Althouse: Rest stop.

September 25, 2019

Rest stop.

56 comments:

FullMoon said...: Free time machine. Needs repair.
Rare.
Free time machine. Needs repair. Purchased in 2053.. Starts but will not transport. Needs Cryptonic Capacitor. Easy fix Unfortunately, parts not available until 2053.
Has invisibility option
Good for younger person who can wait that long. I can't.
Creative inventor may be able to repair. I hope so, I could sure use a ride back to 2053, all my friends and family are there.
No test rides, it's broken.
Serious only, no jokers or Craigslist flakes. No out of country scammers..

So, anyway, I posted this a couple of years ago on Craigslist.
Actually got a serious reply from someone who wanted it.
I did not respond. Several hours later I got an email from same person:
"My Dad says you are full of crap"
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I felt bad for disappointing the poor kid. Only thought of it because someone mentioned x-ray glasses in another thread and I recall how disappointed I was upon reception of same.; 9/25/19, 9:46 PM
Darrell said...: The fast flow of instantly appearing comments is over.

Truer words were never spoken. It's like a debate using messages in a bottle.; 9/25/19, 10:01 PM
Rory said...: It seems that Friends is used as an introduction to English:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/variety.com/2019/tv/news/friends-teaches-fans-english-american-style-1203346932/amp/; 9/25/19, 10:03 PM
FullMoon said...: The Russian collusion story was originally hatched by Hillary Clinton in the summer of 2016 to cover up the utter corruption revealed by the dump of Democratic National Committee emails on Wikileaks. As was her practice whenever a scandal threatened to engulf her, Hillary rushed out and told the press to investigate something else.

And “the great story” about the DNC email hack wasn’t about a “vast right-wing conspiracy” — as she claimed when the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke. No, this time, it was a vast Russian conspiracy!

At the time, the entire media laughed at Hillary’s Russian conspiracy nonsense — the New York Times, New York Newsday, the Los Angeles Times, and so on. But then Trump won the election, and suddenly the Russia conspiracy seemed totally believable. What else could explain how Americans could put this boob in the White House?
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The transcript I’d like to see is the one of Nancy Pelosi reading the Trump transcript. F@@@@@@CK! Whose f***ing idea was it to demand this goddamn transcript? F@CK! F@@CK! F@@@CK!

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The transcript I’d like to see is the one of Nancy Pelosi reading the Trump transcript. F@@@@@@CK! Whose f***ing idea was it to demand this goddamn transcript? F@CK! F@@CK! F@@@CK!
The subsequent three years of breathless Russia coverage was based entirely on the word of one cybersecurity firm, CrowdStrike, that the DNC’s emails had been hacked by Russia.

Recall that the DNC wouldn’t allow the FBI or any other U.S. government official anywhere near its computers. That’s precisely why so many cybersecurity experts doubted that it was the Russians: The FBI was never allowed to perform its own investigation.

CrowdStrike was founded by Ukrainian Dmitri Alperovitch (now an American citizen apparently — because who isn’t?) and funded by the fanatically anti-Russian Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Pinchuk Foundation.; 9/25/19, 10:05 PM
shake-and-bake said...: Where’s Alto?; 9/25/19, 10:34 PM
mockturtle said...: Love that photo, Ann! It shows the hope and resiliency of nature.; 9/25/19, 10:38 PM
Lucien said...: As a question of constitutional law, why wouldn’t the wealth taxes proposed by Sanders and Warren require an amendment, for the same reason that the income tax required the 16th Amendment?; 9/25/19, 11:03 PM
PJ said...: Fantastic photo — thank you.
And happy clinch day!; 9/25/19, 11:05 PM
Yancey Ward said...: Lucien said...

"As a question of constitutional law, why wouldn’t the wealth taxes proposed by Sanders and Warren require an amendment, for the same reason that the income tax required the 16th Amendment?"

