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At the Sunrise Café...

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... you can talk all night.

And if you're still buying things, may I remind you about the Althouse Portal to Amazon?

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That second photo was taken at 7:41, which was 14 minutes after the actual sunrise time. The photo 3 posts down shows 14 minutes before the actual sunrise time. Today's sunrise had an excellent narrative arc. The photograph at the top of this post shows how it looked at 7:31.

७२ टिप्पण्या:

wild chicken म्हणाले...

Yeah I saw that too.

Damn funny stuff over there.

Howard म्हणाले...

Nice photos. Trump is so funny. The libtards are on the ropes now.

Inga म्हणाले...

https://reason.com/2019/12/22/when-is-an-officer-impeached-iv/#comments

“At a Turning Point USA event in Florida, the president noted, "In fact, there's no impeachment. Their own lawyer said there's no impeachment. What are we doing here?" The president is taking note of an op-ed by Noah Feldman, one of the Democratic expert witnesses at the House Judiciary impeachment hearings, who argued that the president is not technically impeached until the articles of impeachment are exhibited in the Senate.

The Republican expert witness, Jonathan Turley, has now argued that Feldman is wrong. Laurence Tribe was among those advising the House Democrats to postpone delivering the articles of impeachment to the Senate, but insists that the House has nonetheless already impeached the president.”

Just as I said a few days ago. The Whitehouse/Trump is going to try to say there is no impeachment until the Articles are transmitted to the Senate. Boom there it is. So predictable. So wrong.

Inga म्हणाले...

What a way to throw Turley his OWN witness under the bus, Trump truly has no scruples.

Jaq म्हणाले...

The ice on the lake is already booming. Usually it doesn’t freeze over until the first week of January.

Drago म्हणाले...

Inga the Moron: "Just as I said a few days ago. The Whitehouse/Trump is going to try to say there is no impeachment until the Articles are transmitted to the Senate. Boom there it is. So predictable. So wrong."

LOL

EVERYONE is making fun of the democrats Sham-wow "peachment"!

Trump is playing along. He's having fun. We all are!

Poor Inga. Upset that people are making fun of the dems fake impeachment.

Drago म्हणाले...

Inga: "What a way to throw Turley his OWN witness under the bus, Trump truly has no scruples."

Noah Feldman, Democrats star witness tossed under the bus by the entire dem party and loony Hollywood types, never to be heard from again.

LOL

Good riddance pajama-boy.

Inga म्हणाले...

I recently criticized the position of my fellow witness from the Trump impeachment hearing, Professor Noah Feldman, that Trump is not technically impeached until the articles of impeachment are referred to the Senate. I have known Noah for years and respect him but this theory is utterly without foundation in the text or history or logic of the Constitution. The theory is a chimerical conflation of the impeachment and removal provisions. President Donald Trump however has seemingly embraced the theory that he is not actually impeached. Even as mockery, Feldman’s theory should not be further referenced in my view as credible. The President’s status is clear. He stands impeached, but untried.

President Trump lashed out at the Democrats from West Palm Beach yesterday, declaring:

“They had nothing. There’s no crime. There’s no nothing,” Trump said. “How do you impeach? You had no crime. Even their people said there was no crime. In fact, there’s no impeachment. Their own lawyer said there’s no impeachment. What are we doing here?”
The reference to Feldman’s theory could be simple taunting but there have been reports that the White House was thinking of adopting the clearly erroneous interpretation.

I have already explained why this interpretation is unsupported and untenable from either a textual or historical standpoint.

Trump added that the Democrats have elected to “pursue an illegal, unconstitutional and hyperpartisan impeachment.” I have obviously criticized this impeachment. However, the way to oppose the effort is not to simply force a muscle vote while citing dubious constitutional interpretations. There are strong defenses against conviction but such defenses are undermined by opportunistic or unsupportable interpretations.

Inga म्हणाले...

“My view—which I suspect much of the public shares—is that Mr. Trump was impeached...”

Dershowitz

Ha, everyone but Trump himself.

madAsHell म्हणाले...

