Sunday: Hili dialogue

43 thoughts on “Sunday: Hili dialogue”

1. Your favorite beer is Lord Taylor.
   I’m a lover of English and Irish beers. I’ve looked for it, but can’t find it anywhere. 🤔

   1. Is lord taylor the same as Timothy Taylor’s Landlord? I can never find the animal in the photo, so it was nice to have an easy one!

      1. Oh, it’s Timothy Taylor.
         Thanks Jim.

      2. ^^^

      3. Yes, Timothy Taylor Landlord, and I haven’t had a good pint in ages!

2. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
   I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. -Edith Sitwell, poet (7 Sep 1887-1964)

3. If a Native American man should walk into a group of white boys, and one of them, unsure what is going on, stands there smirking, the incident causes weeks of national hysteria such that we learn about it on this side of the pond.

   Or, if a black man approaches a female dog-walker in an isolated spot, saying “you’re not going to like what I’m going to do”, and she — scared — calls the police, then her reaction causes weeks of national hysteria such that we learn about it on this side of the pond.

   Meanwhile, if there arises a graphic video of a black man (with 14 prior arrests/convictions) just randomly slaughtering a white female with a knife, for no reason, then from the MSM there is silence with nothing but crickets chirping and less commentary than found in a Trappist monastery.

   Googling “Decarlos Brown Iryna Zarutska” gets a hit from the New York Post, but nothing from the NYT, NPR, AP, BBC, Guardian, et cetera. If the races had been reversed there would be dozens of articles on this in those venues, and it would continue for weeks.

   Luckily, since Musk bought Twitter, there is at least one place where such things are brought to light.

   1. Political correctness run amok. Bad stuff.

4. Definitely Landlord, I always think of the boss when I visit my nearest pub and I always toast his health with a pint of draught. This is somewhat rarer these days as, owing to living rurally in a village whose pub is now two houses with an entire estate on its car park and land, my local pub is a a few miles away down unlit and twisty roads that lack safe walking – this is not conducive to convivial drinking.

5. Back in mid-1970s Special Export was the preferred beer of the bartenders at Jimmy’s. I liked Ballentine’s Ale (no longer available anywhere); now Newcastle Brown.

   1. I have a steel, copper colored can of Ballentine’s Beer from the 1940s in my collection.

      Beer cans were so much prettier when they were made out of steel. The paint was much thicker, and many cans featured metallic paints. Try that with an aluminum can.

   2. I hadn’t thought of it in decades, but I remember Special Export, from the very early days when micros were beginning to emerge (thanks, for details I’ve forgotten, to legislation signed by Jimmy Carter). It was from Heilman, right?

      Back then I was also a fan of Ballantine Ale, and subsequently Ballantine India Pale Ale.

      1. Yes. Made by Heiliman’s. They also made Old Style. Jimmy never had Busch products.

   3. I was too young to enjoy Ballantine, but I clearly recall my father and a family friend having a Ballantine beer in our backyard. I don’t think my father ever had a second beer, and even one beer was an event.

   4. Also the favourite beer of Hunter Thompson’s narrator in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

      “Tuesday, 12:30 PM … Baker, California … Into the Ballantine Ale now, zombie drunk and nervous. I recognize this feeling: three or four days of booze, drugs, sun, no sleep and burned out adrenalin reserves – a giddy, quavering sort of high that means the crash is coming. But when? How much longer? This tension is part of the high. The possibility of physical and mental collapse is very real now.”

      1. He was great, wasn’t he?
         D.A.
         NYC

   5. Assuming you’re talking about Jimmy’s on 55th st. in Hyde Park, I remember drinking Special Export there in the early 60s along with Jimmy’s iconic hamburgers. Great stuff.

      1. Yes. That Jimmy’s. Is there another? Do you remember if it was Maxine in the kitchen making the burgers? She was there in the 70s.

         1. No, no women bartenders. All bartenders made the burgers; no one could ever figure out why they were good, but there was intimation that it was because they never cleaned the grill. Could be.

