Althouse: Sunrise — 6:18, 6:39, 6:41.

16 सितंबर 2025

Sunrise — 6:18, 6:39, 6:41.

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Note the moon in the first picture.

89 टिप्‍पणियां:

john mosby ने कहा…: Anyone know why Kash Patel was wearing a Liverpool team tie in the Senate hearing today? CC, JSM; 16/9/25, 7:25 pm
Humperdink ने कहा…: “Three major assassination cases in US courts today.

Luigi Mangione, Ryan Routh and Tyler Robinson.

What do they have in common?” (David Webb, instapundit); 16/9/25, 7:26 pm
Inga ने कहा…: As if things in the world weren’t strange enough already…

https://newrepublic.com/article/200471/peter-thiel-obsession-antichrist-religion

“What’s Up With Peter Thiel’s Obsession With the Antichrist?

In yet another troubling sign of these times, Peter Thiel can’t stop talking up the Antichrist. This month, the tech billionaire is delivering a four-part, closed-door lecture on the topic, which he is framing as “political theology,” in San Francisco. It’s part of what you might call an “Antichrist World Tour” by the PayPal and Palantir co-founder, who has already given off-the-record Antichrist lectures at Oxford, Harvard, and Bari Weiss’s ersatz college, the University of Austin.”; 16/9/25, 7:26 pm
FullMoon ने कहा…: None of the newer lefty commenters are titty-twister-pecan pie enthusiast Chuck.

When Chuck comes back, he will be loud and proud and use continue to use the "Chuck" moniker.

And, another commenter feels FLC is Fen, which seems probable.

Seriously, although Chuck was annoying and even ridiculous at times, he was head and shoulders above the newbies.; 16/9/25, 7:26 pm
TickTock1948 ने कहा…: If you take the long view, Charlie Kirk had it exactly correct. Talk to the college kids, get as many of them to hear a different point of view as possible. They are the future, and the ones who will decide where this nation goes. A civil war, no matter how justifiable, would set this country back over a hundred years. We, the commentariat of this blog, are, at best, the dying embers of a once great nation. Perhaps we can help rekindle the torch, but we are not the ones who will carry it forward.

Apologies for being maudlin, but that is how it is.; 16/9/25, 7:31 pm
Narr ने कहा…: I did notice the moon. First thing.

Beautiful pix as always.; 16/9/25, 7:46 pm
Achilles ने कहा…: Inga said...

As if things in the world weren’t strange enough already…

https://newrepublic.com/article/200471/peter-thiel-obsession-antichrist-religion

“What’s Up With Peter Thiel’s Obsession With the Antichrist?

Looks like Inga has been given the next target.

Peter Thiel needs to be beefing up security.; 16/9/25, 7:46 pm
Joe Bar ने कहा…: Travis Kelce in shorts:
https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AA1MxsT1.img?w=768&h=432&m=6&x=258&y=70&s=82&d=82; 16/9/25, 7:50 pm
Narr ने कहा…: My wife reports that the TSA rules and regulations for carrying medication onto airplanes have become much more strict. Meds have to be carried in pharmacy or doctor-supplied containers and you have to have a written approval from the prescriber.

Assuming she is correct, WTF?

What's next, a copy of your doctor's medical diploma?

Security theater on steroids.; 16/9/25, 8:03 pm
Inga ने कहा…: “Looks like Inga has been given the next target.

Peter Thiel needs to be beefing up security.”

Yeah, Peter Theil needs more security against little ol’ grandma, me. I’m deadly with my crochet hook!; 16/9/25, 8:05 pm
Jon Ericson ने कहा…: https://x.com/CurtisHouck/status/1968030613178331411
Ooh, I didn't see that one coming.
Inga, come look! Here's how to argue for Tyler! You could be the one to change everyone's heart so that he gets out before he gets too old. Tyler should give up on Lola though. All you need is love.; 16/9/25, 8:08 pm
Maynard ने कहा…: Nobody is worried about you attacking Peter Thiel, Inga.

