Althouse: Sunrise

January 7, 2024

Sunrise — 7:33.

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24 comments:

rhhardin said...: [Lynd's] skin was lightly suntanned and bore no trace of make-up except on her mouth which was wide and sensual. Her bare arms and hands had a quality of repose and the general impression of restraint in her appearance and movements was carried even to her finger-nails which were unpainted and cut short. Round her neck she wore a plain gold chain of wide flat links and on the fourth finger of the right hand a broad topaz ring. Her medium-length dress was of grey ‘soie sauvage’ with a square-cut bodice, lasciviously tight across her fine breasts. The skirt was closely pleated and flowered down from a narrow, but not a thin, waist.

She wore a three-inch, hand-stitched black belt. A hand-stitched black ‘sabretache’ rested on the chair beside her, together with a wide cartwheel hat of gold straw, its crown encircled by a thin black velvet ribbon which tied at the back in a short bow. Her shoes were square-toed of plain black leather.

Casino Royale, Ian FLeming

Zuleika was not strictly beautiful. Her eyes were a trifle large, and their lashes longer than they need have been. An anarchy of small curls was her chevelure, a dark upland of misrule, every hair asserting its rights over a not discreditable brow. For the rest, her features were not at all original. They seemed to have been derived rather from a gallimaufry of familiar models. From Madame la Marquise de Saint-Ouen came the shapely tilt of the nose. The mouth was a mere replica of Cupid’s bow, lacquered scarlet and strung with the littlest pearls. No apple-tree, no wall of peaches, had not been robbed, nor any Tyrian rose-garden, for the glory of Miss Dobson’s cheeks. Her neck was imitation-marble. Her hands and feet were of very mean proportions. She had no waist to speak of.

Zuleika Dobson, Max Beerbohm; 1/7/24, 7:17 PM
MadisonMan said...: Getting ready for the real snow!; 1/7/24, 7:36 PM
narciso said...: https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1744004154006102071; 1/7/24, 7:58 PM
Original Mike said...: "Getting ready for the real snow!"

Do we have to? I was kinda liking being a slug.; 1/7/24, 8:57 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Big if true: The FBI had agents posing as Trump supporters at the capitol on J6.

Watch Tucker Carlson via YouTube.; 1/7/24, 11:10 PM
Jupiter said...: Acme.; 1/7/24, 11:19 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: I have to watch YouTube to find out Biden, our president took millions of dollars in apparent bribes.

Not to sound… insurrectioni, but this is unsustainable.

Congressional hearing (copy pasta to your browser) 👉🏽 https://youtu.be/4gx1yJHMmbQ?si=50ByjRZunUIB-9dj

There’s nothing about this in the morning news, for example.; 1/7/24, 11:39 PM
gadfly said...: "I think people’s biases are getting in the way when thinking about how the Colorado case should be decided. Whatever the Supreme Court does will create a rule going forward. That rule will apply to people we like as well as people we don’t like." ~Teri Kanefield

However, hope springs eternal in the ecumenical breast.; 1/8/24, 12:55 AM
wendybar said...: In June 2020, then-President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, and their son Barron were reportedly rushed to a secure bunker when a group of protesters breached temporary barricades that had been set up around the White House complex.

Secret Service reportedly arrested and charged at least four protesters with unlawful entry at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. THIS is what a REAL insurrection looks like...Notice the fires and the businesses they damaged in the process of their hate and violence. I bet those 4 individuals got sprung the next day with a slap on the wrist...https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11752998/trump-secure-bunker-friday-george-floyd-protests-white-house/

8 Times Left-Wing Protesters Broke Into Government Buildings And Assaulted Democracy

https://1ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fthefederalist.com%2F2022%2F01%2F07%2F8-times-left-wing-protesters-broke-into-government-buildings-and-assaulted-democracy%2F; 1/8/24, 3:41 AM
wendybar said...: Nancy doesn't need no laws or constitution. She will do whatever she can to destroy America along with the half black guy, and the delusional one sitting fraudulently in the WH today...

"Nancy Pelosi however on Sunday said the states can overrule the US Constitution and ban Trump from the ballot.

Even George Stephanopoulos, a lifelong Democrat hack and Deep State asset was stunned by Pelosi’s suggestion."

“You believe [Trump] is ineligible to be president?” Stephanopoulos asked Pelosi referring to the 14th Amendment.

“They have different laws from state-to-state,” Pelosi said.

A stunned Stephanopoulos interrupted Pelosi and said, “It’s the Constitution…”

“That’s not the point,” Pelosi said as she explained that every state has different laws.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1744026963126235392; 1/8/24, 3:42 AM
wendybar said...: Elon Musk

@elonmusk

Insane

~~datahazard~~
@fentasyl
At current rates, we can expect over 12 million encounters in the first term of Joe Biden's presidency.

That's nearly as much as the preceding 3 terms combined.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1744058476387557867?s=20; 1/8/24, 4:10 AM
Humperdink said...: Kubota tractor with snow plow resting comfortably in the barn. It could stay there all winter.; 1/8/24, 4:43 AM
wendybar said...: The more I see happening, the more I can believe this is true.

"Ten days before the vote was supposed to happen, when it was likely not going to pass, a story got leaked. Things don’t get leaked from the FBI.”

