Althouse: 10 views of the sunrise — from 6:54 to 7:35.

January 7, 2025

10 views of the sunrise — from 6:54 to 7:35.

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61 comments:

Iman said...: Beautiful pics !

Fecking election deniers!!!!!
“The January 6, 2025 certification of Trump’s election victory is the first time in fifty-two years that no Democrats challenged the certification of a GOP victory in a presidential election. Dems in the House challenged the results in 1981, 1985, 1989, 2001, 2005, & 2017”

—— @tedfrank; 1/7/25, 6:10 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Cali is burning -
https://x.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/1876762208152981875

Abandoned cars to be bulldozed.
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1876765631707525214; 1/7/25, 6:14 PM
Big Mike said...: Really nice-looking pictures, Professor.; 1/7/25, 6:17 PM
Peachy said...: you must be over your cold. yay.; 1/7/25, 6:17 PM
Anne in Rockwall, TX said...: Bravo!; 1/7/25, 6:27 PM
Anne in Rockwall, TX said...: And I do mean Bravo. I went back and looked again and again. Scrolled fast for a slide show backwards and forwards. Stopped at each shot and stared. Thank you.; 1/7/25, 6:30 PM
Kay said...: On reddit, in a thread called “What word or phrase did you totally misunderstand as a child?” user: Lard_Baron wrote:

When I was young my father said to me: “Knowledge is Power….Francis Bacon”

I understood it as “Knowledge is power, France is Bacon”.

For more than a decade I wondered over the meaning of the second part and what was the surreal linkage between the two? If I said the quote to someone, “Knowledge is power, France is Bacon” they nodded knowingly. Or someone might say, “Knowledge is power” and I’d finish the quote “France is Bacon” and they wouldn’t look at me like I’d said something very odd but thoughtfully agree. I did ask a teacher what did “Knowledge is power, France is bacon” meant and got a full 10 minute explanation of the Knowledge is power bit but nothing on “France is bacon”. When I prompted further explanation by saying “France is Bacon?” in a questioning tone I just got a “yes”. at 12 I didn’t have the confidence to press it further. I just accepted it as something I’d never understand.

It wasn’t until years later I saw it written down that the penny dropped.; 1/7/25, 6:36 PM
Eva Marie said...: Kay, that’s hilarious.; 1/7/25, 6:52 PM
john mosby said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 1/7/25, 6:55 PM
Jaq said...: Remember that New Years Eve in Berlin a few years back when there were 2,000 sexual assaults reported, but nobody was allowed to talk about it because, well, we are not allowed to talk about it.

Well, here is Vancouver, and the women have reacted by simply disappearing from the party on New Years Eve.

https://x.com/NiohBerg/status/1876617532247097716; 1/7/25, 6:55 PM
john mosby said...: Kay, I think the redditor's original interpretation is more accurate.

All France's knowledge left her as powerless bacon to be devoured by the pork-loving Boche.

Kind of a variation on the "yes, sometimes violence is the answer" canard.

JSM; 1/7/25, 6:56 PM
Big Mike said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 1/7/25, 6:57 PM
Big Mike said...: 159 Democrats voted against the Laken Riley Act. Apparently Democrats believe that we need more rapist-murderers because we don’t have enough of the home-grown criminals to rape and murder our young woman.; 1/7/25, 6:57 PM
narciso said...: Those were some great pics; 1/7/25, 7:02 PM
Jimmy said...: nice photos, glad you are out and about again.; 1/7/25, 7:04 PM
Leland said...: I’m glad you are feeling better.; 1/7/25, 7:06 PM
Narayanan said...: here is good one from Insty ...

Avatar
Seventy Ville
31 minutes ago
Earlier, I was stuck in a traffic jam on the highway outside of Washington, DC.

Nothing was moving.

Suddenly, a man knocked on my window.

I rolled down the window and asked, "What's going on?"

"Pro Palestinian supporters have kidnapped the entire Biden administration, and they're asking for a $100 million dollar ransom.

Otherwise, they are going to douse them all in gasoline and set them on fire. We are going from car to car, collecting donations."

"How much is everyone giving, on an average?" I asked.; 1/7/25, 7:10 PM
TaeJohnDo said...: Agreed.; 1/7/25, 7:11 PM
Narayanan said...: The man said, "Roughly a gallon."; 1/7/25, 7:12 PM
TaeJohnDo said...: A couple of gallons each?; 1/7/25, 7:14 PM
Mason G said...: Cop to witness: "So you saw five people beating up a guy on an electric bike? Why didn't you help?"

