Althouse: Sunrise

August 1, 2022

Sunrise — 5:43.

Write about whatever you want in the comments.

And here's a bonus picture from yesterday, looking west at 5:54:

35 comments:

FullMoon said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 8/1/22, 7:40 PM
tim in vermont said...: Am I the only one who can’t stand reading AI produced writing even if it contains useful information?; 8/1/22, 8:05 PM
tim in vermont said...: Maybe I will just ask you guys. I have a barn with no electricity and I would like to set up an inverter and car battery system to get 15 amps occasionally for lights or power tools, charged by solar panels without breaking the bank for a tesla wall, which would be major overkill, most of the time it would be dark and unheated. The barn has a huge south facing roof, btw.; 8/1/22, 8:15 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: r/unexpected 👉🏽 https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/wdn0v5/top_physicists_according_to_my_college/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

OP in the comments…
“My professor is 75yo. He probably google searched Heisenberg but apparently walter white is more popular than real heisenburger”; 8/1/22, 8:19 PM
wildswan said...: The CDC and the Institute for the Study of Infectious Diseases (Dr. Fauci's team) found out several years ago that the smallpox vaccine is fairly effective against monkeypox. And a monkeypox vaccine was developed. They gave a contract to a company called Bavarian Nordic for millions of doses of Jynneos for the US Army. And so they could tell others to build up monkeypox vaccine supplies. For reasons not yet known they aren't doing this. It may be that they are debating a mandate. Monkeypox is like Aids in the way it spreads and the dangers it presents to the population at large. But this maybe impossible for the CDC to say or act on. A mandate would trigger a debate on this issue.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-eu-clear-manufacturing-plant-for-bavarian-nordics-monkeypox-vaccine/ar-AA102bj6; 8/1/22, 8:26 PM
Dave Begley said...: Interesting question. What would Biden do if China shot down the Speaker’s jet? I can’t imagine that Xi would do so, but you never know.; 8/1/22, 8:33 PM
LibertarianLeisure said...: Beautiful photos.; 8/1/22, 8:36 PM
Narr said...: I for one welcome our pink, vapory overlords!

I only watch Jeopardy, and that big winner tranny a few months ago was allowed a lot of correct answers despite leaving out the question. It could slide with answers delivered in a questioning tone. Happened all the time.; 8/1/22, 8:37 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: More sad stories from the child trans front.

Headline: Chicago mother loses custody of daughter after denying child is transgender: ‘My child is a girl’.

Via The Blaze.; 8/1/22, 8:48 PM
gilbar said...: tim in vermont said...
I have a barn with no electricity and I would like to set up an inverter and car battery system to get 15 amps occasionally for lights or power tools,

honda sells these things, that sound Perfect for you. They call them Generators
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Honda-2200-Watt-Gasoline-Inverter-49-State-Generator/5001579939
They'd be a LOT cheaper than solar panels/batteries/inverters/controllers; 8/1/22, 9:14 PM
gadfly said...: President Joe Biden made a primetime announcement to the nation today - a slip of the tongue ensued:

“On Saturday, at my direction, the United States successfully concluded an air strike in Kabul, Afghanistan that killed the Emir of Al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri,” Biden said. “He was deeply involved in the planning of 9/11.”

No Joe, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a Baluchi from Pakistan, and the Uncle of Abdul Basit Abdul Karim, (who was later internationally known as Ramzi Yousef, the man behind the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center), planned and executed the 9/11 attack.

In the summer of 2001, word began to leak out of Afghanistan that Mohammed—or Mukhtar, the “chosen one,” as he was known within Al Qaeda—was planning something big. Indeed he was, having first developed the plan to hijack multiple aircraft to attack the Twin Towers and the Pentagon and another target, not the White House but perhaps CIA headquarters.

KSM never joined al Qaeda but recruited Osama bin Laden to finance the 9/11 attack. He recruited the pilots, beginning with Mohamed Atta, the lead pilot, and set up pilot training and hijack procedures. He selected the flights and he watched over details from Karachi as the attack transpired.

In late August, Mohammed traveled to Afghanistan to inform bin Laden personally of the date of the attacks, then returned to Pakistan. According to a memoir by former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, Mohammed watched news reports of the attacks at an Internet café in Karachi. When the first plane hit the first target, the World Trade Center, a celebration commenced.

