Althouse: At the Friday Night Café...

September 6, 2019

At the Friday Night Café...

... yes, there is a café at long last.

42 comments:

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: One Child Born (BS&T)

And when I die, and when I'm gone
There'll be one child born, in this world
To carry on, to carry on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gxwutvlTw8

6 babies born at Florida hospital during Hurricane Dorian
https://fox17.com/news/offbeat/6-babies-born-at-florida-hospital-during-hurricane-dorian; 9/6/19, 10:42 PM
narciso said...: Miracles do happen

Re michael yon, the protests are continuing; 9/6/19, 10:59 PM
Seeing Red said...: Via Powerline:

...The warming trend we found suggests we are having a relatively minor impact on global temperatures. From the IPCC, we know what the forcing was over that 37.5 years – how many extra greenhouse gas molecules there were and what forcing they would represent. We also know about the effect of aerosols. Taking all this data together, we can calculate what I call – and we were the first to use this term – the ‘tropospheric transient climate response’. In other words: how much temperature actually changes due to extra greenhouse gas forcing. The calculation includes a major assumption, namely that there are no natural variations left in the temperature data, and in particular that there are no long-term natural variations. It’s a huge assumption, but it allows us to move on.

Our result is that the transient climate response2 – the short-term warming – in the troposphere is 1.1◦C at the point in time when carbon dioxide levels double. This is not a very alarming number. If we perform the same calculation on the climate models, you get a figure of 2.31◦C, which is significantly different. The models’ response to carbon dioxide is twice what we see in the real world. So the evidence indicates the consensus range for climate sensitivity is incorrect....

It’s a religion.

High Priest Michael Hockeystick Mann refused to show his math to the court.; 9/6/19, 11:01 PM
narciso said...: Another dossier soecial?
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1174437/WW2-news-hitler-map-nazi-propaganda-roosevelt; 9/6/19, 11:04 PM
Michael K said...: Chick film A opened in Toronto to hungry customers lined up and lunatics lying down.

No problem, though. The customers just stepped over the crazies.; 9/6/19, 11:15 PM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: Chick-Fil-A almost makes me wish I liked chicken, so I could support them.; 9/6/19, 11:24 PM
Seeing Red said...: Go for the waffle fries.; 9/6/19, 11:34 PM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: I ran into one of my waiter peeves tonight: Always ask me if I want dessert.

If you ask me, then you're being nice and I might take you up on it.

If I have to ask, I feel like a pig.

It's silly I know.

Also, never ask me "Do you need change?" Say "I'll be right back with your change." That gives me an opening to say I don't need any.; 9/6/19, 11:35 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: with Maryanne, we kind of get a "Good Witch of the North" vibe--
Cankles, on the other hand, you know you wanted to soak that Sorceress!
(that's why she never took the 'Ice-Bucket Challenge')

it's lookin' like B'eye B'eye Biden with each day--
-Only Dozens of People Show Up to Hear Joe Biden Speak In Iowa
https://flagandcross.com/watch-dozens-of-people-show-up-to-hear-joe-biden-speak-in-iowa-but-only-dozens/
-Sleepy Joe Biden Says That The ‘Green New Deal’ Doesn’t Go FAR ENOUGH
https://clashdaily.com/2019/09/watch-sleepy-joe-biden-says-that-the-green-new-deal-doesnt-go-far-enough/

-Eleven years after he last released medical records, Biden’s health at issue as campaign stonewalls
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/pressure-grows-on-biden-to-release-health-records-as-campaign-stonewalls-on-bloody-eye-mishap

...and why would JoJo Binks want this kind of guy on the Supreme Court?

After Having Their ‘Higher Ground’ Trademark Rejected, The Obamas And Their Lawyers ‘Go Low’
https://clashdaily.com/2019/09/after-having-their-companys-higher-ground-trademark-rejected-the-obamas-and-their-lawyers-go-low/; 9/6/19, 11:37 PM
Michael K said...: Chick-Fil-A almost makes me wish I liked chicken, so I could support them.

