Althouse: Sunrise — 7:18/Moonrise

October 17, 2024

Sunrise — 7:18/Moonrise — 6:43.

60 comments:

Dixcus said...: Hey, guess what?

Amazon ... owned by Jeff Bezos ... has announced they're going to start doing News. And you'll never guess who their anchor is going to be.

No, it's not Dan Rather. He was ousted as anchor of CBSNews after he typed up some fake memos to try to rig the 1996 election and prevent George W. Bush from becoming President.

No, it's the most trusted name in news, Brian Williams.

Wait ... wasn't he ousted from NBCNews for running fake reports his ENTIRE career?

Yes, yes he was.

Did I forget to tell you that Jeff Bezos also owns the Washington Post?

Who will also tell you who won the election. Since you can't check that.; 10/17/24, 7:35 PM
Original Mike said...: The comet's in the other direction.; 10/17/24, 7:36 PM
Dixcus said...: You'll just have to take their word for it.; 10/17/24, 7:36 PM
Clyde said...: I went out and finally saw the comet tonight and got a picture of it. It was higher in the sky than I expected.; 10/17/24, 7:47 PM
Josephbleau said...: Regarding #2:

On the shores of gitchigumi
By the Shining deep sea waters
Stood the wigwam of Nakomas
Daughter of the moon.; 10/17/24, 8:03 PM
Lucien said...: When I see comments about Harris’s voice (or Hillary’s) I’m reminded of how much I like Tulsi Gabbard’s voice.; 10/17/24, 8:12 PM
Original Mike said...: It's roughly 20-degrees of altitude at the point it is viewable. That's plenty high.; 10/17/24, 8:16 PM
Eva Marie said...: This is a clip of Kamala describing the difficulty rural voters may have in voting. They might have to send a Xerox or photocopy. What if there isn’t a Kinkos in their vicinity.
1. Who calls photocopies Xerox anymore?
2. There are no Kinkos stores anymore.
3. Don’t people in rural areas have smart phones to take a photo of their IDs?
She is very out of touch.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBNVCEwN-xe/?igsh=MXZ3eGJlcXVhdWRxcw==; 10/17/24, 8:22 PM
rhhardin said...: Kamala destroys Bret Baier The Moment Kamala Put Fox News in its Place (The Bulwark).; 10/17/24, 8:24 PM
tcrosse said...: The Four Lakes of Madison

Four limpid lakes,--four Naiades
Or sylvan deities are these,
In flowing robes of azure dressed;
Four lovely handmaids, that uphold
Their shining mirrors, rimmed with gold,
To the fair city in the West.

By day the coursers of the sun
Drink of these waters as they run
Their swift diurnal round on high;
By night the constellations glow
Far down the hollow deeps below,
And glimmer in another sky.

Fair lakes, serene and full of light,
Fair town, arrayed in robes of white,
How visionary ye appear!
All like a floating landscape seems
In cloud-land or the land of dreams,
Bathed in a golden atmosphere!

-Longfellow; 10/17/24, 8:24 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: Cool Moonrise.; 10/17/24, 8:24 PM
Rusty said...: I managed to get the day off today. I conducted an exhaustive and detailed survey of Southeast Wisconsin. Particularly Kenosha and Racine counties. My data reveals that Trump signs outnumber Harris signs seven to one.
You're welcome.; 10/17/24, 8:26 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Via X The consequences of having Trump on your podcast

It escalated quickly. It only took 3 1/2 hours.; 10/17/24, 8:32 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: YouTube: The Cobra Effect: Why Good Intentions Don’t Solve Problems - Konstantin Kisin; 10/17/24, 8:41 PM
Kevin said...: #2 reminds me of Elon’s rocket.; 10/17/24, 8:47 PM
Rabel said...: Did y'all know that the open enrollment period for medicare has begun?

