Althouse: At the Morning Glory Café...

August 20, 2021

At the Morning Glory Café...

... please feel free to discuss the topics that don't fit any of today's posts.

42 comments:

Lars Porsena said...: What a gorgeous photo!!; 8/20/21, 4:32 PM
rehajm said...: I've spent a substantial amount of time here today because of unproductive things/people I've had to wait on today. I'm tracking down a payment from last month to an insurance company that sent an email stating they had not received payment. I have my bank confirm but my phone/emails to them have not yet convinced them they have been paid. My air conditioner that's been out since Sunday is still not working. For three days I've been babysitting the greenhorn 'technician' sent to my home to repair. I had to teach him how to read error codes on the unit's touch panel. I'm tracking down two FedEx packages I should have received by now- one sent 4 days ago via 2 day by a supplier who says it's 'in transit'. Not sure I convinced them what 2 day is supposed to mean. FedEx says there's a 'delay'. I guess FedEx doesn't know what 2 day means either. Second package began its journey in May. I could have walked to Memphis to pick it up and back by now, but still no sign of that shipment...

Our government isn't the only thing failing...; 8/20/21, 4:41 PM
Chuck said...: The Tweet of the Week is from David Frum, who has become a modern Twitter master.

David Frum
@davidfrum
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Aug 15
As pro-Trump voices pivot from hailing Trump for abandoning Afghanistan to slamming Biden for abandoning Afghanistan, I remember a line from a novel about Germany in the 1930s. "Our opponents have one tremendous advantage over us: their absolute shamelessness."; 8/20/21, 5:25 PM
madAsHell said...: I was grocery shopping, and saw a milk carton with Joe's image. Have you seen me??; 8/20/21, 5:35 PM
Wa St Blogger said...: Does anyone else make the connection that when Althouse posts her cafe that she has called a lid? But of course she still handles comments from the press corps. Far more lucid than that other guy, and more able to process information without handler (as far as we know); 8/20/21, 5:50 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: To add to rehajm package problems, I've bough a number of items from Home Depot. Two of the items were shipped via Ontrak. Both lost. One (a DeWalt cordless circular saw) arrived at the Seattle depot, but never left. Probably developed a bad case of 5-finger discount. The second item was a pair of chainsaw chaps. The said it was delivered, but not to me. They never found it. Packages delivered by Fedex have arrived with no problems. I always try to make the delivery point the local Home Depot store; there's never been a delivery problem there.; 8/20/21, 5:56 PM
madAsHell said...: When did Biden start bringing a masked posse to the dais with him??; 8/20/21, 6:01 PM
Big Mike said...: I see the FBI has finally admitted that there’s “scant evidence” of a widespread conspiracy (as in no evidence whatsoever). That won’t stop the Pelosi witch hunt, of course. I guess I can understand the sheer terror of Democrat Congresscritters and their RINO counterparts finding themselves at risk of meeting justifiably angry voters face to face and without their usual phalanx of armed security guards to hide behind.; 8/20/21, 6:10 PM
rcocean said...: Ashli Babbitt's killer has been let off. Despite the fact it was an obvious execution and deliberate murder by a Capital Hill Policeman. And you hear ZERO from the Republicans in congress. They approve of murder. Because Ashli Babbitt was - in their eyes - a Peasant. She entered THEIR building without THEIR permission. And she deserved to be executed.

But then, Pelosi, McConnell, biden, McCarthy, and Pelosi, didn't care about the 2,500 Americans who died needlessly in Afghanistan. Just a bunch of peasants. Unlike the great, wonderful Afghans that Miss lindsey, Sasse, and Mitt Romney are crying tears over.

One's heart breaks for Ashli babbitts family. Murdered. A AF vet. Who just thought she could could do what a 1,000 BLM/Antifa protesters did without any punishement. But she didn't realize she was a Peasant, and the Captial Building is owned by the Lords and Ladies who RUN America.

