February 2, 2022

Here's a place where you can talk...

... about whatever you want.

No sunrise photos today. Too cold!

66 comments:

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

I got two flags: This passenger recommended you work on the this area: car experience.

Another passenger recommended I work on this area: overall experience.

Wtf? Crack is right you know. New age is going to be our downfall.

Joe Smith said...

Sean Davis (I think) surmised that Zucker was allowed to resign for schtupping an employee in lieu of revealing something even worse.

News at 11 (or not)…

As to whether he should he resign because of a consensual relationship with a subordinate?

I don’t care...they’re both adults and there didn’t seem to be any untoward pressure going on.

But the left made these rules so they can live by them, according to Alinsky.

Michael K said...

Biden is playing the "Wag the Dog" exercise with Ukraine to divert attention from his failures. The last major country to do this was Austria Hungary in 1914. It did not end well.

One Eye said...

I read that green bananas contain more resistant starch ... supposedly a good thing.

If it becomes trendy the joke about an old person not buying green bananas anymore will confuse some people.

Owen said...

How cold is too cold?

And thanks anyway, here in New England we are already being told to brace for cold air and paralyzing wintry mix, thanks to what the Wisconsonians failed to keep north of the Canadian border.

You had one job!

Narr said...

I think I cracked the code, Lem. You drive Uber? Sounds awful.

Browndog said...

Somebody explain this to me.

Because the obvious, logical conclusion is something nobody is willing to confront.

farmgirl said...

I hope he’s feeling well.
It’s 36 outside w/snow coming! I’m ambivalent about it.

Curious George said...

Nothing on the that POS Jeff Zucker? Maybe tomorrow. Rest assured there is more to his resignation. He didn't quit for the reason stated...a failure to report a consensual relationship to HR? LOL Toobin jacked off on a web call and he still has a job at CNN.

rehajm said...

Now ‘The White House’ wants Joe Rogan banned, despite having Dr. ‘Ted Cruz should be in jail’ on his show.

…it’s like you can’t even negotiate with these people…

rehajm said...

So…has anyone seen anyone who’s done a deep dive on Soros’ Open Society Institute? We have accounting clients who are rip shit that their IRS 990 information is public (we told you so). Even Soros can’t hide…

…what’s interesting is hundreds of pages of Soros donations to individuals- names, addresses. What’s weird is if you do internet searches for these people…search comes up with just enough info to think these are real people but it looks made up.

I haven’t had time for a deep dive into it…anyone have a source?

Howard said...

It doesn't matter what Zuckershtupped, you guys will dream up some choice nefarious pornographic scenarios related to Fauci Biden Ukraine CCP puppet strings. It's too obvious the Coumo Connection. In fact, it's because it's the most likely common sense reason that makes it even more likely to be a cover story of a bigger Sooper seecrit cabal of lizard people.

Ann Althouse said...

“ How cold is too cold?”

I think the wind chill was below zero.

tim in vermont said...

It's a first amendment violation for the govt to pressure a private company to censor speech, or so the SCOTUS has said.

Ann Althouse said...

“ Nothing on the that POS Jeff Zucker? ”

I don’t care enough about him to sit down and write about him in my off hours. It’s not interesting to me.

Ann Althouse said...

Watched the movie “Suddenly Last Summer” tonight.

Last night, we watched “Watermelon Man.”

Bender said...

No one is obligated to have to comment on the latest Outrage of the Day.

Andrew said...

I saw this for the first time today. It was linked online somewhere. In case anyone needs an escape from the decline and fall of America, here is a song and dance for pure pleasure:

youtu.be/8q2fTSo8aoY

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madAsHell said...

The last movie I saw was the last Daniel Craig Bond movie. My daughter enjoys the Bond series as well.

Otherwise, I don't enjoy movies anymore. GET OFF MY LAWN YOU WHIPPERSNAPPER!!

Movies are expensive comic books......the Bond series included.

Andrew said...

