Althouse: Blues from an airplane...

February 22, 2023

Blues from an airplane...

... landing just before the storm.

77 comments:

MadTownGuy said...: Just when you thought the Kenosha riots were over...

Kyle Rittenhouse hit with lawsuit from man he shot during 2020 riots

"One of the men Kyle Rittenhouse shot during the 2020 riots has sued the teenager, arguing that the shooting caused emotional distress and humiliation.

Rittenhouse shot Gaige Grosskreutz and two others in Kenosha, Wisconsin during riots that exploded after the death of George Floyd in Minnesota. Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges in 2021.

Grosskreutz was the only one who survived.

“But he must live with the physical and emotional wounds inflicted by Defendant Rittenhouse,” the new suit states.

The suit also names the city of Kenosha, Kenosha County, and several law enforcement officials.

It alleges the defendants conspired to deprive Grosskreutz of his constitutional rights and to obstruct justice, as well as retaliation against Grosskreutz for participating in protests.

The officials “allowed Defendant Rittenhouse and other illegally armed individuals to patrol the streets of downtown Kenosha with deadly weapons, inviting those individuals to use police powers, deputizing them, conspiring with them, and ratifying their actions,” it says. That allegedly led to Rittenhouse shooting Grosskreutz.

The defendants either did not respond to requests for comment or did not have lawyers listed on the docket of the court, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.

Rittenhouse asked supporters via social media for financial assistance due to the suit."

Continued next post...; 2/22/23, 3:00 PM
Quayle said...: My wife was supposed to fly back from Boston today. Flight cancelled. Then she rebooked and that flight was cancelled after they were already on the plane. I guess I'll see her tomorrow.; 2/22/23, 3:02 PM
MadTownGuy said...: Kyle Rittenhouse, continued...

"Changes Story
Grosskreutz ran toward Rittenhouse on Aug. 25, 2020, after the teen fatally shot two people.

“He approached with his hands in the air to try to ease the situation and stop the killing,” the suit states. “Defendant Rittenhouse instead shot Mr. Grosskreutz in the bicep, leaving a gaping wound.”

Grosskreutz said something different when he was under oath during Rittenhouse’s trial.

He agreed then that Rittenhouse did not fire at him until he pointed his gun at the teen.

“It wasn’t until you pointed your gun at him, advanced on him with your gun … that he fired, right?” Corey Chirafisi, part of Rittenhouse’s defense team, asked Grosskreutz.

“Correct,” Grosskreutz replied.

In media interviews after the testimony, Grosskreutz tried to walk back that acknowledgement.

“I do believe that in that photo, given the right narrative, one could suggest that yes, I was pointing my weapon at the defendant. But when you play it as a movie, or look at different stills, my arm was being vaporized as I was allegedly pointing my weapon at the defendant,” said on ABC. “It’s completely inconsistent with the physiology of my wound that he would have shot me while my weapon was pointed at his head.”

‘Shocked’
Rittenhouse told Fox News that he was surprised by being named in the suit.

“I guess it came as a shock to why he’s filing a lawsuit because he admitted that he pointed a gun in my face and that he chased me down,” Rittenhouse said.

Rittenhouse was already named in a different civil suit, filed by the family of Anthony Huber.

Rittenhouse fatally shot Huber after he advanced on the teen while wielding a skateboard.

The Huber suit, filed in the same court, portrayed Huber as “a hero” who died “when Defendant Rittenhouse shot him in the chest as Anthony tried to pull the assault rifle from Defendant Rittenhouse’s hand.”

The suit also names Kenosha officials and also accuses the defendants of deprivation of rights and First Amendment retaliation.

“As discussed above in the context of causation, once Rittenhouse began using violence on protestors in the confined area, he should have reasonably expected protestors to defend themselves. The harm to Huber that occurred while he attempted to disarm Rittenhouse could thus be viewed a direct result of the conspiracy. For these reasons, the claims against Rittenhouse under § 1983 may proceed. Likewise, because the complaint adequately alleges that Rittenhouse was part of a conspiracy with state actors to deprive protestors of their equal-protection rights, plaintiff’s claim against him under 42 U.S.C. § 1985(3) may proceed.”; 2/22/23, 3:04 PM
farmgirl said...: Perfect timing- now you can rest from what I would find to be an exhausting (rather than exhilarating) trip.
No one would ever have to use the phrase of closing the barn door after the horse is out: unless it’s to visit a familiar pasture w/a favorite apple tree.

