Althouse: Sunrise — 6:03, 6:06.

April 23, 2023

Sunrise — 6:03, 6:06.

28 comments:

Lilly, a dog said...: I'd like to briefly comment on the impotent emanation that (lefty) Mark made in the last Cafe: "You 'no politics in sports' folks are the people insisting on the National Anthem played and everyone required to stand for it."

That's not why we stand for the Anthem. We stand to honor the Men that fought for this country. We stand to honor the Men that died for this country. That's it.; 4/23/23, 7:14 PM
Narr said...: I for one welcome our hot pink-orange gaseous overlords.

Last night I listened to the live broadcast of Brahms's Requiem, and thought it sounded good. I went this afternoon to see it, and it was better than good, it was quite fine. Makes me proud of the home team.

Because attendance was sparse I had no people nearby to bother and could sway, nod, and hum quietly almost as if I was at home. The English text was projected over the chorus. It was "edited" by some woman in the 20th C, and was almost parodic with Thees, Thous, and Thys that goetheth and cometheth. It sounds better in the original Lutheran.

An odd couple walked in almost late. A young B/black woman, quite obese, and a hulking figure dressed like Minnie Pearl's hick cousine fresh from the barn. I don't know how it identified, but he was a burly one (and I should know). They left after two and a half movements of the seven.

As sparse as the crowd was, it was pretty diverse in the normal ways of keeping score.; 4/23/23, 7:37 PM
rehajm said...: Florida gay pride group had two choices...Allow kids, but have no nudity....or not allow kids. Their solution... cancel the whole thing.

That's...really suspicious.; 4/23/23, 7:49 PM
Dave Begley said...: I’ve become the enemy of the female bisexual mayor of Palm Springs, CA.; 4/23/23, 7:49 PM
Dave Begley said...: One word Benjamin: Metals.

DDB addendum: Copper.; 4/23/23, 7:51 PM
Josephbleau said...: The top picture is a great example for the phrase “ wine dark sea.”; 4/23/23, 8:58 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Headline: "Babies without sex? Researchers are working on it. Ethicists are troubled."

Apparently, it's not what I thought it meant.

"Scientists are getting closer to the possibility of making a new person from skin or blood cells, without the need for sex."

Not everything sex is about the trans and gender mana from hell.; 4/23/23, 9:13 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Headline: "'Positively disgraceful' John Roberts buried by ethics expert for refusal to talk about Clarence Thomas".

Under some other America, unlike the one we are experiencing today, the press would be hushed, not talking about anybody's apparent or otherwise unethical behaviors. At least not while their most favored Ukraine $$$ candidate, who happens to be USA's president, was still in office.; 4/23/23, 9:31 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Somebody feed an AI all Norm Macdonald's recorded material and ask it to write a new comedy set in the style of Norm Macdonald.

If it flops, that's how we know it's not ready yet.; 4/23/23, 9:39 PM
Owen said...: DDB: agree on copper. I think it's got more promise than lithium. Lithium *might* get edged by new battery tech, and in any case is under ChiCom control. Copper is versatile, pretty well-understood, and essential to the production and distribution of all those kilowatts we're going to want forever and ever.

Place your bets, gents. (Oh; and ladies!).; 4/23/23, 9:43 PM
gadfly said...: Dave Begley said...
I’ve become the enemy of the female bisexual mayor of Palm Springs, CA.

The current Mayor of Palm Springs is Grace Garner, the first Madam Mayor to be a Latina and person of color. She serves in a powerless appointed position with the single 2023 function of presiding over the City Council meetings while representing the voters in District 1. She does not claim to be bisexual.; 4/24/23, 3:19 AM
Humperdink said...: During our Sunday afternoon pickleball gathering, the token liberal was bemoaning the current state of his IRA. I asked him if he was going to repeat his 2020 Biden campaign contribution for 2024. He walked away in silence.; 4/24/23, 4:55 AM
wendybar said...: On top of the weirdness of our politics...

"Recent reports say that six cattle died mysteriously in Texas, all with their tongues removed, the hide around one side of their mouths gone, and without any apparent bloodshed.
The cattle were found along Texas State Highway in three different counties, with each animal part of a different herd and in a different pasture, according to the sheriff’s office. Five were adults, one a yearling.

