Althouse: At the Lakeshore Café...

July 28, 2023

At the Lakeshore Café...

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... you can talk all night.

41 comments:

gadfly said...: Aaron Rodgers took a $35 million haircut, in fact willingly giving it back to the Jets, while Devante Adams is supposedly unhappy in Vegas since the Raiders let Derek Carr go. Rumors are flying that Adams wants to rejoin Aaron in East Rutherford and coincidentally, Devante is due to receive $54 million from the needy Raiders.; 7/28/23, 9:33 PM
wildswan said...: Maybe the judge first decided to challenge the Hunter Biden plea deal when she realized she was supposed to monitor Hunter's behavior. This is a guy who can't recognize his own child without assistance from the legal system and won't behave like a father without coercion. What else is he indifferent to? Who wants to be in charge of finding out? and responsible for acting on their knowledge?; 7/28/23, 10:19 PM
rcocean said...: I"ve never understood why "Sports fans" are so interested in money. If they're not talking about whether BIllionaire owner X is making enough money, they are yakking about how player ABC made this much or that much.

Do you own the team? Are you a relative of the player? An IRS agent? A stockholder in some franchise? If not, who gives a fuck.

I mean I get it. Sportsball is so dull, talking about the actual, y'know..sport is dull. So, lets discuss $$ or some soap opera. Are the 1st baseman and the Leftfielder getting along with the Coach? Did you hear about the fight the GM had with the Star center? Do you know that team=mate X thinks Team-mate Y is a "racist"? Or that a QB is divorcing his wife?

Throw in the Leftwing-SJW ESPN/Sports media and its real shit show. I stopped listening to my local Sports talk station when the dumbo "hosts" starting sneering at "Stupid" Trump for his comments on Covid. Because these Geniuses knew better than Trump. Only their Leftwing producer told them the wrong facts. Whoops! Guess they should read the DNC handout more closely.; 7/28/23, 10:21 PM
Big Mike said...: Two brave young women testified in front of Congress. Paula Scanlan testified that she is a sexual assault survivor and a member of the University of Pennsylvania Women's swim team. I cannot imagine how if must have felt for a woman who had been sexually assaulted to be forced to undress to put on her swim suit and to shower in front of a biological male -- Lia Thomas. When the female swimmers protested, they were informed that undressing in front of Thomas was "nonnegotiable," and then they were treated as the problems, not the victims. Because to U. Penn administrators, and modern American feminists, sexual assault is a nothingburger.

Chloe Cole is the other brave young woman, who realized too late that the irreversible surgery in the name of "gender dysphoria" has made her, in her own words "a victim of one of the biggest medical scandals in the history of the United States of America." She is suing the people who carved up her body, and I hope she wins a settlement denominated in millions of dollars.

I do not understand why American feminists do not support these brave women. Why is it Republican males such as myself who feel compassion towards them and not you, Althouse? Don't you think you should be asking yourself that question?; 7/28/23, 10:29 PM
Big Mike said...: Two more pieces of news today. First, Joe Biden has finally acknowledged that he has a seventh granddaughter: Navy Joan Roberts.

OTOH, I have read that the Biden administration is withholding Secret Service protection from RFKJr. I thought protection was automatic, but apparently not. I guess they're hoping some Biden supporter will add him to the list of murdered members of the Kennedy family.; 7/28/23, 10:36 PM
Lilly, a dog said...: Big Mike, Althouse is not going to respond to your incessant provocations. Why don't you find another place to expel your sputum?; 7/28/23, 10:55 PM
Chuck said...: Here is the recently-updated Wikipedia page for Wisconsin Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI3).

From the latest edit:
Incident with Senate Pages
According to Punchbowl News, Van Orden was giving a tour for several dozen visitors around midnight on the evening of July 26, 2023, when he happened upon Senate pages (who are all 16 or 17 years old), lying on the floor of the Rotunda, taking photos of the interior of the Capitol dome. Punchbowl News also reported that the Senate Rotunda is the work location where pages are directed to sit awaiting instructions while the Senate is in late-night session, as it was that night.[9] Van Orden "cursed out the pages, who are in their last week of service, calling them ‘lazy shits’ and told them to ‘get the fuck up’ off the floor."[10] It was later reported that Van Orden had been partying loudly at an event in his office where alcohol was being served, prior to yelling at the pages, and several news outlets reported that he had bottles of alcohol on desks and in trash cans in his office earlier that evening as part of a party with 50 constituents.[11][12]"

The Wisconsin 3rd is a swing district. It went for Kerry and Obama in previous presidentials, then narrowly for Trump in '16 and '20. Cook rates it R+4. There really ought to be enough moderate adult Republicans in Eau Claire, LaCrosse and Stevens Point to get this insurrectionist Republican embarrassment out of the House of Representatives. Either through a primary or a general election. Ron Kind actually beat Van Orden in 2020.; 7/28/23, 11:27 PM
Big Mike said...: @Lilly, do you happen to have a blog?

