Althouse: Sunrise — 6:54 and midday

November 16, 2024

Sunrise — 6:54 and midday — 1:41.

64 comments:

PJ said...: That sunrise photo is top-10, a high bar and getting higher all the time.; 11/16/24, 5:34 PM
Whiskeybum said...: What’s the over/under on when Inga shows up on these threads again?

(Keep in mind she can skew the odds anytime she want to because she is no doubt skulking in the background); 11/16/24, 5:52 PM
Democrats Love Waste Fraud Abuse/ Rachel Maddow = Lying Psycho said...: Did you know - seeing cats is good luck. Oh yes.; 11/16/24, 5:54 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: The first one is so bleak, it makes the 2nd one so much better. BTW, does anyone know John Scalzi? The SF writer? What a piece of work he is. The greatest con-artist and self-promoter since PT Barnum. He's left twitter. Too "Rightwing" and now on "Bluesky" where "decent people" can meet and talk without those "nasty" people intruding.

He has 140 thousand followers. Only 4-6 of whom repost his comments. Can we say "fake followers" boys and girls? Anyway, the left always seeks the echo-chamber. Conformity and goose-step. All the while shouting what "Free thinkers" they are. LOL.; 11/16/24, 5:57 PM
MikeD said...: Men in Shorts Scandal!
https://www.tmz.com/2024/11/15/jd-vance-wears-shorts-mar-a-lago-robot-dog/; 11/16/24, 6:31 PM
William50 said...: In your face Tim Walz!

Watch Tulsi Gabbard, our next Director of Intelligence, in action at the Sig ARC (pistol, rifle, bow) competition; 11/16/24, 6:34 PM
MikeD said...: On the other hand, most of his SciFi stories have been quite good. I'm so old I don't care about a writer's, or performer's, politics or opinions as long as they produce something I enjoy. Of course, in my dotage, I ignore social media in its' entirety so am not plagued with knowledge of said person's inclination.; 11/16/24, 6:35 PM
Big Mike said...: Oh no! Pete Hegseth has (1) a tattoo that reads “Deus vult,” which is a Latin phrase meaning “God wills it, and (2) a very large tattoo called the Jerusalem Cross. “Deus volt,” admittedly, was a rallying cry for Christian crusaders in the 11th century. But ten centuries later I (an atheist) understand it’s just another Christian-related phrase.

So this was enough for Pete to be flagged as an “insider threat.” Apparently Christians aren’t welcome in the US Army. Is this partly why recruiters cannot meet their goals?; 11/16/24, 6:42 PM
narciso said...: He blocked me on a blog post about katrina that had too much truth; 11/16/24, 6:44 PM
Drago said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 11/16/24, 6:49 PM
narciso said...: His starwars takeoff red shirts was pretty good until it became too meta
(Like that late sg 1 episode or the hercules series; 11/16/24, 6:55 PM
tcrosse said...: One wonders if a crescent and an Arabic inscription would be welcome.; 11/16/24, 6:55 PM
narciso said...: Those were pretty amusing; 11/16/24, 6:59 PM
narciso said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 11/16/24, 7:03 PM
Leland said...: Rooting for Wisconsin tonight.; 11/16/24, 7:03 PM
narciso said...: That was too stupid a post even for kinzinger; 11/16/24, 7:19 PM
narciso said...: Like that ricochet with that failed senate candidate; 11/16/24, 7:24 PM
William50 said...: In your face Tim Walz!

Watch Tulsi Gabbard in action at the Sig ARC (pistol, rifle, bow) competition; 11/16/24, 7:24 PM
lonejustice said...: This is why people are concerned. In Hinduism, the right-facing symbol (clockwise) (卐) is called swastika, symbolizing surya ('sun'), prosperity and good luck. But it was co-opted by the Nazis, so now it is universally condemned by most people. If someone puts swastika tattoos on their body, and says they did it because they believe in prosperity and good luck, I don't think we would believe them.; 11/16/24, 7:36 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: One can be creep and (certainly a complete jackass when it comes to politics) and still produce stories that give people enjoyment. Or art. Or music. Hemingway was a commie, and made the hero of "For whom the bell tolls" a commie too. But its still a very good novel.

