Not wanting to drive the car to our vantage point, we set out on foot. It was quite the trudge — a mile out and a mile back — mostly through 9 inches snow on uncleared pathways. Write about whatever you want in the comments.
Nobyembre 30, 2025
Sunrise — after the big snow — at 6:37, 6:38, 6:40, 7:00.
Not wanting to drive the car to our vantage point, we set out on foot. It was quite the trudge — a mile out and a mile back — mostly through 9 inches snow on uncleared pathways. 
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I spy with my little eye: Little Foot lurking in leisure.
Those first three photographs are really awesome.
So an ad came on the TV for Marvel video games, and the pitch was to escape from "late capitalism" to their fantasy world.
Compare to Trump rallies
"Young man, there's no need to feel down.
I said, young man, pick yourself off the ground...."
Joe Biden and George W Bush pushed through the "bankruptcy reform" that made student loans non dischargeable. What did Joe get? His son Hunter, at 26, a hopeless coke head, appointed a $90K gig on the board of Amtrak, and who knows how much Hunter was paid as a 26 year old "vice president" at a bank, and what he did for it, other than pass requests to his dad.
We also know from the laptop that Joe took half of everything the kids made from this graft. So if you have given up hope because you will never be able to pay for your degree that didn't get you the job you hoped, you can thank the Democrats and Republicans who were at Cheney's funeral.
Watch out where the huskies go
Don’t you eat that yellow snow!
George W Bush appointed Joe's son to Amtrak at the time Biden was "ramrodding" the bankruptcy "reform" through the Senate.
These pictures are better than the ones taken on nice mornings. My hat is off to you!
As concerned with corruption as we are, how do we feel about Trump pardoning criminals in exchange for crypto?
I mean, pretty clear cut and criminal, right?
6:40-- wow.
TeaBagHag said...
As concerned with corruption as we are, how do we feel about Trump pardoning criminals in exchange for crypto?
I mean, pretty clear cut and criminal, right?
Whatever you want to tell yourself.
You have to have a vivid imagination when your party is importing foreign soldiers to kill Americans and you want to justify killing people who disagree with you.
If the Biden administration hadn't kicked Trump out of the banking system there would be no Trump crypto billionaire. Joey B actually thought he could ruin a real estate billionaire with bankruptcy, jail, shot in the noggin. Tough luck I guess.
These photos are very good.
5183 could be a great painting
The first is great but the third is outstanding!
I've been doing some legal writing lately. It is always time consuming to do it and get everything correct. I've always been amazed at how Ann can quickly write so many technical and complicated posts and make no spelling or other mistakes.
drive the car to our vantage point
You can drive there? I thought you always walked/ran. Yeah, snow makes a difference. Nine inches of new snow is a lot to walk through. Folks here would use snowshoes or skis. I just wait until the trail is broken by the young ones and walk with spikes on my shoes and trekking poles.
"As concerned with corruption as we are, how do we feel about Trump pardoning criminals in exchange for crypto?"
Baseless conspiracy theory.
" mean, pretty clear cut and criminal, right?"
Big... if true.🫠
Sounds to me like the Democrats know that Biden took a shit-ton of crypto for those ten thousand pardons.
Fix the italics.
https://x.com/MassDailyNews/status/1995182213604814958
Biden ‘s White House was getting crypto for autopen pardons? Wow. That would explain a lot of things. Then, the family is given blanket pardons too?
I keep reading that illegals pay taxes. How does this work? Do they just up and send checks to the IRS? Does the IRS just cash those checks? Whose accounts get credited? Can my account get credited?
If the theory is that they get taxes withheld, how does THAT work? Are employers allowed to just withhold money from employees without identifying those employees to the IRS?
If people overstay their visa and have a green card.
We had one woman apply with an ss card. When we filed the I-9, it was rejected. She applied at a fast food franchise and got a job. And works there still as far as I know.
Once someone gets a social security number, they can get a job. And get a paycheck and pay taxes. And file an IRS return. In fact, large number of illegals get an Earned income credit, which means they get more money back from the Government then they pay in taxes.
All you need is a social security number in most places with illegals. They know the person is here illegally but they are forbidden by state law (usually blue state) to check for citizenship - or they just don't care.
Same with voting or getting a Driver liscense. If you say you are a citizen, no one checks. Some states don't even ask.
Illegal aliens pay sales tax.
If they have an EIN, I imagine they pay income taxes.
This really is a murky topic. Maybe the NYT can investigate.
