Althouse: At the Overlode Café...

September 12, 2020

At the Overlode Café...

... you can write about anything.

48 comments:

wild chicken said...: I'm listening to the 9/11/16 blogging heads with Bob Wright and Ann. Going to listen to the 2017 ones next.

First time ever got into these things. I'm lonely and I need to hear smart people talking. Amazing how mundane most talk is irl.

Bluetooth is da bomb.

Any more coming up or is that over?; 9/12/20, 7:38 PM
Josephbleau said...: Overlode? When you are over the lode, stake a claim.; 9/12/20, 7:52 PM
Jon Ericson said...: Nutty; 9/12/20, 8:07 PM
rehajm said...: Sharyl Attkisson wants to know if either of the candidates has had medical therapy but she's not saying what she suspects. Rumor is Joe is on Namenda. Trump calls for pre-debate drug tests.

Also rumor- Biden pees a lot...; 9/12/20, 8:07 PM
Joe Smith said...: Lovely...looks like one of those 'Serenity' posters : ); 9/12/20, 8:09 PM
Fernandinande said...: "The unlawful hemp cultivation in Shiprock has brought an onslaught of foreigners working in hemp greenhouses. These people are of Asian descent who do not speak English, but converse among themselves in their language. Many of them appear in the public places more often than before. It appears the reason is that more and more of these people have come to live in Shiprock, making local citizens uneasy and leery.
...
Many of them are not friendly, but are of combative nature. Some Shiprock citizens have confronted them about their behavior and their disrespect to Navajo citizens, and often they become belligerent and combative. They have presented fear in which they have the potential to bring violence by producing guns and other weapons they have.

Some witnesses report these people not only carry guns, but also what appear to be grenades. They also have capability to detonate weapons of mass destruction or even deploy weapons of biological warfare. ..."; 9/12/20, 8:39 PM
D. said...: When do we get the plague of locust? Did I miss it?; 9/12/20, 8:44 PM
Drago said...: Democraticals and their LLR-lefty allies in CA have just enacted a law that allows 24 year olds to have sex with 14 year olds.

This is on top of the democraticals and their LLR-lefty allies supporting chold pornography.

Which is on top of democraticals and LLR-lefties supporting teaching elementary school kids bizarre sexual techniques.

According to LLR-lefty Chuck, everyone should vote dor democraticals.

I wonder why he feels so strongly about that?.....; 9/12/20, 8:50 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: Hillary / Harris fundraiser Monday--

...Is Felonia von Pantsuit warming up in the bullpen?

Will they use the "heart attack gun" or "Covid" as cover re SloJo
if/when his Ukraine shit hits the fan?

What will be the fallout if his dementia medication is leaked to press?; 9/12/20, 8:54 PM
ALP said...: Being a total klutz on a bike, with a mangled collarbone as proof - my eyes went immediately to the root in the path: how many people has that root tripped up???; 9/12/20, 8:55 PM
Narr said...: Serene green. Nice change.

Speaking of the Flight 93 memorial, my wife and I were there in fall of '18. It was very well done from a design standpoint, but the museum really paltered on the Islamic element.

The last time we were at the WTC was in '96; they were still repairing after the van bombing. I doubt I'll ever visit Manhattan again, now.

Narr
Sad!; 9/12/20, 9:11 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: " there is perhaps no man alive with a more decorated resume for plots against President Trump."

Meet Norm Eisen: Legal Hatchet Man and Central Operative in the “Color Revolution” Against President Trump; 9/12/20, 9:32 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: Blogger D. said...
When do we get the plague of locust? Did I miss it?

Understandably, you pine for a plague of locusts
...rather than the current plague of Wokeists

Those kwazy Wibwals!!; 9/12/20, 10:03 PM
MikeD said...: OK, you're just trolling we unfortunates trapped in a fascist dystopian CA! Well, in the rare sense of accuracy as practiced today, the biggest, most out of control fires are in the National Forests. Since it takes decades of enviro mis-management by the Feds to get us here, it's Trumps fault with a side bar of AGW.; 9/12/20, 10:06 PM
KellyM said...: Love the pic. Looks like it would be a blast on a mountain bike.; 9/12/20, 10:23 PM
Kathryn51 said...: No sunrise photo today. Is Meadehouse finally getting out of Madison for a few days?; 9/12/20, 10:33 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: My "west coast fires being started by climate change is bullshit so let's compile all the local news reports and eyewitness testimony debunking that statement we can find" thread.
per Jordan Sather

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1304550225198149632.html; 9/12/20, 10:37 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: Ian Miles Cheong
@stillgray

"This might be the best thing I've ever read about President Trump."

