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Sunday, August 15. 2021AfghanistanAs I opined here many times over the years, Afghanistan is not a nation. It's a place on a map. It is run by warlords and poppy-growers. There has not been any central government with any power. The Russians pulled out of there decades ago, rightly realizing it was hopeless to mold that place into any sort of modern nation with any outside allies or help.
America's (and NATO's) longest war accomplished exactly nothing. I'll give Trump and Biden credit for publicly recognizing the sad reality.
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Classical Music’s Suicide Pact (Part 2)Succumbing to specious charges of racism, America’s orchestras, opera companies, and conductors are abandoning the Western canon- Heather Mac Donald
Yes, Keith Jarrett is the musical genius of my generation
Yes, he is/was a concert pianist, but for improv he is mind-boggling. For starters, try his Koln concert recording. You will not want to turn it off.
Re-posted because good exercise stuff9 essential exercises to include in any full body workout For sturdiness and functionality, the basics for age 16-95. Yes, that Emirates ad was mostly realIs this woman really standing on top of Burj Khalifa?
From today's Lectionary1 Kings 2:10-12; 3:3-14 2:10 Then David slept with his ancestors, and was buried in the city of David. 2:11 The time that David reigned over Israel was forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and thirty-three years in Jerusalem. 2:12 So Solomon sat on the throne of his father David; and his kingdom was firmly established. 3:3 Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of his father David; only, he sacrificed and offered incense at the high places. 3:4 The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the principal high place; Solomon used to offer a thousand burnt offerings on that altar. 3:5 At Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, "Ask what I should give you." 3:6 And Solomon said, "You have shown great and steadfast love to your servant my father David, because he walked before you in faithfulness, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart toward you; and you have kept for him this great and steadfast love, and have given him a son to sit on his throne today. 3:7 And now, O LORD my God, you have made your servant king in place of my father David, although I am only a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in. 3:8 And your servant is in the midst of the people whom you have chosen, a great people, so numerous they cannot be numbered or counted. 3:9 Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, able to discern between good and evil; for who can govern this your great people?" 3:10 It pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked this. 3:11 God said to him, "Because you have asked this, and have not asked for yourself long life or riches, or for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern what is right, 3:12 I now do according to your word. Indeed I give you a wise and discerning mind; no one like you has been before you and no one like you shall arise after you. 3:13 I give you also what you have not asked, both riches and honor all your life; no other king shall compare with you. 3:14 If you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your life.
Saturday, August 14. 2021A gift to our readers: Some of the best, from Bob's pre-covid tourFrom 2019. On there they have Masterpiece and Gotta Serve Somebody
Darn good-lookin' Down East lobster boatHer hull and balance are basically Maine lobster boat/pilot boat, but re-made into a cruising trawler. At 36', she's not a toy boat and she doesn't seem to care what the seas are like. Her range at "slow cruise" is 1000 miles on a tank of diesel. Sheesh. Not a speed boat, doesn't really go on plane much but if you were ambitious, with time on your hands, you could take her from Texas to Maine in a leisurely way with fun stops for looking around, food, and fuel. And pump-outs.
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Illegal crossingsThere were more illegal crossings at our southern border in the month of July than any month in 21 years.
That racist rock and other insanity
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DIY LinksUnion Busted: The villains of the pandemic are the leaders of America’s teachers’ unionsHow CUNY’s Faculty Union Bet on Israel Hatred, and Lost Biden's hasty bugout echoes the US Congress' Democrats after Watergate knocked out Nixon ending US air and logistics support of the South Vietnamese
Friday, August 13. 2021A few Friday linksGender Reassignment Surgery Is Child Abuse, Says Texas Commissioner Illegals Are Coming to Do the Jobs Americans Don’t Want to Do--Which Are Most of Them The Silent Majority is Going to Get Loud "Systemic Racism" vs. "Racial Inequities": Glenn Loury with John McWhorter Biden begs the Taliban as terrorists move toward Kabul
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France: The incestuous sins of the soixante-huitardsThursday, August 12. 2021She is a good sport
As they say with boats, things always go wrong, and usually at night. What a good couple they are. Seems as if English is the new langua franca.
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Afternoon linksSheesh. Quackery. John Kerry’s family jet emitted around 30 times more carbon than average American does all year American Express tells its workers capitalism is racist Why don't they just close the business? "Rewilding" unused landPlaying the wild card. “Rewilding” is fashionable but there is more to it than letting Nature run free
Wednesday, August 11. 2021DIY LinksDon't Be Fooled by the Bipartisan, 'Paid For' Infrastructure Bill Manchin voted with Reps to prohibit funding of CRT in schools in an amendment to the Senate Dems $3.5Trillion bill:Senate Republicans Notch Victory In Fight Against Radical Critical Race Theory:The Senate Adopted A Republican Amendment To Prohibit Federal Funding From Going Towards Promoting Radical Critical Race Theory Ideologies In Schools Latest developments in the prosecution of January 6 defendants How to Avert A Disaster in Afghanistan Did archaeologists find the Trojan Horse? $3.5 Trillion Budget Reconciliation Package Includes Mass Amnesty for Millions of Illegals The University of California Is Lying to Us: Does getting right with contemporary concepts of anti-racism mean reviving one of the state’s most shameful traditions? What They Love About the $3.5 Trillion Bill Isn’t Just What’s in It Do Masks Work?: A review of the evidence Why I Am Not A Progressive: And Why, From Climate Change to Homelessness, Liberal People Are Giving Up How Progressives Rewrote American History
Study Finds The Most Highly-Educated Americans Are Also The Most Vaccine-HesitantRelated: Teachers who refuse vaccination Three Charts The Delta Variant Scaremongers Don’t Want You To See
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Boat fireLet GoI'm re-reading Let Go . It is a short compilation of letters written by Fr. Francois Fenelon in the 1600s. Most of them were written to parishioners or to his spiritual advisees. One of his main themes is to do what you can to let go of self to make room for God in your heart.
Some morning linksMan hooks great white shark while fishing from Cape Cod beach: video NIH chief: We don't have rigorous data about kids and Delta but let me freak you out anyway US House Candidate: 'We Should Be Allowed to Shoot' Anyone Who Doesn't Take COVID Seriously Enough The NSA's Inspector General Opens Investigation Into Allegations of Illegal Spying on Tucker Carlson Tuesday, August 10. 2021A Poem I Came AcrossA poem to which we can relate I remember the corned beef of my childhood, The cheese never needed a fridge, I remember the milk from the bottle, With the yummy cream on the top, Our dinner came hot from the oven, The kids were a lot more contented, I remember the shop on the corner, Bathing was done in a wash tub, I remember the slap on my backside, Do you think that bruised our ego? – Author Unknown .. If you can remember those days, continue to enjoy your retirement! I can remember many of those days, fondly. How about you?
Dylan, Greenwich Village, and the 1960sOcean fragranceAnnually-reposted QQQ“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” C. S. Lewis
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