Of course , this is not a leftwing POV or even Hemingway's POV. He would've eaten glass rather than praised a "Rightwing" artist. Scalzi is the same.; 11/16/24, 7:41 PM
Drago said...: LOL!

The NeverTrumpers are pitching their next grift!

LLR-democratical-lonejustice, the most buffoonish of all the LKR-democraticals, is going to love this one!

"NEW: Democrats are launching a private "military-grade intelligence-gathering operation" targeting major figures, including @ElonMusk and more.

"Democrats have a growing belief that their efforts must extend beyond the political sphere, trying to go on offense in a splintered media environment where conservatives have amassed more influence. One new liberal dark-money group began prospecting for donors with a pitch that it would unearth unflattering revelations about the Murdoch family and Elon Musk — both pro-Trump media magnates.

The group, called the Two Plus Two Coalition, plans to 'target the hidden sources of disinformation and expose them for what they are,' according to a donor prospectus being circulated this past week. The group asked donors for a minimum investment of $1 million, and was aiming for an annual budget of $10 million to $15 million.

The group’s senior adviser, Rick Wilson, a former Republican operative who was a co-founder of the Lincoln Project, said in an interview on Thursday that his organization would operate as an opposition research firm but with a military-grade intelligence-gathering operation that went far beyond the document vetting typical of a political campaign."

Gift link: nytimes.com/2024/11/16"

Pay up lefties!; 11/16/24, 7:42 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: One can also be an idiot savant, and write novels people like, but otherwise be a complete clown with a nasty personality. Scalzi and Stephen King prove that.; 11/16/24, 7:43 PM
Drago said...: "This is why people are concerned. "

LOL

So pathetic.; 11/16/24, 7:43 PM
Jamie said...: This is why people are concerned.

[shrug] The Crusades seems like a very long callback.

The Jan Karon Mitford novels refer to "Thy will be done" as "the prayer that never fails." I think anyone would be hard pressed to find Nazi sentiments in those.; 11/16/24, 7:45 PM
Political Junkie said...: Can Wisconsin at home take out #1 Oregon? Go Badgers.; 11/16/24, 7:48 PM
Drago said...: We are just 3 days past MSNBC declaring the NeverTrumpers useless (witness LLR-democraticals Rich and lonejustice) and the NeverTrumpers slapped their latest pitch together with baling wire and duct tape!

Hilarious.; 11/16/24, 7:49 PM
Drago said...: Ooof!

"Lots of articles on how MSNBC's audience has completely collapsed -- disappeared -- once Kamala lost and the got disillusioned, but the full extent is shocking.

Their prime-time shows can't even get 75k people watching in the key demo (18-54). Weekend shows don't even get 30k!"

https://x.com/ggreenwald/status/1857897129076777108?t=ak3Bj5R-n8thlTvOhcOcmg&s=19; 11/16/24, 8:10 PM
Dixcus said...: Busy cutting her hair off, getting fitted for her blue bracelet and ... if history is a guide ... carving an X in her forehead.; 11/16/24, 8:16 PM
Dixcus said...: I guess the FBI isn't KGB enough for the DNC.; 11/16/24, 8:18 PM
Dixcus said...: Is the DNC going to also open up some brothels where new Democrat women can suck their way to the top?; 11/16/24, 8:19 PM
Dixcus said...: They probably stopped watching when a smiling Joe Biden welcomed Hitler to the White House this week to congratulate him on winning America's last election.; 11/16/24, 8:20 PM
pacwest said...: I didn't know that. Nonetheless his Old Man's War series is one of my favorites.; 11/16/24, 8:23 PM
Mason G said...: ""Democrats have a growing belief that their efforts must extend beyond the political sphere..."

