Althouse: Sunday morning skyline.

October 13, 2019

Sunday morning skyline.

26 comments:

Kay said...: Wonderful view. All looks still.; 10/13/19, 12:57 PM
bagoh20 said...: When first I looked out the window this morning all I could see was a sea of zombies all the way to the horizon. It was beautiful, but send some ammo, please. BTW, who cleans up this mess. Is there a number I call for that?; 10/13/19, 1:25 PM
traditionalguy said...: Somber sunrise. But will it snow?; 10/13/19, 1:55 PM
Big Mike said...: Sunday morning coming down ...; 10/13/19, 1:57 PM
Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of New York said...: You should have seen the view from Burlington, VT today. Overlooking the lake that was pretty still and a slightly deeper than sky blue, reflecting the Adirondacks across the lake that are on fire right now with fall foliage, brilliant sun, just a perfect fall day.; 10/13/19, 2:16 PM
rhhardin said...: It may happen that a lady says that you said something mean to her, and she has now caught you lying in denying that you meant what she claims. And if you're mean and now lying about it, how can you expect to have a relationship with her. She now finds you distant and suspects you're cheating on her as well.

Same thing happens to Trump and his soap opera media audience. One word misunderstood.

"Who can understand why two lovers who idolised one another the night before, because of one word misinterpreted, split up, eastward one, west the other, goaded by hate, revenge, love and remorse, and never see each other again, both cloaked in lonely pride. This is a miracle renewed every day and is none the less miraculous for that."

- Lautreamont; 10/13/19, 2:34 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: When they say "hey Guildy, how'd you pull it off?" I'm gonna say "hard-boiled eggs, turmeric, and parm."; 10/13/19, 2:40 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: Steven Tchoo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Toji) faced more harder under extremely utmost conditions, and ought be superlative-overcome.; 10/13/19, 3:23 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Leprino

"James Leprino was born circa 1938.[2] He is the youngest of five children of Mike Leprino Sr., who emigrated from Italy in 1914, aged 16, settled in Denver, and was a farm worker before starting a grocery store in Denver's Little Italy in 1950.[4][1]

Career
After graduating from high school in 1956, he worked full-time with his father, but due to pressure from large grocery chains, his father's store closed in 1958, so he started Leprino Foods with $615, focusing on making cheese for pizza, sales of which were booming.[1]

Leprino is the chairman and CEO of Leprino Foods, the largest manufacturer of mozzarella cheese in the world.[2] In October 2017, his net worth was estimated by Forbes at US$3.1 billion.[2]

He supplies major pizza chains including Pizza Hut, Domino's, Papa John's and Little Caesars, and controls up to 85% of the US pizza cheese market.[1]
... ides in Indian Hills, Colorado.[2]"

Love ya, but I eat Papa Johns or the best cheapo Jack's with Real Wisconsin cheese. I taste the difference and don't appreciate the low grade cheese.

Good for the billioniares others do I guess though.; 10/13/19, 3:39 PM
stevew said...: Brooding, ominous, could mean rain, was there?

Put MIL's Cape house to bed for the winter. Exterior water systems drained. Garden knocked down. Fish pond mechanicals removed, drained, and stashed in the barn. Storm windows lowered.

Mom likes to keep the place at 50 degrees while she's in FL for the winter. That is enough heat to keep interior water pipes from freezing, and minimizes the heating cost. House was built in 1850 so it's not what you would call properly insulated. Mom refuses to replace the original windows (single pane, weight operated sash) and the storms are mediocre at best. MassSave came in and did a free energy audit, told her she should insulate more, gave her some free CFL bulbs, and programmable thermostats. We walked her through how to set the temp at 50 degrees when she leaves on Tuesday, but I think I'll be making a side trip later in the month to make sure she didn't forget how between today and Tuesday.

Glorious day on the Cape, nearly hit 70 degrees. Many of the brightly colored trees have changed and the sun was out most of the day. Nice drive down and back with mrs. stevew.

