Althouse: Sunrise

March 17, 2024

Sunrise — 6:58.

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29 comments:

Just asking questions (Jaq) said...: Ahead of the presidential 'election' in Russia scheduled for 15-17 March 2024, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) wishes to underscore the importance of upholding the defining principles of independent international election observation. These include, among others, unimpeded access to key phases of the electoral cycle and to electoral personnel, freedom of movement across the country, and freedom to issue statements and reports.

Unfortunately, Russia has once again decided not to invite long-established, impartial and professional international election observer organizations such as the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR) to observe the upcoming 'election'.

Wow, this sounds pretty good. I assume that we allow international monitors "unimpeded access to key phases of the electoral cycle," right? Can we get those people to come here and watch, for example, the entire process of vote counting in Georgia, where after the officials believed that they had shut off all of the cameras, other cameras in the Georgia Dome showed them pulling large boxes of ballots out from under tables after all of the observers had been sent home due to a blocked toilet. How hard is it to block a toilet and get all of the observers sent home, anyway?

I bet Putin's elections are full of such shenanigans, which is why he doesn't want them, but ours are clean as a whistle! So why not, just to show them what real democracy looks like!; 3/17/24, 7:30 PM
narciso said...: Oh

https://twitter.com/Sultanknish/status/1769459249166631239; 3/17/24, 7:30 PM
MadisonMan said...: False Early Spring is over.; 3/17/24, 7:32 PM
Mike Sylwester said...: Earlier today, I read a Powerline Blog post, titled "Biden Unplugged".

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/03/biden-unplugged.php.

I urge everyone to read that linked post, which includes an excerpt from an Andrew McCarthy article about Special Counsel Robert Hur’s interview of President Biden about the secret document found in Biden's home.

Hur quoted that Biden interview at length in order to illustrate that Biden is obviously too senile to explain the presence of those classified documents in Biden's home.

McCarthy's article begins as follows.

[quote]

On page 55 of the transcript, Hur asks Biden in what workspaces he kept documents at the vice president’s residence (the Naval Observatory); Biden’s response runs seven pages — although it was not a sensible response to the very simple question asked.

The president began by recounting that “I was the guy who wrote the Violence Against Women Act”; that agriculture is “a $4 billion industry in Delaware and the Delmarva peninsula”; that in a law-school torts class he was applauded for speaking ten minutes about a case he had not read; that “to make a long story short” he got a job out of law school at a firm in Delaware; and that “to make a long story not quite so long” he participated in a case while he was waiting for his bar results involving “this poor kid [who was] down a hundred-foot vessel, chimney, scraping the hydrogen bubbles off of the inside” but “was wearing the wrong pants, wrong jeans, and he —a spark caught fire and got caught in the containment vessel and he lost part of his penis and one of his testicles and he was 23 years old.” The senior partner told Biden to write a memo supporting a motion to dismiss the case, “and son of a bitch, it prevailed,” whereupon Biden thought “son of a bitch I’m in the wrong business, I’m not made for this.”

[end quote]

Go to the above link to read more of Hur's statement. You will be appalled by Biden's obvious senility.; 3/17/24, 7:34 PM
narciso said...: What are they good for absolutely nothing

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/03/17/cassidy-trumps-bloodbath-rhetoric-concerning-to-some-voters/; 3/17/24, 7:35 PM
rehajm said...: For the econ minded a good working paper on inflation

From John Cochrane: If we measured inflation as we did in the 1970s, the recent bout of inflation would have been even higher than the worst of the 1970s! No wonder the deplorables are ungrateful for Bidenomics, is essentially the author’s point, though quantified and much more politely stated.; 3/17/24, 7:45 PM
gadfly said...: tim in vermont said..
. . .for example, the entire process of vote counting in Georgia, where after the officials believed that they had shut off all of the cameras, other cameras in the Georgia Dome showed them pulling large boxes of ballots out from under tables after all of the observers had been sent home due to a blocked toilet. How hard is it to block a toilet and get all of the observers sent home, anyway?

