December 30, 2023

Sunrise — 7:26, 7:27, 7:32.

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50 comments:

rcocean said...

Great pictures. I love constrast between the clouds, sun reflections, and the blue sky.

Clyde said...

Clyde's Top 15 Favorite "New" Songs of 2023 - #2 - "Capricornia" - Allo Darlin' - Europe (2012)

For most of the year, I thought that this would probably be the #1 song on my year-end countdown. Allo Darlin' is an indie pop band based in London, with Australian singer-songwriter Elizabeth Morris fronting things. The band's name came from Morris' time working in Soho. Wikipedia quotes her as saying, "I I used to work near the market sellers. Every day I'd walk past and the old guys would yell out "Allo darlin'" as they ashed into their fruit bowls."

The 2012 album Europe quickly became a favorite of mine, since it has a number of wonderfully jangly pop songs on it. "Capricornia" is just about the perfect pop song, in my opinion, although "Wonderland," "Some People Say," and "Still Young" are also really good. If you're looking for an album of feel-good music, try this one.

Allo Darlin' - Capricornia

Bonus song #1: Allo Darlin' - Wonderland (Live on KEXP) (2012)

Here's a live version of this song on KEXP. You can also find the whole half-hour 2012 KEXP performance on YouTube.

Allo Darlin' - Wonderland (Live on KEXP)

Bonus song #2: Allo Darlin' - Crickets in the Rain (Live on KEXP)

This comes from the 2014 album We Come From the Same Place. Again, the full 2014 KEXP show is available on YouTube.

Allo Darlin' - Crickets in the Rain (Live on KEXP)

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

r/unvaccinated has either been removed, banned or taken private.

It’s a warning sign.

If Biden wins they are coming after us.

tim in vermont said...
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Mike of Snoqualmie said...

I just watched a time travel series called "Bodies" on Netflix. The same body has shown up in four different times: 1890, 1942, 2019, and 2050, or there about. It's a detective story on unraveling why.

I'm now watching a German Netflix series called "Dark", about time travel and the apocalypse. It occurs in a small German town called Winden which has a nuclear power plant. There are a lot of characters who we see at different ages and different years.

Both are worth watching.

Jamie said...

Hey, Althousians - I'm still seeking a solution to the problem of why this blog - and only this one - now displays on my phone as if it is the desktop version, even though the URL quite properly ends with "m=1," indicating that the site recognizes that I'm accessing it through a mobile device. This problem surfaced when I had to reset and restore my phone, and I'm getting nowhere trying to research it, because every search I do assumes I'm the Blogger site owner and am having trouble getting MY blog to display correctly for ALL users.

If you are:

* in your 50s
* with uncorrected vision (or have had LASIK, as I did)
* but need low-power reading glasses for comfortable reading (in other words, if you're likely to be using similar font-size and accessibility settings to what I use),
*and if you view this blog on your phone in portrait orientation,

...would you mind telling me what the last word in the first line of the AI post below is on your phone? For me, it's "staleness" - pretty much no matter what display settings I dink around with. I can increase the font size in a couple of ways, but not much, and when I do, it makes other sites' fonts unnecessarily huge. Before restoring my phone, I'd estimate that the last word would have been somewhere around "already," or maybe even "A.I."

I've come across no other sites that look different to me since doing my reset/restore. So I'm assuming this is a my-phone problem, but I'm stymied and am VERY tired of either squinting at the still-impossibly tiny print in landscape orientation or zooming in and having to scroll side to side.

Any insight welcome - just looking for clues about what else I can change!

gadfly said...

The Tennessean reports that the friends and supportors of the far-right Lewis Country Store in North Nashville are dismayed that the family has sold the store and its crazy owners will no longer be insulting customers with white supremist rhetoric and political signs. Further the hand-to-hand combat gym housed above the log cabin market will close and Brad Lewis — son of the deceased founder, current owner and self-described "actual literal Nazi" will go byebye.

