Althouse: Sunrise — 5:48, 5:57, 5:59, 6:01, 6:04.

April 25, 2024

Sunrise — 5:48, 5:57, 5:59, 6:01, 6:04.

23 comments:

Joe Smith said...: Hey all you lefty apologists who visit here (you know who you are):

How's that Bidenomics working out?; 4/25/24, 6:56 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Once again, number two. You're getting peak coloration with the fine composition. Great eye!; 4/25/24, 7:02 PM
TickTock said...: I see the progression of the photos, and at at the end, despite their beauty, my first reaction is "what a humongous nuclear fireball."
I'll put it down to being raised by a Dad whose day job in the 60s was war gaming MAD.; 4/25/24, 7:45 PM
The Real Andrew said...: “I always thought there’d be more time.” - Matthew Broderick; 4/25/24, 8:00 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: A silver lining of sort is that if the question of presidential immunity would have come up under Obama, it would have been a near unanimous finding for presidential immunity.

With Trump, the Justices have to dig deep to find solid reasoning.; 4/25/24, 8:05 PM
Rocco said...: “what a humongous nuclear fireball."

You have to be careful around nuclear energy. It can turn your skin brown - or even black - with repeated exposure.; 4/25/24, 8:26 PM
wildswan said...: I have a relative who was forced into distance learning in high school by Covid and who is now being forced into distance learning at college because he attends Columbia. This made me realize that all the other Columbia students from the United States must be undergoing a second distance learning experience. You wonder what they are thinking. I saw an article that said that it was fortunate that the students already knew how to do Zoom and online learning as it gave the Columbia administration an easy way to handle the increasingly violent protest there. But I've been given the impression that the administration's "easy out" has left my relative very disappointed and dismayed by a second disruption. I think the fact that this is a second disruption for most of the Columbia students is going to have unexpected consequences. Even Covid believers don't remember being trapped at home fondly. And now they're home again - and why? Why not tell the disruptors that they can't come to classes, i.e., tell them that they'll have do distance learning for a year, instead of punishing the innocent students. I feel pretty sure that online learning is seen as a punishment.; 4/25/24, 8:58 PM
Jamie said...: My daughter was caught in the COVID lockdown for her freshman year and is now facing her senior year finals amid protests.

This is one young person who will never say these were the best years of her life.; 4/25/24, 11:21 PM
wendybar said...: Just imagine if these little assholes were MAGA...they would be in Joe Bidens Gulag already for disturbing the peace or some other bullshit charge, because they aren't on the side of the heathens who hate America.

https://youtu.be/LLdlFJY0-Iw; 4/26/24, 4:06 AM
Dave Begley said...: On a flight from Omaha right now. I tell a woman with a giant and complicated tat on her left bicep that tats are entirely a class thing. She wasn’t happy. Especially at 5:30 AM.

So much for Nebraska nice!; 4/26/24, 5:31 AM
Humperdink said...: Over my 3 score and 13 years in this lovely country I have watched the Commie-Pinko lefties accumulate various constituencies into their party. Union members, the poor, blacks, Jews, Hispanics, gays, feminists, college professors, the media and of course the elites at the helm. It's quite a collection. Dome Harris might struggle creating a Venn diagram from this list. Bidenomics and the southern border is chipping away at this coalition. The scales are slowly being removed from their eyes. Faster please. (Edited for typo); 4/26/24, 6:04 AM
rehajm said...: Six words I saw and are now etched on my brain: Goon Bag Bin Chicken Water Polo.

Australia is probably the funnest totalitarian state…; 4/26/24, 6:23 AM
Howard said...: Life is good and the economy is booming in the land of smaat kids. My daughter just started her second big job in biotech and my recently tenured son is on sabbatical working for big bucks at a $400M funded robotics startup. My granddaughter is going to Spain and Italy next month to study pharmacology abroad for the summer. I'm watching the young teenage grandsons this summer full of fishing, camping, mountain biking, open water swimming, weight lifting, forging and knife making, and woodworking.

Life is way too short to be a whining complaining victim while living in the greatest country on the planet in the most prosperous of times with every tool and education resources at your fingertips.

