January 30, 2023

At the Monday Night Café…

... you can write about whatever you are.

ADDED, the next morning: I wrote this post on my iPad, which may have autocorrected or merely made my mistake hard for me to see. But it's funny now. And you know you always can "write about whatever you are." It could be an interesting topic! I hope it is. But I didn't mean to inject new weirdness to my classic format for a photo-less open thread. It was just supposed to be "write about whatever you want." But what the hell are you, anyway? I hope you know.

44 comments:

rcocean said...

Whatever you are (229 million views)

https://youtu.be/nQJACVmankY

rehajm said...

There were a few people ragging on CNNs low ratings, their primetime now measured in the thousands. I can’t find it on Fubo…

Humperdink said...

For long time hockey fans, the Golden Jet has died at 84 years old. That would be Hall of Famer Bobby Hull of the Chicago Blackhawks. He didn't invent the slapshot, but he perfected it. Terrifying defenders and goaltenders alike. The AP ran an obituary/ story on him in today's Pittsburgh Tribune Review. Included in the otherwise obligatory article was this:

"Hull was convicted of assaulting a police officer who intervened in a dispute with then-wife Deborah in 1986. He also was accused of battery, but that charge was dropped after Deborah told authorities she didn’t want to testify against her husband, a state attorney told the Chicago Tribune.

Hull’s second wife, Joanne, accused him of abuse during an interview with ESPN for a 2002 show.

A Russian newspaper reported in 1998 that Hull said Adolf Hitler “had some good ideas.” Hull denied making the comment, calling it “false and defamatory.”


What crap. The guy is dead.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

I know you are but what am I?

The question, on one of the talk radio shows today was at what age do you allow your kids to have their own social media account?

Something was said about it by the US surgeon general.

Whiskeybum said...

Actress Cindy Williams dead at age 75.

Just last July, I saw her signing autographs (along with Candy Clark and Mackenzie Phillips) at the 50th Anniversary Iola Car Show.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Tweet: MIT Professor Calls for an Immediate Stop to the COVID mRNA Vaccination Program

“This is clearly the most failing medical product in the history of medical products both in terms of efficacy and safety”

Link to video

walter said...

Ron-na!
Ron-na!
Ron-na!
Ron-na!
Ron-na!
Ron-naaaaaaaaa!!!!!!

Narr said...

PBS broadcasting a documentary about Black photographer and FBI informant Ernest Withers, who I knew and worked with in his later years--before other people I knew and worked with cracked the code and fingered him as a long-mysterious government source in the civil rights movement.

He had been one of the first (uniformed) Black cops hired in Memphis in 1948, but wasn't on the force for many years. He told me about the way the redneck White cops would hold 'alley court' and punish miscreants or the just plain unlucky; at first the black cops wore different uniforms and were only to patrol particular areas, and were allowed only to detain whites, not arrest them. That was stupid and dropped quickly.

The impetus for the hiring at that moment was the brutal beating of a young Black veteran in his own yard by two white cops, not to mention two others raping a couple of Black teenagers waiting for a bus to their jobs. The Crump Machine backed the measure in hope of getting some support in the '48 elections, but it didn't help enough if at all.

Withers said that their Memphis Police trainer--whose name I have forgotten but have somewhere in my notes--had established(?) or trained the Philippine Constabulary and "laid his hands on us in the finest way."

It will be interesting to see how the story is presented--I'll catch the show later, having other plans tonight.

walter said...

Good thing some blac on blac crime pushed aside that pesky Veritas scoop.
Close call!

roger said...

From the Federalist:

On Monday a federal jury acquitted Mark Houck, the Christian pro-life activist whose house was swarmed by FBI agents last fall in front of his wife and children. The not-guilty verdict comes more than four months after the Biden administration accused Houck of violating federal law for protecting his son from an angry abortion activist across the street from a Planned Parenthood in 2021.

https://thefederalist.com/2023/01/30/mark-houck-pro-life-dad-targeted-by-biden-regime-acquitted-of-trumped-up-charges/

Douger said...

I think the Surgeon General said 16 years old minimum to be on social media. Jonathan Haidt is saying 12 yr. Old minimum in an upcoming book on the impact of social media on our youth. My wife said “good luck with that”!

n.n said...

Whatever you are

A girl dreams of a knight in shining armor, or at least a gentleman to sweep a lady off her feet.

