Althouse: Sunrise

August 7, 2024

Sunrise — 6:02.

83 comments:

Inga said...: Air Force 2 in Michigan!; 8/7/24, 7:31 PM
Inga said...: JD Vance the creepy stalker?; 8/7/24, 7:33 PM
Iman said...: That’s a beautiful scene and photo!; 8/7/24, 7:34 PM
john mosby said...: Remember the bumper stickers that said “Ted Kennedy’s car killed more people than my handgun?”

Along the same logic, how about “Trump’s been shot at by more people than Sergeant Major Walz?”

JSM; 8/7/24, 7:36 PM
Iman said...: Gee… I wonder why patriotic cheers/chants of USA! USA! USA! are never heard at Democrat political rallies?

And I think they never will be. One must love America, imperfect though she is, to hold those feelings.; 8/7/24, 7:37 PM
Iman said...: Nice one, John Mosby!; 8/7/24, 7:38 PM
Inga said...: The last two Harris/Vance rallies, there WERE USA chants, you should’ve watched them.; 8/7/24, 7:40 PM
Dixcus said...: Progressive Democrat lawyers who have been providing a free legal defense for al Qaeda terrorists for the last 24 years (at what cost?) ... have finally figured out that the Democrat government of Joe Biden is corrupt.

LOL. What have we been telling you people for years and years?

https://nypost.com/2024/08/07/us-news/lawyers-for-accused-9-11-terrorists-say-move-to-revoke-plea-deal-was-corrupt/; 8/7/24, 7:50 PM
tcrosse said...: Even if we were to stipulate that Tim Walz is a big military hero, he is still wide open to criticism for his governorship of Minnesota.; 8/7/24, 7:51 PM
Inga said...: USA! USA! USA! At one Harris rally, there were more.; 8/7/24, 7:53 PM
Ann Althouse said...: We watched the Harris rally; 8/7/24, 7:55 PM
TickTock said...: Have'em printed. I'll buy a score.; 8/7/24, 8:00 PM
TickTock said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 8/7/24, 8:00 PM
john mosby said...: Creepiness aside, his little walkabout means no one is serious about security, even after the Trump shooting.

He’s a slowly moving target out in the open. The treeline on the other side of the runway might be too far away for accurate sniper fire, but the buildings on this side are as close as the ones in PA.

Harris’s plane was empty, so I doubt USSS countersnipers were up. I also really doubt any have been assigned to JD. Maybe, maybe, there were state/local CS up. But once JD starts walking outside of the planned path, even the most ironclad CS plan is soggy toilet paper. All sorts of angles a bad guy could shoot from without being seen, let alone shot, by good guy snipers.

You can yell at Cheatle, Rowe, or whoever they pick next as the director, but until theyre allowed to yell back, “when we tell you something is too dangerous, don’t fucking do it!” the next incident is a matter of when, not if.; 8/7/24, 8:01 PM
William50 said...: This election don't forget the saying; "You can vote yourself into Socialism, but you have to shoot your way out."; 8/7/24, 8:01 PM
Iman said...: If true, it sounds like they’ve realized how pathetic the absence of that looked to normal Americans and took corrective action. I suspect they probably have to pay people to do that as well.

Perhaps a mention of God will be allowed again. 😬; 8/7/24, 8:06 PM
tcrosse said...: I'm sure Walz was very popular in my old St Paul neighborhood, where moral exhibitionism was a competitive sport.; 8/7/24, 8:10 PM
Drago said...: Ooof! Stolen Valor Walz claimed he served in Afghanistan too!

This dude gets around more than Beau "Audie Murphy" Biden@; 8/7/24, 8:11 PM
Drago said...: From X (Walz wearing Special Forces garb);

"It’s the Army Special Forces crest, De Oppresso Liber -
Liberate the Oppressed.

I have no idea why a National Guardsman artillery man, who abandoned his post before deploying to a combat zone, would wear that."

