Althouse: Fog at. sunrise, 7:07, sun at 1:14.

January 7, 2026

Fog at. sunrise, 7:07, sun at 1:14.

Talk about whatever you want in the comments.

129 comments:

Rocco said...: How did you get the shadow of the giant mushroom in the second photo?; 1/7/26, 5:51 PM
john mosby said...: Rocco, you beat me to it. But I wasn't going to say mushroom. CC, JSM; 1/7/26, 5:58 PM
Leland said...: And looking West, we see…; 1/7/26, 5:58 PM
FullMoon said...: "john mosby said...
Rocco, you beat me to it. But I wasn't going to say mushroom. CC, JSM"

RC be along to blame "the Jews"; 1/7/26, 6:01 PM
Kakistocracy said...: A trillion. And a half. Dollars

Trump Seeks 50% Hike In Defense Budget To $1.5 Trillion ~ Barrons

Bond markets may be the best last hope to contain this "person"; 1/7/26, 6:06 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: I was just going to say "The triumphant fog." But, I thought to look it up first. And good thing I did.

AI : "The phrase "the triumphant fog" often refers to a famous historical anecdote regarding the Battle of Waterloo.

At the conclusion of the battle in 1815, news of the outcome was signaled across the English Channel via a semaphore light system. As the message began, the signal spelled out: "Wellington defeated—". At that precise moment, a thick fog descended over the channel, obscuring the rest of the message. This led the British public to believe their army had been crushed by Napoleon, causing widespread despair.

When the fog finally lifted, the full message was revealed: "Wellington defeated Napoleon". This sudden clarity transformed the national mood from tragedy to one of historic triumph."; 1/7/26, 6:08 PM
Jaq said...: Weren't you telling us, Kak, that we needed to get more deeply involved in that war in Europe that's none of our business?; 1/7/26, 6:11 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: I like the first one, although its somewhat dark and bleak.; 1/7/26, 6:18 PM
Jersey Fled said...: Gasoline prices now at a 5 year low per AAA.; 1/7/26, 6:25 PM
Kakistocracy said...: What a time to be alive.

How fast does he think he can replace Raytheon as a contractor?

"I have been informed by the Department of War that Defense Contractor, Raytheon, has been the least responsive to the needs of the Department of War, the slowest in increasing their volume, and the most aggressive spending on their Shareholders rather than the needs and demands of the United States Military. Raytheon seems to think this is the Biden Administration, and this is “business as usual,” IT’S NOT! Either Raytheon steps up, and starts investing in more upfront Investment like Plants and Equipment, or they will no longer be doing business with Department of War. Also, if Raytheon wants further business with the United States Government, under no circumstances will they be allowed to do any additional Stock Buybacks, where they have spent Tens of Billions of Dollars, until they are able to get their act together. Our Country comes FIRST, and they’re going to have to learn that, the hard way!" ~ @realDonaldTrump

PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP; 1/7/26, 6:28 PM
Big Mike said...: Kakistocracy said...

A trillion. And a half. Dollars

Trump Seeks 50% Hike In Defense Budget To $1.5 Trillion ~ Barrons

We’ll need the money when he’s forced to declare martial law in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Chi-Raq, New York, LA, and Portland, Maine.; 1/7/26, 6:30 PM
Achilles said...: FullMoon said...

"john mosby said...
Rocco, you beat me to it. But I wasn't going to say mushroom. CC, JSM"

RC be along to blame "the Jews"

Are the Jews now known for abnormal size?; 1/7/26, 6:33 PM
buwaya said...: Rolling back the Biden border sabotage was always going to be difficult, costly and politically painful.
People from either side who are inclined to complain about it (such as that ICE or the border patrol is going too slow or too strong-armed or whatever) should take a hammer to their skulls before letting anything out of their mouths. They asked for this ab initio, either in creating the problem in the first place or demanding it be fixed asap. They are implicated either way, and the price should be their personal blood and pain.; 1/7/26, 6:35 PM
buwaya said...: The US is faced with global challenges to its military predominance. It has been underinvesting, and, worse, using its funds very poorly for decades. Its now under the gun to catch up, quickly. This was well understood by the previous administration too, and by the professional class of the DOD.
Any complaints here are a form of treason. Of course, being a foreigner, I merely suggest it as an observation.; 1/7/26, 6:48 PM
Aggie said...: "..How did you get the shadow of the giant mushroom in the second photo? .."