The first step will be to pack the court, then, suddenly, you don't need an amendment- you can define wealth as income and voila, constitutional.; 9/26/19, 12:17 AM
Lewis Wetzel said...: I've been watching old shows from the 70s and 80s on Amazon Prime. I'm watching _The Carol Burnett Show_ & _Magnum PI_ currently. They are presented with great color and resolution.
I've noticed an awful lot of the middle aged male celebrities of the 70s and 80s wore obvious hair pieces. Looking at you, Ken Barry and Jon Hillerman.
And the female celebrities were no stranger to wigs and false eyelashes.
Also, back then, there seems to have been a shortage of Asian actors. They would just kind of grab these haole character actors and put them in yellow face.; 9/26/19, 12:44 AM
Quaestor said...: Here's a brief excerpt from a piece by Kathleen Parker in the WaPo, which may be one of those publications which serve modern journalism the way Oskar Schindler serves Nazi fanbois — an example of a non-rotten apple in the barrel, the exemption that disproves the rule.

According to the book, Ford’s team of friends and advisers apparently saw [Leland] Keyser as an obstacle to Ford’s narrative and brainstormed ways to get her on board. The book cites a group text among Ford’s acquaintances from soon after her testimony. Cheryl Amitay, who attended the same girls’ high school as Ford, wrote: “Maybe one of you guys who are friends with [Keyser] can have a heart-to-heart.” And, “I don’t care, frankly, how f---ed up her life is.”

The book referred to is The Education of Bret Kavanaugh by Nooyawk Times reporters Kate Kelly and Robin Pogrebin, who prove their corruption by avoiding the discomforting subject of feminism's hostility to truth and personal honor. The book America needs is the one that examines why Blasey Ford thought so little of simple honesty that she could lie under oath with such facility. In a decent society, a perjurer like Ford would be facing a jury right about now.

I don't know if the above excerpt is as Parker wrote it or after a WaPo editor's blue pencil did its mischief, nevertheless, the paragraph deals with perjury and the suborning of same. Unfortunately, narrative and get her on board pussyfoots the Parker's entire effort into a display of moral cowardice.; 9/26/19, 2:12 AM
rehajm said...: Good point from the WSJ:

It’s amusing to hear the same critics who call Mr. Trump an oafish thug on a daily basis now say this was all a subtle masterpiece of extortion. When is Mr. Trump ever subtle?; 9/26/19, 2:52 AM
Mr. Groovington said...: Blogger mockturtle said.. Love that photo, Ann! It shows the hope and resiliency of nature.

Given it’s the fall, it shows the futility of hope, imminent failure, inevitable desiccation. A “I have no mouth and I must scream” type situation.; 9/26/19, 3:20 AM
etbass said...: Althouse is struggling to keep this blog afloat. Without moderation the trolls threaten its destruction. With moderation, it suffers a different form of destruction. Some of its brightest lights attack her first love, feminism with a vengeance. Moderation enslaves her to it and prevents her leisurely walks, idle activities for which she yearns in her retirement.; 9/26/19, 4:12 AM
Rory said...: "Also, back then, there seems to have been a shortage of Asian actors. They would just kind of grab these haole character actors and put them in yellow face."

They were pretending. Pretending to be something else. Most of them probably weren't cab drivers or bartenders or henchmen, either, but they pretended to be those things as part of their acting. The most marvelous example of casting can be found in "The Flying Nun," where every character actor in Hollywood got to pretend to be Puerto Rican for a week.; 9/26/19, 4:55 AM
rehajm said...: I caught two minutes of CNN this morning so you don’t have to:

Corruption is a Trump code word for Biden. Biden called for the firing because he wanted the investigation, not to stop it. The Ukrainian president proved Trump was withholding funds by the way he was sucking up to Trump in the phone call. Republicans are showing cracks...; 9/26/19, 5:28 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Lots goin on in the Ukraine eh? FullMoon asks my number one question for the Clinton DNC, How Deep?; 9/26/19, 5:59 AM
Rusty said...: OT
To Althouse and Narr; Surgery went well, very little discomfort. The difference is truly amazing.; 9/26/19, 5:59 AM
rehajm said...: Boston Herald this morning: Two polls in the past 48 hours show that only 36% of Americans support impeachment. To put that in perspective, that’s about the same percentage of Trump supporters … in Massachusetts.; 9/26/19, 6:01 AM
stevew said...: It's a brisk 47 degrees here this morning. Peak foliage is still a couple of weeks or so away. Some things never change, don't even vary a little bit. Case in point: the NYT and Boston Globe have identical headlines this morning, "Trump pressed Ukraine’s president to investigate Democrats as ‘a favor’". And Ben Sasse and Mitt Romney are exhibiting cracks in the GOP's attempt to circle the wagons around Trump and the Ukraine kerfuffle. Pretty pathetic.

