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Today's sunrise photo, looking west, was taken at 7:18. The actual sunrise time was 7:09, but no sun came into view, and I found the most interesting colors and shapes in the western sky. The ice fishermen were a bonus.
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Democrats and LLR-lefties now officially blaming republicans and RUSSIA! for their Iowa debacle as Tom Perez "big foots" it into Iowa to forcibly take over the recount in order to force a Bernie loss after the Soros/Hillary/Buttituvwxyz-connected software Election Theft Program has been exposed.
Discuss.
Look at the size of that loon! Must be at least twice the size of the fisherman.
Will ethanol survive if Iowa loses its prominent position in the nomination process?
Between Kobe, who admitted to having had sex with a teenager about whom he later said, in court, through a lawyer, that he later realized that she was indicating that she did not want to have sex with him, and Kirk Douglas, who many people have good reason to think raped a very young Natalie Wood, which one has been dead long enough for us to bring up the fact that rape is always wrong, no matter who does it?
Why are we so pusillanimous when famous people die? It is not like they cared about us or people like us all that much. Wake up, sheeple, your ruling class does not care so much about you that you need to thoughtlessly praise them when they pass away. That could have been your daughter in the room with Kobe or Kirk.
Discuss:
It was 4chan! Says NBC"news"
New Way Forward makes the Green New Deal look like a Harlequin Romance. Google it... incredible!
"RedState Headline: "The DNC has found Joe Biden to be nonviable and will proceed to abort"
He will be kept comfortable while a conversation ensues between his donors"
From Ace of Spades
From Duluth on the Superior to Madison on the Mendota an iron curtain is descending on Wisconsin....
There is more interest in Seth Rich and the fact that FBI emails have been hidden from FOIA inquiries about him.
Another interesting aspect to the Seth Rich story I recently came across was uncovered by the Twitter user, @LarryBeech. He noted that Malia Zimmerman's May 2017 Fox News article on Seth Rich contained a very specific detail, namely that a forensic report of his computer had been produced within 96 hours of his death. That's quite specific--so specific that it is hard to imagine that this detail was simply made up. This matters because 96 hours after the death of Seth Rich would bring us to the morning of July 14th. What else happened on July 14th? July 14th was the second time Guccifer 2.0 sent an encrypted file to Wikileaks, which the Weissman report disingenuously implied was the source of the July 22 Wikileaks DNC email dump.
I was never particularly invested in Kirk Douglas or Kobe Bryant. I think the allegations against them should be part of their history but not part of their funeral. Give the mourners and their family a brief moment in which to mourn their loss....I am invested in Rush Limbaugh. In like way, I think he should be allowed to have a brief moment of recognition before his own brief moment passes. Rush had a flawed life, but he deserves recognition for something other than his flaws. I think it might be appropriate and maybe even useful to mention his spirited defense of cigar smoking, but some of the other criticisms seem mean spirited and carping.
Slidin' Jo Biden is taking a day off-- a well deserved break
Will he ramp up the "Vinnie the Chin" routine to avoid charges?
Has he only been running to claim investigating his family's rampant corruption in Ukraine/China/Iraq & elsewhere is Trump persecuting a political rival?
Will his son Hustler Biden be the first to be nailed?
Will the upcoming scrutiny of the Bi-den-of-iniquity lead back
to 'smidgenless' Obambi?
Will his brother ever pay the million $ penalty for the fatal car accident?
When I read the bit on Kirk Douglas’s death here at Althouse, I thought I was reading an excerpt from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
Mark waugh relates why mike sylvester has been out of touch recently.
William - what is a brief moment?
I am serious.
I think four or five days is long enough to be a brief moment for a guy Kobe's age. For a guy who is 103, what difference does it make.
I might sound like an unkind person when I say this, but I am going to say it.
If you live to 103, God has punished you. There are no 103 year olds on the face of this earth who do not know that the last years of their super long life have not been a punishment. Unless you are a Biblical patriarch or someone like that.
I have assessed the evidence and I think that Kirk raped that young woman, I could be wrong. I am not going to show up at the funeral and say he was a rapist, but I am also not going to refrain from mentioning the fact among friends. And yeah, I get it that an internet blog is not "among friends".
I had a friend who was raped AND murdered. So you might think I would think that mere rapists deserves some slack.
