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The photo is from yesterday's sunrise run. It was very windy today — too windy for it to be safe out around the trees.
October 17, 2022
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to windy
But thankfully not too windy.
Everyone knows it's Windy.
There is a gale warning for Lake Michigan. We had a bit of snow overnight, seems too early for this weather.
That’s the same path? Idk why it feels different to me- the height of the trees, maybe…
It’s a beautiful path.
I was in Portland yesterday, and I watched the police block many of the hi-way bridges crossing the Willamette. It snarled traffic. The police were also manning barricades in the city.
The net gain from this endeavor????
A photo-op with a young woman at a Baskin-Robbins in downtown Portland. Biden enjoyed his ice cream, and yammered on about a great economy.
I think he was supposed to endorse Tina Kotex for Senator, but they never seemed to be in the same space at the same time.
I don't want to open or re-open any of the discussions that happened in other posts. But the comments on the post (something like) "Why was there such a month to month swing in independent women voters from Dem to Rep?" had a lot of thoughtful comments. Obviously there is not just one single explanation, so that makes it easier to suggest a new reason (or discuss an already proposed reason). But if you want to know why I read the althouse blog, go and read that comment stream. In the Washington Post (on almost any vaguely political article you would get only two comments: (1) Orange Man Bad (2) People who disagree with OMB are Russians. Those comments are so predictable, and so dull, that they are not worth reading. Thank you Althouse and Althouse readers/commenter.
Not easy to have a nice conversation about politics with leftist family members, so I don't. But I have imaginary ones. For example, the idea of a Trump cult of personality. Do they think I would vote for Trump if he and his ilk brought 40 year high inflation, explosion in crime, politicization of DOJ, severe govt over-reach, declining standards and schools, open border, supply disasters, incompetent for. policy, crashing markets, and greatest risk of nuclear war in 60 years. Trump is an asshole. I only voted for him because he managed a decent economy and foreign policy. I'm really, really angry politically - more so than at any time in my life - and I hope others are as well. Maybe there will be violence.
"More than a third of white students lie about their race on college applications, survey finds." https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/education/577722-more-than-a-third-of-white-students-lie-about-their/
If you are an American born in the USA, how are you supposed to know that you are not a "Native American"?
If you know based on a study of anthropology that all humans can trace their genealogy back to an "African Eve" (who was African), how are you supposed to know that although you are an "American of African descent" you are not an "African American"?
https://www.foxnews.com/media/disgraced-ex-fbi-agent-tells-msnbc-9-11-nothing-compared-jan-6
"Deadline: White House" host Nicolle Wallace claimed the Capitol Riot was the "deadliest attack on the U.S. Capitol in our, you know, in history.."
Take THAT Puerto Ricans! You LITERALLY Do Not Count!
Take THAT Russell Eugene Weston Jr! You LITERALLY Do Not Count!
Hmm, or maybe it's that Nicolle CAN'T count
I wish all the folks that every served at, served near, visited or got anywhere near Camp LeJeune would go ahead and sign up with the lawyers so the endless ads will stop
I didn't get the whole pumpkin spice thing. I tried a pumpkin spice yoghurt last year. It was awful. But I had a pumpkin spice Caesar salad today and it was pretty good. The secret was putting the pumpkin spice in the sprinkles, not in the dressing. Pumpkin spice, as I am sure everyone else in the country knew before me, contains no pumpkin. The spices do all the work and somehow the pumpkin gets all the credit (sort of like Caesar getting credit for the salad?).
The Mayor of Kingstown looks very good so far. Take a "fixer" drama like Ray Donovan and add a prison town setting, and you have something that feels a little more original than the usual cable product. The protagonist's mother, though, is a college history professor who seems to get her ideas from Howard Zinn, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, and CRT. Her lecturettes fill out the series, but also make me wonder how this country is going to stay together if it hates itself so much.
Original Mike, I responded to your request for evidence that the US was behind the coup in Ukraine, 2014, in the original thread where you asked.
USA Today headline: "I don't care if Herschel Walker paid for an abortion or if he blew up the planet Alderaan"
It reminded me of similar quotes from staunch democrats in support of President Bill Clinton before and after his impeachment. I can't remember exact quotes; I just remember they were clever and sometimes funny like the one above.
