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No sunrise photograph today. I overslept! I didn't expect that to happen. I slept over 8 hours, woke up with light in the room, and wondered what's going on? It took me a second to realize it was the sun. I'm getting to the part of the year when I need to set the alarm as a backup. There are so many mornings when I wake up at 3 or 4, so I assume that 5:30 is no problem, but it can happen.
And yes, I know that the great resetting of the clocks is about to hit us in a couple days, but that makes no difference to me. I've set myself to the sun and only use the clock to keep track of its position, which never leaps forward or falls back but moves slowly and continuously.
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Fred Sanford on waking after a night of Champiple asks Lamont "What's that"?
Lamont replies, "That's the sun, pop".
Blogger is acting very "Presidential" tonight.
Love the Fedora!!
Did Zeus take a chunk out of the brim??
Jussiie Smollett 150 days in County Jail. repay ciity $120,600 fined 25 Gs
Oh MY.. https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/03/10/u-s-funds-former-ukraine-based-soviet-bioweapons-facility/
Something's awkward here.
My daughter is courting a Parisian.
When she visited Paris, she noted that Pepe LePew is an Italian on French TV.
I don't visit for a couple of days and Althouse has a new photo! I love fedoras and glad they are back in style.
When it always seemed that the Democrats blame their opposition for the exact thing that they are doing, I didn't think it applied to them accusing Trump of trying to cause WW3. You can't possibly be cynical enough.
"I've set myself to the sun and only use the clock to keep track of its position"
Translation: I have a six figure pension plus benefits so The real world means nothing to me.
KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP)
At 91, siege of Leningrad survivor is besieged by war again
"Alevtina Shernina was a young girl when she survived the brutal siege of Leningrad during World War II. Eight decades later, so frail she can barely talk, or move unassisted, she is besieged again.
The 91-year-old lives in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city and one of the most battered urban areas in Russia’s invasion. The bombardment has come so close that windows in her apartment building were blown out.
And yet Shernina cannot flee, even to a bomb shelter. Her heart problems leave her too fragile to be carried down the flights of stairs to the basement when air raid sirens scream."
'...“I feel inhuman anger from the fact that Alevtina began her life in Leningrad under the siege as a girl who was starving, who lived in cold and hunger, and she’s ending her life (in similar circumstances),” her daughter-in-law said.
She spoke bitterly of the Russian forces and compared them to the “fascists” who besieged Leningrad, now called St. Petersburg, for nearly 900 days so long ago.
“What sort of defenders are these?” she asked. “Who did they come to defend?”
She showed off an official card stating her mother-in-law’s status as a survivor of one of the deadliest sieges in history. German forces encircled and starved Leningrad from 1941 to 1944, and hundreds of thousands of people died.'
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-europe-kharkiv-world-war-ii-7339b841e05ee2cde415371b0c332dc8
"...In his memoir 'First Person,' Putin - who born a decade later in 1952 - described how his mother had been so close to starvation [during the seige of Leningrad] that she lost consciousness and 'they laid her out with the corpses' until someone heard her moaning.
And in 2012, during wreath-laying ceremony in the city once again called St Petersburg, he talked about his brother Viktor.
'My parents told me that children were taken from their families in 1941, and my mother had a child taken from her — with the goal of saving him,' he said at the event, according to the New York Times.
'They said he had died, but they never said where he was buried.'"
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10587667/Blinken-invokes-Putins-dead-brother-Vicktor-accuses-Russia-starving-Ukraines-cities.html
Just got done reviewing the several European sources I use to gauge the war in Ukraine:
God day for the Ukraine military. Lots of armor and weapon systems destroyed. No ground advance by the Russians. Russians are repositioning allowing for some towns under siege to evacuate. Some have been without heat and electricity for 10 days. Almost all say they've been living in their basement.
Civilian evacuations are in full swing across the country. Russian speakers living 30 miles from the Russian border are opting to evacuate 1000 west to Lviv than go to Russia.
Russian State tv says Mariupol is the nazi capitol of Ukraine, which explains why they seem to rather turn it to rubble than occupy it.
