Althouse: At the Friday Night Café...

November 18, 2022

At the Friday Night Café...

... it's cold and windy here in Madison, and you can talk about whatever you want.

26 comments:

tcrosse said...: This is for you, Althouse:
David Sedaris answers 52 of life's most pressing questions; 11/18/22, 6:53 PM
Clyde said...: Who do you think is more ticked off, the Taylor Swift fans who can't get concert tickets or the soccer fans at the World Cup in Qatar who won't be able to buy alcoholic beverages? The latter shows the folly of awarding athletic events to the highest briber. Perhaps in the future, they shouldn't put the World Cup in any country where you can't just go out and buy a beer or a bacon cheeseburger.; 11/18/22, 6:55 PM
Jaq said...: Surface to air missiles (SAMs) are expected, if they miss their target, to fall on the territory being defended, therefore the warhead is made to be disabled if a miss falls back to Earth. The Poland missies were armed and exploded when they hit.

SAMs are launched at the incoming missiles in hopes of intercepting them, the missiles that hit Poland were aimed at Poland, not in the direction of the Black Sea, or eastern Ukraine, where the Russian missiles were launched from.

Zelensky insisted that the missiles were Russian and demanded an Article 5 intervention when everybody already knew it was a Ukrainian missile.

It was obviously a planned false flag. J6 was a false flag, the Reichstag Fires was a false flag. False flags are there to get the squeamish to go along with hard actions they would otherwise balk at. They are as old as time. Sometimes, you don't do a false flag, but you bait the other side into attacking you first, with whatever provocation is needed, and then scream "Unprovoked" from the rooftops. That too is a tactic as old as time.; 11/18/22, 7:04 PM
JRoberts said...: I saw a portion of comments by Sen. Klobuchar wanting Congress to investigate price gouging, website outages and anti-competitive practices.

Because I missed the beginning of her statement I wasn’t sure if she was referring to TicketMaster or ObamaCare.; 11/18/22, 7:04 PM
Jaq said...: AZ was stolen in plain sight.

48% of Maricopa election centers had printer or tabulator malfunctions on election day, not the previously estimated 20%. And no such widespread issues were reported during the early voting period that preceded election day and used the very same equipment. - Rasmussen

Same day voters, heavily Republican, were stymied at every turn, early voters, Democrats, had one long boulevard of green lights.; 11/18/22, 7:07 PM
Narayanan said...: I am seeing mention of something called Whig v Republican

please edumacate with copious elucidations and illustrations; 11/18/22, 7:30 PM
Dave Begley said...: Tcrosse: “ WRITING IMPLEMENT: Caran d’Ache pens and pencils.”

Agree with this. Best pens ever!; 11/18/22, 8:02 PM
William Tyroler said...: Thanks, Althouse, for your many posts. They make every day a little bit better.; 11/18/22, 8:58 PM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: THE UAW LEADERSHIP IS LYING TO ITS MEMBERS: Did you know that a dozen United Auto Workers officials, including two past presidents, have been charged with money laundering and embezzlement in the last five years?; 11/18/22, 9:18 PM
Gospace said...: I was reminded of what I wanted to mention yesterday by a related link on Insty today, The Corporate Media's Sick Jihad Against Vitamin D
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/benbartee/2022/11/17/the-corporate-medias-sick-jihad-against-vitamin-d-n1646701
Ther is a concerted effort by the government and their allies in the media and academia to declare Vitamin D as useless against the dreaded covid. It isn't. Numbers don't lie.

But studies do. Earlier on, there were 3 studies that proved, absolutely proved, Vitamin D was useless against the dreaded covid. The 3 involved giving patients on their way to the ICY a one time oral Vitamin D dose of 70,000 to 300,000 IU, then declaring, "Look! See! Vitamin D doesn't work! Stop saying it does!" A few things about that. Doing that doesn't rasie the blood level to 50 ng/ml and keep it there. Without zinc, that massive supplementation doesn't do any good. And without something else to upload the zinc- like ivermectin or quercetin- well, no real point in taking the zinc.

So teh article from yesterday- the government is attempting to fine Dr. Eric Nepute $500,000,000.00, yes, 6500 billion dollars, for preaching that Vitamin D is effective against covid and selling VitaminD and zinc supplements. I'm going to state something really obvious- this is a clear case of 8th amendment violation. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. If a judge can't find 500 billion is an excessive fine then the Constitution is useless. Of the judge is, take your pick. One link:
https://www.survivethenews.com/dr-eric-nepute-facing-500b-in-ftc-fines-for-promoting-vitamin-d3-and-zinc-as-covid-19-treatments/
Now most of the links if you search this are going to sites that SUPPORT the government. But as the link says, his lawyer Tom REnz says- "“The problem with this is wrongful prosecution, in my opinion, because [Nepute] didn’t lie … or commit fraud,” the attorney told the Epoch Times. “He said this would bolster your immune system, and it’s true. Both [vitamin D and zinc] are well-known mechanisms for bolstering your immune system.”

