January 15, 2020

At the Sunrise Café...

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... you can talk about whatever you want.

This is the western view at 7:54, on a day when the "actual" sunrise time was 7:27. The view looking east was solid cloud — a type #1 sunrise. There were some breaks in the clouds to the west, so I turned the camera that way.

81 comments:

eric said...

Did you hear the audio of Warren and Bernie during the handshake?

Warren: "You called me a liar on national TV?"

Bernie: "What?"

Warren: "I think you called me a liar on national TV!"

Bernie: "we can address this later. I think you called me a liar."

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

"That's NOT a Spicy Meatball!!"

...it's Micro Mike Blahberg

and here's Mr. SloJo Rambling supercut vid. Sad. #Polygrip

https://twitter.com/i/status/1217384054015905792

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Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

Assange May Walk Free Thanks To CIA Bumbling: Former NYT General Counsel

A few days before Christmas, Julian Assange testified to a Spanish court that a Spanish security company, UC Global S.L., acting in coordination with the CIA, illegally recorded all his actions and conversations, including with his lawyers, and streamed them back in real time to the CIA.

https://truepundit.com/assange-may-walk-free-thanks-to-cia-bumbling-former-nyt-general-counsel/

Inga said...


Lev Parnas is spilling his guts on Rachel Maddow. Trump, Pence, Giuliani, Barr and more are directly implicated in the scheme to get Zelensky to announce an investigation into Burisma and Hunter Biden, in order to allow Trump to get a leg up on Biden. “It was never strictly about Burisma, it was about Joe Biden.”

Inga said...

Giuliani told Parnas to tell a Ukraine official that ALL assistance, military and otherwise would be halted unless the announcement into a Biden investigation was announced by Zelensky.

Inga said...

Parnas is directly implicating Trump in this scheme. Trump was aware and directing Giuliani and Giuliani was directing Parnas. Not looking good for Trump, Pence, Barr and any foolish people who did Trump’s bidding.

Drago said...

Admiral Inga: "Lev Parnas is spilling his guts on Rachel Maddow."

LOLOLOLOLOL

It's Cohen/Lanny Davis all over again as predicted back in November!

"bombshell"!!

The Walls Are Closing In!

Crowdstrike has become Area 1.
The DNC has become Burisma.
The Russians hacked Hillary is now the Russians hacked the Bidens!

The dems really do only have one play in the playbook and they just keep running the same thing over and over and over again.

Drago said...

Admiral Inga: "Parnas is directly implicating Trump in this scheme."

LOLOLOLOLOL

Next up: Parnas phone was in Prague!!!!

Nobody knows what Parnas knows!!!

The end is near!!!

Gospace said...

Continuing a topic from yesterday, a blogpost from a true believer:
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2020/01/an-introduction-to-q.html

The comment I most agree with: "Q has irritated all the right people, so it has value in my book"

Doesn't matter whether or not I believe Q is real, nor of you or our hostess here does. What matters is - there's a not insubstantial number of people who are pro-Trump and believe he's real and read and follow the people who read and decipher the drops. and - there are anti-Trumpers who believe he's real, as demonstrated by their actions, who want to stop Q posts from being disseminated sine they're "fake news", or whatever excuse for censorship they're using for the day. And there are pro-Trumpers (and anti-Trumpers( who are aghast that anyone is taking this Q person/group seriously.

Real or larper? Truth or misdirection? As I said yesterday, I'm agnostic on Q being real.

But I know a lot about the Q followers. And cults and conspiracy theories. Nowadays, almost everyone is a conspiracy theorist, summed up in a single meme: Epstein didn't kill himself! Is there anyone, even here, who believes he did? I've been studying and reading about cults since my teenage years when the Children of God, Moses David's (aka David Berg) group made multiple attempts to recruit me. Their recruiting techniques were interesting. I was immune. Once you start reading up on cults, you start reading up on conspiracy theories. They're closely related.

Drago said...

Parnas is the new Cohen.

Parnas new Clinton-connected lawyer is the new Lanny Davis.

The Cohen scenario is the new Parnas scenario: guy under indictment and pressure from the obama-holdovers/dem activists in the SDNY get the target to change lawyers from a real defense lawyer to a dem activist lawyer, client suddenly remembers he has all kinds of "new info" to share and in this case its undated handwritten notes....

......LOLOLOL

Sounds totally legit to me!

What could go wrong?