I have an idea why....

https://x.com/igKress/status/1821315358151868471?t=2hXKyhqk9w3OYq8UVsg3eA&s=19; 8/7/24, 8:16 PM
Drago said...: "The last two Harris/Vance rallies, there WERE USA chants, you should’ve watched them."

Did they allow Jews to attend?; 8/7/24, 8:17 PM
Wa St Blogger said...: Can our resident lefties explain how, if Harris cannot field softball questions from an adoring media, she can handle the pressures and challenges of the head of state of the most powerful country in the world? Walz isn't the only one who cowers in fear. At least Walz was not running from his allies.; 8/7/24, 8:20 PM
Inga said...: I bet they did, her husband is usually with her.; 8/7/24, 8:21 PM
Inga said...: I’m quite sure she can, but she is busy having rallies right now. Where is Trump?; 8/7/24, 8:25 PM
TickTock said...: Had not heard that before. Another bumper sticker.; 8/7/24, 8:31 PM
MadTownGuy said...: This is absolutely frightening. Tulsi Gabbard was placed on a "Quiet Skies" TSA watchlist as a potential terrorist.

Placed on a terror watch list, the former Hawaii congresswoman and her husband were tailed by Air Marshals and bomb dogs. "Unconstitutional on every level," she says. "And I'm not the only one."; 8/7/24, 8:31 PM
TickTock said...: Inga, you are a good German.; 8/7/24, 8:34 PM
NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...: Iman said...

If true, it sounds like they’ve realized how pathetic the absence of that looked to normal Americans and took corrective action. I suspect they probably have to pay people to do that as well.

It means they're adopting Trump's tactics because theirs aren't working.; 8/7/24, 8:36 PM
rosebud said...: Has Harris dumped Walz already? I think replacing him with someone named Vance is just going to be confusing.; 8/7/24, 8:51 PM
Drago said...: The "Jewish" husband guy that didnt know what Hanukkah was all about? Yeah, I suppose he just might be acceptable to the islamic supremacist-aligned New Soviet Democraticals...since Shapiro was rejected for being too Jewish.

https://nypost.com/2023/12/12/news/doug-emhoff-mangles-the-story-of-hanukkah-in-since-deleted-social-media-post/; 8/7/24, 8:54 PM
Drago said...: Uh oh.

New reporting (72 hour rule may apply) indicates Walz may have falsely filed paperwork with the Minnesota National Guard to retire as an E-9, a Command Sergeant Major, knowing full well he did not meet the obligations to retire as an E-9.

That would be a rather serious vase of fraud and tie in nicely with the Stolen Valor and Blue Falcon fraud.; 8/7/24, 8:59 PM
Mutaman said...: "Bone spurs are a a real and debilitating condition. I looked it up on Wikipedia"

Dr Weevil; 8/7/24, 9:08 PM
Christopher B said...: I saw that in some of the original reporting. He got brevetted to CSM but basically headed for the hills after his unit got the warning order for deployment. Supposedly his separation paperwork is stamped 'not available for signature.' He just avoided all contact with NG after he found out about the deployment.; 8/7/24, 9:14 PM
rehajm said...: https://www.grumpy-economist.com/p/thoughts-on-the-crash

Some perspective on the week. I am not narcisco…; 8/7/24, 9:24 PM
Paddy O said...: Very excited about the release of a new theology text I Believe, Help My Unbelief by Veli-Matti Karkkainen. Puts strong, committed Christian theology in focus while also talking about the ways other religions view these topics and discussing relevant scientific themes as well. It's a theology text for our current culture and times.

