Althouse: Golden hour.

September 6, 2024

Golden hour.

57 comments:

rhhardin said...: Glenn Loury just published on YouTube (speed typing)

”Can we first understand the problem correctly? If our kids are testing poorly, I’m talking about black kids, it’s not because the test is biased against them, it’s because they do not know the material. If a poor Asian kid living in a three-room apartment with four siblings can ace the test, our kids can do it too. Anybody who doesn’t think so is a racist.”

Ought to distinguish malevolent and benevolent racism. Getting the problem right is more important if it’s not going to be an eternal problem.

My permanent problem solution: a black with an IQ of 86 will do as well as a white with an IQ of 86, and he'll do it by acting white. That's the best you can do, and it offers advice to achieve it: act white.; 9/6/24, 12:48 PM
Mutaman said...: "I feel sad I have to come up here and explain it. I have all of this legal talent, but legal talent cannot overcome rigged judges, they can’t overcome a 4% Republican area, and I’m disappointed in my legal talent, I’ll be honest with you. They’re good people, they’re talented people. Today at the trial they didn’t mention the dress. So the Monica Lewinsky-type dress was a big part of the trial, big, big part of the trial. I said, ‘why didn’t you mention that?’ And I heard there was a dress involved and I wasn’t frightened at all because I did nothing with her. Never touched this woman, saw this woman — I had no idea who she was. ‘But they have a dress, sir.’ I said, ‘so what?’ ‘Well, sir, it’s very serious.’ They used that dress to try and intimidate me, they used that dress with the public, that dress was such a famous dress. It was Monica Lewinsky part two, the dress, and the judge wanted it for trial and it was going to go into trial and then they found out there was nothing on the dress, which I knew and then the judge wouldn’t allow it to be used so they used it as a cudgel, they used it as a hammer over my head."

Bonespurs; 9/6/24, 12:51 PM
Maynard said...: Alan Dershowitz has been declared a non-person by the Supreme Soviet. He joins the ranks of Elon Musk, Tulsi Gabbard, RFK Jr. and Dave Rubin as Democrats who have become traitors to the Party.

I wonder if Tulsi is the only one with TSA monitoring her flights.

Of course, this is all being done to save democracy.; 9/6/24, 12:56 PM
Sebastian said...: "our kids can do it too" Some can, but not in equal proportions. Level of g is not about "knowing the material." Loury is not facing reality, to coin a phrase. Advocating better "culture," habits, families can only get you so far. When it becomes apparent that following the recommendation does not produce equal outcomes, the easy retort to Loury is: see, racism after all. But I don't blame Loury: if he can't face reality, it simply means that it is next to impossible.; 9/6/24, 1:12 PM
rhhardin said...: Glenn Loury and John McWhorter complaining about people patronizing blacks aren't self-aware enough. Four-sigma blacks are treated as amazing, but they'd be only three-sigma whites. The praise of their wisdom and intelligence is pandering. They're smart but so are a lot of other normally smart people who don't get pandered to. They ought to be seeking that treatment too.; 9/6/24, 1:20 PM
Tina Trent said...: Salmon flowers, golden hour.

McWhorter always wants it both ways. For him. I find him irritating now.

I prefer the Baldwin/Mailer battles. What a joy to watch the flyweight Baldwin dance around that pervy asshat Mailer. "The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy" is still much worth reading.; 9/6/24, 1:43 PM
Gusty Winds said...: Packers open the season against the Eagles in freshly totalitarian Brazil tonight.; 9/6/24, 2:08 PM
Gerda Sprinchorn said...: Very autumnal.; 9/6/24, 2:54 PM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: (NewsNation) — Donald Trump has recently acknowledged that he lost the 2020 election. Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Tom Dupree tells “On Balance” that Trump’s words may help him with swing voters who don’t like a sore loser, but adds that those words could be held against him in the obstruction case pending in Washington.; 9/6/24, 3:06 PM
n.n said...: The purple bloom is off is a sign of the times.; 9/6/24, 3:07 PM
Original Mike said...: I'll be listening on the radio. I'm not knuckling under and subscribing to Peacock.

Players told not to leave their hotel room (the league denies it but there's too many players saying otherwise). Oh, and don't wear green. Brazilian gang colors. I wonder how many fans got the message? I wonder how many went?

