Althouse: Sunrise — 7:19, 7:35.

January 2, 2024

Sunrise — 7:19, 7:35.

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Humperdink said...: Aliquippa, the sleepy little suburb of Pittsburgh, had it's public water supply system hacked. The perpetrators? None other than Iran.

"Then it (the water supply)— along with several other water utilities — was struck by what federal authorities say are Iranian-backed hackers targeting a piece of equipment specifically because it was Israeli-made ..... At the Aliquippa authority, Iranian hackers shut down a remotely controlled device that monitors and regulates water pressure at a pumping station. Customers weren’t affected because crews alerted by an alarm quickly switched to manual operation — but not every water authority has a built-in manual backup system."

https://triblive.com/local/regional/states-and-congress-wrestle-with-cybersecurity-after-iran-attack-on-aliquippa-water-utility/

Obama's financial gifts to his most favored nation appears to be paying dividends. They've invested well.; 1/2/24, 7:16 PM
Flat Tire said...: I wish Ann would do one of those polls again to see who her commenters think will likely be the Democratic nominee for president, assuming no major display of Biden's mental or physical deterioration in the coming months. I feel like something is brewing. Maybe it just that I'm from California but I have a seriously queazy feeling about Newsom.; 1/2/24, 7:23 PM
narciso said...: https://twitter.com/davereaboi/status/1742230195526893713; 1/2/24, 7:24 PM
narciso said...: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/judge-dismisses-three-civil-counts-against-trump-others-over-death-jan-6-officer-brian-sicknick; 1/2/24, 7:24 PM
narciso said...: https://newsletter.truethevote.org/p/true-vote-defeats-fair-fight-stacy-abrams-marc-elias-biden-department-justice-landmark-election-case; 1/2/24, 7:29 PM
rehajm said...: I don’t understand why dogs all understand the elevator. It’s a funny room innit?; 1/2/24, 7:30 PM
MadTownGuy said...: Via X:

Prosecutor Who Interfered in Hunter Biden Investigation Stonewalls Congress

Former assistant US attorney says she’s "not authorized" to answer questions.

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Prosecutor Who Interfered in Hunter Biden Investigation Stonewalls Congress
President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden talks to reporters outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on Dec. 13, 2023. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
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A former top prosecutor on the investigation into President Joe Biden’s son has repeatedly told members of Congress she could not answer their questions.

Lesley Wolf, who told FBI agents in 2020 to remove references to the president from an affidavit for a search warrant, said she was “not authorized” to talk about how she and others handled the probe into Hunter Biden, according to a transcript of the December 2023 testimony reviewed by The Epoch Times.

Ms. Wolf said she was “significantly constrained” by guidance from the Department of Justice."; 1/2/24, 7:31 PM
narciso said...: https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/02/politics/bob-menendez-superseding-indictment-qatar/index.html; 1/2/24, 7:43 PM
Bill Crawford said...: I am reading Leon Uris' Exodus. About halfway through. Makes me sympathetic with the Jews and Israel, contra Crack,

Anyone have other book recommendatios? Including from a "Palestimian" orv Arab POV?; 1/2/24, 7:51 PM
narciso said...: https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1742345934862750158; 1/2/24, 8:03 PM
William50 said...: “Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.”

---Thomas Sowell; 1/2/24, 8:09 PM
Nice said...: You don't have a Midwest without snow in Winter. Very unsettling. Even fake snow, would still count. It's getting ridiculous. Someone should bring some snow makers down from one of the Resorts.; 1/2/24, 8:35 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: Hamas' French captive flatters herself: "“His wife was outside the room with the children,,...That was the only reason he didn’t rape me.”

