Wednesday, January 9. 2019
"People don't have ideas. Ideas have people."
Carl Jung (h/t Jordan Peterson)
 Why dreams like flying, falling, being chased are so common, and how your brain creates them
Nepal’s Endangered Vultures Are Finally Making a Comeback. A campaign against a lethal painkiller, paired with “restaurants” that supply clean carcasses, may just save these species
How you dress and how you behave: Aware of how others see us?
It's probably worse than we think
The Unbearable Heaviness of Clutter. A cluttered home can be a stressful home, researchers are learning
Chicken, egg. Less efficient people are more easily stressed. Best to make a plan to be more efficient, and to streamline life
Trump opponents are wrong to predict economic gloom and doom
One Year Later, 'Net Neutrality' Zealots Proved Dead Wrong
China-Made Smartphone Weather App Stole Data From 10 Million Global Users
AT&T is pretending like 5G is already here – and misleading users
Psychologists Say Traditional Masculinity Is 'Harmful.'
Psychologists not famous for being manly. I don't think that organization realizes how difficult, endless, and worthwhile a developmental task it is...but who ever heard of a wife or child being proud or happy about a fearful or ineffectual male in the family?
Grown Men Are the Solution, Not the Problem
Helen Smith: Activists, Not Healers: Why I Despise What My Profession Has Become
The Top 20% of Households Pay 88% of Federal Income Taxes
Nobody ever thanks them for it, but I will.
No, This Is Not JFK’s Democratic Party
Kamala Harris Readies Her 2020 Rollout
Atlantic: Worse Than Watergate. If the multiple charges against Trump prove out, he’ll easily displace Nixon at the top of the Crooked Modern Presidents list.
What "charges"? Listening to PMSNBC all day is dangerous to your mental health.
California Governor Newsom Vows ‘Sanctuary To All Who Seek It’ In Inauguration Speech
I support legal emigration
I support legal immigration too
Students Slam 'Trump' Wall Quotes, Then They Learn Who Actually Said Them
Ex-ICE Director Urges Nancy Pelosi To Take Wall Funding Deal: ‘Love Your Country More Than You Hate This President’
TRUMP KILLS IT
Democrats are campaigning to end prosperity
Leftists Fight ‘White Supremacy’ By Harassing Jewish Business Owner, Paint Jewish Star On His Restaurant, Break Window
ANTI-SEMITISM BREAKING OUT AMONG CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS
RUSSIAN LAWYER LINKED TO TRUMP TOWER MEETING AND FUSION GPS IS CHARGED IN NEW YORK CASE
She was trying to work both sides
US Downgraded Status of EU – But Did Not Formally Announce It
The EU is not a country - yet
How Vietnam lost and China won Cambodia. Forty years after the fall of the China-supported Khmer Rouge regime to Vietnam's invading forces, Cambodia is now more clearly in Beijing's than Hanoi's orbit
Harsanyi: Yes, Anti-Zionism Is The Same As Anti-Semitism. 'Anti-Zionism' is the predominant justification for violence, murder, and hatred against Jews in Europe and the Middle East. It’s now infiltrating American politics.
Tuesday, January 8. 2019
 Despite my advice not to undertake a conditioning program in January (because few keep their resolutions), I know people who did and that some readers did. Oh well.
A reminder for those people:
1. If you've been away from exertion for a while, it's a good idea to begin with a month of daily or near-daily mixed cardio just to wake up your body, to alert your brain and neuromuscular system that you are going to make demands.
2. For Fitness for Life, after the above you will benefit most from a balanced program:
- Resistance (weights) for building muscle and bone strength. Start light with higher reps and work up gradually to higher weight and fewer reps. If not knowledgeable about weight work, get some instruction.
