... maybe you'll write something utterly charming.
I took the photograph this morning at sunrise, as I was entering my running trail. It looks as though a child lost the book somewhere on the trail and whoever found it put it on that rock in the hope that it would find its way if not to the home of the child who lost it to some other child's home.
At first I thought Christopher Robin was humiliating Pooh, but I think he's knighting him.
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It's something left by Chinese Communist Party agents.
"Could a Bear be one?"
"Of course he could!" said Christopher Robin. "I'll make you one." And he took a stick and touched Pooh on the shoulder, and said "Rise, Sir Pooh de Bear, most faithful of all my Knights."
So Pooh rose and sat down and said "Thank you," which is the proper thing to say when you have been made a Knight...
...and he wondered if being a Faithful Knight meant that you just went on being faithful without being told things.
Tut tut, looks like rain.
Milne wrote very nice poetry in his book titled "When We Were Very Young." My favorite is called "Teddy Bear", where Winnie the Pooh deals with fat shaming in an admirable fashion.
So, William Bell pulled a Spock on The Wrath of Khan. And now he has awakened in Olivia.
If you get away from TV news and the internet, you will find that there is a real world full of kind people (who find a child's book, and set it up on a rock where it is visible and dry in the hope that the owner will return and find the book). I didn't count, but I bet 20 people (friends, neighbors, and strangers on the bike path and at the dog park) wished me a good day today. Just the normal polite friendliness (and I live in the mid-atlantic suburbs, not the upper midwest). What makes "good internet" is yelling and weird aberrant behavior. But it is aberrant behavior and there is a great majority of kind people (some agree with you politically and others disagree with you -- but they aren't crazy).
Oh bother...
He is making sure Pooh maintains a proper social distance. Also, threatening to stab him with spear if he doesn't put on his face diaper.
Of course, maybe he is installing Pooh as President.
So Trump claims if he loses the election he will take it to the Supreme Court, which he wants to stack with conservatives, to make the decision in his favor, he assumes, This bald admission of his planned power play is breathtaking, I even think verging on evil.
My report from the Sandhills Cattle Ass’n held at the Thomas County Fairgrounds, Thedford, Nebraska.
1. Talked to a real estate broker. He had two 30 day rentals of ranches. One for $250k and the other for $500k. East coast people. Covid isoltion. Thirty days!
2. Had an interesting talk with a vet who does bull penis surgery. One of only 4 in America who does this. $1200 to $1600 to do this. Satisfied customer sat at next table. Four operations this year on bulls worth over $8k.
A number of maladies afflict the bull penis.
His wife has a BSN and she assists.
3. Ten vials of bull semen sold for $225.
4. A Trump Train flag sold at auction for $460.
5. Nebraska paid $1.6m for a bull. High priced semen!
An excellent Twitter thread on COVID-19 prevalence.
Here is an exercise in observational statistics. Or, anecdote times twenty might be within shouting distance of data.
Last November, we moved into a new development, Cartwright Ranch, just North of Boise, ID. By definition, since it is new, everyone came from somewhere else.
A particularly social couple set up a meet-and-greet block party last weekend. Pretty good turnout; of the eighty-ish houses in this upper-middle class neighborhood, at least sixty families showed up.
I did the grip ‘n grin with more than half. Five families had moved from the local area. *Everyone* else had moved from Oregon or California. (We moved from Germany, btw.) A few days ago, we met our new across the street neighbors — Bay Area evacuees.
My statistical observation, based upon this perhaps representative microcosm, is that the blue states’ tax base is getting the hell out as fast as they can.
Living in this seaside town I see that the tide ebbs and floods, twice a day, every day, without fail. Leaving is best on the ebb, returning is so on the flood. The sun and the waves make wonderous images. Everyone walking along the shore is in a good mood, either keeps to themselves or offers a cheery hello, occasionally stop to chat. Seagulls wrestle with quahogs to no avail. Men fish for stripers on the tide change. The local merchants are dismayed and stressed by the loss of business, but maintain a cheerful and welcoming attitude.
This has been the best summer in a long time.
"As the gifts that have been given to you grow ---- gifts of joy, love, friendship, or simply God's help in being brave in the face of suffering ----- let your humility grow, for the gifts have only been given to you on loan".
(Padre Pio wrote that , except for the explanation between the dashes. That was me.)