"Growing belief"? You mean they could get even more obsessed?; 11/16/24, 8:23 PM
pacwest said...: As one grift dries up they move to another.; 11/16/24, 8:30 PM
Original Mike said...: I wonder how much Chuck will cough up.; 11/16/24, 8:42 PM
Drago said...: More on the collapse of LLR-democratical Rich's "heroic" MSNBC "truth-tellers"....

"Jason Calacanis & David Sacks on the Collapse of Legacy Media

"If they lose advertising from Pharma, it's over. Those news networks are going to lose half their revenue overnight ... MSNBC ratings are down like 50% since the election. And what that tells me is that their captive viewer base, who's been tuning in for years to all of this TDS, has now realized that they were deceived by MSNBC and they've lost credibility even with their most fervent supporters."

Full Episode: @theallinpod

@Jason @DavidSacks"

https://x.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1857916877751611507?t=49nfr34Arhn1aSvwnDS1VA&s=19; 11/16/24, 8:43 PM
Original Mike said...: ""If they lose advertising from Pharma, it's over. "

Interesting.
Sick em, Bobby!; 11/16/24, 8:50 PM
Disparity of Cult said...: Mo turns her sour mug towards Elon; 11/16/24, 9:00 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Did Elon Musk step in and rescued Alex Jones InfoWars?; 11/16/24, 9:03 PM
JK Brown said...: An October 16th interview of Pete Hegseth by Jack Carr, a spec ops veteran/writer

https://youtu.be/5FD-5dCM-ts; 11/16/24, 9:10 PM
Narayanan said...: as long as tattoo in hindu color is saffron or henna easy to convince!!; 11/16/24, 9:44 PM
Jim at said...: If someone puts swastika tattoos on their body, and says they did it because they believe in prosperity and good luck, I don't think we would believe them.

Then it's certainly a good thing that's not what he did, isn't it?

People who can't tell a swastika from a Jerusalem cross should probably refrain from commenting on it. Maybe spend more time studying pre-election polls out of Iowa.; 11/16/24, 9:58 PM
Drago said...: Possibly. At least the first few required steps taken.

Recall, since the acquisition, Elon has promised to protect the X accounts of users as well as go to bat for users in the legal realm when the LLR-democraticals and Dumb Lefties come gunning for them.; 11/16/24, 10:04 PM
Drago said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 11/16/24, 10:06 PM
Drago said...: The Onion, which cant afford to stock their soda machine, was threatening to buy InfoWars AND take Jones' X account away from him. That might have set Musk off given how aggressively the pro-hamas, pro-ChiCom democraticals are going after him and his companies.; 11/16/24, 10:07 PM
The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...: At what point do the Donks understand the LLR Never-Trump grift? It's comically transparent. Absurdly so. I guess embracing reactionary politics makes you an easy mark.; 11/16/24, 10:32 PM
Jerry said...: I really prefer to not know the politics of the authors I read. But in his case, he got kinda 'famous' in fandom about them. Enjoyed 'Old Man's War' a lot, couldn't get through the sequel. Read 'Redshirts', and kinda shrugged. Haven't read anything by him since.; 11/16/24, 10:43 PM
Howard said...: The legacy Media died long time ago Drago. The smart money has been listening to podcasts for the past 10 years. Nice to see you finally getting on the bandwagon.; 11/16/24, 11:04 PM
Big Mike said...: No. But scaring the crap out of the Ducks through three quarters is nothing to be ashamed of.; 11/17/24, 1:02 AM
wendybar said...: Once again, our bloated Pentagon did their yearly audit. For the 8th year in a row, they lost billions of dollars, and have absolutely NO CLUE what happened to it. Why did we elect a man who would put somebody (who they cry is unqualified) who isn't a corrupt politician in there to clean it all up?? No wonder the Media is apoplectic!!! Once again, we are going to show them that career politicians hate us, steal our money and blow it all on GOD KNOWS WHAT!! THANK GOD we elected Trump in the nick of time to save our country from these bastards.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4992913-pentagon-fails-7th-audit-in-a-row-but-says-progress-made/; 11/17/24, 3:42 AM
wendybar said...: And the worse part is the asshole who is laughing at us, when we question it. Even Jon Stewart can't handle this witches lies and laughing at blowing our money, and not knowing what the hell they blew it on. So much for Hegseth being unqualified. Seems to me everybody in there is unqualified and THANK GOD we have Trump to clean them all out. FINALLY!!!!
Kathleen Hicks should be embarrassed and we need to make her name famous so she never gets a job in government again.

