Althouse: Sunrise

October 2, 2023

Sunrise — 6:59.

17 comments:

Humperdink said...: Jamaal Bowman's office put out talking points regarding his fire alarm stunt. One of his points was he pulled the fire alarm because the Republicans were Nazis. Seriously. He then pulled it back. What a twit.; 10/2/23, 7:27 PM
Joe Smith said...: How about those Dems, electing an Einstein who doesn't know what a fire alarm is.

Malcolm X. wannabe Rep. Bowman is a typical far-left socialist, fascist, not-so-bright thug who thinks he can get away with breaking all the rules.

Because he's right. He can.

This is the fucked up world in which we live...; 10/2/23, 8:10 PM
Iman said...: Jamaal Bowman (D-Dense)…

Who - in their haste to get to an important meeting - hasn’t pulled a fire alarm, thinking it opens a door?

Give this moron a break!; 10/2/23, 8:24 PM
wildswan said...: Jamie
You asked:
wildswan, please elaborate! If I understand correctly, you're not dismissing the possibility of differences in the "average genome" (for lack of a better term?) of populations separated for millennia (which seems, evolution-wise, to make sense, as they would have had different pressures on them). You're just saying that - sort of like the heatsink capacity of the oceans? - the genes can act in concert or in negation of one another, to minimize these differences. Is that more or less it?"

I'm not accepting Nicholas Wade's theories as expounded in A Troublesome Inheritance which seems to be the book you have read.
I disagree with him because I think the data collected by the social sciences on race is flawed by the racial classification system into which the data is sorted. In a recent trend social science data collections have been associated with genetic data and attempts have been made to reach conclusions about "race" in relation to crime, intelligence and so on. But the genetic data becomes distorted when it is jammed into non-genetic "racial" categories There's recent book on the subject: Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America Hardcover – July 19, 2022 The essence of the book is that racial classification in the US is not based on genetic data but on self-identifications and on classifications formulated by bureaucrats. Many "blacks" have as much as 50% European genes; About 14% of "whites" have African ancestors; and Hispanics are not a racial category at all but they are separately classified as if they were. Perhaps you'd find the book interesting if you are delving into "race".

You also asked: "What's the "IQ scam"? Is it just that it measures something valuable to only one sub-population of H. sap.? Or something else? "

The IQ scam is a shorthand reference to a long controversy. I'm sure you've read the chapters on the subject in A Troublesome Inheritance. So if that's your point of view I think on this topic also that you would find much food for thought in the book, Classified. You can see the implications for Wade's theories if genetic data and racial classifications are two separate things.; 10/2/23, 9:35 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: YouTube: The chorus lies again; 10/2/23, 10:00 PM
wildswan said...: I finished JK Rowling latest book, The Running Grave. If I were on the left but still in my right mind I would regard it as the most offensive book on the left since Animal Farm. But I think they'll find it impossible to recognize themselves.
Rowling's detective series has plots laid in different areas of contemporary English life such as high fashion, the English upper class, career criminals, and, with this one, cults. A cult has formed which promises immediate social justice, effective action on climate change, and an end to war. In addition it has a spiritual dimension - but not too spiritual. Members only have to "Admit the Possibility" and the Blessed Ones will accept them into what will be a successful battle against climate change, all injustices and war. The actuality is, as one might expect, a cross between the Manson family, North Korea and a successful, prosperous NGO immersed in pronouns, anti-racist thinking and careerism.
It's very hard for me to really understand people who don't believe in God. I don't mean I'm a critic; I mean I just don't really understand the inner life of people in this world which is so difficult and which for them has no meaning and no well-founded way to be. But this series by Rowling is, among other things, about all the different ways in which people are living out that situation which is her own.
When I finished this book (which is possibly the last in a series I've been following) I understood from the inside what climate change means to many - they only believe in the material, natural world. But human beings and their societies are so very different from the rest of nature that it's easy to believe that they are destroying it. They certainly aren't acting like the trees and stars and grass. Where are the guidelines? And why do we need them - and don't have them, it seems.
I hope I understood the book, it wasn't an easy read, I don't like reading about pain and dirt and hypocrisy of which I got a bellyful fighting against abortion but, anyhow, it was very interesting with many scenes showing how cults brainwash their adherents. In the immediate future we are now building, it will either become required reading or a book the mere possession of which indicates the most dangerous kind of BadThink.; 10/3/23, 12:43 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Shit. I tripped on a piece of uneven sidewalk and, because I was trying to protect my phone, really screwed-up my right hand. It got turned around, like a Thai dancer's, and sandwiched underneath my body weight. I soon passed out from the pain, in public and right on the sidewalk, with everybody keeping their distance, assuming I was on fentanyl or something. I don't think it's broken, but - hours later - it still hurts like Hell, and I'm clearly stuck doing everything one-handed for a while.

Man, I really don't need this.; 10/3/23, 1:24 AM
Gospace said...: I forgot one other thing that politicians around the world are lying about when it comes to the dreaded covid "vaccine".

They are all, each and every one of them, claiming no one was ever "forced" to get the covid shot that doesn't work. They were threatened with incarceration in concentration camps (Australia), court martial (USA- though none occurred- AFAIK- they could be lying about that), loss of job (virtually every Western country- the so called Democracies were dictatorships on this- including the USA), forbidden from public venues if unvaxxed (France, Australia, NZ, and some states in the USA- like the Empire of NY under both Dictator Cuomo and his successor Dictator Hochul), and various other inducements that amounted to loss of all property and jobs. BUT- no one was actually forced to get the jab. No one. 19 years active duty, spotless record? No shot, forced out, no retirement. My son the major. Just getting ready to graduate college with 4 years of ROTC scholarship? Get the shot of no commission, and, BTW, pay the government the governments estimate of the full cost of the scholarship AND all your military training. My son the now first lieutenant.

