Althouse: Sunrise

January 14, 2023

Sunrise — 7:38.

23 comments:

BIII Zhang said...: New COVID19 variant MORE LIKELY to infect those who got the vaccine.

NY Post: "New York City health officials are warning residents that the infectious omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 may be more likely to infect people who have already been vaccinated."

So now you're MORE LIKELY to get COVID19 if you've been vaccinated, and yet they still haven't CEASED the human experimentation currently under way with our government's approval.; 1/14/23, 5:56 PM
BIII Zhang said...: Oh, and look at this ... the CDC belives Pfizer's vaccine INCREASES the risk of stroke in people over 65.

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that a preliminary COVID-19 vaccine “safety signal” has been identified and is investigating whether the Bivalent Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine creates an increased risk of ischemic stroke in people 65 and older."

And yet ... they still allow Pfizer to distribute this "medicine" on an experimental basis in humans. Human experimentation, in other words.; 1/14/23, 6:14 PM
Lurker21 said...: I had to take the train into the city. The conductor asked me if I was coming back on the same day and asked me if I wanted a round trip ticket. She explained that I would need a ticket to get back into the station.

I had already seen the gates they were putting up in the downtown train station, so I asked her "Why are they doing that? Is it because of terrorism? Or because of the bums?"

She said, "We don't use that word." I realized that I should have said "homeless persons" instead of "bums," but then she said, "We're like the airlines, we don't use the t-word." For a second, remembering the trouble the airlines were in lately and the trouble the trains had always been in, I thought that the "t-word" must be transportation or transit, but then I realized what she meant.

Maybe it was the homeless people after all, though. When I got to the station it was cleaner and emptier than I'd ever seen it before. Still, the pigeons still managed to get in without buying tickets.

And when I got to the station, the announcer was saying that a train was boarding on track nine. I started singing to myself, half out loud, "Track 29. Boy, can you give me a shine ..." when I realized that it was the most racist thing I could possibly sing.; 1/14/23, 6:36 PM
Rabel said...: I see the playoffs have started. When do the Packers play?; 1/14/23, 6:41 PM
Dave Begley said...: I learned today that two of my high school classmates - both 65 - recently had strokes.; 1/14/23, 6:43 PM
Lurker21 said...: The White Lotus was okay. Kind of a mixed bag, but if you think TV is worth watching, it was worth watching. Same thing with This Is Going To Hurt: Ben Wishaw is a harried NHS doctor in the UK. I'd had enough of "hospital hell" dramas with Nurse Jackie, but the show did win me over by the end. It's Ben's coming out of the closet drama, so if you don't like that, you won't like that.

Sometimes it pays to watch something horrible to appreciate more what else is out there. Crashpad was a horrible comedy with Domnhail Gleeson, Christina Applegate, Thomas Haden Church, and Nina Dobrev. I like the other three, but Gleeson was so horrible I couldn't get through watching it. Maybe with another actor in the lead it might have been better, maybe not.

Moonage Daydream, the David Bowie documentary, is nothing like a conventional documentary. It is an impressive visual experience, though. I feel like I need a bigger screen or better drugs to really appreciate it.; 1/14/23, 6:46 PM
tim in vermont said...: I like the turquoise and brown, reminds me of the movie Chocolat.; 1/14/23, 7:01 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: r/therewasanattempt to honor Dr MLK

I thought it was going to be taken down because it violates rule 6 stating “post must show a *living thing* attempting *something* in real life. But 8 hrs later the post is still up.

Some of the things people say they see in the monument are hilarious.; 1/14/23, 7:29 PM
rehajm said...: Stephen Miller @StephenM
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Biden’s handlers did not just suddenly discover troves of purloined classified documents. You are watching the coverup — of an even bigger scandal — in real time

Pretty much what I was thinking. The take Biden out narrative never made much sense to me. We’re only a few months to full on campaign season. Why quit him now?; 1/14/23, 7:42 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: “Sam Harris finally admit that the vaccine doesn’t stop the transmission of Covid-19.”

It looks like a hostage video.; 1/14/23, 8:06 PM
Narr said...: Caught the Ents in their morning boogie.

