Althouse: 6:35 a.m.

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6:35 a.m.

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Mid-Life Lawyer म्हणाले...: Sometimes I listen to Pandora when I run. I like to listen to an artist's "station" as the stations feature their music but also the songs of similar artists. Almost all the stations I've listened to in the last week get around to Pink Moon by Nick Drake at some point. If I want to listen to faster music, I listen to Pixies, Violent Femmes, The Killers, and The Strokes. They all feature the others music with a little different flavors as well.

I don't know of any Pink Sun music.; ११/९/२१, ११:५२ AM
Sally327 म्हणाले...: That bit of pink peaking over the horizon is surprising harmonious with the orange layer. I would call this picture "Sherbert".

I wonder how the federal government is going to enforce the vaccine mandate.; ११/९/२१, १२:२० PM
West TX Intermediate Crude म्हणाले...: Sally327-
The feds are not going to enforce the vax mandate.
They really don't care if people get sick or not, unless they die fast and save money for SS and Medicare.
What they care about is pushing people around, making people do their bidding.
The feds have all the big corporations to be the enforcers. If they wanted to maximize the number of people who take the vaccines, they would not exempt small employers (<100 employees). They exempted the small places because they are run by more independent-thinking entrepreneurs who will ignore the mandate. The big companies like to push their employees around- a docile workforce is a good workforce.
You never give an order that will not be obeyed.
The feds will be happy to see people do their bidding, however indirectly. That's their goal.; ११/९/२१, १:४७ PM
Bender म्हणाले...: That's surprising. On the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the Washington Post is pushing for closing Guantanamo Bay.; ११/९/२१, २:०४ PM
Mike of Snoqualmie म्हणाले...: We saw the last of 80-degree weather last week. Meteorological Fall starts this week with the Fall rains and mostly 60s temperatures. We won't see 80 until May 2022.; ११/९/२१, २:०९ PM
hawkeyedjb म्हणाले...: "We won't see 80 until May 2022." Down here in Lower Hell, we won't see 80 degrees until... Sometime later tonight. Very much looking forward to the mornings below 80. Then, below 70 - perfect biking weather.; ११/९/२१, २:३७ PM
Lem Vibe Bandit म्हणाले...: Wapo: Federal workers’ vaccine mandate prompts confusion as the government struggles to return to offices

You think a man who was there for the two Clinton terms and even closer to the two Obama terms would be... OMG... Biden is not running shit. That's why he hardly talks to the press.; ११/९/२१, २:५४ PM
Lem Vibe Bandit म्हणाले...: "A coffin that was found in a golf course pond contains a 4,000-year-old man buried with an axe"

This is great news for people who read the Supremes opinions.

The original...person with an axe to grind has been found. Obviously, hell did not come and sent high water instead putting a stop to the... person's plans ;); ११/९/२१, ३:१६ PM
Lem Vibe Bandit म्हणाले...: Biden Admin: Don’t Worry We’d Never Impose a Vaccine Mandate!

Supercut (link to video) reminiscent of Obama's "if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor"; ११/९/२१, ३:३४ PM
YoungHegelian म्हणाले...: I just want to post this as an indication of how ludicrous FB's censoring has become, as this posting by me today has clearly been shadowbanned:

THE OTHER 9/11. For us, as modern Americans, this was a long time ago & just as well could have been in a galaxy far, far away. For those who plotted the attack against us on 9/11/2001, it was a still raw defeat that needed to be avenged. This was the beginning of the end for the Ottoman Caliphate, the beginning of 300 years of Sunni Muslim humiliation at the hands of the Christian European powers, until in 1924, the Turks themselves under Kemal Ataturk abolished the Caliphate. Thus ended the office that was for the Islamic world the temporal successor of the Prophet Mohamed as a ruler of a political state.

Wikipedia Link for Battle of Vienna.

Can you fucking believe this?; ११/९/२१, ४:५० PM
Bender म्हणाले...: Meanwhile, in Arlington, Virginia, site of one of the 9/11 attacks, there is this testimony on its public schools --

Metal Ox

I was talking with some smart and thoughtful APS high school students yesterday and the topic of 9/11 arose. I didn't expect them to know the details, but was surprised that they mostly lacked even a basic knowledge of what took place ("a plane hit a building, right?")

