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Monday, October 5. 2020

Monday morning links


Image: Cool t-shirts for gals 


Work, Float, Eat, Dream: Life on the International Space Station. We asked some of the people who’ve spent the most time on the ISS: What’s it like up there?


What about sex? 


In Search of the Roosevelt Outhouse in New England


The True Poet of Jazz - Legendary New Yorker critic Whitney Balliett captured the magic of the music.


 New WHO Data Reveals Coronavirus Less Lethal than Last Three Major US Pandemics


 Experts Predict What Life Will Be Like After A COVID-19 Vaccine Arrives


 Most N95 Masks Imported From China Fail to Meet US Standards


 Waldorf Astoria hotel to sell off 80,000 items in landmark auction


Cool. I used to love that place. 


Rulesy Folks Push Paternalism


 Is Critical Race Theory Racist?


Theories are racist 


 The Media’s Mad Obsession With White Supremacy


 Professor Wants Last Cop Strangled With Intestines of Last Capitalist


He doesn't know that he is a kulak 


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HT to reader Mark, and The Imaginative Conservative, I learned that at the core of Critical Race Theory is that there is no truth, only the truth that you perceive. Another tool used by the great deceiver and his willing foot soldiers to destroy man. In this case it is being used to destroy Western Civilization; America once the freest country on the planet, being the primary target. Satan wants slaves.

I pray that all these highly educated PhDs, floating around the Universities, that have spent a lifetime coming up with this evil garbage, would repent, and make themselves useful to the Lord.
#1 B. Hammer on 2020-10-05 10:45 (Reply)
Critical race theory is based upon black supremacy and isn't much different from what the founders of the KKK believed. The intent is to suppress one race in favor of another in order to lead to eventual domination. It is racism pure and simple and the advocates of it are blatant racists.
#1.1 Anon on 2020-10-05 10:54 (Reply)
Global Concern: I am a NO on Joe because I don't want America to be China's bitch.
#2 Anonymous on 2020-10-05 10:47 (Reply)
Althouse has a thread on Dan Rather today regarding his book on Patriotism vrs the "Nationalism" that's attributed to all the Deplorables. He defines Nationalism in his own terms, of course.
One aspect of Nationalism is acting in the best interests of all the citizens of the USA, but another aspect of Nationalism is the supremacy of American sovereignty, and not having that sovereignty usurped by a global authority.
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2020/10/dan-rather-is-afoot.html
#2.1 FromtheAlthouseblog on 2020-10-05 13:32 (Reply)
https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/in-search-of-the-roosevelt-outhouse-in-new-england/: First I've heard of this, but then I growed up in the midwest.

Rulesy Folks Push Paternalism: The rest of us push it away.

Is Critical Race Theory Racist? You BETCHA!!!

The media’s mad obsession with white supremacy. Well, they're mad, Mad, MAD. They're in cattlelot with bullshit.

Survey Finds Disturbing Results On How
Democrats Feel About Trump’s Coronavirus
Diagnosis: i.e, they want him DEAD. We know that. They hate Trump for harshing their anger.

When did NBC become the National Bastards Club?

AP Stylebook Now Says Don’t Call Riots “Riots”: Why I despise, detest, and distrust the media, item #365489522335789555.
#3 Sam L. on 2020-10-05 11:40 (Reply)
"What Life Will Be Like After A COVID-19 Vaccine "

Do you see it yet? Masks will be the new normal. More violent arrests of people choosing to not wear a mask. More mask shaming and 'Karens' yelling in your face. More governors exceeding their authority. More talking heads on TV telling you that we MUST all wear masks (and yet not wearing masks while they tell us this???). Are you beginning to understand that the masks are the camels nose under the constitution???
#4 OneGuy on 2020-10-05 11:49 (Reply)
https://www.trevorloudon.com/2020/10/dont-blame-trump-wearing-a-mask-my-body-my-choice/
#4.1 Anon on 2020-10-05 12:00 (Reply)
Yes, I get it.
#4.2 B. Hammer on 2020-10-05 12:19 (Reply)
Do people in CA and NY realize that there are tens of millions of Americans who are essentially living life as normal and have been all summer? Kids play together outside, people take vacations, families get together, people go to work. I'm still wearing a mask when required by law (for the most part) or when asked , but I can't really say there is anyting else I'm doing differently. I won't be getting a vaccine in the next couple of years. I won't be wearing a mask a year from now.
#4.3 Jack Walter on 2020-10-05 20:10 (Reply)
The last time I booked the Waldorf Astoria was September 12, 2001; that didn't work out too well.
#5 SF jeff on 2020-10-05 11:50 (Reply)
"WHO Data Reveals Coronavirus less lethal..."

Why would someone write this? It isn't scientific. The Covid-19 pandemic is still going on showing no signs of slowing but those pandemics they compare it with have long since ended and the data is static. Any science based authority would know this and simply refuse to take part in such a press release. So why would WHO do this? The obvious answer is politics and the obvious inference is that WHO is not a science based authority they are a political based authority.

So this is a political hit job but why? to what end? Are they trying to make Gov Cuomo look better after his devastating performance? Are they simply trying to "get Trump"? Are they defending China? What purpose does this phony report serve?

Someday, maybe 18 months from now or even a few years from now we will know the toll and effects of Covid-19, but we do not know this today.
#6 Anon on 2020-10-05 12:48 (Reply)
Over the weekend in the US we had an average of 630 deaths a day from Covid. A month back, it was 767 a day.

We're seeing a slight increase in cases, by the record I've kept - but I'm also hearing there's a lot more testing going on (back to school, work and the like.)

The cost from this shutdown is high, and likely to get higher because some states/localities are looking for the 'Tested positive' count to get down to -0- or some other undocumented low number before they'll relax restrictions. And I don't think it's ever getting that low.
#6.1 JLawson on 2020-10-05 15:00 (Reply)
Re: New WHO Data Reveals Coronavirus Less Lethal than Last Three Major US Pandemics

Boy am I glad to hear that because a 2019 WHO review of studies showed that masks are ineffective at stopping transmission of the flu. Can we go back to our lives now?
#7 mudbug on 2020-10-05 12:58 (Reply)
The space station is a very impressive structure.
#8 Stargazer on 2020-10-05 14:49 (Reply)
Sex on the ISS? How will a couple stay coupled? I wonder if Velcro will stick to pubic hair?
#9 snopercod on 2020-10-05 14:57 (Reply)
If we can have sex in anti-gravity, then how about an anti-chastity belt, made with Velcro?
#9.1 Aggie on 2020-10-05 22:51 (Reply)

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