Althouse: Sunrise

7 మార్చి, 2026

Sunrise — 6:31.

Talk about whatever you want in the comments.

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RCOCEAN II చెప్పారు...: Bugonia - good SF movie. Gets a minus for being too long. This is probably a good 100 minute movie but its stretched out for 2 hours.; 07-03-26 6:31 PM
tcrosse చెప్పారు...: A splendid example from Althouse's Blue Period.; 07-03-26 6:41 PM
Aggie చెప్పారు...: Finally, rain this afternoon and a nice cool front. The redbuds are in full bloom now, and the Mexican plums are either just past, or just about to bloom. The woods are fragrant with the plum blossoms, and the redbud blossoms litter the forest floor around the creeks. Cutter ants like these, so there are densely purple trails on the ground where the cutter ant workers are lugging the redbud blossoms back the underground colony, to grow their mutualistic fungus on them, and feast.; 07-03-26 6:43 PM
Humperdink చెప్పారు...: I was planning on trimming my grapevines today but a long thunderstorm and a tornado watch canceled those plans.; 07-03-26 7:01 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: The thing about frankenstein which ive referred before is the structure you get the stories and second hand reports; 07-03-26 7:03 PM
Beasts of England చెప్పారు...: Almost a Rothko… :); 07-03-26 7:06 PM
Jaq చెప్పారు...: Great news! We have hit eleven hospitals, a desalination plant, and oil refineries! I am sure that those protesters will show up on the street any minute now.

Plus Trump has assured us that it was Iran who killed all of those schoolgirls. He said that we couldn't have done it because we don't hit civilian targets, only the Iranians do that! You don't know how relieved I am to hear this, you know, having voted for him three fucking times because he said that he wasn't going to take us into stupid wars. Well, this one must be a smart one then!

Trump's appeal is getting more selective every day! More good news!; 07-03-26 7:08 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: So its very interesting how whale made sense of that; 07-03-26 7:12 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: Dracula has a similar form that stoker put together; 07-03-26 7:14 PM
Chest Rockwell చెప్పారు...: I can't recall a president ever having news conferences on Air Force One. Is Trump the first one? Either way he's a moth to a flame with regards to the media.; 07-03-26 7:20 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: Its kind of like when you're at sea at night, the ocean and the horizon merge; 07-03-26 7:23 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: Ding-dong! The Exploration Upper Stage is dead - Ars Technica https://share.google/cVYxUCiDYRPfy3SsC; 07-03-26 7:26 PM
Achilles చెప్పారు...: Jaq said...

Great news! We have hit eleven hospitals, a desalination plant, and oil refineries! I am sure that those protesters will show up on the street any minute now.

Plus Trump has assured us that it was Iran who killed all of those schoolgirls. He said that we couldn't have done it because we don't hit civilian targets, only the Iranians do that! You don't know how relieved I am to hear this, you know, having voted for him three fucking times because he said that he wasn't going to take us into stupid wars. Well, this one must be a smart one then!

Trump's appeal is getting more selective every day! More good news!

You are really boring.

You are a dishonest person who does not deserve to live in a free country.

There are thousands of Iranians who died resisting this regime and millions of Iranians fighting right now that are just better people than you.

This is worse than when you were spreading COVID propaganda.; 07-03-26 7:28 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5-3L1MFBKZY; 07-03-26 7:30 PM
Achilles చెప్పారు...: narciso said...

Ding-dong! The Exploration Upper Stage is dead - Ars Technica https://share.google/cVYxUCiDYRPfy3SsC

That was about half the story.

Most of the cost was due to being forced to use "existing parts" required by senators.; 07-03-26 7:40 PM
RCOCEAN II చెప్పారు...: Also watched some of CSI. Never saw it before. My wife loved it. I"m less impressed. Maybe I've seen too much Detective TV. Actors aren't engaging.

Oh, and Frederick Wiseman's "Zoo". Liked it.; 07-03-26 7:41 PM
Rabel చెప్పారు...: It's stormy here too, so distract myself from the terrorist supporting asininity on here lately I watched Diana Rigg mash-up videos and then discovered shuffle dance.