If you want to know why our resident far left troll gadfly has recently cranked up the lies about Trump and russki money laundering its because gadfly is desperately attempting to deflect from this:
Leaked emails reveal Hunter Biden's real estate company received a $40 MILLION investment from Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina, the billionaire widow of corrupt Moscow mayor, who also paid president's son $3.5million consulting fee
That really does explain it all.
Blogger Creola Soul said...
I wish all the folks that every served at, served near, visited or got anywhere near Camp LeJeune would go ahead and sign up with the lawyers so the endless ads will stop
Why should they? The lawyers will get all the money in the end. Why do you think there are endless commercials?
"'Trans Buddies' Now Assigned to Monitor Doctors for Transphobia" (Via Small Dead Animals blog)
"Vanderbilt’s Pediatric Transgender Clinic practices The Science© by providing “evidence-based, personalized gender-affirming care for transgender and gender-diverse children and adolescents” — a fancy, rambling way to say “transing children.” And now it’s upped its game by inserting “Trans Buddies” into the doctor’s office."
The Trans Buddy Program’s mission statement reads:
“The Trans Buddy Program’s goal is to increase access to care and improve healthcare outcomes for transgender people by providing emotional support to transgender patients during healthcare visits. We emphasize a patient-centered approach, with the goal of empowering the patient to make informed healthcare decisions. Trans Buddy recognizes the importance of intersectionality to our direct care practice, and we therefore aim to work with people of all identities with compassion and respect.”
Now I've heard it all, a compassionate mutilation.
It peak color when half of he leaves are gone and you can see the trunks and branches more.
Tim, I have watched portions of the video, and will watch more. But so far I haven't seen evidence. Rather, it is unsupported assertions. Maybe there will be more later in the video.
Science without ethics. How much death and destruction has it caused?
Did you know what Rudolf Hess said? He said that Nazism was nothing but applied biology. Of course, much of American chattel slavery was grounded in the similar quasi-scientific idea that blacks were subhuman. Then we had a long discussion this morning about an entire medical profession seriously maintaining that pre-natal babies are not living human beings. And how many boys are now being destroyed with chemical and surgical castration, while girls are being made infertile with puberty suppressants and "top surgery," while the psyche of both effs them up so much that regardless of how much "gender affirming," they are highly suicidal.
Anyway, today's news brings a story that those beagle puppy mills that I thought were just greedy unethical breeders were actually producing puppies specifically for animal research. The kind of tortuous experiments that Fauci denied being involved with.
Next there is this --
"Boston University researchers claim to have developed new, more lethal COVID strain in lab"
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/boston-university-researchers-claim-to-have-developed-new-more-lethal-covid-strain-in-lab
Researchers at Boston University say they have developed a new COVID strain that has an 80% kill rate following a series of similar experiments first thought to have started the global pandemic that began in China....
It's stunning. Just stunning.
River stage here broke a record set in 1988 (or was it 1888?) with 10.75 feet below normal.
Nothing as dramatic as the rock they have at St Louis to see, but a lot of dry sand that's normally under several feet of water. Did not see much barge traffic.
You people have a calm and restful night.
I wish all the folks that every served at, served near, visited or got anywhere near Camp LeJeune would go ahead and sign up with the lawyers so the endless ads will stop
+1
Just watched season 1 of Rings of Power. Enjoyable.
Norman bates my nick for strzok is just impossible
The capitol was bombed in 1971 and 1984 (by the may 19th front) headed by susan rosenberg godmother of so called blm
More than a third of white students lie about their race on college applications, survey finds."
Who says they're lying? I bet most of them are simply transracial.
Good news! Build Back Better proves we can still kick Wuhan's ass!
https://www.yahoo.com/video/boston-university-researchers-claim-developed-195236897.html
I don't know about you, but research like this makes me fear Nuclear War a smidgeon less.
I know I don't always make the best use of my time. It's been a lifelong effort to do better; and at intervals I've noticed improvement, though never enough to rest from trying. Absolute perfection, that impossible spectre, is not the goal.
There's a true paradox I keep running up against, in that idleness is sometimes the best use of time. Couple that with the conundrum of self-deception, and the complications multiply fast.
I have done managerial work on complex jobs, responsible for keeping a great many hands on task and on time. Awareness of my own defalcations has probably gentled my approach to those working under me. This has been a good thing, I believe, irrespective of results; and in fact, wonder of wonders, the results were good too.
This in answer to Althouse's question of a couple days ago -- late not owing to procrastination, but because it led me to reflect.
