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Bonus western view — at 6:47 — with a special pinkness of its own:
November 10, 2025
Sunrise with steam fog — 6:39, 6:48, 6:51, 6:52.
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Bonus western view — at 6:47 — with a special pinkness of its own:
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Good a few clouds showed up for contrast. It must be hard to get great photos in a completely clear sky.
The great Fuentes-Tucker controversy chugs on. Israel firsters will never support free speech, and those on the Right will tear down the MAGA coilition (sic) rather than accept one ounce of criticism of Israel.
Levin and Ben Shaprio are Still hysterical. But then they were never-trump in 2016. They said it was because of their "true conservativism" more likely it was because they didnt trust trump on Middle east wars.
The bottom photo is gorgeous, but I can almost feel the cold. lol
Bob Wright makes the excellent point that Tucker may have invited Fuentes on to make himself seem more mainstream. Tucker the Gatekeeper, not Tucker the crazy man.
Mickey Kaus thinks Fuentes is a nothing burger and wonders why everyone is giving him free publicity. Another good point.
Oh, and if anyone cares. Glenn Beck has stated he will not debate Fuentes because "Nick Fuentes doesn't believe in anything". Y'know like Glenn "Never trump" beck!
Checking Weather Underground, the high and low temps in Madison are nearly identical to ours today. Ugh. lol
How is that possible
But yeah mexican bart simpson
We didn’t sacrifice enough weather goats, narc.
I think the second to last pic is best
I was up at dawn (dog - hungry). As I looked to the west, the clouds on the horizon were formed in such a way that it looked like we had mountains. I'm a bit northeast of Madison.
I think the three stacks make the top photo--great composition.
And I'm always a fan of the pinkness.
@BG555PM, sometimes the photos seem to show them.
This guy is a world-class picker and has a voice of equal quality. Bayou Blues at its finest: Tab Benoit
https://youtu.be/VsrbS9KCuh8
The first photo bears out my theory that sometime long long ago Madison rose full-blown from the mist.
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/scientists-create-a-google-maps-of-the-roman-empire-plan-your-trip-along-their-famous-roads/
Took the boat out on Lake Mead both Saturday and Sunday. Expecting the low 80 degree temps to be the last warm days this year. Both were just perfect days of relaxation, cruising, and hanging on the beach. Came back at night, which is a magical sublime experience with 500 ft. of water, smooth as glass below you and a sky full of color with a torn-paper line of rugged mountains dividing the world. I'm gonna miss summer.
WaPo Ed Board has a nice takedown on Comrad Momdani. Thank you, Jeff Bezos.
Let there be fog.
MSNBC : "Democrats achieved the worst of all worlds with their shutdown strategy"
Even their media allies are calling them out.
Yup tomorrow Veterans Day and for me a shout out to all the men and women I served with (65-72) and most of all to those who didn't make it.I salute you But if you really want to thank a Veteran remember this.
There are many, many veterans for whom the results of military service have been, shall we say, not nearly as simple as my “I did my duty” attitude might suggest. Some struggle with PTSD, others with addiction, some with traumatic injuries, some with chronic health issues (physical and mental)...there’s simply isn’t the space to tell their stories. Even those veterans who are not struggling with health issues face uncertain economic situations, homelessness and difficulties in their family lives, while active duty service members, members of the Guard/Reserve and their families may face some of these issues alongside the pressure of yet another deployment.
If you want to thank veterans, find a way to help them. You don’t need a yellow ribbon on your car or a flag flying from your home; in fact, those don’t really do anything for these veterans who need help. So, instead of a free meal, a discount, or a round of applause, consider instead:
Spending some time volunteering at a VA hospital or old soldiers’ home.
Finding out if your local active duty or Guard/Reserve unit is deployed, and (if so) if their Family Support program needs help.
Finding your local VFW or American Legion post and asking how you can best help veterans in your area.
Making a donation to Army Emergency Relief, one of the best charities out there helping active duty troops.
Being an advocate to your Senators and Representative for better veterans’ care.
