Althouse: Sunrise

June 14, 2023

Sunrise — 5:23.

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30 comments:

Gospace said...: The day after you posted about him- I received email begging for donations to Team Burgum to help bring Doug Burgum to the first Republican presidential debate. As usual- I contributed nothing. I contribute time, not money, to candidates I support. And he has yet to earn my support.

Sum total of every other thing I read about him aside from that email and your post:
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Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Dr John Campbell: Young excess deaths

"This is just something... it isn't right."; 6/14/23, 8:39 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Reddit video: In what universe do you have to be to believe children have the wherewithal to consent to puberty blockers?; 6/14/23, 8:45 PM
rhhardin said...: John Wick IV is a really long movie, I noticed ("How much longer does this go on?").
There is a very nice Chopin nocturne (#20) arranged for violin and piano 13 minutes in, though.

Bad guys usually have great classical music in "action" films.

No plot, a lot of ritual, candles and flashing lights. Fight scenes with, at this point, nobody to root for.; 6/14/23, 9:13 PM
rhhardin said...: Puberty blockers would be the line in a 6th grade football team.; 6/14/23, 9:14 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: YouTube: Tulsi Gabbard on Trump's Indictment; 6/14/23, 9:24 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: I see what Rh did there...; 6/14/23, 9:26 PM
gadfly said...: Donald Trump is rapidly approaching his Wile E. Coyote moment.; 6/14/23, 10:31 PM
Narayanan said...: digressing from what is woman > why not ask what is girl?

A - if she passes FJB sniff test!; 6/14/23, 10:39 PM
Wa St Blogger said...: @rhharden

I have always been amazed at the number of bullets a clip can hold. Fight scenes are too long. Getting up after falling 3 stories. I guess it is the natural progression of the badass archetype - good becomes amazing becomes extraordinary becomes over the top becomes unbelievable becomes clownish.; 6/14/23, 10:50 PM
Dave Begley said...: Drove to Sioux City tonight to hear Vivek. Wow! Smartest guy I’ve ever met. It was thrilling to hear his plans and ideas.

I’ll really be upset if Trump is the GOP nominee and he loses
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People will be blown away when they hear him debate.; 6/14/23, 11:06 PM
Jaq said...: gadfly's comment is a perfect example of what I have been talking about in mirror propaganda. If anybody has been the Roadrunner, it's Trump, and the prosecutors have been coming up with more and more fantastic weapons to use against him, all of them failed. So what do they do? They try to reverse the trope, because they know it's out there in people's minds. That Trump is sort of a folk hero, like the Roadrunner. The regime playbook is completely transparent, and LLRs like gadfly lap up regime propaganda with just as much lickspittle enthusiasm as any yellow dog Democrat.; 6/15/23, 4:25 AM
Jaq said...: What won me over to Trump was when he took on a heckler in Iowa in 2016. Somebody told me that the guy wasn't a heckler, he was a reporter, but even though he had credentials, he wasn't a reporter, he was a heckler, and Trump ate his lunch.; 6/15/23, 4:27 AM
Political Junkie said...: Dave B - What do you know about the ND gov? How does he compare to Vivek? Vivek is excitable. I sorta like boring.; 6/15/23, 4:49 AM
Jaq said...: "The US Should Show It Can Win a Nuclear War" - WSJ

We are playing chicken with a nuclear power that knows that it is our intent to destroy it. Is it really worth it to make sure that the ethnic Russians in the borderlands, the Ukraine, are not ruled by Russians instead of hyper-nationalist Ukrainians bent on cultural genocide, at a minimum. Ukrainian supporters are telling me that there are no ethnic Russians in Ukraine, that's kind of scary in itself..

"The borders must be frozen for all time where they were for the couple of decades our of the previous centuries where they were of maximum advantage to Kiev! That would be immediately following the chaotic collapse of the government of the country next door!"

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-us-show-it-can-win-a-nuclear-war-russia-putin-ukraine-nato-sarmat-missile-testing-warning-11651067733; 6/15/23, 4:51 AM
Humperdink said...: I'm impressed with Vivek also. Great speaker. He does not have much in his history to gauge the strength of his positions. VP maybe or cabinet position.

Add the charisma of Asa Hutchinson and Mike Pence together and you'd still be below sea level. Two duds. They inspire no one, Jonah Goldberg excluded. Getting bad advice, make that worthless advice from their aides.; 6/15/23, 6:07 AM
Humperdink said...: Has the administration announced who is the next act is for the White House South Lawn Strip Joint? The electronic sign on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue only reads "Coming Soon".; 6/15/23, 6:21 AM
Humperdink said...: Trump was indicted at the speed of light, in a mere 7 months. Has to be record. Special Persecutor Jack Smith was appointed November 18, 2022. This doesn't smell at all, does it?; 6/15/23, 6:51 AM
wendybar said...: THIS is why you should be wary of donating your body to science...
"The manager of a morgue at Harvard Medical School has been charged with selling body parts from donated cadavers and allowing buyers to come to the morgue to choose which parts they wanted, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday."