That said, never take a knee, never beg, discover your humanity, dignity, and agency in the choices you make, and expect the same of others through a process of reconciliation.

n.n said...

Adolf Hitler “had some good ideas.”

Hitler believed in redistributive change schemes (e.g. shared responsibility, single/central/monopolistic solutions), in diversity [dogma] (Inequity,Exclusion (DIE)), in immigration reform, a cargo cult of science particularly environmentalism, and an ethical religion to relieve his "burdens", his Choice. He found common cause with Mengele -- eat your heart out -- who pursued personal affirmation through the medical, surgical, and psychiatric corruption of others. Hitler had some forward-looking, empathetic, sympathetic, some good ideas.

gadfly said...

Stormy Daniels is alive and well and the subject of the latest Trump Grand Jury started up by the Manhattan DA to investigate hush money payments to keep the stripper quiet about their sexual contacts. It has taken seven years to go after Michael Cohen's boss, "Individual 1," after Rod Rosenstein and Billy Barr deliberately refused to prosecute TFG for the crime.

gadfly said...

rehajm said...
There were a few people ragging on CNNs low ratings, their primetime now measured in the thousands. I can’t find it on Fubo…

Yeah - and I can't find One America Network and Newsmax on DirecTV anymore. Period. End of report, 'cause I haven't got time for the pain involved in calling up their websites.

gpm said...

>>The guy is dead.

De mortuis nil nisi bonum.

If only.

--gpm

wendybar said...

"I can’t authoritatively say that all of the whales that are washing up are because of offshore wind farms. But what I can tell you is that the seven whales that washed up off New Jersey in the past month have all washed up during intense geotechnical surveying of wind farm leases off of New Jersey. On the East Coast, there has been an unusual mortality event for humpback whales from 2016 until now. The only thing that has changed in the ocean in that time is the fact there have been offshore wind surveys occurring from 2015 until now."


https://pjmedia.com/columns/kevindowneyjr/2023/01/30/whale-corpses-are-stacking-up-but-the-libs-wont-talk-about-what-might-be-killing-them-n1666297

wendybar said...

Another Egg Farm fire in Connecticut the other day. Planes striking food processing plants, crazy fires. A conspiracy theorist dream?? Or is something sinister happening, to make us eat bugs sooner??

Funny what most of the media ignores.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/tucker-carlson-examines-strange-destruction-food-processing-plants-across-country-video/

wendybar said...

We are a borderless country. Does that make us a none country now?? https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/01/whats_going_on_at_the_northern_border.html

wendybar said...

"Bill Ayers and his ilk understood what it would take to bring America to its knees. Changing our language, getting rid of our iconology (think America's Flag and Pledge of Allegiance), and changing history to take away our natural pride, tenacity, and very intellectual being is required to get to their end game. Who were some of those people?

Barack Obama
Hillary and Bill Clinton
Bernardine Dohrn
Jane Fonda
Rahm Emanuel
Jeremiah Wright"

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/01/taking_on_the_wouldbe_destroyers_of_america.html

wendybar said...

"Americans deserve to see all of the police body camera footage from January 6, not just cherry-picked excerpts confirming the government narrative.
Recordings also capture the conduct of other officers involved in the assault; at one point, D.C. Metro police officer Daniel Thau admitted the approach is backfiring. “We can hit ’em with a lot of pain compliance, but you’re hittin’ innocent people,” one commander told Thau at 2:14 p.m. on January 6. Thau replied that “not only that, we’re taking out one, and 10 are getting angrier.”

“We’re multiplying them by hitting them,” Thau said.

By “them,” Thau meant enraged Trump supporters who, as the footage further confirmed, were respecting police lines at the time. And around the time Thau made that comment, two men, Kevin Greeson and Benjamin Phillips, were dead of cardiac arrest.

What happened to them?

The public does not know because, unlike the death of Tyre Nichols, no politician has demanded accountability. No news organization or civil rights group has demanded justice. No family member, for reasons understood in the destructive climate created for anyone associated with January 6, has asked for answers."




https://amgreatness.com/2023/01/30/tyre-nichols-isnt-the-only-victim-entitled-to-the-truth/

rehajm said...

The mainstream media is currently in the Lucy Convincing Charlie Brown to Lick the Football stage of the election cycle. Their ratings are measured in thousands but they need eyeballs for their propaganda, so they act all legit and straight news and stuff. For now…

Fool you once, fool you twice, but fool you a thousand times is…?

