Althouse: Sunrise

January 21, 2023

Sunrise — 7:24.

38 comments:

Narr said...: Since someone brought up Star Trek aliens in the Baldwin thread, this seems like a good time to ask for some help.

There was a race whose name I forget who were sort of . . . retard acting. They looked like dorks and boasted, "We make things." What were they called?; 1/21/23, 7:48 PM
Gahrie said...: I was doing some research earlier today, and I had what could be called an epiphany: What a marvelous creature is Man.

Do you realize that Man has only existed on this planet for 300,000 years? (And that was only recently extended, we used to think it was around 100,000 years)

For 270,000 of those years we wandered around as cave men. Around 30,000 years ago we developed agriculture, and the rest is, well, history.

30,000 years from living in caves picking lice to living in space and planning to colonize Mars. That's fucking incredible!

The dinosaurs were here for hundreds of millions of years, and didn't even begin the process.

If God does exist, he must be very proud of us.; 1/21/23, 7:52 PM
Narr said...: Last week a young Black man was stopped for a traffic violation, beaten by five cops, and died a few days later. Bodycam footage to be released Monday.

Details were very scarce, but today the news is all about the five officers, who have been fired, including names and photos.

All Black, as is the (female) chief imported recently.; 1/21/23, 7:55 PM
JRoberts said...: More “mostly peaceful protesters” this evening. This time in Atlanta after a police officer shot an Antifa trespasser in self defense. Police cars damaged and/or set on fire. Downtown businesses vandalized. All because the Atlanta Police Department is wanting to build a new training facility. The Antifa “protesters” have occupied and booby trapped the building site with bombs and battle trenches.

Is this not an actual insurrection?; 1/21/23, 8:23 PM
tim maguire said...: Blogger Narr said...were sort of . . . retard acting.

On Twitter today there was a thread trashing That 90’s Show. One of the points is that they can’t possibly talk like kids from the 90’s because kids from the 90’s said, like, 10 cancellable things every day.

That’s so gay! You fag! He’s so retarded.

Will never happen on that show.; 1/21/23, 8:35 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Headline: Lawyer warns there will be a 'hellish price to be paid' if attorneys take on Trump as a client.

Make Blacklisting Great Again.; 1/21/23, 8:37 PM
Original Mike said...: Narr: The Pakleds.

"We look for things. Things to make us go."; 1/21/23, 8:41 PM
Dr Weevil said...: Narr:
I couldn't remember their name, but Googling 'Star Trek intergalactic retards' game me "Pakled" on the first page.; 1/21/23, 8:44 PM
Big Mike said...: I didn’t watch the Bucs-Cowboys game, but I read today that Tom Brady was fined for an unnecessary roughness call. That is so cool. A QB getting called for unnecessary roughness is seriously cool.; 1/21/23, 8:53 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: How many covid "big if true" are there?: The vax never leaves the body Anybody keeping track?

Dr. Peter McCullough "I feel sorry for people who took it".; 1/21/23, 9:06 PM
robother said...: Althouse's predictions of a one year term for Brandon didn't turn out. But she may've been on the right track. At the very least, it sure looks like some Democrat movers and shakers want Biden to get the message not to run in '24. Joe is literally leaving a (classified) paper trail, everywhere he's ever been.; 1/21/23, 9:08 PM
n.n said...: There was a race whose name I forget who were sort of . . . retard acting

Paklids?

ST:TNG Samaritan Snare; 1/21/23, 9:13 PM
Readering said...: Don't know about age of man but don't think agriculture extended back 12,000 years into the Ice Age.; 1/21/23, 9:17 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: We are just finding out a big brother to my niece's husband passed away of a heart attack. He was at home in Floria, born in 84, making him only 38-39 years old. He was healthy.

How often do 38–39-year-olds drop dead of a heart attack?; 1/21/23, 9:30 PM
traditionalguy said...: God actually became a man. And he still is one. I read the book. That’s why we give gifts at Christmas. And He is coming back again to judge the living and the dead. But have no fear, just ask a Christ-ian how to deal with that.; 1/21/23, 9:55 PM
Drago said...: Google dumps 12,000 employees.

Microsoft dumps 10,000.

Amazon dumps 14,000.

This seems quite strange since co-morons readering, gadfly and Dumb Lefty Mark assured us that Elon dumping 4,000 employees was a uniquely bad, hopelessly reckless, failure-guaranteeing move.

And they pitched that nearly daily at Althouse...yet they are quiet as church mice about these other tech industry layoffs.

Its almost like the idiotic criticism wasn't based on business principles at all, only politics.; 1/21/23, 10:00 PM
Josephbleau said...: The Star Trek people were the Pakleds. (TNG: "Samaritan Snare")

You think we are not smart. We are smart.; 1/21/23, 10:07 PM
gpm said...: >>What a marvelous creature is Man

As in: πολλα τα δειυὰ χουδέυ αυθρωπου δειυότερου πέλει?