“A story got leaked that the FBI had been investigating a brothel in Virginia, a very high-class brothel. It’s $25,000 a night to get in, and all the elites go there, among other things. It said several members of Congress were on the list. But if you notice, they didn’t release the names of those members of Congress, and what it was. You can just take my word for it, but this is my hypothesis: they’re basically saying, ‘Go against us, don’t give us this building, and it’s going to be your name on that list.'”

It can be recalled that a day before 70 GOP representatives, along with Democrats, approved $300 million in funding for new FBI headquarters, the Justice Department announced arrests in a high-end brothel network used by elected officials, military officers, doctors, and more."

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/former-rep-madison-cawthorn-claims-government-is-behind/; 1/8/24, 4:46 AM
wendybar said...: This deliberate effort to destroy America has a name. It’s the Cloward-Piven strategy, named after two communist sociology professors at Columbia University,

The four steps of the Cloward-Piven Strategy:

1. Overload and Break the Welfare System

2. Have Chaos Ensue

3. Take Control in the Chaos

4. Implement Socialism and Communism through Government Force

Number 1 is currently ushering in number 2. Number 3 will be determined next November. Donald Trump is the only hope to break the sequence. Another term of the architect Barack Obama, via Joe Biden, Gavin Newsom, or Michelle Obama, will guarantee number 3 and 4, and then it’s lights out for the America of the past 250 years.

Closing our border and enforcing existing immigration law would be a good place to start. Continuing on our current path is the “fundamental change” that Obama promised, and goodbye to America as we know it.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/01/no_border__say_goodbye_to_america.html; 1/8/24, 4:56 AM
wendybar said...: "In this new America of ours, Joe Biden is hale and savvy, while Hunter did nothing wrong. Our heroes are Dylan Mulvaney, Gen. Rachel Levine, and the two Sams, Bankman-Fried and Brinton.

In today’s America, Karin Jean-Pierre is truthful, while Alejandro Mayorkas is honest. An innocent and saintly George Floyd was randomly murdered; his death proof of systemic police racism. And defunding the police brought calm and quiet, in the way our border is secure and the homeless are mere victims.

Dr. Jill is an impressive academic. Oprah and LeBron are the downtrodden and victimized. Gen. Mark Milley is a brave maverick, and so is Adam Schiff. The flight from Afghanistan marked a brilliantly organized retreat."

https://amgreatness.com/2024/01/08/a-culture-in-collapse/; 1/8/24, 5:00 AM
Big Mike said...: As of this morning searchers still have not found the missing Alaska Airlines 737’s missing fuselage panel, however two of the iPhones that blew out of the plane have turned up intact. At least one of them still works!; 1/8/24, 5:56 AM
Big Mike said...: Iran has decided to reintroduce flogging for women who do not wear the hijab. American feminists apparently care about the flogging of Iranian women about as much as they cared about the rapes and murders of Israeli women last October, which is to say they do not care at all.; 1/8/24, 6:02 AM
tim in vermont said...: Fun fact, if you borrow $1.7 trillion and use some of it to pay people to sit home and not work, or pay off their student loans, GDP goes up and unemployment goes down.

Another fun fact, Joe Biden pushed through the law that made student loans non dischargeable and one of the banks made fresh out of college Hunter Biden a vice president.; 1/8/24, 7:34 AM
n.n said...: Big if true: The FBI had agents posing as Trump supporters at the capitol on J6.

An uncivil entrapment, a Whitmer conspiracy, a Pelosi-gate, a progressive process of Democratic rites.; 1/8/24, 7:44 AM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: Democrats have outed themselves as fascists. 81% of Democrats think Trump should be banned from the ballot.

We need to destroy democratic elections in order to save them!; 1/8/24, 9:15 AM
MadTownGuy said...: Blockade of World Trade Center By Anti-Israel Activists An Attempted Intimidation of U.S.

"Their goal is not to convince people, it’s to send a message of intimidation, that they will disregard even our most sensitive of norms because they hate our society as much if not more than they hate Israel.

Posted by William A. Jacobson"

More at the link.; 1/8/24, 10:56 AM
Rusty said...: Talking to wildlife photographers along the river yesterday. Ducks and geese still have not come down. I told them I hadn't seen the eagles in awhile.
It made me wonder how much of an eagles diet , in this area, consists of duck.; 1/8/24, 11:08 AM
MadTownGuy said...: FIGHT BACK TWICE AS HARD: (Instapundit/David Bernstein)

"The pro-Hamas riots in major cities, such as the vandalism of businesses, and the blockage of roads, are illegal and can be predicate acts for civil lawsuits under RICO and other federal laws. I have two lawyer friends (both of whom I met during my undergrad days at Brandeis!) who are eager to bring such lawsuits, but they need victims to step forward and contact them."

Contact info at the link.; 1/8/24, 11:08 AM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: Africa is raising more rice and increasing methane emissions. People are getting more food to eat. Phys.org says methane is the 2nd most important greenhouse gas after CO2. It has conveniently ignored water vapor, which accounts for 90%+ of the greenhouse effect.

Methane may be a more efficient greenhouse gas, but it only accounts for about 1% of the greenhouse effect. Doubling the amount of methane in the atmosphere will have little effect. But, the narrative must say we're doomed!; 1/8/24, 1:10 PM