Well, you will.; 10/17/24, 8:57 PM
Josephbleau said...: Very touching. I like it but still have my Grandfathers poem:

The boy sat on the boxcar top
His feet dragged on the ground.
Longfellow.; 10/17/24, 9:08 PM
Eva Marie said...: 1. Melania is still in the top ten best selling books on Amazon. The AI description of the book adds this note: “However, some customers have reported that the book arrived with strange greasy looking smudges on the outside cover.” So this must be happening in significant numbers for AI to make mention of it. 717 reviews overwhelmingly positive.
2. The #1 book is War by Bob Woodward. The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coats is at #12 with 533 reviews, also overwhelmingly positive.
3. (This I find most surprising.) The Achievements of Kamala Harris (pages are blank) has been in the top 100 now for several weeks. Currently it’s at #38 with 265 reviews - all overwhelmingly positive. Kamala’s own autobiography, The Truths We Hold (2019), is at 9,288.; 10/17/24, 9:13 PM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: trump at UNIVISION "WE didn't have guns(lies people are being prosecuted for having guns and trump himself knew they were trying to bring guns in when he told his people let them" )THEY had the guns .in other words the "them and us scenario" ,those with the guns were the police at the capitol ,trump was part of the WE. JACK SMITH gets another check for his case from the nitwit who does the "us and them" scenario in a public venue.president for all,,, only trumpers believe that.This fella is a dunce...He'll be gone soon rejected again this fella is a chronic loser. J6 a day of love WTF come on man...; 10/17/24, 9:22 PM
Political Junkie said...: Gosh I hope DJT keeps building on the Big Mo. OH senate is R pickup, if trends stay. +3R (WV, MT, OH) would be nice, but let's have more.; 10/17/24, 9:26 PM
Mason G said...: I saw an ad for (or against, I don't remember) a proposition on the ballot in California. It mentioned that there are 15 million people on Medi-Cal, which is described thusly:

"Medi-Cal is California’s Medicaid healthcare program that provides comprehensive health coverage for people with low or no income."

California's population is 39 million. That means that nearly 40% of California's population consists of people with low/no income. And California is the direction Democrats want to take the country.; 10/17/24, 9:36 PM
Inga said...: Can’t happen soon enough, come on Nov.5th (or Jan.5th if you’re Trump).; 10/17/24, 9:36 PM
Josephbleau said...: I remember a very old Heinlein story about an honest political candidate. His opponent paid a minority child two dollars to run to him during a speech, grab his leg, and yell loudly "Daddy" "Daddy"!; 10/17/24, 9:37 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: There's snow in the mountains just east of our place, about 4,500-ft MSL. It was 45F this morning with periodic showers.

Winter is coming.; 10/17/24, 9:37 PM
Original Mike said...: Just watched Trump at the Al Smith Dinner. Kamala really couldn't handle that event?; 10/17/24, 9:45 PM
gadfly said...: Longtime news anchor and MSNBC host Brian Williams left NBC network after 28 years, signing off on the final episode of his popular nightly political talk program The 11th Hour on December 10, 2021. He will host Election Night coverage on Prime Video this year. Nothing to write home about since his broadcasting voice is good and there will be no emotional outbreaks one way or another. Jeff Bezos does not involve himself in hiring or programming to influence politics like Trump's BFF, Elon Musk.; 10/17/24, 10:08 PM
rhhardin said...: The Al Smith dinner was good time 1:06 to 2:09 for the speeches. Trump avoided praise for the opponent as did Kamala (in a video); Trump doing ad-libbing that went over well. Praise of Kamala would have been dishonest and he didn't offer any. As for self-deprecation, "I don't feel like it." His whole act is self-deprecation, the rambling, the informality.

Al Smith Dinner; 10/17/24, 10:09 PM
Big Mike said...: I saw my first two Harris-Walz signs in the Shenandoah Valley today. It’s a wave, I tell ya!; 10/17/24, 11:16 PM
Mr. Forward said...: “Millionaires Row” on the North Shore of Lake Superior was the only place I have seen Harris-Walz signs outnumber Trump signs.; 10/18/24, 12:01 AM
Ampersand said...: Parallel universe.; 10/18/24, 12:51 AM
Ampersand said...: In Los Angeles, I've seen hundreds of Harris -Walz bumper stickers and yard signs. I haven't seen even one for Trump. This is what it's like living in fear. Why expose yourself to harm?; 10/18/24, 12:54 AM
tcrosse said...: I was just visiting my sister in one of the more fashionable parts of New Jersey. There were few lawn signs for Harris-Walz, even fewer for Trump-Vance. Sis is a walking case of TDS but we choose not to discuss politics after a severe blow-up in 2004.; 10/18/24, 1:31 AM
gadfly said...: Republicans will do anything to make it appear that Trump will win the election. The largest US betting marketplace, Polymarket was started by Peter Thiele who sunk $60 million in the cryptocurrency betting place. The theory about these betting places to put your money where your mouth is by acquiring shares of for the candidate of your choice.