There were no votes counted in the Georgia Dome, Tim. It was demolished in 2017.; 3/17/24, 9:06 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Via Reddit: When men go back to following the fish

#Things are not what they seem.; 3/17/24, 9:26 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Trump needs to reign in his propensity to mostly talk off script.

I know, I know. If he hasn’t done it by now.

That “bloodbath” interpretation, is only going to continue.; 3/17/24, 10:28 PM
Big Mike said...: Condolences to Wisconsin for today’s loss. But when Terrence Shannon, Jr. puts a team on his.back, as he did yesterday and today for Illinois, it’s tough to beat him.

Go Illini! On Wisconsin! Let’s see a rematch in Phoenix for all the marbles.; 3/17/24, 11:35 PM
Howard said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 3/18/24, 4:01 AM
Howard said...: Good morning! The coffee tastes excellent this morning. Spring is around the corner. Saw the first flowers in the forest yesterday. The trees are budding. Life is beautiful.; 3/18/24, 4:02 AM
wendybar said...: Just ask RICH....who I think is really Joe Scarbourough...

End Wokeness
@EndWokeness

We are witnessing the invention of the "bloodbath" hoax in real-time

Unfortunately for them, we have 𝕏

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1769245792831701070?s=20
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Morning Joe deleted his post after being humiliated by Elon 🤣

https://x.com/alx/status/1769393666269811113?s=20; 3/18/24, 4:14 AM
wendybar said...: Another great, truthful article by Victor Davis Hanson.

"A cynical public now expects any accused prominent leftist to remain unindicted, while any non-leftwing target will be indicted, convicted, and jailed—for the same alleged offenses."

https://amgreatness.com/2024/03/18/guilty-but-not-really-guilty/; 3/18/24, 5:03 AM
Humperdink said...: MSNBC's Joe Scar'Bro reports when Hunter Biden and his uncle Jim were referring to the Big Guy they were talking about Shaq. 51 intelligence officials agree.; 3/18/24, 5:07 AM
Just asking questions (Jaq) said...: State Farm Arena, excuse me Gadfly, you really sprung a gotcha there.; 3/18/24, 5:24 AM
Just asking questions (Jaq) said...: Jeezum, Lem, how. is Trump supposed to anticipate every dishonest representation of his words?

Here is a montage of mainstream media using "bloodbath" to describe job losses.

https://twitter.com/kylenabecker/status/1769527872564146657; 3/18/24, 5:29 AM
gadfly said...: Mike Sylwester: Answer me this. Why did Rob Hur not officially report that he told Biden that he possessed "photographic recall?" Old geezers like Biden don't normally have such skills. Trump's speeches always have rambling subjects and meaningless sentences but not a word about those. PowerLine doesn't carry details of Trump goofs either - since 2015.

I just turned 85 and yes, I sometimes stumble to grasp a word I want to use when talking and I have to stop to substitute something else but I still work a job requiring a sound mind and write this stuff here about Trump that populist Republicans just don't want to read.; 3/18/24, 5:43 AM
Big Mike said...: "A cynical public now expects any accused prominent leftist to remain unindicted, while any non-leftwing target will be indicted, convicted, and jailed—for substantially lesser alleged offenses."

@wendybar, I fixed it for you and Victor David Hanson.; 3/18/24, 5:54 AM
wildswan said...: Yesterday Rich posted this link. It belongs to the "Gray Lady Down" genre but it's done from the perspective of the former editor of the NYT opinion page, James Bennett. He was cast into the outer darkness, i.e., lost his job at the NYT because, in his capacity as Opinion page editor, he allowed an opinion piece by Senator Tom Cotton to be published. He allowed the immaculate pages of the Times to be soiled, sullied and polluted by The Other Side. The sun was darkened and the moon turned to blood and a third of the stars fell from the sky. Or, anyhow, the internal Slack channel was outraged. He's very vivid on how difficult he found things at the Times when he returned to the newspaper that taught him how to be a newspaperman and found it changed - how he felt like Rip Van Winkel, how he felt as if his head was in a metal bucket with people hammering on the outside, how he felt like one of those Japanese soldiers still fighting WW II twenty years after it ended.
I read Rich to find out what the lefty propaganda line is on a given day and so I would have thought he would still be gloating over Bennett's defenestration. But no. It's almost as if he thinks the NYT has lost its way somewhat or why post an article that says just that. Great link, Rich

https://www.economist.com/1843/2023/12/14/when-the-new-york-times-lost-its-way; 3/18/24, 6:02 AM
Humperdink said...: So Fulton County Judge Judge Scott McAfee labelled Big Fani and her paramour's testimony as mendacious. It had “an odor of mendacity” he said.

