Althouse: Sunrise — 6:18, 6:19, 6:21.

August 24, 2023

Sunrise — 6:18, 6:19, 6:21.

42 comments:

Big Mike said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 8/24/23, 6:38 PM
Big Mike said...: More news from Maui. The people who survived the fire did so by driving around a police barricade that blocked the only safe road out of town. If you took the attitude that the barricade had to be there for a reason and turned back towards town, odds were that you burned to death.; 8/24/23, 6:38 PM
Original Mike said...: Oh, good grief. Biden’s DOJ Sues Elon Musk’s SpaceX For Only Hiring US Citizens

By all means, let's have foreign nationals working on our rockets.; 8/24/23, 7:13 PM
Mason G said...: From CNN...

Neptune’s clouds have disappeared, and scientists think they know why

The ice giant’s ghostly, cirrus-like clouds largely disappeared four years ago. Today, just a patch hovers over the planet’s south pole.

Thanks to an analysis of nearly three decades’ worth of Neptune observations captured by three space telescopes, scientists have determined the ice giant’s diminished clouds may indicate that shifts in their abundance are in sync with the solar cycle, according to a recent study published in the journal Icarus.

“These remarkable data give us the strongest evidence yet that Neptune’s cloud cover correlates with the Sun’s cycle,” said senior study author Imke de Pater, professor emeritus of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, in a news release. “Our findings support the theory that the Sun’s (ultraviolet) rays, when strong enough, may be triggering a photochemical reaction that produces Neptune’s clouds.”

For a minute there, I was afraid the cause was SUVs. Bullet dodged.

I do wonder though- if the sun can affect a planet as far away as Neptune in such fashion, has anyone considered what the effects might be here on Earth? You know, what with all the concern about Global Warming/Boiling in the news lately? Seems like somebody might have thought to look.; 8/24/23, 7:19 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: These pics are awesome.; 8/24/23, 7:32 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: My X says this is Trump's mugshot.

I read that expression as a challenge to the voters. Only you can undo this injustice in November 2024.; 8/24/23, 7:59 PM
Mark said...: That mugshot is hilarious. The whole roster of scowling Republicans look like villains. They honestly think the angry mugshot is going to age well?

My grandchildren will laugh at their books when they read how the angry guilty looking guy was jailed, much in the way my generation considered Nixon universally as a bad person.; 8/24/23, 8:31 PM
jim5301 said...: CNN spends all day on Trump going to/from Georgia and decides that it is not in its viewers best interest to show his brief remarks at the airport. Such contempt and disrespect for its audience. They are not a serious news organisation.; 8/24/23, 8:57 PM
Birches said...: Trump's back on Twitter. What a showman.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1694886846050771321

I still want DeSantis as President, but I have to admit, he's got flair.; 8/24/23, 9:00 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: SpaceX must always be concerned about ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations) with their rocket work. Only U.S. Persons (citizens and Green Card holders) are allowed to work on ITAR programs. Their technology could be illegally exported if they hired a refugee/asylumee who did not have a Green Card. Big fines and prison time for disclosing it to a non-U.S. person.

I worked at Boeing Defense for 35-years. ITAR was always on our minds and we were very careful about protecting our work from non-U.S. persons.

The DOJ is a rogue agency, out to do the Biden Crime Family's dirty work.; 8/24/23, 9:22 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: I do wonder though- if the sun can affect a planet as far away as Neptune in such fashion, has anyone considered what the effects might be here on Earth? You know, what with all the concern about Global Warming/Boiling in the news lately? Seems like somebody might have thought to look.

There's a theory called the Winter Gatekeeper hypothesis that says the solar activity can affect the pressure in the stratosphere, which regulates how much heat is transferred from the tropics to the poles. When the Sun is inactive, the pressure decreases and allows more heat transfer and the planet cools. When the Sun is active, the pressure increases and throttles the heat transfer, so the planet warms.; 8/24/23, 9:29 PM
Rusty said...: Mark. You're grandchildren won't know how to read. It's in their genes.; 8/24/23, 9:53 PM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: US gov is corrupt; 8/24/23, 10:04 PM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: Joe Biden is corrupt; 8/24/23, 10:06 PM
Drago said...: Dumb Lefty Mark: "My grandchildren will laugh at their books when they read how the angry guilty looking guy was jailed, much in the way my generation considered Nixon universally as a bad person."

