Althouse: Sunrise — 5:41, 5:44, 5:45.

May 8, 2024

Sunrise — 5:41, 5:44, 5:45.

38 comments:

Lem Vibe Bandit said...: I love the top one.; 5/8/24, 6:59 PM
MadisonMan said...: My favorite two months. Now though mid-July when the Sun is happily in view so early.; 5/8/24, 7:10 PM
William50 said...: Sorry, I forgot to post the rates after the cuts. See below;

Federal - 1982 Single Tax Brackets
Tax Bracket Tax Rate
$0.00+ 0%
$2,300.00+ 12%
$3,400.00+ 14%
$4,400.00+ 16%
$6,500.00+ 17%
$8,500.00+ 19%
$10,800.00+ 22%
$12,900.00+ 23%
$15,000.00+ 27%
$18,200.00+ 31%
$23,500.00+ 35%
$28,800.00+ 40%
$34,100.00+ 44%
$41,500.00+ 50%

Federal - 1982 Married Filing Jointly Tax Brackets
Tax Bracket Tax Rate
$0.00+ 0%
$3,400.00+ 12%
$5,500.00+ 14%
$7,600.00+ 16%
$11,900.00+ 19%
$16,000.00+ 22%
$20,200.00+ 25%
$24,600.00+ 29%
$29,900.00+ 33%
$35,200.00+ 39%
$45,800.00+ 44%
$60,000.00+ 49%
$85,600.00+ 50%; 5/8/24, 7:30 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: #1 with a bullet, for the win!
AND... that is not a periscope.; 5/8/24, 7:32 PM
TickTock said...: Lovely pics. Sometime when I am less bushed I'll comment on the vanity of protest, or clean hands votes, such as votes for Robert Kennedy,; 5/8/24, 7:36 PM
Mark said...: I laughed at Elon's tweet at JK Rowling over the weekend:

“While I heartily agree with your points regarding sex/gender, may I suggest also interesting and positive content about other things?”

Even Elon is yawning at her antics.; 5/8/24, 8:03 PM
William50 said...: Man did I mess up. Here are the tax rates prior to the Reagan cuts that the Democrats claim were only for the wealthy;

Federal - 1981 Single Tax Brackets
Tax Bracket Tax Rate
$0.00+ 0%
$2,300.00+ 14%
$3,400.00+ 16%
$4,400.00+ 18%
$6,500.00+ 19%
$8,500.00+ 21%
$10,800.00+ 24%
$12,900.00+ 26%
$15,000.00+ 30%
$18,200.00+ 34%
$23,500.00+ 39%
$28,800.00+ 44%
$34,100.00+ 49%
$41,500.00+ 55%
$55,300.00+ 63%
$81,800.00+ 68%
$108,300.00+ 70%

Federal - 1981 Married Filing Jointly Tax Brackets
Tax Bracket Tax Rate
$0.00+ 0%
$3,400.00+ 14%
$5,500.00+ 16%
$7,600.00+ 18%
$11,900.00+ 21%
$16,000.00+ 24%
$20,200.00+ 28%
$24,600.00+ 32%
$29,900.00+ 37%
$35,200.00+ 43%
$45,800.00+ 49%
$60,000.00+ 54%
$85,600.00+ 59%
$109,400.00+ 64%
$162,400.00+ 68%
$215,400.00+ 70%

Federal - 1981 Married Filing Jointly Tax Brackets
Tax Bracket Tax Rate
$0.00+ 0%
$3,400.00+ 14%
$5,500.00+ 16%
$7,600.00+ 18%
$11,900.00+ 21%
$16,000.00+ 24%
$20,200.00+ 28%
$24,600.00+ 32%
$29,900.00+ 37%
$35,200.00+ 43%
$45,800.00+ 49%
$60,000.00+ 54%
$85,600.00+ 59%
$109,400.00+ 64%
$162,400.00+ 68%
$215,400.00+ 70%; 5/8/24, 8:16 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Rasmussen Reports on X: Arizona: Only 1 official ballot paper type was approved by Maricopa County for all 2020 counted ballots, yet 10 types were discovered by voter-volunteers amounting to over 200,000 ‘non-conforming’ (counterfeit) ballots that were counted in a race Joe Biden ‘won’ by far far less.; 5/8/24, 8:37 PM
Eva Marie said...: TickTock: What are clean hands votes?; 5/8/24, 8:38 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: So, The Stormy Daniels afraid Trump would hire someone to k**l her is the same Stormy Daniels shopping around for a publisher to tell her stories, not once, but on two separate occasions, years apart?

Let's hope the jury is keeping track.; 5/8/24, 9:04 PM
Original Mike said...: Blogger Eva Marie said..."TickTock: What are clean hands votes?"