Great for Christians with an interest in learning about their faith and non-Christians to learn what is really being discussed these daysin key places all over the world. Even if you disagree with where or how he goes about it all you'll learn a lot. I do know him personally and he is as committed to Christ and the historic faith as anyone I've met, and I've been in very evangelistic conservative circles!; 8/7/24, 9:24 PM
H said...: Okay, I know this will seem a little sexist. But Kamala Harris is aging in her face before our eyes. Look at photos of her in 2020 and 2024. Will this hurt her election changes? (Will this hurt her election chances more than the aging of a male candidate — Trump — hurts his?); 8/7/24, 9:25 PM
Christopher B said...: https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/past-criticisms-vp-nominee-tim-walzs-retirement-military-resurface; 8/7/24, 9:29 PM
Christopher B said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 8/7/24, 9:31 PM
Gospace said...: So I see Walz wants to keep weapons of war like the AR-15 out of the hands of the citizenry because they're not suitable for self defense Although there are several instances of their being used for just that. So another lie from him.

But I've seen that point several times- citizens should only have arms that are suitable for self defense. As if there is any weapon that meets that definition. Including a hammer, useful as both tool and weapon. Or baseball bat. To avoid being charged with having it in your car as a weapon it is advised to also have a baseball and baseball glove...

In any event, let's quote the second amendment. No long, and really easy to understand:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Hmm, self defense isn't mentioned. Anywhere. The right of the People to bear arms is, and it says that right shall not be infringed. So what types of weapons did they mean. Well, I guess we need other original sources from the people who wrote it. I'm not going to link or quote any, because because anyone with any knowledge on the matter knows they meant- the people should have all the common weapons available to the infantry. Which today would mean a select fire weapon and a semi-automatic sidearm. The fact that an individual right to bear arms was only a 5-4 vote on the Supreme Court means that 4 of those justices ignored the actual words of the second amendment and the historical meaning because, well, GUNS ARE ICKY!

Funny thing is, every tyrant in the last century who killed vast numbers of his own people started out by banning private ownership of guns. And in this century, quote from googlesearch- In 2012, Venezuela banned private sales of firearms and ammunition with the intention of lowering crime rates. And what's our Venezuelan dictator doing right now? Rounding up his political enemies and murdering them.

Say what you want about Walz and stolen valor or not, what I see is a man who wants to make it easy for government to slaughter it's citizens. And they wouldn't want to make it easy of they didn't have plans to do so.; 8/7/24, 9:33 PM
Gospace said...: Whoops- this new format doesn't notice when you don't close out the markers... Oh, well. Lots of unnecessary bolding...; 8/7/24, 9:36 PM
Aggie said...: I think this is an old trick of gaming the system to see if it makes a mistake in your favor. By not signing his resignation papers or communicating, Walz set himself up with an excuse and an escape from blame in the event it was questioned - and in the event that it passed through the system, he could not only cash in an E9's retirement benefit, but also be gifted with a future excuse in the event it was uncovered (Hey! It wasn't my mistake). He set it in motion, but then did nothing to correct the course. But the system ground through the process and the unchecked boxes were brought to light.; 8/7/24, 9:39 PM
The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...: Bingo!; 8/7/24, 9:51 PM
FullMoon said...: Was the Wisconsin rally advertised as a Harris rally, or as a concert? Some sites say it was a concert attended by Harris but that could be spinning the situation a bit.
Kind of surprised to see her attract thousands. How long did she speak?; 8/7/24, 9:52 PM
Drago said...: Shorter Inga: walking across a tarmac in a large gaggle with police and security all around to speak directly to reporters is now "stalking".

Meanwhile, biden showering and sexualizing his 12 year old daughter is "honorable" and straight up lying about being in combat when you werent is no longer Stolen Valor AND is also "homorable" and "normal".

Discuss.; 8/7/24, 9:56 PM
Dave Begley said...: What is Blue Falcon fraud?; 8/7/24, 10:04 PM
effinayright said...: Where is the pic of him wearing that crest? POST THAT, or you got nuthin'.; 8/7/24, 10:04 PM
Peachy said...: Poor leftists. Butt hurt when anyone dares to talk to the media. Harris is too afraid.; 8/7/24, 10:04 PM
Peachy said...: Veteran who served in Tim Walz's battalion addresses stolen valor accusations: 'Far darker than people think'; 8/7/24, 10:10 PM
Michael K said...: He cleverly illustrated her hiding from interviews.; 8/7/24, 10:11 PM
Michael K said...: I examined recruits and it is disqualifying.; 8/7/24, 10:16 PM
Jim at said...: This "Slay, Queen!!" bullshit over Harris is hilarious. A person who got tossed on her ass before the first vote was cast in Iowa - and hasn't done jack in 3+ years as VP - is suddenly the most popular Democrat in history. Squeeee!