Hurry on down for the goodbye party but you should take your body armor and AK15 rifle along just in case some fun starts.

Drago said...

A perfect Hamas 7th Century Death Cult Fanboy Li'l Crack-y bit of "history":

"The Titanic was a Palestinian ship. It was sailing from East Palestine to West Palestine. It was sunk by a conspiracy of three Jews named Goldberg, Rosenberg, and the more well-known of the three, Iceberg."

wendybar said...

wendybar said...
"In the video, Jacob Chansley, later dubbed the “Q Shaman,” reads a tweet from President Trump to the crowd outside the US Capitol and tells them to go home. Chansley added, “We are peaceful… We are not Antifa.”"

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/new-video-hidden-public-q-shaman-stands-outside/

wendybar said...

Wall Street Silver
@WallStreetSilv
This is why you only see illegal migrants with small backpacks.

This driver carries all the people's bags across the border, so when the migrants are illegally crossing into the USA, they don't have to carry anything.

It's a whole operation.

This footage is in Eagle Pass, Texas; it borders the city of Mexico.

🚨🚨🚨

https://twitter.com/i/status/1740578779607531899

wendybar said...

"As we survey the American landscape, we cannot help but notice that just about everything has been corrupted by the left."

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/12/the_corruption_of_everything.html

wendybar said...


How convenient....again...as usual

"'So we won't know which politicians he bribed or who's campaigns he influenced? That collective sigh of relief you are hearing is from the DEEP STATE,' tweeted Rep. Tim Burchett, a Tennessee Republican."

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12913961/SBF-campaign-finance-donations-coverup.html

The Crack Emcee said...

“Haley has been appearing on television interviews where she calls herself a minority—when it suits her. When she registers to vote she says she is white. She has developed a pattern of saying whatever is beneficial to her at the moment.”

- the South Carolina Post and Courier (2011) explaining everything

wendybar said...

DC_Draino
@DC_Draino

Crazy that Rudy Giuliani was ordered to pay $140 million for saying a rigged election was rigged, but not a single Democrat or journalist had to pay anything for saying Trump colluded with Russia for 3+ years

Kai Akker said...

Intelligent readers may have seen these bits already, but it's worth noting for those who may not have.

Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit and John Hinderaker of PowerLine have reached the point of just coming out and saying it about Hamas and the Palestinians who support them.

Reynolds, referencing an Alex Berenson Substack piece about the extreme brutality of the Hamas rapist-murderer-terrorists:

"It’s as if these people are a bunch of degenerate animals, which is because that’s what they are. Hamas and the — majority — of Palestinians who support them. And their western supporters — including the Western feminists who went crazy about a fictional frat-house rape that left its “victim” alive and unscarred — are utterly complicit as well.

"And we’re supposed to pretend somehow that these degenerate animals aren’t degenerate animals because of a bullshit Cultural Marxist theory created by people whose goal was always to undermine Western civilization and replace it with something that looks a lot like a cross between Hamas and Stalin. Garbage ideas from garbage people who deserve to be treated like the garbage that they are, but that are instead amplified and legitimized by our academic/media/political complex, which is itself no better. It is important to make that truth utterly clear and to repeat it and throw it in their faces."



Hinderaker:

"UPDATE: Upon re-reading this post, I realize that I may have inadvertently maligned the animal kingdom. To be clear, there is no animal species, no predator, anywhere near as cruel, as heartless, as vicious, as ignorant, as the Muslims who carried out the atrocities of October 7–and the much larger number of Muslims and Western liberals in the press, at Harvard, Penn, MIT, etc., who cheered those atrocities. No animal species has sunk that low."

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/12/degenerate-animals.php

The Crack Emcee said...

Kai Akker,

Calling others "animals" is practicing Naziism, and those doing so can be scorned for being less than human themselves. That they've racked up a body count of innocent civilians, that only approaches the Nazis in number, is further confirmation this is so. Dehumanizing language is always the first step.

The Crack Emcee said...

