Althouse: Sunrise — 5:55, 6:15, 6:27, 6:28.

August 28, 2025

Sunrise — 5:55, 6:15, 6:27, 6:28.

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MadTownGuy said...: #4: When morning gilds the skies ...; 8/28/25, 6:29 PM
TickTock1948 said...: The first pic is magical.; 8/28/25, 6:38 PM
mezzrow said...: These (and yesterday's) pictures have been stunners, Althouse. We all want to see one of these, but you have to drag yourself out there with a measure of faith to see the ad from God when it actually drops.

Thanks for doing the work. The sunsets are easier from my venue.; 8/28/25, 6:38 PM
Narr said...: They're all good; 1 and 4 are intense.; 8/28/25, 6:53 PM
Jaq said...: I saw a bald eagle flying overhead, then a little while later, I was sitting on the screen porch and I heard a couple of wing beats coming from high in the oak next door, and a bird big enough to be that eagle drops out of the tree and then there were the squeaks of an excited chipmunk, which I am assuming were its last words. Help yourself to as many as you like, Mr Eagle.; 8/28/25, 7:04 PM
Big Mike said...: I understand that the MSM noted that the Robin-the-trans-child-killer had written "Trump" on one of his guns. Were the New York Times and Washington Post among them? Because this afternoon I learned that what Robin-the-trans-child-killer actually wrote was "Kill Donald Trump." I think this maybe means he wasn't MAGA.; 8/28/25, 7:15 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Stay glassy Lake Mendota. @5:55; 8/28/25, 7:21 PM
Gospace said...: Do you believe men can become woman and vice versa? If you answer yes- you're mentally ill and should be institutionalized. And therein lies a problem

We now have a SC justice who stated during her confirmation hearings that she's not a biologist and can't define male and female. Or maybe man and woman- immaterial. And- she was CONFIRMED!!! Either she was lying-or she's stupid. (The two aren't mutually exclusive.) If subsequently you have voted for any senator who voted for her confirmation- you're part of the problem. That that answer didn't result in a unanimous rejection of her as a SC justice is a tragedy.

We're all being much too polite in not standing up for common sense. Someone (probably an AWFL) tell you their kid is trans? Don't hem and haw, tell them loudly, especially if others are around- "Your child isn't trans! Your child is mentally ill! And you're enabling it. You're either evil or stupid!" Then walk away from them. Don't even acknowledge it's worth debating- it's not.

The doctors who do operations that they know won't change someone's sex? Every one of them, without exception, no matter how much good they may have done otherwise, is a peer of Dr. Mengele and his Japanese counterpart Shirō Ishii. And need to be told so. Their medical licenses should be revoked. Unfortunately, not possible to jail them without an unconstitutional ex post facto law. Shrinks who encourage the trans movement? Their medical licenses should be suspended- and they should be prohibited from working with any minors in the future.

Did you vote for Tim Walz? You're part of the problem, and should be ashamed of yourself. Gavin Newsom? Same. Any politician who proudly supports the trans community? The same. Sometimes to get rid of a problem- you have to make yourself a one issue voter, regardless of ho much you hate the other guy. As Heinlein said (paraphrased)- sometimes you cannot find a reason to vote for any candidate- but you can always find a reason to vote against someone. Have a reason- and vote AGAINST people.

Doesn't have to be this issue. Want illegal immigrants gone? Vote against anyone fighting for their non-existent right to be here.

Against censorship? Don't vote for people who support it. Which, BTW, is the Democrats (fine/imprison people for misgendering or using the N word- unless they're black) not Republicans (keep pornography out of school libraries- that's not censorship as previous understood).

A lot of people (supposedly according to surveys) are one issue voters on gun control. Some vote against politicians supporting gun control, some vote only for those same politicians. I suspect the former group is larger. And getting larger.

We, as a society, are entirely too polite to people who spout off inanities, and we need to stop.; 8/28/25, 7:31 PM
Enigma said...: @Big Mike: The coverage at Zerohedge had pictures of the anti-Trump writing on his weapons from the start.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/demonic-minneapolis-shooter-im-tired-being-trans-i-wish-i-never-brain-washed-myself; 8/28/25, 7:32 PM
Hassayamper said...: The brave young Scottish girl who defended her little sister from Muslim sex-pests with an axe and a large knife, resulting in her arrest, now has a GiveSendGo campaign that has raised well over 30,0000 pounds for her legal defense. It's called Justice for Lola and Ruby, and as best I can tell, it seems to be legitimate.

Memes depicting this young lady as Boudica or Joan of Arc are all over social media, and are fomenting a harsh reappraisal of the bizarre British prohibition on self-defense and the desirability of immigration from Third World shitholes. The worthless, wicked Starmer regime is terrified of what it might lead to.

