Althouse: Man and Mendota

April 28, 2023

Man and Mendota — 5:49 a.m.

(Open thread.)

33 comments:

MadisonMan said...: Was he getting ready to swim? A little early to be in the water IMO.; 4/28/23, 11:18 AM
Leland said...: For those interested in a professional discussion on the Marvin Gaye and Ed Sheeran copyright, here's a great YouTube video from Rick Beato. Only 5:19 of time to watch.; 4/28/23, 11:32 AM
Kay said...: Brings to mind Wanderer above the Sea of Fog.; 4/28/23, 11:57 AM
tim in vermont said...: Article 1, Section 8: To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

Our constitution plainly assumes that private citizens can own warships.; 4/28/23, 12:05 PM
Owen said...: What is the lake temperature now? Is there a local Polar Bear Club doing heart-stopping dips on New Year's Day (having cut a hole through the ice)?; 4/28/23, 12:09 PM
Display Name said...: That guy is in good shape!; 4/28/23, 12:10 PM
Dave Begley said...: As I recall during the WI demonstrations in the State Capitol, Ann and Meade got all sorts of grief. I seem to recall death threats or physical harm threats.

That's how today's Left rolls. If you disagree with the Left, you are harassing them. And then the Left rolls out the threats against you. And, of course, they are always the victims.

The Jacobins are trying to take over the Assembly.; 4/28/23, 12:20 PM
Chuck said...: Althouse, about your comments moderation.

I can't speak to whatever comments are not making it through moderation except for a few of my own. (It's very rare these days that my comments don't go up; almost all are going through whatever moderation is going on.) If there are some really terrible page-destroying comments I guess I am glad that they aren't going up.

And I do understand that if you are doing moderation, it takes some time. (I really wish -- as you probably do -- that moderation wasn't a necessary daily task for you.)

But what I am seeing are pages where some comments get posted, and then many hours later, out of chronological order, other (earlier) comments get posted. The time(s) of submission, not your posting, determines where they appear. So for instance with many of my comments, they get posted, much later, and stuck into the middle of pages where I have already read the previous comments. I presume that you "moderate" and post some comments, but others you "moderate" and hold for some reason. I am of course talking about comments that surely meet your commenting rules, since they do get posted eventually (and quite rightly)... just hours later. And I don't understand why, except that perhaps you don't like some comments or commenters, and want to minimize their appearance to other readers of your comments pages.

As to the substantive nature of your moderation, I note some examples of comments that DO seem to pass your moderation requirements, and seem to get posted pretty timely:

There's this one:
Drago said...
"Carroll says she has not been able to form a romantic relationship since the encounter. She said she hasn’t had sex since then, either."

If Carroll were willing to wear a Rod Dreher mask I think LLR-democratical and Violent Homosexual Rage Rape Fantasist Chuck just might be willing to give her/"him" a go.

4/27/23, 1:41 PM

And also this one:
Drago said...
LLR-democratical Chuck: " My only remaining hope is that through additional media reporting, more Fox- and (Tucker-)related lawsuit discovery, even more embarrassing personal details about Carlson will be exposed.

So that's exactly how I feel.

Your turn now."

You mean "embarrassing" like your explicitly stated Violent Homosexual Rage Rape Fantasies that you gleefully, and disturbingly, and proudly shared with the Althouse commentariat?

Or "embarrassing" like your serial racist attacks against black conservatives?

Or "embarrassing" like your clearly unhealthy obsession with certain underage children of politicians?

"embarrassing" things like that?

4/25/23, 2:56 PM

Or finally this one. This one's a gem, because it is one of six(6) Drago comments on the page, and it is a page where he calls me out by name when I had not, at the time, read the post, or any other comments, and on which I NEVER EVEN MADE A COMMENT OF MY OWN:
Drago said...
Narr: "I love it when "lonejustice" talks dirty."

I would bet LLR-democratical and Violent Homosexual Rage Rape Fantasist Chuck loves it much, much more.

Much.

