Althouse: Sunrise.

18 ఆగస్టు, 2026

Sunrise.

61 కామెంట్‌లు:

Narr చెప్పారు...: If that could be bottled, you could make a fortune.; 18-08-26 6:33 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/fauci-aide-pleads-guilty-conspiracy-shielded-ecohealth-records-countered-lab-leak; 18-08-26 7:07 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: No 3; 18-08-26 7:08 PM
Iman చెప్పారు...: Glorious pics, ev’ry one of ‘em!; 18-08-26 7:09 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ చెప్పారు...: Soaring diesel prices rip across US economy ~ FT

"A surge in diesel prices is dealing a powerful blow to industrial America, pushing up costs for businesses and consumers across the US ahead of midterm elections."

"The pump price of diesel — the lifeblood of the economy because of its essential role in powering industry and agriculture — hit $5.47 a gallon on Tuesday, approaching its all-time high of $5.82 as wars in the Middle East and Europe hobble production and throttle global supplies."

The most striking thing about this article is that the real cost of the Iran war is no longer confined to the Pentagon’s budget.

Diesel is now close to its record high, freight and farming costs are rising, fertilizer has become more expensive, and those costs are spreading through food prices, retail prices and the wider industrial economy. Higher energy prices also complicate the inflation outlook and keep pressure on interest rates. This article is describing exactly how a military conflict turns into a broad economic tax on ordinary households and businesses.

And this is only the US side of the equation. Disruption around the Strait of Hormuz, damaged energy infrastructure and constrained refining capacity affect global shipping, fuel, agriculture and manufacturing. Countries that had nothing to do with the decision to fight are paying part of the bill.

The precise total is difficult to calculate, and I would be cautious about pretending there is one definitive number. But once direct military spending, depleted weapons inventories, higher fuel and transport costs, food inflation and the knock-on effects on financing conditions are considered together, the economic burden is clearly enormous.

What is much harder to identify is the economic return. That is why the accountability question matters. So far, the scale of that accountability seems completely out of proportion to the scale of the damage.; 18-08-26 7:44 PM
Iman చెప్పారు...: IEE™ dishes sub-standard, cherry-picked excrement and he’s doing his midwit best to serve his masters in Tehran and what remains of the Democrat party.; 18-08-26 8:01 PM
Iman చెప్పారు...: Calling him a lowlife corksoaker is too generous.; 18-08-26 8:02 PM
Achilles చెప్పారు...: Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...

Soaring diesel prices rip across US economy ~ FT

"A surge in diesel prices is dealing a powerful blow to industrial America, pushing up costs for businesses and consumers across the US ahead of midterm elections."

LOL!

They are still lower than when Biden was president.

As opposed to Democrats in 20 states who are suing to withhold 17 million CDL records from the federal government to protect their corporate slave holders who imported foreign drivers to keep wages down.

We see you and your absolute dishonesty.

You are just a dishonest piece of shit and a traitor.; 18-08-26 8:05 PM
Rt41Rebel చెప్పారు...: I’m happy to report that Jim Swartzel has defeated a field of very well-funded PAC carpetbaggers to secure the R nomination for Byron Donald’s FL-19 house seat.; 18-08-26 8:18 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: Reminds of semanticleo; 18-08-26 8:42 PM
Peachy+2 చెప్పారు...: Vindman(D) = Loser. Loo oo oooo... oo ooo... zzzerrrrr.; 18-08-26 8:44 PM
Peachy+2 చెప్పారు...: Florida is what happens when you clean up the voter rolls; 18-08-26 8:45 PM
Peachy+2 చెప్పారు...: "IT'S OFFICIAL: Traitor Alexander Vindman (D) was part of the conspiracy to paint Donald J. Trump as a Russian agent — AND HE JUST LOST his US Senate Democratic primary"

There really are not enough F*U's for Vindman(D).
I'm doing a little happy dance right now.
woot.; 18-08-26 8:49 PM
Peachy+2 చెప్పారు...: FL - Pollsters got it wrong again.; 18-08-26 8:55 PM
Mark చెప్పారు...: Iman and Achilles are angry.
They hate the truth.; 18-08-26 9:00 PM
Peachy+2 చెప్పారు...: @bennyjohnson
JUST IN: Trump Impeachment Hoax Architect Alexander Vindman just got CRUSHED in his primary by over 11 points.