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

what Bernie heard:

"I thank you for killing my lyre on ashen AltaVie"

Inga said...

Gospace, I’ve been reading a lot of sub reddit Q groups today and I’m really blown away by the massive following of this Q thing/person. It’s a fascinating phenomenon. Q hasn’t been heard from for a few weeks now. I’m curious to hear what he’ll have to say when he does make one of these droppings.

Vance said...

I still don’t get the left and Inga here. Are they really claiming that 1) Biden is so obviously innocent that it is not credible nor was it ever credible to ask why Biden got a prosecutor fired who was looking into apparent corruption on Biden’s part and 2) that a politician must never take any action that has any hint whatsoever of possible political gain even if it benefits the country as well? If so what about every Democrat ever?

Of course we all know that the answer is OrangeManBad.

stevew said...

It needs a title. I propose: Winter, Madison WI, 2020, Westerly.

I've taken to seeing and examining my surroundings more on the walks I routinely take, I credit our host for that. It is quietly comforting.

narciso said...

The walls are closing, lets just give up now.

narciso said...

Farnas evil projects included getting naftogaz to be less dependent on russian natural gas the monster, burisma is naftogazs no supplier

narciso said...


I like research a little more definitive


https://apelbaum.wordpress.com/

Chuck said...

Inga; there is also a simple fact about Parnas, his phone and his data...

The DoJ has had access to everything-Parnas since his arrest. Months and months ago. The only reason that the information is coming out now is no thanks to (or public-interest cooperation from) the DoJ. Rather, it is because Parnas sought court approval to cooperate with a Congressional request for that same information. If the DoJ had its way, we still would not have gotten the information.

Christopher said...

If the democrats were hoping for some sort of payoff from the impeachment debacle then they are well and truly screwed.

Nobody outside of political obsessives is paying attention and even amongst that small set almost nobody actually cares. There has been more discussion about pens today than the actual substance of the Democrat's claims.

Hell that's not even the big political story of the moment. Nope, it's all Bernie vs. Warren right now. And within a week this all will once more be forgotten.

narciso said...

It would be funny if it wasnt the fact that hundreds of ukrainians were deprived of heavy weapons against russian tanks amd aircraft, like the kurds they still managed to hold their adversary at bay.

narciso said...

Meanwhile the awan bros are allowed to get clean away after the hack of the house computers.

Chuck said...

This was the link of the day for me. Not because it was the sexiest or most fun story, but rather because it is the one that gives Trump World the least room for explanation. It’s the sort of story I am always looking out for. Where Trump fans are cornered and into a position with no good way out.

So after Trump’s reckless, crazed claim that “four embassies” were under imminent threat of attacks organized under Soleimani, Congressional staff were set to receive a classified briefing from the State Department on what security measures, warnings, etc., were put in place, at which embassies, and when.

Then the State Department canceled, and gave no reason or other comment.

https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/01/15/state-department-cancels-embassy-security-meeting-099296?__twitter_impression=true

Gahrie said...

Ahh, but the four embassies that's... that's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with... geometric logic...

narciso said...


As for actual facts


https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-51069090?__twitter_impression=true

narciso said...


And furthermore

https://mobile.twitter.com/MPPregent/status/1216865984369348614

rhhardin said...

Veep season 7 continues to amuse. The frozen maxipads for after-abortion comfort trick that the boyfriend offered was the unexpected giggle in that episode. He's been through it a lot of times and wants to be helpful.

narciso said...

See when info is closely held andit is a matter of life and death whether you ever get another shot but politico which prints up regime propaganda through niac and cair doesnt understand that.

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

British Reporter Loses It off camera! But is caught on camera

https://twitter.com/i/status/1217512784864456704

narciso said...

The producer of veep has a new series avenue 5 which seems to an homage to starship titanic

rehajm said...

I was disappointed to see Trump recognize the Adelsons at the signing today. Trump said Sheldon was a good friend. They don’t treat people very well. Sheldon wanted to hire my wife and he had an assistant tell her he wouldn’t take no for an answer. She said no. He took it.

narciso said...

He was targeted by the same lawfare goons for his support of israel, in coordibation with the obama doj.

narciso said...

When adelson finally acquired a us paper, it was like pulling teeth getting the enployees not to commit hariki so is their slavishness to the prog line.

BudBrown said...

subtlerest

roger said...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7891873/Outrage-transgender-childs-doll-sale-Russia.html


I have no words......

narciso said...


