January 19, 2025

At the Sunday Night Café...

 ... you can write about anything you want.

No sunrise picture today. It was -4° at sunrise. 

38 comments:

Peachy said...

It's cold here in CO.
6 is tomorrow's high. with wind chill - sub-zero.

MadisonMan said...

I walked to the local diner this morning. It was a cold walk. We have two windows in our front bedroom, and I think they're pretty well sealed, but condensation happens. So I decided to put caulk around one of them to see if it made a difference. It didn't. They both looked the same condensation-wise this morning.

Iman said...

C’mon BUFFALO BILLS! 🦬

Jaq said...

Snow in New Orleans?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iozQE20cHNY

I will believe it when I see it.

chuck said...

Douthat interviews Andreesen. It provides Andreesen's take on the ongoing move of Silicon Valley to Trump. Well worth a read.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

It’s 29 degrees in Buford GA. We’re expecting snow.

Nice said...

Biden: "I'm not going anywhere". And, he means it. "I'm not kidding". Doesn't that constitute an insurrection? If Trump had said that, there'd be charges.

Clyde said...

As I mentioned last month when I was posting my favorite new and new-to-me songs of 2024, I have publicly available playlists of music that I like on Amazon Music Unlimited. I am Clyde S. (@recycledsip), if you have an Amazon Music account. Today, I made a new playlist: Inauguration Day 2025, which you should be able to find if you search for that. For those not on Amazon Music, here's the playlist. The first part is about the Biden and the Democrats, the second part is about Trump and the last three songs were some patriotic music that I just threw in.

You're No Good - Linda Ronstadt
Feel A Whole Lot Better - Tom Petty
Changes - David Bowie
Wind of Change - Scorpions
Better Class of Losers - Randy Travis
Loser - Grateful Dead
Closing Time - Semisonic
The Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash
Trump Won - Natasha Owens
Celebration - Kool and The Gang
I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas
Puttin' On the Ritz - Taco
Can't Stop This Thing We Started - Bryan Adams
Back On My Feet Again - The Babys
Top of the World - Van Halen
New World Man - Rush
I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash
Y.M.C.A - Village People
God Bless The U.S.A. - Lee Greenwood
You Can't Always Get What You Want - The Rolling Stones
Hail to the Chief - US Marine Band
Stars And Stripes Forever - John Williams & The Boston Pops
The Star-Spangled Banner - The United States Marine Band

Clyde said...

It doesn't matter where Biden goes. His puppeteers are leaving the building and relinquishing the levers of power. He can go to Delaware or Hell, I don't care which.

Big Mike said...

@Jaq, check the Ryan Hall Y’all channel on YouTube

The Vault Dweller said...

I went for a 6 mile walk today despite it being about 8 degrees. I was all bundled up, including a balaclava, that, combined with it being sunny it actually wasn't too bad on the walk.

Original Mike said...

I'm tap to do that tomorrow. Bundle up and balaclava for me too. Once you've gone a mile or so, you're warmed up.

Aggie said...

Something about feeling that cold on the exposed parts of your face, while otherwise being toasty, makes you feel invincible !

Our forecast keeps getting less severe with each update. I was expecting 'teen's' and now it's low 20's, and the snow amounts are lessening too. Too bad, I was looking forward to a few inches. But the birds are not often wrong, and they've been ripping through the seed. I'll have to re-fill tomorrow. The roosting box is out, but so far unused.

chuck said...

Sunny and no wind helps a lot, but I just head to the gym and get on the treadmill. My excuse is snow on the trails :) Boring as heck. Temperatures should get back up to 30 midweek, which is pretty comfortable.

Narr said...

I really need to up my walk mileage--it's not as if I lack the time, or the warm clothes.

It's just so hard to leave the screen sometimes.

Narr said...

Trump to yank the security clearances on the 51 Lying Fools. Can't happen soon enough.

ga6 said...

https://nypost.com/2025/01/19/us-news/trump-to-suspend-security-clearances-of-51-former-cia-contractors-who-falsely-implied-hunter-biden-laptop-was-russian-fake/

Original Mike said...

Trump to suspend security clearances of 51 former CIA contractors who falsely implied Hunter Biden laptop was Russian fake

Good. Clearly these partisans betrayed the trust expected of their position.

Original Mike said...

How about Blinken who organized this subterfuge?

