Althouse: At the Ice Cold Café...

December 22, 2022

At the Ice Cold Café...

... you can curl up and chat all night.

46 comments:

Clyde said...: Post 7 of 15 - Clyde's Top 10 Favorite "New" Songs of 2022
#9 - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - You Get Me High (Nobody's Children - 2015 Remaster)

In 1995, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers released a 6-CD box set, 'Playback.' Discs 5 and 6 were 27 tracks that were previously unreleased or unavailable on CD, titled 'Through the Cracks' and 'Nobody's Children.' In 2015, both were remastered and made available for online download and streaming, but as of 2020, only 'Nobody's Children' is still available. This song was recorded around 1992, since there is a live version on YouTube recorded in Frankfurt, Germany, in March 1992 where Petty mentions that it is a new song. The band was touring in support of their 1991 album 'Into the Great Wide Open,' and didn't release another studio album until 1996, which is why this song ended up on a box set compilation rather than receiving more attention. This song should not be confused with 'U Get Me High,' which is a different song that appeared on the 2014 album 'Hypnotic Eye.'

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - You Get Me High (2015 Remaster); 12/22/22, 7:15 PM
Political Junkie said...: Poor Baylor and Air Force Academy. They are playing a football bowl game now in 10 degree weather in Forth Worth, TX.
Bet they wish they were in the Boca Raton bowl.; 12/22/22, 7:20 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: No News out of Maricopa election lawsuit?

No news is bad news for blue-team.; 12/22/22, 7:23 PM
rcocean said...: Too cold for pictures, I assume. Cancun is a nightmare. Crowded. Airport problems. Pointless to go there on Christmas Holidays unless you have to.; 12/22/22, 7:40 PM
Owen said...: SBF says the ankle bracelet makes it hard to curl up.; 12/22/22, 7:47 PM
Dave Begley said...: Badger men’s bb game cancelled. Too cold. Creighton playing tonight.; 12/22/22, 7:55 PM
Maynard said...: Mitch McConnell needs to go.

He is the Republican bag man who sabotaged 2022 Senate reform candidates.

We all know what the scam is. Why is it tolerated?; 12/22/22, 8:13 PM
Narr said...: As promised there were tree-cutters and electricians out back early this morning; so far, and despite the wind gusts, no repeats of yesterday's alarums.

Our plan for thwarting frozen pipes overnight includes starting the dishwasher on a long hot cycle late tonight. Also, I'll run some hot water each time I get up for my or the dog's urgent needs.; 12/22/22, 8:40 PM
Political Junkie said...: Maynard...Who were the reform candidates and how did Cocaine Mitch sabotage them?; 12/22/22, 8:53 PM
wildswan said...: Right now I'm warm and the temp is rising. It'll be 50 degrees by midnight. But then the temp will fall and fall and the wind blow and blow and it'll be 11 degrees outside by midnight tomorrow and lower with wind chill. Wood fires in a stove. Cornbread. I'll wrap presents. I'm hoovering up germs - the kids around me have Covid and flu but nothing lasts more than a day except their sunshine souls.; 12/22/22, 9:38 PM
Michael K said...: Arizona (Tucson) and CA are both fine as to temperature. The insane pols who want to stop fossil fuel are all snuggly in their taxpayer paid beds.; 12/22/22, 9:57 PM
walter said...: CulturalHusbandry
@APhilosophae
·
Dec 21
The problem with the #TwitterFiles is the way and rate at which they come. Each drop could, if given legs, be worthy of no less than 6 months of wall-to-wall coverage resulting in grand juries, RICO charges, and the rest. Yet here we are 2-3wks in on drop 6, or is it 8 already?; 12/22/22, 10:17 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: The power just went out about 10 minutes ago. Our Generac generator kicked on after about 5 seconds. The wind's really howling now, and our powerlines are mainly above ground and run along side Hemlock and Douglas firs. We'll be the last to get power restored, as there are few customers out here.; 12/22/22, 11:01 PM
tim in vermont said...: One thing has become obvious, gadfly is who the Republicans are. Fuck them all.

Good luck fighting your endless wars without recruits, BTW, too.