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EhuphRhVgAckrpn?format=jpg&name=900x900; 9/12/20, 10:46 PM
TickTock said...: D. They are more widespread than I would have believed. Fed and states lack manpower and smarts.; 9/12/20, 10:56 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: If Antifa/BLM are not setting the fires why aren't they volunteering to help put out the fires?; 9/12/20, 11:15 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: was Floyd an informant?
is this real?
"(snitch)" ??

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ehwka4iX0AAw6y4?format=jpg&name=small

paragraph 2
https://mncourts.gov/mncourtsgov/media/High-Profile-Cases/27-CR-20-12953-JAK/NoticeofMotion08272020.pdf

case number
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EhwnNV_U4AAqdc5?format=jpg&name=large; 9/12/20, 11:18 PM
Ken B said...: Two sheriff deputies shot in LA. Video looks like the shooter is a kid. On the twitter feed , lots of cheering and mockery.

Cops should walk out in all blue cities with riots.

If you live in a blue city, move.; 9/12/20, 11:46 PM
I Have Misplaced My Pants said...: wild chicken - I am also lonely and need to hear smart people talking. If you don't already listen to Scott Adams, check out the podcast of his daily Periscope. I don't always agree with him but he is an original, clear thinker and a calm, articulate speaker.; 9/12/20, 11:52 PM
gadfly said...: @rehajm said...
Sharyl Attkisson wants to know if either of the candidates has had medical therapy...

Tom Arnold claims that evidence exists that Donald Trump abused Adderall on the set of "The Apprentice" and it made him crazy. He even snorted Adderall. ... "It's scary," [Arnold] wrote in a tweet, accusing ... that the president took the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder drug.

It seems that ADHD stimulants taken without a medical reason or in excess, flood the brain with dopamine, causing a dopamine overload which disrupts brain communication and causes euphoria. It might feel good at first, but repeated abuse can increase blood pressure, heart rate, and body temperature.

Just because alcohol isn't your bag doesn't mean that life has to be a drag.; 9/13/20, 12:16 AM
Yancey Ward said...: An important Twitter thread on false positives in current COVID-19 testing.; 9/13/20, 1:12 AM
Yancey Ward said...: An important Twitter thread on the relationship between testing and positives. This was actually the reason I started keeping my own spreadsheets- so that I could relate the ramp up in testing with the actual positive results. As I have pointed out several times in the last 2 months here, the outbreak in the Sunbelt from June-present time was very likely much smaller than the one in the northeast during March-May- the difference in testing scales creates the illusion that things were much worse for COVID spread than they really were.; 9/13/20, 1:20 AM
Yancey Ward said...: An important Twitter thread on the relationship of excess deaths to the recent past. In short, we have greatly undershot expected mortality two years running up to this March- the gap had reached a negative 325,000 deaths- at least a quarter million of those were surely living on borrowed time.; 9/13/20, 1:28 AM
Lawrence Person said...: Two heroes.; 9/13/20, 2:20 AM
rehajm said...: Sharyl Attkisson is an investigative journalist. Tom Arnold is a highly political confirmed drug addict and alcoholic.; 9/13/20, 5:43 AM
exhelodrvr1 said...: Good thread on forest management and fires

https://twitter.com/scottlincicome/status/1304773947070844936/photo/1; 9/13/20, 5:48 AM
stevew said...: From the overnight Boston Globe news email:

"As pandemic wears on, despair at epicenter of addiction crisis deepens"

"Why Massachusetts has the highest unemployment rate in the country"

"So many Boston restaurants have closed. It's just the tip of the iceberg"

I don't subscribe so I can't read the articles. The little bit shown under the headline indicates they know the lock down is the cause but blame the pandemic not the governor and other policy officials.