Morality does not work that way. I pray for justice.
“The world today has 6.8 billion people. That’s heading up to about nine billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.”
-- Bill Gates
Bill And Melinda Gates Donate $100 Million To Coronavirus Vaccine Research And Treatment
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2020/02/05/bill-and-melinda-gates-donate-100-million-to-coronavirus-vaccine-research/amp/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10814760/bill-gates-predicted-coronavirus-simulation-33-million-die/
maybe it's not the virus, but the vaccine
the double negatives were on purpose.
no year of life is a year of punishment,
but most of us are fortunate enough not to have to entertain the question.
I know an awful lot about very old people and trust me, they all entertain the question.
"reproductive health services" = "making sure non-white babies are aborted at something more than the rate white babies are aborted at".
Bill Gates is a racist, in my opinion. I would like to be wrong but there is not a lot of evidence that I am wrong.
A eugenecist, a malthusian, like one of hari seldons fellow planners.
that being said, his wife seems to like him, and I hope he has a good day today, tomorrow, and every day for the rest of his life.
That was a triple negative, cooper. And I have no idea what tf you're saying.
is AOC glad Trump "finally quitted" ??
... cuz she's not happy about fiziks-defeating boot-straps
Holy shit just watched "Soaked in Bleach" and I highly recommend it.
C. Love and Hillary share a lot in common.
"Bill Gates is a racist, in my opinion. I would like to be wrong but there is not a lot of evidence that I am wrong."
He's a wealthy White liberal elitist. Of course he's a bloody racist. In a kindly paternalistic way, natch.
wild chicken - ok, sorry about the triple negative. English is my native language, and I am good at it, and sometimes I get a little ahead of what I wanna way.
Here is what I am saying. God does not want us to live to a 100 or even to 90 and probably not even to 80.
Unless you are a very good person , those decades of advanced age are painful, depressing, and full of things that nobody wants to experience - bad digestion, pain in many joints, constant anorexia, and the regrets for wrongdoing that we have never been able to make up for, unless we are saints.
Very few good people live much past 80. If you care about other people enough to be a good person it is not likely that you are gonna live to a 100, because to take good enough care of your body so that it lives to 100, you have to basically ignore other people. Sure there are a few proud grandmas out there who think they have been wonderful and who we call "matriarchs" but trust me, I have lived almost as long as them, and most of them were not the angels we want to think they were when they were young.
OK, one more time about the negatives, double negatives, and triple negatives.
There are NO 100 year old people who do NOT know that their last 10 years or so were NOT a punishment.
That means that, if you are, YES, 100, you YES, know that God has YES, not punished you by making you live that long.
But the point is, there are NO 40 year olds who have been tempted to think God has punished them by letting them survive from 30 to 40.
To ask the question is to answer it.
Another way of putting it - no I do not think God punishes people by making them live a long time.
But every single old person wonders about that.
If they reach the correct answer, they realize that every day God gives us on this world is a beautiful day and an opportunity to experience and demonstrate love for our fellow humans and for God, and that is an unmitigated good.
But the sad thing is this - and trust me you do not want to know as much about the super-old as I do ---- an awful lot of them have failed to repent for bad things they have done, and as incredible as it might seem, you can live to 100 or 105 without asking God to forgive you.
I hope that makes it clear.
For the record, old people love to talk to me.
I am much more clear in real life than I am on the internets.
God loves us all ---- almost equally.
In the eyes of God, a broken down old homeless senior citizen who has been off and on abusing meth and cocaine and who never was there for anyone he or she cared about is just as lovable as the most lovable infant in the most loving home in the ENTIRE WORLD.
I know that and that is why old people love to spend time with me.
"She said hello country bumpkin"
Via Rantburg:
Hot Air] Out in Los Angeles, they’re not only dealing with a homelessness crisis but a significant lack of affordable housing for those who aren’t very wealthy. As usual, the local Democrats have been working hard to come up with a plan to combat that problem as well. One "issue" that’s come to the attention of the City Council is the Hillside Villa Apartments. For three decades, the complex has offered a number of units at rates well below market value, providing a great deal for those lucky enough to get one. This arrangement was part of deal worked out with the city when the building was first acquired by the present owner, Tom Botz.