The army dropped its 2022 goal by 9,000 and then missed that new target by 15,000. We have a government of transparent liars, who brewed a bat-human virus in a lab, OK, they paid China to do it, and then demand that recruits receive experimental shots, when they are in a cohort that is minimally at risk from COVID, and the shots don't really do much for them, at best.

https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2022/12/army-misplacing-blame-its-recruiting-crisis/380361/

Speaking of US bio-labs overseas that our government funds to get around restrictions here, as if putting a germ lab on the other side of the planet is any protection at all:

Judicial Watch announced today it received 345 pages of records from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), a component of the U.S. Department of Defense, revealing that the United States funded anthrax laboratory activities in a Ukrainian biolab in 2018. Dozens of pages are completely redacted, and many others are heavily redacted. The records show over $11 million in funding for the Ukraine biolabs program in 2019.

Hunter Biden was involved in setting up these labs as son of the Vice President, in 2014. First place I go to get a deal done is a crackhead, but a crackhead with connections at the highest levels of government.

Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners invested $500,000 in the San Francisco pathogen research company Metabiota and raised millions more through firms that included Goldman Sachs, according to the e-mails found on the computer, which was abandoned at a Delaware repair shop in April 2019 as Joe Biden ran for president. - NY Post

This is your government. This is how it works. They lie to you every day, shamelessly, and at scale. Your president is deeply involved in Ukrainian corruption. Republicans don't care anymore than gadfly does. Like I said, he is the Republican Party, and we should stop deluding ourselves that it represents us.; 12/22/22, 11:09 PM
Ignorance is Bliss said...: @Narr-

Leave all faucets on a slow steady drip for both hot and cold water.

And leave the cabinet doors under the sinks open; 12/22/22, 11:47 PM
Jay Quenel said...: Happy solstice,

And lo, shall it be written in the tomes of history, that as ever before the dawn of a new millennia brought forth a great madness that seized the inhabitants of earth in a savage grip. Of the old religions most were ignored and belittled, only the pagan Gaia and Marx worship prospered and were honored. Of the new, many grew as weeds and as quickly disappeared before the raised eyebrow and the exorcism of "Dude, seriously?"

Great were the lamentations and denial when the prophets of the sharp pants crease and the really strange hair proved to have feet of clay. Many put aside their stigma of the cursed of Luna and chose to worship and encourage them even unto the affirmation of self-mutilation. Things only got weirder from then on.

As the huddled masses grew inured to the great pestilence that killed 3 in a thousand, they ventured forth and engaged in such scenes of decadence and debauchery as had not been witnessed since the reign of Caligula or the go-go eighties.

It was in the midst of these tumultuous times that a fading empire chose to pour blood and treasure into an attempt to regain its glory by reconquering the most corrupt of its former vassals. Great was the surprise when it discovered the empire's universally feared weapons were as weak as the resolve of its conscripts.

As great was the surprise of the corrupt vassals when they discovered the magic of the Javelin and the Stinger. Loud were the demands for blood and treasure to protect the allied states of a rival empire. Immediate were the denials for blood and great was the embarrassment of the discovery of how few of the magic weapons the allied states and indeed the rival empire could supply, in recompense great treasure poured forth to the corrupt vassals. Which did wonders for the banks and villa values of Switzerland and the south of France.....

Tune in next millennia to see if the H bombs fly and if the rival empire ever admits that once you pay the Danegeld you never get rid of the Dane.; 12/22/22, 11:48 PM
Rt41Rebel said...: "We all know what the scam is. Why is it tolerated?"

In a nation of free people with over 300 million legally owned firearms, it's very hard to understand.

The Dems are deliberately destroying our nation from every direction. They deliberately wrecked the economy and our energy, and continue to spend. They opened our border and are encouraging the invasion, the fentanyl, the child sex trafficking, the chaos, the overload on our social systems. They appear to be in favor of WW3 + Nukes. They turn criminal loose and destroy our law enforcement. They castrate and poison and support killing our children. I very recently thought China was our biggest threat, but I'm starting to think that China might end up being our best overlord. That's how late it is.

Meanwhile, many Republican Senators are there to say "We tried our best. They scored 140 points on us, but they let us kick a field goal!" And the FBI, which just got a new headquarters and more $$$ for prosecuting grannies taking selfies, tells us "Of course we paid Twitter to censor the content, we do that stuff all the time."

They HAD to destroy Trump. And they STILL HAVE TO grind him into dust.; 12/23/22, 12:22 AM
gadfly said...: TikTok, owned by ByteDance of China, tracked multiple journalists covering the company, improperly gaining access to their IP addresses and user data in an attempt to identify whether they had been in the same locales as ByteDance employees.

According to materials reviewed by Forbes, ByteDance tracked multiple Forbes journalists as part of a covert surveillance campaign designed to unearth the source of leaks inside the company following a drumbeat of stories exposing the company’s ongoing links to China.

