Althouse: Sunrise

April 7, 2023

Sunrise — 6:31.

28 comments:

Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Great pic. The light is everywhere. It’s magical.; 4/7/23, 6:45 PM
Humperdink said...: Who said "Show me the man and I'll show you the crime"?

A) Lavrentiy Beria
B) Christopher Wray
C) Merrick Garland
D) Fat Alvin

If you guessed all of the above, you're not far off!; 4/7/23, 6:51 PM
Scott Patton said...: Had a notion...chat.openai.com
Me:please emulate a transcription of elmer fudd singing Strawberry Fields Forever
GPT:Sure, here's my attempt at emulating a transcription of Elmer Fudd singing "Strawberry Fields Forever":

Ewmer Fudd: "Wiv a widdle hewp fwom my fwiends, I'm gowing to twy to sing a song cawwed 'Stwawbewwy Fiewds Foweva'."

(tune begins)

"Wiv eyes cwosed, it's easy to see, dat nuthin' is weally what it seams,

No one I think is in my twree, I mean it must be high or low.

Dat is, ewther ow ow ow or below.

(A pause, as Fudd ponders)

"Stwawbewwies, wet's go! Wet's go, stwawbewwies, yeah!"

And with that, Fudd launches into the chorus:

"Stwawbewwy Fields Foweva,
Nuffin' is weally weal,
And nuffin' to get hung about,
Stwawbewwy Fields Foweva."

(End of transcription); 4/7/23, 7:15 PM
gilbar said...: Just when, you thought; things Couldn't get ANY stranger.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-makes-an-antiwoke-fortress-of-a-new-age-school-centner-academy-miami-crt-gender-vaccines-6fada4c3?mod=opinion_lead_pos6
Covid Makes an Antiwoke Fortress of a New Age Florida School
Centner Academy’s skepticism of masks and vaccines proves ‘a highly effective curation process.’
You might call Centner a countercultural campus; it calls itself “America’s Happiest School.” “Mindfulness is interwoven into the fabric of the school,” says my tour guide, Josh Hills, whose title—no joke—is director of brain optimization.

If you’re rolling your eyes, stop it. This New Age school is also resolutely and admirably antiwoke. Mr. Hills begins the tour by listing the three things he makes clear to visitors “before I let anybody into this building”:

First, “we have zero Covid policy at this point.” He doesn’t mean a zero-Covid policy; he means zero policy regarding Covid.

Second, “CRT”—critical race theory—“doesn’t exist in this building. We are all created equal. We all have equal opportunities, and we’re not in the business of telling anybody they may or may not have more privilege . . . based on skin tone. We don’t play that game in this building.”

Third, “we have a young men’s restroom and a young women’s restroom. We don’t allow anybody to pick what restroom they’re going to use.” If a pupil asks a grown-up about sex or sexual identity, “we say, ‘That’s a really great question. That’s probably a better conversation to have with your parent.’ ”

Crazy liberal nuts!; 4/7/23, 7:17 PM
madAsHell said...: I have now realized 36 consecutive days with a text message from Netflix saying my account has been compromised.; 4/7/23, 7:26 PM
farmgirl said...: It says: home.; 4/7/23, 7:26 PM
Reddington said...: Nice; 4/7/23, 8:22 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: "The owners of a 1,900 square foot house next to the Masters golf course keep turning down millions of dollars to sell"

Forget it Jake, it's Georgia. It's a hillbilly thing.; 4/7/23, 10:22 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Daily Dose: Check an artist doing 8 portraits at the same time?; 4/7/23, 10:32 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: A YouTuber reviews Althouse favorite Joe Pera

Hint: Links; 4/7/23, 11:46 PM
Rt41Rebel said...: At this point, the only two questions are:

1) Is this Hillary email, or is this Biden Corvette ashtray? I'm going ashtray.

2) Who is doing this and why? Zelenskyy has the shortest timeline to call in the favors, Putin second, and Xi third.

https://dnyuz.com/2023/04/07/new-batch-of-classified-documents-appear-on-social-media-sites/

Link found on Drudge, so rest assured knowing it's not politically slanted in any way.; 4/8/23, 12:32 AM
Humperdink said...: Gun control they say. Turn your weapons in they say. You'll be safer they say. It's for the children they say.

How about gun control at the nuclear level? Headline: Bill Clinton Says He Regrets Persuading Ukraine to Give up Nuclear Weapons"

He (CLinton) told Irish outlet RTE on April 4 that he bears responsibility for encouraging Ukraine to dispose of its nuclear warheads in a 1994 agreement between Kyiv, Washington, and Moscow after the end of the Cold War.

Under the agreement, Ukraine, which was then the world’s third largest nuclear power, agreed to turn its entire strategic nuclear stockpile over to Russia for destruction.

“I feel a personal stake because I got them [Ukraine] to agree to give up their nuclear weapons. And none of them believe that Russia would have pulled this stunt if Ukraine still had their weapons,” Clinton said."

https://www.theepochtimes.com/bill-clinton-says-he-regrets-persuading-ukraine-to-give-up-nuclear-weapons_5175869.html?utm_source=share-btn-copylink; 4/8/23, 5:40 AM
Humperdink said...: I will be crossing the border into NY state tomorrow to go to church as I do every Sunday. Thanks to the Commie-Pinko libs in NY, guns are prohibited in churches. It's a de facto gun free zone, except of course for the bad guys.; 4/8/23, 5:47 AM
Saint Croix said...: me yesterday

I've been super-impressed that nobody on the Althouse blog has blamed Bragg's skin color for what he did. That would be racist as shit, right? We've all just assumed that this is another example of Trump Derangement Syndrome, which is another mind-disease that affects lots of people (across the political spectrum), regardless of skin color.

