Althouse: Sunrise.

9 જુલાઈ, 2026

Sunrise.

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Dave Begley કહ્યું...: The Dem candidate for the US house in Omaha is Denise Powell. Her pitch is that she is a “pissed off mom” who will stand up to Trump. That’s it.

Last week she posted a video on social media that she reads “fairy smut” in order to cope with the horribleness of Trump. She urged her followers to do the same.

I had never heard of “fairy smut” until the NY Post ran this story.

None of the local media has reported this newsworthy story. I contacted both the OWH and leftwing Nebraska Examiner to have them report the story. They refuse.

So, if a Dem candidate says something very stupid that reveals her mental instability and the media doesn’t report it, did it really happen?

Decades ago a GOP candidate for Senate, David Karnes, said America needed fewer farmers. He lost.

I already had a low opinion of the media, but this really takes the cake.; 9/7/26 06:56 PM
tcrosse કહ્યું...: Smut is Tums spelled backwards. Does that help?; 9/7/26 07:00 PM
Narr કહ્યું...: #3 is watercolory.; 9/7/26 07:12 PM
tcrosse કહ્યું...: #3 is very Monet-like.; 9/7/26 07:21 PM
Big Mike કહ્યું...: I turned 80 today. Our sons and their families are coming in this weekend to help celebrate. Wife and I “pre-celebrated” with a tour of archeological sites in Greece and Türkiye, including the ruins of Troy.

BTW, it turns out that “Türkiye” means “land of the Turks.” Seems reasonable to me.; 9/7/26 07:21 PM
NKP કહ્યું...: Nice. #1 is tits.; 9/7/26 07:24 PM
NKP કહ્યું...: Re. Türkiye - Names are important. We should respect what people and countries want to be called.; 9/7/26 07:30 PM
tcrosse કહ્યું...: ""Re. Türkiye - Names are important. We should respect what people and countries want to be called."

Does this mean we should extend the same courtesy to Italia, Deutschland, Belge, Nederland, Norge, Osterreich, Espana, and Magyarorszag?; 9/7/26 07:45 PM
Gospace કહ્યું...: I ordered and received a new flagpole. Much heavier duty then one I had- that blew down in a storm. So needs a bigger hole in the ground. It's also 10' taller. Was going to pull the old concrete out and mount the new mounting sleeve there. Then looked up at the power line, and decided I wanted it 5 or so feet further away. So got out my trusty post hole digger and started a hole. Got about 8" down and hit a rock. Moved the soil away and discovered- not a rock. A pipe, 3 or 4" diameter. About 8' from the road. We have no underground utilities here. No natural gas lines, no buried telecommunications cables, no buried electrical lines- and 8" is way too shallow for anything liquid. And- we don't have municipal water anyhow. Or fire hydrants. I've worked at a number of facilities and the rule is- if you're digging and hit a pipe, cable, or conduit- 𝑺𝑻𝑶𝑷! Just stop, and call in someone who either has an underground utility map or the tools to trace it. Don't go further, don't try to follow it along by digging carefully, let the experts do their job.

So I called 811- the number here for this kind of thing. They'll be out by Tuesday to investigate. Since there shouldn't be anything there, I suspect they'll tell me I can go ahead and break it or whatever. I could actually put my backhoe to use! But I'm not going to do that until I'm cleared for it. Just in case...; 9/7/26 07:57 PM
Maynard કહ્યું...: Happy Birthday, Big Mike.; 9/7/26 07:59 PM
RCOCEAN II કહ્યું...: Actually names are not important. No turks were injured by calling Turkey "Turkey" for 500 years.; 9/7/26 07:59 PM
RCOCEAN II કહ્યું...: Ignorant Rubes call japan "Japan". Cool, broad-minded people call them 日本; 9/7/26 08:04 PM
RCOCEAN II કહ્યું...: I tuned into the Karolína Muchová v. Coco Wimbleton match and thought my sound had gone. Oh silly me, I had accessed a GB broadcast and wasn't forced to hear the non-stop chatter that i usually get on US TV networks.

