Althouse: Sunrise

April 10, 2023

Sunrise — 6:31.

29 comments:

Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Twitter Truth Bomber: "I actually wish transgender women could get periods. That would end this movement within about 28 days."; 4/10/23, 8:45 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: REPORT: "Joe Biden’s White House Involved in Raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Residence"; 4/10/23, 8:56 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Lex podcast episode with a math genius.

link to video

Haven't seen the whole thing but it comes highly recommended.; 4/10/23, 9:02 PM
Political Junkie said...: An omage to Dennis Miller.

Presidents 42 thru 46:

Crocked cock,
Malaprop,
Bill Ayers bro,
Likes them hoes,
He don't know.; 4/10/23, 9:15 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Do kids really believe a "transistor" is a trans brother who's becoming a sister?; 4/10/23, 9:23 PM
Wandering Badger said...: Victor David Hanson - renown historian with a specialty on Acient Greece and their different government structures - captures the essence of today's America, formerly the "city on the hill" vision for the rest of the world. Frightening - but a must read.
https://victorhanson.com/fiddling-america-away/; 4/10/23, 10:27 PM
walter said...: I had a similar view visiting my local lake for first time since melt. Sound travels well across water but I was surprised by the sheer cacophony coming from the opposite shoreline.
Those birds be "partying".
Hey,
Will that woke Wharton grad chick who recruited Mulvaney as new Bud Light spokes..zir...suffer any consequence for telling the world how bad the brand was doing? She kills the brand via loose lips and dude hips.
Kudos to Vicki McKenna for deeming Mulvaney's schtick as gender based version of blackface.; 4/10/23, 10:33 PM
Gospace said...: And what got my dander up today? A Politico article about the covidiocy- which we're still in.

And a quote from the article:

"Whether you’re in the fight or firmly on the other side of it, there is no denying some of the lawyers challenging the government’s right to intervene in Americans’ health are winning."

Let's examine their political belief expressed here carefully- The government's right to do what? The government HAS NO RIGHTS. Citizens do. The government and it's employees works for the citizens- even brain addled Biden and Fraud Fauci.

As a citizen- I have the right to refuse government intervention in my health for my own good. Even moreso when in the aftermath of their doing so to millions of Americans- it turns out they were oh so very wrong.

Politico is apparently staffed by Fascists. As proven by the quote.

Here's a link to the article itself: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/09/anti-vax-covid-litigation-00090939

I could go through and dissect it piece by piece- but you should really do that for yourself. But I will include one more excerpt that particularly irritated me:

"For public health experts who want to see the government maintain a wide range of powers to protect the public from future outbreaks, events like this conference are an alarming development. “This isn’t trivial,” said Lawrence Gostin, director of Georgetown Law’s O’Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law. “If you were to ask me: Is America more prepared now for a pandemic than it was before Covid? I would say no, even though we experienced it and saw the devastation. What we’ve seen is a decimation of public health authority.”

Hey, Lawrence, I got some news for you. Most of the devastation was caused by government actions. Dictator Cuomo putting covid positive elderly back into nursing homes being one of them. The bankruptcy of thousands of small businesses across the country, primarily in red stated with draconian unconstitutional lockdowns. Loss of freedoms. illustrated best by a lone surfer being arrested by multiple cops for being alone out in the ocean causing others to die from covid- or at least tha's the excuse for arresting and charging him. Closing down all outside activities for children because, gasp!, they would be too close! When, inreality, most if not all covid spread was indoors between family members. Outdoors in sunlight, a natural disinfectant, would have been a much better and healthier place for them to be. Basketball hoops in my small rural community were taken down because a male Karen complained on the toens Facebook pag that- Gasp! Teenagers were violating lockdown and playing basketball outside! When the revolution starts- I have his name marked down... Probablt one of those that called for me to be locked up without trial because I'm a refusenick who could see no benefit to a supposed vaccination against a virus type that has never had a successful vaccine attempt in either man or animal because it, too, was likely to fail. And- it did. Turns out the skeptics were correct. Whether they simply distrusted the government, or, as in my case, weighed the available knowlwedge. Which we're told didn't exist, though it did.