Stranger still, in two cases, the animals’ genitalia and anuses had been removed with a circular cut that the sheriff’s office said had been made with the “same precision as the cuts noted around the jaw lines of each cow.” Moreover, the grass around the bodies of all six animals was undisturbed, and there was no sign of struggle surrounding any of the carcasses. Nor were any footprints or tire tracks found."

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/04/in_texas_some_strange_cattle_deaths__and_silence_from_the_establishment.html; 4/24/23, 5:51 AM
wendybar said...: How cute is that??? 50 something year old man lives with step Mommy and Daddy, grifting off of the American people.
https://nypost.com/2023/04/23/hunter-biden-may-be-living-at-the-white-house-to-evade-legal-papers-from-his-baby-mama/; 4/24/23, 6:16 AM
Humperdink said...: From the National Library of Medicine. Note: AE = Adverse Effects.

"Some vaccine-induced AEs (e.g., myocardial infarction, Guillain–Barré syndrome) were found to increase with age, while others (e.g., myocarditis, anaphylaxis, appendicitis) were more common in younger people [35,36]. Although myocarditis cases are rather rare, in a study of US military personnel the number was higher than expected among males after a second vaccine dose [37]; similarly, the rate of postvaccination cardiac AEs was higher in young boys following the second dose [38,39]. Finally, a recent study showed an increased risk of neurological complications in COVID-19 vaccine recipients (which was nevertheless lower than the risk in COVID-19 patients) [34]. The molecular basis of these AEs remains largely unknown. We postulate that, since most (if not all) of them are also apparent in severe COVID-19 [31], they may be related to acute inflammation caused by both the virus and the vaccine, as well as in the common denominator between the virus and the vaccine, namely, the SARS-CoV-2 S protein. "

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9021367/

It should be noted the CDC has now recommended young healthy people no longer get the jab. Now they tell us.; 4/24/23, 6:23 AM
Dave Begley said...: Gadfly: Correction. Outgoing mayor, Christy Gilbert Holstege. Running for something else. She brought her toddler to a political event. She’s married to a male, but claims to be bi.; 4/24/23, 6:27 AM
Doug said...: Release the Audrey Hale manifesto NOW!; 4/24/23, 6:37 AM
boatbuilder said...: A few months ago Powerline ran a piece about just how much "virgin" copper (about 4 tons) is required for each wind turbine, and what is involved (environmentally and in terms of power consumed) to mine and produce the copper wire.

And that is before any eagles or whales are killed.

I might feel differently about the environmental consequences of wind turbines if they were an efficient way to produce energy (which is the absolute base requirement for keeping billions of human beings out of poverty), but they are not and will never be. The gross inconsistency/ignorance/hipocrisy of the eco-religionists is stark, stunning and endless.; 4/24/23, 7:07 AM
gilbar said...: gadfly said...
. She does not claim to be bisexual.

As Al Smith would say.. Let's Take a Look.. At the record.
From her campaign website https://wewinwithgrace.com/meet-grace/
After college Grace moved to Washington, DC where she advocated for LGBTQ+ equality and women’s rights with the Unitarian Universalist Association.
She then went on to work with civil rights leader and abortion rights activist, Heather Booth..
Grace is a lifelong advocate for LGBTQ+ issues and social and racial justice.

Grace spends her time volunteering and participating in a host of community activities. In 2020 she adopted two kittens, Taddy and Chiquita, from the Palm Springs Animal Shelter. When she’s not out in the community, she’s home cuddling with the cats and reading; 4/24/23, 7:31 AM
gilbar said...: more..
Bay Area Reporter
Online Extra: Political Notes: Bi councilwoman poised to be Palm Springs 1st female mayor

The Bay Area Reporter is a free weekly LGBT newspaper serving the LGBT communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the largest-circulation LGBT newspapers in the United States, and the country's oldest continuously published newspaper of its kind.; 4/24/23, 7:36 AM
gilbar said...: then there's
https://kesq.com/news/your-vote/2020/12/10/christy-holstege-sworn-in-as-palm-springs-first-ever-female-mayor/
December 10, 2020 6:57 PM
Councilmember Christy Holstege made history Thursday evening when she was sworn-in as the first-ever female mayor in Palm Springs' 82-year history and first openly-bisexual mayor in the United States.; 4/24/23, 7:40 AM
gilbar said...: oh! and let's not forget
Lisa Middleton Mayor from December 2021 – December 2022
(born 1952) is an American politician, a member of the Palm Springs city council and the Former is Mayor of Palm Springs. She was first elected to the City Council in 2017 and is the first openly transgender person to be elected in California for a non-judicial position.

