Althouse: Sunrise/sunset.

January 26, 2023

Sunrise/sunset.

Snow erased the line between the water and the sky at sunrise:

Those are my photos from this morning. Later, Meade went out and caught the sunset:

52 comments:

MadTownGuy said...: One thing I miss about Madison is the sheer number of reflective bodies of water. Here in South Central PA, there are few lakes nearby. The Susquehanna runs along the west side of Harrisburg, but it's full of rocks and there are only so many variations of the Capitol in silhouette. Depending on time of year, I could get lots of different sunrise shots of the Capitol and isthmus from Middleton and other spots, but I haven't seen any photo ops around here that compare.; 1/26/23, 5:55 PM
Dave Begley said...: Professionally, I use Ann's concept of cruel neutrality all the time.

I just finished a brief in a tricky case. My lawyer friend read it. She said the beginning was wrong and didn't belong at the top. Cruel neutrality. I fixed the brief; much better now.; 1/26/23, 6:28 PM
john mosby said...: Was that the little boy I carried? Was that the little girl at play? I don’t remember growing older - when did they?

JSM; 1/26/23, 6:35 PM
Beasts of England said...: Love the third photo…. :); 1/26/23, 6:47 PM
Nancy said...: Ann, the quote right below your spooky pictures is quite terrifying as a caption!; 1/26/23, 6:50 PM
farmgirl said...: Sunset!!!
I would heart the sunset pic if I could <3; 1/26/23, 6:51 PM
Narr said...: Snowrizontal sunrise; bleak pink sunset.

There's a crescent moon close to Jupiter tonight, and Mars following; I think I saw Venus briefly the other evening--it will become much more visible after sunset in the coming weeks.

Clear skies!; 1/26/23, 6:56 PM
William50 said...: It looks like Pfizer is thinking of engaging in gain of function research on covid-19, making a "Mutating" Covid-19 virus for new vaccines via Directed Evolution research.

Sounds good to me, I mean what could possible go wrong?; 1/26/23, 7:20 PM
Original Mike said...: Read this ‘Incredibly Suspicious’: Detailed Hunter Biden Email Raises Questions Amid Classified Docs Scandal and then tell me Hunter Biden wasn't selling access to Pops for a lot of money and that Pops wasn't in on it.; 1/26/23, 7:34 PM
William50 said...: Seeing pictures of George Soros reminds me of the picture of Dorian Gray. He just looks evil!; 1/26/23, 7:53 PM
Original Mike said...: "It looks like Pfizer is thinking of engaging in gain of function research on covid-19, making a "Mutating" Covid-19 virus for new vaccines via Directed Evolution research."

I have always thought that nuclear weapons aren't the greatest threat to humanity, biological engineering is. These hot shots are going to kill us all.; 1/26/23, 8:06 PM
Chuck said...: Is this a cafe’ post? I’d like to link the gigantic bombshell “Durham Investigation” story released just after 5 pm today.; 1/26/23, 8:12 PM
Dave Begley said...: I tried to Google that Pfizer exec who admitted all that nefarious behavior. Nothing. Censored. Like it never even happened.

We’re fucked if Big Tech can control the news. Just like China.; 1/26/23, 8:12 PM
Meade said...: Thanks for the compliments on my photo. I ended up walking the 4 miles across Lake Mendota to Governor Nelson State Park and back. The colorful sunset over Middleton took me by surprise, it had been mostly overcast and gray all day. Suddenly, from the middle of the lake, no one else within sight — sunset. Felt like I was on another planet.; 1/26/23, 8:18 PM
Chuck said...: It is a remarkable and beautiful sunset photo.; 1/26/23, 8:41 PM
Lurker21 said...: I got this urgent alert on my phone:

‘She’s Walking A Dangerous Road’: Robin Wright’s Friend Concerned As Actress Gets Close To Ex-Husband Sean Penn Years After Divorce Left Her 'Devastated'

The horror!

We really could be 30 seconds from Armageddon.

This is the week Tony Blinken will have to earn his salary.; 1/26/23, 8:53 PM
Original Mike said...: I caught tonight's surprise sunrise, too. Very nice.; 1/26/23, 8:55 PM
Original Mike said...: DuckDuckGo is your friend, Dave. Though I take your point that many won't see it. The liberal weenies wouldn't have believed it anyways.; 1/26/23, 8:58 PM
Saint Croix said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 1/26/23, 9:05 PM
Saint Croix said...: I'll be AWOL in the mountains this weekend so y'all rock this place without me.; 1/26/23, 9:06 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: I started putting up our gazebo today. It's the Costco Grand 12x14-ft gazebo. I had 3 friends over and my electrician also stopped by and lent a hand. We got the posts and horizontal beams assembled and while I was drilling holes in the concrete, my friends were assembling the roof trusses.

