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Wednesday, July 6. 2022Something I enjoyIn fact, on Cape Cod I will not go anyplace without one. Outdoor shower. A good outlet for us closeted nudists. When I was a kid, my Great-uncle Bill had a cabin in the woods. His outdoor shower was a big metal bucket that had lots on nail holes in the bottom.
Tuesday, July 5. 2022Women and RoeThere is a contradiction between the "grief" and "anguish" and "rage" about the reversal of the Roe decision and ordinary feminist, or plain ordinary views about peoples' sex lives. Yes, sex is a powerful driver in life for men and women. It is biological and psychological. However, at least after adolescence, we are all endowed with a brain too. In my view, women have all the power. They have the power of attraction, and have the modern power of birth control. Excepting rape (or maybe substance-addled non-decision-making), men and women are in charge of conception. It is not rocket science. Women can not leave it all to the boys and very few do.
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Monday morning linksFeathers May Have Been Key to Dinosaurs Taking Over Earth US Founding Fathers weren’t the patriarchy—they were heroes There Are Two Fundamentally Irreconcilable Constitutional Visions " All that the Crown really wanted was for the colonists to pay their “fair share”, a share that was determined thousands of miles away. All that the colonists wanted was the rights of Englishmen that they believed they were entitled to." Good luck taxing the rich when they’re gone Nearly 8,000 Flights Delayed On Friday As July 4th Weekend To Be Hell No Air Conditioning? No Thanks. Every American needs to know the term “baseload” Hot New Elite Summer Trend: Surgery to Ease 'Hamptons Bladder' Bezos' $500 Million Superyacht Trapped At Dutch Shipyard "One day I hope to become a mother. But for now I have sex just because I like it. Sex is fun. For the puritanical tyrants seeking to control our bodies..." Why The Left Truly Is Evil, (Not Stupid!) Green-Haired, Morbidly Obese Leftist Women Call for Sex Stike Over Abortion Ruling 'Urgency is a White Supremacy Value' Says Oregon Health Bureaucrat Woke Gay Employee in Mourning Who Refused to Work After Roe v. Wade Decision Is Fired Good Morning America Forced To Issue Correction After Calling Ketanji Brown Jackson First Black Supreme Court Justice ‘Burning America to the ground’: Liberals can’t get over SCOTUS EPA decision CDC Tells Millions of Americans to Mask Again. Will Anyone Listen? Why Are The Angriest Abortion-Ruling Protesters In Deep-Blue States Where There Will Be No Impact? Here's why Kavanaugh's would-be assassin didn't get much coverage Clarence Thomas a 'black white supremacist'? Politico Hit Piece on Clarence Thomas Goes Horribly Wrong Biden’s immigration insanity is breaking the nation Ukraine and the Allure of False Realisms Having Scoffed at Trump’s Warnings, Germany Now Fears Complete Russian Gas Cut-Off I’ve got ‘Ukraine fatigue’ fatigue Monday, July 4. 2022Canoeing with the Cree: A cool American storyCanoeing With the Cree. Almost 100 years ago, two 18-year-olds paddled 2,250 miles across America. This is their story. “There is a cleanliness, a breadth and sweep and strength in the North, a purifying realization that one is living close to the fundamental elements of life. Yes, the North has a spell.”—Eric Sevareid It was during the spring of 1930 when 19-year-old Walter “Walt” Port thought of the idea. He was scheduled to graduate from high school in a few months, so why not celebrate that accomplishment with an extended canoe trip, and do it with his closest high-school buddy, 17-year-old Eric Sevareid? “We’ll leave right after graduation in June,” Walt explained to Eric. “From here in Minneapolis, we’ll paddle up the Minnesota River to Big Stone Lake on the South Dakota line, then into the Red River of the North, down that river into Canada and Lake Winnipeg, up the east shore of the lake to Norway House and, at that point, attempt a wilderness jump of 500 miles to Hudson Bay. So, what do you think?” What the young men were considering was a 2,250-mile canoe trip that, as far as they knew, had never before been attempted—or if it had, such a trip had never been documented. And though they would be leaving near the beginning of summer, they would be fortunate to complete such a trip by the time winter arrived in the North. Sevareid didn’t hesitate. “I’m in!” he said. Story continued below the fold - Continue reading "Canoeing with the Cree: A cool American story"
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Happy 4thHope our readers - Americans, would-be Americans, and those in other lands who find America interesting - will take a few minutes to peruse the US Constitution. Certainly declaring independence was a courageous if not reckless move, but our foundational document is the Constitution. Other than a moment of gratitude for that, today is a beach day or hike day or a boat day or a day to crank up the barbie and have a few beers. Sunday, July 3. 2022American musicDeviled Eggs plus FireworksAren't Deviled Eggs a classic July 4th munchie? Delicious Orlando Promotes Fireworks By Saying People ‘Probably Don’t Want to Celebrate Our Nation Right Now’ Because It’s Full of ‘Hate’ And, not from the Bee: Fireworks can trigger PTSD. Here’s how you can help yourself and others find ease. There's a darker side to fireworks.
