Althouse: Sunrise – 6:55, 7:13, 7:18.

March 12, 2025

Sunrise – 6:55, 7:13, 7:18.

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19 comments:

john mosby said...: So far in this term, I don't believe Trump has started any action on the Freedom Cities initiative, which he talked about during the campaign. I don't think he has said a single word about it since being sworn in.

Is he waiting until he gets some good near-fatal blows in at the regulatory state, to make it easier to stand up the cities? And/or maybe he wants to get a lot of invaders out, because they would be the first ones to flock to unregulated territory?

Or has he forgotten about it?

JSM; 3/12/25, 8:24 PM
rehajm said...: Want to soak the rich Bernie? Tax donations to college endowments…; 3/12/25, 8:36 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Nice pics.; 3/12/25, 8:49 PM
Eva Marie said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 3/12/25, 8:58 PM
Eva Marie said...: Grok knows moods.
I asked Grok to write a happy based on the theme "today is the first day of the rest of my life."

Happy Poem
Today’s the start, a golden gleam,
The first of days in a waking dream.
With every step, my heart takes flight,
The rest of life shines pure and bright.

Then I asked for a Sad Poem on the same theme:
Today begins, a heavy sigh,
The first of days I can’t deny.
A shadowed road, where hope feels thin,
The rest of life, I stumble in.

Sadder Poem, please:
Today creeps in, a muted cry,
The first of days I dread to try.
A hollow path, where shadows cling,
The rest of life, a broken wing.

Even Sadder Poem:
Today drags on, a whispered moan,
The first of days, I’m lost, alone.
A barren trail, where tears decay,
The rest of life, a grave’s delay.

I didn’t want to leave Grok in such a miserable state so I asked for a poem with a sense of contentment:
Today unfolds, a gentle start,
The first of days to ease my heart.
A steady road, with peace in view,
The rest of life, a calm anew.; 3/12/25, 9:01 PM
Big Mike said...: I see that some (currently unknown) lefty spray painted "F*** Trump Long Live Ukraine" on a Tesla charging station in North Charleston, SC, then tried to destroy a bank of charging stations using Molotov cocktails made from beer bottles. Except he screwed up and set himself on fire instead.

Perhaps he used Bud Lite bottles, which might explain what went wrong.; 3/12/25, 9:03 PM
Peachy said...: Leftist Judges - providing their own Constitutional Crisis.; 3/12/25, 9:08 PM
Peachy said...: Lab leak time-line for birdflu All under Crook Joe. I smell nasty sewer rats.; 3/12/25, 9:13 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: During the president Biden's term, nobody worked harder than Biden's autopen.; 3/12/25, 9:16 PM
john burger said...: Cool Vapor Trails.

jvb; 3/12/25, 9:18 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Bubbling rumors is that the Obamas marriage is crumbling.; 3/12/25, 10:01 PM
rrsafety said...: Dylan’s version of Blue Moon from his Self Portrait album is outstanding. A nice surprise.; 3/12/25, 10:10 PM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: Shut it down , a favorite play of the trumpers and the king and his court already shutting it down.WHo gives a flying fuk who gets the blame.Shut the mother down. As the freedom caucus guys never vote for a CR. So shut it down...Let's just keep the excitement going g with a republican favorite move! BIG BALLS DO IT!; 3/12/25, 10:59 PM
HistoryDoc said...: One of the interesting things I've learned recently is that all the NGO's that I thought were funded by lefty billionaires, were actually funded by the government via USAID and other Departments.

Turns out that the billionaire donor class is actually kind of stingy, prefer to look like they are generous funders, but instead prefer to use tax-payer money to fund these NGOs, and not sustain them with their own bankroll.; 3/12/25, 11:12 PM
Original Mike said...: "Turns out that the billionaire donor class is actually kind of stingy, prefer to look like they are generous funders, but instead prefer to use tax-payer money to fund these NGOs, and not sustain them with their own bankroll."

Leverage. Spend a few million, get a few billion.

What's unfortunate is that even if Trump can shut down this gravy train, it'll just be back with the next democrat administration.; 3/12/25, 11:21 PM
Jupiter said...: Around 4:00 this morning, while somewhere between sleep and waking, I realized that Dirac's famous analyses of the effect of the four-potential on the wave function failed to distinguish between the effect on the basis functions and the effect on the wave packet. Mathematically, you can do it either way. But putting it on the basis functions contradicts the fundamental assumption of his transformation theory. And putting it on the packet requires a rather different analysis than the one he developed.
Dirac was the subtlest, and the most perplexing, and the most obtuse, thinker of the 20th century. Reading his papers is like watching a magician pull a skyscraper out of the back of a Volkswagen. When he starts, it is impossible to guess where he is headed. When he has finished, the mind recoils from his conclusions. Yet there is no point at which a cogent objection can be raised.
It astonishes me to realize that our lives overlapped by more than thirty years, yet by the time he died I had barely begun to engage his thought.; 3/12/25, 11:56 PM
wendybar said...: Barry J Collins
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Replying to @WesternLensman
Democrats are always “progressive” until you disagree with them. Then they become “regressive” - regressing right back into the emotionally fueled irrational animals that they really are. You cannot have a rational conversation with a leftist.
10:42 PM · Mar 12, 2025; 3/13/25, 1:56 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: If the democrats vote to shutdown the government, Trump’s OMB will be put in charge of the government to trim it down as much as Trump may please. If they vote not to shut it down, they will vote for a CR that funds DOGE and ICE as Trump has made it. They are dammed if they do and dammed if they don’t. It’s a beautiful thing.; 3/13/25, 2:00 AM
Original Mike said...: "Elections have consequences".; 3/13/25, 2:05 AM