Althouse: Sunrise — 5:15, 5:20, 5:20:18.

June 12, 2024

Sunrise — 5:15, 5:20, 5:20:18.

43 comments:

Aggie said...: Ahh.... someone is starting the day off right, I see.; 6/12/24, 6:03 PM
William50 said...: I cannot repeat this enough,

Republicans are not the solution to all our problems but....
Democrats are definitely the cause!!; 6/12/24, 6:33 PM
Meade said...: Nice meme, William50.; 6/12/24, 6:36 PM
Josephbleau said...: As Legolas said, "Yet do not cast all hope away. Tomorrow is unkown. Rede oft is found at the rising of the Sun."; 6/12/24, 6:36 PM
imTay said...: So a US admiral is blathering on about how we are going to defend Taiwan after they declare their independence from China by creating a hellscape of drones keeping the Chinese away from the island. I bet China can manufacture drones too!

China would be quite content with a neutral Taiwan, which is the status quo, but the US seeks to make the island a military outpost allied with the US, which China finds unacceptable. Remember that this is the same island that Japan conquered and annexed and used as a springboard to launch its brutal invasion of the mainland.

Russia would have been happy with a neutral Ukraine, given that the Ukraine has been the springboard for multiple invasions of Russia by Western Europe. This was unacceptable to the United States, which insists on bringing Ukraine into a military bloc that is hostile to Russia.

And before Dr whatsisface brings up Budapest, in that agreement the west promised not to use economic coercion, then came in promising that it would make Ukraine a rich country. Well, Ukraine had two things to sell, its strategic position, and its fighting men. I wonder if the Taiwanese are getting the straight news on how things are going for the Ukrainian in the street.; 6/12/24, 6:49 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Jack Carr predicts immigration as disaster. He should know.; 6/12/24, 6:53 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: This is from 2018?

https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/yale-study-finds-twice-as-many-undocumented-immigrants-as-previous-estimates; 6/12/24, 6:57 PM
narciso said...: interesting one of stephen carters novel, the emperor of ocean park is being adapted on hulu, fwiw,; 6/12/24, 7:06 PM
rhhardin said...: "It means we play it by ear. It means we improvise." - action novel

I think the interpretation is right, but it's a puzzle why. "Play it by ear" means play it as if you were reading it from music but without ever having seen the printed music for it. That's more playing by "musical memory" than improvising.; 6/12/24, 7:14 PM
MadTownGuy said...: While doing my morning routine of Microsoft Solitaire, an ad popped up (I refuse to pay Microsoft's Danegeld) from "Science Moms." I knew of them from before and recognized their fearmongering tactics, so I went in search of some background information on the organization. Here's what I found:

The Global Warming Guys—and “Dark Money”—Behind “Science Moms”

Surprise! Arabella Advisors appears to be funding them through proxy intermediaries.

Read about it at the link, or copy/paste:
https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-global-warming-guys-and-dark-money-behind-science-moms; 6/12/24, 7:39 PM
Original Mike said...: "China would be quite content with a neutral Taiwan, …"

Where do you get this stuff?; 6/12/24, 7:40 PM
Original Mike said...: "While doing my morning routine of Microsoft Solitaire, an ad popped up (I refuse to pay Microsoft's Danegeld) …"

I just disconnect from the internet. No ads.; 6/12/24, 7:42 PM
Kathryn51 said...: narciso said...
interesting one of stephen carters novel, the emperor of ocean park is being adapted on hulu, fwiw,

I enjoyed that novel very much - originally discovered via a link from Instapundit many, many years ago.

My search says MGM+ is the streaming platform, but if it's on Hulu, I might be able to watch (since we have access to a Disney+ account).