Ann's daily TikTok posts are conspicuously absent lately. I'm glad about that. TikTok is nothing more than entertaining Malware.
Harvard must be feeling pretty upstaged by BU getting an 80% kill rate from tinkering with Wu Flu. C’mon guys, try harder!
gilbar said...
https://www.foxnews.com/media/disgraced-ex-fbi-agent-tells-msnbc-9-11-nothing-compared-jan-6
In a Wall Street Journal review of more than 7,000 text messages between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, the newspaper found “no evidence of a conspiracy against Mr. Trump.” The controversial texts that express a “distaste for Mr. Trump” only constitute a “fraction” of the conversations, the paper reported. Rather, the majority of the texts represent “day-to-day workplace trials” at the FBI and how they both struggled to navigate their personal and professional lives amid news-making events within and around the agency.
The only disgrace was the illegal publishing of selected Strzok/Page texts by the DOJ and the politicized firing of an extremely competent FBI agent. The Justice Department's inspector general has criticized Strzok and Page for creating the appearance of impropriety through the texts. But the DOJ IG report said it found no evidence of political bias.
So there is a lawsuit hanging out there against the DOJ that a Federal judge has refused to dismiss.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/wsj-strzok-and-page-texts-show-no-anti-trump-conspiracy
Re: Camp Lejeune class action lawsuit. My company was a plaintiff in a price fixing class action case. We prevailed. The lawyers walked of with millions. The winning plaintiffs received discount coupons for future orders with very same guilty companies.
"But so far I haven't seen evidence."
Because the US deserves the benefit of the doubt. You can't watch it in isolation either, watch it in context of the George Floyd (Sacred Martyr) riots that came later, and J6. Think about how the German Nazis used the Reichstag Fire to solidify power and control of the media and turned Germany's prosecuting arm into the Gestapo. Remember that, for all its problems, Germany was a liberal democracy when Hitler came along.
" was in Portland yesterday, and I watched the police block many of the hi-way bridges crossing the Willamette."
There was a two way roadblock here too, on a bridge right near the border, which never happens. Probably rumors that somebody was interfering with inbound illegal aliens by committing the hate crime of calling Border Patrol.
"Ann's daily TikTok posts are conspicuously absent lately. I'm glad about that. TikTok is nothing more than entertaining Malware."
There have never been "daily" TikTok posts. I do TikTok posts when I happen to have saved some links. 2 things must happen: 1. I spent some time on TT, and 2. I saw at least a handful of videos I thought would be fun to share.
I have not formed an antagonism to TikTok based on statements about its being more risky to us than other apps/websites. It's solely about whether I'm looking at it and seeing things I want to share.
100 million Americans look at TikTok. It's the most popular app in the world. Technical problems about it are not going to be my marotte.
WHY are all progressives delusional?? "Disgraced former FBI agent @PeteStrzok: FBI agents probing 1/6 must be less biased on behalf of MAGA & more "professional," like we were during Russiagate" Why MSNBC lets this liar come on to keep lying is a big reason why their ratings are in the toilet.
If he thinks they were professional, he needs his head examined.
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/10/17/peter-strzoks-claims-about-his-actions-ahead-of-the-2016-election-and-1-6-were-the-coup-de-grace-of-this-entire-insane-segment-on-msnbc/
In reference to Virgil Hits comment last night in speaking to liberal family members, over the last year I have learned who to avoid and do so industriously. But, when forced to defend being a Republican, instead of mentioning Trump I ask one question - is there anyone in the US doing better than they were 4 years ago? Anyone safer , more prosperous or better educated? I stick to that question and make them answer it. They eventually mention COVID and I remind them that COVID ended over a year ago. If COVID was the cause, things should be getting better. They are getting worse. Why is that?
The conversation ends there without even mentioning Trump.
So just WHY is our government covering it all up?? WHAT do THEY have to do with it?? I don't trust any of them. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/breaking-big-ecohealth-whistleblower-dr-andrew-huff-provides-evidence-covid-19-created-wuhan-lab-worked-reported-dr-daszak-ecohealth/
Looks like an enchanted forest.
Blatantly lying to your viewers is NO WAY to keep them coming back for more.
Only the ignorant watch MSNBC, and it is easy to see why.
Anybody with eyes and ears saw that the BLM riots were bad, and yet they were allowed to go on and on, and the people involved were protected.
