Althouse: At the Monday Night Café...

September 12, 2022

At the Monday Night Café...

... you can talk about whatever you want.

36 comments:

Gusty Winds said...: Biden is promising to cure cancer.; 9/12/22, 7:47 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: The wind patterns don't lie...
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2022/09/12/study-over-75-plastic-pacific-garbage-patch-chinese-japanese-fishermen/

But No plastic straws for you!; 9/12/22, 7:52 PM
Humperdink said...: "Fetterman (D-Gun Control) chased the man down with a shotgun and detained him until police arrived...

It turned out that the man was jogging and wearing running clothes. According to a police report, the man was unarmed and said the sound of gunfire was actually fireworks, although two witnesses thought they heard shots.

The man Fetterman pulled a gun on is Black. Fetterman — the mayor of the Pittsburgh-area borough of Braddock at the time and now the state’s lieutenant governor — is white.

“He’s not shooting straight on this, no pun intended. Just 'fess up. Apologize,” said Michael Nutter, Philadelphia’s last Black mayor, who served until 2016.

“All this other stuff — that he was the chief law enforcement officer or that he didn’t know the guy was Black — just doesn’t really sound like he wants to tell the truth,” added Nutter"

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/fettermans-gun-incident-rattles-black-democrats-pa-senate-race-rcna25649

Sounds like a graduate of the Congress critter Karen Bass school of gun control.; 9/12/22, 7:55 PM
Lucien said...: If you had any connection to the Trump administration, how dumb would you have to be in order to still have a phone you were using in January of 2021?; 9/12/22, 8:08 PM
Creola Soul said...: Hear me out on this…..
The Daily Mail said the Queen had a gin and Dubonet before lunch and a gin and tonic before dinner….everyday. At age 96, her doctors told her to give up alcohol. Really? Are you kidding? The doctors, in the dining room, with bad advice.; 9/12/22, 8:34 PM
hawkeyedjb said...: So, if we give more money and power to the senile nincompoop, we'll get rid of cancer and hot weather. Seems like a pretty realistic plan.; 9/12/22, 8:44 PM
john said...: If the procession of maybe a dozen vehicles took 6 hours to drive from Balmoral to Edinburg, where would they pull in for gas? How would they deal with Margaret having to go pee? Would they all stop for lunch or do a drive-through? Important logistical questions.; 9/12/22, 8:56 PM
Bob Boyd said...: Defund Fetterman!; 9/12/22, 8:56 PM
madAsHell said...: My daughter went to the agriculture college over in Pullman, WA.

It seems that those farmer boys from Pullman took a trip into Camp Randall Stadium, and beat the Wisconsin Badgers.

GO COUGS!!; 9/12/22, 9:01 PM
john said...: If the procession of maybe a dozen vehicles took 6 hours to drive from Balmoral to Edinburg, where would they pull in for gas? How would they deal with Margaret having to go pee? Would they all stop for lunch or do a drive-through? Important logistical questions.; 9/12/22, 9:13 PM
Narr said...: My profile count jumped recently to >2k. I'd like to thank our hostess, the academy, and the literally many scores of fans who bothered to look.

As I watched some of the pageantry surrounding her late majesty's progress south, I thought of the layers of irony on display. The descendants of the German Georges kilted.

1745: Tartans and other Scottish traditions proscribed. 1845: Victoria's army's Scots regiments among the most fashionable, and something like a quarter of the "British" Imperial administrators, engineers and entrepreneurs from Scotland. 1945: The Scots bask in a reputation for bravery and service on all Imperial fronts in both World Wars. 2045?

I won't be here to see it, most likely.

(Blogger is asshole, profile count or not. Sorry if a repeat.); 9/12/22, 9:15 PM
Old and slow said...: Garth Brooks is so popular in Ireland (in the country, not so much in Dublin) that he is playing 5 concerts in the national stadium Croak Park that seats about 80,000. All are sold out. The county of Monaghan with a population of 61,000 has had over 18,000 tickets sold for the shows. The Irish have always had a bit of a cowboy obsession. From John Wayne in The Quiet Man, to JR Ewing in Dallas, to line dancing. Hell, even Thin Lizzie had "The Cowboy Song"

Over 400,000 tickets were sold in a nation of 5,000,000. A comparable show in the USA would have to sell about 28,000,000 tickets.; 9/12/22, 10:46 PM
Owen said...: Tom Knighton has a substack where he just posted an interesting point: that “participation trophies” aren’t the problem, the problem is the destruction/devaluation of the REAL trophies that recognize merit and achievement. I think that’s right.