Israel-Hamas War Day 86 | Two IDF Reservists Killed in Gaza Strip Fighting - let's recap:

No Hamas surrender.

No hostages released.

Hamas is stronger in polls than ever.

Israel DID negotiate with Hamas to releaser hostages, breaking their pledge.

Other outside actors are getting involved.

Netanyahu is still reviled, while the Palestinians are more popular, world-wide, than they've ever been.

The US has lost all credibility, here and abroad.

Conclusion: Oct 7 was a clear success, in every way Hamas planned, and fascists can go suck a dick for all anyone cares.

Humperdink said...

Not sure if the Lions got hosed by the refs at the end of the game against (South) America's team last night, but I do know the refs blew a clear pass interference non-call against the 'Boys on the final drive. NFL officiating in not consistent (re: terrible). I'm sure non-stop NFL gambling ads and the resultant revenue have nothing to do with it.

The Crack Emcee said...

Oh, and the right has probably already lost the next election, because - in a contest between Biden and rainbow-haired abortion fans vs. a party of free speech deniers and MASS MURDERERS - I don't think they're gonna do so well anymore. Even with Trump.

Hamas exposed the right's worst tendencies and helped the GOP screw the pooch.

Humperdink said...

Quote from the NYPost sports page: "Thursday, after Illinois star guard Terrence Shannon Jr. (22 ppg) was arrested and charged with rape, the school released the new all-schools the boiler plate obligatory: It has “zero tolerance for sexual misconduct.”

One wonders what the previous number was, 18 percent?
"

The Crack Emcee said...

The Hamas Pogrom Demonstrates That Zionism Has Failed, Says Israeli Historian Moshe Zimmermann

A pioneering Israeli scholar of German history, Prof. Moshe Zimmermann looks back to 1930s Europe in order to understand where Israel is headed

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Upon further review, my last post above @8:03 pm was in error.

r/unvaccinated is up and running again.

Explanation posted : “TEMPORARILY ON PAUSE

Moderators are taking a brief break, thank you for your patience.
We are still recruiting moderators.”

tim in vermont said...

So Serbia refuses to go all in on the Russian sanctions, and now we are supporting a color revolution over "rigged" elections when he party we are supporting got half as many votes as the winning party. It's been the same pattern across all of Europe, where the winning party has opposed European involvement in the war, but were not allowed to form governments. Now we are backing overturning an election because the side we liked lost the election.

This is the "rules based order," the neocons make the rules. These same neocons hate Trump. What a coincidence that the rules in that case are 100% opposite.

Jersey Fled said...

Step away from the computer Crack. You’re starting to embarrass yourself.

Mr. Forward said...

"If we are victorious in one more battle with the Romans, we shall be utterly ruined."
Plutarch

Leland said...

Calling others "animals" is practicing Naziism

Yeah. Just call them “colonizers”, then you can rape the women in the street, burn their infants in their cribs, kill the teenagers where they stand, and haul away the elderly as hostages. It is the words you use that matter.

rehajm said...

“Haley has been appearing on television interviews where she calls herself a minority—when it suits her. When she registers to vote she says she is white. She has developed a pattern of saying whatever is beneficial to her at the moment.”

Liz Warren on line one...

Leland said...

Hamas exposed the right's worst tendencies and helped the GOP screw the pooch.

Meanwhile in reality: <A href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/republicans-have-a-great-chance-to-retake-the-senate-in-2024-9b33b1e3>Republicans have a great chance to retake the Senate in 2024</a>

Kai Akker said...

Alex Berenson has a theory about the reasons for and the purpose of the Hamas brutalities. He is logical and proceeds carefully through the facts as far as they are known, in the context of general historical wartime behavior.

--- "So. Why? Why single out women for this special abuse?"

It's a good piece and thus attracted Glenn Reynolds' attention for Instapundit.

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/on-the-sexual-atrocities-hamas-committed

Mike of Snoqualmie said...

