Althouse: Expression, Sunrise.

August 10, 2023

Expression, Sunrise.

32 comments:

Ann Althouse said...: Hadn't used my "Expression Sunrise" tag in 3 years!; 8/10/23, 7:44 PM
Saint Croix said...: is that a digital effect?; 8/10/23, 8:01 PM
Jimmy said...: An update on the Maui fires. 56 dead, thousands without homes, or jobs now. I fear the death toll will rise. In the space of a few hours, Lahaina(about 12000 people) was burnt to the ground. 270 buildings gone.Just foundations left.
they transported 12000 tourists off island yesterday, and plan to do the same number today.
No power in west maui. Kula and Pulehu fires not contained yet, Lahaina fire 70 percent.
Hawaii has been democrat run since statehood, so no one has much hope for inspired leadership, which is needed.
Everyone here knows someone who died, or is now displaced and homeless.; 8/10/23, 8:19 PM
Saint Croix said...: Is Conception Irrelevant Now?; 8/10/23, 8:20 PM
TickTock said...: The Sun’s getting larger. The sky will fall. We’re all gonna fry.; 8/10/23, 9:09 PM
Jamie said...: These pictures look animated! So stark!; 8/10/23, 9:16 PM
TaeJohnDo said...: Looks like a Pokemon Ball. Gotta' catch um all!; 8/10/23, 9:25 PM
Saint Croix said...: NR is reporting that Trump won't sign the pledge to support the ultimate Republican nominee

dumb move if true

it's like acknowledging that he doesn't think he will be the Republican nominee

or that he's scared of Republicans!

easy for Republicans who do sign the pledge (like Vivek) to say stuff like "I'll support him if he's the nominee. He should support me if I'm the nominee. I know Donald Trump is a very brave man, but it seems like he might be scared that he's not going to be the Republican nominee for president in 2024."

poll data is irrelevant and I think skipping all the debates is a bad move for Trump

that whole GOPe shit is insider baseball and a lot of Republicans take primary voting very seriously

we are in a radical political time and Trump is electing to avoid television which is a bad idea

I think the viewer numbers for the debates will be higher than normal

if the only thing that props up Trump are these bogus criminal prosecutions, his campaign is in trouble, regardless of what the polls say now; 8/10/23, 9:27 PM
Ann Althouse said...: The only thing I did was adjust the light, the contrast, and the hue (I made it more blue). The detail on the sun is in the original.; 8/10/23, 9:42 PM
Eva Marie said...: Jimmy, thank you for keeping us updated on the situation in Hawaii.; 8/10/23, 9:53 PM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: I believe trump will now see a win/win ploy for him blaming the pledge from keeping him from debating even though he doesn't want to face Christie at minimum.Its another see through ploy.No biggie therewith be no discussion of plans to help Americans just culture crap, whining and the main republican mantra of name calling.It will be a joke debates without talking about issues affecting the population is just WWF nonsense but that's seems to be what the Coloseum type of folks look forward to.No platform, no plans to tell Americans what they would do to help except get even with the enemy the majority of Americans.Maybe he'll have a rally instead for his folks to idolize him and he can portray the victim as he loves to.Bad ratings coming.; 8/10/23, 10:04 PM
madAsHell said...: Stanley Kubrick move over!; 8/10/23, 10:15 PM
Political Junkie said...: Beautiful. Harsh, forceful, hot.; 8/10/23, 10:15 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Daily Wire: Massachusetts Officials Ask People To Consider Taking Illegal Immigrants Into Their Homes.

Fox News: Massachusetts bans Catholic couple from fostering children due to beliefs on gender, sexuality, lawsuit claims.

No comment.; 8/11/23, 12:03 AM
gadfly said...: The Second Amendment was adopted to protect the right of the people of each of the several States to maintain a well-regulated militia. It was a response to concerns raised during the ratification of the Constitution that the power of Congress to disarm the state militias and create a national standing army posed an intolerable threat to the sovereignty of the several States. Neither the text of the Amendment nor the arguments advanced by its proponents evidenced the slightest interest in limiting any legislature’s authority to regulate private civilian uses of firearms. Specifically, there is no indication that the Framers of the Amendment intended to enshrine the common-law right of self-defense in the Constitution.

That all changed with Heller vs District of Columbia in 2008. The end result is that we can only regulate guns if five members of the "NRA" Court permit it and NRA now wants to flood the country with ghost guns.; 8/11/23, 12:19 AM
wendybar said...: If you want to know what REALLY happened on January 6th, with the security of the Capitol...watch THIS..

