Althouse: Sunrise

December 13, 2023

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rehajm said...: Someone linked to the no whites allowed taxpayer paid party at government center in Boston. I went to Tufts for my regular 6 month appointment and…the black lady in charge of finance ‘left’ late summer, they laid off 400 staffers including the receptionist that kept the clinic running, replaced by black women with neck tats and a strong social relationship with each other but not much else. My doctor ordered labs but warned me the company the hospital outsourced all lab work was not ‘reliable’. Two black women with a strong relationship to each other but not much else. I couldn’t tell if they had neck because they stayed in the lab and yelled one patients name from the lab 20 yards away in the 20 minutes I waited but never appeared…

I get a letter from the capital campaign twice a month. There’s one old school physician with a white coat and cane still walking the halls. There’s hardly anyone in the halls, patients or staff. Maybe they all DIEd?; 12/13/23, 5:33 PM
MadTownGuy said...: Protesters shut down Los Angeles highway in call for Gaza ceasefire

"Police in Los Angeles arrested a group of protesters calling for a ceasefire in Gaza after they shut down a busy stretch of freeway in the city’s downtown.

Dozens of people assembled on the 110 on Wednesday morning, bringing traffic to a standstill during the morning commute for more than an hour. There were tense physical confrontations as commuters attempted to remove people from the road.

The California highway patrol detained 75 people in association with the protest, NBC Los Angeles reported. The demonstration blocked all six southbound lanes of traffic, creating gridlock that stretched for miles."

N.B.: From Legal Insurrection -

‘Pro-Palestine’ Protesters Blocking 110 Freeway in Los Angeles

The drivers had no time for the shenanigans. Many got out of their cars and dragged the protesters out of the way..."

[snip]

Oh, look. The anti-Israel group IfNotNow is blocking the 110 Freeway in downtown Los Angeles as they scream for a Gaza ceasefire.

'18,000 Palestinians killed. 8,000 children dead in Gaza. And every single one of those lives has been snuffed out with the blessing and funding of our government.

Today American Jews from @IfNotNowLA shut down the 110 Freeway. Politicians MUST listen and support a ceasefire.'"; 12/13/23, 5:51 PM
gilbar said...: i propose an experiment..
As we All Know, crack doesn't believe in homeopathy..
As we ALL Know, crack has been flooding Althouse with countless posts on his anti-jew fixation..

Certainly seems that the MORE crack posts, the LESS anyone even hears whatever it is he's trying to sell

So, LET'S Try a CRAZY idea (SO Crazy.. It Might JUST work!!)

Crack? try diluting your posts, say 10x (so, instead of posting 20 posts a hour.. Just 2)
If you're right about homeopathy.. Even Less people will hear whatever it is you're trying to sell
I PREDICT, that JUST AS MANY people will be swayed by a 1/10th application of your posts as now..

IN FACT.. i PREDICT, that a 100x treatment would be as much (or MORE) effective..
you won't know, unless you try!

As it is now.. NO ONE is hearing you...Try whispering; 12/13/23, 6:02 PM
narciso said...: he really should change his name to Al Ansari or Abu Talib,; 12/13/23, 6:22 PM
Kai Akker said...: --- try diluting your posts, say 10x (so, instead of posting 20 posts a hour.. Just 2)

Wouldn't that be concentrating, not diluting? Dilution would be spreading the same message over 200 posts an hour. Fun fun fun.; 12/13/23, 6:29 PM
narciso said...: https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2023/12/13/samantha-woll-murder-update/71911261007/; 12/13/23, 6:43 PM
Kai Akker said...: Just heard that big Patti Smith hit from late '70s -- "Because the Night" -- on the radio yesterday. One of the Top 885 records by women rockers. Have no idea how long the station had been doing this countdown, but the song was voted into the top 25 of that collection.

(WHat was #1? "Respect.")

So here is the news one day later that Patti Smith has been hospitalized in Italy. Got sick while on tour. She is still rocking it at the published age of 76.

The lyrics of Because the Night have some punch to them, including the line about "the way I feel under your command." And I love the New Jersey snarl that comes out almost every time she hits a "now," of which there are plenty.