Progs win by denying to us the stable objective frame of moral reference; the established goals and guideposts of traditional society and culture. Achievement prizes are part of that frame. They are a currency the Progs don’t control. So long as they are recognized and respected, the. the feel-good participation trophies —a currency the Progs do control— can do little harm. But the relationship between the true currency and the imitation currency is not stable. And when the latter displaces the former, as Gresham’s Law predicts? Look out.; 9/13/22, 3:04 AM
gadfly said...: Gusty Winds said...
Biden is promising to cure cancer.

Trump went one step further. He told us how we could cure the coronavirus pandemic.

“A question that probably some of you are thinking of if you’re totally into that world,” Trump began, clearly thinking the question himself, “So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light — and I think you said that that hasn’t been checked, but you’re going to test it. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way, and I think you said you’re going to test that, too. It sounds interesting. And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that.”

“We tested bleach,” he said at one point. “I can tell you that bleach will kill the virus in five minutes.” And I suppose that “it does a tremendous number on the lungs” as well.; 9/13/22, 3:10 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: If you had any connection to the Trump administration, how dumb would you have to be in order to still have a phone you were using in January of 2021?

Confidence you did nothing wrong. The problem is, is what you did, it’s what Biden’s DOJ can prove.; 9/13/22, 5:10 AM
wendybar said...: Defund the Corrupt progressive FBI who are setting up Trump as we speak.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/whistleblowers-reveals-fbi-agents-violated-rules-smuggled-phones-secure-rooms-raiding-president-trumps-home-baseless-security-allegations/; 9/13/22, 5:18 AM
wendybar said...: In a nutshell....

https://www.americanthinker.com/cartoons/; 9/13/22, 5:25 AM
Jefferson's Revenge said...: Gadfly, you may not understand that UV light is used as a disinfectant in some surgical procedures. I also have a close friend who underwent a treatment for severe cancer that involved filling her internal cavity with a bleach-like substance and rolling her body around for 15 minutes in an attempt to cure many very small tumors. There are many legitimate treatments that sound silly on the surface. Leeches are a cure again as well.

Relative to Trump vs Biden, is there any segment of the US better off than it was 4 years ago? That’s the real question.; 9/13/22, 5:34 AM
wendybar said...: Only Republicans are a “threat to democracy” for the “crime” of questioning the results of an election. Isn’t that convenient?

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/09/04/everyone-around-biden-is-an-election-denier-including-him-n1626817; 9/13/22, 5:38 AM
Humperdink said...: gadfly asserted: "Trump went one step further. He told us how we could cure the coronavirus pandemic."

President Bidas Touch™ unequivocally stated if you get the shot, you won't get Covid. This was after the Trump administration was sent packing. My college attending grandson has been "vaccinated" twice and boosted. He is now resting at home with Covid. He is (was) a perfectly healthy soccer player. Speaking of boosted, so are his chances for getting myocarditis.

WaPoo and other lefty commies reveled counting Trump lies, but are strangely silent with this "border is closed" administration.; 9/13/22, 5:44 AM
Howard said...: The Queen probably took 10-years off her life by drinking every day.

Liberal elites are working to cure cancer and have made great strides. mRNA technology is a big part of the effort.

The cure for cancer will not be advanced in one single red County, although they are sure to supply a majority of the patients due to their profligate gluttonous lust for highly processed tasty comfort foods.; 9/13/22, 6:01 AM
wildswan said...: According to the Russians the special operation aka colonial war in Ukraine is going well. There's time for sports and fantasy war. For example, cars, motorcycles and bikes are being assembled at various points for the oncoming military games, featuring "Rodina Run". In this exciting contest, soldiers leap from their tanks onto bikes and motorcycles or into cars, discard their uniforms and race toward the nearest Russian border using GPS. They must evade the "enemy". "Enemy" is an antique concept since the Russians, of course, have no real enemies, just future subjects of the Empire. But it adds to the excitement of the race to imagine being put on trial for raping and looting Nazi villagers and shooting up hospitals and schools. In fantasy war you choose your dream team of oligarchs, military leaders, and regiments and pit them against the Nazis of the Ukr. You advance successfully to trumpets until suddenly you don't. The oligarchs jump out of the window, the military leaders shuffle themselves somehow and the regiments, somehow magically depleted, mutiny. The point is to shell as many villages and hospitals as you can in these difficult circumstances before the timer runs down.; 9/13/22, 6:23 AM
Humperdink said...: Both the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the WaPoo, liberal rags both, have called for Fetterman to release his medical records. Don't expect that anytime soon. Recent images of the stroke-stricken candidate have shown a rather large growth on the back of his neck. Hence his proclivity for the wearing hoodies. Good grief, can we stop this charade?; 9/13/22, 6:27 AM
wendybar said...: Now Bidens Gestapo is raiding Trump supporters who weren't even in DC on 1/6/21. Intimidation is real. Wakey wakey!! Our Government is tyrannical!! https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/09/12/fbi-turns-up-on-doorstep-of-trump-supporter-who-wasnt-even-at-capitol-n626595; 9/13/22, 6:32 AM
Jaq said...: Everybody in my immediate family circle is currently positive except the one daughter who recovered about a month ago, and was never very sick. I just want to thank Dr Fauci for changing the definition of gain of function to not include altering bat viruses to infect humans so that the US could still fund the risky research in places like China and the Ukraine, because doing the research in such faraway places guaranteed that it would never come back to bite us. What’s a few million dead compared to satisfying scientific curiosity? Heck of a job, Tony!; 9/13/22, 6:54 AM
Dave Begley said...: Malcom X named to the Nebraska Hall of Fame.

