Althouse: Fungus of the Day.

June 29, 2024

Fungus of the Day.

70 comments:

Kate said...: Listing on Fairy Zillow.; 6/29/24, 9:05 AM
SoLastMillennium said...: Fungus of the day, and it's NOT ab elected official??

(It's Madison. Dig a little harder...); 6/29/24, 9:44 AM
traditionalguy said...: Just a guess, name that one Biden’s Brain.; 6/29/24, 9:54 AM
Hassayamper said...: Now we're talking. Those are chanterelles in the genus Cantharellus. A top-shelf choice edible variety that typically sells for $25-50 per pound at farmers' markets and fancy food stores.. If you go back there you probably will find more nearby. They tend to be gregarious and it's not unusual to find patches of hundreds of these mushrooms. Lucky you.; 6/29/24, 9:56 AM
Rusty said...: They look edible.; 6/29/24, 10:16 AM
n.n said...: Larrysa, Moegina, and Curloris

The Red Queen... off with their heads.; 6/29/24, 10:40 AM
Hassayamper said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 6/29/24, 11:03 AM
amr said...: Yep, "Chanterlles" Cantharellus sp.; 6/29/24, 11:09 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: It's like a jungle sometimes
It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under; 6/29/24, 11:16 AM
Saint Croix said...: Panic.

(Time Magazine, pretty good).; 6/29/24, 11:29 AM
Saint Croix said...: Who will save us?

Kamala!

Would you like a word salad without a panic?; 6/29/24, 11:36 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: You know who else was vindicated by Biden's performance?

DOJ special counsel Robert Hur; [Biden] could portray himself as an elderly man with a poor memory who would be sympathetic to a jury.; 6/29/24, 11:45 AM
Saint Croix said...: If Biden drops out...

only Harris can access all the money that Biden has raised so far; 6/29/24, 11:45 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: "That which can’t continue, won’t."

Biden is the perfect gift to the idea that digging in your heels is the answer to all your problems.

Maybe that's why part of me felt good seeing the former big guy stumble.

Everybody, every day, going to the mattress on every issue can't continue.; 6/29/24, 11:51 AM
Saint Croix said...: The Democratic Coup

Taibi, not sure if that's behind a paywall

(Taibi is $5 a month, well worth it, in my opinion); 6/29/24, 11:59 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: (Taibi is $5 a month, well worth it, in my opinion)

Ditto; 6/29/24, 12:06 PM
Saint Croix said...: Bob Woodward on Biden's debate performance.

His take is a little strange.

"It's like a golfer who plays country club golf in the 90's and all of a sudden he shoots 140."

You'd think one of the great reporters of yesteryear would have observed Biden's decline over the last couple of years. It's hardly an overnight phenomenon.

People on the right have been mocking Biden's weird speech and brain farts for several years. It's not news to any of us. But Bob Woodward had no idea!

Anyway, most of the interview is good. He's honest. "It wasn't a bad night. It was an incoherent night." And his point is that reporters should ask, why was Biden incoherent? And they should dig into that.; 6/29/24, 12:46 PM
Saint Croix said...: What Is Wrong With Biden?

Pretty good analysis from the UK

Sounds like he's got Parkinson's.; 6/29/24, 12:52 PM
Kevin said...: I come here every day expecting a picture of Jill Biden clinging tightly to Joe.; 6/29/24, 1:03 PM
imTay said...: ""It's like a golfer who plays country club golf in the 90's and all of a sudden he shoots 140."

I thought he was a 6 handicap! Isn't that what Biden claimed in the debate? Anybody fact check that pointless lie? You have to spend a lot of time playing golf to be a six handicap, unless you are a dictator of some kind like that guy in North Korea, or you cheat. Naah! Impossible, Joe would never cheat at anything!; 6/29/24, 1:35 PM
imTay said...: Kamala Harris was Joe Biden's first big important decision, and just like Obama said he might, he effed it up.; 6/29/24, 1:37 PM
Rusty said...: Hassayamper
Thank you.; 6/29/24, 1:41 PM
Jersey Fled said...: https://www-foxnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.foxnews.com/politics/heritage-working-election-legal-challenges-case-biden-pulled-from-dnc-nomination.amp?amp_js_v=0.1&amp_gsa=1#webview=1&cap=swipe

Hmmm …

Seems like it might not be so easy to get Biden off the ballot.; 6/29/24, 2:28 PM
rehajm said...: You have to spend a lot of time playing golf to be a six handicap

