November 21, 2022

Sunrise — 6:45.

IMG_3913

IMG_3914

The dense bumper of clouds at the horizon was gray-blue, and I thought this wouldn't be a photogenic sunrise, but then, just as I arrived at my vantage point, it went intensely red-orange. The color only lasted 5 minutes. I've seen this kind of sunrise before and missed getting the photograph. Today, though, I was lucky.

36 comments:

BUMBLE BEE said...

Then there's this...
https://thefederalist.com/2022/11/21/alabama-withdraws-from-democrat-operative-controlled-voter-registration-database/

Josephbleau said...

Madison has at least two construction cranes up. The building craze continues!

gilbar said...

How China Got Our Kids Hooked on ‘Digital Fentanyl’
TikTok is a national security threat.


Every day, every hour, every waking minute, TikTok is hoovering up seemingly infinite bits of information about its users—their tastes, hobbies, political views, sexual preferences, their facial structure, the sound of their voice. Ostensibly, all this is meant to provide a better product. It should also be noted that this information can be used for spying, influencing millions of users—even waging war. Every time we swipe for the next video, every time we post videos of our own, we are helping the world’s most sophisticated police state learn more about us. 

farmgirl said...

Think I prefer the 1st photo- I appreciate the color palate and texture better.

exhelodrvr1 said...

You need some lenticular clouds.

tim in vermont said...

I have been agnostic on ivermectin, but have thought from time to time that the studies showed it worked, then two studies came out that said it didn't work, and that seemed to be the end on it. Then it comes out that the two studies have flaws, suspiciously similar flaws, and then it comes out that SBF, who seems to have dumped money into ever instance of "the current thing" that Democrats could think of, lavishly funded both studies.

We live in a kakistocracy, and we didn't even elect Mike Dukakis.

Joe Smith said...

Now that Trump is being investigated officially, Wray and Garland can 'no comment' republicans in congress until the cows come home.

Ongoing investigation dontcha know...

Joe Smith said...

Donuts are now $1.99 EACH at my local supermarket.

It's a chain, not one of those upscale stores.

And that's for your normal glazed or cake variety, not the fancy varieties.

It actually stopped me from buying one, not that I needed it.

I get it, it's only 2 bucks, but I can't be the only one thinking like this.

Good way to have an economic slowdown...

William50 said...

It has been clear since the onset of the roll-out of the COVID-19 shots from datasets, case studies and from increased sales of Acyclovir1, that herpes zoster (shingles) re-activations are being prompted by the COVID-19 injections.

tim in vermont said...

FTX, which stole billions from over five million investors, and have scores of millions to Democrats, is "just like Donald Trump" according to the WSJ.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-donald-trump-and-sam-bankman-fried-have-in-common-ftx-election-exchange-crypto-alameda-savior-bankrupt-11668958380

This is like campaign contributions to Trump, such ridiculous stories.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

"'It’s a bit of a curse to not have control over your own energy,'"

I've been following the r/detrans subreddit. Thinking about "gender dysphoria" I ask, what if we are not finished evolving? Since we can now control not only our environment but our own reproduction methods, what if gender dysphoria is a manifestation of a specie wide transformation into a being no longer tied to a once upon a time necessary coupling of males and females to reproduce and populate the planet?

Is it logical that after changing our lives so drastically, since coming out of the caves, to now expect our biology to remain unchanged, and not reflect the new realities we find ourselves in?

#foodforthought #keepaskingquestions

FullMoon said...

To lazy to google, and half way expect bad info, so, what law is broken if Trump poked Stormy and paid her to keep quiet?

FullMoon said...

In California, gas stations charge extre ten or fifteen cents Per Gallon. Used to be 35 cents per purchase.
Is it the same nationwide?

gilbar said...

Joe Smith said...
Donuts are now $1.99 EACH at my local supermarket.

which puts a new twist on the whole "dollars to donuts" thing

Owen said...

“…Today, though, I was lucky.” -Althouse

“Chance favors the prepared mind” -Pasteur

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Elon Musk replying to Sam Harris question "Is it time to let Alex Jones back on Twitter? If not, why not?

"My firstborn child died in my arms. I felt his last heartbeat.
I have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame."