- Calisthenics for building general athleticism (balance, quickness, endurance, muscle conditioning, with some HIIT cardio)
- Mixed cardio for endurance and heart stress. Since you can hardly build endurance in a one hour session of speed walking, say, your cardio needs to be uncomfortable, a much higher intensity than recreational. We think the Stairmaster machine is the best cardio trainer, but mixing it all up is the right idea. (Stairmaster tips: step on your heel more than balls of feet, stand up straight, and don't lean on the bars. Also, mix it up with double steps or high speeds if you can)
"A number of phrases from Tennyson's work have become commonplaces of the English language, including "Nature, red in tooth and claw" (In Memoriam A.H.H.), "'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all", "Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die", "My strength is as the strength of ten, / Because my heart is pure", "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield", "Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers", and "The old order changeth, yielding place to new". He is the ninth most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
NYT: Am I old?
Women over 50 'too old' to love, French author Yann Moix says
Well, youth does have its charms
Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria Is ‘Social Contagion’
AKA a fad
An Homage—and Memorial—to Civilization. Peter Jackson’s new documentary about the First World War is an overwhelming viewing experience.
The Mindfulness fad
Our obsession with taking photos is changing how we remember the past
Millennials discover that building a life is difficult
Genes, environment - and luck
Package tracking app turns users’ devices into a bot farm, violates user privacy
Apps are bad, except for Mapquest
The Pope’s Laxity Catches Up With Him
But at least he is against climate and poverty...wait - Don't people in the Church take a vow of poverty?
The ‘Green New Deal’ isn’t just ambitious — it’s insane
Will Somebody Actually Start A Serious "Climate" Emissions-Reduction Program In 2019?
Nope
Portland State Prof Who Exposed ‘Grievance Studies’ Corruption Faces University Discipline
So I Guess I'm Only Half Racist? At least I mow my lawn: University Educator: Mowing Your Lawn & Acting Respectable Is Racist
Hey, Christian Bale, Dick Cheney's my former boss. Here's what your Golden Globes speech missed
Shut up and act
IT'S RACIST TO WARN BLACK PEOPLE THEIR BUILDINGS AREN'T SAFE
Heather: Opportunistic Outrage - Anger about comparatively rare white-on-black hate lets advocates ignore a far more pervasive reality.
LIBERAL BILLIONAIRE APOLOGIZES FOR FUNDING RUSSIAN BOT ‘FALSE FLAG’ — BUT QUESTIONS REMAIN UNANSWERED
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Dissenters Need not Apply. Against diversity statements.
NYT Hack Defends Paper’s Non-Stop Attacks on President Trump Despite His Historic Presidency
Government Can’t Heal Us, Tucker Carlson
The Great Wall of America Will Break the Democrats
The Economy Is Finally Coming Through for U.S. Workers. Decent wage gains are showing up in paychecks. That should continue for a while.
Amnesty International Singling Out Jews in 2019
Sunday, January 6. 2019
A young Arab boy asks his father “What is that strange hat you are wearing?”
The father said: "Why, my son, it is a 'chechia.' In the desert it protects our heads from the intense heat of the sun.”
"And what is the long flowing robe you are wearing?” asked the boy.
“Oh, my son!” exclaimed the father “It is very simple. This is a 'djbellah.' As I have told you, in the desert it
is not only very hot, but the sand is always blowing. My djbellah protects the entire body,”
The son then asked: "But Father, what about those ugly shoes you have on yourfeet?”
"These are 'babouches' my son,” the father replied. You must understand that although the desert sands are
very beautiful, they are also extremely hot. These babouches' keep us from burning our feet.”
"So tell me then," added the boy.
"Yes, my son…”
"Why are you living in Minnesota and still wearing all this shit?
 Adult males rarely want much for Christmas other than the company of family and friends and a glass or two of eggnog, but one material thing they always welcome are fun socks. It takes a serious male to wear fun socks. Trust me. Black socks are to make you appear serious. They do not make you serious.
The reason for black socks is No Sock Sorting. But that is just laziness. Black socks are for mens' job interviews.
OK, let's discuss socks. In our house, we have work-out socks, tennis socks, skiing socks, hiking socks, dress socks (male), yard-work socks, etc. So do you, probably.
Nowadays, fun socks are always great for gals, and for guys they signal that you are confident enough to show some sense of fun.
Here's one site: Fun Socks
 Matthew 2:1-12
2:1 In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem,
2:2 asking, "Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star at its rising, and have come to pay him homage."