You may be fooling yourselves, leftists, but you sure aren't fooling anybody else.

The inevitable crash and burn is going to be epic.; 8/7/24, 10:28 PM
Caroline said...: I read that today. Something wicked this way comes.; 8/7/24, 10:31 PM
Caroline said...: We keep hearing about the sliver of the electorate that is undecided, especially suburban moms. I have never run across anyone who is in the least undecided. As we were saying a few weeks ago, democrats would vote for the corpse of joe Biden. So even if Kamala named Maduro as her running mate, all those gals I know voting against orange man wouldn’t give it a second thought. Has anyone ever sighted one of these vaunted undecided voters?; 8/7/24, 10:35 PM
Michael K said...: Trump needs to get her on stage live, even with her rules and on ABC. I don't care if they do give her the questions in advance.; 8/7/24, 10:36 PM
Mutaman said...: Michael K
"I examined recruits and it is disqualifying.'

What was the going rate you charged to diagnose this condition?; 8/7/24, 11:06 PM
Big Mike said...: It now appears that the two astronauts stranded at the International Space Station because Boeing built their spacecraft will be there until at least February. And that’s assuming they ever figure out how to undock the Starliner from the ISS without a human on board.; 8/7/24, 11:30 PM
planetgeo said...: Great to see Inga and all the leftist credentialed ladies suddenly gushing and (forgive the expression) swiping right for a classic Midwestern white guy. Oshkosh bgosh. Love is in the air.; 8/7/24, 11:30 PM
Drago said...: Kamala: “you got something to say, say it to my face.”

JD Vance: “walks over to say it to her face.”

Kamala: *Hides in the plane restroom*; 8/7/24, 11:31 PM
Drago said...: BREAKING: According to The NY Times, Kamala has indicated to the pro-Palestinian protesters that if she’s elected, she’d consider an arms embargo on Israel aka, she’ll stop supporting Israel’s military needs used to defend itself from radical Islamic aggression.

The increasing New Soviet Democratical - islamic supremacist Alliance continues accelerating.

Remember: First the Saturday People, then the Sunday People.; 8/8/24, 12:05 AM
Ralph L said...: Disembold!; 8/8/24, 12:06 AM
Jim at said...: Remember when the left mocked ChimpyHitler's TANG service? To the point of where they completely made up shit, falsified documents and broadcast it on national television? When his time in service was during the actual Viet Nam war?

I do.

And now some guy who spent 24 years in the Guard - and quit when it was time to actually go fight - is the second coming of John J. Rambo?

I have nothing against those who served in the Guard or the Rerserve. They serve an important role.

But, it ain't active duty so stop pretending it is.; 8/8/24, 12:23 AM
Jamie said...: Have you ever had a bone spur? You know, right, that they're visible on x-ray? I literally had one diagnosed by X-ray two weeks ago. And how hard they make it to, say, march with a pack? I can walk my dog, with pain, but with weight on me - I would not be reliable to my teammates.

