Althouse: At the Otter's Café...

August 19, 2020

At the Otter's Café...

... swim for your life.

51 comments:

rehajm said...: Alex Berenson's twitter feed. Read it, Karens...; 8/19/20, 8:44 PM
gspencer said...: "I'll tell you what this means, Norm -- no size restrictions, and screw the limits"

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C3cjSHRXUAQQunY.jpg; 8/19/20, 8:51 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: ...and now, for your listening pleasure

"Taps"

The Bugler's Cry-- and brief history

the endless array of white headstones gives an uneasy perspective; 8/19/20, 8:51 PM
Beloved Commenter AReasonableMan said...: I feel worst for Drago.; 8/19/20, 8:59 PM
Joe Smith said...: Nice view...I otter visit someday...; 8/19/20, 9:08 PM
Paco Wové said...: As formerly decent publications like The Atlantic sink into the mire, new online publications attempt to take their place – e.g., Tablet: Hydroxychloroquine: A Morality Tale.; 8/19/20, 9:17 PM
Narr said...: I'm not like all the otters.

Narr
I was a Cure-otter; 8/19/20, 9:20 PM
Jon Ericson said...: Don't click on this unless you want to read Cardi B's latest hit song lyrics.
(and I wouldn't if I were you)

WAP
Cardi B
Featuring Megan Thee Stallion
Produced by Ayo & Keyz
Album CB2*

Biden 2020; 8/19/20, 9:22 PM
Paco Wové said...: It surprises me that Gretchen Whitmer hasn't realized that the only other governmental figures seen rockin' a black leather jacket were Nazis. (The real ones.); 8/19/20, 9:24 PM
readering said...: Goodyear bad, QAnon good.; 8/19/20, 9:27 PM
Birkel said...: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/08/more-evidence-that-shutdowns-are-useless.php

TL:DR version
Lockdowns do not work to prevent viral spread and associated deaths.

I will wait patiently for tim in vermont and that Canadian Cvnt to apologize.; 8/19/20, 9:34 PM
walter said...: Only one more DNC day and even the promised protesters aren't interested.
Maybe they are busy riding around on Barrette's trolley.
Ding ding!; 8/19/20, 9:37 PM
walter said...: Vote for the Otter Biden.; 8/19/20, 9:38 PM
mandrewa said...: Matt Christiansen: Get beaten to the edge of death or become a criminal for defending yourself : the Portland reality; 8/19/20, 9:40 PM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: Hope nobody trusted him..; 8/19/20, 9:41 PM
walter said...: Jon,
Remember Pelosi promised more poetry if we "pass it to see what's in it."
Hmm..that could be a Cardi B lyric...; 8/19/20, 9:51 PM
Narr said...: Governess Gretched Whipmore (B&D-Michigan), a trend setter.

Narr
What a babe!; 8/19/20, 9:52 PM
walter said...: Good comparison readering!
You have a very...elastic..brain.
Read those Cardi B lyrics and reveal the deep metaphors to us.; 8/19/20, 9:54 PM
TrvlinOn said...: Muskrat, not a lot of otters around Madison.; 8/19/20, 10:02 PM
Craig said...: Amazing photo!; 8/19/20, 10:10 PM
Owen said...: Just watched Obama and Kamala deliver their heavily-reprocessed versions of the Saint Crispin’s Day speech. Freaky.; 8/19/20, 10:12 PM
rcocean said...: How lucky to have Otters. They're the epitome of cute. Trump gave one of the best press conferences ever and I loved how he made them look like fools over their stupid QAnon questions. Imagine it, all the fucking important things going on the world, and they waste Trump's time asking about some Kooks.

The POTUS also had a great comment about Obama. He said he had a great life going on before 2015, and Trump never would've run for POTUS if Obama had not been such a bust. And he never would've won if people hadn't been so upset at Obama's awful job.

Of course Yeb! had to go on twitter and rant about how upset he was that Trump didn't "disavow" them. Thereby showing that the Bush family doesn't get smarter, they just get older. Look for Mittens to join Yeb! and grandstand on this bit of trivia and win some points with the NYT/WaPo.; 8/19/20, 10:18 PM
exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said...: walter said...
Only one more DNC day and even the promised protesters aren't interested.
Maybe they are busy riding around on Barrette's trolley.
Ding ding!

8/19/20, 9:37 PM

Why would they protest their friends? People like Howard think kicking a guy in the head who was trying to defend a transwoman from being attacked by Antifa is a noble act. Blinding police officers with lasers is akin to storming the beaches at Normandy.