2023's worst climate hypocrites:

4 - King Charles. Always travels with his own toilet. That's pretty rich!

3 - UN cop 28 the Climate Summit itself. 100,000 people travel via private jets! Oh, the humanity!

2 - Bill Gates. $30,000 monthly electricity bill. How much coal burning does that require?

1 - John Kerry. Never flies on his personal private jet. Just his wife's. No sharing the middle seat with body-positive activists in the window and aisle seats.

Just our betters showing us how much better we could be if we only sacrificed fossil fuels for their betterment.

n.n said...

The Anti-Jews... -Zionists empathize with Hutu, Xhosa, Kosovans, Chinese, progressives, abortionists, eugenicists, trans/nationals. et al in an Obama/Biden/Clinton ethnic Spring of murder, rape, torture... torture-torture, and abduction through climate change. Kiev's assault of Ukrainians, too? Taliban, perhaps. Some, Select [Black] Lives Matter for Hamas sympathizers for nearly 100 years and progressing.

BUMBLE BEE said...

Kai Akker, give it up. It's cultural.
Steeped in this "art".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P30xndYwVJU

R.E.S.P.E.C.T. Like 'Emcee', is so 1990s.


Rich said...

@Engelbert: I think we should let the voters decide whether the Lions won.

Drago said...

Hamas 7th Century Death Cult Fanboy Li'l Crack-y: "Conclusion: Oct 7 was a clear success, in every way Hamas planned, and fascists can go suck a dick for all anyone cares."

LOL

This idiot actually gets dumber by the day...which is quite the achievement considering his starting point!

Looks like someone could use a refresher on warfare in an urban environment as well as the 9 month Battle of Mosul.

The Israeli's are doing astonishingly well with their methodical, technolgy-enhanced combined arms tactics which is why Li'l Crack-y's psychotic terrorist murderer "heroes" keep squealing for a long ceasefire.

Sorry Li'l Crack-y! But do keep purchasing those black armbands for your fallen ISIS=Hamas=Hezbollah=Houthi=BokoHaram "heroes".

If you're "lucky", maybe your psychotic aithoritarian haters of women buddies might let you help them when they conduct their next round of...what did you call them again?...oh right..."yoga class-like" murders/torture/rapes.

Drago said...

Kai Akker @9:24, I would caution you regarding linking to explicit discussions about the Hamas 7th Century Death Cult horrific targeted brutality against women as it could prove to be something that...titillates...certain Fanboy members of the Althouse commentariat.

Quite similar to potential..."reactions"...certain LLR's get when someone mentions an underage child of a conservative republican politician

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

2023 has exposed the moral depravity of the radical left
Jews, women, the working class – leftists have betrayed everyone they once claimed to speak for.



It's a cult... just like radical Islam is a cult.
These people will worship at the feet of the Ayatollahs/Hamas, right before they themselves are slaughtered.

btw - please buy your ticket to Gaza - and fight for Hamas- crack. otherwise you are a new age cult fraud.

narciso said...

https://twitter.com/MelissaMcAtee92/status/1741186958506741996

The Crack Emcee said...

Leland said...

"Yeah. Just call them “colonizers”, then you can rape the women in the street, burn their infants in their cribs, kill the teenagers where they stand, and haul away the elderly as hostages. It is the words you use that matter."

Which they did just because. There's been no "colonizing" going on for the last 80 years, right? That's just name-calling like "animals." I heard over 800 Palestinians had been killed by Zionists before Hamas struck back, but you don't care about dead Palestinians - just Oct 7 matters - and being Arabs explains the rest. To racists. And fascists. And liars. And Hamas also took hostages for no reason. Definitely not to trade because Zionists arrest Palestinians by the hundreds without reason. Noooooo. They just do it because, well, you know Muslims, right?

You people live in a cartoon existence.

Iman said...

It’s another hot cuppa cold sick
Lookin’ forward’s lookin’ back
Crack is Wack

h/t Henley/Frey

MadTownGuy said...

