Althouse: Sunrise

August 19, 2025

Sunrise — 5:59.

Talk about anything you want in the comments.

34 comments:

Iman said...: By ordering the release of classified info to “dirty up President Donald Trump” early in 2017, Adam Schiff’s actions were unethical, illegal and potentially treasonous.

The corksoaker must be held accountable to the fullest extent of The Law.; 8/19/25, 7:47 PM
Achilles said...: Still watching this.

This is first hand point of view. This guy doesn't seem like a propagandist to me.; 8/19/25, 7:59 PM
Lazarus said...: I am watching Fallout, a recent post-apocalyptic TV series. I don't know if I like it or not. It might have been better if it had been made at another time or by other people and didn't have to be so ironic, snarky, and cynical/brutalist. Also, isn't "post-apocalypticism" tired? After like 20 seasons of The Walking Dead and its spin-offs isn't the brutal desert of the future somewhere we've visited too often and for too long.; 8/19/25, 8:05 PM
Leora said...: I saw with surprise that the New Yorker had an article about a rare disease that causes accelerated aging in children. I last heard about this disease in the National Inquirer sometime in the late 50's or early 60's where there were pictures of the afflicted little girl Norma looking just like the girl pictured in the New Yorker. This is fixed in my mind because one of Norma's symptoms were cold hands and feet from which I also suffered in our drafty Victorian house in upstate New York. (My brother was quick to point out the likelihood that I was also afflicted.) I do regard myself as prematurely aging as I approach my 73rd birthday.

I am so happy to see the New Yorkers editorial standards now touch those of the National Enquirer. I hope coverage of the Bat Boy will follow soon.; 8/19/25, 8:13 PM
FormerLawClerk said...: "By ordering the release of classified info to “dirty up President Donald Trump” early in 2017, Adam Schiff’s actions were unethical, illegal and potentially treasonous."

It would be nice if we had a President willing to uphold our laws, wouldn't it?

Turns out Trump's not the man.; 8/19/25, 8:17 PM
Narr said...: For the left hand--

Trifonov Brahms Bach D Minor

The last of the 3 Bs transcribed a violin piece by the first.; 8/19/25, 8:20 PM
Mason G said...: "It would be nice if we had a President willing to uphold our laws, wouldn't it?"

Run for office and show everybody how it's done. Or continue to sit in your basement, bitching on the internet because you didn't get your pony.

Your choice.; 8/19/25, 8:21 PM
Achilles said...: I never liked shotguns, but it makes sense they are popular now on the Russian Ukrainian battlefront.; 8/19/25, 8:23 PM
Rusty said...: Achilles. The problem is range. Even with the longest barrel and the tightest choke and the heaviest load you're maybe good for 60 yards. Longer for 00 shot, but not much.; 8/19/25, 8:41 PM
Mr. T. said...: Loudoun Co Groomer school district has suspended .athlete students because a transurrectionist terrorist was in the boys locker room recording them for ::checks notes:v complaining that a girl was in the boys locker room pretending to be a boy...; 8/19/25, 8:47 PM
wildswan said...: It's appropriate that the unaffordability crisis in NYC is being met by unaffordable reforms, i.e., Mamdani's plans.; 8/19/25, 8:55 PM
Mr. T. said...: Leonora said:

I saw with surprise that the New Yorker had an article about a rare disease that causes accelerated aging in children.

If it is progeria, that is a congenital genetic disorder that has about a one in five million occurrence. As it is a genetic, it cannot be spread by pathogen.

But you can bet the branch covidian leftists In the new yorker would be demanding that Frauci make us all wear masks anyway, and the democrat states declare martial law at behest of their teacher union players overlords.; 8/19/25, 8:56 PM
Big Mike said...: It would be nice if we had a President willing to uphold our laws, wouldn't it?

We do and it is. The previous guy and that Obambi fellow thought the law was and ought to be whatever they damned well pleased. You were part of that, weren’t you?; 8/19/25, 9:02 PM
Big Mike said...: @Mr. T, by the way, it’s illegal in Virginia to videotape inside a locker room while there are people changing, but in Loudoun County it’s the boys being punished.; 8/19/25, 9:07 PM
FormerLawClerk said...: Run for office and show everybody how it's done.

Someone will certainly need to. Donald Trump is too busy on the golf course to see to it that people like Adam Schiff, or the Epstein billionaire pedophiles, pay for their crimes against us.; 8/19/25, 9:09 PM
Josephbleau said...: “It would be nice if we had a President willing to uphold our laws, wouldn't it?

Turns out Trump's not the man.“

So you are anti Trump FLC?

Who are you for,; 8/19/25, 9:11 PM
NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...: Rusty said...

Achilles. The problem is range. Even with the longest barrel and the tightest choke and the heaviest load you're maybe good for 60 yards. Longer for 00 shot, but not much.

Range doesn't matter if you're in a trench environment. That's why shotguns were very popular with the Doughboys during WWI, especially the Winchester Model 1897. You could hold the trigger down and it would fire a round each time you pumped. You only had five rounds in the magazine, but you could still dish out some damage. It was known as the "trench broom".

Russians seem to dig a lot of trenches. I can understand the Ukrainians using them.; 8/19/25, 9:15 PM
Aggie said...: Shotguns are very useful for drones.; 8/19/25, 9:40 PM
Gospace said...: NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...
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Range doesn't matter if you're in a trench environment. That's why shotguns were very popular with the Doughboys during WWI, especially the Winchester Model 1897.