Hey, you know who said he took extra Vitamin D during the covidiocy? Dr. Fauci- whaile declaring the only thing you could do is get the vaccine that doesn't work. I googles the war on vitamin D without quotes, and got some intersting links.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2648851/
Vitamin D Status in United States War Veterans 2008 Vitamin D insufficiency has become recognized as a common phenomenon among ambulatory and hospitalized adults

And I also found this link today I've never seen before: https://vitamindwiki.com/ Looks like if you want a link to links about Vitamin D studies this is the place to go.

It's widely acknowledged that 40% or so of the US population is Vitamin D deficient, Not just low, deficient. Yet the official government position is- doctors shouldn't oreder tests unless a patient is exhibiting clinical signs of vitamin D deficiency. Meaning- thehy're really sick. But why let them get that way? Seems odd, doesn't it? We know a way to keep people from ever getting clinical signs of vitamin D deficiency, but we're not going to do it...; 11/18/22, 9:49 PM
Krumhorn said...: Who do you think is more ticked off, the Taylor Swift fans who can't get concert tickets or the soccer fans at the World Cup in Qatar who won't be able to buy alcoholic beverages?

I don't care about alcohol at the World Cup. But I have been entirely unsuccessful in getting Tay Tay tix in either LA or Las Vegas. I'm having to resort to asking friends at Live Nation to hook me up....which means I'll have to return that favor someday.

- Krumhorn; 11/18/22, 10:25 PM
gadfly said...: tim in vermont said...
AZ was stolen in plain sight.

48% of Maricopa election centers had printer or tabulator malfunctions on election day, not the previously estimated 20%. And no such widespread issues were reported during the early voting period that preceded election day and used the very same equipment. - Rasmussen

Timmy, Rasmussen Reports does political polls - they do not report on election day happenings. They published no articles about Maricopa election centers online.

Realistically, under any circumstances, it is simply unbelievable that thousands of dishonest workers at Maricopa polls could hide the effort it would take to disable election equipment - especially since there were 223 separate centers visited by upwards of 2.5 million unseeing voters.; 11/18/22, 11:26 PM
Sprezzatura said...: My quick search shows that Althouse has had a post tagged re TS and Hitler, and Althouse had a post tagged re TS and Nazis. There may be more. Or not.

BTW, both of those posts were beautiful. Proof that Althouse is a genius. IMHO.

But that’s not necessarily a good thing, not all genius is used for good all the time.

Anywho, here’s my favorite TS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIft-t-MQuE

Aside from the interesting twists and turns and ups and downs re my TS link, I like that there are a lot of shots of TS that are not maximally flattering. IOW, mixed in w/ the “TS is F-ing awesome” imagery there are plenty of shots that give glimpses of a normal woman that is not so hot.

BTW, how long ago was it that Kanye and TS were big news, when BHO was jabbering about “jackass”? Today, again, those two are topping the news. Plus Elon is the mix now. Jackass or Jesus (or in where in the middle), re Elon? Maybe we should ask BHO, he seems to be good at such assessments.; 11/18/22, 11:56 PM
Owen said...: What William Tyroler said, Ann.

Stay warm. Winter is here.; 11/19/22, 4:03 AM
Ann Althouse said...: Thanks, tcross

Now I just need to find the lambskin bag that looks just like a paper bag; 11/19/22, 4:23 AM
tim maguire said...: The case against Ticketmaster was made years ago when Pearl Jam went into battle against them and lost. Ironically, by proving their point--that even a major platinum-selling band can't run a tour without Ticketmaster--the challenge went away and Ticketmaster happily continued gouging people.

Their fees are excessive (and irrational--their service is the same regardless of the event, but their fees go up with the ticket price) and they get away with it because they are a monopoly. People can decide they don't care, but they can't say it's not true.; 11/19/22, 5:05 AM
wendybar said...: If you want facts about January 6th, Julie Kelly at American Greatness is where to go. So much that you NEVER hear from the Propagandists. Did you know there may have been FBI agents dressed like Trump supporters INSIDE the Capitol before the protesters gained entrance?? Oh course, Rep. Bennie Thompson wouldn't let Director Wray answer that. HE didn't want to know, because THAT doesn't fit Nancy Pelosi's narrative. This country is a joke. We deserve to fall, because we didn't do anything to save our Republic. https://amgreatness.com/2022/11/18/the-insurrection-house-of-cards-is-collapsing/; 11/19/22, 6:31 AM
wendybar said...: In the days following the 2022 midterms, some self-anointed conservative thought leaders, who were never all that pro-Trump to begin with, have officially thrown the 45th President under the bus. These spineless conservatives have frolicked over to the DeSantis camp in a way that almost seems as if it was choreographed.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/11/blaming_trump_for_the_midterms.html

THIS^^^; 11/19/22, 6:37 AM
wendybar said...: WHY did the DOJ lie about the Paul Pelosi attack??
"NBC News has still not unsuspended its reporter for reporting factual information. They owe everyone an explanation for exactly how that decision was made and why it was made. Though, I suspect we all know why."

