Althouse: At the Rainbow Panorama Café...

September 30, 2020

At the Rainbow Panorama Café...

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55 comments:

roesch/voltaire said...: Nice photo Althouse you captured a lowered light. Perhaps anticipating the decline of our golden democracy under Trump?; 9/30/20, 7:33 PM
Chennaul said...: Woah, gorgeous. Reminds of Hudson School.; 9/30/20, 7:34 PM
Freeman Hunt said...: Beautiful! Reminds me of Thomas Cole.; 9/30/20, 7:35 PM
Joe Smith said...: They're after me Lucky Charms!; 9/30/20, 7:37 PM
hawkeyedjb said...: My French instructor expressed great surprise at the tone and style of the street brawl/throwdown/debate. Hey, it's America, it's 2020, I said. She asked, are these really the two best choices for your national leader? Hell no, I said, not even close. Well, she wanted to know, how did this happen?

Well, Donald Trump, on a lark, said "I think I'll run for president, have a little fun." After he got into it, he realized what a bunch of pushovers and numb-nuts he was running against. As the only fighter in the fight, he won. And everyone hated Hillary.

So, what about Biden? He seems decent.

Well, the Party realized that it was gonna be a commie up against Trump so they resuscitated Biden. Joe's been on the government tit all his adult life, he doesn't actually believe in anything. Empty suit, empty head. Easier to market than a commie.

She still thinks it's a mighty odd way to pick your leader. She's right, but Americans are a strange Bunch. Half of them want a commie and the other half want to be left alone. Tough to satisfy that crowd.; 9/30/20, 7:44 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: Fredric Edwin Church!; 9/30/20, 7:55 PM
hawkeyedjb said...: And that's a nice JMW Turner painting.; 9/30/20, 7:56 PM
Two-eyed Jack said...: Anyone else want to see a performance of the transcript, with the roles reversed, like they did in 2016 with Trump and Hillary? That is with Trump's part read by a woman and Biden's part read by a man?; 9/30/20, 8:08 PM
Jersey Fled said...: As is my habit, I watched exactly zero seconds of the debate last night. Still, I woke up this morning expecting the usual "our guy won" narrative from the lefty media (but I repeat myself) along with instant polls "proving" same.

But this morning, nothing. More of an "a pox on both houses" attitude, but unless I missed it, none of the triumphantism.

I take that as a sign.

Then I read that Verizon is doing everything they can to dump the Huffington Post because it is losing money faster than they can count it.

More good news.

Not a bad start to the day.; 9/30/20, 8:11 PM
Sprezzatura said...: I want to change my commenter name to “Inshallah”. I’ve had adSs for quite a while so it seems like it’s time to do something new.

But I wonder if that name would be some sorta cultural appropriation that will get me cancelled? Or will I be put on a murderer’s hit list because I committed a Sharia Law infraction?

I dunno, man.; 9/30/20, 8:12 PM
Calypso Facto said...: Magical!; 9/30/20, 8:20 PM
robother said...: Wonder what the odds are on Trump just saying, "Fuck y'all" in the next month? His lack of joy in the combat, the lightness, seemed utterly gone. That, more than any specific tactical error in his debating style or substance, is what concerns me.; 9/30/20, 8:27 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: Kamala's neck goiter is making her look a little like

...the Quaker Oats guy ?

Kamala Harris for the second time tonight refuses to directly answer a question about court-packing. She did not close the door on it, noting they can deal with it "later."

Video Kamala Up To Her Neck Stalling; 9/30/20, 8:35 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 9/30/20, 8:40 PM
wild chicken said...: "Tough to satisfy that crowd."

Once everyone's getting free health care and a check, it'll be easy.; 9/30/20, 8:58 PM
NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...: Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

Kamala's neck goiter...

Wait! Can you have a goiter somewhere other than your neck? I mean, can you get like an ass goiter or a dick goiter?

Wait! Dick Goiter; didn't he used to be on Match Game?; 9/30/20, 9:02 PM
narciso said...: Naw he understands the urgency of the situation; 9/30/20, 9:02 PM
narciso said...: Indeed

https://mobile.twitter.com/davereaboi/status/1311464892071923714; 9/30/20, 9:03 PM
narciso said...: He seems nice:

https://mobile.twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1311489771739504640; 9/30/20, 9:20 PM
wildswan said...: A Biden staffer is saying that orthodox Catholics, Jews and Moslems should be disqualified from serving on the Supreme Court because of their beliefs. But members of all these religions are in the habit of taking the founding documents of their religion seriously and reasoning from the principles found therein on current law. Isn't that a good habit of mind for a Justice of the US Supreme Court who has to reason from the Constitution? Or do liberals think we should be reasoning from some other document - Darwin perhaps? Karl Marx? Fortune cookies?