X beat out Louise Pound. Pound lived in Nebraska her entire life. As an undergrad, she lettered in tennis at the University of Nebraska. She was a famous academic. Pound also wasn’t a racist, Communist or felon.; 9/13/22, 6:56 AM
Humperdink said...: T. Carlson labelled Fetterman's hoodie as not clothing, but a costume. You know, the man of the people thingy. Funny.; 9/13/22, 7:33 AM
Big Mike said...: Over 400,000 tickets were sold in a nation of 5,000,000. A comparable show in the USA would have to sell about 28,000,000 tickets.

@Old and slow, and if Brooks was willing to do the number of shows it would take to reach 28 million ticket sales, he probably could. Did you notice how many people came to George Strait’s farewell tour? There are a lot of country fans out there, and we’re loyal.; 9/13/22, 7:40 AM
wildswan said...: Tim, I know you and your family are among those for whom Covid is quite dangerous and I hope you get through OK.; 9/13/22, 7:50 AM
Christopher B said...: madAsHell said...

GO COUGS!!

Be careful when you yell that, somebody might think it's a bad word.

As to the phone question, I would suspect the Federal Bureau of Inquisition is at least as interested in finding what phone numbers and emails these folks have in their contacts to expand their circle of harassment, maybe even more than any hope of finding old texts or emails, and that is less likely to have changed significantly since 1/6/2021.; 9/13/22, 8:03 AM
iowan2 said...: The Queen probably took 10-years off her life by drinking every day.

Reminds me of story my friend told me. He, in his 70's bustled in late to one of the many boards he sat on in the community. Not Corporate. Civic, lots of civic. He apologized for his tardiness, explaining he had checked in on his father, and lost track of time. Another member asked if all was OK? Oh yes, I go out to the farm every day to see him and cook his breakfast. 2 fried eggs, 3 strips of bacon, and 2 slices of buttered toast, like he has eaten almost every day of his life.
The board member looked at him in shock, and said "My God! Don't you know your killing him with that???. (yep killing a 94 year old man living alone in the country, still tending to his yard a substantial garden.)

Pick the right parents is the secret to longevity. Drink like the Queen. You'll live a long life...or die young, but it wont be a couple drinks a day that does you in.; 9/13/22, 8:06 AM
Iman said...: De-oxygenate Fetterman!; 9/13/22, 9:25 AM
Iman said...: Howard the Onanist. Must be Tuesday.

/sarc; 9/13/22, 9:27 AM
Owen said...: wildswan @ 6:23: The sarcastic fantasy is too close to the truth. Dare we hope for the rout to continue and widen? Move from the collapsing battle-front to the Kremlin?; 9/13/22, 10:03 AM
Lurker21 said...: Malcom X named to the Nebraska Hall of Fame.

X beat out Louise Pound.

For those keeping score at home, Black, Muslim, convict, and martyr beat out female, LQBTQ, jock, and MLA President.

Big Brother Roscoe is in the Hall and could probably get Louise an invite to any big events.

Louise Pound is in the University of Nebraska Sports Hall of Fame, and I don't think Malcolm will get the nod from them.; 9/13/22, 10:24 AM
wendybar said...: Biden is going to go on TV to deliver a speech to celebrate the new numbers that are terrible.. YEAH RECESSION!!!!

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