Mendacity, noun, def: A lie; a falsehood. The quality or state of being mendacious; a habit of lying.

Wouldn't the term perjury be more appropriate?; 3/18/24, 6:23 AM
Scott Patton said...: Saw on Insty... The first two hours of MTV; 3/18/24, 6:26 AM
Just asking questions (Jaq) said...: "Why did Rob Hur not officially report that he told Biden that he possessed "photographic recall?"

What Rob Hur said was that Biden was perfectly able to recall stuff right up until he was asked a potentially incriminating question, and that Joe Biden's version of taking the Fifth Amendment was to start rambling as if he was a senile old man.

"Vroom, vroom!" was Joe Biden's way of taking the Fifth, without the odium. He prefers to be thought of as senile, rather than the criminal that he undoubtably is.; 3/18/24, 6:46 AM
Mike Sylwester said...: gadfly at 5:43 AM

... Trump's speeches always have rambling subjects and meaningless sentences but not a word [from Hur] about those. PowerLine doesn't carry details of Trump goofs either ...

I likewise have always been appalled by Trump's rambling, meaningless talk.

However, I was surprised when I read Hur's account of Biden's long, rambling, meaningless response to Hur's one simple question. (Read it all at the link, if you still have not done so.)

When I see Biden on television, he seems much less rambling and meaningless than when he responded to Hur's one, simple question. In that particular excerpt, Biden's rambling was off the charts.

Here the context was that Hur was trying to illustrate for his own readers that Biden really was too senile to respond to Hur's questioning about the secret documents scattered throughout Biden's home.; 3/18/24, 7:00 AM
Leland said...: Why did Rob Hur not officially report that he told Biden that he possessed "photographic recall?"

Was Rob Hur required to report that he thanked Biden for his time? Maybe we should ask you another way Gadfly, was Robert Hur supposed to be unpleasant to Biden or, if pleasantry was expected, was Hur then required to report he went gentle on Biden?; 3/18/24, 7:31 AM
Aggie said...: @Howard says: "Good morning! The coffee tastes excellent this morning. Spring is around the corner. Saw the first flowers in the forest yesterday. The trees are budding. Life is beautiful."

I've got a red bud tree outside my office window that has gone through its blooming cycle over the past week. And two Mexican plum trees that fill the yard with an intoxicating fragrance - they bloom about 2 weeks apart, so there's a full month of savoring the white blooms, and the fragrance is almost a separate gaseous phase - you enter it and leave it, walking around the yard. And as the second one blooms, a large antique variety of wisteria that covers the post light is filled with lavender blossoms and a more subtle fragrance, just a few yards away. It's starting to eat surrounding trees, so I have some pruning work to do.

On the highway, the bluebonnets and paintbrush are lining the medians and shoulders, and will peak early this year. My bees are happy. Life is good, and gratitude overflows.; 3/18/24, 8:00 AM
Just asking questions (Jaq) said...: If you don't want to upset your belief that Biden is honest, and that the Ukraine is not a cesspool of corruption whose main economic function seemed to be laundering billions in US aid into the hands of Biden cronies, don't read Steve McIntyre's twitter feed.

https://twitter.com/ClimateAudit; 3/18/24, 8:52 AM
wendybar said...: While Joe Biden is carrying on Husseins Fundamental destroying of America, the guy who is REALLY running the country into the ground is at 10 Downing Street. Why?? What is he up to behind the scenes?? I don't trust the bastard.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1769754042660524381; 3/18/24, 1:43 PM
Just asking questions (Jaq) said...: Chalamet as Bob Dylan.

https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1769806012880425044

Now we all get to see him as Joan Baez saw him, totally dreamy.; 3/18/24, 2:30 PM