PS I see Edwin Church.; 9/30/20, 9:41 PM
FullMoon said...: In the midst of silicon valley, not a Biden or Trump sign to be seen. Obviously, a Trump sign invites hate and vandalism. Assumed lack of Biden signs due to lack of enthusiasm.

Now wondering if media hyping dangerous white supremacists has actually frightened left into foregoing display of ardor for Joe.; 9/30/20, 9:42 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: "You know" is all you need to know.

Althouse can't be trusted with transcripts though, too many things like blogging or podcasts going on.

Trump crushed my ideas.

And I'll forever know Althouse introduced to me the boot/neck Churchill/German ideas.; 9/30/20, 10:19 PM
Big Mike said...: Repeated from a different thread. On my way to bed the wife showed me pictures circulating on the Internet purporting to show Biden wearing wires. Apparently some Europeans spotted them. I hope the pictures are faked — I would hate to think Slow Joe cheated and still did do poorly in the debate.; 9/30/20, 10:23 PM
Jon Ericson said...: The Truth About Today’s Anarchists; 9/30/20, 10:24 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: It's not others living in the alternate reality, but me.

Now that I'm aware, oh God.

That's the only way.

A way most American.; 9/30/20, 10:25 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: So, ultimately I'll need to claim superior insight/knowledge.

Trump acted* such that Joe won the first one, after spinning for a year how bad Joe would lose.

Then Trump does act two.

Biden folds before the third.

*Credit Althouse; 9/30/20, 10:28 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: I'm no leader.

I follow Althouse more or less, which is why (I guess) she has to have the 'cruel' of "cruel neutrality."

But my reading of Trump last night was accurate and then spirit'sly awakening.

Feminine argument isn't Catholic law anywhere, and never will exist unless evil mongers of hate create it to destroy themselves subtle-wise.; 9/30/20, 10:36 PM
Political Junkie said...: Beautiful. Showed to Mrs.Political Junkie and she concurred.; 9/30/20, 10:40 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: THere are times when I consider "hey maybe Sean M is right, 'cause he's so funny."

Then there is me writing about hating the great, great Iowahawk.

Dib;

B K

Love love love

Most of us long termers have marks of warnings.; 9/30/20, 10:45 PM
Yancey Ward said...: "Anyone else want to see a performance of the transcript, with the roles reversed, like they did in 2016 with Trump and Hillary? That is with Trump's part read by a woman and Biden's part read by a man?"

A late entry, but the internet winner for the day! Well done, Jack!; 9/30/20, 11:00 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: Comey's brother

...now daughter, and son-in-law?; 9/30/20, 11:20 PM
eddie willers said...: And that's a nice JMW Turner painting.

I guess Althouse got tired of all the Henri Rousseau photos.; 9/30/20, 11:24 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: Interesting post by James Woods re: Debate; 9/30/20, 11:38 PM
bagoh20 said...: I don't get why Biden and Harris refuse to answer the court packing question. They can just lie instead. That's not really unexpected of them. They just say one thing now, and later say some other thing when they do it. Happens all the time. How's that $2500 health insurance premium reduction going. By now you should have a new boat.; 9/30/20, 11:43 PM
bagoh20 said...: If there was a football game, and one team was running back a kickoff, and headed for a touch down, and the referee tackled the runner just in time to stop that goal, that would be called a presidential debate with Candy Crowley, Mike Wallace, or any other "journalist", none of whom have probably ever voted for the Republican. That's a compliment to Republicans, but it's an un-American act.; 10/1/20, 12:04 AM
buwaya said...: "I want to change my commenter name to “Inshallah”. I’ve had adSs for quite a while so it seems like it’s time to do something new.

But I wonder if that name would be some sorta cultural appropriation that will get me cancelled? "

As I am a certified Sayyid, a descendant of the prophet (an assertion made in the course of a French lawsuit of 1806, petitioned, and granted, to Napoléon Ier, Emperor of the French). I hereby give you leave to name yourself "Inshallah".; 10/1/20, 12:04 AM
traditionalguy said...: Yes. Hudson River School in all its glory. iPhones are replacing oil paint.; 10/1/20, 12:14 AM
Narayanan said...: warm up act for future debates swearing parrots; 10/1/20, 12:53 AM
StephenFearby said...: In other news of the day...