What a relief.; 9/7/26 08:09 PM
RCOCEAN II કહ્યું...: Also, watch the world cup on Spanish Speaking channels if you can. Far superior to the crap you get on Fox.; 9/7/26 08:11 PM
Dave Begley કહ્યું...: Happy 80th Big Mike. Epic!; 9/7/26 08:16 PM
narciso કહ્યું...: Happy birthday big mike; 9/7/26 08:16 PM
Iman કહ્યું...: Congratulations, Big Mike! And you seem to be still going strong.; 9/7/26 08:17 PM
Iman કહ્યું...: Spelling Bee Moderator: Your word is ‘seaward’.

9 year old Contestant: C-U-N…

Moderator: Please No Jesus Stop!; 9/7/26 08:22 PM
Peachy+2 કહ્યું...: Fact that MS NOW - ..er... I mean.. BS NOW - are obsessing over the "White Nationalists!" who were marching around DC with faces hidden behind their silly white masks and khakis - --
provides clues as to who they really are.; 9/7/26 08:29 PM
Peachy+2 કહ્યું...: Happy Birthday Big Mike!; 9/7/26 08:30 PM
narciso કહ્યું...: ☕️ SELFIE VIGILANTES ☙ Thursday, July 9, 2026 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠 https://share.google/JHAtT7RhqBwrsWGD0; 9/7/26 08:31 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit કહ્યું...: I like the top best.; 9/7/26 08:35 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit કહ્યું...: Happy birthday BM.; 9/7/26 08:36 PM
Iman કહ્યું...: Cocaine Mitch: Proof of Life

https://x.com/i/status/2075181386881987071; 9/7/26 08:54 PM
Bushman of the Kohlrabi કહ્યું...: Happy Birthday Big Mike. May you keep fighting the good fight for many years to come!; 9/7/26 09:09 PM
Jamie કહ્યું...: Happy birthday, Big Mike! Many happy returns!; 9/7/26 09:14 PM
Jamie કહ્યું...: I just read all of our host's new format instructions. It seems we are unruly, and the responsibilities of moderation are onerous. I'm getting better at remembering not to do the HTML tag thing, but I apologize in advance for any slipups.

What about links? I myself seldom use hotlinks but they are another way for things to go awry.; 9/7/26 09:35 PM
Josephbleau કહ્યું...: And also Happy Birthday Big Mike.; 9/7/26 09:51 PM
Hassayamper કહ્યું...: Re. Türkiye - Names are important. We should respect what people and countries want to be called.

This message needs to be delivered to all the Latin Americans and smug NPR watchers who sneer that "America is a CONTINENT, not a country!"; 9/7/26 09:53 PM
Peachy+2 કહ્યું...: Viktor Marx is the joke candidate running for governor with an R behind his name. He will face Phil Weiser (D) - who is horrible in every way but he will win.; 9/7/26 10:32 PM
Mr. T. કહ્યું...: Peachy+2 said

"Fact that MS NOW - ..er... I mean.. BS NOW - are obsessing over the "White Nationalists!" who were marching around DC with faces hidden behind their silly white masks and khakis - --
provides clues as to who they really are"

Well if history is any guide, they're a bunch of leftist members of the Lincoln Pedophile Project (TM)...

Ask KKKak-he would know. They're his employers.; 9/7/26 10:41 PM
Mr. T. કહ્યું...: Dave Begley-

You think that is bad?

In Wisconsin, state assembly transurrectionist socialist candidate "Katrina" Deville has one of her staffers and fellow transurrectionist gadfly "Teha" Delaurelle post on social for eveyone to "kill your local republican. " Hong -fsr left socialist candidate for governor has follwed their account.

The Wisconsin Democrat party has said absolutely nothing (why so quiet Ben Wikler? To busy trying to cover up convicted sex predator Adam Westbrook?)

