Althouse: The Biocore

December 5, 2024

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44 comments:

Kay said...: Very nice; 12/5/24, 5:09 PM
hawkeyedjb said...: As was the case with Saddam in Iraq, we're not going to like what comes after Assad in Syria. Which side(s) are we (the USA) backing/arming in this one?; 12/5/24, 5:22 PM
tcrosse said...: Is it too much to hope for that we could stay the fuck out of it?; 12/5/24, 5:59 PM
rehajm said...: On #13 I lost my ball in that stuff…; 12/5/24, 6:11 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Headline: "NBC's Chuck Todd goes scorched earth on Hunter Biden pardon: 'Long-term damaging' to the country"

Biden is ahead in the election scapegoat sweepstakes.

YouTube: I Beg Your Pardon (I Never Promised You A Rose Garden); 12/5/24, 6:28 PM
Big Mike said...: Hallmark movies would seem a little less of a fantasy if the heroines would not wake up in the morning with perfectly coiffed hair.; 12/5/24, 6:47 PM
Big Mike said...: Don’t worry. Todd doesn’t really mean it.; 12/5/24, 6:49 PM
MikeD said...: I see the late scum Jordan Neely's, absentee for most of his life, father is suing Daniel Penny. No article, so far, has referred to Neely's atty. Sounds like something Ben Crump would initiate.; 12/5/24, 6:50 PM
ga6 said...: and the males shaved every other movie...; 12/5/24, 6:53 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Have you seen this? https://x.com/TaraBull808/status/1864423619830665364

Life is gonna get a lot tougher if this catches on!; 12/5/24, 6:55 PM
Jaq said...: ISIS, Al Qaeda. Remember when we elected Obama because we didn't want any more regime-change wars, and the first thing he does is invade Syria and does a coup in Ukraine? Not only that, but we arm "moderate rebels" who are really the same damn head-chopping terrorists they always were.

On Biden's first day in office, aside from shutting down Keystone, he ordered more troops sent into Syria, reversing Trump's orders to bring the conflict to a close. We are there on the legal basis of a finding from Obama in a file cabinet in the White House. No fig-leaf UN mandate even, just an invasion and takeover of oil and wheat fields to try to starve the people of Syria into overthrowing Assad.

We are in a world war. This is about the Russian naval base in Syria, just like the war in Ukraine is over Sevastopol.; 12/5/24, 6:55 PM
Jaq said...: Joe Biden's low IQ makes him the most reckless POTUS we have ever had.; 12/5/24, 7:00 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: There may be a tsunami heading for California?; 12/5/24, 7:03 PM
Leland said...: Yeah, Kyle Rittenhouse’s got those lawsuits too. I’m sure none of the burned out companies had lawyers trying to help them recover what they lost. “You have insurance for that”.; 12/5/24, 7:04 PM
Mason G said...: NWS Tsunami Alerts
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The tsunami Warning is canceled for the coastal areas of California and Oregon. No tsunami danger presently exists for this area. This will be the final U.S. National Tsunami Warning Center message for this event. Refer to http://tsunami.gov for more information.

https://twitter.com/NWS_NTWC/status/1864761274007240888; 12/5/24, 7:13 PM
Original Mike said...: "Is it too much to hope for that we could stay the fuck out of it?"

+100; 12/5/24, 7:15 PM
Fritz said...: My sister-in-law lives in McKinleyville. She was out walking when it happened, and thought she was having an attack of vertigo.; 12/5/24, 7:20 PM
rehajm said...: How do they get kids when nobody ever rounds first?; 12/5/24, 7:21 PM
rehajm said...: I’ve been pulling our potted fruit trees in and out of the garage to avoid frost all week. I had the planted lemon wrapped up bit today was windy and I pulled the tarp when temps went to the 60s. low of 32 tomorrow morning- the lemon is on its own. Survival of the fittest- er, lightest now..; 12/5/24, 7:27 PM
Big Mike said...: @rehajm, they’re divorced, or more often a widow or widower. Sometimes they’re guardians of children from a brother or sister who passed away.; 12/5/24, 8:10 PM
Gospace said...: Judges used to throw those nuisance suits out. Now they don't- if they're directed at the right people. Or is that wrong people? Seems with liberal nomenclature I'm always mixing the two up...; 12/5/24, 8:11 PM
Big Mike said...: In the past my wife and I have been very generous with our contributions in the wake of natural disasters, but after what the Biden Administration did to Western North Carolina I’m not inclined to give blue states a dime.; 12/5/24, 8:14 PM
rhhardin said...: XKCD did a series on at what distance an earthquake motion arrives at the same time as the social media announcement of the earthquake motion.; 12/5/24, 8:19 PM
Rocco said...: Meet your next Surgeon General: Dr Janette Nesheiwat. Already controversy over her support for COVID vaccines.; 12/5/24, 8:39 PM
Saint Croix said...: The best journalist in America, Matt Taibbi, has a great interview with an FBI agent about how to fix the FBI.