It is certainly possibly that Trump used what he had to escape the draft.... like many many others. But he has never claimed to serve in the military, much less to have served at a higher rank than the one to which he was entitled, much less to have served in combat.; 8/8/24, 12:35 AM
effinayright said...: Once again thesnotty "bad faith" argument. "Upping your game" just isn;'t something you're capable of.; 8/8/24, 12:36 AM
effinayright said...: He's giving interviews, Inga, right and left.; 8/8/24, 12:40 AM
effinayright said...: Here's how. An astronaut will board the spacecraft, and assist the ground in installing the software updates needed to allow unmanned undocking. The astronaut will go back aboard the ISS. The unmanned ship will undock and return to Earth.The astronauts will remain on the ISS, where they will have plenty to do----yes, theri families won't be happy, but those two will do real science, just as they have trained years to do. (And yes, NASA and Boeing are in deep, deep doo-doo.); 8/8/24, 1:01 AM
Gospace said...: My wife has had a number of bone spurs on her feet. I trust her when she says they're painful. In addition to being visible on X-rays- they can be felt. And if when feeling them you press down hard, well, you get more then a ouch from the person you're torturing.; 8/8/24, 2:10 AM
Gospace said...: And Bush's fellow pilots got together and said he was good at it. Kerry's fellow Swift boat commanders? Not so much... And now Walz's replacement in the guard- and others who served with him? Not so much. I have a Southwest Asia Service Medal with Bronze Star. For sailing from tedium to monotony and back again on an oiler in a designated war zone. We had extra lookouts looking for mines, but that was about it... I don't count it as being at war.; 8/8/24, 2:16 AM
tim maguire said...: Walking over to Harris’ plane and talking to reporters makes Vance a creepy stalker? That’s pathetic. Even for you.; 8/8/24, 2:36 AM
wendybar said...: All you need to know about his radicalization.....

Canary Mission
@canarymission

Well, this is troubling. "When I'm having a tough day .... and I'm feeling kinda down & the world is pressing on me, I think, 'Ilhan Omar is a congresswoman,' and it just brightens you up." @GovTimWalz: What exactly is it about this vile antisemite that "brightens you up?"

https://x.com/i/status/1821229824998043789; 8/8/24, 2:49 AM
gadfly said...: Drago
Ooof! Stolen Valor Walz claimed he served in Afghanistan too!

Drago is lying again just like Vance lied that Sgt Major Walz retired after 24 years of honorable service in the Minnesota National Guard rather than go to Iraq in 2005. However. the MN NG didn't get orders to Iraq until 2006. Vance served only four years as a non-combat military reporter for a Marine Air Wing - tucked safely inside an airbase while serving just 6 months in Iraq, so where is his valor?; 8/8/24, 2:59 AM
Jim at said...: Unless you served? Active duty.
Shut the fuck up.
You have no room to speak, boy.; 8/8/24, 3:41 AM
Breezy said...: Pretty amusing that the first Harris Walz merch touted by CNN - yes CNN’s openly selling their merch it appears - is a camo cap with orange lettering on the front. They literally want to hide from or not be noticed by the rest of us. #WheresKamala; 8/8/24, 4:55 AM
wendybar said...: Damon Imani puts the View spewers in their place, when he explained that it is THEY who turn men off...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0mhBmKoC5c

And also puts Whoopie in her place about the truth about "black jobs"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajm8DXsLKH4; 8/8/24, 5:18 AM
john mosby said...: Blue Falcon is code for Buddy Fucker. Blue Falcon fraud isnt a term of art, but i think Drago was characterizing Walz’s purported attempt to retire in a grade higher than he was qualified for as fraud, and worse, fraud connected with his buddy-fucking retirement just ahead of deployment. Hence, Blue Falcon fraud. Had Walz gone to Iraq, returned, and then tried to game the system for more money, it would be fraud, but not Blue Falconry (unless you consider the taxpayers to be buddies).

JSM; 8/8/24, 5:35 AM
Paddy O said...: The new comment format is such a tiny font and if I expand it the text doesn't wrap. Ah well, I should use my time better anyhow when I'm away from my computer; 8/8/24, 6:32 AM
Rusty said...: ChristopherB
Real men take responsibility. Lefties run away.; 8/8/24, 7:16 AM
Drago said...: My God Soy Boy cat lady gadfly, you are stupid. National Guard baseline annual service, as with the Reserves, is 1 weekend per month and 2 weeks at some point during the year. Thats it.

