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Saturday, October 24. 2020

I Want To Return To The Classroom And You Should Be Begging Me To…

It is true

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Gears and Transmissions, from 1936

Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 14:30 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

Saturday morning links

Live Bomb From WW2 Washes Ashore In North Carolina…

A Handful of Asteroid Could Help Decipher Our Entire Existence. A NASA mission to a distant space rock could reveal clues about the early solar system.

"... clearly defining each spouse in a marriage as a self-contained, self-involved, self-obsessed, independent and autonomous human monad leads to no good."

That's not marriage, that's an "arrangement"

Costco sells coronavirus saliva test kits online — here's how much they cost

Price will come down

COVID-19 Becoming Less Deadly

Good news. Viral mutations seem to have natural selection involved.

Slandering the Police. The Left is smearing the cops just like they once smeared our troops.

Bret Weinstein blocked at Facebook

Prof W is one of the sane Lefties. Thus, bad.

A Different Kind of Blue Wave - Police Support for the GOP is Unprecedented and Enormous

" It would be lunacy to do away with oil and gas. Why on Earth would Joe Biden and many other Democrats, including Kamala Harris, advocate such an impractical idea?"

"Don't Mention Joe Being Involved"

The best case against a Biden presidency

Intelligence Experts Concerned Media May Tamper With Election By Asking Biden Questions

Sanders: Progressives will work to 'rally the American people' if Biden wins

Who has rallies already?

“A Glorious Day For Peace”: Trump Announces Normalization Deal Between Israel, Sudan

The guy has 4 Nobel Peace prize nominations already. How does he do it? With common sense and ignoring the experts.

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 07:00 | Comments (20) | Trackbacks (4)

Friday, October 23. 2020

Take a tour of the Sunseeker 95

The crew quarters are a little cramped, don't you think?

Posted by Bird Dog at 16:08 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

Worked out in a gym lately?

Lots of people are still avoiding gyms. Some gyms now require masks for weights, which doesn't seem functional to me.

A case of abductor tendonitis doesn't help either. It's my fault, pushing the squats. Fine with upper body though.

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 13:46 | Comments (11) | Trackbacks (0)

Friday morning links

Movie trailer: Uncle Tom

At Loyola Marymount, another student government plays censor after student senator is impeached for supporting Trump

The Importance of Blasphemy

‘Truth’ Over Facts in politics

Chinese Nationals Are Part of Facebook’s Team That Censors ‘Hate Speech’…

Senate Judiciary Republicans Vote to Advance Barrett’s Nomination to Full Senate Despite Democratic Boycott

Former Twitter Exec: ‘Perhaps It’s Time To Mute The President While We’re In This Sensitive Time’

This is the President Trump we should have seen weeks ago: Goodwin

A calm, masterful Donald Trump made mincemeat of Joe Biden

The New York Times Discovers China

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 07:09 | Comments (12) | Trackbacks (4)

Thursday, October 22. 2020

It smells pretty bad. Does it matter politically? I don't know. People are inured to Dems finding ways to get rich through politics. Seems more typical for Repubs to make money first, then to get into politics as a hobby or as a give-back.

Hunter biz partner confirms email, details Joe Biden’s push to make millions from China: Goodwin

‘Big Guy’ in China Deal Email Was Joe Biden, Former Hunter Biden Partner Says

Case Closed. Hunter Biden’s Business Partner Confirms The Emails Are Real… And More

Via Ace:

As Goodwin states, this is only China. No doubt the graft and corruption includes Ukraine, Romania, Kazakhstan and probably every other country where Air Force Two touched down between 2009 and 2016, or where a US government aircraft unloaded that gibbering, corrupt pervert and his son in the former's capacity as a Senator and official American envoy since 1973.

Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 16:40 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

Is the Pope Catholic?

Is the Pope Catholic? Francis’s new encyclical reads like a UN mission statement.

The RC Church has a long and ancient history of being politically-involved and taking sides. Politically, and financially. It's their strength and their weakness. Mind you, spoken as an olde-tyme Protestant.

However, after many years, even Protestants have gotten into political games. It is a shame, in my view, for church to become too worldly.

Posted by The Barrister in Religion at 15:56 | Comments (12) | Trackbacks (0)

Our COVID patients have vanished

Where Have All The Hospital Patients Gone?

Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss in Medical at 14:49 | Comments (9) | Trackbacks (0)

University of Louisville Guitar Fest 2020

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Thursday morning links

Fire Experts Say Western States Need To Clear Out Mismanaged Forests

Wildfire is essential to many Western ecosystems. It's natural. Fire suppression leads to greater fires. No forest management can replace the good that fire does. Not so good for loggers or people in living in fire zones though. Just for ecosystems.

Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World

Are Americans Tired of Being Called ‘Racist’ Yet? Michelle Obama makes her “closing argument” for Biden.

How The Washington Post is keeping up with the news about Joe Biden. This — this!!! — is on the front page...

Sheesh

Here's a Sampling of the Hunter Biden Texts Giuliani Turned Over to the Police

Joe Biden Denies That Hunter Profited Off His Family Ties; Hunter Said The Exact Opposite Last Year

FBI Confirms Custody of Hunter Biden Laptop and Authenticity of Emails…

Does FBI care?

Hunter biz partner confirms email, details Joe Biden’s push to make millions from China: Goodwin

Whistleblower Releases Statement that He Personally Witnessed Former VP Joe Biden Involved in Deals with Hunter Biden

FBI: Lincoln Project Never Trumpers Peddled Iranian Disinformation Meant To Help Biden

Dem Rep. James Clyburn Compares SCOTUS To Segregation: Court We See Developing Now ‘Is a Throwback to Plessy V. Ferguson’…Dumbest play of the race card we’ve seen in a while.

Scaring the black voters, as usual

Trump was Born for this moment

Iran Interfered In U.S. Election To Damage Trump By Posing As Right-Wing Group And Threatening Democrats, Feds Say

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Wednesday, October 21. 2020

W.C. Fields in vaudeville

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We've deprived these children of muscular labor, and of the tragic sense of life

VDH wants our kids to be prepared to compete. Succinct: Why the Left has to lie:

Posted by The Barrister in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 16:31 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Trump’s Campaign Is The Worst I’ve Ever Seen

So says Frank Luntz.

Time will tell. I am not sure what the campaign is about this year. Not clearly defined, because Trump has already solved many of the problems. Seems as if Trump is running on "America" and Biden is running on "Bad Orange Man Made Virus."

Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 12:41 | Comments (16) | Trackbacks (0)

Wednesday morning links

THE RITES OF A PHEASANT HUNTING FAMILY

Review of a biography of James Beard: A Pioneering Appetite - The story of America’s first culinary celebrity

Rush Limbaugh Says Stage 4 Lung Cancer Has Progressed

Bad news

COVID has become less dangerous

San Diego Schools Change Grading System for Equity

Judge tosses lawsuit challenging DeVos’ sexual misconduct rule for schools, colleges

Media Just Exposed That Trump Was Right On California Wildfires

Gretchen Whitmer admits it: No release from lockdown without a vote for Joe Biden

" Okay, why is the President walking into yet another liberal kill zone? "

DISINFORMATION, MAINSTREAM MEDIA STYLE

Andrea Mitchell Calls Hunter Biden Scandal a ‘False Conspiracy Theory’

Twitter, Facebook Censored Trump, Campaign 65 Times, Leave Biden Untouched

Rudy Giuliani Announces New Documents to Be Released Wednesday Will Show Financial Crimes and Personal Crimes by Biden Family

"This Is Not A Russian Hoax": 'Nonpublic Information' Debunks Letter From '50 Former Intel Officials'

Elizabeth Warren Says Federal Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google Doesn't Go Far Enough

Biden Tax Rates to Hit 62% in New York and California

If Joe Biden lies and the media ignore it, does he make a sound?

France Reacts to Islamist Terrorism

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 06:43 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

Tuesday, October 20. 2020

Fun and anger

Scott Adams has laugh out loud fun with Toobin, and gets angry about the Russia hoax redux (yes, the Biden story is another Russian hoax).

Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 17:05 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

What shall we do?

An unresolved self. "I drive fast cars, and I eat fast foods..." It is from Whitman, yes.

Who has a resolved self? "What shall we do?"

Posted by Bird Dog in Music at 16:42 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Momma cougar stalks hiker with camera in Utah

Video here

He is right to be fearful. I prefer not to hike in cougar or bear country alone.

Posted by Bird Dog in Natural History and Conservation at 15:21 | Comments (13) | Trackbacks (0)

The Story of O

The lady reviewer found the book arousing. It's about sex, surrender (or sacrifice), and individuality or lack thereof in acts of surrender or sacrifice.

The author of the piece at Quillette says the book is not about sexual fantasies (male and female), but it is.

