Althouse: At the Rainy Day Café...

May 8, 2023

At the Rainy Day Café...

... you can write about whatever you want.

45 comments:

Original Mike said...: I needed this rainy day. Needed a break from my outside spring chores to attend to inside chores.; 5/8/23, 7:35 PM
Drago said...: Good news republicans!

Fellow "republicans" Bill Gates of AZ and Brad Raffensberger of GA are, even as we speak, once again meeting with a Who's Who of democraticals at the Spy Museum in DC under the auspices of Mark Zuckerburg's CEIR...the very organization which funded so many of the democraticals dream election activities in 2020.

Yes indeed, "republicans" Raffensberger and Gates are no doubt working diligently with their democratical allies to "ensure" election "integrity" in their respective states in 2024....(wink wink)

"election innovation" indeed....

https://www.summit.electioninnovation.org/speakers; 5/8/23, 7:45 PM
Curious George said...: Hey Althouse, about the shocking Bear sighting. A bear was sighted on the south side of Waukesha over the weekend, some are saying it's the Madison bear but I doubt it. Another was sighted in Big Bend off 164, that might be the same one in Waukesha.

Last year a bear was struck and killed in Greenfield at the Hales 43/894 interchange. That's even closer to Milwaukee. There was another in Franklin last year.; 5/8/23, 7:54 PM
n.n said...: working diligently with their democratical allies to "ensure" election "integrity" in their respective states

Decepticons; 5/8/23, 8:10 PM
Humperdink said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 5/8/23, 8:15 PM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: WAKE UP!
Hitler-promoting antisemites will speak at Trump’s Miami hotel alongside Eric Trump, Lara Trump, and other Trump personalities.
GOOGLE THE LINEUP for all the RWDS patriots.
Better hate them Jews. wonder what the girl thinks about her brother dissing on the Jews ,her husband Kirch? Yeah its real..Hitler was fighting same people we are fighting! The theme..Nice
Lock the children up :( Pray Hard only God can fix this.(if God chooses to?); 5/8/23, 8:26 PM
rehajm said...: Last week former Obama White House and now Biden Administration higher up made significant economic plans to be at his post for 2 1/2 more years. A big cock up if he’s wrong and he could have waited. I suspect he knows something we don’t…; 5/8/23, 8:27 PM
Drago said...: Interesting questions for the lefties/LLR-democraticals:

Why is it drag queens arent agitating to read to people in nursing homes?

Why are there no muslim transgenders fighting to wear the hijab and sitting in the chick section of the mosques?; 5/8/23, 9:01 PM
wildswan said...: Ukrainians just outside Bahkmut look back at the city

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FvY1v7LWYAMc2Q7?format=jpg&name=large; 5/8/23, 9:04 PM
Gospace said...: Pic I stole from The Chive today, on Chive with no context.
https://thechive.com/humor/daily-afternoon-randomness-49-photos-10/
Posted on Facebook with the comment "Must be a brain addled Biden quote."

Fact checked false and removed.

Why Facebook should be treated as a common carrier and not be permitted to censor.
Or why Facebook should be 100% responsible for ALL content. Trust me- I can find all kinds of false and defamatory content on the platform that would subject them to legal action as the deep pockets. And people who looked even harder could find more.

And a lot of their pro-trans crap they support and allow pics of is actual child porn to most of us.; 5/8/23, 9:05 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Via Law Prof Jonathan Turley tweet: "White House bans The [NY] Post from Biden event as Hunter indictment looms"

First they came for the NY Post, and I did not speak out
— Because I was not a NY Post reader.; 5/8/23, 9:07 PM
madAsHell said...: I needed this rainy day.

I've got some lovely vacation property out here in the the Pacific Northwest!! On clear days, you can see Mt. Rainier!!; 5/8/23, 9:22 PM
MadisonMan said...: I planted seedlings before leaving town. Am glad to see it rained in Madison, as I'm not around to water.; 5/8/23, 9:25 PM
Political Junkie said...: Rainy day and Monday...let's get down!; 5/8/23, 9:31 PM
Narr said...: Cloudy and blowy today, with a high in the high 80s already . . .

I had to replace two old pairs of shorts so I picked up a couple at Target a few weeks ago. Nice cargo-style but not overdone, and cut to show some knee. Yesterday I went back and bought my first pair of bluejeans since Saddam Hussein was at large--sturdy fabric, denim, but the holes in the groinadal region were starting to feel conspicious.

I'll probably put the jeans away for the summer, but the new and old shorts will be what I wear for the next five months or so.

If not wearing my white athletic compression socks with my shorts, I sport folded-down light tan, khaki or earth-tone socks. Now my last two pair are holey and neither Target nor Macy's have anything like them--just expensive too-thick too-fat too-sweat too-logoed and too bizarre plush toys.

At least my wife has a chance to find me some online now, for my birthday soon.; 5/8/23, 9:44 PM
Dave Begley said...: I’m expecting a near riot in the Unicam. The six week abortion bill failed by 1 vote. Now a 12 week abortion bill is being amended into the trans bill. That one senator wanted a 12 week bill. NE currently is at 20 weeks.