Units can be activated for full time service for periods of time as Stolen Valor/Blue Falcon POS Walz's was when they sent them to Europe, once, for 6 months...NOT Afghanistan for Enduring Freedom or to Iraq. But most of the time Walz was stacking sandbags for floods and once in awhile lobbing a mortar round about.

When the Warning Order came down for Stolen Valor/Blue Falcon POS Walz and his unit to prepare to deploy to Iraq in May, Walzy quickly filed his retirement papers in...mid March! Why mid-March?

Because it takes approx 60 days to process the paperwork for retirement. Blue Falcon Boy got out of there fast! To be followed up with lots and lots of Stolen Valor claims over many years.

JD Vance joined the Marines as an Active Duty enlisted man and served full time for 4 years right out of High School., including in theater in Iraq.

I suggest you take your kitty cat kibble and return to your basement since you are so far out of your depth here its just like when you attempted to play Rocket Scientist and pretended you understood space operatioms and Rocket development. What an embarrassment that was...particularly since you called SpaceX a fake Space company that should leave space stuff to the "real" space companies....like Boeing! LOL; 8/8/24, 7:51 AM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: The 1/125th got orders to move to Iraq a year ahead of the actual move. Cowardly Tim the Tampon-man bailed before his unit actually made the move. To run for Congress was his excuse.

He didn't complete Command Sergeant Major school nor serve three years at that rank. He retired as a Master Sergeant. Cowardly Tim the Tampon-man has been falsely using his temporary rank and his 6-month deployment to beautiful Italy to inflate his record.

Cowardly Tim the Tampon-man and Cackling Kamala are the sacrificial crewmen for the 2024 election. The DNC knows they have no chance, so to save the rest of the party's prospects, they'll beam down to the campaign trail where the evil Republicans will turn the voters' death ray on them. Can you spell "roasted to a crisp"?; 8/8/24, 8:02 AM
Saint Croix said...: Putting Tulsi Gabbard on a terror watch list is something out of an East German spying movie. It's despicable to spy on your political opponents. And what's truly awful is how our Pravda media is not saying a thing about this.; 8/8/24, 8:31 AM
Saint Croix said...: Daily Mail is covering it while the fucking American media says nothing. It's embarrassing how bad our journalists are. This is what happens when you have awful people in the government and the media is in their pocket.; 8/8/24, 8:34 AM
Dr Weevil said...: So where does Mutaman get his knowledge of bone spurs? Dem propaganda, apparently. I have not only Wikipedia, but one doctor (Michael K), one patient (Jamie), and one patient's spouse (Gospace) on my side. What's Mutaman's evidence that Wikipedia's heavily-footnoted article 'calcaneal spur' is wrong?; 8/8/24, 8:39 AM
Aggie said...: You poor thing. JD Vance talking to reporters waiting in the open on a vast taxiway - a 'stalker', creepy no less. Or maybe: A kid selling Cokes in the stands, at a packed stadium: a creepy stalker. Or maybe: A worker at the drive-in window at McDonalds: a creepy stalker. Inga, in all earnestness, please seek help for confronting your irrational fears. And Good Luck.; 8/8/24, 9:50 AM
Drago said...: From Eric Berger at X: "there's a government report on the development of a new upper stage for the SLS rocket, and it's got lots of eye-opening stuff. This was pretty striking, however:

"According to Safety and Mission Assurance officials at NASA and DCMA officials at Michoud, Boeing’s quality control issues are largely caused by its workforce having insufficient aerospace production experience."

gadfly's "real" space guys....; 8/8/24, 10:42 AM
Michael McNeil said...: To turn off runaway italics (bold, etc.) when someone earlier has neglected to properly bracket and close an html italics command (etc.) in a posting, simply put up another post consisting of (at least) a close-italics (etc.) command, to wit: </i> (for bold substitute ‘b’ for ‘i’, etc.).; 8/8/24, 10:47 AM