Althouse: November foliage at sunrise today.

November 5, 2021

November foliage at sunrise today.

36 comments:

Narr said...: Septober, Octember, Nowonder already!

Most of the trees around here are just starting their turns.

If skies allow where y'all are, you can see JUPITER-Saturn-VENUS for the next few nights, with some moon thrown in.; 11/5/21, 6:58 PM
rhhardin said...: Alas he has now made the video private, but a deadheading airline pilot had a nice film of a landing 737 with fog streaming from the flap corners and wingtips, coming down, flaring smoothly, holding off, and then stalling and dropping a few feet to the runway. Much camera reaction. "That's how to do it," he laughed. Title "When the Magic Ends."

Prompting the comment

Pilot note: Autoland is rough.
Mechanic note: Autoland not installed on this airplane.; 11/5/21, 8:09 PM
rehajm said...: Dan Rather was forced into retirement for his mistakes. Brian Williams was relegated to the minor leagues for his errors.

Nearly all of legacy media ran with a lies for years because the lies fit their politics (and that’s being generous). They all get to keep making shit up, keep their press credentials and their Pulitzers for all the shit they shoveled.; 11/5/21, 8:15 PM
Achilles said...: Jennifer Granhold, Biden Regime Energy Secretary, is asked what the Biden Regime is going to do to reduce gas prices.

She laughs. Says "that's hilarious" and even mentions the magic wand again.

Then she blames OPEC.

Democrats are just shitty people.; 11/5/21, 8:19 PM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: This is why I'm turning vegetarian; 11/5/21, 8:27 PM
wildswan said...: It seems that every Friday the Dems promise that they're going to pass the two bills - Infrastructure and Also Infrastructure. Pelosi says she has the votes. Then, some say they won't vote unless the bills are separated and others say they won't vote unless the bills are joined. Then Pelosi doesn't have the votes. And Congress adjourns. The next Friday, the same. This Friday they're doing it again. This Friday, some say the Virginia vote means the bills should be separated; the others say that the Virginia vote shows that progressives must fight harder to unite the bills. It all means something but not, I think, something that will reduce gas prices - no matter what.; 11/5/21, 8:29 PM
rehajm said...: https://mobile.twitter.com/geoffpilkington/status/1456467187737059330

More Democrats are watching Fox News during prime time than CNN…; 11/5/21, 8:37 PM
Tank said...: Egg salad sandwiches and Manhattans for dinner tonight.

The Althouse special!; 11/5/21, 8:40 PM
Drago said...: The State Department is now signalling there are THOUSANDS of Americans in Afghanistan under Taliban control.

There is ZERO chance that could be an "accident" in the planning.

It was a calculated step designed to reward the Taliban and provide a justification for the Biden's Earpiece regime (under obama/Klain operational direction) for Biden purposely leaving enough arms and equipment to outfit an entire Army.

Also makes the meaning behind the purposeful rewarding of the Iranians perfectly clear as well.

Not to mention bidens attempt to undo the move of the US embassy to Jerusalem by rewarding the Arabs with reopening a "Palestinian" Mission in Jerusalem, thereby sending the clear message that Jerusalem under biden will be considered the Arab capital in a 2-state "solution".

The democraticals arent even bothering to hide it anymore.; 11/5/21, 8:46 PM
Big Mike said...: The story about the Loudoun County boy in a skirt who anally raped a teenaged girl in a high school girls' rest room just gets better. Today it was reported that the boy's mother insists that it couldn't have been a real rape because she didn't really fight very hard.

Liberal women. What can I say?; 11/5/21, 8:52 PM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: OT:

Andrew Sullivan on the left's collective lie that CRT isn't there.