Beautifully composed.; 1/14/23, 8:10 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 1/14/23, 8:15 PM
Mike Sylwester said...: The Inner Life of Transcendent Genius

A review of Bob Dylan's book The Philosophy of Modern Song -- the review was written by Benjamin Kerstein and was published on the Quillette website.

Kerstein article begins:

[quote]

The last century has proved that transcendent genius is not necessarily that unusual. The science of physics, for example, produced Einstein, Fermi, Feynman, and Hawking within a few decades of each other. Cinema, meanwhile, is barely over 100 years old, and produced three authentic geniuses (Griffith, Eisenstein, and Chaplin) before it emerged from the silent era.

American popular music, however — if one excludes jazz — has arguably produced just one transcendent genius. Bob Dylan is now in his 82nd year, and over the course of 60 of those years, he has changed his medium as utterly and completely as Orson Welles changed cinema or Cervantes changed world literature. Dylan has effectively divided American popular music into the era before his emergence and the era that followed, in which everyone — willing or unwilling, consciously or unconsciously — trod in his footsteps.

Dylan accomplished this by liberating American pop music from itself. Pop music before Dylan was often beautiful and sometimes sublime, but it generally conformed to certain particular themes and imagery, mostly amorous, with occasional lamentations on hard times or the fervency of life lived in transient intensity. After Dylan, people could sing about anything. Forms of words that seemed at first without sense or clarity, or even comprehensibility, but nonetheless evoked something that seemed to be essential, could now reach the Top Ten.

This was not entirely to the good, of course. There were atrocities like ‘MacArthur Park’ and the wilder absurdities of psychedelia that sought but failed to capture Dylan’s cascades of imagery. But there can be no doubt that a great deal of the last six decades of pop music, including an enormous amount of extraordinary work, could not have existed without Dylan’s influence.

Beyond the question of influence, however, there is the man’s oeuvre itself. Transcendent genius is not only measured by the extent to which it transforms its chosen medium, but also by its intrinsic quality. The genius cannot only be an iconoclast, he must also be a master. In the case of Dylan, this is a difficult issue, because the oeuvre is not yet fully formed, and there is no indication that his best days are behind him.

While his early albums such as The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (1963), Blonde on Blonde (1966), and Blood on the Tracks (1975) are Dylan’s most historically significant works, whether or not they are still his best remains an open question. After lying fallow for most of the 1980s and early 1990s, Dylan staged one of the most stunning and perhaps unexpected comebacks in American popular music. Since Time Out of Mind (1997) reestablished him as a vital force, he has turned out a series of records that constitute one of the most extraordinary runs of late works by any American artist. ...

[end quote; the review continues at length]; 1/14/23, 9:03 PM
Lurker21 said...: Moonage Daydream would have been a great picture to watch when you're young. Not so much when you're older. Bowie telling you to never waste a day of life is inspiring at 20, less so at 60, when so many days have already been wasted. Twenty-somethings beware, you will probably have wasted many days by the time you get older.; 1/14/23, 9:57 PM
walter said...: "Some shit can’t be pushed under the rug."
The rug will engulf it!; 1/14/23, 10:51 PM
Gospace said...: BIII Zhang said...
Oh, and look at this ... the CDC belives Pfizer's vaccine INCREASES the risk of stroke in people over 65.

At 65 and 67 respectively, another day has gone by where my wife and I haven't got coinciditis, not are we in danger of it. We are, in terms coming into popular use, purebloods. Off to donate platelets in a few hours, my third of the year. And the Red Cross asks if I'm vaccinated against the dreaded covid. They don't ask if I've had it, and no longer test for antibodies.

Do they treat unvaxxed blood differently? They say they don't. But yet, some people, even vaxxed people, are asking for unvaxxed blood. There was a news article about that recently- that I'm not going to look up.

Karl Denninger in his January 14th post brings up a few points. If the oldest among us start dropping like flies, since the >65 cohort is supposedly 95% vaxxed, then social security will be in great shape for us unvaxxed to keep collecting. But if too many workers are disabled to the point they cannot work, then it won't be... I'm still working. I have a non-stressful job, and see no point in leaving it. I suspect in a few years for a number of reasons- some unrelated to the vaxx - they'll give me bonuses if I keep working. The last 5 qualified people they hired where I work were in their 50s. And that includes me more then 10 years ago. They don't like training people...