But that deal expired last summer, meaning that the rent on those units should have gone up to the same rate being charged for the other apartments. This has made the tenants, along with some members of the City Council unhappy, so they’re working on a plan to remedy the situation. How? Simple. By seizing Mr. Botz’s property and running it themselves. (Reason)
Via Insta
White House announces death of terror leader Qassim al-Rimi
What's wrong about being a "racist"? Islamists think the infidels are deplorable, Talmudist think the goyem are deplorable, Leftists think the deplorable are deplorable. Just asking.
Via Lucianne:
At this moment there is a bill pending in Congress called the New Way Forward Act. It’s received almost no publicity, which is unfortunate as well as revealing. The legislation is sponsored by 44 House Democrats, including Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. At roughly 4,400 words, it’s almost exactly as long as the U.S. Constitution. Like the Constitution, this legislation is designed to create a whole new country. The bill would entirely remake our immigration system, with the explicit purpose of ensuring that criminals are able to move here, and settle here permanently, with impunity....
Remember this when the vile Progs bring up rape:
And they want to take our guns away.
...Garcia brags that the bill will break the “prison to deportation pipeline.” How does the bill do that? Under current U.S. law, legal U.S. immigrants can be deported if they commit an “aggravated felony” or a “crime of moral turpitude” – that is, a vile, depraved act, like molesting a child. Under the New Way Forward Act, “crimes of moral turpitude” are eliminated entirely as a justification for deportation. And the category of “aggravated felony” gets circumscribed too.
What does that mean?
Consider this: Under current law, immigrants who commit serious crimes – such as robbery, fraud, or child sexual abuse – must be deported, regardless of the sentence they receive. Other crimes – less severe ones like racketeering – require deportation as long as the perpetrator receives at least a one-year sentence....
Tucker Carlson article
Hey look! Pete has the Obama halo!
https://twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/1225605708353359872
the reason it is wrong to be a racist is because God loves us all.
Every baby smiles at the first sight of the eyes of their mother, regardless of race.
God loves us all, and it is wrong to be racist.
I know Bill Gates reads a lot of blog comment threads, particularly when the blog is run by someone as smart as Althouse.
If you are reading this Bill, please stop being a racist.
Hillary Clinton on Becoming Vice President: ‘Never Say Never’
"I'll be your vice-president" said the spider to the fly
Who is that 'suicidal' to take her on? Or will they have no choice?
Buttsexsex & Killary? Hollyweird/Silicon Valley in a truce with
the notorious Clinton Machine?
I posted recently about my moderate-Dem-for-Portland brother in a tizzy about Trump 3rd Term! I trying to get the details about how he got this nonsense into his head. He is really worried.
I sent him an email to calm him. I told him that Literally 100% of the "Trumpists" I know also style ourselves as Constitutionalists. Trump, patriot as he is, would never contemplate it but, if he did, he base would evaporate overnight. I told him not to be so distraught over the next five years because it's unhealthy.
Stuff like grabbing a third term is pick up your assault rifle time and form militias. I know every once in a while there is some chest beating about the picking up the gun thing. Who doesn't daydream about arresting the Oregon executive and legislative majority?
But, there are real red lines, as I tell the Bernie Bros in my family, the ex-wife and kids. Among those red lines are "assault rifle" confiscation schemes [duh], efforts to bypass the electoral college or packing the supreme court. I hope when the Democrats, should they win again and hopefully not for generations, will remember this. I don't want a civil war but I'm ready to do my duty.
I'm voting for Bernie in the primary, though. Let's have it out, Trump v. Sanders.
Christy said...Will ethanol survive if Iowa loses its prominent position in the nomination process?
People will drink more of it but cars -- less of it.
Sleazy Andrew Weissmann Admits Mueller Team Tried to Ensnare Trump in Perjury Trap – To Remove Him From Office (VIDEO)
I got a text from an out-of-town friend a few hours ago; we go months w/o contact and then trade a few brief texts or emails (guys will understand).
He said "trump is driving me crazy." I told him no, it was himself, and to endeavor to persevere, and asked him who he liked. He considers Klobuchar electable . . . Oooookaay.
Narr
Sometime smart people be stupid
Trump has already loosened ethanol requirements. To the prairies and the Gulf of Mexico: “You’re welcome."
