Althouse: Sunrise with ducks

November 2, 2022

Sunrise with ducks — 7:31.

40 comments:

Political Junkie said...: Saw an interesting story about Andrew Cuomo in RealClearPolitics. Lefty writer was complaining that he appointed 4 (of 7 total members on the court) conservative judges to the NY top court. These were the 4 judges that threw out the D redistricting plans that helped the R's. I did not know that and found it interesting. Cheers friends!; 11/2/22, 8:22 PM
madAsHell said...: Hey!!....I just had a thought.

Does anyone remember speed reading??

Evelyn Woodhouse was going to teach you to be a more effective reader. You will be able to scan pages. The Kennedy administration officials were all Evelyn Woodhouse speed-readers. They taught you to wave your hand over the page, and effect some serious facial mannerisms of intellectual absorption.

Compare, and contrast with transgenderism.

It's the same bunch of fools.; 11/2/22, 8:22 PM
Narr said...: Right wing ducks or Left wing ducks?; 11/2/22, 8:26 PM
Kathryn51 said...: madAsHell said...

Does anyone remember speed reading??

I remember it well. Third grade pull-out class - in the 1950's in an old WW2 era portable classroom. I scored some astronomical number. Teachers took notice. It got me through collage (skipping class) and somehow through law school when women were scarce (Althouse era).

i'm a believer. Comparing to transgenderism? Nah.; 11/2/22, 9:04 PM
Kathryn51 said...: madAsHell said...

Does anyone remember speed reading??

I remember it well. Third grade pull-out class - in the 1950's in an old WW2 era portable classroom. I scored some astronomical number. Teachers took notice. It got me through collage (skipping class) and somehow through law school when women were scarce (Althouse era).

i'm a believer. Comparing to transgenderism? Nah.; 11/2/22, 9:06 PM
Rory said...: "Does anyone remember speed reading??"

I did the free introductory lesson, c. 1980. I remember the leader freaked everyone out by knowing everyone's name after she collected our index cards. Oddly, I don't recall getting a lot of followup sales contact. Maybe I gave a fake address/phone?; 11/2/22, 9:15 PM
Dave Begley said...: Another ridiculous speech by Biden.; 11/2/22, 9:34 PM
Beasts of England said...: ‘Evelyn Woodhouse was going to…’

Cheech and Chong would be proud. :); 11/2/22, 9:40 PM
Narr said...: I speed read, just not very fast, especially on curves and at night.

A few years ago I picked up the two Victor Klemperer volumes "I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years" at an estate sale. (Vol 1 1933-1941; vol 2 1942-1945.) He was a literary scholar and teacher at the Dresden Technical University, decorated WWI veteran, married to a Protestant, and close student of the perversions of language under the Nazis (and later under the Reds).

He managed to survive both the Nazis and Bomber Command, and what a witness he is. I had to put the book down even before he got to 1935, knowing what was to happen, but I recently took it up again. The parallels with current events are uncanny, and disturbing.

Not an easy read if your European and German history are sketchy--but fascinating and sometimes surprising.; 11/2/22, 9:41 PM
Mutaman said...: madAsHell said...

"Hey!!....I just had a thought.

Does anyone remember speed reading??

Evelyn Woodhouse was going to teach you to be a more effective reader. You will be able to scan pages. The Kennedy administration officials were all Evelyn Woodhouse speed-readers. They taught you to wave your hand over the page, and effect some serious facial mannerisms of intellectual absorption.

Compare, and contrast with transgenderism.

It's the same bunch of fools."

It was Evelyn Wood, Sparky. Who's the fool?; 11/2/22, 9:47 PM
Lilly, a dog said...: I usually fall asleep before the Gutfeld! program, but Kat Timpf's leg game is outstanding. I'd really like to [redacted] all over [redacted].; 11/2/22, 10:31 PM
BarrySanders20 said...: Hitler Got Fired Like a Twitter Employee; 11/3/22, 12:05 AM
BudBrown said...: Looks like the start to a pretty day.; 11/3/22, 2:25 AM
wendybar said...: Because the video tape doesn't fit their narrative, Phillip Bump from the Washington Post says that asking them to release it, is a CONSPIRACY THEORY. We really live in an upside down world when the media doesn't want to SEE the truth, so they scare monger people into thinking everything Progressives do shady is just a conspiracy theory. The Washington Post is going to go down as fast as this presidency. They all suck. They all Lie. And Karma is about to slap them all in the face. https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/11/02/wapo-calls-to-release-the-video-of-the-paul-pelosi-attack-only-stoke-conspiracy-theories/; 11/3/22, 5:08 AM
Jaq said...: UK, France, and the US voted on the UN Security Council against the investigation of the bio-labs in Ukraine that Victoria Nuland admitted to under oath before Congress. China and Russia voted yes, the rest abstained.