We are concerned that your demented leftist brethren will continue drinking the kool-aid that you guys marinate in.; 16/9/25, 8:10 pm
Beasts of England ने कहा…: I noticed the moon, as well. Love the top photo…; 16/9/25, 8:11 pm
DINKY DAU 45 ने कहा…: JD Vance lied today on ‘The Charlie Kirk Show’ when he said the statistics are clear that this is a left-wing problem,” It’s the exact reverse. You look at the ADL center for extremism, which looked at 444 people killed by extremists between 2013 and 2022, 75% of them by the right.
The Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism indeed confirmed this in a 2024.
You look at the University of Maryland study that was done for their terrorism center, which found that from 1948 to 2018, right-wing extremists were more likely to carry out violence than left-wing extremists,
Look at the head of the FBI who [President] Donald Trump appointed, Chris Wray, who said the No. 1 domestic terror threat in this country comes from religious and racially motivated extremists, especially white supremacists.
The National Institute for Justice found that the majority of instances since 1990, violent terroristic acts, were right-wing extremists, the single-biggest day of political violence, in our lifetimes, in this country, was Jan. 6, 2021.
The National Institute of Justice had indeed confirmed the former claim in 2024; however, the article has been curiously removed, with a notice stating that the Department of Justice is reviewing its websites and materials in accordance with recent Executive Orders. Ah yes those alternative facts and people who just mimic what they hear without any type of real fact searching.
Charlie Kirk was supposed to be a free speech martyr, why is the right using his death to crack down on free speech and American rights ? Hate speech has always been around.
Trump ,struggling with how to respond to Kirk’s death, appeared not to even know about Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman , who was slain by an apparent Trump supporter in June , while defending his half-staff flag orders for Kirk. Selective memory or just too old and inept to know real facts, the President for Maga's only. Very sad but this too shall pass and this Dark period in history will be read by my great grandkids like we read about Benedict Arnold and the likes (unless they reach their goal of adjusting history like it never happened) Time will tell This whole section will be all taking dirt naps by then. Father, they know not what they do.....; 16/9/25, 8:12 pm
Eva Marie ने कहा…: Eagerly awaiting the debut of the Kamala Harris on Sept. 23. It is ranked #16 at the moment. There was a day it was ranked #1 early on. For the past several months it’s been ranked in the 100s to the 1000s. The #1 book now is Charlie Kirk’s book Stop, in the Name of God: Why Honoring the Sabbath Will Transform Your Life. All together 8 books, either written by Kirk, prefaced by Kirk or about Kirk are in the top 60.
The Constitution and Declaration of the US is at #27. There are 13 editions of the Bible on the best 100 Amazon best seller list. Recently there’s always been a couple versions but not this many. Eric Trump’s Under Siege is #5. Victor Frankl’s Man’s Search For Meaning is at #42 and Mere Christianity by CS Lewi is #37. Assault on Truth by Jeffrey Masson is available for pre-order at #20. The Assault on Truth is about Masson’s dramatic break with the psychoanalytic establishment. Chaos by Tom O’Neil is #23. Fahrenheit 451 has been on the list for a very long time. Lord of the Flies and Animal Farm are on and off the list. Right now both are on the list.
My favorite book on the list is Doug by Douglas Scott Wreden. “This extraordinary new book is written by the award-winning published-author DougDoug. This book contains the word Doug about 50,000 times and nothing else.” Wreden has about a million followers on Twitch and YouTube and the book is a bit of a prank by him for his followers.; 16/9/25, 8:13 pm
Achilles ने कहा…: Inga said...

“Looks like Inga has been given the next target.

Peter Thiel needs to be beefing up security.”

Yeah, Peter Theil needs more security against little ol’ grandma, me. I’m deadly with my crochet hook!

You are stupid and evil. Everyone sees right through you and knows what you are doing.

You are joining a group of like minded people and smearing Peter Thiel in the hopes that someone in your group kills him.; 16/9/25, 8:14 pm
Inga ने कहा…: “You are joining a group of like minded people and smearing Peter Thiel in the hopes that someone in your group kills him.”

Yeah sure Achilles, my knitting circle has big plans!🧶; 16/9/25, 8:26 pm
Lazarus ने कहा…: I didn't realize Redford did so much TV work early on. He was like Shatner in that regard, though younger and not as beloved. I also didn't realize that his film career didn't take off until the late 60s, so movies I thought he did were actually done by George Peppard or George Segal or Paul Newman or even Jack Lemmon.
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One of my emails got hacked. If you notice anything funny, do something about it. I let things go because I figured it wasn't important, and then I was locked out of my email. When I was able to log back in, there were hundreds of responses to an African employment scam.

We talk about Nigerian internet scammers, but it seems like their biggest victims are other Africans, who are too smart to fall for "Nigerian prince" gambits, but will jump to get work in the developed world. I suppose everyone here is smart enough not to click on unsolicited emails, but even if you don't there are still ways you can be hacked.

Fortunately, I didn't use this email for anything financial, but it does make me wonder. One other comment: one can hate Big Tech all one wants, but their email services may be better at security than the struggling little guys you turn to instead.
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I was looking forward to watching the movie where Clive Owen is a window cleaner who foils a terrorist plot. Then I found out that Daisy Ridley is the window cleaner, and a lot of my enthusiasm ran out. I don't want to sound like an inveterate misogynist, but the entertainment industry has to stop the gender swapping and thinking its clever or worthwhile or "progressive." It also doesn't help any that the basic idea owes a lot to Die Hard.; 16/9/25, 8:31 pm
Jaq ने कहा…: It's kind of funny, my honor as a commenter was questioned, and so, of course I had to defend it in another thread, and I found myself reading old comments, and predictions in Dinky Dau's comments have not fared well, lets' say.

