Althouse: At the Sunrise Café...

February 16, 2022

At the Sunrise Café...

... you can chat 'til dawn.

87 comments:

BUMBLE BEE said...: TikTok?
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2022/02/16/study-chinas-tiktok-can-bypass-apple-and-google-privacy-protections-access-user-data/
OOPS!; 2/16/22, 6:27 PM
Readering said...: This seems like a scandal. SF PD test victim rape kits to ID suspects in later crimes. DA has decried the practice and in the case exposing it dismissed charges for 4th A violation.; 2/16/22, 6:28 PM
gadfly said...: David Frum tweets:

There are evidently many people who think it's an outrageous act of tyranny to tow illegally parked trucks, but perfectly normal political discourse to storm Congress to overturn a presidential election by violence.; 2/16/22, 6:57 PM
Andrew said...: @gadfly,
You're a fan of David Frum? Mr. "Axis of Evil"? A man who is so concerned about political violence?; 2/16/22, 7:07 PM
TickTock said...: It is worth following Ann for these pictures alone.; 2/16/22, 7:07 PM
gilbar said...: gladfy said...
storm Congress to overturn a presidential election by violence.

when and where did This happen? What exactly was the violence? and where was the "overturn"?; 2/16/22, 7:11 PM
Curious George said...: Aaron Rodgers kicks another beard to the curb. The second ring Aaron covets is not a wedding ring.; 2/16/22, 7:12 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: "The founding fathers of this country understood that there's going to come a point in time when the federal government will need to be checked. If not, they will become tyrant." -Speech by an Undisclosed African American woman of color.

Link to video; 2/16/22, 7:19 PM
farmgirl said...: A curious coloring of ice…
33 here now. Rain forecasted tomorrow.
Idk where it’ll all go? The ground is frozen solid!; 2/16/22, 7:28 PM
Joe Smith said...: 'There are evidently many people who think it's an outrageous act of tyranny to tow illegally parked trucks, but perfectly normal political discourse to storm Congress to overturn a presidential election by violence.'

Almost nobody thinks the second thing is acceptable.

But democrat politicians seemed to think it was OK for thugs to burn cities to the ground in the name of 'justice.' They even donated to bail funds for said thugs.

Are you as dumb as you seem? Don't answer that.; 2/16/22, 7:30 PM
MadisonMan said...: I notice in the local paper this morning a pic of Gov Evers giving the state of the State address -- with no mask. Nor were the politicos behind him masked. Rules for me, but not for them.
Someone might say that a mask would prevent Evers from being understood clearly. I maintain that no one listens to this nonsense speech anyway.; 2/16/22, 7:48 PM
Flat Tire said...: Lem at 7:19. Does anyone know who this woman is? Quite the forceful speaker.; 2/16/22, 7:49 PM
Bender said...: Ever been so tired that you hurt?; 2/16/22, 7:50 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: "Man asked to leave Allegiant Airplane for wearing mask with Let's Go Brandon written on Mask. TSA used excuse she was being video recorded."

link to video

I wouldn't believe it if it weren't for the video.; 2/16/22, 7:53 PM
farmgirl said...: It’s the water- we have a large lake in a nearby “city”. I don’t think it’s got any melt yet- tomorrow will tell.; 2/16/22, 7:55 PM
Bender said...: So, the good people of Virginia, in their wisdom, elect a new governor, rejecting a Clinton hack. That new governor issues an executive order respecting the right of parents with respect to their children in schools.

Several northern Virginia counties decide to mount an insurrection and refuse to recognize his legal authority and defying parents. The people's representatives in the legislature swiftly pass a new law confirming the rights of parents.

Now, will the insurrecting counties now stand down? Or will they continue their rebellion?; 2/16/22, 7:55 PM
Bender said...: Yes, people have fundamental rights and they should always and everywhere stand up for those rights, always.

But doing so on an airplane, where airlines are given almost absolute tyranny, in the age of the no-fly-list, is simply imprudent.; 2/16/22, 8:00 PM
n.n said...: "The founding fathers of this country understood that there's going to come a point in time when the federal government will need to be checked. If not, they will become tyrant."

She's passionate. She's right.; 2/16/22, 8:03 PM
gadfly said...: Want to know how Ottawa citizens reacted to the "Freedom Convoy?" Check out the Battle of Billings Bridge.