But no one, absolutely no one, was forced to get the shot.

I was forced to come in weekly- on my own time, to get tested for disease I had no symptoms of, and unlawfully and illegally refused overtime by the government- because I refused the shot. And- the union defended the governments position- wouldn't represent me in a grievance, so I didn't bother filing. But no undue pressure was ever put on anyone... Out of my 5 co-workers in my work unit, 3 have had heart problems following the jab. All of them got covid after the jab. Shortly after. I finally got it from a twice vaxxed person with no symptoms- since the jabbed were the only people who could spread the disease asymptomatically. 18 months after everyone else in my work group had it.

I actually just finished my second go round- long after everyone else had theirs. Got it from my wife, who figures she got it in church. She went in to be tested for a bacterial URI since she had been sick for more then 7 days, getting worse each day. Tested on Thursday, and no results by Friday. We started her on Ivermectin and azithromycin Friday evening. And started feeling better by the next day. Saturday I started with symptoms- Monday morning her doctor's office called- she was positive for covid. I immediately started ivermectin and azithromycin, felt better within the first hour. We both had no symptoms by Friday. My quick covid test at my employee health was positive within 15 seconds on Tuesday. Negative on Friday- went back to work Saturday. Taking to the nurse who gives the test- the vast majority of the hospital has had it more then once, and those few of us unvaccinated are only now getting it a second time, and recovering faster.; 10/3/23, 1:45 AM
gadfly said...: Slurring his words, Trump starts riffing at a campaign rally about how he would rather be electrocuted to death than be eaten by a shark. (A dozen Diet Cokes per day must have a remarkable effect on the former guy).

He was pontificating over batteries for electric-powered boats while recounting a conversation he claimed to have had with a boat manufacturer in South Carolina.

“If I’m sitting down and that boat is going down and I’m on top of a battery and the water starts flooding in, I’m getting concerned, but then I look 10 yards to my left and there’s a shark over there, so I have a choice of electrocution and a shark, you know what I’m going to take? Electrocution,” Trump said. “I will take electrocution every single time, do we agree?”

He couldn't say "electrocution" clearly, jamming his tongue into his cheek when he misspoke. But if this imaginary event should occur, I'll cheer for the winning choice.; 10/3/23, 1:45 AM
Humperdink said...: Saturday: Jamaal Bowman pulls fire alarm, claims it was an accident.

Monday: Jamaal Bowman plays the Nazi card, claims it was an accident.

Wednesday: Presumably another accident awaits Jamaal.; 10/3/23, 4:51 AM
MadTownGuy said...: Jamaal Bowman: fire in a crowded political theater.; 10/3/23, 5:08 AM
MadTownGuy said...: News media covers from 2016. Tell me this wasn't the DNC's and media outlets' (but I repeat myself) Plan B.; 10/3/23, 5:17 AM
Humperdink said...: It was reported (cough) that when she was advised that Gavin Newsome was going appoint an out-of-stater to replace Diane Feinstein, Hillary Clinton (D-Carpetbagger) decided to toss her pantsuit into the ring. Unfortunately for her, it was too little too late.; 10/3/23, 6:10 AM
rehajm said...: When bad policies collide: 14yo boy breaks down door of South Boston pot shop, steals 30 products; 10/3/23, 6:12 AM
Big Mike said...: I have cycled from schadenfreude to genuine sympathy and back to schadenfreude again in the case of the Democrat congressman carjacked near the US Navy Yard in Washington, DC, yesterday by three armed* gangbangers. Schadenfreude when I learned about the episode because of Democrat support for “Defund the Police.” Where are the police when you need them? Working someplace else because you voted to lay them off, clown.

Then I learned that it was Henry Cuellar, a moderate from a Texas congressional district that runs along the Rio Grande and who is a frequent critic of Biden’s border policies. Surely he didn’t vote to defund the police.

Then back to schadenfreude again when I learned that he certainly did vote to defund the police. Welcome to what everyone else has to deal with.

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* For those not aware, Washington, DC, has the most ridiculously strict gun laws in the country. One can be arrested and face serious jail time for having an empty cartridge casing or empty shotgun shell in one’s car, let alone live ammo or a loaded or unloaded gun. These laws are never enforced against the city’s gangbangers, who have been known to do drive by shootings with fully automatic AK-47s.; 10/3/23, 7:06 AM
Jamie said...: Sorry, I haven't read A Troublesome Inheritance - but it sounds as if, if I were to do so, I should read it with your other recommendation, Classified, as a companion piece.

I was just harking back to Darwin and the finches - but hadn't for a moment considered the self-identification thing, which I'd go out on a limb and say the finches weren't doing. And this despite the fact that I have two unopened ancestry.com kits sitting on our dresser waiting for us to use them. Amazing, the blind spots one can have.

Thanks for the response!; 10/3/23, 7:31 AM
Big Mike said...: The latest news from Madison, Wisconsin:

A black conservative event at the University of Madison-Wisconsin [sic] on Saturday was interrupted by left-wing protesters who “exposed themselves and even masturbated on camera,” according to a News Talk 1130 report this week.

You stay classy, students at the University of Wisconsin. Massa, he be proud of y’all.; 10/3/23, 11:54 AM