Althouse: Sunrise — 6:10, 6:11, 6:14.

August 20, 2023

Sunrise — 6:10, 6:11, 6:14.

33 comments:

farmgirl said...: Lucky you!!
Every morning a gift.; 8/20/23, 4:34 PM
Kate said...: Hurricane Hilary (and that's no euphemism) is upon us. Gusty, no rain. Still have power and internet. Holy shit our front willow just crashed into the street; 8/20/23, 4:55 PM
Dave Begley said...: I'm intensely uninterested in all this Trump criminal litigation drama. MSNBC, CNN, NYT and WaPo, of course, can't get enough of it.

Trump took his election contest too far and maybe kept some documents he should not have. BFD.

As a country, we have to move beyond this. It is taking up too much time and attention. Too much national psychic energy.; 8/20/23, 5:07 PM
MadTownGuy said...: Follow up on the Kansas newspaper whose records were confiscated by police. The affidavit authorizing the seizure has been withdrawn, and now the newspaper may sue the police...

Now-withdrawn affidavit in Marion County Record raid shows police ignored Kansas open records laws (NPR)

"impersonating the victim or lying about the reasons why the record was being sought,” Cody wrote.

The paper’s attorney, Bernie Rhodes, cited Kansas law that says motor vehicle records are subject to open records law unless they are driver’s license photos, relate to a person’s mental or physical condition or have been expunged. He also noted that while the U.S. Driver’s Privacy Protection Act says it’s illegal to obtain or disclose personal information from a motor vehicle record except in certain cases, personal information does not include “information on vehicular accidents, driving violations and drivers’ statuses.”

“There was no identity theft here. Nobody went to find her date of birth or social security number so they could, for example, apply for a credit card in her name,” Rhodes said. “Phyllis had to put in Kari Newell’s information because she was attempting to verify the the validity of a document that a source had provided.”

More...; 8/20/23, 5:24 PM
MadTownGuy said...: Continued...

The affidavits authorizing the searches and seizures at the paper and the publisher’s house were signed by Magistrate Judge Laura Viar, and while her signature was dated Aug. 11, the court did not receive the affidavits until Monday, Aug. 14 — three days after the search was conducted.

The Marion County Attorney withdrew the search warrant on Aug. 16, citing insufficient evidence to support the alleged crimes and seizures.

“The county attorney has already withdrawn it, it’s as if it no longer existed,” Rhodes said. “Did he do it in part because he was puzzled by (the late filing)? I don’t know.”

Rhodes said the paper is continuing to create forensic images of the six computers, three phones, two hard drives and router seized by law enforcement to determine if they were accessed while in police custody.

“Once we determine that, we know whether to add to the list of constitutional violations the illegal review of the information that was illegally seized,” he said. “It was our hope that we could come to some type of resolution with the city and the county short of a lawsuit, but that chance appears increasingly remote.”; 8/20/23, 5:26 PM
rhhardin said...: An underground bees' nest in the yard was running about two bees a second in and out yesterday. After a nighttime application of Raid to the entrance, it's down to one bee every five minutes today, and he looks depressed, purposeless, perhaps because he's getting no helpful route messages today. I don't know if there's still a queen or what the social rules are in this situation.

Scything the lawn is very hazardous with underground bee nests in the yard. They're quick to organize and attack. Otherwise the more the merrier.; 8/20/23, 5:42 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Apparently, if the Fulton Co indictment is to be interpreted correctly, Trump is not allowed to believe his truth. The people who push the idea of having one’s truth, also get to choose who is allowed to have it and who doesn’t.; 8/20/23, 7:11 PM
Just asking questions (Jaq) said...: China has been dumping treasuries ever since the US seized 200 billion dollars in Russian assets because we were mad at them. China knows that we will get mad at them someday too. They are not idiots. The US dollar depends on other countries buying dollars to buy and sell their goods, it's like the whole world pays us tribute. It's not going to last, and Joe Biden is making sure that it falls apart more quickly than it otherwise would through belligerence and blunders.

https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1693344689154355707; 8/20/23, 7:49 PM
Chuck said...: The best usage of TikTok I've ever seen.; 8/20/23, 8:04 PM
Iman said...: Lovely photos…

I enjoyed watching the YouTube video of Vivek Ramaswamy’s appearance on Bill Maher’s Club Random. Maher did himself no favors with his usual intake of tequila and weed. Maher’s TDS and substance-slowed thinking were on display and were quite amusing.; 8/20/23, 9:17 PM
robother said...: Crickets...; 8/20/23, 9:47 PM
Drago said...: Begley: "Trump took his election contest too far and maybe kept some documents he should not have. BFD."