Though Mohammed stayed physically separate from Al Qaeda’s leadership, he became the organization’s effective head of operations. In the days immediately following the attacks, Mohammed, assuming that communications were being monitored, employed donkeys to carry messages in and out of Afghanistan. He used an A.T.M. card six times in Karachi, presumably retrieving the hijack teams’ unused money.

Two decades after the 9/11 attacks and nine years after war crimes charges were filed, the pretrial wrangling in the case against accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other defendants resumed on September 7, 2021, after a long Covid shutdown. It marked KSM's first court appearance in more than a year. No trial date has been set, and none is anticipated any time soon.; 8/1/22, 9:43 PM
Rt41Rebel said...: "Interesting question. What would Biden do if China shot down the Speaker’s jet?"

I don't know, but Paul Pelosi is smiling tonight.; 8/1/22, 9:47 PM
Bender said...: A lot has been made over the years about how Nichelle Nichols was this groundbreaking actress playing Uhura on Star Trek. But Greg Morris seems much more impactful - of all of the crews on Mission Impossible, his Barney was the smartest.; 8/1/22, 10:16 PM
Owen said...: Can we hope to see remaining organizers of 9/11 dangling from a rope? I will pay extra for this.; 8/1/22, 10:17 PM
Bender said...: You omitted the fact that KSM actually pleaded guilty at his military tribunal, but the Obama Administration refused to accept it.; 8/1/22, 10:19 PM
Mutaman said...: Tucker visited Trump's golf "tournament" and praising Saudi Arabia and spreading 9/11 conspiracies. Query: Did he find time to visit Ivana's grave?; 8/1/22, 11:52 PM
Drago said...: Gadfly, stop copying and pasting detailed commentary from others without attribution as if it were your own.; 8/1/22, 11:53 PM
Crazy World said...: May America survive another night of this horrible fake president; 8/2/22, 1:39 AM
Saint Croix said...: Kyle Dunnigan does Joe Biden.

Also Joe Biden vs. Joe Biden; 8/2/22, 3:33 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Fascinating... https://twitter.com/i/status/1553709678089146368
Bodycam Footage of the year?; 8/2/22, 4:20 AM
wendybar said...: gadfly....So, Al Qaeda is back in business in Afghanistan?? WHO'S fault is THAT??; 8/2/22, 5:00 AM
Kai Akker said...: Saw a headline on ZeroHedge and it went to this article:

https://www.alignable.com/forum/45-of-restaurants-couldnt-pay-july-rent

Several "interesting" bits of data in there, fwiw. According to this site, which surveyed 3,500 small businesses during July, only 25% have recovered to pre-pandemic revenue levels. The trucking issues have received some publicity, but the precariousness of restaurants, small retail, and nonprofits is worse than I had thought.

It can't be considered a surprise, though.; 8/2/22, 6:29 AM
Humperdink said...: "BOSTON, MA – This Wednesday, August 3 at 11 a.m. ET, the Christian flag will finally be raised on the Boston City Hall Plaza public forum flagpole ..... On May 2, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that Boston’s denial of the flag was unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination under the First Amendment Free Speech Clause."

Everyone else's flag could be raised, but a Christian flag? Ah, No. That was until the Supreme Court took a poke at it. Thank you Donald J. Trump.; 8/2/22, 6:38 AM
gadfly said...: wendybar said...
gadfly...So, Al Qaeda is back in business in Afghanistan?? WHO'S fault is THAT??

I am not sure why you cannot google the answer yourself, but bin Laden and his mujahideen were hired by the CIA way back in 1987 or thereabouts to fight the Soviets in the Afghan-Soviet War. So I suppose you would blame Dutch Reagan and his ex-CIA Veep, George H.W. Bush, but technically the al Qaeda organization headed by bin Laden didn't exist until after the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan in 1991. However, the many groups of Arab mujahideen in Afghanistan were loosely called al Qaeda (The Base) for most of the 1980s. So al Qaeda has never left the Afghan mountains.; 8/2/22, 6:42 AM
Kai Akker said...: Headline of the article I linked above reads: Nearly Half of All Restaurants & Car Services Couldn't Pay July Rent

By which the site specifies "on time or in full."