Yes WE (my wife and I ) will go out to APPLEBEES for dinner and to mingle with many Vets who show up year after year to enjoy a meal as we do, on the house and just chill. Our whole family from fathers to brother in laws to brothers and sisters have served this country and tomorrow is just another day to reflect on the service, the memories of those who are still around and pray for a country like ours to stay out of the wars that never end well. Stop in VA center tomorrow and make someone's day a little brighter with a word or reflection on their situation(box of Russell Stovers IS ALWAYS A HIT. Yes I always say thank you from the well wishers but there is more WE can do.
I'm partial to pink, so last is my favorite. Windswept water, a bit of fog, a poem lurking amidst the pale colors there.
r/90s video : "It's better than bad it's good"
I’m also a veteran, 69-72, Vietnam and Ethiopia. I’m in Japan now, and tomorrow we stop at Nagasaki. I’m going to the site of the nuclear bombing to see the memorial.
No Kings march. But Nancy Pelosi’s daughter announces for her mother’s House seat: https://www.lucianne.com/2025/11/10/nancy_pelosis_daughter_launches_her_own_political_career_announces_run_for_office_in_california_158751.html
Christine Pelosi is not running for her mother's house seat. She's trying for the SF area seat in the California Senate
tcrosse said...
"The first photo bears out my theory that sometime long long ago Madison rose full-blown from the mist."
It was half way from the lead mines in Galena Illinois and the closest Lake Michigan port. Milwaukee.
50 years ago...
Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
Lem at 8:58,
I loved Ren and Stimpy.
We had snow flurries off and on here in Oak Ridge this afternoon. It stuck on the grass a couple times and then melted away since we were in the mid 70s just this passed Friday.
An Open Letter to Molly McNearney, Jimmy Kimmel’s Wife
"The truth is that none of this has ever been about Trump. It’s been a ten-year refusal by the people with all of the power to relinquish that power."
Please pray for Florida, a cold front is coming and we don’t own pants.
Another day that ends in "y"
Another day of leftwing violence at Berkeley.
Here is a link to Inga, Kak/RichSockpuppet/paidActbluetroll, PedoFredo, Groomergadfly, Ronald psychoWard, and all the other resident leftist dregs condemning the violence:
https://youtu.be/AwfdbTvJDaQ?si=Qs9c8Uz3xUCHuypt
It’s reported that the J6 pipe bomber has been identified as a former Capital Police officer. Nice.
As the sun sets you can see a hemisphere of darkness rising dimly in the east. Andrew Matvell and Archibald MacLeish wrote poems that mention that eastern hemisphere. But now that last picture makes me think that as the sun rises a hemisphere of dim darkness sinks in the west. I think you can see the line of it below the dull pink and the shadow is still in the lake. There was another picture a week ago I think which I thought might have a sinking hemisphere but I hesitated because I had never seen it before. It's a very interesting phenomenon and I don't think there are pictures of it anywhere but here. (I used to read Outdoor Photography on how to do sunrise and sunset photography but they never had one on the setting dark hemisphere. Or the rising either.)
This what Archinald MacLeish wrote about the night rising hemisphere.
You, Andrew Marvell
By Archibald MacLeish
And here face down beneath the sun
And here upon earth’s noonward height
To feel the always coming on
The always rising of the night:
To feel creep up the curving east
The earthy chill of dusk and slow
Upon those under lands the vast
And ever climbing shadow grow
And strange at Ecbatan the trees
Take leaf by leaf the evening strange
The flooding dark about their knees
The mountains over Persia change
And now at Kermanshah the gate
Dark empty and the withered grass
And through the twilight now the late
Few travelers in the westward pass
And Baghdad darken and the bridge
Across the silent river gone
And through Arabia the edge
Of evening widen and steal on
And deepen on Palmyra’s street
The wheel rut in the ruined stone
And Lebanon fade out and Crete
High through the clouds and overblown
And over Sicily the air
Still flashing with the landward gulls
And loom and slowly disappear
The sails above the shadowy hulls
And Spain go under and the shore
Of Africa the gilded sand
And evening vanish and no more
The low pale light across that land
Nor now the long light on the sea:
And here face downward in the sun
To feel how swift how secretly
The shadow of the night comes on ...
