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May 26, 2020
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Your yard looks like it is full of giant coronaviruses
Such beauty. So brief.
I was having a texting discussion with a fitness instructor and her hesitation in going back to work. She's afraid of the virus. Fine. But she's not afraid of dying from it. She didn't answer back what she's concerned about, specifically. I assumed all of these "not until there's a vaccine" people are concerned about dying or permanent damage, but apparently not. What are they afraid of then?
Today’s theme is all about the Karen’s. It’s disgusting to me to see Americans so afraid of their own shadows. It’s a sign of decadence and decline.
Cannibal rats i think
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=FQHImMt3QpU
Wife loves alliums too. Yes, I know, adding an 's' is not how to make a plural from a Latin word ending in "ium."
Tough.
What's the deal with so many white people using the word "Latinx?" Embarrassing.
My INR today was 3.7, .7 above my high end. I guess I'll have to cut back on the G&T's and increase the spinach intake.I know, a new cocktail called the Gin and Spin!!
From Aerosmith:
There's somethin' wrong with the world today
I don't know what it is
Something's wrong with our eyes
We're seein' things in a different way
And God knows it ain't his
It sure ain't no surprise
Livin' on the edge
Livin' on the edge
Livin' on the edge
Livin' on the edge
There's somethin' wrong with the world today
The light bulb's gettin dim
There's meltdown in the sky
If you can judge a wise man
By the color of his skin
Then mister you're a better man than I
Livin' on the edge
You can't help yourself from fallin'
Livin' on the edge
You can't help yourself at all
Livin' on the edge
You can't stop yourself from fallin'
Livin' on the edge (everybody, everybody)
Tell me what you think about your situation
Complication, aggravation is getting to you
If chicken little tells you that the sky is fallin'
Even if it wasn't would you still come crawlin'
Back again
I bet you would my friend
Again and again and again and again and again
Tell me what you think about your situation
Complication, aggravation is getting to you
If chicken little tells you that the sky is fallin'
Even if it was would you still come crawlin'
Back again
I bet you would my friend
Again and again and again and again and again
Something right with the world today
And everybody knows it's wrong
But we can tell 'em no or we could let it go
But I'd would rather be a hanging on
Livin' on the edge
You can't help yourself from fallin'
Livin' on the edge
You can't help yourself at all
Livin' on the edge
You can't stop yourself from fallin'
Livin' on the edge (everybody, everybody)
Livin' on the edge
Livin' on the edge
Livin' on the edge
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Livin' on the edge
You can't help yourself from fallin'
Livin' on the edge
You can't help yourself at all
Livin' on the edge
You can't stop yourself from fallin'
Livin' on the edge
Livin' on the edge
You can't help yourself
You can't help yourself
Livin' on the edge
You can't help yourself at all
Livin' on the edge
You can't help yourself
You can't help yourself
Livin' on the edge
You can't help yourself
You can't help yourself
Livin' on the edge
You can't help yourself from fallin'
Livin' on the edge, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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"What are they afraid of then?"
You good sir.
Today’s theme is all about the Karen’s. It’s disgusting to me to see Americans so afraid of their own shadows. It’s a sign of decadence and decline.
5/26/20, 8:55 PM
They only get to a few of you commentators here at the Althouse blog, and there are many thousands more readers than commentators, so I gain from your "exception proves the rule" comment that we are winning bigly.
Thanks for playing, keep it up buddy. You'll win, someday. Trust me, I got your best interests at heart.
Just catching the news about Minneapolis police firing. Based on the limited video provided it is hard to justify the response and there needs to be charges filed. Awful tragic and avoidable.
what's that sign in your yard?
Wrapped up the Needham biography, "The Man Who Loved China." Remarkable man and story, and more timely than I expected--mention is made of an infectious disease lab from Wuhan fleeing elsewhere to avoid the Japs, and the amount of modern science and science education going on in wartime China, under the most primitive conditions, was amazing.
Needham was a brilliant man, a giant in 20th C scholarship; too bad he was such a political naif (lefty-left fan of Mao for too long, but also an old-school Anglo-Catholic).
One of Winchester's best books.
Narr
GRANT has not improved
RK - gyms reopen in Ohio next week. Will let you know how it goes.
I'm not a proud man, too much experience, but I can't imagine saying out loud what Democratics say.
These are not good attributes, I need to toughen' up, and therein lies the Althouse blog, one of the toughest blogs around for so long. Quite a feat. Bigger than any temp. virus, and I do mean quite literally ANY virus.