Here's one recording with the lyrics. Fwiw, Natalie Merchant also does a nice version of it on "Unplugged," very straight but with a couple of those Natalie enunciations and specialties. Made me smile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NYVGLM3DaI

The story of the song, which had most of its musical origins with Bruce Springsteen, is interesting too. Patti wrote the lyrics. For a super-hip East Village art gal, it's a great hetero song. Hope she recovers quickly!; 12/13/23, 6:46 PM
William50 said...: I know next to nothing about running a business so would someone here explain to me why a legitimate business would need to have 20 shell corps. many which were LLC?; 12/13/23, 6:47 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: I told you this would happen: Bari Weiss ‘Put Target On’ Murdered Palestinian Poet’s Back - Palestinian Journalist; 12/13/23, 7:10 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: gilbar said...

i propose that as long as you call it an "anti-jew fixation" and NOT what it is, then you can fuck off.; 12/13/23, 7:11 PM
narciso said...: https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1735098629340172386; 12/13/23, 7:27 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: BTW - This gilbar post, above, is an example of what I said a few days ago: y'all talk about me even on threads where I don't say shit. You're racists, and tyrants, and you're obsessed with anyone - but especially a black person - disagreeing with you. As I've pointed out a billion times, we vote the same on most issues, but, once you find one where I don't march lock-step with you - like stealing Palestinian land and murdering them for it - you always, always, always declare me an apostate, unworthy of existence. That makes you hypocrites, so I don't give a damn what you think. If you're mad, be mad, but don't think it matters one iota after you say killing kids is fine and you expected me to be more for it. Fuck you. As I keep telling you, no blacks are going to vote with you if you keep this up: We HATE Nazis and tyrants, and Judge Joe Brown has already stuck both of those labels on Stefanik, and y'all are just like her, so keep it up. You'll blow Trump's one chance for revenge, any chance of blacks joining the GOP, any chance of y'all running the country, AND you'll get 4 more years of Genocide Joe. And all because you can't stop flashing the red of those necks at everybody.; 12/13/23, 7:32 PM
Jersey Fled said...: “I know next to nothing about running a business so would someone here explain to me why a legitimate business would need to have 20 shell corps. many which were LLC?”

To launder money. No other reason.; 12/13/23, 7:43 PM
gilbar said...: The Crack Emcee said...
As I've pointed out a billion times

i'm sure that's true.. Of course; none of us listened to a word you said after the 100,000,000th time; 12/13/23, 8:10 PM
Old and slow said...: OK Gilbar, that was pretty funny. Crack, there are no threads recently where you don't say shit. Shit spews from your keyboard in a vastly disproportionate quantity. Try shutting the fuck up for a bit. Absence makes the heart grow fonder and all that... Everyone is pretty damn familiar with your opinions at this stage, we've just lost any interest that we ever might have had.; 12/13/23, 8:27 PM
Old and slow said...: A legitimate business might have many LLC's in order to shield the assets from potential liability if one part of the organization were to be sued. The thing about the Biden's web of companies is that none of them seemed to have any actual BUSINESS except to move money around.; 12/13/23, 8:33 PM
Old and slow said...: Crack would prefer to be patronized and condescended to by the Democrats than treated like an adult (asshole) by the non-Democrats. Here's a tip for you Crack, the Democrats are never going to give you reparations either, they're just stringing you along. If trying to please the likes of you is the ticket to Republicans in power, I'd be willing to give it a miss. Fuck Hamas and fuck you too.; 12/13/23, 8:38 PM
Howard said...: I first saw Patti Smith on the Mike Douglas show.; 12/13/23, 8:51 PM
Dr Weevil said...: For all those saying that Europeans should pay for Ukrainian defence, here are the latest figures showing that they already do (link):

"The United States ranks only in the 30th place among allies in terms of its support to Ukraine as a % of national income (GDP).
29 European countries make a bigger effort. That's *every* EU member, as well as Norway and the UK.
This needs to be more widely known in the U.S."

There's a chart, too, if you're feeling subliterate. If you're wondering who gives the most, the Top 5 are Lithuania, Estonia, Norway, Denmark, and Latvia, though all but Denmark have borders with Russia and could plausibly argue that they need to spend their money defending those. And Denmark is vulnerable to the Baltic Sea Fleet.

My previous comment saying I thought we were tied for 8th or so has been overtaken by events: we're providing far less, while they're providing more.; 12/13/23, 8:57 PM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: Judge Chutkan put Trump’s J6 trial on hold pending review by the Supreme Court, admitting her court has no jurisdiction if Trump prevails. Wonder how long until Fat Fani realizes her case is at risk too for the same damned reason.; 12/13/23, 9:44 PM
Jamie said...: y'all talk about me even on threads where I don't say shit. You're racists, and tyrants, and you're obsessed with anyone - but especially a black person - disagreeing with you.