Achilles comments, on the other hand, hold up. Howard's too. I think that these are two examples of commenters who come here without any outside agendas and who post their true beliefs. I wish all of our commenters came with that attitude. Whatever their beliefs, IDC, as long as they are sincerely held.; 16/9/25, 8:32 pm
heyboom ने कहा…: @Narr None of that is true. Here's a link explaining the new TSA rules on medications:

https://upgradedpoints.com/travel/airports/tsa-medication-rules/; 16/9/25, 8:35 pm
Clyde ने कहा…: I tend to run hot and cold on music, and if I find something new that I like, it goes into heavy rotation. This week, it's been the Turnpike Troubadours' album 'The Price of Admission,' which came out in April. Here's a link to the full album on YouTube:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mJoRXds9jK15-SyCqu1zyDnXiFaj-PewQ&si=HhPLjg3o2erfTKTe

If you're just in the mood for a song or two, my favorite tracks right now are "The Devil Plies His Trade (Sn 6, Ep 3)"
https://youtu.be/i0bFbK_1JAY?si=WPH-Cyifxi5G52Ma

and "Ruby Ann."
https://youtu.be/lJvzRUX_h7g?si=fFrt2VGMtXGR2b3y

If you like Red Dirt Country or have listened to the Turnpike Troubadours before, you'll probably enjoy this album.; 16/9/25, 8:38 pm
Clyde ने कहा…: I'll add that I recognized the last song on the album, which turned out to have been written by Kyle Nix for his Kyle Nix & The 38's album 'After The Flood, Vol. 1' which came out a couple of years ago, although that one had Ken Pomeroy (who is a woman) singing the lead. That was a pretty good album, too, and underrated.; 16/9/25, 8:52 pm
Dr Weevil ने कहा…: On the last sunrise thread, Dinky Dau's 11:54am comment has a curious addendum. It has the usual incoherent paragraph, then a long space - maybe 30 carriage returns - then this:

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Looks like Dinky inadvertently revealed where he gets at least some of his cut-and-paste stuff. He really should learn to use quotation marks, as I have done here. It's easy, and not doing so is deeply dishonest.; 16/9/25, 9:01 pm
FWBuff ने कहा…: @DaveBegley, your Creighton Blue Jays nearly beat #1 Nebraska tonight in a great women’s volleyball match in Omaha! They went to 5 sets. Both teams were amazing. The announcer said they set an indoor attendance record with nearly 18,000 fans.; 16/9/25, 9:14 pm
Peachy ने कहा…: Inga - you are a radical leftist. Knitting and bible verses? - you are a fraud. You spend most of your time filling your head with MSNBC-Maddow propaganda and lies.; 16/9/25, 9:18 pm
Jaq ने कहा…: Oliver Stone said it, a lot of people have said it, and now Dr Jeffery Sachs has said it. https://youtu.be/SMsZ3EK8zZQ?si=qVSrJH3hTZVOHDOj&t=22

Bet he doesn't get invited to any of these confabs anymore after breaking omertà on Ukraine, even though what he said is pretty obviously true to anybody who is not utterly emotionally invested in this blood feud on the other side of the world from us.; 16/9/25, 9:19 pm
Jim at ने कहा…: Seriously, although Chuck was annoying and even ridiculous at times, he was head and shoulders above the newbies.

In terms of not polluting threads with post after post after post of just non-stop nonsense, half-truths, changing goalposts and outright lies, yes. He was better. But only in that sense.; 16/9/25, 9:20 pm
Peachy ने कहा…: "Three major assassination cases in US courts today.
Luigi Mangione, Ryan Routh and Tyler Robinson.
What do they have in common?; 16/9/25, 9:23 pm
Peachy ने कहा…: Democrats weaponize Mental Illness; 16/9/25, 9:25 pm
Kakistocracy ने कहा…: इस टिप्पणी को लेखक द्वारा हटा दिया गया है.; 16/9/25, 9:27 pm
Prof. M. Drout ने कहा…: I have trouble believing that even a troll commenter like Chuck would have so little self-respect that he could come back here after this dramatic flounce-away he did. But who can really comprehend the shriveled psyches of comment trolls?
(What is so strange is that there is no troll behavior, style, or trick that wasn't seen on UseNet back in the mid-80s. It seems that when it comes to trolling, there's nothing new under the sun).; 16/9/25, 9:27 pm
Dr Weevil ने कहा…: Oliver Stone? Notorious Russian shill Jeffrey (note spelling) Sachs? YouTube? No thanks. I only watch music on YouTube. Just tell us what they said.; 16/9/25, 9:32 pm
Jaq ने कहा…: I agree, he's not Chuck. He's likely part of the whole "chorus line" that's been bringing sadly inauthentic content to this blog. There is no real humanity in it, it's like it's all posted from a cubicle somewhere, while he drinks stale coffee from a styrofoam cup at his desk, with a picture of a smiling Joe Biden looking down on him.

