Althouse: Sunrise — 5:20, 5:26, 5:27.

June 12, 2023

Sunrise — 5:20, 5:26, 5:27.

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31 comments:

Original Mike said...: Ensconced at the Vilas County house, I need to monitor rainfall amounts at our Madison home. I've always used the rain gauge on top of the Space Sciences Building. But there's been no data for awhile now and I see that they are fixing the roof on that building.

Hurry up with that roof project!; 6/12/23, 7:49 PM
Narr said...: In the process of creative destruction that is said to mark Capitalism, the centrally located Oak Court/Laurelwood area has lost, in the last few years, two crappy restaurants (South of the Border and Raffertys). The new buildings on the sites are a Chase Bank branch and some other new-to-me bank--not quite Value Bank or Happy Shiny Bank, but along those lines.

We never went to those restaurants, but I still wonder if the change is a positive one.; 6/12/23, 8:34 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: YouTube: The Great Double-Talking Vaccine Scientist

"Notes from the memory hole"; 6/12/23, 8:35 PM
Dave Begley said...: Watched some of Chris Christie on CNN. He has an attractive blunt and direct manner. He destroyed Trump.; 6/12/23, 8:39 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Libs of TikTok substak : EXCLUSIVE: Whistleblower exposes hospital for performing genital sex change surgeries on minors

Last paragraph: Many staff members at K.. M.. admit they are horrified at the surgeries performed on children, but have no choice but to keep quiet or risk losing their jobs. Some fear that they would be labeled bigots if they brought up the amount of transgender complications they have witnessed over the years. Libs of TikTok reached out to K.. P.. to inquire about the mandatory training and gain clarity on why K.. M.. performs life-altering surgeries on children, contrary to the recommendation of many medical professionals. We did not receive a response to our request for comment.; 6/12/23, 8:53 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Tweet: Mom shares heartfelt message about her daughter who wanted to be a boy.

"This is my middle daughter Hope at 3 and 18. When she was about 2.5 yrs old, she told me she wanted to be a boy. This continued in different forms until she was 12-13. She asked me once: “When am I going to grow a winkie?” (Side note: she had an older sister and brother and had seen it all as I often bathed them together!). I explained that she wouldn’t because she was a girl. She told me she wanted to tee-tee standing up, so I explained how that wouldn’t work for her. Unfazed, she decided to try it! It didn’t work, and life went on.

She was all tomboy! She played sports and was hyper-competitive. Almost all of her friends until 7th grade were boys. She only wore boys underwear! She had to wear a dress on Sundays as we attended church and that was our rule but she often walked into her class, yanked her dress up and announced, “I’m still wearing my boy underwear.” I never argued with her about her clothes. I remember her coming home in 1st grade and asking me what a “lesvian” was because some boys had called her that on the bus. I explained it was when a girl loved another girl. She said, “Oh!” That was it! She was 6 and didn’t need a discussion on sex at that point.

We often talked about her being able to do anything a boy could do, and she could still be a girl. She was a 3 sport athlete, 3 sport captain, All-state volleyball player, and jr college (scholarship) basketball player. However, she was still a girl and a freaking awesome one! When she was 12-13, she asked for girl panties but still only wore athletic clothes.

She’s as beautiful today at 23 as she is athletic. She loves to snowboard, hike and still loves sports. We allowed her to work out who she was with perimeters that allowed her to be successful. She’s engaged to a great guy whom she will marry August 19.

I would have NEVER medicated her, surgically changed her, hormonally altered her or done ONE thing differently than what we did. I don’t care what the world, social media, trans activists push: these are KIDS!

To do anything that could change them before their brains are fully developed is ridiculous and honestly, abusive! Guide them, talk to them, advocate for them, accept them but for the love of all that is right, do not CHANGE them.

I just read a heartbreaking story about a person who physically transitioned as a young adult who is now 17 years away from that and says it was their BIGGEST mistake. Hope has often said how different her life would be for her and us if she was growing up today because the pressure to transition her would be so great. I can assure you that would have had zero affect on us.

PARENTS: please don’t get swept up in this madness. Be the voice of reason your child needs. PLEASE!!

*This has been made public! Feel free to share!
Amber Monk Parker"

@TaraBull808 (tweet includes safe for work pics); 6/12/23, 9:09 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Tweet: Sen. Chuck Grassley says the foreign national who bribed Joe and Hunter Biden allegedly has 17 different recordings of conversations he had with them that he kept as an "insurance policy."

"The foreign national who allegedly bribed Joe and Hunter Biden allegedly has audio recordings of his conversations with them. 17 such recordings."

link to senate floor video

Another dot to connect in figuring out why the Trump indictment is coming along now.; 6/12/23, 9:16 PM
Zavier Onasses said...: So all those fires in Canada blowing smoke over the NorthEast US, and that OTR fuel tanker fire that brought down the I-95 bridge in Plilly...