I suspect it's voting for someone who doesn't have a chance to win. No matter what happens, "it's not your fault."; 5/8/24, 9:11 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Breaking: "Biden Says ‘I’m Not Supplying The Weapons’ If Israel Attacks Rafah"

It looks similar to his US southern border policy.; 5/8/24, 9:18 PM
TickTock said...: Eva, Clean hands votes is my own term for a voter who knows the candidate she votes for will lose, but won't get down into the mud and mess of real politics and make a decision between two candidates she believes are flawed. It's a way to not accept responsibility for actually making a decision between them that could actually mean something. That way, on December 7th, she can show her clean hands and say, not my fault. I didn't vote for him. Him being whoever wins .

It's an evasion of responsibility in my book. I can see it as almost legitimate when the two who actually stand a chance to be elected have similar positions, and in that case I've done it myself when I voted for Ross Perot. But to be neutral when the Republic is at stake isn't an option in my book. I admire many things about our hostess. She is enormously talented. But on this, well, I'll hold back what I really think until later.; 5/8/24, 9:23 PM
FullMoon said...: Katt Williams, Netflix . Tig Nataro, Prime.

Each an established comedian. Each mediocre. Katts' audience not real excited and kind of quiet about some of his jokes and observations.

Tigs' audience wildly appreciative of all her material.

I did laugh a few times, but unable to watch more than 20 minutes at a time without changing the channel. Haven't completed either show yet.

On the other hand, there are a few people here who can intentionally elicit a smile and an occasional genuine laugh-out-loud.

Some of the laugh -out -loud comments from others unintentional, but still more funny than the aforementioned professionals.; 5/8/24, 10:28 PM
PM said...: Melvyn Douglas in Hud:
"Little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire."; 5/8/24, 11:07 PM
wildswan said...: Althouse's support for RFK Jr.- what's it all about? Guys, remember, she called the 2022 election in that the issues most important in that election were the ones she had kept bringing up in her posts the whole year before. I did not have most of those issues at the top of mind. But now I'm very interested in what's top of mind in the blog. It seems like maybe it's all one thing - a concern about the way the Dems are conducting things - how they are treating RFK Jr., how they are treating Trump, how the NYT is reporting on stories with a concern that they are infantilizing their readers - well, this is all my interpretation of the posts. I myself can't see the political scene through the swirling tumult at all. But sometimes in history as one era changes to another there are "partial products" as we used to say in math. People or thoughts are cloudy because they are half in the past and half in the future.
As if everybody's ideas were half about a recognizable past and half about a future which is really here but we can't see it. What do these political show trials mean, after all? And this horrible, college antisemitism - is it really widely supported? Or the way journalists and media people are sorting themselves into one of two categories: some becoming barking seals saying whatever .gov wants; some becoming part-time voices crying in the wilderness. Bill Maher, part-time prophet, part time liberal dolt? there's comedy gold. And yet... you listen to him and you can hear, he'd can't help trying to tell the truth about the deadly, inanity of the world he sees. No joke.; 5/8/24, 11:21 PM
gadfly said...: Lem: You are easily sucked into conspiracies - this one was invented by losing Trumpian gubernatorial candidate, Kerri Lake.

An investigation by a retired Arizona Supreme Court justice found the cause of those printer problems was the switch to larger ballots printed on heavier, thicker paper – not malicious actors. County officials have repeatedly said that all legally cast ballots were counted and included in the official results. The county’s older Oki B432 printers failed to stay hot enough to consistently print ballots dark enough on the heavier paper to be read by the tabulators at the precincts. Those ballots had to be taken to scanners in downtown Phoenix for counting.; 5/8/24, 11:22 PM
wildswan said...: I liked that golden moment. Sometimes it seems like such an ugly world but then I see that if I would get out of bed and watch the sunrise I'd see every day there's more than politics.; 5/8/24, 11:58 PM
HistoryDoc said...: Depends on the meaning of the word "presumptive". I think we may need the Professor to do an entymological search, followed by a formation of a separate tag, so we can all sleep at night.; 5/9/24, 12:08 AM
Ampersand said...: Tonight I watched a film that I somehow had managed never to see. It was the 1963 film HUD starring Paul Newman, Patricia Neal and Melvyn Douglas. Great writing acting and photography. File it away as one to watch.; 5/9/24, 12:22 AM
Narayanan said...: Blogger Eva Marie said...
TickTock: What are clean hands votes?
=================
I will make a guess > Pilate=style=gestures ?; 5/9/24, 2:00 AM
Kate said...: Another day in which the Mystery Sub of Lake Mendota stays below periscope depth.; 5/9/24, 2:34 AM
wendybar said...: David Burge
@iowahawkblog

mmmm, science-y

Scientific American
@sciam
Media coverage of university students speaking up against the war in Gaza, just like coverage of other protest movements, has fallen prey to some serious weaknesses https://trib.al/G2pi3jm
3:12 PM · May 8, 2024

David Burge
@iowahawkblog

Replying to @iowahawkblog
stay subscribed to Scientific American for our hard-hitting scientific hot takes on the Drake-Kendrick Lamar conflict
3:19 PM · May 8, 2024; 5/9/24, 3:15 AM
wendybar said...: Sure sounds like it to me!!