There are a couple of commenters here who, like people of the left who can't refrain from dragging Trump into every damn thing, have been dragging Crack into every damn thread. I agree with this part - gilbar, why? (To be fair, Crack has inserted his take on the Israeli-Hamas conflict into many threads entirely unrelated to it. And to this I say, Crack, why?)

But Crack. You know it's not everyone here. And yet you ALWAYS accuse EVERYONE here of the offenses - if they are offenses; perhaps "actions" is a less loaded term - of a few - at least, that's what "y'all" means in Texas: everyone. But disagreement with you, or questioning the veracity of your sources, is not the same thing as denigration of you, and I know you know that.

And it's not just that you're currently accusing everyone of dragging you into threads you haven't yet entered. You are - as you tend to do - accusing everyone here of being racists. Why do you do that? Even if that's what you believe, why would you just throw out such an incredibly toxic accusation, ALL the time, without ever offering the slightest remedy for anyone who might be inclined to take it - or be inclined to argue with you about its necessity? All you ever say is, "Y'all are racists - be better," when what you actually experience here is the same sharp-edged discourse that every single commenter who disagrees with the majority experiences - with, as far as I can recall, even fewer truly personal attacks based on immutable characteristics than are leveled at other heterodox commenters (like inga for instance - how many references to her age and sex?). You get slagged for your positions and you get slagged for your attempts to turn or dominate the thread, but you don't get slagged for being black, as far as I can tell. You do sometimes get slagged for emphasizing that you're black (why bother?), similarly to the way Chuck (I think it's big-C Chuck) gets slagged for reminding everyone that he's a lifelong Republican. (Side note: wouldn't it be something if, as is asserted by many here about Chuck, you're not what you claim to be? Whoa.)

Basically, it's not fair to demand that you have it both ways - to expect to be treated with the same respect (because in this forum, insult is a form of respect, somehow - I've been here for almost as long as this blog has been around and 'twas ever thus) as every other heterodox commenter and yet also demand some indefinable form of special treatment.; 12/13/23, 10:31 PM
wildswan said...: The only real thought I've had for days is that leaving Claudine Gay as President of Harvard is a good idea. Yeah, let's just leave that great and famous, I mean that used-to-be great and famous institution and its people to silly walk off into the sunset led by their own chosen clown. But, damn, what a time. California and Harvard ruined, the Jews leaving the Democrats, Roe v. Wade repealed. Anyone who says they know what's coming next or even know what's going on is a liar. Why I have no real thoughts.; 12/13/23, 11:06 PM
Jupiter said...: I have, in my possession, a 45 caliber M1911 handgun. I inherited it from my father. The US Army paid for him to go to medical school, during the Second World War, on the condition that he would serve in the Army on his graduation. You might suppose that the Army, in 1945, would have little use for pediatricians. Not so. The US Army was occupying Guam, and there was a large contingent of soldiers there, necessarily including many officers. Those officers were allowed to bring their families with them. Those families had children, and so, a pediatrician was needed on Guam.

After he had been there for a year, my mother was able to join him. She travelled by train from Iowa to San Francisco, and then by ship to Guam, with my older sister, who was an infant at that time. When they got there, they lived in a Quonset hut. A situation had developed, in that nurses stationed on Guam had been molested and raped. By US soldiers. An order was issued, that females were not allowed to leave the Army compound, unless accompanied by an armed officer. Thus, my father, who had been brought into the Army with the rank of Captain, was issued a sidearm, a 45-caliber M1911, so that he could accompany his wife and daughter to the beach.

I have pondered, how seriously my father took the threat to his nascent family. But he arranged to keep the weapon, when he was discharged. I have the receipt, issued by the Army, that says he bought the sidearm, for $50, if memory serves. How it came into my hands is a story for another day.; 12/13/23, 11:08 PM
Jupiter said...: "you always, always, always declare me an apostate, unworthy of existence."

Crack. an apostate is one who strays from a consensus. That is, one who initially was part of the gang, but decided to go his own way. So, "apostate" is not synonymous with "person guilty of wrong think".