High level cease fire talks continue with no results. More are scheduled.
Reuters Exclusive: “Facebook temporarily allows posts on Ukraine war calling for violence against invading Russians or Putin's death“
Via ‘Small Dead Animals’
WATCHA WANNA BET? It's not well known, but when the Soviet Union broke up, in terms of nuclear warheads on its soil, Ukraine became the 3rd largest nuclear power in the world, with an estimated 1900 Soviet nuclear warheads. In light of later security agreements with Russia & the USA, Ukraine returned those warheads to Russia by the end of 1996.
The Soviet Union was notoriously sloppy in exactly how many warheads it had & where they all were. How much you want to bet that the Ukrainians kept a couple?
If I were the Ukrainians, I'd think that with Russian security agreements & $5.00 I could get a cup of coffee at Starbucks. As for an American security agreement, I'd say that the government of South Vietnam was unavailable for comment.
Does Ukraine have the technical capabilities to maintain those warheads in working condition? Almost certainly so.
In their place, what would you have done?
I feel from reading some of the recent posts that many here are searching for a new ethos to properly express the aspirations of women in our current era. Based on my study of Freud and his life and work, I would like to detail and explain to the women here how Freud helped his daughter Anna achieve maturity and independence. You're welcome.....He undertook to psychoanalyze her. Many women here might be understandably reluctant to tell their most intimate masturbation fantasies to their father, and some fathers might also feel uncomfortable in the presence of such confidences. Well, that's why you're not Freud or his daughter. Freud not only listened to such confidences, but he told his daughter what they really meant and what fantasies she was repressing. In possibly the greatest feat of mansplaining on record, he convinced his daughter that her most arousing fantasy was of being spanked by her father, him, Freud himself. Anna revered her father. She thought he was a great man. Although she had no conscious recollection of any such fantasy, she took on faith his words and believed she had such fantasies.......This all sounds unfathomably weird and kinky, but that's what happened. Anna was apparently none the worse for the psychoanalysis. It's true she never married, nor had any affairs with men, but that's because she had bigger fish to fry. She called herself a vestal virgin, the keeper of her father's flame. She was loyal to his memory and to the insights that she gained from his analysis......She herself became a successful psychoanalyst of children. She analyzed one child whose mother was an heir to the Tiffany fortune. While the child later in life committed suicide, the analysis was a success in that she formed a close bond with the child's mother. In fact, they moved in together and cohabited for years.. She claimed that their relationship was never sexual, but I bet their home had lots of pretty windows and lamps. Even in an asexual relationship, there has to be a plus side in cohabiting with a Tiffany heir.....So ponder Anna Freud while contemplating how best to express your femininity and feminism. Her life has many useful lessons. If you can't beat the patriarchy, beat off to it.
The US government and the banks are red-lining the oil and gas industry. Someone might get a permit or a lease but they won't get financing. And so gas prices rise and we are still denied energy independence.
Good for you! I so seldom oversleep that when I do, it’s a rare occurrence and a pleasant surprise.
CDC: Flu shots didn't work to prevent flu this year
It was only a matter of time.
Some of the invaders are flying the hammer and sickle again.
Supreme Court nominations
did not know Taney got 3 bobs at apple/plum
Does Ukraine have the technical capabilities to maintain those warheads in working condition? Almost certainly so.
In their place, what would you have done?
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Turkey is essentially holding USA bombs hostage at Incirlik?
Dark Horse podcast finds a way of talking about something that would otherwise might trigger the YouTube censors.
Copy pasta to your browser 👉🏽 https://youtu.be/SXiwa5xXWng
London Times
....At the conclusion of peace talks in the Turkish resort of Antalya, Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, said that Russia did not plan to attack other countries and claimed “we did not attack Ukraine”.'
Lavrov seems to have learned to lie through his teeth from Humpty Dumpty:
“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”
(Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass)
Wow! William nobody is going to read your manifesto. Unibombet much?
"Translation: I have a six figure pension plus benefits so The real world means nothing to me."
What does the size of my pension have to do with my practice of getting up to see the sun rise? The sun isn't charging admission.