Jake13th 🏴‍☠️
@JakeThirteenth

Is Biden trying to say that Trump is a Republican with a big D? 👀

RNC Research
@RNCResearch
Biden tries and fails (badly) at insulting President Trump: "The guy is not a Democrat with a small D!"

https://twitter.com/i/status/1788350494974337162; 5/9/24, 4:17 AM
wendybar said...: "For eight years now, the Deep State’s two-tiered “justice,” overt propaganda, and malicious political targeting have been too conspicuous for rational people to ignore. In its unbridled obsession with “getting Trump,” it now stands in bright sunlight for all to see. This is a good and healthy thing for the American Republic. If freedom and self-government are to survive, tyranny must die."

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/05/the_deep_state_exposed_itself.html; 5/9/24, 5:04 AM
Ann Althouse said...: "Depends on the meaning of the word "presumptive"...."

It means if I had to vote today, with the candidates currently in the race, and knowing as much as I know at this point, that's how I would vote.

As for why he impressed me: I heard his long interview with Joe Rogan and I read his book "American Values." I also listened to the podcast he did with Tim Dillon last September.

Also, I have a tag for his name, so you can easily read everything I've posted about him.; 5/9/24, 6:11 AM
Humperdink said...: Prosecutor Black Jack Smith accuses Trump of mishandling classified documents. Now the trial is delayed indefinitely. Why? Because the Commie-Pinko hack prosecutor mishandled the same classified documents.; 5/9/24, 6:17 AM
Leland said...: Mark, consider that Elon’s message was meant for you.; 5/9/24, 6:32 AM
gadfly said...: FreedomWorks closes up shop: Politico reports that the libertarian organization has shut down for good, effective immediately, a victim of Trumpian populism.

After Trump took control of the conservative movement, . . . a “huge gap” opened up between the libertarian principles of FreedomWorks leadership and the MAGA-style populism of its members. FreedomWorks leaders, for example, still believed in free trade, small government, and a robust merit-based immigration system. Increasingly, however, those positions clashed with a Trump-aligned membership who called for tariffs on imported goods and a wall to keep immigrants out but were willing . . . to remain silent as Trump’s administration added $8 trillion to the national debt.

That’ll do it. Now two Koch organizations, FreedomWorks and Americans for Progress have gone by the board, striking honest conservatism from the Republican right. GOP populists will continue to dishonestly claim to be conservatives.; 5/9/24, 6:42 AM
Rusty said...: AA @ 6:11
All that may well be. I stand with my previous statement. The Kennedys have enough of our time and treasure.
I don't think you realize how absolutely pissed off people are in this country.; 5/9/24, 6:43 AM
tcrosse said...: To choose the lesser of two evils is to choose evil.; 5/9/24, 6:52 AM
gadfly said...: FreedomWorks closes up shop: Politico reports that the libertarian organization has shut down for good, effective immediately, a victim of Trumpian populism.

After Trump took control of the conservative movement, . . . a “huge gap” opened up between the libertarian principles of FreedomWorks leadership and the MAGA-style populism of its members. FreedomWorks leaders, for example, still believed in free trade, small government, and a robust merit-based immigration system. Increasingly, however, those positions clashed with a Trump-aligned membership who called for tariffs on imported goods and a wall to keep immigrants out but were willing . . . to remain silent as Trump’s administration added $8 trillion to the national debt.

That’ll do it. Now two former Koch organizations, FreedomWorks and Americans for Progress have gone by the board, striking honest conservatism from the Republican right. GOP populists will continue to dishonestly claim to be conservatives.; 5/9/24, 6:54 AM
planetgeo said...: RE: "clean hands vote"

When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. “I am innocent of this man’s blood,” he said. “It is your responsibility!”

- Althouse 27:24 (in the chapter on Cruel Neutrality); 5/9/24, 6:57 AM
Shouting Thomas said...: I linked to your post in which you seem to conclude that Stormy Daniels was lying about having ever had sex with Trump. Facebook notified me this morning that they deleted the post. No explanation. No claim even that it violated some community standard.; 5/9/24, 7:01 AM
Humperdink said...: There are a few RFK Jr. positions that I agree with, most I do not. In total, he is a hard core lefty at heart. USA Today summarized his political positions below:

https://www.usatoday.com/elections/voter-guide/2024-11-05/candidate/robert-f-kennedy; 5/9/24, 7:04 AM
Whiskeybum said...: Kate - “Mystery Sub” - I like that! Kind of like Lake Mendota’s own version of the Loch Ness Monster. When will it be spotted again?!; 5/9/24, 8:46 AM
TickTock said...: It was presumptive of me to suggest a motivation behind Ann's current views, and I apologize. But it had been a long, tiring day and my suggested motivation is one that I think many voters have. It is one I violently disagree with. But it is wrong to infer that motivation without more evidence. Truth is that Ann is a mystery, as I have only followed this blog for 6-7;years.; 5/9/24, 9:11 AM
wendybar said...: The Babylon Bee
@TheBabylonBee

Dead Worm Found In RFK Jr.’s Brain Already Polling Higher Than Biden In 11 States https://buff.ly/44z10kA; 5/9/24, 9:14 AM