We've got troops on the line and you motherfuckers who are putting out the bullshit I see here can get fucked.; 07-03-26 7:43 PM
Rabel చెప్పారు...: It's just so bouncy. The shuffle dance, that is.; 07-03-26 7:45 PM
Rabel చెప్పారు...: The Korean girls have got it going on.; 07-03-26 7:47 PM
john mosby చెప్పారు...: So I watched the whole Jesse Jackson Chicago funeral. Previously I had just seen snippets.

- Kommie-Lay, Biden, and Obama didn't devote their whole speeches to anti-Trump agitprop. Really just one or two lines. Still no reason to do it, given the occasion and their position.

- I don't think Clinton said anything bad about Trump. He stayed focused on all his Jesse Jackson anecdotes.

- Fucking Al Sharpton included lots of anti-Trump invective, as well as saying USA 250 isn't something blacks should celebrate.

- For some reason the President of Colombia (two o's, the country, not the university) gave a speech, that went overtime and included lots of anti-Trump invective, especially against the Iran punitive expedition. Guess he thinks he's next.

- Several speakers noted how Jackson was one of the last active notables who actually lived under Jim Crow in any meaningful way (if you were a small child in 1965, you don't count). Perhaps when that generation finally passes, there will be less animosity. Most of us escaped from the old country; for American blacks, this is the old country. If they don't have physical distance, maybe the distance of time will help.

- The black church has outlived its usefulness. It was a place of respite from oppression; now it's a place to hide from integration. Even a woke, rainbow-flag-flying, illegal-hiding church like ECUSA or ELCA would be preferable at this point. To continue the immigration analogy, we don't have German or Italian or Irish churches anymore - those groups have spread out and their parishes have everyone. Spanish-language churches last about one generation, and then everyone marries a gringo/a and joins an evangelical megachurch. Black churches, which often have most of their members driving in from the suburbs to attend, just teach that the old country hasn't changed.

- Maybe someone can start a white church as a reverse-psychology trap: Sharpton can organize a bunch of people to storm the place, only to find it's just plain-vanilla (hee hee) Christianity. The stormers would be welcomed to come back next Sunday. CC, JSM; 07-03-26 7:48 PM
William చెప్పారు...: For a long time I've been searching for an explanation of why life is so fucked up. Here is a result of my research. It's only a partial explanation, but I think it explains why Hollywood stars, academics, rock stars, major poets and other such people are such a bag of hammers.......I posit something called the aesthetic fallacy. In the Iliad, the guy with all the best lines is Achilles, not Hector. In Paradise Lost, we see that Lucifer is a far more interesting character than God. I just recently read Dante's Inferno. He doesn't glamorize the Devil, but there's no doubt the best scenes and greatest poetry occur in Hell, not Purgatory or Heaven......It seems that people of refined sensibility are always attracted to the most vainglorious asshole. Look at the press Napoleon gets. It's a part for Marlon Brando. The Duke of Wellington is a bit part......Some of the biggest assholes in history have attracted the greatest poets and artists of their age. There were any number of Nobel Prize winners who went to pay homage to Lenin and even Stalin. Warren Harding not so much........I think in a perverse way, the artists of our age are inspired by Trump. He's pretty much the anathema of everything they profess and hold dear, but he's got a huge personality. I think the abuse and invective he receives are much more polished and literate than anything ever directed at Romney or even Nixon. Trump definitely has the starring role in this era's dramas. No actor wants to play the part of Starmer or the Ayatollah, and I don't think any novelist or playwright wants to write of them.....I won't be around, but I expect there will be lots of plays, novels, movies made about Trump and A-list stars will compete for the part.; 07-03-26 7:53 PM
Eva Marie చెప్పారు...: John Amanchukwu Sr has words for Jasmine Crockett
“They’ll celebrate you when you perform.
They’ll replace you when you become inconvenient.”
“An articulate, well educated preacher’s kid became a buffoon just to gain the support of Democrats. The white liberal machine never wanted you. They used you. Out goes Jasmine Crockett. In comes a new age Pee-wee Herman unicorn. All for the prize of fame. They allowed you to be ghetto, be nasty, be a mean girl. Then Obama, the guy who upbraided black men for not supporting Kamala Harris . . . he supports Tala-freako. Jasmine Crockett was nothing more than a caricature in the hands of the puppet master. These white liberals who cosplay as if they support us and love us . . . but as we support the policies that by and large are deleterious to us, they gain. They win. They build. They grow. What happens to us? We steadily decline. Jasmine Crockett will go down in history as one of the potential voices of the Democrat Party. But she got drunk on the likes and the clicks. And in comes a unicorn to fill her shoes. I’ve seen this show before.”
(quoted from memory so not an exact quote.)
https://x.com/revwutruth/status/2029642648378593777?s=46; 07-03-26 7:54 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: It goes back Adam and Eve and the Guardian; 07-03-26 7:57 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: Garden of eden; 07-03-26 7:58 PM
john mosby చెప్పారు...: William, I hope to live long enough to watch the Trump play in the original Klingon! CC, JSM; 07-03-26 8:09 PM
Dave Begley చెప్పారు...: The war will be over by April 1, 2026.; 07-03-26 8:11 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: We dont really want to regard evil as itself (some dont) Lucifers victory; 07-03-26 8:11 PM
Dave Begley చెప్పారు...: CNN is not just anti-Trump, they are anti-American.; 07-03-26 9:04 PM
WK చెప్పారు...: William said: I won't be around, but I expect there will be lots of plays, novels, movies made about Trump and A-list stars will compete for the part.

