Althouse: Sunrise — 5:27, 5:38, 5:39.

July 19, 2023

Sunrise — 5:27, 5:38, 5:39.

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21 comments:

MadisonMan said...: Shout out to the fabulous Summer we're having. I sympathize with the farmers who are watching stunted growth due to lack of rain. But that dryness means no mosquitoes.; 7/19/23, 7:08 PM
Humperdink said...: I see the Norks launched two short range ballistic missiles today. Sore losers.; 7/19/23, 7:21 PM
Humperdink said...: Zero Hedge headline: "US General Mark Milley Claims Ukraine Counter Offensive 'Far From Failure"

Translation: The Ukes are on the cusp of victory, another few hundred $billion should do it.

From the article: "On Tuesday the Washington Post reported that US officials are piling the pressure on Ukraine to make a breakthrough against Russian forces, following weeks of bleak headlines. At the same time, US General Mark Milley, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the media that the Ukraine counter offensive was 'far from failure' but will be 'long and bloody.." No kidding.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-general-mark-milley-claims-ukraine-counter-offensive-far-failure; 7/19/23, 7:48 PM
wildswan said...: I'd say that Trump should run no matter how many jurisdictions indict for that very reason - that certain jurisdictions are so in control of the left that they have abandoned any standard but the double standard. And this raises the question of why various jurisdictions are so in control of the left. Take DC. Most of the jobs in DC are Civil Service jobs. How then is it that Democrats are being selected for these jobs to the point that 92% of all political donations made by DC residents are to Democrats although Civil Service regulations bar discrimination based on political affiliation and although the country is half Republican. It's expected that Trump will be convicted in DC because the jurors will be drawn from this totally Democratic population. Yet the fact that the population is totally Democratic indicates that there's law breaking going on in Civil Service selection.
Take another example - State universities. Many state universities have faculties dominated by the left. That means that these tax payer supported institutions are now and have been for a long time discriminating based on political preferences. That's illegal and unconstitutional. Moreover, why should Republican taxpayers uncritically support universities which will not hire their children? Why not call in the members of selection committees and ask them why they do not hire Republicans - how they exclude them and how they justify excluding them?
And why respect institutions such as private universities filled with people who cannot distinguish a man from a woman or understand why it is wrong to mutilate a child?
And when all these authoritative institutions illegally filled with leftys then ignore the attack on our political system which is inherent in the various frivolous indictments of a political candidate, Donald Trump, we should be asking them - why are these "authoritative" institutions so overwhelmingly filled with leftys in a country divided 50-50? Could such a result be achieved by constitutional, legal means?
These issues will be raised as long as we support Trump and they will be operative but hidden if we do not. Every good American should support Trump for this reason.; 7/19/23, 8:31 PM
Chuck said...: "Operation:Just Let Bobby Talk" is working splendidly and he's down to 14% with Marianne Williamson gliding along at 7%. Joe Biden at 72%

https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3876

If anybody thinks that I have been deliberately combative toward RFKjr, I plead guilty. I feel bad, that I am doing only a tiny fraction of the work needed simply to counter Jim Jordan/Kevin McCarthy's efforts to platform RFKjr with televised public appearances in the House.; 7/19/23, 8:52 PM
Jaq said...: That pair of merlins that have nested in my tree have really taken out a lot of songbirds. Somebody here recommended that Merlin app, and when I first was using it to id songbirds, there would be maybe five or six robins singing at a time, noisy wrens, noisy phoebes. Mostly the only bird it identifies now is the merlins. I don't think that it's a good idea to be a noisy kind of bird when these guys are around hunting to raise their chicks. Now there are hardly any robins patrolling my lawn for worms, and I hear maybe one or two singing at most. Haven't heard the wren in weeks, or the phoebe either, for that matter, or the song sparrows. If these guys take a liking to tortoises, I just have to say that the species is doomed. I saw one of them attacking a heron in flight, and then saw one attacking an osprey carrying a fish, even with another osprey close by. They are just busy non stop. Maybe I need to make a fake bird fitted out with laser beams.; 7/19/23, 9:08 PM
Jaq said...: The more the Biden scandal percolates, the harder he has to go after Trump. Now it looks like $100 MM has been funneled through shell corporations owned by the Biden clan. If the Bidens are making 100s of millions, you know that their masters are making in the neighborhood of trillions.; 7/19/23, 9:18 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: You know what’s really cool?

YouTube: how the aliens leave us the fuck alone.