And these are the lines by Andrew Marvell to which MacLeish was referring. They are the last two lines of "Upon Appleton House."
"Let’s in: for the dark Hemisphere
Does now like one of them appear."
But you see, this is sinking hemispere of darkness in the west at sunrise unlike the rising hemisphere in the east at sunset which Marvell and MacLeigh saw. Really interesting.
Dinky, that is a good essay. CC, JSM US Army 1987-1992
Fine set of photos!
31 here- there go the limes
You are not going to be the next Joe Rogan by literally kissing the feet of socialist politicians and claiming you worship the ground they walk on.
Usually the first snow of the season is a few flakes and you say goodbye to the plants you didn’t care enough about to bring indoors the day before. But we are now on the third day of more-or-less continuous snowfall. Only a few inches of accumulation because the ground was still warm when it started, but things are pretty messy here.
Commenter on the Pat Gray show: “If it’s the “Affordable” Care Act why does it need a subsidy.
Flurries overnight in SE coastline of North Carolina…. Crazy November 2025.
’Our whole family from fathers to brother in laws to brothers and sisters have served this country and tomorrow is just another day to reflect on the service…’
Happy Veteran’s Day, Dinky!
And to all the other Althouse veterans!
When we lived in Kewaunee County alongside Lake Michigan, the steam fog was called 'sea smoke' by the locals. Made it sound more exotic.
Dinky Dau 45--You and I don't often agree on much, but I agree 100 percent with your 8:18 comment, and appreciate the suggestions regarding honoring and helping vets.
And THANK YOU for your service.
Huge if true:
Breakthrough offers hope for treatment of Lou Gehrig’s disease (Jerusalem Post, May 24, 2018)
"A breakthrough that offers hope for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease) has been made by researchers who identified a previously unknown mechanism involved in the development of the debilitating, fatal neurological disorder.
The Tel Aviv University researchers found that the motor neurons of ALS patients are destroyed by muscular toxins. They have also found an innovative approach that is the basis for a possible future drug – a specific microRNA molecule silences the genes that cause toxin secretion.
The research focuses for the first time on a specific microRNA, whose levels were found to decrease as a result of ALS-causing muscular mutations.
...
The study was led by Dr. Eran Perlson of the physiology and pharmacology department at TAU’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine and conducted by TAU doctoral students Roy Maimon and Ariel Ionescu, in collaboration with Dr. Oded Behar of the Hebrew University’s department of developmental biology and cancer research. A paper on the breakthrough was recently published in the prestigious Journal of Neuroscience of the Washington, DC-based Society for Neuroscience.
“While we are not claiming we have found the cure for ALS, we have certainly moved the field forward,” Perlson said.
Asked to comment, Avichai Kremer, the founder and chairman of IsrA.L.S.-Prize for Life, which raises funds for ALS research, who has suffered from the disease for 14 years, told The Jerusalem Post: “The cause of ALS has been unknown, and this is the biggest impediment to developing treatments for the disease. If this is indeed the cause, then the researchers have accomplished something stupendous. I had always hoped an ALS research breakthrough will come out of Israel, and I hope some company will try to commercialize this approach soon. In the meantime, I would like to see the research team test its findings on more animal models of the disease.”
Update from 2021:
Targeting a cause of ALS
Posted on: Sunday, December 19th, 2021
"Scientists at Tel Aviv University have developed an experimental molecule that breaks down the protein TDP-43, a key cause of ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). TDP-43 causes motor neurons to degenerate. The new molecule enabled motor neuron activity to be restored and opens the door to an ALS cure."