6. I don’t know, but I bet the beer lover in question is someone’s brother-in-law.

7. It’s me. I am the beer lover being honored on this day.

   1. Then congrats! Many happy returns.

8. I don’t know whether the threat to send in the NG to Chicago was bluster or policy. (I think that Trump hoped that the pressure would induce Pritzker to invite them in. Similar pressure has led to a police surge in Baltimore.) The White House clearly knows that it can’t send them in unilaterally, so its fallback is to send in ICE.

   BTW, regarding the raid on the Hyundai plant in GA, it turns out that the people arrested were not making cars. They were construction workers brought in by the South Korean construction company building the plant. They are not immigrants, just illegal foreign workers without visas. The Administration really needs to start cracking down on employers.

   1. Crack down on the wealthy Republicans that employ them? Never !

9. I remember when red states like Texas went bonkers when the military exercise known as “Jade Helm 15” was conducted in 2015. Although it did not involve that many military personnel, conservatives were convinced it was an attempt by Obama to take over the USA or round up and intern citizens. Texas governor Greg Abbott even had the Texas State Guard monitor the exercise.

   Now conservatives are cheering the military occupying US cities they don’t like. I think it is Trump’s attempt to circumvent or overturn the midterm elections. Bill Maher covered this last Friday in his “New Rules”. I’m reminded of the movie “Seven Days in May”, but instead of a secret military coup, today’s plot is using the military in an overt grab of more power and control.

10. “Foreign student protesters.” Why is that even a thing?

    If someone applies from abroad for a student visa to study at a western university, isn’t the premise that the student will be studying, as he states on his visa application? Why then isn’t disruptive political activity on his college campus unrelated to his course of study and generally making a pest of himself to other people trying to learn and teach considered grounds — “derogatory information” as the State Dept. calls it — for revoking the student’s visa, as in the Ozturk case? She’s violating the terms of her visa, which was to study early childhood education, not push the Jews out of Palestine.

    If I got a visa to study art history at The Sorbonne but spent my time occupying the campus to call for the establishment of Sharia Law in France, a cause that only foreigners (and people who under French laïcité should be foreigners) are keen on, how long before I got booted out of the country?

    I realize the universities are fond of foreign students no matter how troublesome they are because of the swingeing tuition they pay, and the disruption affects only other students and faculty, not the administrators who get to spend all that money. We can’t expect the universities to expel them for misconduct. But if the presence of nuisances without a right to live permanently in the country degrades the quality of life at our institutions, isn’t the most straightforward thing just to send them packing? The national Governments have an administrative, non-criminal remedy to deal with foreign troublemakers — it’s called deportation — which doesn’t run afoul of Constitutional rights in criminal matters. It should use it, especially if the universities won’t expel these miscreants themselves. If the law says it can’t, then change the law. But it seems straightforward: the State Dept. (or the relevant Cabinet Dept. in other countries) can revoke a visa at its pleasure. Without a visa, the alien must leave the country. Now, if we don’t want the Government to revoke the visas of troublemakers, because they enrich our lives somehow, then that is a bed we are making for ourselves. We will have to lie in it.

    And why would the U.S. Administration’s attempts to deport illegal aliens count, possibly, as a trigger to an exception to Kalven neutrality? Is the University of Chicago registering illegal aliens as students, thus making them central to its mission, knowing they have no visas? If so, it’s got some ‘splainin to do. If not, it’s not a Kalven exemption.

    1. Hell YES Leslie.
       As a former foreign student (in DC, 1992) this blows my mind. Damn – I was careful not to jaywalk, any “recreational substances” hobbies were kept very discrete indeed and in orientation for foreign students we were told this is how it has to be. “You DON’T want to get into any trouble, kids!”

       Now just get a student visa and continue the jihad on our campuses, in part on our dime. Brother.
       (I note the Colombia U. Algerian terrorist Khalil is STILL IN THE US!)

