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August 16, 2025

Sunrise — 5:48, 6:07, 6:10.

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21 comments:

wildswan said...: I've been thinking about the way in which our politics must now filter through NGO land. This group of people is unknown to sociology but immensely influential. But how does it work? It obviously completely stifles internal dissent, because, I suppose, you won't get promoted. But somehow NGOers must think that each opinion is freely achieved. How is that managed? And then, what do NGOers look like. Are they the ones following the various absurd freaks of fashion which Althouse mines from the pages of the NYT? Aren't we always asking - who does that? Maybe the NGOers, the secret leaders of anti-fashion fashion?; 8/16/25, 5:19 PM
TosaGuy said...: I don’t understand how Jussie Smollet could have been attacked a few years ago, he was armed with a subway sandwich.; 8/16/25, 5:19 PM
Original Mike said...: "I don’t understand how Jussie Smollet could have been attacked a few years ago, he was armed with a subway sandwich."

Sandwiches are a lot stronger now than they used to be.; 8/16/25, 5:24 PM
William said...: I just read a history of the terror during the French Revolution. Early in his career Robespierre wrote a treatise that preached against capital punishment. His thinking on this subject later evolved. He came to think that the Girondists deserved capital punishment because they had opposed the decapitation of the King.......There you have it. Robespierre went from being against capital punishment to killing people who opposed his ideas on capital punishment.; 8/16/25, 5:42 PM
narciso said...: provolone is certainly 9 mm ammo; 8/16/25, 5:53 PM
narciso said...: Lenin was against the Okhrana as was Dzerzinsky who had up close experience, it was situational; 8/16/25, 5:54 PM
narciso said...: was that Schama he captured the ethos in Citizens, he lost the plot afterwards,
but you look at the two minute haters, who cheered at Ashley Babbitt's murder and then are goo goo eyes about Mangione
they were never serious,; 8/16/25, 6:00 PM
Jaq said...: "If the war in Ukraine lasts another five years, it would be safer for Europe." —Bruno Kahl, head of Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND)

In "Deutsche Welle"; 8/16/25, 6:06 PM
narciso said...: Western Intelligence, is one of those classic oxymoron, remember that baltic offensive they had depicted last fall,
pepperidge farm remembers; 8/16/25, 6:10 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Rolling Stone : Someone Left Documents Detailing Trump-Putin Summit in Hotel Printer.

Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again; 8/16/25, 6:20 PM
buwaya said...: Russia keeps going back to the same policies. The USSR had a lot in common with the Tsarist state, and post USSR Russia has a lot in common with the USSR.
Except for one thing - the Tsarist version of Russia had tremendous creativity in the arts, which the Soviets killed off, and which has not come back. A permanent loss.; 8/16/25, 6:21 PM
narciso said...: and if the German general staff hadn't shipped lenin back they might have held out for a generation, other seemingly bright ideas, it did end the war for them on one front,; 8/16/25, 6:24 PM
john mosby said...: Had a thought today about the postmodern generation gap. It's an analogy to myself.

I was born in the late 60's to a 36yo father and 40yo mother. Unusual then, usual now.

People who "should" have been my parents - the boomers about 20 years older than me - I never thought of as being like my parents. Didn't see them as being particularly worthy of respect, other than whatever was forced on me by a job or something (e.g., Vietnam combat vets in the Army). I went out with older women (40s and 50s when I was in my 20s) because I didn't see my mom when I looked at them. I just saw them as women. If any of them tried to give me life advice, I was quickly out of there, as I felt they didn't respect me. There are very few people 20 years older than me who I admire or hold up as heroes.

Some of the problems with These Kids Today (including Millennials who are now in their 40s) may be because they almost all have older parents. So the people they were supposed to respect - teachers, bosses, etc - didn't look like mom and dad. They looked like weirdo Cousin Ralph or Aunt Sue who everyone in the family badmouthed behind their backs. So they never had that sort of automatic respect that people had when we were in nice neat 20-year generational hierarchies.

This sounds like a long way to say "they don't respect their elders" but there's more to it. It's more like they don't even realize their elders are their elders.

I dunno. Just thought of it today.