The patio slopes for water runoff, so the downstream end of the gazebo is elevated with two layers of pressure treated 2x8s. That end of the gazebo is firmly fastened to the concrete, while the other end is just loosely fastened.

We still have some work to do on the framework and then need to lift the roof trusses into place and fasten them together. That'll happen on Monday when we get dry weather again, but the high temperature will only be about 37F. That's much warmer than Madison was today, but it's still chilly for here. Snow is forecast for the latter part of next week.; 1/26/23, 9:15 PM
Lurker21 said...: Judd Apatow's documentary on Garry Shandling is very good and very funny, but very long. By the end of the show, you will know him better than you know yourself, and still feel like you don't know him at all (most of his friends said he was always a mystery to them). Brilliant, troubled guy.; 1/26/23, 9:22 PM
Original Mike said...: No need for a link, Chuckles. Google doesn't censor stories like these.

“The Times note of the additional investigation that Barr and Durham “never disclosed that their inquiry expanded” into a criminal investigation of Trump based on the 2019 tip. “ The specifics of the tip and how they handled the investigation remain unclear, but Mr. Durham brought no charges over it,” the report concluded."

2019. Where are the charges?

"Gigantic bombshell. You are a silly man.; 1/26/23, 9:39 PM
Wince said...: The illusion of an oval shaped blur, partially framed by the branches, obscures the horizon in the first photo.

Of another “grain” than its background, seemingly in 3D.

A drop of rain on the lens?

A digital edit?

A soon to arrive Terminator teleported from the future?; 1/26/23, 9:40 PM
walter said...: Pfizer guy losing his shit after O'Keefe calmly joins him at table with footage is something else. Progressive core meltdown to the point of the idiot fighting to smash the laptop as if that's the only copy. His defense is that he was just being a dude lying on a 3rd date. Then he thinks it outrageous he was duped. Calls cops and pressures restaurant owner to prevent crew from leaving.
So good. A must see.
Needed Marianne Williamson to saunter in and cool things down..with love.; 1/26/23, 9:52 PM
Original Mike said...: "The man in the video who allegedly works for Pfizer is Jordon Trishton Walker. The one concern is that Walker seems to have no online presence, though some are claiming he had a LinkedIn account that was deactivated."

Hmm… If he's legit you would think he'd have a big online footprint.; 1/26/23, 9:52 PM
Chris N said...: There you go. Get some more f**king color in there, Althouse.

Hope all is well; 1/26/23, 10:41 PM
Chuck said...: Original Mike said...
No need for a link, Chuckles. Google doesn't censor stories like these.

“The Times note of the additional investigation that Barr and Durham “never disclosed that their inquiry expanded” into a criminal investigation of Trump based on the 2019 tip. “ The specifics of the tip and how they handled the investigation remain unclear, but Mr. Durham brought no charges over it,” the report concluded."

2019. Where are the charges?

"Gigantic bombshell. You are a silly man

That’s not the bombshell. Nobody is much thinking about any Trump criminality in Italy. There’s plenty of Trump criminality for prosecutors here in the US of A.

No; the bombshell (one among many, to be sure) was the handling of public announcements by Barr et al, suggesting that the Durham probe had turned criminal… And letting the right wing media bubble presume that the subjects of the criminal investigation were Trump detractors. When in fact the subject was Trump himself.

I don’t know, or much care, what Trump did or didn’t do with respect to Italy. I care about what a laughable bust the entire Durham Debacle was. I remember very well how the Althouse Trumpist commentariat was so hyped about Durham. And now, with this detailed, sourced, exhaustive A-Team NYT reporting, we get a look inside Durham’s and Bart’s offices. And how they obliterated DoJ norms for investigations and prosecutions.

Within three hours of the release of the NYT story tonight, Chris Hayes’ MSNBC production team had readied this brilliant summary of the story:

https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/how-the-gop-probe-into-weaponization-of-the-government-turned-out-last-time-161891397842; 1/26/23, 11:08 PM
walter said...: OM,
He had multiple cameras to deny he worked for Pfizer. He would have laughed at it all.; 1/26/23, 11:33 PM
Drago said...: Original Mike: "Hmm… If he's legit you would think he'd have a big online footprint."

He did. It's been scrubbed...but not before some internet sleuths captured the screen shots.; 1/26/23, 11:39 PM
gpm said...: >>I started putting up our gazebo today.

Well, we all want to visit. But, you know, it's three thousand miles away for some of us. And we'd probably need to go through Spokane or maybe even Portland. So, no dice.

