Althouse: At the Saturday Night Café…

August 26, 2023

At the Saturday Night Café…

… you can write about whatever you want.

55 comments:

Iman said...: Currently watching a concert from August of 1972: Mahavishnu Orchestra

My mind is blown again, for old time’s sake!

https://youtu.be/rD36-Zn2bA4?si=hq-0oIiDBpGoeLy9; 8/26/23, 5:08 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: I'm seeing a lot of new names commenting here. Job well done!; 8/26/23, 5:11 PM
Scott Patton said...: Twitter's new name might catch on better if it's referred to as The X. Like The Facebook, only cooler.; 8/26/23, 5:53 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Nothing to See...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/08/was_new_yorks_2022_general_election_valid.html
It is illegal, but who gives a shit?; 8/26/23, 6:25 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: Just harvested 5 ripe and 1 green tomatoes from our Oregon Spring plants. Lots more to come.; 8/26/23, 6:52 PM
Jupiter said...: Given the fact that our society seems to be morphing into a totalitarian police state, I have been studying the fall of the Soviet Union. We really take it very much for granted these days, but if you had told Joe Stalin that the system he was building would not last two generations, he would have laughed uproariously as he had all your teeth ripped out and sent your extended family to the Gulag, with a bill for the extractions. I am struck by a quote from Zbigniew Brzezinski (?), who said that Soviet ideology "appealed to the simpletons and to the sophisticates alike. It made its subscribers feel self-righteous, correct and confident all at once. It left nothing uncertain." Sounds familiar, doesn't it?; 8/26/23, 7:02 PM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: remember when the hivemind collective obedient leftist hiveminders lost their minds over Invermectin?

Watch this; 8/26/23, 7:28 PM
Gahrie said...: I forgot Cornell West was running for president...; 8/26/23, 7:28 PM
Political Junkie said...: Don't you love it when you buy a new car battery and then your car won't start 2 weeks later because the battery is dead.; 8/26/23, 7:35 PM
gilbar said...: Ny Post:Times Square back to the bad old days: ‘It’s a sh-thole’
Times Square is looking a lot like its bad old self, with vagrants, boozy migrants, junkies, and scofflaws making the Crossroads of the World look more like the third world,
On three separate days over the past week, The Post saw junkies brazenly smoking crack pipes on West 43rd Street, drug dealers peddling their wares within eyeshot of cops, hobos conked out wherever they can find a spot, and scores of aimless migrants loitering the day away.

I wonder why things have changed.. You'd think with democrats running the show; things would be Better!; 8/26/23, 7:58 PM
Rusty said...: Well. I got the new timing chain on. You have to match the marks on the chain with the marks on the cams and the crank gear. Tomorrow I clean up the mating sufaces, apply silicon gasket sealer and put the cover back on, With 12 bolts. Three of which I have to position with my left hand while not looking.
Our local Moose Lodge is having a benefit concert for something or other and right now there a really blues band playing. Our house is right behind the Moose Lodge.; 8/26/23, 7:58 PM
Maynard said...: I click on the Althouse site several times a day.

My usual reaction to the posts is that I am tired of all the bullshit and just don't care anymore.

Then I realize that the Soviet Democraticals are slowly taking over this country and I say ...

Thank God I am 70 and not 30 years younger.

The USA will be a socialist/communist republic before I pass.; 8/26/23, 8:00 PM
gilbar said...: After my evening walk (96, one hour long walks, in 23 weeks; or a more than 192 miles)..
I stopped in downtown Elgin Iowa and foraged a hat full of Free Tomatoes, from the Free Tomatoes wagon.
Then i stopped at the Elgin Volunteer Fire dept, for their "We need a new firetruck" Pork Loin dinner.
I got in line, and a fireman said "you want two sandwiches.. Don't YOU?" I said "Sure Do!"
also got baked beans and potato salad (which i really didn't need carb wise.. But Yum!)