This is supposed to be a Republic/democracy. Government of the people for the people, by the people. But if "the people" want to act like sheep, they'll be treated as such.; 8/20/21, 6:12 PM
Lucien said...: The juxtaposition of “circular saw” and “five finger discount” makes me want to come up with a pithy response — but I can’t put my finger on it.; 8/20/21, 6:15 PM
Francisco D said...: Ashley Babbitt's executioner will face no criminal charges nor professional discipline.

Let's imagine if the races were reversed and Ashley were Black and Officer Byrd were White.; 8/20/21, 6:50 PM
gilbar said...: Biden: "I thought the question was..." and then proceeds to reframe the question, possibly because it was what he was told to expect, and then answer the question he wanted to answer.

it's a Sad Day, when the media tried to sneak in unapproved questions; 8/20/21, 6:56 PM
Drago said...: In other interesting news, my continued search for the use of the phrase "Trump / Biden" plan amongst media across the globe continues to yield ZERO occurrences.

However, there does seem to be some critical mass forming around the idea of a "Xi/Putin/Biden Cowardly Retreat" plan, which certainly does, at the most fundamental level, seem quite appropriate given the circumstances.

And yes, I do realize that even the slightest whiff of criticism leveled at the Installed *"President" Biden causes some LLR's at Althouse blog to collapse to the floor and begin writhing in extreme agony. But its my understanding that therapy is available for those rather pathetic individuals who find themselves afflicted with such involuntary response mechanisms.

Thoughts and prayers for that sad lot.; 8/20/21, 7:13 PM
Titus said...: Has anyone noticed the taliban cleaned up their look? Gone are the days of unkept mountain men. Now they have a more professional dare I say urbane look. The outfits are better fitting. They look like they shower now. Hair and beards are well coifed. Some are hot. I would love a peak under their pajamas.

Tits; 8/20/21, 7:22 PM
Drago said...: It seems like only yesterday that the reprehensible David Frum, who was always on the far left like most fakecon LLR's and only aligned with the republican party so long as that party aligned itself with the forever wars that supplied/supplies the Washington DC money trough at which the grifters feed lustily, was pushing the russian collusion hoax, the Alpha Bank hoax, the russian bounties hoax, the Charlottesville Hoax, the "drink bleach" hoax, etc.

It is only natural that once a more populist anti-forever war streak hit the republican party that David Frum would migrate easily back to his natural home amongst the democraticals.

Anyone who is pushing David Frum as some sort of paragon of reason or clear thinking is clearly themselves, irrefutably, part of the far left democratical machine.; 8/20/21, 7:32 PM
Bill Crawford said...: Has Julian Lennon lived longer than John?; 8/20/21, 8:04 PM
Wa St Blogger said...: A strawman argument is still a strawman argument even if it comes from a columnist. The issue isn’t leaving, it is how it was done.; 8/20/21, 8:38 PM
Roger This said...: Stay classy Tits. always a credit to your people.; 8/20/21, 8:39 PM
gilbar said...: Julian lennon born 8 April 1963 (58 years old)
John lennon 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980 (40 yeads old, and 41 years dead); 8/20/21, 8:41 PM
Roger This said...: Stay classy Tits. always a credit to your people.; 8/20/21, 8:42 PM
Howard said...: Frum is Scum; 8/20/21, 8:51 PM
Drago said...: At today's Weekend at Bernies "press conference":

After a reporter asked Biden a question, Biden looked at his notes and said, “I thought the question was…”

Read the foreign press because they aren't pulling any punches when it comes to the complete collapse and failure of Slow Gropey Joe Biden.; 8/20/21, 9:07 PM
Drago said...: Top "headline" at LLR Chuck's beloved CNN right now: PODCAST: "Orlando residents asked to limit water usage"

Top. Men. And. Top. Women. And. Top. Xenmyn.

Hard to imagine a more relevant upper left headline at this moment in time.