Tuesday morning before 9 a.m., the Biden campaign announced it was putting a lid on the day. For those unfamiliar with this lingo it means that Biden will have no events or appearances for the rest of the day.
This is a Tuesday, just 42 days away from an election that by all accounts seems to be tightening, especially in key battleground states. To basically take the day off in the midst of a heated campaign is strange, even more so because he has done this several times in the past few weeks.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/22/after-taking-another-day-off-the-campaign-trail-its-time-to-ask-if-joe-biden-is-ok/
I see that the executive order banning critical race theory training extends to federal contractors.
My, my. Does that include all those universities? Tsk, tsk.
My wife saw the story about Biden cancelling events and is now convinced he is quitting. The Pledge might have been it. The debate is two weeks.
R/V, Anything in that sequence actually, you know, unconstitutional or illegal?
This from Lionel Shriver in the Spectator, referring to Boris Johnson's ineffectual and damaging orders regarding Covid-19:
The easiest way to cover up a mistake is to keep making it.
If lockdowns didn't work, let's keep doing them!
"To basically take the day off in the midst of a heated campaign is strange, even more so because he has done this several times in the past few weeks."
OK: will Joe break down in one of the debates? He seems to be getting worse by the day. He blew the Pledge of Allegiance recently. I can say it in my sleep.
Just over one month after Goodyear Tire sided with BLM against police and MAGA, GT stock is down 18.6% and has a 55% probability of bankruptcy.
https://www.macroaxis.com/invest/ratio/GT--Probability-Of-Bankruptcy#:~:text=Based%20on%20the%20latest%20financial,than%20that%20of%20the%20firm.
GT close 8/19: $9.50 / close 9/22: $7.73
Hey Skipper said...I did the grip ‘n grin with more than half.
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VECTOR!!!!
Enjoy a China perfidy roundup.
Hey Skipper,
Were they merely liberals changing their location, or were they changing their politics also?
who flung Pooh?
I still miss the old days of unmoderated comments. In the midst of the dregs of partisan fights, there were many charming comments playing off of other comments that has been lost.
What 100 Acre Wood character matches with the current crop of celebrities?
I thought Chris was Pooh-Poohing him, not beknighting him.
To basically take the day off in the midst of a heated campaign is strange, even more so because he has done this several times in the past few weeks.
It's the Wally strategy.
"My statistical observation, based upon this perhaps representative microcosm, is that the blue states’ tax base is getting the hell out as fast as they can."
You best be hoping they left their blue state voting habits behind.
@hey skipper— same thing happening here in Texas. Problem is they vote democrat. Don’t California my Texas.
David Begley said:
5. Nebraska paid $1.6m for a bull. High priced semen!
While in the USAFR, we spent a weekend in Lincoln providing aerial refueling support for the Air National Guard unit based there. Our first night we were treated to a nice meal of corn-fed beef raised and prepared by several of the Guard members who were farmers and restaurant owners in their full-time jobs. THE best and most tender beef I have ever had!
BTW, I was born in Lincoln (in the old St. Elizabeth Hospital) and although we moved away when I was four, I still consider myself a Husker at heart.
has Pierre Delecto decided to play nice
...now that Biden's burisma is flaring up, and it may be contagious?
could this be the reason/opportunity to yank Quid Pro Joe?
he has served his purpose as a placeholder,
and *She* is coiled and ready to strike.
At first I thought Christopher Robin was humiliating Pooh
--ONLY you, Althouse. In your own way you're as autistic as rhhardin. I guess it's adorable as long as you...remain useful.
but I think he's knighting him.
--That creepy ass-cracker? Unpossible!
I loved that silly old bear. Even the stories are something I would want my own child growing up with. I'm quite grateful that I have the opportunity to find these books and pass them along, before darker times arrive.
Congratulations. This blog is now blocked in the PRC!
"If you get away from TV news and the internet, you will find that there is a real world full of kind people (who find a child's book, and set it up on a rock where it is visible and dry in the hope that the owner will return and find the book)."
We saw this everywhere in Japan. Kids' shoes, gloves, hats, etc. put on a post or a wall where people would be likely to see them.
Before we went to live in Tokyo my boss (American of Japanese descent with family there) said, 'If you drop your wallet on a street corner in Tokyo there's a good chance it will still be there the next day with everything in it." Close to the truth.