My mother in law at age 80 kept praying for another year of life. Wasn't until 91 that she prayed to the Lord and told him she was ready to go. Died last Thursday morning 2 weeks short of her 95th birthday. We were on what amounted to death watch since just before Christmas. She declined rapidly, but her body kept functioning. She died at home,in bed.
Gospace, God bless your mother in law. There are so many good old people like her, we need to pray for them.
Milwaukee Guy
A third term for Trump is ridiculous. After Donald Jr is crowned prince and heir, Trump will abdicate.
That's Milwaukie, bub. What are you, a cheesehead?
William @ 7:50
Here, here, my good man. You can speak for me as well. All true.
Well klobuchars cratered in iowa, so his fhoices are sanders or buttigeg
How about that
https://mobile.twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1225605982476263424
Wont get fooled again
https://the-pipeline.org/meet-the-new-luddites-same-as-the-old-luddities/?fbclid=IwAR1uW-RuCyxfKwe45vN1JF7NASnBCk7Umuj_PLNG7RvFy885bc1rlV8EbGc
I thought Trumpists were science-denying knuckle draggers who don’t understand technology, but it turns out they ruined the Iowa caucus with a few phone calls, and the Dems are still trying to figure out how to flip a coin.
Colbert isn’t accepting the legitimacy of Mayor Pete’s Lead in the Dem race because Iowa isn’t diverse enough. Are Maltesians even white?
Hes very pale, youd expect someone more nortg african or french or italian.
“I’m smart, not like everybody says I’m dumb” - Fredo Romney
If Romney gets bored serving as Senator from Utah, he should legally change his name to Pierre Delecto, and run for Senate in a different state.
Interesting factoids from just the last 72 hours:
LtCol Vindman is being transferred out of the NSC and White House (dips*** twin brother likely to follow)
Corrupt ambassador Yovanovich very very suddenly and unexpectedly retires a few days ago
Secretary Mnuchin, in an interview this morning, tells Maria Bartiromo that legislation is being advanced to move the Secret Service out of the DHS and to its original home: The Treasury Dept (thus removing all Intelligence Community oversight of the Secret Service....hmmmmm)
***Most interesting: Immediately after acquittal yesterday Senators Grassley and Johnson formally requested all Treasury Dept info on Hunter Biden......AND...the Treasury Dept responded IMMEDIATELY with detailed Hunter Biden info....AND democrat Senator Ron Wyden put out a statement today showing his deep concern over this rapid Treasury response AND Wyden has Pre-Attacked this information by declaring it "documents of unknown origin"
Rudy Giuliani is now offering up a very specific timeline of specific US financial aid for Ukraine cash transfers thru specific countries (Latvia, Cyprus) and specific business entities leading to Board fee payments to Hunter Biden. Such clear specificity makes his story very very easy to disprove...IF its untrue.
Trump's Tour de Force this morning included comments that clearly indicate a degree of confidence in Barr and Durham's efforts and what has been learned thus far.
After 4+ years of defense and fighting off the non-stop Insurance Policy/Frame-ups/coup attempts, Team Trump seems to be moving to offense......
And Adam Schiff is continuing his infestigation. Calling Bolton. There will certainly be no due process offered again. No cross examination of witnesses in forbidden areas that could only lead to another failure to impeach.
White House announces death of terror leader Qassim al-Rimi
Can Trumps week get any better? (not rhetorical)
"...he should legally change his name to Pierre Delecto, and run for Senate in a different state."
As Joe Louis said, he can run, but he can't hide. Romney is through in the GOP, and no one else would have him. He couldn't get elected to anything again as a Republican, and no one else would have any use for him. One of the idiots here tried the "Romney didn't kill himself" routine earlier today. My response was, "Are you sure about that? I watched him do it."
Here are his mistakes:
1. In an existential struggle over the future of our nation, Mitt the moral midget decided it was time to let a little pure spite out for a run. If Lamar!, Murkowski, and Susan Collins can see what is at stake, why can't Mitt? We'll answer that one in a minute.
2. He committed the sin of envy. He violated the 10th commandment.
3. He let down his colleagues. Mitt's vote cost acquittal at least three Demmie votes: Manchin, Sinema, and Jones. He made it bipartisan for removal; it was going to be bipartisan for acquittal. He really let down Collins, Gardner, and McSally.