Apologies for the pretentiousness, but the wording seemed like an unmistakable allusion to what is perhaps the most well-known passage from Antigone (and apologies for those atrocious nu's, which I cut and pasted from the first on-line source I could find).

And, to my credit, I held off on what I could have made of "epiphany"!

>>30,000 years from living in caves picking lice to living in space and planning to colonize Mars. That's fucking incredible!

Don't worry. They'll have us back to picking (and eating!) lice before you know it.

--gpm; 1/21/23, 10:18 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: I shall fear no evil

From r/ThereWasAnAttempt to intimidate this guy while robing a bar.; 1/21/23, 10:44 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: the same elephant in all the rooms

Excess deaths with Dr Campbell.; 1/21/23, 11:25 PM
Rt41Rebel said...: @Gahrie

Have you seen the movie Idiocracy? I watched it for the first time a few hours ago. It's low budget and predictable, and it's off by about 480 years. We are there. And no, God is not proud in my estimation.; 1/22/23, 1:28 AM
Gospace said...: This is related to an earlier post- but really deserves some tninking about.

From the NY State Constitution:
ARTICLE XIV CONSERVATION
[Forest preserve to be forever kept wild; authorized uses and
exceptions]
Section 1. The lands of the state, now owned or hereafter acquired,
constituting the forest preserve as now fixed by law, shall be forever kept as
wild forest lands

Wow! Great, isn't it? What a wonderful thought, a forever wild forest of mixed hardwoods!

One problem- the forest preserve wasn't wild nor natural when this was passed in 1894 to become part of the NY COnstitution. The original forest of NY, and infact, most of the northeast, was pines. Pines, tall straight pines, as far as the eye could see. They were cut down by the early settlers and colonists, allowing the hardwoods to grow. In 1894, the forests had been mixed hardwood for everyone's lifetime, and people assume the way it is is the way it's always been. Not so. Mixed hardwoods are not a natural state. To keep a forest mixed hardwoods requires forest management. Clearcutting areas, replaning mice seedlings, etc. The forrest was full of paths, kept clear by constant maintenance. Now, if a ttree falls across a path- it is forbidden to cut or move it, because that interferes with the wildness of the forest. A few years back I read that large parts of the forest were becoming an ash monoculture. Allowing the emerald ash bore to thrive... an invasice species. Now there's all sorts of firewood laws in NY as to how far you're allowed to transport firewood. Becuase of pests and bugs.

So teh intent of the law was to keep the forest as it was then- a mixed hardwod forest. But since that's not a natural state of affairs, the forest is slowly degrading. Because it's not being managed at all. But that makes the environmentalists feel good.

With deadwood removal disallowed and even unlawful, eventually the forest preserve is going to suffer huge uncontrollable wildfires.

Reality 101- if you like the way something is right now, no matter what it is, you have to maintain it to keep it that way. Beautiful house? Paint it and keep it properly heated and keep the utilities inside maintained. Beatiful lawn? Cut and manicure it, weed it, and keep it watered and fed. Nice picnic area inside a park? Cut down any trees or bushed that start growing in that space.

Mixed hardwood forest? Get rid of deadwood, harvest selectively, and plant seedlings of the varieties you want. Clear out brush and vines. Doing nohting because that's what wild means, means eventually what you like and admire will be destroyed and replaced by something else.

Privately owned forests in teh USA are in uch better shape then government owned forests. Most of MAine is privately owned forestland. And in no danger of running of trees even as trees are constantly harvested. An area is clear cut, and a few weeeks later, seedlings are growing. NAure's way of doing it- a lightning strike sets an area ablaze, and months or years later seeds take sprout, and trees start to grow. Or maybe bushes. Or weeds or whatever. Eventually, trees, but it takes longer.

Right now my acreage is overrun with locust trees. Or as I call them, dangersous trees. Apparently the owner before me planted them deliberately, as they started out all in a straight line. I had never seen a tree with spike before I moved here. No commercial value at all. They burn really well, but dull chainsaw teeth in a heartbeat... making them hard to cut into fireplace size chunks. Not native to NY, am invasive species, but it thrives in my soil. And I can't burn it out- that's illegal... A nice controlled winter burn and I could get rid of them easier then sawing them down.; 1/22/23, 2:14 AM
Tina Trent said...: Yeah, in Atlanta last night, white trust fund ANTIFA tried to kill more cops with fire bombs and set off bombs and broke storefronts rioting in the streets all night.

The black mayor, black police chief, and even the liberal black AJC editorial head deeply support the facility.

The police training facility site has been used for that purpose for decades. I lived a few miles from it. The already had shooting ranges and training facilities and a prison farm for drying out junkies and drunks there.