Some of you do…; 6/29/24, 3:13 PM
Lucien said...: Has anyone produced a compendium of Biden's name-calling of Trump during the debate? I've seen clips including, "child", "a sucker and a loser", and "morals of an alley cat".
What other Presidential things did Biden say to show who the adult in the room really was?; 6/29/24, 3:36 PM
Narayanan said...: I thought he was a 6 handicap!
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for the course [false] or each hole [true]?; 6/29/24, 5:29 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: YouTube: President Ronald Reagan conducts his final news conference of his presidency

This was with just notes, no teleprompter. Ron was in a lot better shape physically and cognitively than Joe is today. I'm posting this because I heard some people on the radio saying that if Ronald Reagan with Altheimer, could win a second term, so could Joe Biden.

There is just no comparison.; 6/29/24, 6:48 PM
imTay said...: Biden, 81, has difficulty functioning outside of 6-hour window as aides attempt to spin prez’s horrid debate performance: alarming report - NY Post; 6/29/24, 7:01 PM
Jersey Fled said...: Re: imTay above:

This explains all of those “early lids”; 6/29/24, 7:45 PM
Saint Croix said...: Pro-Life Talking Points; 6/29/24, 8:55 PM
Original Mike said...: "President Joe Biden is expected to discuss the future of his re-election campaign with family at Camp David on Sunday,"

First shoe to drop…; 6/29/24, 9:07 PM
WK said...: Biden /Trump debate summary. Warning: violence
https://youtu.be/h5W4u9As3As; 6/29/24, 9:13 PM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: Biden family conversation at Camp David>>>>>

Big Guy, er I mean ...dad... - what are we going to do for money when you step down? You must run... Hunter needs another fancy car... and more money for rent-a-wife stand ins.; 6/29/24, 9:24 PM
Saint Croix said...: Original Mike at 9:07

wow

that NBC report is pretty devastating

Biden was described by one person familiar with his mood as humiliated, devoid of confidence and painfully aware that the physical images of him at the debate — eyes staring into the distance, mouth agape — will live beyond his presidency, along with a performance that at times was meandering, incoherent and difficult to hear.; 6/29/24, 9:26 PM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: I heard this clip a few times.

Reminders for Rich, Inga and Chuck:

Biden said:
"We've been making sure we are able to make every single person eligible what I've been able to do with the Covid, excuse me, everything we have to do with...look... I finally beat Medicare..."

FACT packed!, man.; 6/29/24, 9:32 PM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: more FACT-Packed!

Biden:
"We had significant increase in number of asylum officers significantly. By the way the Border Patrol been endorsed me, endorsed my position.

'In addition to that we find ourselves in a situation where when he was president he was taking separating babies from their mothers put him in cages,'

This led to Trump to respond: 'I really don't know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don't think he knows what he said either.'

[Trump put babies in cages! Fact Packed, man.]; 6/29/24, 9:35 PM
Drago said...: I am feeling fairly confident about my predictions for the 2024 race that I put out nearly 2 years ago:
- Michelle would be slotted in for Dementia-glitch boy
- The combined GOPe/democratical/lawfare team would jail Trump and remove him from the campaign, though I did not specify at the convention. I thought they would successfully keep him from running in the primary altogether.

I thought that by watching the GOPe/globalists rally around to support DeSantis starting in 2021.

We'll see what happens.; 6/29/24, 10:18 PM
Saint Croix said...: If Biden withdraws from his campaign before he's nominated...

It frees up his delegates to vote for whomever they favor.

Riot in Chicago!

If Biden withdraws from his campaign after he's nominated...

The DNC picks the candidate.

Those are the "super-delegates," I think. Biden, as president, dominates the DNC. It sounds like he would nominate his successor.

That would be super-weird, to have a phony convention for an infirm candidate, when the plan is for Biden to resign from the campaign after the convention, and put somebody else's name up instead.

And it would be doubly super-weird if he tried to nominate someone other than his vice-president.

That article doesn't even mention Harris, but it seems to me that she's a key variable.

Theoretically (I think?) Biden could accept the nomination of the party at the convention, and then on the last day, give a speech that he's going to step down, and hand the reins over to Kamala Harris.

She's on the ticket and that would work.

But the idea that Biden could skip the entire democratic process, and just appoint any Democrat nominee, and give that nominee all the funds that they have raised, that would be very strange. And probably illegal.

I think if Biden doesn't like Harris, or doesn't think she should be the nominee, then he should resign from the campaign before he's nominated, and free up his delegates to vote their conscience, and let there be a floor fight.