I asked "how much is it?" and they said: "It's Free.. But if you'd like to donate, there's the jar"
I put in $10, which seemed like a Good deal (for me!)

THEN, i walked over to the drinks table; and saw they had what looked like:
Apple Juice, Hawaiian Punch, Lemonaid.. And on the end, water.

before i saw the water, i was gazing at the fruit drinks, thinking: Too many carbs for me :(
I must have looked confused, 'cause another fireman said:
"There's Miller Light, Hawaiian punch, lemonaide, and water over there."
I said "water for me", and grabbed one as i realized that they were giving away free (will donation) beer along with the free (will donation) pork sandwiches.

a while ago, i asked what there was in this country to be proud of anymore...
I have to say, i'm PROUD to live in a country that Still has volunteer firedepts, that raise money by giving away free food and beer... GOD Bless America; 8/26/23, 8:14 PM
gadfly said...: BUMBLE BEE said...
Nothing to See...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/08/was_new_yorks_2022_general_election_valid.html

It is illegal, but who gives a shit.

Marly Hornik did indeed provide nothing worth seeing. She quoted nonsense statistics concerning voter registrations which have nothing to do with votes cast in the 2022 NY elections.

There were a total of 12.6 million voters enrolled in state records for 2022. Less than 6.0 million votes were cast.

Audit NY "Discovered 308,840 excess voter ID numbers, which does not translate to illegal votes. How many of these excess voter IDs are related to actual votes? People die, move out of state, register at multiple addresses, etc. - and people do not give a shit when government records get screwed up.; 8/26/23, 8:41 PM
Original Mike said...: Biden's claim that it was US policy for Ukraine to fire General Prosecutor Victor Shokin is simply not true. Rather, his firing happened all of a sudden shortly after one of Hunter's calls to Pa.; 8/26/23, 9:04 PM
Jupiter said...: Every time the Hellspawn (TM) have indicted Donald Trump, I have sent a donation to his campaign fund. Basically, just thinking, "If enough of us do this, and I have NO DOUBT we will, then Trump can claim, accurately, that he is raising mondo bucks thanks to the indictments." Which is nice. But I am starting to realize, this is beginning to add up to real money. Like, I may have to budget for this. So, how many Affirmative Action Soros DAs would you say there are in the US, anyway? Round figure. Fifty? I might need to sell some stocks. Probably oughta sell them anyway, this country is circling the drain.; 8/26/23, 9:13 PM
Jupiter said...: gadfly, I have a bunch of bank accounts, and credit card accounts, and stock accounts, and a host of similar online accounts. And I am fairly sure that they all spend prodigious sums trying to make their systems secure. Yet they fail, frequently. Then they have to send me those e-mails where they offer to provide free account monitoring for three years, etc. Happens about once a year. Have you ever gotten one of those e-mails from the people who handle elections in your county? Of course not. Because the half-literate Democrat dweebs running your shithole county are a whole Hell of a lot better at computer security than the guys at Vanguard and Bank of America. Half-literate Democrat dweebs NEVER get hacked!; 8/26/23, 9:20 PM
Michael K said...: Any criticism of Democrats stimulates something like putting a nickel in a jukebox. He spouts that stuff like you wanted to see it.; 8/26/23, 9:25 PM
Jupiter said...: I'm trying to figure out what this is about. Like, I get the feeling this is operating in a genre about which I know nothing. I get the high-voltage dissage directed at the Willis-crime, but what is that classy blonde doing in there? Is that like, Compare and Contrast? These two things are not alike! I will say, even though this has the stink of Hop-Hip about it, it doesn't have that "idiot-yelling-obscenities" feel I have come to recognize as the signature of Rap. School me, Sis, what the fuck is this?; 8/26/23, 9:46 PM
Jupiter said...: I'm trying to figure out what this is about. Like, I get the feeling this is operating in a genre about which I know nothing. I get the high-voltage dissage directed at the Willis-crime, but what is that classy blonde doing in there? Is that like, Compare and Contrast? These two things are not alike! I will say, even though this has the stink of Hop-Hip about it, it doesn't have that "idiot-yelling-obscenities" feel I have come to recognize as the signature of Rap. School me, Sis, what the fuck is this?; 8/26/23, 9:47 PM
Dave Begley said...: Townhall, “ According to the documents, 161 men who believe they are women are housed in Wisconsin’s prisons. Eighty-one of them (50.3 percent) have been convicted “of at least one count of sexual assault or sexual abuse.”; 8/26/23, 9:47 PM
Jupiter said...: BTW, Althouse, a warning. You delicate flower. The video I linked (here it is again), uses the phrases "vote-rigger" and "bigger". Worse, as you may already suspect, it places those vibrant words in rhyming positions at the ends of consecutive lines, where their hurtful impact can only be more hurtful. <<<< Hurtful >>>>!!. So, you should be aware, that this is not only a hurt-hurt bomb, in the form of an emphasized pair of words that no decent, college-educated, good-looking blonde would ever want to use, or see used, or live in the same Universe with the use of, but this is also a meta-slur, because it's a "TRIGGER"!!!!! Get it? Rigger, bigger, used to make a TRIGGER! The white supremacism is palpable. The horror, as some old white guy might say. Get it while it's hot.; 8/26/23, 10:10 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: I forgot Cornell West was running for president...

