Althouse: At the Last Rose of Summer Café....

October 12, 2023

At the Last Rose of Summer Café....

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... you can talk about whatever you want.

48 comments:

Narr said...: Ralph Isley, RIP.; 10/12/23, 6:34 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: God, I hate honey locusts at this time of year!
International day of Jihad tomorrow.
Sgt. Esterhaus says...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2QApwtE8zQ; 10/12/23, 6:37 PM
Buckwheathikes said...: The Jews are making new Schindler lists.

Do you really want to be on one of their lists, Mr. Harvard Wannabe Lawyer?

You need to ask yourselves that age old question: "Who runs Bartertown?"; 10/12/23, 6:39 PM
Sebastian said...: So, are the names and pictures of Americans killed and kidnapped by Hamas all over the news, all the time? Has Grandpa Joe read any of them yet, in public, as a warning? When will the daily count of the hostage-taking start, as we did with the Iranians way back?; 10/12/23, 6:43 PM
Buckwheathikes said...: Remember this when the Washington Post CIA embeds and the New York Times starts describing all the horrors that Israel is subjecting the poor, poor Hamas terrorists to:

Americans will go out into the woods, where actual black and grizzly bears who could kill them are, and they will sleep on the ground, with no electricity and no running water and no septic systems and no mass transit and no cars. If it rains, they will get wet. If it gets hot, they suffer. If it gets cold, they may die of hypothermia, assuming the bears haven't eaten yet. Or they will burn wood to stay warm. They may even resort to killing wild animals to eat, forced to gut them to avoid death.

Americans call this: camping.

They do it for fun.; 10/12/23, 6:50 PM
Just an old country lawyer said...: My birthday is September 22, long time ago. My mother, of blessed memory, called me her last rose of summer.; 10/12/23, 7:03 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: Fuck a war: The last time people were so intent on making other people feel as bad as they do was when Princess Diana died.

They really need to grow up. This is a war.; 10/12/23, 7:03 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: Israel Actually Created & Funded Hamas!

This war is a fucking comedy.; 10/12/23, 7:09 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: Israel is a Racist, Supremacist State

"Israel was conceived as a Jewish state, and while there's nothing wrong, in principle, with Jews having a homeland, the problem is, they insisted that homeland had to be in Palestine, which already belonged to someone: the Palestinians."

Here's a great quote: "There is no room in the country for both [Arab and Jewish] peoples. There is no way [to create a Jewish state] but to transfer the Arab peoples from here to neighboring countries."; 10/12/23, 7:32 PM
Narr said...: My bad, it was Rudolph Isley.

"The Jews are making new Schindler lists." What does that even mean?; 10/12/23, 7:36 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: Cornell West to Sean Hannity on the is Israeli/Hamas crisis:

"545 Palestinian children died in August 2004, not one American said a word. I believe a Palestinian baby has the same value as an Israeli baby,...They're all wrong. They're all guilty. They're all war crimes. And they all ought to be condemned."

But you fuckers just want to choose-up sides.; 10/12/23, 7:55 PM
rhhardin said...: I've forgotten the hostages already. The war of strategies is much more interesting.

Refusing to restore water power electricity and food until all the hostages are released was a brilliant PR move though. Puts it back on Hamas.; 10/12/23, 8:00 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: I think what bothers me the most about the way most supporters of Israel are going about It is how they seem to be expressing a desire that no one else be allowed to think.; 10/12/23, 8:01 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: The problem with these wars is the untold man made environmental catastrophic impact unfolding before our very eyes. Every time a bomb explodes, tons of earth and dust particles is propelled into the air blotting out the sun and contributing to global climate change. The dust is specially troubling to people with asthma and other comorbidities, or as they call them in the insurance industry, preexisting conditions.

Imagine my shock and surprise to see the environmental movement silence 🤐 in face of this threat to the planet.

Cementing your hand to the sidewalk, using your body to block traffic and defacing works of art are just not enough. IMHO.; 10/12/23, 8:02 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: I just had a horrific thought. ChatGPT can probably write that better than I can.; 10/12/23, 8:09 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: Paraphrasing a quote: the word 'terrorism' does not come so easily to my lips [regarding Hamas] when facing down Israeli helicopter gunships firing on desperate people,...; 10/12/23, 8:10 PM
Buckwheathikes said...: Narr asked: "The Jews are making new Schindler lists." What does that even mean?

Well, let me see if I can explain this: Back in the day, the Jews were extremely wealthy and prosperous and they got a little uppity. So the Germans came along and started stealing all their stuff. Because you can only be uppity for so long before it starts pissing people off.

Kind of like today, where all the wealth is concentrated in a few hands with familiar names that I don't think I have to explain to you.

So then the Germans, they figured out that all you have to do is take their sh|t that they have accumulated. Because it's hard to accumulate a bunch of stuff and also to PROTECT that stuff. So the Germans, they just took it. Like a LOT of it. Like enough wealth to fund an actual WAR MACHINE.

But one of the Germans made a list of all the stuff he stole because you know, Germans. That was Schindler's List. He kept a list of all the stuff he stole from the Jews, then sold it back to them to avoid his own murder. And it worked.