The far left papers-Captial Times, Milwaukee Journal Sentinal, Post-Crescent, Sheyboygen Press, Green Bay Gazette- all of them are ignoring the story. Of course pink slime States Newsroom fake "news" outlet Wisconsin Examiner has nothing to say.; 9/7/26 10:52 PM
Smilin' Jack કહ્યું...: Congrats Mike. Hope you feel better about that number than Trump did.

Those photos make it look like the sun is rising over Picnic Point, which is west of where you are. Imagine the rethinking we’d have to do if the sun really did start rising in the west.; 9/7/26 11:36 PM
Jupiter કહ્યું...: I'm pondering on the 1/2 +7 rule. This is the rule that says it is OK for a man to sexually pursue a younger woman, provided that her age is half of his, plus seven.
There are evident reasons, why a young woman and an older man might make a good mating couple. And indeed, I think that the rule assumes at least the possibility of marriage.

But this makes me wonder. Obviously, there is a cultural approval of same-age couplings, despite the possible advantages of an age difference. It occurred to me, that this might be a result of schooling practices; in American public schools, adolescents are grouped by age.

But this made me wonder, what about Romeo and Juliet? Did they attend Thomas Jefferson Junior High School, like I did? Probably not. So, where did they meet? This young Capulet, and her beloved Montague? Why weren't they channeled into acceptable marriages? How did they even come to know each other?; 9/7/26 11:51 PM
Jupiter કહ્યું...: Maybe they met at church?
"And brother said he recollected when he, and Tom, and Billie Joe
Put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show.
And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last Sunday night?
"I'll have another piece-a apple pie; you know, it don't seem right
I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge
And now you tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge."; 9/7/26 11:56 PM
Jupiter કહ્યું...: There are imponderable mysteries in Romeo and Juliet. And there are imponderable mysteries in Ode to Billy Joe. Perhaps "impenetrable" would be a better term than imponderable.; 10/7/26 12:00 AM
Jupiter કહ્યું...: You know, a bunch of boys don't put a frog down the back of another boy. They put the frog down the back of somebody's little sister. And a few years later, one of them marries her. Unless he jumps off a bridge.; 10/7/26 12:03 AM
gadfly કહ્યું...: Peachy notes Viktor Marx is the joke candidate running for Colorado governor with an R behind his name. Marine Corps veteran Victor Marx won the GOP primary for governor on Thursday, inching past a state senator who had the establishment’s backing.

He has said his abusive stepfather effectively forced Viktor, at 7 years old, to kill a man. Barbara Kirkmeyer, who finished behind the unlucky winner, thanked her supporters and volunteers in a statement Thursday evening, signing off by saying, “I’m still proud of the campaign we ran … and, for the record, I still haven’t killed anyone.”; 10/7/26 12:06 AM
Jupiter કહ્યું...: I recall, when I was 11, which would have been 1965, we went back to Iowa to visit my parents' families. One day, I went out riding on the hay truck, with some little cousin my own age. We were riding up on top of the bales of hay, while a crew of teenage boys were tossing bales up onto the truck with baling hooks. They were talking about the riots down to Cairo, on the Mississippi, which they attributed to Xers.

Sitting up on top of the hay truck, and listening to all this, I told my little cousin that "They shouldn't use that word!". Like Althouse, I had somehow come to imagine that America and black people would get along just fine, if only no one ever used that word!. I suppose we should also eschew italics. Then, indeed, the World may slowly come to a point of perfection.

My young cousin, who could not have been any older than I was, appraised the 18-year-olds tossing bales onto the truck behind us, who seemed like giants to me, and said "None a them has ever even seen a Xer".
Girls grow up faster than boys do.; 10/7/26 12:15 AM
Jupiter કહ્યું...: And yes, reflecting on the matter in later years, I came to realize that I had fallen completely and irrevocably in love with her, at that precise moment. Like the moment when you inhale a single particle of some virus. You exhale, and go on with your life, but it is not the same. You are not the same.

