... you can talk all night.You have to look closely to see the 2 cyclists out on the lake ice. This isn't a sunrise picture. It was a bit too cold for us again. This is Lake Mendota at 2 in the afternoon.
January 26, 2025
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Go Bills!
The sun's a trooper. It rises whether you're there to observe it or not.
If you have one studded tire, it goes on the front. Steering is what keeps you upright.
Just returned last night from a 21-day vacation to Morocco, Africa. Best vacation ever. Wife and I flew from Chicago to Paris to Rabat. Visited Rabat, Casablanca, Tangier, Fez, and Marrakesh. Fez and Marrakesh were the most authentic. We booked the whole trip by ourselves, including planes, trains, Riads, private tours, and everything else. No tour groups. My wife graduated from American University in Beirut, Lebanon, where her father was a professor (he got his Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, so that is our connection to our wonderful beloved host), so she is fluent in Arabic and French, so we could navigate everything on our own with no language problems. Morocco is a Muslim country but has peace treaties with America and Israel, so we felt really safe. They also serve alcohol in rooftop bars. I won’t give you a travel dialogue, but I will tell you something that I did that I have never done before on an extended vacation. I disconnected. For 21 days I only checked the Internet weather channel for 1 minute, and the international and US headlines channel for 3 minutes (in case we declared war or something of that magnitude). All of my emails were never read and saved (unless they were urgent). No TV, no radio. Otherwise, I spent all of my time enjoying the culture, heritage, history, architecture, Roman ruins, fishing villages, monuments, museums, food, people, conversations, and ambience of Morocco. It was a mind changer for me. What I remember most about this disconnect was how calm, peaceful, and even serene I felt without any connection to the Internet and social media. I will probably reconnect now that I am back in the States, but if you ever have the chance, whether by vacation or at home, to disconnect for a week or 3 weeks, I highly recommend it. It’s a mind changing experience. You can always go back if you want to.
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https://apnews.com/article/lake-frozen-ship-ice-stuck-4fc6ea5de13cf1d8a485c9a43df2b258
Winter not a thing of the past just yet.
Notice anything strange about this picture of one of the men who attempted to assassinate Trump? Notice any flags, for example, of a foreign country?
https://x.com/EllyKayUSA/status/1883258284859392464
Today was almost perfect. Plenty of sun. No wind. The sun felt warm(ish).
OK, one more, then goodnight. It seems that 43% of Canadians under the age of 39 would be willing to merge Canada into the United States. This is before any real discussion has even started.
As for Greenland, 55,000 people live there, they can vote for independence any time they want. What happens if China decides that they want to buy out 55,000 people to become an Arctic power, instead of "near Arctic" as they currently claim on pretty thing pretexts. The main connection China has with the Arctic now is the dust from burning coal sprinkled all over the ice there.
None of these things are as cut and dried as they seem.
Welp, right now leftists are busily trying to ban all X links from this and that subreddit, and querying local city subs on which businesses supported trump so they can be boycotted.
So original they are, replicating their mischief in the same way and the same wording wherever they dip their nasty snouts.
Just imagine what Joe & Jill Biden are doing right now.
Colombia refused to let two deportation flights land, so Trump slapped a 25% tariff on them from the 3rd hole at the golf course, with it set to rise to 50% next week. Colombia caved by the 8th hole, with Colombia's president ready to send his own plane to pick up the deportees. Trump gets results!
Damn that is funny, awesome, and I hope true!
The show must go on.
Sounds great. How was casablanca, did you go swimming at the beach? what about train rides?
Sunday golfing produces results. and I'm willing to bet it didn't cause any disturbance with his golfing partners, except for the MSM, who were all upset we might cut off our supply of coffee and flowers.
What a first week trump has had
It appears that his objection was that the Colombians were being treated "like criminals". So, if he sends his own plane, he can have them treated however he likes. Win-win!
Americans realize the Democrats could’ve fixed this at any time and intentionally did not.
I'm surprised by the number of young Canadians willing to join us. Do we want them? seems the country is pretty much a leftist wet dream. But it amazes me how Trump gets things started with what seems to be off hand remarks.
At this point, one week in, nothing would surprise me. And yes, Greenland will either become a protectorate, or enter into some form of binding treaty with America.
What I find interesting about protesting the return of these criminal immigrants is that the typical rational for not deporting them earlier is they are asylum seekers escaping their home country. Seems like their home country wanted to treat them better than we were. And the reason these immigrants were found so quickly for deportation is because they committed other crimes in this country besides just entering it from other than a legal port of entry.
