Althouse: The prairie at 1:35 p.m....

October 11, 2023

The prairie at 1:35 p.m....

... and the prairie at 7:21 a.m....

The drying out and fading stage is lovely too.

Talk about whatever you want in the comments.

54 comments:

The Crack Emcee said...: It's fun talking to people who all agree war is wrong, but are just waiting for the first reason they get to go and have one.; 10/11/23, 11:03 AM
Humperdink said...: I'm old enough to remember the Munich Olympic massacre in 1972 of Jewish athletes, trainers and coaches by ...... wait for it ....... Palestinian terrorists. Fifty-0ne years ago. I was a senior at PSU at the time. It was my first exposure to terrorism. Eight (8) armed Palestinians and eleven (11) Israelis, including American born weightlifter David Berger. All the Israelis were killed as were most the terrorists. History repeats and repeats.

"The disastrous events of September 5th, 1972 came after an evening of fun for the Israeli athletes who, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), had enjoyed a night out at a performance of Fiddler on the Roof before returning to the Olympic Village. Later, as the athletes slept, eight armed members of the Palestinian group Black September, breached the Olympic compound by scaling the surrounding six foot fence and entering two apartments used by the Israeli team.

While investigating a noise at the door of the first apartment, Israeli wrestling referee Yossef Gutfreund, watched as the door began to open and saw masked men with guns on the other side. He yelled to the others as he threw his weight against the door and in the ensuing confusion two athletes escaped and another eight managed to hide. According to the CBC, weightlifter Joseph Romano grabbed an intruder's gun but was shot and killed, as was wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg, when he tried to attack one of the kidnappers with a fruit knife as the hostages were being transported."

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/munich-massacre.htm; 10/11/23, 11:04 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Professor at Edzard Ernst has laid out the history of the founder of chiropractic, and I like it because it's a clear picture of how little Americans give a shit about reality or the truth or anything. They'll make any liar a millionaire and keep the fraud going for centuries, and then expect everyone to think they're all wonderful people.

Hey - let's go to war, too! Because we care about the truth so much,....; 10/11/23, 11:11 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: I think I put the wrong link in the previous post. Here's the correct one.; 10/11/23, 11:12 AM
Nancy said...: To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee.
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few.; 10/11/23, 11:23 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Humperdink said...

"I'm old enough to remember the Munich Olympic massacre in 1972 of Jewish athletes, trainers and coaches by ...... wait for it ....... Palestinian terrorists. Fifty-0ne years ago. I was a senior at PSU at the time. It was my first exposure to terrorism. Eight (8) armed Palestinians and eleven (11) Israelis, including American born weightlifter David Berger. All the Israelis were killed as were most the terrorists. History repeats and repeats."

In the outstanding documentary One day in September we discovered the Germans cut a deal to let the Palestinian attackers go free: "The film also alleges that the 29 October hijacking of a Lufthansa jet and the subsequent release of the three surviving Black September members in exchange for the hostages was a set-up by the German government, who did not want their failings to be made obvious in the trial."

Check it out.; 10/11/23, 11:54 AM
Rich said...: Who knew allowing Twitter to turn into a disinformation cesspool might have consequences…; 10/11/23, 11:55 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: I found One Day In September online (but with ads) for anyone who wants to see a brilliant Academy Award-winning film.; 10/11/23, 12:01 PM
TickTock said...: We need these pictures now more than most days.; 10/11/23, 12:22 PM
TickTock said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/11/23, 12:27 PM
tim in vermont said...: Emerson poll shows Trump leading PA by nine (+9); 10/11/23, 12:38 PM
Gospace said...: The Crack Emcee said...
It's fun talking to people who all agree war is wrong, but are just waiting for the first reason they get to go and have one.

War is always wrong for one side. Sometimes wrong for both sides. And I can't see anywhere is history where it was justified for both sides. Some, like The War of Jenkin's Ear are laughable as the blamed cause, but the blamed cause is a pretext.

