Althouse: Sunrise

December 30, 2022

Sunrise — 7:41.

35 comments:

Lucien said...: When places like the State of New York openly defy rulings of the Supreme Court, like Bruen, I hope the Court’s rulings smacking them down are unanimous.
Were justices to only oppose defiance of rulings they voted for in the first place, it would add to he far-left conspiracy theory that Justices are political actors.; 12/30/22, 5:48 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: Burr!!!!; 12/30/22, 5:51 PM
gilbar said...: remember the whole "250,000 people.. A YEAR! DIE from Emergency Room misdiagnoses?
Did you Know? That that was based on a study, in Canada? Where.. ONE Person died?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/false-alarm-about-emergency-rooms-ahrq-physicians-er-misdiagnoses-mortality-rate-us-canada-trust-11672136943?mod=opinion_lead_pos6
A Study Sounds a False Alarm About America’s Emergency Rooms
The claim of 250,000 deaths from misdiagnosis is based on a single fatality—in Canada, in 2004.
derived from a single study that included only 503 patients discharged from two Canadian emergency rooms from August to December 2004. Researchers found that among the 503 patients, one person unexpectedly died related to a delay in diagnosis by an ER physician.
Dividing one death by 503 patients, the researchers estimate a death rate of 0.2%. They then multiply 0.2% by total annual ER visits in the U.S.—130 million—and come up with 250,000 deaths.

Trust THE SCIENCE!!! Trust THE SCIENCE, to be BULLSHIT!!!; 12/30/22, 6:29 PM
Clyde said...: Post 14 of 15 - Clyde's Top 10 Favorite "New" Songs of 2022
#2 - Velvet Crush - White Soul (In the Presence of Greatness, 1991)

Velvet Crush is a power pop band from Providence, Rhode Island. They recorded 'In the Presence of Greatness' in Matthew Sweet's living room in Princeton, New Jersey; he produced the album with the band and provided guitar and harmony vocals. While their follow-up album, 'Teenage Symphonies to God,' was more of a commercial success, this particular album was my favorite. This was another case where I felt that an album deserved more recognition than it got. I liked the whole album, but really loved the jangly guitar riff on this one.

Velvet Crush - White Soul; 12/30/22, 6:47 PM
Dave Begley said...: When do we see Fauci’s tax returns? How much stock does he own in Pfizer, Moderna and JNJ? How much income from patent royalties?

Did he have a conflict of interest?

Did he have a motive to lie?; 12/30/22, 6:57 PM
Ann Althouse said...: It wasn’t cold. Mid 30s. Went up to 50 yesterday.; 12/30/22, 7:05 PM
William50 said...: I want to give a tip of the hat to Kai Akker for his reference the other day to lyrics from a Clear Light song, Mr. Blue. Thanks!!

It got me to thinking of groups and songs from my youth.

I grew up in Lakewood Ca. As a young teen, my friends and I used to frequently spend weekday evenings at Wallachs Music City. They had sound proof booths with turn tables and you could listen to albums. It was a kind of try before you buy type of deal (we rarely bought). They had hundreds of albums to choose from, and we would spend hours listening everything from Rusty Warren comedy to obscure rock bands.

Anyway, the post from Kai started me reminiscing and I remembered this from my Wallachs days;

Are You A Boy or Are You A Girl_The Barbarians 1965; 12/30/22, 7:08 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Dave Begley... I can't wait to see The Pelosi Gang's taxes. Fauci too, wonder what the patents paid. Sun is gonna shine someday!; 12/30/22, 7:18 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: How about those federal employees' raises. They worked as hard as the teachers during Covid!; 12/30/22, 7:19 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Listening to another installment of Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn.

“Matt and Walter discuss the unfinished business of 2022.”; 12/30/22, 8:31 PM
madAsHell said...: Baba Wawa has died.

I knew I felt a disturbance in the farce.; 12/30/22, 8:50 PM
Narr said...: Andrew Tate update on NPR!

Called him everything but a Muslim.; 12/30/22, 9:05 PM
Lurker21 said...: Of course, the 2018 Das Boot wasn't as good as the original. It's understandable that they needed to add new plots to freshen up the original story, but the onshore plot isn't that great, and throwing in a few American and British actors speaking English was a bad idea.