Please donate generously, and spread the word to friends and family, especially in the UK. Let's push British patriots to rise up en masse, and become ungovernable by the leftist scum.; 8/28/25, 7:36 PM
Josephbleau said...: Made a tandem parachute jump today, beautiful weather, went thru a little cloud. I did some jumping with canopy chutes in college years go but the new wing chutes are fantastic.

As Martin Mull said, that’s a borderline thrill.; 8/28/25, 7:40 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: YouTube: You know what a trial is, don't you?

No 'I am here!' assurances from the significant other.; 8/28/25, 7:41 PM
Narr said...: Over a month ago I saw two green hummingbirds outside my window, and my wife and I made some sugar water for them.

It was weeks or a month early for them, but we were glad to see them and looked forward to a long season . . . and we haven't seen one since.

A no hummer bummer summer.; 8/28/25, 7:49 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Headline: "Catholic Schools Begged for Tiny Security Budget from State - Walz, Dems Refused Despite $17 Billion Surplus and Similar Grants to Public Schools"; 8/28/25, 8:02 PM
paminwi said...: Gospace @ 7:31 Spot on!; 8/28/25, 8:22 PM
wildswan said...: The CDC is in the news because sveral top scientists have quit claiming that an impeccable scientific record is being dragged in the dust by RFK Jr's vaccine investigations. Impeccable record?
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study was led by Raymond Vonderlehr from 1932 to 1943. His next big job was as the first head of the CDC (1947 to 1951) when the CDC was first organized by the combination of several USPHS agencies. We aren't surprised to learn that the CDC, following Vondelehr's lead disregarded the horror of the ongoing "scientific research" on syphilis at Tuskegee. This "scientific research" continued from 1932 to 1972 to harm the men involved and resulted in the spread of syphilis to women whom the men knew and even to several children. Nor did the CDC prevent or criticize the work of John Charles Cutler of the USPHS who led a team in Guatemala (1946-1948) which deliberately infected 1300 people with syphilis, gonorrhea, and chancroid without their consent. This "scientific research" was exposed in 2010 without any assistance from the CDC. (Cutler later worked on the Tuskegee Study and was considered a distinguished leader in public health research until the Guatemalan and Tuskegee research was exposed in 2010.)
ttps://www.bostonreview.net/articles/reverby-our-man-guatemala/#:~:text=Cutler%2C%20a%20physician%20with%20the,and%20gonorrhea%20without%20their%20consent.

As Reverby points out much of the scientific research which our tax dollars pay for is done overseas - sometimes under conditions or in ways which would not be acceptable in the US itself.

As we know, the Wuhan Lab was partially funded by the HHS through NIH and it was doing research banned in the US and doing it under unsafe conditions by US standards.

In short, we count on wonderful medical discoveries from the scientific research we fund but we can also count on researchers who cut corners or exploit vulnerable people for the purposes of their own scientific ambitions. And it's a fact that the scientific establishment at the CDC has a very poor track record in discovering these exploiters. Under RFK Jr. we can hope for some solid scientific studies into the many many vaccines which the CDC is promoting as standard. And we can expect opposition to any such studies.

Opposition is good if the opponents bring forward arguments from science. Maybe not so good if they simply claim "authority" and "expertise" while quitting the battle. Authoritarian science is not science at all. It's fake science, just something the media can enjoy foaming over about for awhile. Raymond Vondelehr smiles.; 8/28/25, 8:22 PM
phantommut said...: That first shot is... wow.; 8/28/25, 8:25 PM
Jupiter said...: Hey! Some good news at last! The police in Scotland have finally tracked down and arrested the 14-year-old girl who cut the balls off of every white man in the UK! Just a matter of solid police work and scum migrant provacateurs. You go, Dhimmis!; 8/28/25, 8:36 PM
Big Mike said...: @Enigma, with respect, ZeroHedge is scarcely "Mainstream Media."; 8/28/25, 8:37 PM
FormerLawClerk said...: "No comment, said Ms. Muncheausen."

To nobody's surprise who is paying attention, the mother of the Minneapolis school shooter (not the one Gov. Walz hired to do assassinations, the other one) ... is refusing to assist police in their investigation of how she turned her kid into a child-killer by pumping him so full of female hormones and trying to turn him into a woman that he decided to kill himself also.

https://nypost.com/2025/08/28/us-news/minneapolis-school-shooters-mother-mary-grace-westman-not-cooperating-with-cops/

These fucking whackjob Democrat whores need to be brought to justice or it's just going to keep happening.; 8/28/25, 8:39 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Looks like the Trump referendum is happening at the CDC.

What a time to be a virus.; 8/28/25, 8:42 PM
Lazarus said...: Hakeem shows us the way.

From now on, to avoid charges of incitement to violence, politicians will tell their supporters to "Fart! Fart hard! Fart like hell! Fart! Fart! Fart!"

Followed by a demonstration by Eric Swalwell.; 8/28/25, 8:46 PM