Of course, in 2002 (date of the novel) the novel was devoid of DEI S**t. Wish they hadn't taken 20+ years to finally make the series.; 6/12/24, 7:47 PM
imTay said...: No, play it by ear means figure it out as you go along in the colloquial sense. It can also mean that other thing you mentioned, but that’s an exceptional case, not open to ordinary mortals. I can pick up a guitar and play the chords for most rock songs in the seventies, which I would call playing by ear, because they were formulaic, but I could never do what you describe. Also, with an experienced band, they can improvise other parts, filling in solos with their own improvisation, because the scales and modes were circumscribed by the genre.; 6/12/24, 7:48 PM
narciso said...: Yes it was mgm+ formerly epix my mistake since the shardlake is airing on hulu; 6/12/24, 8:03 PM
narciso said...: The protagonist in ocean park and his family resembles that of emmett sullivan; 6/12/24, 8:05 PM
robother said...: So, Donny Deutch is calling for Biden to start running a Goldwater-LBJ ad: little girl picking flowers blown up with a nuke. So, after spending 3 years calling Trump a Russian puppet, they're gonna say he's itching to start a nuclear war with Russia? Like the Vox piece today calling on both Sotomeyer and Kagan to immediately step down, the smell of flop sweat is really beginning to permeate the Left.; 6/12/24, 8:06 PM
imTay said...: Where do I get it? I look at the aggressive trouble seeking by the United States, and its propaganda tropes that amount to always accuse the other side of having your own odious intentions, because the normies, that’s you, might sense something is afoot, and so this must be pinned to the other guy.

This is why Rich came out with that post about Trump planning to govern as a strongman. Biden is the one who is actually using strongman tactics, the reality is out there, Rich knows it, so he tries to pin the stink on Trump. A good rule is “He who smelt it dealt it.”

Read some history, it’s fascinating stuff. You might read about how imperial Japan took the island from China, used it as a platform in its brutal invasion of China, and at the close of the war when China tried to get it back, the US sailed its fleet through the Taiwan strait, and as the world’s sole nuclear power, stopped China from taking it back. The United States also promised not to aid Taiwan, back in the seventies, which is why the deep state removed Nixon from power, but we break all of the promises that we make. It’s not just the Indians, though they were the first. Basically every time we talk to China, we get a lecture about how we say one thing to their face, and then do another the next day. You won’t read about that in the American press, but China provides readouts of these meetings that are very interesting.

You are probably happier believing the stories they tell you though, maybe you should just ignore my comments.; 6/12/24, 8:10 PM
imTay said...: And while I was writing, ribother provides another example of the Biden Administration, which has dragged us to the brink of a nuclear exchange, trying to take the inchoate fear among the normies, and pin it to Trump. He who smelt it, dealt it.; 6/12/24, 8:15 PM
Original Mike said...: I have no illusions about our government. You have naive notions about the other guys.; 6/12/24, 8:27 PM
rhhardin said...: Action novel has hero and a woman on his team who's his equal nearly on all the action stuff. They get together. Ongoing theme is that something's wrong, she's disappointed in him in some way or another, providing a source of novelistic torment of him to fill out the stray chapter or so.

It reminds me of Bosch and Haller novels, where the women (ex-wives) play a similar role.

What they're all actually disappointed with is their treatment of their man.; 6/12/24, 8:32 PM
Kai Akker said...: Very much enjoyed Near Winter, a 34-minute short film set and shot in Norway, on the Criterion Channel. It was the first effort of its writer-director Erik Skoldbjaerg, who went on to make the original of Insomnia, later remade by Christopher Nolan.

A complete drama is packed into these 34 minutes. Plus interesting views of rural Norway. Very rural.

https://www.criterionchannel.com/near-winter; 6/12/24, 8:33 PM
imTay said...: What? That China was doing very well in the current situation and that it’s the US working to upset the apple cart? It’s common sense, you can’t see it because you have been brainwashed by movies like Top Gun, which was all about war over Taiwan in subtext, to get people stoked.

All I care about is that the US not start any wars in my name. It is none of our business what goes on between China and Taiwan. In his inauguration speech just a couple of weeks ago, the new president of Taiwan declared his government the legitimate government of mainland China, that makes it a civil war and none of our business, and if we do get involved, China is not going to accept acts of war on its territories by the US without doing something that hasn’t been done since 1812, bringing the war to US territory.