Speaking of winter, I'm surprised that no one here has mentioned Groundhog Day - the holiday or the movie.

Sadly, a weather-predicting groundhog from New Jersey who isn't as well known as Phil, died before the ceremony:
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/famed-new-jersey-groundhog-meteorologist-milltown-mel-dies-just-ground-rcna14385

RIP.

Big Mike said...

Last night, we watched “Watermelon Man.”

If it’s bad for a white man to wear blackface does that make it good for a black man to wear whiteface?

Godfrey Cambridge left us way too soon. Loved him in “Cotton Comes to Harlem.”

Narr said...

The big slug of winter that will affect the East and South may have saved the core of the icy
accumulation for Memphis. Possibly .75" of ice--which on our old trees and lines could be crippling. All the schools and most businesses in the region have announced closures already.

So far it has just been scattered cold rain; the bad stuff comes out of the west overnight.

Per Doc K's note on wagging the dog, this is the most worried about major war that I have been in my adult life (b. 1953). It could get very unpleasant very fast, even without specific intent on either side.

Big Mike said...

Go Illini!

Kathryn51 said...

Lately, many very pleasant news days which I primarily follow with my triumveratge of Althouse/Instapundit and handful of Twitterers that I follow.

Today was the Gold Standard:

Althouse: Luhan/Charles Cooke (Whoppi)/Chicken Little(Afghanis
Instapundit: John Hopkins Study re: de minimis impact of lockdowns
Twitter: Zucker

hawkeyedjb said...

"The White House wants Joe Rogan banned."

They've been studying up on the Constitution, and they've decided they don't like it.

BG said...

I started reading a suspense novel, and noted that the fictional president was a Democrat. It had me thinking...it seems quite a few novels have the president as a Democrat. I vaguely remember one having a Republican, but it was a long time ago. (I read a lot of fiction.) I tried to look up to see what the ratio was, but the search engines didn't have any info on it. I might not have worded the search properly. Just something that made me curious.

Lyle said...

Looks like the Democrats are going to take the blame for not curing cancer.

Also, I could be wrong, but it doesn't look like Russia is going to invade Ukraine.

I've been re-watching the HBO series Deadwood. So very good.

Mike of Snoqualmie said...

The King County concrete workers strike is showing no end in sight. The union and the companies are light-years apart on terms. We can get concrete from a Snohomish County concrete company for an extra $175/yd which would be about $3,000 extra for the foundation. Ms. Snoqualmie and I are in agreement that it would be worth it to get the house back on track. We're paying about $2,600/month for rent and utilities, so if we shaving a month off of the schedule would be worth it.

Flat Tire said...

Watermelon Man. dazzled me when it came out. Will now watch it again again

gadfly said...

The Biden administration launched a last-minute push Wednesday to derail the U.S. Postal Service’s plan to spend billions of dollars on a new fleet of gasoline-powered delivery trucks, citing the damage the polluting vehicles could inflict on the climate and Americans’ health.

Never mind that those three-decade-old Postal Delivery trucks that cost a fortune to maintain are already killing and maiming people. Never mind that there is no infrastructure in place to service and maintain all those currently un-designed electric vehicles with potential safety problems.

Plan B is for the Post Office save half of their budget by soliciting small SUV's designed to be driven as in the UK with the driver on the other side. All American SUV makers have them as do most foreign automakers selling here already and the production models are designed. If FedEx, UPS and Prime can save using existing trucks and vans, the Post Office can jump on all brands of small SUVs.

effinayright said...

Michael K said...
Biden is playing the "Wag the Dog" exercise with Ukraine to divert attention from his failures. The last major country to do this was Austria Hungary in 1914. It did not end well.
************

Not sure how the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand and his wife equates to "Wag the Dog".

Wanna 'splain?

IIRC the rotting A/H Empire was looking for an excuse to attack the Serbs, and Prinzip gave it to them. The irony was, the Archduke was the only person in Franz Josef II's court who opposed such action.