If one must always search out one’s own desires in order to correct them, then we are suddenly no longer in Aury’s tender world of flesh and fantasy, but rather in Orwell’s world of surveillance and paranoia. Once we moralize the inner landscapes of our own erotic imaginations, even our explicitly pornographic fantasies, what pleasures are left to us that aren’t merely ruthlessly self-serving? And what is left private? It was, after all, a moment of privacy and warmth within myself that I enjoyed while reading O on an airplane. It was a privacy that opened up my erotic imaginings, that deepened me and, ideally, planted the seeds of private fantasies to be shared and discovered with a lover. For sometimes even privacy is best shared with a co-conspirator in laughter, and imagination, and sensuality, and in secret touches and all things forbidden. Things wicked and sweet and brutal and tender. My own private Chateau.

Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 13:52 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

Meteor shower tonight

The Orionid Shower

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Tuesday morning links

How Venus flytraps store short-term ‘memories’ of prey

Re Tory Burch: Amid a fashion apocalypse, one of the great entrepreneurial retailers (and one of America’s richest self-made women) takes us deep inside her battle to save her brand.

$465 Million Judgment Against Johnson & Johnson Threatens Freedom of Speech

Mayor Reacts To San Francisco’s Plan To Rename Schools Named For Lincoln, Washington: How About A Plan To Open Schools Instead

WHEN “SCIENCE” FOLLOWS THE LEFT

They keep trying to cancel this conservative professor. He refuses to back down.

Jeffrey Toobin's Zoom Dick Incident.

Trump visits California

Will Flag-Waving Latinos Win Florida For Trump?

"The women come up to me, the women who they say don’t like me, they actually do like me a lot. Suburban women, please vote for me."

Nolte: We All Know Why Joe Biden Is Hiding Out Two Weeks from Election Day

Streisand Effect: Twitter Ban On Biden Laptop Scandal Nearly Doubled Visibility According To MIT

SO USA TODAY DIDN’T WANT TO RUN MY HUNTER BIDEN COLUMN THIS WEEK

Censoring the Biden story: How social media becomes state media

The Bidens: Media Selling A Preposterous Alternate Reality

Leftists Ratchet Up Attacks on Trump Supporters; Deranged Leftists In Kansas Begin Dropping Anonymous Warnings That the Left Intends Violent Reprisals on Trump Supporters When Trump Wins

Poll: Voters Prefer Biden Over Trump On Nearly All Major Issues

Debate Commission Scraps Foreign Policy Focus in Third Debate After Trump Is Nominated Four Times for Nobel Peace Prize

France: Death To Free Speech

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Monday morning links

New York’s Year from Hell - The city faces a daunting recovery from Covid-19, but it can do much to ensure that its many distinctive industries survive.

NYC will thrive

Tesla battery researcher shows new test results pointing to batteries lasting over 2 million miles

Where does the power come from?

Update on Britain's sex ban

Here’s how the media is misreporting COVID-19’s death toll in America

European Union COVID-19 Cases Skyrocket, Europe Now Leads World In Active Infections

‘Die in a fire’: Twitter employees reveal deep hatred for Trump

Why?

Sorry, NYTimes, But There’s Only One Constitution

Teacher In France Is Beheaded For Showing Charlie Hebdo – NY Times Calls It “A Knife Attack”

Knives have a way of attacking people

New York Times: Time To Get Rid of Free Speech

What about their free speech?

5 Other Things We’ll Learn About Biden After The Election

Michigan GOP Senate Candidate John James Puts Biden in His Place in Epic Fashion

James is a rock star

What the MSM TV coverage doesn’t show you at a Biden Potemkin rally

Biden Uses Giant Teleprompter At Yet Another Sparsely Attended Rally

Nature magazine endorses Biden

Since when do science magazines do politics?

Police rip Biden's repeated advice to shoot suspects 'in the leg'. Police reject the 'incredibly ignorant suggestion'

Hunter Biden also had business dealings in Kazakhstan: report

The Biden Emails Prove Impeachment Was A Sham. The New York Post story shows once and for all that Trump's impeachment was all based on a lie.

Duh

Media, Democrats Melt Down Over ‘Nodding Woman’ From NBC’s Trump Town Hall

Hatred of Trump leads to liberal confusion about what to do: Bari Weiss gets it, and she also doesn’t

This way of thinking isn’t just an idiosyncrasy of Weiss’. It is typical of someone in the throes of a strong cognitive dissonance that he or she cannot easily resolve. She hates Trump, but hates the danger on the left as well. What to do?

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 07:00 | Comments (25) | Trackbacks (0)

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