A secretive dark money group tied to the Democratic Party is paying online influencers up to $8,000 a month to disseminate left-leaning talking points, according to a report.

The “Chorus Creator Incubator Program” is said to be funded by the “Sixteen Thirty Fund,” a nonprofit sometimes portrayed as the left’s answer to the Koch network and which has funneled money to dozens of Democratic-friendly influencers, according to WIRED magazine. —New York Post; 16/9/25, 9:33 pm
Peachy ने कहा…: sixteen thirty club - is Pritzker billions - (I think); 16/9/25, 9:36 pm
Kakistocracy ने कहा…: Peter Thiel seems fixated on society’s inevitable collapse. Why is it that a man who has amassed billions of dollars, backs some of the most influential companies on Earth and has close ties to Donald Trump’s White House should be preoccupied by something as bleak as apocalyptic doomerism?   

Thiel is particularly fond of an obscure investment publication titled: 'The Sovereign Individual' by Lord William Rees-Mogg (father of Jacob) that describes the coming end of the established world order and why that’s not necessarily a bad thing.  

Its basic argument goes like this: in the new Information Age assets and labor will move online, beyond the reach of nation states. This digital economy will make it difficult for governments to collect taxes, leaving state infrastructure to degrade. As nation states become less powerful, wars will cease but local unrest will increase. A new “cognitive elite” will rise — able to pick and choose where they live. These sovereign individuals will “compete and interact on terms that echo the relations among the gods in Greek myth”. The rest of us will be left behind to scrap over the crumbs, becoming jingoistic and “unpleasant”.   

No prizes for guessing who regard themselves as the Olympian elite. If you — like many in the tech sector — want zero state interference, then there is something deeply appealing about the book’s view that a global cyber economy without politics is the next turning point in history. Collapse will bring about transformation.  

Knock! Knock! There's no exit value except through some government-ordered fiat money. The exit is back to a state of nature that humankind put a lot of effort into evolving away from, not towards. Only a government mediated rule of law can guarantee that exchanges can be effected. What worth is a pile of crypto if there is no wheat in the marketplace? (See Gaza to watch how exchange works in the absence of fiat money and government mediation. See Gaza to see how foreign policy works when created, supported, and sustained by American billionaires!)

The brilliance of tech ascendance is not human, but structural. Zero marginal costs, powerful network effects, and steep learning curve efficiencies converge to form supernova effects. The guys holding the stock certificates are more fortuitous bystanders than first-mover geniuses and creators. They also can't exit. There's no intrinsic value beyond what the certificates can be exchanged into. And exchange is a monopoly of some organized power in a society of humans.  Order is the critical ingredient that riches cannot buy (although it endlessly tries to subvert it). Thomas Hobbes' The Leviathan will outlast them all. When it comes to post-government nirvana, there is no there there.; 16/9/25, 9:36 pm
Dr Weevil ने कहा…: Prof. Drout:
Trolling goes back to the 90s, by which I mean the years from 90 to 100 AD. The Roman poet Martial wrote short witty epigrams, and in a couple he mentions people who are so desperate to be mentioned in his poems that they're hoping he'll abuse them verbally - in a poetic way, of course. He refuses to oblige, and abuses them without naming them. One he tells "If you want a poem written about you, don't ask me, go ask the guy who scrawls verses with chalk or charcoal on toilet walls for people to read while shitting". Or in modern terms, ask the guy who wrote the classic "Here I sit, broken hearted".; 16/9/25, 9:38 pm
Peachy ने कहा…: KAK - why are you obsessed with hearsay and BS?; 16/9/25, 9:42 pm
Jaq ने कहा…: You can call him a liar, I am just reporting what he said, but he said that Macron privately told him a couple years ago that NATO provoked the Ukraine war. He has said in the past that some European leader told him that, but had never revealed the name until recently, he let it slip.

I get it though. Everybody who doubts Ukraine's version of events is a "paid liar" or a "filthy liar." Believe it or not, I got banned from a blog I really miss for going after Putin after 2014, this is before I started following Ukraine, which I took an interest in when they boldly interfered on behalf of Hillary in 2016 by lying about Trump's campaign manager, and getting those lies printed in the New York Times in August ("Black Ledger) prior to the election, and then when they were involved in the impeachment.