Earlier generations of totalitarian lefty/dem/commies laughed and laughed at the mugshots of Martin Luther King Jr and Solzhenitsyn...along with these "grandchildren" that laughed and laughed during the Cultural Revolution

So much lefty totalitarian laughter over the years...and always towards the same goals with the same tactics and the same orwellian rhetoric.; 8/24/23, 10:06 PM
Jupiter said...: I'm tryna work this out.

a) Fani Willis would be a dumb fucking whore, except that she lacks the characteristics necessary to successfully practice an honorable trade like giving blow-jobs to strangers.

b) Nonetheless, if DFW Willis decided that Althouse' blogging during the 20XX election constituted interference in the election affairs of the sovereign state of Willisiana, she could issue a demand that Althouse, a citizen of the State of Wisconsin, and a figure of national prominence, present herself to the Willis, at the Willis' sovereign convenience, to answer for such crimes as the Willis deems her to have committed. The effusions of the Willis are legally considered to be the "lawful actions" of a State, which must, according to the Constitution, be respected by other States.

c) In short, the Willis thing can impose any penalty it deems fit, including death, upon any person subject to the jurisdiction of any of the fifty States. Probably also the territories.

How is this not the occasion of civil war? This is proscription. This is Bill of Attainder. I doubt that the Willis is familiar with those terms, or with any other terms with more than two syllables. If the inhabitants of Willisiana have chosen to subject themselves to this dim, savage monster, I suppose that is arguably their right, and their just reward. But a compact that requires us to submit to this criminal idiot is null and void on its face. If the Constitution is such a compact ...; 8/24/23, 11:40 PM
Inga said...: “That mugshot is hilarious.”

Yikes, that mugshot would scare babies, make them cry and give young children nightmares. But yes, it is sadly hilarious.; 8/24/23, 11:40 PM
Rt41Rebel said...: @Birches
I want him more as my guv for the full term I elected him, and I expected to vote for him as POTUS 2028. I think he made a big mistake and jumped too soon.; 8/25/23, 12:19 AM
gadfly said...: https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2023

2023 Wretched Writers Contest:

As Snow White met with her new, cheaper, replacement dwarfs for the first time, shaking hands in turn with the likes of Sweaty, Greasy, and Flabby, aptly named identical twins Grabby and Gropy, and proud owner-of-a-joy-buzzer Scabby, she found herself wondering if the savings would prove to be worth it, and she was about to learn why the others were so afraid of the seventh new dwarf, the oddly named Uzi.

Officer Meyer Briggs burst into the bedroom and saw Professor Rorschach standing over the body of his mother, bloody knife in hand, "I swear it’s not what it looks like!" Rorschach exclaimed.

The second she stepped into my office I knew she was Trubble, Sarah Trubble. She was wearing a name tag and I’m a detective.

Not in the contest as yet:

“The sky above Rice Street was the color of Windows 11 right before it locked up. “It’s not like I have Executive Privilege,” Trump heard someone say as his Secret Service agents shouldered their way through the common rabble and the municipal Deep State wannabes processing them, “It’s more like when my lawyer says STFU I actually listen to her!” It was a shitlib voice and a shitlib joke. Rice Street was a jail for amateur criminals and working class suckers, Democrats all of them. You could be held there for a week and never hear two words from your public defender.”; 8/25/23, 12:54 AM
Mutaman said...: Blogger jim5301 said...

"CNN spends all day on Trump going to/from Georgia and decides that it is not in its viewers best interest to show his brief remarks at the airport. Such contempt and disrespect for its audience. They are not a serious news organisation. "

Get back to me when CNN pays 3/4 of a billion dollars for telling lies.; 8/25/23, 1:33 AM
Mutaman said...: Drago said...

"Earlier generations of totalitarian lefty/dem/commies laughed and laughed at the mugshots of Martin Luther King Jr "

Don't recall anyone laughing except maybe a few of your fellow crackers. Got a link supporting this, Sparky?; 8/25/23, 1:36 AM
Mutaman said...: Blogger Rusty said...

" Mark. You're grandchildren won't know how to read. It's in their genes."

Even money says his grandchildren matriculate past High School, Rusty which is more than i can say for you.; 8/25/23, 1:38 AM
Mutaman said...: Birches said...

"I still want DeSantis as President,"

"Will those of you who will support Trump even if he is convicted raise your hand."

DeSantis-looks left, looks right, sort of limply raises his hand.; 8/25/23, 1:41 AM
Jamie said...: Yikes, that mugshot would scare babies, make them cry and give young children nightmares.