And Stephen Speilberg made him a hero. Because Jews are a special kind of stupid.; 10/12/23, 8:15 PM
Eva Marie said...: “her last rose of summer”
How sweet. May more children have a mother like yours.; 10/12/23, 8:23 PM
Mason G said...: Watched a video clip from a support rally for Palestine. It was claimed that white supremacists supported Israel. Haven't white supremacists been described as nazis since... well, forever? So... nazis support Jewish people?; 10/12/23, 8:48 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: Scott Ritter: "Israel is a fundamentally broken nation, morally"; 10/12/23, 9:02 PM
Ampersand said...: Several people that I encountered today spontaneously raised to me their concerns that we are close to war. My plumber, the gardener, the guy at the counter of the mail center. War is not a good thing. War with a senile president and a politicized military is a very bad thing.; 10/12/23, 9:12 PM
pacwest said...: Normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia which had been progressing well as late as a few weeks ago now seem to be off the table. Possibly Iran conducted this attack to derail the process?; 10/12/23, 9:30 PM
Mikey NTH said...: Put all of the outside stuff away - deck canopy, picnic table, patio furnishings, garden lights, plastic flamingos - all. This was probably the last really decent day this month. I hope one last mow for the yard and that will be that, then get the mower over for service - been nearly 8 years since I last did that. Autumn can be fun, but with a melancholy side when everything gets put away for the year.; 10/12/23, 9:33 PM
Original Mike said...: "God, I hate honey locusts at this time of year!"

We reluctantly cut ours down. It was too much work, including multiple trips to the roof to get them all down.; 10/12/23, 9:47 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: Has anyone seen a single beheaded baby yet?; 10/12/23, 9:47 PM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: Here is the kind of hate Palestinian children are fed.

Jew hate is everywhere in Hamas-land; 10/12/23, 9:56 PM
Rt41Rebel said...: Strange days have found us
Strange days have tracked us down
They're going to destroy
Our casual joys
We shall go on playing or find a new town
Yeah!
Strange eyes fill strange rooms
Voices will signal their tired end
The hostess is grinning
Her guests sleep from sinning
Hear me talk of sin
And you know this is it
Yeah!
Strange days have found us
And through their strange hours
We linger alone
Bodies confused
Memories misused
As we run from the day
To a strange night of stone; 10/12/23, 10:07 PM
pacwest said...: To follow up on my previous comment. At the G20 there was some agreement to build a trade corridor, rail and ship, from SE Asia through India, Saudia Arabia, Israel, to Europe. Most likely that deal which would have been a direct competitor to China's Belt and Road is now dead. The Saudis have denounced Israel. Iran has formed an economic alliance with China. You connect the dots.; 10/12/23, 10:43 PM
Chaswjd said...: Rosa Rugosa is a beautiful rose.; 10/12/23, 11:40 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: X: This is comedy gold, Elon.; 10/13/23, 1:00 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: X: just flip a coin; 10/13/23, 1:25 AM
Narayanan said...: How much longer before ?!pox on both?!; 10/13/23, 3:29 AM
Narayanan said...: How much longer before ?!pox on both?!; 10/13/23, 3:30 AM
Mark said...: Someone stick a fork in Vivek, he's done.

He wants to criticize supporters of Israel as corrupt while pretending to also support Israel. lol; 10/13/23, 5:46 AM
Clyde said...: If I scroll down the comments and half of the pictures are of the same commenter, I ignore that commenter in the future. He or she goes right on my Scroll On By list. Don’t waste my time.; 10/13/23, 5:50 AM
MadTownGuy said...: Ironman participants were 'nearly killed or at least badly injured,' complaint against driver says

"On Wednesday, Devinn Taufner, 23, was charged with second-degree recklessly endangering safety in the Sept. 10 incident in which a criminal complaint alleges that he drove through three police barricades, speeding down a street cleared for ambulances after nearly hitting Det. Joel Peterson, who was positioned at Dayton and Bedford streets when Taufner sped by.

Peterson said he ran after Taufner’s car to try to stop him as he sped away at an estimated 35 to 40 mph. Peterson, who alerted other officers via radio, said he saw two Ironman participants “nearly killed or at least badly injured,” Taufner barely missing them as they jumped out of his path.

...

In an interview with the Wisconsin State Journal last week, Taufner said his memory of that day is blurry, but that he was “freaking out” after encountering the roadblocks. He said he was careful to avoid hitting anyone.

“I have mental health issues, and there wasn’t any really clear way to figure out where to go,” Taufner said. “I kind of freaked out when I shouldn’t have, and I really regret it. I’m sorry.”; 10/13/23, 6:07 AM
Leland said...: Scott Ritter: "Israel is a fundamentally broken nation, morally"

Who? I had to look up who this guy is: a former Intel Officer, UN weapons inspector, and convicted sex offender. I'm supposed to take his word that someone else is broken, morally?; 10/13/23, 6:12 AM
MadTownGuy said...: 1 officer killed, another injured in shooting at Philadelphia International Airport: police

"PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- A Philadelphia police officer was killed and another was injured after a shooting at a Philadelphia International Airport parking garage on Thursday night, Interim Police Commissioner John Stanford said.