He outspent Angie Nixon $16.3 million to $975,000… and still lost badly."; 18-08-26 9:03 PM
Peachy+2 చెప్పారు...: Mark- Illegals who don't speak English are killing American citizens on our roads in record numbers because the corrupt democrat party allows illegals to drive commercial big rig trucks.; 18-08-26 9:06 PM
Caroline చెప్పారు...: I like photo number two. What is really extraordinary, however, is your faithfulness in showing up at sunrise day in, day out.; 18-08-26 9:14 PM
Hassayamper చెప్పారు...: I will never again, for the rest of my life, trust government doctors.; 18-08-26 9:20 PM
MadTownGuy చెప్పారు...: Your car may not be fuel efficient, but your tires have to be now - LA Times

"California approved the nation’s first efficiency standard for replacement car tires, forcing new sets sold in the state to match the low rolling resistance of original equipment by 2033.

...

Energy efficient replacement tires likely will cost drivers more up front — about $26 per set by 2033 — but this will be offset by the fuel economy savings long term, according to the commission. The agency estimates that by 2033, drivers will experience net savings of $153 over the life of their tires. In terms of carbon dioxide emissions and air pollution, the rule will be the equivalent of taking 400,000 cars off the road each year.

The commission sponsored studies that found no relationship between energy efficiency and shorter lifespans or safety issues for tires. Still, after industry and car enthusiast groups raised concerns, they relaxed requirements for special long-life tires and for tires with increased “wet grip,” or traction in the rain. They also created exemptions for certain types of tires including competition tires and winter tires and instituted minimum wet grid standards for all tires on California roads."

...

Commissioners unanimously approved the rule, with commissioner Nancy Skinner noting that 30% of available tires today already comply with the 2033 requirements.

“Between now and [then], the manufacturers have the ability to bring up from that 30% to 100%,” she said.

“As a dual EV driver, I look at that number on my dashboard, and I love to see that number to go up in terms of my overall range,” commissioner Andrew McAllister said, in reference to how EVs display the car’s changing mileage based on energy use and conditions. “That’s what would happen if you get low rolling-resistance tires.”

The studies were sponsored by the commission that wrote the regulations. Sure, no boss there.; 18-08-26 9:21 PM
MadTownGuy చెప్పారు...: Ugh... 'bias' and oh how I dislike autoincorrect.; 18-08-26 9:22 PM
Hassayamper చెప్పారు...: ***

The pump price of diesel ... hit $5.47 a gallon on Tuesday, approaching its all-time high of $5.82

***

You don't say! When was it $5.82, and why?; 18-08-26 9:22 PM
Mason G చెప్పారు...: Your car may not be fuel efficient, but your tires have to be now - LA Times

According to the AAA:

"In California, the survey found only 13% of vehicles had four properly inflated tires and nearly 60 percent of vehicles had at least one under-inflated tire. Like the national survey, 17 percent of vehicles in California had at least one tire under-inflated by 8 psi."

Next up: Mandatory tire pressure checks.; 18-08-26 9:40 PM
Peachy+2 చెప్పారు...: Chris Cuomo lol; 18-08-26 9:42 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ చెప్పారు...: US sells 30-year bonds at highest borrowing costs since 2001 ~ FT
"Yields have jumped amid concerns over mounting public debt and persistently high inflation"

That's what erosion of trust gets you.