Steve McIntyre did a lot of great work analyzing the presence of Ukrainian politicians in Joe Biden's White House offices through the visitor logs, you know who else was in these meetings? "The Whistleblower."

They always accuse the other side of what they are doing, therefore Trump was accused of being helped by the Russians, when actually, and the proof is on the front page of the New York Times, it was Hillary and Ukraine interfering.

Just for fun <- Don't click on it if you don't want to see the way the press coverage of Ukraine changed after the crisis.; 16/9/25, 9:43 pm
Jaq ने कहा…: BTW, after Steve's diligent work on the visitors to Biden's offices as VP, Biden spent 25% of his time in Delaware, and kept no visitor logs. Nothing to worry about there!; 16/9/25, 9:45 pm
Peachy ने कहा…: |Dems suddenly don't want to talk about unhinged political rhetoric after a conservative was ASSASSINATED by a killer using language they have been using for YEARS!

The gaslighting on the killer’s motive is insane."

-Scott Jennings; 16/9/25, 9:48 pm
Peachy ने कहा…: The University of Wisconsin Professor gets it exactly right.

Click on the type face insert to see larger; 16/9/25, 10:00 pm
Original Mike ने कहा…: It's Pythagorus Day: 9/16/25.; 16/9/25, 10:04 pm
Dr Weevil ने कहा…: इस टिप्पणी को लेखक द्वारा हटा दिया गया है.; 16/9/25, 10:06 pm
Narr ने कहा…: Thanks heyboom. I'll give her the link you offer. I don't know what she was citing and just thought it sounded weird.

Of course she is fully capable of garbling what she reads.; 16/9/25, 10:07 pm
Dr Weevil ने कहा…: Ah! "Macron privately told him"! Sure he did. Just like all the things Charlie Kirk privately told Candace Owens and other anti-Semites that they never mentioned until he was conveniently unable to refute them.

Interesting that you keep saying Ukraine did this and Ukraine did that, not the previous government of Ukraine, which the people of Ukraine voted out by a huge margin in favor of Zelenskyy. Why do you blame Zelenskyy for what Poroshenko did? Do you blame Trump for what Biden and Obama did? That would be stooooopid.; 16/9/25, 10:07 pm
Jim at ने कहा…: The gaslighting on the killer’s motive is insane.

The reason the left is focusing on the motive - or lack thereof, in their case - is to take away from their reaction to his death.

That is the story that has legs.

After Mr. Kirk's service - and people start to move on - the motive and subsequent legal process will slowly turn.

What won't change is the left's initial reaction to his murder. Because it's out there. Preserved forever.

Don't get distracted. Beat them over the head with it from now until the end of time. Make them own it.

They celebrated his murder. Motive has nothing to do with it.; 16/9/25, 10:08 pm
Achilles ने कहा…: One of those interesting knock on effects is that millions of generally non-political and new to online media people have heard about the assassination and they have started watching videos of Charlie Kirk.

Charlie Kirk was a very nice person and decent to the core. He was always extremely polite.

Non-political people are upset by the current situation because there is going to be immense pressure to pick a side.

All of these non-political people are watching videos of Charlie and their thought is "Why did the leftists think they had to kill him?"

This is going to be over relatively quickly. It may be enough to throw a few thousand of them in jail and to defund the University system.; 16/9/25, 10:10 pm
Howard ने कहा…: Don't worry, Achilles. The libtard terrorists hiding under your bed are just a conglomeration of dust bunnies. Lampooning of Peter Thiel's lecture series on the antichrist at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco was hilarious on the recent Joe Rogan podcast with guest Tim Dillon. They seemed more concerned about threats from a Chupacabre than the vast left wing confederate army.; 16/9/25, 10:18 pm
effinayright ने कहा…: Prof. M. Drout said...
I have trouble believing that even a troll commenter like Chuck would have so little self-respect that he could come back here after this dramatic flounce-away he did. But who can really comprehend the shriveled psyches of comment trolls?
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IIRC it wasn't just a dramatic flounce-away, it was a Miss Piggy-level flounce-away.; 16/9/25, 10:44 pm
Big Mike ने कहा…: इस टिप्पणी को लेखक द्वारा हटा दिया गया है.; 16/9/25, 10:45 pm
Yancey Ward ने कहा…: I doubt we will see Chuck again. Having his identity outed scared him away or his liver finally reached the level of being 100% gin after Trump won last year.; 16/9/25, 10:52 pm
gadfly ने कहा…: Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches

Steve Witkoff, who, with the Trump Family, co-founded World Liberty Financial, a cryptocurrency concern, facilitated the crypto deal. Witkoff is also Trump's Middle East envoy. And would have been involved in ensuring the Emirates' access to the A.I. chips.