What's next? "Topeka Homeowner Installs New Gutters"?; 8/20/21, 9:11 PM
Wa St Blogger said...: I would like to say another thing. Seriously, Chuck, we get it. Trump is the most corrupt, most incompetent, evilest person to ever be president. So bad, that Hitler would have been an improvement. But you know what? Biden is president now and he is the one who approved the plan. We can speculate all day about what Trump planned or what he would have done. And we have heard your opinion, and heard it, and heard it. The 300th repeat will really convince us. I am sure of it!; 8/20/21, 9:15 PM
Lucien said...: There I was, sick and tired of people posting bad things about Chuck, when Titus showed up. So it’s worth it after all.; 8/20/21, 9:26 PM
MadTownGuy said...: Seen on a community page near where I grew up (CA is obvious from the context). Dumped ballots; 8/20/21, 9:27 PM
William said...: I'm muddled about what precautions to take during the plague. I've gotten vaccinated, and will keep on getting vaccinated. That seems reasonable. I put on a face mask while in the grocery store. That doesn't seem particularly effective, but, shrug, why not. I no longer wash my hands for twenty seconds every time I come home and I never wiped down things I bought with Lysol.....I don't mind having been given wrong advice at different points along the way. It's a learning experience for everyone and especially for the experts. I just wish everyone and especially the experts would get off their high horse when pontificating.; 8/20/21, 9:46 PM
Iman said...: The juxtaposition of “circular saw” and “five finger discount” makes me want to come up with a pithy response — but I can’t put my finger on it.

Would a Venn diagram be appropriate? Circular saw, Sharia law, five finger discount, Jergens Lotion… Palmolive dish soap… Madge…; 8/20/21, 10:00 PM
walter said...: who will be the first lawyer to foster anti-discrimination suits re blax/ vax?; 8/20/21, 11:58 PM
walter said...: Tits,
Aside from the last two sentences, I agree.
Maybe there are cave spas there.
Maybe they hired a Brian Epstein type..; 8/21/21, 12:08 AM
gadfly said...: Althouse cannot call a “lid” until she becomes the White House press secretary and she declares that there will be no news coming out of the White House for the day in question. I suspect that Ann will choose never to be in that position - and that's the full lid story.; 8/21/21, 1:22 AM
gadfly said...: So Judge Judy's bailiff, known to all as "Officer Byrd," was defending the Capitol on January 6? The things we learn from reading this blog is absolutely amazing!; 8/21/21, 1:36 AM
Rt41Rebel said...: "Has anyone noticed the taliban cleaned up their look? Gone are the days of unkept mountain men. Now they have a more professional dare I say urbane look. The outfits are better fitting. They look like they shower now. Hair and beards are well coifed."

Well of course. We paid for it.; 8/21/21, 2:03 AM
Mr. Forward said...: The new Taliban. Shorter buildings.

Tits; 8/21/21, 4:58 AM
Kai Akker said...: Read this from a book review I'll link below. The book under review is a close examination of another book, The Abolition of Man, by C.S. Lewis. That is not among the few books of Lewis's I have read.

But this thought, which underlies the whole shmear, seems appealing -- especially as we watch the disintegration and evils unleashed by moral relativism in the short- and long-term of our decades on this planet:

Ward contends that Abolition “doesn’t spend enough time explaining [this] paradigmatic issue and driving it home securely.” I’m inclined to agree. But I also think that Abolition has proved very effective at alerting several generations of readers to the very idea that there is a substantive case to suggest that 1) humans don’t somehow create morality and 2) the human mind itself bears the imprint of a universal natural morality that doesn’t change. As Ward states, “we are already in the Tao, and always remain within it, often without realizing it, whether we like it or not.”

So the above paragraph was written by Samuel Gregg, published on the Law & Liberty website.