4/23/23, 2:12 PM

I'll be interested to read your take on this subject, Althouse.; 4/28/23, 12:39 PM
dbp said...: Man and Mendota at Madison.; 4/28/23, 1:18 PM
planetgeo said...: Meade unbound?; 4/28/23, 1:19 PM
Nice said...: Where is the memorial for Jerry Springer? I may have missed it. Maybe it's a private post, for ViP Readers only. or, maybe this post is the memorial, Man and the Lake is a kind of an homage.; 4/28/23, 1:36 PM
wendybar said...: Coming VERY soon to America under Progressivism!! They have sham elections in Haiti too!!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12022367/As-bodies-burn-streets-Haiti-Bidens-administration-blame-writes-former-diplomat.html; 4/28/23, 1:44 PM
rhhardin said...: The daily bicycle commute was met with suddenly growing thunderstorms. It happens once every decade or so, that the weather radar shows nothing before and yet it shows up before it's over. This now requires WD-40 on the power train so that rust doesn't set in.; 4/28/23, 2:38 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Major traffic alert in ATL this afternoon and tonight, over double concerts with Taylor Swift and Janet Jackson.

While in a beef with L**t, I'm choosing to be at an anniversary meeting tonight instead of driving swifties and janets. I'm about to start making my potato salad and sweet plantain delicacy

Put a couple spoons of this in your potato salad and it could make a star among close friends and distant relatives. Be Bean not Nuts.; 4/28/23, 3:33 PM
Political Junkie said...: Lem - I wonder about the demographic breakdown of the Taylor fan base and the Janet fan base.; 4/28/23, 4:03 PM
Political Junkie said...: Meade and Man at Mendota.
God and Man at Yale.; 4/28/23, 4:05 PM
Meade said...: Didn’t think you would post that one. I know it’s just my vanity talking but I do get a little embarrassed when people can see how quickly I lose muscle mass whenever I stop lifting for a week or two.; 4/28/23, 5:47 PM
gspencer said...: Well, did he go in or not?; 4/28/23, 6:19 PM
gspencer said...: Did he go in or not?; 4/28/23, 6:19 PM
n.n said...: Man in the moon at the sea of tranquility.; 4/28/23, 6:37 PM
lonejustice said...: Meade has been working out. Good for him. And good for Althouse.; 4/28/23, 7:29 PM
Eva Marie said...: Bobby Kennedy Jr on Twitter today: 47 USC 315 makes it illegal for TV networks to censor Presidential candidates but Thursday, ABC showed its contempt for the law, democracy, and its audience by cutting most of the content of my interview with host Linsey Davis leaving only cherry-picked snippets and a defamatory disclaimer . . . How can democracy function without a free and unbiased press? As President, I will free FCC from its corporate captors and force the agency to follow the law by revoking the licenses of networks that put the mercantile ambitions of advertisers ahead of the public interest. #Kennedy24; 4/28/23, 10:06 PM
wildswan said...: He's thinking: "I just saw an Aaron Rogers picture where he's holding up a Jets shirt. 'Good old Aaron,' I thought before I thought. But then I realized what I was looking at. What's the word for this feeling?" Unmoved, the sun rises as he watches. Across the lake a loon laughs.; 4/28/23, 10:43 PM
gadfly said...: tim in vermont said...
Article 1, Section 8: To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

Our constitution plainly assumes that private citizens can own warships.

"Letters of Marque and Reprisal are the legal [means] by which the government can commission privateers. A Letter of Marque allows a private citizen to act on behalf of the government in war and a Reprisal allows such privateers to do things like seize foreign ships."

But Congress has to commission each vessel and that hasn't happened since the Revolutionary War when the Continental Congress signed up a total of about 1700 privateer ships to act as the Continental Navy.; 4/29/23, 12:50 AM
Big Mike said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 4/29/23, 3:42 AM
Big Mike said...: Our constitution [sic- should be capitalized] plainly assumes that private citizens can own warships.

But what does it say about surface to air missiles when Crazy Joe Biden sends American F-15s to drop bombs on Deplorable normies?; 4/29/23, 4:11 AM
Big Mike said...: A commentary regarding the GOP Presidential candidates by a former (very) minor official in the Reagan-Bush Re-election Campaign of forty years ago:

Any Republican President being sworn in on Inauguration Day 2025 has four challenges to deal with: (1) world peace, especially finding a way to convince China that invading Taiwan would be a no-win scenario for them; (2) restoring the US economy to at least its level in 2019, particularly with respect to small business owners and working people closer to the bottom of the economic ladder; (3) fighting the Deep State; and (4) fighting “Woke.”