Not if the Democrat Party has any say in it. They are all for democracy, as long as it involves only Democrats. That way, they can never lose.; 8/26/23, 10:33 PM
walter said...: "The most stunning fact we discovered is that New York’s 2020 general election was certified as accurate with 338,000 more votes counted than voters who voted.

338,000 votes are simply unaccounted for. No one knows who cast them. That number should be zero.

We examined our findings against the standard for a valid election. The law is stringent, because the accuracy of our elections is what secures our government by consent. In fact, elections are part of our critical national security infrastructure.

So, what is the legal standard an election must meet, in order to be certified?

1. The voter rolls must be accurate.

2. Votes cast must be from eligible voters.

3. The number of votes counted must equal the number of voters who voted.

4. The maximum number of ballots in error, for a valid federal election, is 1/125,000 (see 3.2.1).

The law does not recognize “honest mistakes” when it comes to safe-guarding our individual sovereignty. Elections in America are accurate, or they are invalid.

When officials certify an election, they are attesting personally and officially to the accuracy and compliance of that election. If the election has wavered from the law, they can’t sign it as meeting the law. That would be a violation of our guaranteed civil right to choose our representatives. They have to investigate."

Jabfly: ",but who gives a shit."

How's your training going re 2024 multistate plumbing clog?; 8/26/23, 10:55 PM
Jupiter said...: Who's in charge here, anyway?; 8/26/23, 11:30 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: I didn’t even know Bob Barker was sick.; 8/26/23, 11:37 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: From my X: “White House visitor logs show that special counsel Jack Smith’s top aid met with Biden staffers just weeks before Smith’s indictment of Trump.

On March 31, 2023, deputy chief of staff for the White House counsel’s office Caroline Saba met with Jack Smith’s top aid Jay Bratt.

FBI agent Danielle Ray also joined the meeting.

2 months later, Trump was indicted. Is it making sense?”; 8/26/23, 11:46 PM
wildswan said...: In the DC prolife trial which I am following (United States v. Handy) the jury is deliberating and a verdict is expected on Monday. It's extremely difficult to gather information on what was planned and what actually happened at the Washington Surgi-Clinic on October 22, 2020. The leader of the action was Lauren Handy and she was motivated by her knowledge that late term abortions were bring done at Washington Surgi Center. She saw a video in which the abortionist explained that he would not assist a baby born alive after an abortion. It's the law that the child must be assisted.

