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December 23, 2024
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... you can talk until the crack of dawn.
But these are sunset pictures today, Christmas Eve Eve. And please support the Althouse blog by doing your Amazon shopping going in through the Althouse Amazon link.
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Oh, great. Rolling Stone hits the streets with a puff piece on poor Luigi Mangione, and the sad state of medical insurance in the USA. Cause for cheer, comrades! It can all be solved with Medicare for All ! Just look to our foreign neighbors to witness the awesome success of Socialized Medical Care ! And be sure to click on all those helpful supporting links.
https://archive.is/uGcmt
Oh the long and dreary Winter!
Oh the cold and cruel Winter!
Ever thicker, thicker, thicker
Froze the ice on lake and river,
Ever deeper, deeper, deeper
Fell the snow o'er all the landscape,
Fell the covering snow, and drifted
Through the forest, round the village.
Hardly from his buried wigwam
Could the hunter force a passage;
With his mittens and his snow-shoes
Vainly walked he through the forest,
Sought for bird or beast and found none,
Saw no track of deer or rabbit,
In the snow beheld no footprints,
In the ghastly, gleaming forest
Fell, and could not rise from weakness,
Perished there from cold and hunger.
Oh the famine and the fever!
Oh the wasting of the famine!
Oh the blasting of the fever!
Oh the wailing of the children!
Oh the anguish of the women!
All the earth was sick and famished;
Hungry was the air around them,
Hungry was the sky above them,
And the hungry stars in heaven
Like the eyes of wolves glared at them!
Into Hiawatha's wigwam
Came two other guests, as silent
As the ghosts were, and as gloomy,
Waited not to be invited
Did not parley at the doorway
Sat there without word of welcome
In the seat of Laughing Water;
Looked with haggard eyes and hollow
At the face of Laughing Water.
And the foremost said: "Behold me!
I am Famine, Bukadawin!"
And the other said: "Behold me!
I am Fever, Ahkosewin!"
And the lovely Minnehaha
Shuddered as they looked upon her,
Shuddered at the words they uttered,
Lay down on her bed in silence,
Hid her face, but made no answer;
Lay there trembling, freezing, burning
At the looks they cast upon her,
At the fearful words they uttered.
Forth into the empty forest
Rushed the maddened Hiawatha;
In his heart was deadly sorrow,
In his face a stony firmness;
On his brow the sweat of anguish
Started, but it froze and fell not.
Wrapped in furs and armed for hunting,
With his mighty bow of ash-tree,
With his quiver full of arrows,
With his mittens, Minjekahwun,
Into the vast and vacant forest
On his snow-shoes strode he forward.
"Gitche Manito, the Mighty!"
Cried he with his face uplifted
In that bitter hour of anguish,
"Give your children food, O father!
Give us food, or we must perish!
Give me food fo
r Minnehaha,
For my dying Minnehaha!"
Through the far-resounding forest,
Through the forest vast and vacant
Rang that cry of desolation,
But there came no other answer
Than the echo of his crying,
Than the echo of the woodlands,
"Minnehaha! Minnehaha!"
All day long roved Hiawatha
In that melancholy forest,
Through the shadow of whose thickets,
In the pleasant days of Summer,
Of that ne'er forgotten Summer,
He had brought his young wife homeward
From the land of the Dacotahs;
When the birds sang in the thickets,
And the streamlets laughed and glistened,
And the air was full of fragrance,
And the lovely Laughing Water
Said with voice that did not tremble,
"I will follow you, my husband!"
In the wigwam with Nokomis,
With those gloomy guests that watched her,
With the Famine and the Fever,
She was lying, the Beloved,
She, the dying Minnehaha.
"Hark!" she said; "I hear a rushing,
Hear a roaring and a rushing,
Hear the Falls of Minnehaha
Calling to me from a distance!"
"No, my child!" said old Nokomis,
"'T is the night-wind in the pine-trees!"
"Look!" she said; "I see my father
Standing lonely at his doorway,
Beckoning to me from his wigwam
In the land of the Dacotahs!"
