Althouse: The lake at 6:53 this morning.

September 4, 2021

The lake at 6:53 this morning.

Talk about anything you want in the comments.

22 comments:

Big Mike said...: Willard Scott has died. He surely lived a happy life.; 9/4/21, 7:23 PM
Big Mike said...: I see that the White House was forced to admit that Joe Biden did not visit the Tree of Life synagogue after the mass murder attack. The guy lies even when he doesn’t need to, even when there’s nothing to gain from the lie. It’s as though he lies just to keep in practice.

By the way, Donald Trump did travel to Pittsburgh to pay his respects and meet with the rabbi and wounded survivors, despite the petulant reaction to his visit by Pittsburgh mayor Bill Peduto and Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf.; 9/4/21, 7:42 PM
Narr said...: Interesting times in our brave new world. I've been going four or five days a week to the leisure pool at the new student rec center on campus. We're supposed to mask indoors, and I do, generally.

Today I got there as usual and swiped my i.d. as usual and went to the pool as usual. Coming out later, I swiped my card to leave, and realized I wasn't wearing my mask. It's about forty feet from the men's locker room to the turnstile and desk, and then about 60 feet to the exit.

Just now I checked email, and found a sternly worded message that 'staff' (including I'm sure, AI) observed me violating protocol this afternoon, either by not wearing a mask or not distancing, or both.

No sanction was specified but I've been put on notice.; 9/4/21, 7:55 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Drove some adult kids to and fro something called Dragon Con in ATL over the last couple of days. Is a dress-up shindig. I spotted Loki, Captain America, Ant man, and several winged super heroes.
In case you are wondering, I did see some of the accompanying costume-less friends wearing ppe masks. You know, covid.
One was pretend and the other deadly serious.; 9/4/21, 8:10 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Willard Scott was still alive? I remember when a Bryant Gumbel leaked internal memo practically got Willard killed off from the Today Show.; 9/4/21, 8:15 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: btw. I'm happy to see Rh back in the comments. (golf clap); 9/4/21, 8:16 PM
Achilles said...: Marine texted out that there was a countdown to the bombing at the airport.

“The S Vest (suicide vest) countdown is no lie. I head occasional radio chatter of them saying how far away the bomber was. Absolute incompetence. We had a Carl G and literally had to steal rounds because we were not given them…”

Are you going to believe the Marines that were there or the Biden Administration?; 9/4/21, 8:22 PM
Big Mike said...: Willard Scott was still alive?

Not anymore.

I used to watch The Today Show now and then. Like many viewers, I thought they should keep Scott and fire Gumbel. Gumbel was forced to kiss (literally!) and make up with Scott.; 9/4/21, 8:52 PM
Big Mike said...: @Achilles, do you remember the “scandal” in September of last year when when it was leaked that Trump had called the Pentagon’s generals “a bunch of pussies”? In light of Afghanistan, can anyone doubt that he was right?; 9/4/21, 8:59 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: That picture looks like a painting in an art gallery.

Althouse should do a coffee table book of her best photographs.

What'd you say. Maybe we can help by picking our favorites.; 9/4/21, 9:02 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: Biden's suicide bomber is what happens when military decisions are put in the hand of politicians. The decision to take the bomber out should have been made by a captain, not the politicians in Washington (Biden, SecDef or Milley). Neither of them could decide on what to have for lunch, let alone decide whether to kill a suicide bomber.

Trump is smart enough to know to push such decision down to as low a level as possible. Trump told the SecDef to defeat ISIS and didn't try to micromanage the operations. Unlike Obama and now Joe "f*ck up" Biden.

Thirteen valuable service members dead because Joe "f*ck up" Biden deliberately screwed the pouch on the Afghanistan withdrawal to please his Chinese masters.; 9/4/21, 9:04 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: Once again the IPCC is falsifying the historical temperature records to push its global warming/climate crisis agenda. The "scientists" at the University of Bern, Switzerland removed the Medieval Warm Period (800-1300 AD) from its temperature record to hide the fact that it was warmer in the past then it is now with a lower CO2 concentration. The long term trend from about 7,000 BC to now is DOWN, about -0.14 deg C/millenium. Their climate models can't match the past, so they alter the past to match their models. That's the scientific way!; 9/4/21, 9:26 PM
RigelDog said...: Althouse sunrise photo today: Swans in the mist; 9/4/21, 9:39 PM
Mid-Life Lawyer said...: Pretty good football this Saturday, especially tonight. I'm going to have to switch to radio as I drive to pick my not yet driving 16 year old up from the pizza place he works at. Radio game coverage is sometimes even better.

I'm looking forward to a short trail run in the a.m. to get my mileage up to 30 for the week. I was in a boot for four weeks then came back with 8, 22, and now 30 mile weeks. I'm keeping it low heart rate so far but I will pick it up a little next week. The last two years, I have done several months of very LHR base rebuilding coming out of the summers. This year my base rebuilding just happened to coincide with a foot injury. I'll do a trail 10k on Sept 18th just to get my feet back wet then I'll be incrementally moving back up in distance as the fall and winter progresses, as long as I can hold up. 25k in Caprock Canyon in October then a series of hikes and runs over four days out close to El Paso in mid-November. One of the hikes will be to the top of Guadalupe Peak, the tallest point in Texas.; 9/4/21, 9:51 PM
StephenFearby said...: The devastating consequences of NYC policemen asserting "Is No My Yob":

NY Post
9/5/2021 12:37am

Grieving neighbor says cops could have saved Queens family that drowned in basement

"A grieving neighbor of a Queens family who died in their flooded basement apartment during Ida claims police passed up a chance to save the couple and toddler.