That might open Biden up to a 25th Amendment move from Harris. She'd have to get a majority of Biden's cabinet to agree to that.

Interesting.; 6/29/24, 10:27 PM
Saint Croix said...: The other thing to remember is that Obama, famously, talked Biden into not running in 2016. So Biden might feel that he's justified in freezing Kamala out. Because it happened to him.; 6/29/24, 10:38 PM
Political Junkie said...: It bothers me as an American that Democrat concern is "Can Biden still beat Trump" and not "Can he do the job of President of the United States".; 6/29/24, 10:47 PM
Big Mike said...: It bothers me as an American that Democrat concern is "Can Biden still beat Trump" and not "Can he do the job of President of the United States"

@Political Junkie, + 1; 6/30/24, 2:03 AM
Big Mike said...: A simple truth from Greg Gutfield via Instapundit:

remember: the media democrat complex is reacting in horror over joe's condition not because they saw it - it's because you saw it; 6/30/24, 2:08 AM
wendybar said...: Big Mike...I was just about to post that same tweet by Gutfeld. So much truth in that one little statement!!; 6/30/24, 3:46 AM
Kate said...: Something that doesn't get mentioned enough: Joe said no soldiers have died on his watch. If he can't remember the service members he's already lost, how many more will he send to die because he's forgotten or deluded himself into ignoring?; 6/30/24, 4:37 AM
imTay said...: Obama "expressed his support" with the same logic by which a hunter is careful not to frighten the deer he has spotted while he maneuvers for the kill.

You don't hunt, do you.. Big Bang Theory

There's no getting Biden out unless whoever controls Biden's hand when he signs stuff agrees to it. That's the real problem, it's probably not up to Biden. And the Biden family has the cautionary tale of how the money to the Clinton Foundation dried up when she was booted from the center of power.; 6/30/24, 5:04 AM
Breezy said...: The Biden family is meeting at Camp David this weekend to make some decisions about their future. I wonder if similar retreats will happen at CNN, MSNBC, NYT, FOX, DNC, etc. A lot of misinformation/propaganda specialists there, some worse than others, but all participating in this “coopetition”. There has to be a reckoning.; 6/30/24, 5:06 AM
Money Manger said...: The NYT and WaPo noticeably downplay the Biden story on their front pages this morning. They are waiting for direction from the White House. Expect a “Republicans pounce” theme on the Sunday talk shows.; 6/30/24, 5:15 AM
imTay said...: If a crisis breaks out somewhere in the world, and a decision must be made pronto by the leader of the United States Government, who gets the call? Who is really in control of the "football"? Nobody really knows these things right now. One thing we do know is that whoever it is, nobody elected them.; 6/30/24, 5:19 AM
planetgeo said...: I'm hoping that Althouse will start a new series of photos of truth finally dawning over the lakelike vastness of stupid people shimmering below the unbearable lightness of Dark Biden...lifting, shape-shifting, gone.

Oh wait. She's more subtle than that. That's what the new fungus series really means.; 6/30/24, 5:53 AM
wendybar said...: "Rachel Maddow has been lying to her audience consistently for a decade and they don’t care. Like a fat person modeling clothes in a circus mirror, their audience wants to be lied to."

https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2024/06/30/never-let-anyone-forget-how-the-media-lied-to-the-world-about-joe-biden-n2641147; 6/30/24, 6:21 AM
wendybar said...: "The Democratic Party is endeavoring to transform America into a Marxist, Leftist totalitarian system, the most clear model of which in today’s world is the People’s Republic of China.
Thus, in China, the people have “freedom”—freedom to do what the government allows them to do.
That’s not freedom, folks. That’s slavery. But that’s what the Democratic Party wants to transform America into. Don’t oppose the government—that’s crime number one."
https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2024/06/30/the-democrats-transformation-of-america-part-one-n2641150; 6/30/24, 6:24 AM
MadTownGuy said...: 48 Hours to Fix a 90-Minute Mess: Inside the Biden Camp’s Post-Debate Frenzy

This came by way of Google News so the article may not be behind the paywall. Frenzy, indeed.; 6/30/24, 6:33 AM
MadTownGuy said...: Meanwhile, in New York State...