U.S. intelligence officials determined the Chinese spy balloon used a U.S. internet provider to communicate

"U.S. intelligence officials have determined that the Chinese spy balloon that flew across the U.S. this year used an American internet service provider to communicate, according to two current and one former U.S. official familiar with the assessment.

The balloon connected to a U.S.-based company, according to the assessment, to send and receive communications from China, primarily related to its navigation. Officials familiar with the assessment said it found that the connection allowed the balloon to send burst transmissions, or high-bandwidth collections of data over short periods of time.

The Biden administration sought a highly secretive court order from the federal Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to collect intelligence about it while it was over the U.S., according to multiple current and former U.S. officials. How the court ruled has not been disclosed.
"

[cough] most transparent administration since 2008 [cough].

narciso said...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12914133/How-Hamas-brainwash-children-jihadis-Terrorists-teach-Gazan-kids-shoot-guns-launch-anti-tank-missiles-stage-suicide-attacks-against-Israel-summer-camps-indoctrinating-anti-Semitic-Mickey-Mouse-knock-off.html

Drago said...

Hamas 7th Century Death Cult Fanboy Li'l Crack-y: "Which they did just because. There's been no "colonizing" going on for the last 80 years, right?"

That is correct dumbs***.

Li'l Crack-y: "That's just name-calling like "animals.""

All muslim children under Hamas/Hezbollah and elsewhere are taught, in their schools, that all Jews are apes and pigs. You didn't know that did you dumbo?

Li'l Crack-y: "I heard over 800 Palestinians had been killed by Zionists before Hamas struck back, but you don't care about dead Palestinians - just Oct 7 matters - and being Arabs explains the rest."

LOL

Yeah, and everyone of those Hamas reported numbers is a child poet/philosopher that was studying to to be a Doctor.

You are so astonishingly gullible that it amazes me that you actually have the gall to criticize ridiculous New Agers! You are the most New Ager of all!

Li'l Crack-y: "To racists. And fascists. And liars."

And there it is. The sole reason for ALL of Li'l Crack-y's lunatic pro-Hamas suckuppery: Li'l Crack-y completely buys into the astoundingly transparent lie that Jews are all "Whitey-Boss Hoggs" that magically appeared in the middle east in 1947 and the arabs are Rosa Parks! LOL. Li'l Crack-y does not have the intellectual "wattage" to do anything except program every situation into his one and ONLY framework for "understanding" (wink wink) everything: Slavery in the US and reparations!

That's all folks!

Li'l Crack-y: "And Hamas also took hostages for no reason. Definitely not to trade because Zionists arrest Palestinians by the hundreds without reason."

LOL

You silly little lying sack of shite! Hamas sticks rifles into the hands of young children, loads up kiddos (including kids with mental/cognitive conditions like Down Syndrome) with explosive vests, etc, and then directs them to commit attacks. The use of teenagers to carry out such attacks is a signature islamist supremacist move...and clearly a move you approve.

I've got news for you loser: Israel isn't going anywhere and your murderous islamic supremacist "heroes" in Gaza are going to find it very difficult making it to their next "How to rape and torture young girls" training session.

Rusty said...

Blogger Jersey Fled said...
"Step away from the computer Crack. You’re starting to embarrass yourself."
Starting! Hell he's been an embarrasment since he sided with Hamas.

Drago said...

From Hassan Mosab Yousef:

"URGENT!!!
Hamas's weaponry stock is in good shape, however, Hamas is running low on volunteers and human shields. Hence Hamas is urging all Pro Palestine fanatics to join the holy war in Gaza.

Volunteers must bring their own human shields. Those who don’t have children of their own can kidnap any children on their way to Gaza.
Hamas doesn’t discriminate when it comes to children.

May all Pro Palestine Activists die for Allah."

Get on it Li'l Crack-y! Here's your chance for your very first, never before seen, not-pretend "macho response"!

LOL

"Macho response". What a fraud.