For some perspective at how meaningful rates are given the world's excessive leverage, for the US alone, at $40T in Federal debt, every 10 bps move in average borrowing cost is an additional $40B in interest expense. A full 100 bps would be 1.25% of GDP. This excludes all corporate and personal borrowing. Expand this to the world at some $350T in debt and every 10 bps move is an additional $350B in interest expense.; 18-08-26 9:55 PM
Dr Weevil చెప్పారు...: John Konrad has a great tweet on Vindman's loss - with a cartoon. Check it out here: link.; 18-08-26 11:47 PM
wendybar చెప్పారు...: RIP Frank Beard, the only beardless guy in ZZ Top.; 19-08-26 2:42 AM
Not an oldster. చెప్పారు...: I honestly think Rosie ODonnell might be a pedophile after watching her fixate on a nasally but wide eyed lil Asian girl who was described as delicious...
Watch that clip? Grooming101

I love you
I want to give you everything you want
Here's a bike
Come back on my show again
Can i have a high5 Can I have a high five Can I have a hug...
Here comes a nice man with a present a bike
Next time it will be a bigger present

The way she led the child along grunting yeah to her line of questions... I hate it when ppl exploit kids straight or gay and Rosie likes them young and controllable

She started out by revealing her youngest child's medical history, birthplace, a photo onscreen, etc. She is like a blogging grandma who needs daily content and will exploit those close to bring attention to herself...

Distasteful when a husband uses his trophy wife that way... pitiful when it's imposed on kids who can't consent.

The kid had NO singing talent. That's the tell...
Protect the kids. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸; 19-08-26 4:30 AM
Enigma చెప్పారు...: I like photo #3 as it stands, but #5 could be great with a partial crop of the dark areas.

LRR tires: Grip has always been the issue. The road contact patch must be large and consistent -- a circular tire must constantly flatten in one small area to match the flat road. As tire underinflation is indeed common, I suspect this will not equate to "400,000 cars off the road." Drivers will instead underinflate their skinny Prius-like tires and they'll once again flatten out to match the flat road.

For many years, CA gas pumps were required to have a double-hose vapor recovery system. This was supposed to suck vaporized gas back down and reduce the amount wasted to the atmosphere when filling a tank. This system didn't work.

The law of diminishing returns is real; the utopian left always makes the perfect the enemy of the good.; 19-08-26 4:40 AM
Humperdink చెప్పారు...: We can’t mock Alex Vindman enough. When I first saw Vindman testify, I asked myself if there were any physical standards in the military. He looked like a beached whale.; 19-08-26 4:48 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit చెప్పారు...: Vindman : Are we the baddies?; 19-08-26 4:55 AM
wendybar చెప్పారు...: Restricted Daily
@RestrictedDaily
·
11h
My nephew asked me if trans people can turn into cars too.

I told him, “I don’t know anymore.” 😂

https://x.com/RestrictedDaily/status/2089845630139023632?s=20; 19-08-26 5:09 AM
Humperdink చెప్పారు...: Randy Fine (R-Florida) defeated his anti-Semite challenger for Fine’s house seat.

His opponent Dan Bilzerian ran a shocking commercial — which referred to Fine (R-Fla.) as a “fat Jew,” “Shylock,” “Jewish supremacist,” “Satanic whore,” and “Satan’s creepy little minion” …..

I haven’t seen comments this bad since, well last week. I forget where.; 19-08-26 5:13 AM
tim maguire చెప్పారు...: For the rest of his life, even the British people shunned Benedict Arnold. Nobody likes a traitor.; 19-08-26 5:42 AM
Leland చెప్పారు...: “According to the AAA:

"In California, the survey found only 13% of vehicles had four properly inflated tires and nearly 60 percent of vehicles had at least one under-inflated tire. Like the national survey, 17 percent of vehicles in California had at least one tire under-inflated by 8 psi."”

This seems like another fake survey. Most vehicles on the road today have tire pressure monitor systems as mandated since 2007. For that survey to be true, more than half those vehicles would have to be driving with the monitor telling the driver the tires are underinflated. That must be true before we get into factors like Discount Tire willing to inflate your tires for free. I have no problem with a law that says a car fails a state inspection because it has a faulty tpms or under inflated tire that can’t be inflated. However, the rest is California routine excessive authoritarian behaviors by government.; 19-08-26 5:54 AM
Enigma చెప్పారు...: @Leland --

I have tire pressure monitors and regularly check the air pressure. The door sticker indicates 35 PSI, while the warning light triggers at 27 PSI. In addition, pressure is highly seasonal and it rises in the spring as the environment warms. If I don't catch the weather right, the warning light comes on with the first cool period in Oct/Nov when temperatures fall.