You see, it did not need to be investigated because the accusations were “baseless”! Beginning to see a pattern anyone? BTW, Hunter Biden was involved in securing funding for those labs.; 11/3/22, 5:17 AM
wendybar said...: "The disconnect from what voters care about was creepy and in some ways chilling. What does Team Biden have up their sleeve? They can’t be THIS disconnected from reality."

It DOES make you wonder, after the political prisoners they are collecting in the DC gulag just for disagreeing with the Progressive lies....

https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/11/biden-midterms-closing-argument-trump-and-extreme-maga-republicans-are-un-american/; 11/3/22, 5:21 AM
tim maguire said...: Political Junkie said...Saw an interesting story about Andrew Cuomo in RealClearPolitics. Lefty writer was complaining that he appointed 4 (of 7 total members on the court) conservative judges to the NY top court

The media habit of highlighting who appointed the judges in politically sensitive cases is contributing to the loss of respect for the courts. There aren't many problems in society that aren't made worse by activist "journalists."; 11/3/22, 5:30 AM
wendybar said...: Look what happens to progressive attackers (Paul Pelosi is one too, but they are trying to turn him into a maga republican, illegal alien, BLM loving, druggie from Berkeley.) THIS is why there are questions about why Pelosi's attacker wasn't released on bail. Look what happens to attackers of Republicans...every time!!! Show us the fucking video tape, because we all know they are lying to us again.

( And yet the court gave Lennox $75,000 bail, electronic monitoring, and told not to contact Bailey or anyone associated with him.)

https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/11/mutilate-and-kill-il-man-faces-felony-charges-for-allegedly-threatening-gop-gubernatorial-candidate-darren-bailey/; 11/3/22, 5:31 AM
wendybar said...: Get ushered into the Capitol, by the Capitol police...go to the DC gulag for 2 years. Invade our country, break into the Campaign office of a gubernatorial candidate.....And then they wonder why our country is on fire, and the Progressives keep adding kindling to the fire....

Andrew Clark
@AndrewHClark
For those of you who are still following this #AZGov Katie Hobbs burglary story:

1⃣ The burglar was in the country illegally.

2⃣ He was released on bail before ICE could detain him.

3⃣ He is now "at large."; 11/3/22, 5:37 AM
wendybar said...: "Are the Democrats experiencing mass hallucinations? Mass psychoses? What is happening? Is their media bubble so air-tight that truth never gets in? How does it happen that an entire political party's hierarchy and much of its rank-and-file cannot discern what is true from what is demonstrably false? Or is it that the Democrats know precisely what the truth is and have made the corporate decision to lie, lie, lie all the way to pathology?"

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/11/the_democrats__mass_psychosis_or_pathological_lying.html; 11/3/22, 5:49 AM
Humperdink said...: One thing I've noticed about the current crop of Republican candidates in this election cycle, a lot of retired military officers and highly effective (and attractive) women.; 11/3/22, 6:00 AM
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Humperdink said...: "According to Enerdata’s 2021 Yearbook, while global coal consumption dropped more than 4% globally, and 19% in the EU, coal consumption went up in China."

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/chinese-coal-based-power-plants#:~:text=China%20is%20Currently%20Building%20Over,and%20Clean%20Air%20(CREA).

One must ask why. Would it not appear that China does not want to rely on windmills and solar panels for electric power? Which is kind of baffling as China is largest producer of solar panels. What does China know that US politicians do not? China plays the long game.; 11/3/22, 6:35 AM
Andrew said...: The liberals who care about criminal justice reform, cruel and unusual punishment, and speedy trials are strangely quiet about the Jan. 6 defendants, many of whom are guilty of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Liberal hypocrisy, mixed with self-righteousness, never ceases to amaze me.; 11/3/22, 6:41 AM
iowan2 said...: The Rail Roads are going on strike after the election. Nothing in the news/news, but it is a regular topic in agriculture news. Being harvest time and a glut of grain to move, agriculture is very interested

Its not in the news/news, because Biden "fixed" the threatened rail road strike. But Biden didn't fix anything. He just bribed them to not strike until after the election. The only thing Biden could offer, is a promise not the force the workers to work and not shut down the rail roads.