Hump today

Fat Albert

that's what I get for bragging

Hump, why would you diminish your highly effective argument by making a cartoon pun on the black guy?; 4/8/23, 6:24 AM
Saint Croix said...: Alan Dershowitz on the Bragg indictment; 4/8/23, 6:32 AM
BarrySanders20 said...: Good morning! Nice to know that <a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/04/stunning-new-webb-telescope-image-showcases-nested-rings-of-uranus/Uranus Has Never Looked Better</a>; 4/8/23, 6:46 AM
Saint Croix said...: Plan B From Outer Manhattan

When asked by reporters what crime was being referenced 34 times, Bragg simply stated that he was not required to state the crime in the indictment.

holy shit!

that can't be right

what the fuck, New York; 4/8/23, 6:55 AM
wildswan said...: The recent mystery documents have been around for a month. Nobody can figure them out. Basically we're upset because vital info about the Ukraine and its military efforts seems to have been compromised whereas the Russians are quite certain that we have released fake info misdirecting them on the direction of the counter-offensive. Perhaps ChatGPT has become an agent - Agent 00 111? Or a double agent? Or an an independent agent? Perhaps everything being said is being said by ChatGPT at the various requests of all the different parties including 4chan because Chat GPT can develop a whole false dossier for each side in two minutes instead of a month.; 4/8/23, 6:56 AM
Saint Croix said...: The whole point of an indictment is so a citizen knows the crime with which he is charged, and has time to defend himself.

If you fail to charge a crime, then you are not a prosecutor acting in good faith. You are the bad guy in a Kafka novel

I strongly suggest this farcical indictment is a de facto violation of the due process clause.

Name the crime or get the fuck out of court!; 4/8/23, 7:25 AM
wildswan said...: A woman is not a mutilated man wearing a dress and a silly smile.; 4/8/23, 7:34 AM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Got this note yesterday afternoon from Matt Taibbi.

Earlier this afternoon, I learned Substack links were being blocked on Twitter. Since being able to share my articles is a primary reason I use Twitter, I was alarmed and asked what was going on.

It turns out Twitter is upset about the new Substack Notes feature, which they see as a hostile rival. When I asked how I was supposed to market my work, I was given the option of posting my articles on Twitter instead of Substack.

Not much suspense there; I’m staying at Substack. You’ve all been great to me, as has the management of this company. Beginning early next week I’ll be using the new Substack Notes feature (to which you’ll all have access) instead of Twitter, a decision that apparently will come with a price as far as any future Twitter Files reports are concerned. It was absolutely worth it and I’ll always be grateful to those who gave me the chance to work on that story, but man is this a crazy planet.

Have a great weekend, everyone. I’m off on vacation with my kids next week, but I’ll check in. Best and take care, Matt; 4/8/23, 7:55 AM
Tina Trent said...: The Times reports this morning that Biden began working to undermine women's sports by letting mentally ill men and boys compete on women's teams on "Day One" of his administration.

What does it say about the political power of this cause, tick tock ad algorithms aside, that the President chose to make this an issue necessary for "Day One"? What else, if anything, would convince you that this is a politically powerful social contagion imposed on young women by much older and more powerful people that leads to mutilating girls for profit, threatens to misdiagnose the psychological discomfort of young gays and lesbians and convinces them to submit to mutilation contagion too, and discriminates against female athletes?; 4/8/23, 8:28 AM
Tina Trent said...: They're not hillbillies anymore, Lem. The educated among us have updated the socially sanctioned slurs.

You are to refer to them as cis-hill people now.; 4/8/23, 8:36 AM
Kai Akker said...: The S&P 500 has traded entirely sideways for 10 months now. A rally, a selloff; a rally, a selloff; now one more rally.... Each swing getting tighter. Something's got to give soon in this standoff.; 4/8/23, 9:22 AM
wendybar said...: "The media and other Democrats have never cared about big money in elections or clean elections. They care about power for leftists, nothing more. They are the existential threat to our survival as the greatest country that has ever existed."
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/04/this_trial_would_have_drawn_major_coverage_if_it_would_have_been_about_trump_instead_of_the_election_of_obama_and_biden_in_2012.html; 4/8/23, 10:09 AM
Saint Croix said...: Playing Jeopardy on my smart phone

I got a question in the category of "Oh Wisconsin"

and it was about how some so-and-so "garnered" an award

I was like "wow"

somebody at Jeopardy is having fun with Althouse

(the correct question was, "Who are the Zucker brothers?); 4/8/23, 10:31 AM
lonejustice said...: Trump is trying to get Laura Loomer to work for his campaign. Here is what Marjorie Taylor Greene has to say about it --

Marjorie Taylor Greene �� :

Laura Loomer is mentally unstable and a documented liar.

She can not be trusted.

She spent months lying about me and attacking me just because I supported Kevin McCarthy for Speaker and after I had refused to endorse her last election cycle.

She loves the alleged FBI informant and weirdo Nick Fuentes.

She tried to get hired on the Ye campaign after the infamous Maralago dinner, but Kanye West refused to hire her so now she’s running to Trump.

Never hire or do business with a liar.

Liars are toxic and poisonous to everything they touch.; 4/8/23, 11:32 AM
Humperdink said...: Saint Croix asked: "Hump today .... Fat Albert Hump, why would you diminish your highly effective argument by making a cartoon pun on the black guy?"

Knee jerk reaction, sorry.; 4/8/23, 4:32 PM