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June 24, 2020
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The variety of colors and textures of clouds and water make these your best ones ever!&
I love that top photo, looks like a SF movie on an alien planet.
Madison had a pretty good housing market and it's intermittently known as a nice place to live. A couple of years from now, after the ghetto blight has really sunk in, might be a good time to buy. Maybe just before its first Republican mayor in 348 years gets elected.
How long before you are able to catch the glow of downtown Madison burning?
Enter Desmond.
(Rewatching Lost)
And Michael slips further into psychopathy. "They took my son!" He says for the first of a thousand times.
at the Inky Cafe...
... read the handwriting on the wall
James does utter one of the classic lines.
After pulling a bullet out of his shoulder with his bare hands, he asks, "You got a band-aid?"
Photo-flo dumped in the lake would sink the swans, geese and ducks. Not that you'd want to give the protesters ideas.
Beautifully done.
And this is why I love nature. As crazy as our days are now, as nuts as the world has gotten, nature doesn't give a shit. It just keeps doing what it does. Nature is consistent. And if you know how to look around you, there is always beauty. It is the balm to a crazy world.
Spending the summer on a lake (on the east shore at that), I feel a special affinity to your sunrise series. Thanks!
Helter Skelter, 2020
Manson! thou shouldst be living at this hour!
Re moving: I am sure you've thought about these, but --
Asheville, NC, is a good compromise: green, mountains, four seasons, still quite safe.
Talk to Glenn Reynolds about Knoxville: college town, so a bit risky, but lots of water nearby, still fairly safe.
Colorado Springs, CO.
And, sleeper option . . . Provo, UT. Can get hot.
Ammo is getting more expensive. This isn't a concern for me. The concern is for the first-time gun buyers, who don't have experience with the lower prices in the "normal times" and might now think that shooting is a more pricey pastime than it truly is.
I concur, MH- the first pic is marvelous.
So we're all going to ignore the giant face with burning eyes in the middle of the top picture, are we?
If it helps you sleep at night. Sure.
I am Laslo.
@Anne-I-Am, I'm reading the Peripheral on your recommendation. It's like reading Hegel. First time through it's like crossing a lake of mud on stilts——you have to keep going even though you're only getting a small fraction of it.
Sorry about your city, Althouse. I have never been to Madison. My only exposure has been from your photos through the years. It always seemed like a such a nice place. Sad to see the boarded up businesses and art museum and now the loss of the statues. My condolences.
The other night I made an observation about the obvious flaw in a phone survey of gun owners. Given the absolutely rabid state of the Left how much more pronounced do you think the "shy Trump voter" effect is this year compared to 2016? Especially in the swing states?
Chinese nationals with ties to the Chinese government donated hundreds of thousands to support Trump's reelection, according to report
Bali Hi. Tales of The South Lake Mendota. It’s time to wash that town right out of your hair.
As God is my witness, I thought Bubba Wallace won the Masters a few years ago.
Dane County has 596,000 people. It is 84.9% White, 6.4% Asian, 6.4% Hispanic, 5.5% Black. It covers 1,197 square miles. 58% of its housing is owner occupied. 94% of the households have a computer. I just don't see anarchy spreading widely even in Dane County. Right in the shadow of the Capital building several hundred protesters who burn and loot with police permission can do great damage - first to businesses, then to their cause. But they are government-facilitated "anarchists", not a popular uprising. Relative to police reform, one thing you can see in the videos is that many of the police, especially the women, are totally out of shape. There's no way a fat, middle-aged woman can contain a strong young man and this problem should be addressed.
Clarification: We are on the western shore, facing ESE. Currently, the sun does not rise directly over water, but over a peninsula to our NE.
Mark said...
Enter Desmond.
(Rewatching Lost)
And Michael slips further into psychopathy. "They took my son!" He says for the first of a thousand times.
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What about the idiot who keeps whining "Penny, Penny!" over his missing girlfriend?
Wussdom personified.
wildswan said...
There's no way a fat, middle-aged woman can contain a strong young man and this problem should be addressed.
That's what chokeholds are for
Sebastian: yeah, we’re heading to Louisville.
Crop that first photo to balance the space..
@meadehouse
this could be your theme song as you drive to your new digs
A Summer Place
It’s interesting to be the sorta person who year after year talks about leaving but never does.
Jabber about leaving Madtown. Don’t.
Jabber about leaving blogger. Don’t
I suppose that’s typical. Planning but not doing.
I once thought (back when I could not live in a lot of houses) that I’d relocate to a new city because I wanted a change. I told everyone about my plan, I made steps toward implementation. But, I never did follow through. I got locked into work and a growing family that was taking off so I kept up the pursuit.
Anywho, now we are able to land at a bunch of houses, but we still need to be anchored for good chunks of the year. And, our base hasn’t changed because we love it.