Grok thought for a whole 59 seconds and contributed this snippet:
"This work has been built upon in subsequent research by the same TAU team. A 2021 study identified related mechanisms involving toxic protein aggregates (including TDP-43) in motor neurons and successfully used an experimental molecule to break them down, reversing some ALS effects in models. More recently, in October 2025, the group published findings reinforcing miR-126's role, showing that muscle-derived miR-126 is transferred to neurons via vesicles and suppresses excess TDP-43—a protein whose buildup forms toxic clumps, damages mitochondria (cell energy centers), and causes energy deficits in neurons. Boosting miR-126 in ALS patient tissues and mouse models reduced TDP-43 accumulation, halted neuron loss, and even spurred regeneration.While no cure exists yet, these discoveries highlight muscle-neuron interactions as a promising target for RNA-based therapies. Ongoing collaborations with institutions like Sheba Medical Center, the Weizmann Institute, and international partners aim to advance this toward clinical trials. For the latest updates, check publications in journals like the Journal of Neuroscience or TAU's research announcements. "
Yeah, I know, it's an mRNA treatment, but good on the researchers for taking time to test effectiveness and potential side effects before rushing to human trials. I'll stay tuned.
Thanks Dinky, JSM, Gospace and all veterans on this day.
Mike Royko (Korea vet and Chicago journalism legend)'s Veterans Day column:
I just phoned six friends and asked them what they will be doing on Monday.
They all said the same thing: working.
Me, too.
There is something else we share. We are all military veterans.
And there is a third thing we have in common. We are not employees of the federal government, state government, county government, municipal government, the Postal Service, the courts, banks, or S & Ls, and we don’t teach school.
If we did, we would be among the many millions of people who will spend Monday goofing off.
Which is why it is about time Congress revised the ridiculous terms of Veterans Day as a national holiday.
The purpose of Veterans Day is to honor all veterans.
So how does this country honor them?
By letting the veterans, the majority of whom work in the private sector, spend the day at their jobs so they can pay taxes that permit millions of non-veterans to get paid for doing nothing.
As my friend Harry put it:
“First I went through basic training. Then infantry school. Then I got on a crowded, stinking troop ship that took 23 days to get from San Francisco to Japan. We went through a storm that had 90 percent of the guys on the ship throwing up for a week.
“Then I rode a beat-up transport plane from Japan to Korea, and it almost went down in the drink. I think the pilot was drunk.
“When I got to Korea, I was lucky. The war ended seven months after I got there, and I didn’t kill anybody and nobody killed me.
“But it was still a miserable experience. Then when my tour was over, I got on another troop ship and it took 21 stinking days to cross the Pacific.
(cont'd)
more Royko:
“When I got home on leave, one of the older guys at the neighborhood bar — he was a World War II vet — told me I was a —-head because we didn’t win, we only got a tie.
“So now on Veterans Day I get up in the morning and go down to the office and work.
“You know what my nephew does? He sleeps in. That’s because he works for the state.
“And do you know what he did during the Vietnam War? He ducked the draft by getting a job teaching at an inner-city school.
“Now, is that a raw deal or what?”
Of course that’s a raw deal. So I propose that the members of Congress revise Veterans Day to provide the following:
– All veterans — and only veterans — should have the day off from work. It doesn’t matter if they were combat heroes or stateside clerk-typists.
Anybody who went through basic training and was awakened before dawn by a red-neck drill sergeant who bellowed: “Drop your whatsis and grab your socks and fall out on the road,” is entitled.
– Those veterans who wish to march in parades, make speeches or listen to speeches can do so. But for those who don’t, all local gambling laws should be suspended for the day to permit vets to gather in taverns, pull a couple of tables together and spend the day playing poker, blackjack, craps, drinking and telling lewd lies about lewd experiences with lewd women. All bar prices should be rolled back to enlisted men’s club prices, Officers can pay the going rate, the stiffs.
– All anti-smoking laws will be suspended for Veterans Day. The same hold for all misdemeanor laws pertaining to disorderly conduct, non-felonious brawling, leering, gawking and any other gross and disgusting public behavior that does not harm another individual.
– It will be a treasonable offense for any spouse or live-in girlfriend (or boyfriend, if it applies) to utter the dreaded words: “What time will you be home tonight?”
– Anyone caught posing as a veteran will be required to eat a triple portion of chipped beef on toast, with Spam on the side, and spend the day watching a chaplain present a color-slide presentation on the horrors of VD.
