Those are Meade's crunchy snow steps. I was struggling with my iPhone which was acting like a camera with the lens cap on. I thought I could just point and shoot as if I could see what I was doing, but I couldn't.
Here's another Meade video, the western view at 7:26 a.m.
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@Meade, are those geese or ducks or loons or what? I understand that there are a lot of loons in Madison, a few of them sit feathers and swim in the lakes.
The crunchy snow steps looked treacherously icy.
Here's Tina Brown, formerly of Vanity Fair and New Yorker, on her long acquaintance with the late Tom Stoppard. I think it's a worthwhile read:
https://tinabrown.substack.com/p/why-tom-stoppard-was-the-real-thing
There were so many Canada geese refueling on the fairway out back that they almost cleared a path. Feeding in the snow!
https://scitechdaily.com/new-heart-patch-shows-stunning-healing-power-after-a-heart-attack/
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2025/12/01/oops-russia-has-a-teensy-little-rocket-problem-n4946583
More in the odds and ends department
Look more like loons
You know what Instapundit reminds me of? That guy in the induction center in the Alice's Restaurant story who was yelling "Kill! Kill! Kill!"
Read too much of that website without balancing it out, it will infect your thinking.
A lot of the guys writing there remind me too of that guy in 1984 who would repeat the propaganda from the tell-screen to make small talk with friends. Of course his kids turned him in for thought crime, anyway.
Telescreens are everywhere else
The symes are much like familiar characters here
Strategy Reveals $1.44 Billion Reserve Amid Bitcoin Selloff ~ Market Watch
'Shares slide as group warns of loss of up to $5.5bn if digital asset prices do not rebound'
So Michael Saylor's official strategy is unabashedly a literal pyramid scheme, and that is before it comes crashing down. Nice.
I thought digital currencies were supposed to be the hedge against the dollar, not the other way around. Before all is said and done, these geniuses are going to reintroduce us to fiat currency, backed by state power.
The one silver lining is that the crypto industry may have fewer financial resources in 2026 to use manipulating US elections.
Landman continues with the theme of underworld vs overworld that it explored in season one and then dropped
Syme discovered in the end no one is indespensible to big brother like zinoviev for instance
Orwell obviously recognized these types in the bbc world service which resembled the ministry of truth
See how many ridiculous things people can believe at once
Remember Emily Oster's "Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty" from OCT 2022? It's making it's rounds today on X, all with a "Hell No!" or similar tagline. Might have something to do with the new news (new to some) that the vaccine really did kill more then it saved in younger age groups.
Original article link: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/covid-response-forgiveness/671879/
Billions upon billions of dollars may need to be refunded, what a mess Trump has made. One mess after another.
“NEW YORK, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Costco has sued the U.S. government to ensure it will receive refunds if the Supreme Court rejects President Donald Trump's bid for sweeping authority to impose tariffs.
Based in Issaquah, Washington, Costco joined dozens of companies suing to safeguard potential refunds. It is also among the largest, with $275.2 billion of revenue in its fiscal year ending August 31.k
Other companies that have sued to preserve refunds include Bumble Bee Foods, Ray-Ban eyeglass maker EssilorLuxottica, Kawasaki Motors, Revlon and Yokohama Tire, court records show.”
https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2025-12-01/costco-sues-us-to-preserve-tariff-refunds-if-trump-loses-appeal
They really have some nerve
No hard feelings over this psychotic social experiment
A rational immigration policy -
https://english.elpais.com/spain/2025-12-01/over-a-million-descendants-of-spaniards-have-applied-for-citizenship-overwhelming-consulates.html
Most are "white" citizens of Argentina, Uruguay, etc. Few of these applicants themselves (as so many are aged) are likely to move to Spain, but their children and grandchildren, who can now themselves apply for citizenship, will go a long way to help the demographic situation.
That was, btw, the Spanish "deep state" doing jiu jitsu on the Socialist Spanish government. A "deep state" is not always a bad thing.
Those aren't loons. Ducks.
If they are not loons, could they be coots?
That was supposed to be humorous, but I am not sure it worked properly.
Buwaya: "That was, btw, the Spanish "deep state" doing jiu jitsu on the Socialist Spanish government. A "deep state" is not always a bad thing"
Really? Please elaborate. Is the Spanish consular corps full of Falangist burrowers? And is this policy entirely bureaucratic, or did it require change of legislation? Etc.
Genuine questions - I am fascinated by this development. CC, JSM
I was a bit surprised today when Amazon Music gave me my most listened-to songs of 2025, with a whole month of 2025 left on the books. There weren't really any surprises. A lot of them are favorites from previous years, and a number of them were the songs that I had already dropped into my Best New and New-To-Me Music playlist for 2025. I started doing my prep for my end of year countdown on Facebook, which I have also shared here in previous years. My cutoff date is December 10th, but I'm not really actively looking for anything new at this point; I already have something like 44 songs on a playlist that I will have to whittle down to a top 15 plus 5 honorable mentions. I did a preliminary 15+5 yesterday on a spreadsheet. There are still a couple of songs lurking outside that range that may demand to be included. I played the whole playlist today and felt a pang or two about a couple of songs that may be excluded. This year is going to be tougher than the last couple, because I found so much new good stuff. I plan to start the HMs on December 11th for five days, then go into the Top 15.