Donald Trump is way ahead of everyone else with respect to the first two. His carefully-crafted image as an unpredictable person seems to have kept Putin and Kim in line, and on the economic front he dealt some serious hits to Xi. And for all Cookie’s mindless prattle about “tax cuts for the rich,” it is a matter of economic fact that the bulk of the economic benefits of Trump’s tax cuts went to people less well off — the only tax cuts since Eisenhower where that was true. I imagine that eliminating the SALT deductions hit limousine liberals like Cookie pretty hard in the wallet, which is a good thing. But Trump is lower than just about any other declared Republican candidate relative to (3) and (4). It is a matter of observed truth that Fauci and Birx not only managed to deftly supersede Trump’s own hand-selected expert for dealing with COVID-19, but until Trump lucked into Barr, the FBI regularly jerked him around like a marionette in a Punch and Judy show. I also question his overall political acumen. His unforced errors are past tedious. Taking the side of Disney Wokeness against DeSantis is yet another blunder.

Ron DeSantis is way ahead of everybody else currently in the field on (3) and (4) particularly on fighting Woke. His military service was as a JAG officer — which is not nearly as action-packed and exciting as David James Elliott portrayed it in the TV series of two decades ago — but he was a JAG officer attached to a SEAL team, which put him closer to the fighting than most JAG officers get. Would that give him the street cred to look Putin or Xi in the eye and make them blink? Not impossible, but seems a stretch. And we have no way to know how he would do on the economy. We have no idea who his advisors are and how well he would listen.

But that’s a moot point, because, as a PAC supporting Trump pointed out, DeSantis is unelectable. As a Congressman Ron DeSantis cast a bunch of votes on Social Security that are tantamount to saying he doesn’t much care about the Presidency. Althouse has a a tag “What Trump did to the Republican Party,” but what Paul Ryan did to the Party was vastly worse.

So who does that leave? My own favorite is not declared, and may not declare at all. I like Rand Paul — very good on the economy, a bit more isolationist than I’d like, but the only Republican besides DeSantis not snowed by Fauci. And if being shot at by James Hodgkinson, dealing with the pain of broken ribs thanks to a hardcore Democrat neighbor, and having his life and the life of his wife threatened by a mob in DC makes him a bit more hard nosed towards the Deep State, the Woke, and Democrats in general, that won’t hurt at all.

My two cents.; 4/29/23, 5:37 AM
Big Mike said...: On March 10, Jim Cramer of CNBC was touting First Republic Bank as a stock pick.

Today:

”The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, also known as the FDIC, will imminently place First Republic Bank under receivership, marking the third collapse of a medium-sized American bank in less than two months.”

For the sake of the US banking system PUH-leez do not let this man tout any more banking stocks, or anything financially-related ever again!; 4/29/23, 6:32 AM
West TX Intermediate Crude said...: @BigMike-
I have made occasional random comments supporting Rand Paul as President. He's smart, experienced in the ways of D.C., and knows when to keep quiet. His major downside is the historically, Senators have made lousy presidents.
I was not aware of DeSantis' anti-SocSec votes. His subsequent domination of the Florida electorate leads me to believe that it is either minor, or forgotten, or not as bad as you portray.
In any event, I'm happy to have RDS as the most conservative electable candidate.; 4/29/23, 8:03 AM
MadTownGuy said...: Makes me wonder when the Wokies in Madison will insist on changing the name of the lake to Womendota.; 4/29/23, 8:30 AM
MadTownGuy said...: Dave Begley said...

"The Jacobins are trying to take over the Assembly."

Is this the downside of a unicameral legislature?; 4/29/23, 8:36 AM
Rusty said...: Meade said...
"Didn’t think you would post that one. I know it’s just my vanity talking but I do get a little embarrassed when people can see how quickly I lose muscle mass whenever I stop lifting for a week or two."
Dude. You're standing there like you just finished digging the hole and put water in it.
Impressive.

Gadfly. Even before there was a law private ships went about the seas armed with cannon and arms for their crews. Pirates were previlent everywhere.; 4/29/23, 10:43 AM
Big Mike said...: I was not aware of DeSantis' anti-SocSec votes. His subsequent domination of the Florida electorate leads me to believe that it is either minor, or forgotten, or not as bad as you portray.

@West TX Crude, wife and I mostly watch HGTV, Magnolia Network, Smithsonian, Discovery, and Fox News (wife hardly ever missed watching Tucker, and sometimes she left the channel on all the way to the end of Gutfeld. We saw those commercials numerous times on one or more of those channels. Don’t get too carried away by DeSantis smashing Charlie Crist. These days that doesn’t take much.

As a Reaganite I generally don’t much care for Republicans violating the 11th Commandment (and the announcement that DeSantis plans to run negative ads versus Haley also leaves a bad taste in my mouth), but Trump may have (inadvertently) done the GOP a favor by previewing a likely line of attack by Biden’s handlers against DeSantis starting in the summer of next year.; 4/30/23, 2:05 AM