Hint: the zoo hypothesis; 7/19/23, 9:41 PM
Big Mike said...: Stanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne has resigned after assertions of flaws — some would say scientific fraud — were found in his Alzheimer’s research. The Stanford Board of Trustees reviewed his research (I think the journalist would have been more accurate to say that they engaged an independent review by a committee of his technical peers) and cleared Tessier-Lavigne of personal misconduct, however five papers where he was principal author used data from subordinate labs that showed clear signs of having been manipulated.

And thus Stanford DEI claimed a scalp for his daring to apologize to U.S. Circuit Judge Stuart Duncan.; 7/19/23, 11:03 PM
gadfly said...: Yes, wildswan, another bad week for Don in court. NY Judge rules the Stormy Daniels case stays in NY even when Trump asks nicely; The judge who presided over the Jeannie Carroll rape trial says no appeal granted because Donnie did do it; Aileen Cannon says Trump's political run will not delay the classified docs deal; and Jack Smith tells TFG "Were coming after you."

We are long past the GOP-controlled Senate saving his ass from impeachment and into the courts where evidence has and will continue to prove him guilty. The future will bring us to Trump and Jan 6; Trump and his attempt to overthrow an election; NY State vs Trump on tax evasion; Carroll II for continuing to badmouth her; and RICO for the racketeer in Georgia vs Trump . . .; 7/20/23, 4:19 AM
Humperdink said...: Kurt Schlichter, retired army colonel, prolific writer, and conservative has written an article this morning on Ukraine. It is worth the read. Some excerpts:

"I don’t like Putin, or Russia. I like Ukrainians. I trained them. They got invaded – in significant part because of Joe Biden and the foreign policy establishment’s incompetence. But it’s not our war, and I neither presume to understand the Slavic subtleties at play, nor do I trust – at all – the same internationalist caste that has literally gotten exactly zero things right since the end of the Gulf War ..."

"There are three ways this goes .. You can give the Ukrainians enough stuff to win the war – or at least you can try to. That means a blank check, which we hesitate to do. Or you can starve the Ukes and force them to the negotiating table, but that means a peace where Putin gets some things he wants, which we hesitate to accept. Or you can choose the most brutal, cruel, and evil path and just give the Ukrainians enough to keep the meat grinder grinding .. This is, of course, what our establishment has done."

"And when the front collapses and the revitalized Russian forces start pushing the outnumbered defenders west, guess who will have to come in?
Us, or more specifically, the children of you deplorables ... "

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2023/07/20/ukraine-and-cocaine-n2625886; 7/20/23, 4:25 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Saint Croix’s Substack : English though crime

“The UK has made it a crime to pray outside an abortion clinic.“; 7/20/23, 4:49 AM
farmgirl said...: Lucky Chuck- another Biden nomination.
You must be ecstatic!; 7/20/23, 6:29 AM
wildswan said...: What seems to me to be happening in the Ukraine war is just so different from what others see. As I see it Wagner Force, the premier Russian combat force has been knocked out of the war as of the end of June. Its experiences at Bakhmut were so terrible that, first, it left the place, and, next, it marched on Moscow demanding changes in the military leadership. Its leadership stated that the Wagner Force had been thrown into a meatgrinder, not a strategic operation. Despite this mutiny Wagner Force and its leader is still at large, in, it is thought, Belarus. Who then won inside Bakhmut?
Then the Ukrainians began to advance on the north and south sides of Bakhmut. And now, the Russian generals commanding on the north and south sides of Bakhmut are behaving almost exactly like the Wagner Force. Both have complained about being thrown into a meatgrinder rather than sent to carry out a military strategy. Both have been relieved of duty.

These remarkable developments and their implication of Ukrainian success in the counter offensive are sort of scattered about by the reporting on them. What does Wagner want? the media wonders. I think it wants to get away from the Ukrainian Army. What do the comments by the Russian generals mean? I think the regular Army generals also want to get away from the Ukrainian Army.
And next look at what the Ukraine is doing according its own account of its own actions. Supposedly, by its own account it is merely liberating territory and not much at that. Supposedly, it has been busy liberating 354 square kilometers and is satisfied with its progress.
Why is this miserable achievement in terms of territory so satisfactory? Well, see above. Those kilometers are mostly on each side of Bakhmut and are filled with trenches filled with Russian dead. Somehow modern artillery seems to be able to hit trenches so that in this war, trenches are just death traps. But the Russians won't admit this because the Russians think their armies must be in trenches from which they are not allowed to escape or their armies will break. Well, the dead don't retreat so there's that to be said for the Russian argument.
But none of this is how the media is presenting the situation over there in the Ukraine. And Republicans are accepting the media presentation. And Army guys like Kurt Schlicter, good guys, who must know more than I do, nevertheless accept this ludicrous mis-representation of Ukrainian success in its counter-offensive. You have to wonder what is going on. Will there be a great victory just as the Republicans line up firmly against helping Ukraine?; 7/20/23, 7:48 AM
wendybar said...: Oilfield Rando
@Oilfield_Rando
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Blue state and local governments compensate their left wing rioters.