New York announces it will take citizen surveillance and censorship to the next level

"New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, D, announced on Monday that the state will ramp up surveillance efforts of social media accounts and that law enforcement will take proactive measures, including contacting people on suspicion of using “hate speech.”

anyone thinks that they can get away with spreading hate and harming other New Yorkers and violating the law, you will be caught. You will be caught here in the State of New York because we are ramping up our resources to ensure that everyone can live freely. We have been involved in this. We’ll protect protected speech. We will not protect people committing hate crimes, not here in Manhattan, not in any borough, not in any one of the 62 counties, not on a college campus, not in a house of worship.”

More at the link, but the last statement is chilling. Will there be 'minders' in churches? Synagogues? Mosques? Ashrams?; 6/30/24, 6:38 AM
Humperdink said...: Fifty-one (51) intelligence have signed a letter stating that President Biden's debate performance has all the hallmarks of Russian influence.; 6/30/24, 6:42 AM
Captain BillieBob said...: Revolver News
@RevolverNewsUSA
Remarkable monologue from David Sacks:

"The Democratic party is a collection of interests who want to remain in power. The Democratic Party is the party of government. Its goal is to allocate money and power from the government to the collection of interests who back the Democratic Party. In other words, it's basically a collection of interests who want to loot the Republic.

Well obviously, no one's going to vote for that. So they have to make it about something else. They choose a figurehead, they talk about how this is about saving democracy. They basically invent, hoax after hoax, lie after lie to basically maintain their power.

And I think what's happened is, the mask has come off, the whole shell game has been revealed. It's obvious that Biden was always a puppet for these interests who were hiding behind him. And now, it's all being exposed."

Accurate summation of where we are with the democrats; 6/30/24, 7:05 AM
Christopher B said...: We’ll protect speech approved by the Regime.

Your speech is violence, their violence is protected.; 6/30/24, 7:05 AM
Drago said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 6/30/24, 7:07 AM
Drago said...: Humperdink: "Fifty-one (51) intelligence have signed a letter stating that President Biden's debate performance has all the hallmarks of Russian influence."

Further, according to 3 anonymous sources that are really just 1 anomymous source that doesn't even exist, Merrick Garland is reportedly prepared to announce the appointment of a Special Counsel investigation against Trump for obviously colluding with Putin on the Russian Influence campaign that turned a mere biden cold and stutter into a full blown global lack of confidence crisis post debate.

Garland is expected to work with Christopher Wray to generate and create and manufacture the evidence necessary to support a charge of treason for which a DC grand jury, "court" and "judge" have already been assigned to hear the Treason charges and conduct the trial and sentence the already adjudicated guilty party to death prior to the election in November.

Mitch McConnell has urged citizens to respect this process while Speaker Mike Johnson has promised funding for an expedited series of hearings and strongly worded letters to begin in fiscal year 2029.; 6/30/24, 7:09 AM
imTay said...: If you think that they have just been lying to us about Biden's physical condition, oh, and COVID, oh, and the Russia hoax, and Charlottesville, and J6, the Kennedy assassination, which the CIA has basically copped to now with recent document releases, but nothing else, you know, like who was behind the two coups in Ukraine (the first one didn't take) or that Russia hasn't been able to destroy our Patriot missile systems, like our resident Ukrainian ultra-nationalist let's call him, claims, here is video of a Patriot battery being destroyed. Others have been destroyed too, unable to defend themselves against Russian missile attack. The US is currently in the process of diverting Patriot systems from Israel, which is tiptoeing on the edge of a missile war with Iran, but that's not a sign of desperation, oh no. It's just business as usual, don't worry your pretty little head about it.

Brian Berletic, YouTube

Russia, China, and Iran are stretching us, and our corrupt allies in Europe are useless, same with Canada. It turns out that during the bugout from Afghanistan, rather than helping those Afghanis who aided us during the war, and who likely faced summary execution by the Taliban, the Canadian military was ordered instead to evacuate Sikhs, because the Trudeau's coalition partner, Singh, is a Sikh, and his Deputy Prime Minister is the granddaughter of a Ukrainian Nazi, so basically Canada has devolved from a Western military partner of the United States to one more tribal banana republic, with its loyalties overseas, kind of like Minnesota, whose new state flag looks remarkably like the flag for a major region of Somalia.

At some point you have to choke on the lies. I used to believe them, I used to be as hard core on US military actions overseas as Glenn Reynolds and Stephen Green, but the lies just got to be too many, too obvious, too intelligence insulting.; 6/30/24, 7:10 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Even Reddit is acknowledging the obvious.; 6/30/24, 7:11 AM
wendybar said...: "Will the stupidity of the U.S. electorate lead to the election of Michelle Obama and the death of the American dream?