Big Mike said...

I assume the Biden family has people loading up the moving van. Is there anybody checking to see to it that he doesn't "accidentally" head out with classified documents and that she doesn't pull a Hillary Clinton and try to abscond with furniture and tableware that belongs to the United States>

Jamie said...

I'm seeing 14 degrees overnight Tuesday in my Houston suburb, with 3-5 inches of snow (plus sub-30 for each of the 3 nights prior and at least 1 night post, with daytime highs in the 30s-40s). If the houses were built for this, we'd all be fine. But we (of our area, I mean - not us in particular) have exposed pipes outside, inadequate insulation around attic pipes, and a lot of vulnerable infrastructure in the yard like outdoor kitchens and such. So there's panic in the streets.

We've (and now I mean us in particular) been changing our landscaping to be hard freeze tolerant over several years, we are well prepared with seasonal pipe insulation for all the dumb exposed pipes, we've got the attic hatch open, we've lived in much colder climates so we know how to function if our power goes out (thanks, renewables! The ones that froze solid back in 2021 or whatever it was!), and we feel as ready as we can be. Filling my brewing carboys with drinking water tonight and then I'm done prepping.

Jamie said...

Oh, and cars full, batteries fresh, candles handy, lighters new, groceries bought.

Aggie said...

I hope the 'list of 51' just represents the first page of a thick document. I have a feeling that the 'Resistance v 2.0' is going to occupy some time until DOGE gets their feet under them. I also hope they show no mercy and grant no quarter to the disrupters within the Administrative State.

rehajm said...

We’re looking at lows around freezing but atm predicting to miss the extreme cold. Maybe some accumulation on Tuesday. I think it’s been five or six years since the last snow photos…

Clyde said...

Sound the Degüello!

Kakistocracy said...

CEOs may curry favor with Democrats when they have power and Congressional majorities, and with Republicans when they hold power. This is part of their job -- they have a fiduciary duty to shareholders.

From this, however, it cannot be inferred what their personal political leanings are. It would be more interesting to hear what these leaders think about the President-elect off the record.

M Jordan said...

I gotta say, on this inauguration eve I feel an electricity in the zeitgeist. Feels like we may be in for a period of good tidings. Hope my feeling is prophetic.

M Jordan said...

Wind of Change is a classic. My wife and I sang it in Lithuania with a group of college students at a talent show, all the students born in the year the wall fell. I have deep fondness for that song.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

Video: Speaker Johnson about Biden’s decline

President Biden didn’t know what he was signing. That’s supposed to be a bombshell.

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Dr Weevil said...

Someone on Twitter mentioned that they haven't seen a pardon for brother Jim Biden yet. It would be absolutely hilarious if Jim and a lot of other guilty swine didn't get pardons because Joe Biden forgot, or was too out of it to sign them, or was peeved at them for some stupid trivial reason. If any pardons do come through at the last minute, I hope the Trump team will examine them very carefully to see if the signatures are forged.

Original Mike said...

I was sure he was going to pardon Jim.

Narayanan said...

don't Prez get to take home signature machine to play with!?

Narayanan said...

would you want to keep anything touched by them?

Gospace said...

IIRC, former POTUS's received the daily intelligence briefing- until Trump became former POTUS. maybe it's petty- but along with all the other clearances being revoked- he ought pull the security clearances for all former POTUS's. Tell them if they want the daily briefings, they can come to him and explain how they'll help him unite the country... and if they can't or won't, OFW.

gadfly said...

I see where Trump is suspending security clearances for 50 former federal employees who properly pointed out that Hunter Biden's faked laptop was evidence of Russian involvement in U.S politics, but all he really wanted was to get all the extreme rightwing publications to print Hunter's dick pics one more time. No penalties can come from these suspensions - just as Trump was not penalized for stealing classified documents. Personally, I'm sure that most of us would prefer to see those Melania pics where she rubs up against other nude women.

Gospace said...

No penalties- except loss of jobs that require clearances from the government. And Trump wasn't penalized for stealing classified documents because he didn't steal any. But aside from that... you got everything right! Well, except for the faked laptop part- it was real. And spectacular.

Mr Wibble said...

The cantor at mass tonight was a gal I know from dancing. Cute little Hispanic ballerina. Really good dancer, and a sweetheart. She's entering a convent in two weeks, which is a damn shame, in my opinion.