At least half of the people there don't lock their bikes at the subway station when they go to work. Ten years ago nobody locked anything. When I would go to the local Starbucks to study for my Japanese lesson, people would put down their phones, purses, wallets, keys, laptops, etc. to save their seat. Then go down two or three flights to order their coffee or go outside for a smoke. It was really weird at first...
And I can't even wear my damn watch in some of the big American cities anymore. It's no wonder I'd like to go back there to live again.
@AA...as for the book, nobody will steal it because it might be infected...I can't tell you how many pennies I've passed up (even with 'heads' showing) since the lockdown. I'm out literally tens of cents : )
"My report from the Sandhills Cattle Ass’n..."
Don't keep us in suspense...Ass'n what else?
Scanner dan died
While visiting another state we found a stuffed cat in a Costco parking lot. My four year old was immediately distressed and we made inquiries at customer service and left our phone number, but it was never claimed. She says she is going to take care of it and find its family someday.
For those unfamiliar with this lingo a lid was always short of an ounce. It’s why you came out of your basement.
Blogger roesch/voltaire said...
So Trump claims if he loses the election he will take it to the Supreme Court, which he wants to stack with conservatives, to make the decision in his favor, he assumes, This bald admission of his planned power play is breathtaking, I even think verging on evil.
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IMO Trump thinks conservative jurists are less political. And therefore more apt to rule based on the constitution.
If Trump thinks he lost the election fairly he won't contest it. If he thinks the Dems stole votes then he will contest it. Being as the Dems approve of burning cities vote stealing is easy for them.
The evil you worry about comes from your own heart here. It's a difficult obstacle to overcome once you decide to dig that hole.
Blogger roesch/voltaire said...So Trump claims if he loses the election he will take it to the Supreme Court, which he wants to stack with conservatives, to make the decision in his favor, he assumes, This bald admission of his planned power play is breathtaking, I even think verging on evil.
The weird and dark fantasies spun by Trump haters....every time I hear someone talk about Trump not leaving if he loses, I wonder about the mechanics of how that will happen and I picture Jimmy Cagney leaning out a 2nd story window holding a Tommy gun and shouting “come and get me, coppers!” Seriously, how are you imagining him continuing to be president if he loses?
And this, Trump appoints highly respected jurists, but you think they’ll throw it all to the wind for him because he appointed them?!
Idiots, all of you.
Blogger Quayle said...
"R/V, Anything in that sequence actually, you know, unconstitutional or illegal?"
Forget it. R/V is a fabulist. He tries to scare other people because he enjoys being scared himself. Unless you have a public sector job you have nothing to fear from Trump. He's actually trying to make this country a better place for everyone to live in. R/V and his friends are trying to turn it into a hellhole.
Today could be interesting. Maybe delayed because of Ginsburg. We'll know soon enough.
Canada is not sending us their best:
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The Canadian woman charged for sending ricin to President Trump & law enforcement agencies in Texas was previously deported. Pascale Ferrier tried to cross back into the US on Sunday & was found carrying a gun. She recently tweeted about killing Trump. https://archive.vn/R4tc6
What could go wrong?:
Andy Ngô
@MrAndyNgo
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The Proud Boys announced they are doing a rally in a park in Portland on Saturday. In turn, all the regional antifa groups are promising to violently oppose them. Last month, an antifa shooter killed a conservative activist in downtown. #PortlandRiots https://portlandoregon.gov/police/news/re
Da Fauch and Bumbling Bob Redfield go to the Senate today...
"If lockdowns didn't work, let's keep doing them!”
I can’t tell if they do it out of lust for power, or if they never thought that when they became governor they were going to have to make any decisions more consequential than who gets the graft. Plus the fact that Trump opposes them ties their hands.
...we found a stuffed cat in a Costco parking lot.
Engorged on free samples, no doubt.
“Hey Skipper,
Were they merely liberals changing their location, or were they changing their politics also?”
All those I vectored with loathed CA/OR politics, which they knew to be at the root of those states precipitous declines.
Thank goodness.
“ Blogger roesch/voltaire said...So Trump claims if he loses the election he will take it to the Supreme Court, which he wants to stack with conservatives, to make the decision in his favor, he assumes, This bald admission of his planned power play is breathtaking, I even think verging on evil.”