Proof once again that unrelenting democratical corrupting of the law and electoral processes will always yield positive results with the modern republican party and "respectable" types.; 8/20/23, 10:39 PM
Rt41Rebel said...: @rhhardin

As a kid, I watched in awe as my dad did battle with yellow jacket nests in the yard. He would run up, place a funnel, and dump as much gasoline in as the risk allowed, and light it up as he fled the swarm. For many minutes after, like miniature fighter planes shot down, the yellow jackets would grab flight as they exited, and crash on fire all over the yard.; 8/20/23, 11:24 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: You can’t have your truth and eat it too.

Quick Trip installed new coffee machines putting them back on top of coffee superiority against Racetrack.

They also have a temporary beverage called cake. I’m not about to try it.; 8/21/23, 3:37 AM
Kate said...: The county sent a man with a chainsaw to buck our willow blocking the street, then a tractor pushed the debris to the side of the road for now. The efficiency was kind of impressive for government work.; 8/21/23, 4:52 AM
wendybar said...: "The real insurrection was not the orchestrated January 6 false flag, but an ongoing effort by the unelected administrative state and the bipartisan Democrat and Republican ruling class to defeat Donald Trump and the people who support him. It began with an escalator ride and is now a banana republic witch hunt."

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/08/the_real_insurrection_began_with_an_escalator_ride.html; 8/21/23, 5:10 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Musk blocks Woods! Musk blocks Woods!; 8/21/23, 5:32 AM
jaydub said...: Regarding ground dwelling wasps/yellow jackets/hornets: It's smarter to place a piece of window screening over the nest's exit hole, then dispatch them at leisure with some insecticide. That way they won't be going anywhere and if there is queen, she'll wait around too.; 8/21/23, 5:32 AM
jaydub said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 8/21/23, 5:34 AM
Louie the Looper said...: Aa; 8/21/23, 7:12 AM
Dave Begley said...: Drago:

Trump can’t win the general election. The Dems’ plan worked.; 8/21/23, 7:18 AM
wendybar said...: Dave Begley said...
Drago:

Trump can’t win the general election. The Dems’ plan worked.

Neither can anybody else. We may as well all sit home and not bother then.; 8/21/23, 7:54 AM
farmgirl said...: Kate- I hope all remains well!!!
Sorry about the Willow…; 8/21/23, 7:59 AM
Chuck said...: Dave Begley said...
I'm intensely uninterested in all this Trump criminal litigation drama. MSNBC, CNN, NYT and WaPo, of course, can't get enough of it.
Trump took his election contest too far and maybe kept some documents he should not have. BFD.
As a country, we have to move beyond this. It is taking up too much time and attention. Too much national psychic energy.

It's blocking Trump from the full roll out of his national health care reform plan, isn't it, Dave?; 8/21/23, 8:00 AM
Rocco said...: Rt41Rebel said...
"@rhhardin
As a kid, I watched in awe as my dad did battle with yellow jacket nests in the yard. He would run up, place a funnel, and dump as much gasoline in as the risk allowed, and light it up as he fled the swarm. For many minutes after, like miniature fighter planes shot down, the yellow jackets would grab flight as they exited, and crash on fire all over the yard."

I'm imagining the Battle of the Philippine Sea being re-created in the insect world.

