Althouse: At the Sunrise Café...

April 20, 2022

At the Sunrise Café...

... you can talk about whatever you want.

28 comments:

Lem the artificially intelligent said...: “Wimbledon bars players from Russia, Belarus due to war in Ukraine”

This is wrong.; 4/20/22, 7:06 PM
Sarthurk said...: Very excellent! Both of them. Digital photography is a Blessing to photographers.
I recall taking six rolls of film from my Ikelite/Nikon FM underwater system, from a trip in the San Juan's, North Puget Sound, (and waiting for the slides to be processed and returned for two weeks. 95% bad photos from 36 frame shots. I had to think about what settings I used, and guess on subsequent ones. Underwater digital now, you can see what you just did, and try to fix it in real time.
Sorry, I digress.
Back in the Day.; 4/20/22, 7:10 PM
Joe Smith said...: The 'What's happening' sidebar in Twitter is the wokest bullshit on earth.; 4/20/22, 7:40 PM
Tomcc said...: Very nice photographs. The second one has a certain Van Gogh quality.; 4/20/22, 8:03 PM
madAsHell said...: Wow!! You know......I'm reading reports from the plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer. They have some unbalanced fellow surrounded by FBI agents advancing his madness with emotional, and economic support.

I'm also thinking about that guy that opened fire onto the fairgrounds in Las Vegas from the upper level floor of the hotel casino. You know, the guy that was hooked on video poker, but always had money. No one has ever speculated about his motivations, or his money.

Why am I having flashbacks to the Kennedy assassination?.........um, asking for a friend.; 4/20/22, 8:23 PM
Lurker21 said...: Don't show those pictures to Lebron. He might conclude that the sun is flat or doesn't exist at all.

(I know that Kyrie Irving is the flat earther, but nobody knows who he is, and Lebron is funnier.); 4/20/22, 8:36 PM
farmgirl said...: :0); 4/20/22, 8:44 PM
Sebastian said...: "It's planting season in Ukraine, and that means problems for global food supply"

Even NPR now recognizes the global calamity that may result from continued war. How long before they acknowledge that Trump was right again?

So, Joe, Boris, Ursula, what's the end game?; 4/20/22, 9:25 PM
jim5301 said...: Ukraine decides whether or not diplomacy is worth the effort. Steve Bannon suggested on his show two days after the invasion began that Ukraine should give Crimea and the Dunbas Region to Putin, agree to disarm, and agree not to join NATO and EU. Trump's view no doubt is the same.

Ukraine decides whether to settle with a butcher and a war criminal. Settle with a country that promised to respect Ukraine's border in exchange for Ukraine giving up its nukes.

It is Ukraine's war. They are the ones dying and their country is being wrecked. Our job is to give them all the weapons they need to beat the motherfuckers. Too bad we didn't train the Ukrainians before the war to fly F-35 fighters. A handful of those could easily change the outcome. It seems that we could be doing a lot more, but precisely what we are doing is not and should not be public information.; 4/20/22, 9:49 PM
jim5301 said...: From Lockheed Martin:

"As adversaries advance and legacy aircraft age, the 5th Generation F-35 is critical to maintaining air dominance now and for decades to come. 5th Generation capability is defined by the combination of Very Low Observable stealth, advanced sensors, information fusion and network connectivity – all packaged within in a supersonic, long range, highly maneuverable fighter.

With this advanced technology, the F-35 is a multi-role fighter capable of successfully executing any and all mission, including new missions not traditionally fulfilled by legacy fighters. Where 4th generation fighters are forced to adapt to this advancing battlespace, the F-35 shifts the power dynamic and is able to define the battlespace that our adversaries will need to adapt to.

More than a fighter jet, the F-35’s ability to collect, analyze and share data, is a powerful force multiplier that enhances all airborne, surface and ground-based assets in the battlespace."; 4/20/22, 10:04 PM
Gospace said...: So about education- just a note. In the 1800s it appears from my family tree research that my ancestors and ancestral relatives in the USA were far more literate than the same in Great Britain. From the records in the USA, it seems all the marriage licenses I can find were signed, with signature, by everyone involved, bride, groom, and witnesses. A note from freereg.org.uk for a marriage in 1846 I was just looking at in Worcestershire: "By Banns-Groom Bride & witnesses marked X.

