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February 1, 2025

At the Sunrise 6:52 Café...

... you can talk all night.

49 comments:

Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Nice pic.; 2/1/25, 6:55 PM
Jimmy said...: To all of the Democrats here, I know this will make you feel so much better, so confident in your parties future.
The DNC Leader interrupted the party election to tell members that not enough non-binary candidates have been elected, so they MUST now vote for one. "With the results of the previous four elections, our elected officers are currently two male and two female. In order to be gender balanced, we must elect one male, one female, and one person of any gender."; 2/1/25, 7:01 PM
Original Mike said...: Grenell Scores Big Win For Trump As Venezuela Releases Hostages, Agrees To Takes Back Migrants

"The government of Venezuela has agreed not only to release six detained Americans, who arrived home Friday evening with Trump envoy Richard Grenell, the Maduro government has will take back tens of thousands of migrants, President Trump said on Saturday."

Gee, I wonder what he said to him?; 2/1/25, 7:02 PM
narciso said...: The clown shoe got extra shoes; 2/1/25, 7:09 PM
narciso said...: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14350659/Black-Hawk-helicopter-Rebecca-Lobach-identified-DC-plane-crash.html; 2/1/25, 7:13 PM
Narr said...: Crescent moon and Venus are bright in the west. I hope it's clear where you are.; 2/1/25, 7:19 PM
MadisonMan said...: It's been great watching Venus all week.; 2/1/25, 7:26 PM
Original Mike said...: Venus is so bright it kills your dark-adaptation.; 2/1/25, 7:30 PM
Eva Marie said...: Rick Grenell is my favorite Trump appointment. So extremely capable no matter what job he tackles. He was my choice for VP but I think he’s doing more good in the position he’s in. Congrats to Grenell and Trump and welcome back to the former hostages.; 2/1/25, 7:52 PM
Original Mike said...: I was surprised he didn't get an Intelligence or Justice post. I saw him as CIA or FBI Director.; 2/1/25, 8:00 PM
Eva Marie said...: I’ll do the beg: please donate to the Althouse blog and use the Amazon link on the front page, right hand side.
I don’t always say, but I love all the photos. And the blogging choices.; 2/1/25, 8:15 PM
MadTownGuy said...: Governor Shapiro has a tough response to PETA's plan to replace Punxsutawney Phil with cake

"The animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has once again set their sights on liberating Punxsutawney Phil from his Groundhog Day duties. But Pennsylvania’s governor seems to disagree.

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Instead, they suggest that the team at Gobbler’s Knob could go with a different kind of prediction reveal: cutting into a cake.

“In a fun play on viral gender reveal videos, PETA’s tasty treat would be cut to expose one of two colors: blue, signifying six more weeks of winter, or pink, indicating an early spring,” the release reads.

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In a post on X, Shapiro replied to a New York Post headline about PETA’s suggestion with a simple phrase.

“Come and take it,” Shapiro wrote in the post."

I didn't have our governor invoking μολὼν λαβέ on my Bingo card.; 2/1/25, 8:18 PM
Original Mike said...: “In a fun play on viral gender reveal videos, PETA’s tasty treat would be cut to expose one of two colors: blue, signifying six more weeks of winter, or pink, indicating an early spring,” the release reads."

PETA doesn't get the science behind the groundhog.; 2/1/25, 8:30 PM
Mason G said...: "In a fun play on viral gender reveal videos, PETA’s tasty treat would be cut to expose one of two colors..."

