Althouse: Panorama at 6:57 — this morning on Lake Mendota.

November 12, 2020

Panorama at 6:57 — this morning on Lake Mendota.

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33 comments:

Bushman of the Kohlrabi said...: Nice work Althouse. My favorite so far.; 11/12/20, 1:07 PM
Whiskeybum said...: The reflected color of the lake and the distortion of the pano effect make it look to me like liquid mercury is about to pour out of the shoreline and onto my lap.; 11/12/20, 1:18 PM
fleg9bo said...: I shared with my wife the mention of Anthony Burgess in yesterday's post. And last night I began to reread A Mouthful of Air.

And this morning she announced that for my birthday I'm getting the complete (compleat?) set of Enderby novels.

There was mention of Beethoven on another blog this morning. It put me in mind of Burgess' Napoleon Symphony, a fictionalized biography that reads like listening to the Eroica. I'm less inclined to reread that but I do recall being impressed by the evocation of music it induced.; 11/12/20, 1:26 PM
gadfly said...: Georgia's Republican administration made a serious mistake when they changed computerized voting machines. Georgia (all 159 counties) has installed new ballot-marking devices (BMD) for 2020 as noted in the announced ballot count audit:

"We now have that verifiable paper ballot for the first time in 18 years," Sec. Raffensperger said, referring to the new voting system in Georgia that used a printer to produce a paper record of voters at voting machines, plus the millions of hand-marked absentee paper ballots that were sent in by mail or submitted at drop boxes. "We're gonna have something to count, instead of just pressing a button and getting the same answer. So we'll be counting every single piece of paper, every single ballot, every single lawfully cast legal ballot."

[Unfortunately] however, paper ballots provide no assurance unless they accurately record the vote as the voter expresses it. Voters can express their intent by hand-marking a ballot with a pen, or using a computer called a ballot-marking device (BMD), which generally has a touchscreen and assistive interfaces. Voters can make mistakes in expressing their intent in either technology, but only the BMD is also subject to systematic error from computer hacking or bugs in the process of recording the vote on paper, after the voter has expressed it. A hacked BMD can print a vote on the paper ballot that differs from what the voter expressed, or can omit a vote that the voter expressed.

Risk-limiting audits of a trustworthy paper trail can check whether errors in tabulating the votes as recorded altered election outcomes, but there is no way to check whether errors in how BMDs record expressed votes altered election outcomes. The outcomes of elections conducted on current BMDs therefore cannot be confirmed by audits.

So, when Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger got conned into announcing a state-sponsored recount - instead of requiring Trump and the RNC to request it - the citizens of Georgia got ripped off. Payment for this worthless recount will come from Georgia's treasury.; 11/12/20, 1:43 PM
Narr said...: I mentioned Napoleon Symphony here yesterday.

I recommended AB's M/F to my son once; he couldn't get into it.

But he's not much of a reader anyway, and the pang of fatherhood comes when you realize that something deep and precious and meaningful to you is not of even passing interest to your son.

Narr
Sad!; 11/12/20, 1:46 PM
tim in vermont said...: Desperation is not a good look Fox

https://twitter.com/Manny_Alicandro/status/1326964892289687552; 11/12/20, 2:06 PM
tim in vermont said...: If Twitter had been around in 2003
https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1326929643446947843; 11/12/20, 2:12 PM
tim in vermont said...: “Wife elect”

https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1326623250110177281; 11/12/20, 2:14 PM
rehajm said...: Desperation is not a good look Fox

I clicked through to the visual image of the Fox ticker. My feelings on the image were something like:

Dana Perino's sweater + Fox's decline into the liberal abyss = Hearing my high school crush fell into a wood chipper.; 11/12/20, 2:21 PM
rehajm said...: - Stay home unless for essential reasons
- Stop having guests over—including family members you do not live with
- Avoid non-essential travel
- Cancel traditional Thanksgiving plans

The preceding has been a message your new insect overlords...; 11/12/20, 2:34 PM
tim in vermont said...: You know who really poisons everything he touches? Paul Ryan

https://twitter.com/RyanAFournier/status/1326911186533830666; 11/12/20, 2:40 PM
tim in vermont said...: Paul Ryan: “The minority maker."; 11/12/20, 2:51 PM
wild chicken said...: Funny the Dems in Montana don't want to admit that Trump swept all the Rs into office including Body-Slam Greg..neither will the GOP, but they don't want to minimize all the work the candidates put in.

If Trump runs on '24 it could happen again. I just hope the legis doesn't try something as stupid as utility dereg, which cost us Montana Power.; 11/12/20, 2:58 PM
Michael K said...: Payment for this worthless recount will come from Georgia's treasury.

Why don't you pay for it , goofy? Then you can prove Slow Joe won.; 11/12/20, 3:11 PM
Michael K said...: Narr, I finally quit giving my grand kids books. Their father was the only one of my kids who didn't want to go to college. He is doing fine.

His kids are all athletes. His 8th grade daughter is in a swim meet in Phoenix next weekend.; 11/12/20, 3:15 PM
stevew said...: Nice photo, I like the panoramas, take them regularly of the ocean view here in ME. Mrs. stevew is not a fan, mainly because of the distortion. They aren't a traditional photo, of course, but I like what they are.

I'm invited to Thanksgiving with my son's family. Mrs. stevew is headed out of town to be with her mom that week. I hope the governors don't try to impose new rules about not visiting anyone you don't live with. Personally I don't give a crap about their rules, but MIL is 88 years old and our son and DIL have young school aged kids that could be required to quarantine if I visit.