Pete Boyles keeps talking about a book named "Mesquito" or something. About that shit-insect in WI a lot, and other places. Not a lot of places though, thank God.
I spelt it like the wood I smoke but you know, you know. Oh boy oh boy oh boy I bet you you have 100's of mequito stories. But you forgot them right away, because of reasons we will delve into soon...
The first 30 seconds of Fleetwood Mac’s Sara are some of the prettiest in pop music.
What a satisfying purple.
I am sitting in my backyard. I put peanuts and walnuts on the top of the fence surrounding me, for the squirrels and the jays. A jay came down and must have crammed three walnuts and four peanuts in his beak before flying away. I wanted to scold him the way my mother used to scold me: Make two trips!
Well then
https://mobile.twitter.com/T_S_P_O_O_K_Y/status/1265359949976219650
So progressive blacks use Karen to refer to a privileged white woman and conservatives call “woke” white women Karen. Strange bed fellows. Seems like old fashioned sexism to me.
Hot Air (Allahpundit)
Posted at 8:41 pm on May 26, 2020:
Study Finds Amazing Predictor Of Timing And Scale Of Coronavirus Outbreaks: Feces
"...It’s like peering into a crystal ball. Except in this case we’re peering into a toilet."
https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2020/05/26/study-finds-amazing-predictor-timing-scale-coronavirus-outbreaks-feces/
https://mobile.twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/1265467661254885376
Why hasn’t Miriam Potter Carre been arrested for her parents’ murder?
Like a small moose, or a growing elk, I'm here to tell you the way it is.
I have really good vibes about that last one, whooooo boy.
The one area where cites excel has been food. Entertainment can be killing entertainers over Lake Mendota or fucking Stevie Fucking Ray Fucking Vaughn Alf8ucing Pinefuckin' Vallefuckin' buncho-the-mosguito.
How much is that baby in the window?
The one that's cut up in the pail
If intact they weren't human in utero
Why are they, as pieces, for sale?
Planned Parenthood officials admit under oath to selling aborted body parts
Well, I went on a hike today. It was nice, but I messed up my knee somehow.
the religion of PPEace
who is this visionary?
sadly, another one of my neighbors broke down today: lots of loud banging and a woman screaming at least a dozen times, "Answer me!" - I hoped it was not my next door neighbor, a nice dark-haired 40 something woman who looks like a kindergarten teacher (I live in one of those apartment buildings that, like the Hollywood Squares, have three apartments on three levels, and I could not tell where the noise was coming from). Eventually the cries of "answer me" and the banging faded out,
which is a nicer result than we had a few months ago when another neighbor was escorted from his apartment after choking his wife unconscious, according to her ----- I did not want to see this, but I saw it - the police allowed him to follow them and, in the hallway, wanting, I guess, one more moment of freedom before his parole was revoked and he said goodbye to his chances at spending any of the next three Christmases in lockup - wanting one more free moment he told them he had to tie his shoes (I presume that was what he told them) and the last glimpse I had of my seemingly polite neighbor who almost killed his girlfriend was him tying his sneakers. (in case you are wondering how I know all this, I was carrying groceries to my apartment at the time - I would have waited in the car had I known what was going on).
Statistically, one of these two events might have happened even without the stupid and fascist house arrest orders from our governor.
The news is really sad, I wish there were a good newspaper available so that I could, as in the old days, read the paper for ten or twenty minutes (like I used to do at college at 10 AM after my first "class" at our fraternity's assigned table in the building they called the "student union") and then get on with my own life, but random internet updates bring sad things all day long.
Like those pictures that a photographer projected on the walls of a VA facility where they had let dozens of veterans die in agony from the Wuhan flu. Heartbreaking stuff. The photographer projected pictures from when they were young of all these people who had died in agony as old men and women, pretty much abandoned by the competent sectors of society, in a badly run nursing home in a state under fascist house arrest orders.
There will be war crimes trials in our near future. Some governors and some of their cronies need to figure out (as poor Martha Stewart and foolish Flynn did not) how to find and hire a good defense lawyer.
Tonight I am listening to a collection of Orson Wells radio dramas from the WW2 era.
The celebration of America, and what it means to be an American -- that America is the greatest country, because Americans are in charge of their government, not the other way around -- is very different from the message we get from the media today. Frequent references are made to the "American way of Life," and that "way of life" is identified with acceptance of individual responsibility, acceptance of one's neighbors, no matter their religion or ethnicity, and acceptance of the yoke of liberty. Mention of a generic "God" is frequent. In that era, the wisdom and power of the government was inseparable from the power of the people.
Which shows you how far modern liberals have fallen from the ideals of the New Deal.