Despite what the media reports, it is not the biggest hardwood forest in Atlanta (or DeKalb, as it is actually in unincorporated DeKalb. It's a few red oak and a bunch of worthless sweet gum trees (which are menaces) and brush. A larger stand of red oak is nearby and not affected by the training center development. It also lies at the end of the Entrenchment Creek basin where raw sewage runs openly into Atlanta's sewer processing plant. Whenever it rained hard, there would be used diapers and tampons stuck in the bushes. Now filthy ANTIFA trespassers hang from the trees. Ha.

Throw the book at these cop-shooting, bomb-setting, trust fund (one is a "brand influencer") sacks of delayed adolescent garbage. Sue their funders (Soros, Ruckus Society, Food Not Bombs, ANTIFA, and some local health food stores). Sue the hell out of them for the property damage, and imprison them for repeated attempted murder of police. This ain't Seattle. Since they're facing terrorism charges, they can literally watch the police, fire, and badly needed EMT training facility get developed from their cells at the Federal Pen nearby.; 1/22/23, 4:23 AM
Scott Patton said...: "Star Trek: Lower Decks" has recurring appearances of the Pakleds. It's a funny show, assuming the viewer is familiar with the other series.; 1/22/23, 5:56 AM
donald said...: Sure am glad I left The A.; 1/22/23, 6:12 AM
tim in vermont said...: I didn't really understand Joe Biden until I encountered a sociopath IRL. They count on us normies rejecting their true motives out of hand as too outrageous to be true, since it has worked for them since childhood. And no, Trump is not a sociopath, which may be why he got so played as President.; 1/22/23, 6:52 AM
tim in vermont said...: I hate those locust trees too. My neighbor has them right on the property line.; 1/22/23, 6:54 AM
wendybar said...: The Lefts "peaceful protests" are on the comeback. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/local-reporter-calls-riot-atlanta-largely-peaceful-protest-police-cruiser-goes-flames-background-video/; 1/22/23, 7:29 AM
Jersey Fled said...: “How often do 38–39-year-olds drop dead of a heart attack?”

My uncle did. In 1959.; 1/22/23, 7:37 AM
Humperdink said...: Biden gave new meaning to the term "There's no there, there" when he uttered that phrase regarding the classified documents.; 1/22/23, 7:44 AM
Curious George said...: "If God does exist, he must be very proud of us."

Well, not in you.; 1/22/23, 7:53 AM
Tina Trent said...: Are locus trees also called pepper trees? Let off a noxious sap?

Ever since I bought a huge spread of mostly forest and creeks, I lose sleep over my need to thin trees to make the long-neglected woods healthy. I can't afford to do enough and dread seasonal drought. The poison oak, poison snakes, miles of pricklers and tics that drop relentlessly into one's hair has me losing any Lorax vibe I ever had. And I thought I was practical enough to handle it and had no illusions about saving every little sprout and great big oak because nature should be pristine or something.

Nature isn't just red in tooth and claw. It's itchy, buggy, toxins in the water in the summer, threatening to destroy with fires and flood roads without constant upkeep. I don't feel comforted by nature anymore: I feel stalked by the bitch.

And once again believe the Romantic Poets were mainly full of shite.; 1/22/23, 8:01 AM
wendybar said...: Now he'll win over Progressives for SURE!! They love death.

https://spectator.org/did-gavin-newsom-kill-his-own-mother/; 1/22/23, 8:21 AM
Rusty said...: "If God does exist, he must be very proud of us."
Near as I can figure we're just here for comic relief.; 1/22/23, 9:54 AM
farmgirl said...: Tina Trent: yikes!!!
VT has no poisonous snakes- Praise be!!
The politicians are asshats, though…

This photo looks like a painting.; 1/22/23, 10:27 AM
Gahrie said...: Well, not in you.

That's Ok...after all i don't really believe in Him.; 1/22/23, 10:45 AM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: Always will be different set of rules for certain groups of people. Get used to it. There is nothing you can do to make a difference the deck is rigged against the serfs. THE LEAKER
"Sworn affidavits were THE main tool that the marshal used to secure truthful statements from everyone she interviewed because lying on an affidavit is a crime," he wrote. "Yet the justices were exempt from this requirement. The marshal's justification for not making the justices sign sworn affidavits is odd. She says no 'credible leads... implicated the justices or their spouses.' OK, but surely that was true of many of the other 82 people who were interviewed. Yet they had to sign affidavits.
Lifetime appointments for SCOTUS, nothing to lose, law clerks everything to lose. A court at its lowest approval rate fails again to show "the people" they are on same level of accountability. It's pretty obvious they are not.; 1/22/23, 10:48 AM
Narr said...: Thanks for the Star Trek answer, y'all.

I found a list online but hadn't honed the search enough. I knew I could count on the wisdom of you people.

Pakleds.; 1/22/23, 10:55 AM