Also of interest is the failure of Mike Lindell's fake attempt to supposedly send 10,000 My Pillows and 1,000 bibles across the Ambassador bridge with a driver untested for covid infection. I also say fake effort because Mikey tried to cross the border at Port Huron but he had not been tested in the past 72 hours and he had not had two vaccine shots.

If he wanted the shipments delivered in Ottawa, he could have sent them UPS or FedEx who make sure drivers are legal. But Lindell couldn't even deplane from his jet in Ottawa without obeying the Canadian customs law.; 2/16/22, 8:10 PM
Bender said...: So, word is that jurors in Palin trial found out judge had ruled for NYT before they finished deliberating.

They insist it didn't influence them, but a just review of the matter would demand that the verdict and judgment be thrown out.; 2/16/22, 8:13 PM
Iman said...: Had an old friend and colleague now living in Montana send me a three CD collection of live Neil Young from ‘71 and ‘78. Great stuff! Just listened to the ‘71 music, just Young on acoustic guitar/piano… getting very wistful about the good, old days.

One thing I know is this: I am tired of the hatred, the lack of charity, never giving anyone the benefit of the doubt, the finger pointing, all the lies and the absolute lack of concern for the lives of our children and future generations. And I know I don’t want to spend these last years of my life with this debilitating nonsense going on all around.

We must do better and doing better begins at home.; 2/16/22, 8:17 PM
NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...: Trudeau accuses Conservative Jewish MP of "standing with people who wave swastikas".

After being warned against using inflammatory language by the Speaker and Conservatives demand apology he refuses.; 2/16/22, 8:40 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: Want to know how Ottawa citizens reacted to the "Freedom Convoy?" Check out the Battle of Billings Bridge.

It's a university. Students are woke. They called the protest "domestic terrorism." Anything right of Fidelason Trudeau is a terrorist outbreak. F. them.; 2/16/22, 8:54 PM
Quayle said...: Canadians want their freedom, claims their Prime Minister. Apparently someone double parked them in.

Marshall Law as a remedy for traffic violations. And everyone thought Churchill was the Last Lion!; 2/16/22, 9:10 PM
Rory said...: Western PA report: it seems there might be supply chain issues with Girl Scout cookies. Is this happening anywhere else?; 2/16/22, 9:17 PM
Big Mike said...: @Rory, not here in the Shenandoah Valley; 2/16/22, 9:19 PM
narciso said...: Lownden county voted to make masks optional; 2/16/22, 9:26 PM
Big Mike said...: What exactly was the violence?

Ashli Babbitt was gunned down in cold blood by a Capitol Police lieutenant and an unconscious Roseanne Boyland was slowly beaten to death by a female Capitol Police officer. These two deaths are applauded by gadfly, who believes that uppity conservative women got what was coming to them.; 2/16/22, 9:26 PM
Big Mike said...: @narcisco, Loudoun county.; 2/16/22, 9:27 PM
Bender said...: Not the only time that Marshall Matt Dillon let the guilty go free.; 2/16/22, 9:30 PM
narciso said...: You know what i meant

Why does judge rakoff rhymes with seem so eager in protecting chief dupnik who the times covered for by libeling palin; 2/16/22, 9:31 PM
Josephbleau said...: “This seems like a scandal. SF PD test victim rape kits to ID suspects in later crimes. DA has decried the practice and in the case it dismissed charges for 4th A violation.“

This sounds like fingerprinting people who are arrested so they can save them for matching in later crimes, that is illegal and has always been considered a 4A violation, right?; 2/16/22, 9:33 PM
narciso said...: The las vegas suntried to make it seem like an obama foundation endorsed gun control militant was a maga supporter after he shot louisville mayoral candidate; 2/16/22, 9:34 PM
narciso said...: Who was bailed out by the extortion schemw that calls itself black lives matter; 2/16/22, 9:35 PM
narciso said...: Having avoided war with russia british foreign minister just wants seconds; 2/16/22, 9:37 PM
narciso said...: Like triple vaxxed justin trudeau, who allegedly still got the crud; 2/16/22, 9:40 PM
Bender said...: “This seems like a scandal. SF PD test victim rape kits to ID suspects in later crimes. DA has decried the practice and in the case it dismissed charges for 4th A violation.“

Well, a better recitation of the facts here would help in understanding. Apparently, this is what happened: A woman was raped. They did a rape kit on her and tested the DNA, which brings back results of both the perpetrator and the victim.