The Jacobins said they would burn the session down by filibustering every single bill. They pissed off the majority. Now the arsonists have gotten burned.

Payback is a bitch.; 5/8/23, 9:48 PM
walter said...: https://heartlanddailynews.com/2023/05/nearly-95-of-teacher-donations-in-wisconsin-went-to-democrats/; 5/8/23, 10:10 PM
NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...: Congratulations to Dave Begley. I hear you Cornhuskers now have Constitutional Carry.; 5/8/23, 10:12 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: “You can write about whatever you want”

Why wouldn't most people decide the best way to… follow a penis polygraph is to be as inconspicuous as possible?; 5/8/23, 10:20 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Btw one of the manosphere YouTubers I keep an eye on was visited by the FBI. He related the story to another fellow YouTuber via the phone that when the FBI came knocking he wasn’t home and his mother answered the door.

Could be something, could be intimidating, and it could be anything, like when the FBI knocked on Matt Taibbi’s door the day he was appearing before a congressional panel in Washington DC.; 5/8/23, 10:28 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: YouTube: How baby boomers mislead the youth; 5/8/23, 11:28 PM
Kai Akker said...: The polling numbers regarding Joe Biden are terrible and that comes before whatever Wednesday's Big Reveal might include. Most Americans already recognize how unfit for the Presidency this man is. And that unfitness was the case long before the dementia had begun. Which is why Biden never went anywhere in his prior Presidential campaigns.

But perhaps some of the details on the Biden family corruption will implicate the Democratic Party in the same, or related fraudulence. There is lots of it, and it's on a scale far vaster than the small potatoes of the Watergate caper.

Will we ever know for a fact who killed Seth Rich?; 5/9/23, 1:04 AM
Kate said...: Rainy Day People...

He seems to mean it as a compliment. People who are there for you on your worst days. I always thought they were gloomy people who sloshed on your happiness and dampened your spirits. I prefer thinking of them as Edmund Fitzgerald People.; 5/9/23, 3:20 AM
gadfly said...: So the Feds banned lawn darts back in the day after three kids were killed but the sipping of mint juleps continued after seven horses mysteriously died at Churchill Downs preceding the Derby this past week.

Finally, no action will occur in Texas until the Nazi shooter in Allen gets examined for mental instability, and banning military weapon sales to the mentally ill will never happen.; 5/9/23, 5:03 AM
wendybar said...: No matter what, you will never stop the corruption. They will STOP YOU!! YOU will be arrested and charged, whilst the corrupt go free to keep corrupting....If you tell the truth, they will come for you. Our country is so FUCKED.

"Peter Flaherty, chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), had his microphone cut, arrested, and escorted out of the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting on Saturday in Omaha, Nebraska.

Flaherty was removed at the shareholders’ meeting and was charged with “criminal trespass” after making statements against Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett for his support for Bill Gates’ organization and his association with convicted felon Jeffrey Epstein."; 5/9/23, 5:17 AM
wendybar said...: Webb Hubbells daughter wants your kids dead.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/chelsea-clinton-promotes-the-big-catch-up-initiative-we-need-to-stop-stripping-away-public-health-emergency-powers-to-vaccinate-as-many-kids-as-possible/; 5/9/23, 5:20 AM
wendybar said...: AND if you haven't noticed, most of the illegals coming in now, and being transported throughout the USA are single young men. I thought we were turning single men back?? They are lying to us, and we are letting them. We deserve whatever we get. Enjoy the downfall.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12062137/Border-Patrol-Union-tears-DHS-TELLING-migrants-smugglers-be.html; 5/9/23, 5:52 AM
Susan ify Francis said...: Hello, everyone I have nothing to say but y'all Right. This is the reason I follow this blog. Is so educative.; 5/9/23, 6:32 AM
donald said...: I have caught at least one Pompano everyday for the last two weeks. Also 15” whiting yesterday.; 5/9/23, 6:35 AM
iowan2 said...: , and banning military weapon sales to the mentally ill will never happen.

I like my K Bar, why would you want to take that away from me??? As far as I know, that's the only military weapon available to me. My mental health is just fine, and a mentally ill person cant buy any arms, and military arms require an expensive, special federal license Or are you just engaging in your standard, fake facts hyperbole?; 5/9/23, 7:01 AM
Original Mike said...: "I've got some lovely vacation property out here in the the Pacific Northwest!! On clear days, you can see Mt. Rainier!!"

I was offered a faculty position at the University of Washington years ago. There was some joke (that I can't quite reconstruct) about the view of Mt Rainier being a "million dollar view" on account of how infrequent it was.; 5/9/23, 7:07 AM
Rusty said...: Blogger gadfly said...
"So the Feds banned lawn darts back in the day after three kids were killed but the sipping of mint juleps continued after seven horses mysteriously died at Churchill Downs preceding the Derby this past week.

Finally, no action will occur in Texas until the Nazi shooter in Allen gets examined for mental instability, and banning military weapon sales to the mentally ill will never happen."
What military weapons did the shooter have?; 5/9/23, 7:45 AM
Dave Begley said...: Wendybar:

I missed that. There are rules for the BRK meeting and it looks like that person broke the rules. It is a business meeting; not a policy debate.