I went to Iowa again, in 2020, with my wife and children. It was a family reunion, so she may have been present, but if so, I didn't know. I don't remember her name, or whose daughter she was.
As my life winds down, I have taken a certain solace in the Bhuddist view, that there is a wheel. There are many women I loved, and wanted to marry, at one time or another. But I also feel that marriage is for a lifetime. So, if a lifetime is just one turn of the wheel, then perhaps those loves are still possible. Our souls may meet again. No?
But there is also a certain satisfaction, in having made one good life, with one good woman. Thus far.; 10/7/26 12:39 AM
Jupiter કહ્યું...: Of course, the Bhuddists say that the whole point is to let go of the wheel, to stop going around and around. Don't try to have that perfect, lifelong meeting of souls. However sweet it may be, it is merely an illusion. Or, more precisely, no matter how sweet it may be, it is -- better? Sweeter? -- to refrain from desiring it. To refrain from desire is preferable to obtaining that which might be desired. But if that is true, what does "preferable" mean? It is better to be nothing, that feels no pain, than to be something, that feels pain along with pleasure.
Yeah, OK. I get it. But I think maybe I'll take a few more turns.; 10/7/26 12:52 AM
Jupiter કહ્યું...: Epater le Bhuddois.; 10/7/26 12:58 AM
Lazarus કહ્યું...: If I remember the movie correctly, Romeo and Juliet met at the gas station where Leguizamo got shanked.; 10/7/26 01:07 AM
Tina Trent કહ્યું...: Jupiter, I had a great professor who gave us Ode to Billy Joe and had us try to define the poetic meter and form she used and find other poems throughout history like it - and maybe even a poetic form she used directly. I came up with some Edgar Guest, but that's not quite right. Then he had us try to write our own poems copying her meter, rhyme and form. Young people's form poems are always better than free verse.

This was before computers carried such content. It was haunting how her rural cadence was easier to explicate than the written words and how many of the poems we found had similar themes.

Crudely, it was like trying to dissect a frog that kept coming back to life, but without diminishing the power of the song (nor the frog). Double Villanelle? It was also a lesson in universal Western struggles that go back to the Greeks.

That's what education used to be. I looked again tonight and found many classic country songs that relied on old poetic forms, some understandably Scottish. It was great fun. Also one of the best songs of all time. Thanks. I have to go listen to Wichata Lineman over and over now.; 10/7/26 03:15 AM
Enigma કહ્યું...: If Turkey can become Türkiye, there's now space for renaming other countries after birds to fill the void. I nominate:

UK = Chicken
Australia = Chicken
Canada = Chicken
New Zealand = Chicken
Spain = Chicken
Germany = Chicken
France = Pigeon; 10/7/26 04:27 AM
Saint Croix કહ્યું...: Wow, I love that second photograph. Very cool, Althouse. Water and sky. Night and light. Beautiful.; 10/7/26 04:30 AM
Saint Croix કહ્યું...: The third one is also outstanding. Reflected clouds. Clouds in the sky, clouds in the water. On my phone, I skipped right over that third one. But on my computer, I'm really seeing it now. Nice.; 10/7/26 05:05 AM
Saint Croix કહ્યું...: If Turkey can become Türkiye

Names are so funny. In my F3 work-out group, everybody gets a nickname. And you don't get to choose your nickname. And if you complain about your nickname, you get a worse one.

A buddy of mine, a doctor, he wasn't even complaining about his nickname. His wife was complaining. And that was enough. He got a new nickname. He is now Assless Chaps.; 10/7/26 05:10 AM
john mosby કહ્યું...: Aren't all chaps assless? CC, JSM; 10/7/26 05:22 AM
Christopher B કહ્યું...: Regarding Turkey and Türkiye

What baloney. Nobody calls an imported Mercedes a 'Kraftwagen' because it was made in Germany. Turkey is the English word for the country in question. Using the 'local' pronunciation is the usual midwit attempt to sound sophisticated and informed.; 10/7/26 05:24 AM
Saint Croix કહ્યું...: Aren't all chaps assless?

AI says...

There is no physical difference between chaps and "assless chaps." By definition, all chaps are open at the back. The term "assless chaps" is a redundancy. The difference lies purely in the context of use:

Chaps: Sturdy leather leg coverings with an open seat, traditionally worn over pants (like jeans) by cowboys or motorcyclists to protect against weather, thorns, and abrasion.