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/6-charged-stealing-selling-body-parts-harvard-medical/; 6/15/23, 6:55 AM
wendybar said...: How convenient.

"The FBI still can’t find the person. This is interesting, considering the FBI has been using GPS data to arrest hundreds of Trump supporters who were standing outside the US Capitol on January 6th. Now we know why. The FBI now says (in June 2023) that the cell phone data of the alleged bomber was corrupted."

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/new-information-jan-6-bomber-former-fbi-dc/; 6/15/23, 6:57 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Shorter Gadfly: Walls closing in on Trump. For real this time. With feeling.; 6/15/23, 6:57 AM
wildswan said...: I'm learning how to use my macro lens which completely overwhelmed me when I first got it. It has a very short depth of field which makes taking pictures of rounded objects a challenge. And buds unfolding, which I find deeply interesting, are usually rounded. A year ago, I just collapsed when I tried to integrate aperture and ISO and whatever into taking a picture and went back to my other camera. But while I was sick with stomach flu this spring I had time to think and I decided to get a new book on cameras. And sure enough this time I can do it.

PS. If a bud is round but the flower is flat, does that mean that flowers can square the circle? Not really, but it's interesting to see how they go from round to flat; 6/15/23, 7:23 AM
BG said...: I don’t understand the mindset of some people. We have not been invited into the home of some friends of ours since the start of COVID. I can understand during COVID since the wife has various health issues. But their attitude remains the same to this day. They will also not visit others in their homes. We even offered to have them come to our home in the country, sit outside, and take a COVID test right before they came. That offer was ignored. BUT…they constantly want to frequently meet in restaurants. These friends aren’t the only ones we know like this. We have a relative with the same attitude. The only difference is that we are welcome to come to their home, but we would have to conduct our visit in their large workshop. Is this a new kind of phobia? WTH.; 6/15/23, 7:33 AM
Enigma said...: @Wa St Blogger: I have always been amazed at the number of bullets a clip can hold

To be pedantic here: cartridges, not bullets and magazines, not clips.

The number of times a gun can fire in a movie is always a function of the plot. In a tense dramatic scene the gun always jams/runs out when facing the opponent. As Dirty Harry said, "Did I fire 5 or did I fire 6? I don't remember." Russian Roulette scenes are a close cousin.

Game-inspired films such as John Wick copy the unlimited capacities of video game guns. Blame The Matrix for this mainstreaming the trend, and the A Team for planting the idea back in the 1980s. Realistic combat is much slower and more fitness-driven...and boring to many teenagers.; 6/15/23, 7:46 AM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: I like Vivek Ramaswamy also. He's number 1 on my list.

I've also gotten many emails from Doug Burgum. Unsubscribe to all of them, also to DJT's begmails.; 6/15/23, 8:10 AM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: During the A-Team episodes, no one was ever wounded or killed despite all of the flying bullets. I think there was only one time someone was actually hit. Can't remember which episode.; 6/15/23, 8:13 AM
Wa St Blogger said...: @Enigma,

I figured I got the terms wrong. I'm ok with a little poetic license, but when you get to 40+ before swapping magazines, it's a bit much. Regarding Dirty Harry, I believe in the final showdown with the Scoprio killer there is a brief scene where he puts more cartridges in his 44, so Scorpio counted correctly. Harry set him up.; 6/15/23, 8:43 AM
Gahrie said...: Game-inspired films such as John Wick copy the unlimited capacities of video game guns.

Actually, the first John Wick movie doesn't do this. (I haven't seen the other three) If you watch Wick is constantly reloading or changing weapons.; 6/15/23, 9:19 AM
Rusty said...: tim in vermont said...
"The US Should Show It Can Win a Nuclear War" - WSJ

We're sitting being held hostage by the threat of a nuclear war because 81 million morons decided they wanted to elect the king moron. We didn't have to be here. This whole thing was so avoidable.

Wendybar.
I don't know. I'll be dead. I'd hope that if that was to occur that the offender would use the parts in a wildly comical macabre sort of way. I'd enjoy that.; 6/15/23, 10:00 AM
donald said...: 42” snook yesterday. In the surf, Cocoa Beach. I’m front of yankee and European tourists about a hundred yard north of the pier. I got it on a Stradic 2500 with a Calico rod, which never shows up on any reviews, but it proved it’s worth now. I’m getting better.; 6/15/23, 3:26 PM