Morally corrupt turds like Howie and ARM love the violence.; 8/19/20, 10:28 PM
exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said...: Here's the honesty remix of "Something's Happening Here."

https://twitter.com/RedState/status/1295847344605405186; 8/19/20, 10:30 PM
Drago said...: “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f**k things up.” - Barack Obama; 8/19/20, 10:45 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: welp--that's it-- Orange man is against pedophilia & cannibalism

Since pedos are rebranding themselves as Minor Attracted Persons
(MAPs) and want it to be deemed a sexual orientation--

...Time to normalize Cannibalism as an alternative diet regimen

https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/06/world/a-tale-of-red-guards-and-cannibals.html; 8/19/20, 10:48 PM
gadfly said...: No Army or National Guard unit exists in American Somoa despite frequent attempts by congress to establish a company-sized National Guard unit for the all of the Northern Mariana Islands. Methinks that some American Somoa politicans donned the uniforms and covid masks in order to push for a federal law establishing some security to become available during catastophies.

“Wearing a uniform to a partisan political event . . . is prohibited,” Lt. Col. Emanuel Ortiz, a Defense Department spokesman, said . . . . “The Army follows the Department of Defense’s longstanding and well-defined policy regarding political campaigns and elections to avoid the perception of DoD sponsorship, approval or endorsement of any political candidate, campaign or cause.”

Ortiz must have missed the in uniform attendance of Trump staffers in the White House where Navy personnel actually run the kitchens. And since there is nothing more political than the Trump White House, what difference does it make if they are or are not in uniform? Senior staffers appointed and serving the administration are, after all, called by their military rank.; 8/19/20, 10:53 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: Don't Re-Tread On Me

To Goodyear

https://www.beaconjournal.com/business/20200211/goodyear-reopens-china-tire-factory; 8/19/20, 10:56 PM
Readering said...: Sorry, the approved style for tonight:

GOODYEAR BAD! QANON GOOD!; 8/19/20, 11:41 PM
bagoh20 said...: "I feel worst for Drago."

Everybody knows you really don't. He's not the one counting on Biden to save the country.; 8/19/20, 11:45 PM
Rosalyn C. said...: CA Central Coast: Fires to the North, fires to the East, fires to the South. All fires are uncontained. People who live among the trees have been evacuated. Unfortunately the wind is blowing all the smoke inward towards the towns. Air quality is horrible. I looked up at the yellowish greenish sky and saw the sun was a blood red disk. The cars and the ground are covered with white ash, like Pompeii.; 8/19/20, 11:50 PM
mandrewa said...: Yes, Paco Wove, it is maddening. The odds are that something like 250,000 people worldwide have died because we didn't use hydroxychloroquine.

It just makes me sick.; 8/20/20, 12:23 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: “Goodyear bad, QAnon good.”

Goodyear is seeing the light.

Q and his Anons scare the shit out of the left. They can’t control the message. Working Backward:
4624: Biden’s brother, James, got a sweetheart deal for a piece of land on an island next to Epstein’s Pedo Island
4623: Ghislaine Maxwell had helicopter and submarine licenses that allowed her to sneak people into Pedo Island
4622: why is Q being sensed?
4621: Clinesmith pleads guilty, then a cite to 18 USC 371 (Conspiracy); 8/20/20, 12:47 AM
StephenFearby said...: BBC:

Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny is unconscious in hospital with suspected poisoning, his spokeswoman has said.

The anti-corruption campaigner fell ill during a flight and the plane made an emergency landing in Omsk, Kira Yarmysh said, adding that they suspected something had been mixed into his tea.

A hospital source confirmed treatment for poisoning to the Tass news agency.

Mr Navalny, 44, is a staunch critic of President Vladimir Putin.

In June he described a vote on constitutional reforms as a "coup" and a "violation of the constitution". The reforms allow Mr Putin to serve another two terms in office.

Kira Yarmysh, the press secretary for the Anti-Corruption Foundation Mr Navalny founded in 2011, tweeted: "This morning Navalny was returning to Moscow from Tomsk.

"During the flight, he felt ill. The plane made an urgent landing in Omsk. Alexei has toxic poisoning. Right now we are going to hospital."

She added: "We suspect that Alexei was poisoned by something mixed into [his] tea. It was the only thing he drank since morning.

"Doctors are saying that the toxic agent absorbed faster through the hot liquid. Right now Alexei is unconscious."