There are only two genders? That's not the word on prog street.; 2/1/25, 8:32 PM
Eva Marie said...: And it’s Ric Grenell not Rick; 2/1/25, 8:38 PM
Peachy said...: Something for dedicated abortion leftists to ponder.; 2/1/25, 9:24 PM
Peachy said...: Yippee! While I'd prefer an honest and same Democrat party - this works, too.; 2/1/25, 9:25 PM
Peachy said...: same = sane; 2/1/25, 9:25 PM
Jerry said...: They're at the point where they're cutting the throat of the DNC. Why would anyone take them seriously... outside their own little clique?; 2/1/25, 9:44 PM
n.n said...: Why do the NYT et al assume, presume that a female was the product of DEI class-disordered selection? Black whores h/t NAACP. Sexist. Racist. Diversitist.; 2/1/25, 10:18 PM
walter said...: How shameful to promote support via vountary purchases through a common portal. More productive in the end than clenched sphincter postings.; 2/1/25, 11:22 PM
gadfly said...: They're taxes - plain and simple - paid by American consumers and businesses. Trump treats tariffs like a toddler treats a new word, repeating it endlessly without grasping its meaning. But these aren't magical tools that force other countries to pay him money. Now that Trump has said he will demand a 25% tariff on Mexican and Canadian goods, he's sending a 25% tax hike to American families already battling inflation. Full stop - except higher retail will also cost us more farmer giveaways when demand dies on corn, wheat, and soybeans.

Trump's drug-sniffing immigrant buddy Elmo will get chewed on when he has to deal with a 100% tariff on Teslas in Canada. And when Alberta heavy sand crude doesn't sell in the US, refineries in Montana (2), Illinois (2}, and a huge cracking plant in Whiting, IN will shut. At least we won't have to deal with pumping the dirtiest oil on the planet through the Great Plains when the KXL pipeline
is canceled again. But I hear that our Russian friends have sulfur oil to spare.; 2/1/25, 11:54 PM
Jupiter said...: My understanding -- correct me if I'm wrong -- is that Venus and Saturn are, right now, so close together that they can't be easily distinguished. However, Saturn is moving faster than Venus -- actually, the opposite, Saturn moves around the Sun slower than Venus, but we move almost as fast as Venus, so it appears that Saturn is moving faster -- anyway, they appear as a single light in the sky, at least to my deficient vision. But they are separating, with Saturn moving to the West. It will soon be evident that they are two distinct planets.; 2/2/25, 12:25 AM
Jupiter said...: Kiddo, believe me, she does it for love. Do you really think that Ann Althouse does this for some reason other than love?; 2/2/25, 12:30 AM
Drago said...: LOL

Stop pretending you understand anything at all about what you have cut and pasted from someone else, without attribution.; 2/2/25, 1:53 AM
wendybar said...: And then they picked David Hogg as the Vice chair....the kid who got into Harvard BECAUSE he was in the right political party, launched by not being at school on the day of a school shooting. (Funny how they picked ANOTHER whitey!!); 2/2/25, 2:09 AM
wendybar said...: George
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BREAKING: Democrats just elected David Hogg to be the Vice Chair of the DNC.

Hogg is touted as their face of masculinity to help them regain the young male voters they lost in the 2024 election.

I HONESTLY CAN'T BELIEVE IT!; 2/2/25, 2:31 AM
wendybar said...: TMK
@TheMagaKing2_0
"I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard." – Donald J. Trump

"We're going to fight it in the streets." – Hakeem Jeffries

See the difference?; 2/2/25, 2:59 AM
wendybar said...: What happened to diversity??

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white straight male as chair and white straight (maybe?) male as vice chair
8:28 PM · Feb 1, 2025; 2/2/25, 5:14 AM
Christopher B said...: Just a SWAG but I suspect that he'll be nominated for DNI if Tulsi isn't confirmed.; 2/2/25, 5:22 AM
MadTownGuy said...: In other news...

Canadian food companies moving to USA as a result of tariffs

Link courtesy of our Senator Doug Mastriano.; 2/2/25, 6:11 AM
Ann Althouse said...: @MadTownGuy

I thought that TikTok you linked to was some sort of A.I. creation. The product name "Mid-Day Squares" sounded like something a computer would make up.