A few hours in, the LGBTQIA2S+ plot kicks in and it tends to take over the story. Then the submarine gets stuck at the bottom of the ocean and has to be fixed. That was very tense and exciting viewing on the big screen 40 years ago. Now it's only ho-hum. The excitement and novelty of the original isn't there. It doesn't help that, just like the original, the submarine scenes are so dark that it's not easy to figure out who's who.

I can recommend Adventures in Modern Art. It's a French series that tells the story of artists and writers in Early 20th century Paris, through animation, archival photos and film, and other period footage.

I can't really recommend the low-budget docudrama film I am D.B. Cooper, though I did watch the whole thing to see if the guy in question really was the famous airline hijacker.; 12/30/22, 9:07 PM
gadfly said...: Dave Begley said...
When do we see Fauci’s tax returns? How much stock does he own in Pfizer, Moderna and JNJ? How much income from patent royalties?

Nothing illegal for you, me, or Fauci to own shares of any stock or bond market security we choose.

And the patent royalties issue was well covered last night. Government employees cannot be granted patents, but they can be recognized as inventors which can earn them limited rewards when royalties are collected by the government from private parties.; 12/30/22, 9:15 PM
gadfly said...: Barbara Walters has died but she and Gilda Radner will live forever.; 12/30/22, 9:26 PM
Saint Croix said...: William, I've never heard of the Barbarians before. Thanks for that link. What an honest song! It would be almost an act of rebellion to play that song today. Punk rock, even!; 12/30/22, 9:33 PM
Saint Croix said...: One of my favorite songs is Making Time by the Creation. I'm honestly shocked that this band never made it big. I hear them and I say, that's up there with the Who or the Kinks. And yet, they never made it.

Very strange. It's so good. How did they fail? It makes me wonder about all the other amazing art out there that died a nameless death.

(The only reason I've even heard of the Creation is because Wes Anderson used Making Time for a montage in Rushmore; 12/30/22, 9:46 PM
The Vault Dweller said...: Apparently Barbara Walters has passed away. RIP.; 12/30/22, 10:08 PM
Maynard said...: We should release the tax returns for all members of Congress for all the years in which they serve.

Let's also add all political appointees that the POTUS makes.

Sunshine is the best disinfectant.; 12/30/22, 10:37 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Barbara Walters dead at 93.; 12/30/22, 11:51 PM
gadfly said...: Fidelity Investments is among 19 backers of Elon Musk’s Twitter, with more than $316 million invested initially. It holds Twitter shares in several of its mutual funds, under a contra-fund named "X Holdings I Inc," which has experienced a 56% decline in value. Just a mere $187 million.

Time to bail on Fidelity mutual funds where X Holdings show up. Too bad the news was withheld until after the market closed for the year.; 12/30/22, 11:55 PM
Gospace said...: So tonight I read a thread from Dr. Doug Corrigan who I've never heard of before.

First in the thread makes the following points, and the follow ups explain why the vaccine that isn't isn't.

1/ A vaccine:

- Should impart immunity with a memory component that lasts for a reasonable period of time.
- Should prevent infection.
- Should contribute to herd immunity.
- Should not impair your overall immunity.
- Should not cause more harm than good.

Since I finally caught the dreaded covid from an asymptomatic double vaxxed perwon in his second go round, asymptomatic because he was vaxxed, I find Dr. Corrigan's simple and easy to understand explanations, well, simple and easy to understand. The likelihood of me (or my wife who got it from me after I got it from him) being reinfected is very low. We've not been jabbed.

Inga, when she catches it (she claims she hasn't) is going to be very surprised all her shots including the bivalent booster didn't work. I read one of the newer variants is as infectious as measles. That pretty much means if you walk through a room with an infected person- you're likely to get it. That's how infectious measles is. I wasn't tested for varian, nor was hte friend and fellow Scout leader I caught it from. But if I had to ghuess- that's the variant we had. My contact with him was much shorter and farther away then with my two sons who isolated in out house when they had the original version before the vaccine that isn't was available.; 12/31/22, 1:17 AM
Clyde said...: @ St. Croix

