Althouse: Sunrise — 5:15, 5:33.

July 12, 2024

Sunrise — 5:15, 5:33.

26 comments:

rehajm said...: I’m on my second margarita, sitting on the porch, watching for hummingbirds at my disturbingly expensive flower garden, after I made lobster ravioli and chocolate chip cookies for dinner and dessert…

Fuck you all…; 7/12/24, 6:10 PM
gilbar said...: https://www.wsj.com/articles/wisconsin-supreme-court-ballot-drop-boxes-election-rebecca-bradley-3738c75c?mod=opinion_lead_pos4
Wisconsin’s New Judicial Rulers
The 4-3 liberal majority on the Supreme Court reverses a drop-box ruling by the same court from two years ago.

just to be clear..
no one has ever implied that stare decisis applies to rulings the left doesn't like; have they?; 7/12/24, 6:26 PM
Joe Smith said...: If Biden is in the next debate, Trump should wear one of those stick-on name tags.

"Hello, my name is Trump"; 7/12/24, 6:49 PM
Narr said...: "Hello, my name is Harris" . . . Putin . . . Zelensky, lot's of possibilities.; 7/12/24, 7:10 PM
Narr said...: lots, not lot's. I hate it when I do that.; 7/12/24, 7:11 PM
William50 said...: Since someone mentioned their meal,
Just finished grilled salmon with pesto sauce and am now on my deck enjoying a small glass of blackberry brandy for dessert along with a host of mosquitos. :); 7/12/24, 7:11 PM
Humperdink said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 7/12/24, 7:17 PM
imTay said...: Joe released all of his delegates at the big boy press conference, so this will all be straightened out at the convention. Not to worry.

Ask shewal lee, the Democrats did away with the "robot rule" in 1984, and the delegates are not strictly legally bound to vote for Biden:

The rule says – and the rule has been in effect since the 1984 convention, so it’s long-standing – that delegates shall, and the operative words are, “in all good conscience vote for the person they were selected to represent.”

It’s never been tested. There’s no legal history on what ‘in all good conscience’ means.

Does it mean you just suddenly don’t like the guy? I think probably not.

Does it mean you think he’s going to lose and the party will lose?

We don’t really know what it means because, since it was put in the rules and the ‘robot rule’ died, this has never happened. We’ve never had a convention where a lot of people voted against the person that they got elected with.

It sounds like, way back in 1984, the Democrats put a way out of this mess into the rules.; 7/12/24, 7:29 PM
Josephbleau said...: “Fuck you all…“

Since I am still working in Madison today I ate at Naples 15. A great place! And it’s hard to get reservations on art fair week.; 7/12/24, 8:28 PM
Jamie said...: We went out for happy hour - a couple of IPAs and a shared Brussels sprout-goat cheese pizza with marinara pesto, roasted red peppers, and chili oil.

What we're wondering is, at what point does happy hour become the early bird special?

But anyway, it was delicious.; 7/12/24, 8:38 PM
Narr said...: Lean Cuisine Swedish Meatballs, sliced pickled beets, some white cheese dip and tortilla chips for dinner; Lindt chocolate and cold, crisp 1% milk for dessert.

I'll have some frozen yogurt with Bonne Maman preserves (I'm bad) while I watch Gutfeld!

Two prunes before turning in.

Living the life of Reilly.; 7/12/24, 8:46 PM
NKP said...: rehajm appears to be a man completely at ease in his world. A state of mind, available to all if we don't overthink simple pleasures.; 7/12/24, 8:53 PM
Kakistocracy said...: The national conservatism on display at the NatCon confab is a replica movement from the Republican isolationist politics of early 1940 epitomized by American aviation hero Charles Lindberg and the America First movement. This movement was a clear rejection of America as a major international actor. Later in the 1940s American secretary of state Dean Acheson characterized the program of these disgruntled American heart-landers as "The Attack of the Primitives."

What is at stake with forsaking American Internationalism? Simply put, the world-leading American economy owes its enormous scale and scope to American Internationalism which has created a global high income economy of 38 advanced economy democracies in which the American economy is centrally and pivotally situated. The economic integration of these countries is based upon and enabled and empowered by a web of mutual defense treaties with Nato and the Japanese security treaty being key pieces.

American Internationalism is the foundation upon which American commercial success rests. The advanced democracies generate 62% of global nominal GDP with the US producing about a third of this total. The North American stock markets account for 65% of world stock market value.

The return of Donald Trump would undermine and erode—if not simply implode—American Internationalism like nothing since the retreat from the Versailles Peace Treaty in 1919-20. It would be like a history without the Marshall Plan and Nato setting the foundation for the long North Atlantic postwar prosperity. Trump is the biggest threat to American Internationalism since Charles Lindberg in 1939-40, who like Trump was overly comfortable with strongman dictators.

