Althouse: At the Lakeside Café...

February 12, 2022

At the Lakeside Café...

... you can talk all night.

38 comments:

Howard said...: Your dystopian future; 2/12/22, 8:25 PM
David Begley said...: Hillary’s going to prison. Power Line has the story via Fox News. Lawyers Sussman and Elias will rat out Hillary in return for a reduced sentence.

Hillary ordered a tech firm to invent a fake internet profile to make it look like Trump was secretly communicating with Russia. Recall the Alfa Bank server story? Trump Tower was tapped.; 2/12/22, 8:25 PM
traditionalguy said...: Amazon Prime Video has saved Lee Child’s Jack Reacher books from Hollywood’s 2 miscast and off story movies with the small guy Tom Cruse cast as Reacher. They have the first of the 26 books as a new streaming series with excellent casting and a script that is true to the character and the book. Reacher is a 6’ 5’’ tough guy raised on USMC bases. They nailed it.; 2/12/22, 8:28 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: I posted the most obvious comment about the vaccines on Reddit and the race was on to downvote me.

Link to my comment

The comment was a response to the comedian collapsing on stage as she boasted about how vaccinated she was.; 2/12/22, 8:28 PM
MadTownGuy said...: Facebook PSAs in favor of internet regulations regarding content:
Ad 1 - January 2022
Ad 2 - February 2022; 2/12/22, 8:29 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Watched Kimi and it reminded me of Hitchcock’s Rear Window.; 2/12/22, 8:31 PM
MadisonMan said...: Walked on Lake Mendota today. That is some awesome ice. Made me wish for my skates.; 2/12/22, 8:32 PM
MadTownGuy said...: I miss the lakes in Wisconsin. The water features here in PA are mostly ponds and rivers, some of which are photogenic (the Susquehanna across from downtown Harrisburg being one) and a few farm ponds, but mostly it's flat land and a few hills they call 'mountains,' I have yet to explore a few mountain lookouts over the valleys, but for the most part it's hard to find good places for photo ops. Lake Michigan in Kewaunee County was always good for sunrises and pictures of the freighters. The Madison lakes gave plenty of photo ops of all kinds, good weather or bad. But around here I'm finding it hard to put together good pictures of the locales since there is a lot of sameness.; 2/12/22, 8:34 PM
Bender said...: They are showing a Jane Austen marathon. Persuasion is on now. Watched the BBC version of Sense and Sensibility earlier.

I'll tell you -- Joe Biden is not worthy of the name of Brandon.; 2/12/22, 8:36 PM
Bender said...: Got my "free" rapid test kits today in the mail.

From Roche. Made in Korea. (I assume South, but who knows who Biden might be doing business with.)

So at least there's that.; 2/12/22, 9:00 PM
Big Mike said...: @Althouse, I see that Special Counsel John Durham has now filed charges that the Clinton Campaign paid an unnamed tech firm to infiltrate White House servers in order to spy on Donald Trump. Words fail me.; 2/12/22, 9:05 PM
Bender said...: Headline at Washington Post:

Biden’s free covid tests plan shortchanges Americans of color and hardest-hit communities, say health workers and activists; 2/12/22, 9:07 PM
Narr said...: During our five-day power outage the skies were mostly clear, and at night the relative lack of ground light made a big difference. The irony was that it was also cold, and with no warm house to return to it made no sense to go out and admire the view.

These things should be timed better.; 2/12/22, 9:28 PM
Big Mike said...: In New Zealand the government sought to break up the truck on oy by playing Barry Manos music at them. The horror! Is there no tactic so low and disgusting that the Left will of eagerly embrace it?; 2/12/22, 9:58 PM
walter said...: Let's go Brandeaux!; 2/12/22, 10:09 PM
Bender said...: So that girl Ann Marie walks into a room and sees a bunch of men dressed as women, and she is appalled.

So much for free to be, you and me.; 2/12/22, 10:10 PM
Sebastian said...: Finally watched one of the Oscar-nominated movies: West Side Story.

Went in with low expectations, but, cynic though I am, came out enchanted. It's great: production design, direction, the music of course--all top notch.