Perhaps Elmo, the Chief Twit, could end this attack by buying TikTok, but Republicans Sen Marco Rubio and Rep Mike Gallagher want to protect Americans by blocking and prohibiting all transactions from any social media company in, or under the influence of China and Russia, so Musk's dwindling wealth and his freedom of speech cause may yet be saved by the government.; 12/23/22, 1:04 AM
gadfly said...: It is no surprise that nobody wants Joe Biden to run for President if he is still alive in 2023. So Governor Gavin and Mayor Pete pop to the top of the Dem list but maybe, just maybe, we could see Marianne Williamson, the spiritual activist, and 2020 candidate, who is actively making significant moves toward challenging Biden.

As Leonard Cohen sang: "Now so long, Marianne, it's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again."

But you have to admit that she is far more attractive than Bernie and far more pleasant than Lizzy Warren, "who took an axe . . ."; 12/23/22, 1:45 AM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: The FBI is purging non-leftists.; 12/23/22, 5:53 AM
MadTownGuy said...: Deaths Among CCP Elites Rise as COVID-19 Wave Hits China

"It started with a high fever, a telltale sign of COVID-19, that soon led to a positive test result. Yang Lianghua, formerly a senior reporter for the Chinese communist regime’s official mouthpiece People’s Daily and the chief editor of the newspaper’s international edition, then had to wait in the emergency room for a bed in Beijing’s top hospital, which was already beyond packed.

With intervention from the state media’s senior executives and the hospital director, Yang was eventually admitted to the intensive care unit, where he died hours later. The cause of his death was a bacterial lung infection.

Yang was one of a long list of prominent figures tied to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) who died amid a surge in Omicron sweeping China, after the regime abruptly loosened its years-long draconian COVID-19 restrictions that had shuttered businesses, crippled China’s economy, and made it a challenge for the Chinese population to sustain their basic lives.

The abrupt U-turn in direction, however, was made without the provision of resources and policies to help the populace deal with the mounting cases of infections.

The country’s health system has been ill-prepared. As the virus spread across households, chaos has erupted in hospitals and crematoriums, and even Chinese elites, known for the privileges they enjoy, haven’t been immune from the whiplash.

In addition to Yang, those who’ve died over the past few weeks include Zhou Zhichun, former deputy chief editor and vice president for the state-owned China Youth Daily; politician Zhi Zhihong, who once chaired the Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference; 39-year-old Peking Opera actress Chu Lanlan; Marxist economist Hu Jun; former National Sports Commission vice director Liu Ji; the designer of the mascots from the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Wu Guanying; as well as dozens of illustrious professors at two of China’s most prestigious academic institutions, Peking University and Tsinghua University.

About a dozen leading health experts have also died, including Nan Dengkun, who is credited with having pioneered China’s medical rehabilitation industry, and top pharmaceutical scientist Wei Shuli.

Official Figures a Vast Understatement
Despite the uptick in obituaries of prominent individuals appearing on state media outlets, few details were mentioned about their causes of death.

The Chinese regime has turned to its well-worn playbook of vastly understating COVID infection and death figures in a bid to tamp down news that tarnishes the CCP’s image. The National Health Commission has so far counted only a handful of COVID deaths—nine over a span of three weeks. Only patients dying of COVID-induced pneumonia and respiratory failure are included in this figure. Those with underlying causes don’t count.

But accounts on the ground present a far grimmer picture.

Funeral parlors across the country are running around the clock to burn bodies, and health authorities are encouraging medics who retired over the past five years to rejoin the workforce to ease the staff shortage. Many medical staff on duty are sick themselves with COVID. A top Beijing hospital surgeon told Chinese media that around 70 percent of health workers at his unit were sick, including himself, but that he had to keep working.

London-based health research firm Airfinity estimated that more than 5,000 people are likely dying each day from COVID-19, based on modeling from regional Chinese data."; 12/23/22, 5:54 AM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: The planned-demic was all designed by the corrupt left.

-- I was listening to old recordings of Joe Biden plagiarizing JKF and RFK. Joe really is a pathetic pile of lying crap. and he does it right in our faces.

Back then - Maureen Dowd actually reported on Joe Biden's plagiarism of JFK and RFK... today - that would never happen.; 12/23/22, 6:31 AM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: Gadfly doesn't care about Joe Biden's lies and corruption.; 12/23/22, 6:32 AM
Howard said...: With no natural or mRNA immunity, Covid spreading rapidly in China just as predicted by Peter Zeihan back in November.; 12/23/22, 6:33 AM
Mark said...: Interesting, MadTownGuy.