"No, my child!" said old Nokomis.
"'T is the smoke, that waves and beckons!"
"Ah!" said she, "the eyes of Pauguk
Glare upon me in the darkness,
I can feel his icy fingers
Clasping mine amid the darkness!
Hiawatha! Hiawatha!"
And the desolate Hiawatha,
Far away amid the forest,
Miles away among the mountains,
Heard that sudden cry of anguish,
Heard the voice of Minnehaha
Calling to him in the darkness,
"Hiawatha! Hiawatha!"
Over snow-fields waste and pathless,
Under snow-encumbered branches,
Homeward hurried Hiawatha,
Empty-handed, heavy-hearted,
Heard Nokomis moaning, wailing:
"Wahonowin! Wahonowin!
Would that I had perished for you,
Would that I were dead as you are!
Wahonowin! Wahonowin!"
And he rushed into the wigwam,
Saw the old Nokomis slowly
Rocking to and fro and moaning,
Saw his lovely Minnehaha
Lying dead and cold before him,
And his bursting heart within him
Uttered such a cry of anguish,
That the forest moaned and shuddered,
That the very stars in heaven
Shook and trembled with his anguish.
Then he sat down, still and speechless,
On the bed of Minnehaha,
At the feet of Laughing Water,
At those willing feet, that never
More would lightly run to meet him,
Never more would lightly follow.
With both hands his face he covered,
Seven long days and nights he sat there,
As if in a swoon he sat there,
Speechless, motionless, unconscious
Of the daylight or the darkness.
Then they buried Minnehaha;
There is no act of evil so unambiguous that it cannot be used as a weapon against ordinary people. Merry Christmas Rolling Stone!
I started reading Althouse after her first "stand-in" at Insta. While I oft disagreed with her opinions then, at least she expressed them. Now (retired Althouse binge watching execrable Friends) , I always read Twitchy first to see what our hostess's favorite opinionaters have to say. While Twitchy is a short handed list of lies/falsehoods/mis/disinformation from her pushed algo reading material, she/her seemingly relies on such for information.
Taking Swiss Army knives from grandma is not going to save Germany. Pathetic. At least Europe no longer has anything to fear from these unserious fools.
Clyde's Top 15 Favorite "New" Songs of 2024 - Part 9 of 16
#8 The Lemonheads - "Into Your Arms" - Come On Feel The Lemonheads - 1993
No, I wasn't listening to alternative rock very much in 1993. The algorithm started giving me this song early in the year and it really grew on me. It's not surprising that it was The Lemonheads' biggest hit. Better late than never, right?
The Lemonheads - Into Your Arms
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S8nce when does a "fever" get you a hospital bed? He clearly isn't on Obamacare.
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Former President Bill Clinton was hospitalized Monday afternoon at a Washington, DC medical center after he came down with a fever.
“President Clinton was admitted to Georgetown University Medical Center this afternoon for testing and observation after developing a fever,” his deputy chief of staff Angel Ureña wrote in an X post.
https://nypost.com/2024/12/23/us-news/former-president-bill-clinton-hospitalized-with-fever/
"Back in October, we should have seen these photos of Hunter Biden meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other officials on one of his trips to China on Air Force Two "
https://twitchy.com/brettt/2024/12/23/newly-obtained-photos-show-joe-biden-introducing-hunter-to-xi-jinping-n2405636
Don't worry, Joe will probably give him a pardon before he leaves Obama's office.
Nick Sortor
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🚨 #BREAKING: The Trump administration previously DEPORTED the Guatemalan migrant who set a woman on fire, per NYP
But when he re-entered the country illegally under Biden, he was RELEASED into the interior
INFURIATING.
The kller was even living in an NYC migrant shelter, and being subsidized by YOUR tax dollars.
BL00D IS ON YOUR HANDS, JOE BIDEN.
The woman set on fire in the NYC subway was killed by an illegal immigrant?