US pilots shot down so many Japanese planes (plus 3 Japanese carriers lost) that they nicknamed the battle the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot.; 8/21/23, 8:13 AM
wendybar said...: "When people begged for water to save their homes, their very lives - Mr. Manuel had the courage to stand firm and say 'No'," said President Biden. "That's the kind of climate change warrior this administration wants to honor."

https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-awards-hawaii-official-medal-of-freedom-for-saving-water-during-fire; 8/21/23, 8:56 AM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: "ALERT: This Portland Woman Won't Date You Unless You Suffer From Crippling Climate Anxiety"

Anyone who asked that woman for a second date would be certifiably insane. Man or woman or other.; 8/21/23, 9:06 AM
MadisonMan said...: Up at 5 AM today to walk the dog. It was dark. The weekly change is very noticeable now. I will say that long nights means it can cool down after the day's heat.; 8/21/23, 9:42 AM
Drago said...: Dave Begley: "Drago:

Trump can’t win the general election. The Dems’ plan worked."

1) You are wrong about the "dem's plan" on multiple levels.

It's not the "Dem's plan: its the Dems/GOPe plan.

And the "plan" is to physically remove Trump from the race via an utterly corrupted Soviet-ized lawfare system...which will then be used to go after Trump's family and the remainder of his businesses.

Its a "salt the Earth to send a message" to anyone else who would consider challenging the uniparty.

2) There is ZERO excuse for you to pretend there is an iota of legitimacy to this corrupted Soviet-ized dem/GOPe uniparty lawfare approach.

3) As it stands right now, Trump is in a stronger position electorally than he was in either 2016 or 2020....which is why COVID II-Electric Boogaloo is being floated already along with the dems/GOPe to remove Trump from the ballot...which I believe will happen.

Other than that I guess you were spot on.; 8/21/23, 9:44 AM
Mark said...: "As a country, we have to move beyond this. It is taking up too much time and attention. Too much national psychic energy."

LOL. Your personal war on woke should be first to go, then.; 8/21/23, 9:45 AM
Chuck said...: Dave Begley said...
Drago:
Trump can’t win the general election. The Dems’ plan worked.

I need to know more about that plan. Was the plan to indict Trump on a hundred or so felony charges, knowing that the criminal-law threat to Trump would so energize the Trump base that they would make Trump the GOP nominee again, ignoring the fact that the '20 loser Trump would be even more damaged in '24 and would lose?

Did I get it all? Does the plan go back farther? Was it an Antifa-conducted false flag riot on January 6? Which set up Trump for eventual criminal charges? Farther back, was it an insidiously clever plot to steal the presidential elections in Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, Michigan and Pennsylvania, and to do in such a way that it would be completely undetectable?

You tell me. I want to know all about "the Dems' plan." If you know of any planning memos (like the insurrection memos that John Eastman and Ken Chesebro authored for Trump), let me know where I can read them.

Thanks Dave.; 8/21/23, 10:02 AM
Drago said...: Dumb Lefty Mark: "LOL. Your personal war on woke should be first to go, then."

Nope. We should never stop opposing your team's desperate desire to groom and sexualize young children in schools and hiding it from parents while establishing groomer gateways to get underage kids to go to lefty states for mutilation surgeries and permanently damaging puberty blockers.

Feels like pretty solid ground on this side of that issue.

BTW, how's Threads coming along?
Did you see SpaceX is projected to deliver 80% of all payloads to orbit?
Have you seen the Tesla sales, profit and productivity numbers?; 8/21/23, 10:22 AM
Rocco said...: Dave Begley said...
"Drago: Trump can’t win the general election. The Dems’ plan worked."

Chuck said...
"I need to know more about that plan. Was the plan to indict Trump on a hundred or so felony charges, knowing that the criminal-law threat to Trump would so energize the Trump base that they would make Trump the GOP nominee again, ignoring the fact that the '20 loser Trump would be even more damaged in '24 and would lose?

Did I get it all? Does the plan go back farther? Was it a [Fed]-conducted false flag riot on January 6? Which [was used to] set up Trump for eventual criminal charges? Farther back, was it an insidiously clever plot to steal the presidential elections in [close key states like] Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, Michigan and Pennsylvania, and to do in such a way that it would be [plausibly deniable]?"

Lt(jg) Kaffee (Tom Cruise): Did you order the Code Red?

Col Jessup (Chuck): YOU'RE GOD DAMN RIGHT I DID!!; 8/21/23, 1:27 PM