And now, for another example of how news is slanted, and hoe the current situation would be totally covered by all MSM once the leader took the lead in how to slant it. The massacre of Israeli citizens was done by Hamas terrorists--- no, no, no, that's wrong. The massacre of Israeli civilians was done by Hamas gunmen. Next thing you know, they'll be blaming the guns and calling for more gun control in the USA to prevent such massacres.; 10/11/23, 1:22 PM
rhhardin said...: YouTube live feeds from Gaza don't reveal any car alarms going off.; 10/11/23, 1:22 PM
TickTock said...: Finally looked at the front page of Journal (WSJ) this morning:

One day, you wake up, and the power is out. You try to get information on your phone, and you have no internet access. Gradually you discover millions of people across the U.S. are in the same situation–one that will bring months or years of rebuilding.

A gigantic solar storm has hit Earth.

The odds are low that in any given year a storm big enough to cause effects this widespread will happen. And the severity of those impacts will depend on many factors, including the state of our planet’s magnetic field on that day. But it’s a near certainty that some form of this catastrophe will happen someday, says Ian Cohen, a chief scientist who studies heliophysics at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

I've been telling friends and family about the possibility of another Carrington event (and the devastation that will result from our over reliance on the internet), since roughly 2005. But no one listens. I think the fact that these concerns have hit the front page of a major newspaper is a step in the right direction.

But there is no safety in knowing a few hours before it will happen. When nothing works for months and years, and all your electronic money is gone, no cars or trucks will operate, most people will starve.

Most people don't prepare for events that will happen comfortably far in the future, and one day the future arrives. Of course, there is little a single individual can do; society needs to rethink how vulnerable it wants to be.; 10/11/23, 2:20 PM
Jupiter said...: The behavior of the Palestinian "militants" (one can hardly deny that they are militant, whatever else they might be) is very similar to the attacks of American Indians on settlers during the years when Europeans were slowly dispossessing them of their land. They realize that they are not being defeated by a political organization, they are being ecologically marginalized by a superior organism. It is therefore not surprising that their rage is directed at precisely the women and children who are the means whereby that competitor reproduces itself. They realize that men are expendable, so long as they are replaceable. Including themselves.; 10/11/23, 2:28 PM
Big Mike said...: I see that Steve Scalise is the Republican nominee for Speaker. The man that Democrat tried to murder. I’ll bet a lot of people have forgotten that incident, some of them more or less deliberately, I’m sure. But I’ll bet he hasn’t forgotten. He still needs 218 votes, which in turn requires neither Gaetz nor Mace nor anybody else from the Evil Eight trying to grandstand. I imagine serious people have talked to Gaetz and he’ll be a good boy. (Fingers crossed.); 10/11/23, 2:47 PM
Drago said...: LLR-democratical Rich: "Who knew allowing Twitter to turn into a disinformation cesspool might have consequences…"

LOL

Looks like another fail from LLR Rich!

Yes Rich. Who could have guessed that Pierre Omidyar, after leading the boycott effort against Musk/X, owns the "disinformation" (wink wink) firm that was contracted by the EU to perform disinformation "analysis" (wink wink) that "found" (wink wink) X in "violation" of EU DSA policy?

Gee, I. Did. Not. See. That. Coming!

As relayed by the loathsome EU censorship hack Thierry Breton to Musk.

The back and forth between Musk and Thierry was hilarious as the EU m/Soviet bureaucrat was challenged repeatedly to give examples of these "violations" (wink wink) and, naturally, refused.

We all know why.

LLR-democratical Rich demonstrates a rather unhealthy and perhaps pseudo-sexual desire to be controlled, and hard, by Brussels-based leftist censors.

One suspects it has something to do with the fact that so many on the left/dem/LLR-democratical side have been brutally exposed over the last several days as islamic supremacist terrorist suckups.

There are rumors the EU is working behind the scenes with the biden-buffoons to accelerate the shutdown of X before the left/dems are further embarrassed.

The EU using an Omidyar front company to create the necessary lies to hit X makes perfect sense in that regard.

And you can always count on LLR-democratical Rich to play his part in advancing Team Global Censorship rhetoric as he did with his Starlink/Crimea lies weeks ago.; 10/11/23, 2:52 PM
Narr said...: World War III possibly just hours away. Crack Emcee hardest hit.; 10/11/23, 2:55 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: More about this post: "We are now almost a quarter of the way through what looks likely to go down in history as the least innovative, least transformative, least pioneering century for culture..."