These people of "science" suck.; 11/12/20, 3:16 PM
Achilles said...: Scary link to court filings that will be really hard for Axios readers to understand.

Found via the scary Epoch Times which might make Axios readers uncomfortable.

"It alleges that the Pennsylvania election process violated the Constitution by creating different standards of verification and transparency for mail-in and in-person voters, as well as disparate treatment of Republican and Democrat voters and poll watchers.

Trump campaign legal counsel Matt Morgan told reporters Monday that in Philadelphia and Allegheny, there were over 682,000 ballots that were tabulated outside the view of GOP observers who were entitled by law to review them."

Axios readers will probably have a hard time wading through it though.

It isn't a bunch of crap pushed out there to make people feel better.; 11/12/20, 3:31 PM
rhhardin said...: Bike commute sign today. "Men Working"

They were men, too. Not women's work.; 11/12/20, 3:47 PM
Jupiter said...: About that "burst pipe" that halted counting in Georgia ...; 11/12/20, 3:52 PM
gadfly said...: President Trump has told friends he wants to start a digital media company to clobber Fox News and undermine the conservative-friendly network, sources tell Axios.

It doesn't matter. Murdoch and News Corp have more media talent and monetary backing than Donald can hope to ever have. This sounds like a part of the Junior/Guilfoyle scheme to take over the Republican Party.

Donald is incapable of running a start-up company. Perhaps he can buy out his friends at Al Jazeera or RT.; 11/12/20, 3:57 PM
rhhardin said...: Doberman Self-portrait

Only the one eye is portrayed as seeing.

Model Henri Fantin-Latour (Louvre); 11/12/20, 4:04 PM
Achilles said...: USPS whistle blower details orders to stop delivering Trump/Republican mailings.

If you think that vote by mail was handled responsibly and legally by these people then you are a fucking idiot and probably believe what is printed in Axios.; 11/12/20, 4:04 PM
alanc709 said...: Trump won't need a digital media company to clobber Fox News. They were self-clobbering. Lachlan Murdoch pissed away his base in about 24 hours on Nov. 3.; 11/12/20, 4:14 PM
Humperdink said...: gadfly said: "Donald is incapable of running a start-up company. Perhaps he can buy out his friends at Al Jazeera or RT."

Never happen. Trump would have to go through Hunter Biden to make that acquisition.; 11/12/20, 4:25 PM
Drago said...: The Poor Man's LLR-lefty C**** gadfly: "Donald is incapable of running a start-up company."

Note: gadfly launched a blogsite and came to Althouse blog in a vain attempt to drive traffic to his blog....and completely failed....and the failure was immediate and permanent.

DJT, at his inauguration, reported over 540 distinct, taxable business entities worth billions.

Discuss.; 11/12/20, 4:26 PM
FullMoon said...: Doberman Self-portrait
Only the one eye is portrayed as seeing.
11/12/20, 4:04 PM

Unpopular opinion: Doberman, Great Dane and Pitbull look stupid without cropped ears; 11/12/20, 4:36 PM
tim in vermont said...: "It doesn't matter. Murdoch and News Corp have more media talent and monetary backing than Donald can hope to ever have. “

You keep watching. I am sure their new strategy of fighting over the liberal audience with CNN and MSNBC like seagulls fighting over a dead fish will pay off for them bigly.; 11/12/20, 4:58 PM
Jersey Fled said...: I see that the city of Chicago has issued a stay at home order due to the explosion in Covid cases.

I expect this to have a positive effect on the number of deaths in the city due to fewer murders.; 11/12/20, 5:26 PM
Rusty said...: One would think that Gadfly would welcome a recount if only to confirm his candidate won. It would also further confirm the honesty of the system.
That would be good, right Gadfly?; 11/12/20, 6:23 PM
YoungHegelian said...: On the drop in Fox ratings: I used to watch Bill O'Reilly every night until Fox shitcanned him for being a perv. O'Reilly would routinely boast that his ratings at 8:00PM would beat the sum total of viewers of ALL the other cable news shows. His re-run at 11PM (which I watched) would easily beat the competition's programs (even the ones that weren't reruns) by large margins.

Fox really took a beating.; 11/12/20, 6:47 PM
rhhardin said...: The Bureau season 5 has a the dance of the Montagues and the Capulets as background for some Russian scenes. Nice because it's a nice piece. An awful lot of tits/ass fucking scenes that I don't recall in seasons 1-4. French TV looking at declining ratings, perhaps.

Sometimes in encounters between countries they lapse into English as a common language, which they don't subtitle. You can miss whatever they're saying because of it. Maybe the subtitlers couldn't understand it either.

Just came out on DVD.; 11/12/20, 6:54 PM
Michael K said...: NR has a free version of this terrific article from City Journal, which I subscribe to.

The political implications of the Chump Effect are obvious: Meigs begins with the story of a man who asked Elizabeth Warren if he, who scrimped to put his child through college, would be entitled to a refund under her proposed new system to forgive student loans. “Of course not,” was Warren’s response. The man was furious: He was being made a chump. Elites such as Warren blithely ignore the anger they generate among people who dutifully follow the rules every time they suggest a carve-out for whatever politically powerful group they seek to appease and flatter. “You’re laughing at me,” the man told Warren. In effect, she was, by suggesting a large class of people be rewarded for indolence, lack of discipline, poor planning, and miscalculating the cost-to-benefit ratio of higher education. A society that creates favored groups is a society that creates chumps, and a society of chumps is an angry society.

Nice description of Trump voters and our feelings about Slow Joe.; 11/12/20, 7:16 PM
Narr said...: Wotan.

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One eye?; 11/12/20, 8:16 PM