Being a skinny waif, with those huge, ugly, stupid bee-stung lips might have had something to do with it, too. Jesus, these people are incredible. Their imaginations run wild with sexual fantasies starring themselves.; 1/2/24, 11:02 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: "I did Bat Out Of Hell thinking it was a comedy record. I did it as a spoof of Springsteen": Todd Rundgren

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! My respect for Todd just went waaaaay up again,...; 1/2/24, 11:06 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: Grimes Responds to Critics Calling Her a ‘Nazi,’ Says She’s ‘Proud of White Culture’

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Post Oct 7, white people are coming out and embarrassing themselves.; 1/2/24, 11:10 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: It's wild to listen to when the Nazis attacked the Poles in the William L Shirer's Berlin Diary. The Nazis sound just like the Zionists, talking about bombing people into submission, when that never works. I loved this exchange with a maid in a German hotel:

Maid: "Why did the French declare war on us?"

Shirer: "Why did you make war on the Poles?"

Maid: "Hmmm. But, the French, they're human beings."

Shirer: "But the Poles. Maybe they're human beings."

Maid: "Hmmm."

Replace the Germans with the Zionists, and the Poles with the Palestinians, and we're revisiting old times. Right down to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Which, I'm sure, many here would've been glad to see put down - just as they are for Oct 7. There will be no striking back on their watch.; 1/2/24, 11:45 PM
gadfly said...: Charlie at The Bulwark is quotable:

Cory Doctorow was writing about TikTok, but this applies with equal if not greater force to the Muskified Xitter:

"Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

I call this enshittification. . . ."; 1/3/24, 12:17 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Bill Crawford said...

"I am reading Leon Uris' Exodus. Makes me sympathetic with the Jews and Israel, contra Crack"

Well DUH - making you sympathetic to Israel is the book's whole reason for existing. It's not History. You're just admitting that, because of my looking deeper at this, you've turned to propaganda to avoid the truth - nyce: by abandoning that propaganda (that I, too, was raised on and believed before Oct 7), I've inspired the opposite behavior I want to see.

OK, Bill, since you're reading Exodus, and also sticking me in the decision - publicly - please, if you will answer a few good faith questions, I will take it in good faith you're answering honestly. It'll be fun and educational for all of us. Let's start with this one:

How does Exodus frame the 1946 Zionist Terror Bombing In Jerusalem?; 1/3/24, 12:18 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Bill Crawford said...

"Anyone have other book recommendatios? Including from a "Palestimian" orv Arab POV?"

I don't have a book, but here's a documentary, told in four parts: Al-Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe - Episode 1

Here's some supporting evidence, as well as some video of Grinning Israeli War Vets Who've Admitted To Raping & Murdering Palestinians.

"A land without a people for a people without a land" - what hooey.; 1/3/24, 12:28 AM
gadfly said...: Flat Tire said...
I feel like something is brewing. Maybe it's just that I'm from California but I have a seriously queasy feeling about Newsom.

Gavin has about as much chance of winning a presidential election as Kimberly Guilfoyle (if Trump Sr. doesn't add her onto his ticket). After all, the former couple hung out in Californication.; 1/3/24, 12:36 AM
gadfly said...: Bill Crawford said...
I am reading Leon Uris' Exodus. About halfway through. Makes me sympathetic with the Jews and Israel, contra Crack,

Does anyone have other book recommendations? Including from a "Palestinian" or Arab POV?

Here is an entertaining article about Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism. I am sure that The Crack Emcee will read this as well.

And Bill, now that you have read the Leon Uris novel, you might want to watch the movie from 1960 starring Paul Newman.; 1/3/24, 1:17 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: William L Shirer's Berlin Diary: "Midnight, Sept. 16th - The Germans have just announced that if Warsaw does not surrender within twelve hours, the German military will use all military methods to subdue it. That means bomb it and bombard it. There are more than half a million civilians in the city. The majority are women and children."

Does that sound like anybody you know?; 1/3/24, 1:26 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Anti-Zionism isn't the same as antisemitism. Here's the history.; 1/3/24, 2:00 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Zionists are despicable. The fact they used to sell weapons to apartheid South Africa makes this amazing.; 1/3/24, 2:30 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Oh - South Africa's response; 1/3/24, 2:32 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Jordan Peterson loses his Muslim following over Gaza; 1/3/24, 3:07 AM
wendybar said...: Joe Biden
@JoeBiden

Happy New Year, everyone.