"And during Covid, with nerves frayed by zoom-schooling, many parents have had their eyes opened about teachers’ unions. No surprise that one of the last campaigners for McAuliffe was Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers. At the AFT 2021 Conference, guess who was the keynote speaker? Ibram X Kendi! The other big teachers’ union, the National Education Association, has explicitly called for teaching children CRT, pledging to publicize “an already-created, in-depth study that critiques white supremacy, anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, racism, patriarchy … capitalism … and other forms of power and oppression.” They back The 1619 Project as a teaching tool. So all the unions, the governor, the Virginia education department, the paper of record, and the federal government think CRT is obligatory for teaching children. But absolutely none of that ever, ever reaches into the classroom. Please.

Of course it does. To use a term the woke might understand, it is, in fact, structural. In Virginia, the goal is not to make obscure CRT texts mandatory in a course curriculum; it is to filter all education first and foremost through the CRT lens of race and identity; to “interrogate” mathematics, literature, philosophy, and science not as fields of study, but as suspect products of “white supremacy”; to remember “positionality” before you even speak; to grade and discipline so as to remove any group differences; to abolish standardized tests, because there are different group outcomes; to end gifted education, because it’s allegedly racist; to hire and fire on identity grounds; to teach children that sex is not binary and can be chosen; to open restrooms and locker rooms to both sexes; and, most of all, to keep parents at bay and in the dark about all of it.

What has happened this past week, I suspect, is that the woke revolution has finally met its match: educated parents. People can tolerate sitting through compulsory “social justice” seminars, struggle sessions, pronoun rituals, and the rest as adults, if they have to as a condition of employment. But when they see this ideology being foisted on their children as young as six, they draw a line.

And when the public authorities try to disguise this, when a governor says that parents should not decide what is taught in public schools, when the parents are scorned as “white supremacists” for wanting their children to be taught math that doesn’t take a position on racism, and when the media reflexively calls them liars, they are going to get mad enough to vote Republican again. I don’t blame them. "; 11/5/21, 8:57 PM
Achilles said...: I remember when Abu Ghraib was the front page story in the NYT's for 31 fucking days.

Former Army Ranger being repeatedly strip searched and maced.

"A female guard with a cell phone repeatedly asked Morss if he was resisting the strip search. Morss said officers with the ERT -- he said it stands for Emergency Response Team-- then handcuffed him and put him in a "black room" with a chair. One prison guard, Corporal Armstrong, was present as well. "They shoved me around and maced me," Morss said. "When I opened my mouth, they pointed the can of mace toward my mouth."

Morss' "humiliating" search included graphic details of a sexual nature. (American Greatness will not disclose these details to protect Morss' privacy.) "This was direct retaliation" for meeting with his lawyer, Morss told me."; 11/5/21, 8:57 PM
Original Mike said...: "If skies allow where y'all are, you can see JUPITER-Saturn-VENUS for the next few nights, with some moon thrown in.".

Last night was a new moon. Got in an all-nighter with the 12.5". Cold and breezy, but you have to take advantage of opportunities when that damed light polluting source is in the sky.; 11/5/21, 9:31 PM
Assistant Village Idiot said...: NH foliage was well below-average this year. the two factors are a record-breaking wet July, which caused the maples to be susceptible to a spotting disease, and the lack of sharp cold for two consecutive days for much longer than usual. Those usually trigger faster turning.; 11/5/21, 9:50 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: Alas he has now made the video private, but a deadheading airline pilot had a nice film of a landing 737 with fog streaming from the flap corners and wingtips, coming down, flaring smoothly, holding off, and then stalling and dropping a few feet to the runway. Much camera reaction. "That's how to do it," he laughed. Title "When the Magic Ends."

I was on a flight test of a Navy E-6, a 707-320B(ADV), testing out of Wichita. A Navy pilot was in command for the landing. There are few windows on an E-6, so the landing came as a surprise. BANG! The pilot landed the plane like it was a F-14 carrier landing, rapid descent, sticking it on the runway as quickly as possible. No flare. That was in the mid 1990s.; 11/5/21, 10:37 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: Last night was a new moon. Got in an all-nighter with the 12.5". Cold and breezy, but you have to take advantage of opportunities when that damed light polluting source is in the sky.