A single crypto wallet is trading tens of millions of dollars on Polymarket, a crypto-friendly prediction market. The trader, known by its social handle Fredi9999, has transacted over $73 million worth of mostly pro-Donald Trump bets and sales currently has $12 million on the line for Trump winning the election on November 5.

This heavy investment has cranked odds to Trump by as much as 13 points. So for those who find polls to be weak, our big shooter is trying to convince betters that Trump is the favored horse but odds pay only on an electoral win - with no stats to back the big odds. So Fredi9999 is spending someone elses crypto.

This idiocy is much like buying DJT stock at $29/share when in fact the Truth Social stock is worthless.; 10/18/24, 1:33 AM
Eva Marie said...: I watched the Bulwark review of Kamala’s appearance on FOX, mentioned above. The review was very complementary to Kamala. The comments were mostly supportive of Kamala.Then, prompted by a post at Instapundit, I watched Kamala’s interview on Charlemagne tha God’s radio show. That interview was a very friendly interview but the comments (34,000) are approximately 90% negative. I didn’t scroll through all of them, but I scrolled through a lot of them. I find this very hard to believe. Every once in a while someone comments that the bots are at work and I’m wondering if maybe that’s true. It’s just difficult for me to believe that Charlemagne’s audience would be so negative toward Kamala.; 10/18/24, 1:43 AM
wendybar said...: Bubbs Bourbon and BBQ
@BubbsRubs
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Replying to @disclosetv
Isn't it strange and a little telling that the current sitting President Biden still looks at Barack Obama like he's looking at his boss.
1:25 PM · Oct 17, 2024
https://x.com/FlayingEnjoyer/status/1846967965591142779; 10/18/24, 3:45 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Kamala not going to that dinner last night says to me Kamala is going to be her own comfort zone president. I shouldn’t have to remind anybody but a US is a president of all Americans, not just the ones they feel comfortable with.; 10/18/24, 4:17 AM
wendybar said...: Kamala. She is just like delusional Joe, but she wears CONVERSE!! How cool it THAT?? Funny, how the Progressives smartest are all being caught stealing from others...

But of course, like everything else that they have ruined, Democrats now forgive plagiarism, and say it wasn't THAT bad. Thanks Joe Biden you lying corrupt asshole!!!

“The most serious allegation concerns Wikipedia. Harris’ book contained roughly two paragraphs copied from Wikipedia without citation.”

https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/10/nyt-withheld-full-harris-plagiarism-report-from-expert-who-admits-its-more-serious/; 10/18/24, 4:25 AM
wendybar said...: Victor Davis Hanson
@VDHanson
Harris’s Fox Disaster

T-ball Oprah interviews with Harris don’t work and now the nation knows that real honest interviews prove even worse for her.

Kamala Harris by intent showed up late for the interview.
She quit early. She filibustered all that was asked, lost her temper, and serially interrupted Bret Baier— all in lieu of answering a single question. She grimaced, scowled, and proved as petulant and unlikeable as she was vacuous. We were asked to believe absurdly that the currently disastrous Biden-Harris border, crime wave, and economy were all the out-of-office Trump’s fault.

In contrast, J. D. Vance in his debate rendered the smears empty and showed the nation he was a nice guy with a razor-sharp mind. Harris in just 20 some minutes dispelled stereotypes too—she is not a pleasant but empty apparatchik, but rather an off-putting, disagreeable scowl.