Indeed

https://amgreatness.com/2020/01/15/irans-unpardonable-and-unpardoned-incompetence-exposes-same-in-americas-ruling-class/

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

Shocking 57.9% of attendees at President’s rally in Milwaukee were NOT Republicans

According to Parscale, last night’s rally, which ran concurrently with the Democratic debate, had a whopping 20,395 voters in attendance. But the President is used to enjoying huge crowds of supporters, so that alone isn’t a huge deal. What’s most surprising, or as Parscale calls it, “Yuge,” if that 57.9% of voters in attendance were NOT Republicans.

https://noqreport.com/2020/01/15/shocking-57-9-of-attendees-at-presidents-rally-in-milwaukee-were-not-republicans/

David Duffy said...

The impeachment is about a delayed welfare payment to Ukraine. My taxes paid for that welfare payment to Ukraine. If a Ukrainian scoundrel gets a delayed welfare check and has to wait a few weeks to put a couple of hundred thousand into his bank account as part of the millions of aid, that is a reason to impeach the President of the United States.

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

Blogger roger said...

I have no words....


Heather has 2 Mommies...and they both have penises!!

... but at least their candles smell like vaginas! Yay Lefties!!

Michael K said...

Trump said Sheldon was a good friend. They don’t treat people very well. Sheldon wanted to hire my wife and he had an assistant tell her he wouldn’t take no for an answer. She said no. He took it.

I've stayed at Adelson's hotels in Vegas. Nonunion. I've talked to employees and they love working there.

Michael K said...

More Chuck BS. I really need to go back to scrolling past.

Drago said...

Banned Commenter LLR-lefty Chuck (WHO WILL FIGHT YOU!): "Not because it was the sexiest or most fun story, but rather because it is the one that gives Trump World the least room for explanation. It’s the sort of story I am always looking out for. Where Trump fans are cornered and into a position with no good way out."

LOLOLOLOL

- No American casualties
- Increased pressure on Iran
- Western powers aligned with US
- Iranian protestors igniting a follow up to the Green Revolution (which LLR-lefty Chuck's "magnificent" obama abandoned and rewarded the mad mullahs (ANOTHER instance where LLR-lefty Chuck supports the mad mullahs))
- Reduction in Iran resources to fund terrorist operations
- De-escalation by the pressured Iranians
- Leftist Media and LLR-leftist "experts" exposed (again!) as being completely wrong on all aspects of Iranian policy by Trump
- Leftists and LLR-leftists exposed as complete Iranian propaganda assets and shills by repeating obvious and transparent "30 US casualties" lie on the night of the strikes

Win-win-win-win-win-win-win-win.

So. Much. Winning.

Drago said...

I guess I didn't even need to add several of the most wanted terrorist leaders whacked as well!

Banned Commenter LLR-lefty Chuck (WHO WILL FIGHT YOU!) second hardest hit.......

Drago said...

Its still hard to believe that some Americans were so lusting over the idea of US service members deaths that they were willing to promote fake Iranian propaganda headlines just to help their anti-Trump cause.

I do believe we had a few commenters at Althouseblog who were among those most culpable for this really rather treasonous behavior aimed at hurting our military families.

I can't quite recall who these sad excuses for human beings were so perhaps someone can refresh my memory....

Wince said...

Warren: "You called me a liar on national TV?"

Looks to me like Warren and CNN set that up just like it was the early morning hours outside Roger Stone's house.

Drago said...

I would go so far as to say if the question is when those s***hole-type human beings will recover from that particular action, a first-pass answer is never.

narciso said...

As they said ofa academic politics there are no substantive differences between them

William said...

At the present time you have to put the killing of Soleilmani in the win column. However, it's very difficult to actually win anything for any length of time in that part of the world. It won't be a durable win until such time as the people there regard Soleilmani with the same esteem that the Germans currently have for Hitler. Can anyone explain why they routinely produce such leaders as Assad, Qaddafi, Saddam, and the Ayatollah and what actions the US could make to forestall the rise of such leaders.....If Parnas had something bad to say about Biden, his past record would be duly noted. He's just not a reliable witness....I find the Prince Harry story more interesting than the impeachment drama, and the Prince Harry story is trivial and boring.....Veep was very funny. It's targets were the politically correct. It took some shots at conservatives but the natural habitat of the politically correct is the Democratic Party and that's where Veep drew blood.

narciso said...

