Althouse: Sunrise

May 20, 2023

Sunrise — 5:51.

31 comments:

madAsHell said...: The eye of Sauron.

That iPhone 14 camera still impresses me!; 5/20/23, 6:37 PM
gilbar said...: Dave Begley Comments?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nebraska-senator-flips-out-debating-ban-sex-change-surgeries-minors-screams-we-need-trans-people

state Democrat Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh slapped the lectern and repeatedly shouted: "Transgender people belong here, we need trans people, we love trans people."
FOR 3 MINUTES STRAIGHT
Republican lawmakers wrangled just enough votes to end a filibuster and pass a bill with both measures. Gov. Pillen, who pushed for the bill and met with various lawmakers to shore up support, has promised to sign it into law.

It looks like, we've FINALLY Found the answer, to the question: "Who is Crazier than a Trans Person?"
And the Answer is: People from Nebraska?; 5/20/23, 7:15 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: The president asks for just the kids, has their phones confiscated.; 5/20/23, 7:21 PM
Narr said...: Sometimes I arrive here with a topic in mind to post, one which might be of interest, or tie in with some recent themes, and read the refreshed comments, and forget.

This is one of those times. Perhaps a brisk walk in the cool front's air will unfog the old bean. Wish me well.; 5/20/23, 8:20 PM
Saint Croix said...: I spent about half an hour looking for my DVD of The Fugitive. It's missing. The Fugitive has escaped my apartment.

I felt like Tommy Lee Jones. "I know the (bleep) Fugitive is around here somewhere."; 5/20/23, 8:26 PM
iowan2 said...: You've got the smoke of the Canadian forest fires also. Our morning weather girl was talking about for a week. We have the same smokey sunrise.; 5/20/23, 8:42 PM
n.n said...: The eye of Sauron.

Kenny Roger's Chicken

Who is Crazier than a Trans Person?

Levine's Dreams of Herr Mengele for underage boys and girls.

A confused female prodded by visibility to open a mass abortion field.

Grooming in Scouts, schools, churches, etc.

Obama's "burden" of evidence.

Obama/Biden et al ethnic Springs.

Trans/homosexual pride celebrated in parades under an albinophobic banner.

Medical mandates for non-sterilizing treatments, excess spread under masked cargo cults, etc.

Conflation of logical domains, a not-so-novel faith, in modern science.

DIEversity.

The butterfly effect.; 5/20/23, 8:45 PM
Iman said...: What’s this?!?! ABC News 10 in Sacramento has a show critiquing Gavin Newsom’s poor performance as governor and being responsible for one of his biggest donors (PG&E) not taking more financial responsibility for the property owners who lost all in the wildfires. “He (Newsom) just doesn’t care”.

Most unusual for legacy media in California.; 5/20/23, 9:36 PM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: Andrew Sullivan says here what I and many others have been saying.

"But when you examine the other issues at stake — public schools teaching the concepts of queer and gender theory to kindergartners on up, sex changes for children before puberty, the housing of biological males with women in prisons and rape shelters, and biological males competing with women in sports — you realize we are far beyond what the gay rights movement once stood for. It’s these initiatives from the far left that are new; and the backlash is quite obviously a reaction to the capture of the gay rights movement by queer social justice activists."

[...]
Then the queers upped the ante and did something we gays never did: they targeted children. If they could get into kids’ minds, bodies and souls from the very beginning of their lives, they could abolish the sex binary from the ground up. And so they got a pliant, woke educational establishment to re-program children from the very start, telling toddlers that any single one of them could be living in the wrong body, before they could even spell."; 5/20/23, 9:37 PM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: more sullivan:

"it’s perfectly possible to believe that transgender people exist, but that children may not know who or what they are before they’ve even gone through puberty. I’ll defend the right of adults to define themselves as they wish and take irreversible medical measures as they please. I’d march in defense of those rights. I’m just saying something that we recognize in every other area: children are different. And children should not be self-diagnosing a medical condition."; 5/20/23, 9:41 PM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: &
"Listening to Gessen, you get a feel for the nihilism, narcissism and amour propre of our gender Robespierres. In their world, there is no solid nature, and no defining line between childhood and maturity. Children should be trusted to make decisions we usually restrict to adults. Queering everything, as Foucault showed, means breaking down any and all prohibitions. It does not surprise me that a postmodern movement that began by saying that children can legitimately consent to sex with adults would eventually argue they can legitimately consent to having their bodies permanently altered before they even hit puberty. If you build a movement on queerness, there is no limit to the norms and safeguards it won’t seek to destroy, including the very existence of a non-queer homosexual life — i.e. the life that most gays and lesbians live.