That's just the old Food Pyramid, hastily departing the scene.; 1/7/26, 6:52 PM
buwaya said...: Rolling back the effects of the open borders of 2021-2024 was always going to be difficult, painful, costly, contentious, and prone to encourage fits of rage and violence.
All you can do is accept the cost, perhaps by, first, performing acts of painful, sincere personal penance, for having let it all come to this.; 1/7/26, 7:00 PM
Jaq said...: "Any complaints here are a form of treason."

You might not know it, buwaya, but this is a democracy. The question of whether maintaining global military primacy at ruinous expense is a national goal is a question we are allowed to discuss. I know a lot of people, like the Lithuanians, or the Germans, or the British, or the French are saying "Let's you and him fight," but it's no treason to discuss our national goals. That's almost a kind of fascist way of thinking.; 1/7/26, 7:01 PM
Gospace said...: From various sources, Minnesota is about to find out it's not good when a governor calls out the NG against the federal government.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/01/ice-shooting-roils-minnesota.php; 1/7/26, 7:10 PM
Jupiter said...: "We’ll need the money when he’s forced to declare martial law in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Chi-Raq, New York, LA, and Portland, Maine."

Hey! Don't forget Portland, OR. And Seattle.; 1/7/26, 7:12 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Just last year, Congress approved a massive increase to an all-time record military budget. Now, with national debt approaching $40 trillion, Trump wants to boost it by another 50%

Is there anything the tariffs can't pay for yet!??; 1/7/26, 7:14 PM
buwaya said...: The world situation is very 1938-39. It will sooon I think be 1941.
This is not at all a new situation. George Orwell would have called a lot of Americans (and etc) "objectively pro-fascist", substitute your preferred term for "fascist".

https://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/pacifism/english/e_patw; 1/7/26, 7:16 PM
Jupiter said...: "You might not know it, buwaya, but this is a democracy".
A democratic republic, actually. But yeah. With regard to treason;
"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort."
That's it. Nothing else is treason against these United States.; 1/7/26, 7:16 PM
buwaya said...: I think you should be looking at emergency mandated price controls and rationing for medicare/medicaid.; 1/7/26, 7:19 PM
FormerLawClerk said...: Minnesota is about to find out it's not good when a governor calls out the NG against the federal government.

Why, is Trump tired of spending all day boosting Kai's YouTube golf channel?; 1/7/26, 7:19 PM
narciso said...: https://x.com/thatericalper/status/2008935410823471277?s=12; 1/7/26, 7:20 PM
narciso said...: Yeah price controls obviously dont work

But the corrupt camarilla the clowns support; 1/7/26, 7:21 PM
Narr said...: "Fog at."; 1/7/26, 7:21 PM
narciso said...: Had all the wrong priorities; 1/7/26, 7:22 PM
buwaya said...: Treason is not just a term for an adjudicable crime. I am using the broader sense.; 1/7/26, 7:23 PM
buwaya said...: You are at the edge of requiring wartime measures. That will mean rationing, etc. And price controls.; 1/7/26, 7:26 PM
narciso said...: We may have to, but it often doesnt work; 1/7/26, 7:30 PM
john mosby said...: Achilles: "RC be along to blame "the Jews"/Are the Jews now known for abnormal size?"

It took me a while, and doing something else and coming back to this, but I think the joke was that the "mushroom" looks cut. CC, JSM; 1/7/26, 7:30 PM
narciso said...: Its been four generations since these were tried; 1/7/26, 7:31 PM
john mosby said...: If only the Prof had been wearing a pom-pom beanie....CC, JSM; 1/7/26, 7:31 PM
FormerLawClerk said...: Major meltdown at X. First Grok ... now other parts are failing.; 1/7/26, 7:35 PM
john mosby said...: Buwaya: "You are at the edge of requiring wartime measures. That will mean rationing, etc. And price controls."