The Dems are planning on cheating. There is no real reason for mai-in voting this time, except to cheat. Absentee voting is typically fine, because it comes with checks and an audit trail. But what the Dems are pushing so hard is what they have in CA - sending out millions of ballots, and counting whatever comes back in, plus ballot harvesting. Industrial grade cheating. They brag about Crooked Hillary won the popular vote in 2016, but want to avoid the discussion about how she did it - it was almost completely due to the vote in CA, where they intentionally registered hundreds of thousands of illegals to vote, and didn’t check very carefully whether ballots were legitimate. And then in 2018, they legalized ballot harvesting. All in the name of preventing voter suppression. Which in libspeak means allowing millions of excess ballots be counted in order to prevent a handful of legitimate ballots from being counted.
We have had cheating at the ballot box for a long time. Political machines, esp in big Dem cities, have been notorious for it for many decades. We know how to prevent it. Indeed, we showed third world countries how to prevent cheating. Which the Dems call voter suppression, but of course, is no such thing. They just want to be able to cheat. And a little cheating around the edges is no longer enough to counter the reality that the Blue Tide has crested, and is now receding. The violent rioting and arson by their militant wing, AntiFA and BLM thugs, isn’t helping at all. So this year, they are forcing mail-in voting across the country, which is logically nonsensical. The obvious primary purpose is to up their cheating to industrial levels. And secondly, to keep the country in turmoil as long as they can, not knowing the outcome, as they manufacture the votes that they need. To make this all work, they have recruited an army of thousands of attorneys, with funding coming from the usual sources (e.g. Soros) poised to spring into action the day after the election. Soros and company have also bought a number of election officials too.
Everyone knows all this, including the leftists here who are whining about voter suppression. Trump has known about it longer than most. They demand that he accept the results, no matter how much cheating is evident. He was saying in 2016, as he is saying this year, that the Dems aren’t going to box him in that easily. If they cheat (and they no doubt will - we know it because of their history, and all their plans to cheat), he will not roll over and unilaterally disarm. You can see the game here, when Crooked Hillary is advising Sundown Joe not to concede, regardless of the tallies election night. To keep the faith up through the voting in the electoral college. They won’t concede, and expect to go even more violent, if they can’t win any other way. Yet, they expect Trump to commit to conceding, if it looks like they are going to be able to cheat themselves to victory. That might work on a Bush. They are gentlemen. They routinely got rolled by the Democrats. Doesn’t work for Trump. He is a fighter.
My suggestion would be to stock up on guns and ammo, except that it is months too late for that. Even stocking up on food is getting problematic. Things are likely to get bad, and much of it is a result of the corruption of the political class. They just make way too much money taking their own slice of our multi trillion dollar budgets. When billions are at stake, no one should be surprised when millions are spent trying to buy elections. And when many of those trying to increase their already huge fortunes really want to get rid of our current system, no one should be surprised when seemingly nothing is off the table this election.
It occurs to me that Trump should nominate a 10th and 11th Justice, just so all the Democrats can go on record as opposing Court-Packing. Then he can withdraw the nominations.
I'm not sure how this would affect the Presidential election though.
“My wife saw the story about Biden cancelling events and is now convinced he is quitting. The Pledge might have been it. The debate is two weeks.”
There is a definite problem for the Biden/Harris campaign if they are putting a lid on his campaign at 9 am in the morning. Meanwhile Trump is running around the country holding his rallies again, seemingly visiting at least one state a day, while getting two nominations for the Noble Peace Prize for separate treaties, on the side, with more to come, and now pushing through a Supreme Court nomination before the election. It was bad with Crooked Hillary in 2016. Worse this time, because most of her problems were probably more physical, than mental, though her wine consumption probably didn’t help her.
My guess is that the Dems running things screwed up, and didn’t realize how quickly Sundown Joe was sundowning. The stress of whatever limited campaigning he is doing isn’t probably helping. They probably should have swapped him out earlier. Maybe much earlier. His cognition problems were starting to become visible even as early as their debates. The problem that I expect that they faced was that if they swapped him out before the Dem convention, Crazy Bernie was the logical candidate, having the second highest number of pledged delegates. Sanders would have been a horrible choice in normal times, but with AntiFA and BLM commie scum rioting and burning down the cities the Dems controlled, it is an esp bad year to put him at the top of their ticket. With the allegiance of Bernie’s supporters at stake, the only time that they could realistically do their swap was after Biden was formally nominated, and had a VP nominee who could be swapped in. Except that the VP nominee is Harris, about as loathsome as Crooked Hillary. I had suggested earlier that they needed to do their swap before Labor Day. I think that the Dems making the decisions dithered, and probably fought amongst each other, and that deadline slipped by. Ballots are starting to be printed, and the problem made worse, because the Dems have forced mail-in voting on much of the country (see my previous post). I think that they were thinking that they could limp and make it through Election Day. After all, as long as Biden stays in his basement, they can feed him answers on his teleprompter in real-time. Except that he is now routinely screwing that up too.