Wars are entered almost joyfully, but endured ruefully. I don’t see how we avoid this one since Americans seem to want it, and our generals are afraid that if we don’t get it started now, China will become too strong, it’s overdetermined. Just remember though, it’s an economic war. War is just business by other means.; 6/12/24, 8:55 PM
Kakistocracy said...: The argument against tariffs in classic economics is irrelevant because it does not address the particular example of what to do when a state-run economy subsidizes loss-making enterprises and dumps their products on overseas markets at a loss, driving out competition and building economies of scale that become insurmountable competitive barriers.

And industry by industry, from steel and aluminum, semiconductors, solar panels, lithium batteries, and EVs, and others, that is what China has done and is doing.

This hollows out the industrial base of China's trade partners and has led to an increase in inequality, lost jobs, lower wages, lost tax revenue, lost growth, accelerating climate change (China uses mostly coal to fuel its manufacturing base), and higher budget and trade deficits.

It also creates supply chain dependencies that are problematic and security risks given that the Cold War 2.0 era has begun.

The politics in China make changing this policy of overproduction- whether manufacturing or real estate- nearly impossible. Especially for foreign officials who have been complaining about China's violations of trade rules for decades now and has ultimately killed the WTO.

What will change China's policy of overproduction in manufacturing is prohibitive tariffs that prevent dumping and increase the losses China's government must bear exponentially.

It's not just the US that has begun to impose them. Several countries in Latin America have also begun to slap 40% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from China.

But at the end of the day, the tariffs the US has imposed on Chinese state-subsidized, dumped products represents a small percentage of Chinese imports, and is helping to protect and grow substantial investments in the same industries in the US and growing them- reversing the effects of dumping while also showing China that dumping overproduction in foreign markets is a recipe for failure in the end.; 6/12/24, 9:00 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: Nice photos. Reading bio of james jones (thin red line, From here to eternity, some came running, etc.) and came upon this which made me laugh.

When Jones was treated for a heart problem caused by excessive alcohol in the 70s, his doctor demanded he cut his drinking and smoking down to "light" levels.

So Jones went on the following health kick:

3 cigars a day
3 drinks of wine at Lunch
4 drinks of wine at dinner.

My how things have changed. It reminds me of F. Scott Fitzgerald writing someone and telling them he'd "Given up drinking" and only had wine and beer at meals!; 6/12/24, 9:04 PM
Eva Marie said...: “Stephen Carters novel, the emperor of ocean park is being adapted on hulu”
Excellent mystery. Chess and murder - always a great combo.
Another great chess and murder combo: The Flanders Panel by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Last but not least: Katherine Neville’s The Eight,; 6/12/24, 9:08 PM
FullMoon said...: Whoa! Althouse Blogspot January 2019

"Trump had just won an unwinnable election against the establishment. He had expected much of the government to be hostile to his administration. He soon learned that the FBI secretly investigated some of his aides. Then the dossier story hit. The Clinton campaign first denied funding the dossier but later admitted that it funded the effort at a considerable expense, with the money hidden as legal costs by its lawyer and his firm...."; 6/12/24, 9:41 PM
robother said...: I enjoy sunrises, like Althouse, but as noted by Verdi's soprano/lover/wife: "...our tastes for this sort of life coincide, except in the matter of sunrise, which he likes to see up and dressed, and I from my bed."; 6/12/24, 9:51 PM
wendybar said...: BUMBLE BEE said...
This is from 2018?

https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/yale-study-finds-twice-as-many-undocumented-immigrants-as-previous-estimates

6/12/24, 6:57 PM

Yeah. They have lied for over 20 years telling us there are 10 million here...and every year, more and more are invading, but the number never changed....I wonder why?? Hmmmmm...... such a hard thing to figure out....Until you realize they LIE to us about everything.; 6/13/24, 2:51 AM
Big Mike said...: William (“Lia”) Thomas had sued World Aquatics to be allowed to compete in the Olympics as a woman, but the courts have ruled that if he wants to compete in swimming in the Olympics he has to do it as a male. Good.; 6/13/24, 2:56 AM
Leland said...: Recommendation for Althouse. Jorden Peterson interviewing Rosanne Barr. Suggested knowing Althouse interest in Barr and there is some stuff about Rogan and Austin, TX as well.

https://youtu.be/f4wFKtmBemU; 6/13/24, 7:23 AM
wendybar said...: Sabo goes after Hollyweird, and their upcoming fundraiser for the head of the Biden crime family...