They stopped the chicken salad sandwich in Tucson. Rats !; 9/6/19, 11:37 PM
walter said...: Rats are cool and all but make a horrible sandwich.; 9/6/19, 11:39 PM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: Higher Ground; 9/6/19, 11:44 PM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: They're not that good at first, but with proper training, they can eventually make a great sandwich.; 9/6/19, 11:49 PM
Lewis Wetzel said...: I listened to Jonah Goldberg's Remnant podcast today. This was the worst of Goldberg. He is bad when he interviews people who hate Trump, because it just turns into kind of a Trump hate fest. Goldberg, these days, rarely interviews people he disagrees with, especially regarding trump.
Goldberg's guest today was Ben Howe, a Trump-hating evangelical who has written a Trump-hating book. Well, actually, the book, as far as I can tell, isn't about hating Trump as much as it is about hating other evangelicals who do not hate Trump.
It bugs me that these Baptists who hate on Trump-supporting evangelicals are never given hard questions. Goldberg is not a Christian. He probably doesn't know that both Howe and David French can credibly be accused of phariseeism. "Phariseeism" is finding faults in the religious practice of others while refusing to see them in yourself. There is a lot of phariseeism in Howe and French.; 9/6/19, 11:51 PM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: The thing is..

Trump doesn't hate Christians.

That's as good as you're going to get now.; 9/6/19, 11:53 PM
Lewis Wetzel said...: It would have been great if Goldberg would have asked Howe, when he was bagging on Billy Graham, junior, if he thought Graham was a bigger sinner than Howe was.; 9/6/19, 11:55 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: @Unknown at eleven foe'ty fo'
nice choon!; 9/7/19, 12:02 AM
walter said...: Rats in the kitchen; 9/7/19, 12:14 AM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: @Walter
the real version-- skip to 1:30 mark
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=mouse+jumps+into+deep+fryer&view=detail&mid=DAEE465A711131610878DAEE465A711131610878&FORM=VIRE; 9/7/19, 12:22 AM
Amadeus 48 said...: Here’s a dilemma. Can I properly wear my Gadsden flag cufflinks in a social setting. On the one hand, I have always admired the “Don’t tread on me” sentiment as expressive of our country’s original feisty founding. On the other, symbols of the founding have come under a cloud as ignorant race-baiters have besmirched them as coded support for slavery. Well, I don’t support slavery, and if I did I would be one weird person.

How far should we let others’ ignorance shape our own behavior? Can I wear my Gadsden cufflinks in polite society? Should I?; 9/7/19, 12:44 AM
walter said...: Critter got frittered.
"When it gets cooked it rise to the top"; 9/7/19, 12:47 AM
Jon Ericson said...: Mongolian folk metal; 9/7/19, 1:09 AM
Seeing Red said...: The key is will you actually be in polite society?; 9/7/19, 1:16 AM
StephenFearby said...: The Guardian

PM suggests he will break the law to avoid asking for extension of Article 50 as his hopes of election by end of October recede

'...The prime minister reportedly wrote to Tory members on Friday evening pledging to break the law that will require him to seek an extension of Article 50. “They just passed a law that would force me to beg Brussels for an extension to the Brexit deadline. This is something I will never do.”

Earlier on Friday he said he would not entertain seeking another deadline extension from Brussels, as the incoming law, expected to receive royal assent on Monday, compels him to if no agreement is in place by 19 October. “I will not. I don’t want a delay,” Johnson said.

The former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith encouraged Mr Johnson to break the law, saying he would be seen as a Brexit “martyr” if judges opted to put him jail for breaching parliament’s terms....'

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/06/boris-johnson-short-of-options-as-rebels-vow-to-secure-brexit-delay

Juxtaposed with:

Constitutional Law Group September 5, 2019
Michael Detmold: The Proper Denial of Royal Assent

'...[The Queen]is a constitutional monarch with no opinion of her own on Brexit, and if advised by her Prime Minister to refuse assent, she must do so. She also has advice to the same effect from the people. It was rather legalistic for the Supreme Court in Miller to refuse to regard the European Union Referendum Act 2015 as, given its result, authorising the Article 50 notice; but as advice from her people to their fiduciary Queen, the referendum was unambiguous. It didn’t change the law in any legislative sense; but it did give a definite content to the sovereign Parliament’s duty to its people – and in particular to the acting part of the sovereignty, the executive power.

A Prime Minister advising the Queen to refuse assent to a bill is acting in a way appropriate to his office in the sovereign Parliament – acting legitimately no less than the legislators of the two Houses are doing. Such a thing is rare, but proper. Only the fallacious idea that the legislature is itself the Parliament, gives pause here...'

https://ukconstitutionallaw.org/2019/09/05/michael-detmold-the-proper-denial-of-royal-assent/

In this case, however, the Queen's Consent, not Assent is involved here:

Proponents of the new Backbench Bill to stop No Deal face a significant dilemma over Queen’s Consent 04/09/2019 by Robert Craig

"...Conclusion

35. The proponents of a new Bill to prevent No Deal are caught on the horns of a dilemma. If they had drafted a Bill that only mandated the PM to seek an extension, the PM would have been left free to refuse to agree any extension in negotiations with the EU27.