The word around this blog is that Covid is not dangerous and the vaccines are a sham.

Seems like the case data in China right now are providing thus blogs 'experts' wrong ... as happens quite often.; 12/23/22, 6:42 AM
Will Cate said...: This will sound warm compared with what some of you might be experiencing, but the temperature drop has finally reached South Carolina. 25 now, on the way down to 10 tonight; 12/23/22, 6:51 AM
Humperdink said...: Dr. Robert Transchel CEO of a Yuma, AZ area hospital just stated on Fox News that in the last 6 months the hospital has treated immigrants to the tune of 20 million dollars.

I've mentioned this before, rationing and wait times are in the offing. My forecast? In a few years, those of us Medicare will pushed to the back of the line. For the children of course.

Thanks libs.; 12/23/22, 6:57 AM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: It's 26F with freezing rain and wind/gusts of 12/17-mph.; 12/23/22, 7:13 AM
tim in vermont said...: 61 mph wind right now, the dish for the internet got blown out of position, it’s like a hurricane, plus it’s got to be gusting way higher. I have never experienced anything like it, right now an Adirondack chair is rolling across the lawn like a tumbleweed.; 12/23/22, 7:48 AM
Humperdink said...: Our power is supplied by the Rural Electric Association (REA). In windy times, power loss is typical. Praying for sustained electric. I have an old 20KW generator which proceeded to cook itself 2 months ago, so we at the mercy of trees remaining upright. Twenty degrees, 24MPH winds at the moment.

Looking by a new one but wanted to wanted wait until the weather warmed up.; 12/23/22, 7:55 AM
tim in vermont said...: 61 mph wind right now, the dish for the internet got blown out of position, it’s like a hurricane, plus it’s got to be gusting way higher. I have never experienced anything like it, right now an Adirondack chair is rolling across the lawn like a tumbleweed.; 12/23/22, 8:07 AM
iowantwo said...: The word around this blog is that Covid is not dangerous and the vaccines are a sham.

Dont believe your own eyes here in the US. Get fully inoculated with CCP "approved" propaganda.

A medicine that you call a vaccine, but does not prevent contraction of the named virus, or prevent the infected from spreading the named virus, by definition are a sham. Covid NOT a danger for a large percentage of the population free of the short list of co-morbidities.; 12/23/22, 8:15 AM
wendybar said...: “Is there any precedent at all to this George Santos situation?” Sam Stein asked, seemingly insinuating that there hadn’t been. “Has Congress ever had someone with so many remarkable biographical holes?”

Well… yeah, Sam, there has been. You may have heard of him. His name? Joe Biden – happens to be president right now, you know?

Here’s the list
“— Survived a fire
— Arrested in civil rights march
— Star football player
— Once a truck driver
— Arrested meeting Mandela
— Son killed in Iraq
— Overheard mass shooting
— Top of his class in college
— Hit a 368’ homer in baseball game
— Had job at timber co.

— Drunk driver killed his wife & daughter
— Pinned medal on a Navy captain who was just a kid
— No knowledge of Hunter’s foreign business dealings
— Turned down offer from the Naval Academy
— His uncle won a Purple Heart
— His helicopter in Afghanistan “forced down”

— Met Parkland families as vice president
— Was once a coal miner
— Comes from a family of coal miners
— Was shot at in Iraq
— Called Milosevic a “war criminal” to his face
— Criticized George W. Bush to his face
— Participated in sit-ins during civil rights movement

— Oil industry somehow gave him cancer
— Won a fight against a drug dealer named Cornpop
— Dead Amtrak worker awarded him for riding 1.8 million miles
— Attended Temple services on a Sunday
— Raised in Puerto Rican community
— Worked as a college prof”

https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2022/12/22/journalist-is-introduced-to-joe-biden-after-asking-if-theres-precedent-to-the-george-santos-situation-n677555; 12/23/22, 8:15 AM
walter said...: What is this mRna immunity you fantasize about, Howie?
And it's interesting if they have no natural immunity after all this time.....; 12/23/22, 8:18 AM
tim in vermont said...: Lol, a flock of ducks just flew by like fighter jets at an air show. Weather Channel says wind is 47 in Burlington, but my weather app says 60. Having been through hurricanes, I believe the higher number.; 12/23/22, 9:03 AM
Kai Akker said...: ---Musk's dwindling wealth

Another Time, or any, Man of the Year bites the dust. Musk has done great things this year, at least re Twitter; but his main wealth-creating business has suffered and now it is apparent that Tesla had peaked before that public "recognition." If anyone still looks at Time magazine.