Mr. Witkoff sat down with a member of the ultrarich ruling family of the United Arab Emirates. He was meeting Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who controls $1.5 trillion of the Emiratis' sovereign wealth. Over the past few months, Mr. Witkoff and Sheikh Tahnoon had become both diplomatic allies and business partners, testing the limits of ethics rules while enriching the president, his family and his inner circle, according to an investigation by The New York Times.

In May, Mr. Witkoff's son Zach announced the first of the deals at a conference in Dubai. One of Sheikh Tahnoon's investment firms would deposit $2 billion into World Liberty Financial, a cryptocurrency start-up founded by the Witkoffs and Trumps.

Two weeks later, the White House agreed to allow the U.A.E. access to hundreds of thousands of the world's most advanced and scarce computer chips, a crucial tool in the high-stakes race to dominate artificial intelligence. Many of the chips would go to G42, a sprawling technology firm controlled by Sheikh Tahnoon, despite national security concerns that the chips could be shared with China. Of course, China. It takes a MAGA to believe that Trump would put America first.; 16/9/25, 10:56 pm
Big Mike ने कहा…: It's Pythagorus Day: 9/16/25.

That’s pretty square of you. To me the most recent Pythagoras Day was 7/24/25. The previous one was a dozen years ago on 5/12/13.; 16/9/25, 10:57 pm
buwaya ने कहा…: Thiel is, like so many brilliant men (and he is brilliant), quite eccentric. Mike Judge included a slightly disguised Thiel in the first season of "Silicon Valley". Definitely worth a watch is you have any interest in Silicon Valley and its history.
About the antichrist, I have no clue whether Thiel has anything or not. It is easy to believe there is some greater forces at play in the world. I believe in Satan, I am very unsure about the antichrist, lets put it that way.; 16/9/25, 11:19 pm
Rt41Rebel ने कहा…: For anyone questioning the “hate speech” and “cancel culture” controversy in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, I submit this: Saul Alinsky’s 4th rule for radicals:

Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.; 16/9/25, 11:38 pm
buwaya ने कहा…: https://nypost.com/2025/09/15/world-news/russia-losing-war-on-ukraine-joint-staff-chairman-envoy-tell-trump/

Kellogg and Joint Chiefs tell Trump Russia is losing.; 16/9/25, 11:48 pm
buwaya ने कहा…: Special Presidential Envoy Keith Kellogg on Monday said he and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff recently advised President Trump that Russia is losing its war on Ukraine — as Moscow has seen more than 1 million casualties while taking less than 1% of Ukrainian territory since November 2022.

Speaking at the Yalta European Security Conference in Kyiv, Kellogg revealed he and the chairman, Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, each reassured the president of Moscow’s wilting position roughly six weeks ago — shortly before Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska.

“If Putin thinks Russia is winning, his definition of winning and my definition of winning are absolutely two different things,” Kellogg said. “If he was winning, he’d be in Kyiv. If he’s winning, he’d be west of the Dnipro River. If he was winning, he’d be on Odessa. If he was winning, he would have changed the government.; 16/9/25, 11:50 pm
le Douanier ने कहा…: Original M,

I think ya gots it wrong. You missed your shot on July 24 this year.

Math is tricky.; 17/9/25, 12:11 am
le Douanier ने कहा…: I now see that Big M got there before me re Orig M.

We now know which Mike is better at math.; 17/9/25, 12:15 am
Eva Marie ने कहा…: People are leaving the Democratic Party in huge numbers. Brian Straka is reporting huge gains in members. We’ll see how this affects the midterms.; 17/9/25, 12:55 am
Eva Marie ने कहा…: Brandon not Brian!; 17/9/25, 1:18 am
Jamie ने कहा…: Even Rush Limbaugh used to call college students "young skulls full of mush." They were obviously impressionable, but unpersuadable (by conservatives) - they'd been fully captured by their teachers going back to kindergarten.

Then along came Charlie Kirk. And he didn't talk down to them, he didn't indoctrinate via emotion, he didn't use social opprobrium to try to compel their agreement (he couldn't; all the social opprobrium was on the other side), he didn't appeal to authority or insult his opponents as a rhetorical device (or at all), he didn't employ conversation-stoppers. He just shared ideas and debated arguments, and on every campus, some students came away thinking.; 17/9/25, 1:40 am
buwaya ने कहा…: Kirk's debate thing was key. Everyone loves a contest (or young men especially). That was far more interesting than a lecture. I don't know if he started it, he might have, but others do it now.; 17/9/25, 2:10 am
heyboom ने कहा…: Narr, no worries. Much respect to your wife, as well. I totally understand how that happens. Lord knows I do the same thing at times.; 17/9/25, 2:15 am
Gerda Sprinchorn ने कहा…: @Jaq

Who are you talking about that might be Chuck?