Much worse: many of those kids who had heard about it were believers in, or at least tempted by, the utterly false canard that this was an inside job by the U.S. government. I heard some of the crap promoted by "9/11 truthers": the planes weren't strong enough to destroy the Towers, "some people" wanted the U.S. to get into a war, no plane hit the White House because Bush was there (prompting me to explain that Bush was in Florida reading "My Pet Goat" to kindergarteners), and similar nonsense. I encouraged them to talk to anyone over 30 about their memories of that day and to employ their skills at sifting real from fake news.

I was flabbergasted and remain pretty distressed. Truly didn't expect this from APS students almost old enough to vote, and it frightens me for what other wacko - and dangerous - things they might believe based on YouTube and social media. "Low information" and belief in conspiracy theories don't seem confined to the stereotypical backwoods.; ११/९/२१, ५:४६ PM
Josephbleau म्हणाले...: "Wapo: Federal workers’ vaccine mandate prompts confusion as the government struggles to return to offices"

Wow, that is great, there is a huge unreported undercurrent in that sentence. F 500 companies know that they get more performance from in office employees, but that ship has sailed. Working at home is now the expectation, workers want it bad.

Federal workers have always been overpaid and coddled because it is an obvious way for the Democrats to buy votes. (See Va goes Democrat.) But, what would happen to DC if all the Federal workers stayed home and stopped buying lunch and drinks in DC and stayed home in Fairfax? DC will look like Austin and Roosevelt (Chicago) or Bushwick (Brooklyn.) I know that the lunches are charged to the taxpayer in reality but that does not matter in the analysis, it's the economic impact.

There needs to be a lot of yuppies around to buy the abandoned office towers converted to condos. Otherwise, blue cities are screwed.

I envision a new Chicago Housing Authority that has free housing in North Michigan condos.; ११/९/२१, ७:१७ PM
Bender म्हणाले...: what would happen to DC if all the Federal workers stayed home and stopped buying lunch and drinks in DC and stayed home in Fairfax?

?? That's been going on since March 2020. And what would happen to DC is that a lot of the restaurants and bars have gone out of business because the rents remain due.; ११/९/२१, ९:४५ PM
Lem Vibe Bandit म्हणाले...: #FJB - these clips sound better If you play them all at once.

link to Insta; ११/९/२१, ११:२३ PM
Mike of Snoqualmie म्हणाले...: Joe Biden ain't no Todd Beamer. If Joe had been on Flight 93, Traitor Joe would have informed on Todd and Todd's patriots. Joe would have taken his thirty pieces of silver to betray the passengers and ensured that Flight 93 crashed into the White House. He'd do anything for a bribe.; १२/९/२१, १२:१९ AM
Big Mike म्हणाले...: I had been wondering about the aftermath of Hurricane Ida on New Orleans, and despite a de facto moratorium on news from Louisiana, it appears that Biden’s administration is demonstrating its usual level of competence during the recovery, that is, none at all.

The hurricane hit New Orleans on Sunday, August 29. Joe Biden showed up five days later to make a rousing speech filled with promises he apparently forgot about on his way back to Washington in Air Force One, if not on the way back to the plane itself. I had been assuming that no news from New Orleans meant that Biden’s administration was screwing up, as the media would be thrilled to publish anything that could be spun as positive in the face of Afghanistan. Yesterday I found an article that confirmed my suspicions. “Where’s the President? Where’s FEMA?”

Good questions.; १२/९/२१, १:१८ AM
Big Mike म्हणाले...: My older son works for an agency of the Defense Department. He and his wife have been fully vaccinated since last spring. He has heard a rumor that the DoD is thinking of not accepting vaccinations from civilian doctors and requiring people like him to be revaccinated by a DoD doctor. “Pissed” does not begin to describe him.; १२/९/२१, ३:०० AM
wendybar म्हणाले...: “Where’s the President? Where’s FEMA?”
Imagine if Trump did this?? It would be 24/7 news that he abandoned the people left behind by Hurricane Ida.; १२/९/२१, ५:४२ AM
walter म्हणाले...: Big Mike,
Are they insinuating some shotputters are injecting into shirts?
Because...nevermind.; १२/९/२१, ६:०८ AM