Who are the 40-50 year old A-listers who might play Trump in a movie 20 years from now?; 07-03-26 9:06 PM
Jupiter చెప్పారు...: Is it possible to catch yourself mis-thinking? You can think about something, and start to develop a certain view of the matter, but then ... recognize ... that your reasoning has moved along channels that are not logical, or that may be logical but nonetheless are based upon "facts" that are dubious, or "principles" that are tendentious. Your mind is pursuing folly, and you must rein it in. But who is the hound, and whom the houndsman?
Perhaps one of you Grok-whisperers could ask Grok whether it (It? Perhaps Xe?) ever finds xitself thinking things that are not worthy of being thought. Seems to me, that Grok is a manifestation of a computational machine. And a machine will necessarily do what it was constructed to do, unless it fails mechanically. An analog computer, pressed to consider a quantity that is infinite, can fail by melting a wire, or short-circuiting a capacitor. But how does a digital computer, programmed to simulate the excreta of thought (not thought. The excreta of thought -- documents) respond to the infinite?; 07-03-26 9:07 PM
Clyde చెప్పారు...: Today, one of my USPS co-workers sent me a link to a story about how Postmaster General Steiner is saying that unless the agency gets relief from Congress, they may not be able to pay employees or vendors by February 2027, with possible adverse effects on mail delivery.

"The PMG's name is Steiner?!" I asked, with a laughing emoji. (I don't really keep track of such things.)

"Yup," she replied.

"We're doomed," I told her.; 07-03-26 9:08 PM
Peachypeachy చెప్పారు...: Eva @ 7:54
Communists. You described their game. Esp that part where they commie dems grow rich and powerful and Americans lose more and more.; 07-03-26 9:16 PM
Jupiter చెప్పారు...: I suspect that the AI programs will avoid self-referential infinities by simulating, not the response of an infinite mind to infinity, but rather, the response of a limited mind to the necessity of producing a response. The AI will do what Adam Schmitt would do. Lie. After all, AI is not actually programmed to think. It is programmed to act like a highly literate human doing xer best to think.; 07-03-26 9:17 PM
Original Mike చెప్పారు...: Trump tells British prime minister not to send aircraft carriers to Gulf: ‘We’ve already won!’

IDK if "we've already won", but seriously; Starmer is only now offering military support?

Wanker.; 07-03-26 9:53 PM
Josephbleau చెప్పారు...: An ai responds to infinity the same way a human does, by reciting the cannon from Newton, Cantor, and Riemann. There is nothing else except scholarly improvement to those ideas, or a revision based on future theory. Do you think that Captain Kirk can make a computer emit smoke if he introduces the idea that contradictions exist?; 07-03-26 9:55 PM
Mason G చెప్పారు...: "IDK if "we've already won", but seriously; Starmer is only now offering military support?"