Realize where we are.

The Associated Press
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New York City will pay more than $13 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit brought on behalf of 1,300 people who were arrested or beaten by police during protests over the killing of George Floyd that swept through the city during the summer of 2020. https://apnews.com/article/2020-class-action-settlement-george-floyd-protests-arrests-f005beed8b5666e6807f3775c0252a8a?taid=64b8ad5badd63d0001d5215b&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter
7:08 AM · Jul 20, 2023; 7/20/23, 9:46 AM
Dr Weevil said...: More crap from Humperdink, who never responds when his borrowed arguments are refuted.

You've heard of false dichotomies? Kurt Schlichter made a false trichthotomy. It would be nice if people would stop repeating arguments the same stupid arguments that have been shown to be stupid. As I've noted in these pages before, no on is being asked to write a "blank check" to Ukraine, and only fools and liars say that. Ukraine is not asking for B-52s, or F-22s, or F-35s, or atomic bombs, or aircraft carriers (given or lent) or US or NATO troops, or even in-country training from the latter, and they would not get them if they did ask. Now that they're well-supplied with western armored vehicles, all they need to win quickly is F-16s and ATACMS. F-16s are 44-year-old technology, but still better than anything the Russians have, we have thousands of them sitting around not being used, it would cost more to dispose of them in an environmentally sound way than it costs to send them to Ukraine, and Biden has been promising them for over a year, but Jake Sullivan and other Bidenites have been dragging their feet about delivering them and providing training. Ukraine will still win without them, but tens of thousands more Ukrainians (soldiers and civilians) will die because J.S. and his asshole allies do seem to want to "just give the Ukrainians enough to keep the meat grinder grinding". ATACMS are needed to stop the Russians from hitting Ukrainian cities (and grain terminals) with missiles and drones, which they do every night: blowing up houses and apartment buildings full of sleeping civilians is a war crime. Ukraine needs to be able to sink the ships firing those missiles from the Black Sea and hit the airports the long-range bombers with cruise missiles fly from. Those are legitimate military targets, unlike the targets Russia hits every night. Basic decency requires it.; 7/20/23, 12:26 PM
Chuck said...: farmgirl:

Biden, renominated = not ecstatic.
Biden, beating Trump again = ecstatic.; 7/20/23, 12:37 PM
Narr said...: There were dire predictions of famine and starvation in the poorer precincts of the planet when the Special Military Operation began, but arrangements to prevent that were made and it didn't happen.

I don't think that bullet can be dodged again this year.; 7/20/23, 1:11 PM
Humperdink said...: No Dr. Weevil I do generally respond to comments, just not yours. Your statement typically devolve into name calling. Not wasting my time on you. But hey, thanks for commenting.; 7/20/23, 2:30 PM
Dr Weevil said...: Lying Humperdink was refusing to address my arguments long before I called him any names, and also called me "a commenter" more than once while I've always called him by his nom de plume. He refuses to respond to me now because he knows I'm right, that no one is calling for a "blank check" for Ukraine, among many other stupid things he's quoted from stupid people.; 7/20/23, 6:30 PM
Dr Weevil said...: Does Humperdink really not respond to my arguments because I've been rude to him, or is it because he is incapable of answering them? I'm still waiting for him to acknowledge:
a. That Zelenskyy has not banned all opposition parties, just 2 in parliament and 9 more outside, of the 100+ parties in Ukraine, and that was required to do if they were receiving money from outside countries. I don't ask for a "Thanks for the correction: I didn't realize", but a "Maybe I was wrong" would be appropriate.
b. That banning political parties in wartime is not a sign of tyranny. I asked him directly whether Churchill was wrong or undemocratic when he banned the British Union of Fascists and jailed their leader in World War II. Still no answer to my yes or no question.
c. That South Korea is in fact a thriving democracy, as he had denied.
d. That there is no evidence whatsoever that American or NATO troops are training Ukrainians inside of Ukraine.
As I said, he seems incapable of answering my arguments, for two reasons: he's wrong and knows it, but he's also too arrogant to admit, even grudgingly, that he's wrong.; 7/20/23, 7:46 PM