Nancy Pico, 49, told The Post NYPD officers were evacuating the building during Wednesday’s historic torrential flooding, hours before the couple were found dead — and she unsuccessfully pleaded with them to break down the family’s door."

'...Sometime around 10 p.m., eight NYPD officers, “strong men,” she said, came to evacuate the building as water rose, but the cops chose not to force their way into the apartment to evacuate [Ang Gelu] Lama, 50, Mingma Sherpa, 48, and Lobsang Lama, 2, according to Pico.

“I asked the police to go inside” to check on the family, Pico said.

“They came in four or five cars. Then they come ask me, ‘You sure they are inside?’”

When Pico told police she saw Lama come home, they allegedly replied, “’No, we have to make sure,’” according to the concerned neighbor.

“I said, ‘Listen,’ I yell at him. ‘Go in, break it [the door], do something.’”

Cops allegedly claimed only firefighters could force their way in for a rescue — but the FDNY did not arrive until well after 2 a.m., according to Pico, and by that time the family had already drowned.'

"...The NYPD did not immediately respond to The Post’s requests for comment."

"...An online fundraiser had garnered $23,000 in contributions for the family’s funeral expenses in less than 24 hours

'...“My Aunt, Mingma, was the sole provider for her family in Nepal, which includes her mother and three younger siblings. She has no immediate family in the United States,” the fundraising website read.'

https://www.gofundme.com/f/funeral-for-flood-victim-family-support?qid=41b99dae0177b817b11a65a9d525b862

https://nypost.com/2021/09/05/nypd-could-have-saved-queens-family-that-drowned-in-basement/

It has been reported in the NYT that the building's Certificate of Occupancy did not permit the basement (really a cellar, from the photographs in the DM) to be used as a dwelling unit.

It is also quite possible that the family did not respond to the police because the parents were illegal immigrants.; 9/5/21, 12:57 AM
Lewis said...: I've been ill for a long time. Sorry.

Decisions Of A Life.

.I.

She headed to the door
Of some burnt out world
Lost to the dried flare
Of Apocalypse. With words
Telling of that special place
Her mind halved its voices
Where one would call “Where?”
To the others reassurance of
“One foot more, one age less.”

And held by the endless tide
Of works companions
Some sense of proportion was lost.

At home a dear friend
Had uttered the martyred cliché of
“Be yourself!” A thousand victims -
Were there more?

.II.

Down the battle broken world
Where the shadows left around:
Corpses, corpses flew
To glare their unholy cries.

.III.

And among the luggage of travel
A niche was found:
Here a shadow shared a bottle
With a friend or two,
Words scattered among the unintended,
Formed their partial puzzles.

.V.

One friendly companion,
Whose ever forming grin disturbed,
Pronounced, heartily,
Some ending term,
Some clause of binding.

Sealed by the wax of finality
She considered her attention weak:
It had stopped at the cover,
Started at the completion of smiles,
Had broken at the ribboned bow.

Twisted in a distracting knot
These decisions had been made.; 9/5/21, 2:19 AM
The Vault Dweller said...: At least the boats are socially distanced.; 9/5/21, 6:41 AM
Temujin said...: I'm remembering when Trump called his Generals a bunch of losers.

Look- there's a lot of things about Trump's personality that are abnormal. But his reading of people is typically pretty on target. He knows what he's dealing with, which is why he was able to work deals in business and in geopolitics (which Biden has since reversed because...).

But Trump saw our military leaders for what they were. And there is little doubt, as the good soldiers get disgusted and do not re-up or just depart early, that he was right.; 9/5/21, 7:00 AM
Richard Aubrey said...: Achilles, For those whose lives involve more productive pursuits: "Carl G" is the Carl Gustav, a short-range anti-armor weapon which can be carried by Infantry. NO FREAKING AMMO? Like to know where that came from.
A patrol without a radio? Aren't there, like, about a million Prick two fives lying around from fifty years ago?
I was a very junior officer. If anybody found out what I did to make sure my guys were equipped properly, I'd likely still be in Leavenworth.
This squares with reports there was a drone lock on the car bomber but orders were not to fire.
Being dead at a young age is a bad thing. But what kind of human wreckage got pulled out and shipped to Landstuhl is sickening to contemplate. Besides being "insulted by munitions", blast effect can do unspeakable things. Anybody seen reports of numbers of our people wounded?

Reviewed the Beirut bombing which was the jarheads' worst day since Iwo. The guards had been told to take the magazines out of their weapons so as not to look so mean or something. Apparently the battalion commander had seven different agencies giving him orders, one of which might have been Marines. But you never know.

Sort of related. For our hostess, what is the local opinion on the new folks at Fr. McCoy?; 9/5/21, 7:38 AM
Chris N said...: Like the photo.; 9/5/21, 9:50 AM
West TX Intermediate Crude said...: "Banking officials are literally sprinting to catch up with the many developments in crypto..."
From an article in today's online NYT.
NYT writers are literally illiterate when writing articles in the English language.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/05/us/politics/cryptocurrency-explainer.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20210905&instance_id=39692&nl=the-morning&regi_id=68513452&segment_id=68167&te=1&user_id=0fc4fb15c5a2f6fbf32db7fa2e32ad0c; 9/5/21, 10:33 AM
Ann Althouse said...: "That picture looks like a painting in an art gallery."

It's one of those photographs that you could paint by superimposing a grid on it and putting a corresponding grid on a big canvas then copying grid by grid without thinking of the whole image and end up with something startlingly photorealistic and that would really impress people. How do those rough brushstrokes coalesce to convey a perfectly photographic-seeming image? Part of what would impress you is knowing that a human being took the time to do the work.; 9/5/21, 11:44 AM