We traveled to Portland to see the Nutcracker with the in-laws. I think I'm realizing a paradox!!

Which came first??? The leotard or the dance sock??




Jaq म्हणाले...

Yeah, he’s “impeached” but it will always have an asterisk. The political “impeachment" over policy differences and Pelosi is demanding that it not be tried with the same rules that the Senate used for Clinton. Well the Senate has the “sole power” to try the impeachment and it’s really none of the business of the House as to how it is done. When the Senate passed a resolution saying that the House needed to give POTUS due process, the House ignored it. What goes ‘round comes ‘round Nancy.

walter म्हणाले...

Yes, yes Inga. That's very powerful. Leave it to Spielosi to take their very urgent particles of peach mints into an ambiguous purgatory. She almost stroked out trying to explain it, then shut down further questions.
Sadly, the Senate Dems want a redo of the House's sad construction.
Good luck with that.

Jaq म्हणाले...

This is the first time a political party in the US has used impeachment to cover up their own corruption. Ukraine = Teapot Dome.

Jaq म्हणाले...

It was critical that the impeachment be voted on the anniversary of the Clinton impeachment, where there was recorded evidence of Bill Clinton suborning perjury in a sexual harassment lawsuit. “Deny, deny, deny.” - Bill Clinton.

We call them #MeToo now but then they were called “bimbo eruptions.”

Drago म्हणाले...

Inga is back to her old ways whereby if she posts enough links she can change the reality of the situation.

Sorry Inga. Trump is going to be reelected.

The only thing that could help Trump more than 1 sham-wow impeachment, would be 2 or 3 MORE sham-wow impeachments!!

LOL

Please God, let the dems impeach Trump again before Nov of 2020!

Drago म्हणाले...

The impeachment that was so astonishingly powerful that it disappeared from the news in about 24 hours and Nancy said she didn't want to talk about it anymore!!

It's Mueller all over again.

Happy Impeachment-mas!!

Jaq म्हणाले...

The House is trying to create rules that makes it impossible for the President to present a defense. You know, since that has nothing to do with “proving” his guilt.

Drago म्हणाले...

The Very Very Very Very Forgetful Inga: "Ha, everyone but Trump himself."

Does "everyone" include democrat star constitutional witness Noah Feldman, who was referenced earlier in this very thread.

"Everyone" but democrat star witness and constitutional scholar Noah Feldman and Trump, right Inga?

LOL

It's always most fun when the worst of the worst lefties like LLR-lefty Chuck and Inga and Ritmo contradict themselves in the same thread.

Drago म्हणाले...

BTW, did you know Inga still believes the hoax dossier is real, Trump colluded with Russia, Brett Kavanaugh was a gang rape leader AND Carter Page is a russian asset?

LOL

Inga still believes, passionately, each one of those things.

Just ask her! She'll tell you.

अनामित म्हणाले...

Your morning pictures all look the same.

Drago म्हणाले...

How ironic.

So many hack socialist dems claimed they had to impeach Trump otherwise Trump would win reelection in 2020 and now the sham-wow impeachment effort is actually going to contribute to that reelection victory.

Nice.

Jaq म्हणाले...

She pretends to believe it because pretending to believe stuff is a source of political power.

Drago म्हणाले...

Democrats: We have absolutely proven Trump broke the law in the House proceedings. Slam dunk. Air-tight conviction.

Also Democrats: We need to have the Senate impeachment trial include additional witnesses so that additional necessary facts can come out which will prove our charges.

Democrats: Trump represents an existential immediate threat to the very survival of our democracy and there is a literal crime in progress!!!

Also Democrats: What's the rush?

narciso म्हणाले...

Its afloor wax and a desert topping.

narciso म्हणाले...