Money-grubbing NFL.; 9/6/24, 3:11 PM
Caroline said...: The last couple of days I have been in a doom loop of digital security concerns. Received another notice from another financial institution about a another data breach, including all, I mean all of my personal info, and offering me a free 12 month id security monitoring program at experian. Husband doing same. So we did that, plus created accounts on all 3 credit reporting companies, and froze our credit. Hope it helps. Meanwhile, tried to do a simple mobile deposit, as I’ve done a thousand times. Bank’s two step verification was messed up, never sent the code… tried 3 times clicking “send again,” no worky. Called the financial institution. To verify my existence on the phone involved 5 questions that i have not created. The rep told me I missed one of the answers and told me I would not be able to access my accounts.
Point is, all the sudden, I am spending way too much time every day on soul-sucking activities like two-step verification codes, unsubscribing to a zillion marketing emails, dreaming up ever more devious passwords, then recording all this info in keeper. I am a creative spirit. But this sort of thing takes up a significant portion of every day.
And I’ve noticed a real uptick in the threat level. Last week some turd called my niece (in her 30s) using her Dads phone Id and told her that he had her dad and would shoot him in the head unless he got $$$. And if she called 911, he would shoot her dad. Panicked, she hung up, found his location on find friends (he was at the office) and called 911. The police showed up and surrounded his office, he had no idea what was going on.
So I’ve begun to wonder, when is the stress and hassle of digital life going to rise to such an overwhelming point that many of us just blow up our devices. I mean srsly. I just want to go back to paper.
Also wondering if some enterprising soul might quantify for us how much we are having to pay for our layers of security…not only financial monitoring, keeper vault, but for crying out loud my neighborhood pools for off duty police patrols because the real police, that we pay for with tax $$ , don’t apparently do that anymore. Sorry about the rant.; 9/6/24, 3:13 PM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: While Fuentes was once a zealous supporter of former President Donald Trump and even dined with Trump at Mar-a-Lago in 2022, the adoration has since faded, partially because Trump tapped Sen. J.D. Vance, who has a non-white, non-Christian wife, as his running mate. Recently, Fuentes openly declared war on the Trump campaign, vowing to deploy activists in swing states for the purpose of depriving Trump of votes.

Fuentes’ disgust with Trump only increased after the former president seemingly finally admitted that he lost the 2020 election, which contradicted everything Trump has said for the last four years and essentially destroyed the justification for the entire “Stop The Steal” effort. (Later in the same interview, however, Trump nevertheless called the election “a fraud.”)
“He says, ‘Oh, I lost by a whisker,'” Fuentes griped during his Tuesday night livestream. “So what was the point? What’s the point of any of it? You lost in 2020? Seriously? What are we even doing anymore? Then you’re a loser. You just lost. Then you lost to Joe Biden.”
Fuentes noted that if Trump knows that he lost the 2020 election, then he “deserves to be charged” by special counsel Jack Smith for his efforts to overturn the results of the election.
“That actually vindicates the DOJ charge against him!” Fuentes declared. “Because the charge is that he knew he lost but he lied to defraud the people.”
“So, why did we do Stop the Steal?” Fuentes demanded to know. “Why did anyone go to Jan. 6? Why is anyone sitting in jail? Why did anything bad happen to anybody? Why did everyone get censored? Why is everything bad that has happened to the people that were involved, why did that need to happen if you’re just going to walk it all back and say, ‘Oh, I lost’?”

I would venture to say at least 80% of the folks up in here also "trump won" conspirators so OH I LOST so now what? I know fake news..; 9/6/24, 3:14 PM
Drago said...: "Two stats are everything you need to know about the August jobs report:

Jobs for native born Americans over the last year: -1.3 million
Jobs for foreign-born workers over the last year: +2 million

Full time jobs: -438,000
Part times jobs: +527,000"
--Greg Price on X; 9/6/24, 3:16 PM
Josephbleau said...: Booker T. Washington, 1895:
"Ignorant and inexperienced, it is not strange that in the first years of our new life we began at the top instead of the bottom, that a seat in Congress or the state legislature was more sought than real estate or industrial skill, that the political convention of some teaching had more attraction than starting a dairy farm or a stockyard.