My point is that Althouse thinks I despise 21st century feminists because I support the (these days mythical) Patriarchy. Really I despise them because instead of supporting young women who really need their support, they add to those women’s ration of shit. If shaming Althouse won’t work, what will? I’m open to suggestions. Seriously.

I know that shaming can work once in a while. A colleague on a committee was boasting that he was an environmental activist but then I saw him toss an empty Coke can into a trash can, thereby saving about eight or ten steps compared to putting it into the recycle bin. A bit later there was a break so I picked up his can from the trash and put it into the recycle bin. After that I never saw him — or anyone else on the committee — fail to recycle their empty cans.; 7/28/23, 11:40 PM
Drago said...: LLR-democratical and Violent Homosexual Rage Rape Fantasist Chuck: "There really ought to be enough moderate adult Republicans in Eau Claire, LaCrosse and Stevens Point to get this insurrectionist Republican embarrassment out of the House of Representatives."

LOL

"insurrectionist"

The best Althouse threads are the threads where Schiff/Pelosi/Swallwell lovin' LLR-democratical Chuck has drunk himself into forgetting he is supposed to at least try to pretend to be a republican!

Always amusing.

One of my all time favorite LLR-democratical Chuck self-own/exposed thread was when Meade took only about 5 minutes to completely destroy Chuck's pro-dem open borders policies by getting Chuckie to explicitly come out against every single action the federal government could possibly deploy that could be even remotely effective against illegals surging unabated across our borders! Basically, Chuck was pitching Biden/Mayorkas policy before they were!

In Chuck's defense, it was during a time of day when Chuck has been known to advocate for a "healthy" serving or 8 of gin and tonics...so there remains that possible fall back excuse for that particular incident of Chuck pushing pitch perfect democratical talking points.

Though that wouldn't necessarily explain the non-stop serial pushing of ALL democratical talking points, would it?

I'm afraid there's only 1 explanation that fits that fact pattern....; 7/29/23, 2:16 AM
Drago said...: It appears alot of folks are commenting on Dementia Joe finally, belatedly, admitting to having a seventh grandchild.

Astute observers will note that at 4 years of age, Biden's granddaughter has officially entered the Biden Crime Family "showering age window"...if you know what I mean.

And that also means young Navy is a mere 10 years away from "being filmed while hanging out naked with an uncle while also doing drugs".

Yes, its indeed easy to see why these Biden Family values are so universally praised on the left/LLR-left.; 7/29/23, 3:36 AM
tim in vermont said...: Wikipedia; 7/29/23, 4:56 AM
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Humperdink said...: A statement that I suspect President Bidet will never utter again: "My word as a Biden ...... ". But then again he is a demented old fool with his finger on the bomb (and little girls).; 7/29/23, 5:15 AM
jim5301 said...: Big Mike - you are nuts. Ann often has blogged about the overuse of gender affirming surgery and shown sympathy to the exact type of people you highlight. Do you even read her posts or do you just spend your time rereading your own comments ?; 7/29/23, 5:32 AM
tim in vermont said...: It wasn’t Mulvaney who tanked the Budweiser brand, it was the executive who said that Bud Light didn’t like the people buying their beer. They simply can’t hide their disgust for the working class whites who buttered their bread. Largely powerless people, BTW, who just wanted to be left alone.

Of course, as you think about why the owning classes are demonizing the white working class, it all actually makes sense. Working class whites are the main victims of globalization, and therefore the globalists must create the belief in the rest of society that these people deserve to be destroyed economically. The more I think about it, the more certain I am that there is a cabal, consisting of maybe the WEF, and the intelligence agencies, and yes, the neocons, who are in control of our media, who decide things like this, then there are a lot of hapless useful idiots who buy into the propaganda, and amplify it in a self reenforcing cycle.

Trump, of course, doesn't buy into this globalist strategy, so that's strike one against him.

Then we have the fact that Ukraine attempted to manipulate our elections, with the help of neocons in the Obama Biden Administration and the CIA, NSA, FBI, and not least MI6, and suddenly on election day, unexpectedly, there is Trump as POTUS, and it's like "Oh shit..." It's like the old adage, if you strike at the king, you better kill him. Trump was for easing tensions with Russia, a policy that made perfect sense for the people of the United States, but that was anathema to the neocons and not least, the Ukrainians. So what did the cabal do? They accused Russia of doing exactly what they did themselves, and made Russia, not coincidentally Ukraine's number one enemy, the enemy of the United Sates. What has Putin ever done to us? Nothing. Here is an example of Ukrainian election interference. There are no such samples of Russian interference:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/us/politics/what-is-the-black-ledger.html

The ledger was made up by the Ukrainians, and got Trump's campaign manager removed. Sure Manafort was thrown in prison for same stuff that a deal was made by the DoJ to slap Hunter Biden with a couple misdemeanors and a get out of jail free card, but the ledger was a complete fabrication, "leaked" by people who met in the White House, in Joe Biden's offices there, with "The whistleblower," Ciar****la. We know this from Steve McIntyre's careful analysis of White House visitor logs. Of course now Biden spends a significant amount of time in Delaware, where these logs are not kept. Not going to make that mistake again.