Back to the point, I can see why Althouse wants to leave. An important part of this blog has been shitting on the failures of Madtown. But to be fair, there’s always been more images and jabber re the good things. From the backyard to the front yard to the hood to the school to the capitol to the cool businesses to the arts and art. And, now especially, the big outdoor pics. And more. Good stuff.
But that’s still not enough to overcome the libs gone wild such that Althouse is preparing to shoot someone, so where to go so Althouse doesn’t need to kill? They’ve considered renting somewhere else just to get a feel, rather than buying. Hard to argue w/ that. A lot lower risk. Especially in one of the conservative places where everything (except the people, because they’re the highest quality possible) is cheap. So you can’t lose a lot of dough if the test period doesn’t work out re a permanent relocate.
Anywho if I know anything, and that’s questionable, IMHO people matter more than places. Best to end up somewhere close to family and friends.
I dunno.
P.S.
In another thread I wasn’t totally kidding about Vancouver BC, though it may be too distant. I’ve had a place up there for a long time. I’m not sure how hard it is to buy today. But, renting for a couple years is probably doable. And, it’s more affordable and less of a stretch v going overseas for an escape.
BTW, speaking of escape, it’s interesting that cons here think that broken windows, fire bombs and toppled statutes are the concerns that could really hurt this country in the long run. That, and immigration (of course) are what we need to worry about re the long term, we are told. Presumably that’s just regurgitating the talking points of the day. Or, that’s more evidence that logic is tricky.
I dunno.
What do we have here:
https://i.4pcdn.org/pol/1592923622315.jpg
Beijing Boy: "Chinese nationals with ties to the Chinese government donated hundreds of thousands to support Trump's reelection, according to report"
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
As predicted long ago, its the russian collusion playbook all over again with "russia" crossed out and "china" penciled in.
Precisely as predicted.
Now, in the real world, this is actually happening:
"The offensive began on May 15, when the U.S. Commerce Department tightened sanctions on iconic Chinese technology firm Huawei. The company and 114 of its international affiliates already faced a U.S. export ban, implemented in May 2019 and followed by months of aggressive diplomacy intended to isolate the firm from Western markets. The new restrictions prohibit companies operating outside the United States from using U.S.-made designs or inputs to produce the semiconductors that Huawei needs for its smart phones and tablets.
Days later, Washington added a further 33 Chinese entities to an export control blacklist for alleged complicity in human rights violations or ties to the Chinese military. Concurrently, U.S. legislators tabled bills that would restrict a federal pension fund from investing in Chinese stocks, limit the ability of Chinese companies to raise capital in the U.S., and sanction Chinese officials responsible for repressing the Uyghur Muslim minority. President Donald Trump subsequently ordered his administration on May 29 to revoke Hong Kong’s preferential treatment as a separate customs and travel territory from mainland China in response to Chinese legislation that undercuts Hong Kong’s system of self-governance.
Media and analyst reactions to those measures have stressed the growing number of issues that now divide Washington and Beijing, prompting questions of whether the two powers are edging toward a new type of cold war. In fact, the moves reveal just as much about the current state of U.S. diplomacy and its unhealthy dependence on sanctions. After years of weaponizing its currency and economy for foreign policy influence, Washington is pushing the limits of America’s financial power."
https://thediplomat.com/2020/06/with-china-sanctions-america-pushes-the-limits-of-its-financial-power/
No wonder Beijing has dialed up all its Beijing Boys like ARM to ramp up attacks on Trump. The ChiComs are desperate to get the empty husk and already paid for sap Joe Biden and his pro-ChiCom team elected.
After all, cokehead son Hunter has STILL NOT resigned as promised from the ChiCom funded "investment" fund which was provided $1.5Billion directly from the ChiCom's to the cokehead to buy off daddy.
tsk tsk tsk
The democratics desperation is palpable.
Little girl sniffer Biden better dial up another riot or two otherwise people might start to notice.....
Awesome photos!
@ARM,
Well, thank goodness at least some Chinese want to Keep America Great. They probably understand it helps their bottom line.
"Talk to Glenn Reynolds about Knoxville: college town, so a bit risky, but lots of water nearby, still fairly safe."
Althouse wouldn't like Knoxville proper- Madison seems so much nicer (or did a month ago). Knoxville downtown is quite seedy. If you are looking for an urban environment in Tennessee that is similar to Madison, you have to go to Nashville around Vanderbilt.
In any case, Althouse also wouldn't like the weather anywhere in Tennessee- it is hot and very humid from mid June to late September. It is the kind of thing you don't get use to unless you were raised in it. However, there are lots of lake properties available pretty much everywhere around here.
Remember when we all hoped that electing a Black President would heal the racial divide?
If we hadn't done that, people would still believe it would help.
Does anyone think there is anything White people could do that would help now?