If this eleventh-hour catch-up media blitz was supposed to show us the real under-appreciated Harris to win over the nation and stop her campaign’s hemorrhaging, it has only achieved the opposite. She’s in a doom loop: she cannot forever hide from the media and yet will lose the election if she is interviewed without a teleprompter.

She will probably fire the guy who dreamed up the Fox interview disaster - even if it was her idea.
3:36 PM · Oct 17, 2024
·; 10/18/24, 4:41 AM
tcrosse said...: A history of MAD magazine and the Usual Gang of Idiots; 10/18/24, 4:59 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Moonrise Is one of your all time best photos. Great shot!; 10/18/24, 5:06 AM
Ann Althouse said...: We were trying to see the comet. And we did know it was in the west (not the east, like the moon). But we're going to have to try a different location tonight.; 10/18/24, 6:43 AM
rhhardin said...: It's a great opportunity for you to make free money.; 10/18/24, 6:46 AM
Michael McNeil said...: Trying to see the (almost any) comet with the full moon in the sky is a recipe for disappointment. Comets are dim.; 10/18/24, 7:00 AM
rehajm said...: There was that one in the 90s what came very close to the earth. On a dark sky it looked like the cartoon drawings of comets with the defined head and splayed tail. Halleys didn’t look like that in ‘86 but perhaps historically it flies closer and why there’s so much lore about it/them in the history of man…; 10/18/24, 7:08 AM
Iman said...: Indeed!; 10/18/24, 7:22 AM
Iman said...: Consider the source.; 10/18/24, 7:24 AM
Iman said...: Americans will soon drink deeply… the leftwing tears will be spilled, anguished cries of disappointment will ring out, men’s jumpers and women’s yoga pants will be well-rended.; 10/18/24, 7:35 AM
Whiskeybum said...: 39 million is the LEGAL resident population of CA… and don’t forget that of that 39 million, a large percentage are not qualified for Medi-Cal due to age, so it’s even worse than it looks at first glance.; 10/18/24, 7:53 AM
Rusty said...: Somewhere between Portage and Stevens Point. Aint a whole lot there.; 10/18/24, 7:57 AM
Whiskeybum said...: I don’t know much about the Lake Superior shore, but the yard sign inversion also takes place in FIB row on the north shore of the Door County peninsula.; 10/18/24, 8:03 AM
Rusty said...: Gadfly. The RCP betting AVERAGE has Trump at 18+ points over Harris.; 10/18/24, 8:05 AM
Whiskeybum said...: Comets are dim. Hence, Comet Kamala; 10/18/24, 8:07 AM
MadTownGuy said...: Consider this regime's openly hostile tactics: Corporate media is lying; The government is lying; The regime is lying (¡No Pasarán!)

"Among a significant number of other Americans, Damian Bennett ain't happy when he is being lied to.
Double shot of tanglefoot:"

North Carolinians Need Help. Trump Is Feeding Them Lies. (MSNBC) October 4, 2024

As Trump Makes False Claims About Hurricane Relief, White House Calls It ‘Poison’ (WaPo) October 4, 2024

To be continued...; 10/18/24, 8:26 AM
MadTownGuy said...: Continued...

From Consider this regime's openly hostile tactics: Corporate media is lying; The government is lying; The regime is lying (¡No Pasarán!)

Black Hawk Helo Wreaks Havoc On Civilian Hurricane Outpost, Raising Questions October 7, 2024

"Believe your eyes people! Believe what you see is happening!"
The pilots of what appears to be an unmarked Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter generated a massive downwash, also known as rotor wash, that sent tents and aid flying in all directions at a volunteer supply zone operated by private citizens in western North Carolina. This action by the helicopter pilots is up for debate, with many on X believing this was an intentional act of sabotage by the federal government.
There are no official statements by local, state, or federal governments about the incident. Flight tracking data shows that the Black Hawk is military-owned. "This is a United States Military Blackhawk. Squawk 6453, call sign: FURY147"

More...; 10/18/24, 8:28 AM
MadTownGuy said...: [Side note: I've been tracking aircraft activity near Asheville since the storm moved on, and saw the paucity of civilian aircraft for the first few days afterward (due in part to FAA flight restrictions because Biden flew over to scope out to the damage, but continued a few days beyond that), and two military aircraft were seen patrolling the region, one a Sikorsky UH-60A Blackhawk, and the other a Boeing CH-47F Chinook. Both of those were flying with US Army identification. Beyond that, civilian helicopters included several privately owned aircraft - even one with Canadian registry - and Samaritan's Purse.]