Explain? Our productive areas (food and what's left of manufacturing) are nowhere near the blue cities. Why would a summer of rioting have such economic effect? CC, JSM; 1/7/26, 7:43 PM
Vance said...: Should be easy to find an extra 1.5 trillion, Kak. Just get rid of Democrats stealing from the taxpayer, jail them, and then seize all their assets. Plenty of dough there.

Or take a page out of Newsome and Mamdani's book: just seize all the assets of leftists. You know, do what Democrats campaign on as a good idea.

Let's start with you, Kak. Surely your fervent support of Democrat policies means you'd be all in favor of the government seizing your stuff. From each according to his abilities after all! How could you complain?; 1/7/26, 7:43 PM
Prof. M. Drout said...: The Republican President of the United States just publicly stated that the compensation for the CEOs of defense companies must be capped!
Unfortunately the Ds won't call the bluff (if bluff it is) and say they'll be happy to turn this into a law and even extend it to other industries, so they'll blow an opportunity and little will happen now.
But I just want to savor the phase transition that just happened happened: limits on executive compensation are now, by definition, a "mainstream" position, and on the same day, the President stated that corporations like Blackrock should not be permitted to buy large numbers of single-family houses.
Couple this with aggressive efforts to deport illegals and end fraud schemes, and the Vance / Rubio administrations could return America to being run for the benefit of the middle class.; 1/7/26, 7:54 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: Looks like its sock puppet time again. How much longer before they start thanking each other. LOL.; 1/7/26, 7:55 PM
buwaya said...: I am speaking of foreign war. Private consumption will have to be limited to support military consumption and investment. That was a large part of the reason for US rationing in WW2, not a lack of food or material. Disposable income was soaked up by war bonds, etc. A very large part of consumption these days, unlike in WW2, is medical.; 1/7/26, 7:56 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: Anyway, started listening the the Spade-carvey podcast "Fly on the wall". Very funny and both are positive sources of comedy. Marc Maron gets a little too bitter and self-absorbed at times.; 1/7/26, 7:59 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: Always reading about the WW 1 draft. Amazingly, married men were exempt. But then it makes sense. Men were expected to be the head of the household and women couldn't vote (for most of the country). Feminism actually helped the war effort in WW II, since married men without kids were drafted and women were expected to take charge.; 1/7/26, 8:01 PM
Iman said...: Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.; 1/7/26, 8:04 PM
Achilles said...: john mosby said...

Achilles: "RC be along to blame "the Jews"/Are the Jews now known for abnormal size?"

It took me a while, and doing something else and coming back to this, but I think the joke was that the "mushroom" looks cut. CC, JSM

So it is a jewish sex toy?; 1/7/26, 8:05 PM
narciso said...: Yet chevy chase is still hanging around

Carvey was light satire, spades act was a bit annoying after aelward but they are noel coward and co compared to the current crew; 1/7/26, 8:07 PM
john mosby said...: Achilles: "So it is a jewish sex toy?"

That big? Not a toy! CC, JSM; 1/7/26, 8:08 PM
narciso said...: Probably franco overstayed his welcome like salazar but the successors havent been a marked improved

Perhaps aznar but its slim pickings after that; 1/7/26, 8:09 PM
john mosby said...: Buwaya: "I am speaking of foreign war. Private consumption will have to be limited to support military consumption and investment. That was a large part of the reason for US rationing in WW2, not a lack of food or material."

Interesting. I shall have to think on that. CC, JSM; 1/7/26, 8:10 PM
Achilles said...: buwaya said...

The US is faced with global challenges to its military predominance. It has been underinvesting, and, worse, using its funds very poorly for decades. Its now under the gun to catch up, quickly. This was well understood by the previous administration too, and by the professional class of the DOD.
Any complaints here are a form of treason. Of course, being a foreigner, I merely suggest it as an observation.

I just want to point out that whatever defenses Venezuela had, we just took them out as if they were not there in the first place. We have had several examples of US military technology squaring off against things built in Russia and China over the last year or so.