Im sure dhe still does


https://mobile.twitter.com/ClimateAudit/status/1208869606942748679

wildswan म्हणाले...

https://pjmedia.com/trending/video-stammering-blabbering-stuttering-pelosi-tries-to-explain-the-impeachment-delay/

I was looking at this viral video of Nancy Pelosi mumbling away and I noticed that she says the House is refusing to pay for the House impeachment as well as for the Senate trial. The Senate cannot go forward without that pay authorization BUT NEITHER CAN THE HOUSE.
We have a "bill ... made ... by the Rules Committee that we can call up at any time in order to send it to the Senate and ... the provisions in it ... pay ... for the ... impeachment. And [pay for] ... the next step, ... the trial." So this means that the House has not agreed to pay for the House impeachment or the Senate trial and I think that might mean that the impeachment has not happened as well as that the Senate trial cannot go forward. The House has the power of the purse and what it will not pay for cannot happen.

"We are, we have, I have... When we bring the bill, which is just so you know, there's a bill made in order by the Rules Committee that we can call up at any time in order to send it to the Senate and to have the provisions in it to pay for the, for the impeachment. And then the next step, and the eh, que, uh... uhl ... ... whatever you want to call it, the qu uh, the trial,"

Bill, Republic of Texas म्हणाले...

Trump's not impeached because the coming expungement will wipe it out.

Hahahahahahahaha.

Josephbleau म्हणाले...

narciso, I was floored by your link to McIntyre's write up of Russian transfer of dirt to Hillary via Steele relative to supposed transfer of Hillary's email to Trump by Russia. McIntyre has a way of piercing the stupidity. He made his mark years ago by demonstrating that dishonest gold deposit sampling analysis was facilitating a mining stock promotion fraud.

narciso म्हणाले...

And after that he cut the miasma of the mann hockey stick, something the press still worships like the mutants do the doomsday cobalt bomb.

Drago म्हणाले...

In another blow to lefty/LLR-lefty stupidity, JK Rowling and Martina Navratilova still refuse to accept that men and women are biologically the same and thus interchangeable.

Nurse Inga of pro-infanticide party hardest hit.

Josephbleau म्हणाले...

" So this means that the House has not agreed to pay for the House impeachment or the Senate trial and I think that might mean that the impeachment has not happened as well as that the Senate trial cannot go forward. The House has the power of the purse and what it will not pay for cannot happen."

Therefore Nancy has decreed that the House, by it's control of spending, has veto over anything the Senate does by unfunding it. Why doesn't the House unfund appointment of Federal Judges they don't like, why did they not unfund the appointment of Kavanaugh?

Original Mike म्हणाले...

"BTW, did you know Inga still believes the hoax dossier is real,"

Inga and Chuck.

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM म्हणाले...

in this video, you will see a smart cat, and a stupid lib

https://twitter.com/i/status/1208454619204083712

rhhardin म्हणाले...

This is the pussy-hat impeachment.

"I did nothing wrong."

"Well if you don't know what you did wrong I certainly can't tell you."

narciso म्हणाले...



This is the second half of the review:

https://youtu.be/F5qh8wEa6mc

narciso म्हणाले...

Hope springs eternal


https://mobile.twitter.com/KenGardner11/status/1208817583643860997

narciso म्हणाले...



Sounds familiar

https://mobile.twitter.com/KeiraSavage00/status/1208509644894695424

narciso म्हणाले...

The first is schumers supposed eureka moment, the second is the dource of the australian wildfires

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM म्हणाले...

"Big Sister H" and "Big Lady"...and Big Bill, and Big $$$Bills

The new charges against Pedocrat George Nader are very serious.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1208454619204083712

Drago म्हणाले...

uh oh lefties/LLR-lefties:

"China to further reduce tariffs and remove non-tariff barriers for foreign investors: Xinhua"

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-tariff-reduce/china-to-further-reduce-tariffs-and-remove-non-tariff-barriers-for-foreign-investors-xinhua-idUSKBN1WY08M

How can this be?

We were told this was literally impossible and would never happen by LLR-lefty Chuck and Inga and ARM and gadfly and the rest of the leftwing moron "brain"trust.

Hmmmm, its almost like taking everything the Althouse lefties/LLR-lefties say and assuming the opposite will happen would set someone up nicely in understanding what is on the horizon.

What is my take on how long it will take for the idiot lefties/LLR-lefties to recover from another instance in which they were horrendously wrong again?

First pass assessment: Never.

agentlesoul म्हणाले...