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/11/19/why-did-the-doj-lie-about-the-paul-pelosi-attack-n661241; 11/19/22, 6:59 AM
Jaq said...: "it is simply unbelievable that thousands of dishonest workers at Maricopa polls could hide the effort it would take to disable election equipment."

And yet, it was disabled.

What Lake is saying is that the problems were quickly fixed in early voting, Democrat-heavy early voting, so the problem was known, but nobody bothered to fix the large number of machines that came on-line on Republican heavy Election Day. So even if it wasn't stolen, it was flubbed, and one of the main beneficiaries of that flub just so happened to be in charge of elections. So it was either gross negligence on the part of Hobbs, which helped elect her governor, or a deliberate sabotage of Republican voters to steal the election.

Either way it stinks on ice.; 11/19/22, 7:06 AM
MadTownGuy said...: Jay Leno says he’s ‘ok’ after he suffers serious burns in car fire

Conan O'Brien said something to the effect that 'When I said he would die in a car fire, I didn't mean it literally!'

I hope Jay recovers quickly and completely.; 11/19/22, 9:50 AM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: stale: we won wonderful policies people love us
we lost FRAUD cheating government

c'mon man listen to yourself; 11/19/22, 9:53 AM
Rusty said...: "And yet, it was disabled."
All of these unfortunate incidents always seem to favor Democrats. Every time. In the same states. In the same voting districts.
But that's just a coincidence. Right guys?; 11/19/22, 10:11 AM
stunned said...: NATO needs to invoke article 5 to protect Poland from Ukraine. Oh no. Fuckers gonna fuck.; 11/19/22, 10:48 AM
MadTownGuy said...: Judge Rules on Early Voting in Georgia Senate Runoff

"A Georgia judge on Friday ruled that early voting in the state’s U.S. Senate runoff election between Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) and Republican Herschel Walker can take place on the Saturday two days after Thanksgiving.

The state’s election code requires counties to start early voting for runoff elections as soon as possible after a general or primary election and mandates when they can take place.

A lawsuit filed by Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger claimed the statute used to identify valid days to hold runoff elections prohibited Saturday early voting for runoff elections immediately after a “public and legal holiday” on a Thursday or Friday—in this case, Thanksgiving."; 11/19/22, 11:49 AM
MadTownGuy said...: Tim Allen Gives an Update on Jay Leno's Condition: 'He's Handsome and He's Happy'

"The Grossman Burn Center is doing a "great job taking care of" Jay Leno, according to his friend Tim Allen.

The Toy Story star, 69, spoke with TMZ as he was leaving the medical clinic in West Hills, CA, and explained that things are looking good for Leno after he suffered "serious burns" in a garage gasoline fire.

"He's feeling better," Allen said in a clip. "He took his car magazines. We did some jokes, which is what we do. We commiserated."

When asked what Leno's face looks like following the accident, Allen joked that it "didn't look all that good to begin with," but clarified that he still looks "great."

"He's going for the George Clooney look, you're gonna be surprised," Allen joked. "He's handsome and he's happy and the hospital's doing a great job taking care of him."

The update from Allen comes less than a week after Leno, 72, was working on a steam engine underneath a car in his garage when a fire began. Leno was pulled from underneath the car, and is now recovering from "significant" burns to his face, chest and hand. Dr. Peter Grossman, medical director at the Grossman Burn Center, said Leno is in good condition after undergoing a surgical excision and grafting procedure for his burns.

"Some of the burns to the face are a little deeper and a little more concerning," Grossman said during a press during the week. "... Currently, there's no evidence of nerve damage. I do anticipate him making a full recovery. Whether they'll be remnants of this injury, it's still too early to tell. I'd say that his injuries are serious, his condition is good."

On Monday, Leno spoke publicly for the first time since enduring the "serious medical emergency" last weekend. "I got some serious burns from a gasoline fire," Leno said in a statement shared with PEOPLE. "I am ok. Just need a week or two to get back on my feet."

As his wife Mavis remains by Leno's side, Grossman notes that Jay has been a "remarkable kind and engaging patient" on his road to recovery.

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"He passed out cookies to children in the burn unit. Mr. Leno has been very open about sharing information with you," he said. "... He's Jay Leno — he's walking around and cracking jokes. He's incredibly kind to our nursing staff. He's very compliant. He's very appreciative of everyone here and really an ideal patient and one who understands the seriousness of his injury.""; 11/19/22, 5:24 PM