36. But the actual Bill tries to impose a requirement that the PM either agrees to 31 January 2020 or agrees any new exit date suggested by the EU27 (as long as a motion approving the alternative date in the House of Commons is passed). House of Commons procedural rules mean that the government is required formally to approve the Bill by affirming ‘Queen’s Consent’ to the Bill at the Third Reading stage. This is because the power to agree or accept an extension is normally exercised using a prerogative power. If passed, this statute would have the legal effect, by whatever means, of forcing the PM to agree an extension to the Article 50 process would manifestly ‘affect’ the prerogative for the purposes of the relevant test as to whether Queen’s Consent is required."

https://briefingsforbrexit.com/proponents-of-the-new-backbench-bill-to-stop-no-deal-face-a-significant-dilemma-over-queens-consent/

The analogy here: the people who want judges to make new law to further their case versus people who only want judges to interpret correctly existing law.

Existing law on the books in the UK sez if the Prime Minister of Her Majesty's Government (Boris) advises the Queen to withhold Royal Consent to the new bill (which is required to make it law), she is obligated to do so.; 9/7/19, 1:56 AM
Amadeus 48 said...: Seeing Red at 1:16

That is a profound response. .; 9/7/19, 2:13 AM
Amadeus 48 said...: Tonight we went to see David Mamet’s new play, “Bitter Wheat”, with John Malkevich in London. It is Mamet’s sendup of Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Clinton, and perhaps Donald Trump. The main character is a monster, but to a degree charming in his relentless salesmanship and manipulations. “I am a good person! Do you know how much I give to the Democratic Party?”

The main character’s mother was shot by an illegal immigrant from Syria who wanted to kill a Jew. He responds by begging the man’s forgiveness for the prejudice and hate he has suffered throughout his life.

This play will never see the light of day in the US.; 9/7/19, 2:26 AM
tim maguire said...: Seeing Red said...
Via Powerline: The calculation includes a major assumption, namely that there are no natural variations left in the temperature data, and in particular that there are no long-term natural variations. It’s a huge assumption, but it allows us to move on

Well sure, if we’re willing, just to make things easier, to assume things we know are not only wrong, but vital to get right if we want our calculations to be right, then why stop there? If having meaningful numbers is not our concern, then why not assume that, absent human interference, the temperature would be zero? That way, to find the human forcing, we can just look at the thermometer?

That approach is just as valid and way simpler.; 9/7/19, 5:32 AM
Dave Begley said...: Had a big steak at The Peppermill in Valentine last night. Fabulous!

Set to canoe the Niobrara today but it is raining.; 9/7/19, 5:34 AM
rehajm said...: Dorians a real bitch. Won’t go away. Now messing things up in Massachusetts.

You hosers in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland can have her next.; 9/7/19, 5:59 AM
gilbar said...: thanx Dave!
I've thought about stopping there before, but was always hesitant for GOD knows why
There's a bar/steakhouse in Long Pine that i liked, so go figure; 9/7/19, 6:39 AM
gilbar said...: why not assume that, absent human interference, the temperature would be zero? That way, to find the human forcing, we can just look at the thermometer?

If there's a thermometer in the woods, and nobody see it? Does it have a temperature ?; 9/7/19, 6:41 AM
gilbar said...: Can I properly wear my Gadsden flag cufflinks in a social setting.

The Answer, is NO!

The Only socially safe cufflinks to wear are Communist Party cufflinks

Wear These! Wear them with Pride! Wear them or be sent to the Gulag; 9/7/19, 6:45 AM
Rosa Marie Yoder said...: There is no cafe within 10 miles of me. When I moved here a year ago, it wasn't a consideration. Now it's a piece of civilization that I miss now and then.; 9/7/19, 7:07 AM
tcrosse said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 9/7/19, 7:45 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: “There is no cafe within 10 miles of me. When I moved here a year ago, it wasn't a consideration. Now it's a piece of civilization that I miss now and then.”

We do have one, but we rarely visit. They have a monster, six or so egg, omelet, that we take anyone who visits to eat. It is good, maybe a little greasy. And every couple months, we pop in for coffee for my partner. But I have her brewing it now for herself, so that may be over. And that is about it. They have serious heart stopping food there. Not too bad for the ranchers and farmers, but everyone else could probably skip eating there for their health.; 9/7/19, 7:59 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: “Can I properly wear my Gadsden flag cufflinks in a social setting.”

