Althouse: Sunrise

December 12, 2021

Sunrise — 7:17.

Talk about whatever you want in the comments.

31 comments:

Lem Vibe Bandit said...: AP: "South African president tests positive for COVID, mildly ill"

Say whatever you want about COVID. It's a killer... but it doesn't discriminate. There is a bright side at the end of the tunnel.; 12/12/21, 6:28 PM
rehajm said...: I stopped watching Fox and didn’t realize CNN had a (another?) sexual predator on payroll. I assume they stopped paying them and now have money for Wallace and still be under the salary cap?; 12/12/21, 6:33 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: My message to Joe the moron Biden, just now:

Joe, since you believed Jesse Smollet's ridiculous hoax, why don't you volunteer to serve his time? You could fire that incompetent you have serving as your V.P. and then nominate Jesse. You'd resign, serve Jesse's time and Jesse would be president. He couldn't be any worse than you!

Sounds like a win-win scenario to me. We'd just replace one hoaxer with another and the country would be better off. It's your patriotic duty!; 12/12/21, 6:34 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Have you seen a sign in people's yard "Drive like your kids live here".

The other day I saw a truck with a sticker that read "Drive like you stole it".

It was a challenge. It was good to see. It's one way of figuring out who and what is right and wrong.

Challenge everything. (Just don't go Jan6 on people); 12/12/21, 6:36 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: The Democrat Party has once again donned the mantle of racial harmony by showing us the rightful way to be a neo-segregationist. Why else would it promote Critical Race Theory and all its tenants of class-division. They are right, math is racist, at least division operations are. /sarc; 12/12/21, 6:41 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: I wish our sunrises were as beautiful as yours, Ann. Mostly is just gray clouds. Sometimes we get a colorful sunrise, with reds and yellows. Not many times.

Keep it up!; 12/12/21, 6:42 PM
Narr said...: Geminids tonight, and tomorrow night. Consult your local listings.

Saw Prof. McWherter on CSPAN today talking about "Woke Racism." Interesting guy, but too often defends himself pre-emptively from trite accusations and predictable criticisms.

Also saw a segment from the October Wisconsin Book Festival, speakers and audience fully masked; contrast with yesterday's November show from the WWII Museum in Nawleens.; 12/12/21, 6:53 PM
Achilles said...: Texas Sheriff deputy's family sues to have him treated with Ivermectin. He has now come out of his coma.

There are some trends that the "experts" are trying to ignore."

It is pretty obvious that Ivermectin is safer and more effective than the vaccines as well as being orders of magnitude cheaper. India had several provinces use Ivermectin to eliminate COVID as well as several other large industrialized countries like Japan.

But regimes around the world cannot help the drug companies make record profits nor can they start a social credit system with Ivermectin. Germany cannot persecute their Jews... err unvaccinated if they use Ivermectin. You can't smear your regime's enemies as "anti-vax" if you use Ivermectin.

I have more vaccines in me than anyone who has not been in the Army. Only a fucking idiot will call me "anti-vax" because I recognize there are more effective and safer options than these mRNA transcribers not to mention I have had COVID and have more longer lasting resistance than vaccinated people.

Myocarditis and Pericarditis have long term effects on death rates.

The blow back on the shitheads pushing the vaccine mandates is going to be glorious.

Every person who supported the Biden Regime is going to suffer permanent humiliation.; 12/12/21, 6:56 PM
Big Mike said...: This afternoon the wife and I saw "Ghostbusters: Afterlife." Finally! A funny Ghostbusters sequel. IMAO definitely worth the price of a ticket.

This is, by the way, the first movie the wife and I have seen in a theater since 2019.; 12/12/21, 7:06 PM
MadisonMan said...: I appreciated this morning that all the e-w sidewalks on the south side of the street were still ice covered whereas the north side sidewalks were almost all clear.
I wasn't wearing shoes with traction, so I had to observe the ice.; 12/12/21, 7:28 PM
n.n said...: Column: Leaked SoCal hospital records reveal huge, automated markups for healthcare
via market-ticker.org

The problem is not progressive costs, it is single/central/monopolistic government programs and offices that enable progressive prices through shared/shifted responsibility, and an ethical scheme that supports planned parent/hood, reducing human life to a negotiable commodity. Inflation, or rather officially acknowledged inflation, is just the latest signal to indicate that even with excess deaths, collateral damage from modern mandates, and labor and environmental arbitrage, these are unsustainable solutions that are a first-order forcing of [sociopolitical] climate change.; 12/12/21, 7:33 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: “There are no fine wines in prison” - HBO ‘Succession’ S3 E4; 12/12/21, 8:01 PM
Sella Turcica said...: “The nobles wish to oppress, while the people desire only not to be oppressed.”