Several of the usual suspects assured us that tariffs were a bad idea because everyone knows that consumers pay them, not the companies. Given this, why are Costco and the others suing?
France can't do this btw, it already pulled in its overseas pool of "white" people in the 1960s, the "pieds noirs". The "pieds noirs" included Spanish immigrants to French Africa and just about every Jew, most of which were descendants of Sephardic refugees from Isabella the Catholic. De Gaulle called them all Frenchmen by courtesy, and that was that.
A British "pool" is available, should they turn rational, in South Africa. Half those people are ex-Brits.
The Spanish "deep state", or lets say the national bureaucracy, is left over from Franco's time. Its the reason why Madrid, unique among European capitals, is a conservative (PP Partido Popular) stronghold.
The initial legislation of 2022, the "Law of Democratic Memory" or rather part of it (most of it being revenge measures against Francoist symbols), calls for the return of the descendants of Republican refugees. The non-legislative implementing regulations however let in anyone with a Spanish grandparent, very few of which were Republican refugees.
The effect is going to be extremely significant demographically.
Our judicial system is not much more than a political plaything for the left now. If they had any sense they’d be incensed…
The parent’s fridge went out yesterday. Today felt third world-ey trying to navigate a service call and upon giving up on that a replacement model. After some insane horse trading maybe a new one at the end of the week. Good thing I have skills…
Not loons.
What is actually going on in the Caribbean.
There is something different about the most recent pictures. I can't quite put my finger on it, but they look very different from the previous pictures. Maybe some sort of filter has been used to change the color of the ground? Wasn't the ground much more brownish before?
Binkov on aspects of the US/Philippine situation in a defense of Taiwan.
https://youtu.be/jmYPhSORXHM?si=M_8SbGvlcKof5HBK
Not mentioned are:
- Ongoing Philippine defense buildup including significant numbers of antiship missiles.
- Japan's contributions especially very recent deployments of long range SAMs to islands north ofTaiwan, plus likely deployments to the Philippines.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3334815/beijing-bristles-japan-weighs-missile-export-philippines
There is little in conventional US media about this extremely dangerous situation. So a hand-puppet Youtuber has a lot of the subject to himself.
Added a new channel. A guy with interesting things to say.
If we are changing ourselves, we might as well talk about it.
"Several of the usual suspects assured us that tariffs were a bad idea because everyone knows that consumers pay them, not the companies. Given this, why are Costco and the others suing?"
LOL! Don't expect them to reply to this observation.
Looks like the drug cartel dealers on the BoaT - were destroyed in one swoop. No survivors.
Another leftwing lie - hoax - fake story. fraud "sources" up in smoke.
costco - much of it comes from china.
Tim Kaine(D) - says the National Guard, a female, who was murdered by someone biden let in - was a 'stunt"
what? what is wrong with democrats? They preach hate and then their side acts on it - and he calls it a stunt? Screw him.
I'll admit to being surprised that whoever is running the "opposition" in D.C. is investing so much energy into such an obviously losing argument as trying to convince Americans that blowing up drug boats is bad.
To me the question is whether the op is really about trying to protect the Venezuelan drug- and human-trafficking because it's a major source of money for politics, or whether the hyperventilating about the drug-boat smugglers is just whatever was at hand to attack the Defense Secretary.
If they just grabbed onto whatever they could seize on--rather than being desperate to protect Venezuelan drug-runners--that means that Hegseth is in the way of something they want to do with the military.
This latter is very concerning, especially given the timing of the effort at sedition--which felt very much like laying the groundwork for a CIA-style "color revolution." It makes you wonder if the attack on the National Guardsmen was part of a plan, or if it was premature "stochastic terrorism."
I'm pondering on the notion of a human conception of the World we live in. During the Crusades, numerous powerful and wealthy European Christian nobles abandoned their homes and families and devoted themselves without stint to what they saw as the Christian cause. They presumably did this believing that their actions would somehow be beneficial, even if they were themselves killed.
We find ourselves, on this darkling plain, attempting moral action. We could simply say, that it is moral to do what profits me. Or what profits God. But could it be possible for me to suppose, now, that the best use of my life is to join an invasion of the "Holy Lands", to liberate them from the Muslim invaders? Only if there already existed such an invasion, that deserved my assistance, and merely required additional adherents. Were I to attempt such an invasion on my own, unsupported, I would simply be throwing my life away. Like the idiot in DC.
But this means that what is moral is bound up with what is possible. And also, with what other people think. One cannot sit alone, in a cave, with or without a fire, and arrive at a viable conception of morality by brute contemplation. The state of the World must necessarily enter into your calculations.