I love this time of year.; 9/26/19, 6:01 AM
Darrell said...: CNN is a bunch of cracks.; 9/26/19, 6:04 AM
rhhardin said...: A third Amazon package sent to wrong Amazon distribution center, has hit dead end. There's a click for refund button now, but clicking it results in an email saying unable to issue refund.

Two new systems not quite working seamlessly yet at Amazon - Amazon delivery and recovery from Amazon delivery.; 9/26/19, 6:08 AM
rhhardin said...: The griefs of women are quiet, rustle
like crinoline or whisper like
the tearing of old silk;

hum like appliances, give off the sharp sweet smell
of burnt out motors; tap like typewriter keys.
The strengths of women are quiet,
but hardy as the weed that finds its cranny
between the concrete block of the sidewalk
and the concrete slab of the wall, and grows there,
and blooms there.

Men are bums.
We're really better than they are.

- Adrienne Rich parody; 9/26/19, 6:11 AM
viator said...: It got almost no attention, but in May, CNN reported that Sens. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) and Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) wrote a letter to Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Yuriy Lutsenko, expressing concern at the closing of four investigations they said were critical to the Mueller probe. In the letter, they implied that their support for U.S. assistance to Ukraine was at stake. Describing themselves as “strong advocates for a robust and close relationship with Ukraine,” the Democratic senators declared, “We have supported [the] capacity-building process and are disappointed that some in Kyiv appear to have cast aside these [democratic] principles to avoid the ire of President Trump,” before demanding Lutsenko “reverse course and halt any efforts to impede cooperation with this important investigation.”

So, it’s okay for Democratic senators to encourage Ukraine to investigate Trump, but it’s not okay for the president to allegedly encourage Ukraine to investigate Hunter Biden?; 9/26/19, 6:18 AM
Breezy said...: You just have to drive by the crazy people on CNN and hope they can survive somehow without you.; 9/26/19, 6:23 AM
iowan2 said...: Thanks rehajm, now I don't have to watch. You have hit the talking points. You have summed up the next 24 hours of cable news coverage.

On a much more important national scandal.
Here in Iowa a collage kid that got himself noticed on ESPN GameDay. He had a sign that said Busch light running low donate to replenish supply.
It took off. By Monday, his venmo account had around $100,000. The kid (23year old?) made public he was donating it all to the Childrens Hospital in Iowa City (the kid is an Iowa State student) venmo and Annhuyser Busch said they would match what ever was raised for the Childrens hospital (home of "The Wave")
Next, the Des Moines Register runs a front page story about it all. The include the important fact that 7 years earlier the then 16 year old, tweet a couple of racial insensitive tweets, Busch pulls their support, will honor their promise up to that point but they are out, (I'm not sure what venmo did). The tweets were comic bits from Tosh .O on Comedy Central. A show Busch buys ads on.
The Des Moines Register refuses to apologize, saying this is normal for them to check the social media of persons they report on.
The Des Moines police was interviewed this morning in TV and confirmed they are providing protection to the Des Moines Register, both inside and outside their offices.
Democracy Dies in Darkness,
It doesnt get much darker in the heart of the media elites, saving the world from evil children, like this knuckle dragger, while honoring the real heros like that Greta girl, screaming at adults.; 9/26/19, 6:27 AM
rhhardin said...: Drudge makes clear the media-driven source of politics - he wants clicks and cares about nothing else. Not taking a side but just throwing everything out there to click on.

The media channels take a side but the click motive is unchanged. The loyal audience strategy.

On the left the loyal audience is soap opera women; on the right it's news of what are the crazy lefties up to now.

The right is parasitic on the left for clicks; the left is parasitic on soap opera women for the clicks.; 9/26/19, 6:27 AM
tim in vermont said...: "The most marvelous example of casting can be found in "The Flying Nun," where every character actor in Hollywood got to pretend to be Puerto Rican for a week.”