In 2024, we’re ready to keep delivering for the American people and fight back against MAGA extremism.

Let’s finish the job.

WarbirdSiren79
@Blueeyes1979
Maga aren’t the ones protesting in the streets calling for the eradication of Jews. Maga aren’t the ones blocking traffic over “climate change”. Maga aren’t the ones leaving our borders wide open to just anyone to break federal immigration laws. The left are the extremists.
7:37 AM · Jan 2, 2024; 1/3/24, 3:41 AM
Clyde said...: @ Flat Tire

The Democrat nominee will be Claudine Gay. She checks off the right boxes, she’s available, and she’ll be irresistible to Democrat voters after she gives her “It’s Morning In America” speech at the Democrat Convention.; 1/3/24, 5:07 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Wow. The more I read the uglier this story gets. Zionism is such a racist white supremacy cult that they inspired an Israeli Black Panther Party, so darker Arab Jews could protest their treatment by the white newcomers from Yurp, who seem to be into abusing everybody they encounter.

Kinda like a certain group of Americans I know,...; 1/3/24, 5:50 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: How do my posts keep getting hemmed up, so they don't show up, this way?; 1/3/24, 5:52 AM
Leland said...: A bit more serious response to Flat Tire, the problem is in two parts. As the argument about Trump being on the ballot shows, the primary is already starting to happen and the choice is really Biden. Biden will win the primary. However, the candidate will be chosen at the convention. Party leaders can push Biden aside, but as Althouse keeps pointing out; how do you sweep Harris out of the way? If Clyde is right about Gay, well that’s the same for Harris except Harris checks a few more boxes, such as being a Senator and understanding the legislative process.

Meanwhile, Newsom only checks the box of being a reliable Democrat hack. A box Harris already checks. Party officials may think Newsom more competent than Harris, but how do they make that point without pissing off black and women voters? The white guys is more competent than the current black woman Vice President to be the next President. If you thought moving Claudine Gay out of the way was hard even with clear evidence of plagiarism from other black female academics; then try pushing Harris out of the way without strong evidence of incompetence. Harris word salads are sad but giving speeches isn’t the same as enacting policy, especially when you think the President is just a figurehead for the bureaucracy anyway. The only argument for Newsom is that neither Biden nor Harris look capable of beating Trump, and the question is why Newsom would be better?; 1/3/24, 5:56 AM
wendybar said...: "Across the globe, millions of people are on the move, defying borders and violating laws to escape poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America and break into rich countries.

The United States is their No. 1 destination.

America needs a strategy to control the impact of this lawless migration on our quality of life.

Instead, the Democratic Party merely virtue signals, saying, “Welcome, take whatever we have.”

As of Jan. 1, California is offering Medi-Cal to 760,000 undocumented migrants of all ages."

https://nypost.com/2024/01/02/opinion/free-health-care-for-migrants-lunacy-given-us-border-crisis/; 1/3/24, 6:04 AM
wendybar said...: Race Baiter and amateur fire alarm puller, Jamaal Bowman, weighed into the controversy surrounding the resignation of Claudine Gay as Harvard's top dog after her anemic response to on-campus anti-semitism and revelations of plagiarism.

Rep. Jamaal Bowman Ed.D.
@JamaalBowmanNY

This isn’t about plagiarism or antisemitism. This is about racism and intimidation. This makes no one safer.

The only winners are fascists who bullied a brilliant & historic Black woman into resignation.

2024 will be a battle for truth, democracy and our shared humanity.
6:59 PM · Jan 2, 2024; 1/3/24, 6:29 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: My posts are trapped in the hopper again .; 1/3/24, 7:13 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: I told you - Israel as international pariah: Puma has dropped their sponsorship of the Israeli football team over the Zionist's treatment of the Palestinians.; 1/3/24, 7:19 AM
MadTownGuy said...: gadfly said...