What President used the most gasoline?
Millard Fillmore
Now that the president has been set, Trump should require that Venezuela send planes for all their deportees in the future .
The past, present, and future walked into a bar.
Things got tense.
A bear can put on socks and shoes
But he still has bear feet.
Vance calls a spade a spade on trumps brown shirt raids on Catholic churches. “I think that the US Conference of Catholic Bishops needs to actually look in the mirror a little bit and recognize that when they receive over $100 million to help resettle illegal immigrants. Are they worried about humanitarian concerns? Or are they actually worried about their bottom line?” he asked. Yup $$$ can cause even the most upright (debatable) to have sketchy priorities. You remember what the great George Carlin said God needs $$$$
Q: What did 0 say to 8?
A: Nice belt.
I know Trump promised, but I'll confess I'm not even feeling a little bit nauseous yet. Of course, it hasn't even been a full week of winning, so maybe....
Goodbye BIRTH RIGHT CITIZENSHIP with this criminal SCOTUS - Official act U.S. Supreme Court majority ruled that presidents — including former President Donald Trump — have immunity from prosecution when carrying out “official acts.” Van you see thomas foaming from the mouth
The New Soviet Democraticals are very very upset that 75,000 to 80k trafficked children have already been located.
That makes for a difficult moment for our incoherent leftists...
All those complaints gen z has about the cost of living and lack of opportunity? It goes double for Canada.
CHIEFS ARE JUST TOO GOOD! Patrick MaHOMES CMON MAN!
Got some snow in Socal. Cybertruck got stuck in a bit of it
https://www.facebook.com/vpfirephotography/videos/1808454546581255/
I think most people know Elon was not evoking a Hitler vibe. Dillon clip on the made up controversy
I think he’s point was we don’t judge people we know that way. And if we don’t, why do that to someone we don’t even know? If more people acted rationally, it would be nearly impossible to get a mob going.
That is one of the great things of the silent retreat at The Cloisters on the Platte: no phone, no TV and no internet.
But that's the whole point - to get the mob going. Mob social media response can be used to shape a narrative in the way the mob runners want, to put pressure on a politician to get their way.
Politicians (well, almost all of them) are paranoid about how the media portrays them. It's the difference between being elected or not, being effective in office or not. Get the public loudly against you, and you're hamstrung. So if the media screams - you jump and try to get ahead of what you're accused of.
But Trump doesn't care. Elon doesn't care. Accuse them of racism? They don't care. Accuse them of being Nazis? They don't care. THEY know they're not, their supporters aren't going to be swayed by the accusation. Any neutrals will look at the accusation and go "WTF? Uh... whatever..." and tune them out.
I once rafted for 14 days down the CO River through the Grand Canyon. Total disconnect. It was wonderful and the Canyon is far more varied and interesting than you’d expect.
Got a Facebook friend request from a female, a young female, a few nights back. Normally, I reject such requests immediately. Because the profile consists of a few pictures showing enormous amounts of cleavage, and an existing friends list, all male, with middle eastern names for most... And usually only 3 or 4 posts, all new. This request, not that. So, curious, I accepted. Asking how we might know each other, as I always do when I have no clue. Seems she randomly accepted a suggested friend from Facebook... And she's a law student at- UW Madison. And, she likes sweet wine. Yes, we've been messaging. And she know I'm married with 5 kids and 10 grandkids and another soon to arrive. As in daughter in law had some serious Braxton-Hicks contractions yesterday. Enough to panic both my son and her.
Anyhow, turns out she likes sweet wines. like my wife, so I suggested since Wisconsin has freezes, hard freezes, there's probably a nearby winery that has ice wines. Any suggestion from anyone (Ann?) as to a local winery that has a good one?
Churches provide food, clothing, and shelter for the poor and needy. Who would have it any other way? And even coverted Catholics like JD Vance give offerings every Sunday for just such purposes.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/258326/gop-vice-presidential-pick-jd-vance-on-why-he-became-catholic
The lamestream media hype machine has a new poster child -- Pamela Hemphill, AKA the "MAGA Granny," who declined a Jan 6th pardon from Trump. Cindy Sheehan only danced one summer.
Can anyone be more OBTUSE than Dinky Dau 45? How is issuing an EO per se a criminal act? BTW: his nick is derived from a Vietnamese expression for "crazy in the head."
Seems to apply more to himself than it does to POTUS 45---let alone 47, who he seems not to recognize.