I wouldn't get all crazy.

Also the Venezuelans managed to disappear from the scene and a bunch of Cubans got killed defending Maduro. I find that point very interesting.; 1/7/26, 8:11 PM
Iman said...: I see they’ve discovered Dickhead Beach, aka La Playa del Juanson.; 1/7/26, 8:13 PM
narciso said...: Well many of the players like cabello and his colectivos have been demonstrating their influence so we're still on the first chapter sra leticia seems to be of mixed messages according to sources; 1/7/26, 8:14 PM
Narr said...: The FOX News camera at the Minneapolis shooting site caught some joint-passing among the gawker-protesters, but didn't linger. Rather amusing.; 1/7/26, 8:14 PM
Achilles said...: john mosby said...

Achilles: "So it is a jewish sex toy?"

That big? Not a toy! CC, JSM

This is where I get off this bus. I can think of a few jokes from here but I don't usually play this arena.; 1/7/26, 8:15 PM
narciso said...: Some times a cigar...; 1/7/26, 8:16 PM
Iman said...: “Tina Delgado is alive, ALIVE!”; 1/7/26, 8:19 PM
Narr said...: Whatever happened to the 'turbas divinas' of yesteryear?

Maduro found himself in a situation like Louis XVI in France--when the crunch came only foreigners (Swiss troops) would fight for him. Who will fight when regime change comes to Havana?; 1/7/26, 8:21 PM
narciso said...: Thats nicaraguas gangs the colectivos are the venezuelan variants; 1/7/26, 8:23 PM
Milwaukie guy said...: Just saw that the Pentagon Pizza Index is about 1000 now. It only spiked to 700 the night of the Maduro snatch. Is it the empty oil tanker just taken in the Iceland-UK gap?; 1/7/26, 8:24 PM
Bill, Republic of Texas said...: Meade you da man! Nice 2nd photo 👍🏻; 1/7/26, 8:25 PM
narciso said...: I dont get it about tina.; 1/7/26, 8:28 PM
narciso said...: Seriously
Rep. at Hearing on MN Fraud Says More Time Should Be Spent on Looking at Violent White Men – Twitchy https://share.google/XTRjLrpPCKOE8bzYu; 1/7/26, 8:33 PM
Achilles said...: When the Venezuelan AA batteries started seeing RADAR jamming bumping their signal they turned up the power on their active arrays.

This is like giving a monkey a grenade. It is just so dumb.

You aren't doing anyone any favors and at least have the sense to run away.; 1/7/26, 8:34 PM
buwaya said...: The allegedly empty Russian oil tanker case smells a lot of rhe start of a Tom Clancey novel. Clancey would have mentioned the pizza index.
Theres a heck of a lot of squirrely @#%& going down right now.; 1/7/26, 8:34 PM
narciso said...: Curious about what was in that tanker in the time we lost track
What is are all these satellites and gps for; 1/7/26, 8:34 PM
john mosby said...: Milwaukie: "Just saw that the Pentagon Pizza Index is about 1000 now"

Probably cranking out National Guard federalization and movement orders. CC, JSM; 1/7/26, 8:35 PM
Humperdink said...: Is there any post where the Jews are not mentioned? Say within the last 25 years or so?; 1/7/26, 8:36 PM
narciso said...: Remember that turboprop that had been in angola about 20 years back we suspected it was up to no good; 1/7/26, 8:37 PM
narciso said...: Was it delivering missiles aircraft spare parts what exactly; 1/7/26, 8:38 PM
buwaya said...: It wasnt lost, it was just not returning a valid registration. Im sure anyone who cared knew just where it was.; 1/7/26, 8:38 PM
narciso said...: Perhaps but i dont think we should take any chances; 1/7/26, 8:40 PM
Narr said...: You are correct, sir. My memory is not to be trusted at times.; 1/7/26, 8:44 PM
narciso said...: De nada; 1/7/26, 8:45 PM
Bill, Republic of Texas said...: narciso said...
Curious about what was in that tanker in the time we lost track
What is are all these satellites and gps for

1/7/26, 8:34 PM

Whatever was in the tankers were offloaded to the Russian ships or submarines long before the coast guard got there.; 1/7/26, 8:46 PM
Kakistocracy said...: China hacked email systems of US congressional committee staff ~ Reuters

Given how much the House of Representatives is doing these days, the Chinese may learn more from hacking the library committee of some Iowa county.; 1/7/26, 8:51 PM
Achilles said...: buwaya said...