Dems are so slimy.; 11/3/22, 6:45 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: I'd venture to say that the literates here, like Beasts, got a chuckle from "Woodhouse", the fools, well...; 11/3/22, 6:48 AM
Jefferson's Revenge said...: Is the current D message/ warning that the evil Rs wont’t accept the 2022 election results really just battleground prep for massive cheating? Is it a preemptive attempt to get ahead of the complaints about the cheating that everyone will see?

We told you the Rs were going to deny the results, we cheated, now the Rs are denying the results , we were right.; 11/3/22, 6:54 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Blogger errors... needs Musk?; 11/3/22, 7:08 AM
Jaq said...: Oops, maybe blowing up Germany’s pipeline was a bad idea. Make no mistake, Germany knows who did it and why. Like Steve McIntyre says, this war is between Russia and the US, UK, and Eastern European countries most heavily involved in the holocaust.

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/politics/german-chancellor-has-changed-his-stance-wants-common-ground-with-russia-says-turkish-president/2728159; 11/3/22, 7:35 AM
Christopher B said...: tim maguire said...

The media habit of highlighting who appointed the judges in politically sensitive cases is contributing to the loss of respect for the courts.

It's the whiplash inducing swap between "This judge is a totally partisan hack who only ruled that way because X appointed them" when a ruling enrages the Left, followed by "Even a judge appointed by X slapped down this totally unethical request" when the ruling goes their way.

Sometimes even referring to the same judge.; 11/3/22, 7:40 AM
wendybar said...: It doesn’t matter what brand your politics is, this is Stasi stuff.

https://nypost.com/2022/11/02/how-the-government-hid-the-truth-behind-hunter-bidens-laptop/; 11/3/22, 8:33 AM
Lurker21 said...: After 60 years it's not the same bunch of fools.; 11/3/22, 8:54 AM
madAsHell said...: It was Evelyn Wood, Sparky. Who's the fool?

You're right!! It was Evelyn Wood, and she was a real person, and she died at 86. I thought she was a marketing invention.

I do remember the Evelyn Woodski skit on SNL.

I failed to remember the Cheech y Chong routine.

Ya' know.....It's almost like you invested in the Evelyn Wood Speed Reading, and came away disappointed.

Stay away from sharp knives!!; 11/3/22, 9:31 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Humperdink@ 6:35... My money is on EMP! Easy Peasey.; 11/3/22, 10:05 AM
wendybar said...: How about Not taking FBI bribes?? Green Beret Jeremy Brown was just offered a plea deal, but turned it down, because he wants the world to know how the FBI tried to bribe him to be one of their plants in DC on 1/6/21, and he turned THEM down. He never entered the Capitol, but they have to shut him up. This is your government today. They don't give two shits about law and order. THEY caused January 6 with the corrupt election. THEY All belong behind bars, and the Political prisoners should be freed immediately. And then they wonder why we don't believe their lies about Nancy's drunk husband?? Show us the video tape, of he will remain a victim of his own making..by letting this gay illegal immigrant into his house for sex.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/jan-6-protester-green-beret-jeremy-brown-arrested-turning-fbi-request-work-operative-jan-6-offered-plea-deal-corrupt-doj-turns/; 11/3/22, 10:27 AM
gadfly said...: Israel is now on the verge of a right-wing, religious, authoritarian revolution, whose goal is to decimate the democratic infrastructure on which the country was built. This may be a black day in Israel’s history.~ Haartz

Bibi gets in bed with the Otzma Yehudit party and religious Zionism, as aspired by Rabbi Meir Kahane, brings with it religious Jewish supremacism to rule the Israeli Knesset.; 11/3/22, 10:41 AM
Michael K said...: Andrew said...

The liberals who care about criminal justice reform, cruel and unusual punishment, and speedy trials are strangely quiet about the Jan. 6 defendants, many of whom are guilty of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Liberal hypocrisy, mixed with self-righteousness, never ceases to amaze me.

It used to do that to me too. I got used to it.; 11/3/22, 12:51 PM
Drago said...: gadfly: "Bibi gets in bed with the Otzma Yehudit party and religious Zionism, as aspired by Rabbi Meir Kahane, brings with it religious Jewish supremacism to rule the Israeli Knesset."

Spoken like the far left democratical that you are.

All the masks are off now, and that's a really good thing.; 11/3/22, 3:30 PM
Rusty said...: Shorter, Drago.
Gadfly. Why do you even care?; 11/4/22, 11:30 AM