One more thing: the oldest and deepest slur against homosexual men is that we are not truly men; that our love for men renders us some kind of female. We spent decades insisting otherwise — only to have the queers tell us we’re just performing masculinity. Insisting on our essential maleness was intrinsic to gay liberation; as was the celebration of the intact male body, and its beauty. Just as the religious right told gay men to get used to liking vaginas, so too does the queer left. And just as the Christianists told us we weren’t men, so too do the queers."; 5/20/23, 9:45 PM
Dave Begley said...: Gilbar:

Omaha is a very small town. I used to live on the same block as her parents. She went to the same high school as my sisters. I campaigned for her dad when he ran for Congress.

We’ve had some recent interactions. Before the hearing on the bill, I was in the Rotunda and snapped some pictures of some protestors. Didn’t think a thing of it. Some were minors. She had it in her head that I didn’t something wrong notwithstanding the fact these kids were in one of the most public places in the state. She politely asked me stop. I was surprised she knew my name.

She recently reprimanded me on social media.”I’ve seen your behavior on social media.”

Her grandfather was Jack Cavanaugh; a county commissioner. He’s probably buried in the same Catholic cemetery with many of my relatives.

Her dad and brothers all went to Creighton Prep; my alma mater. Prep is a big deal in Omaha.

So, the Begleys and Cavanaughs have somewhat of a history in Omaha.

She praised her mother on the floor of the Unicam this week. Said how much she loved her. Raised 8 kids. Catholic schools; just like my family. Mom is Catholic and opposed this bill.

This is really very sad to me. How could she go so wrong? How could a person raised Catholic end up with these political opinions? What the hell happened?

This bill stopped mutilation of kids and subjecting them to medical experiments. We were both in the hearing room when Nebraskan Luka “Bunny” Hein testified. The doctors at Nebraska Medicine cut off her breasts at age 16. I wasn’t expecting that testimony. I’m not an emotional guy, but I wanted to cry. M. Cavanaugh was in the room and heard the whole story.

I think two things are going on here. The Dem party has driven these people insane. Their ability to reason is gone. And, of course, we have this poison popular culture. The Gramiscian Marxist march through the institutions has been incredibly effective.

The other thing is that this is the work of Satan. I don’t know how else to explain it. My best friend is a 40 year old single mom who is a lawyer. She has good instincts and judgement. We are in agreement that this trans thing is Satanic.

For our country, I don’t know how this is fixed. Or if it even can be fixed.

Maybe prayer will help.

I’m friends with the state Senator who got this bill passed. The Governor and I talked about this issue months ago. Just glad we won.

Winning matters. But the Left is so insane that they won’t acknowledge defeat. I completely underestimated the insanity of today’s Left. That’s a giant problem.; 5/20/23, 10:01 PM
Political Junkie said...: I was looking at real estate listings and the first word on one ad was "Progressive".
What? How can a house be progressive?; 5/20/23, 10:40 PM
lonejustice said...: It's 3:00 a.m. and I can't sleep, so here is one of my favorite Rolling Stones videos, which is appropriate, I think, in our current days.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=RollingStonehttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DTAP1GHNuwQ8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:09e17ed1,vid:TAP1GHNuwQ8; 5/21/23, 3:19 AM
Ann Althouse said...: "You've got the smoke of the Canadian forest fires also. Our morning weather girl was talking about for a week. We have the same smokey sunrise."

The air quality was rated at 20 when I took the picture. The previous day it had gone up over 100, because of the Canadian fires. The bad part had already passed over.

Look at the sunrise pic from the day before to see how it was during the actual time of bad air quality.; 5/21/23, 5:48 AM
Ann Althouse said...: "I was looking at real estate listings and the first word on one ad was "Progressive".
What? How can a house be progressive?"

