Althouse: At the Monday Night Café...

March 14, 2022

At the Monday Night Café...

... you can talk about whatever you want.

34 comments:

gilbar said...: news you can use
Pelosi claims government spending is ‘reducing the national debt,’ not causing inflation

“When we’re having this discussion, it’s important to dispel some of those who say, well it’s the government spending. No, it isn’t. The government spending is doing the exact reverse, reducing the national debt. It is not inflationary.”; 3/14/22, 7:39 PM
Joe Smith said...: Draft-dodger Romney is in a Twitter war with Tulsi...he called her 'treasonous.'

Hmmm.

Libs excoriated Trump over his draft deferments, but lifeguard/football player Biden received five of them for asthma issues.

Full disclosure: I signed up at the post office on my eighteenth birthday but nobody called me...; 3/14/22, 7:44 PM
madAsHell said...: I notice that the Chinese government has ordered another COVID flu lock-down in Shanghai.

Someone commenting here......mentioned that the mask mandate would return after the mid-term election.

Pardon me, but I need to go watch "Build Back Better Tin Foil Hats" on the DIY network.; 3/14/22, 7:45 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Halfway through Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History #68 : Human Resources

👉🏽 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dan-carlins-hardcore-history/id173001861?i=1000553133741; 3/14/22, 7:58 PM
David Begley said...: What happened to the hat picture? I liked it.

BTW, I have Creighton beating the Badgers in the NCAA tournament.; 3/14/22, 8:01 PM
Meade said...: So do I.; 3/14/22, 8:04 PM
David Begley said...: Meade!

You also have Creighton besting the Badgers?; 3/14/22, 8:17 PM
David Begley said...: If Creighton does play Wisconsin, I’m driving to Madison to watch the game at YOUR house.; 3/14/22, 8:18 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Michael Tracey: Why Democrats Demand Collective Punishment Against Russian Civilians : On July 15, 2017, Congressman Mike Quigley — Democrat of Illinois — made a fairly remarkable statement: “When you meet with any Russians,” he declared on CNN, “you’re meeting with Russian intelligence. And therefore Putin.”

Just take a moment to appreciate the implications of this logical construction. By dint of a person’s nationality, the mere act of meeting them is equivalent to meeting the highest echelons of a hostile foreign government. Or in other words — for the purposes of whom one might “meet,” there is no difference between a random person of Russian background and a Russian state agent reporting directly to Putin. Quigley thus acquired the distinction of articulating the closest one can get to an outright, explicit conflation of private citizens with their government, on the basis of nothing other than those citizens’ inborn ethnic/national characteristics. In another context and another time, a theory so crazed would have been rightly condemned as abject xenophobia, especially by such “compassionate” liberals such as Quigley. But over the past six years, these theories became utterly “normalized” as just another front in the by-any-means-necessary crusade to thwart Donald Trump.; 3/14/22, 8:21 PM
Meade said...: Yes I do, DB.
I hope your vehicle gets good mileage. Filling up in Madison could cost you a bundle. Gas might be $5/gal by next week. You have my word on it as a Biden.; 3/14/22, 8:27 PM
Big Mike said...: I see that the Left's favorite actor, Alec Baldwin, is now trying to blame the woman he killed for his killing her. I might not be so down on him if he'd admit that he doesn't know the first thing about handgun safety and he accidentally killed a talented cinematographer by mishandling his gun.

Not that Lefties are famous for their honesty.

For the record, if he was going to point a gun at people -- you know, human beings -- he should have checked the cylinder of his single action revolver by pointing the gun in a safe direction (i.e., where no one was standing), put the hammer on half cock, open the loading gate, and spin the cylinder. Upon seeing that the chambers were not empty, use the ejection rod to remove the rounds of ammo. Takes 30 seconds, tops. Yes, he expected those rounds to be blanks, but two American actors (Jon-Erik Hexum and Brandon Lee) and a Mexican actor have been killed by being shot by blank rounds.; 3/14/22, 8:29 PM
effinayright said...: Wow. Russian media are telling other outlets to use Tucker Carlson's talking points about the war.

