligent and detailed conversation about the nuances of each of the five parts of Chief Justice Roberts’ decision, the varying alignments of Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Thomas on several parts, the interpretation of the Census Act, and the import of Part Five of the Roberts majority opinion.

As always, it’s been a sparkling legal debate on the Althouse comments pages. You all have such fine legal minds.; 6/28/19, 7:00 AM
Big Mike said...: A famous physicist once referred to a colleague as a spherical asshole, because no matter which way you looked at him he was the same asshole. Describes Chuck to a T,; 6/28/19, 7:56 AM
Humperdink said...: Speaking of astute legal minds, LLR continues to be mystified regarding the vitriol.

Chuck said: "I am afraid you are mistaking me for someone who has an interest in fair treatment of Donald Trump. I'm not your guy. I am interested in smearing him, hurting him and prejudicing people against him."

3/4/16, 4:46 PM; 6/28/19, 8:20 AM
Michael K said...: Don't be shocked that a woman who is against ALL divorce and ALL sex outside of marriage is unimpressed with Trump's sexual history. I don't harp on my views about divorce and adultery but you should not be surprised at my reaction.

That's why she is voting for Harris. Bill Clinton convinced her that it isn't sex.; 6/28/19, 9:24 AM
HoodlumDoodlum said...: The funniest part, to me, of the Roberts opinion in the census question case was the mention of the utterly shocking information that the secretary seemed to want to add the question from the moment he took office--that he started working on accomplishing that only a few weeks after he started.

Oh wow, what a smoking gun! A political appointee came into office already having an idea of something they want to do and once in office found a method to accomplish that thing using the proper methods!? This has to be the first time something like that has ever happened--I'm glad Roberts was able to highlight such a rare and unusual occurrence.

Ridiculous.; 6/28/19, 9:29 AM
Drago said...: Admitted Smear Merchant Chuck: "As always, it’s been a sparkling legal debate on the Althouse comments pages."

Racist poster Chuck was directly asked by the blog moderators to leave the blog due to his dishonest muscharacterizations, threats of violence and bad faith posting.

Chuck refused to leave because he believes his pro-dem/lefty narratives need to be advanced at all costs.; 6/28/19, 10:38 AM