Reddit videoclipThe finest candlemakers in the world could not think of electric lights.

"We are blocking all new advances in science."

And as if that wasn't bad enough.; 10/11/23, 3:04 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: "The chief lawbreakers - indeed the ONLY lawbreakers - are the United States, and the state of Israel."

- Prof. Norman Finkelstein, who has worked on the Israeli-Palestinian issue for 40 years.; 10/11/23, 3:08 PM
Jupiter said...: "the Washington Post has announced that it will be reducing its headcount by 240 staffers."

Which will save Bezos almost as much money as he made in the time it took me to cut and paste it. You do have to wonder, why he bought the stupid thing if he isn't willing to spend a little cash to keep it going. Surely he didn't expect it to turn a profit?; 10/11/23, 3:09 PM
Scott Patton said...: It always bugs me to see an image that is just a picture of text and if you want to google it or a part of it, or otherwise copy it as text, etc., you can't, and just have to retype it.
I don't know if this is new or I just noticed it...
Use the MS snipping tool to do a screenshot of a picture containing the text, then switch to the snipping tool window and click the "Text Actions" button on the toolbar and it converts it to text that you can then select and copy. Instant OCR.; 10/11/23, 3:13 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Reddit video: I have no idea if this is real... But it is the sound of someone saying the world's health authorities covid response was overkill.; 10/11/23, 3:16 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: Norman Finkelstein compares the Palestinian's jihad to John Brown's rebellion, and reminds us Union soldiers used to sing songs in celebration of Brown taking hostages and killing every white person he could get his hands on.; 10/11/23, 3:23 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: Narr said...

"World War III possibly just hours away. Crack Emcee hardest hit."

Don't mention me. Drago's gonna swear-to-God I twisted your arm just to promote my website.; 10/11/23, 3:27 PM
Drago said...: Great News lefties/LLR-lefties!

A new strategy has emerged on the left to deal with the game-changing exposure of the left/dem/LLR alliance with islamic supremacists!

And you are going to love this one: simply define Hamas as being "right-wing"!

Presto-chango magic!

Of course, X will need to come under the control of the New Soviet Democraticals to pull that one off fulky so keep your chins up dems/LLR-dems! Narrative support is on the way!; 10/11/23, 3:32 PM
Buckwheathikes said...: Article I, section 5 of the United States Constitution provides that "Each House [of Congress] may determine the Rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member."

Not a single one of the 26 Jews, nor a single one of the 221 Republicans in the House has called for the expulsion of Democrat Party members who have explicitly sided with Iranian-backed Muslim terrorists in the murder of innocent people including women and children in Israel.

There is not a single HUMAN BEING in the entire Congress.; 10/11/23, 3:33 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: Fox News is showing the arrival of ammunition in Israel after our government just told us we didn't have any for ourselves; 10/11/23, 3:36 PM
Rich said...: “I see that Steve Scalise is the Republican nominee for Speaker.”

Steve Scalise in his own words: "Like David Duke without the baggage"

House recesses as Scalise looks to secure Speakership votes
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4249441-republicans-nominate-speaker-live-coverage/

David Duke can’t get the votes.

It’s cool, not like our ally is at war or anything. We don’t really need a functional House.
Take your time — no rush.; 10/11/23, 3:44 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: "Steve Scalise wins GOP conference ballot to become the next Speaker of the House.."

Didn't he have health problems?

He hasn't been the same since a leftist loon tried to take him out.; 10/11/23, 3:47 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: HAARETZ: Netanyahu Bears Responsibility for This Israel-Gaza War

The disaster that befell Israel on the holiday of Simchat Torah is the clear responsibility of one person: Benjamin Netanyahu. The prime minister, who has prided himself on his vast political experience and irreplaceable wisdom in security matters, completely failed to identify the dangers he was consciously leading Israel into when establishing a government of annexation and dispossession, when appointing Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir to key positions, while embracing a foreign policy that openly ignored the existence and rights of Palestinians."