BIII Zhang said...
New COVID19 variant MORE LIKELY to infect those who got the vaccine.

One of the newer variants is as transmissible as measles. Which pretty much means if you walk through a room with someone who has it, you're getting it. I think that's the variant I caught from a fellow Scout leader who I've said in previous posts was about 30 years younger then me. I was wrong- I asked his age last Tuesday. He's exactly 40 years tounger. Twice vaxxed, his second infection, no symptoms yet because he was twice vaxxed, making him an asymptomatic spreaded. Which is what us unvaxxed were accused of in the early "YOU MUST GET THE VAX OR GET FIRED!" days. But no one was forced to get the vax. They were simply denied a livelihood, so they got it voluntarily...

And as I said, we had exactly the same sumptoms, but he had them a day longer, revealing another vax lie. Do I need to explain which one?

I read earlier that VIPs flying to whatever "We Must Save The World Conference" is going on right now were advertising for unvaxxed pilots to take them there. Don't know if that's actually true, but there's a lot of irony there, since it's the same group that fired pilots for refusing the vax... Could be propagande, but might not be.

On another note, Ann seems to be correct. The powers that be, whoever they are, are initiating the sequence to get rid of Biden. Which means President Harris. 25th amendment- she cannot appoint a VP, the slot isn't empty, it's her. So they have to impeach or get him to resign. Or possibly we get another elaborate state funeral. Were I a betting man, I'd bet the last. He's vaxxed, a heart attack in his sleep would be totally believable. I wonder if there's a betting pool open yet....; 1/14/23, 11:59 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Ha!

My reddit post was finally taken down.: Thank you for your submission to r/therewasanattempt. Unfortunately, your post was removed for violating the following rule:

R7: "All posts must show an unsuccessful attempt"

I guess as long as the sculpture is up, it's a success.

As long as the Covid19 vaccine program is in effect, it's a success also.; 1/15/23, 12:03 AM
gadfly said...: BIII Zhang said...
Oh, and look at this ... the CDC belives Pfizer's vaccine INCREASES the risk of stroke in people over 65.

Grow up, Dr. Billy! Pfizer's vaccine has saved millions more lives than can even be imagined as stoke deaths caused among senior stroke victims from all causes.

My Dad died of a stroke and Covid-19 wasn't even around when that happened. Doctors warn that strokes seem to run in families so let's start blaming all those bad dads out there!; 1/15/23, 12:12 AM
Drago said...: Rising Serpent@risingserpent
"So you're telling me that Joe Biden was stealing highly classified documents on Ukraine and stashing them in his garage while they paid his son millions, then gave them $80 billion in one year of his presidency, but it was Trump who got impeached for a phone call with Ukraine?"; 1/15/23, 12:53 AM
Ann Althouse said...: @Lem

r/therewasanattempt is strict so it won't be diluted with all sorts of opinions that things aren't as successful as hoped.

It's only good because they keep a clear focus.; 1/15/23, 4:32 AM
wendybar said...: This asshole belongs behind bars, not on CNN spewing lies and distortions. YOU wonder WHY Americans don't trust the Intel agencies?? Watch this bastard, and wonder no more. They all belong behind bars or whatever we do to treasonists now.

https://therightscoop.com/resist-it-ex-fbi-current-cnn-expert-andrew-mccabe-says-doj-should-refuse-to-cooperate-with-republican-congress-on-biden-docs/; 1/15/23, 7:03 AM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Acknowledged.; 1/15/23, 7:09 AM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: David Gergen thinks Biden is not at legal risk for his mishandling of classified documents. Biden is at legal risk as the standard is gross negligence, which Biden has demonstrated in spades. Ft. Leavenworth, KS is awaiting for Joe. They have first class accommodations waiting for him. They even include a STAINLESS STEEL commode and wash basin plus three hots a day and a cot!; 1/15/23, 8:58 AM