Sometimes the problem is with the label that is marketing the music; in the case of Velvet Crush's album In the Presence of Greatness that I mentioned above, they were signed with a British label, Creation, that was moving from jangly pop music to shoegaze, and Velvet Crush didn't fit with that. Sometimes a band just is out of step with the times and the greatness of the music is only recognized in retrospect or by the cognoscenti. Sometimes it is creative conflicts within the band itself over style and direction that lead to a band splitting up and the music coming out posthumously, as happened with the English band East Village's Drop Out album.; 12/31/22, 4:44 AM
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Big Mike said...: Emily McCombs, Deputy Editor of HuffPost, explains the goal of modern feminism;

New Year's resolutions:
1. Cultivate female friendships
2. Band together to kill all men

So tell me, Althouse, when you and the rest of your feminist sisters get rid of the last of us men, who will open jelly jars for you?; 12/31/22, 4:58 AM
Big Mike said...: @Gadfly, I for one would like to see whether there is evidence in Fauci’s tax returns and patent royalties that he did everything he could to block the use of cheap and effective treatments for COVID-19 in order to financially benefit from pushing unsafe and ineffective vaccines. How many Americans died to put a few extra nickels and dimes into Fauci’s pockets?; 12/31/22, 5:03 AM
Big Mike said...: I see that fingers are pointing at Kathy Hochul, Governor of New York, and Byron Brown, Mayor of Buffalo, for the tragic incompetence that led to the deaths of 37 people in last week’s storm.

Brown is in his fifth term. He’s never seen a winters storm this bad before? He has no excuse. Hochul’s excuse seems to be that one cannot expect a mere woman to cope with climate change.; 12/31/22, 5:31 AM
dreams said...: Another year of again outperforming that Omaha guy in the stock market, not to be confused with a famous retired Quarterback, Ohama guy. My stock portfolio was up 23.52% for 2022, down from a 42% high. I had a 43% profit in 2021 and 23.52% this year, so my two-year compounded percentage gain is 76.63. I'm looking forward to another prosperous year of trading stocks. I hope.; 12/31/22, 6:11 AM
wendybar said...: Fed Ray Epps is guilty as sin, free as a bird (just like Obama's unrepentant Domestic Terrorist buddy, Bill Ayers said in the New Yorker that was put out on 9/11/2001) Nancy set up a fake insurrection to film for her daughters little propaganda film Pelosi in the House. These people make me sick. They are all scum.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/12/30/bombshell-in-newly-released-testimony-of-ray-epps-is-going-to-raise-even-more-questions-n681178; 12/31/22, 6:51 AM
Whiskeybum said...: Saint Croix - I watched the video you linked of The Creation playing Making Time... hadn't heard of them before. Yes, they had a Who/Kinks vibe, but visually, they reminded me of the Monkees.

Oh, and I read that the guitarist, Eddie Phillips, seen using a bow on his guitar in that video, first used a bow in 1963. That's a full 4 years before Jimmy Page would do they same while playing with the Yardbirds!; 12/31/22, 9:48 AM
Narr said...: Clyde@4:44AM-

Shoegaze?

Having caught up for the moment, I'm going to say that the musical conversation is fascinating even though I have barely heard any of the bands mentioned, even the famous ones.; 12/31/22, 10:10 AM
Clyde said...: @ Narr

From Wikipedia: Shoegaze (originally called shoegazing and sometimes conflated with "dream pop") is a subgenre of indie and alternative rock characterized by its ethereal mixture of obscured vocals, guitar distortion and effects, feedback, and overwhelming volume. It emerged in Ireland and the United Kingdom in the late 1980s among neo-psychedelic groups who usually stood motionless during live performances in a detached, non-confrontational state. The name comes from the heavy use of effects pedals, as the performers were often looking down at their pedals during concerts.; 12/31/22, 12:08 PM
Clyde said...: @ St. Choix

Listening to “Making Time,” I knew I’d heard the song before but not the version by The Creation. Turns out that it’s one of the songs covered by The Grip Weeds on their 2021 album DiGI posted their cover of “Shape of Things To Come” as one of my honorable mentions on my song countdown.; 12/31/22, 12:21 PM
Narr said...: Thanks, Clyde.; 12/31/22, 1:14 PM
iowan2 said...: Gadfly
Time to bail on Fidelity mutual funds where X Holdings show up.

The Gadfly rules of investment. Buy high, and sell low.; 12/31/22, 1:17 PM