A ship lost at sea for many days suddenly sighted a friendly vessel. From the mast of the unfortunate vessel was seen a signal: “Water, water. We die of thirst.” The answer from the friendly vessel at once came back: “Cast down your bucket where you are.” A second time, the signal, “Water, send us water!” went up from the distressed vessel. And was answered: “Cast down your bucket where you are.” A third and fourth signal for water was answered: “Cast down your bucket where you are.” The captain of the distressed vessel, at last heeding the injunction, cast down his bucket and it came up full of fresh, sparkling water from the mouth of the Amazon River.

To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land, or who underestimate the importance of preservating friendly relations with the southern white man who is their next door neighbor, I would say: “Cast down your bucket where you are.” Cast it down, making friends in every manly way of the people of all races, by whom you are surrounded."

WEB DuBois won the argument, you must start at the top, or don't even play.

The Jack and Jill club brown paper bag elite blacks use good character and disciplined education to succeed. It works as well for the black plumbers and electricians.; 9/6/24, 3:23 PM
Original Mike said...: "I just want to go back to paper."

Yeah, going into the bank was not all that hard. All this "convenience" has made us vulnerable.; 9/6/24, 3:34 PM
Inga said...: The faces on his lawyers when he said that, lol! I guess now he has a good excuse to not pay them.; 9/6/24, 3:40 PM
Inga said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 9/6/24, 3:43 PM
Inga said...: Yup; 9/6/24, 3:45 PM
Inga said...: People here often ask “So what has Trump lied about?” Well here is the Mac Daddy of Trump lies, that he won the election. Now he says he lost. He is responsible for duping his followers into going into the Capital to try to stop the election certification. He should be supporting the families of the dumbasses in jail who took his direction.; 9/6/24, 3:54 PM
Josephbleau said...: “So what has Trump lied about?” Well here is the Mac Daddy of Trump lies, that he won the election."

Only a very stupid person would claim to know who won the election. The only thing you know is that some people told you that a person won or did not win.; 9/6/24, 4:07 PM
Josephbleau said...: The fact that some person assumed office claiming to win the election is irrelevant.; 9/6/24, 4:08 PM
Inga said...: Nick Fuentes is saying Trump deserves the charges he received for election interference, because he defrauded the American people out of their votes.

Not that Nick Fuentes isn’t still a racist asshole, but he’s right about Trump. I hear Laura Loomer isn’t happy with Trump saying he lost the election either. LOL.; 9/6/24, 4:14 PM
Maynard said...: Inga is an idiot who does not know the difference between an opinion and a misstatement of fact (i.e., lie).

I take back my hunch that you were not as dumb as Kamala-lala-ding-dong. You are now in the lead when it comes to stupidity.; 9/6/24, 4:22 PM
Inga said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 9/6/24, 4:28 PM
Inga said...: I guess it must be difficult to come to terms with the fact you are still as stupid now, as you were when Trump first came on the scene. Most people are capable of learning from their mistakes. Maybe you’re too busy playing with your sexual appliances.; 9/6/24, 4:29 PM
Original Mike said...: "Only a very stupid person would claim to know who won the election. The only thing you know is that some people told you that a person won or did not win."

Nobody knows who "won" the election. The fact of the matter is, our elections are unauditable. And the democrats fight tooth and nail to keep it that way. I wonder why …; 9/6/24, 4:33 PM
Josephbleau said...: "I guess it must be difficult to come to terms with the fact you are still as stupid now, as you were when Trump first came on the scene. Most people are capable of learning from their mistakes. Maybe you’re too busy playing with your sexual appliances."

Inga, I admire your insulting despicable bad faith. What "sexual appliances" do you imagine i have? You are fully commenting in full force of ignorance.; 9/6/24, 4:43 PM
Inga said...: Where did Maynard’s comment go? Oh well, good riddance.; 9/6/24, 4:45 PM
Breezy said...: In the debate, will ABC ask Harris about how the Inflation Reduction Act is really a Climate Change Bill? And did she know that when she was the deciding vote in the Senate?; 9/6/24, 4:59 PM
Maynard said...: Take your meds, Inga.