UK Telegraph:
HMS Dragon mission delayed ‘because dockyard only works nine-to-five’

Portsmouth no longer works around the clock thanks to a new ‘cost-cutting’ contract, union claims; 07-03-26 10:05 PM
Josephbleau చెప్పారు...: And computers don’t think in real numbers, they are limited to rational numbers in computation. So even the Zeno paradox is lost, because the computer will just calculate to the last bit and throw a significant bit error. Computers work with infinity only with Llms.; 07-03-26 10:06 PM
Jupiter చెప్పారు...: What sort of algorithm critiques its own reasoning?
It seems that the existence of AI merely poses the question, Does the human mind operate according to an algorithm? I think not.
Then there are the secondary questions, about other minds. Cats and dogs. Fish. Worms? Plankton?; 07-03-26 10:07 PM
Jupiter చెప్పారు...: "Do you think that Captain Kirk can make a computer emit smoke if he introduces the idea that contradictions exist?"
No, but if he keeps pushing the dilithium crystals, there comes a point where they actually can't take any more.; 07-03-26 10:09 PM
Jupiter చెప్పారు...: "So even the Zeno paradox is lost ...".
Yes, indeed. Computers cannot operate with the real numbers, they can only represent the rationals. Which is fine, as long as nothing in the Universe requires irrationals for its representation. But the available evidence indicates that the reality is very much otherwise.; 07-03-26 10:13 PM
Original Mike చెప్పారు...: These Mathematicians Don’t Believe Large Numbers Exist.

"In our current understanding of mathematics, space and time extend infinitely and are made of infinitely many points of size zero. But according to a small group of physicists and mathematicians, this reliance on infinities has led us astray, forcing researchers to create strange concepts like multiverses or cosmological constants in order to explain away unwanted infinities."

I started out thinking this was crazy, but the more I thought about it, it would solve a lot of problems.

I mean, have you ever seen infinity? I haven't.; 07-03-26 10:17 PM
Original Mike చెప్పారు...: Sorry (damn, I wish I had a trash can). And that whole thing does work as a link.; 07-03-26 10:18 PM
Iman చెప్పారు...: “CNN is not just anti-Trump, they are anti-American.”

Yes, they are. But they won’t be around much longer.; 07-03-26 10:34 PM
Achilles చెప్పారు...: Jupiter said...

Perhaps one of you Grok-whisperers could ask Grok whether it (It? Perhaps Xe?) ever finds xitself thinking things that are not worthy of being thought. Seems to me, that Grok is a manifestation of a computational machine. And a machine will necessarily do what it was constructed to do, unless it fails mechanically.

I am currently building a "brain extension" if you will. I am using 4 different models/agents for different tasks as well as a couple aggregators like Openrouter and Obsidian.

It is a set of linked markdown files that contain instructions and definitions and "strategies." Obsidian is a program that lets you create linked and indexed text files so you can connect notes in ways that are easily searchable and organized by agents.

It is more like giving directions to a junior dev than anything else. It is forcing me to think about how I think and how I get things done.

How do I verify output? What instructions do I give to a junior dev in order to get them to verify output? How is it different using claude code to verify output? Does using Gemini to verify claude code output with my instructions work better than having claude verify itself?; 07-03-26 10:40 PM
Achilles చెప్పారు...: Josephbleau said...

And computers don’t think in real numbers, they are limited to rational numbers in computation. So even the Zeno paradox is lost, because the computer will just calculate to the last bit and throw a significant bit error. Computers work with infinity only with Llms.

But the LLMs created the biological interface to use electronic intelligence.

Everyone has that opportunity now to create their own interface that allows them to run parallel tasks on the electronic manifestation of their will while they load and unload a context window where they focus their biological attention.; 07-03-26 10:44 PM
Jupiter చెప్పారు...: "These Mathematicians Don’t Believe Large Numbers Exist."
Indeed. Which approaches the fundamental question; what does "exist" mean? Ann Althouse "exists" (and is lovely and gracious, wise and comprehensively admirable). But does 7 exist? Well, of course it does. When you are counting, between six and eight, you employ seven, and counting would not be possible without it. And counting possible, so 7 must exist. Right?

I think the way it works, is that things "exist" mathematically, if it is internally consistent to consider that they exist. If no contradiction arises from assuming their existence.