TSLA stock was trading between 250 and 350 (split-adjusted) last winter when the award was given. It was in the 120s this week. Another Award given too late.

I want to add my thanks for a couple things relating to this blog as the year ends and Christmas arrives. Many thanks to Ann for her dedication to her blog. And many thanks to the commenters whose discussions add so much intelligence, wit, and news value to the posts Ann puts up. Excellent reading. Everyone knows this but it still bears repeating; much appreciated.; 12/23/22, 9:45 AM
tim in vermont said...: Gusts peaked at 75, calming down now. What a mess though. The shingles on my roof were flapping.; 12/23/22, 9:58 AM
Kay said...: Finished the Harry and Megan doc on netflix, and found a lot of similarities between megan and the donald.; 12/23/22, 10:17 AM
Narr said...: Thanks, Ignorance, for the advice. We do all that already.

Bright and sunny here now, but very cold. The only thing that froze up was the refrigerator water feed, which we use only for filtering water since the ice-maker broke years ago.; 12/23/22, 10:23 AM
wendybar said...: As he should, and while we are at it, let's see how Congress Critters got so rich....https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/turnabout-fair-play-president-trump-calls-gop-congress-release-biden-crime-familys-tax-returns-video/; 12/23/22, 11:49 AM
wendybar said...: Politics Matter
@Politics_Matter
Replying to
@SenatorRomney
Anyone else notice how Romney repeatedly referred to Republicans as "they" and "them" .. while ignoring that the Omnibus bill doesn't secure our border, but pays for the security of foreign borders??

He's not even bothering to pretend to be a Republican anymore.
8:02 PM · Dec 22, 2022
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/12/23/mitt-romney-explains-why-he-voted-for-bloated-woke-omnibus-bill-and-just-pisses-everyone-off-watch/; 12/23/22, 11:53 AM
gadfly said...: tim in vermont said...
One thing has become obvious, gadfly is who the Republicans are. Fuck them all.

Good luck fighting your endless wars without recruits, BTW, too.

Strange response, timmy. I wasn't discussing Republican candidates and I made no attempt to "recruit" anyone to do anything.; 12/23/22, 12:27 PM
Rusty said...: Michael K said...
"Arizona (Tucson) and CA are both fine as to temperature. The insane pols who want to stop fossil fuel are all snuggly in their taxpayer paid beds."
My Christmas gift from my Dr. was a colonoscopy today. Here in your old stomping grounds it was -3 deg. with a fierce wind out of the west. The snow we had is mostly blown away drifted up against buildings and fences. And the monumental corruption hasn't changed.; 12/23/22, 1:30 PM
tim in vermont said...: Not a very gracious response to my pointing out that it’s your Republican Party and that you were right all along that I was deluded to think it represented me. You got your 1.7 trillion dollar looting of the treasury, and your money to get tens of thousands more Ukrainians killed, the rug pulled out from under the new Congress, you should be happy!; 12/23/22, 2:54 PM
tim in vermont said...: So the house got raked by the limbs of a tree that got uprooted, the roof is damaged, another tree snapped off like a matchstick. Bomb cyclone indeed.; 12/23/22, 2:57 PM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: Sleepy Joe and the BLUE + 18, GETS SHIT DONE. Omnibus ready for signature above the whining of McCarthy and the clueless group. Most progressive "getting shit done' last 2 years in quite a while over the do-nothing GOP. Thanks to Roy Blunt (Missouri)
John Boozman (Arkansas)
Shelley Capito (West Virginia)
Susan Collins (Maine)
John Cornyn (Texas)
Tom Cotton (Arkansas)
Lindsey Graham (South Carolina)
Jim Inhofe (Oklahoma)
Mitch McConnell (Kentucky)
Jerry Moran (Kansas)
Lisa Murkowski (Alaska)
Rob Portman (Ohio)
Mitt Romney (Utah)
Mike Rounds (South Dakota)
Richard Shelby (Alabama)
John Thune (South Dakota)
Roger Wicker (Mississippi)
Todd Young (Indiana) Looking to make things better for the people in the states they represent. Great ending to a productive 2 years. GET SHIT DONE for the American people and lose the vengeance team of sore losers/ Yahoo Now with GOP back in "nothing gets done again. No Immigration, Crime, Inflation talks after the nightmare midterms just more vengeance. Who do you think will pay attention to a subpoena issued by Jim Jordan after his antics.; 12/23/22, 4:12 PM