Best book ever on this topic: "Thunder at Twilight Vienna: 1913 1914", by Frederic Morton.

wildswan said...

I'm in Santa Fe to get some sun but somehow I brought a snowstorm with me and single digit temps. Oh well, they need the water.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

The covid vaccines medical trials press coverage boils down to emoji’s 🙈🙉🙊

farmgirl said...

34F out there and raining. The driveway is glaring eyece- little humor there. Hoping not to fall.
Hope all of us fare well w/Winter’s grip. I’m late for work!!

farmgirl said...

34F out there and raining. The driveway is glaring eyece- little humor there. Hoping not to fall.
Hope all of us fare well w/Winter’s grip. I’m late for work!!

rehajm said...


Just In...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams dines with disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo
WATCH: Kat Cammack calls Biden 'trafficker in chief' amid fentanyl epidemic
Al Franken says Whoopi Goldberg isn't antisemitic, pointing to name change
Austin and Blinken testify about Afghanistan withdrawal behind closed doors
Trump could pardon federally charged Capitol rioters if reelected, experts say
New York Legislature passes congressional map that could flip three seats to Democrats
Roberts says he did not ask Gorsuch 'or any other justices' to mask up on Supreme Court bench
Biden faces questions about access and transparency ahead of press conference
Black Lives Matter shut down all of its online fundraising streams late Wednesday afternoon, just days after California threatened to hold the charity's leaders personally liable over its lack of financial transparency.

The move comes less than a week after a Washington Examiner investigation found that BLM has had no known leader in charge of its $60 million bankroll since its co-founder resigned in May. California and Washington recently ordered BLM to cease all fundraising activities in their blue states due to the failure of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, the legal entity that represents the national BLM movement, to report information about its finances in 2020, the year it raised tens of millions amid the racial protests and riots that followed George Floyd's killing.


That seems bad. I won’t hold by breath for apologies from all the corporations like Apple who funded it and suspended use of their products to try and force me to pay attention to them…

mezzrow said...

Watermelon Man

Godfrey Cambridge was just so good in everything he did. Now I want to see The President's Analyst again. I wonder who 'The Phone Company' would represent today? I have to see if I can find some of his standup - thanks for the impetus. He was brilliant. He died shockingly young, in retrospect.

I saw the Watermelon Man movie when I was young and dumb. It made an impression. However, those two words mean an album and a tune I have played hundreds of times, not a movie. Context.

Herbie Hancock. More black genius from my youth. Amazing how these men could thrive in this racist nation, eh? Maybe group identity isn't the most important thing in the world after all.

rehajm said...

In China Tesla is selling a $180 wireless microphone, presumably for carpool karaoke.

What’s mandarin for Hey good looking! We’ll be back to pick you up later!

Humperdink said...

A well-meaning commenter questioned (re: doubted) whether I ever bothered to contact my congress critters.

Yesterday I sent an email to my senator Pat Toomey (D-Worthless) asking his thoughts on flying illegals into our fair commonwealth in the middle of the night. I labelled it human trafficking.

I received the following response: "Thank you for contacting my office. I appreciate your taking the time to share your thoughts about current issues. Please be assured that your correspondence will receive a reply in the near future. Meanwhile, I am actively working to help Pennsylvania hospitals, health care providers, and state and local officials with testing and other concerns in combatting the epidemic. Thank you for your patience."

That will be the end of it.

Humperdink said...

Note: Toomey is an R.

BUMBLE BEE said...

Friend says "Turns out conspiracy theorists were just full of foresight".

BUMBLE BEE said...

Reuters reports the WHO declares "Huge volume of Covid Hospital waste threatens human health".
4.3 billion masks a day worldwide? %10 for the Big Guy.

Tank said...

Tried to watch the new season of After Life.

That show is done.

Kai Akker said...

----Never mind that those three-decade-old Postal Delivery trucks that cost a fortune to maintain are already killing and maiming people...

OK. Who are you, and what have you done with Gadfly?

tim in vermont said...