Leland said...

Geez Crack, you are the beast when it comes to name calling. "Colonizers", "Zionists", "Palestinians", "Hamas", "racists", "facists", "liars" but no to "Animals", "Israelis", "Jews", or "Civilians", eh? I bet you don't like "hypocrite" either.

The Crack Emcee said...

Rusty said...

"Hell he's been an embarrasment since he sided with Hamas."

See, this is what's crazy about you guys: no nuance. Everything is binary or, even worse, one-way only.

I've never "sided with Hamas." I said the Zionists and their apartheid project are wrong. I don't have to be on anybody's "side" to say that, just state the truth. You wouldn't claim I hate Russians because I opposed the Soviet Union, but you've got a whole fictional and cynical architecture constructed to entrap anyone who sees through the Zionist's obvious lies that hold that murderous monstrosity together.

The Crack Emcee said...

A preface to the publication of the King-Crane Commission Report, published in Editor & Publisher, V.55, No. 27, 2nd Section, December 2, 1922,...This was the work of the official American Commission sent from Paris,... It went out with instructions to report the facts as it found them. The text makes clear why the Report should have been rigorously concealed by a then spineless State Department. Yet if it had been published promptly, as intended, it would completely have altered the current of events,...and possibly also have changed the whole American attitude toward post-war international responsibilities. Certainly it would have freed us from a flood of unfounded propaganda, and it might easily have saved,...lives,...Not all the conclusions of the report are today applicable. Alas, the consequences it predicted have come to pass in many respects.

It exposes the evils of the secret treaties.

It makes clear the glaring contrast between the solemn pledges of the European nations to the peoples of the Near East and their imperialistic course.

It conservatively portrays the passion of these ancient peoples for America, and their confidence in her integrity, good will and unselfishness.

It prenounces the doom of Zionism.

It portrays an incredible co-operation between Moslems and Christians, in pursuit of the goal of "self-determination."

It nullifies the censorship and propaganda which have veiled the facts from the eyes of the world.

The Crack Emcee said...

King–Crane Commission - Wikipedia:

Zionism has been a popular and contentious subject among historians for many years. According to the Israeli-Arab author Nadim Rouhana, “the essence of the encounter therefore took place between a group of people living in their homeland and a group of people who arrived from other parts of the world guided by an ideology that claimed the same homeland as exclusively theirs.” Zionism in Rouhana's eye revolved around a system of exclusion in which Zionist arrived and stole the lands they resided on.,...the encounter between Zionists and Arab was one where cultural differences were ignored or exploited. The British in particular exploited the rivalry between these groups with the Balfour declaration. The Balfour Declaration aligned the goals of Zionism with their imperial goals.

The Crack Emcee said...

King–Crane Commission - Wikipedia:

Zionism has been a popular and contentious subject among historians for many years. According to the Israeli-Arab author Nadim Rouhana, “the essence of the encounter therefore took place between a group of people living in their homeland and a group of people who arrived from other parts of the world guided by an ideology that claimed the same homeland as exclusively theirs.” Zionism in Rouhana's eye revolved around a system of exclusion in which Zionist arrived and stole the lands they resided on.,...the encounter between Zionists and Arab was one where cultural differences were ignored or exploited. The British in particular exploited the rivalry between these groups with the Balfour declaration. The Balfour Declaration aligned the goals of Zionism with their imperial goals.

The Crack Emcee said...

King-Crane Commission Report - Encyclopedia Britannica:

Touring Syria and Palestine between June 10 and July 21, 1919, and soliciting petitions from local inhabitants, the commission found that a vast majority of Arabs favoured an independent Syria, free of any French mandate, and that, of about 1,875 petitions received, 72 percent were hostile to the Zionist plan for a Jewish national home in Palestine. Such findings, coupled with Zionist talk of dispossession of the Arabs, led the commission to advise a serious modification of the Zionist immigration program in Palestine.

Israel is NOT a country - it's a crime scene.