4. It was illogical. If you needed more witnesses last week, how did you have enough evidence to convict this week? He offered some after-the-fact, chop-logic rationalization (I wanted to be sure that POTUS had every chance to clear himself) that was as stupid as anything he has ever said.
5. He cited his religion in his own uniquely unconvincing and sanctimonious way. He just lost the LDS Church 100,000 converts. He is a one-man wrecking crew. He ought to get together with Comey and form a consulting firm: Undermine from Within, LLC--"We take it down".
6. He fell in with knaves: Adam Scheisskopf, Gerry Wadler, the Little Vindmans, the "Whistleblower" . These are low, vile tricksters. These are awful human beings. They are Mitt Romney's new pals. He stands with them. Yech!
7. This is the nub: he is a weak, silly, short-sighted, envious fool, who believes he has done a good job if he gets praise from his enemies.
This is one of life's most important lessons: remember who your enemies are.
Aunty Trump: "And Adam Schiff is continuing his investigation. Calling Bolton."
Nope.
Schiff-ty admitted just yesterday on LLR-lefty Chuck's favorite show, Maddow, that during the impeachment trial the House Managers went to Bolton's attorneys and asked for John Bolton to submit an affadavit specifying the quid pro quo and any other relevant information.
Bolton's attorney turned them down flat.
Flat.
The dems will never call Bolton and there is civil war inside the dem caucus with many members pleading to move off impeachment and get to policy.
The dems 4+ year frame up/insurance policy/coup attempt has been blown to hell.
The Demmies are trying to win the 2012 election again. Trump and the GOP are trying to win the 2020 election.
The Demmies just committed the most grievous sin in politics: they united their opponents. And they didn't need to do it. It was all elective. And they looked petty, vindictive, stupid, and tricky doing it, too.
I think you are right, Drago.
It is gone, but it won't be forgotten. The political ads will keep it alive. If we are really lucky, Durham will hit soon after or right before the Demmies announce their candidate from their brokered convention: Hillary Clinton.
Horizontal convective rolls, also known as horizontal roll vortices or cloud streets, are long rolls of counter-rotating air that are oriented approximately parallel to the ground in the planetary boundary layer.
Cold here in Hawaii! What a wonderful amazing Aloha filled day except cray Maize Hirano , she is one miserable person. Nancy is beyond help.
I do not understand:
Mitt Romney ("Pepe LePew"). Is he planning to switch parties and run as Democrat?
Surely he knows that Trump's 93% thinks that if it had been them, they certainly would have asked Zelensky about the Biden's, and what of it?
Can he find Utah on a map without studying it first?
The fearsome Speaker Pelosi. 80 years of age next month, but acting like 18, or perhaps 28 and a newbie on the local school board?
After Donald Jr is crowned prince and heir, Trump will abdicate.
No! I have it on good authority that Ivanka is next in line. Gets us our first President who is Jewish and our first female President. Yay!
Anyone who worries about a Trump third term has accepted the second one is going to happen.
On another note, it’s unfathomable to me that anyone would think that phone call is grounds to remove the president from the upcoming election. Can’t just say “Guilty” if you think he had bad motives. You have to take the consequence of that “Guilty” into account. So Romney’s vote was truly disgusting toward Trump’s base and the country in general. Same for the Dems but that’s par for the course with them. (I think McConnell is correct they they are happy to deconstruct our constitutional order).
I listened to Pelosi's press conference which was mostly me snarking at the radio while we hurtled across Nebraska and then we laughed with Trump past Omaha. Iowa, three Trump flags, two Tulsi billboards and right at the foot of the Dubuque bridge a Bernie Bro with a cartop who took the left and stayed in Iowa. Save that cartop, he'll need it in his next job.
Bernie's Pizza, free, fast and not.
What happens to a POTUS candidate's campaign cash when they drop out of the race?
stevew said...
What happens to a POTUS candidate's campaign cash when they drop out of the race?
Well, if you are Crazy Bernie Sanders, you buy another house.
Just realized I'm waiting for the complimentary 6 AM coffee and I'm home.
That is what I wondered and if true I'm going to consider retiring to run for national office...
In case you thought the Democrat operatives in the media had a point about Rush and the Medal of Freedom.
https://twitter.com/IMBILLY/status/1225116970061893632
William I too want to say your 7:50 comment yesterday was eloquent.
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