Ms Yarmysh later tweeted that Mr Navalny was in intensive care, on a ventilator and in a coma, and that the police had been called. She said there were no test results as yet.

Tass reported that the Omsk Emergency Hospital had confirmed he was in a serious condition.

"Alexei Anatolyevich Navalny, born in 1976. Poisoning intensive care," the hospital source quoted by Tass said.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53844958; 8/20/20, 1:49 AM
StephenFearby said...: Shipwreckedcrew's latest tweets putting the Kevin Clinesmith plea agreement into useful perspective:

Nope. Durham's reputation is that of the relentless irresistible force.

@AlbenOldacre
· 2h
Replying to @PolAgnostic and @shipwreckedcrew
Durham doesn't seem to be following Weissman's model of shock and awe.

@shipwreckedcrew
What that means is that the separate document likely describes all the criminal conduct he has told them about. Anything he knows about but HAS NOT told them about he's still subject to being prosecuted for.

3h
So he is motivated, and it is in his best interest, to tell Durham EVERYTHING so it will all be covered by his agreement. Anything he holds back means he's still exposed to later prosecution.
·
3h
Here's one of the beautiful things about having government agents sit in on a meeting. Even when it's just the agent and the prosecutor, FBI protocol is that the Agent goes back to his office and writes a memo about the meeting, and sticks it in the file.

3h
When multiple people attended, the agents are very good about listing everyone by name and title. So, when someone like John Durham comes along and wants to know more about a particular meeting, he finds the FBI memo, looks at who was present, and goes and talks to them.

3h
I have a feeling that in the 20 months that Clinesmith was assigned to Crossfire Hurricane, he sat in on A LOT of meetings, and his name is listed on A LOT of memos.
Durham will probably ask about every one of them.; 8/20/20, 2:33 AM
Clyde said...: Seeing the lowlights from last night's Democrat convention, it was like watching a collection of Batman villains on-screen. All of the worst people in politics from recent years were there. The contrast with Trump couldn't have been more clear.; 8/20/20, 4:05 AM
Clyde said...: Also, here's a remix of the "For What It's Worth" from DNC Night One from RedState:

Something's Happening Here (Honesty Remix); 8/20/20, 5:19 AM
buwaya said...: Thanks Paco, for the Tablet article -

Hydroxychloroquine: A Morality Tale.

"Science" is not science, under these circumstances.
Unfortunately for the world this corruption has been going on for a very long time.
It has been so for instance in the Global Warming/Green Energy and pollution control areas.
Wherever there is a question of government regulation or policy making windfalls for important enough players.; 8/20/20, 6:23 AM
buwaya said...: The most telling things in that article, IMHO, are the weasel-worded statement to the NYT by Haider Warraich of Harvard, a deliberate if subtle falsehood, and the gross incompetence by Mandeep Mehra, also of Harvard.

This is not the scientific ethics of Richard Feynman -

"you should not fool the laymen when you're talking as a scientist. . . . I'm talking about a specific, extra type of integrity that is not lying, but bending over backwards to show how you're maybe wrong, [an integrity] that you ought to have when acting as a scientist. And this is our responsibility as scientists, certainly to other scientists, and I think to laymen."

That is most certainly now gone, such is the corruption of your universities, at the very top of their hierarchy, even in the "hard" areas of human knowledge. That is a corruption from which there is no recovery.; 8/20/20, 6:35 AM
Josephbleau said...: Interesting shooting in Chicago last night. Some “guys” in a BMW pulled up in front of some other people In a decent neighborhood getting into a parked car and robbed them, then they fired a shot at them and ran off. They missed. The first thing is where else in the world would gangbang robbers have a BMW? What a country! Next, what would make them shoot into their victims as they were running away? If they wanted to kill witnesses they didn’t try hard. They apparently just got off on shooting at them. Something has changed, the killers are now in charge of the city.; 8/20/20, 6:49 AM
Fernandinande said...: Muskrat, not a lot of otters around Madison.

It does look more like a muskrat (ears, perhaps body shape), though hard to tell.

The first thing is where else in the world would gangbang robbers have a BMW?