"Cory Doctorow was writing about TikTok, but this applies with equal if not greater force to the Muskified Xitter:

"Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die."

Meanwhile, on X, Elon Musk posted:

"Sorry if our platform was a bit slower than it should be – we have now brought additional resources online.

Last week was an all-time high in usage."

Rumors of X's death are greatly exaggerated.; 1/3/24, 7:25 AM
lonejustice said...: For an excellent book about the Arab/Israeli conflict, I highly recommend "Six Days of War. June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East," by Michael B. Oren.; 1/3/24, 7:31 AM
iowan2 said...: likely be the Democratic nominee for president, assuming no major display of Biden's mental or physical deterioration in the coming months

If there is a better example of wishful thinking, please share

Dementia is progressive and constant. I would recommend going back a year and watch Biden videos, but his handlers have successfully hidden Biden.; 1/3/24, 7:37 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: wendybar said...

"Race Baiter and amateur fire alarm puller, Jamaal Bowman, weighed into the controversy,..."

I sure am glad we have people like you, patrolling 13% of the population, while the vast majority of the majority, including those holding racist views found here - white people - can go about their business unencumbered.

Can you point me to any evidence, anywhere, that you've EVER challenged racism going the other way? Or are you just another agent for white supremacy, making sure the darkies stay in-line?; 1/3/24, 7:41 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: I did a post, answering Bill Crawford's on Exodus, that's never appeared.; 1/3/24, 7:59 AM
Humperdink said...: @lonejustice. Still waiting for the posting of your writings so they can be scrutinized for plagiarism. Thanks for playing!; 1/3/24, 8:01 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: gadfly said...

"I am sure that The Crack Emcee will read this as well."

I did - wild stuff, as Johnny Carson used to say. My take: Hertzl had "issues" and now the entire world is poisoned with them. His son's suicidal religious odyssey says it all:

Zionism is the most impractical answer to the problem of anti-semitism ever conceived.; 1/3/24, 8:05 AM
Mr. Forward said...: George Soros is available and already owns the Democrat party. Sam Bankman-Fried was born in America and has a hyphenated name. Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is currently unemployed and never had a problem with the border. Nancy Pelosi would fix the stock market.; 1/3/24, 8:10 AM
Mr. Forward said...: The Crack Emcee said...
My posts are trapped in the hopper again.

You might want to look in the tunnel under the hospital.; 1/3/24, 8:13 AM
FullMoon said...: Man of the Year: The IDF Soldier; 1/3/24, 8:48 AM
Iman said...: Mr. Forward @8:13am… thanks for the chuckle!; 1/3/24, 9:36 AM
FullMoon said...: Al Sharpton to Lead Protest at New York City Office of Jewish Critic of Claudine Gay; 1/3/24, 9:44 AM
wendybar said...: EXACTLY what needs to be done immediately. Trump, 2024!!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12922811/Trump-says-mass-deport-migrants-225-year-old-law-FDR-used-remove-thousands-Japanese-Germans-Second-World-War-cancel-Biden-policy-caused-catastrophe-historic-proportions.html; 1/3/24, 9:46 AM
Candide said...: Bill Crawford said...

"Anyone have other book recommendatios? Including from a "Palestimian" or Arab POV?"

‘Jerusalem’ by Karen Armstrong presents a sensibly sympathetic portrayal of Muslims and Arabs, offering the most charitable view within reason.

Of course you need to go to the chapter 11. Preceding 3000+ years of Jerusalem history have no mention of Muslims.; 1/3/24, 11:39 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: FullMoon said...

"Man of the Year: The IDF Soldier"

That's not going to age well. I got $5.00 says it's obsolete in two weeks.; 1/3/24, 12:07 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: Joe Rogan on Israel: THEY HAVE TO STOP; 1/3/24, 12:11 PM
wendybar said...: Fraudulent President Unity is at it again. So much for being president of ALL Americans. He is President of illegal immigrants ONLY. Asshole. HE is the face of White Supremacy. HE is a RACIST and has been for years but because of the "D" after his name, he gets excused. This pitiful excuse of a man is destroying America as we speak...but watch as he blames Trump and his supporters. I pray for the day he and his family get their comeuppance.

