Althouse: At the Sunrise Café...

August 27, 2022

At the Sunrise Café...

... you can talk about whatever you want.

32 comments:

Original Mike said...: Former Phoenix reporter who broke story of Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting found dead

"Police said his death appeared to be a suicide."

Looks like Clinton's running again.; 8/27/22, 6:55 PM
Sprezzatura said...: Thanks for the update OM.

This blog attracts crazy thinking people.

Presumably it’s a compliment that I’m banned so frequently.; 8/27/22, 7:18 PM
madAsHell said...: Hetrification is caused by bachelorette parties!!

Who knew????; 8/27/22, 8:17 PM
Lurker21 said...: I thought The Artist's Wife was good. Bruce Dern is an irascible, aging artist and Lena Olin is his wife. The ending was the sort of thing that is becoming a cliche lately, but I appreciated all the drama on the way. There's a "Jill Clayburgh movie" vibe to the thing -- Lena is even struggling to carry large canvases. The closing theme is a Carole King song, and you get to see a side of Stefanie Powers that wasn't on display in Hart to Hart.

Mark Rylance probably gave a very good performance in The Outfit, a film about a tailor in Chicago, who has trouble with gangsters. He has an extremely expressive face, but all his roles seem to be the same timid guy. The script, though, was lousy -- sentimental, with plot holes and improbable turns, and constructed with little understanding of the real gangster world.

The critics, though, liked The Outfit better than The Artist's Wife. They may even be right, though I doubt it.; 8/27/22, 8:18 PM
NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...: Original Mike said...

Former Phoenix reporter who broke story of Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting found dead

Check the date on that, story's over a year old.; 8/27/22, 8:52 PM
Original Mike said...: "Check the date on that, story's over a year old."

He's not dead anymore?; 8/27/22, 9:23 PM
wildswan said...: Soldiers in one of Russia's new battalions destined for the Ukraine end their training - fit and ready to fight.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FbKPULKVUAIJxAu?format=jpg&name=large; 8/27/22, 9:31 PM
Maynard said...: This blog attracts crazy thinking people.

I am happy we amuse you.

It must be a lot different from the lefty blogs that attract crazy non-thinking people.; 8/27/22, 9:57 PM
narciso said...: Was cromwell nondescript was rudolph abel the point about wielding power for good or evil is its not about appearance; 8/27/22, 10:29 PM
gadfly said...: Trump filed a lawsuit on Monday to block the FBI from reviewing the documents that it seized in its raid of his home earlier this month.

Judge Cannon (a Trump appointee) declared that a hearing on the motion to appoint a special master will take place on Thursday. September 1, after the defense lawyers, file their response.

What the DOJ will respond is easy to determine:

*A provision of the Presidential Records Act requires any legal disputes by a former president under that statute to be filed in the federal district court in Washington D.C. So Trump attempt #3 must be filed in the DC Federal District Court.

*Over the past eighteen days, all records seized or transferred from Mar-a-Lago since January, have already been reviewed and evidence gathered by the FBI filter team. So there is no reason for a special master since the recovered, now confidential evidence is in hand covering the PRA and two other potential crimes at issue (willful retention of national defense information and obstruction of justice). All other records are in the process of being returned.

*Trump will have his day in court to dispute the evidence.; 8/27/22, 10:45 PM
narciso said...: As abel he spins a tale to donovan played by tom hanks that is utterly ridiculous as cromwell he is henrys right hand man the vader to his emperor.; 8/27/22, 10:50 PM
Baceseras said...: Crazy people like me go crazy over people like you; 8/28/22, 2:15 AM
wendybar said...: Maynard said...
This blog attracts crazy thinking people.

I am happy we amuse you.

It must be a lot different from the lefty blogs that attract crazy non-thinking people.

8/27/22, 9:57 PM

Excellent reply Maynard!!!; 8/28/22, 6:23 AM
Nancy said...: NYT is asking for responses to "how has student loan forgiveness plan affected you" for a forthcoming article. I told them
-raising my taxes
-increasing inflation
-outraging me by its unfairness, moral hazard, and obvious vote buying.

Let's see if they include my "story" in their article.; 8/28/22, 6:46 AM
rhhardin said...: This guy on YouTube does the nicest job on analyzing Ukraine war video clips, what it is, where it is, how it fits in.; 8/28/22, 6:52 AM
Jersey Fled said...: "Presumably it’s a compliment that I’m banned so frequently."

It's not.; 8/28/22, 7:15 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: From Legalinsurrection... https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/08/politico-reveals-irs-leaks-in-their-big-scoop-that-republican-nikki-haley-is-getting-donations-from-republicans/; 8/28/22, 7:29 AM
Ann Althouse said...: "This blog attracts crazy thinking people. Presumably it’s a compliment that I’m banned so frequently."

I don't have the power to "ban" anyone, but I systematically refuse everything by a few people and some things by other people, and you've experienced that.

But approval and disapproval is never about the ideas expressed and never means anything about how sane or crazy the ideas are.

It's about maliciousness and contempt that is directed at me and other people that I regard as in bad faith and intended to distract people into degrading debate. As it says above the compose window: "Comments should respond to material raised in the post. I encourage brevity and substance and discourage personal attacks and repetition."