...Izzat all pushpack from Russia for our proxy war in Ukraine?

Small price to pay so Joe can get his 10%.; 6/12/23, 9:30 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Tweet: TRUMP DOCUMENTS: Gen Milley repeatedly claimed that he stopped Trump from attacking Iran. One of the presidential records mentioned in Jack Smith's indictment proves Milley, not Trump, wanted to conduct a missile strike on Iran. Milley lied.

Link to New Yorker Story Pushing Gen Milley's apparent false claim

The Trump indictment is a panic move meant to distract because ... stuff can only remain hidden for so long.

"The truth will out" - Something Althouse said awhile back.

I can't wait to find out how they stole the election. That's the mother lode.; 6/12/23, 9:42 PM
Jersey Fled said...: According to reports Biden just missed his second straight day of work due to a routine root canal.

I had root canal a couple of months ago, drove myself home and went out and cut the grass.

Joe is either the biggest wuss in the U.S. or somebody in the White House is lying to us again.; 6/12/23, 10:00 PM
gadfly said...: Call her Ivanka Kushner. Beyond no longer making public appearances or showing political support for Donald's candidacy, Ivanka's distance from the rest of the Trump family has also begun to show itself legally. At the end of April, Forbes reported that Ivanka dumped the lawyers representing her and her brothers in a fraud lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James. Eric and Don Jr. kept their representation.

All this is strange considering the miraculous $2 billion gift to the Jared Kushners from the Saudis after Trump was out of office. I guess Ivanka wants to stay out of jail because she testified to a DC grand jury.; 6/12/23, 10:25 PM
gadfly said...: Miami attorney Joseph DeMaria, a Republican, asked: “Should she [Judge Aileen Cannon] recuse herself?”

“As a citizen, I think she should. Donald Trump is entitled to a fair trial, but the people of this country also deserve a fair trial.”

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article276328096.html#storylink=cpy; 6/13/23, 3:20 AM
wendybar said...: Dave Begley said...
Watched some of Chris Christie on CNN. He has an attractive blunt and direct manner. He destroyed Trump.

6/12/23, 8:39 PM

Too Bad he destroyed the trust of the Republicans in New Jersey when he closed the beaches on a Holiday weekend, but was filmed with his whole family enjoying the closed all by themselves beaches, like a typical Politician who make rules for us, but not for them. We don't forget. He can forget it.; 6/13/23, 4:41 AM
wendybar said...: “As a citizen, I think she should. Donald Trump is entitled to a fair trial, but the people of this country also deserve a fair trial.”

Like the unfair trial he went through in New York?? The one where they campaigned on indicting him??

It will be a lot more fair than that, so sit down and shut it. You are just mad because an Obama/SOROS judge isn't in there to put him away; 6/13/23, 4:44 AM
Jim at said...: "Miami attorney Joseph DeMaria, a Republican, asked: “Should she [Judge Aileen Cannon] recuse herself?”

I don't even like the guy (Trump), but you people couldn't be more obvious with your attacks if you tried.

It's up to the judge - and only the judge - to decide to recuse herself.

I actually wish I was her husband.
"Come get some, thugs."

Because you know that's their next move.

Again, just how long do you think we're going to put up with this shit?; 6/13/23, 5:00 AM
Jaq said...: Titiana has a funny one today. It seems like Johns Hopkins has redefined lesbianism to be a "non man attracted to a non man." Who are the real misogynists? Those of us, men and women alike who really love women, or the ones who want to erase women?; 6/13/23, 5:41 AM
wendybar said...: "What happens if a future GOP AG gets a search warrant to look for those Fast and Furious Files at Obama's home?

“Good morning Mr. President Obama, where are your presidential files?”

Before Trump, no one would have dared consider that. After Trump, anything can happen and probably will."

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/06/mrs_obama__were_looking_for_the_fast__furious_files.html; 6/13/23, 5:49 AM
wendybar said...: "After running against President Trump in the primary and especially after the federal indictment, why would DeSantis believe he could win over the millions of voters in the MAGA movement? Even if Trump dropped out today, how likely is it that the MAGA base will embrace DeSantis? Even with all the great things he has done in Florida, and even if he is the future leader of the Republican Party, who is Ron DeSantis to the MAGA movement if he will not stand with Donald Trump now?
But wouldn’t DeSantis be “Trump without the baggage?” This is a naïve way of looking at things. What baggage exactly are we talking about? If it is the lawfare being waged against Trump at an unprecedented level by the Department of Justice and New York state officials, that is a fair point. But what makes people so sure no lawfare will be waged against DeSantis? Is the governor somehow immune from this form of political warfare?
In any event, if DeSantis supporters think the array of Marxist dark money groups that are already in operation throughout the country will not turn their guns on the governor because he is not Donald Trump, they are fools."
https://amgreatness.com/2023/06/12/the-war-on-trump-continues/; 6/13/23, 6:01 AM
Jersey Fled said...: Congratulations to Greta Thunberg who graduated from high school Friday.; 6/13/23, 6:03 AM
Humperdink said...: During Trump's upcoming trial in Miami, the defense should call Chuck Schumer (D-Swamp Rat) as it's first witness. Ask the good senator what he meant when he warned Trump: “Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.”