Or will we finally smarten up?

As The Donald might say, we’ll have to see."

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/06/barack_obama_and_the_stupidity_of_the_american_voter.html; 6/30/24, 7:13 AM
boatbuilder said...: ImTay--amazingly, it appears that neither Biden nor Trump was lying about their golf handicap. I looked them up myself, and got the same results as this article did.

You have to be pretty damn good to get a handicap that low, even if there is a forecaddy or secret service agent "finding" your wayward shots. It does help to own the golf course where you play, but still...

https://apnews.com/article/biden-trump-golf-debate-presidential-fitness-c012fe7cb106362acf810a99c35b7722; 6/30/24, 7:23 AM
Drago said...: Its fun watching all the New Soviet Democraticals (Chuck, rich, lonejustice, gadfly, Dumb Lefty Mark, Freder et al) go so radio silent as they wait to download new talking point instructions from the DNC Supreme Soviet Central Committee.

Lets see what happens today....; 6/30/24, 7:24 AM
Saint Croix said...: amazingly, it appears that neither Biden nor Trump was lying about their golf handicap.

The fight over golf was insane.

It seemed to me that both of them cared more about golf than they did about several major issues.

They were emotionally invested in their golf game.

Which says to me that both men are ready for retirement.

Biden's comment about his handicap when he was vice president was particularly dumb.

It's a presidential debate and you're bragging about your golf game from a decade ago?

"I used to be really sharp back in 2010."; 6/30/24, 7:44 AM
rehajm said...: amazingly, it appears that neither Biden nor Trump was lying about their golf handicap. I looked them up myself, and got the same results as this article did.

Handicaps are self reported so there could be some fudging going on. A golfer who posts scores lower than they actually shoot is referred to a ‘vanity handicap’. I’ve watched Trump hit balls from the back of the range at Doral and his swing is home made but he is very consistent and hits the ball a long ways. I suspect at one time he was capable of a 2 index. He’s also been known to cheat in Trump bravado fashion…

I’ve only seen video of Biden’s swing in his later but still with us years. He comes up out of posture but has a pretty good address position. He was probably capable of single digits at one point…; 6/30/24, 7:47 AM
Narayanan said...: Obama, famously, talked Biden into not running in 2016 So Biden might feel that he's justified in freezing Kamala out. Because it happened to him.
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maybe there was deal between Hillary and Obama and DNC for 2008
what is the deal between Biden and Kamala and DNC and Obama and Hillary?; 6/30/24, 7:50 AM
boatbuilder said...: It is true that the golf argument was less than Presidential. However, unlike most of the stuff that Biden was spouting, it was subject ot "fact checking."

Also, if I ever got close to a 6 I would never shut up about it. ;^); 6/30/24, 8:02 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: I hereby nominate Joe Biden. Fungus of the Day!; 6/30/24, 8:50 AM
Big Mike said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 6/30/24, 11:54 AM
FullMoon said...: NO PROTESTS SCHEDULED:

"MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Female suicide bombers targeted a wedding, a funeral and a hospital in coordinated attacks in northern Nigeria that killed at least 18 people, local authorities said Sunday.

The first suicide bomber detonated an explosive device during a marriage celebration in the northeastern town of Gwoza at about 3 p.m., Barkindo Saidu, director-general of Borno State Emergency Management Agency, told reporters.

“Minutes later, another blast occurred near General Hospital,” Saidu said, and then there was a third attack at a funeral service by a female bomber disguised as a mourner. Children and pregnant women were among those killed...

The violence, which has spilled across borders around Lake Chad, has killed over 35,000 people, displaced over 2.6 million and created a massive humanitarian crisis.

Boko Haram, which has one branch allied to the Islamic State group, wants to install an Islamic state in Nigeria, West Africa’s oil giant of 170 million people divided almost equally between a mainly Christian south and a predominantly Muslim north.

In the past, Boko Haram has used women and girls in suicide bombings, prompting suspicions that some from the many thousands that they have kidnapped over the years. ..
Saidu said the degree of injuries ranged from abdominal ruptures to skull and limb fractures..

Gwoza is located a few kilometers from Chibok, in southern Borno, where 276 schoolgirls were abducted in 2014. Nearly 100 of the girls are still in captivity.

Since then, at least 1,500 students have been kidnapped across the country as armed groups increasingly find the practice a lucrative way to fund their criminal activities and take control of villages.; 6/30/24, 12:33 PM