The VICTIM'S DNA was then traced to a separate and unrelated property crime. It was not the case of the rapist's DNA being traced to some other offense.

The impropriety, if not illegality, of taking DNA from a rape victim to tie HER to another crime should be obvious.; 2/16/22, 9:40 PM
narciso said...: Of course trudeaus stupid edicts have triggered a bank run on several prominent institutions take a bow; 2/16/22, 9:52 PM
narciso said...: The pipebombs planted at the dnc and rnc could not have been placed before hand, odd they cant identify who did do it; 2/16/22, 9:56 PM
narciso said...: Mayor adams stepped over the pile of bodies to berate the news media for not being sufficiently diverse; 2/16/22, 9:57 PM
Richard Dillman said...: The ABA recently passed a new accreditation standard for law schools that requires instruction in bias, racism, and cross cultural competency that must be conducted in the first year and once more before graduation. The ABA House of Delegates unanimously passed the resolution, with no objections. Is this the CRT that we have been previously told was only taught in law schools?; 2/16/22, 9:58 PM
Iman said...: You are on fire 🔥 tonight, narciso!; 2/16/22, 9:59 PM
walter said...: Gadfly,
I would bet Mr. Pillow has had many vaccines. Before they changed the definition.

Get your 6th jab! It's simple!
Consider #6 straight into your testes. Skip the intervening tissues.; 2/16/22, 10:00 PM
Iman said...: California Raisins!; 2/16/22, 10:02 PM
Mason G said...: Anybody notice that Trudeau appears to be more concerned about threats to his authoritah these days than threats from covid?; 2/16/22, 10:04 PM
narciso said...: Of course for justin trudeau if you shoot spec christopher speer you get a 10 million dollar check, so much for terrorism

Curiously george washington had an account at a british bank they never cancelled him; 2/16/22, 10:04 PM
narciso said...: It does seem that way doesnt it.

The youngest kadr is part of the egyptian crowders only his next oldest brother actually ended up on the right side; 2/16/22, 10:09 PM
n.n said...: I would bet Mr. Pillow has had many vaccines. Before they changed the definition.

Yes, sterilizing inoculations with years, perhaps a decade, of safety data. Vaccines that prime an immune response that inhibits both infection and transmission of the pathogen. Planned parent/hood, and mandate forced collateral damage, were neither an exclusive nor good Choice.

#OccupyDistrictOfCorruption; 2/16/22, 10:09 PM
narciso said...: One of the members was vaccinated but couldnt get into a hospital they had a immune compromised relative because of these stupid rules; 2/16/22, 10:12 PM
narciso said...: Theres a whole lot of stupid rules that make people sicker but virtue signaling thats the bomb; 2/16/22, 10:16 PM
n.n said...: Ashli Babbitt was gunned down in cold blood by a Capitol Police lieutenant and an unconscious Roseanne Boyland was slowly beaten to death by a female Capitol Police officer.