They won't make you smarter, but they will make you less hysterical.; 9/6/24, 5:21 PM
Drago said...: Actually, the biggest political Mac Daddy lie of all time was the russki collusion hoax which was used to weaponize all of govt against a political opposition candidate and then a duly elected President.

Interestingly, Inga is STILL a passionate believer in this completely debunked hoax...along with every other debunked hoax over the last 9 years.

Without exception.; 9/6/24, 5:39 PM
wendybar said...: Alberto E. Martinez
@albertemartinez

The Washington Post engaged in some major revisionist history today about Kamala's well-documented reputation as a "demeaning" and "harsh" boss who runs "toxic" and "dysfunctional" work environments.

Here's just a sampling of the previous reporters and reporting WaPo ignored.🧵

https://x.com/albertemartinez/status/1832063479785599058

Luke Thompson
@ltthompso

Lmao. Democracy dies in darkness, indeed.; 9/6/24, 6:08 PM
Jim at said...: I guess it must be difficult to come to terms with the fact you are still as stupid now, as you were when Trump first came on the scene. Most people are capable of learning from their mistakes.

Once again, it's almost as if you have no self-awareness at all.; 9/6/24, 6:15 PM
gilbar said...: you ALL Know the sign of a LIFE LONG REPUBLICAN is..
Voting.. not Just voting, but Campaigning for the Most Liberal democrat candidate
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/former-republican-vice-president-dick-cheney-says-he-ll-vote-for-harris/ar-AA1q8dAl
Former Vice President Dick Cheney, one of the most prominent Republicans in the last half-century, announced Friday will be crossing party lines this election and voting for Vice President Kamala Harris

Dick said.. "Trump never seemed to realize that our talking points were just TALK..
That fucker wanted to ACTUALLY implement those crazy things!
Me and my daughter Liz, like ALL TRUE LLR's fully and TOTALLY Support the Democrat Party.. We ALWAYS HAVE, and we ALWAYS WILL"; 9/6/24, 6:45 PM
Aggie said...: Caroline, my sympathies. I hope it works through quickly. I too have noticed the 'Authentication Two-Step' creeping increasingly in my daily life. Why should I need a code sent to my phone? Doesn't that create a record now of *where* I am when the code is sent? How does this improve security?

Well. .... It improves the security of the corporate side, maybe, but at the >customer's expense and exasperation. I sympathize. Rant if it makes you feel better, but please don't kick the dog.; 9/6/24, 6:48 PM
Aggie said...: Get a room, you two.; 9/6/24, 6:49 PM
Drago said...: What did Inga learn from pushing the hoax dossier for 9 years?

Spoiler: .......you already know the answer, dont you?

Kicker: Inga remains ALL IN on the hoax dossier, dont you Inga?

LOL; 9/6/24, 6:59 PM
Mason G said...: In the last two years, I've had to have two credit cards cancelled due to unauthorized charges made to the accounts. In both cases, I was alerted by the cc company contacting me to ask if I'd made certain purchases. How it happened that someone else acquired my cc info, I have no idea. The card(s) have never left my possession, but have been used online. Unfortunately, I have absolutely no control over how business and government entities handle the financial information provided to them. I am beyond tired of having to spend the time necessary to clean up after these incidents.

"I just want to go back to paper."

You have my vote. I'll vote twice if it'll help.; 9/6/24, 7:48 PM
Caroline said...: Drago i saw that! Wake up, people!; 9/6/24, 7:49 PM
Original Mike said...: I'm sure Harris will be asked about this in the debate …; 9/6/24, 8:24 PM
Original Mike said...: I'm sure Harris will be asked about this in the debate…; 9/6/24, 8:26 PM
Original Mike said...: I give up.; 9/6/24, 8:27 PM
Inga said...: Haha, Josephbleau, my comment about sexual appliances was directed to the deviant Maynard, not you. Maynard has addressed me several times speaking of sexual appliances, yes that’s weird.; 9/6/24, 8:31 PM
Inga said...: Haha, Josephbleau, my comment about sexual appliances was directed to the deviant Maynard, not you. Maynard has addressed me several times speaking of sexual appliances, yes that’s weird.; 9/6/24, 8:34 PM
Eva Marie said...: I asked google if there was a difference between photos of sunrises and photos of sunsets.
Google answered: In a large sample of photos, sunsets will, on average, be redder than sunrises because, on average, the air holds more moisture after the warmth of the day.
But then google added something I hadn’t thought about: every sunrise is also a sunset. So when Althouse is taking a picture of the sunrise where is the person standing who is taking a picture of the sunset at that very same moment? And is that even possible?; 9/6/24, 10:09 PM
Eva Marie said...: Josephbleau asks Inga: What "sexual appliances" do you imagine i have?
I’m assuming she thinks you have an awesome car.; 9/6/24, 10:16 PM
Gospace said...: Was sitting back and relaxing today on vacation and got a text- did I or someone authorized to use card #xxxx just make a charge? It was my wife's card on my account and she was sitting next to me. Replied "No". They had already declined the charge- fraud department are getting very good at recognizing fraudulent charges. So that card is now canceled and one with a new number is on it's way. That's the 3rd time in the last year with this account and her card- that she only uses at the store it was issued for. I use it sometimes elsewhere.