The allegedly empty Russian oil tanker case smells a lot of rhe start of a Tom Clancey novel. Clancey would have mentioned the pizza index.
Theres a heck of a lot of squirrely @#%& going down right now.

Yeah that tanker was not empty.

Russia sent a surface vessel and a boomer sub to escort it home.

US Ships big footed them in international waters. Everyone knew everyone else was there and the US Ships just said F You your coming with us.

Nobody is making a big deal about this though. The usual suspects are silent. Someone at the NYTs and the WAPO and CNN likely know what was on that boat.

Taking that boat in front of Russian warships is some real shit. Way more important than a stupid traitor getting shot using her car against ICE.; 1/7/26, 8:53 PM
narciso said...: US Aviation Destroys Venezuelan 9S510E Command Center of Buk-M2E Air Defense System - Militarnyi https://share.google/ivwBS8z70QWWiNQtT; 1/7/26, 8:57 PM
Josephbleau said...: “I think you should be looking at emergency mandated price controls and rationing for medicare/medicaid.“

Buwaya, you are a friend here, and we listen. Don’t go ape, the world is not ending, NATO will live. Russia, Venezuela and Iran will come around. Peace is ugly until it becomes peace. Economics not war. Tech becomes space not defense.; 1/7/26, 8:58 PM
Christopher B said...: john mosby, I wonder if Trump will take a cue from Eisenhower and nationalize the MN Guard then order them to inventory the contents of their barracks, given that it looks like Tampon Tim is likely to order them to further obstruct ICE.; 1/7/26, 9:00 PM
Josephbleau said...: Kak, you are so funny man. China is light s a feather and republicans have the weight of a mountain, right?; 1/7/26, 9:03 PM
narciso said...: It wasnt not that long ago that some pakistani hackers exfiltraded the records of the intel committee (judge chutkin let them go); 1/7/26, 9:09 PM
Kakistocracy said...: @ Josephbleau: Stories like these makes me question how true it is if shares like PLTR and CRWD aren’t falling harder given supposedly serious data breaches in the US government.; 1/7/26, 9:13 PM
Josephbleau said...: Ka , stories like what??; 1/7/26, 9:15 PM
Beasts of England said...: I’ve been busy - anything happening in the news this week?; 1/7/26, 9:23 PM
narciso said...: Nothing much same old same old; 1/7/26, 9:32 PM
narciso said...: Yes crowdstrike is a joke without a punchline; 1/7/26, 9:33 PM
narciso said...: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/01/withdrawing-the-united-states-from-international-organizations-conventions-and-treaties-that-are-contrary-to-the-interests-of-the-united-states/; 1/7/26, 9:34 PM
Jon Ericson said...: The 82nd is on the move!; 1/7/26, 9:38 PM
Josephbleau said...: The 82nd Airborne is a joke. The whole concept of vertical envelopment by parachute forces was ill considered from Sainte-Mère-Église to Market Garden. Drive on.; 1/7/26, 10:08 PM
Jon Ericson said...: Tag team.; 1/7/26, 10:11 PM
Aggie said...: You have to appreciate the common man's ability to entertain himself.

https://laughingsquid.com/frozen-lake-ice-carousel-kazakhstan/; 1/7/26, 10:16 PM
Josephbleau said...: Don’t hate me, but if the 82nd and 101 would have jumped on Omaha beach instead of in the back woods they would have saved the day.; 1/7/26, 10:17 PM
buwaya said...: The 101st and 82nd fulfilled their primary tasks, of cutting off the Cotentin penninsula (Cherbourg) and the other approaches to Utah beach. That was the main US objective. The landing at Omaha was a secondary objective, as there was no easy way to exploit out of there and no high priority objective other than connecting up the Allied beachheads.; 1/7/26, 10:42 PM
Iman said...: Brenden Dilley
@WarlordDilley
Two reasons we will not have a "George Floyd" situation in Minnesota...

