Althouse: At the Tuesday Night Café...

May 14, 2024

At the Tuesday Night Café...

... you can talk about whatever you like.

37 comments:

Joe Smith said...: When is MSNBC going to run a special that focuses on Biden showering with his daughter when she was at an 'inappropriate' age?

I want to be sure the set my DVR : ); 5/14/24, 7:34 PM
Mikey NTH said...: The picture reminds me that now the basement renovation is done I can start up on the yardwork.

Yay spring.; 5/14/24, 7:49 PM
robother said...: Two sunny 70s days in row in Colorado! As good as it gonna get this El Nino spring. But the migratory birds have arrived, and so I had one the best birding days in Colorado in a long time.; 5/14/24, 8:17 PM
Howard said...: Our local center Mass pond is finally in the mid 60's. Time to lose the wetsuit.; 5/14/24, 8:17 PM
Lyle Sanford, RMT said...: Love the pic! Swirling motion, all those textures, the engaging colors, and to me, a different feel from the sunrises and the other park pics. It gets my eye bouncing around to take it all in and there always seems more going on.; 5/14/24, 8:32 PM
Howard said...: A friend of mine takes beautiful landscape pictures with the latest iPhone. Once in a while she runs a particularly striking photo through the BeCasso app to make it look like a painting. If I suggest that you try doing that, you probably would be resistant. So I'm just throwing it out there as a comment.; 5/14/24, 8:35 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: "The new iPhone update introduces a new Pride Radiance wallpaper for the lockscreen."

Meh!; 5/14/24, 8:42 PM
gilbar said...: hard to believe This could have happened!
HOW COULD IT BE? That the government of the Ukraine is corrupt?
The Russians simply walked in, Ukrainian troops in Kharkiv tell BBC
officials had claimed that defences were being built at huge cost, but in his view, those defences simply weren’t there. “Either it was an act of negligence, or corruption. It wasn’t a failure. It was a betrayal”..

i just DON'T Understand.. People RIGHT HERE, on THIS blog repeated told me; that
Not Only, was *I* stupid for not accepting the Ukrainian reports,
BUT! the Ukrainians were WINNING.. WINNING because they were heros!!
Now we find out that the government that bribed the Biden family is corrupt!
I just don't know what or who to believe; 5/14/24, 8:58 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Headline: "Speaker’s attendance at Trump trial marks a remarkable moment in US politics"

They are trying to lynch a former president, the leading candidate against the current Oval Office occupant, and a politician attending one of the trials is a "remarkable moment"?

The media is a clown show.; 5/14/24, 9:02 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Via X: "Mayor Adams says illegal aliens could be used to fill New York City's lifeguard shortage because they are "excellent swimmers."

Tha Mayor has to do and say what he is told, otherwise, off to jail he goes.

Biden is running a banana dictatorship.; 5/14/24, 9:11 PM
Original Mike said...: "If I suggest that you try doing that, you probably would be resistant. So I'm just throwing it out there as a comment."

You know our hostess.; 5/14/24, 9:16 PM
Political Junkie said...: In 2016 some strong R senate candidates in swing states (WI, NC for example) helped DJT win various states. Funny thing is, looks like in 2024 DJT will be running ahead of the R senate candidates and DJT will have to pull the R candidates over the finish line.

We shall see.; 5/14/24, 9:59 PM
gadfly said...: Joe Smith said...
When is MSNBC going to run a special that focuses on Biden showering with his daughter when she was at an 'inappropriate' age?

Which MSNBC anchor talked about Biden showering with his daughter? Since when did Dads lose the right to bathe their young daughters who cannot wash themselves?; 5/14/24, 10:10 PM
ceowens said...: Once again, our humble bragger reminds us where the target should be.; 5/14/24, 10:33 PM
Iman said...: “Our local center Mass pond is finally in the mid 60's. Time to lose the wetsuit.”

So it’s the Swimmers’ Masshole.; 5/14/24, 10:33 PM
TaeJohnDo said...: Howard said...
A friend of mine takes beautiful landscape pictures with the latest iPhone. Once in a while she runs a particularly striking photo through the BeCasso app...

I just used the free version - I had a lot of fun with it and sent some 'BeCassoed' pics to friends and relatives. Thanks for the tip!; 5/14/24, 10:36 PM
walter said...: Blogger gadfly said...
Joe Smith said...
When is MSNBC going to run a special that focuses on Biden showering with his daughter when she was at an 'inappropriate' age?

Which MSNBC anchor talked about Biden showering with his daughter? Since when did Dads lose the right to bathe their young daughters who cannot wash themselves?

5/14/24, 10:10 PM
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Please Jabfly,
Read that again and see where you fucked up.; 5/14/24, 11:17 PM
Joe Smith said...: 'Which MSNBC anchor talked about Biden showering with his daughter? Since when did Dads lose the right to bathe their young daughters who cannot wash themselves?'