You do personal attacks that make us suspect you of bad faith participation (trolling) and hurting this forum for me and others. You might be doing that out of craziness or sanity. I really don't care. And I don't appreciate the disparagement of people with psychological problems. Respect other people and write about substance — ideas.; 8/28/22, 7:47 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: VDH... https://victorhanson.com/the-worst-and-the-stupidest/; 8/28/22, 7:47 AM
lonejustice said...: One of my favorite national anthems:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI974v1Jdig&t=56s; 8/28/22, 7:57 AM
MayBee said...: For those who don't know, Glenn Greenwald's husband David is severely ill, has been in the ICU for weeks. If you are a prayer or a thinker of kind thoughts, send some their way.; 8/28/22, 8:09 AM
Jefferson's Revenge said...: Interesting VDH column in NY Post about our elite. Of course, he’s written on that before. Very blunt. I accessed it through Instapundit. If I knew how to link it I would do so..

I wonder what it must be like to be one of the elite and read a total takedown of your lack of self awareness and your general lack of competence. Can you internalize it and do some self evaluation or do you ignore it? Does an Ivy League degree mean never having to say you are sorry?

What actually happens when the Emperor realizes he has no clothes?; 8/28/22, 8:16 AM
Lurker21 said...: I don't think the Clintons are actively killing their enemies anymore, or that they were big in the drug trade, but there's enough corruption in the family to give the accusations a little sting. I'm not sure how I feel about these joke factoids, charges and innuendos people make to amuse themselves but that probably aren't true. In general I'm opposed to them. What starts as a joke is taken seriously by some people, and untruths proliferate, but there are those who believe equally ridiculous things about Trump and take those accusations completely seriously when there's no evidence for them either, and the government and media actually take those allegations seriously with no thought that they are just somebody's attempt at humor.

If you read this, note the ambiguity in the first clause.; 8/28/22, 8:48 AM
Christopher B said...: What if the Mar-A-Lago raid is just a pissing contest between Trump and the National Archives, because the National Archives wants to grab every scrap of note paper, used cocktail napkin, and folded menu from Trump so he has nothing to exhibit in a Presidential Library? It would fit with the revelations of how the Biden administration got involved, also fits Garland's hostage statement, the broadness of the warrant, and the use of the Trump-obsessed 'Crossfire Hurricane' team to execute it. It was never about classified documents. Don't underestimate the pettiness of bureaucrats.; 8/28/22, 8:50 AM
Drago said...: adSs: "Presumably it’s a compliment that I’m banned so frequently."

"Nobody knows, the troubles I've seen........."; 8/28/22, 9:02 AM
wendybar said...: INTERESTING MUST READ THREAD....https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/08/28/dont-wanna-say-the-doj-set-trump-up-buuut-thread-of-fbi-affidavit-oddities-pretty-damn-damning-fisa-docs/; 8/28/22, 9:21 AM
Drago said...: Christopher B: "What if the Mar-A-Lago raid is just a pissing contest between Trump and the National Archives, because the National Archives wants to grab every scrap of note paper, used cocktail napkin, and folded menu from Trump so he has nothing to exhibit in a Presidential Library?"

Wrong, wrong wrong.

Accept this reality: The New Soviet Democraticals intend to hoax their way to a conviction of Trump, his children and his supporters and they have already declared the 70+ million Trump voters "domestic terrorists".; 8/28/22, 9:28 AM
MadTownGuy said...: Here's the article by Victor Davis Hanson in the New York Post:

"Group-think keeps leading our elites into disaster

His summation: "The point of these contrasts is not that an Ivy League degree or a Washington reputation is of little value. Instead, one lesson is that conventional wisdom and groupthink tend to mislead.

We forget that knowledge can be found at all ages and in all places. And ethics has nothing to do with degrees or pedigrees."; 8/28/22, 10:27 AM
gadfly said...: According to Stephanie Grisham, Trump’s [former] director of communications . . . :

Boxes of documents even came with Trump on foreign travel, following him to hotel rooms around the world — including countries considered foreign adversaries of the United States.

“There was no rhyme or reason — it was classified documents on top of newspapers on top of papers people printed out of things they wanted him to read. The boxes were never organized,” Grisham said. “He’d want to get work done on long trips so he’d just rummage through the boxes. That was our filing system.”

Grisham’s assertion is not corroborated, but it is at least consistent with Trump keeping documents in the White House residence and stuff mixed with unclassified material.

We do not know any more than what is . . . above but [it] . . . just screams that Trump has been recklessly taking classified material all over the world for reasons known only to him, perhaps to share things he finds “cool” or much worse. At the very least, it’s so reckless that the assertions demand further investigation, and just “Because he was the president” isn’t good enough anymore.

Personally, as long as Trump can be convicted under 18 US Code § 2071 - Concealment, Removal, or Mutilation Generally - that is enough for me.

Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States.; 8/28/22, 1:17 PM
Narr said...: gadfly, you're a caution.; 8/28/22, 3:03 PM
Drago said...: Gadfly The Hopeless quoting his favorite far left publications: "Grisham’s assertion is not corroborated,..."

LOL

And we are done here.

Gadfly, is it time to pivot back to your earlier espionage lies, or are you more comfortable flexing back to your debunked Epstein lies?; 8/28/22, 3:10 PM
George Leroy Tirebiter said...: Hmm, clueless about this upcoming “fictional” movie (September 7 release) til just now, which follows the U.S. President's son in his lifestyle & scandalous business dealings.

My Son Hunter - movie trailer + info; 8/28/22, 5:33 PM