Althouse: 6:19 a.m.

August 24, 2021

6:19 a.m.

This is just a photograph to document that I went for a sunrise run. You can write about anything in the comments.

16 comments:

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: Despite my gloomy doom predictions about Kabul I’m hoping sanity breaks out and Joe tells the Taliban we’ll be out when we’re done so back the fuck off. Hey a guy can hope!; 8/24/21, 7:28 PM
Temujin said...: A nuclear explosion off in the distance? Better duck.; 8/24/21, 7:33 PM
Mid-Life Lawyer said...: I went for a run at 6:50 a.m. in Erwin Park in McKinney, TX and that's about the way the sun looked over the trees at that time for me. The moon was still prominent as well. I think I noticed headlines that indicated that the moon would not be as big in the sky again for two more years and I had to wonder if I would see it the next time. That's kind of morbid, I guess, but I'm doing some Buddhist reading and meditation and death comes up a lot with the Buddhists. Usually not in a negative way but still, you have to thing about it and it's definitely something that is going to happen sooner rather than later for me at sixty-one with a history of cancer.

This was only my third run after taking off over five weeks, four in a walking boot. It was tough laying off. I ran a 50 mile race on May 15th and I hated for that fitness to waste away. My aerobic base has been decimated but it will come back about the time the mornings start getting cool. Until such time as its return, I will do a very easy run pace until my HR starts getting out of very easy range, then walk it back down before running again.; 8/24/21, 7:57 PM
Lucien said...: Why are airports still allowed to have “White Courtesy phones” and “White Zones” (for passenger loading and unloading only)?

Isn’t this . . Problematic? (FAA rules?); 8/24/21, 7:58 PM
Original Mike said...: I saw the sunrise from Vilas County this morning. It was also blood red.; 8/24/21, 8:05 PM
StephenFearby said...: When it rains, it pours...

NY Post
Supreme Court upholds order keeping ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy in place
August 24, 2021 8:59pm

'The Supreme Court Tuesday declined the Biden administration’s request to block a lower court order keeping the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy for asylum-seekers in place.

The unsigned order stated that the Biden White House failed to show that its decision to end the program, which required asylum claimants to wait in Mexico until their case could be heard in a US immigration court, was not “arbitrary and capricious.”...'

https://nypost.com/2021/08/24/supreme-court-upholds-order-keeping-remain-in-mexico-policy-in-place/

Also...

Drudge Report (which recently seems to have gone back to its roots) main headline:

CRUEL SUMMER: [Biden Latest Poll] APPROVAL CRASHES TO 41%

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/08/24/afghanistan-woes-sink-bidens-approval-41-usa-today-suffolk-poll/8244854002/; 8/24/21, 8:35 PM
hawkeyedjb said...: Tonight, in celebration of... well, nothing really, I finished off a bottle of Armagnac that I've owned since the 1990s. It was distilled in 1965, and aged for 31 years before bottling. Every now and then, at holidays, I would open it and share with friends who appreciate such things. I was down to the last couple of ounces, and so decided to finish it off and enjoy it without making a large deal of it. I've never had anything like it, and likely never will again.

Some years ago I had lunch at a restaurant in the French countryside and was treated to a sip of Cognac from a bottle that had been distilled in the year of the birth of the restaurant's owner and chef, which I believe was in the 1950s. It was almost as good, but I've always preferred Armagnac even though it is thought of as the rustic cousin of Cognac. To each his own.

I sent the chef a football jersey with the number 1 and the name "Le Chef" emblazoned on the back as thanks for his hospitality.; 8/24/21, 8:43 PM
Narr said...: A little Venus some evenings, and Jupiter too. The other night was crystal clear at 3am when I let the dog out. The full moon and Jupiter were both big and brilliant, but it was still too hot and buggy to stay out long.

I drove to Nashville Friday, through some rains. The local weather was covering the torrents around Waverly, and it rained again Saturday night. I drove home on Sunday morning through mostly sunny weather, but the Buffalo and other middle Tennessee streams were as high as I've ever seen them in scores or hundreds of drives. The Tennessee River itself was a lot higher Sunday than it had been Friday.

The Waverly disaster was on the Beeb, and far-flung and foreign friends are inquiring about our welfare. I got no closer to the trouble either way, than the Waverly exit from I-40.

Got to listen to some great loud music, too.; 8/24/21, 8:56 PM
Bender said...: Who killed Ashli Babbitt?

We know who covered up her homicide and who grossly violated the rule of law and her civil right not to be executed without due process -- the federal "justice" system. But who killed this unarmed woman?; 8/24/21, 9:06 PM
Narr said...: Ponder me this. How long before online and social media showing or discussing A-stan atrocities, or topics like the number of Americans abandoned, are banned and canceled as "misinformation" and "hate speech"?; 8/24/21, 9:13 PM
Danno said...: Is this a follow the bouncing ball animation?; 8/25/21, 4:23 AM
john mosby said...: Last year, I came up with the following. The Afghan news made me think of it again:

Would this be a way to get someone with standing to force a court to take a substantive look at the 2020 election:

A military member gets an order from Biden and refuses to carry it out.

Upon court martial, the member’s defense is that Biden is not the real commander-in-chief, so any order issuing from him is unlawful.

The government would then have to prove that Biden was duly elected. Of course, their first recourse would be to all the court “cases” that refused to look at the substance. But the member would counter by stating that she actually has standing, and the issue is ripe and not moot.

I know that in the real world, if this argument started to get any traction, the military would just administratively separate the member or buy her off somehow, but as a matter of law, do you think it would work?m

JSM; 8/25/21, 4:26 AM
Lucien said...: President Biden is now worried about “ISIS-K”, which will turn out to be the delta variant of ISIS: by invoking it you can go back on everything you said beforehand because it “Changes everything”.; 8/25/21, 6:27 AM
Temujin said...: Nothing says cynicism and political opportunism like the Democrats in the House and Senate trying to push through massive spending bills that have nothing to do with infrastructure or voting rights- in fact, just the opposite- while the world is burning. While our country is imploding on all sides and they know they have the slimmest of margins in the House and Senate that will be gone in months (hardly a mandate to do what they're doing), they are focused only on trying to ram through every far left program that they can.

With no concern for the country at large. No concern for our security or sovereignty. No concern for our economy. No concern for the United States remaining a nation united. These are the worst of the worst- Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and company. No one should ever forget their actions while they stranded Americans in Afghanistan.

Furious and ragingly mad does not come close to describing my contempt for Democrats at this point.; 8/25/21, 7:15 AM
Heartless Aztec said...: How many consecutive "dawn patrol" runs/walks have you totaled? Your longest streak?; 8/25/21, 7:20 AM
Drago said...: StephenFearby: "Drudge Report (which recently seems to have gone back to its roots) main headline:

CRUEL SUMMER: [Biden Latest Poll] APPROVAL CRASHES TO 41%"

Not a chance.

The DrudgeReport went left in the summer of 2019 and if the current Drudge page gas negative news for Biden its only because they seek a further left replacement for hom asap.; 8/25/21, 10:36 AM