Vox has decided that the Constitution stands in the way of progressivism.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/12/17/21011079/senate-bias-2020-data-for-progress?utm_source=pocket-newtab

narciso म्हणाले...

Heck its over ahundred years old as its founder ezra klein said

NorthOfTheOneOhOne म्हणाले...

wildswan said...

I was looking at this viral video of Nancy Pelosi mumbling away and I noticed that she says the House is refusing to pay for the House impeachment as well as for the Senate trial. The Senate cannot go forward without that pay authorization BUT NEITHER CAN THE HOUSE.

I'm starting to wonder if Nancy only went through drawing the articles up so she could shut up Schiff and Nadler, and pacify the DemocRAT base.

NorthOfTheOneOhOne म्हणाले...

And to draw attention away from IG Horowitz's testimony before the Senate, I might add.

narciso म्हणाले...



Hah:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2019/12/22/box-office-grumpy-cats-earns-just-65m-as-bombshell-implodes/amp/

wildswan म्हणाले...

During the impeachment debate the Dems used high-priced criminal lawyers and House staff. But there was not an authorization for payment. One thing you aren't supposed to do is go ahead and spend money before the House authorizes payment. Otherwise the Senate could just go ahead and hold its trial and get authorization later. But neither the House nor the Senate can do that, yet it seems they did. Impeach Pelosi?

I think the "impeachment" might be invalid because it took money to carry it out, yet the spending bill has not, even yet, been passed.

Char Char Binks, Esq. म्हणाले...

It doesn’t matter if the impeachment happened or not. Nothing will come of it they don’t take the next step. Then again, nothing will come of it if they do.

iowan2 म्हणाले...

There can be nothing as worthless as debating whether President Trump is now "impeached".

The full house has voted. That's it. The existing status of that influences nothing.

The entire thing is NOTHING. The next step, the Senate will do, things. These things are meaningless.

The only thing that matters is when the Senate votes. Thats it.

The house has voted. The Senate will vote. Anything beyond that is navel gazing, at expert level.

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM म्हणाले...

Happy Hanaccquital !

is BoToxic Nan doin' a pocket veto,

... or is she saving her Mmmm-Peach Mint to muck up the FISA abuse hearings?

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM म्हणाले...

oh--"BoToxic Nan" is Nancy Pelosi-- Speaker of the Hoax

... but you knew that!

stephen cooper म्हणाले...

History will view, in the near future, the impeachment of Trump as a disgusting crime against the American people carried out by Obama's nasty unAmerican cronies, and then in the far future History will forget impeachment.

Elf will be remade with better actors - I mean could Ed Asner have done a worse job?, and to tell the truth Will Ferrell was sort of bad at his role too, he probably only got it because of connections - and that is what people will talk about when they talk about the Bush-Obama years, except for professional historians who, to tell the truth, are never going to think any better of Pelosi and Schiff, the cronies of Bush and Obama, toying around with the Constitution than any of us who know what they were up to do think of them now.

stephen cooper म्हणाले...

Then again there are people who argue that the earlier deMille Ten Commandments, from the Silent Era, are much much better than the 1950s technicolor version, and one could see some horrible remake of Elf with poor Peter Davidson as the elf and poor David Letterman in the Santa role, so let's not despair, after today is the day the Lord has made, so let us be glad and rejoice.

stephen cooper म्हणाले...

"after all today is the day the Lord has made so let us be glad and rejoice"


sunrise
lever de soleil
avrora

narciso म्हणाले...


Well asner has done the prototypi al grouch since lou grant in the 80s, never really watched the show


https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2019/12/22/ny-times-nicholas-kristof-tis-season-redefining-christianity

stephen cooper म्हणाले...

Newhart was really bad in the movie too.
But Leon Redbone and James Caan hit it out of the park with their roles and even Zooey Deschanel was great

stephen cooper म्हणाले...

and Hunthausen as the Arctic Puffin ---- great stuff

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM म्हणाले...

reported by this publication (and others) that Christianity Today is a Soros front organization.

https://pulpitandpen.org/2019/12/20/remember-that-christianity-today-is-backed-by-george-soros/

Did Mueller Place Special Counsel CYA in Report Footnote? – Proactive Distancing from Known Clinesmith Wrongdoing…

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/21/did-mueller-place-special-counsel-cya-in-report-footnote-proactive-distancing-from-known-clinesmith-wrongdoing/

narciso म्हणाले...