I can't imagine the shitstorm he's going to face.; 3/14/22, 8:32 PM
Jupiter said...: Mitt Romney wants to send warplanes to Ukraine. Amazing. I actually voted to make him President!; 3/14/22, 8:33 PM
Two-eyed Jack said...: People, look at this:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10610491/Asteroid-half-size-giraffe-strikes-Earth-coast-Iceland.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline

The earth struck by an asteroid half the size of a giraffe. Struck, literally, by a large boulder the size of a small boulder!; 3/14/22, 8:36 PM
madAsHell said...: Full disclosure: I signed up at the post office on my eighteenth birthday but nobody called me...

I still have my draft card. I'm 1-H.; 3/14/22, 8:36 PM
Joe Smith said...: 'Gas might be $5/gal by next week.'

Just buy the damned Tesla already...; 3/14/22, 8:57 PM
MadisonMan said...: Just a note of appreciation on early Spring Weather: Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!; 3/14/22, 9:03 PM
Big Mike said...: @Althouse, you took umbrage at my comments regarding your post three days ago, on March 11th. You accused me of insulting you. Yup. Damned right. But I should have explained why you pissed me off so much.

The article was in the New York Times, and you accused me of being a "poor reader." Actually, when it comes to the Times I'm generally a non-reader. I gave up on them and the Washington Post as reliable sources of information well over a decade ago. So this is part of why I despise you -- what is the point of a woman being intelligent if she steadfastly refuses to use that intelligence to read an article critically?

Yes, most of the article is factual, as far as it goes, but here are a number of questions that a reasonably skeptical reader might think to ask.

(1) How did Officer Jeffrey Smith come to have a concussion? Yes, I know that he was allegedly struck by a metal pole, but how did he suffer a concussion from that (alleged) attack if he was in his riot gear and wearing his helmet?

(2) If he wasn't in his riot helmet, why not? Who ordered him not to wear it, or who should have ordered him to wear it and did not?

(3) Keep in mind that this protest is barely a pimple on the ass of full blown riots (or, in journalistic speak, "fiery but mostly peaceful" protests) that occur regularly in Washington, especially including the BLM riots that took place only months before. How came the officers out those riots unscathed when a markedly less violent protest resulted in Officer Smith's concussion?

(4) Did he leave a suicide note? If so,what did it say?

(5) If you, Althouse, read some publications outside your liberal bubble, you might be aware that some people have wondered out loud whether Officer Smith's suicide was actually a murder, designed to make the January 6th protest seem so much worse than it was.

Now this is what it looks like to demonstrate cruel neutrality.

And I apologize for the time delay in responding. I've been working on taxes.; 3/14/22, 9:40 PM
Joe Smith said...: 'I still have my draft card. I'm 1-H.'

You're probably a tad older than me...; 3/14/22, 9:40 PM
effinayright said...: madAsHell said...
Full disclosure: I signed up at the post office on my eighteenth birthday but nobody called me...

I still have my draft card. I'm 1-H.
***********

I was I-Y, a classification no one seems to have heard of. But it's right there on my card.

Says on-line: " 1-Y - Registrant qualified for service only in time of war or national emergency. Note: The 1-Y classification was abolished December 10, 1971. "

Back then, I was so near-sighted as to be close to being legally blind. Contact lenses, and then the frickin miracle of cataract surgery, have today left me needing only reading glasses.; 3/14/22, 9:51 PM
walter said...: Who's lining up their 4th shot?!
Science!; 3/14/22, 10:07 PM
asIMust said...: "Mitt Romney wants to send warplanes to Ukraine. Amazing. I actually voted to make him President!"