An election by Capitol Hill "Heroes" h/t Pelosi to abort with plausible, but not probable cause. Babbitt tried, but failed, to mitigate the progress of the riot ("disorder"), only to be aborted by a senior Capitol Hill officer in the course of abstaining and in the midst of other officers. Boyland was assaulted by another DC officer, who seems to have been following the planned parent/hood protocol of "baby on slab". A probable Whitmer event. A day when demos-cracy was aborted at the twilight fringe. One of diverse events in Water Closet that was conceived and progressed over more than 16 trimesters.; 2/16/22, 10:17 PM
wildswan said...: Well, we didn't have the Wednesday War. That Putin. He is such a tease. "I put my soldiers in/I put my soldiers out/ I give the tanks a shake, shake, shake/ And turn the NSC inside out."; 2/16/22, 10:19 PM
narciso said...: Btw speaking of nazis the deputy pms grandfather chomiak was at least an enabler them, he escaped when the soviets moved west (maybe trudeau should look in his own bailiwick before throwing stones; 2/16/22, 10:22 PM
narciso said...: Odd how 14,000 hours of footage are deemed irrelevant but gasbaggery from black nationalist bennie thompson red diaper chump raskin and other nutbars are deemed essential; 2/16/22, 10:28 PM
Yancey Ward said...: No, Gadfly isn't as dumb as he seems. He is dumber.; 2/16/22, 10:30 PM
narciso said...: 19 years ago, i thought frum had a clue, well he has removed doubt to a remarkable degree since; 2/16/22, 10:31 PM
walter said...: Trudeau should have kept the beard.
He looks and sounds very soy currently.; 2/16/22, 10:33 PM
narciso said...: Soy would be an improvement, hes more like marvin the martian sans helmet; 2/16/22, 10:35 PM
walter said...: Who was the "senior government source", Gadfly?
Why so secret?; 2/16/22, 10:36 PM
walter said...: narciso,
Point taken.
Those of the soy would typically project some empathy.; 2/16/22, 10:40 PM
narciso said...: They are like pod people devoid of any real human emotion.; 2/16/22, 10:43 PM
narciso said...: Back to frum i remember when he had that soy gop site the new majority that was full of lefty trolls, he wisely changed it to frum forum taking spinal taps advice about more selective audiences; 2/16/22, 10:51 PM
narciso said...: It really comes to kabuki this outrageous theft sundered our supply chain killed 13 servicemen and stranded hundreds of Americans let nearly 3 million illegals into the country slammed us back to deathwish 70s all around the country, none of that interests these nattering nabobs; 2/16/22, 11:06 PM
Iman said...: loco weed… https://twitter.com/TheFigen/status/1493553279749574660; 2/16/22, 11:26 PM
Rt41Rebel said...: Love the horizon line, it's so well defined it looks like it could be a power line, but there's no droop.; 2/17/22, 1:11 AM
gadfly said...: Republican donor Benjamin Pogue, owner of a Texas construction company, who once loaned Donald Trump a private jet, only to secure a presidential pardon for his father weeks later, has declined to discuss the $20,000 donated in his name to the Canadian “Freedom Convoy”—a 19-day blockade of international trade routes causing production delays and shortened shifts for auto workers at several North American plants . . . estimated to cost the auto industry and its workers as much as a billion dollars.

But methinks Donald Trump donated zero while causing the gigantic expansion of the Ottawa anti-vaxxer trucker protest. Guess who he says is ruining our economy.; 2/17/22, 3:06 AM
gadfly said...: walter said...
"Gadfly,
I would bet Mr. Pillow has had many vaccines. Before they changed the definition."

You are being silly, Walt. Do you really believe that Mikey planned to drive 11 hours from Minneapolis to Port Huron and then spend time in customs before driving 7 more hours to Ottawa?

I reported what the Canadian authorities said about two jabs. That makes me the messenger while you choose instead to support Lindell the liar. Show me where, when and how the Canadian law has changed of late. The 72-hour coronavirus test has always been a part of the rules since the pandemic spread.; 2/17/22, 3:41 AM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: There’s a split within the government of Canada as to how best to proceed.

https://youtu.be/xkauhZIKQow; 2/17/22, 4:12 AM
tim in vermont said...: P.J. O'Rourke was a Republican when the Republicans were the war-mongering elitists, and he became a Democrat when the Democrats became those things. Once Trump led the Republicans to embrace the working class, O'Rourke was done with them. He was still pretty funny.; 2/17/22, 5:36 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/16/canadas-justice-minister-trump-supporters-oughta-be-worried-bank-accounts-will-be-frozen/; 2/17/22, 6:06 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-project-veritas-exposes-biden-administration-plans-for-annual-covid-shots?utm_campaign=64483
Pals are in China!; 2/17/22, 6:13 AM
Ann Althouse said...: "A curious coloring of ice… "

If you're commenting on the greenish color next to the shore, that's is flowing water. I thought the color was very interesting... even as liquid water (not ice).; 2/17/22, 6:29 AM
hawkeyedjb said...: Gadfly has never seen a protest of which he approved. He lives by the government's creed: Submit, conform, obey.; 2/17/22, 7:25 AM
MadisonMan said...: I've stepped off the Wordle Bus. I accept that I almost always solve in 3 or 4 moves. And now it's boring.; 2/17/22, 7:40 AM
Curious George said...: "MadisonMan said...
I've stepped off the Wordle Bus. I accept that I almost always solve in 3 or 4 moves. And now it's boring."