"Assless Chaps": A slang phrase referring to wearing the garment without pants underneath. This provocative styling originated primarily in the LGBTQ and leather/BDSM communities as a bold fashion or fetish statement.; 10/7/26 05:26 AM
tim maguire કહ્યું...: ** NKP said...Re. Türkiye - Names are important. We should respect what people and countries want to be called.**

I couldn’t agree more. Their capital city is called Constantinople.; 10/7/26 05:26 AM
Saint Croix કહ્યું...: Also, assless chaps is funny. And chaps is not funny.; 10/7/26 05:27 AM
Howard કહ્યું...: Yeah, that's right, Jupiter. Fell in love with my first cousin on a summer visit to Cleveland Ohio when we were eight years old. My wife of 45-years looks pretty similar.

The Buddha philosophy of non-attachment is for pussies. Suffering is the price you have to pay to pursue desirable outcomes and relationships. Suffering keeps you humble. Attachments, especially relationships, are what makes life worth it.

In Buddhism, non-attachment (known in Pali as nekkhamma or viraga) is the practice of engaging fully with life without clinging to outcomes, people, or fixed ideas of self. It is not about apathy or ceasing to care; rather, it is recognizing impermanence, which ultimately liberates the mind from suffering (dukkha).; 10/7/26 05:35 AM
Saint Croix કહ્યું...: Bottle-throw allegation jolts Maine Senate race

A progressive advocacy group on Tuesday accused former Maine Senate President Troy Jackson of striking a female colleague with a bottle he threw during a state Senate caucus dispute years ago, complicating his emergence as the leading Democrat contender to replace Graham Platner on the November ballot against Republican Sen. Susan Collins.

That reminded me of that Batgirl vigilante in California who, allegedly, dumped potatoes on her husband's head in an argument, back when they were married..

At least Batgirl was smart enough to do her domestic violence in the privacy of her own home. The damn Commie up at Maine threw a water bottle in public. In a committee meeting! That's not how you do crimes, dummy.

I was not jolted by the water bottle incident, by the way. That is so 1981. You want to jolt me now, I need murder, rape, attempted murder, one of the big felonies. This is the summer of Nazi Commie Rapist. You want to shock me with water bottle? That's not even a bruise. We used to throw ice cubes at each other, when I was a kid. Water bottle.; 10/7/26 05:44 AM
Humperdink કહ્યું...: France beats Morocco in the World Cup and riots explode. In France? Nope. Morocco? Nope. In the UK of course.

Immigrants from third world countries, it’s what’s for dinner! (As opposed to say dogs and cats.); 10/7/26 06:12 AM
Jersey Fled કહ્યું...: “ Using the 'local' pronunciation is the usual midwit attempt to sound sophisticated and informed.”

Brings back memories of listening to NPR on my way to work in my 1972 Ford Pinto.; 10/7/26 06:57 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) કહ્યું...: Glad to see Spencer Pratt is focusing on election integrity as his cause going forward. He is applying the well known and respected “appearance of impropriety” standard to how elections are conducted. California of course is especially grievous in restricting any form of transparency or security to be applied, to the point they are suing the DOJ Civil Rights Division rather than furnishing the current voter rolls as required under existing law. Pratt asserts that so few people participate in voting because they have lost faith in the system the process and the way the DNC-Corporate Media endlessly parrots the “no PROOF of WIDESPREAD voting fraud” which the people rightly see as a smug refusal to even acknowledge that a problem exists. Although the same people saying “no evidence” are also the people saying Trump was illegitimately elected.; 10/7/26 07:13 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) કહ્યું...: Tcrosse, that reminds that last week I heard that boobytrap reversed is party boob and I smile every time I think of it.; 10/7/26 07:16 AM
boatbuilder કહ્યું...: Hey Gospace--your caution is well-advised.