They were BLACK. They were oppressed. WE have no right to tell them they can't take what they need because they deserve reparations. Sandy Cortex told us they were looting to feed their families. Way worse than people who the Capitol police opened the doors for, and ushered into the Capitol who were taking selfies.
How DARE they take anything???
https://dailycaller.com/2022/10/17/weissmann-wallace-msnbc-capitol-riot/
"Three high-profile trials are shining much-needed light on how the bureau uses highly paid informants as political hit men."
Julie Kelly is a gem among journalists. She is doing the jobs that the progressive "JournOlists" refuse to.
https://amgreatness.com/2022/10/17/the-fbis-million-dollar-men/
Funny article about what a husband has to apologize to his wife for. Good laugh for today!!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/relationships/article-11322513/Husband-shares-hilarious-list-reasons-apologise-wife-walk-loudly.html
Was the path really lavender then? It's beautiful.
I love how the elder abuser, is blaming others for her letting her delusional husband out of her sight to campaign....SHE is responsible for allowing her delusional husband destroy America right in front of our eyes. https://nypost.com/2022/10/17/jill-biden-ripped-wh-staffers-for-not-stopping-joes-solo-presser/
"So just WHY is our government covering it all up?? WHAT do THEY have to do with it??"
Don't worry though, you can trust them about everything else.
Tell me again how TRUMP was a fascist and Joe and his administration aren't??? https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/10/18/young-atheist-pro-lifer-speaks-out-about-facing-imprisonment-after-bidens-doj-indicts-him-for-peacefully-protesting-outside-abortion-clinic/
Take the ear buds out, Ann, and listen to the wind in the trees. My walks are different than yours. I want to hear what nature is up to. For me it never boring.
gadfly is at it again.
The only disgrace was the illegal publishing of selected Strzok/Page texts by the DOJ and the politicized firing of an extremely competent FBI agent.
Strzok and Page are exemplary public serpents. gadfly knows this because he also hates Trump. That's enough.
"Public serpents" may have been a typo, but it fits.
Well done, Doc K!
“ Funny article about what a husband has to apologize to his wife for. Good laugh for today!!”
I’ve linked to him more than once in my TikTok posts. I caught you up on this long before the Daily Mail did.
“ Take the ear buds out, Ann, and listen to the wind in the trees. My walks are different than yours. I want to hear what nature is up to. For me it never boring”
I went through a long period when I didn’t use the headphones and I am well aware that this is better. We don’t always choose to do what’s best, but I don’t need to be told what’s better in this case.
You could be more positive in expressing yourself about what is better. That too would be better.
Blogger Narr said...
"Public serpents" may have been a typo, but it fits.
Well done, Doc K!
I've been reading PT Deutermann's books. They are novels, some about WWII and some about Washington DC. He spent 26 years in the Navy and his father was a vice-admiral in WWII. He is the one who introduced me to "Civil Serpents." He spent years in the Pentagon and should know whereof he speaks.
"Tell me again how TRUMP was a fascist and Joe and his administration aren't"
You are almost there.
madAsHell said:
I think he was supposed to endorse Tina Kotex for Senator, but they never seemed to be in the same space at the same time.
It's Tina Kotek, but your spelling is superior. After the election, she's going to feel like a used Kotex. She's running for governor in a three-way race. The Republican, Drazan, is ahead by a few points. The independent candidate is far behind with no chance.
River stage here broke a record set in 1988 ... Nothing as dramatic as the rock they have at St Louis ...
Narr, I read this too fast and thought it was about a concert.
I thought they did it by submarine. Apparently the evidence shows they blew up Nord Stream from inside the pipe.
Ann Althouse said...
“ Take the ear buds out, Ann, and listen to the wind in the trees. My walks are different than yours. I want to hear what nature is up to. For me it never boring”
"I went through a long period when I didn’t use the headphones and I am well aware that this is better. We don’t always choose to do what’s best, but I don’t need to be told what’s better in this case.
You could be more positive in expressing yourself about what is better. That too would be better.",
I'm sorry if that came across as confrontational, Ann. It was meant to be a friendly comparison. I find that anything other than the sights and sounds that the outdoors provides distracting. Again. Sorry.
In what way was Trump a fascist?
I thought they did it by submarine. Apparently the evidence shows they blew up Nord Stream from inside the pipe.
That points to a methane-hydrate explosion. Russian incompetence is the cause of the explosions.
Baceseras, there is(was?) something called the River Stage, part of the Mud Island Park complex.
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