https://youtu.be/NxOWyumLufA

Those who came with Lauren Handy on that day had varying understandings of what they themselves would do and what others would do. Some expected a "Red Rose" action which in which prolifers enter a clinic by an unlocked door and talk to the mothers and the staff. This is trespass rather than FACE violation. Some carried locks and chains as if to block doors but then in actuality merely wore the chains.
All were outraged that an abortionist who expressed the intention of leaving a baby which survived an abortion to die was operating without the DC police intervening. But the group mirrored the chaotic US social scene in their inability to formulate a common plan of action. There were Red Rose members. There were evangelicals. There was a Jewish grandmother inspired by historical memories of Jews being marched their deaths without a word from the townspeople. And there was the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising to which Lauren Handy, the "leader" belongs.; 8/27/23, 12:02 AM
wildswan said...: "Leader", however, implies a cis-het, linear understanding of Lauren Handy's relationship to the group. Lauren Handy was part of some Red Rose actions. But she came to feel that Red Rose was too Catholic, too old and too out-of-date. It was Facebook, not Instagram, she told them. It presented the child about to be aborted as an innocent person who could not be killed, an argument that left was ignoring.
Lauren Handy was sure that the left would respond with an anti-abortion uprising when she presented the unborn human as marginalized and othered by such descriptions as "blob of jelly", invader, "without human rights." She called her new group, Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising and collected a small group of queer or trans, vegan, atheist progressives who were outraged by the treatment of vulnerable humans in abortion. They were particularly disturbed by the disregarded, lawless statements of the leader of the Washington Surgi Center and more generally by the late term abortions going on there. Viable children died there constantly. They decided to act and they sought allies in Red Rose and elsewhere. These allies were somewhat bemused by Lauren Handy and her group. They thought "she has a prolife heart" and that's not something often seen among people who characterize themselves as queer, vegan, atheist and trans. They were too devout to say WTF but their thoughts would wander in that vicinity. Perhaps for this reason there was no agreement or understanding on the type of action the group was going to engage in.
The trial was pretty much of a farce. It was presided over by senior Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, the first chief judge of the FISA court. Though she thought warrantless access by the government to the social media of Americans was quite all right she didn't like citizens engaging in warrantless access actions. She banned all information on the lawless statements by the abortionist of the Washington Surgi Center and all information on the amount of late term abortions. She allowed Planned Parenthood donors and abortion supporters to serve on the jury if they said they could be impartial. She called a nun making the sign of the cross "witness intimidation."
The various defendants had various lawyers because, I suppose, they had different understandings of the action. There was heroic testimony or, at least testimony that will be seen as heroic in a better day. The Judge and Prosecutor treated everything relevant with contempt and excluded as much reality as they could.
So what did the pro-abortion jury think? we'll see on Monday.
Many aspects of this trial are relevant to the way in which we can expect Trump's trial to go. In particular, there is the tainted jury pool and the willingness of the Judge to allow that to stand.; 8/27/23, 12:02 AM
Meade said...: Hey hey Joe Big Guy,
How many kids did you
Cause to die?; 8/27/23, 1:45 AM
john mosby said...: Hey hey JRB,
How many R’s did you arrest to-dee?

Hey hey JRB,
What’d you do for that Ukrainian money?

Hey hey Zhou Bei-den,
It’s a government of laws, not a government of men!

Hey Joe, I hear you shot your ol’ country down, shot her down to the ground?
Yes I did, I shot her, you know I caught her MAGA’in around town, so I gave her the gun! I shot ‘er!
Hey Joe, where you gonna run to now?
I’m goin way down East, way down Beijing way!
They aint gonna impeach and remove me, ain’t gonna put an indictment round me!

JSM; 8/27/23, 3:05 AM
wendybar said...: Lem the misspeller said...
I didn’t even know Bob Barker was sick.

8/26/23, 11:37 PM

I, sadly, thought he passed on years ago.; 8/27/23, 3:41 AM
Big Mike said...: Don't you love it when you buy a new car battery and then your car won't start 2 weeks later because the battery is dead?