We are in a rural area and have a barn, with electrical service, several hundred yards from our house. We are having a pool installed, and the pool company called our Call Before You Dig and the utility people came out and marked our gas and electrical lines. But no marking for the line to the barn (which logic would suggest runs in the vicinity of the where the pool and pool plumbing and electrical were to go). The pool people just shrugged and said that it was probably privately installed, so the utility wouldn't have any record. They apparently have some means of locating the line, and the pool got dug without anyone getting zapped. But the fact that CBYD didn't flag it is not particularly comforting for people doing their own work.; 10/7/26 07:21 AM
boatbuilder કહ્યું...: Does that mean that we should insist that the spanish-speakers stop referring to us as "Los Estados Unidos?"; 10/7/26 07:27 AM
tcrosse કહ્યું...: This is the season for Democrat post mortems. The correct technical term for their current state is that they don't know whether to shit, run, or go blind.; 10/7/26 07:30 AM
Iman કહ્યું...: Istanbul. Not Constantinople.; 10/7/26 07:44 AM
tcrosse કહ્યું...: Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks.; 10/7/26 07:55 AM
boatbuilder કહ્યું...: Whenever Romeo and Juliet is discussed I think of the Dire Straits song. Which has nothing to do with Shakespeare, but is a wonderful tune about unrequited love.; 10/7/26 08:04 AM
Saint Croix કહ્યું...: happy birthday BM; 10/7/26 08:29 AM
Original Mike કહ્યું...: "I was not jolted by the water bottle incident, by the way. That is so 1981."

The water bottle incident.
January 30, 1982.
Wisconsin vs North Dakota Fighting Souix.
I was at that game. Good times!
College hockey just isn't the same without the old-time rivalries.; 10/7/26 09:51 AM
Rustygrommet કહ્યું...: Big Mike! Happy effin birthday!!; 10/7/26 10:11 AM
Narr કહ્યું...: HBD, BM.; 10/7/26 10:21 AM
Hassayamper કહ્યું...: *Using the 'local' pronunciation is the usual midwit attempt to sound sophisticated and informed.*

Remember the way the Birkenstock crowd used to pronounce "Nicaragua" and "El Salvador" back in the Reagan years? Laughably excruciating, or excruciatingly laughable, in both English and Spanish.; 10/7/26 12:00 PM
Hassayamper કહ્યું...: *Does that mean that we should insist that the spanish-speakers stop referring to us as "Los Estados Unidos?"*

I'm OK with the country being called "Estados Unidos" but I do not like being called an "estadounidense". I'm an "americano", dammit. The Latin American types like to say they are all americanos too, because Spanish-speakers recognize only six separate continents rather than seven, of which "America" is one. But they don't get to choose our own endonym, any more than someone from Albany can tell a Manhattanite he isn't a "New Yorker" because there is also a New York State.; 10/7/26 12:05 PM
Leland કહ્યું...: Been a long time gone, Constantinople.; 10/7/26 12:16 PM
Tina Trent કહ્યું...: Good advice, Gospace. Also never use a metal ladder to work on gutters or paint near the ceramic power line insulator bell covering the line coming in from the street -- or don't do work near it at all if you don't really know what you're doing. If the ladder slips into it, you could die. Call the electric company first. My husband had an unforgettably haunting case. Some cases are like that.

Ask any rookie cop (outside Flint, I imagine) about their first traumatic experience on the job, and they'll usually say arriving at a high speed car accident. That's something to consider when a cop stops you for speeding.; 10/7/26 12:29 PM
Hassayamper કહ્યું...: *Remember the way the Birkenstock crowd used to pronounce "Nicaragua" and "El Salvador" back in the Reagan years?*

The last time I listened to NPR, a good ten years ago or more, they were still doing it. I wonder if that is still the case.; 10/7/26 12:41 PM
Smilin' Jack કહ્યું...: When I run into one of those boobs, I ask them what the capital of Germany is. When they answer “Bayrrleen”, I tell them, “No, dumbass, there’s no such thing as Germany. It’s Deutschland, you provincial hick.” I make a lot of new friends that way.; 10/7/26 01:28 PM

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