Let’s not even talk about F-Troop!; 9/26/19, 6:34 AM
tim in vermont said...: "The right is parasitic on the left for clicks”

This is part of the problem, the crazier they are, the more stupid, transparently partisan, etc, etc, the more we click on them for the entertainment value. “We have met the enemy, and he is us!"; 9/26/19, 6:35 AM
Josephbleau said...: You ain’t heard the last of Earnest T. Bass.; 9/26/19, 6:41 AM
exhelodrvr1 said...: "Let’s not even talk about F-Troop!"

Where the heck are we?; 9/26/19, 6:51 AM
rhhardin said...: The problem is that women vote. That makes it worth the left free-riding on soap opera news.

Either enlighten women or take away their vote, seems to be the options.; 9/26/19, 6:57 AM
Hagar said...: CBS News was something to watch last night. Norah O'Din with her hair on fire with a really distorted account of "the phonecall" affair. This time they are really going to get the Orange Bad Man!!!
No doubt about it!!!

And this is reporting; not advocacy?; 9/26/19, 7:04 AM
Dave Begley said...: What was Ann's reply to the union thug? And I hope she carries pepper spray on her walks.

I voted, "thanks."; 9/26/19, 7:13 AM
tim maguire said...: FullMoon said...
Free time machine. Needs repair.

At first glance, my reaction was, "oohh...a machine that creates free time! How much?"

Turns out it's just a machine that that'll take me and all my crappy problems to some new and unknown place that I am probably unsuited to live in.

I need that like I need a kick in the head.; 9/26/19, 7:17 AM
Ann Althouse said...: Of corse, it was “thanks.” I don’t look for trouble when I’m out and about.; 9/26/19, 7:22 AM
tim maguire said...: etbass said...
Althouse is struggling to keep this blog afloat. Without moderation the trolls threaten its destruction.

Couldn't a handful of well-placed blocks solve that problem?; 9/26/19, 7:25 AM
iowan2 said...: My story about the college kid asking for beer money, getting swamped with cash he promises to the Childrens Hospital, and then the media digging up a couple of tweets from when he was 16, that shuts down the money flowing to the childrens hospital, has a true core source of motivation.

The intellectual elites hate sports. College football and college mens basketball specifically. By extension, anyone why finds fun and camaraderie, as fans.

The media is delusional enough to believe they are part of what makes up intellectual elites,(hint, they exist, but in tiny numbers) despite any evidence they know much of anything, and have no area of knowledge they have ever exhibited any expertise in.; 9/26/19, 7:27 AM
Darrell said...: I guessed Althouse's response correctly. Yay me!; 9/26/19, 7:37 AM
Original Mike said...: "Turns out it's just a machine that that'll take me and all my crappy problems to some new and unknown place that I am probably unsuited to live in."

Or, you could return to the source of your crappy problems and make sure they never happen.

I tried to buy that time machine from FullMoon when he first published that story. I suspect he doesn't actually have it.; 9/26/19, 7:44 AM
Howard said...: "No Thanks" is my go to response to homeless request for spare change. I love the look of confusion it engenders. Of course, it's just my flaunting my white male privilege, however, since most beggars are white, blinks are not garnered.; 9/26/19, 7:48 AM
PJ said...: Take a look at “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” then let’s talk.; 9/26/19, 7:53 AM
rhhardin said...: Kid soliciting for some charity he's supposed to solicit for at the door always gets "No but thanks for asking."; 9/26/19, 8:02 AM
Howard said...: Death is a time machione; 9/26/19, 8:03 AM
rhhardin said...: The only consistent time machine film was Safety Not Guaranteed (2012).

The most successful time machine films are romcoms involving figuring out what to say to the woman by trial and error.; 9/26/19, 8:05 AM
narciso said...: The only show that accounted for the space and time displacement was timecop.; 9/26/19, 8:29 AM
Maillard Reactionary said...: I like the composition and use of color in the photograph. It succeeds as an image.; 9/26/19, 8:52 AM
Michael K said...: CrowdStrike was founded by Ukrainian Dmitri Alperovitch (now an American citizen apparently — because who isn’t?) and funded by the fanatically anti-Russian Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Pinchuk Foundation.