I expect that there is some desperation seeping in right now. They have to move quickly, because most of the voluntary isn’t as well controlled by the Dems as NJ was when they did they swapped in Torricelli. This late, they are going to have some problems making the swap, and the later they wait, the harder it is going to be. One day they think that if they can just drag Biden’s senile carcass across the finish line, they will be home free. The next day, he screws up. So they dither.
Finally, I think that maybe part of the problem is that the top of the Dem party, as well as Biden’s campaign, are effectively being run by a committee of competing interests right now. That was far from the case in 2016. Crooked Hillary, with the help of her husband and inner circle, were fairly decisive in their decision making. They very clearly don’t have a final decision maker. It should be the Presidential candidate, but Sundown Joe Biden isn’t capable of that anymore. His wife seems to be trying to keep things together, but doesn’t have the political bona fides to pull it off.
Last post, I suggested buying guns and ammo, if you can. Here, I will suggest adding popcorn and beer.
"If lockdowns didn't work, let's keep doing them!”
“I can’t tell if they do it out of lust for power, or if they never thought that when they became governor they were going to have to make any decisions more consequential than who gets the graft. Plus the fact that Trump opposes them ties their hands.”
Add to this, that the lockdown is tied to the claimed need for mail-in-balloting, which, as I pointed out above, the Dems need in order to cheat themselves to victory in November. If there are no lockdowns, requiring mail-in balloting makes no sense.
My pet peeve here is that we have a Dem Governor here in MT, the third least densely populated state in the country. He arbitrarily determined that if a county has four or more active cases, everyone had to have a mask (but being Montanans, a lot of people just carry them, if the sign out front doesn’t say that they have to be worn over the face). This is a small county, population wise (not geographically though), with a little over 10k residents. Four cases means a current detected infection rate of 0.04%. We bounce around from zero to a high of maybe seven. Friday, we were at 2 (masks off). Monday we jumped to 4, but the official word didn’t go out until late, so it wasn’t until yesterday (Tuesday) that the signs on all the businesses were put back up (masks on). More and more businesses are including in their signs that those with medical necessity are exempted, and HIPAA prevents anyone from asking. So, I have to find some masks to carry in the truck. No doubt the ones I threw away last time we went masks-off were disease infected, if not encrusted. Expect maybe a week of masks-on nonsense, before we can go masks-off again. One big reason to vote for The Republican this time for Governor.
Stuffed cat is a delicacy in some countries.
Bruce,
Doesn't that threshold have a duration? What I often see with these gates is a combination of unreasonable threshold across 14 days etc.
Though some cities or counties don't mention duration, even when queried directly about that.
"Need to know" basis, I'm sure.
Re: Elections...
I am a HUGE privacy-type guy. Maybe even a little paranoid.
But (and all sides agree on this) if voting is one of our most precious franchises, we need to have strong safeguards in place to prevent fraud.
Something as near as fool-proof as we can manage with today's technology.
I would go all-in on biometric, iris-scanning, fingerprints, etc. I don't care what it is.
If voter fraud were eliminated completely, I think we'd have a radically different congress for a start, and that would ripple across the entire country.
Even if Democrats ended up running everything (legitimately) then at least I would know for sure that I wasn't getting fucked.
"This bald admission of his planned power play is breathtaking, I even think verging on evil.”
In a similar vein, Biden claims that if *he* wins the right elections, as determined by our Constitution, *he* is going to take the presidency away from Trump, does that “verge on evil”?
This is why you empty wastebaskets at that college, and don’t teach. You can’t tell the difference between rhetoric and logic.
What really does verge on evil, and maybe even cross the line, is Hillery’s statement that Biden should contest the election no matter what if he loses. Of course when she used the FBI and CIA to try to derail Trump, she crossed that particular line a while ago.
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