I’m boring, but…
… I’m not cold.; 2/22/23, 3:05 PM
rhhardin said...: Scott Adams today (about minutes 10-20) says he's done helping black people. Stay as far away from them as you can. Be friendly but stay away. That's more or less Derbyshire's The Talk (White Version) that he got fired for long ago.

Adams says the way out is education and if they keep turning it down, it's their problem, not his.

My version was, after a few decades of leg-up, optimism and good will, you're calling us racists, well maybe the trouble is on your end.

However my version suggests teaching good character - the underlying problem being a somewhat lower average IQ (86) giving averaged success differences political footholds, seeming to prove that whites are racist, and making it easy to load a chip on every black's shoulders, a polical move. Which chip cancels good character and thus the single thing that brings you success, regardless of IQ.; 2/22/23, 3:14 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: I see a special louche that keeps snowflakes out. In Madison, that means nearly everybody.; 2/22/23, 3:16 PM
Josephbleau said...: What a stunning picture of ice cold blue Madison. Earlier in blog time there was a photo in the air showing a water shore as you moved to NY. Was that of Milwaukee and the Lake Michigan shore?

At ground level we humans turn our backs to the old water harbors that once gave us the life-giving powers of commerce. Who knows now that Chicago was, as San Fran, a global water port in it's day, replaced with rail, air, and road. thanks!; 2/22/23, 3:24 PM
wendybar said...: "Aided and abetted by the craven corporate media, the American liberal-left establishment has pushed the boundaries of ineptitude to the point of parody. And now Donald Trump is poised to steal the left’s lunch, eat it and let it swirl around in the toilet – along with the liberal elite’s political credibility."

https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/02/22/fiddling-while-ohio-burns/; 2/22/23, 3:31 PM
Jersey Fled said...: Fun fact of the day:

GDP of the Russian Federation ($1.8 trillion) is slightly less than that of Italy ($2.1 trillion)

Source: Worldbank.; 2/22/23, 4:05 PM
Kai Akker said...: A good intro song off a very, very good record. Vintage.; 2/22/23, 4:08 PM
William50 said...: Today is the anniversary of the "Miracle On Ice". One of the if not the greatest Olympic victories for the U.S. The U.S. hockey team went on to win the Gold. For a bunch of college kids to defeat the Soviets who were on a professional level stunned everyone.

USA USA USA!; 2/22/23, 4:19 PM
tim in vermont said...: Lindsay Graham said that he didn't believe that the US was responsible for the explosive residue that was found on the Nordstream pipeline because "Joe Biden would never be that reckless...." That's his evidence, Joe Biden's steady hand at the tiller of the ship of state.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha!; 2/22/23, 4:20 PM
Ann Althouse said...: “ What a stunning picture of ice cold blue Madison. Earlier in blog time there was a photo in the air showing a water shore as you moved to NY. Was that of Milwaukee and the Lake Michigan shore?”

That was Lake Michigan.

This is Lake Mendota and Lake Monona, creating our beloved isthmus.; 2/22/23, 4:37 PM
madAsHell said...: ATM discovered at Seattle encampment cleanup a mystery for authorities

It's a mystery??

I'm surprised they only found one. The nearby Rite-Aid drugstore has lost multiple ATM's.

Read the article. It's a double dose of compound stupid. The ATM went to the dump with all the other debris. No one bothered to investigate the ATM carcass, and now the machine can't be recovered?? Smells like a cover-up.

If I recall correctly, they've pulled multiple dead guys out of that same homeless camp.; 2/22/23, 5:08 PM
wendybar said...: Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
This small American town absolutely lit up today. The happiness Trump brought to the people here in East Palestine can NOT be overstated!

Thank you for coming, President Trump.

This is exactly what these great people needed. Many now have a newfound sense of hope.; 2/22/23, 5:10 PM
Whiskeybum said...: That open water in the lower portion of the photo is apparently caused by the southward flow of the Yahara River - a geographic feature of Madison that I was unaware of until verifying on Google Maps. The warm runoff from sources in the isthmus are no doubt responsible for the ice-free zone in Lake Monona.