The swamp's in DC, but many agents in the field are patriots. That makes sense to me!; 12/5/24, 8:41 PM
Rocco said...: Big Mike said...
"In the past my wife and I have been very generous with our contributions in the wake of natural disasters, but after what the Biden Administration did to Western North Carolina I’m not inclined to give blue states a dime."

And Biden is giving a billion dollars to Africa. But no money left for Americans.; 12/5/24, 8:42 PM
Mr. Majestyk said...: Please listen to Joe Rogan's interview on Spotify with Mike Rowe. Even if you think you know about the US government's censorship efforts, you will probably be surprised by the degree to which many government and goverment-funded institutions are tasked with censoring conservative/populist speech, both in the US and worldwide. It's quite chilling.; 12/5/24, 8:43 PM
Peachy said...: There's Plenty of Evidence of Corruption Around Biden; 12/5/24, 9:13 PM
Mr. Majestyk said...: Mike Benz...not Mike Rowe; 12/5/24, 9:18 PM
Dave Begley said...: I’m lobbying for this again. We need an Althouse community confab in Madison this summer before we all kick off.; 12/5/24, 10:38 PM
Iman said...: It’s good you have another… presumably.; 12/5/24, 11:03 PM
Iman said...: In my car on my way to the market this morning when the emergency announcement interrupted Bongino’s radio show.

As Iowahawk pointed out, that’s one way to clean Teh Streets of San Francisco!; 12/5/24, 11:12 PM
wendybar said...: Greg Price
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Ketanji Brown Jackson just compared bans on sex changes for kids to bans on interracial marriage.

Collin Rugg
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Yes, because banning a white person from marrying a black person is the same thing as cutting off a 10-year-old's gen*tals.
11:25 AM · Dec 4, 2024

Burt Macklin
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Give her a break, Collin, she isn’t a biologist.
11:33 AM · Dec 4, 2024; 12/6/24, 3:13 AM
wendybar said...: "Deflated by the resounding November defeat, the left now believes it can magically rebound by destroying President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet nominees....

The current crew, not their proposed Trump replacements, prompted the sick and tired American people to demand different people.

Voters want novel approaches to reform a government that they not only no longer trust but also now deeply fear."

https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2024/12/06/what-the-trump-nominees-have-not-done-and-will-not-do-n2648691; 12/6/24, 3:26 AM
Tina Trent said...: But in fabulous news, the petite, frail, older attorney who was mobbed by a BLM “march” in 2020 when she was just driving downtown, was swarmed, prevented from fleeing on foot, and attacked, then arrested when she fought back — then refused to plead guilty to get off and so went to jail for several months — just won $750K from the township that had her arrested.

She didn’t even have to file the lawsuit: they just awarded her the money, knowing any settlement was going to be a hell of a lot more. By the way, the Daily Mail has carefully cropped and edited and deleted the dumb ANTIFA “medics” capture of her and the part where the boy she spits at attacks her first for no reason, running then lunging and screaming inches from her mouth with his hands raised against a terrified, slight woman surrounded on all sides by a violent mob. They also leave out the part about protesters following her home, trespassing on her yard, writing “the racist lives here” on the street and up to her front door, then the mob arriving and yelling threats that she will be beaten, or worse, in jail. The media wormholed this, but I recorded the transcript.

She was charged with hate crime for being randomly attacked by a mob and for trying to stop police without a warrant who were tearing apart her house. She lost her law practice and the life she built. The mayor gave her attacker the key to the city, and the strong young attacker (twice her size, in a violent mob of hundreds) said he still feared she would “lynch” him.

But today, justice prevailed, and her refusal to submit to an untruth was slightly compensated. Stephanie Rapkin. Know her name. A dignified portrait in courage.; 12/6/24, 3:49 AM
rehajm said...: now that’s a well played shot…; 12/6/24, 4:45 AM
rehajm said...: Yah Big Mike, I guess that’s it. Inheriting them from the dead sister is the only explanation. Unrelated: I’ve just been told to stop asking questions…; 12/6/24, 5:54 AM
Rusty said...: Wait! All the Islamists and Russia are killing each other in Syria?
We can make S'mores!; 12/6/24, 6:24 AM
Christopher B said...: My line is "It's a movie"; 12/6/24, 7:00 AM
Jaq said...: Remember, the Maidan protests were totally authentic.; 12/6/24, 7:06 AM
Jaq said...: It's very possible that your S'mores could be cooked in a blinding flash. Eventually, if your whole foreign policy is based on stirring up trouble around the world, it could come back to bite you.; 12/6/24, 7:09 AM
Michael McNeil said...: XKCD did a series on at what distance an earthquake motion arrives at the same time as the social media announcement of the earthquake motion.