"Joe Biden will use the J6 aniversary to accuse Trump supporters of being white supremacists.

Biden is using the backdrop of Valley Forge to spew his lies.

There are currently political prisoners in jail who have not been to court yet nearly three years since the Jan. 6 protests.

What an absolutely evil regime."

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/hes-uniter-joe-biden-plans-speech-dangers-white/; 1/3/24, 12:25 PM
wendybar said...: The Washington Post reported (emphasis ours):

Capitol Police officer Brian D. Sicknick suffered two strokes and died of natural causes a day after he confronted rioters at the Jan. 6 insurrection, the District’s chief medical examiner has ruled. The ruling, released Monday, likely will make it difficult for prosecutors to pursue homicide charges in the officer’s death. Two men are accused of assaulting Sicknick by spraying a powerful chemical irritant at him during the siege.

Truth In Media
@Truth_InMedia

The whole official January 6th narrative hinged on the story of Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick’s death.

Yet the Justice Department and the mainstream media lied about his cause of death for months, claiming that he had been struck in the head with a fire extinguisher.; 1/3/24, 12:28 PM
MadTownGuy said...: US water utilities targeted by foreign hackers, prompting calls for cybersecurity overhaul

"The tiny Aliquippa water authority in western Pennsylvania was perhaps the least-suspecting victim of an international cyberattack.

It had never had outside help in protecting its systems from a cyberattack, either at its existing plant that dates to the 1930s or the new $18.5 million one it is building.

Then it — along with several other water utilities — was struck by what federal authorities say are Iranian-backed hackers targeting a piece of equipment specifically because it was Israeli-made.

"If you told me to list 10 things that would go wrong with our water authority, this would not be on the list," said Matthew Mottes, the chairman of the authority that handles water and wastewater for about 22,000 people in the woodsy exurbs around a one-time steel town outside Pittsburgh.

The hacking of the Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa is prompting new warnings from U.S. security officials at a time when states and the federal government are wrestling with how to harden water utilities against cyberattacks.

The danger, officials say, is hackers gaining control of automated equipment to shut down pumps that supply drinking water or contaminate drinking water by reprogramming automated chemical treatments. Besides Iran, other potentially hostile geopolitical rivals, including China, are viewed by U.S. officials as a threat.

A number of states have sought to step up scrutiny, although water authority advocates say the money and the expertise are what is really lacking for a sector of more than 50,000 water utilities, most of which are local authorities that, like Aliquippa’s, serve corners of the country where residents are of modest means and cybersecurity professionals are scarce.

Besides, utilities say, it's difficult to invest in cybersecurity when upkeep of pipes and other water infrastructure is already underfunded, and some cybersecurity measures have been pushed by private water companies, sparking pushback from public authorities that it is being used as a back door to privatization."

More at the link, including a photo of the hackers' message to the local utility.; 1/3/24, 12:46 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: State Dept FORCED To Condemn Israeli Ministers After They Call For MASS RELOCATION of Gazans; 1/3/24, 12:59 PM
Bill Crawford said...: *I did a post, answering Bill Crawford's on Exodus, that's never appeared.*

Hi Crack - If you want, send it to uberbill718@gmail.com

Thanks!; 1/3/24, 2:16 PM
SteveWe said...: Hey, Crackee,

You keep posting links to canned YouTube videos that you believe to be WhoopAss. They're not. Instead of posting that crap, how about posting your own written thoughts in a cogent manner? (And maybe writing your own thoughts will slow down the number of your posts.)

BTW, there's not one thing about this post that is racist, Zionist, supremacist, or whatever your favorite -ist stone you're ready to load your sling-back with.; 1/3/24, 5:40 PM