The NYT's wouldn't allow the word "slave" this morning. So silly and stupid.

Try Quordle. More challenging.; 2/17/22, 7:56 AM
farmgirl said...: I noticed that it was water- I think it makes it so cool to have solid, liquid-& mist…; 2/17/22, 8:05 AM
iowan2 said...: Madman, yesterday someone posted a link to a new word game.
The metric is meaning, not spelling.
Guess a word and you get rating of how close it is to the secret word.(a stuffed bird does not come down from the ceiling) As your rating goes up you get a sense of the word you are searching for.
I finally gave up after coming back to it throughout the day. I got close early on with 'average'. rating of 919 out of 1000. That means 81 words are closer to the secret word. I never got any closer. The word turned out to be 'monthly'. Made no sense to me.

https://semantle.novalis.org/; 2/17/22, 8:23 AM
tim in vermont said...: "The word turned out to be 'monthly'. Made no sense to me. "

I had guessed one word "holiday" and it rated the word as farther from "monthly" than "smartphone." That was enough for me to abandon the game forever.; 2/17/22, 8:37 AM
MadisonMan said...: @iowan2, that someone was me!; 2/17/22, 9:28 AM
iowan2 said...: I should have known; 2/17/22, 11:03 AM
ccscientist said...: Some people don't grasp that Trudeau is waging war on all protesters not perfectly aligned with him. You can get your bank account frozen or get arrested as a terrorist for being in a peaceful protest. Tow truck drivers threatened with jail if they don't tow. Imagine that the truckers represented the formation of a new political party--that is now illegal. Calling anyone who protests a terrorist (like Pelosi does) while your favorite rioters go free is just like so many dictatorships around the world. If you make fun of the king of thailand you can go to jail. I'm sure trudeau and pelosi would like that law here.; 2/17/22, 11:24 AM
Readering said...: Surprisingly affecting article in NY Times about the debacle at the end of the women's free skate competition this morning.; 2/17/22, 12:03 PM
gadfly said...: The pillow maven told The Daily Beast late Wednesday night that he intends to drop his pillows into Canada from a helicopter “with little parachutes” attached. “We need to get the MyPillows to the people!” he continued. The 2020 election dead-ender further made it a point to ensure in this report that the pillows will have “little parachutes,” adding, “make sure you put that part in, or it could be dangerous.” Asked where exactly he intended to drop the pillows, he said, “I can not give the location out, and it is no joke! I just confirmed with the helicopter company, and yes, this is the plan."

If he cannot tell where the drop will occur, the truckers won't be there.

So Lindell still has to legally import the pillows for a Canadian company to drop them with teeny tiny parachutes - likely not yet attached. The minute the parachutes are released, our really dumb pillow guy will break local littering laws anywhere and everywhere he drops the turkeys . . . um, pillows in Canada. Fines in Ottawa begin at a $500 minimum but the 10,000 fluffies will have to be picked up for disposal, so the the charge will be much higher.

Les Nessman describes the drop.; 2/17/22, 12:50 PM
Readering said...: RNC scoping Milwaukee, which sounds like front-runner for DJT's 2024 coronation.; 2/17/22, 1:00 PM
Readering said...: We are about to learn more of Durham's grand Alpha Bank theory because those lawyers at Latham he thinks have a conflict just moved to dismiss the indictment.; 2/17/22, 1:40 PM
TheOne Who Is Not Obeyed said...: I love seeing Lefties use the "but it was just a conflict of interest!" to describe a tech exec sharing classified information from the Executive Office of the President, and a candidate's private communications data with said candidate's political opponent. As if the DNC has a right to classified info from the EOP.

Even better is the motion to dismiss, which now admits Sussman lied, but it was "immaterial". Previously Sussman insisted he never lied.

Goal post moving continues apace for the DNC and those who brainlessly repeat its talking points.; 2/17/22, 4:41 PM
readering said...: The motion repeats that Sussman denies he lied, but the motion says the indictment should be dismissed regardless. That's how motions to dismiss generally work.

We're referencing different conflict of interest allegations.; 2/17/22, 6:25 PM