Althouse: Sunset — 5:44, 5:51.

March 3, 2023

Sunset — 5:44, 5:51.

Photos by Meade.

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Chuck said...: Regarding Althouse’s “party of stupid” tag and her post from this morning… Let’s add one more pending bill sponsored by Republicans in a state legislature! The state is South “First in Secession” Carolina. The legislation is House Bill 3539, currently in the judiciary committee. It imposes, potentially, the death penalty on women in South Carolina who obtain abortions.

https://katv.com/amp/news/nation-world/women-who-seek-abortion-in-south-carolina-could-face-death-penalty-prenatal-equal-protection-act-of-2023-reproductive-rights-roe-v-wade-overturned-supreme-court; 3/3/23, 8:07 PM
Jaq said...: Looks like Kiev is abandoning Bakhmut, which means that defending the rest of Donbas is going to be impossible. Though it will probably take months to finish the job.

Kiev claims that Russia kidnapped tens of thousands of "Ukrainian children" from Donbas, when what really happened is that when war came, hundreds of thousands of ethnic Russians fled to Russia, with their children, which foiled Kiev's plans to indoctrinate those children as "Ukrainian" to repopulate the country. I know this stuff is hard to believe, but Kiev is run by hyper-nationalists, and this is how they think. Neocons have been using the hyper-nationalists to prosecute their war on Russia. If you have opinions on this war, and want to try to ensure that they are grounded in fact, you should watch Oliver Stone's Ukraine on Fire on Rumble. Lots of footage on Ukrainians indoctrinating children, especially indoctrinating children to hate Russians.

Zelensky just signed a decree saying that it is illegal to negotiate with Russia if Putin remains in power. The hyper-nationalists in Kiev see this war as their last hope of realizing their dream of an ethnically pure Ukraine, composed of all of the territories pasted together by the Soviets during their reign of error. If they make peace, the dream dies, and they know it. They will not be revered by future Ukrainian schoolchildren as the "fathers of Ukraine," the creation of Ukraine as a nation-state, like France or Spain dies. All of it. That's why they are willing to fight to the last man. The thing is that Kiev's dreams of a nation state, and revenge fantasies against Russia for the crimes of the Soviets, are none of our business.; 3/3/23, 8:19 PM
farmgirl said...: An Opal sunrise.
Beautiful.; 3/3/23, 8:28 PM
Ann Althouse said...: Sunset; 3/3/23, 8:34 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: This video is about a paper I'm only hearing about now.

Video: on Famine, Affluence, and Morality Singer (1972)

Hint: it's not enough.

Turns out morality, doing the right thing, is... I need to watch this video a few times more.

I don't know if I like it, or I hate it. Iam intrigued though.; 3/3/23, 8:36 PM
Meade said...: It was sunrise in Mumbai.; 3/3/23, 8:48 PM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: I hope this works; 3/3/23, 9:02 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: FYI: Some influential women are trying to bring back the thin eyebrows of the 90's.

I don't remember liking the thin eyebrows, my recollection is I hated them. I truly hope they don't come back.; 3/3/23, 9:46 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Chris Rock is going on Live Tomorrow Night at 10pm ET/ 7pm PT on Netflix.

I'm not missing it for all the tea in Timbuktu.; 3/3/23, 10:16 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: 2 groups of people were asked if they are proud of their skin color

One group was black

One group was white

This was the result: link to video

Hint: The result is unsurprising.; 3/3/23, 10:24 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Magic Mike is playing on HBO. I’m going to watch it so I can understand what the Drag Queen Show for children fad is all about.; 3/3/23, 10:53 PM
Original Mike said...: The winners of the Madison Snow Plow naming contest.; 3/3/23, 10:54 PM
wildswan said...: "Lem Former Twitter Aficionado said...
This video is about a paper I'm only hearing about now.

Video: on Famine, Affluence, and Morality Singer (1972)"

Peter Singer supports abortion so he doesn't really believe his own argument that we should save a child from death if it merely means giving the affluent life style.
" Every woman should have the legal right safely to terminate a pregnancy that she does not wish to continue, at least until the very late stage of pregnancy when the fetus may be sufficiently developed to feel pain. That has been my firm view since I began thinking about the topic as an undergraduate in the 1960s. None of the extensive reading, writing, and debating I have subsequently done on the topic has given me sufficient reason to change my mind." Abortion and Democracy in America, Jun 28, 2022, PETER SINGER