Also visible in the upper part of the photo (Lake Mendota) is the Maple Bluff peninsula, where the Governor's mansion is located.; 2/22/23, 5:40 PM
William50 said...: By the way one of the players on that gold medal team, Mark Johnson, is the coach of the Wisconsin Badgers women's hockey team who have 6 national titles. I have been a season ticket holder and fan since the 2004-2005 season.; 2/22/23, 5:44 PM
Kate said...: Welcome home.; 2/22/23, 6:00 PM
Curious George said...: "Was that of Milwaukee and the Lake Michigan shore?"

"That was Lake Michigan."

Incorrect. The lake centered in the phots previous photo was of Pewaukee Lake. About 60 miles east of Madison. Lake Michigan was in the far right.; 2/22/23, 6:30 PM
Paddy O said...: Here in the SoCal mountains, we're getting an honest to goodness blizzard. The national weather service says that it's the first blizzard warning they've issued for this area on record.

A couple of inches in the last couple of hours, supposed to get heavier for the next few days until around Sunday morning, then another storm comes in next week. In the mid-20s right now here at a mile high in the San Bernardino Mts.; 2/22/23, 6:40 PM
rhhardin said...: Audiobooks, Critique of Pure Reason read by a person is worse than the standard robot voice; because the book takes concentration and the (volunteer) reader isn't comprehending but just putting superficial voicings in that are suggested by the grammar. So they're positively harmful to comprehension.; 2/22/23, 7:37 PM
tim in vermont said...: Twitter is at it again. You can't tweet this article which quotes Seymore Hersh, it's labeled as "Harmful" even though it just contain's Hersh's opinion that the war has been a major fuckup by Biden's amateurish foreign policy team. One fuckup after another. Why so serious, Twitter?

Replace the [DOT] and try it.

https://strategic-culture[DOT]org/news/2023/02/20/an-unexpected-insight-for-elite-us-may-be-biggest-loser-in-war-russia/

Neither could I use Google Translate to translate this interview with Hersh, but maybe that's just me.

https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/seymour-hersh-im-interview-joe-biden-sprengte-nord-stream-weil-er-deutschland-nicht-traut-li.317700; 2/22/23, 8:13 PM
Owen said...: Ann @ 4:37: “… This is Lake Mendota and Lake Monona, creating our beloved isthmus.”

Say “beloved isthmus” ten times quickly!; 2/22/23, 8:13 PM
Narr said...: Home sweet isthmus. Quick midwinter vacays are great.

SoCal snow? Save some for the grandkids, Paddy O.; 2/22/23, 8:15 PM
Political Junkie said...: Vivek for president.
Vivek vs Biden debate would be one for the history books.; 2/22/23, 8:44 PM
tim in vermont said...: I had to cut and paste the text a little at a time to translate from the German:

Hersh: Joe Biden decided not to blow them up back in June, it was five months into the war. But in September he ordered it to be done. The operational staff, the people who do "kinetic" things for the United States, they do what the President says, and at first they thought that was a useful weapon that he could use in negotiations. But sometime after the Russians invaded and then when the operation was complete, the whole thing became increasingly repulsive to the people running it. These are people who work in top positions in the secret services and are well trained. They opposed the project, they thought it was crazy.
Shortly after the attack, after they did as they were told, there was a lot of anger at the operation and rejection from those involved. That's one of the reasons I learned so much. And I'll tell you one more thing. The people of America and Europe who are building pipelines know what happened. I'm telling you something important. The people who own companies that build pipelines know the story. I didn't hear the story from them, but I quickly learned that they knew. -berliner-zeitung.de

Anybody who says that the pipeline blew up due to incompetence from the Russians has to explain the reports of explosive residue found that have appeared in European newspapers.