Its a real favorite. I have a fondness for its awonderful life, because it was performed as aplay, in high school i had a small part as the doctor who had to dash george baileys dreams, the star is aplayer ofsome note today.

stephen cooper म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
narciso म्हणाले...


Any counter arguments


https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2019/12/19/get-the-hell-out-of-afghanistan-now-n2558141

stephen cooper म्हणाले...

I love its a wonderful life, I love the scene in the bar where Jimmy Stewart sees an old friend from town he has not seen for years and the Steward character says - why Bob, where've you been and the other guy says - away working for the state .... making license plates, and a few minutes later someone who has just been introduced to Harry by the Jimmy Stewart character asks the bartender - hey is that guy crazy - and the bartender replies "well there are two schools of thought on that"

years ago I dated for a few months (or a few years) a beautiful French woman and one night we had a conversations, after doing the whole gazing into each others' eyes for a while she said, Steve, where do you see our future heading and I said well we like each other that is a start and she said yes it is but can we trust the future and I said well there have always been two schools of thought on that but just at that moment a band struck up the first few chords of Begin the Beguine and she said Steve let's dance and so I never knew if she knew I was quoting from It's A Wonderful Life, probably one of her favorite movies in later years - if I remember correctly

Big Mike म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
Big Mike म्हणाले...

Two parties in the early hours of Sunday morning, one in Chicago and one near Baltimore. 20 people shot, several critically wounded. Question for Democrats, given the strict gun control laws in Chicago and Baltimore, how many of the five (or more) guns involved were legally acquired?

narciso म्हणाले...

This is what lucas originally wanted



https://youtu.be/x1dM9qFe4p0

Narayanan म्हणाले...

A few days ago I had raised issue of honest service fraud by Pelosi and House D's on impeachment.

Am I vindicated?

If there was fraud does "impeachment" stand?

William म्हणाले...

I'm trying to get into Witcher on Netflix. I've seen a few episodes. It's not awful, but it makes you realize what an achievement Game of Thrones was. GOT could put you in a fantasy world that was both recognizable and comprehensible. There were allusions to Shakespeare, Sophocles and Seneca with guest appearances by the Mongols, Lancasters, and Mamelukes....Witcher seems more involved with the myths of Universal Studio horror movies than with the great events and heroes of civilization. There aren't any characters whose story arc is particularly compelling or recognizable. Still, there's a fair amount of nudity, gore, and special effects. I'll stick with it even though the plot is confusing and pretentious. It's better than the impeachment drama but a far cry from GOT.

Narayanan म्हणाले...

GoFundMe to pay for Impeachment?

William म्हणाले...

Trump is as oversized as a character in a Shakespearean play, but he seems to have drifted over from the forest of Arden into one of the history plays.....There was something tragic about the demise of JFK and the falls of LBJ and Nixon, but Trump doesn't do tragedy. He's a comic figure who makes history. He's completely miscast to play in an impeachment drama.

Breezy म्हणाले...

McConnell pretty much skewered the articles of impeachment themselves. Taking the long view, he’s not going to let that “shoddy work product” set the standard, as, for one thing, it will encourage the House to tie up the Senate business over policy differences.

stevew म्हणाले...

These photos capture how clear and dry the air is; beautiful. The colors, and especially the contrast among them, are stunning.

Jersey Fled म्हणाले...

I get confused when Ann posts pictures of sunrises in the evening.

stephen cooper म्हणाले...

narciso i was a kid when lucas was a kid and trust me all we care about is the fact that either

we enjoyed life or we didn't

I enjoyed it

there is that moment in "Peggy Sue got married" where everyone realizes the fact that God loves us all

well that was Coppola not Lucas but YOU KNOW WHAT I AM SAYING