1) The woman was white.

2) It's winter and ain't nobody of color rioting for a white woman in twenty below weather.; 1/7/26, 10:43 PM
buwaya said...: The 82nd and 101st prevented the creation of multiple roadblocks along the elevated roads over the flooded areas and river/estuary west and south of Utah. When US armor landed it was able to roll over and relieve the paras as planned, and so prevent the Germans from holding, for instance the potentially strong river line south of Utah. It was costly in casualties but it worked.; 1/7/26, 10:54 PM
Josephbleau said...: Buwaya, yes comme ci, comme ça. Utah was the easy one the big red one and the 29th had the fight on Omaha. The casualties were at the cliffs on Omaha north and south of the cemetery, two more divisions at dawn would have helped and airborne would have eliminated the landing boat constraint. But there was confusion among the German 709th and the 91th div around Ste. Mere Eglaise. So there was some value.

I went to Normandy last summer and got a detailed look, along with some great scallops.; 1/7/26, 11:08 PM
buwaya said...: Its a very good map exercise. The critical points are easy to see. From Utah there are multiple obvious objectives - cut off the Cotentin, Cherbourg, a bridgehead at Carentan over the Douve river/estuary. All are important, in order to provide for US logistics or set things up for the breakout. And indeed this is where the breakout (Operation Cobra) took place.
Thats why the airborne dropped where they did.
From Omaha - nothing really. It wasnt as vital as Utah, no matter how hard the beach assault was.; 1/7/26, 11:21 PM
Josephbleau said...: Probably more of a trade off between day one casualties and week one maneuver. 40 us tanks made it ashore on Omaha on day one. The 743 tank btn on the west did well because the commander decided to take the LST’s directly to the beach instead of making them float in. Of course the whole thing is
Way too big to casually discuss and needs several books. I was being a bit facetious.; 1/7/26, 11:23 PM
Josephbleau said...: Where the 29th landed there is a large valley cut thru the cliffs into the beach. This was the target and the plan was to flood the draw up onto the plains or the bocage. And the artillery nests had to be destroyed before the navy was safe to come in, nothing could happen with active guns in German hands. 50 decision variables and 100 constraints with a loss function measured in human lives.; 1/7/26, 11:34 PM
buwaya said...: If it werent that these wargames are obsolete I would recommend them.
Toaw (The Operational Art of War) has an excellent batallion level D-Day scenario.
D-day America Invades (Atomic Games/Avalon Hill) is another excellent batallion level game.
Both are 25 years old at least. But excellent for what they are.
This sort of game is not really a videogame, they should be treated as an intelligent map exercise.; 1/7/26, 11:40 PM
Leora said...: I have learned that the stolen lobsters mentioned about a week ago were in fact live lobsters.

quoting from American Spectator AM Newsletter

All You Can Eat Lobsterfest

Thieves hijacked a shipment of $400,000 worth of live lobsters from a Taunton, Massachusetts, warehouse destined, before da crime intervention, for Minnesota and Indiana. “This theft wasn’t random,” Dylan Rexing, president and chief executive officer of Rexing companies, wrote in a Sunday email, according to The Boston Globe. “It followed a pattern we’re seeing more and more, where criminals impersonate legitimate carriers using spoofed emails and burner phones to hijack high-value freight while it’s in transit.” The articles on the theft offer no description of the culprits. Why? So that we can imagine a bunch of laughing Italian guys gorging on lobster that fell off a truck? Organized crime now more likely involves gangs sharing other ethnic ties.

I kind of believe this relates to the CDLs given to folks with missing names and addressed.; 1/7/26, 11:43 PM
Clyde said...: This quote seems appropriate today:

"Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime: the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity."

Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough For Love; 1/8/26, 3:44 AM
exhelodrvr1 said...: One of my uncles was CO of a heavy weapons platoon in the 116th regiment (29th div). Survived D-Day, KIA a week later; 1/8/26, 4:43 AM
Leland said...: That’s a BFD narcissism @9:34p. That should be the biggest news story right now.; 1/8/26, 5:49 AM
Captain BillieBob said...: You can put a lot of "stuff" in an empty oil tanker.; 1/8/26, 5:49 AM
Kai Akker said...: That was a bad day in the markets yesterday. The reversal of the spike from the opening days of the new year. Momentum diverged bearishly on minute charts, hourly, and daily. That could easily complete the top building since November. And, if so, that would be the end of the almost 6-year bull phase since the pandemic low of March 2020.; 1/8/26, 6:37 AM
narciso said...: And theres no rhyme or reason to it; 1/8/26, 6:48 AM
Kai Akker said...: Some kind of psychological extreme was reached. Beyond all previous extremes. It is all risk now.; 1/8/26, 7:06 AM
Leland said...: The markets are up 500 points since trading began this year on Friday. Tuesday, the DJIA topped 49000 for the first time. A bit early to be calling profit taking on one day "an end of the almost 6-year bull phase".; 1/8/26, 7:30 AM
Jaq said...: The board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) voted to dissolve the organization on Jan. 5 after Congress voted in July to claw back $1.1 billion that had been allocated for its use. President Donald Trump has rallied against the CPB, NPR and PBS since the start of his presidency, accusing the organizations of failing to present a "fair, accurate or unbiased portrayal of current events to taxpaying citizens." Trump has repeatedly targeted media organizations that he perceives as airing content that is unfavorable toward his administration. - USA Today

How did covering up the Hunter Biden laptop work out for you, NPR?; 1/8/26, 8:21 AM
Jaq said...: I think that Trump would have been far more tolerant of unfavorable coverage if they done the same things with the Biden Administration, but instead NPR made the judgement that the election of Democrats outweighed any duty to fairly cover the cesspool of corruption that has bene the Democratic Party for some time, from Ukraine to Minneapolis.; 1/8/26, 8:24 AM
Jaq said...: Also, had they been fair in their coverage, they would have had friends in the Republican Party.; 1/8/26, 8:25 AM
Kai Akker said...: Leland, what would be a better time?; 1/8/26, 8:30 AM
narciso said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 1/8/26, 8:57 AM
Narr said...: The US airborne drops in Normandy didn't work as planned--they merely worked.

Can't see how dropping directly on the beach would be an improvement, even assuming they dropped per plan.

YMMV.; 1/8/26, 9:01 AM
Rustygrommet said...: Achilliea @ 6:33
JUS.; 1/8/26, 10:09 AM
Rustygrommet said...: :It took me a while, and doing something else and coming back to this, but I think the joke was that the "mushroom" looks cut. CC, JSM"

(formerly "rusty")
I do apologize. I shouldn't have been standing there.; 1/8/26, 10:17 AM
Rustygrommet said...: buwaya @ 7:21

My friends father was in the North Nova Scotia Highlanders. They were seconded to a company of Canadian Shermans and tasked with taking an airfield just to the southeast of Caen. This was D Day +1. In a field and orchard just outside Authie they met Kurt Meyers 12th panzers. The tanks that weren't knocked out retreated back to Baron leaving the Nova Scotians to fight it out with the 12th panzers-Hitler Youth. His father got a machine gun from one of the knocked out tanks and kept them busy til just about nightfall when he was captured with bullets in both legs.
That was as far as Kurt Meyers 12th Panzers got. They never made it to the beaches.
I think the Canadian contribution to the war was greatly under reported.; 1/8/26, 10:31 AM
Leland said...: Kai Akker said...
Leland, what would be a better time?

DJIA is up 300 pts from the start of today's trading (although overnight had it drop more, so it is about equal to close). But hey, if you think a half percent increase in a half-day of trading means a bearish market; please do explain your philosophy?