I love this time of year.; 10/13/19, 4:35 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: Watcing the Minn Trump spectacular...

Wow.

You MN haven't been forgotten, even though those ... Big City Harvard New York connections did always always always make sure no matter the 50,000 Somalians YOU LOVE JEWS.

MN.

YOU LOVE JEWS MN.

You need 99,000 Ilhan Omars proving your point though, so best think "hey I'll just brainwash the children" to succeed.; 10/13/19, 5:02 PM
h said...: I'd like to raise a question about the discussion of "protecting the identity of the whistleblower". Is it believable to anyone that the Trump administration, given the publicly available clues -- a CIA expert on Ukraine who worked with Biden during the Obma administration and continues or continued to work in the WH -- cannot determine with very high degree of probability the identity of the whistleblower? What does the discussion look like?

PDJT: How many people on the WH national security staff are Ukraine experts?
Staff: Hundreds!! ANd they are all here from the CIA, and more than half of them worked in the Obama WH. THere is no way we can figure out which one of them is the whistleblower.

I expect the actual conversation to go like this:

PDJT: How many people on the WH national security staff are Ukraine exrperts?
Staff: Two, or maybe three depending on how you define Ukraine experts.
PDJT: Which of those experts came to us from the CIA?
Staff: Only Vasily Jones.
PDJT: And did Vasily Jones also work on the WH staff during the Obama years?
Staff: Yes.; 10/13/19, 5:29 PM
Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of New York said...: America’s Team! The New York Jets!; 10/13/19, 6:22 PM
Hagar said...: I would think every network news room in D.C. and New York knows who the "whistleblower" is (or areby) now.; 10/13/19, 7:39 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: Jus =t== happebed agbdm''

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areasesel; 10/13/19, 8:08 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: Only a small portion of society is paid to hate, and with Law Prof credentials, paid to, exemplified best by Noah Feldman, justify any and all forms of hatred with academic gloss.; 10/13/19, 8:35 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: I honestly do wonder: Do any of these 101 IQs think that is all anyone (aka those they are trying to replace) was?

Or ever could be?; 10/13/19, 8:38 PM
Milwaukie guy said...: Two long posts:

My Sunday morning church is binge watching the news. Reliable Sources, State of the Union, GPS, Fox News Sunday and the WSJ Report. The Kurdish situation was number one with a bullet. I'm fascinated by all the anti-Trump positions out there.

For those who have done their basic Wikipedia, Kurdistan is split between Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran. They were ignored in Sykes-Picot. According to Spengler, the Kurds are nearing 50% of Turkey's population but in the other three they are small regional minorities.

Turkey hosts the PKK, which is designated a terrorist organization by the EU and the U.S.

Iraq hosts two Kurdish organizations of appoximately equal strength who are constantly feuding and may have lost Kirkuk for that very reason. We have supported them against the central government of Iraq since the First Gulf War. We cooperated with them, the Iraqi National Army and Shiite militias to defeat the Caliphate in Iraq.

As I understand it, presently there are three Kurdish organizations in Syria. One is the YPG. It was the group the Obama administration settled on to support. [I remember them having to be prodded to help the Yazidis.] The YPG is allied with the PKK, a security threat for the Turks.

There are two other Syrian Kurdish organizations, one who is the ruling party in the Kurdish quadrant and has been allying with Assad, the Syrian civil war victor. The third group I know nothing about as I also know nothing about Iranian Kurdistan.

The Trump administration continued that support to YPG, and possibly the two others, in the fight against the Caliphate and it was defeated. All the various anti-ISIS militias in Syria and Iraq were fighting for their lives and the U.S. helped them turn back the tide and achieve victory.

At no time has the U.S. signed on to the idea of Kurdish liberation. Turkey is our NATO ally. The Kurds are like a number of Marxist sects squabbling about stuff and territory. They haven't reached the, shall we say, Continental Congress stage of their liberation struggle.