Or, to be fair, let's say that Peter Singer's thinking isn't as clear as the excellent lecturer makes it seem while the lecturer is discussing the case of famine and affluence. In other words, imagine that the lecture is called Abortion, Affluence and Morality. Substitute the word abortion for famine; substitute abortion for a child dying in shallow muddy pond. Why must we save distant children from famine while it's OK to kill our own children because we don't want them? What's the moral difference?
It isn't that one is easy and the other hard because Singer concludes that we have to give up affluence and all our own wishes to save these unknown children by giving up ALL small cumulative expenses forever. And that level of giving is the level of giving that children entail and that is most of the reason why they aren't wanted. In fact, it's a higher level of giving because when children are grown parents can spend more on themselves whereas Singer's people will have to go on sacrificing fun forever.; 3/3/23, 11:07 PM
Dave Begley said...: Ann is influencing me to buy iPhone 14.; 3/3/23, 11:16 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Another way to consider the drag queen for tots shows is that those children are probably Roe survivors. Anything that happens to them is not as bad as what was in store, saved (literally) by Supremes of these United States of Americans. I mean, am I that far off judging the judgment of these so called parents?

I don’t want to sound mean unnecessarily.; 3/4/23, 12:31 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: The media’s reaction chorus to Woody Harrelson’s SNL monologue the next day was the digital version of Will Smith Oscars slap.

I just realised it watching a Joe Rogan clip struggling to explain what he saw. He has to be careful himself, already with a couple of strikes against him.; 3/4/23, 12:56 AM
gadfly said...: Cutting-edge radar and AI are being used to track bird species and flights around an offshore wind farm in Aberdeen, Scotland.

No seabirds (kittiwakes, herring gulls, black-backed gulls, and gannets) were recorded colliding with turbines during two years of monitoring and recorded in 10,000 incidents.

What is not known is whether or not seabirds are just smarter than the average land birds.; 3/4/23, 1:49 AM
Owen said...: Nice work, Meade. The 5:51 pic looks like a pastel.; 3/4/23, 4:09 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Is every child born post the Supreme Court decision striking down Roe a Roe survivor?

Considering that Roe was a constitutional right the likelihood was that it would stand for ever.

I don’t know if this thinking is flawed… I’m just spitballing here. I could be wrong. The fact that I haven’t seen this argument made, may speak to its… none existent value. It could also be that the argument has been made and I just haven’t come across it because I’m not immersed in the subject of abortion.; 3/4/23, 4:42 AM
Humperdink said...: Is anyone surprised Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman, he of Trump impeachment fame, is trying to cash in on the Ukraine war? Rather than don his camo gear and fight for his Ukrainian homeland, Vindman is now attempting to act as a middleman for weapons systems. To be fair, he's a bit plump to go to war.

https://humanevents.com/2023/03/02/exclusive-alexander-vindman-secretly-pitching-ukrainian-military-for-millions-in-defense-contracts; 3/4/23, 5:05 AM
Meade said...: Glad you like it, Owen. Thanks!; 3/4/23, 6:46 AM
planetgeo said...: Meade, thanks for going above and beyond to capture the significant climate change in Mumbai.; 3/4/23, 7:32 AM
Iman said...: A shitbird on sea birds @1:49am…; 3/4/23, 7:49 AM
Dave Begley said...: Correction. Meadehouse is influencing me to buy an iPhone 14.; 3/4/23, 8:38 AM
Drago said...: Banned Commenter LLR Chuck: "Regarding Althouse’s “party of stupid” tag and her post from this morning… Let’s add one more pending bill sponsored by Republicans in a state legislature! The state is South “First in Secession” Carolina."

In addition to coming out (all puns intended) as a strong radical trans ideology and sexualizing drag shows for kiddos supporter and bigly BLM backer, LLR Chuck decides he might as well let it all hang out and go Full Nikole Hannah-Jones/1619 Project Mode as well.

Again, I fully approve of LLR Chuck's decision to abandon his fake "conservative" online persona, which was fully exposed about 7 years ago anyway, and proceed in a more honest way by expressing his far left arguments as the democratical he has always been.

LLR Chuck's posts seem more relaxed now that he no longer has to bother pretending to be something he isn't.

Now, dont be mistaken in thinking Chuck's journey of self-discovery and introspection is near complete. It isn't. We still need to understand more fully Chuck's rather ugly reflexive hatred for black conservatives and attractive female conservatives. There is something very dark underlying Chuck's vicious racist and misogynistic attacks on those people.

That is obviously going to be a much bigger lift than LLR Chuck coming clean about the truth of his partisan democratical leanings.