Nature Sept 30, 2020

The major genetic risk factor for severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neanderthals

"...Among the individuals in the 1000 Genomes Project, the Neanderthalderived haplotypes are almost completely absent in Africa, consistent with that gene flow from Neanderthals into African populations was limited and probably indirect. The Neanderthal core haplotype occurs in South Asia at a frequency of 30%, in Europa at 8%, among admixed Americans at 4% and at lower frequencies in East Asia (Fig. 3).

The highest frequency occurs in Bangladesh, where more than half the population (63%) carries at least one copy of the Neanderthal risk haplotype and 13% is homozygous for the haplotype. The Neanderthal haplotype may thus be a substantial contributor to COVID-19 risk in certain populations besides other risk factors, most notably advanced age.

In apparent agreement with this, individuals of Bangladeshi origin in the UK have about two times higher risk to die from COVID-19 than the general population (hazard ratio 95% CI: 1.7-2.4)24..."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2818

(With a link to download pdf of full open-access article.)

'"Neanderthal Man" is a song by Hotlegs, an English pop band that was later relaunched as 10cc. The song, initially created only as a studio exercise to test drum sounds on new recording equipment, sold over two million copies and reached No. 2 in the UK and No. 22 in the US. It reached No.1 in Italy and Germany and was also a Top 20 hit in Australia, Canada, France, Ireland and Japan.'

Lyrics
I'm a neanderthal man
You're a neanderthal girl
Let's make neanderthal love
In this neanderthal world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdp2ocXwhR4; 10/1/20, 1:34 AM
StephenFearby said...: Interesting...

Scientific American
September 30, 2020

Flu Season Never Came to the Southern Hemisphere

Mask wearing and social distancing for COVID-19 may have cut influenza cases south of the equator

'...In the Southern Hemisphere, flu season would have been just taking off, but cases were virtually nonexistent. “Never in my 40-year career have we ever seen rates ... so low,” says Greg Poland, an influenza expert at the Mayo Clinic. Although researchers need to study the reasons further, several told Scientific American that coronavirus prevention measures—handwashing, mask-wearing, and social distancing—are working against flu transmission. If those measures continue, Poland says, countries could see the most dramatic drop in influenza cases in modern human history...'

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/flu-season-never-came-to-the-southern-hemisphere/; 10/1/20, 2:25 AM
JMW Turner said...: Golly, this image is Complex, Visually Gorgeous, Emotional...your photographs
are a Constant Surprise.; 10/1/20, 2:57 AM
gadfly said...: Suddenly there were sources willing to talk about the secrets of the Trump administration:

Brad Parscale is under investigation for stealing between $25-$40 million from Trump's 2020 presidential campaign, well-placed sources told DailyMail.com.

The 44-year-old is also being investigated for pocketing another $10 million from the Republican National Committee, the insiders added.

Parscale's public meltdown happened while he is reportedly under investigation for stealing from the Trump campaign and the RNC. According to the source close to the campaign, the Trump family is worried that Parscale could turn on them and cooperate with law enforcement about possible campaign finance violations. “The family is worried Brad will start talking,” the source said.

So now we now can trace where some portion of the missing donations from Trump's 2017 inauguration ended up. Could the balance have found its way to failson Eric who is friendly toward Parscale?; 10/1/20, 3:43 AM
PhysicistDave said...: Ann,

This New York Times story should be read by everyone: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/opinion/anarchists-protests-black-lives-matter.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

The bottom line of the story: what we have been seeing on the streets during the last four months is not a conflict between the races. It is a conflict planned, stoked, and manipulated by some elite whites who expect to benefit from it.

And if anyone thinks this is from the fever swamps of the alt-Right, no: this is from a Harvard-graduate/Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist at the New York Times whose main source is an anarchist who spent several months embedded among the black-bloc activists.

I'm skeptical of the "mainstream media," but if this is fake... well, then we really cannot believe anything..

Apologies if Ann or another commenter has already mentioned this, but it seems to me to be pretty major.