I think that you might be able to get away with it in DC. A friend there was a lobbyist (now in the Trump Administration). The male lobbyists have a uniform - shirts that require cuff links, conservative pin striped suits, and well polished expensive shoes. And at least cuff links that identify party association. He was Republican, so had a collection of elephant cuff links that he wore. Gadsden cufflinks might substitute for elegant ones right now. Also, would also with some frequency wear elephant ties.

I think that that Tom DeLay was the real instigator behind that. There had been an incestuous relationship between the Dems who ran Congress for 40 years or so, and lobbyists. DeLay announced that the new Republican House majority would give preference to Republican lobbyists. If you wanted to see the Republican House leadership, you had better be contributing to Republicans, and not to Democrats. And from that very quickly was born a bifurcated lobbying class, one segment wearing elephant cuff links, and the other wearing donkey cufflinks.; 9/7/19, 8:15 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: Ok, wasn’t sure if I would get here, but did run into an interesting article, or actually set of articles yesterday titled For the Spygate probe, it’s not necessarily indictments we want – now or later. Bunch of links in the article to previous articles that go into exhaustive depth on parts of SpyGate, and esp FISA abuse.

Deep down, in some of the links, they make an interesting claim that it may be impossible to actually determine if and who actually was illegally using FBI’s Title VII FISA interface to the NSA’s databases. Much of it appears to have been under the authority, or using the credentials of UN Ambassador Samantha Power. They contend that she was unlikely to have been personally involved. Rather she was too high in the government, and what they term “keyboard commandos” do the actual searching.

A good part of the inability to prove culpability comes from the integration of databases and tools, esp as the NSA databases were moved into the cloud under Obama. When Obama entered office, there were several hundred special purpose terminals that could be used to search these NSA databases for unmasked data. When he left office, it was part of a suite of applications sitting on maybe 50,000 desktops, with access controlled by credentials and permissions. And NSA Dir Rogers only discovered the illegal surveillance being conducted out of the White House and through unsupervised FBI contractors was through using very sophisticated statistical tools.

This cloud base interface turns out to have been developed and installed by a company that Brennan ran for three years between stints in the Obama Administration. I think it likely that that company was one of the FBI contractors involved. Hopefully the FISC opinion detailing the 702 abuse will ultimately have the redacted names of the contractors unredacted. In any case, that company had British ownership at one point, and was forced into US ownership for security purposes. They also were trying to sell to the ChiComs, and that was nixed.

Finally, there appears to be much tighter integration between NSA and its databases, and those of its Five Eyes counterparts, and esp its British counterpart: GCHQ. Interestingly, the head of GCHQ was forced out right about the time that FISAgate first blew up. It looks like that Five Eyes intelligence agencies may have real time access to much of NSA’s data, in trade for our intelligence agencies have that sort of access to their databases. And there was a suggestion that some of our national controls could possibly be bypassed by asking Five Eyes allies search our NSA databases for our intelligence agencies.

In the end of reading a bunch of those linked articles, I was more unsettled than when I started. I can see why they thought this integration to have been necessary. But I am also fairly certain that it was never envisioned when this massive amount of data on our day to day lives was authorized by adding Title VII to FISA by the PATRIOT Act, shortly after 9/11/01.; 9/7/19, 9:04 AM
Nichevo said...: Deep down, in some of the links, they make an interesting claim that it may be impossible to actually determine if and who actually was illegally using FBI’s Title VII FISA interface to the NSA’s databases.

Bushwah, or should be; 9/7/19, 9:25 AM
Michael K said...: And there was a suggestion that some of our national controls could possibly be bypassed by asking Five Eyes allies search our NSA databases for our intelligence agencies.

In reading the life of Soviet defector, Victor Suvorov (Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun), he was asked why he chose the UK for his defection. He answered that the CIA would have betrayed him.

Philby was the MI6 CIA coordinator. He was a good friend of Angelton.; 9/7/19, 10:11 AM
Michael K said...: Some good advice on what to do if you are attacked by the leftist mob.

I later discussed this with a libertarian economist who had been attacked in the Las Vegas newspapers, and he agreed that one should never apologize.

Never apologize. Sounds familiar. Hmmm; 9/7/19, 10:14 AM
Narr said...: I gained a lot of insight from Suvorov's spetsnaz books, but Icebreaker isn't convincing.

IIRC there was a Cold War saying that if you wanted Moscow to know something, tell the Brits it's a secret. Just kidding, the Brits are the all-time world masters and must have their own put-downs of us.

Narr
Good for the professor there, BTW; 9/7/19, 10:55 AM
narciso said...: same for mitrokhin, but his handler, was the british stockwell, Tomlinson, who burnt 150 operatives including steele, his future associate burrows, et al,; 9/7/19, 12:05 PM