Did Meade plant those?
Wild planet, ain't it?
What an explosion.
To be clear, it cheers me up to see people who obviously have great difficulties in life act as if they were almost as blessed, or even just as much blessed, as one or another of the ancient Greek gods. Like the little fox who had no idea that his eyes were flashing a spectacular shade of red, they have no idea of the inherent interest there is in their existence even for the largely unempathetic people who surround them,
And really, who among us has not been surrounded by mostly unempathetic people for most of their lives?
(I was thinking of working a few memories of "boot camp" from years ago into this comment, but there is no way to do that without writing a comment that would be too long for its purpose).
“What I was saying is, I was asked 11 questions as to why churches would be allowed to reopen. It was a bit peculiar to be asked these 11 questions in a row and for the onus and the focus solely to be on why churches are essential, I’ve never been asked why a liquor store was essential so I was merely pointing that out.”
— Kayleigh McEnany
Should Trump be using insulin? That is the question.
https://twitter.com/hashtag/HeebieJeebieJoe?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1264692821325426689&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanthinker.com%2Fblog%2F2020%2F05%2Fa_viral_video_may_keep_bidens_nasty_little_habit_in_the_public_eye.html
Blue Jays are, in my experience, bullies. The birds, that is, not the baseball team. Orioles are up to the task of scaring off the Jays. Again, the birds, not the baseball team. The baseball Orioles suck, on a perennial basis. So much so that their record while not playing the game is better than it is when they do.
We've all heard that students regress in reading and math over the Summer vacation.
Now think about a vacation that will last 6 months. (2/3 of teachers say they haven't been able to do their jobs properly during the lockdown in a recent Ipso poll.)
A relative of mine works in the field of educational research. She tells me that there will undoubtedly be a drop in test scores across the country over the next year and possibly two years. She points out the drop in scores in Puerto Rico as a result of Hurricane Maria (some not published yet).
Chalk this up as another cost of the lockdown.
Democrats officially in a deep deep panic that the US economy could recover by the Fall.
Pretty much tells you everything you need to know about the democraticalists.
Inga: "Should Trump be using insulin? That is the question."
According to you over the last 4 years, Putin runs everything so you should direct your question to him.
Tuesday:
DJIA +530. = +2.17%
SPX. +1.23%
NasdqComp. +0.17%
AAPL. - 0.68%
AMZN. -0.62%
CAT +4.39
AMGN. -1.78%
MRK. +1.17%
MSFT. -1.06%
MCD. +0.23%
PYPL. -2.56%
PG -0.51%
TXN. +2.03%
CRWD. -3.49%
RK said...I assumed all of these "not until there's a vaccine" people are concerned about dying or permanent damage, but apparently not. What are they afraid of then?
I'm not the slightest bit afraid of catching it. If I were on my own, I'd even prefer it just for the immunity. But my wife is high risk. While I don't fear catching it, I do fear giving it to her.
I see Althouse has absorbed some of the lessons of Scott Adams about persuasion. People want to be given a reason to behave in a certain way, even if it is a totally stupid irrelevant reason. So "use the Althouse portal" is less persuasive than "It's allium season, so use the Althouse portal."
Elsewhere: I see the NYT has a special analysis with the headline: "The Coronavirus Is Deadliest Where Democrats Live". Among the reasons why this might be true, the NYT does not consider the possibility that where Democrats live, the Democrats elect local and state leaders that are less competent in the basic skills of governance.
"what's that sign in your yard?"
Looks like the yard sign for a high-end home improvement company in Madison.
Another category of comment: where the writer thinks they are delivering a killing, mic-dropping zinger, and all the readers think "what an idiot".
Anne-I-Am and SteveW- blue jays are jerks. They are huge bullies.
Last year in my parents' neighborhood, it became all the rage to spray paint the allium after they'd started to die. From a distance they looked like forever allium. But it also seemed like an old person thing to do.
MayBee said...Anne-I-Am and SteveW- blue jays are jerks. They are huge bullies.
Yesterday we watched young doves line up on our fence and bully smaller birds trying to get at a feeder. They seemed to be working together quite effectively.
WK said...
Just catching the news about Minneapolis police firing. Based on the limited video provided it is hard to justify the response and there needs to be charges filed. Awful tragic and avoidable.
Maybe so, but there's a bigger problem: how do you get people who are resisting to stop resisting, "safely?" Curare darts and artificial respiration? No shooting, no clubbing, no tasers, no headlocks, what is supposed to be legal and effective?
Falsus in uno, falsus in allium.
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