@Political Junkie, it could also mean that there’s something wrong with your electrical system so that current is still being drawn even though the auto has been shut off.; 8/27/23, 4:11 AM
wendybar said...: "Senior Aide to Jack Smith Met With White House Counsel's Office Just Weeks Before Trump Indictment

The double standard as to what constitutes election interference or politically-motivated prosecutions has never been more glaring."

https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2023/08/27/new-senior-deputy-to-jack-smith-met-with-white-house-counsels-office-just-weeks-before-trump-indictment-n2163089; 8/27/23, 4:14 AM
wendybar said...: STILL think we will be able to vote ourselves out of this one??

"In November 2022, Joe Biden indicated that he would use his power as president to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president agent.
Now there appears to be evidence that Special Counsel Jack Smith, who has indicted Donald Trump twice, may have coordinated with the White House Counsel’s office mere weeks before Trump was indicted over the alleged mishandling of classified documents."

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/08/26/did-the-white-house-coordinate-with-special-counsel-smith-before-indicting-trump-n1722341; 8/27/23, 4:23 AM
Rocco said...: Political Junkie said...
"Don't you love it when you buy a new car battery and then your car won't start 2 weeks later because the battery is dead."

Sometimes you just get a clunker. But it could be the alternator. Check the voltage first.; 8/27/23, 5:13 AM
Rocco said...: Dave Begley said...
Townhall: “According to the documents, 161 men who believe they are women are housed in Wisconsin’s prisons. Eighty-one of them (50.3 percent) have been convicted of at least one count of sexual assault or sexual abuse.”

Small but important correction to the Townhall article:
“According to the documents, 161 men who say they are women are housed in Wisconsin’s prisons. Eighty-one of them (50.3 percent) have been convicted of at least one count of sexual assault or sexual abuse.”; 8/27/23, 5:18 AM
Rocco said...: Scott Patton said...
"Twitter's new name might catch on better if it's referred to as The X. Like The Facebook, only cooler."

In my house, it's already gone from "X" --> "The X Factor" or "The X-Men" (deemed sexist) --> "Malcolm X" (quickly simplified to "Malcolm") --> "NOI" (briefly, as a segue to) --> "Nation of Musk".

If one of us was actually on "X", they would have changed their avatar to an image of Klingon Discommendation - where the Klingons on the High Council cross their forearms in the "X" gesture and turn their backs on the Klingon being discommendated. There's symbolism there.; 8/27/23, 5:32 AM
wendybar said...: "Reflecting how terrified Democrats are of blacks who support Donald Trump, a disabled Marine living on his pension got typical southern Democrat justice."

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/08/in_georgia_the_lone_black_male_defendant_in_the_trump_case_rots_in_jail.html; 8/27/23, 5:39 AM
Rusty said...: gadfly said...
BUMBLE BEE said...
Nothing to See...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/08/was_new_yorks_2022_general_election_valid.html

"It is illegal, but who gives a shit."
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is exactly what the Democrats think of you. Now multiply that times 81 million.
The boot on your neck, forever.; 8/27/23, 6:05 AM
Jaq said...: Turns out that any criticism of Joe Biden is Russian propaganda, same with criticism of the Democrats. It says so in the New York Times. Well, that’s not how they frame, it’s just what they want you to think. It doesn’t matter whether a thing is true, if it makes you less likely to support Kiev’s patron, it is Russian propaganda.; 8/27/23, 6:05 AM
Rocco said...: Rusty said...
"Well. I got the new timing chain on. You have to match the marks on the chain with the marks on the cams and the crank gear. Tomorrow I clean up the mating surfaces, apply silicon gasket sealer and put the cover back on, With 12 bolts. Three of which I have to position with my left hand while not looking."

The car shows make it look so easy, don't they? Especially when they can pull the engine and put it on a stand.