Amal looks normal with the bomb vest!!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/badass-street-artist-covers-la-messages-democrats-definitely/; 6/13/24, 7:58 AM
MadTownGuy said...: Original Mike said...

["While doing my morning routine of Microsoft Solitaire, an ad popped up (I refuse to pay Microsoft's Danegeld) …"]

"I just disconnect from the internet. No ads."

Yeah, but Microsoft doesn't let you do that. Of course.; 6/13/24, 7:59 AM
Original Mike said...: I don't understand. I do it when I play Microsoft solitaire.; 6/13/24, 8:18 AM
Original Mike said...: Now that I think about it, it does remove some functionality.; 6/13/24, 8:21 AM
Rusty said...: imTay
"China would be quite content with a neutral Taiwan,"
China is Xi and Xi is China. Recent provocationa aginst Taiwans sovereignty begs to differ. Xi looked east and saw a weak indecisive United States foreign policy(read Biden) and has acted acordingly.

"Russia would have been happy with a neutral Ukraine,"
Russia is Putin. Putin is Russia. Events have once again proved you wrong. In 2014 Putin wants to partiton Ukraine. Biden gave Putin permission to attack. Putin attacked with the idea that it would only take a matter of weeks to defeat Ukraine. He was wrong. Now he is stuck on a tar baby that has him committing an enormous number of bodies and treasure to an oucome that could have easily been negotiated ten years ago.

Trump knew how to deal with these people. You'rs seeing 3 1/2 years of Democrat incompetence and indecision.
We did not have to be in this position. Democrats and the left demanded it.; 6/13/24, 10:30 AM
Jersey Fled said...: I dropped off some sandwiches this morning at a community kitchen in a nearby city. It’s one of the most impoverished cities in our nation. Our church organizes a food drive for the kitchen every other week. We’ve made and donated tens of thousands of sandwiches and other food items over the past four years. Us racist, bigoted, homophobic, sexist Christians. But I digress.

Anyway, besides the Kitchen, this group also runs a training program in the culinary arts for local residents. Many of the students are former addicts. Many have pretty impressive rap sheets. The Kitchen has been successful in placing these students in real jobs in local restaurants and cafeterias, to the tune of several dozens each year. But those jobs are drying up now. The culprit? Higher food and labor costs that are forcing restaurants to close down and cut jobs. High interest rates and inflation that have left Americans to with less discretionary income for things like eating out.

Who could have known that when you spends trillions of dollars in borrowed money for things that don’t produce real output, the results would be inflation and high interest rates? Or that increasing the minimum wage would hit those at the bottom ladder the hardest. Certainly not Biden and the Democrats.; 6/13/24, 10:31 AM
Rusty said...: I like the last one. It's ironic.; 6/13/24, 10:50 AM
JK Brown said...: Little Great Lakes color. Video of buoy tender and ore carrier leaving Duluth on June 8th. Shot is of lift bridge over channel.

https://youtu.be/6Czy_2cHWHE; 6/13/24, 1:24 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: Looking at sunrise photo. Meade's looking pretty buff for 70 y/o.; 6/13/24, 5:48 PM
Ann Althouse said...: “ Meade's looking pretty buff for 70 y/o.”

That’s actually not Meade but just another sunrise runner, not someone I know. But Meade is actually more buff.; 6/13/24, 7:01 PM
Ann Althouse said...: That guy showed up after me and seeing the can of Pabst Blue Ribbon said to me “are you finishing that or just getting started?”; 6/13/24, 7:03 PM
Rusty said...: And your answer should be, " I just peed in it."; 6/14/24, 7:04 AM