Since educati0on has been a topic of discussion on several posts here recently, here's an interesting writeup of education at the beginning of this country: https://www.mackinac.org/2033#:~:text=Parents%20could%20choose%20whatever%20kind,on%20a%20laissez%2Dfaire%20basis. Horace Mann, as we all know, was a leader in establishing public education- and somehow it doesn't surprise me at all he was a Unitarian. I didn't know this before reading the writeup. I'm more and more beginning to think Unitarians are directly responsible for many of the wrong turns civil society has taken since our founding.

I suspect many of the "valedictorians" from inner city schools could read the 4th McGuffey reader. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/14880/14880-pdf.pdf

The 8th grade graduates from our local Amish/Mennonite schools are both literate and adept at fractions. I don't know what they use for K-8 texts. Don't know how familiar they are with the metric system, but they fully understand pecks and bushels. I don't. But I know quarks and electron orbits... they don't...

I graduated from a suburban NJ HS in 1973. Even the people at the bottom of our 400 person graduating class could read and write, though algebra and geometry and fractions were beyond some of them. 4 of my 5 children graduated from the local rural HS, graduating classes between 60 and 100 people. (It's been steadily going down.) I've worked with many in Scouts, and it was obvious working with them on the 3 Citizenship Merit Badges that they are barely literate, because they didn't learn reading by phonics. (all 5 of my children did.) Having them read the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution so we could discuss them was a chore, because they unable to pronounce many of the words they were looking at. I can't even imagine doing that with children from an inner city school today.

Before the McGuffey Readers, most USA citizens (and colonists before the USA) likely learned straight from the most common book in most homes- the Bible. King James version.

It was mentioned in an earlier thread that public education in the USA was Protestant- which was a very true observation. My PS kindergarten teacher was my Sunday School teacher and choir director in my local Methodist Church- before the merger between the Methodist Church and the United Brethren. My first grade teacher was a Sunday School teacher in the Church, but never mine. My second grade teacher was my second grade Sunday School teacher. And the one who came into school one day, closed the Bible sitting on the lectern, moved it to a shelf, and never read from it again, thanks to Madeline Murray O'Hare and the ACLU. Stripped of religious connotations, most of the Biblical stories read by teachers, particularly the Parables, were good life lessons regardless of religion. Few know them anymore.; 4/20/22, 10:15 PM
Owen said...: Gospace @ 10:15: “So about education,…”. Heartbreaking. And terrifying.; 4/21/22, 1:22 AM
gadfly said...: jim5301 said...
From Lockheed Martin

Whatever can be said about the F-35, it is slower than the Russian Su-57 and would likely lose in a dogfight. The F-35 is slower and less maneuverable than our F-22 which has been around for almost 20 years.; 4/21/22, 2:35 AM
Lurker21 said...: Consider center-left journals of opinion. In the 1990s, The New Yorker, The Nation, Dissent, The New Republic, The Atlantic, and Washington Monthly all represented distinctive flavors of the center left, from the technocratic neoliberalism of Washington Monthly to the New Left countercultural ethos of The Nation and the snobbish gentry liberalism of The New Yorker. Today, they are bare Xeroxes of each other, promoting and rewriting the output of single-issue environmental, identitarian, and gender radical nonprofits, which all tend to be funded by the same set of progressive foundations and individual donors.

Michael Lind in Tablet magazine. His thesis is that foundations and NGOs have imposed conformity on the left so that it's now impossible to be a serious "public intellectual" on the left, like ... the obvious name is Camille Paglia ... trying to come up with others ... Norman Mailer? Susan Sontag? Harold Bloom? The young James Baldwin? Lewis Mumford? Nowadays everybody mouths the same sterile orthodoxy. I don't know if Lind is right about the reason, but he may be on to something. People seem to have the idea that if you don't accept their way of thinking you are literally killing them. Anyway, find the article, read it, and see if you agree with him.; 4/21/22, 3:06 AM
Lurker21 said...: Can't sleep. Pino Grigio, the Italian mouse, isn't helping much.; 4/21/22, 3:07 AM
wendybar said...: Make sure you get some bleach for your eyes before you open this tweet to see the picture of the New York Times new Executive Editor. https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/1516747922821599234?; 4/21/22, 5:21 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Yes! Number two is outstanding.; 4/21/22, 5:31 AM
farmgirl said...: I can attest to the low flying capabilities of the F-35s. In 2020(pretty sure) our VT govn’r sent 2pair of those “planes” to fly over all the hospitals in solidarity of the great job they were doing during Covid. We fell into the flight area mapped out for them. There were 4- 2x2 that were so low the shadows covered our house. Couldn’t hear but the loudest thunder- the air vibrated like water around me(I thought I’d drown)and every cow in the barn took a shit.