My plan is to buy a Celestron 14-in HD scope after our new house is ready this next June and start using it in the cleared field south of our creek. There are still going to be a row of hemlocks that belong to the County, they'll be like a randomly spaced picket fence. The sky is fairly dark out there, so the seeing should be good seeing when it's not cloudy.

The 14-in will supplement my 6-in Celestron.; 11/5/21, 10:45 PM
Big Mike said...: Up until this past week only the honey locust in the tree line behind our house had turned (a vivid yellow). But last night was a hard freeze and tonight will be a second one. I think we’re going to see the oaks and maples turn now.; 11/5/21, 11:05 PM
Mutaman said...: Thank you President Biden!; 11/6/21, 12:31 AM
Mutaman said...: "It seems that every Friday the Dems promise that they're going to pass the two bills - Infrastructure and Also Infrastructure."

politicians living up to their promise-great.; 11/6/21, 12:33 AM
wildswan said...: Just as leaves turn red before they fall off trees, so the Virginia vote has finally caused the Dems to pass some legislation, Infrastructure 1. The bill will add $256 billion to our debt and the Dems have promised in writing not to ask how much the Other Infrastructure will cost but just to pass it in a few weeks. Still the Dems used an interesting trick, taking money previously appropriated for other purposes and applying it to this new bill. If that's legal, I suppose the Republicans could do the same when they come to power.; 11/6/21, 3:49 AM
tim maguire said...: Can Of Cheese for Hunter said...Andrew Sullivan on the left's collective lie that CRT isn't there.

I never enter the arguments about whether CRT is taught in schools for two reasons:
1) It’s a bad-faith argument. Nobody making it believes it so there’s no point in showing how they’re wrong
2) It’s a perfect shit-poster’s claim. The burden of research is on the person disputing the claim, not the person making it. Anyone can just say it’s not taught. The proof has to come from the person saying, yes it is. I’m not going to put that kind of time into an internet argument.; 11/6/21, 5:49 AM
Jaq said...: "Nobody making it believes it "

Watch some testimony on the subject regarding Virginia

"The proof has to come from the person saying, yes it is."

The 1619 Project was published by the New York Times as a curriculum for schools, and was adopted by schools. You have to work pretty hard at denial to not see that. VA textbooks are full of examples of CRT informed lesson plans.

Basically, by refusing to listen to the other side, you can convince yourself that you are right. What if, by some freak chance, you discovered that you were wrong. Would you consider it wrong that CRT informed theories were being taught as established fact to children?; 11/6/21, 6:13 AM
Jaq said...: Can of Cheese for Hunter,

This is why I try not to just put up links to things I want people to read without explanation. It took only a couple sentences to mention that Sullivan asked why the New York Times published the Pulitzer Prize winning 1619 Project as a guide for curriculums, and then later said that CRT was not being taught. His kicker, "Does the New York Times think we can't read" was very funny, but by not writing that out, you gave people a chance to reject your argument without even hearing it; 11/6/21, 6:18 AM
wendybar said...: Mutaman said...
Thank you President Biden!

11/6/21, 12:31 AM

For what?? Leaving thousands of Americans behind to be tortured by the Taliban? The open border with unvaccinated illegals pouring into the country that we are going to pay $450,000 each to?? The flailing economy that is making Americans poorer every day?? RACISM and HATRED spewed at anybody who doesn't think like a progressive?? Forcing people to put something in their body they don't want?? WHAT?? I can't think of anything I would thank him for except if he stepped down, and apologized for stealing the election, like we all know they did.; 11/6/21, 6:36 AM
wendybar said...: Asked whether the administration might also give money to people "who are coming here the right way," Jean-Pierre (press secretary) asked, "Why would we be giving people who are coming here the right way money?"
"Why are you giving people who came here the wrong way money," Doocy responded. Jean-Pierre said she did not "understand the question" (she is ignorant)

To PISS off American???; 11/6/21, 6:49 AM
Fernandinande said...: Today it was reported that the boy's mother insists that it couldn't have been a real rape because she didn't really fight very hard.