Still, progress! Huzzah!; 3/4/23, 9:00 AM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: CONFIDENCE GAME and ANGEL OF EMPIRE top the point status so far for Kentucky Derby entries with 57 and 54 points respectively. (40 points to qualify) I still like INSTANT COFFEE at 32 points to get in but time is running out. I don't usually wager on chalk in this run but Confidence Game is running very strongly and will deserve a long look. It will be my next major wager. I was going to wager on Alex Murdaugh Murder trial but passed and would have ended in a loss as I had Murdaugh NOT CONVICTED as I handicapped State not proving case with only circumstantial evidence. Judges' morning sentence reading was pretty in depth and the statement of the mother and son visiting in lockup sticks in my mind. Count your blessings because in this life it could be "only by the grace of God, there go I" Pray hard.) if you pray); 3/4/23, 9:29 AM
Meade said...: @planetgeo
😁; 3/4/23, 10:18 AM
Candide said...: After Maidan revolt in 2014, Ukraine quickly descended into Civil War, with continuous fighting in Donbas region going on for 8 years prior to Russian involvement.

So US political elites thought long and hard how to restore peace in Ukraine and the answer they came with, Let's break up Russia!; 3/4/23, 10:36 AM
Michael K said...: Contrary to LLR Chuck's description of CPAC, this looks like a pretty good crowd, and O'Keefe was a hit. The girl from, Pfizer is brave, unlike Chuck.; 3/4/23, 11:35 AM
LibertarianLeisure said...: Lovely.; 3/4/23, 11:38 AM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: Now equestrian helmets are racist.; 3/4/23, 12:22 PM
Dr Weevil said...: Candide (10:36am):
Your statement about "continuous fighting in Donbas region going on for 8 years prior to Russian involvement" is utterly false. The Russians were actively involved right from the beginning. A few pertinent bits from Wikipedia's vast and detailed 'War in Donbas' page:
1. The violence began in Sloviansk on April 12, 2014, where "A group of masked pro-Russian militants under the command of retired FSB [=KGB] officer Igor Girkin took control of the city administration building, police offices, and SBU building" and seized 400 guns. Girkin was not a local, and had previously helped arrange the secession of Crimea, and soon after shot down a Malaysian airliner with a weapon supplied by Russia, killing 298 civilians.
2. "Shortly after taking control over Sloviansk, Girkin's group executed a member of town council, Volodymyr Ivanovych Rybak, as well as four other citizens of Ukraine."
3. "By late August 2014, Ukraine had re-taken most separatist-held territory and nearly regained control of the Russia–Ukraine border. In response, Russia covertly sent artillery, tanks and personnel across the border, and what it called a 'humanitarian convoy'. . . . The Russian incursion helped pro-Russian forces regain much of the territory they had lost. Alexander Borodai, former 'Prime Minister' of the DPR, later said 50,000 'Russian volunteers' had fought in the first five months of the war."
4. "In 2017, on average a Ukrainian soldier died in combat every three days, with an estimated 40,000 separatist and 6,000 Russian troops in the region. By the end of 2017, OSCE observers had counted around 30,000 individuals in military gear crossing from Russia to the Donbas at the two border checkpoints it was allowed to monitor, out of eleven. The OSCE also documented military convoys crossing from Russia covertly."
In short, the Russians were there from the very beginning, not just pulling the strings, but actively killing Ukrainian soldiers and civilians.; 3/4/23, 6:59 PM
Candide said...: Dr Weevil said...

“Your statement about "continuous fighting in Donbas region going on for 8 years prior to Russian involvement" is utterly false.”

You’re correct, my statement should read, “...prior to Russian invasion in 2022”. They were certainly involved in the Donbas conflict in many ways prior to that, providing both military and humanitarian assistance.

The main point still stands that Maidan uprising is a key to understanding the origins of war in Ukraine.; 3/4/23, 7:30 PM
Dr Weevil said...: WTF? "assistance"? In what way are the ethnic Russians in the Donbas better off than they were before Girkin arrived and the shooting started? And what evidence do you have that Putin gives a damn, or ever gave a damn, about them, except as cannon fodder for his war on Ukraine?; 3/4/23, 8:39 PM
Candide said...: Dr. Weevil,

Obviously, both sides committed atrocities in Donbas.

Main point is, none of this would happen without Maidan uprising in 2014. Civil society did exist in Ukraine for 23 years, from 1991 till 2014, with general peace and fair elections. Maidan uprising in 2014 destroyed all that and led to Civil war that continued for 8 years and finally led to Russian invasion.; 3/5/23, 2:28 AM