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Very revealing convo. Jon Stewart is asking better questions than 90% of media, but the answers he's getting from DOD official is shocking and disgusting.
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The dismissiveness of Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks in this clip is simply astounding. Jon Stewart points out the Pentagon keeps failing its audits & she literally tries to laugh it off. This is the entrenched mentality the next SecDef will face.; 11/17/24, 3:46 AM
Kay said...: WB knows wicked won’t be as culturally significant as Barbie so they are like milking this tabloid circuit and producing the most ostentatious press junkets and to try to become iconic in another way and I think it’s more amazing than making a movie. The new vanguard of art direction has moved from cinema and into “reality” and I think its amazing and ground breaking that a studio has caught up to the times in such a way.; 11/17/24, 4:17 AM
Mr. Forward said...: "Nationally, a whopping 65 percent of Native American voters went for Trump." City Journal; 11/17/24, 5:19 AM
rehajm said...: …not the ones in my family…; 11/17/24, 6:07 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Can this be verified?

https://www.westernjournal.com/biden-harris-raided-medicare-fund-green-new-deal-premiums-now-set-spike/; 11/17/24, 6:29 AM
wendybar said...: "Before the MAGA movement can get anything done against the loony leftists trying hard to destroy our country, all the major RINOs dressed in MAGA-red have to be identified and lawfully cast aside."

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/11/when_maga_met_rino.html; 11/17/24, 6:29 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Part D gonna skyrocket...

https://x.com/DefiyantlyFree/status/1857264348210557058; 11/17/24, 6:38 AM
Rusty said...: Don't know. Don't care.; 11/17/24, 6:44 AM
wendybar said...: Victor Davis Hanson
@VDHanson
Trump, His Disrupters, and a Chance to Return to Normalcy?

Many of Trump first-round picks share some common themes.

One, many, who were in the past victimized by government bullies and cowardly bureaucratic grandees, or proved sharp critics of the administrative state, are now, in karma-style, in charge of the very agencies that hounded him.

So, Elon Musk, perennial target of government regulatory functionaries, was once policed, but now he polices the bureaucratic police.

Robert Kennedy, Jr., proposed overseer of government health programs, was often blasted as a crank by the subsidized scientists and the administrators within HHS whom he will now direct.

Pete Hegseth fought the military DEI machinery while a solider in the ranks and wrote a book about the corruption of the Pentagon. He will now, if confirmed, run the Pentagon.

Tulsi Gabbard was improperly put on a national security travel watch list as a supposed security threat—and now will be a guardian of our security as Director of National Intelligence.

Tom Homan was derided by the Biden administration and its Homeland Security minions as a fanatic border hawk; now he will run ICE and deal with the detritus of Biden fanaticism on the border.

Two, none of these appointments are traditional swamp creatures. Few rotate from the think tanks. This time around there are no retired “Wise Men” or retired four-stars. Few are Uniparty magnificoes revolving back into high government from their DC university or New York corporate and investment waystations. None are DEI, cover-our-identity-politics-base candidates.

By design, their past government service resumes are thin—few past undersecretaries of these or special assistant to those. And there are not a lot of suffixed alphabetic letters or prefixed long-winded titles that adorn their names.

In other words, they are vaxed from the sort of acculturated administrative state mindset that has alienated and terrified the citizenry.