But this is different from physical existence. Although, how it is different is not evident. I believe that physics is necessarily mathematical, and all physics is math. But not all math is physics. "Handmaiden of the sciences" my firm and well-shaped ass.; 07-03-26 10:49 PM
Jupiter చెప్పారు...: Speaking of which, I well recall, in 8th grade algebra, realizing that any surface in three dimensions is represented by a constraint equation in x, y and z. Pondering on this, I was led to conclude that there must be a constraint equation in x, y and z that precisely described the surface of Sandy's ass, in contact with the seat in front of me. It seemed evident to me,
that the contemplation of that constraint equation, would not be equivalent, in any important sense, to the contemplation of Sandy's ass. Not by a long shot. And I was in a position to know.; 07-03-26 10:56 PM
Josephbleau చెప్పారు...: There is no infinity but thinking makes it so. The theory of infinity in countable and uncountable nature is taught to college sophomores in a class called Marh Anaysis I. This class is taken by students who are seriously considering careers in math related fields.

There have been articles on the web stating that college students no longer need to pass college algebra classes because it makes them fail.

So there is going to be a greater separation, where college educated people are not the same. There will be math and non math people.; 07-03-26 11:08 PM
The Cracker Emcee Refulgent చెప్పారు...: “An articulate, well educated preacher’s kid became a buffoon just to gain the support of Democrats. The white liberal machine never wanted you. They used you.”

Well, substitute “cynical grifter” for “liberal” and we’re there.

I’ve always wondered why Democrats highlight only the stupidest, most buffoonish, Black women.; 07-03-26 11:10 PM
Josephbleau చెప్పారు...: Marh Analysis I is the same as Math Analysis I but taught under different faculty.; 07-03-26 11:14 PM
Jupiter చెప్పారు...: I should be more careful. Only a convex surface is described by a constraint equation. A folded surface requires a more complicated mathematical description.

"Sandy, the aurora is rising behind us
Those pier lights, our carnival life forever
Oh, love me tonight, for I may never see you again
Hey, Sandy, girl, my, my, my, my baby."

Sandy was a chipper little blue-eyed blonde, who lived a ways down the Hill, along the route I walked to Thomas Jefferson Junior High. She sat in front of me in algebra, and I thought she was extremely attractive. It never occurred to me to tell her so. But the mathematical description of her ass, in contact with that chair, most assuredly "exists", in the mathematical sense. In fact, it is also a function of time; at each moment of time, there is a constraint equation in x, y, and z describing the surface of her pert little butt, as pressed against that chair. Over time, it unfolds. It exists. Nothing that ever was, is no more. Look! It is there!; 07-03-26 11:16 PM
Josephbleau చెప్పారు...: “ Pondering on this, I was led to conclude that there must be a constraint equation in x, y and z that precisely described the surface of Sandy's ass”

Huggin and a chalkin O yes. Over the mountains, and over the great divide.; 07-03-26 11:23 PM
Original Mike చెప్పారు...: Well, I just fell another hour behind Madison (now 6 hours).; 08-03-26 3:20 AM
wendybar చెప్పారు...: DataRepublican (small r)
@DataRepublican
·
May 14, 2025
Replying to
@LeaderJohnThune
and
@POTUS
Hello Senator Thune,

Wow. Just wow.

Democrats didn't block Trump's nominees,
@SenateGOP
did. You had the majority. You failed.

Republicans rejected Trump's picks. That's not on Democrats. We aren't Marxists; we believe in historical fact. And the fact is, you torpedoed
@EagleEdMartin
over manufactured outrage about January 6, while ignoring actual violence your constituents face.

You don't get to revise the record. You own this.

You talk about being the party of personal accountability. Stop attending lobbyist steak dinners and start showing it.

https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1922521312444219504?s=20; 08-03-26 3:28 AM
Breezy చెప్పారు...: “UK Telegraph:
HMS Dragon mission delayed ‘because dockyard only works nine-to-five’ “

Of course! We can’t let any fear of our demise get in the way of our bangers and mash and a pint or two or three at the pub!; 08-03-26 6:07 AM
Humperdink చెప్పారు...: Having screwed up her own country, former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has moved lock, stock, and barrel to Sydney, Australia. Not a good look.