Could a person who has to start work at 9 follow the same ritual of getting up before the sun rises? The only time when it might be a problem would be around the winter solstice, when the sun rises where I live at about 7:30, so you might wake up too late, maybe at 7. But I think you'd still make it to work. It would be no problem around the equinox, when the sunrise shifts from about 6:15 to 7:15. You're getting up at the same sun time but the clock tells you to leave for work sooner, but isn't 7:15 early enough. The only difference is that before the shift, you had an extra hour to sip coffee and read the newspaper before leaving the house, but you've had no change to your sleep pattern. In November when the clock falls back, it's just the reverse. You'd been getting up close to when you need to work and now you've got the bonus of an extra hour to yourself.
My point is, there's never a sudden change as it relates to sleeping, and you're always up early enough to get to work. I'm assuming 9-5 hours and a reasonably short commute. I know there are other work structures.
To get the benefit of my privilege of having a substantial pension, I should develop more expensive habits than waking up to see the sunrise!
"Translation: I have a six figure pension plus benefits so The real world means nothing to me."
Cheapest of the cheap shots. Good grief, get a life.
Ann Althouse said...
"To get the benefit of my privilege of having a substantial pension, I should develop more expensive habits than waking up to see the sunrise!"
You'd be hard pressed to buy anything comparable, at any price.
My body resists sleeping in so much that it takes me months to adjust to the fall time change. I look forward to the spring change in the hopes that my stupidly early wake up time will come an hour closer to alignment with normal people's wake up times, but it doesn't happen. Within a couple days, I'm waking up stupidly early again.
The worst part of being an early morning person is the amount of my life spent tip-toeing around because everyone else is asleep.
"’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”
Correct. It was always thus in international relations, and it now is within the U.S. as well.
"Translation: I have a six figure pension plus benefits so The real world means nothing to me."
What twaddle.
There are morning people, and everybody else. Both are fine upstanding people. I'm up between 5am to 6am. 365 days a year. A while back we got home from a concert at midnight, and still up at 5:30 Sunday morning. Sometimes morning people carry the burden, most often we reap the rewards. (as the sun us just clearing trees at this moment flooding room with great yellow light.)
Quoth Wikipedia
Fédora is a play by the French author Victorien Sardou. It opened at the Théâtre du Vaudeville in Paris on 11 December 1882,[1] and ran for 135 performances.[2] The first production starred Sarah Bernhardt.[1] She wore a soft felt hat in that role which was soon a popular fashion for women; the hat became known as a fedora.[3]
the NYT -- on Sept 4, 2001: exactly one week before 9/11 -- published an article warning that the CIA was developing bio weapons programs that skirted, if not crossed, legal bans, including with anthrax. - Glenn Greenwald
Nothing to see here
Never apologize, Prof. Never explain.
Not a morning person myself, but as I get older and since retiring I can't sleep late anyway. I got my wife from the airport about 1130 last night, was in bed by 1230 (late for me) and up by 9. I only miss sunrises by a few hours.
William's essay is delightful and insightful.
"Fedora" was operatized by Giordano.
Ok, so my first idea to get our federal government back within the bounds outlined by the Constitution: Prohibit public/private contracts with any non-profit organization. All services and products procured by the government must be supplied by for-profit entities.
I think this could be tried at the state level first. Those who are in the grift the most will squawk the loudest.
I read William's post. Too good to check, I have no idea and no concern whether the daughter of one of the 20th Century's biggest frauds was turned to lesbianism by being sexually and emotionally abused by her father.
But it does fit in with my bias against Freud and non-chemical psychotherapy, and the psychologization of everything (i.e., everything being -phobic). Screwed up man, screwed up daughter, screwed up theories, screwed up world.
Well, now.
Freudian slips- especially when spanking your own daughter is a goal.
Did Freud’s daughter then psychoanalyze the Tiffany child to suicide?
I wonder if Biden has ever read this about Freud b/c of the rumors of showering w/his young daughter…
There’s a moral to the story here. Somewhere.
Anywhere??
Ethos.
I think you’re barking up the wrong tree, William.
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