From today's LectionaryLuke 10:1-11, 16-20 10:1 After this the Lord appointed seventy others and sent them on ahead of him in pairs to every town and place where he himself intended to go. 10:2 He said to them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. 10:3 Go on your way. See, I am sending you out like lambs into the midst of wolves. 10:4 Carry no purse, no bag, no sandals; and greet no one on the road. 10:5 Whatever house you enter, first say, 'Peace to this house!' 10:6 And if anyone is there who shares in peace, your peace will rest on that person; but if not, it will return to you. 10:7 Remain in the same house, eating and drinking whatever they provide, for the laborer deserves to be paid. Do not move about from house to house. 10:8 Whenever you enter a town and its people welcome you, eat what is set before you; 10:9 cure the sick who are there, and say to them, 'The kingdom of God has come near to you.' 10:10 But whenever you enter a town and they do not welcome you, go out into its streets and say, 10:11 'Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet, we wipe off in protest against you. Yet know this: the kingdom of God has come near.' 10:16 "Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me, and whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me." 10:17 The seventy returned with joy, saying, "Lord, in your name even the demons submit to us!" 10:18 He said to them, "I watched Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning. 10:19 See, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing will hurt you. 10:20 Nevertheless, do not rejoice at this, that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven." Saturday, July 2. 2022Ringo Starr's bioRingo at age 81Saturday morning links“The Act of Mourning Itself is a Final, Destitute Version of Love.” A Reading List For the Grieving How the Higgs Boson Ruined Peter Higgs’s Life Twitter suspends Jordan Peterson: why? These are the words colleges don't want you to say The Insufferable Arrogance of the Constantly Wrong "Take that restorative justice bull**** and shove it up your ***es" Fun news summary: TGIF: Temps Are Up, Stocks Are Down, Plus: Suitcases of cash for the Prince of Wales; defunding the police for West Hollywood. What If People Actually Controlled The Government? Smart Democrats understand the big reasons behind the Supreme Court’s decisions Supreme Court Reins In The Regulatory Beast Biden: Americans Will Stomach High Gas Prices “As Long As It Takes” Dutch Farmers Livid Over EU's 'Green' Nitrogen Rule Block Border Between Holland And Germany After Destroying Individual Rights, China’s President Xi Arrives at 25th Anniversary of Handover to Claim “Beginning of True Democracy in Hong Kong” Saturday Verse: W.H. Auden
Roman Wall Blues Over the heather the wet wind blows, The rain comes pattering out of the sky, The mist creeps over the hard grey stone, Aulus goes hanging around her place, Piso's a Christian, he worships a fish; She gave me a ring but I diced it away; When I'm a veteran with only one eye
Friday, July 1. 2022What precisely is the expert knowledge necessary to grasp that the judiciary has nothing to do with public opinion?
Declaring independence from Britain was a bold move (Thank you, France, for your help), but the cornerstone is the Constitution. I enjoy it when the Supremes return power to the people.
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Friday morning linksAirline Labor Shortages May Wreck Your Summer Travel Plans The Puritans Are Back: Did They Ever Leave? Are we experiencing another Puritan revival? A “deep dive” into “Queer Theory” so you don’t have to. Why are we feeding crops to our cars when people are starving? AOC: This is now a "judicial coup" and a constitutional crisis Hillary Clinton says Clarence Thomas has been a person of ‘resentment, grievance and anger’ his whole life Biden Climate Advisor Seems Happy About American Job Losses SCOTUS rebukes EPA on climate-change regulation A big deal. It goes beyond the EPA.
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