Ha ha! I live (in Siskiyou County) maybe 150 miles away from yesterday's quake epicenter (located in the vicinity of Cape Mendocino, California, where the San Andreas Fault jogs abruptly out to sea—the apex where three tectonic plates [Pacific, North American, and Juan de Fuca] come together). The USGS's alert arrived on my phone (I was home) basically simultaneously with the start of ground shaking, maybe a half-second either way (which—the shaking—lasted about half a minute). At that distance it wasn't much.; 12/6/24, 7:23 AM
MadTownGuy said...: A weird thing happened in the wee hours this morning. I keep a travel cup on my night stand to stay hydrated during the night. It keeps the leg cramps away. After returning from the loo, I took a sip and felt something like a crumb in my mouth. Since that didn't make sense, I spit it back into the cup right away, then hied out to the kitchen where I turned on the overhead light.

It was a spider, an itsy bitsy one, still wriggling and jiggling. I didn't stop to look up what kind it was, but dumped the cup into the sink, followed with mass quantities of scalding hot water, and sent spidey to its reward.

Had it been a venomous one, things could have gone really bad very quickly, but that 'instant wisdom,' that comes by God's grace, protected me, for which I am thankful.; 12/6/24, 8:00 AM
MadTownGuy said...: Dane County Judge strikes down Act 10

"More than 10 years ago, Act 10 restricted most public employees from collective bargaining in Wisconsin. That time has come to an end. A Dane County Judge has struck down the bill and says one group of employees can’t be treated differently than another group.

Act 10 was passed to reduce deficits in Wisconsin. The bill was intended to make public employees contribute more to healthcare and retirement costs. However, it also meant that those same employees would lose the ability to bargain through unions collectively. The restrictions didn’t apply to all public employees. Firefighters, police officers and others considered “public safety” employees were exempt. That was at the center of why the bill was struck down.

...Wisconsin taxpayers, on the other hand, might see increased costs if public employee unions begin successfully bargaining for higher wages and cost of living increases.."

State Representative Joel Kitchens added some information that sheds light on the potential deleterious effects on union members, teachers in particular. From his online newsletter:

"Nearly $17 billion in taxpayer savings is in jeopardy. Last week, a Dane County judge ruled Act 10 unconstitutional. The ruling is very sketchy and will be appealed.

To begin with, the Wisconsin Judicial Code of Conduct says that, “…a judge must recuse himself or herself whenever the facts and circumstances the judge knows or reasonably should know raise reasonable question of the judge's ability to act impartially…”. This judge signed the recall petition against Governor Walker over Act 10, so it is a clear violation.

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...Rather than cutting spending, the previous administration raided many programs, including the transportation budget and a fund to protect people injured from medical malpractice. The state budget was in an unsustainable positon.

Act 10 helped balance the budget without raising taxes when people couldn't afford them. There were no mass layoffs, state attractions remained open, and bills were paid on time.

One of the ways Act 10 saved money was by opening up health insurance for public sector employees to free-market competition. I was president of the Sturgeon Bay School Board at the time and I had always been frustrated that we could not purchase less expensive insurance that offered the same benefits. Under the framework at the time, those savings would have been passed directly on to teacher salaries. Putting our insurance out for bid provided huge savings for the district.

...Prior to Act 10, all employees were paid strictly based on years of service and education and if we needed to eliminate a position, it had to be the least senior person. Great teachers are invaluable, and we were finally allowed to recognize that.

I understand how stressful the passage of Act 10 was at the time for public employees. They were required to pay a percentage of their health coverage (about 12%) and their retirement (about 5%), which reduced the take-home pay for most of them in the short term. In the long run, I believe that these changes were in everyone's best interest. Going back would be extremely painful for our school districts.

According to the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, eliminating Act 10 will lead to $1.1 billion in new annual costs for school districts and more than $480 million in new annual costs for local government. Those costs would have to be passed on to the taxpayers or through layoffs and elimination of positions. All of this means government will be more expensive and less responsive.

We do not yet know how the appeal process will play out, but I anticipate this ruling will end up in the Wisconsin Supreme Court. However, I have no expectation that the current Supreme Court will take previous rulings, the savings for you as a taxpayer, or the potential job losses into account."; 12/6/24, 5:33 PM