35 - 27 = 8 PSI gap
8 / 35 = 22% down before the light comes on; 19-08-26 6:05 AM
rehajm చెప్పారు...: …I looked for the data but only saw one CA study where just less than ten percent of cars registered in CA are pre 1995- surprising…; 19-08-26 6:20 AM
rehajm చెప్పారు...: …my land rover the warning has never come on. I can see pressures on the dash if I scroll through the menu and 6-7 psi below recommended comes up once in a while with the change to cold weather…; 19-08-26 6:22 AM
rehajm చెప్పారు...: I got chat around with Frank Beard when I worked at SPAC. Affable fellow…; 19-08-26 6:31 AM
narciso చెప్పారు...: Oh yeah that creep bilzerian we were flooded with his junk; 19-08-26 7:11 AM
narciso చెప్పారు...: https://mindtheblindspot.substack.com/p/ddl-not-all-bondholders-are-equal?; 19-08-26 7:14 AM
Breezy చెప్పారు...: What’s wrong with the free market? If the tires are more fuel efficient and would save money over time, just advertise that and let people choose. These mandates are tyrannical. I’d trust the car/tire manufacturers over a CA regulator every time. The manufacturers have skin in the game.; 19-08-26 7:14 AM
rcommal చెప్పారు...: I meant to post this comment yesterday when an open thread was posted, but I got busy and then just went to bed.

First, I want to note that I made a deliberate effort to find a link that was not from standard, mainstream sources because I know that's a trigger for people here. So the first link is to that source.

There is a new proposal for the government to link law enforcement who participate in apprehension of illegal immigants with liability insurance coverage. The proposal provides for subsidies of up to $250 dollars a year to purchase up to $500,000 of liability insurance.

The original article I read, which I can't put my hands on right now, said something about the comment period being open until Thursday (tomorrow), IIRC. The document from, I believe ICE, dropped this past Friday, again IIRC.

And here is a link that does go to a mainstream source. It discusses some implications. There are articles from other sources, which if you're like me, you can read to get a broader sense, and you can search for them. Overall, though I think this story is flying under the radar. Obviously, that could just be what I'm reading, as with everyone, but I do read very broadly and deliberately try not to be in a bubble.

I have mixed feelings about the proposal. I haven't finished researching or thinking about it, so I don't have a real opinion now.

I'm wondering what others think. It does have implications, positive and potentially negative.

So, what do you think?; 19-08-26 7:17 AM
Breezy చెప్పారు...: The first pic is my favorite of this batch.; 19-08-26 7:17 AM
wendybar చెప్పారు...: Rehajm, what year did you work at SPAC??; 19-08-26 7:23 AM
Leland చెప్పారు...: I can read the pressure and temp of each of my tires from the dashboard, and my last three vehicles were within 5 psi of recommended. The one before those was annoying as it had a tpms on the full size spare that often went off.; 19-08-26 7:24 AM
rcommal చెప్పారు...: I did also make a point of finding links that do NOT involve paywalls, sign-ins, or having to provide email addresses.; 19-08-26 7:28 AM
Aggie చెప్పారు...: The most obnoxious part about California's government is that it over-regulates in a way that forces niche manufacturing, and then the manufacturers start selling those niche products in other states to make a buck. Emissions and Green New Deal type stuff is the worst. Some of these other states voluntarily join the CA regulatory scam on an ad hoc basis, and therefore impose the same sanctions on their own citizens. The size of California's economy wields significant power to dictate such things, but in effect, it's a system that makes a competing doctrine to Federal regulation. There oughtta be a law against over-regulating over-reach, especially when it's politically-driven policy agendas.; 19-08-26 7:29 AM
Peachy+2 చెప్పారు...: "Relatedly, TikTok loves to amplify anti-natal, childfree, and anti-marriage content. You’ll even see Chinese or Russian electrical outlets in some of the backgrounds when the OP is supposed to be “American.” The CCP is deadly scared of its collapsed birth rate, and wants to bring ours down to their level. They view this as grand civilizational competition and so should we."