       D.A.
       NYC

       1. I couldn’t agree more with either of you. If you’re a foreign student, you are a guest, so bloody act like one. It’s like receiving an invite to a friend’s wedding, then attending only to call his wife ugly and his mother-in-law fat, before telling him the wedding food is shit, peeing on the wedding dress and refusing to leave at closing time.

          I don’t get it – what do they think they are here to do? Many seem to prioritise making a nuisance of themselves by complaining about the government, telling it how terrible and inhumane it is, and generally behaving like disruptive assholes. This, despite them having no genuine stake in their temporary host country and even less right to tell it what to do.

          This results in untold hassle for the host country, which incurs significant costs as a result. Political division and agitation are their only legacy to the host country; well, that and a large bill. With all that in mind, the host government absolutely has the right to send them home.

          If I were in charge, my response would be along the lines of: “If you don’t like it, fu*ck off!!”

          1. Thank you Mr. WetherJeff. You pin it down better than I. It wasn’t the law or the stern warnings of our student advisers. It was what I’d experienced on arrival and also BEFORE I even came to the US, when I lived in Japan: “You live in THEIR country now, respect their things.”

             Kinda thought that was a human universal…

             D.A.
             NYC

          2. Absolutely. The US government is under no obligation to allow foreigners who despise the country and all it stands for into the country, much less stay.

    2. Is there any evidence that Ms Ozturk engaged in any disruptive political activity? Going on the publicly available information about her case, what she did was co-author an op-ed piece about Palestine. I thought it was precisely the fact that she wasn’t known to have done anything else that made her detention unreasonable.

       1. Wasn’t talking about Ms. Ozturk – her case (from what I know) is less egregious.

          Consider — we have no shortage of jihad yelling, Sharia-endorsing, Jew killing “River to Sea” foreign students here, even if Ms/Dr. Ozturk and her Hezb sympathies are lesser obnoxious.
          Numbers and scale matter.

          D.A.
          NYC

       2. The State Dept. revoked Ms Osturk’s visa because of derogatory information it received about her, which included the op-ed criticizing U.S. foreign policy and her membership in campus organizations against Israel, deemed not within her student remit of learning how to be a daycare worker back home in Turkey. We let you come to America to study early childhood education, it told her, not to be an activist. We can’t put you in jail for speaking your mind but we can send you home by revoking your visa. Homeland Security worried that she would flee, and so ICE detained her for escorted deportation. The Courts got involved and she got sprung on bail as, apparently, not a flight risk. Making bail was hailed by her supporters in The Resistance Caucus in Congress as a great victory over President Trump. Where the case is now, and where she is, I don’t know.

          The U.S. State Dept.’s website says that a person whose visa has been revoked can appeal it but the Courts are generally deferential to this executive function and they rarely overrule a revocation. So I’m not sure what Ms Osturk’s end game is here. Perhaps, as the WSJ story says, she will eventually run out of money and her friends will lose interest, and she will just go home, uncertified in advanced western daycare methods.

          I admit I don’t know what the story means when it says “the student protesters” — all of them, or just some profiled in the story? — have been winning in Court. On what grounds are they contesting deportation orders, unless Green Cards are just harder to revoke than mere student visas? I’ll ask David A to throw me a lifeline here. He has written that only U.S. citizenship gives you an iron-clad right to stay in the country, same as Canadian citizenship does in Canada.

          (In Canada, belated claims of asylum and refugee status are the only commonly successful grounds to fight deportation, which can drag on for decades, but these claims are heard by lay immigration boards appointed and operated by the executive, not actual Courts which would cost the appellant a lot of money that he doesn’t have. We have something like 12,000 holders of expiring student visas who in the spring filed refugee claims en masse.)

11. Not sure if I am a beer lover, but I am currently in possession of over five case of beer.
    I have a friend that works at a brewery !

12. I am saddened about Maru. I thought he was the greatest and most hilarious cat.
    That is a loss. I watched him over the internet fairly regularly.
    Loss is so tough.

