Althouse: Sunrise — 6:32, 6:50.

November 27, 2024

Sunrise — 6:32, 6:50.

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40 comments:

Iman said...: No, they certainly don’t…

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1861571776414699578?s=19; 11/27/24, 5:50 PM
David53 said...: Saw my Vietnamese Doc again today.

He said he had been treating a lot of patients for depression…because of the election results.

I laughed. Then after thinking a minute I asked if he was serious. He said yes. He related that one woman had to be restrained. Another asked to be sent to an inpatient treatment center.

Good grief. Guess I may refrain from wearing my MAGA hat, didn’t realize how many lunatics are still out there.; 11/27/24, 5:55 PM
narciso said...: Heada might explode and you dont want to clean up the mess; 11/27/24, 6:01 PM
narciso said...: Nice pics; 11/27/24, 6:02 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Happy Thanksgiving All!; 11/27/24, 6:14 PM
narciso said...: https://x.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1861877689100943597; 11/27/24, 6:15 PM
narciso said...: https://x.com/IanJaeger29/status/1861850124822937748; 11/27/24, 6:17 PM
rehajm said...: Considering isn’t doing…and as they say always: this isn’t the airport…; 11/27/24, 6:20 PM
Jim at said...: He related that one woman had to be restrained. Another asked to be sent to an inpatient treatment center.

I'm not sure I'd be comfortable going to a doctor who talks about other patients. No matter what the cause.; 11/27/24, 6:20 PM
narciso said...: https://www.tabletmag.com/podcasts/rootless/rootless-lebanon-disastrous-lebanon-ceasefire-deal; 11/27/24, 6:31 PM
narciso said...: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=owjByQY6vR4; 11/27/24, 6:36 PM
narciso said...: They have been severely broken; 11/27/24, 6:45 PM
narciso said...: https://x.com/ClimateAudit/status/1861768303728824731; 11/27/24, 6:50 PM
David53 said...: Jim, I love him. He keeps me healthy. Just after the election he asked me if I voted red(he knew I did). I said yes, he said, "My work is completed, I kept you alive until you voted." He's a hoot. We have a great relationship, many primary doctors now days are too busy to forge good relationships with their patients.; 11/27/24, 6:54 PM
Dixcus said...: The media in the United States has a business model and it's this:

Keep people hyped up in a sense of constant panic, or they won't stay glued to the television 24 hours a day. They'll go out and do other things. Our ratings will suffer.

They don't care if they're making half the country mentally ill. That's even BETTER for them and the advertisers who support media companies like NBC, CNN, CBS, etc.

It's BAD for America. It's a tort. And we should sue to get their broadcast licenses revoked.; 11/27/24, 6:57 PM
Dixcus said...: Look at all these cool bot links littering the countryside so bad it would make an Indian chief upon his horse cry.; 11/27/24, 6:58 PM
Gospace said...: Looks like one of the bigger donors. I'd bet the over on 350 lbs.; 11/27/24, 7:01 PM
Jersey Fled said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 11/27/24, 7:14 PM
Jersey Fled said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 11/27/24, 7:16 PM
Jersey Fled said...: https://x.com/trumpwarroom/status/1861927566988247459?s=12

The Trump Effect; 11/27/24, 7:22 PM
Candide said...: Sombre; 11/27/24, 7:23 PM
Josephbleau said...: test; 11/27/24, 7:28 PM
Dixcus said...: Donald Trump, not even President yet, is announcing agreements he has negotiated with Mexican's weirdly Jewish President ... how the hell did the Jews conquer Mexico without anybody noticing ... to staunch the flow of Biden's illegal alien invasion on our Southern border. Trump threatened to, I don't know, start charging people extra for tacos or something and this broad immediately caved.

,... Anyhoo ... no word yet on whether the DOJ will indict Trump on Logan Act charges for conducting foreign policy as a private citizen.

I'm guessing John Kerry is urging them not to.; 11/27/24, 7:34 PM
Gospace said...: My mother bought us our first television, a 13" color TV CRT on sale for $299 when our eldest was born. When she realized we didn't have one- and she was addicted to Dallas... A few years back we bought a 70" TV for about $399 after my daughter's 20% off on one purchase when she worked at Wallyworld. Just before the Black Friday ads appeared- it started showing lines at the bottom and a narrow band on the right was blank...

Inflation adjusted that $299 is now over $1100 according to online inflation calculators. With housing and chocolate bars- probably more than that. My new 85" TV, put up today with help from my son-in-law, was $985.99 with tax. And because I used the warehouse clubs, charge card- that I pay in full every month to avoid interest- I'm getting 15% back in reward money to spend on food and staples I normally buy there.