Do you ordinarily entertain your grandchildren with picture books of mugshots? Interesting choice.

But more to the point - let's review the reason for a mugshot. Wikipedia says its original purpose was "to allow law enforcement to have a photographic record of an arrested individual to allow for identification by victims, the public and investigators." Is there any version of the universe in which Trump's is not just about the most recognizable face?

So we'll have to move on to Willis's apparent purpose: to attempt to shame a man she seems to hate personally, while also gaining cred personally among her Democrat peers. It certainly bolsters the impression that these prosecutions are not motivated by dedication to the rule of law.

Exactly what face would you have made, Inga, if a prosecutor had decided to use you in this way?

And by the way - why is it so hard for your side to see that threatening a political opponent and his legal advocates with jail time for trying to pursue a robust investigation into election integrity - when so many signs pointed to problems therein - is not a great way to convince people that it was "the purest, cleanest election in history"?; 8/25/23, 1:44 AM
Narayanan said...: I think he made a big mistake and jumped too soon.
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is he jumping or dancing to shots fired into his bank accounts?; 8/25/23, 2:42 AM
wendybar said...: Original Mike said...
Oh, good grief. Biden’s DOJ Sues Elon Musk’s SpaceX For Only Hiring US Citizens

By all means, let's have foreign nationals working on our rockets.

8/24/23, 7:13 PM

Illegal invaders you mean.; 8/25/23, 3:28 AM
wendybar said...: Where the hell is Barack?? It is obvious he doesn't care about his "people" in Hawaii. Must be on a yacht or worldwide love himself tour. He should be raising money with his good friends the Bushes instead of putting out pretty words acting like he cares when we all know he doesn't give a damn.; 8/25/23, 3:43 AM
planetgeo said...: Yes, I saw that article about the disappearance of Neptune's clouds too and had the same reaction. You would think that "the science" could put 2 and 2 together and draw a logical conclusion here regarding the probable effect of such increased activity of the sun on Earth, wouldn't you? Apparently not when "the scientists" are of the political or social type and believe that SUVs and cow farts have more impact on our climate than the sun.; 8/25/23, 4:46 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Professor's previous post demonstrates the state of "science" in todays America.
Good to be old.; 8/25/23, 5:17 AM
Rusty said...: "Exactly what face would you have made, Inga, if a prosecutor had decided to use you in this way?"
Jamie! Think of the poor children of Waukeshaw! It's bad enough she goes out in public.; 8/25/23, 7:10 AM
Iman said...: Igna rants are amusing to wake up to.

She puts the Mad in Madison.; 8/25/23, 7:45 AM
wendybar said...: "He's been trying to take Trump down for six years.

AND he's affiliated with the Biden campaign.

Huh.

That seems sort of, oh we dunno, like a conflict of interest? Oh, and yes, his account is still locked down this morning."

https://twitchy.com/samj/2023/08/25/fani-willis-campaign-director-locks-account-n2386573; 8/25/23, 8:21 AM
gilbar said...: wendybar said...
Where the hell is Barack?? It is obvious he doesn't care about his "people" in Hawaii.

well.. His Mom's dead, his grandma is dead his grandpa is dead.
I think his only "people" in hawaii is his his sister? and i DON'T think he likes her; 8/25/23, 8:42 AM
Kai Akker said...: --- worldwide love himself tour

He enjoyed that for eight years, Wendybar, he has moved on. Pulling the strings from Kalorama Road gives a new kind of charge.; 8/25/23, 9:09 AM
wendybar said...: "EXCLUSIVE: Delaware prosecutor Alexander Mackler who worked with investigator probing Hunter Biden's shady overseas dealings was so chummy with president he used his secret email address under the name 'Robin Ware'"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12434041/Prosecutor-Alexander-Mackler-secret-email-address-Joe-Biden-Robin-Ware.html; 8/25/23, 9:18 AM
wendybar said...: gilbar said...
wendybar said...
Where the hell is Barack?? It is obvious he doesn't care about his "people" in Hawaii.

well.. His Mom's dead, his grandma is dead his grandpa is dead.
I think his only "people" in hawaii is his his sister? and i DON'T think he likes her