Meanwhile, while on vacation, using a card from the same issuer, different store affiliation, in the last few days I've made charges in NY, PA, WV, and VA. At bookstores, gas stations, pharmacies, and others. No problem- they all fit my pattern of use. Sunday will add two other states and FL. Where I'll be for a week. Makes me wonder if they're also monitoring my (or my wife's) phone's location- and if it's not near where the card is being used... Well within the realm of possibility. If my phone is in one state- and my card is being used in another, that would be a huge red flag.; 9/6/24, 10:18 PM
Gospace said...: So using the new system, sometime my comments show up-and sometimes they don't. And there seems to be no rhyme or reason to it.; 9/6/24, 10:20 PM
Mason G said...: "So using the new system, sometime my comments show up-and sometimes they don't. And there seems to be no rhyme or reason to it."

If you click the posted at "12:25" link, you can sometimes see comments that you can't see if you click the following "49 comments" link.; 9/6/24, 10:36 PM
Drago said...: Inga STILL believes Trump launched himself over multiple Secret Service Agents and grabbed the wheel of The Beast to try and turn it towards the capital building on Jan 6!

LOL

Why did Inga initially believe this farcical fairy tail? Because Cassady Hutchinson, working hand in glove with Liz Cheney, was willing to lie about it to the illegitimate Jan 6 committee.

Needless to say the Secret Service agents reaction to this hilariously moronic lie that only a cultish New Soviet Democratical dolt like Inga was basically "you've got to be s***ing me!"!

Naturally the corrupt committe hid this testimony until much later....but that doesnt stop Russia Collussion Truther Inga from believing baby!; 9/6/24, 11:05 PM
Ralph L said...: Harris already talked about the important Climate stuff in the IRA in her "interview" with CNN.; 9/7/24, 12:49 AM
wendybar said...: Doug Powers
@ThePowersThatBe
·

LOL at the Left's "war criminals for Harris" brags.

Kamala’s Wins
@harris_wins
BREAKING: Dick Cheney just announced he will be voting for Kamala Harris. Wow.
3:58 PM · Sep 6, 2024; 9/7/24, 2:45 AM
wendybar said...: Who cares. You have Fuentes and the Cheneys. You hated all of them. They are yours. We will gladly take Elon, Tulsi, and RFKjr. You are suckers if you don't see that you are the losers you cry about.; 9/7/24, 2:50 AM
wendybar said...: Who cares?? You can have Fuentes and the Cheneys, whom you all hated with a passion before they became turncoats like you. YOU can have them, and we will take Elon, Tulsi and RFKjr. in exchange. Since you are the war mongers now, the Cheneys fit right in. If Kamala wasn't as dumb as she is, she would have had Lizzy as her VP but she knew that Lizzy was way smarter than she could ever hope to be with her DEI job.; 9/7/24, 2:56 AM
wendybar said...: Hazel Appleyard
@HazelAppleyard_
·
Sep 3
Yes, that’s right. If your 3yo daughter likes white princesses, she’s rac!st. If she likes non-white princesses, she’s rac!st.

Everyone is rac!st. Might as well stop trying!

https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1831115706865254740; 9/7/24, 3:54 AM
Rusty said...: Inga is in stupid heaven right now. Let her have her day. The short bus will be along soon.; 9/7/24, 7:20 AM