So supporting the return of a vengeful and energized Donald Trump would be a chance to run a counterfactual history — what the economic consequences would be like if we lost World War II.

When America gives up on Internationalism, it walks away from its future.; 7/12/24, 8:58 PM
Drago said...: LLR-democratical Rich: "The national conservatism on display at the NatCon confab is a replica movement from the Republican isolationist politics of early 1940 epitomized by American aviation hero Charles Lindberg and the America First movement."

Of course, its not. In the slightest. But you're running out of other hoaxes and smears and lles to run with that might yield some rhetorical success, so here we are.

Truly, you ought to be plying your "wares" solely before groups of gadfly's and Field Marshall Freders and Ingas and LLR-democratical Chucks, etc.

Thanks for playing though.; 7/12/24, 9:01 PM
imTay said...: How many wars must we "innocently" blunder into, Rich? How many will be enough? Iraq wasn't enough?

NATO bombed Yugoslavia for 72 days.
NATO overthrew Gaddafi
NATO was part of the Iraq war.
NAtO has been constantly expanding to Russia's border, claiming to be a defensive alliance, but NATO sure fights a lot of wars that had nothing to do with Europe's defense and sure seems to engage in a lot of overthrowing of leaders that we don't like.

On what legal basis is the US in Syria right now, sitting on their oil fields and grain belt, in an effort to starve the people of Syria to overthrow Assad?

Is this the basis of America's prosperity that you are selling, tribute paid to us from an overseas empire? Why military first? Are you that concerned about America's ability to compete in a purely economic way; 7/12/24, 9:13 PM
Kakistocracy said...: ^^ That’s not the flex you’re pretending it is.; 7/12/24, 9:14 PM
David53 said...: "watching for hummingbirds at my disturbingly expensive flower garden"

Yeah, but if you don't have fungus you're not worthy.; 7/12/24, 9:23 PM
NKP said...: Narr, if you appreciate Swiss Chocolate, nothing copares with the fresh sheets that have never been wrapped, sealed and "aged" in boxes on the shelves.

Standing in a line contemplating a dozen or more choices, then gesturing how a big a chunk you want is a drool-worthy experience of high order.

My favorite is Laderach. They have quite a few shops in the USA - maybe one near you. There's a locator at "laderach.com". Not inexpensive but worth every penny. Personal favorite is "FrischSchoggi Caramel Sale' Milk-Dark"; 7/12/24, 9:32 PM
imTay said...: "That’s not the flex you’re pretending it is."

That's not an answer. What a surprise.

How many wars? How many young men need to die, not for the benefit of ordinary Americans, but for the benefit of a tiny cabal of the politically connected?; 7/12/24, 9:36 PM
FullMoon said...: I have seen mention of Bidens whisper. Pretty funny
Joey Whisper; 7/12/24, 10:04 PM
Drago said...: It's always amusing when LLR-democratical Rich goes Full Gadfly and simply cuts and pastes content without attribution for which he is clearly far out of his depth.

We see this with his "hot tech takes" (which are anything but) as well.

It's self-defeating naturally, and one wonders if "self-defeating" is Rich's hyphenated middle name?; 7/12/24, 10:11 PM
wendybar said...: The Babylon Bee
@TheBabylonBee

Biden's Popularity Skyrockets After He Announces Trump Is His VP https://buff.ly/3LqOFWI; 7/13/24, 3:23 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: What?
China... Russia... Cuba... Oh My!

https://youtu.be/unTAZ0kuHoc

Mike Baker asks.; 7/13/24, 5:37 AM
West TX Intermediate Crude said...: Beautiful pictures of a pastoral scene.

I'm sure that our hostess did not mean to conjure up a contrasting inner image of Biden's hapless Gaza Floating Pier, which has been been a $250 million Pier to Nowhere, and according to reports is now being dismantles, having failed to alleviate the Palestinian Famine that never was.
Unfortunately, that is what it did for me.
I need to get out more.; 7/13/24, 8:20 AM
Narr said...: Thanks NKP.

I went to the Laederach USA website but they want to use cookies and my general policy is anti-cookie.

We have a high-end specialty confectioner here, but usually we just buy Lindt or Ghirardelli off the rack.; 7/13/24, 8:42 AM
NKP said...: The link may get you past the cookie monster. Most stores in US are in NY, TX, CA, DC and FL - maybe during your travels.

https://laderach.com/us-en/10104297-frischschoggi-caramel-sale-milk-dark; 7/13/24, 2:44 PM