8/25/23, 8:42 AM

But he has a Brand New Ocean Front Mansion that he skirted laws that normals have to follow to get what the King wants.....He doesn't have ANY people, he is all about himself...and always was. He GOT HIS.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10481075/Scowling-Obama-inspects-new-multi-million-dollar-Hawaii-mansion-controversial-sea-wall.html; 8/25/23, 9:23 AM
wildswan said...: I found out a bit more about the prolife trial going on in DC.
This particular prolife witness was planned and led by a group called Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU). Its leaders are queer or trans. They come out of the movement called Red Rose which is mainly Catholic but they felt that the Catholics weren't in touch with the present generation, didn't understand social media, used Facebook instead of Instagram - but above all, they thought that the Catholics framed their message incorrectly. These progressives were convinced that the left would become prolife if it understood that the unborn were being marginalized, excluded, othered and victimized to a greater extent than any other group. The unborn, they knew, are said to be blobs of jelly, not human, not persons, subject to death at the whim of another person. Who is more victimized than that? The PAAU leaders were sure that when progressives realized that the most vulnerable were the unborn they would rise up and support anti-abortion. (Hence the name of the group: Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising)
The PAAU plan was to go to the Washington Surgi-Clinic which does late-term abortions in quantity in DC and there challenge the evil in the center of its kingdom like Prigozhin marching on Moscow to try to get better leadership for the Ukraine war.
The result was that, for the first time in years FACE Act (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act) charges were brought. These charges are felonies and the defendants can be sentenced to as much as eleven years in prison.
The defendants felt they had evolved a way in which to witness on behalf of the unborn child within the clinics without creating any of the elements of a FACE charge. It is called a Red Rose Action. Essentially, they would find an open or, at least, unlocked door and walk into the clinic waiting room. There they would witness on behalf of the unborn children in that room, all scheduled to die that day, until the police came and hauled them away. They did not block doors, they went in an open door and witnessed. The action does not have the elements of FACE crime because it does not include chaining doors shut or or blocking doors with their bodies as was the case during Operation Rescue in the Nineties.
The WaPo has been attending the trial and, of course, has written up the action of the day as if the PAUU-led action using the Red Rose mode of witness was the same as an Operation Rescue action.
The jury is packed with abortion supporters who have promised to be impartial.
The Judge was the first chief judge on the FISA court and established the precedents by which invasion of e-mails and other social media without search warrants is acceptable in the law if the meta-data is not left on the media after collection. We now know the meta data is saved and the user can be unmasked at the request of just about any elite Dem. But though ready to sanction this kind of access, the Judge is plainly opposed to the Red Rose witness inside late term abortion clinics. She has rejected most of the defense motions and she accused a nun who made the sign of the cross in the courtroom of witness intimidation.
The jury probably will not engage in impartial assessment of the evidence until Monday.
Of course, this is the kind of trial Donald Trump will get in DC. His jury will be filled with Dem donors, Dem Congressional staffers and Dem campaign workers who have all promised to be impartial. The Judge will regard the Constitution as an outmoded, racist piece of white paper. The WaPo will attend like eager dogs being exercised and will excrete opinion as news. A change of venue is in order.; 8/25/23, 10:09 AM
wendybar said...: Now the Biden Administration is promoting a murderer who doesn't know how to keep track of his gun...This guy, Michael Byrd belongs behind bars...not getting a gold medal from Nancy and a promotion. If you are a Republican, stay away from the Capitol...you might get shot in cold blood for being in the wrong party.

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/ashli-babbitt-michael-byrd-promoted/2023/08/25/id/1132053/; 8/25/23, 10:28 AM
gilbar said...: wendybar said..
But he has a Brand New Ocean Front Mansion
true. I'd bet, that they would have Quickly released water to fight a fire THERE; 8/25/23, 11:24 AM
lonejustice said...: Beautiful clouds in all 3 pics. For sunrise and sunset photos, it's usually the clouds, not the sun itself, which make or break the shot. These 3 are keepers.; 8/25/23, 12:18 PM
Mason G said...: "Apparently not when "the scientists" are of the political or social type and believe that SUVs and cow farts have more impact on our climate than the sun."

"The scientists" know good and well their funding would get cut the second they proposed that there was something other than SUVs and cow farts that is driving the world's climate.; 8/25/23, 3:15 PM
Michael K said...: Blogger wendybar said...
Original Mike said...
Oh, good grief. Biden’s DOJ Sues Elon Musk’s SpaceX For Only Hiring US Citizens

By all means, let's have foreign nationals working on our rockets.

Especially if they are illiterate.; 8/25/23, 5:32 PM