Not when we have people who would put up nooses and make false accusations that can only make things worse, and we have a media who also prefers the anger and lies. They know it hurts us all, every one of us, and they do it anyway. I wonder how many words were spent fanning the flames of the NASCAR noose, and how many explaining it was completely innocent. There was no evil White racist. You might think that would be good news to us all, but it was very disappointing to many. If you were happy to find out it didn't happen, then you are a decent person. If you weren't, what the hell is wrong with you?
Enter Desmond.
Cue: Make Your Own Kind of Music...SCRATCCCH!!
The greatest premier of a show's second year ever!
@ARM: Let's try a little word-substitution game, and backdate to 2015 or 2016:
Russian nationals linked to the Russian government have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Clinton Foundation in an attempt to get closer to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Wall Street Journal reported.
You're not bi-racial unless you're Black.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/jenny-slate-kristen-bell-will-no-longer-provide-voices-biracial-n1232069
"You might think that would be good news to us all, but it was very disappointing to many. If you were happy to find out it didn't happen, then you are a decent person. If you weren't, what the hell is wrong with you?"
It's a recurring theme: how many are hopeful that sexual assault is a routine event?
Inky is apt. There is an underlying sexiness to the first pic... like I want to fondle it or something.
Madison is what you drive around to get to Black Earth Creek.
Hey... Is that the sound of attendance falling off?
School gonna suffer ala "We need a little muscle over here".
It is not hyperbole when I say these photos are amazing. In framing and in color.
As for the cities burning: the more you allow the destroyers to take, the more they will demand.
Moving's a lot of work. Wouldn't it be easier just to run for Mayor?
Massachusetts is stuffed to the gills with colleges and universities and hasn't had any of these riot problems. Why Madison? Is it because it is an island in an ocean of Trumpers that makes the isolate of libtards more reactive?
Althousians have been round and round with Ann on where to live before. Her list of particulars is long and demanding. I think the conclusion is she would need two spots...
It's a recurring theme: how many are hopeful that sexual assault is a routine event?
The Progressive Church hoped to use statistics (e.g. lies of creation), expert opinion (i.e. sympathetic followers), and em-pathetic appeals in a strategy to exploit people's sympathetic nature to normalize Planned Parenthood including selective-child ("reproductive rites") for social progress and cannibalized-child for medical progress. Cancel culture and diversity philosophy provided them an approved method and rationalization to realize their ambitions and profits.
I'm guessing the destruction of the statues was so popular with the public the "protesters" decided to lay low last night.
Reminder: Black Lives Matter is a radical Marxist organization.
"Gov. Tony Evers, who toured the damage from Tuesday night and said the violence was in “stark contrast” to earlier peaceful protests..." AP
May 31, 2020 MADISON, WI —" More than 75 Madison businesses were damaged or looted, and one police squad car was set on fire in Madison during a weekend filled with George Floyd protests across Wisconsin, according to police." Patch.com
@Althouse, don't move out of Madison. Your votes acquiesced in creating an environment where riots can happen. Stay and help fix what you broke.
Yup, went from a foaming at the mouth statue dragging mob to a sparsely attended sit-down that looked like it was about to break out into a yoga class.
Chinese nationals with ties to the Chinese government donated hundreds of thousands to support Trump's reelection, according to report
They were unable to get on as a chauffeur for the President.
At the Sauron Cafe...
Remember, Ann, that he does not share power.
Full fathoms five Hans Christian lies, coral of his bronze be made, these are pearls that were his eyes...
Headless Hans Christian will lie beneath these waters forever. Violence causes silence!!
This morning on the conference call Evers is screaming you had the wide screen TVs, you had the painted plywood, but noooo you wanted the statues!
Massachusetts is stuffed to the gills with colleges and universities and hasn't had any of these riot problems.
Howard's definition of peaceful protests.
Protesters and rioters incensed by the death of George Floyd destroyed at least 16 memorials and statues in Boston, including one dedicated to black soldiers.
The Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial, a sculpture dedicated to black soldiers who fought in the Civil War, was damaged after thousands of protesters descended on Boston Common to protest police brutality against black people, according to Boston NPR affiliate WBUR.
“This monument is considered one of the nation's greatest pieces of public art and the greatest piece to come out of the Civil War,” Liz Vizza, the executive director of the Friends of the Public Garden, said. “It was, amazingly enough, dedicated 123 years ago on May 31 — the day it was defaced.”
I guess it is all about definitions.
Chinese nationals with ties to the Chinese government donated hundreds of thousands to support Trump's reelection, according to report
Assuming true, which I certainly don't, considering that among your cacophony of insults directed against the president is that he's a fraud who does not deliver on his promises, I feel confident that this Chinese effort will not pay dividends.
Their buying the Biden family will prove a much better investment. Even though he's going to lose, look at what they already got.
Water desert.
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