Are you sentient?

No anchor did nor will...it was obviously rhetorical.

Her own words were 'not appropriate' so mea culpa.

“I have always been boy crazy,” Ms. Biden, the only daughter of President Biden and his second wife, First Lady Jill Biden, wrote in the most eyebrow-raising entry, according to the Mail. “Hyper-sexualized @ a young age … I remember somewhat being sexualized with [a family member]; I remember having sex with friends @ a young age; showers w/ my dad (probably not appropriate).”

There's more if you look.

Get out of your liberal bubble and try to keep up...; 5/14/24, 11:35 PM
effinayright said...: witless buffoon gadfly said...
Joe Smith said...
When is MSNBC going to run a special that focuses on Biden showering with his daughter when she was at an 'inappropriate' age?

Which MSNBC anchor talked about Biden showering with his daughter? Since when did Dads lose the right to bathe their young daughters who cannot wash themselves?
>>>>>>>>>>>

Stop with the strawmen. The issue is NOT whether MSNBC covered the story, but whether the story is true.

Where's the ewidence the daughter could not wash herself? Is it a father's "right" to wash his naked daughter in the shower when SHE thinks it's creepy and inappropriate?

Face it, gadfly: you're a flaky and tendentious ASSHOLE.; 5/15/24, 1:04 AM
wendybar said...: Clinton mouthpiece and general Progressive left wing liar, George Snufalufagus admits the Deep State is real...and we all know it is true...but it isn't as sweet and innocent as Donny Snufalufagus Osmond sings....

Greg Price

@greg_price11

The Deep State used to be a right wing conspiracy theory according to the media.

Now you have George Stephanopoulos happily proclaiming on the View that "The Deep State is packed with patriots.”

https://twitter.com/i/status/1790420893920899444

https://twitchy.com/brettt/2024/05/14/george-stephanopoulos-admits-the-deep-state-is-real-and-packed-with-patriots-n2396233; 5/15/24, 3:55 AM
wendybar said...: Which MSNBC anchor talked about Biden showering with his daughter? Since when did Dads lose the right to bathe their young daughters who cannot wash themselves?

5/14/24, 10:10 PM

I think by the time they are 6, they are able to bath themselves without their Daddy's "help" gad....Your poor kids. To think somebody as awfl as you, would believe that Joe is a sweet old man when it is obvious to the world he has a thing for little girls younger than 6.....; 5/15/24, 3:58 AM
Howard said...: The swirling flowers as Lyle describes along with the colors evokes van Gogh. It represents the true resurrection.; 5/15/24, 3:59 AM
Big Mike said...: Since when did Dads lose the right to bathe their young daughters who cannot wash themselves?

Oh! Is that the talking point du jour? As any individual with competent parenting skills (leaves you out, I guess) can easily see, there’s a point beyond which it’s inappropriate to let a naked child witness a naked adult of the opposite sex (biologically opposite sex). And that point is when the child is old enough to notice that the adult looks substantially different at the bottom end of the torso.

Did Joe Biden go past that point? Without actually having seen the diary, all I can say is that Ashley herself appears to believe so, and what is not in dispute is that she is in therapy to get past this part of her upbringing.

Also indisputable: Joe Biden is a pig. Folks in the newsmedia, and gadfly, can put all the lipstick they want on that pig, but at the end of the day he’s still a pig.; 5/15/24, 5:44 AM
Big Mike said...: Pages 67 - 68 of Ashley Biden’s diary:

"I [was] so afraid of him coming in the shower with me that Ive [sic] waited until late at night, to take a shower."

If she’s old enough to decide when to take her shower, she’s too old to take that shower with any male who is not her lover.; 5/15/24, 6:21 AM
wendybar said...: Doesn't sound like a girl who is too young to shower herself...

"I'm so afraid of him coming into the shower with me that I've waited til late at night to take a shower" - Ashley Biden; 5/15/24, 6:33 AM
Kai Akker said...: "But Weisselberg is not testifying because he fears that if Bragg does not like what he says, he will once again be prosecuted by the DA’s office. If defense lawyers called him, Weisselberg would likely take the 5th rather than testify to avoid a charge of perjury from Bragg, even if his testimony were true."

From the Andrew McCarthy article in the post above this one (regarding possible verdicts on the Trump trial in Manhattan). Read it and puke. 76-year-old man twice prosecuted and, haha, convicted because he hasn't cooperated with the Prosecutor to get his former boss Trump. Sits in Rikers Island. America, land of the free.; 5/15/24, 8:08 AM
MadisonMan said...: Let's talk about the best color of Spring. I have to vote for light purple, as in lilac, or that invasive phony-phlox Dames' Rocket. Darker purple is up there too.
In summer, I'll opt more for the vibrant red of a tall zinnia.; 5/15/24, 8:45 AM
Narr said...: Utterly gorgeous.