"ou guys will dream up some choice nefarious pornographic scenarios related to Fauci "

If you want to preserve your high dudgeon regarding the 'scurrilous' attacks on Fauci, I suggest you continue carefully avoid reading any of the FOIA emails regarding his role in engineering this virus, also don't read this warning in Nature begging them not to do it before the worst happened.

Engineered bat virus stirs debate over risky research - Nature

Lucien said...

How is it that the term “CoEd” is still in use? (Seriously)
(And not just in things like “Naked CoEd Twister”)

rhhardin said...

I think the wind chill was below zero.

If it's a matter of running, it's the actual temperature that matters. You've got to heat up all the air you breathe to body temperature, and the energy that takes is independent of wind speed.

It takes a good fraction of your aerobic capacity. Even young fit athletes will notice that their times are worse in cold winter weather. That's why. Stolen aerobic capacity.

wendybar said...

Tweet I saw today from Lauren Boebert - "Should the Buccaneers promise to replace Tom Brady with a woman of color??"

MadisonMan said...

Even young fit athletes will notice that their times are worse in cold winter weather.
Air is also denser when colder. You do more work to push through it.

Humperdink said...

"Even young fit athletes will notice that their times are worse in cold winter weather."

OTOH, airplanes are more efficient in low temperatures, as cold air is denser than warm air. That typically means shorter, faster takeoffs and better performance.

Bob Boyd said...

Air is also denser when colder. You do more work to push through it.

Not sure that's the reason. Air is also denser at sea level than at 10,000 feet, but it doesn't degrade performance, it improves it. Denser means more oxygen in a lungful, doesn't it?

iowan2 said...

as cold air is denser than warm air. That typically means shorter, faster takeoffs and better performance.

The warmer the air, the higher the moisture content. higher water holding potential. For aircraft warm air = less lift.

Seems like lots of different variables affecting lots of different processes.

Lurker21 said...

All the video of buildings burning and looters running through the streets while television reporters talked of "mostly peaceful protests" was quite strange. But seeing the latest protests in Canada, I'm led to ask, where were those "mostly peaceful protestors" in 2020? If you were filming "mostly peaceful protests" wouldn't you want to show those peaceful protests and peaceful protests, rather than fires, violence and anarchy in the streets?

Were the reporters trying to attract eyeballs by going to scenes of arson and looting, but then forced by ideology to deny that it was going on? Were there any truly peaceful protests? Were the actual "protests" or confrontations more "peaceful" than anything else going on in those streets last summer? But then, showcasing a peaceful protest going on somewhere in the midst of all the chaos would have another deception by the media.

wendybar said...

Boo Hoo. Your Governor is mad that RADICALS are taking away the ballot boxes for mail in voting so the left can't cheat again. WAHHHHHHH. It's so funny to watch people have meltdowns because they have to find another way to cheat. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/democrat-governor-tony-evers-panics-judge-rules-ballot-drop-boxes-illegal-state/

Tina Trent said...

Rehajm: I used to have a job contributing to The Soros Files. I spent a few years analyzing Soros' 990s, and the Prosecutor's Project was one entity that had me worried more than a decade ago. Individual names are likely scholarships and fellowships here and in Europe (very often European students studying in American schools)with the intent to flood universities with hardcore leftists specializing in subjects such as eliminating incarceration for any crime.

Soros was and is focused on tearing down American and European culture: legalize all drugs, eliminate all incarceration, and eliminate national borders. The Russians and Chi-coms wouldn't let him set up his nonprofits in their countries, and he had little interest in Africa or South America.

rehajm said...

Tina Trent said...
Rehajm: I used to have a job contributing to The Soros Files. I spent a few years analyzing Soros' 990s, and the Prosecutor's Project was one entity that had me worried more than a decade ago. Individual names are likely scholarships and fellowships here and in Europe (very often European students studying in American schools)with the intent to flood universities with hardcore leftists specializing in subjects such as eliminating incarceration for any crime.