Among the data presented are the delinquency rates by state. The highest rates of small-biz payment delinquency were: Mass., 42%; New York, 41%; Illinois, 40%; Michigan, 37%.

Why those four? What if anything do they have in common?; 8/2/22, 7:10 AM
gilbar said...: “If elections are conducted outside of the law, the people have not conferred their consent on the government. Such elections are unlawful, and their results are illegitimate.” — Justice Rebecca Grassl Bradley, writing for the Wisconsin Supreme Court majority in Teigen v. Wisconsin Elections Commission; 8/2/22, 7:21 AM
wendybar said...: Google it yourself gadfly...."BACK" in Afghanistan. We were assured that they left by Biden

President Joe Biden told the American people one year ago that Al Qaeda was gone from Afghanistan. https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2022/08/01/biden-said-al-qaeda-was-gone-from-afghanistan-n2611121

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/20/politics/fact-check-al-qaeda-gone-afghanistan-biden/index.html

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/aug/23/joe-biden/joe-biden-said-al-qaida-gone-afghanistan-s-wrong/; 8/2/22, 7:35 AM
lonejustice said...: I think these fishermen are followers of this blog, and make sure they are in position before the Professor gets to her favorite place at the lake to take pictures.; 8/2/22, 8:39 AM
RigelDog said...: Second photo shows a snarling tiger cloud, glaring at the people in the boat.; 8/2/22, 8:48 AM
Lurker21 said...: I tried to watch Morgan, A Suitable Case For Treatment, in honor of David Warner's death last week. It didn't work for me. What was wild, crazy, original, and unexpected in the 1960s now looks old hat and expected. Also, you see enough of the movie in the trailer to know what to expect.

The big film myth of the Sixties was the steady, stable, boring, uptight conventional young guy meeting the wild, unconventional, untamed chick, his manic pixie dreamgirl, who teaches him how to let go and live. Morgan and some other movies (Billy Liar comes to mind) show us the other side of the coin: the eccentric, almost insane young fellow bumping up against the conventions and dictates of society and enhancing life in some way. It does seem to be a new concept, something that was rare in earlier films, or at least done in a much more restrained way. Maybe it was a twist that brought a new self-consciousness and articulateness to the earlier earlier silent clowns and madcap comedies.; 8/2/22, 9:33 AM
tim in vermont said...: I want something more set and forget than a generator. My boat lift has a 24 volt motor and two small solar panels and two car batteries and it’s always there at the flick of a switch. I uses to have to put a generator in the bucket of my tractor and take it down to the lift and run it for several hours once or twice a summer to keep it charged. The 12 v solar panels were $25 a piece from Harbor Freight. Beats a generator hands down.; 8/2/22, 9:47 AM
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gadfly said...: Thanks to Kai Akker for the Alignable article on failing small businesses. There are small business examples out there of smart operators who are succeeding despite cost increases.

At the top of the list is Dick's Drive-In, a burger chain in Seattle that voluntarily raised employee wages to $20/hr. And they faced substantial beef for hamburger cost increases and yes, they had to raise prices somewhat but not more than the competition.

Good managers are constantly looking for ways to lower costs by reducing employee headcount, negotiating lower rents, restricting menu items, lowering packaging costs, automating order taking, cooking, and cash handling functions, and increasing carry-out volume while maintaining quality food service.

"Open the doors and they will come in" doesn't work anymore.; 8/2/22, 1:08 PM
gadfly said...: Tim in VT:

Lots of choices with costs of around $100 for a solar power generator and a lithium storage battery on eBay.; 8/2/22, 1:27 PM
Drago said...: gadfly: "I am not sure why you cannot google the answer yourself, but bin Laden and his mujahideen were hired by the CIA way back in 1987 or thereabouts to fight the Soviets in the Afghan-Soviet War."

Such incredible nonsense coming from a singularly stupid Althouse lefty commenter, gadfly.

In the 80's Bin Laden was a minor figure in Pakistan doing a little logistics work.

The only thing that exceeds gadfly's smug whatever-I-just-read-online idiocy is his profound ignorance of every subject upon which he attempts to address....and fails.; 8/2/22, 8:29 PM