The article is full of disinformation. Yet, there's something lacking that used to appear in such articles even a few short months ago. No wholehearted defense of what the government did- especially wnat the likes of Dicatator Hochul, Dictator Cuomo, and DIctator Whitmer did. Hey- let's just discuss Dictator Whitmer for a moent. Is there a single person here, even Inga, who is stupid enough to believe that her ban on sales of garden seeds and tinted paint because that might spread covid saved a single, just one single life, in all of Michigan? Even theoretically? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? Feel free to speak up and defend her dictatorial and unconstitutional orders- done, of course, for our own good because she knew what was best for us. Come on- step up! Defend her orders!; 4/11/23, 12:47 AM
Gospace said...: I got irritated another way today today, another loss of freedom that has occurred in my lifetime, and Anns. A roadblock to see if my papers were in order. Again- done for our own safety. And the courts have ruled they're entirely constitutional because- they're not checking our papers (yes, they are, idiot judges!), they're looking for drunk drivers who endanger us all! It's for our safety! At 2:00 PM on a weekday when drunk drivers are running rampant throughout the country! The roadblocks are blatently unconstitutional despite the insane rulings of courts otherwise. Want to catch drubk drivers at 2:00 PM? Drive along and find the car doing 50 or less ina 55 zone, slowing down for every curve, on a bright beautiful sunny day. I was behind one of them today who turned off before the roadblock. Maybe if those 6 patrol cars devoted to checking our papers had been out doing their job instead of obstructing traffic flow they'd have found the drunk driver.

I haven't flown since TSA came about- and won't until I can board a plane without being searched. Another loss of freedom.; 4/11/23, 12:49 AM
Rt41Rebel said...: I give you the Naples piercam. If you want to see sunsets.

https://naplespanorama.org; 4/11/23, 2:19 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Forget about it Gospace, It's Chinatown; 4/11/23, 2:59 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Business as usual...

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2023/04/10/the-democrats-dont-want-you-to-read-this-article-about-their-alleged-ginormous-money-laundering-scam-n1686032; 4/11/23, 3:07 AM
gadfly said...: Lem the misspeller said...
REPORT: "Joe Biden’s White House Involved in Raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Residence."

Sorry Lem, but we are way past this John Solomon BS. There was no "raid," only legal searches ordered by a Federal Judge which resulted in finding government documents at Trump's resort - documents requested by the National Archives for more than two years.; 4/11/23, 3:21 AM
gadfly said...: The unanswered question for Gospace is, could you walk the line when the officer asked you to do so?; 4/11/23, 3:26 AM
Humperdink said...: I watched Adam Carolla on TCT last night. He is one funny guy. As a California resident, his comments on the governor were hilarious.

I usually check Wiki for some background on people I know little about. Risky I know. One quote caught my eye: "Carolla did not receive his high school diploma until years later as it was held by the school until a library fine was paid." Made me smile.; 4/11/23, 3:33 AM
Humperdink said...: I am following the move (coercive???) to electric vehicles. I have no experience owning one, but I do have 25 years of experience with electric forklifts in my warehouse/ distribution business. The are certain similarities. Plug them in, never buy propane or gasoline. It does draw big amps on the electric meter. I would buy used forklifts on the cheap, generally $2-3K for for a 4000# lift. I would hope the battery doesn't crap out. Always a gamble. A replacement forklift battery was $7K, obviously more than my original $2-3K investment. You can recondition a battery but it typically only gives you an additional year. Not sure what the cost is for a replacement EV battery, but I would guess it's also more than the vehicle's value.