It's weird how inflation works and is calculated. Food, energy, housing, staples like toilet paper, have gone up by an incredible amount. Televisions and electronics- down by an incredible amount with better products... And communications down by a lot. IIRC, about $20 a month in 1978 for one line, connected to the house. Only place you could send and receive calls. And on top of that long distance, which for us averaged over $50 a month since we were on one coast and both our families on the other. I'm now paying $110 a month for 3 lines, can send and receive calls anywhere, anytime, get messages at any time, and browse the internet and/or play games. Inflation adjusted, a lot less money.

Aside from that, after mounting the TV he left for home. And we finished making tomorrow's dinner- the turkey was already in the oven when he arrived. We're providing the turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, mashed rutabaga, and cranberry sauce. They're throwing some pies in the oven for after the main course. They're dealing with newborn twins, so we figured getting it done in advance would be easier all around.; 11/27/24, 7:37 PM
narciso said...: Dont be dense she was the mayor of mexico city just like amlo; 11/27/24, 7:37 PM
narciso said...: https://x.com/wajacobson/status/1861936155945492973; 11/27/24, 7:44 PM
Gospace said...: And I'm wondering just how much the current government is actually managing to listen in on. They do, after all, have the NSA on their side... But, would you trust them> Trump certainly doesn't, with good reason not to. https://x.com/amuse/status/1861865736508993734; 11/27/24, 7:50 PM
rehajm said...: He’s not a bot, Fed…; 11/27/24, 7:53 PM
Jaq said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 11/27/24, 7:54 PM
Mason G said...: "It's weird how inflation works and is calculated. Food, energy, housing, staples like toilet paper, have gone up by an incredible amount. Televisions and electronics- down by an incredible amount with better products..."

It's a few years old, but still...

Chart of the Day…. or Century?

Various observations that have been made about the huge divergence in price patterns over the last several decades include:

a. The greater (lower) the degree of government involvement in the provision of a good or service the greater (lower) the price increases (decreases) over time, e.g., hospital and medical costs, college tuition, childcare with both large degrees of government funding/regulation and large price increases vs. software, electronics, toys, cars and clothing with both relatively less government funding/regulation and falling prices. As somebody on Twitter commented:

Blue lines = prices subject to free market forces. Red lines = prices subject to regulatory capture by government. Food and drink is debatable either way. Conclusion: remind me why socialism is so great again.

https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/chart-of-the-day-or-century/; 11/27/24, 7:57 PM
James K said...: I presume the good doctor didn't name names. Doctors talk in general terms about other patients all the time, though usually with more of a purpose related to your situation. As in "I've had several patients with your symptoms, and this treatment worked."; 11/27/24, 8:14 PM
Enlighten-NewJersey said...: Wow, the pictures are beautiful!; 11/27/24, 8:27 PM
Original Mike said...: Marc Andreessen Describes "Alarming" Meeting With Biden Admin That Prompted His Trump Endorsement

""We had meetings [Biden officials] this spring that were the most alarming meetings I've ever been in. Where they were taking us through their plans, and it was - basically just full government - full government control - like this sort of thing, there will be a small number of large companies that will be completely regulated and controlled by the government, they told us. They said don't even start startups - there's just no way that they can succeed - there's no way that we're going to permit that to happen." "; 11/27/24, 8:44 PM
Jaq said...: It's a pretty good description of the economics of Germany and Italy in the '30s.; 11/27/24, 8:46 PM
Jaq said...: Her own people admit that Harris was never in the lead. So what were these polls we were fed? Propaganda? Psy-Op?

[GIF of "They are who we thought they were!" goes here]; 11/27/24, 8:52 PM
Dr Weevil said...: It looks like Dixcus is ignorant as well as anti-Semitic. He apparently doesn't know that most of the countries of Latin America, like those of North America, attract immigrants from a lot of different countries, and some of them rise to high office. Just looking at their names, you can see that Paraguay has had an ethnic German dictator (Alfredo Stroessner), Peru an ethnic Japanese president and later dictator (Alberto Fujimori), El Salvador right now has an ethnic Palestinian (on his father's side) president (Nayib Bukele), and Argentina produced a 100% ethnic Italian pope (Jorge Mario Bergoglio). Why the Hell shouldn't Mexico elect a Jew?; 11/27/24, 9:08 PM
Aggie said...: Where have I heard similar doctrines expressed, now ? Ah, yes ...... "Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State."; 11/27/24, 9:09 PM
Jupiter said...: I take my text this evening from David Johansen;
I can get all the love I need
In a luncheonette
In just one glance,
So let's just dance.

I submit that this lyric evinces an idealistic romanticism that is brutal, stoic and intoxicating. "In just one glance".; 11/27/24, 9:25 PM
NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...: And Trump's the one who get labeled as a Fascist.; 11/27/24, 9:43 PM
Jupiter said...: idealistic romaticism that is intoxicating, perhaps stoic. But nowise brutal.
"I can conjugate a few verbs."; 11/27/24, 9:44 PM