NBC News: “Man charged in woman's burning death on NYC subway was deported from U.S. in 2018
The Guatemalan man, who officials say was in the U.S. illegally, is accused of lighting a sleeping woman on fire.“
Unbelievable.
Meanwhile, the man in charge of the border is upset with Americans expressing their views on social media. LINK (click here to watch a clip of Mayorkas on Sunday)
Safe travels, Meadhouse. Strangely, the top picture loads briefly as an airplane shot and then changes into the frozen lake photo.
"Democrat mega-donor Lindy Li, who served as the Women’s Co-Chair and Mid-Atlantic Regional Chair at the Democratic National Committee, announced she is leaving the Democrat party."
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"Leaving the Democratic Party is like leaving a cult!"
Lindy Li tells Piers Morgan she's lost 40,000 followers and been called a "wh*re" and a "C-word" in the past four days.
📺 https://youtu.be/tbC_ECJ7WpQ
@piersmorgan | @lindyli
Don’t sleep in the subway, darling
When Rolling Stone uses this event for a conversation about healthcare they are incentivizing more terrorism…
Real lawyers don’t use Esq.” It’s like Jill Biden calling herself a doctor.
It was mid-day on the subway. Maybe a nurse or care worker on her way home or to a long shift. May your bedpan be slippery.
At age 23, in London on student work visas, my now-husband and I were living in a hostel while we looked for jobs. I caught pneumonia (pretty sure - never went to a doctor because I didn't know if we were eligible, but high fever, incessant deep cough, exhaustion... Basically I didn't sleep for days because I had to stay down in the lobby to keep from bugging our six random roommates) but had to keep job-hunting. One day I fell asleep on the tube coming back from an interview and rode to the end of the line before anyone woke me. It was a different time.
I caught that too.
Apparently some people in the subway witnessed what happened to the woman set on fire. Unfortunately for the woman set on fire, there wasn’t a Daniel Penny in her subway car that day.
Remember,
The 2nd amendment does not grant us the right to bear arms. The 2nd amendment denies the government the authority to infringe upon our right to bear arms.
The poor schlubs don't understand that if the government owns your health insurance, it effectively owns you, and if the federal government denies your claim, there's no higher authority to overrule its decision.
The poor schlubs don't understand that if the government owns your health insurance, it effectively owns you, and if the federal government denies your claim, there's no higher authority to overrule its decision.
If you're at risk for myocarditis, a fever can exacerbate the risk, as we were informed by our daughter's cardiologist after her pulmonary valve replacement.
The sunset photos are spectacular! Nice use of the golden hour.
Rolling Communist.
Nice photos. Madison is my favorite airport. It's a nice airport.
DIA is a hot mess. - But they did finally remove the fake solar panels.
I was a little shocked at his appearance while he was stumping or Kamala. He has aged quite a bit in the past couple of years.
No mention that he was allowed back in thru a completely illegal open border- opened by Biden and his mob bosses? Not on NBC.
I never claimed to be a REAL lawyer. I insist on being called “esquire” because it’s my privilege as a gentleman
Still, the song offers sound advice — don’t stand in the pouring rain
Thanks largely to illegal immigration and Black Lives Matters fuck bags our murder rate surged to 24K three years ago.
But without better Emt, Police and fire training, plus far better hospital emergency care, it would have likely been 2/3 higher than that.
Per hospitalization costs, which is paid partially in less than 5% of cases, we pay an average of 600k per shooting.
I have no health insurance as I write this. I got screwed by an Aetna subsidiary that claimed to be Cigna but was “Sigma.” I’m on the phone five hours a day and have put off appointments with my brain and throat cancer doctors. I hope you all enjoy your insurances paid for by my tax dollars.
Bye.
You uncourageous assholes.
Well that’s convincing.
What amuses me at this point in my demise is that most of you preening fucks paid less than 2.5% of your income taxes in payroll taxes or less than half of that if you were employed by an employer until you nearly retired.
I pay almost 14K, 13.9%. You Medicare MAGAs are the new welfare queens. Still you whine and whine and whine.
We real populists are going to salt the earth with you idiots. Do be scared.
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