    Thank you Jerry for the introduction to him on your website some time ago. He brought so much joy.

13. Will Trump invade Chicago? Maybe a little. Part of his bluster is to elicit a reaction from the Democrats. By rejecting the help of the federal government, Democrats are setting themselves up to be labeled “soft on crime” or even worse—that they are in favor of crime, that they value crime more than they value efforts to eradicate it. Not a good look, but one that the Republicans will have in their arsenal.

14. “Universities are getting nervous about…” student disruptions…

    Oh give me a break. By special set asides, an insane jurisdictional cluster-f…cluster-mess left over from the VN war, never fixed…. Unis have police jurisdiction over their properties. They MUST enforce community standards there.

    If they don’t.. the state will and should.

    This year I have no appetite for LARPING terrorists, dateless girls who aren’t doing well emotionally, disrupting my city, emanating out like a cancer from campus. Shut that sh*t down within the 1st Amd and time/place constraints.
    No excuse now, billions on the line.

    I even told them what these kids get wrong in my column before Oct 7 – for I am a charitable man:
    to wit:
    https://democracychronicles.org/what-pro-palestine-student-groups-get-wrong/

    D.A.
    NYC

    D.A.
    NYC

    1. I truly don’t understand this issue of difficulty controlling protests at “elite” universities in the US.

       We are often told that claims that these universities have been captured by the extreme woke left are exaggerated…that most students are simply there to learn and graduate and do not engage in political nonsense. And that most professors are moderate folks just wanting to teach and do their research.

       So if that is the case, it is only a minority of students/professors that are the problem, and therefore it should be a relatively straightforward exercise to control them. Either comply with the rules surrounding protests or be expelled/terminated. The University will go on fine without you, since you are just a sliver of our student body and professoriate.

       So which is it? These universities cannot claim at the same time the woke, extreme left zealots are an immaterial portion of the institution, and also wring their hands about how hard it would be to control them.

15. “Department of War”…

    I’ll give a rare compliment to Trump here, even though I don’t think this was the reason his rather simple mind came up with this change.

    I don’t mind this change, because it represents a reversal of the often sickening euphemisms we use to describe armed conflict. For example…”collateral damage” is the term used to describe say an innocent family that has been shredded to bits by the shrapnel from a bomb meant for a military target. If you saw that family, all lying there in pieces, you probably wouldn’t say “oops, that’s just collateral damage”.

    If the “Defense Department” is really a department of warmongering, spending its time figuring out how to kill and maim people, then it really is the Department of War.

    1. Of course Dept of War was its name until Truman changed it. I think Trumans’ name sets the tone that I would like for it, but that is only my opinion.

       Apparently, though, the name change will result in millions being spent on new signage and paperwork. At least that is what I’d read.

    2. Without diving into the organizational history, and just by knowing how the Pentagon works, I suspect the adoption of “Department of Defense” in the late 1940s was more about turf wars than euphemism. In rolling into one organization both the Navy and the Army (and the newly-created Air Force), bureaucrats would have shied from keeping the “War” name that was formerly attached to the Army. It would have suggested a status hierarchy, something which the Navy would have vehemently opposed. But on your broader point of euphemisms, I heartily agree. Clarity is a virtue. The military: Our job is to break things and kill people. The Air Force: We do bridges. There are countless variations.

       Switching to the metaphorical, I note the feeble-minded who cannot envision multiple fronts in the war on science. Fretting about Trump while dismissing the ideological insurgency from the left is a bit like a man who panics over a rather unpleasant—but antibiotic treatable—infection while his metastasizing cancer continues to spread mostly unchecked.

       1. Many other countries renamed their war ministry to defence ministry after WW2.

16. Masih asks why do Muslims take over Times Square to pray when they have 300 mosques to do that in. The answer is the same as in Europe and the UK: it is a show of strength intended to intimidate the infidels. It is part of a process of domination.

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