After reading her excuses, justifications and contradictory descriptions of her kid, I'd bet even money that this is a "dindu nuffin" moment.; 11/6/21, 7:09 AM
Jaq said...: Achilles, in that horrifying account of treatment of the prisoner, you forgot to mention that this was a J6 protester accused of parading around the Capitol Building, a political prisoner. What could the motivation for a strip search have been but as a humiliation?

Lefties cheer this kind of brutality on when it is against a "deplorable" and it does leave little doubt as to how they would treat us if they were given the complete power they crave.; 11/6/21, 7:24 AM
RoseAnne said...: The stump in the middle picture fascinates me. Looks like a dinosaur or a fantasy bird with a long beak. Thanks for sharing.; 11/6/21, 8:13 AM
MadTownGuy said...: Big Mike said...

"The story about the Loudoun County boy in a skirt who anally raped a teenaged girl in a high school girls' rest room just gets better. Today it was reported that the boy's mother insists that it couldn't have been a real rape because she didn't really fight very hard.

Liberal women. What can I say?"

I'm old enough to remember when "No" meant no, even when stated after the fact.; 11/6/21, 8:59 AM
farmgirl said...: Re: the chick video

I had mentioned in one of my comments- that the laws corner us and squeeze us, (us?)those of us who toil the earth… w/inane laws that prevent us from doing what we naturally do, having been schooled at our fathers’ knee(s) learning the ways of our birthright. Generational.

This video is a direct result of interference and cheap food policy- bigger is better is a state of mind. All 50 of them.
The video makes me nauseous.

We’re ready to quit.; 11/6/21, 10:57 AM
Original Mike said...: Blogger Mike of Snoqualmie said..."My plan is to buy a Celestron 14-in HD scope after our new house is ready this next June and start using it in the cleared field south of our creek."

You're going to like the step up in aperture. I'm curious as to the decision to buy another SCT. Photography?

"There are still going to be a row of hemlocks that belong to the County, they'll be like a randomly spaced picket fence."

Which direction?; 11/6/21, 10:57 AM
farmgirl said...: In the bottom, left- hand side of the first picture I spy w/my little eye- an eye spying back. The shape and shadow-play looks lovely. To my eyes, anyway.; 11/6/21, 11:17 AM
Mutaman said...: "The flailing economy that is making Americans poorer every day?"(sic)

The Biden administration created nearly 5 million jobs in the first 8 months.

That is nearly twice as many than were created in the 16 years of the last 3 Republican Presidencies, combined.
Unemployment rate falls to 4.6 (down from 6.3% in Jan.)

**The US has recovered ~80% of jobs lost during the pandemic**

Facts are stupid things.; 11/6/21, 5:08 PM
Ann Althouse said...: “ The stump in the middle picture fascinates me. Looks like a dinosaur or a fantasy bird with a long beak. Thanks for sharing”

It’s actually a living branch. I’d passed it hundreds of times and often noticed the awkward angle but had never thought to frame it this way.; 11/6/21, 7:01 PM
Original Mike said...: “Twelve dollars for a dozen eggs. At the farmers market on Sunday, I did my own survey. Three stands were $11. The rest were $12. Ten minutes ago, they cost $6. One hundred dollars. That’s how much it cost my handyman to fuel up his truck. They’re warning that the price of canned cranberries is going to be 50% higher this year because of the scarcity of aluminum for the cans. . . . "

Stupid facts…; 11/6/21, 7:53 PM
Ann Althouse said...: "It’s actually a living branch."

I took a closer look this morning. There may be some leaves that still come out but the base of this is deeply cracked, so, though it's not broken off, it did not grow in this position. There's a big vertical crack that goes completely through the trunk.; 11/7/21, 8:28 AM