If the story is that the Russians did it to themselves, you have to ask why US officials, and NATO officials, especially Poland, were so loudly celebrating after it happened.; 2/22/23, 8:55 PM
Michael said...: Althouse on planes. Well done.; 2/22/23, 9:04 PM
Fred Drinkwater said...: Paddy, that's bs. There have been numerous sudden snowstorms in late winter in the Angeles national forest North of Pasadena, over the last few decades. Don't care what the weather service calls them. Famously, people have nearly died from exposure just yards away from "civilization" there, due to sudden storms.; 2/22/23, 9:39 PM
Dave Begley said...: America can’t talk honestly about race. If you even try, you get labeled a racist. It’s not worth it; 2/22/23, 10:04 PM
SGT Ted said...: Great photo.; 2/22/23, 11:01 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Some people have started openly calling Pete Buttigieg to be given the boot. I'm not one of them. But it does make you wonder, what's mayor Pete thinking, having mayor aspirations, like the presidency of the United States, and not responding to a mayor transportation disaster.

Fox got people in Palestine coughing up blood.; 2/22/23, 11:02 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Tweet: "Dr. John Littell was KICKED OUT of a Sarasota Memorial Hospital Board Meeting after testifying to the effectiveness of Ivermectin to treat Covid-19."

Is this a common occurrence? It seems highly irregular.

Those uniformed people seemed to be at the ready waiting for... what exactly?; 2/22/23, 11:17 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: When you hear bad news and and you think why can't we have more bad news?

Link to YouTube video; 2/22/23, 11:42 PM
Saint Croix said...: Here in the SoCal mountains, we're getting an honest to goodness blizzard.

Super-nice day in the South! I wore my leather sandals to night church so I could get ashes put on my forehead. Always fun to have ashes on your forehead in the South. People are like, what?

This guy at my grocery store said, "hey, it's February and you're wearing flip-flops!"

And I said, turning towards him, "No, these aren't flip-flops, these are leather sandals, just like Jesus wore."

And his eyeballs are looking at my forehead. And he's like, "Oh."

And I say, "Some people at church call them flip-flops, too. And they ask me, why are you wearing flip-flops to church? It's disrespectful."

And he says, "Well, don't listen to them, because their mind is wrong." He might have said their soul is wrong or their heart is wrong.

Anyway, he wasn't criticizing me for my fashion choice. Maybe because I'm way bigger than he is and I've got a black cross on my forehead. I don't know. Anyway, he was criticizing my critics.

What I did not say (I didn't want to make him feel bad), is that it's usually my Mom who is calling them "flip-flops." She does not approve of my wearing flip-flops in the sanctuary. And I'm like, "Mom, these are leather sandals, they are not flip-flops, and you know Jesus Christ wore leather sandals."

And she's like, "You are not Jesus Christ."

So I've had that theological discussion before! Didn't want to get into it with some visitor from California.; 2/23/23, 1:50 AM
Saint Croix said...: Scott Adams today (about minutes 10-20) says he's done helping black people. Stay as far away from them as you can. Be friendly but stay away.

I like Scott Adams but that's racist as shit.

You can tell he doesn't live in the South. What the hell kind of advice is that?

"Stay far away from black people."

The fuck, boy, how you going to do that? They're all over! If the damn Klan gave that advice, white people would have to hide up in their cabin in the woods.

That would be a damn funny movie, Buster Keaton playing a racist in Atlanta, trying to avoid black people all day. He'd be under cars and shit. Roll out the other side, oh shit, another black person. He'd have trouble eating. Black people! In the restaurant! Serving food. Cooking food. Eating food.

"How's that self-imposed segregation coming along, Buster?"

He'd be climbing up the side of a building. "This is not as easy as it looks."

Black person would stick his head out on the window on the 12th floor.

Buster's like, "Excuse me, I'm going to the left." And then he's walking sideways and he meets a black woman sticking her head out a window.; 2/23/23, 2:02 AM
Saint Croix said...: Althouse, are you on an airplane?!?; 2/23/23, 2:15 AM
Saint Croix said...: Althouse is

up, up, up in the air!

Flying Althouse

all right

I missed that part, I sort of assumed you were traveling by mini-bus or magical mystery tour or the Scooby Doo van or something.

Flying! Sweet!; 2/23/23, 2:17 AM
Saint Croix said...: ha ha ha ha

Angela Davis Finds Out Her People Came on the Mayflower

You've heard of the Mayflower Madam?

Now meet the Mayflower Commie!; 2/23/23, 2:27 AM
Quaestor said...: "This is Lake Mendota and Lake Monona, creating our beloved isthmus."