Re 1917, its rather striking that the staff officers like cumberbatch are depicted as honorable perhaps overzealous.
Not like haig french orgough.

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

a reminder for you h8ers, re: Mayor Pete's foreign policy cred:

... Bend South is one of Indiana's Top 5 largest cities

narciso said...

You cant compare him to rommel obviously but his cunning was off a par with otto skorzeny one of the inspirations for hessler in battle of the bulge. But he was a major kingmaker in iraqi politics going back to 2006 if not farther back

narciso said...

Kind of like house of cards, frank underwood was a murderous pragmatist, a blue dog from south carolina with a degree from the citadel, nearly a dinosaur in current politics

narciso said...



What color is the moon on their world

https://mobile.twitter.com/davereaboi

madAsHell said...

This is the western view at 7:54, on a day when the "actual" sunrise time was 7:27.

What did we expect??

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

DEEPFAKES

why is the DoE involved????

https://twitter.com/ENERGY/status/1217577253057564677

narciso said...


Well what difference does that make:


https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2020/01/15/cbs-nbc-downplay-trump-china-signing-phase-one-trade-deal

narciso said...


Not an outlier


https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/january-democratic-debate-2020-cnn-bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-938365/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

food for THOT, is she a presstitute?

"I wanted to be Zoe Barnes...until episode 4. Sleeping with your source..."
( Ali Watkins,28, re:former Senate aide, James A. Wolfe, 59)

For several years, Watkins' beat was the Senate Intelligence Committee. At The New York Times, where she was hired in December 2017,[15] Watkins covered law-enforcement agencies from its Washington, D.C. bureau until July 2018

Ironically, Wolfe's job was to ensure that leaks of classified intelligence didnt occur. But a DOJ investigation lead to a conviction for lying to the FBI and may have repeatedly leaked classified intel to at least two journalist, one of them being Ali Watkins.

....and now her piece on Epstein-- who did she sleep with for that?

grackle said...

… Trump’s reckless, crazed claim that “four embassies” were under imminent threat of attacks …

Even after Soleimani’s attack on the Baghdad embassy some find it difficult to believe that Soleimani would attack more embassies. Strange, this ignoring of the obvious …

And the basic assumption of the comment is also puzzling to me. Soleimani was a terrorist who had murdered many and would no doubt have murdered more if allowed to live. But somehow Trump needs some nebulous, vague, about-to-happen within the hour “Imminent” something before Trump has the authority to have the terrorist instantly and humanely executed. It was a better end than was deserved.

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

"OK, Broomer"

Hillary, Pelosi File For Religious Discrimination

Supreme Court chief asks if ‘OK, boomer’ qualifies as workplace age discrimination

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/supreme-court-chief-asks-if-saying-ok-boomer-would-qualify-as-workplace-age-discrimination

Yancey Ward said...

As it turned out, I was right- Sanders should have made the direct comment during the debate. If Sanders didn't say what Warren claimed, then Sanders should have called her out directly, because everyone knows the CNN story originated with Warren, not "anonymous" sources.

Amadeus 48 said...

I don't think Prince Andrew's Randy Andy line of kiddie porn is going anywhere. Maybe he can host a Netflix series of true crime shows, starting with "Jeffery Epstein Didn't kill Himself".

Prince Andrew--Super Sleuth will tackle such mysteries as:

--The Vince Foster File
--The Missing Lord Lucan
--Hillary at the Grassy Knoll?
--Seth Rich--That's Rich!
--Ted at Chappaquiddick
--Webster Hubbell--It's a Chelsea Morning
--Ron Brown Crashes Out
--Bring Me the Head of Andrew Breitbart
--Frank Marshall Davis:Call Me Poppa Frank
--Getting the Goods on Palin
--"John McCain is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I have ever known in my life."

Especially for Althouse readers: Who the F**k is Chuck?

narciso said...

He is dean stockwell from beverly hills cop 2

Amadeus 48 said...

Inga said the Magic Words: "Rachel Maddow".

That babe was WRONG about everything for three solid years. She has sunk into pure entertainment, to the extent that one is entertained by having fantasies spun out that go poof when it gets to be time to prove up. And then there is Maddow, who is worse than Inga.

narciso said...


Yes it turned back into a pumpkin


https://www.foxnews.com/politics/lev-parnas-rachel-maddow-trump-yovanovitch-ukraine-house-democrats

Yancey Ward said...