If only there was something they could do...; 9/13/20, 6:15 AM
Jersey Fled said...: Imagine if the Billions spent on the train to nowhere were spent on forest management ...; 9/13/20, 6:24 AM
iowan2 said...: What does desperation look like on the interwebs? Tom Arnold.; 9/13/20, 6:32 AM
Chuck said...: I’d actually try to find whatever cable station it is that carries Sharyl Attkisson’s show, if I thought she might get the real medical records from Trump’s mysterious emergency visit to Walter Reed, or the podiatrist that gave him the bone spur diagnosis in the sixties.; 9/13/20, 7:06 AM
buwaya said...: I suggest that the California forestry officials should set fires on this scale every summer. The accumulation of fuel seems to be so bad at this point that it may take a decade or more of deliberate "controlled" burns (colossal ones) to get to a "natural" condition for the California wild ecosystem.

It cannot be done without accepting risks and extensive losses to property, but that will have to be explicitly acknowledged and absorbed.

This whole business of wilderness management seems to have been a huge error going back a century. Its been done wrong for several generations.

It would also raze the psyches of the fatuous California population, raised on fantasies of "Bambi".; 9/13/20, 7:19 AM
Anthony said...: I’m in Arizona and went to sit outside at 5:15 when it was still dark. It’s a perfect morning, 75, a little breezy. Birds are just starting to stir. And I heard a pack of coyotes yelping, having come back from wherever they’ve been for the last few hot months.; 9/13/20, 7:50 AM
Drago said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 9/13/20, 7:57 AM
Drago said...: gadfly: "Tom Arnold claims ...."

OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG!

Tom Arnold?!!!!

You are using Tom Arnold as an investigative AUTHORITY?!

LOLxInfinity

Oh gadfly, you sad, sad, little person.

There will be no recovery from this one.

Tom. Arnold.

This one will live forever.

For. Ever.; 9/13/20, 7:57 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: “Imagine if the Billions spent on the train to nowhere were spent on forest management ..”

Powerful CA politicians, their families, and other insiders wouldn’t be nearly as rich?

I don’t think that their real purpose in starting to build this idiotic cash sink was in saving the environment, or anything nearly as noble, but was, rather, simple greed on their part. Sure, the wrong people would make money if active fire remediation were done. But the graft in building trains, esp like this one, is so much easier to accomplish.; 9/13/20, 7:58 AM
Kai Akker said...: The Mattis material was obviously the real story to come from the Woodward book. It's popping up in multiple places. Worrisome and bizarre, especially in light of all the problems that are likely to arise in the voting for this election.; 9/13/20, 7:59 AM
George Putnam said...: Ann, I enjoyed your post on 6/18 about shooting a gun for the first time. Also your post on 8/27 about Colorado women opting to carry guns when hiking. I linked to both posts in a post I published this morning titled "Shooting Stories". It starts out: "This summer I have noticed several stories online about first-time shooters." (Rhetorical question: Is that because of the pandemic lockdown? The race riots?) My post includes a story about Senator Patrick Leahy from Vermont, where I live.
https://bremlang.blogspot.com/2020/09/shooting-stories.html; 9/13/20, 8:01 AM
Drago said...: LLR-lefty Chuck: "I’d actually try to find whatever cable station it is that carries Sharyl Attkisson’s show, if I thought she might get the real medical records from Trump’s mysterious emergency visit to Walter Reed, or the podiatrist that gave him the bone spur diagnosis in the sixties."

Did you check to see if it was included in your hoax dossier and then baked into a pecan pie?

What a day already.

We have psycho russian collusion truther LLR-lefty Chuck of Pecan-Pie Gate fame as well as his mini-me, The Poor Man's LLR-lefty Chuck, gadfly, going ALL IN on Tom Arnold's "deep" insights!

On the day after photographic proof emerged of Biden using a teleprompter for his "interview" with James Cordon!!

But that comes as no surprise to Althousians who are already used to LLR-lefty Chuck writing words at Althouse that come pre-scripted from his leftist overlords.; 9/13/20, 8:05 AM
Drago said...: iowan2: "What does desperation look like on the interwebs? Tom Arnold."

gadfly now officially joins LLR-lefty Chuck as the 2 Althouse lefties whose minds are so shot they bought into Tom Arnold as their thought leader.

Not even Inga was insane enough to go there....but LLR-lefty Chuck and his mini-me gadfly were.

I cant say it surprised me. It fits nicely into the corpus of all their "work" at Althouse.