But the documents are false so its not 'indocumented'
Prof. M. Drout said...
I keep reading that illegals pay taxes. How does this work?
Most likely stolen identities. NYT had a story on this about a week ago. (Archive link, no pay wall). Taxes get withdrawn on the stolen SSN. And even though the US citizen who the SSN was issued to has to deal with the fall out, the real victim is the illegal who stole his id! (Or so the NYT tells us!)
Other than those specific cases they're not paying any more taxes other than sales and use taxes on things they buy, just like you'd pay taxes in your neighboring state if you took a short trip to it and got a hotel room, bought dinner and gassed up you car.
And the Times did the equivalence between the id thief and the victim
" the real victim is the illegal who stole his id!"
The solution for the victim here is to surrender the stolen id and go home.
Right?
Now hold on! I was informed by very authoritative authorities that not only do illegals pay taxes in while selflessly taking no money out of the system, but that the vast majority of them aren't criminals (I mean, except for entering or staying in the country illegally). But now you're telling me that in order to pay those taxes, they've committed identity theft!
Well, I don't want to be judgmental. After all, who among us HASN'T snuck over an international border and committed identity theft, right?
But now I'm more confused. I was told that illegals were selflessly paying taxes into the system without taking any benefits out of it. But if they're using stolen social security numbers to pay their taxes, couldn't they use those same stolen social security numbers to collect benefits, or at least to get their withholding back?
Amazing. They pay taxes but get no benefits even when it would be just as easy to collect as it was to pay. What heroes!!
Mason G said...
The solution for the victim here is to surrender the stolen id and go home.
Not as far as the NYT is concerned. Of course, they never get to that part of it, they're enjoying a good, old hand wring over the illegal too much to go there.
https://x.com/C__Herridge/status/1995277990515642610
Whatever your position on the underlying issue, at least the guy wasn't a hypocrite:
Dignitas founder ends his life at one of his clinics
The founder of the Dignitas assisted dying clinics has died aged 92.
Human rights lawyer Ludwig Minelli had ‘chosen to end his life’ at one of his own clinics on November 29, just days before his birthday, the not-for-profit Swiss clinic announced.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/dignitas-founder-ends-his-life-at-one-of-his-clinics/ar-AA1RqXY3?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=b3029c9c073c4ff7b1c0a8d0382e7791&ei=35
CC, JSM
Spent the last few day helping our oldest (24) relocate for a new job. Got to visit Buc-ee’s in two states and a thanksgiving day meal/celebration at Cracker Barrel. One with the original decor and not the newly remodeled. Haven’t been to one recently but this Cracker Barrel served wine and beer. So that helped. Got to see parts of eastern TN and western NC we’d not seen before. Home tomorrow hopefully.
“ Dignitas founder ends his life at one of his clinics”.
Employee discount?
"Employee discount?"
Airline miles.
Illegals are net tax receivers.
At best - they pay piddle in a sales tax if they happen to buy anything with OUR money
Did you hear about the assisted dying clinic that merged with a bordello?
Sign outside says: "COME AND GO AT THE SAME TIME!"
CC, JSM
glorious wintery seasonal snowiness
Epstein and affordability have driven Trump’s approval ratings down. Can the illegal murder of Venezuelans push them back up?
Also -- the best way to crackdown on drug trafficking in the US? Pardon a notorious Honduran drug trafficker.
Trump has effectively locked down the southern border, which, it seems to me, is a major and necessary first step to stop drug smuggling. I suspect that is a reason why there is a major difference in the "street life" I observed in San Francisco this October.
https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/internacional/maduro-aparece-em-evento-na-venezuela-e-poe-fim-a-rumores-de-fuga/
Maduro appeared at a cafe awards function in a Caracas suburb, so he hasnt fled.
If you remember, Elon Musk's Doge team found the SSA was not cleaning up its rolls and had millions of people (some over 100) as active members of the Social security system.
IOW, you had large numbers of social security numbers floating around ready to used by illegals. You also have NGO's who not only help illegals cross the border - they make sure they have the right paperwork.
And if I'm not mistaken, if you come here on a visa, and work you get a SS number. And if you then overstay your visa, you're still in the system.
You need the right kind of visa to get a "working" SS number. You can get an SS number, I think, if you have investment/bank accounts paying dividends or interest.
If you have an AGI of 40K, and have one child, you get an earned tax credit of about $1500. As a result you will pay about 700 dollars in income tax. Or about 2 percent.