Ann Althouse said...

"write about whatever you are"

LOL

tim maguire said...

gadfly said...Rod Rosenstein and Billy Barr deliberately refused to prosecute TFG for the crime.

It's not a crime to pay someone to keep quiet about something unless that something is itself a crime. Rosenstein and Barr were right on the law. You are not.

mezzrow said...

Cake are square.

I are round.

tim in vermont said...

Crackhead son of the president, Hunter Biden, wrote very astute and detailed analyses of the political situation in Ukraine for his paymasters there, he also lived in a house where classified documents regarding Ukraine were stored in cardboard boxes in the garage.

In the offices of election officials in AZ, a "heat map" was posted on the wall which indicated where Republicans voted most heavily. If you overlayed that may with a map of the voting equipment problems in Maricopa County, you get an amazing fit. When some election officials balked at certifying the elections, they were threatened with prosecution and jail time.

in PA, heavily Republican precincts ran out of ballots and many thousands of voters were turned away.

Obviously, the conclusion to be drawn is that Trump should be in jail. I think that would be a good thing. Show that the entire edifice is rotten to the core.

tim in vermont said...

Russia just captured the Donbas village of "Sacco and Vanzetti."

Dave Begley said...

I am woman

Hear me roar

In numbers too big to ignore.

tim in vermont said...

"t's not a crime to pay someone to keep quiet about something unless that something is itself a crime."

The theory is that it is a campaign contribution. Of course, under this theory, Hillary Clinton should be in jail for paying for that dossier full of lies and reporting it as "legal expenses" to the FEC.

Left Bank of the Charles said...

Well, if you are posting with your iPad, I would guess that “whatever you are” is a traveler. Looking forward to the pictures.

Iman said...

“Yeah - and I can't find One America Network and Newsmax on DirecTV anymore. Period. End of report, 'cause I haven't got time for the pain involved in calling up their websites”

Yeah… both OAN and Newsmax had long, established presences, were much larger organizations and were always the “go-to” for lefty takes/spin on national and world events/issues.

/fuck

lonejustice said...

Trump's financial donors are slow to contribute, believing that he can't beat feeble Joe Biden:


https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/01/does-trump-need-donors.php

lonejustice said...

“That Sam-I-am! That Sam-I-am! I do not like that Sam-I-am!”

"I will no eat green eggs and ham."

Jamie said...

I figured the typo was just an Insty-ish way of mixing it up a little.

I am... being lazy this morning.

tim in vermont said...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/i-rented-an-electric-car-for-a-four-day-road-trip-i-spent-more-time-charging-it-than-i-did-sleeping-11654268401

planetgeo said...

Whatever you are...Ok

I are a planet. A wandering refugee. Earth, you are gorgeous from afar, but babe, you're cray-cray up close and personal. Loved the gravitational attraction. Killer bod. But yeah, thankful for centripetal force and escape velocity. Best.

Bob Boyd said...

But what the hell are you, anyway?

I'm one of those.

Humperdink said...

What are I? I are a normal person from 1951 to say about January 20, 2009. Now I am a hater, a racist, and a bigot.

wendybar said...

lonejustice said...
Trump's financial donors are slow to contribute, believing that he can't beat feeble Joe Biden:


https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/01/does-trump-need-donors.php

1/31/23, 7:27 AM

Screw the voters. All the GOPe care about is their rich donors. They hate the voters. Hence, voting in Ronna Romney against the wishes of their voters.

Narr said...

rehajm writes about Lucy getting Charlie Brown to lick the football.

That's a great typo for a typo thread.

Stormy Gucking Daniels? All that is old is new again, in the TDSosphere.

rehajm said...

KICK the football...

wildswan said...

"rehajm writes about Lucy getting Charlie Brown to lick the football."

I thought I'd missed a meme about Charlie Brown transitioning.

lonejustice said...

wendybar wrote: "Screw the voters. All the GOPe care about is their rich donors. They hate the voters. Hence, voting in Ronna Romney against the wishes of their voters."

Remember, Donald Trump endorsed Ronna Romney to head up the national GOP.

Assistant Village Idiot said...

"Write about whatever you are." After your update. One son was asked in sixth grade to describe himself in one sentence. "I'm a pessimist with bad eyesight."