As an aside, lock, stock, and barrel is a description of parts of a muzzleloader. Maybe I should not have applied it to a gun grabber.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/world/new-zealand-australia-emigration-midlife-intl-hnk-dst; 08-03-26 6:44 AM
Little Excursion చెప్పారు...: Will be interesting to see what happens if US soldiers are killed with the help of Russia.; 08-03-26 6:49 AM
Humperdink చెప్పారు...: It’s been oft-quoted that politics is Hollywood for the ugly. Katie Couric attempted to dispel that notion by slobbering all over Gavin von Slick. Unfortunately the former PM of New Zealand subsequently presented herself front and center.; 08-03-26 6:58 AM
Enigma చెప్పారు...: Tony Gonzales has dropped out of the TX23 campaign, per the fallout of his affair with a staff. The gun guy Brandon Herrera will become the Republican candidate.

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/03/05/tony-gonzales-drops-out-republican-primary-texas-23rd-district-congress/

Brandon doing his thing:

https://images-cdn.9gag.com/photo/aYrrXxv_700b.jpg; 08-03-26 7:36 AM
rehajm చెప్పారు...: A veteran police and government security officer drive us around New Zealand for a few days and he carefully explained En Zed experimented with communism for a little while but had returned to responsible government where people are thriving again. I guess he was referring to that Aussie lady…

…unfortunately he also explained young people emigrate i. disturbing numbers…most headed for Australia. It sure felt that way as most of the younger people we encountered were from somewhere else, there on work visas or some kind of paid in residential status…; 08-03-26 7:39 AM
narciso చెప్పారు...: Well australia is following the stupid path under albanese; 08-03-26 7:42 AM
rehajm చెప్పారు...: …also said not really difficult to obtain a long gun, a bit of process what sounded like those fbi checks we do here for a security clearance- nose around the neighbors, make sure you aren’t cray cray, etc. Collective superiority abounds in regards to no handguns, even amongst the hunter crowd…; 08-03-26 7:43 AM
rehajm చెప్పారు...: …also surprised how much card playing goes on- lots of gin…; 08-03-26 7:44 AM
Rustygrommet చెప్పారు...: Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas said...
"Will be interesting to see what happens if US soldiers are killed with the help of Russia."

This seems to be the dominate theme being pushed by you morons. Although you paraphrased it the meme is that Russia is supplying Iran with up to date satellite intel on American and Israeli movements. What they don't seem to realize, both Russia and the left, is that Iran no longer has the missiles and drones to take advantage of this intelligence.; 08-03-26 7:51 AM
Humperdink చెప్పారు...: Having watched movie stars flee the U.S., I assumed it was only a matter of time before some Commie-Pinko politician of high rank would follow suit. But alas, not to be. Barack the Magnificent, along with his lovely bride Iron Mike come to mind. I just think they enjoy chirping from the mountaintop.; 08-03-26 7:52 AM
narciso చెప్పారు...: Where is the Russian fleet that supposedly intercepted the signals; 08-03-26 7:56 AM
Rustygrommet చెప్పారు...: Jaq.
Collateral damage happens when you build your active military installations, mortard. rockets, AA, right next to schools, hospitals and orphanages.
So it's not a matter of "we targeted", schools, and orphanages and hospitals. Our ordinance is extremely accurate and hits within a few feet of the target. The problem is that when the munitions stored at the site of the AA, missiles and mortars goes off. Thats when the collateral damage occurs. That is done on purpose for propaganda. Which in your case works very well. It is your mind that they are targeting and they hit a bullseye.; 08-03-26 7:58 AM
rehajm చెప్పారు...: …bet your sweet bippie Us leftie pols spend much of their leisure time overseas lecturing the unenlightened locals while badmouthing the good people back home. Also fun to drop in on Anne and Ellen and say hi, though once the mud shows up they all quietly sneak back home.; 08-03-26 8:05 AM
rehajm చెప్పారు...: Harry and Meghan are stuck with a more unique problem- having cut the British Royal umbilical cord then failing at their efforts to form a United States Royal family to dictate terms to the colonists, they somehow need to get back in the good graces and still save (horse) face…; 08-03-26 8:09 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) చెప్పారు...: What they don't seem to realize, both Russia and the left, is that Iran no longer has the missiles and drones to take advantage of this intelligence.