Very nicely indeed.; 9/13/20, 8:10 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: “I suggest that the California forestry officials should set fires on this scale every summer. The accumulation of fuel seems to be so bad at this point that it may take a decade or more of deliberate "controlled" burns (colossal ones) to get to a "natural" condition for the California wild ecosystem.”

Let me suggest late winter and spring instead, to the extent possible, and if not, then early summer. This time of year, it is just too dangerous. A month from now would probably be fine in many places, and in CO, earlier than that.

That all said, up to maybe the first of September, this was looking to be a very mild fire season. We have a ridge several miles away that we can usually see clearly. It disappears though when the smog from fires flows in. Last (2019) summer, we couldn’t see the ridge throughout August, and halfway through September. This year, we could see the ridge when we headed out from NW MT to Spokane Thursday. It had disappeared, for the first time this year, by the time we returned yesterday. We can still see the trees across the street fairly sharply, and can still see trees up to a mile away. So things can, and probably will, get worse today.

I think that a lot of us around here have developed informal metrics for determining air quality (from forest fire smoke). Friend of mine texted to tell me that he couldn’t see the cliffs on the other side of the bay at the bottom of (Lake) Pend O’rielle. I expect today that he will be telling me that he can see only maybe half the way across.

Why put up with this? Because it is beautiful most of the year, and very soothing. Most days, we have deer lounging in the front yard in the afternoons. In the past, it was usually a doe and a pair of fawns. This year, it has been a buck, though I did see a doe with two offspring bounding off into the forest across the street last week. The flock of turkeys comes through behind the house across the street a couple times a week. The squirrel population seems down this year, very possibly due to the pair of cats living a couple houses away (you can’t actually see that house, of course). They have moose a time or two a year in the large pond my partner’s ex built for her, on their ranch 5 miles down river from here. That friend in N ID also gets moose on occasion. We live in the midst of a thick forest of tall Ponderosa Pine, Spruce, and Fir. Forest as far as you can see in any direction, but 2,000 feet or so down in a valley. A large river runs down the middle of the valley. Summer, until fire season, it is idyllic. Luckily, while the smoke is bad, the fire danger is fairly low, comparatively. Low mostly because we live in a bend of the river, which mostly protects us to the south and west. Town to the East, and it’s fairly narrow down the north side of the river. Still, we have easy egress routes planned in three directions, JIC.; 9/13/20, 8:54 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: “ Ann, I enjoyed your post on 6/18 about shooting a gun for the first time. Also your post on 8/27 about Colorado women opting to carry guns when hiking. I linked to both posts in a post I published this morning titled "Shooting Stories".”

One of the weird things about living around here in rural NW MT is that guys tend to bond through guns. Twice this summer I have been talking to guys, and then all of a sudden, we are comparing pocket handguns. Then, truck guns. Etc. If you have a pickup truck, it probably has a gun living in it. Maybe not a minivan though (often filled with Mennonite women and their flock of very well behaved kids). Just the way it works.

But it isn’t just here. My partner and I have a little competition going on, where we compete to see who can open up someone who otherwise would be happy not to give us the time of day. Several years ago, our Tahoe broke down on I-40 a bit East of Gallup, NM. The tow truck driver was a crusty old guy, who mostly responded in grunts to our overtures of friendship. Then my partner mentioned guns. Some small interest. Seeing an opening, she jumped to gun control and Dem politicians imposing it (a problem in rural NM, like it is in much of the rural west). We were besties by the time we got into Gallup, where he told us who to trust, and who not to, etc.; 9/13/20, 9:15 AM
Jersey Fled said...: Why is Biden running the Social Security ad on the NFL pregame show that WAPO gave four Pinocchios to?; 9/13/20, 10:23 AM
I Have Misplaced My Pants said...: I went down a rathole of link-following and wound up reading Ann Barnhardt for a few minutes, including her about page. I'd forgotten all about her. She's interesting but clearly shithouse-rat nuts. She reminds me a bit of She Who Must Not Be Named.

But these days there is so much naked and blatant lies and false narratives and false consciousnesses, I don't even know anymore who is nuts and who is sane.; 9/13/20, 10:30 AM
Narr said...: @IHMMP--

I know I'm not nuts.

Narr
I know who the voices in my head are, and what they're up to; 9/13/20, 11:10 AM