PS: Chris Christie is a back-stabbing double crosser.; 6/13/23, 6:35 AM
Jaq said...: So the matter of tapes showing Ukrainian corruption has come up before, in a now deleted from YouTube recording of Biden talking to Poroshenko.

December 19, 2016, Poroshenko thanked Biden for the "absolutely clear signal [from] DOJ about non-cooperation" with Onyshchenko, but asked Biden "if it is true that FBI is working with him, at least I want to know that".

Biden re-assured Poroshenko that the FBI had "stopped" and there was "no reason [for FBI] to talk to him again". Biden undertook to "check that [with FBI] and confirm that with you".

...

On same day that Biden was re-assuring Poroshenko he wouldn't be troubled by FBI about tapes showing actual corruption, the FBI was insisting that [fabricated] Steele dossier allegations be included the ICA, then being drafted as a departing sabotage of incoming administration

[D]eny, [A]ttack, [R]everse [V]ictim and [A]gressor. The Democrats and the Ukrainians are using the classic DARVA tactics of an abuser on the American public.

https://twitter.com/ClimateAudit/status/1643277544668426240

Facts are stubborn things, Joe Biden.; 6/13/23, 6:36 AM
Jaq said...: "The best way to keep your opponent from talking trash about you is to keep your fist in his mouth." - Bill Clinton.; 6/13/23, 6:37 AM
boatbuilder said...: Lem--Inga posted that New Yorker piece a couple of days ago.

I am wondering why, if any of it is true (or even if it is, as appears to be the case, a pure Deep State hit piece), Milley and/or his minions are not being prosecuted for violations of the Espionage Act.

Remember: ""We have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone."

Right.; 6/13/23, 6:49 AM
Jaq said...: Onyshchenko's claimed connection to Weissmann in December 2016 (when Weissman meeting with Ohr, Strzok, Page and Zainab Ahmad) seems too implausible to be true, but here is copy of the signature of agreement between DOJ and Onyshchenko on Nov 29, 2016, referring to Weissmann. - Stephen McIntyre

https://twitter.com/ClimateAudit/status/1643277544668426240

Keep digging Steve!; 6/13/23, 7:37 AM
Jaq said...: "We have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone."

Gaslighting is one of their favored techniques.; 6/13/23, 7:38 AM
Big Mike said...: Congratulations to Greta Thunberg who graduated from high school Friday.

She was born in January 2003. She should be entering her junior year in college.; 6/13/23, 8:11 AM
Big Mike said...: @Dave Begley, Chris Christie recommended Chris Wray as Comey’s replacement at the head of the FBI. Still like him?; 6/13/23, 8:15 AM
Jamie said...: Lawyers in the crowd, I was just watching a YouTube thing about a recent case in which the lawyers used ChatGPT to do their legal research and write their briefs, which resulted in something like 6 imaginary cases' being cited. Avianka Airlines? Something like that? (The airline was the defendant and did not use ChatGPT.) Fortunately Avianka's representation did check the citations, discovering the... well, the AI lies. Just lazy lawyering and ignorance on the plaintiff's lawyers' part - they thought ChatGPT was a search engine.

Do I laugh or barricade myself in my house?; 6/13/23, 9:11 AM
wendybar said...: If Trump is out, THIS is the only guy I will vote for. HE is a leader. WHERE is Ron?? Hiding out with Mitch??

Vivek in Miami:

"The donor class has been calling every Republican candidate and telling us to stay away from this. I refuse to abide by being a disciple of the donor class!"

https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1668630630446538754?s=20; 6/13/23, 11:50 AM
Tank said...: @Jamie

Some lawyer’s name is signed at the bottom of that brief. The judge ought to give that guy and his firm a nice stiff sanction.; 6/13/23, 12:47 PM
Rusty said...: Blogger Dave Begley said...
"Watched some of Chris Christie on CNN. He has an attractive blunt and direct manner. He destroyed Trump."
All the lefty people I know want Chris Christy to run against Biden. Not a good endorsement.

Wendybar.
Rumor in Chicago is that the Obama documents are in a very secure guarded warehouse somewhere. And that the Obama presidential library will never quite be finished.; 6/14/23, 7:16 AM