Back to the article:

"Here we are. The tendency is to give early reports the 'benefit of the doubt', to wait on 'developments'. [Pause; simmering, simmering.] But consider the actors. Consider this regime's openly hostile tactics. Consider the current state of chaos and anxiety of B-H-W campaign and its paymasters. Consider the natural botchitude of your government agencies. Consider the stream of complaints from the field by private citizens, local officials and responders reporting government inaction, ineffectiveness, interference, obstruction, restrictive compliance followed by ham-fisted threats of arrest -- the list goes on.

Corporate media is lying (viz. supra). The government is lying. The regime is lying. Believe the worst. You won't be far off."; 10/18/24, 8:29 AM
Original Mike said...: I believe you'll have to travel outside the city to see it. I'm not positive of this, I haven't tried in the city myself. At the very least, it will be better outside the city. I observed it at Donald County Park on Wednesday night. There were about 10 people there, who all saw it.

It is a bit challenging. Its brightness is fading and the moon is full. The best window of opportunity should be about 7pm. It will be dark enough. Sunset is 6:10 and moon rise 6:40.

You will need binoculars. I was just barely able to detect it naked eye after I knew where to look. However, conditions were not great Wednesday night; we had high clouds dimming the comet. As of right now, tonight's forecast looks ideal.

It would aid you greatly if you had a star map. I star-hopped right to it, but I've got a lot of experience doing that. For some strange reason, my goto guy on-line for comet finder-charts chose to do a big fancy, dumbed-down video production for this comet, but neglected to provide a serviceable chart. I found this one that should work. To get started, if you draw a line between Venus and Arcturus, the comet is well above that line. Start at Venus and travel along that line about 30% of the way, then take a right angle and travel up. A little over halfway to the comet you'll encounter a very pretty gold/orange star pair, Yed Prior and Yed Posterior. Keep going and the comet should be obvious. It's near lamba-Ophiuchi.

On Wednesday night, in the binoculars, the comet nucleus was very bright with a fat tail, maybe 5-degrees long, in the direction of 11:00. I'm sure it would have been even better without the clouds.

Check out today's
Astronomy Picture of the Day for a spectacular photo of the comet (fair warning: you won't be seeing that from your observations! That's a stacked photo from a dark site).

Good luck and Clear Skies!; 10/18/24, 10:10 AM
Original Mike said...: Oh, and try using averted vision, especially when trying to observe it naked eye. Don't look directly at it, but rather a little bit to the side. The eye is more sensitive to dim objects when you do this.; 10/18/24, 10:28 AM
Original Mike said...: "To get started, if you draw a line between Venus and Arcturus, the comet is well above that line. Start at Venus and travel along that line about 30% of the way, then take a right angle and travel up. A little over halfway to the comet you'll encounter a very pretty gold/orange star pair, Yed Prior and Yed Posterior. Keep going and the comet should be obvious. It's near lamba-Ophiuchi."

A little more guidance. Face West and determine the Venus-Arcturus line naked eye (without the binoculars). Then determine the (roughly) 30% location along that line. Now, take the binoculars, start at the line, and begin slowly sweeping up. The Yed Prior / Yed Posterior pair are very obvious because of their striking colors. If you find them, you are almost there.; 10/18/24, 2:11 PM
Original Mike said...: Also, if you use the star map I linked to, realize that you have to rotate the map (for example, if you are viewing it on an iPad) to match the sky. "Up" on the map is not automatically "up" on the sky. In this case, the map/iPad will have to be rotated about 45-degrees clockwise.; 10/18/24, 2:19 PM
john mosby said...: Original Mike: the eye is more sensitive to dim objects when you use averted vision?

This explains everyone giving Kamala side-eye….

JSM; 10/18/24, 2:28 PM