Russia and China - you don't say?; 19-08-26 7:50 AM
Peachy+2 చెప్పారు...: The real DSA - owns a 1.5 million dollar brownstone - bought by the parents.; 19-08-26 7:57 AM
Enigma చెప్పారు...: @Aggie --

California's influence on products is global. The California Air Resource Board (CARB) rules and decisions affect all sorts of products. The "Known to the state of California to cause cancer" labels are now an international meme.; 19-08-26 7:57 AM
Jamie చెప్పారు...: "What’s wrong with the free market? If the tires are more fuel efficient and would save money over time, just advertise that and let people choose. These mandates are tyrannical."

We had to put 4 new tires on our Explorer last December because we were staying in the Tahoe area and trying to survive on tires that we'd driven across the country on several times, in all weather including snow. (One tire was functionally bald. 🙄) It was - if memory serves - something like $1500.

By contrast, I was recently helping my sister go through unfiled paperwork and came across her latest tire purchase/warranty envelope: less than $400 for 4 tires for her CRV, which she might put 15,000 miles on in a year, in a very temperate climate. She doesn't need super-duper treaded tires; we do. (Discounting the size difference, of course.) The market at work.; 19-08-26 8:16 AM
MadTownGuy చెప్పారు...: It gets worse in CA:

California Energy Commission Proposes State Takeover Of Oil Refineries
‘Californians Deserve a Strategic Transition Away from Petroleum Transportation Fuels’ (California Globe(; 19-08-26 8:24 AM
Mason G చెప్పారు...: I didn't watch the Rosie O'Donnell clip so I'm not commenting there, but...

"Give her a chance and watch with charity"

How much of a chance has Rosie given Donald Trump and what sort of charity has she shown to those on the right who support him?; 19-08-26 8:37 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ చెప్పారు...: US Treasury to double buybacks of long-term government debt ~ WSJ
The US Treasury department has said it will double the size of its buyback of long-term US government debt following a sharp sell-off that has sent borrowing costs soaring to multiyear highs."

QE ♾️

Buying their own bonds, funded by the money raised from said bonds? Hmm It was nice knowing you QT, you lasted for a good couple of weeks this year.

If they struggle to borrow they can just print. I always seem to be fighting the printer at home. I want one like they have at the Fed which just never seems to break down.; 19-08-26 8:45 AM
rehajm చెప్పారు...: “what year did you work at SPAC”

…oh- mid 80s- ‘85-86. Technically Hall of Springs but were responsible for backstage catering, which was not my primary role but I did once in a while…; 19-08-26 8:51 AM
Colleen Brown చెప్పారు...: I'm commenting here because I didn't watch Rosie O'Donnell. Ever since the controversy with Jimmy Kimmel saying that Melania had the glow of an expectant widow, I refuse to click on anything involving him or any of his substitute hosts. I wish that Trump and his administration would do the same. Here's the reason: Kimmel says something that Trump doesn't like. Then Trump and his staff respond. Big truth social post, lots of outraged comments from Trump's staff. Then that becomes fodder for Kimmel's monologue the next night. They would do better to completely ignore him.; 19-08-26 9:00 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ చెప్పారు...: ఈ కామెంట్‌ను రచయిత తీసివేశారు.; 19-08-26 9:48 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ చెప్పారు...: It’s great to have “the business guys“ in charge again, right ?; 19-08-26 9:49 AM
Iman చెప్పారు...: Do as THEY say, Mason G, not as THEY do!; 19-08-26 10:24 AM
Leland చెప్పారు...: “ How much of a chance has Rosie given Donald Trump and what sort of charity has she shown to those on the right who support him?”

You can include W Bush, who she claimed killed Americans on 9-11.; 19-08-26 11:41 AM

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