On the whole, I think it would go better with a fire.
buwaya (9:53pm):
It seems to me that the Philippines could really use some anti-ship sea drones and air drones. Having a coastline far longer than Taiwan's and far more trees is a big advantage. There must be hundreds of docks in out-of-the-way inlets on rarely-visited islands where (e.g.) 'Sea Babies' could be based with enough tree cover to be invisible to snooping satellites. If rich countries provided financing, and Ukraine provided up-to-date designs, the Philippines could surely build them themselves. It would be a very cost-effective countermeasure to Chinese aggression, I think.
Consider dogs. Dogs clearly participate in morality, at least to the extent of knowing friend from foe, and understanding that they have obligations, and feeling shame when they don't live up to those obligations. Although, an evolutionary case could be made, for the idea that they merely understand the human idea of obligation well enough to present a show of shame when they are caught out violating that conception.
But what about cats? Do cats have a concept of morality? I have been pondering the fact, that most cats exist in a society of humans. Their affections, which can be quite intense, are directed towards humans. Or again, perhaps this is merely an evolved behavior -- I purr, therefore you feed me.
But if dogs feign shame, and cats feign affection ....
It occurs to me that I maybe didn't make my point clear, with the Crusader. He lived in a time when information travelled very slowly. But he likely understood his World as well as anyone around him, and based his moral judgements on that understanding, So, if those judgements were faulty, it was because it was impossible that they not be faulty, given the limitations of his knowledge.
But are we really to conclude, that our having developed the ability to broadcast grotesque lies has somehow mitigated this limitation? We are now able to see what is moral, not only for ourselves, but for that poor, benighted knight. Here, on this ultimate pinnacle of knowledge, defined as information. The moral course becomes clear, once one has digested enough ones and zeroes. And we have done that thing. Enough is enough!
13 Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?
14 Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,
15 And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.
16 She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not her's: her labour is in vain without fear;
17 Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
The nuptial habits of dogs, that’s really something!
In a village in Bresse, in 1946…(I am precise, because given that famous evolution of the species, if it speeded up… or if there was an abrupt mutation: one never knows)…
What a curious ballet! What tension!
It’s magnificent, this movement which gives rise to a specific passion. Dramatic! What beautiful circlings! With critical movements, paroxysms and long patience, motionless manic perseverance, length beatings about the bush, convolutions, chases, preening promenades.
Oh! And that music! What variety!
All those individuals reassembling, like spermatozoids, after the most improbably and ridiculous detours.
But that music!
The tracked female; cruelly importuned; and those males, seeking, snaring,serenading.
It lasts eight day… (maybe longer: I will check when it is over.)
What maniac, those dogs… How pigheaded. What sombre brutes. What big numbskulls! Gloomy. One track. What pains in the ass!
Ridiculous, their pigheadedness. Plaintiffs. An air of hearkening to the scent. Fussings, nostrils flaring. Arching their brows, schowling sadly, comically. All strained: ears, loins, calves. Growling.Plaintive. Blind and deaf to everything but their specific determination.
(Compare this to the grace and violence of cats. To the grace also of horses.)
But it wasn’t my bitch; it was that of a neighbor, Feaux the Postman; I couldn’t study her up close, observe the lady’s parts, her odor, her smears, her discharges.
I couldn’t work out whether she had begun by being provocative or whether it simply came over her (her state to start with, her importunate attentions), whether it was only a painful surprise for her and a timid complaint, with measured retreats, submittings.
In any case, what a drama! How exhausting, exasperating, absurd life,seen in this light, must have seemed to her.
And there she is, marked forever - morally as well! But she will have her lovely little puppies…. All to herself, for a while…
Then the males will leave her in peace, and what happiness with her little ones, what frolic indeed, what plenty- despite, sometimes, a lot of overcrowding between the paws and under the belly, a lot of weariness.
Finally, we haven’t slept much, during these eight days… But it doesn’t matter: you can’t enjoy everything at once, - sleep and something like a series of nighttime performances of primitive theatre.
The moon above all that (Above the passions) seemed to me also to play a leading role.
- Francis Ponge
Prof. M. Drout said...
"I'll admit to being surprised that whoever is running the "opposition" in D.C. is investing so much energy into such an obviously losing argument as trying to convince Americans that blowing up drug boats is bad."
These are the same people who fought tooth and nail to keep gangmember, criminal, wife-beater, and illegal alien Kilmar Obrega from being deported, and rioted for months on behalf of a woman-beating, career-criminal lowlife who fought cops after stealing from a convenience store. USA senators went so far as to travel to El Salvador to be photographed giving aid and comfort to that despicable scumbag illegal, and numerous Democrat Party leaders knelt down and cried for the thug thief dirtbag who died from eating illegal drugs. Democrat Party voters fully supported and praised all this repulsive behavior, and they still do to this day. Meanwhile, they cheered and celebrated when a young husband and father who spent his life trying to engage his enemies in peaceful conversation to avert violence was murdered, and they cheered when President Trump was shot but cursed him when he forged a ceasefire that they had been clamoring for between Israel and Hamas. What can you say about Democrat Party members except that they are completely deranged and hateful, stick up for criminals, illegal aliens, drug dealers, rapists, thieves, terrorists, and murderers, and that they also call themselves The Good Guys.
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