Ep. 15 Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund reveals what really happened on January 6th. Our Fox News interview with him never aired, so we invited him back.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1689783814594174976; 8/11/23, 3:36 AM
farmgirl said...: Jimmy- Hawaii is like a fairyland, to me. Utopia… oasis.
I’m so very sorry that this catastrophe happened.

Hawaii is in my thoughts &prayers.; 8/11/23, 4:12 AM
wendybar said...: IF Former Capitol Police Chief had EVER been able to speak freely on a major network News channel, things would be different. This man has been silenced, and his story is so different than what the propagandists are spewing. Watch the Tucker interview with him and cry for our country.; 8/11/23, 4:35 AM
Saint Croix said...: So strange that nobody in the media has noticed a remarkable shift in the abortion debate.

The "right-wing" standard is heartbeat, which starts very early in the pregnancy, around 4 weeks after conception. Heartbeat starts before any brain activity. The heart is a vital organ that circulates blood throughout the baby's body. It's long been used to determine if people are alive (although technically it's not the legal standard, that would be brain activity, in my opinion). It's an important biological criterion for human life.

Hysterics in the media who claim that "abortion has been outlawed" in places like Texas or Mississippi are too emotional to be honest. The rules have shifted dramatically. But rape victims can still get abortions in all 50 states. Indeed, birth control failures (condom snaps, for instance) can also get very early abortions. I talk about this and more in my article up above.; 8/11/23, 6:00 AM
MadTownGuy said...: Bumped from yesterday's sunrise cafe:

[Since the beginning of the lockdowns, I've suspected that the efficacy of HCQ and ivermectin was known, and that medical providers and state boards of pharmacy were strongarmed into restricting their use against COVID-19. The utter hubris of the FDA's attorney is galling, and telling.]

Doctors Can Prescribe Ivermectin for COVID-19: FDA Lawyer

"Doctors are free to prescribe ivermectin to treat COVID-19, a lawyer representing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said this week.

“FDA explicitly recognizes that doctors do have the authority to prescribe ivermectin to treat COVID,” Ashley Cheung Honold, a Department of Justice lawyer representing the FDA, said during oral arguments on Aug. 8 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit.

The government is defending the FDA’s repeated exhortations to people to not take ivermectin for COVID-19, including a post that said “Stop it.”

The case was brought by three doctors who allege the FDA unlawfully interfered with their practice of medicine with the statements. A federal judge dismissed the case in 2022, prompting an appeal.

“The fundamental issue in this case is straightforward. After the FDA approves the human drug for sale, does it then have the authority to interfere with how that drug is used within the doctor-patient relationship? The answer is no,” Jared Kelson, representing the doctors, told the appeals court.

The FDA on Aug. 21, 2021, wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter: “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.” The post, which linked to an FDA page that says people shouldn’t use ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID-19, went viral.

In other statements, the FDA said that ivermectin “isn’t authorized or approved to treat COVID-19” and “Q: Should I take ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID-19? A: No.”

Command or Not
“FDA made these statements in response to multiple reports of consumers being hospitalized, after self medicating with ivermectin intended for horses, which is available for purchase over the counter without the need for prescription,” Ms. Honold said.

A version of the drug for animals is available, but ivermectin is approved by the FDA for human use against diseases caused by parasites.

Ms. Honold said that the FDA didn’t purport to require anyone to do anything or to prohibit anyone from doing anything.

“What about when it said, ‘No, stop it’?” Circuit Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod, on the panel that is hearing the appeal, asked. “Why isn’t that a command? If you were in English class, they would say that was a command.”

Ms. Honold described the statements as “merely quips.”"; 8/11/23, 6:38 AM
tim in vermont said...: US deficit for the month of July: 221 billion.

Year to date interest on the debt 726 billion, but we need to spend hundreds of billions making sure that Ukrainian speaking people in Kiev are the ones to rule over Russian speaking people in Donbas and Crimea. This is how empires collapse.

The war could have been completely avoided had Kiev and DC embraced a federal solution, such as we see in Canada, with two official languages, which Russia had already agreed to, and which the ethnic Russians had already accepted in Minsk II, but which Kiev refused to honor after our little coup there.

Kiev keeps saying that they don't honor agreements with the Russians because the Russians can't be trusted. That's very convenient. Kiev agreed to Minsk II because they were in a difficult military situation. Once they slipped out of it by signing, they rejected it. Minsk II was a ruse, top to bottom, which even Merkel, who brokered much of it, later admitted, but it's Russia which won't live up to its word, according to the Banderistas in Kiev.