But it's real. It's just Canadian. Maybe they name products by brainstorming another way to say "snack" and picking the most sturdily descriptive thing on the list.; 2/2/25, 6:27 AM
Kakistocracy said...: "From his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, Trump unleashed aggressive new tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico and China, a day after threatening the EU with high levies." ` Financial Times

And they said WFH jobs were vanishing.; 2/2/25, 6:29 AM
rehajm said...: There’s 10 kinds if people in the world…; 2/2/25, 6:33 AM
wendybar said...: Mike Davis 🇺🇸
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Wouldn’t it have been nice if certain Senate Republicans fought even 10% as hard against Biden’s nominees as they are fighting now against Trump’s nominees?; 2/2/25, 6:42 AM
gilbar said...: so, a while back, i asked: WHO will be the Young Democrats?
and, i guess, the answer is: David Hogg
Good Luck with THAT, dems!; 2/2/25, 7:09 AM
Jersey Fled said...: Really funny watching the DNC try to get the right balance of who their leadership has sex with.

https://x.com/ericldaugh/status/1885865247895876077?s=61; 2/2/25, 7:20 AM
Kakistocracy said...: Drago up late and still drinking—that’s elite behavior!! Any amateur would have been passed out drunk in the bushes much earlier in the day!! 🥃🥃🥃 drink up sport!!; 2/2/25, 7:36 AM
Kakistocracy said...: I don't think people appreciate that regardless of the tariffs' actual impact on prices, they are 100% giving cover for businesses to raise prices on everything.

It's not just about the price of eggs anymore.; 2/2/25, 7:37 AM
Kakistocracy said...: Why did the Trump push back the effective date of the tariffs to Tuesday? Is the “External Revenue Service” not yet staffed up to collect all that free money?; 2/2/25, 7:39 AM
Leland said...: Trump wants to eliminate taxes by using tariffs. Plenty of stories written about this BEFORE the election. That doesn't sound like someone that doesn't understand the two are related, unless you are gadfly, who hasn't woken up to reality.; 2/2/25, 7:42 AM
Jersey Fled said...: As best I can tell, Rebecca Lobach spent the last two years working in the Biden White House, not flying helicopters. All of her social media accounts were scrubbed before her name was released.

Disclaimer: To my friends here at Althouse, I got this information on X so it needs to be checked.; 2/2/25, 7:42 AM
Mark said...: What a lovely just-so story.
Lots of hopes and dreams from Mastriano.; 2/2/25, 8:55 AM
boatbuilder said...: Businesses don't need "cover" to raise prices. They charge what they can get. People pay what they can (or want) to pay. That is how "economics" works.

I suppose that you would feel better about things if Trump issued a decree that companies are forbidden to raise their prices in response to tariffs. Which is how Congress does it (hint--it has never worked).; 2/2/25, 10:02 AM
Original Mike said...: "My understanding -- correct me if I'm wrong -- is that Venus and Saturn are, right now, so close together that they can't be easily distinguished. However, Saturn is moving faster than Venus -- actually, the opposite, Saturn moves around the Sun slower than Venus, but we move almost as fast as Venus, so it appears that Saturn is moving faster -- anyway, they appear as a single light in the sky, at least to my deficient vision. But they are separating, with Saturn moving to the West. It will soon be evident that they are two distinct planets."

Last night Saturn and Venus were 11-degrees apart; well separated. They were as close as 2-degrees on Jan 18. Both are currently traveling East with respect to the background stars, but because of the Earth's motion around the sun, the background stars appear to be moving to the West with each passing day.; 2/2/25, 10:07 AM
Narr said...: I spotted Saturn below Venus about a week ago--usually I don't see it but the conditions must have been good. Even my wife saw it after I told her where to look--faint, but visible.

IIRC they were about a finger's breadth apart, maybe a little more.; 2/2/25, 11:15 AM
Original Mike said...: I suggest anyone with an interest in sky watching get an iPad app called SkySafari Pro. Serious observers swear by it.

Stellarium is a nice app for the desktop.; 2/2/25, 11:37 AM
Mason G said...: "I suppose that you would feel better about things if Trump issued a decree that companies are forbidden to raise their prices in response to tariffs. Which is how Congress does it (hint--it has never worked)."

This is basically what the government in California did with regards to how insurance companies were allowed to price their policies. I think the LA fires have made it pretty clear how well that's working out for them.; 2/2/25, 12:31 PM
walter said...: i.e. Get your Richweed orders in before he jacks up the price.; 2/2/25, 3:58 PM