“It is not reasonable that he who is armed should yield obedience willingly to him who is unarmed.”

— Niccolo Machiavelli, 1532

The older I get, the more I’m impressed with the wisdom of our Founders.; 12/12/21, 8:22 PM
tim maguire said...: Achilles said...It is pretty obvious that Ivermectin is safer and more effective than the vaccines as well as being orders of magnitude cheaper

The best interpretation of the evidence on ivermectin is that someone with worms and COVID is much more likely to die than someone with just COVID. Which is why you see so much effectiveness from ivermectin in countries where intestinal parasites are common and very little effectiveness in countries where it isn’t.; 12/12/21, 8:26 PM
gilbar said...: Big Mike said...
This afternoon the wife and I saw "Ghostbusters: Afterlife." Finally! A funny Ghostbusters sequel. IMAO definitely worth the price of a ticket

Why should you Never trust an Atom?; 12/12/21, 8:37 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: To follow up on what Althouse was saying about smiling with a mask. The ride shares make drivers wear a mask. The problem with that is riders can’t see the driver’s face, obviously. But, on top of that, the app encourages riders to ask drivers “how they are doing”… like maybe your driver is a psycho? It’s a bad combo all around. When is the shit show going to end?; 12/12/21, 8:43 PM
wildswan said...: With Biden as President, the adults are in charge. Unfortunately, the adults are Putin and Xi.; 12/12/21, 8:48 PM
Original Mike said...: Blogger MadisonMan said...I appreciated this morning that all the e-w sidewalks on the south side of the street were still ice covered whereas the north side sidewalks were almost all clear."

We, with our steep north-facing driveway, fight that every winter. The upside is our back yard starscape is to the south.; 12/12/21, 8:57 PM
Narr said...: I plumb forgot to say 1) glad Prof enjoyed the show, 2) good on Meade, way to go, and 3) what was it?

I forgot. My wife went to a Christmas gathering for a few hours (at her oldest friend's, once married to one of my oldest friends). I stayed home with the dog and located all the piles of mail (did I mention that, just like Steve Martin, I keep things in piles?) Well, most of them.

Three were in the den, one on the kitchen table, one on an end of a kitchen counter, one on the dining room table, and one already in the office (3rd BR).

AARP mags and bulletins. Mags and reports from two U's. Because my wife is a Dem, free calendars, planners, and stickers from the pure of heart. Christmas cards. From last year.

J.Jill. Lands End. Viking, especially Viking. Pounds and kilos of consumer gloss.

All that being just the residue, after prompt attention to action items and immediate trashing of even junkier junk.

The trees. All the dead trees . . .; 12/12/21, 9:04 PM
madAsHell said...: I have not seen the entire Peter Jackson movie.

I'm just stunned by the interaction of the Beatles in the trailers. If you've ever even been close to a garage band.......its a quagmire. Too many egos, and much mis-directed energy.

The Beatles knew each others thoughts. They were riffing-off each other musically, and intellectually even before they knew it!!

On the other hand, you can only walk through that valley once. It had to blow up. They were exhausted.

I don't know how they did it!!!!; 12/12/21, 9:47 PM
n said...: I like Dave Chappelle’s pronunciation of the convicted hate crime hoax criminal. Juicy Smoolyay. I usually apologized for being unsure of the correct pronunciation. I’ll say it loud and proud now!; 12/12/21, 9:47 PM
gadfly said...: rehajm said...
I stopped watching Fox and didn’t realize CNN had a (another?) sexual predator on payroll. I assume they stopped paying them and now have money for Wallace and still be under the salary cap?

Whatever in Hell does any of this statement mean? So you stopped watching Fox because these news nuts had numerous sexual predators perhaps? And CNN fired Fredo for grabbing his ex-boss's butt and a guy on Cuomo's staff trained a 9-year-old to do all kinds of sexual things. But I am not sure how 74-year-old Chris Wallace (who doesn't play in the NBA and whose initials are not DJT) working at CNN+, not CNN, has anything to do with any of this.; 12/13/21, 12:59 AM
gadfly said...: Deputy Jason Jones had his life saved in Texas by Health Huguley hospital after Jones failed to get a Covid vaccination. He contracted SAR-CoV-2 but infection from head lice was not among his ailments so ivermectin was not a medically sound treatment for someone whose lungs had collapsed.; 12/13/21, 1:20 AM
Big Mike said...: Say whatever you want about COVID. It's a killer...