The shooting happened just after 11 p.m. as the officers were arriving to work, Stanford said.

Stanford said the officers noticed individuals breaking into a vehicle but the suspects opened fire as police approached them.

One officer was shot multiple times in his upper torso, Stanford said. He was pronounced dead at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center just after 11:30 p.m., Stanford said. The other officer is listed as stable at Jefferson University Hospital. He was shot in the arm."; 10/13/23, 6:15 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Leland said...
Scott Ritter: "Israel is a fundamentally broken nation, morally"

Who? I had to look up who this guy is: a former Intel Officer, UN weapons inspector, and convicted sex offender. I'm supposed to take his word that someone else is broken, morally?

"a former Intel Officer, UN weapons inspector, and convicted sex offender."

Yeah, his conviction for sex definitely blocks out his expertise in international affairs - never mind.; 10/13/23, 7:00 AM
Jersey Fled said...: “There is no way [to create a Jewish state] but to transfer the Arab peoples from here to neighboring countries."

Problem is those neighboring countries don’t want them either. Egypt closed their border with Gaza, in a tactic known as a Reverse Biden, a few days ago.; 10/13/23, 7:45 AM
wildswan said...: Hamas was founded in 1987 by Ahmed Yassin. Its charter calls for the creation of an Islamic state "from the [Euphrates] river to the [Mediterranean] sea," meaning the destruction of Israel. In 2006 Hamas won an election in the Gaza Strip and has controlled it ever since.
Over that period of time Netanyahu (Israeli PM from 2009-2021 and again in 2023) adopted a policy of working with Hamas because he believed he could keep its terrorism to a manageable level if the two sides were in contact and if conditions improved in Gaza. This is fact. There also have been reports that he said at a closed Likud meeting that the way to prevent a Palestinian state was to have two warring groups dividing loyalties on the West Bank and in Gaza, namely the PA and Hamas and for that reason he assisted Hamas in maintaining control of Gaza. But there is no way to know, for sure, what he said or what he meant or whether he kept on meaning whatever it was.

But recently, there has been a great simplification. It isn't necessary to dig through history and search for who did something first and who did something else and whether the UN whatever and what Bibi did/didn't. It is now clear that the words, "decolonization" and "settler" mean the intention at some time to commit ambush attacks leading to the murder of the old and babies and everyone else they can find. aAnd use of those words means support for such actions. One is for or against this. Hamas is for this (and did this.) And Israel is at declared war with Hamas.; 10/13/23, 7:45 AM
Narr said...: Thanks Buck. I understand now.; 10/13/23, 10:25 AM
Joe Smith said...: Nice part of the climate where I live...I get roses all the time.; 10/13/23, 11:07 AM
Eva Marie said...: To Buckwheathikes: You’re completely, totally wrong.
From Wikipedia:
“Schindler convinced SS-Hauptsturmführer Amon Göth, commandant of the nearby Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, to allow him to move his factory to Brněnec in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, thus sparing his workers from almost certain death in the gas chambers. Using names provided by Jewish Ghetto Police officer Marcel Goldberg, Göth's secretary Mietek Pemper compiled and typed the list of 1,200 Jews who travelled to Brünnlitz in October 1944. Schindler continued to bribe SS officials to prevent his workers' execution until the end of World War II in Europe in May 1945, by which time he had spent his entire fortune on bribes and black market purchases of supplies for his workers.”; 10/13/23, 11:42 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Jersey Fled said...
“There is no way [to create a Jewish state] but to transfer the Arab peoples from here to neighboring countries."

Problem is those neighboring countries don’t want them either. Egypt closed their border with Gaza, in a tactic known as a Reverse Biden, a few days ago.

No, no. I'm sorry I didn't make it clear: That quote is from a Jewish leader in 1947.; 10/13/23, 4:23 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: Jersey Fled said...
“There is no way [to create a Jewish state] but to transfer the Arab peoples from here to neighboring countries."

Problem is those neighboring countries don’t want them either. Egypt closed their border with Gaza, in a tactic known as a Reverse Biden, a few days ago.

No, no. I'm sorry I didn't make it clear: That quote is from a Jewish leader in 1947.; 10/13/23, 4:23 PM
lonejustice said...: Buckwheatcakes said: "Well, let me see if I can explain this: Back in the day, the Jews were extremely wealthy and prosperous and they got a little uppity. But one of the Germans made a list of all the stuff he stole because you know, Germans. That was Schindler's List. He kept a list of all the stuff he stole from the Jews, then sold it back to them to avoid his own murder. And it worked. And Stephen Speilberg made him a hero. Because Jews are a special kind of stupid."
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Fuck you, Buckwheatcakes. Why don't you just go out say it: "Death to the Jews." Or maybe you prefer the Australian version: "Gas the Jews."; 10/13/23, 5:31 PM
walter said...: Clyde said...
If I scroll down the comments and half of the pictures are of the same commenter, I ignore that commenter in the future. He or she goes right on my Scroll On By list. Don’t waste my time.
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There's a reason he goes by "Crack".; 10/13/23, 10:05 PM