Now, I have wondered ... it seems like there must be an etymological connection between "apostate" and "apostle". But ars longa, vita brevis.; 12/13/23, 11:13 PM
Crazy World said...: Best day in America for a long time, Hunter making an ass of himself and his awful dad in that hideous press conference, J6 horrible travesty cases going to the Supreme Court and FJB officially in impeachment inquiry GOD BLESS AMERICA.; 12/13/23, 11:41 PM
Kate said...: Thanks, @Jupiter. That was interesting.; 12/14/23, 3:47 AM
farmgirl said...: “BTW - This gilbar post, above, is an example of what I said a few days ago: y'all talk about me even on threads where I don't say shit. “

You’re a part of this “give&take” blog.
You’re passionate and sometimes violent while wielding words.
You’re fierce.

People talk about people(who talk about people) all the time. I share w/people in my life things said by people here. It’s a dimensional reality.

I can’t help I’m some kinda chimera white.
But, I’m not ashamed.; 12/14/23, 4:26 AM
Jaq said...: The neocons believe that no power may be allowed to exist that has the long term potential to threaten the United States. This is the basis for the multi decade project, which includes the use of Ukrainian nazis, to dismantle the Russian Federation. The problem with this strategy of course is that the only acceptable outcome to the neocons is complete world domination. Eventually the rest of the world is going to pick up on this idea and form a coalition against us. It's already happening with China and Russia plus Iran, and it's pretty much our stupidity which created it.

This regime that we love so much in Ukraine named the highway that leads to the site of an SS death camp after the guy who sent so many there. That is sick. How many Jews were taken down the "Bandera Highway" in the '40s in Ukraine? Those death camps were not shut down until the Red Army got there, and then the Nazis there complained of harsh treatment when they were finally overrun.

This isn't our fight. I don't care in the least what the Soviets did to the Nazis in Ukraine. We were just told that 90% of the Russian army has been destroyed. Great! Mission accomplished! Now lets end the war before it escalates into WW3.; 12/14/23, 5:09 AM
Humperdink said...: I am looking for a business partner. Would any of the business experts on this blog help me in my search? Which of the following personal attributes should I be looking for in a potential business associate?

A) Crack addict
B) Whoremonger
C) Money launderer
D) Porn video producer
E) Offspring of a well connected politician
F) All of the above; 12/14/23, 5:11 AM
tim maguire said...: gilbar said...i propose an experiment..

Interesting idea. We could tweak it to test a broader range of hypotheses. For instance, I tend to read the short comments just to see what he’ll say next, but I skip the longer ones as the payoff is unlikely to justify the investment. So in addition to varying the frequency, he could also vary the length and we can really drill down into it and determine the exact peak Crack.; 12/14/23, 5:57 AM
Leland said...: Sorry Humperdick, the only people I know that fit the description only work for foreign companies.; 12/14/23, 6:05 AM
gadfly said...: Donald Trump's attorney Alina Habba chose to go on Fox News last Friday and admitted she didn't want her client to take the stand on Monday.

"A lot could go wrong; he's a bad witness to everybody, he meanders a lot when he's on direct, he meanders a lot on cross, if he gets hostile on cross that's not a very good look for him." The attorney added: "It is a bench trial, it could be less damaging than before a jury, and it may mean nothing because the judge has already decided the important parts of the case."

So she admitted that the Trump defense team put on that carnival sideshow to waste everybody's time and to impose heavy costs on the state and on the US Secret Service working to protect the entire Trump family - permitting Trump to publically attack the Judge, his assistant, his wife, and NY AG Tish James.

The evidence had already convinced Judge Engoron that fraud had been committed. Phase two in the trial was for importantly determining the engorgement penalty due from Trump but what we got was a bunch of nonsensical lies from the Trumps and some "paid for" experts retelling Trump lies about the value of Mar-a-Lago. The court decision is forthcoming and then Trump will play our legal system some more with appeal #1.; 12/14/23, 6:29 AM
boatbuilder said...: "So she admitted that the Trump defense team put on that carnival sideshow to waste everybody's time and to impose heavy costs on the state and on the US Secret Service working to protect the entire Trump family - permitting Trump to publically attack the Judge, his assistant, his wife, and NY AG Tish James."

How dare he! He's imposing heavy costs on the State! To keep himself and his family from being murdered! And saying bad things about the people who are prosecuting him! And contradicting the State's claims on value! He should just bow down and take it!