Parnas is just trying to stay out of prison, just like Michael Cohen tried to- it ain't going to work. But, yeah, keep up hope, Inga.

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

what about shaking a fist at young interns

...while saying: "Nyehhh!!! Whipperschnapperzh !!"

does tthat qualify as workplace age discrimination??

(we're talkin' to you, Christopher Marlowe!)

Yancey Ward said...

You want to know what Parnas' biggest piece of supporting documentation was? His own handwritten note of unknown providence.

Yancey Ward said...

And I will lay this out there right now- Parnas and his fellow indictee probably got themselves indicted by trying to seem like political movers and shakers by fabricating claims about being able to bring in big political donations. The FEC and DoJ took their word for it and indicted both of them, and the two are finding it difficult to convince the prosecutors that they were just liars from the start.

Crazy World said...

Bring on this shit show, prorate their obscene salaries. Pissed off and embarrassed for the dim watts.

stevew said...

NYT this morning:

"Its reputation tattered, polarized Senate faces a steep impeachment test"

and

"Trump signs China trade deal, putting economic conflict on pause"

These come from the daily news email I get, they are the electronic equivalent of the front page, above the fold, I guess. The world these people live in and see is foreign to me. Did they not see the laughing, commemorative pen ceremony that Pelosi lorded over? Have they not been paying attention to the economic news for even the last six months?

They really are just Democrats with a byline. Don't even identify these pieces as "analysis", trying to pretend they are straight news. I'd unsubsribe from the email, I don't subscribe to the NYT, but I find value in seeing what they are saying and what they call "Top News".

rehajm said...

Looks to me like Warren and CNN set that up just like it was the early morning hours outside Roger Stone's house.

Yes it was the candid comment into an open mic gambit from that classic episode of The West Wing. Those political wiz kids Warren hired watched it and assumed they’d discovered something never seen before, despite the fact the trick is tried by every democrat ever.

rehajm said...

What’s the great offense of calling a liar a liar?

stevew said...

The great offense is that the accused liar is a woman, and not just any woman, a candidate for POTUS woman. #believeallwomen

viator said...

The next big proxy war
General Khalifa Haftar (American citizen, holds most of Libya), UAR, Egypt, Jordan, France, Russia (mercenaries), US, Sudan, Saudi Arabia vs. Government of National Accord (GNA, holds only Tripoli), Turkey (Turkish troops), Qatar, UN.

Curious George said...

"You want to know what Parnas' biggest piece of supporting documentation was? His own handwritten note of unknown providence."

Good enough for our resident dullard to hang her pussy hat on it and to puke it all over the blog. I'm sure we'll be hearing it from her over and over until, like many "bombshells before, it ends up blowing up in her face.

Michael K said...

Are they really claiming that 1) Biden is so obviously innocent that it is not credible nor was it ever credible to ask why Biden got a prosecutor fired who was looking into apparent corruption on Biden’s part

Pelosi lied on the House floor later by using Schiff's version of the call transcript. I suspect this will be the key "fact" of the impeachment argument.

Bruce Hayden said...

“Ironically, Wolfe's job was to ensure that leaks of classified intelligence didnt occur. But a DOJ investigation lead to a conviction for lying to the FBI and may have repeatedly leaked classified intel to at least two journalist, one of them being Ali Watkins.”

Wolfe should have been indicted under the Espionage Act for leaking classified information to his lover, reporter Ali Watkins. They had him cold. It looks like the FBI fudged some dates in the copy of the Carter Page FISA warrant application checked out to SSCI Vice Chair Warner, and those fudged dates ended up in the FISA application published by Watkins. Except that Wolfe had the goods on both the SSCI Chair and Vice Chair, and esp here Warner who had checked out the document that Wolfe leaked. Working together, the two of them have significant control over our Intelligence Community - for example they apparently blocked Rep Radcliffe from being confirmed as DNI, likely because he knew enough to be really dangerous to the Deep State in the IC agencies.

Bruce Hayden said...

“The great offense is that the accused liar is a woman, and not just any woman, a candidate for POTUS woman. #believeallwomen”

We are talking Lieawatha Warren here. But in her defense, she is only the second worse female Dem candidate for President in recent years, easily beat out by Her Majesty, Crooked Hillary. Two dishonest female Dem candidates may not quite indicate a pattern, but we are getting close.

narciso said...

Always against us

https://www.thedailybeast.com/when-iran-took-americans-hostage-bernie-backed-irans-defenders