To which a Joe Rogan sub-redditor responded:

"Nice! He's gonna ban almost every politician on the platform."

Rocket Science is easy, finding a good reason to ban someone from your platform is hard.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Headline: "Ex-New York prosecutor believes Trump will be indicted at 'politically propitious' 2024 moment"

In what world is a "politically propitious" prosecution a good thing?

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

A tweet garners James Woods over 150k likes.

Link to tweet

Tweets about yet another Maricopa coup unfolding before our lying eyes.

Are you happy to see me or is that another batch of votes you have for me to count? 😂

Lurker21 said...

The water in the second picture looks stippled, corrugated -- dare I say, even lenticular.

Coconuss Network said...

Reminds of an industrial section of a city with the intense color and black backdrop. Both photos beautiful. Dopamine rush.

tim in vermont said...

"what law is broken if Trump poked Stormy and paid her to keep quiet?"

Living while Republican.

tim in vermont said...

In 2017, NBC made a film about the children's camp "Azovets" in Ukraine where kids are indoctrinated to kill all Russians and see Moscow in ruins.

tim in vermont said...

Ukrainian neo-nazis at the World Cup.

https://twitter.com/NTY57NTY/status/1595018791209127936

BTW the nuclear power plant under Russian control has been hit by shells again, and the cooling pond facility was hit, but no radiation leak so far. Kiev wants to create an unmanageable environmental catastrophe for Russia, and at the same time, blames Russia for shelling the plant which Russia controls. The IAEA offered no opinion on who was doing the shelling, despite issuing a report that was otherwise scathing against the Russians. Everybody knows who is doing the shelling. Just like everybody knows who launched that missile into Poland, and yet still Kiev denies it.

wendybar said...

The GRIFT that keeps on giving (to herself)....

"Nancy Pelosi has no such dignity gene. She has started the “Pelosi Legacy Fund,” a way for her to continue to milk her considerable fundraising list of money which she will be able to use to play king-maker and pay her travel expenses and much more for the rest of her life. You didn’t expect her to pay for her lifestyle out of her own pocket, did you?"

https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2022/11/22/pelosi-gets-worse-as-she-gets-ready-to-leave-congress-n2616224

tim in vermont said...

"Prosecutors seek a new path is changing Trump"

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/nyregion/trump-bragg-stormy-daniels.html

Imagine if the worked this hard to create charges against Hillary. The charge is going to be that his payoff to Daniels should have been called a campaign expense, well you know what? Hillary wrote off the creation of the 'dossier" as legal fees.

tim in vermont said...

Ethnic cleansing in Kherson after the Russians left:

https://twitter.com/SAM_Volhov/status/1595046217578582016

Mike of Snoqualmie said...

In California, gas stations charge extre ten or fifteen cents Per Gallon. Used to be 35 cents per purchase.
Is it the same nationwide?


Same in Washington.

Mike of Snoqualmie said...

Maricopa County boots its election again. They use a complex system of vote anywhere, on-demand ballot printers and tabulators. The results are long lines and election fraud, election fraud created by the MC auditor.

Election officials have forgotten the KISS principle: Keep It Simple, Stupid. Poll voting should be done at designated polling places, using preprinted ballots and voter registers. Voters should manually fill out their ballots, identify their ballot with a random, six-digit number. The voter should insert the ballot into the tabulator and the tabulator should display the results to the voter and the voter should then confirm the ballot was read correctly.

No more voting machines, printers or electronic voting registers. Complex systems make election fraud easier.

Rusty said...

Joe Smith said...
"Donuts are now $1.99 EACH at my local supermarket."
Which is why Aldi is doing such a booming business.
They opened a new one near Costa Mesa-maybe it's in Costa Mesa. My daughter tells me you can't even find a parking space.

wendybar said...

THIS is why we point and laugh at the Progressive party. They are in one big ORGY together, that we aren't a part of. You can shoot somebody dead, and the Kennedy's (Murderer Ted Kennedy's family) will honor you with hosting duties. Murderers and fame whores. That is the Progressive party in a nutshell. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11457229/MAUREEN-CALLAHAN-Kennedy-gets-Baldwin-Markle-human-rights-award-make-stop.html

wendybar said...