No lie.

Glad the jets are ours.; 4/21/22, 5:41 AM
gilbar said...: jim5301 said....
Our job is to give them all the weapons they need to beat the motherfuckers.

WHY? Why is that "Our job" ?
WHY are you so desperate to have the USA involved in a shooting war with Russia?; 4/21/22, 5:59 AM
iowan2 said...: Whatever can be said about the F-35, it is slower than the Russian Su-57

So What?

How about the A10? Isn't it slow?; 4/21/22, 6:19 AM
Jefferson's Revenge said...: My problem with our response to the Ukraine situation is I don’t trust any side; Russia, Ukraine or our “leaders”. Even if our policy decisions are correct I have no faith in our leadership that they can execute them correctly. We frighten me more than Putin, candidly. Our leadership is akin to having HR run your business.; 4/21/22, 6:25 AM
Humperdink said...: Let's not lose sight of the fact, yes the fact, that Biden sowed the seeds, watered the seeds, fertilized the ground of this war. Biden expressed overtly and covertly that Ukraine could/would join NATO, a known deal killer for the Vlad. The question is why? Too many answers to list.; 4/21/22, 6:52 AM
Lurker21 said...: Make sure you get some bleach for your eyes before you open this tweet to see the picture of the New York Times new Executive Editor.

https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/1516747922821599234?

It's already a meme:

https://twitter.com/CthulhuToad/status/1516782486986047493

Still it's not all fun and games and erotic poses plastiques in the Timesman's lonely apartment:

https://twitter.com/RogerParton/status/1516813846391910401

And his breakfast apparently doesn't hurt the environment and offsets the many plane trips he takes.; 4/21/22, 6:53 AM
Kai Akker said...: First came FaceBook in February. Now Netflix. When do they come for Amazon and Google?

Farewell to FANG and the FANG era. The Federal Reserve pumped up the markets for over a decade, and now the Fed is having to puncture its own balloon.

Remember the old saying -- when the paddy wagon comes, they take the good girls too.; 4/21/22, 7:30 AM
Rusty said...: gadfly said...
"jim5301 said...
From Lockheed Martin

Whatever can be said about the F-35, it is slower than the Russian Su-57 and would likely lose in a dogfight. The F-35 is slower and less maneuverable than our F-22 which has been around for almost 20 years."

Your lord and savior Obama nixed the F22 program. If I recall he insisted that the fixtures used to make the plane be destroyed. So now we couldn't make a new one unless we built new fixtures.
As any pilot will tell you. The trick is not to get in a dogfight. The suite of electronics on the F35 is designed so that an enemy aircraft will never get close enough for a dogfigt.; 4/21/22, 9:05 AM
Michael K said...: Blogger gilbar said...

jim5301 said....
Our job is to give them all the weapons they need to beat the motherfuckers.

WHY? Why is that "Our job" ?
WHY are you so desperate to have the USA involved in a shooting war with Russia?

The left is desperate to hide Biden's failures in every aspect of governing. They resemble Austria-Hungary in 1914.; 4/21/22, 11:06 AM
TheOne Who Is Not Obeyed said...: Reading Lind's article on public intellectuals in Tablet makes me think: Why not institute a wealth tax on endowments? Whether a think tank, a philanthropic entity, or a university, why shouldn't we be taxing the hell out of their endowment if it's some really, really big number? Rather than taxing tax-paying corporations or individuals, garner some of that cash from the (currently) exempt, bringing them back into the fold of the public fisc.; 4/21/22, 12:09 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: This is odd...
https://www.visiontimes.com/2022/04/21/fires-destroy-food-processing-centers.html

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/several-very-large-food-processing-plants-in-the-us-have-blown-up-burned-down-in-the-past-few-days/; 4/21/22, 12:10 PM