Kurdish liberation is not worth the life of a single American grenadier.; 10/13/19, 9:26 PM
Milwaukie guy said...: 2/

That said, what the hell are the Lindsey Grahams talking about, short of war with Turkey? Keeping our human shields there? Fifty special operators over a 300 mile front is one human shield every 6 miles. Maybe a well-manned roadblock every 100 miles. The Turks would just drive around them. Imagine the humiliation when we were simply ignored. The rest of the American contingent is mostly artillery and support units.

What about the American trip wire in the Sinai? Well, that was two parachute battalions that could give a good account of themselves. You couldn't just drive around them.

The Syrians are now driving up from the south. The Kurdish quadrant is home to Syria's eastern oil fields and Assad wants them back. It's time to get out of the way and let the chips fall.

What about all the ISIS prisoners? Most of those 11,000 being guarded by the Kurds are European citizens. The U.S. has been trying to get the Euroweenies to take them back and prosecute them. This is somehow America's problem? We put our prisoners in Gitmo and the world pitched a bitch.

ISIS escapees will infiltrate Europe! See Euroweenies above.

ISIS will regenerate! That's mostly a problem initially for the governments in the region. They should study the last campaign. We'll probably pitch in again.

I can't believe the stupidity. Trump won't solve the Kurdish situation this week or even this month, but He's Kept Us Out of War, as promised.

P.S. The Kurds will milk this like William Randolph Hearst and Gaza Pallywood production. The Democrats, the Never-Trumpers and the MSM will gleefully join in. But, if it came to a real war, they would turn against it at Kasserine Pass.

I feel better now.; 10/13/19, 9:28 PM
wildswan said...: I saw the Minnesota rally for Trump. The crowd was with him, it was a great rally, and I thought there was a good chance he will win Minnesota. Trump is out there making trade deals, building the wall, improving the economy and holding rallies to build support. The Dems are doing no legislation; they've got two fools running the major impeachment-attempt committees; they're holding rallies about taking away the tax-exempt status of the Catholic Church; and they're and shutting off power in California instead of clearing out brush from over-grown forests. Biden and the Chinese are both openly shutting down speech. The strategy is hard to understand. It's like watching Napoleon's Grand Army set out for Moscow in late autumn.; 10/13/19, 10:21 PM
BJM said...: Spectacular, spectacular
No words in the vernacular
Can describe this great event
You'll be dumb with wonderment...; 10/13/19, 10:22 PM
Original Mike said...: @stevew - Why not blow out the house plumbing too and turn the heat off for the winter?; 10/13/19, 10:43 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: Papa Murphy's is whay what I meant.

papa Johns kicked out the good guy right?

Expects victory by kicking out the winner, the founder.

Well friendos, Donald is here to stay.; 10/13/19, 10:45 PM
stevew said...: @Original Mike

This has been suggested, and it would actually be even easier than that. The town water supply shutoff is easily accessed in the partial cellar of the house (most is on a granite foundation), a simple ball valve with a drain, there is a dry well in the floor of the cellar. But mom is unwilling to consider it, someone, sometime long ago convinced her it was a bad idea. May have been her father, a power industry engineer.

News update: the Boston Globe tells me "US Forces leave 'high value' Islamic State detainees behind in retreat from Syria". Leaving is now a "retreat", got it. The NYT says, "Abandoned by US in Syria, Kurds find new ally in American foe.".

War and Middle East Intervention good, Orange Man Bad.; 10/14/19, 5:46 AM
Narayanan said...: Milwaukie guy said...
Two long posts
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Well done.
Thanks for remind and remember of yazidi - was in Iraq or Syria?; 10/14/19, 6:36 AM
Original Mike said...: @stevew - The house we rent up north every year does what I suggest. We are always the last renters of the season and at the end of our stay the plumber arrives, drains the pipes, the furnace gets shut off and the house spends the winter at the ambient temperature (which is pretty cold in northern Wisconsin). The house is 100 years old. The method seems to work.; 10/14/19, 8:27 AM