– Regardless of how high his office, no politician who had the opportunity to serve in the military, but didn’t, will be allowed to make a patriotic speech, appear on TV, or poke his nose out of his office for the entire day.
Any politician who defies this ban will be required to spend 12 hours wearing headphones and listening to tapes of President Clinton explaining his deferments.
Now, deal the cards and pass the tequila.
– Mike Royko
CC, JSM
What conservatives should be doing is arguing with Tucker Carlson, not arguing about him. But here's the problem. . How can the reality of atrocities of the Nazis and the linked atrocities of Hamas be made more than a worn-out cliche, when explanations take time?
Suppose we try to make the argument.
The Holocaust happened to the Jews but other groups were targeted as well, namely: the Poles especially Polish Catholic priests, all Slavs, including the Russians who were considered inferior and massively abused through rape and murder during the German advance into Russia; the German mentally and physically "handicapped" (300.000 were killed before and during WWII); older Germans (aka "greedy geezers') who were initially targeted but saved because the news that their grandparents back home were being killed disturbed the German combat troops;, the gays; the Romany people (gypsies).
In short, all kinds of people were murdered by the Nazis so any Nazi revival will reach out against all of us in the end.
Now the killings on October 7, 2003 were an example of a Nazi revival, starting with the Jews. There is a direct line going from the Nazis to Hamas.
While the killing of Jews, Slavs and anyone physically or mentally challenged was going on in Europe, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was in Germany urging Hitler to support a campaign led by the Grand Mufti himself against the Jews in the Mid-East, in the Palestine Mandate. After the end of WW II, the Mufti's nephew, Yasser Arafat, carried on his uncle's spiritual legacy through his policies as leader of the Palestinian Authority - shootings, bombings of civilian gatherings directed against the Jews. But the founders of Hamas thought that Arafat was too mellow and that the Israelis must be treated with Nazi "frightfulness" or, in other words, as the Nazis treated the Jews and the Slavs. This meant not simple shooting but rape, torture, plunder, burning people inside churches and homes, spearing babies with bayonets, etc.
And so, on October 7, Hamas accurately reproduced the Nazi way of atrocity against "inferiors." But people like Tucker Carlson and many others (including the Israeli government and the Israeli peace movement before October 7) simply cannot believe people alive today would behave like Nazis just as no one could believe that Hitler would live up to his own words about his plans. But he did; but they did.
And so after recalling the reality of the Nazis, we should then say: "You, Tucker Carlson, are enabling the return of Nazi vileness. It isn't just a debate on policy or history. It isn't a war. either. It's the fact of Hamas using Nazi methods which are so vile that everyone prefers to forget whatever they learn about them as a simple act of good mental health. Everyone but Hamas is forgetting hard but Hamas is saying: "Sounds good; yeah, that's the way to treat the Jews. And our own dissidents. "
Hamas has so many Gazans buried down in their tunnels that they accidently send Gazan bodies to Israel instead of hostage bodies. Don't you just hate it when that happens. An easy mistake to make with all the bodies buried in side tunnels lying about but still, not a good look.
But, luckily for today's Nazi-lovers it's too much to ask Tucker or university students to think about what these mistakes imply about real life in Gaza under Hamas. Or to learn about the Nazis. Or about Hamas and the Nazis. Students only react to slogans. Tucker? Once I thought he was one of the good guys. Brave. Thoughtful. Now he's wearing a skinsuit of himself.
Except there is a whole lot of virtue signaling on this score
Tucker was the only one who pursued the j6 fraud who put julie kelly on, who pointed out the folly of this ukraine war
Royko was one of a kind.
John kass is the closest parallel chicago reporters are not worth the bother now
A good cigar may be a smoke but that that last picture is smokin'...
Reflections on the Democrat Embrace of Mamdani - John Kass https://share.google/Ogvb9tlngDACSkz9E
A Nice touch for our dead.
https://nypost.com/2025/11/11/world-news/dutch-family-has-cared-for-graves-of-american-soldiers-for-80-years/
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