--gpm; 1/27/23, 12:06 AM
gadfly said...: The Italian Job

So, a funny thing happened in the news that probably only makes sense to us old farts who have been doing TrumpWorldStupid chasing forever; apparently, the hero that was going to save Trump from the whole Russia, Russia, Russia thing never admitted to discovering any no-good-dirty scoundrels who implicated Trump in a counter-intelligence investigation to prove a Trump - Russian link, but along the way, he did find Italian officials who said maybe Trump was up to some financial crimes.

Observation: if it looks bad, it is bad. The baddies who said Trump's campaign was probably likely breached by Russian operatives began when George Papadopoulos leaked to Aussie Commissioner Alex Downer. Don Trump Jr. himself, via email, boasted to all and sundry folks that the Russian government was on board to help The Donald.

Now, it's just great that Billy Barr was working with Johnny Durham, bustling about Europe, raising questions about why Trump was being treated like Russia targeting him was somehow between anyone else but Russia and the Trump campaign, exactly when the 2019 impeachment thing was happening.

How stupid is anyone who hasn't connected these dots just yet -- Durham would never find the damn dirty folks who implicated Trump in the Russia matter because a lot of what transpires regarding Trump tales is entirely Trump driven. We all know why Barr and Durham never followed up on information from the Italians and it didn't happen because Trump's lawyers didn't speak the language.; 1/27/23, 1:40 AM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: higher education today; 1/27/23, 3:39 AM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Is veritas a grift?

I used their banishment from Twitter as an excuse to leave Twitter.

They started sending me fundraising mail of both kinds.; 1/27/23, 4:52 AM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: The Crowder kerfuffle reveals the kind of money we’re talking about. The grift is real… and spectacular.; 1/27/23, 4:58 AM
wendybar said...: Adam Schiff used Government banned Tik Tok to bitch and complain about being taken off the Intelligence Committee for lying.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/01/liddle_adam_schiff_booted_from_intel_cmte_and_immediately_turns_to_chinese_spyware_to_grovel_for_cash.html; 1/27/23, 5:33 AM
Big Mike said...: The best case for voting for Donald Trump next year are people like Chuck and Gadfly.; 1/27/23, 5:44 AM
Mr. Forward said...: The horizon was invisiblized.; 1/27/23, 6:01 AM
wendybar said...: "But perhaps no one suffered a more cruel fate than Rosanne Boyland, a Trump supporter from Georgia. Video posted by Gateway Pundit on Thursday shows people attempting to resuscitate Boyland near the lower west terrace tunnel, the scene of the most violent clashes between police and protesters. This is where officers viciously beat another female Trump supporter, as I reported here in 2021.

Boyland likely suffocated after being hit with noxious chemical gas in the enclosed area then trampled as police forcefully pushed people outside the tunnel, even though the building had been empty for nearly two hours.

It’s the first time Boyland’s lifeless body is seen in full view. Desperate protesters then drag her body to a line of officers and plead for help. But the cops kept attacking people and seemed unconcerned with her condition. One officer identified as Lila Morris reportedly beat Boyland’s dead body with a metal baton as she laid face up on the ground.

As Boyland’s body is finally dragged away by police, protesters confront officers. “She’s fucking dead! This is on you, motherfuckers!” (The D.C. coroner claimed Boyland died of a drug overdose.)"

https://amgreatness.com/2023/01/26/january-6-was-the-worst-incident-of-police-brutality-since-civil-rights-era/; 1/27/23, 6:09 AM
tim in vermont said...: Ukrainians on Holocaust Remembrance Day blaming Russia for the crimes against humanity of their national heroes.

https://twitter.com/gheliason/status/1618936693402509312; 1/27/23, 6:16 AM
narciso said...: https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1618817327314894854?cxt=HHwWjIDQ7YjymPcsAAAA; 1/27/23, 6:48 AM
boatbuilder said...: The Life-Long Rock-Ribbed Republicans seem to be deeply troubled about the MSNBC-floated possibility that the Mueller Investigation's $28 million 3 year investication conducted entirely by Democrat hacks failed to properly and fully investigate an anonymous Italian tip in 2019 that suggested that somehow, somewhere, Donald Trump might possibly have been connecticted with something nefarious, and that the Durham team which looked into it didn't find anything either.

This is a "bombshell."

Why the LLRRRs are not equally or more concerned about the revelations of what is very, very hard to interpret as anything but blatant bribery of the guy who is now the President, by both Ukranian and Chinese interests, is a curious matter.