The Spanish doesn't detract from the story, and the politically incorrect touches stay intact.

Of course, the lefty criticism of the religious elements and the benefits of incarceration (apparently added by Tony Kushner, of all people) is absurd, but so is the righty dismissal of WSS as woke propaganda. It is nothing of the sort. Mark Judge is right.

We've been criticizing Hollywood off and on in the comments here for not making Hollywood movies. This is one.; 2/12/22, 10:52 PM
wildswan said...: I'll be back in Wisconsin before the next war which is scheduled to start this coming Wednesday in the Ukraine. Kamala Harris is in charge of the US part of the war which will consist of doing nothing, including doing nothing for US citizens in the Ukraine working on Biden investment ventures. But US citizens can exit from the Ukraine through Poland if they have been vaccinated.; 2/12/22, 11:00 PM
Clyde said...: With the Wordle words the past two days being ULCER and ULTRA, I wondered if some goober at the NYT had accidentally alphabetized the word list during the transition. After playing today’s word, I can tell you that’s not the case. UMBER won’t get you a 1 today!; 2/12/22, 11:11 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Ever deeper...
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/12/durham-court-filing-identifies-clinton-tech-ally-with-govt-provided-access-spy-on-executive-office-of-president-trump/
Just in time for Hill's comeback!; 2/13/22, 2:16 AM
Jaq said...: The headlines say that Hilary paid a tech company to look for dirt when she actually paid them to fabricate it. Now Puddinhead Biden is dragging us into a war based on the anti Russian agitprop that the Democrats have been poisoning the national discourse with.; 2/13/22, 4:26 AM
gadfly said...: The John Durham conspiratorial theories involving what he suspects to be violations of law by Michael Sussmann will keep banging in the courts and also in the right wing media to prevent statute of limitations from being imposed that would send the Trump-appointed special prosecutor home. But the fact is that much of the claimed violations on the part of Sussmann have never been formally charged and likely can never be. Now comes the strange illogical assertion that Sussman assisted Hillary Clinton by encouraging the actual Trump-Russia interaction to see the light of day in order to run Trump out of office. Perhaps you remember Hillary? She conceded her presidential election loss immediately.

In the middle of all this hoopla, Kash Patel, while working for Rep. Devin Nunes (R.CA - um IA), the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, and as a Republican staffer on the committee, played a key role in attempting to discredit the Russia probe. As we know, the Senate Intelligence Committee found that the Trump-Russia relationship was real.

Special Prosecutor Durham may next point to testimony in Congress (possibly Glenn Simpson’s) to claim that there was some grand cover-up of what he imagines was an attempt to smear Donald Trump. Except, as this new filing admits, Sussmann's sworn testimony to the House Intelligence Committee shows that when asked — by future coup investigative subject Kash Patel — Sussmann testified consistently with sharing this information on behalf of Rodney Joffe, which is what Sussmann’s currently operative story remains. Durham did suggest he thinks he can show Sussmannn misled members of Congress because he claims it was, “knowingly and intentionally misleading insofar as it failed to disclose that the defendant billed work on the Russian Bank-1 allegations to the Clinton Campaign,” but amazingly (as with the alleged lie more generally) that’s not a question that he was asked about.

Word has it that Patel, acting Pentagon Chief of Staff (who was up to his ears in the January 6 delay of four hours in sending National Guardsmen to the aid police at the Capitol) whispered these additional conspiracies into Durham's ear. So by all means, Mr. Durham, make Kash Patel a witness at your trial. Give Sussmann an opportunity to ask how Kash came to learn of these supposed dark meetings with Joffe and his (gasp) DNC lawyers in the first place, to say nothing about whether Kash has recently been involved in efforts to overthrow the US government.; 2/13/22, 4:41 AM
Jaq said...: Remember the uproar over Pelosi withholding the video for a year, of those Capitol policemen beating that demonstrator to death on J6, beating her while she lay unconscious? Me neither. The kind of hateful propaganda the Democrats have been pushing against the populist conservatives over the past several years is bearing fruit, from gun attacks on Republicans at softball diamonds, to murders in Portland, to this. Anger and hate are dangerous things to use as a political weapons.; 2/13/22, 5:08 AM
iowan2 said...: Trad.guy, reviews the Reacher series on prime. I agree. Great story and pacing. The characters all worked very good. Reminded me of my youth watching the movie, Billy Jack, for the first time. I never read any Reacher books, Ive downloaded this one, but haven't started it yet. Took us three nights to get through the 8 episodes. Good fun.; 2/13/22, 7:09 AM
iowan2 said...: Gadfly shows up and sees nothing wrong with spying on Presidential campaigns, and the Executive Office of President. Leftist always settle in on, 'ends justify the means' moral guidance.; 2/13/22, 7:12 AM
Iman said...: Gadfly is… HuggieBear?