DJIA is still 1000 basis points higher than Monday's opening. Up 2000 basis points in 60 days. Yet you think now it is a bearish market? Ok, explain?; 1/8/26, 11:50 AM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final ,most essential command."George Orwell 1984 ,he knew of people like Noem, trump, levitt, Rubio etc. and could see this coming from a mile away. They'll stifle investigation, present alternative facts and move along. MERIKA under trump; 1/8/26, 12:20 PM
Narr said...: "I think the Canadian contribution to the war was greatly under reported."

That probably goes for both wars, and I think a lot of USAians have no idea that they were even involved.; 1/8/26, 1:13 PM
john mosby said...: Narr: "Can't see how dropping directly on the beach would be an improvement, even assuming they dropped per plan."

True, landing on the beach itself would be crap. Maybe landing right behind the bunkers on the high ground, thereby forcing the Krauts in them to turn around and fight the way they weren't designed for. And there would probably be a lag time for the Krauts to even notice, during which dudes with satchel charges and bazookas could wreak a lot of havoc.

But airborne operations were an imprecise art back then. Instead the job went to the Rangers and the lead battalions of the infantry divisions, to just scramble up the cliffs any which way and take out the bunkers so that the following waves would have fewer casualties. CC, JSM; 1/8/26, 3:13 PM
Iman said...: Hey, Dinky Dink… you folks can’t even define what makes a woman. For you, up is down, right is wrong…; 1/8/26, 3:31 PM
Kai Akker said...: @ Leland, the markets have been working on a top since Oct-Nov, as I mentioned in that 6:37 am post. Not just a 3-day affair. You can see how the SPX, DJX and NYA now have three peaks in the 4th quarter.

The whole 5.8-year bullish phase subdivides into three peaks, too. The last of which being this current triple top. There were even small triple tops occurring in minute-by-minute charts the prior two days. Psychology is making its sand castles.

That these six years had a complicated rally in which everything overlapped is not bullish, but bearish. There was no big movement up, although as always some stocks did fantastically. But overall momentum has diverged bearishly. Valuations are the most extreme ever recorded. Stocks are running on empty.

DJX is going to punish DJT like nothing else can.; 1/8/26, 3:45 PM
Leland said...: That's a silly concept you are selling. 6 years ago was 2020. In 2020, DJIA was about 29000 (before COVID announced). Over the next 3 years, the market rose to about 34000 early 2023. That's 16% over 3 years. Today, DJIA is over 49000. That's 40% growth over the past 3 years.

But overall momentum has diverged bearishly. LOL; 1/8/26, 5:17 PM
Rustygrommet said...: Narr said...
"I think the Canadian contribution to the war was greatly under reported."

"That probably goes for both wars, and I think a lot of USAians have no idea that they were even involved."

It seems that when Monty ever needed shock troops and wanted to save British soldiers lives he sent in the Canadians. He screwed around Caen far too long.; 1/8/26, 6:58 PM
Narr said...: @jsm--I am speculating (I'll try to do some research) that dropping at various places was studied or wargamed out; it may be that jumping just behind the coast would amount, in its effects, to the same confusion and disruption on both sides as happened in OTL--just in different places and with more localized results.

I'll come back to this after some study.; 1/8/26, 6:59 PM
Kai Akker said...: Leland said...
That's a silly concept you are selling. 6 years ago was 2020. In 2020, DJIA was about 29000 (before COVID announced). Over the next 3 years, the market rose to about 34000 early 2023. That's 16% over 3 years. Today, DJIA is over 49000. That's 40% growth over the past 3 years.

But overall momentum has diverged bearishly. LOL

1/8/26, 5:17 PM

I'm not selling anything, Leland. I was speaking of market momentum measures. Your link has nothing to do with those. You know that bull markets end amidst good news and optimism. Bear markets end in bad news and fear.; 1/9/26, 8:45 AM
Rustygrommet said...: Narr: "Can't see how dropping directly on the beach would be an improvement, even assuming they dropped per plan."

I thought that the whole idea of paratroopers is to drop them where the enemy ain't and attack them where they are the most vulnerable.; 1/9/26, 10:04 AM
Narr said...: Well put, Rusty.; 1/10/26, 10:42 AM