My dad had huge hands: a 10" span, and you could easily pass a quarter through his wedding ring. Anyway, my siblings and I got our first taste of mechanical/electrical/structural repairs as children where our small child hands could fit into places his could not reach. He always said you need to feel that something was correct, not just see it.; 8/27/23, 6:29 AM
Scott Patton said...: Imagine the guitar solo in the theme song Esos eran los días for the Mexican TV version of "All In The Family", with Carlos Santana as Archie.
las niñas eran niñas y los hombres eran hombres; 8/27/23, 6:58 AM
tim maguire said...: gadfly said… people do not give a shit when government records get screwed up.

Lots of people give a shit. Just not the people in charge.; 8/27/23, 7:01 AM
Mark said...: Begley, given you won't even link the article from Townhall its clear even you believe it's BS.

And you really think Townhall is accurate journalism? Give how many sources you reject, you need to do a whole lot better.

Once again, David Begley is obsessed with other people's sex lives. What a perv; 8/27/23, 8:09 AM
Rusty said...: Rocco
Kudos to your dad. A lot like my childhood.
He had three sons. He figured out it wasted the same amount of time to have us "help" him as it did to keep shooing us away. We held tools at the ready. Got parts when needed. Like you got our tiny hands into small spaces. I did the same thing with my daughters.
People often ask me, "you know it would be cheaper to pay somebody to do that." My answer always is, "Yeah. But then I wouldn't learn anything." I'm 71 and still learning stuff.; 8/27/23, 8:34 AM
Kakistocracy said...: Most types of intelligence have a degree of learned behavior, which by its very definition can be taught. Emotional intelligence is effectually a skill. Being nice tends to be either a personality trait, or an adaptive skill. So you can teach someone the skills of emotional intelligence, you can even teach them how to do nice and kind things.

However, ultimately their motivation will determine their behavior. Just as you can teach a student chemistry, and they may use it to design better cigarettes, cook meth, or develop advanced sterilization methods for medical equipment.

Skills and behavior are not equivalent.
However, if you want to teach someone how to be for example, a good listener, that is entirely possible. Motivating them to engage in that behavior though is a whole other level of complexity. For anyone who has children, or is considering having children, teaching them these types of advanced social skills, and how to maintain them in a healthy way, are some of the biggest advantages that you can teach your children.

I have never seen someone genuinely happy from inheriting a million dollars. However, I have seen someone much happier as a result of inheriting a good sense of humor.; 8/27/23, 8:42 AM
gilbar said...: Dave Begley said...
Townhall: “According to the documents, 161 men who believe they are women are housed in Wisconsin’s prisons. Eighty-one of them (50.3 percent) have been convicted of at least one count of sexual assault or sexual abuse.”

SO, speaking as a fox; if i am convicted of chicken rustling..
i sure hope i'll be able to identify as a chicken, and be sentenced to the chicken coop!; 8/27/23, 8:47 AM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: Mark doesn't' believe anything unless it's filtered thru the leftist red-guard hivemind lying liars who lie - narrative machine.... and their corporate whore media obedients.; 8/27/23, 9:15 AM
Iman said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 8/27/23, 9:49 AM
Big Mike said...: And you really think Townhall is accurate journalism?

Well, obviously I can’t speak for Dave Begley but I, personally, find Townhall to be more accurate in its reporting than the New York Times or the Washington Post. And when people like Audrey Hale force their sex lives into my notice with gunfire I will certainly take notice of any others who seem bent on doing the same.; 8/27/23, 10:15 AM
Political Junkie said...: Thanks Big Mike and Rocco. Looks like it might have just been a dud battery. Hope so.; 8/27/23, 10:28 AM
Michael K said...: Lefty Mark won't leave it alone. Speaking of pervs.

Dave is that the lunatic woman who kept pounding her desk and shouting in the legislature?; 8/27/23, 10:35 AM
Old and slow said...: I would be genuinely happy to come into 1 million dollars (inheritance implies the death of a loved one, no thanks). I'd give it to my children, and that would make me happy.; 8/27/23, 11:53 AM
Mikey NTH said...: Dad's made it to 93. And still healthy in mind and body.; 8/27/23, 5:36 PM