ALSO:

Israel Can’t Imprison Two Million Gazans Without Paying a Cruel Price

"Behind all this lies Israeli arrogance; the idea that we can do whatever we like, that we’ll never pay the price ,...; 10/11/23, 3:57 PM
Drago said...: Btw, here's the exchange between LLR-democratical Rich's beloved EU hack and weasel-word-filled Breton and Musk.

Pay particular attention to the non-specific weasel words (which Rich no doubt loved the most).

Thierry Breton: "Following the terrorist attacks by Hamas against 🇮🇱, we have indications of X/Twitter being used to disseminate illegal content & disinformation in the EU.

Urgent letter to @elonmusk on #DSA obligations"

Musk: "Our policy is that everything is open source and transparent, an approach that I know the EU supports.

Please list the violations you allude to on 𝕏, so that that the public can see them.
Merci beaucoup."

Breton: "Vu, merci.

You are well aware of your users’ — and authorities’— reports on fake content and glorification of violence.

Up to you to demonstrate that you walk the talk.

My team remains at your disposal to ensure DSA compliance, which the EU will continue to enforce rigorously."

Musk: "We take our actions in the open.

No back room deals.

Please post your concerns explicitly on this platform."

Needless to say, Breton's/EU Omidyar-funded teams (EU Disinfo Lab) has no specifics to share.

Just lies that Rich parrots at Althouse blog cuz thats how LLR-democraticals roll dog!; 10/11/23, 3:59 PM
West TX Intermediate Crude said...: R's choice of Steve Scalise as House Speaker is brilliant (assuming, as BigMike notes, that Gaetz, et. al., behave appropriately).
Scalise will have to be diplomatic and statesmanlike, while the R machine makes James Hodgkinson a household name that comes to mind when thinking of Lee Harvey Oswald and John Wilkes Booth. They may need to get him a middle name to fit in.
Scalise will then have to schedule votes that force every Dem critter to condemn Hamas. Every R will vote in favor, and there will be embarrassing abstentions by the Squatters and some of the Black Caucus.
Scalise will then have to carry out all the promises that McCarthy made when he ran, just to show that it can be done and should be done.; 10/11/23, 4:08 PM
Buckwheathikes said...: Also President Biden later (which the press did not cover): "No, we're not going to refreeze the $6 billion we gave Iran to funnel to Hamas so that these terrorist attacks could occur."

America, take heed: Our President, Joe Biden, is providing funding for a TERRORIST STATE. That state just attacked Israel in a horrific act of terrorism against innocent women and children.

Joe Biden is our ENEMY.

He is working FOR our enemy.

He is providing aid to our ENEMY.

He is providing comfort to our ENEMY.

He is HIMSELF a terrorist.

If you stand by and do nothing, ask yourself: Why did the German people allow Hitler to do the First Holocaust? Because you are allowing Joe Biden to do the 2nd Holocaust.; 10/11/23, 4:13 PM
West TX Intermediate Crude said...: TickTock-
I'm less worried about a Carrington Event, more worried about an Electromagnetic Pulse nuclear explosion by the N Koreans or Iranians, that will have the same effect and be accompanied by multiple other coordinated attacks on US infrastructure- poison in water supply, anthrax or fentanyl releases in major cities, whatever else they can think of. Potentially tens of millions of Americans killed, and nothing we can do about it.; 10/11/23, 4:14 PM
tim in vermont said...: "World War III possibly just hours away. Crack Emcee hardest hit"

If we are going to avoid WWIII, it will have to be people who don't get swept up in the emotion of the moment that do it.; 10/11/23, 4:27 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Elon Musk Lessons from the Roman Empire:

“Regarding Lycurgus, founder of Sparta.

The pivotal moment in the creation of Sparta came when Lycurgus proposed radical laws that would transform the state into some of the greatest warriors in history.

A member of the assembly was so offended that he struck Lycurgus in the eye. Lycurgus could easily have killed him and everyone knew it.

Instead, he stood there with his eye destroyed and invited that man to his house for dinner, ultimately convincing the man to become one of his greatest supporters.

Once the laws were in place, Lycurgus left for the temple, saying the laws could not change until he returned. Then Lycurgus starved himself to death.

BAMF.