Living well isn't the best revenge because I truly wish you miserable fat fucks would embrace life by the balls and enjoy the bounty Gaia provides; 4/26/24, 6:37 AM
Jamie said...: I'm bemused at the phrase "embrace life by the balls."; 4/26/24, 7:01 AM
donald said...: Ended my 55 year Falcons fanship last night. I have almost completely disconnected from my Atlanta ties. My dad is still hanging in there so I have to go back fairly regularly, but the disgust I get just looking around is overwhelming. It’s nice to live in civilization, by the beach, without decrepit losers fouling up the streets and no rampant crime. I kinda forgot what that is like. The end for Atlanta was when MARTA began to put advertisements on the busses and trains. The graffiti started immediately and now there it is almost a third world shithole.; 4/26/24, 7:21 AM
wendybar said...: Hard to embrace life by the balls, when the Biden administration steals all our money to pay to support 8 million NEW illegals, your kids free educations and every other countries borders but ours......; 4/26/24, 7:22 AM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: That fine law & order congressman from California, Adam "Russian Collusionist" Schiff was robbed in San Francisco. His rental car was broken into and his bags stolen. Poor Adam had to attend a campaign finance dinner in hiking clothes. Poor Adam!; 4/26/24, 7:45 AM
Humperdink said...: @howard. Nice post. You surely must be proud of your kids/ grandkids accomplishments. Although not to the financial levels your progeny have achieved, mine are very successful also. (My grandson will graduate in 3 years from large university with a STEM degree)

However once one peels back the veneer of success of the high achievers, I suggest you visit the inner cities as I have. You might think things are not so rosy. You might want take a peek at credit card debt of the middle class. Also, take a gander at what percentage of the aforementioned middle class can afford to buy a home. And for some mysterious reason, the "Country is on the wrong tack" poll reflects poorly on your assessment.; 4/26/24, 8:49 AM
MadTownGuy said...: CA Legislature backtracks on mandating automated speed controls:

California lawmakers rein in bill to limit car speeds

"The proposal would now require half of new cars to be equipped with speed-limit warning systems starting in 2029.

A California bill to physically limit passenger vehicles from speeding would now only require a passive warning system under amendments approved Tuesday night.

Sen. Scott Wiener’s SB 961 as introduced in January would have mandated “speed limiters” on new passenger cars, trucks and buses starting in 2027 that restricted them from going more than 10 miles per hour over the speed limit.

The San Francisco Democrat amended it ahead of its first hearing Tuesday to require just visual and audio signals that alert drivers when they’ve exceeded the speed threshold. The mandate would also only apply to half of new vehicles starting in 2029 and all new vehicles by 2032.

“We heard feedback from colleagues that people were not comfortable with an active physical barrier to going above a certain speed,” Wiener said in the hearing. “People might need to go at a higher speed. We listened, we heard, worked with the committee and changed it.”

The bill passed the Senate Transportation Committee 8-4 along party lines.

The bill triggered an immediate political uproar on its introduction in January, with Fox News and other commenters branding it as a vivid example of California’s “nanny state” tendencies.

Gov. Gavin Newsom said in January that he was broadly sensitive to issues like the speed-limiting devices that could be weaponized by Republicans in an election year and said he wanted to discuss the bill with Wiener. Wiener didn’t receive substantive input on the bill from Newsom’s office, Wiener spokesperson Erik Mebust said Wednesday."; 4/26/24, 8:59 AM
Old and slow said...: Howard is the perfect illustration of the axiom that on the Internet no one knows that you are a dog. He's a fabulist bullshitter, also a genuine asshole.; 4/26/24, 9:28 AM
Big Mike said...: Folks, remember what I wrote about Howard the Fool on another thread — he gets a perverse pleasure from lobbing hand grenades into threads. If he really does have kids who are successful in life, that only means his wife’s been cheating on him.; 4/26/24, 9:43 AM
MadTownGuy said...: From the AZ Department of Transportation:

The eastbound lanes of Interstate 40 are closed near Chambers, according to the Arizona Department of Transportation.

The closure is at milepost 333 due to a train derailment in New Mexico near the Arizona-New Mexico state line.

Traffic is being rerouted onto State Route 191 northbound.

Motorists are advised to expect delays and seek an alternate route.

There is no estimated time to reopen the eastbound lanes. The westbound lanes are unaffected in Arizona.

2:18 P.M. UPDATE: I-40 eastbound is now closed at milepost 333. Traffic is being detoured onto SR 191 northbound.

Expect delays and seek an alternate route. There is no estimated time to reopen the highway.

AmtrakAlerts
Service Disruption: As of 2:44 PM MT, due to a freight derailment, Train 3 will terminate in Albuquerque. Customers due to travel past ABQ should deboard in Lamy and board Train 4 back to their original destination.

Photo of scene on Facebook with this caption:

"Explosion west of Gallup. Train derailed."; 4/26/24, 4:41 PM
Drago said...: Old and slow: "Howard is the perfect illustration of the axiom that on the Internet no one knows that you are a dog. He's a fabulist bullshitter, also a genuine asshole."

It is rather astonishing how needy Howitzer Howard happens to be. He requires daily affirmations of his and his family's worthiness.

Its almost at the LLR-democratical And Violent Homosexual Rage Rape Fantasist Chuck level.

Almost.; 4/26/24, 8:34 PM