My hunch is that the communication between Iran and Putin also is not as secure as they assumed it was. Trump pretty much laughed off a question about it aboard AF1.; 08-03-26 8:17 AM
Rocco చెప్పారు...: Enigma said...
“Tony Gonzales has dropped out of the TX23 campaign, per the fallout of his affair with a staff. The gun guy Brandon Herrera will become the Republican candidate.”

If nothing else, I am looking forward to the political equivalent of the White Claw Penetration Test (WCPT) on the floor of Congress.; 08-03-26 8:18 AM
NKP చెప్పారు...: That's a wonderful photograph! Also a perfect picture of my state of mind,

Lost my best friend of 60 years, Friday night. He was 86 and until six months ago; as vibrant as most men in their 30s. In the gym almost every day and always in motion. Not a wrinkle on his face.

Came down with something on a cruise. Turned into pneumonia. Ten long days in the hospital. Despite his best effort and my relentless coaching, his body resisted recovery. Then, a dianosis of pulmonary fibrosis. Death sentence.

Weight since high school was a steady170. At he end he was 110. He understood the inevitable but fought it until his tortured stuggle for every breath wss silenced.

Althhough unresponsive as the color of life drained away, his final gifts to his family and me were profoundly moving.

With just a day left, he opened his eyes and announced that he wanted to marry his wife again. Within a couple of hours, a pastor appeared and his wife found the white dress she'd worn on their wedding day in Plevin, Bulgaria, 33 years ago (the dress still fit perfectly). His daughters propped him up and managed to get him into a clean dress shirt

The wedding lasted a few minutes and there was great joy in the eyes of re-newed man and wife. Promises made. Promises kept. Within minutes, he lay back down and continued his final journey.

I sat beside him for another hour and held his hand while I talked. His eyelids flickered once or twice and he made a sound that must have been "yes" when his wife asked if he wanted more morphine.

I leaned over and kissed the top of his head and told him, I'd see him down the road, if he was gone when I came back.

About1:30 in the morning, his wife called. I expected notification that the end had come. But, No... Instead, she said, "He's wide awake and he wants to talk with you." So we talked.. I could not understand a word he said other than "love" and "friend". After about 20 minutes, his wife took the phone and said he was sleeping again. She told me the next morning that he died not long after we'd talked.

I thought I was ready for the news. Wrong. I got on the phone and inventoried my roster of fellow survivors. All accounted for; alert, healthy and open to the idea that the best may be yet to come. Dreamers gotta dream...

Appologies for the drama. I had to write something.; 08-03-26 8:23 AM
Jaq చెప్పారు...: Canadian Prepper

You might think he's crazy, but he's not an idiot.; 08-03-26 9:09 AM
john mosby చెప్పారు...: Rustygrommet: "mortard"

I realize that's a typo, but it shouldn't be. I think you have coined a new word for high-angle projectile stupidity!

Used in a sentence: "Gavin Newsom has burst over the national stage like a mortard barrage." CC, JSM; 08-03-26 9:19 AM
john mosby చెప్పారు...: NKP, that is quite poignant and encouraging. Thanks. CC, JSM; 08-03-26 9:21 AM
narciso చెప్పారు...: Like mr creosote; 08-03-26 9:31 AM
Iman చెప్పారు...: Sturdy stock, NKP. That brought a tear to my eye.

A life well-lived by a man in full.; 08-03-26 9:44 AM
narciso చెప్పారు...: HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NEWS - Don Surber https://share.google/T8OXHPYBkEB2VOySV; 08-03-26 9:52 AM
rehajm చెప్పారు...: …excepting the physical stress we should all hope for an exit as graceful and fortunate as that. A good one lost…; 08-03-26 10:51 AM
rehajm చెప్పారు...: I think you have coined a new word for high-angle projectile stupidity!

I’ll do my part to get that one accepted…; 08-03-26 10:53 AM
Rustygrommet చెప్పారు...: (I meant to do that); 08-03-26 12:25 PM
stunned చెప్పారు...: La Grazia is an elegant film by Paolo Sorrentino on a subject of euthanasia. It will also show you what it means to dress well. But country bumpkins will have to turn their subtitles on.; 08-03-26 12:28 PM
Michael McNeil చెప్పారు...: The lunar gateway space station is also dead.; 08-03-26 5:29 PM

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