What must?; 2/23/23, 2:45 AM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: I put the Pfizer comment in the wrong post. Sorry.; 2/23/23, 3:19 AM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: “Environmental scientists heading to Ohio just killed in a plane crash?!”

When trust is lost, everything sounds like a conspiracy.

link to tweet; 2/23/23, 3:42 AM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Pfizer turned James O’Keefe into a weather balloon.; 2/23/23, 3:47 AM
lonejustice said...: I didn't watch the Superbowl this year, so I missed this great quote from Donald Trump:

"Congratulations to the Kansas City Chiefs on a great game, and a fantastic comeback, under immense pressure," Trump tweeted. "You represented the Great State of Kansas and, in fact, the entire USA, so very well. Our Country is PROUD OF YOU!"; 2/23/23, 4:51 AM
Humperdink said...: Jen Psaki is getting her own show on MSLSD on weekends. Congrats to her for parlaying her White House job into a news flack gig.

It also has been reported current White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Affirmative Action is in the running for a Harvard full professorship position in the Communications Dept. Hiring has been delayed due to a binder shortage on Amazon.; 2/23/23, 4:56 AM
Humperdink said...: Congrats to the Biden foreign policy team for forcing Vlad The Impaler into the arms of Chairman Xi. Don't look now, but it appears Vlad's new best friend will supply him sophisticated arms. Peace at last!

As an aside, Vlad has two choices: victory or die. Note that retreat is not a choice for him.; 2/23/23, 5:04 AM
Humperdink said...: NYC Eric Adams on Gov. Ron DeSantis's visit: “Welcome to NYC, @GovRonDeSantis, a place where we don’t ban books ... "

To which Charles Payne responded to Hizzoner: “You might as well ban them in New York City, because our kids can’t read. Ban them and burn them, because you don’t teach our kids how to read, what the hell good are books in the first place?”; 2/23/23, 5:45 AM
tim maguire said...: MadTownGuy said..."Changes Story
Grosskreutz ran toward Rittenhouse on Aug. 25, 2020, after the teen fatally shot two people.

This makes me think he made a big mistake in filing suit. He’s pretty much guaranteed to be countersued and if the cases turn on this testimony (which it probably will), then he loses.

I’m surprised at the Scott Adams story. Sure, guy’s a bit of a nutter who’s been riding his early Trump support for too long (he’s wrong about almost every other thing he’s taken a position on), but I would think he knows better. You can’t judge the general public based on the loudest voices in social media. Most people aren’t hopelessly partisan (take note national divorce fans), most people aren’t woke, most people reject identity politics, and most blacks aren’t racists looking for opportunities to file grievances and ruin white people’s lives. Most blacks, like most people generally, just want to be left alone to live their lives and support their families.; 2/23/23, 6:13 AM
Iman said...: “Put on your Madison Blue Shoes…”; 2/23/23, 6:20 AM
Big Mike said...: Update to my lengthy comment in Tuesday’s cafe post. Trump did show up in East Palestine yesterday. He brought food, water, and cleaning supplies. Pity he’s no longer in a position to order federal employees who work for the FRA to don the hazmat suits and do the cleaning.; 2/23/23, 6:31 AM
Humperdink said...: tim maguire said: "Most people aren’t hopelessly partisan (take note national divorce fans), most people aren’t woke, most people reject identity politics .."

Unfortunately, those in powerful leadership positions hold those views and they are running the show. Those who stand up against these views get hammered down like roofing nails. Liz Wheeler responded to Jesse Kelly's call for a national divorce by saying that was a loser's position. She is essentially saying to beat them at the ballot box. Well ..... that can only be achieved if we out-cheat them at the ballot box. The last two election cycles have shown voting irregularities are a way of life in lib controlled locales. Voter ID? Shut up you racist bigot.; 2/23/23, 6:53 AM
tim in vermont said...: I bought a Kindle version of The Critique of Pure Reason, probably through the portal here, IDK, and it was just a scraping of Gutenberg, I am guessing, and almost every paragraph, there were words concatenated together by whatever stream editor created the Kindle version, which made it impossible for me to follow it. Maybe it would have been good to read it more slowly, but the interruption to figure out what words were concatenated together that shouldn't have been, was too great a distraction.; 2/23/23, 6:58 AM
rhhardin said...: What people miss about various "The Talk" essays is that they're meant to be read by the opposite race, not the author's race. They're "You're so bad that ..." essays.; 2/23/23, 7:09 AM
wendybar said...: J6 video thread exposes deliberate police brutality outside Capitol…

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1627767555745107984.html; 2/23/23, 7:48 AM
wendybar said...: What the HELL is going on in America??