NetJets must have had 300 pilots at the meeting. There is a line where the public sidewalk is and they stayed on the right side of the line.; 5/9/23, 7:49 AM
Rusty said...: It's a cafe', right?
For those who wish to know.
I'm reloading spent Remington "Clay and Field" hulls and getting 3 to 4 reloads from every hull. My formula is thus. Cheddite primer. 19 grains of Red Dot. A Claybuster eqivilent to a 1 1/8 ounce Winchester wad. #8 recycled chilled shot. This closely resembles the factory Remington clay and field load at about 1850 fps.
I have learned over the years that for target loads you can substitute other components like primers and wads without affecting performance. Recycled shot has to be sifted carefully to get all the little pieces of clay out of it. Otherwise it plays hell with the charge bar. It is half the price of new shot.; 5/9/23, 7:55 AM
Rusty said...: It's a cafe', right?
For those who wish to know.
I'm reloading spent Remington "Clay and Field" hulls and getting 3 to 4 reloads from every hull. My formula is thus. Cheddite primer. 19 grains of Red Dot. A Claybuster eqivilent to a 1 1/8 ounce Winchester wad. #8 recycled chilled shot. This closely resembles the factory Remington clay and field load at about 1850 fps.
I have learned over the years that for target loads you can substitute other components like primers and wads without affecting performance. Recycled shot has to be sifted carefully to get all the little pieces of clay out of it. Otherwise it plays hell with the charge bar. It is half the price of new shot.; 5/9/23, 7:56 AM
Kai Akker said...: ---Flaherty was removed at the shareholders’ meeting and was charged with “criminal trespass” after making statements against Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett for his support for Bill Gates’ organization and his association with convicted felon Jeffrey Epstein." [quoted by wendybar]

Don't buy any stock until Warren Buffett is the subject of more-than-isolated magazine and website hate pieces. It will happen.; 5/9/23, 7:57 AM
traditionalguy said...: This Global Cooling monsoon is delaying planting.; 5/9/23, 8:51 AM
Kai Akker said...: ---What military weapons did the shooter have? [Rusty]

And don't we also need to know how many mint juleps those horse trainers let their animals drink??; 5/9/23, 8:55 AM
tim in vermont said...: Respondents were split between Kennedy Jr. and Biden, with Kennedy Jr. receiving 35 percent and Joe Biden, already polling at historic lows as of May 2023, receiving just 36 percent. The third option, Marianna Williamson, received only six percent.

LOL. No debates because there is "no contest" on the Democratic side, is what the lying media claims.

I don't know, I understand why the ruling cabal hates social media, gatekeeping it is too difficult, especially with the loss of Twitter.; 5/9/23, 11:48 AM
wendybar said...: Brandon Straka
@BrandonStraka
Biden supporting judge in NYC placed a gag order on Trump, which means NY Times & friends can leak all the misinformation and hit pieces they want and Trump is expected not to respond.

The entire establishment power structure has turned on the American people and they’re actively rigging the 2024 election right out in the open now.

See what 2020 compliance got ya?; 5/9/23, 11:59 AM
wendybar said...: Woke Societies
@wokesocieties
The timing of the gag order on Trump is relevant why?

1. He has a town hall on CNN Wednesday

2. His first big speech for the campaign in Des Moines, Iowa this Saturday

This is what you would call election interference.
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Narr said...: On the way back from the dentist this morning (no cavities, partial denture working out fine) I stopped at Eastgate to look for socks. Rack Room, TJ Maxx, and Burlington Outlet--all the same story as the other stores.

Something for all tastes and preferences except the modest and subdued.

Wife asked what I might want for my birthday besides socks. I told her, something that sounds like socks . . .

"A box?"

Yes, a box of lox. And some secks.; 5/9/23, 2:34 PM
farmgirl said...: Narr- you’re a Hoochie Coochie baby!!! Up here, back before they were banned- our county fair had strippers. No lie. In August.

Do the math ;0); 5/9/23, 2:52 PM
Narr said...: farmgirl@252pm--thanks I reckon. (I was told there would be no math.)

Mr. Binford didn't allow no hoochie-coochie gals or strippers at the Mid-South Fair, I'm sure. There was a guy who could teach these whippersnappers today a thing or two about censorship and the suppression of artistic expression.

At the same time that Stalin was trying to impose Socialist Realism, Lloyd T. Binford was trying to impose Segregationist Realism on plays and films.; 5/9/23, 7:40 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: I've got some lovely vacation property out here in the the Pacific Northwest!! On clear days, you can see Mt. Rainier!!

Weather forecasting saying out here:

If you can't see Mt. Rainier, it's raining. If you can see it, it's going to rain.

Forecast for the next week: rising temperatures in Snoqualmie: 71F today, 91F on Monday, cooling to 76F on Fri, 5/20. May typically has a couple of warm weeks, then the June gloom sweeps in with cloudy, 60F weather. Summer starts on July 5.; 5/10/23, 9:35 AM