Remember when Democrats used to come on here and mock Palin: "Russia! Russia! Russia!" because she correctly assessed that there was a risk of Putin going into Ukraine? How did we turn on a dime? If you assume that they know what they are doing, not that they are "stupid" and only act against our interests because they don't understand the consequences of their policies, it all makes sense.; 7/29/23, 5:41 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Heat Wave!

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/overheated-friday-july-28-2023-c

and no Vandellas, just a volcano.; 7/29/23, 5:49 AM
farmgirl said...: The pic(beautiful) causes my eyes to adjust- which I can feel.
It’s like when fine tuning binoculars and the focus rolls into place.
Very strange…; 7/29/23, 6:58 AM
iowan2 said...: Chuck is so slimy he is forced to edit Wiki, with lies and post it here.; 7/29/23, 7:52 AM
Big Mike said...: @jim5301, then it should be easy for you to give some examples, right?; 7/29/23, 8:15 AM
Chuck said...: iowan2 said...
Chuck is so slimy he is forced to edit Wiki, with lies and post it here.

I did not edit "Congressman" Van Orden's Wikipedia page. The edits I refer to virtually all have footnoted references. Confronted with this story, Van Orden isn't denying it. He is doubling down on it. Van Orden went immediately played the brave-servicemen-sacrificed-for-this-Capitol-dome card.

I remind you; Van Orden was part of the J6 Ellipse rally and then marched to the Capitol. Van Orden claims that he never intruded on secured Capitol grounds; it was a lie. He was photographed on the grounds in an area geo-located to have been inside the secure perimeter that was breached by J6 rioters.

It's actually too easy, doing the careful legwork of fact-checking Derrick Van Orden one-lie-at-a-time. So here is Wonkette, going full Wonkette in a single post, and giving Van Orden the testicle-crushing that he deserves.

By the way, Mitch McConnell and the rest of Senate REPUBLICAN (along with, of course Democratic) leadership have condemned Van Orden's stupidity.; 7/29/23, 9:00 AM
Rusty said...: Big Mike.
Leading by example is so rare these days. Good on ya, mate.; 7/29/23, 9:13 AM
Rusty said...: Althouse. Are you camping on a lake or are you in a cabin? Whereabouts if I may ask.; 7/29/23, 9:20 AM
Drago said...: LLR-democratical and Violent Homosexual Rage Rape Fantasist Chuck: "By the way, Mitch McConnell and the rest of Senate REPUBLICAN (along with, of course Democratic) leadership have condemned Van Orden's stupidity."

LOL

Oh, no doubt. No doubt at all.

After all, even Chuck Schumer has said he and Mitch share precisely the same strategic vision of what the republican party Washington-Generals should be all about.

The jig is most assuredly up.; 7/29/23, 9:51 AM
Lucien said...: Even if Biden is guilty of all the corruption he’s accused of, by the time he could be tried he could credibly claim that he lacks the mental capacity to stand trial. (He could go full Vincent Gigante!)
But only if President Kamala doesn’t pardon him first.; 7/29/23, 9:51 AM
Big Mike said...: @Rusty, what probably made it sting was that the , as now, I’m known as a conservative Republican. As it was a technical committee I’m sure all the rest of the members were pretty far left. Unknown to them my wife was a scientist at EPA and therefore I knew how much energy was saved by recycling cans versus smelting bauxite ore.; 7/29/23, 9:55 AM
Drago said...: iowan2: "Chuck is so slimy he is forced to edit Wiki, with lies and post it here"

Remember, LLR-democratical and Violent Homosexual Rage Rape Fantasist Chuck (who has also explicitly come out (see what I did there?) for complete republican surrender to the radical trans and sexualization of children policies) has stated quite directly that he is ONLY at Althouse blog to:

- Smear and lie about Trump and conservatives
- Drive a wedge between Althouse and her readers

Two purposes that likely influenced the blog monitors to some extent to formally ban LLR-democratical Chuck from the blog.

However, as noted previously, the functionality of blogger makes enforcing bans, even against posters like Chuck who demonstrate clearly disturbing fixations on the young children of conservative politicians, extremely difficult. Thus, Chuck and a couple of his mini-me's yet abound pushing the daily far left talking point lies.