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11781695/Fire-involving-URANIUM-breaks-Tennessee-National-Security-Complex.html; 2/23/23, 7:51 AM
Mr. Forward said...: Blogger Jersey Fled said...
Fun fact of the day:

GDP of the Russian Federation ($1.8 trillion) is slightly less than that of Italy ($2.1 trillion)

Source: Worldbank.

Population of Russia: 147 million
Population of Italy: 62 million

GDP of USA: 23 trillion
Population of USA: 332 million; 2/23/23, 7:57 AM
Humperdink said...: External debt:

USA $31 trillion 121% of GDP
Italy $2.5 trillion 141% of GDP
Russia $0.5 trillion 32% of GDP

Stats are fun!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_external_debt; 2/23/23, 8:26 AM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: A couple of inches in the last couple of hours, supposed to get heavier for the next few days until around Sunday morning, then another storm comes in next week. In the mid-20s right now here at a mile high in the San Bernardino Mts.

The Big Bear ski resorts will be busy. I grew up in Pasadena and skied at Big Bear. Any decent amount of snow would result in every skier getting up at O-dark 30, driving two hears to San Bernardino and then at least another hour up single-lane highway 330/18. Then spending 45-minutes in line for a 5-minute ski run.; 2/23/23, 8:37 AM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: Portland, OR got nearly 11" of Global Warming goodness overnight. The city is shutdown, not enough snow plows out because of the vax mandate.; 2/23/23, 9:02 AM
planetgeo said...: IMG_0357D..."Blue Period," (Aerial photography by Ann Althouse, title osmosis by Saint Croix.); 2/23/23, 9:19 AM
Big Mike said...: Anybody who says that the pipeline blew up due to incompetence from the Russians has to explain the reports of explosive residue found that have appeared in European newspapers.

@tim, it depends on (1) what those residues are, and (2) the degree of trust one has in the people who are reporting on the residue. Answering strictly for myself regarding point (2) the answer is zero, to as many digits as you care to calculate.; 2/23/23, 9:22 AM
Ann Althouse said...: @Kai Akker

Thanks for noticing the reference!

That's perhaps my favorite JA song.; 2/23/23, 9:29 AM
tcrosse said...: I'll Have a Blue Isthmus Without You.; 2/23/23, 10:02 AM
tim in vermont said...: A lot of Italy's GDP is related to serving the Italian experience to tourists, producing fancy clothes for wealthy wearers, high end luxury items like leather furniture and cars. Every 6 inch artillery shell we produce counts as $3,500 dollars towards our GDP, I read somewhere, how much does production of the equivalent shell contribute to Russia's GDP?

But let's pretend that war with Russia will be a cake walk.; 2/23/23, 10:04 AM
Rusty said...: Saint Croix said...
Althouse, are you on an airplane?!?
No. She's on a broom. She's said before. She doesn't like to fly, but she'll do it for the sake of efficiency. She prefers to drive. I agree.; 2/23/23, 10:16 AM
Jersey Fled said...: External debt:

USA $31 trillion 121% of GDP
Italy $2.5 trillion 141% of GDP
Russia $0.5 trillion 32% of GDP

Nobody wants Russia's debt.; 2/23/23, 10:33 AM
Kai Akker said...: @AA..... First song on their first record. The producer or Marty B or whoever made that choice nailed it. When those ominous chords and snarling bass came on, and then the drums and that cymbal splash.... you knew you were hearing something different, didn't you? [Three exclamation points]

Great LP. My favorite of theirs.; 2/23/23, 10:50 AM
tim in vermont said...: "I'll Have a Blue Isthmus Without You."

Coffee spit.; 2/23/23, 10:54 AM
effinayright said...: Tim McQuire said:
"Most blacks, like most people generally, just want to be left alone to live their lives and support their families."