The phrase "Look, Squirrel" comes to mind.; 1/27/23, 7:12 AM
farmgirl said...: Lucky St Croix- have a great time!!; 1/27/23, 7:34 AM
LibertarianLeisure said...: I turned the view on the last picture. Vertically, it looks like a contemporary art piece on a museum wall.; 1/27/23, 7:45 AM
wendybar said...: THIS is why we need to see ALL the video tapes from Jan 6th that Nasty Nancy is trying to keep under lock and key to protect her lies....

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/exclusive-never-seen-video-rosanne-boylands-last-happy-moments-alive-january-6th-say-name-rosanneboyland-dont-let-biden-regime-cover-death/; 1/27/23, 8:19 AM
Tortfeasor said...: The middle image looks like a Rothko painting.; 1/27/23, 9:01 AM
Drago said...: Big Mike: "The best case for voting for Donald Trump next year are people like Chuck and Gadfly."

Its astonishing that these 2 BlueAnon Pee Tape Buffoons, LLR Chuck and The Poor Man's LLR Chuck-gadfly, at the desperate urging of the exposed NYT's Collusion Hoaxers, are actually trying to resurrect the Alexander Downer debunked Crossfire Typhoon lies and FBI ommissions to the FISA court.

And just for the heck of it, they toss in brand new Italy related lies to replace the discarded Moscow Trump Tower lies!

On the other hand, as always, its helpful when leftists like LLR Chuck and his Mini-Me Moron apprentice gadfly self identify.; 1/27/23, 10:01 AM
Meade said...: narciso said...
https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1618817327314894854?cxt=HHwWjIDQ7YjymPcsAAAA

Thanks for that link. I would’ve missed that.

Mr. Forward said...
The horizon was invisiblized.

Haha. AA’s favorite type of comment. Perfect.; 1/27/23, 10:04 AM
Fred from Edmonton said...: Ah, a sunset. Nice!; 1/27/23, 10:12 AM
Gospace said...: A story about pictures and coincidences:
https://petapixel.com/2023/01/24/with-cameras-everywhere-crazy-coincidences-are-now-normal/

I don't find this at all surprising. For several reasons. Wherever you are, no matter what you're doing, if you take a photo, people in the background are going to be people hanging around in the same places doing the same thing. Whether you never travel to other places or travel a lot. Likely to be people of the same social class. In my life, I've interacted and known thousands of people. Some I remember, most I don't, But I've run into many in some of the most unusual places. Was out stretching my legs, and the dog's legs, on the Massachusetts turnpike one day while moving from Maine to NY. And someone looked familiar, and I must have looked familiar to him, as we walked our dogs. And after frankly staring at each other for a bit, we engaged in conversation. We had served on the same sub, and he was moving to Maine as I was leaving. While living here we made one trip to Niagara Falls (pre covidiocy we went there once or twice a year) and on Goat Island one of my sons met a girl he had gone to grade school with in California. Weird, ha?

Voxday has a very dark interpretation of this in his post on Secret Stalker Society.
https://voxday.net/2023/01/26/secret-stalker-society/

Almost as if he was an agent provocateur trying to stir up trouble and paranoia.

If you're a jetsetter and sit in the international arrivals area of JFK all day, someone you know or have met briefly will pass you by. You may of may not recognie them. If you're from NJ and hang out in Grand Central Station all day, someone you've will pass by you. Works the other way. Someone you don't know ends up in a random picture, and later on- you meet.; 1/27/23, 10:43 AM
tim in vermont said...: U.S. interests would be best served by avoiding a protracted conflict. The costs and risks of a long war in Ukraine are significant and outweigh the possible benefits of such a trajectory for the United States. Although Washington cannot by itself determine the war's duration, it can take steps that make an eventual negotiated end to the conflict more likely. Drawing on the literature on war termination, the authors identify key impediments to Russia-Ukraine talks, such as mutual optimism about the future of the war and mutual pessimism about the implications of peace. The Perspective highlights four policy instruments the United States could use to mitigate these impediments: clarifying plans for future support to Ukraine, making commitments to Ukraine's security, issuing assurances regarding the country's neutrality, and setting conditions for sanctions relief for Russia. - Rand Corp

Wait wut? I thought that the smart play was to escalate and never stop until Kiev controls every square inch of the fake country that was pasted together in the chaos of the USSR's breakup? I thought that the smart play was to keep arming Kiev until every ethnic Russian is dead or expelled from Ukraine's putative borders!!

Why didn't Czechoslovakia think of fighting it out to the death? Why did Austria and Hungary divide into separate countries and not duel to the death?; 1/27/23, 11:07 AM
Rusty said...: Narr
I'm hoping it's clear here tonight because the comet is in Ursa Minor and I'd like to get a photograph.; 1/27/23, 11:16 AM