The real sticking point that kept that peace agreement from ever having a chance was that the US was never going to accept a neutral Ukraine, we wanted the 2nd largest army in Europe to be part of NATO, and right at Russia's throat. We wanted to take the Black Sea from Russia and turn it into a NATO lake. Imagine Russia or China taking control of the Great Lakes and St Lawrence River, it's a recipe for nuclear war.; 8/11/23, 6:41 AM
tim maguire said...: Saint Croix said...
NR is reporting that Trump won't sign the pledge to support the ultimate Republican nominee

dumb move if true

it's like acknowledging that he doesn't think he will be the Republican nominee

or that he's scared of Republicans!

I see it as Trump admitting he’s not a Republican, he’s merely using the Republican infrastructure to achieve his own goals. He wants the Republican Party to help him, but he has no interest in helping the Republican Party.; 8/11/23, 6:45 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Narr said he's going to wait until his wife can walk through walls before he'll do anything about her yoga practice.

That's love.; 8/11/23, 7:04 AM
Rusty said...: Now this one I like. I'd hang that as a triptych on my wall.; 8/11/23, 7:06 AM
Kai Akker said...: --- Daily Wire: Massachusetts Officials Ask People To Consider Taking Illegal Immigrants Into Their Homes.

Official (aka Democrat) recklessness is at extraordinary levels. But they think it's all OK because the Fed will bail them out, too.

--- IF Former Capitol Police Chief had EVER been able to speak freely on a major network News channel, things would be different. This man has been silenced, and his story is so different than what the propagandists are spewing.

Right on the money, Wendybar. Well, most of us knew this or guessed it as the little uncooperative facts came sneaking out right afterwards. Can the general public be "protected" from these difficult truths about our leadership forever?

NO.; 8/11/23, 7:21 AM
Iman said...: Thanks for that update, Jimmy. The folks will need help, so all of us should keep that in mind when opportunities for financial or other forms of support arrive.; 8/11/23, 8:10 AM
Drago said...: Tim Maguire: "I see it as Trump admitting he’s not a Republican, he’s merely using the Republican infrastructure to achieve his own goals. He wants the Republican Party to help him, but he has no interest in helping the Republican Party."

Or Trump remembers all too clearly how the GOPe manuevered to pull the nomination from him in the lead up to the convention in 2016 even after Trump had secured the votes needed to win, how Ted Cruz stepped up to the microphone as keynote runner up and told the world not to vote for Trump, how large swaths of the GOPe went public with their Hillary endorsments and, most importantly, how the GOPe worked hand in glove with the democraticals in advancing the russia collusion/dossier hoaxes and kept Trump under the gun of impeachment for the entirety of his presidency.

Funny that none of that history factors into any analyses here, as if we are all supposed to pretend it never happened and that we are unsure what the GOPe would do if Trump were to survive and claim the nomination.

Personally I dont believe Trump will make it to the nomination. He will be removed and imprisoned by the utterly corrupt dem lawfare/GOPe alliance.

And thats when the real "party unity" detonation occurs.; 8/11/23, 8:26 AM
Narr said...: Fuck off, little boy.; 8/11/23, 8:51 AM
Gahrie said...: I see it as Trump admitting he’s not a Republican, he’s merely using the Republican infrastructure to achieve his own goals. He wants the Republican Party to help him, but he has no interest in helping the Republican Party.

Would you support Romney, Christie or Pence if they ended up as The Republican nominee? I wouldn't, and I'm not alone.; 8/11/23, 9:44 AM
jim5301 said...: Tim - You have said or implied many many times that Russian speaking people in Ukraine would rather be a part of Russia. Do you have evidence or does that just seem self evident to you? Russian is the first language of Zelensky. Do you think he would prefer to live in Russia? And of course many millions of foreign speaking persons have immigrated to the USA over the years to escape horrors and dictators in their native lands. To say that they would prefer to go back because they speak the language is illogical to the extreme.

The war could have been "completely avoided" if Russia hadn't started it. Back in 2014. Escalating it dramatically last year of course.; 8/11/23, 10:14 AM
walter said...: Having fun following overtly "progressive" Minoqua Brewing Company on Farcebait as they protest government regulatory burdens and bad ratings on Yelp, AKA Social Credit.; 8/11/23, 11:54 AM
Leland said...: "Rich men north of Richmond": https://youtu.be/W5x35Ee1ftE

It won't be for everybody, but it has a lot of attention now.; 8/11/23, 2:17 PM