And he's probably going to...appeal! The nerve!; 12/14/23, 7:16 AM
West TX Intermediate Crude said...: Dr Weevil-
I followed your link, and you're correct. There are 29 nations that contribute a greater share of their GDP to Ukraine than the US does (assuming the chart and figures are correct).
Of those 29, 29 are European nations. Nations that have legitimate concerns about Russian behavior with respect to established borders.

What concern is a border dispute between Ukraine and Russia of ours? Specifically, why should my kid risk his life over this? Why should my tax dollars, which are borrowed from Chinese investors and will be repaid by my grandkids, pay for this?

I'm not as hostile to our involvement as tim in VT, but I do not see what our national interest is in this fight (other than avoiding inconvenient reveletions about our president's corruption).; 12/14/23, 8:13 AM
MadTownGuy said...: @IDF on X:
"During IDF operational activity in close proximity to a mosque in Jenin, soldiers acted against IDF codes of conduct within a religious establishment.

The soldiers were immediately removed from operational activity, after receiving the videos and after an initial inspection of the incident by commanders. The behavior of the soldiers in the videos is serious and stands in complete opposition to the values of the IDF. The soldiers will be disciplined accordingly."

Follow up comment:
@Zev Nadel
"Anyone can see the difference btw Hamas & the IDF.

IDF has a code of conduct & act accordingly.

Hamas has a code of barbarism & acts accordingly."; 12/14/23, 9:32 AM
Dr Weevil said...: West TX Intermediate Crude:
What concern is it of ours? Bill Clinton made it our concern by signing an agreement guaranteeing Ukraine's 1991 borders in return for their disarmament. Maybe he shouldn't have done that, but he did, and we are now obligated to arm Ukraine.

Failing to do that is an utter disgrace that will have devastating long-term consequences to the U.S. A Chinese invasion of Taiwan is now far more likely, and that would totally wreck the world computer and electronics supply, making the coming recession/depression far deeper. It's pretty obvious that Hamas' atrocities in Israel, Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, and Venezuela's imminent invasion of Guyana are all being pushed by Russia, the first two by their ally Iran. Whether we help Ukraine or not, Putin thinks he's at war with us already, and not helping Ukraine just encourages him to do more. Not arming Ukraine makes a literal World War III far more likely, one it would be impossible to keep out of. Not supplying weapons now will cost American lives in the future.; 12/14/23, 9:38 AM
narciso said...: no a Chinese invasion is more likely because we've depleted our weapons stores, and drawn down the strategic reserve, and our cabinet and sub cabinet are totally lesuo (blackmailed); 12/14/23, 11:33 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Jamie said...

"But Crack. You know it's not everyone here."

Who speaks up when racial shit is said - except to correct me? I've NEVER seen it. I leave this blog all-the-time, and always come back to a hero's welcome - only two find it's still a racist cesspit, and y'all don't recognize it, anymore than you have Israeli war crimes.; 12/14/23, 12:35 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: Jamie said,...

"Crack has inserted his take on the Israeli-Hamas conflict into many threads entirely unrelated to it. And to this I say, Crack, why?"

Provide evidence. I either think there's a relationship or I've kept it to open comment posts like this one.

Why? Because - as I stated to Ann directly because (Old and slow, etc.) she's the Boss here, not us - I think Americans talk AROUND what we're doing to the Palestinians, like any of what we're talking about, instead, matters. Except for censorship, they all pale in comparison to the fact we're providing weapons, like white phosphorus, for Zionists to drop on a population that's half children. That, we don't wrestle with, directly, on a daily basis. But I do. And I can't ignore there's another narrative. So that's "why."; 12/14/23, 1:24 PM
Dr Weevil said...: Claims that Israel has used white phosphorus as a weapon in Gaza have turned out to be lies in the past. Here's an example from Thomas Theiner on Twitter (link) - quoted here for those too who can't be bothered to follow a link:

@ToryFibs posted a picture of bright fires in the sky, headed "White Phosphorus (modern napalm) dropped on Gaza tonight."

Theiner (@noclador) replied: "Illumination rounds... no white phosphorus in them (WP is used to create smoke, which is counterproductive during the night).

But... every pro-Palestine account on twitter always just makes shit up. They are all just lying 24/7 to justify their hate of Jews."

The reader-added context is also interested: someone speeded up the film to make it look the flames were falling rather than floating in the air for illumination.; 12/14/23, 6:26 PM