Alas.; 7/29/23, 10:05 AM
jim5301 said...: Big Mike - actually it would be easy for me to find examples but I have better things to do with my Saturday than work for a nutcase like you. Don't you know how to do a tag search? And since you are the one making the accusation, one would expect that you would already have some examples that support your accusation. Should I hold my breath?; 7/29/23, 10:20 AM
Big Mike said...: @jim5301, in other words, you can’t find any examples. I’m not searching the Althouse archive, any more than I plan to set trail cameras for Sasquatch. I won’t waste time looking for what I don’t believe to be there.; 7/29/23, 11:53 AM
Rusty said...: Big Mike
Enviromentalists are notoriously light on the details.; 7/29/23, 11:54 AM
Gospace said...: So a secret Chinese bio-lab full of dangerous stuff was uncovered in California. Nor because of the ever vigilant FBI- busy looking for Latin Mass Catholics, nor the CIA or NSC. Or any other 3 letter agency. A complete failure of the national health agencies to find them or note anything unusual.

How ere they found? Some busybody turned them in because they thought they were illegally using water...

https://news.yahoo.com/cdc-detects-coronavirus-hiv-hepatitis-012106639.html; 7/29/23, 11:59 AM
tim in vermont said...: Did the DoJ already sign an agreement not to prosecute Hunter that did not require the approval of the judge, or a guilty plea?

The Diversion Agreement is not a judicial document. It is an agreement between DOJ and Hunter, and it was signed yesterday. It does not require Court approval or filing to be effective.

Nothing in it makes it conditional on the outcome on the tax charges.

The "Agreement to Not Prosecute" is in the Diversion agreement. . - ShipWreckedCrew on X; 7/29/23, 1:03 PM
MadTownGuy said...: Not a Madison area lake, and I'm guessing from the proliferation of pines that it's somewhere 'up Nort.'; 7/29/23, 1:27 PM
iowan2 said...: wonkette AND wikki.

chuck is binging out the pea shooter with air holes, to spread his smears.

This Republican is unfit. But When President Obama and VP Biden us the agencies of the United States to spy on political rivals...That's actually the fault of those being spied on.

Pathetic, and a liar.; 7/29/23, 2:07 PM
jim5301 said...: Big Mike - let me get this straight. You say that Ann generally supports the gender-affirming surgery trend, but you won't look for prior posts in which she indicates that is what she supports because you "won’t waste time looking for what I don’t believe to be there." Rodger that.; 7/29/23, 2:15 PM
Big Mike said...: @jim5301, there is nothing about you that is straight.; 7/29/23, 4:04 PM
Josephbleau said...: 'up Nort.'

Since Garrison Kiellor was cancelled, the upper midwest no longer has a funny Democrat.

"Well, wen yous eats dem fruits of love, would jah trow away duh wrappers please, cuz dah ducks is chokin on em".; 7/29/23, 5:54 PM
iowan2 said...: wife was a scientist at EPA and therefore I knew how much energy was saved by recycling cans versus smelting bauxite ore.

If that were true, there would be no need for the govt to subsidize recycling.; 7/29/23, 7:47 PM
Rusty said...: "If that were true, there would be no need for the govt to subsidize recycling."
When it comes to metals they shouldn't.
Check the spot price of things like Alum., brass and copper. clean scrap steel is going for about 8 dollars a hundredweight.; 7/29/23, 8:57 PM
Big Mike said...: @iowan2, extracting aluminum from bauxite is extremely energy-intensive. One estimate pegged it at 17,000 kWh per ton. Making a ton of aluminum from recycled soda cans is claimed to require only about 5% of that. I got those numbers in about 5 minutes of Googling, but they seem pretty accurate from what I can recall.

As for government subsidies, they’re there for graft and corruption purposes. Subsidies for recycling aren’t the only government disbursement of cash that’s been kept around long after the need has passed. I recall that the federal government still subsidizes Merino wool because of shortages in World War II.; 7/29/23, 11:00 PM
Rusty said...: Another thing to mention is that smelting Bauxite into alum. is extremely energy consuming. Most alum. smelters are built near large sources of electricity.; 7/30/23, 7:34 AM
Big Mike said...: Well, that was exciting. Yesterday we had a house full of people, including the world’s handsomest and most intelligent grandson*, for the wife’s 75th birthday. Son, wife, and grandson stayed the night, but the baby woke up a little before midnight with a 101 degree fever and a rash. Apparently something he picked up a daycare late last week. And so we all had a rough night. This morning he’s full of energy while the four adults are not much above zombie level.

I did look up the mohair subsidies this morning — they ended in 1993. Oops. I apologize for the error in my midnight (Eastern Daylight Time) comment, above. But there are plenty of other federal subsidies that have long outlived their utility if anyone wants to look.; 7/30/23, 8:37 AM