Dave Miller in Sacramento; 10/1/20, 4:28 AM
gilbar said...: from today's WSJ
Countries that apparently suppressed Covid with strong measures to keep people apart now are experiencing outbreaks once people no longer find it tolerable or acceptable to be kept apart

how does THAT fit into some people's mask fetish?
also from that article
There’s a reason nobody you know died of flu but you know several who died of Covid. Most who die of either have multiple serious health conditions but on few death certificates does it say flu. It may say cancer or heart disease, or organ failure, or nonspecific acute respiratory distress. Whereas even some people who died of gunshot wounds, drug overdoses and motorcycle accidents have been categorized as Covid victims in the U.S.; 10/1/20, 5:19 AM
MadTownGuy said...: There is no getting 'back to normal,' experts say. The sooner we accept that, the better (CNN)

WHAT. A. CROCK.; 10/1/20, 6:20 AM
Jaq said...: "Perhaps anticipating the decline of our golden democracy under Trump?”

R/V has already surrendered.; 10/1/20, 6:27 AM
Ann Althouse said...: "Nice photo Althouse you captured a lowered light."

I always turn the light down using the photo software. The settings in the iPhone that I use are clearly designed to help users get good photos of people in low light situations and not to control the kind of light you get outdoors looking at the sky. I correct every sunrise photo by turning down the light.; 10/1/20, 6:30 AM
Jaq said...: Textbook fascism.

http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/index.php/2020/10/01/social-disease-56; 10/1/20, 6:39 AM
Birkel said...: The NYT article is an admission against self-interest.
The author cannot help but cheer her Leftist Collectivist goon squad.; 10/1/20, 6:41 AM
Jersey Fled said...: Mask wearing and social distancing for COVID-19 may have cut influenza cases south of the equator

Yep. I'm sure all of those sub-saharan Africans were doing just that.; 10/1/20, 6:44 AM
AllenS said...: "Neanderthal Man"

That be me. According to 23andMe, I have more Neanderthal haplotypes than 90% of the other people who were tested with 23andMe. And, I feel fine. I'm one of those no mask people, also.; 10/1/20, 7:12 AM
MadTownGuy said...: hawkeyedjb said...
"My French instructor expressed great surprise at the tone and style of the street brawl/throwdown/debate. Hey, it's America, it's 2020, I said. She asked, are these really the two best choices for your national leader? Hell no, I said, not even close. Well, she wanted to know, how did this happen?

Well, Donald Trump, on a lark, said "I think I'll run for president, have a little fun." After he got into it, he realized what a bunch of pushovers and numb-nuts he was running against. As the only fighter in the fight, he won. And everyone hated Hillary."

I've said this before many times, but please forbear: DJT was encouraged by Bill Clinton to run in 2016. When he entered the race there was a crowd of (R) contenders, but Trump got a lot of subtlely positive coverage from the news outlets - his run was 'unconventional ' 'unprecedented,' 'historic.' I suspect, but can't prove, that there was a lot of crossover voting in primaries which pushed Trump to the top of the list in a hurry while other candidates dropped out of the race. The RNC leadership didn't want him. Heck, I didn't want him and voted for someone else in the primary. Then, once he had a lock on the nomination, out came the oppo research they had been saving up. I submit that this was the real collusion that happened in 2016 - bringing on Trump as a straw candidate to ensure a Hillary win. They expected Todd Akin. Instead they got Archie Bunker, and just as Norman Lear couldn't get why Archie was so popular, Hillary couldn't figure why she wasn't 50 points ahead in the polls.

"So, what about Biden? He seems decent.

Well, the Party realized that it was gonna be a commie up against Trump so they resuscitated Biden. Joe's been on the government tit all his adult life, he doesn't actually believe in anything. Empty suit, empty head. Easier to market than a commie."

Biden isn't the real candidate. Harris is. This is the bait-and-switch election, or as I like to call it, the 'Biden-switch' election. If Kamala were the presidential candidate, she might not be easily classified as a communist/socialist, but I don't doubt that she would how to the hard left party line if elected.; 10/1/20, 7:44 AM
Kay said...: Every single app on my phone is presenting me with an obtrusive banner asking me if I’m registered to vote. For the election where voting matters the absolute least . I just think it’s interesting.; 10/1/20, 9:22 AM
Big Mike said...: If Kamala were the presidential candidate, she might not be easily classified as a communist/socialist, but I don't doubt that she would how to the hard left party line if elected.

If Kamala Harris was the candidate Donald Trump would get at least 40% of the black vote.; 10/1/20, 1:34 PM
ken in tx said...: Beautiful photo, and yes it reminds of the Hudson River School of painting. You can see that same light at dawn, on the live oaks in Austin, TX.; 10/1/20, 8:32 PM