2:3 When King Herod heard this, he was frightened, and all Jerusalem with him;
2:4 and calling together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Messiah was to be born.
2:5 They told him, "In Bethlehem of Judea; for so it has been written by the prophet:
2:6 'And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for from you shall come a ruler who is to shepherd my people Israel.'"
2:7 Then Herod secretly called for the wise men and learned from them the exact time when the star had appeared.
2:8 Then he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, "Go and search diligently for the child; and when you have found him, bring me word so that I may also go and pay him homage."
2:9 When they had heard the king, they set out; and there, ahead of them, went the star that they had seen at its rising, until it stopped over the place where the child was.
2:10 When they saw that the star had stopped, they were overwhelmed with joy.
2:11 On entering the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother; and they knelt down and paid him homage. Then, opening their treasure chests, they offered him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
2:12 And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they left for their own country by another road.
Saturday, January 5. 2019
I did not plan my workout well this morning. Disappointed myself by lack of planning and just winging it.
It was my second time for my new "mostly-weights" Saturday morning (which will now be my third mostly weights day in a week for a while in an effort to reach a new strength plateau to settle into). I had the list in my pocket, but it wasn't planned or timed properly so I didn't complete it in an hour and did not plan the weights correctly - too light. Sheesh, there were a lot of hulks/hunks there this morning, along with the regulars, the elderly, and the fit gals...
Continue reading "Plan your darn daily workouts: My bad, with an end note for guys only"
Friday, January 4. 2019
Drudge:
JOBS UP BIG!
+312,000
RECORD NUMBER WORKING
MANUFACTURING BEST IN 20 YEARS
HISPANIC UNEMPLOYMENT LOWEST EVER
Anybody willing to work can work.
A Close Look at the Most Distant Object NASA Has Ever Explored - In the icy reaches of the solar system, NASA discovered a snowman-shaped object.
Kansas Teen to Get High School, Harvard Diplomas in 1 Month
M, F or X: New York City birth certificates now have a gender-neutral option
I think doctors can usually figure it out
NYC: Much Ado About Amazon - The company’s new headquarters could become a new Rockefeller Center.
Move Over ‘Friends,’ Millennials Now Find ‘Seinfeld’ Problematic
Historian: Museums need to ‘reconsider’ European art exhibits because … white supremacy
This conflation of comedy with politics is the real shame.
NYT Crossword Editor Gets Beaned By the Roaming Outrage Mob
And the soy-boy apologized
In wake of transcript fraud scandal, universities silent on admissions processes
Colleges eat up these fake sob stories
Black Lawmakers’ Charity Didn’t Give Out A Single Scholarship, Top Pols Hide Financials.
Germany’s Leading Magazine Published Falsehoods About American Life - A reporter with Der Spiegel fabricated information in more than a dozen articles—most of which were meant to reveal America’s brutality.
NBC analyst leaving network over 'Trump circus'
The "dossier" was an intel set-up
Related, WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED SO FAR
Schlichter: Top 10 Predictions for 2019, A Year That Will Make 2018 Look Sane
VDH: Actually, 2018 Was a Pretty Good Year
Democrat Leaders WOULD NOT EVEN LISTEN to Border Security Briefing at WH Meeting
Forget the wall — Democrats now hate the border itself
'Fresh Face' Dem Congresswoman: 'We're Gonna Impeach The Motherf***er'
That's an intelligent approach...
Fifth Kavanaugh Accuser Recants
The Tragic “Elizabeth Warren Being Very Authentic And Having A Beer On Instagram” Clip
FORMER NY TIMES EXECUTIVE EDITOR: SURE, THE TIMES’ REPORTING IS ANTI-TRUMP
It's what their readers want
About Tucker Carlson’s Galvanizing Speech
We posted his 15-minute monologue yesterday
Also, re Tucker:
“A mob of angry children is suddenly in charge of the country,” he said. “These aren’t people seeking a revolution. They’re fighting for the status quo to protect their own status. They are drunk on power and they are looking for new people to hurt. Someday, we are going to look back on this moment with shame and horror.”
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