I can't hate the corrupt left any more than I do today. THIS is getting ridiculous. This witch hunt, isn't going to end well....for THEM. They just keep poking the angry bear, and it's waking up.....

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/11/more_about_that_famously_impartial_trump_prosecutor_jack_smith.html

tim in vermont said...

"No more voting machines, printers or electronic voting registers. Complex systems make election fraud easier."

Like I said, it's like playing poker with a guy who turns his back to you while he shuffles the deck, and then refuses to let you cut the cards.

walter said...

https://thefederalist.com/2022/11/22/the-respect-for-marriage-act-is-an-exercise-in-tyranny-and-everyone-knows-it/
"Anyone who owns a small business related to the wedding industry — photographers, bakers, website designers, venue owners, caterers, florists — will be sued into oblivion if they refuse services to same-sex couples. Religious colleges and universities will lose their tax-exempt status. Religious institutions of every kind, if they hold to their teachings and traditions about marriage, will face an onslaught from the Department of Justice and the federal bureaucracy.
<
The untrammeled exercise of power and the vigorous crushing of dissent is the entire purpose of the proposed law. There can be no other possible justification for it. Michael New, an assistant professor at the Busch School of Business at The Catholic University of America, recently told The Daily Signal that Catholic colleges and universities in particular might face ruinous lawsuits and loss of federal funding if the bill is signed into law.
“Suppose a Catholic college refused to allow a same-sex married couple to live in college owned graduate student housing for families, they might be subject to all kinds of litigation,” he said. “Such a college might lose its nonprofit status. Their students might lose eligibility for federal financial aid and their faculty might lose eligibility from research grants from government agencies.”
Well, yes. Of course all that would happen. Democrats and left-wing activists hear these kinds of concerns from people like New and think, “Good. Let them face ruinous litigation. Let them lose funding. Ghettoize them. Crush them. Grind their institutions into dust. They deserve it, the bigots.”
All the more appalling, then, that 12 Republican senators voted to advance the bill knowing full well what it will do. One wishes the explanation is just that these lawmakers are too stupid to understand what the purpose of the proposed law really is and what its effect will obviously be, but that’s wishful thinking.
<
Does Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who 10 years ago as speaker of the statehouse supported a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage in his state, really think the anemic amendments he and other GOP senators offered to the bill will “advance religious freedom” and “age well”?
All the Republicans who voted to advance the bill last week issued some version of the nonsense Sullivan and Tillis spouted. None of them believe a word of it. They just hope you buy it.
But you don’t have to. Roger Severino of the Heritage Foundation helpfully walked through these specious claims one by one, explaining why they’re wrong. No, the bill won’t provide religious institutions with meaningful protections. Yes, the bill could certainly be used as a basis for the Internal Revenue Service to deny tax-exempt status to religious organizations that don’t toe the line on gay marriage. Yes, it could also be used to deny grants, licenses, or contracts. No, weak language about preserving the Religious Freedom Restoration Act is not enough to prevent harm to religious liberty. And so on.

walter said...

The justification for the bill is just as outlandish and offensive as the argument that it presents no danger to religious Americans. In the wake of the Dobbs decision this summer, we were warned that some future Supreme Court opinion, following Justice Clarence Thomas’s logic, could overturn Obergefell and other substantive due process rulings such as Loving v. Virginia, which struck down state laws banning interracial marriage.
The purpose of this claim, in case it isn’t bone-crushingly obvious, is to lump opponents of gay marriage in with opponents of interracial marriage, to smear them as bigots who aren’t just on the wrong side of history, but who are about to be on the receiving end of a federal government empowered to go after them.
And if you think that can’t really be how proponents of the Respect for Marriage Act think about traditional-minded Americans, go ask Jack Phillips how he’s faring after winning his Supreme Court case in 2018."

ngtrains said...

Full Moon:
I don't understand about charging 'extra' . Don't you just pay the price on the pump?

FullMoon said...

ngtrains said...

Full Moon:
I don't understand about charging 'extra' . Don't you just pay the price on the pump?


Using credit card automatically adds extra charge per gallon.