Wasn't George Floyd driving a Mercedes? It's hard to verify, which implies it's true since it's something you probably shouldn't be aware of.; 8/20/20, 7:26 AM
Kevin said...: He appears alone and slightly adrift, yet I unafraid and unbending.; 8/20/20, 8:01 AM
Gahrie said...: Ortiz must have missed the in uniform attendance of Trump staffers in the White House where Navy personnel actually run the kitchens

Are you seriously trying to imply that it is unusual or inappropriate for uniformed members of the military to work in the White House?; 8/20/20, 8:35 AM
tim in vermont said...: It’s woke to groom young girls away from their parents’ retrograde ‘traditions’ and to explore their sexuality at 11

Just ask Netflix

If I had to lay down cash for a bet, I would bet muskrat, but I usually tell them apart by behavior and I am not 100% sure. Muskrats kind of dogpaddle from point A to point B in a businesslike manner, and otters are always playing when they swim, it seems to me.; 8/20/20, 8:58 AM
Meade said...: "In Wisconsin we have several mammals that are semi-aquatic, spending a considerable amount of time in the water. Around the Madison chain of lakes, muskrats are commonly seen. Mink, river otter and beaver are all present, too but a little more elusive. All four species can be seen statewide and are abundant across much of the state." https://blog.limnology.wisc.edu/2020/05/29/water-we-talking-about-life-in-a-lake-as-a-mammal/; 8/20/20, 9:13 AM
Michael K said...: Readering said...
Sorry, the approved style for tonight:

GOODYEAR BAD! QANON GOOD!

It's interesting to see your priorities. You agree with Goodyear that supporting the police is not allowed ? I assume your neighborhood is crime free so far.; 8/20/20, 9:32 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: “Goodyear bad, QAnon good.”

Yesterday Trump was asked about the QAnons supporting him. His response was essentially that they supported hi, which is always a good thing, so he wasn’t going to condemn them. But as everything unfolds, the question arises about why the sudden interest in QAnons?

I didn’t realize that there was an organized campaign against Q and his Anons until I got into a long attack on them in Reason, of all places. They are being called wild conspiracy theorists, and their biggest crime apparently is calling a bunch of top Democrats pedophiles. Not the Epstein level post adolescent type pedophiles, like Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, etc, appear to be, but rather real preadolescent, likely male homosexual, pedophiles. I am agnostic on those claims. Q and his Anonschave been right on several other topics, but the evidence of a DC pedo ring still sounds a bit far fetched.

But they haven’t been wrong overall about SpyGate (the (mostly) FBI manufactured Trump/Russian collusion hoax), nor, really, about Jeffrey Epstein, what he was doing, and how he was being protected by the top tiers of at least our government (at a minimum to protect the a Clintons), as well as the British government (at a minimum to protect Prince Andrew).

Why the attack on Q and his Anons right now? Easy - the Democrat’s National Convention, where Biden was nominated, and Obama and both Clintons spoke. The QAnons managed to dirty up all four of them. SpyGate has now reached into the Obama Oval Office, to a meeting there, where Biden apparently suggested using the Logan Act against Gen Flynn, presumably to keep him out of a Trump White House (for all of the locations of the bodies he knew in the IC from his time running the DIA). And, of course, Bill Clinton was a frequent flyer on Epstein’s Lolita Express to his Pedophile Island, and was shown in a Blue Dress in a painting in Epstein’s NYC mansion. There is some evidence that his wife, Crooked Hillary, visited there too (bolstering the long term rumors about her sexual orientation).; 8/20/20, 9:52 AM
Begonia said...: I was going to say that looks more like a beaver than an otter. It's too big for a muskrat I think. Beavers are big and move a lot faster than a muskrat.

Madison has tons of muskrat so I would expect Althouse and Meade to recognize them appropriately.

I've seen mink and beavers on Wingra Creek. I've also seen a beaver along Lake Monona near Olin Point. The only time I've seen beavers are at dawn and dusk, so that's another point toward the beaver ID.

The Lakeshore Nature Preserve Flickr page includes a photo of muskrats and mink, but no otters or beavers.; 8/20/20, 10:15 AM
Narr said...: Do you have a # for mushroom-cloud-shaped dawns?

Narr
There I was looking at the cute aquatic mammal!; 8/20/20, 11:41 AM
eddie willers said...: It’s woke to groom young girls away from their parents’ retrograde ‘traditions’ and to explore their sexuality at 11

Just ask Netflix

Thanks for the link, Tim. I read about the Netflix hubbub this morning but thought the poster of the film was not so bad. (little girls with pouty lips)

Now I see they took all the photos down by the time I read the article.; 8/20/20, 12:47 PM
Michael McNeil said...: No Army or National Guard unit exists in American Somoa despite frequent attempts by congress to establish a company-sized National Guard unit for the all of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Really! Maybe the fact that American Samoa lies more than 3,500 miles away from the Northern Mariana Islands might have something to do with it….; 8/20/20, 3:55 PM