Had he a scintilla of understanding about how our constitutional republic works, he would know that Presidents have issued EOs for a long, long time.
As Mark Levin pointed out on Saturday, the Civil Rights Rct of 1866 provides the predicate for what the "jurisdiction" language of the 14th Amendment meant, and means:
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 stated that "all persons born in the United States and *not subject to any foreign power* excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States." This language about being "not subject to any foreign power" provided a model for the 14th Amendment's "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" clause."
OBVIOUSLY and EVEN TODAY Mexico and other South/Central American countries regard children born beyond their borders as their citizens, and under their jurisdiction!
So, none of this crap about what the "jurisdiction" clause means.
QE fucking D.
As for the Wong Ark Kim case, Levin argues that it was wrongly decided, given that Ark's parents, while legal US residents when he was born here, were not citizens and thus still "under the jurisdiction" of China.
It may be, as Levin hints, an activist court wanted to undercut the Chinese Exclusion Acts, which forbade Chinese laborers from entering the US, and denied them the chance to become naturalized citizens. So they "distinguished" that law by saying the legal presence of Kim's parents made Kim a citizen at birth.
Yes, Congress engaged in a blatant racist act by discriminating against the Chinese while protecting former slaves and their descendants. And yes, the Supremes sided *with* the government in a three later cases involving Chinese immigration.
But... Wanna claim the Supremes are never wrong? Dred Scott? Plessey v. Ferguson? Korematsu v. United States?
Note further that, to this day, "naturalized US citizens "generally remain subject to their birth country's jurisdiction when they visit that country.
Some countries even claim ongoing jurisdiction over their *former* citizens for certain matters like military service obligations or tax requirements, though U.S. law may not recognize these claims"
(I once knew a Greek--born Australian who was told he was eligible for military service there, even though he hadn't been in the country since he was an infant and was by then an Aussie citizen.
Luckily for him, the immigration offiicer who read his passport also saw his first name--Nicholas--- noted that he was trying to depart Greece on December 6, the feast of his patron saint, and let him go. )
Fat bike with studs on both tires is what I run. Bike all winter in the frozen tundra of northern Wisconsin.
gadfly said, "Churches provide food, clothing, and shelter for the poor and needy. Who would have it any other way? And even coverted Catholics like JD Vance give offerings every Sunday for just such purposes."
Coverted Catholics? A typo or one who is not clutching rosary beads?
Canada politically overcorrects to distinguish itself from the USA and avoid full assimilation. Many Canadians are threatened by the USA. IMO, this is why they painted themselves into a corner in adopting the comic-book socialism of the Trudeau family.
Canada is cold. The best weather they have happens in Vancouver, B.C. -- north of Seattle! They have lots of midwestern flatness with cold and wind. You might also ask people in Illinois, Wisconsin, or Minnesota if they want to stay put or move to Florida, Texas, or Arizona...and check proven US migration patterns to the sunbelt...
Arctic countries do tend to vote left/have communal politics (i.e., Scandinavia, USSR, Canada), as they must collaborate to survive the winter. Those who do not conform will freeze to death. This culturally morphs in weird ways, for example, Iceland has the 'safe' rebellion of black humor and dark sarcasm. Russia has pathological bullying and alcoholism. Sweden pretends men and women are identical, and they accepted hostile middle-eastern immigrants who ate them from the inside.
Fidel Castro tried the same thing when Cuba shipped its criminal "refugees" to Florida back in the day. Claiming asylum is most often fraudulent, and an old form of leftist lawfare (then see Obama's DACA). Latin American politics repeats the same patterns generation after generation. It's not unlike Critical Race Theory in the US: distract from management issues by blaming whites (American imperialism) rather than non-white locals and Spanish colonial history for their problems.
Markets are going to be a ride today, AI and tech stocks not going to respond well to the emergency of Deepseek.
What a lovely October surprise China is greeting Trump with. Hope he can keep the markets calm.
Original Mike said...
“Now that the president has been set…”
Yup, he’s definitely swinging into action. And precedent has been set, too.
gadfly said…
“Churches provide food, clothing, and shelter for the poor and needy. Who would have it any other way? And even coverted Catholics like JD Vance give offerings every Sunday for just such purposes.”
There is a difference between helping and enabling.
So this is like the stories of the price of eggs under Trump, when all of the egg price data that fueled the stories comes from during the Biden Administration. DeepSeek wasn't just developed yesterday. It's strange to see how you guys wish America ill fortune from stuff beyond Trump's control so that you can regain power.
DeepSeek is a Chinese artificial intelligence lab founded by Ho Lee Fook.