There was one major difference. The forklift batteries were lead acid. If I scrapped an electric forklift, I could get $600 for the lead in the battery and a few bucks for the scrap steel. The battery weighed in at 2800#'s. Essentially, a used electric forklift is 100% recycled. Not sure when a used EV/ battery lands.; 4/11/23, 4:23 AM
Scott Patton said...: Gospace said: "Want to catch drunk drivers at 2:00 PM?"
Another way to catch them is to pull them over coming out of parking lots of bars. In suburban and semi-rural areas of PA there are hundreds (thousands?) of bars (and a huge and powerful state government agency) whose existence is utterly dependent on drunk driving. That's why they have parking lots. It's a simple matter of math. 12 cars in the parking lot and maybe 15 customers drinking X number of drinks in Y hours. There's no way that those types of bars would be in business if drunk driving wasn't tolerated.; 4/11/23, 4:50 AM
tim maguire said...: Gospace said...I got irritated another way today today, another loss of freedom that has occurred in my lifetime

The courts have always been an unreliable enforcers of the constitution. In this case, because they give too much deference to government. Rational relationship is legal malpractice. The only legitimate level of scrutiny is strict.

Warrantless suspicion-less searches are clearly unconstitutional, but because the government played some word games (“we’re not looking for innocent people! It’s for safety!”), the court turned a blind eye to the abuse.; 4/11/23, 4:58 AM
Humperdink said...: When asked by a journalist recently about the "chaos" in the Afghanistan withdrawal, John Kirby, the coordinator for Strategic Communications at the White House, responded: "From my perch, it was anything but chaotic".

While he was saying it, I recall seeing a C-17 roll down the runway with hundreds Afghanis chasing in hot pursuit for a flight out of the country. Some were literally hanging for dear life.

Of all of the prevarications uttered by this administration, this has become my favorite.; 4/11/23, 6:07 AM
madAsHell said...: We drove from Seattle to Portland, and attempted to listen to "Lessons in Chemistry" by Bonnie Garmus. It's been on the top of the NYT best sellers list for the last 21 weeks.

When the author's 3rd-person-omniscient voice began to include the thoughts of the dog, I'd had enough. We turned it off.; 4/11/23, 9:48 AM
madAsHell said...: Bumper sticker seen while traveling to Portland..........

"Hey, nice Prius!
-Nobody"; 4/11/23, 9:50 AM
walter said...: Blogger gadfly said...
The unanswered question for Gospace is, could you walk the line when the officer asked you to do so?
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No surprise the super jabbed Gadfly is cool with random stops by cops.; 4/11/23, 11:43 AM
wendybar said...: 6) "This stunning revelation suggests that NARA was misleading Congress about the White House's role in the shocking raid of President Trump's home, and the fact that the Biden White House was acting "on behalf of" the DOJ raises significant legal concerns."
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2023/04/11/damning-thread-from-america-first-legal-details-part-biden-white-house-played-in-mar-a-lago-raid/; 4/11/23, 11:55 AM
Narr said...: Illegal stop-and-search is nothing new. They are especially common in rural areas near prisons, usually on the supposed justification of searching for prison-bound contraband.

They will certainly become more common in populated areas as the D Regime tightens the screws in the face of (and as part of) the systemic collapse.; 4/11/23, 12:04 PM
wendybar said...: "Roger Williams
@PIAccount1
Replying to
@julie_kelly2
If anyone still had any doubt as to whether January 6th was an "insurrection" as opposed to a massive psyop and entrapment scheme, this should eliminate any remaining doubt.
1:03 PM · Apr 10, 2023"

https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2023/04/11/julie-kelly-shares-doozy-of-a-motion-about-undercover-agents-outnumbering-proud-boys-on-j6-thread/; 4/11/23, 12:05 PM
Gospace said...: gadfly said...
The unanswered question for Gospace is, could you walk the line when the officer asked you to do so?

Wrong, or course. The unanswered question since I wouldn't be drunk and driving is- would I be PO'd enough to run him down in righteous anger for violating my rights?; 4/11/23, 12:14 PM
walter said...: Humperdink,
Don't forget the tossing of babies.

Scott,
Are you talking about after witnessing erratic driving or presumed guilty till proven innocent?; 4/11/23, 1:34 PM
Rusty said...: gadfly said...
"The unanswered question for Gospace is, could you walk the line when the officer asked you to do so?"
Ask the officer if you are under arrest. If he answers No, then ask if you're free to go.; 4/11/23, 7:24 PM
Narr said...: The gadfly mind: presume guilt.

Because Gospace disagrees with him, of course.; 4/12/23, 10:39 AM