Three, they all share a reputation from the mainstream media, bicoastal elite, or administrative state guardians as a little “out there” or even “crazy” and “nuts”, whether RFK, Tulsi Gabbard, or Pete Hegseth. So, their opponents rightly fear they are immune from mainstream media disparagements, the usually leftwing generated hoaxes, and beltway tsk-tsk scorn.

Fourth and finally, they are not radicals or nihilists. Rather, they are reformers who are trying to trim or eliminate bloated government machinery, or return institutions and agencies to their normal functions and original missions. In contrast, the last few years of Biden governance chaos and near insurrection were abnormal—and dangerous.

Destroying the border and breaking the law to allow 12 million to enter illegally were nihilist.

Stealthily routing government cash, to circumvent the law, to a communist Chinese-run viral gain-of-function engineering lab is beyond the belief.

Creating a commissar system in the military that demanded ideological orthodoxy over meritocracy, or the Chairman of the JCS secretly communicating with his People’s Liberation Army counterpart to warn about his own commander-in-chief’s stability was insurrectionist.

Weaponizing the DOJ by performance-art swat home raids on opponents, and collusion lawfare waged by local, state, and federal indictments against a former president and presidential candidate were un-American.

Asymmetrical prosecutions and FBI fusion with social media to censor the news were sheer government anarchy.

Read the rest here.... https://x.com/VDHanson/status/1857579416471372198; 11/17/24, 7:38 AM
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'BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS': Incoming Border Czar Tom Homan calls on pro-sanctuary city Democrats to listen to the 911 call 22-year-old Laken Riley made before prosecutors say she was killed by an illegal immigrant

https://x.com/FoxNews/status/1857906530168799242; 11/17/24, 9:51 AM
Narayanan said...: so where can they find the 911 call if they want to listen? is it public ?; 11/17/24, 10:19 AM
Aggie said...: Not just for the eighth time - they've only ever had eight audits (the independent audit mandate came down in 2017).; 11/17/24, 10:35 AM
Kakistocracy said...: I very much doubt whether Trump will deport millions of migrants, as he has promised to do; again, the Wall Street crowd will push back on the inflationary effects.

I’d put Musk up there as another financial risk factor. Tesla is on a tear because of Musk’s relationship with Trump. But at some point, the markets are going to realize that China can make its own electric vehicles for far less than Tesla

The biggest seismic shift in global industrial production ever is coming up with the relocation of the worldwide vehicle industry and its component parts to the Global South since the economics of scale favor locating future production across this region. China will catalyze the trend while possibly Germany, Japan, and Korea will move to adapt to it -- they have to salvage something from the paradigm shift. The US is going to protect itself into oblivion because it no longer does cost-effective, economy-to-scale manufacturing. If anything, the US needs to act to save as much of this production for Mexico if it can, not "renegotiate" NAFTA to further offshore production out of the hemisphere. Trump literally doesn't know what century he is in.

I'm not sure which is going to head for the sewer first -- Tesla stock or crypto. (Tesla will have some residual exit value.) But crypto is just another Florida land boom, a flowering of 21st century tulips.

The American government is broke, not the American private sector. The American government is also the fiduciary "owner" of the Big Banks and will get to clean this up as part of its overall debt-deficit-banks cleanup (and start fixing what Obama did not fix in the 2000s and FDR did do in the 1930s). Three Democratic losers in a row tells you something about the real value of the Obama legacy just as Trump is part of the price tag on the G.W. Bush presidency.

I'm staying "all in" on my American index funds because what 2008 proved and its stunning recovery showed was that there is no comparable private market-based sector like that of the US in the world. And yes, we will probably all be able to buy more of it cheap during the coming crisis-driven revaluation as we recapitalize yet another failed government. As always, plenty of work for the lawyers.; 11/17/24, 12:53 PM
Original Mike said...: Not going long on Germany, Rich?; 11/17/24, 1:52 PM