Me too! Remind me again of our alternative?; 3/14/22, 10:16 PM
ngtrains said...: DB - buy a Tesla for the drive to Madison - better leave now so you have time to recharge
it and still get to see the game

ted; 3/14/22, 10:35 PM
Jaq said...: The reality behind the propaganda is that the West and its Ukrainian allies have opportunistically exploited and empowered the extreme right in Ukraine, first to pull off the 2014 coup and then by redirecting it to fight separatists in eastern Ukraine. And far from "denazifying" Ukraine, - Salon

So Salon admits that we overthrew the Ukrainian government using actual Nazis and that that those Nazis have been fighting "seperatists" meaning people who did not accept the US backed coup willingly... BTW, killing tens of thousands of these Russian speaking Ukrainian civilians over the years since the coup, and you guys are all just OK with this?; 3/14/22, 10:36 PM
gadfly said...: So foreign airlines and airplane lessors will have their aircraft absconded by Putin and put into Russian domestic service. Who are these stupid dum-basses who leave their airplanes in Russia after canceling contracts, including the leased planes being used by Russian commercial airlines such as Aeroflot?; 3/14/22, 11:05 PM
gadfly said...: Joe Smith said...
'Gas might be $5/gal by next week.'

Just buy the damned Tesla already..

Joe - Gasoline is far cheaper than Teslas.; 3/14/22, 11:08 PM
AZ Bob said...: Let them drive Prius.; 3/14/22, 11:33 PM
Rt41Rebel said...: The bad news is that my drinking has increased in the last month.

The good news is that there is a betting chance that I won't suffer any long term consequences.; 3/14/22, 11:40 PM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: One of the strangest Ukraine stories is the way the biolab stories went from “Russian propaganda” to “the USA was helping 3 or 4 labs decontaminate” to “okay we funded maybe 2 dozen and didn’t shut them down” so fast, even accounting for that fog of war warning. Did they ever get 75,000 Javelins? Why is Biden so slow-motion about this?; 3/14/22, 11:40 PM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: Since RT has been off for a while where does this special knowledge about Russian TV programming come from? Do you speak Russian? Or is this second hand sound bite crap? It sounds suspiciously like typical deep state neoliberal bs but maybe it’s just propaganda.; 3/14/22, 11:47 PM
Big Mike said...: @Achilles, who left Afghanistan in a mad rush, with our tail between our legs?; 3/15/22, 7:27 AM
TheOne Who Is Not Obeyed said...: Very often in history small wars have presaged major changes in the way big wars are fought. Think 'shock and awe' in Iraq I, drones in Iraq II, etc. I think the electronic and cyber warfare going on in the Russian war on Ukraine is one of these times. When this is all over the post-war reviews and histories will bring to light some pretty amazing changes in the way the ethereal battlespace was contested.; 3/15/22, 10:02 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: “I notice that the Chinese government has ordered another COVID flu lock-down in Shanghai.”

“Someone commenting here......mentioned that the mask mandate would return after the mid-term election.”

They can try, and who would blame them? They got a huge amount of power, and for some A lot of money. But most of the country is so over this COVID-19 nonsense now. It looks to me that Omicron burned through the population, leaving the bulk of us with natural immunities. The only way we don’t know this is because the public health bureaucracies are apparently studiously not doing widespread testing, or even sampling, for this. My theory here is that if they did publish the percent of natural immunities (like they do the percentage of jabbed)that it would quickly become obvious that the vaccines would be shown to not provide a benefit, and very possibly are dangerous, and very possibly are more dangerous after someone has survived the virus, or even has been jabbed before. Making things worse, they get caught, through FOIA, when they selectively publish their results, so the only viable approach is to not gather the statistics in the first place.

Am I too cynical? Maybe, but maybe I am not cynical enough. Who would have thought that one of the head bureaucrats (Fauci) telling us to mask, get jabbed, etc, apparently used our tax dollars to help create the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Gain Of Function research in one of the CCP bio labs in Wuhan, China? Not sure what was going on, but it looks like our public health bureaucracy was also funding questionable research in Ukraine.; 3/15/22, 10:23 AM
Joe Smith said...: 'Joe - Gasoline is far cheaper than Teslas.'

You missed the blindingly obvious sarcasm.

It was a Psaki/Boot-edge-edge 'let them eat cake' comment.; 3/15/22, 11:07 AM