Palm Springs seems to get a new mayor every other year
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mayors_of_Palm_Springs,_California,
it's hard to keep them straight (pun intended); 4/24/23, 7:44 AM
tim maguire said...: Lilly, a dog said...I'd like to briefly comment on the impotent emanation that (lefty) Mark made in the last Cafe: "You 'no politics in sports' folks are the people insisting on the National Anthem played and everyone required to stand for it."

That's not why we stand for the Anthem. We stand to honor the Men that fought for this country. We stand to honor the Men that died for this country. That's it.

I'd take the tack that the National Anthem isn't political. It's for everybody. And while people are encouraged to stand for it, nobody is required to (though it's not surprising that Mark can't tell the difference).; 4/24/23, 7:52 AM
wildswan said...: Some say the Ukrainian counter offensive has begun with a river crossing establishing a bridgehead at the town of Oleshky. Seizing this town would indicate that the Ukrainians were going to seize back south Kherson and possibly the Crimea. The Crimea is a peninsula with an enormous marsh with huge lagoons all across its top. There's no way in there except for two roads and the Kerch bridge. One road, on the west side of Crimea crosses into south Ukraine on a ten mile wide strip of solid ground. This road goes north to Kherson City passing through Oleshky. Side roads go east toward Russia. The other road, on the east side of Crimea runs on a causeway like the one linking Key West to Florida. There's a railroad on the causeway as well. The whole system goes north into the Ukraine and then turns east to join wide highways and railroads in Ukraine coming from Russia, the part of Russia at the end of the Black Sea. And, besides these two road/railroad systems, there is the Kerch bridge. If the Kerch bridge had another accident and if the eastern causeway was destroyed, then Crimea and the Black Sea fleet would be dependent on one single road, the road to Oleshky.; 4/24/23, 8:16 AM
gilbar said...: wildswan said..
Seizing this town would indicate that the Ukrainians were going to seize back south Kherson..

respectfully..
Seizing this town would indicate that the Ukrainians were going try to seize back south Kherson; 4/24/23, 9:58 AM
wendybar said...: "Today several men are sitting in prison for touching the sign that passed over their heads that Ray Epps was hurling at police."

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/fake-news-60-minutes-runs-entire-segment-on-ray-epps-without-showing-his-criminal-assault-caught-on-video-eight-other-men-are-serving-years-in-prison-today-for-standing-next-to-epps-committing-t/; 4/24/23, 10:31 AM
Narr said...: I thought the special military operation in Ukraine was over, with a decisive victory by the . . choose your side, YouTube's got a million of 'em.

Let's say that the February '22 offensive strike at Kyiv was the Schlieffen Plan; is Bakhmut Verdun? If the Russians take it, do they have the wherewithal to exploit effectively? Or will Russian success be more like the German offensives of spring-summer 1918, gaining ground at great cost to both sides, but falling short of decision? (And that's leaving aside the politics as much as I can.)

AI is making the fog of war thicker, if nothing else. At least for us schlubs.; 4/24/23, 1:40 PM
Dr Weevil said...: wildswan (8:16am):
"The Crimea is a peninsula with an enormous marsh with huge lagoons all across its top. There's no way in there except for two roads and the Kerch bridge."

No way in? The Syvash or Sivash, the series of lagoons that separate Crimea from the mainland, are shallow, in some places very shallow. Wikipedia reports that the deepest place is about 10 feet deep, "most areas" between 20 and 40 inches. Some places are even shallower than that, and the whole place gets shallower (and stinkier) in the summer when evaporation increases. Because of the smell, the place is known as the Putrid Sea or Rotten Sea in the local languages.

To get to my point: In World War II, the Russian Army found a shallow area and an entire infantry division (10-15,000 men) waded across to catch the Germans defending the actual isthmus (Perekop) from the rear. I can't find the Twitter link for the long thread that gave all the details, and Wikipedia does not mention it, but the first picture in the "Crimean offensive" article shows the Russian troops crossing the Syvash, with the water barely up to their ankles. (It obviously needs a thorough edit for consistency.)

In short, the Syvash is not an insuperable barrier.; 4/24/23, 9:22 PM