"Epstein and affordability..."
Really? Are you kidding me? You might just as well start your post with "Here Are Today's Democrat Talking Points".
How fucking lame. Be better.
https://www.sciencealert.com/chernobyl-fungus-appears-to-have-evolved-an-incredible-ability
A curious fungus found at Chernobyl (where else) that can apparently convert ionizing radiation into energy. Much like chlorophyll turns visible light/UV into energy.
buwaya said...
You need the right kind of visa to get a "working" SS number. You can get an SS number, I think, if you have investment/bank accounts paying dividends or interest.
I believe it's a TIN or Taxpayer Id Number. SSNs are US Citizens only.
According to AI, non-citizens with work authorization get a SSN:
-Lawful Permanent Residents (green card holders).
-Asylees and refugees.
-Individuals with temporary work-authorized statuses (e.g., H-1B, J-1 exchange visitors, F-1/M-1 students with specific work authorization).
-Recipients of deferred action (such as DACA).
-Individuals with Temporary Protected Status (TPS).
-Those with an Employment Authorization Document (EAD or work permit, Form I-766).
For non-citizens who are not eligible for an SSN but have a U.S. tax filing requirement, the IRS issues an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN). An ITIN is for tax purposes only and does not grant work authorization or eligibility for Social Security benefits.
It was worth it. These are fantastic. Thank you, and Meade.
Wow
"SSNs are US Citizens only."
My dad was born in Canada and came to the US with his family when he was a teenager. He never became a citizen, but he did have a SSN. It was in his wallet when he died, I still have it.
Mason G said...
"The solution for the [illegal] here is to surrender the stolen id and go home.
Right?”
The illegal also owes the real guy thousands of dollars for the inconvenience he caused by “borrowing” (as the NYT put it) the real guy’s ID.
"The illegal also owes the real guy thousands of dollars for the inconvenience he caused by “borrowing” (as the NYT put it) the real guy’s ID."
Well yeah- assuming the real guy isn't dead. In that case, it would be hard to repay the debt but on the plus side, the dead guy still gets to vote (D).
I would have looked outside my frosty window at that big pile of snow, pulled up my duvet, and settled in for a cozy morning.
Reddit: This picture of Mars was taken today. 225 million miles away from Althouse, and Meade.
Message to Sen Mark Kelly: USMC Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer gives his thoughts on the democrats divisive political stunt.
SSNs are US Citizens only.
LOL - its only for US citizens if the person obeys the law. And if numerous other legal ways aren't used. Evidently large numbers are using SNAP - isn't that for US citizens only?
"I would have looked outside my frosty window at that big pile of snow, pulled up my duvet, and settled in for a cozy morning."
You don't have a wife who expects her driveway to be shoveled.
If people are here illegally, that means they’ve broken one law already. So obviously they aren’t taking our laws very seriously. “You can’t stop at just one.”
Mason G said: "Really? Are you kidding me? You might just as well start your post with "Here Are Today's Democrat Talking Points.
How fucking lame. Be better."
Truly the most obviously scripted (and yet still bad) talking-point slop. Not the slightest effort to customize. It is a mystery to me why people turn themselves into parrots--it seems both boring and self-humiliating.
...though maybe that's the kink . . .
"its only for US citizens if the person obeys the law."
Sigh. Once again, non-citizens with work authorization (green card, H1B, etc.) get a SSN. We want them paying taxes, including SS taxes, right?
Another earnest violence interrupter on the government payroll...
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/11/peacekeeper-robbed-man-threatened-cops-plotted-victim-intimidation-from-police-station-prosecutors.html
#3
DOGE found 12.5 million people who were 120 or older listed on the Social Security rolls as alive with valid SS numbers. By August they had removed all those people. So if anyone was using those numbers, that scam is over. DOGE also closed down the scammers who were under 12 and getting Small Business loans. At present everyone is being required to sign up again for SNAP and WIC which will end scams in those programs estimated at half a billion dollars. Ultimately all these reforms will make HHS programs affordable so that they can continue for those who really need them.
One real reform which some of these tech geniuses should look into is allowing families to reunite without losing money. At present if parents separate they sign up in various programs to survive and then find it hard to reconcile because it's so difficult to see what the financial consequences would be. Moreover, the whole system is slanted against the family. They need a clear calculator showing what will happen. And the system needs to be reformed so that the consequence of family reunion is not a dive into poverty. I know the Socialists will never do it but I think those guys at DOGE could do something.
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