Often sawed off to 18 inches, making for more spread in close confines. Useful in trench warfare.

yet- the excuse for banning sawed off shotguns was- they weren't weapons of war.

Unlike the excuse for banning tommy-guns and other fully automatic weapons- they were weapons of war.

The two decisions are irreconcilable. And since the 2nd amendment was intended to arm the citizenry as standard issue infantry, with standard issue infantry weapons, both decisions are irreconcilable with the 2nd amendment.

Remember- it's legal to own gatling guns, and mortars, and cannon.; 8/19/25, 9:43 PM
Achilles said...: Rusty said...

Achilles. The problem is range. Even with the longest barrel and the tightest choke and the heaviest load you're maybe good for 60 yards. Longer for 00 shot, but not much.

In that video I linked they showed the embed in the back of a truck with other soldiers as one of the suicide drones chased them.

The drive of the truck floored it and the whole event lasted for minutes. It is hard to tell what took the drone down, probably the shotgun but the fiber line might have caught on something too.

For now I can't think of anything better than 00 buck. 10 gauge is not fun to shoot so you are probably going 12 gauge. That chase scene was legit and the drone gave it an actual horror movie suspense.; 8/19/25, 10:03 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: From what I've read, the biggest killer now on the battlefield in Ukraine isn't artillery - its drones. These characters can even peek through windows to see who's inside go in for the kill. Infrared makes it difficult to move, even at night.

Both sides have drones that kill other drones.; 8/19/25, 10:08 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: Shotguns are good for shooting someone in a trench at 5-10 yards. Otherwise, you might as well have an assault rifle. And of course, grenades are always effective at short range.; 8/19/25, 10:09 PM
Josephbleau said...: “I never liked shotguns,“

If I had to go to Ukraine under a Democrat administration, I would choose an M3A1 grease gun, poor on range, but I’m going to be hiding under the shrubs waiting for them to come to me.; 8/19/25, 10:23 PM
Peachy said...: Mr T. said:
"branch covidian leftists "

I'm stealing that.; 8/19/25, 10:24 PM
Original Mike said...: DNI Tulsi Gabbard Removes Security Clearances of 37 Intelligence Analysts

"Many of these names are from the fraudulent Intelligence Community letter that dismissed the Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinformation." … "When former National Security Advisor Susan Rice, DNI James Clapper and former CIA Director John Brennan said, “give me this outcome,” the targeted names today are the people who constructed the fraud."

Taking out the trash.; 8/19/25, 11:41 PM
Big Mike said...: @Original Mike, I don’t know whether you’re aware, but having worked in the Intelligence Community for decades I can assure you that for these people their clearances (“tickets”) are basically worth multiple tens of thousands of dollars to them annually. In the course of my career I’ve met plenty of government people whose sole “skill” was their high clearances and absent those tickets they were essentially unemployable. Are any of these 37 in that latter category? I hope not, for their sakes.; 8/20/25, 1:03 AM
Humperdink said...: Headline from Zero Hedge: “Europe To Spend $100BN It Doesn't Have, To Buy Weapons America Doesn't Have, To Arm Soldiers Ukraine Now Lacks”

This ranks up there with the old NYPost headline: “Headless body found in topless bar.”; 8/20/25, 4:04 AM
FormerLawClerk said...: "So you are anti Trump FLC?"

I'm anti-Trump sitting on his fat ass and doing nothing.

They haven't perp-walked a single person for the J6 illegal prosecutions, the Russia-Collusion hoax, Clapper is still walking around a free man after committing perjury to the Congress.

Trump talks big, but everybody knows he's always folding his crap hand.; 8/20/25, 4:33 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: Thank you to the commenters who read and rebut the characters I skip over like Kak RC Inga Hag etc. But I have a request that the block quotes from these sources be kept to a minimum. It was becoming very difficult to avoid the sewage with such large amounts of it embedded in your thoughtful and cogent comments. Still I hesitate to criticize your work because God knows it serves to reinforce my decision to skip the crap in the first place and you who read it ALL definitely performed a service that the rest of us have no stomach for.

Thank you.; 8/20/25, 5:36 AM
Dave Begley said...: Brewers drop two to the Cubs.; 8/20/25, 5:38 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: FLC there are several grand juries hearing testimony about the crimes you mentioned. Sure Trump could rush out and start a riot by going off half-cocked and arresting people you hate before the hard work is done. But unlike his predecessors Trump is slowly assembling airtight cases while the slow drip of declassification builds to a climax down the road, not rushing to provide a headline and mugshot that in the end mean nothing, like dumbshit Jack Smith and his Pyrrhic victories. Justice, like revenge, is best served coldly and coolly.; 8/20/25, 6:07 AM
mezzrow said...: "Brewers drop two to the Cubs."

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Maybe two - even better than one.
Eamus Catuli.; 8/20/25, 6:14 AM
tim maguire said...: FormerLawClerk said...Someone will certainly need to. Donald Trump is too busy on the golf course to see to it

One would think a former law clerk would understand that there is a process and that only children think they can have everything everywhere all at once. (Also, Trump wouldn’t personally do any of this, he would instruct others to do it—which is something presidents can and do do on the golf course.); 8/20/25, 6:17 AM
Lawnerd said...: I agree the shotguns are for the drones. There are tons of videos showing drones killing soldiers and how difficult it is to evade them.; 8/20/25, 6:22 AM