“Word on da street…”; 2/13/22, 7:14 AM
Big Mike said...: Shorter gadfly: Someone sobered up Hillary Clinton on election night long enough for her to mumble a concession speech, so she can do anything she wants. Because, like Dick Nixon, it’s not illegal when she does it. And besides, go look! Kash Patel. Squirrel!; 2/13/22, 7:30 AM
Jersey Fled said...: Actually Hillary didn't sober up enough to give a concession speech until the following morning.; 2/13/22, 7:41 AM
Curious George said...: "David Begley said...
Hillary’s going to prison...."

Sadly, no.; 2/13/22, 8:00 AM
Maynard said...: I agree on the Amazon Prime series. It is well done.

Casting Tom Cruse as Reacher was beyond absurd. My only minor complaint about the Amazon Reacher is that he is an obvious body builder. However, he is a pretty good actor. The other characters are well drawn out.; 2/13/22, 8:10 AM
hawkeyedjb said...: I remember the orgasmic swooning at the idea of Trump being frog-marched out of the White House. Now a similar fantasy makes its appearance, as Durham turns over the rocks of Hillary's campaign. Sadly, nobody (except perhaps some underlings) will be suffering any consequences. It is good, though, to reveal the depths of dishonesty in which our political and journalistic classes swim. Trump was badly outclassed in the lying-cheating-corruption Olympics.; 2/13/22, 8:24 AM
Big Mike said...: @Jersey Fled, you are correct.; 2/13/22, 8:36 AM
MadisonMan said...: @Clyde, I noted the same thing, and also started with umber. And solved in 3.

@MadTownGuy -- I can recommend Whipple Dam State Park. Nice little gem and very picturesque. In Huntingdon Co.; 2/13/22, 9:12 AM
MadTownGuy said...: MadisonMan said...

"@MadTownGuy -- I can recommend Whipple Dam State Park. Nice little gem and very picturesque. In Huntingdon Co."

Thanks!; 2/13/22, 9:55 AM
Clyde said...: @ MadisonMan

I didn't use UMBER. I read an article about someone hacking the database and tweeting a list up upcoming words, starting with yesterday's ULTRA. I didn't see what today's word was there, but I could tell at a glance that the upcoming words after that were not alphabetized, and that ULTRA actually had been scheduled to be the word for yesterday.

I got today's word in 2, but unfortunately, since the NY Times took over, my stats are stuck at 34-for-34, even though I've now played 36 games (I went down the list over every word I have played and counted them). Also, I had my game in Hard Mode and Dark Theme, and while the Hard Mode is sticky, the Dark Mode disappears whenever I go back to the game on the same browser. Thanks, NY Times.; 2/13/22, 1:47 PM
Narr said...: I wordled in 2 again. Usually it takes longer, and sometimes I just give up at 2 or 3, so my stats aren't that good.

All I know about the spy franchise with Tom Cruise is that a friend who watched them calls him Jack Reacheround.; 2/13/22, 3:05 PM
farmgirl said...: The log on the ground recline like a person- it’s a graceful photo. Stark, but graceful.; 2/13/22, 3:10 PM
Gahrie said...: It is good, though, to reveal the depths of dishonesty in which our political and journalistic classes swim.

The historian in my longs to be around in 100 years after everyone has written their books and published their papers, and history begins making its judgement.; 2/13/22, 9:19 PM