Thank you for sharing your experience. You were quite early in recognizing the danger of Soros backed prosecutors...

...and yes my focus was on the hundreds/thousands of individual scholarship recipient names. I did a quick and dirty search on a few with listed addresses in places I am familiar with and at first glance the content returned sometimes feels contrived, as if the results were invented and deliberately placed...

...I'm going to do some more checking when I have more time...

Lurker21 said...

Had many thoughts good and bad about The Many Saints of Newark. It doesn't and can't measure up to The Sopranos, but it certainly was an experience, and provocative.

Tried to watch Kevin Can F**k Himself. Is it me or was it abysmally, monstrously bad? If you watch more than the first few minutes, the series is supposed to escape from the sitcom style of the first scene, but I found those first minutes so off-putting that I didn't want to put any more time into it.

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Mike of Snoqualmie said...

Yesterday I sent an email to my senator Pat Toomey (D-Worthless) asking his thoughts on flying illegals into our fair commonwealth in the middle of the night. I labelled it human trafficking.

I've done the same for Adam Smith (D, WA-9). The responses I get are all canned. Pick a subject from the drop down menu, and you'll get the canned response for that subject. No response from what I actually said.

Mike of Snoqualmie said...

OTOH, airplanes are more efficient in low temperatures, as cold air is denser than warm air. That typically means shorter, faster takeoffs and better performance.

Engine thrust is usually described as "flat rated" below some critical temperature, usually around 90-deg F. The colder temperature means the the wing develops more lift for the same ground speed than at a higher temperature, so the speed for rotation and lift off is lower.

Mike of Snoqualmie said...

OTOH, airplanes are more efficient in low temperatures, as cold air is denser than warm air. That typically means shorter, faster takeoffs and better performance.

Engine thrust is usually described as "flat rated" below some critical temperature, usually around 90-deg F. The colder temperature means the the wing develops more lift for the same ground speed than at a higher temperature, so the speed for rotation and lift off is lower.

Mike of Snoqualmie said...

Boo Hoo. Your Governor is mad that RADICALS are taking away the ballot boxes for mail in voting so the left can't cheat again. WAHHHHHHH. It's so funny to watch people have meltdowns because they have to find another way to cheat. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/democrat-governor-tony-evers-panics-judge-rules-ballot-drop-boxes-illegal-state/

Don't forget limiting voting at midnight or voting from your car. Those nasty Republicans!

That's voter suppression!

tim in vermont said...

I see that the great walking away from Facebook is starting to bite.

Drago said...

gadfly: "Never mind that those three-decade-old Postal Delivery trucks that cost a fortune to maintain are already killing and maiming people."

What a perfectly leftist formulation.

The Delivery trucks are killing and maiming people!

OMG!

Have we offered therapy for those traumatized drivers of postal delivery trucks who were apparently unable to overpower the murderous delivery trucks to keep them from their deadly rampages?

Here's a clue gadfly: why don't you try to "up" your reading comprehension/logic/persuasion skills from middle school level to at least the 9th grade? It would be well worth your time and could pay off handsomely for the rest of your life!

We are all rooting for you!

Keep us updated.

BG said...

Boo Hoo. Your Governor is mad that RADICALS are taking away the ballot boxes for mail in voting so the left can't cheat again. WAHHHHHHH. It's so funny to watch people have meltdowns because they have to find another way to cheat. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/democrat-governor-tony-evers-panics-judge-rules-ballot-drop-boxes-illegal-state/

Not quite yet.

From Fox 6 News: "A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday allowed absentee ballot boxes to remain in place for the Feb. 15 statewide spring primary election for local offices, but said it will decide later about their legality going forward.

The court agreed to take the case, as requested by a conservative group, but did not lift a stay on a lower court ruling declaring that no ballot boxes could be in place beyond those at municipal clerk's offices. A state appeals court put the stay in place."

farmgirl said...

Andrew: and all whilest chewing gum!