Thanks for the info about paid influencers. I would like to see examples of such sponsored content. We know they exist, but I wonder how widespread they are and how to identify them.

Interesting strategy to use paid influencers as mouthpieces. It is important that they appear to be just ordinary people posting their own thoughts. Their impact would be diminished if they were revealed to be part of a paid machine. The paid influencer strategy allows them to post in the first person and to talk about their friends and family, which would be deceptive if they were actually a team of employees.

I have been assuming Kak is one of those because of the mechanical production of neat talking points that seem to try to stay just this side of slander I find Kak useful, though, because his/her/its posts seem to be a weathervane of the latest strategic positioning from that corner of the discourse.

Do you have any other info with more specifics?; 17/9/25, 2:23 am
Gerda Sprinchorn ने कहा…: Excerpts from the Wired article Jaq linked to:

"The goal of Chorus, according to a fundraising deck obtained by WIRED, is to “build new infrastructure to fund independent progressive voices online at scale.” The creators who joined the incubator are expected to attend regular advocacy trainings and daily messaging check-ins. Those messaging check-ins are led by Cohen on “rapid response days.” The creators also have to attend at least two Chorus “newsroom” events per month, which are events Chorus plans, often with lawmakers."

and:

"According to copies of the contract viewed by WIRED that creators signed, the influencers are not allowed to disclose their relationship with Chorus or The Sixteen Thirty Fund—or functionally, that they’re being paid at all."; 17/9/25, 2:37 am
MadTownGuy ने कहा…: Mirabile dictu, ¡No Pasarán! Is back!; 17/9/25, 3:20 am
Maynard ने कहा…: Good Lord! The Pythagorean math nerds are out tonight.

I started college as a Math major, but found that the best looking girls were majoring in Psychology.

Of course, it wasn't until later that I found out that neurotic college girls usually turn out to be crazy cat ladies. It goes without saying what their political affiliations are.; 17/9/25, 4:22 am
wendybar ने कहा…: Lefties are training their young kids from birth to hate. Get a load of this unfit mother, laughing at her kids excited that Trump, Vance or Elon got killed. Cute isn't it?? This is what we are up against. How do you fight hate ingrained in children's brains at birth??

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15103917/Children-ask-mom-Donald-Trump-JD-Vance-died.html; 17/9/25, 4:38 am
J Severs ने कहा…: Beautiful pictures, but sorry to be picky. The moon is in its last phase when seen like this in the morning.; 17/9/25, 5:10 am
Mike (MJB Wolf) ने कहा…: I like the textures and the moon in number one.; 17/9/25, 5:17 am
Mary Beth ने कहा…: Bari Weiss’s ersatz college, the University of Austin.

"Erzatz" in what way?; 17/9/25, 5:45 am
rhhardin ने कहा…: Ji-Hyang Gwak Pianists come in various sizes.; 17/9/25, 6:30 am
rhhardin ने कहा…: Medium-sized page-turner.; 17/9/25, 7:10 am
mongo ने कहा…: Wendybar said in re Trump et. al., "How do you fight hate ingrained in children's brains at birth??"
Wendy, you have just described the problem with Hamas, the PLO, Hezbollah and all such organizations.; 17/9/25, 7:45 am
Ronald J. Ward ने कहा…: So, uh, Trump clearly states that smart people don’t like him and the MAGA crowd cheers and says they like him.

?; 17/9/25, 7:51 am
boatbuilder ने कहा…: buwaya--We've been assured that Russia is losing the war for a very long time now. Putin seems to have a different definition of "losing."
What is the end game?; 17/9/25, 8:02 am
Yancey Ward ने कहा…: That is the difference between a Pythagorus Day and the Pythagorus Day, Le Douchebag.; 17/9/25, 9:07 am
Yancey Ward ने कहा…: No, Ronald. It is people who think they are smart that don't like Trump. He was tweeking your nose, dumbass.; 17/9/25, 9:11 am
Lazarus ने कहा…: "Doomerism" of one sort or another is common among billionaires. Zuckerberg builds his island hideaway. Ellison buys up 98% of another island. Gates always has some utopian or dystopian future in mind. Pessimism about the future isn't unwarranted or confined to billionaires. The rest of us just don't have the resources to plan for it.; 17/9/25, 9:12 am
Dr Weevil ने कहा…: Lazarus:
Maybe not so surprising. If you think you're the center of the world, and proud of having 10,000 times more money and other possessions than the average guy, it must really gnaw at your soul that you're not going to live 10,000 times longer, or even twice as long. Your vast wealth may enable you to live 10% longer, but that's it. You're still very unlikely to make it to 100. Convincing yourself that the world will end along with you may be some kind of perverse comfort - for a totally self-centered atheist, that is.; 17/9/25, 10:11 am
Achilles ने कहा…: buwaya said...
Special Presidential Envoy Keith Kellogg on Monday said he and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff recently advised President Trump that Russia is losing its war on Ukraine — as Moscow has seen more than 1 million casualties while taking less than 1% of Ukrainian territory since November 2022.