The lesson here is that revenge is for the weak.”; 10/11/23, 4:30 PM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: Shorter Rich - We need all media to be pro-Democrat party narratives and propaganda; 10/11/23, 4:56 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: I think Judge Joe Brown is a national treasure.; 10/11/23, 5:14 PM
Iman said...: “The drying out and fading stage is lovely too.”

Oh, I don’t know about that. It might be if the arthur itis (Fred Sanford lives!) in my shoulders would ease up a bit.; 10/11/23, 5:18 PM
Iman said...: Too soon for that Crack horseshit.; 10/11/23, 6:04 PM
Iman said...: “Gun violence!”, they cried!; 10/11/23, 6:06 PM
Maynard said...: LLR-democratical Rich demonstrates a rather unhealthy and perhaps pseudo-sexual desire to be controlled, and hard, by Brussels-based leftist censors.

LOL!; 10/11/23, 6:07 PM
rhhardin said...: Decapitating babies turns out to be a public relations mistake. Who could have predicted it.; 10/11/23, 7:05 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: Somebody has to explain why a Jew from Brooklyn has more right to live in Israel than a Palestinian who was born there and got chased off his land.; 10/11/23, 7:05 PM
Narr said...: I've been to your blog, Crack, and know where to find it. But thank you for your service.; 10/11/23, 7:27 PM
Mark said...: Drago pretends Elon's childish demand to try a law case on Twitter has any merit. He will see the EU in court, just like every other business that knowingly violates laws.

Perhaps next time he can demand a cage match with him, as he clearly has chickened out with his threat to fight Zuckerberg.; 10/11/23, 7:31 PM
Jamie said...: I am in the drying out and fading stage...

I was walking with a friend today who is exploring noninvasive anti-aging skin and facial treatments. I'm just embracing 57 so far. My husband seems cool with it.; 10/11/23, 8:43 PM
MadisonMan said...: I cleaned out my gutters on Saturday. As I do this, I recall a friend who fell off his roof while cleaning his gutters. The resultant head injury killed him.; 10/11/23, 8:55 PM
Josephbleau said...: “Somebody has to explain why a Jew from Brooklyn has more right to live in Israel than a Palestinian who was born there and got chased off his land.”

Because immigrants are always welcome. They provide diversity and goodness. Open borders! If you want originalism I guess you need to find the person with the oldest DNA and give them title to the whole world.; 10/11/23, 10:43 PM
Drago said...: Dumb Lefty Mark: "Drago pretends Elon's childish demand to try a law case on Twitter has any merit. He will see the EU in court, just like every other business that knowingly violates laws."

LOL

Yes, you censorious authoritarian New Soviets certainly have lots of "laws" and rigged courts to drag political enemies thru.

No doubt.

And you even hire the domestic and political opponents of your targets to provide "the proof" of said violations.

That is a nice and tidy little operation, isnt it?; 10/11/23, 10:46 PM
Drago said...: rhhardin: "Decapitating babies turns out to be a public relations mistake. Who could have predicted it."

Not our resident Dumb Lefties, like Mark.; 10/11/23, 10:47 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: 10/11/23, 7:05 PM
Blogger The Crack Emcee said...
Somebody has to explain why a Jew from Brooklyn has more right to live in Israel than a Palestinian who was born there and got chased off his land.

10/11/23, 7:05 PM

Name one Palestinian who was "chased off" his land.; 10/11/23, 10:48 PM
Drago said...: This one is for Dumb Lefty Mark...though, lets face it, Mark's dumbness represents a nearly impermeable barrier to knowledge aquisition and critical thinking.

Still, as both a courtesy and a humanitarian gesture towards those less fortunate, this is offered:

MORGAN MEAKERBUSINESSOCT 11, 2023 3:53 PM
The EU’s Threats to Elon Musk Are Empty, Sources Say
"European commissioner Thierry Breton warned X it could be fined for failing to control disinformation and illegal content. But critics say his threats lack teeth.:"

Read more here: https://www.wired.com/story/the-eu-is-playing-by-elon-musks-rules/

So much for Dumb Lefty Mark's "law case".

Next up for Dumb Lefty Mark: ZOUNDS!!! Rumor has it the paper towel dispenser in one of Giga Texas' bathrooms is running low!! Elon is a failure!!!; 10/12/23, 1:07 AM