RR
JSM; 8/16/25, 6:37 PM
buwaya said...: Our first was born when I was 35 and my wife 34. We thought that was rather late, and it still is. The current mothers age at first birth in the US is 27.; 8/16/25, 7:00 PM
buwaya said...: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr74/nvsr74-09.pdf; 8/16/25, 7:01 PM
Christopher B said...: john mosby, that was interesting. I was born in the early 1960's when my father was 40 and mother 38. I'm also the oldest of three. I suspect I was one of the few in my class whose father had actually served (noncombat) in WWII. Glad my son got to meet them.; 8/16/25, 7:08 PM
Kathryn51 said...: William said...
I just read a history of the terror during the French Revolution. Early in his career Robespierre wrote a treatise that preached against capital punishment.

There are only a handful of classes that stand out in my mind from college (late '60s) but always foremost in memory was what I thought would be American/Europe history but actually focused on 3 revolutions: French, English (Cromwell) and American. 3 mid-terms and one final.

The French were without a doubt the most hypocritical and blood thirsty. I got an A in the class once I figured out that each mid-term was focused on a specific revolution and the final would be a combination (compare/contrast). Professor was one of the few moderate/conservatives (translation: freedom-loving) on campus.; 8/16/25, 7:15 PM
Big Mike said...: I don’t understand how Jussie Smollet could have been attacked a few years ago, he was armed with a subway sandwich.

It’s one thing to have it, but it’s another thing to be ready and willing to use it.; 8/16/25, 7:18 PM
john mosby said...: Christopher B: "I suspect I was one of the few in my class whose father had actually served (noncombat) in WWII. "

My father was born too late for that - was in the Navy (noncombat, in the Med) during Korea. His older brother was a WWII Navy combat veteran. My mother's brother turned 18 in 1943, but was able to finagle several draft exemptions then and for Korea. I grew up surrounded by WWII vets in my family, Scout leaders, neighborhood guys, etc. Definitely a different mindset.

RR
JSM; 8/16/25, 7:33 PM
john mosby said...: Lem, ref the Alaska hotel printer leak: from the article, it sounds like it was just social/protocol stuff:

"The documents show the schedule of the summit with times and locations. They also show the lunch menu, the lunch seating chart, and the phone numbers of three of Trump administration staffers....The documents show which officials were involved in the summit. A "2:2" meeting took place among Trump; Steve Witkoff, special envoy for peace missions; Putin; and Yuri Ushakov, an aide to Putin for foreign policy and Putin's "America guru." Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent were also involved, among others.
The documents show that Trump planned to give Putin an "American bald eagle desk statue." ....The lunch, which did not end up happening, was to be held "in honor of his excellency Vladimir Putin." The seating chart shows assigned spots for 13 officials, with Americans on one side and Russians on the other. Meeting organizers planned to serve filet mignon, halibut Olympia, and crème brûlée."

Doesn't sound like national security stuff. Most of the info was probably given to the press ahead of time, and all of it was certainly given to the Russians beforehand, or more likely hashed out with them before the document was even written.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/someone-left-documents-detailing-trump-putin-summit-in-hotel-printer/ar-AA1KE4U8?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Btw, "American Bald Eagle" and "Halibut Olympia" sound like niche OnlyFans specialties....

RR
JSM; 8/16/25, 7:39 PM
Eva Marie said...: Posted on X by Robert Kennedy:
“The swamp is in full panic mode. DC lobby shops are laboring fiercely to drive a wedge between President Trump and me, hoping to thwart our team from dismantling the status quo and advancing
@POTUS
’ Make America Healthy Again agenda. They’re pushing the flat-out lie that I’m running for president in 2028. Let me be clear: I am not running for president in 2028.

My loyalty is to President Trump and the mission we’ve started. Their attacks on my staff, especially Stefanie Spear — a fierce, loyal warrior for MAHA who proudly serves in the Trump Administration and works every day to advance President Trump’s vision for a healthier, stronger America — are proof we’re over the target. We’ll keep moving forward, we’ll keep delivering wins, and no smear campaign will stop us.

President Trump is delivering on every promise beyond my wildest dreams — ending war, protecting free speech, rebuilding American industry and the American middle class, delivering transparency and gold standard science, and breaking the grip of entrenched interests.

The president has made himself the answer to my 20-year prayer that God would put me in a position to end the chronic disease epidemic — and that’s exactly what my team and I will do until the day he leaves office.“
I love this guy.; 8/16/25, 7:41 PM