Witness: "I thought five was enough."; 1/7/25, 7:19 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: In the style of a Trump critic: This sunrise shoot is a mini-rally for Althouse at this point....; 1/7/25, 7:20 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Headline: "At Least 95 Dead After Powerful 7.1 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Near Mount Everest"

I had assumed an earthquake near a mountain was a near impossibility, if not imposible. I hadn't looked it up, much less studied it. I just didn't know.; 1/7/25, 7:27 PM
Clyde said...: Image 0455 is the winner. I do like a good sunrise sequence, though, watching as the colors brighten, peak and then fade. I guess after all the days indoors and yesterday's overcast sunrise, it felt good for you to see some color again.; 1/7/25, 7:35 PM
Clyde said...: Mountain ranges tend to rise in areas where one tectonic plate is colliding with another. The Himalayas were formed by the Indian plate crashing into the Asian plate. The entire Pacific Coast of the Americas is tectonically active, and some of the strongest quakes on record occurred in Alaska and the Andes along the tectonic fault lines.; 1/7/25, 7:40 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Yesterday Kamala Harris showed the courage to do what Mike Pence could not. 😉; 1/7/25, 7:55 PM
Clyde said...: Speaking of dragons, I got one in a package today that my brother sent me. It was one of those Thingmaker mold dragons from the toy that Mattel had back in the 1960s. You would squeeze the Plastigoop into the mold, then heat it on the Thingmaker until the plastic solidified. It's not something that kids would be allowed to play with today, of course. We kids back then managed to survive without burning ourselves on the hot Thingmaker.

Here's a picture of the dragon: https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipMXXkhoY91kWCvcz5gjhcam68k0cT6_HWgiMmsY; 1/7/25, 8:02 PM
Clyde said...: I should add that the dragon's head is top-heavy and I had to hold him up or he would fall forward.; 1/7/25, 8:03 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Another Joe Biden Administration first : "Two death row inmates reject Biden’s clemency"

Big if true.; 1/7/25, 8:04 PM
Eva Marie said...: "Two death row inmates reject Biden’s clemency”
Did they tell them Kamala lost the election?; 1/7/25, 8:16 PM
Clyde said...: Both inmates are appealing their sentences, claiming innocence, and feel that their appeals would receive less scrutiny if they were not death penalty cases.; 1/7/25, 8:25 PM
Lloyd W. Robertson said...: What time was the official sunrise?; 1/7/25, 8:30 PM
john mosby said...: Clyde: "I should add that the dragon's head is top-heavy and I had to hold him up or he would fall forward."

I sympathize.

JSM; 1/7/25, 8:35 PM
Iman said...: Harris did a decent job and celebrated afterwards…

https://x.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1876381004308623849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1876381004308623849%7Ctwgr%5E2d28464e5e8b5c35d8249cce9a2e273217e27888%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F694528%2F; 1/7/25, 8:40 PM
Jupiter said...: If her Daddy's rich,
Take her out for a meal.
If her Daddy's poor,
Just do what you feel."
Mungo Jerry; 1/7/25, 8:46 PM
Aggie said...: Old Ray Dorset was a grotty-lookin' dude with those mutton chops. He's still around.; 1/7/25, 8:56 PM
Drago said...: In a completely unsurprising move, and as with the left/dem/hamas/New Soviet Democratical/islamic supremacist alliance in the US, Keir Starmer is directing Labour members to NOT support a detailed inquiry into the decades ling muslim gang raping of young British girls and boys.

Talk about consistency across western lefties/dems, eh?; 1/7/25, 9:12 PM
Jersey Fled said...: Cookie assured me this would never happen.; 1/7/25, 9:28 PM
robother said...: The ice on Mendota is probably warning enough for would-be sailers, but thanks to Althouse for the public service of showing the red sky in morning. (Seriously, these photos are amazing, might take the cake for best in 2025 in the first week, Blogger-style.); 1/7/25, 9:40 PM
gadfly said...: Direct quote from the muddled mind and mouth of Donald Trump today: "Cannon was thrown off the case!"

https://youtu.be/kzUlBngtf-M; 1/8/25, 12:38 AM
Big Mike said...: I got a bad link error; 1/8/25, 3:54 AM
Big Mike said...: I got a bad link error; 1/8/25, 3:54 AM
wendybar said...: AND, she gets to go on a last minute multi country tax payer funded vacation to tell these countries about all the shit her and her delusional partner did to fundamentally transform America for Hussein. https://twitchy.com/warren-squire/2025/01/08/kamala-harris-accomplishments-tour-singapore-bahrain-and-germany-n2406293; 1/8/25, 3:54 AM
wendybar said...: Jennifer Sey
@JenniferSey
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Right because it’s their pronouns that matter not the fact that they are likely being sex trafficked.
Natalie Winters
@nataliegwinters
NEW: Unaccompanied minors entering the US will be asked for their pronouns and be able to identify as non-binary in new forms from the Office of Refugee Resettlement.; 1/8/25, 3:56 AM
wendybar said...: https://x.com/JenniferSey/status/1876418880165548504?; 1/8/25, 3:57 AM
Breezy said...: Fond memories here! Thanks; 1/8/25, 4:39 AM
Enigma said...: Earthquakes not near mountains????

Nepal, next door to Tibet to the south and holding the other half of Mt. Everest, had a massive earthquake in 2015. Japan is a chain of volcanic islands and filled with mountains (e.g., Mt. Fuji). They have endless earthquakes and tsunamis. The west coast of the US is dotted with volcanos and has the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Lots of earthquakes there too. Italy has many volcanic mountains and earthquakes.

Etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2015_Nepal_earthquake; 1/8/25, 4:41 AM
Enigma said...: This foul smelling toxic bubble-making stuff was given to children:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Elastic_Bubble_Plastic

The ancient Roman war dart (Plumbata) was reinvented as a kid's toy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumbata
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawn_darts

Good times. Good adult judgment. Good memories. ;-p; 1/8/25, 4:46 AM
Breezy said...: Beautiful pics! My favorites are the fourth and seventh, where the heat of the sun is scaring the beejesus out of the ice.; 1/8/25, 4:46 AM
Enigma said...: I like 0453 for the contrast between the icy foreboding of the lake and the warm optimism of the sunrise.; 1/8/25, 5:09 AM
Enigma said...: Pot calls kettle black. See 1,000 direct quotes from Joe Biden: "Mumble, mumble, mumble. Your hair smells good. Where is my ice cream cone?"; 1/8/25, 5:11 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: The orange sky photo sequence reminded me of the Palisades fires. Outstanding natural drama captured.; 1/8/25, 5:13 AM
R C Belaire said...: Perhaps AA has heard of the Sunrise Gallery in Marquette MI : https://yearofthesunrise.com/gallery?? "With over 2,000+ consecutive sunrises photographed to date, you’ll be sure to find one you enjoy." Photos not taken from the same vantage point, but from all around the area.; 1/8/25, 5:31 AM
Enigma said...: "Alot" of adults turn "annihilator" into Annie Hilator.; 1/8/25, 6:02 AM
Jaq said...: One of the pieces of advice that Starmer's advisors to Harris gave her was that for the left of center to win, their biggest enemy was the far left, and that needed to be destroyed first, then they could take on the right. This is why you see so much rooting for Trump on the left, from sources like Taibbi and Greenwald, Alex Mercouris, etc.

This is why I doubt that Robert Cook is anything but an avatar in part of an information operation, like gadfly and rich, because there is never any genuine engagement. If they were genuine about their beliefs, they would engage. It's like our famous Ukrainian poster who insists that he is American, but gets insulted if you use the name for a certain city by which it has been known in English for centuries. What American considers that insulting unless he or she is loyal to some other country first?; 1/8/25, 7:44 AM
Jaq said...: I forgot, Russel Brand is another committed lefty hoping for the best from Trump. There are lots of them.; 1/8/25, 7:45 AM
Jaq said...: It's funny because it's true. Well, maybe not exactly true, I have read that there are three regions in France based on their main cooking fat: butter, olive oil, and lard. "Omnia Gaulia est divisa in partes tres," as one wag once put it.; 1/8/25, 7:49 AM
MadTownGuy said...: Iowa's "World's Largest Truckstop" owner receives a $390,000 fine

"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, fines the Iowa Interstate 80 Truckstop owner $390,000.

The Gazette reports this fine comes after the truck stop "failed to prepare for massive fuel spills that haven't happened."

The Iowa 80 group also own two truck stops near Walcott, Iowa and Joplin, Missouri. Both of these have aboveground storage capacities of 1.2 million gallons of diesel fuel, gas, and oils.

The EPA says these facilities where a spill would cause harm to environment, are required to have response plans, training programs, and drills to prepare for them.

Iowa 80 and Joplin 44 did not have these in place when the EPA inspected the sites in 2023, according to agency records.

Both sites reduced their aboveground storage capacities to less than one million gallons, but the EPA says this still violates the Clean Water Act requirements.

The Iowa truck stop received a $204,000 fine, and the fine for the Missouri truck stop was about $187,000.

EPA says the sites have since revised their response plans, inspected tanks, and repaired faulty equipment.

A spokesperson for Iowa 80 Group tells Iowa's News Now they actually did have a plan in place.

"We take environmental safety and compliance very seriously," Heather DeBaillie, vice president of Operations & Marketing for Iowa 80 Group, said in a statement.

She said when the EPA inspected the report, it was missing information and the local engineering firm that was hired to develop the plan had not signed it. DeBaillie said they hired a new firm that completed the report and was approved by the EPA.

"This was not related to a spill or leak of any kind," DeBaillie said. "We have always had a secondary containment around our two big tanks that would retain all diesel on site in the event of a catastrophic tank failure. Oddly, that is not required, paperwork is."; 1/8/25, 7:55 AM
Narayanan said...: Lard_Baron >> imagine if his handle was Lard_Bacon; 1/8/25, 8:21 AM
Iman said...: “adults”; 1/8/25, 8:40 AM
MadTownGuy said...: Five wildfires are burning in SoCal. All began within the past few days. I grew up there, and one or two at a time happened routinely, but not that many at once. Some of the fires in the last few years were set intentionally, exacerbated by the ever-present Santa Ana Winds, but five fires in different places in close succession makes me wonder.

Wildfires have plagued California for years. How often is arson to blame?

Short answer: 10-15%, based on previous years.; 1/8/25, 9:05 AM

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