In my opinion, the over the top hysterical reaction to the call is the revelation that the DNC server is in Ukraine or in their custody. Why ? Hiding it ? What happens if it is returned to the US to the custody of honest FBI agents and it is analyzed by real forensic folks who learn that the download of the data was NOT a hack from Russia but a download, as suspected, to a thumb drive owned by a kid on the Sanders team named Seth Rich ? We have known for a couple of years that the download speeds were not consistent with a hack from outside.; 9/26/19, 9:23 AM
Original Mike said...: "... the revelation that the DNC server is in Ukraine or in their custody."

I've heard this a couple of times, but I don't know what is being referred to. Can you provide me a link? Tx.; 9/26/19, 10:06 AM
mockturtle said...: Mr Groovington counters: Blogger mockturtle said.. Love that photo, Ann! It shows the hope and resiliency of nature.

Given it’s the fall, it shows the futility of hope, imminent failure, inevitable desiccation. A “I have no mouth and I must scream” type situation.

LOL!; 9/26/19, 10:20 AM
mockturtle said...: Iowan2 asserts: The intellectual elites hate sports. College football and college mens basketball specifically. By extension, anyone [who] finds fun and camaraderie, as fans.

'The Team' brings together people of all colors, creeds and sexual preferences into one shrieking, roaring mass of love and energy aimed at a common target. What's not to like about that?; 9/26/19, 10:29 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: @Dr K - we aren’t talking the physical location of the server, but rather that CrowdStrike was hired by the DNC to see if their email server had been hacked, and if so, by whom.

“CrowdStrike was founded by Ukrainian Dmitri Alperovitch (now an American citizen apparently — because who isn’t?) and funded by the fanatically anti-Russian Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Pinchuk Foundation”

And, guess what? They found that it had been hacked by the evil Russians. And then they, along with the DNC, refused to turn over the server, a copy of the image that CrowdStrike was working with, or much of anything else that they were working with, to the FBI when they requested it. And then based on their summary report, the Intelligence Community (under DNI Clapper) accepted that the Russians had definitively hacked the DNC server, and from there, it migrated into the Mueller Report as established fact (despite, by then, this IC conclusion having been seriously questioned based on time stamps that showed Eastern Europe or Russian hacking to have been almost impossible). And now we find this Russian hacking story came from fanatically Anti-Russian Ukrainians.

I think that this is very definitely why there was a bit of panic since the release of the transcripts. The Dems and Deep State denizens behind the entire Trump/Russian collusion hoax depended heavily on that CrowdStrike opinion that the Russians hacked the DNC server (when it was almost assuredly an inside job). Trump has essentially asked the Ukrainians to look into it on their end, and that likely is going to ultimately show that the Russian Collusion hoax was built on even less substance, and more disinformation and smoke than we already knew. My big question here is whether Clapper and Brennan knew about the background of CrowdStrike when they accepted their findings, and pretended that they weren’t highly biased, or didn’t know, thus exhibiting gross incompetence.; 9/26/19, 10:34 AM
Marc in Eugene said...: A frost warning for here in the southern Willamette Valley for the weekend; 48 this morning.; 9/26/19, 10:40 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: "... the revelation that the DNC server is in Ukraine or in their custody."

I don’t think that CrowdStrike had the physical server, but rather was working from an electronic image of the server, and a copy of that image is what they may still have. After all, it is a trivial matter to copy an image file, and would likely have been done as a precaution before starting their forensic work on the image.; 9/26/19, 10:40 AM
Marc in Eugene said...: The most marvelous example of casting can be found in "The Flying Nun," where every character actor in Hollywood got to pretend to be Puerto Rican for a week.

Let’s not even talk about F-Troop!

Ha.

'Thanks' is always how one replies (when doing retail) to potential customers whose lack of self-awareness or tact or whatever allows them to make comments about the salesclerk's appearance (hair, the day's clothing choices etc). Sometimes they understand, sometimes not.; 9/26/19, 10:53 AM
Nichevo said...: Howard said...
"No Thanks" is my go to response to homeless request for spare change. I love the look of confusion it engenders. Of course, it's just my flaunting my white male privilege, however, since most beggars are white, blinks are not garnered.

9/26/19, 7:48 AM

Shorter Howie: I'm a piece of shit, I really am. Just smell me!; 9/26/19, 11:11 AM