@Lem, except the Omicron variant. According to WHO, in the entire world there has not been a single death traceable to the Omicron variant. Zero. In. The. Entire. World. Which makes it less lethal than the common cold.; 12/13/21, 1:39 AM
rehajm said...: gadfly said...
Whatever in Hell does any of this statement mean?

I encourage you to contemplate the direction Talk about whatever you want in the comments and the possibility those whatevers need not be something Gadfly understands…

Interesting that despite your lack of understanding you took a blind stab at responding anyways. I bet you do that a lot…; 12/13/21, 6:55 AM
Big Mike said...: @golbar, it’s elemental-ry, my dear Watson.

And by the way, that’s how you do a remake with Dan Ackroyd, Bill Murray, and Ernie Hudson.; 12/13/21, 7:53 AM
Iman said...: Except for the one unfortunate, dead bloke in GB who has sadly learned that Bob is not his uncle.; 12/13/21, 8:24 AM
wildswan said...: In re: Christmas for Atheists

You could look at it as a Pageant presentation of of how loss of religion actually plays out. There's the believer time when customs and traditions based on beliefs develop. Christmas is a joyful time because it celebrates the birth of our Savior. There's the mixed time, believers in the majority. 1. We believe and celebrate the birth of our Savior. 2. We don't believe but why should we lose all that fun and beauty; we keep the tradition going. Then there's the later mixed time, believers in the minority. 1. We believe and we celebrate the birth of our Savior. 2. We don't believe but why should we lose all that fun and beauty; we keep the tradition going. 3. We don't believe, we're sick and tired of tradition; we have no family; our parties are sickening - garish with drunken excess and guilty gift-giving everywhere. The Puritans who banned Christmas as a season of sin become an attractive, comprehensible group - except that they were believers. Believers, traditionalists, atheists mingle in one vast country celebrating, celehating, turning restlessly to and from one great festival.

This our version of a carol we believers always sing:

I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
and wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

And thought how, as the day had come,
The belfries of all Christendom
Had rolled along
The unbroken song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

And in despair I bowed my head;
"There is no peace on earth," I said;
"For hate is strong,
And mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!"

Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
"God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
The Wrong shall fail,
The Right prevail,
With peace on earth, good-will to men.

Till ringing, singing on its way,
The world revolved from night to day,
A voice, a chime,
A chant sublime
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!; 12/13/21, 8:31 AM
Big Mike said...: When is the shit show going to end?

@Lem, my judgement is that it has to end politically. Whitmer in Michigan and Polis in Colorado, both Democrats, are showing the way. The former was once among the leaders of the tin pot health dictators, so she’s certainly changing her tune a bit. Did they pay attention to what happened in Virginia — and more to the point, what nearly happened to Murphy in New Jersey despite the RNC (under the leadership of Mitt Romney’s niece) not providing much in the way of support to Murphy’s Republican opponent? Did they decide that appeasing their voters trumps (yes, I did that deliberately) appeasing Fauci? Good for them if they did, but I suspect Whitmer’s deep in a hole and getting out may be a serious challenge that she’s only got 10 1/2 months left to fix.

One thing that 2020 and 2021 taught me is that putting the federal government in charge of healthcare is a disaster.; 12/13/21, 8:34 AM
Howard said...: Self quarantine because not wanting to make others feel safe by the simple act of showing vaccine status is your right. It's also a great way to virtue signal to Covid deniers and other Q followers. Leaving your lovely word obsessive wife to watch a special live event with one of her favorite writers alone is pure selfish, narcissistic, cowardly behavior. Why punish her? Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.; 12/13/21, 9:17 AM
TheOne Who Is Not Obeyed said...: "The best interpretation of the evidence on ivermectin is that someone with worms and COVID is much more likely to die than someone with just COVID."

This would make sense if there were some control in those studies for the presence of worms in covid victims. I don't recall seeing that any of the studies controlled for this, so the interpretation would be made without evidence, probably to support the government policy line.

A better interpretation that also has the advantage of being tested is that those places that had higher success with ivermectin provided it so it was available at the onset of symptoms, where studies are showing that it has the most benefit. Most studies that show poor results usually started ivermectin later in the course of the infection.

This would not be at all surprising - this is seen in the usual flu antivirals: take it early, or don't bother with it at all.; 12/13/21, 4:03 PM