************

70% of black "families" are run by single moms, with the "baby daddy" contributing squat to raising the kids. Boys from such "families" are by far the largest cohort of criminals.

Right there, your claim falls down.

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna39993685

https://fathers.com/the-consequences-of-fatherlessness/; 2/23/23, 10:54 AM
Paddy O said...: "Paddy, that's bs. There have been numerous sudden snowstorms in late winter in the Angeles national forest North of Pasadena, over the last few decades"

Oh, definitely there's been a lot of snow (I remember in 2008, having to snowshoe over about 3' of snow about 1/4 mile to the nearest loosely plowed street in order to get a ride down the mountain where my car was parked in order to drive to my wedding.

And just recently, there's been major news about Julian Sands going missing while hiking at Mt. Baldy last month. There were a few deaths of hikers that month, and another hiker missing for a few days was found, but no sign of Mr. Sands after now a month, all because of very treacherous icy and snowy conditions.

Most of the snow tends to be heavy and then if it stays cold, it builds on what came before. This time, there was hardly any snow on the ground and the weather is predicting about 3 feet just on Friday, with snow starting yesterday and continuing through Sunday. But it's not just the snow, apparently what makes it a blizzard is a combination of wind, cold, and snow amounts all coming together.

And more, the weather service posted a "correction" saying that it's the first blizzard they've announced for this area since their software came online in 2006. But apparently someone else found a blizzard warning from 1989.

Very soft, very powdery snow, quite beautiful. But the streets aren't plowed and not likely to be so for a while, as snow level could get down to 1000 feet or so in the next days.; 2/23/23, 11:12 AM
tim in vermont said...: You know, rhhardin, that book is public domain and nobody is stopping you from giving it your own dramatic reading and selling it on Amazon. By the time you are done, you will have thoroughly internalized it, and it will be a gift to future generations. You can't copyright to the book, but you can copyright to performance.; 2/23/23, 11:23 AM
Kai Akker said...: It sounded like machinery music. Like a big machine! Like a.... a.... a Jefferson Airplane!

LOL

alas end of nostalgia trip for now; 2/23/23, 11:31 AM
Saint Croix said...: I'm adopting a new dog

and the top name choices so far are

Blue

and

Marine

(Marine short for "French Ultramarine Blue" and also because she's going to be in charge of security one day -- Golden Retriever mixed with a Great Pyrenees -- and my current dog is a bit of a pussy dog, although her bark sounds ferocious)

Any other suggestions and/or opinions would be welcome! (Thanks Narr for suggestions on the other thread).; 2/23/23, 3:24 PM
Saint Croix said...: Chris Rock and Jeff Foxworthy ought to go on tour together!

You Might a Redneck

and

Niggas vs. Black People

That would be awesome!

you could call it

the "Red and Black tour"

With UGA T-shirts; 2/23/23, 3:33 PM
Ann Althouse said...: “ Incorrect. The lake centered in the phots previous photo was of Pewaukee Lake. About 60 miles east of Madison. Lake Michigan was in the far right.”

I was talking about the large blue segment, but interesting to know that another thing in the photo also had a name and that I have a commenter who saw fit to declare me incorrect. Do you know the name for that?; 2/23/23, 4:24 PM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: Saint Croix

TEX.; 2/23/23, 6:41 PM
Saint Croix said...: thanks Hooker!

adding Tex and TJ Hooker to the list; 2/24/23, 5:26 AM
chickelit said...: Althouse, many thanks for that photo! I think you solved a 60-year-old mystery for me. Sometime in February or March in 1963, a WSJ photographer snapped a photo of my father and a friend ice diving off the shore of Lake Monona. Here is the photo: link. There is supposed to be a corresponding story, butI've never seen it. The photo would have been taken on shore, probably on the left side of the open water in your photo. I have a framed print which hung around our house in Middleton when I was growing up. Years later, I was trying to determine why there was open water in Lake Monona. I assumed that it was warm water effluent from an MG&E plant, but I now believe it was just natural flowage of the Yahara, even in deep winter. My dad his friends preferred to dive in Mendota rather than Monona, unless they were looking for bodies. But Mendota is "upriver" and doesn't have open water like Monona does.; 2/26/23, 6:17 PM