Given the demonstrations of the extraordinary degree of order operating in the physical universe, it makes sense to me that a moral order affecting the human species could also exist. Either as a reflection of that physical order, or as a tiny part of it that serves as an operating manual on how humans can best live life. But an operating manual that we have to work a bit to discern, and which it is only too easy to flout and disregard. In that aspect, it differs from planetary physics, star dynamics, and the like. The human bit has an element of voluntarism. (A part of one larger degree of order?)

https://lawliberty.org/book-review/uncovering-the-tao-of-c-s-lewis/; 8/21/21, 6:29 AM
wendybar said...: Oh Chucky, We all wanted to end the war in Afghanistan, but we would have liked to have it done properly, with Bagram AF Base open until everybody was taken out, and the weapons left there, either blown up or brought back home. To try to compare the way Biden pulled us out with no warning to any of the Americans still there, surprising our allies like England, France and Germany, to wanting us out of there the way we should have been pulled out is really reaching. Just admit you don't care about the people YOUR president left behind. Blood in on YOUR hands for trying to make this about Trump. Grow up.; 8/21/21, 7:27 AM
Andrew said...: Trivia question based on the comments about John and Julian Lennon:

Outside of NYC, how did the country first hear about John Lennon's death?

Answer:
https://youtu.be/n73GFvAyIjs; 8/21/21, 7:58 AM
Chris Lopes said...: @Chuck

Unfortunately for you and Frum, Trump fans aren't the only folks who think Biden screwed the pooch on this one. The British Parliament (not exactly Orange the Clown's core constituency) condemned him, the Washington press corps (again, not people who likely voted for Trump) is turning on him, and those parts of the world that depend on us for protection are extremely nervous. So you and Frum can stuff the snark. This isn't Trump, it's about the consequences of f*cking up.; 8/21/21, 8:28 AM
Chuck said...: Chris Lopes said...
@Chuck

Unfortunately for you and Frum, Trump fans aren't the only folks who think Biden screwed the pooch on this one. The British Parliament (not exactly Orange the Clown's core constituency) condemned him, the Washington press corps (again, not people who likely voted for Trump) is turning on him, and those parts of the world that depend on us for protection are extremely nervous. So you and Frum can stuff the snark. This isn't Trump, it's about the consequences of f*cking up.

I have been writing ALL WEEK that I hold Biden fully responsible for this fiasco. Your own dumb knee-jerk reaction is that I somehow excuse Biden. I DON'T. Not one bit! You must have missed the dozen or so times that I have written on these pages that I think Trump's withdrawal idea was idiotic, and that Biden's following that idea was just as idiotic.

And, it's even worse for you. Because I am ALSO the guy who has been writing about the speech given by Tory MP Tom Tugendhat in the House of Commons where he rips the US withdrawal along with the Biden speechifying. Tugendhat wasn't just talking about Biden when he pronounced in the House, "Those who have never fought for the colours they fly, should be careful about criticising those who have..."

I'm the guy who linked these readers to that speech. And to the BBC interview given by Tugendhat, and to the Commons speech by former PM Theresa May where she defended her government from the "unilateral" decisions taken by Biden following the "unilateral" decision made by Donald Trump.

Your silly comment about me could not possibly have been more wrong.; 8/21/21, 9:53 AM
Chuck said...: wendybar said...
Oh Chucky, We all wanted to end the war in Afghanistan, but we would have liked to have it done properly, with Bagram AF Base open until everybody was taken out, and the weapons left there, either blown up or brought back home. To try to compare the way Biden pulled us out with no warning to any of the Americans still there, surprising our allies like England, France and Germany, to wanting us out of there the way we should have been pulled out is really reaching. Just admit you don't care about the people YOUR president left behind. Blood in on YOUR hands for trying to make this about Trump. Grow up.

So the Trump plan was to take away all US weapons from the Afghan Army before the US cut and ran?; 8/21/21, 9:55 AM
PJ said...: That morning glory reminds me of Althouse -- forever looking away.; 8/21/21, 9:59 AM
CarolynnS said...: What a beautiful photo!; 8/21/21, 12:40 PM