In a mudslide.; 5/21/23, 5:48 AM
Humperdink said...: Gender mutilation was a human rights violation in the middle east not too long ago. Now we have lefties, teachers, school counselors, and the media endorsing it. Logic escapes these lunatics.; 5/21/23, 5:58 AM
Ann Althouse said...: @Hunter

Thanks for linking to that. I'm reading the whole thing. Hard to pick out what to blog. Every sentence is meaty.; 5/21/23, 6:08 AM
wendybar said...: "Hillary can willfully destroy evidence without consequence; Obama can organize a coup d'état of his successor without fear of punishment; the FBI and DOJ can get caught illegally spying on Donald Trump, fabricating evidence, and lying to the press about his criminal culpability — yet it is Trump whose efforts to oppose the Deep State mean he must be jailed. Just as the Durham Report proves that an elaborate government conspiracy existed to frame, depose, and criminally imperil President Trump, the same Department of (in)Justice complicit in those crimes will now seek an encore. And because the criminal conspirators continue to be rewarded for their crimes, the criminal victim, Donald Trump, will continue to be persecuted."

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/05/bill_barr_is_his_own_worst_enemy.html; 5/21/23, 6:18 AM
planetgeo said...: Dave Begley, the depth of their insanity means that it's not over yet. Getting the bill passed isn't the end. They'll be back. Keep fighting. We all must.; 5/21/23, 7:34 AM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: Ann,

You are welcome... and agreed. The whole thing is very good.
I cringe when he says "Christianist" but other than that it's spot on.; 5/21/23, 8:01 AM
Gahrie said...: Did you know that Congress passed a law as late as 2020 (signed into law 2021) criminalizing the practice of female genital mutilation in the United States? Or that the practice is currently illegal in 40 states? The federal law states: "“It shall not be a defense to a prosecution under this section that female genital mutilation is required as a matter of religion, custom, tradition, ritual, or standard practice,” the text of the bill said."

Why isn't anyone prosecuting those doctors who are mutilating young girls' genitals in a false hope of transforming them into boys?; 5/21/23, 8:03 AM
Narayanan said...: What is of real and actually concern is that there are doctors are willing to mutilate; 5/21/23, 8:04 AM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: The Canadian fires are awful. 58+ out of control and over a hundred fires burning. No snow up there.
No rain.
Pray for rain.; 5/21/23, 8:04 AM
Gahrie said...: Gender mutilation was a human rights violation in the middle east not too long ago.

As I just posted, there are laws banning it in forty states in the U.S., and a federal law that came into effect in 2021 banning nationally when it comes to young girls young girls.; 5/21/23, 8:05 AM
MadTownGuy said...: MadAsHell said...

"The eye of Sauron.

That iPhone 14 camera still impresses me!"

They should rebrand it as "eyePhone."; 5/21/23, 8:07 AM
Big Mike said...: How many members of the Althouse commentariat fell for the story about the Karen nurse in New York who insisted on taking a CitiBike rental that had been paid for by a black teenager? I was skeptical of the story as soon as I learned that the “innocent” young black man was with friends and that she was pregnant. I mean, one bicycle but a group of teenaged boys? Did the dude rent it but then walk it while he strolled with his buddies? And why would a pregnant woman pick a fight with a bunch of guys? One solid punch to the stomach and she’s going to miscarry, amiright?

Well it turns out the story really was dead wrong. She is the one who paid for the disputed bike; the black teenagers were getting their kicks by forcing her to pay twice for a single bike. She has the receipts, proving her story, and more importantly she also has a lawyer. She’s going to sue, and I hope she puts outfits like BET and tabloids like the New York Times into receivership.

The newsmedia learned nothing from the Covington Kids, and they won’t learn anything until Progressive journalists lose their jobs and the corporations they work for are hit good and hard in the wallet.; 5/21/23, 9:09 AM
Narr said...: Big Mike, the only coverage of the Pregnant Nurse Bicycle Incident was a segment on The Five or possibly Gutfeld! on Friday. (I haven't watched or heard much news since.)

It's a portent. Young bucks are getting bolder, and feel free--nay, justified--in shaking down
and extorting random ofays, pregnant women included.

Urban yoot culture, coming to your neighborhood soon.; 5/21/23, 11:02 AM
Big Mike said...: @Narr, my black neighbor would quickly set the “yoot” straight.; 5/21/23, 2:11 PM
Mason G said...: "It's a portent. Young bucks are getting bolder, and feel free--nay, justified--in shaking down and extorting random ofays, pregnant women included."

Reparations. Or perhaps, pre-reparations.; 5/21/23, 6:07 PM
Narr said...: Big Mike, so would most of my black neighbors, but their demo is dwindling as fast as mine.; 5/21/23, 7:05 PM