Althouse: 6:09 a.m. — the lake, the fog, the moon.

September 9, 2023

6:09 a.m. — the lake, the fog, the moon.

17 comments:

The Crack Emcee said...: A short post, based on Drago's conversation yesterday, about what I'm doing with my blog, and why.; 9/9/23, 9:05 AM
Owen said...: Gorgeous.; 9/9/23, 9:47 AM
planetgeo said...: It's another pumpkin spice latte sunrise...; 9/9/23, 9:48 AM
PJ said...: So our State Department evidently cancelled the Prime Minister of Pakistan for being "aggressively neutral." Is "cruelly" worse than "aggressively"?; 9/9/23, 10:00 AM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: Where is Obama's charitable donation to Maui victims?; 9/9/23, 10:02 AM
Drago said...: The Crack Emcee: "A short post, based on Drago's conversation yesterday, about what I'm doing with my blog, and why."

I like your blog. I've listened to some of your music. I find many of your observations interesting. I think you have a connection with "street" that often matches my own. Perhaps because I spent so much time in the North Bay.

Having said that, I will point out when you offer up insane utterings.

Example: the world knew nothing of slavery, murder and lying until the whites invented them.

You should probably retract that one and a few others or, better yet, never hit publish on that stuff at all.

It aint complicated.

And I wish you great success in your endeavors. I would like nothing better than for you to have to hire a team of wild haired jewish accountants and lawyers to fight off the Feds as they try and give you the Wesley Snipes treatment.

Cuz thats when you'll know you've "made it".; 9/9/23, 10:23 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Can states really do that?

Hint: Trump again possibly breaking new ground, forcing people to think about what an election really means. With so few people actually voting, that may not be a bad thing.

I was reading Andrew Sully Substack last night about the obvious, how Biden should just step aside and let somebody younger go up against Trump. Trump the menace... and then I realize, the Biden part was just bait to nudge readers into watching him rip Trump a new one. Then he goes on to list Biden accomplishments... I was like, why did I get on this ride?; 9/9/23, 10:27 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Btw. Is becoming abundantly clear to people who pay attention that it is really Obama running the government today.; 9/9/23, 10:29 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: I asked Bing when was the last time did the AG testified before congress.

"According to my search results, Attorney General Merrick Garland testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday, October 21, 2021."

We have a lawless administration.; 9/9/23, 10:47 AM
mikee said...: The Sun.
The Sky.
The Trees.
The Stones.
And Underneath,
Dinosaur Bones.; 9/9/23, 11:12 AM
Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of New York said...: Of all of the billions of dollars that disappeared in Ukraine after the coup, the only money ever recovered was due to a small team, who managed to recover 1.5 billion dollars. The rest of the "anti-corruption" teams, which included the FBI was "unable to recover a single dollar."

Guess who was on the only team to successfully claw back any of the money stolen by Ukrainian kleptocrats? "Son of a bitch" as Joe Biden said, it was the guy he fired, Shokin. Has a single person stepped forward to corroborate Joe's story that he was carrying out US and EU policy.? Because there is a lot of documentation coming out that seems to show that the opposite was true.

https://twitter.com/ClimateAudit/status/1700539377116496328

That's right. Biden fired the one effective prosecutor, because he was putting too much heat on Biden's clients in Ukraine.; 9/9/23, 11:57 AM
Jamie said...: Is becoming abundantly clear to people who pay attention that it is really Obama running the government today.

I've been wondering about the identity of the mysterious They who seem to have been steering (or interfering with the steering of) the ship of state since Obama left. This makes a lot more sense than any alternative theories I've heard.

Obviously it's not, in general, Obama himself or the Obamas themselves; it's their - enthusiasts? Groupies? Recruits? But on what basis were they recruited? What's the goal?

I don't really like listening to James Lindsay of the Hoax Papers on this subject - he rings the Marxism warning bell constantly to the point that any overlap of language, even at times so much as the same single word's having been used by Marxists and the woke, is an occasion of Marxism's being the wolf in woke clothing. My eyes get to rolling early in his lectures and keep on rolling throughout. But damned if I can think of another recruiting tool.

I just don't understand what makes Marxism so attractive to some people! Envy, I suppose, and resentment; but why are people so eager to go through their lives angry at strangers?; 9/9/23, 2:56 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: Drago,

That was actually a very nice reply, and I thank you for the civility of it, but, I must say, like Donald Trump, I am merely a flawed man who has been forced to bear the slings and arrows of misfortune for sounding an alarm. So - as long as I am the only person who isn't surprised> (and practically the only person who could've predicted) everyone was going to be talking about not only Scientology but cults in general, and the other specifically NewAge subjects of quack medicine and vaccines, this is gonna be our next president (fighting off an army of Oprah's "spiritual advisors") or that crack cocaine, specifically, would still be the issue animating our nation (and much, much more) - it is I who's been mostly right, and you who's been mostly wrong. And the country is paying for it.

As you scoff, they and their corruptions are corroding this nation like rust eats chrome.; 9/9/23, 3:37 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: Jamie said...

"I just don't understand what makes Marxism so attractive to some people!"

I lived in San Francisco for almost 30 years, and I could count the number of real Marxists I've met on one hand. Meanwhile, almost the entire city is part of the New Age movement, as the rest of the world scoffed at them. I think the right is losing because, while they identify with Christianity and know how it animates politics, they don't respect the "spiritual" power base of the left - which is the New Age movement - and that gives that snake all the room it's needing to devour America whole.

None of my current black friends know who Karl Marx is, but they know their star sign, and will probably get into a fight with you over it.; 9/9/23, 4:54 PM
Narr said...: "Madness is something rare in individuals--but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages it is the rule." Nietzsche wasn't wrong, even if the incidence of individual madness has gone up substantially since his day.; 9/9/23, 5:04 PM
Ampersand said...: Digital photography and extraordinary persistence create opportunities for long term creative projects. But what is the platform by which individual images are leveraged in support of some cumulative impact?
Life is a set of moments. How do we make the whole more than the sum of the parts?; 9/9/23, 7:20 PM
Drago said...: Crack Emcee: "As you scoff, they and their corruptions are corroding this nation like rust eats chrome."

Again, just a couple quick notes regarding your last post:

1) I have never "scoffed" at your criticisms of new age quackery. Quite the opposite

2) You should probably cease falsely labeling those that agree with you on certain topics as "scoffers" because...it makes zero sense to do so

3) I just thought I'd toss a "3)" in to make it look good; 9/9/23, 10:56 PM