Mark is absolutely thrilled.
Sincerely ask yourselves: "Is the Pope Catholic?"
When the Catholic church steps into politics--such as the routine actions of current Pope Francis--it steps into politics. Churches always morph into politics when they reach a critical size relative to the total population. Rome first persecuted Christians and then adopted Christianity as the state religion. Catholicism has been political throughout its history.
Jaq, thats what half the country spent wondering about you guys for the last 4 years. Its a little late for you to defend the sanctity of the Presidency after so many years of crapping on it.
Show me when I have cheered China on at this blog.
I will wait.
Both Obama and Biden spent their entire Presidencies blaming their predecessors for the lousy economic conditions their own policies caused.
So what was the intent of your comment? I never said that you "cheered on China" just that you gleefully report negative news that you believe will harm America out of spite against your own country for voting for Trump. Like the reports on the price of eggs, which are used to bash Trump, based on figures that were gathered in December.
Personally, I think that an open source AI is not a threat to the powers that be, because even if it is ten times more efficient, whatever that means, people will just use it more, so all of the investment in servers and the energy to run them will still matter.
It's a good thing, BTW, if barriers to entry in an industry are lowered. It's better for consumers, and let's say the worst case happens, and a few billionaires get their wings clipped while the average Joe wins a trick, how is that bad? Or is this like the mortgage crisis again, where the real crisis isn't the harm that it did to average Americans, but how some very rich people got economically discomfited for a short time? Well we all now that Obama protected his wealthy donors and kept them out of the jail cells that they so richly deserved.
@effinayright: @DINKY DAU 45 is a simple troll. Your reaction is the main objective. Do not engage if it upsets you, for that's how trolls 'win' in their own minds.
Current MO in the US is to spend as much as possible on compute. Even if the base cost on r1 is severely understated, it was built quickly, requires minimal inference cost, competes with o1 and is open source. There is minimal benefit to spending billions on models if the cost to compete will continue to drop precipitously, unless you absolutely need to for competitive purposes (think GOOGL).
There is some reasonable chance that this is a narrative-shifting moment for the US players (or their shareholders) in that the incremental focus and ROI may be more measured and tactical rather than throwing $20-65bn/yr purely at compute/training.
50% of NVDA is revenue is from about 6 customers, the vast majority of which is most likely being utilized for training. ~40% of datacenter revenue is inference. 36x fwd eps with 75% gross margins. Do these major customers, many of which are trying to build their own GPUs, really need nvda GPUs for inference? I struggle to see how this is not directly bearish for NVDA, and at a minimum increases tailrisk of training revenue falling off in ‘26+.
Just speculating of course. Who knows....
The Magnificent 7 were due for a correction long, long ago. If this snaps the mania, great. The sooner those stocks return to Earth the better. There has been a terrible misallocation of money with the Mag 7.
So? Go start your own blog instead of freeloading off this one. Show us how it's done.
Just wait until the folks who are still on ExTwitter find out about DeepSeek. Hoo boy.
LLR-democratical Rich: "Just speculating of course"
LOL
Nope. You are just cutting and pasting about things you dont understand. You are simply a version of gadfly+.,....while avoiding the Columbian tariff thread where Trump's policies and instincts were demonstrated successfully in record time.
Something you said was impossible!
Fun way to start the week!
gadfly said…“Churches provide food, clothing, and shelter for the poor and needy. Who would have it any other way? "
They went a mite further than the teachings of Jesus, as you imply. They were providing baggage handling services as well, sending truckloads of suitcases and backpacks up to be waiting for the illegals so they wouldn't have to tote them all the way, on their sponsored bus rides.
The Catholic Church is a world wide entity. If they want to provide food, clothing, and shelter to the needy, why are they making the needy travel to the US to get it? Does gadfly think through his comments for even a moment?
"Nope. You are just cutting and pasting about things you dont understand."
Tell us again how Germany is the economic envy of the world, Rich.
When I was younger there was flat track racing on ice. Motorcycle racing. When you went down you wanted to slide as far away from the rider behind you that you could. 10-32 screws that stuck out an inch.
But, Gadfy. You don't believe in God.
Mark said, "Show me when I have cheered China on at this blog." Right now.
Magic Eight Ball says: "Not on your life."
Having mastered large language models, epidemiology, general election campaign strategy, toilet paper supply chain logistics, submersible engineering, and bridge design, Drago would like to delve into the value of “Ask Jeeves”…🍸🍸🍸🍸🤡🤡
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