Anybody know what the two purple blooms are, and the broad green leaves?; 5/15/24, 9:13 AM
gilbar said...: it's Interesting that gadfly has openly come out in favor of pedophilia
i would have thought that gadfly would have wanted to keep that to himself
But NO! he is Shouting from the rooftops that he doesn't just think it's OK, but that it's GREAT!; 5/15/24, 9:13 AM
Narr said...: Looks like Biden and Trump will debate. Or 'debate' as we currently define it.; 5/15/24, 9:15 AM
gilbar said...: gadfly? to be fair (to you)..
HOW OLD DO you think Biden's daughter was when she was hiding her showers from her father?; 5/15/24, 9:15 AM
Dr Weevil said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 5/15/24, 10:45 AM
Dr Weevil said...: Gullible gilbar once again demonstrates his utter ignorance of what is going on in Ukraine:

First of all, "Now we find out that the government that bribed the Biden family is corrupt!" is a bald-faced lie. The government that bribed Biden was Poroshenko's. Ukraine got tired of his corruption and voted the bastard out in favor a non-corrupt non-politician TV personality, Zelenskyy, which makes him (Z, not P) the Ukrainian equivalent of Trump. Blaming Zelenskyy for Poroshenko's crimes is like blaming Trump for Obama's.

As for the BBC story, I wonder if the informant is what he says he is. What is 'Denys' (if that's his real name) doing "speaking from a park in Kharkiv" when there's fighting to do in Vovchansk? In any case, we know why there were no fortifications between Vovchansk and the Russian border. It's because:

1. As the BBC notes, the town is only 3 miles from the border, and

2. You can't build decent fortifications without excavators and bulldozers, and you can't do that under artillery fire, when you're not allowed to fire back. Defense lines were built further from the border because of Jake Sullivan's stupid rules.

For the second point, here's Colby Badhawar on Twitter (link), "Ukraine could have disrupted Russia's Kharkiv offensive before it was even launched. But the Biden Admin wouldn't let them. How many Ukrainians are dying because of this insanity?"

He quotes someone else writing:

"Ukrainian officials watched for weeks as the Russian massed near the Ukrainian border, unable to use U.S.-supplied weapons to conduct a preemptive strike due to Washington's policy. The Biden administration, as a condition of sending the long-range weapons to Ukraine, said they could not be used to strike inside Russian territory.

"'The main problem right now is the White House policy to limit our capability' to strike military targets inside Russia, David Arakhamia, chair of the ruling Servant of the People party in the Ukrainian parliament, said during a visit to Washington on Tuesday."; 5/15/24, 10:46 AM
SteveWe said...: The bottom line is that Biden is a Perv.; 5/15/24, 12:15 PM
Jim at said...: Since when did Dads lose the right to bathe their young daughters who cannot wash themselves?

If you're going to defend Biden to the death, you may want to chose another subject.

You know, lest you end up looking like you support pedophilia.; 5/15/24, 3:24 PM
Leland said...: For those interested, NTSB Preliminary Report on M/V Dali contact with Francis Scott Key Bridge

Timeline is pretty much what we know, although I wasn’t aware they stopped bridge traffic less than 80 secs before contact. I thought it might have been earlier based on all cross traffic getting off. Wow that was close. Fuel being burned was tested and found to be normal, which makes sense as the generators kept running. It was circuit breakers that tripped. Nothing at this time on why. Some other information about the bridge for those interested in its safety features or lack there of. All still preliminary so no conclusions.; 5/15/24, 6:41 PM
Tina Trent said...: I can grow 1000 Purple Cherokee tomato plants in rock. A hell of a lot of work. I hang them 8 feet tall and remove the leaves lower than five feet. I drape them over the scrap metal posts and they grow another three feet down. I can keep them from getting diseases. I can't grow one lousy flower to save my life.

I can't grow dandelion greens. Every year I try to grow flowers. They all die. What am I doing wrong?

I get why the Rosemary dies: I'm Catholic. But the rest? My Catholic Batsignal worries me. And I need bay leaves. Where can you get bay trees? I've consulted the county outreach. They told me to do less farming and pan for gold, given my odd and longtime abandoned creekbase property. I got the federal food diversity seed bank to send me seeds (an amazing institution that will send you as many odd free seeds you want, to maintain crop diversity, the only good diversity). I'm at a loss.

But do use the federal seed bank. It's amazing. And for a federal program, constructive. The black zuchinni I got from them was amazing. Don't get the trombichino. It looks cool but tastes like crap.; 5/16/24, 2:37 PM