My best guess is that Kellog is a Chinese agent who wants the US to fight Russia.

Ukraine is on the verge of collapse. Europe is on the verge of collapse.

The United States is not far behind.

People think the future is some minor variation of the present. This is a product of limited intelligence.

The US if it follows historical patterns is likely to fall in the next few decades. There are historical debt patterns and societal divisions that we are following exactly and every single empire over 5000 years who followed these patterns fell not far past the points we currently find ourselves in.

Europe is already finished.; 17/9/25, 10:17 am
Jaq ने कहा…: Real figures on casualties are bouncing around, and they are nothing like the figures coming out of Ukraine's propaganda mills, laundered through British Intelligence with a wink, and then taken seriously be everybody.

And the scuttlebutt being hinted at is that Kursk was an utter disaster, that took as many Ukrainian lives as the battle for Bakhmut, for nothing, and the the counter offensive, while successful, was also devastating in terms of Ukrainian losses, as the Russians set up fire target zones as they retreated, and then the Ukrainians ran into the Russia defensive lines and were just slaughtered there.

Basically the Ukrainians have taken the casualties that Kellogg is claiming that the Russians have taken, and this is BAU for propagandist.

Maybe I am wrong, but just because Ukraine shows a lot of snuff video of Russians dying by drone, they don't add up, in the larger scheme of things, to massive casualties, even if they create a sense of it.

My guess is that the real casualties are going to leak soon, and they are going to match up with that supposed leak from Ukrainian headquarters, and Ukrainian casualties are actually horrific.

But time will tell.; 17/9/25, 12:02 pm
Jaq ने कहा…: "It is important that they appear to be just ordinary people posting their own thoughts." They can't do it though. It's just not possible, because they can't be honest about their goals.

Dr Weevil, a commenter that I like, BTW, even if we get into it all the time, I think that he is honestly presenting his own opinions, did a pretty good takedown of Dinky Dau, whom he caught cutting and pasting his comments from some source.; 17/9/25, 12:07 pm
narciso ने कहा…: it was a real fustercluck, the leaked document by teixeira show more of this, and the solution probably cannot be solved on the battlefield with contraktiki, like the ones prigozhin used to supply, nor the Ukrainian conscripts either,; 17/9/25, 12:11 pm
Dr Weevil ने कहा…: Who's winning in Ukraine? Here's a senior Russian propagandist, Maksim Kalashnikov (link):

"Russian Z-propagandist Maksim Kalashnikov publicly admits that Putin’s so-called 'liberation' army has brought nothing but destruction to the residents of Donbas and other occupied territories of Ukraine.

"'We came to "liberate" Russian regions, but we’ve turned them into ruins. It turns out we’ve punished the most Russian, most developed regions of Novorossiya.

"Unfortunately, yes, we’ll have to say goodbye to Ukraine - to the dream of reunification. Well, not say goodbye, but bid it farewell for a very, very long time. The chance was missed in 2014,' he says."

Don't believe the written summary or the subtitles, which have a lot more interesting stuff, because they were provided by a Ukrainian? Find a Russian speaker and have your own transcription made.

Note: I believe this Kalashnikov is a grandson of the famous gun-designer.; 17/9/25, 3:14 pm
Dr Weevil ने कहा…: And here's another subtitled video from 2019 in which one of the Russians who led the supposed rebellion in Donbass says (link):

"We had expected that 20 % of the local male population would join the militia to fight against the Ukrainian army. In the end, it was only half a percent. And who were they? Homeless people, drunks, unemployed people."

There's lots more in the video, in less than 2 minutes (the Kalashnikov video is less then 3). In short, anyone who thinks the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a "civil war" is just demonstrating total ignorance of actual events.; 17/9/25, 3:21 pm
Josephbleau ने कहा…: I could be wrong but I think that is Venus not the moon, 27 deg east of the sun and 12 deg above the horizon at sunrise. The moon would have been higher at 20 degrees above the horizon and 35 degrees east so a pic with the sunrise and moon should have also shown Venus which is very bright now.; 17/9/25, 6:44 pm
Jersey Fled ने कहा…: Left is really melting down over this Jimmy Kimmel thing.

I didn’t know we were all entitled to our own well paid national tv gig to share our thoughts. Not even Ann.; 18/9/25, 7:59 am

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