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Thursday, July 8. 2021Thursday morning linksThe American General Store Is a Symbol of Enterprise and Exceptionalism AVI talks about intelligence and beauty Neurosurgeon Ben Carson on critical race theory: ‘It’s a bunch of garbage’ Epoch: Education Union to Target Those Opposing CRT: Florida Mom Says ‘Bring It On’ Chicago: IF THIS IS SUCCESS, I’D HATE TO SEE WHAT FAILURE LOOKS LIKE Capitol Police EXPANDING Around US Using 1/6 As Excuse For Power, Democrats Push For NATIONAL Police US ‘could send troops into Haiti’ to prevent civil war after bloody assassination of president Jovenel Moïse The 'Hotel California' doctrine of US military intervention Wednesday, July 7. 2021Parking a boat is not easyCould the guy do it without constant instruction?
Re-imagining higher edWednesday morning linksHave you noticed all the anti-4th-of-July articles? MC: A Few Thoughts For Independence Day Weekend Please, Progressives: Go Ahead and Cede What Makes America Great to the Right New York City's Chaotic Democratic Mayoral Primary Is Over…And the Former Cop Won Book Review: Brian Domitrovic Reveals the Monetary Genius of Arthur Laffer Social Equity and the Re-Segregation of Higher Education Manhattan Institute Offers Toolkit for Parents to Fight Back Against Woke Schools What Is A University Student? April Powers Condemned Jew-Hate. Then She Lost Her Job. The inclusion officer's identity as a black Jew should have made her unassailable. Instead, it was used to discredit her. Nancy Pelosi Directs Capitol Hill Security Police Units to Regional Offices in California and Florida, Future Locations coming What America Didn’t Understand About Its Longest War - That the war went on so long may be tragic, but it is hardly surprising. Tuesday, July 6. 2021The math of relationshipsFrom Mate Selection for Modernity:
Scares meTuesday morning linksWas yesterday a holiday? I didn't get the memo. Dem Rep. Cori Bush Says American Freedom Is Only For ‘White People’… National Geographic Says 4th of July Fireworks Are Racist Because Smoke Disproportionately Affects Black People To Stop Climate Change Americans Must Cut Energy Use by 90 Percent, Live in 640 Square Feet, and Fly Only Once Every 3 Years, Says Study The pandemic didn't affect mental health the way you think YET MORE PROVERBS FOR MODERN TIMES Chicago: Chiraq: 88 Shot, 14 Killed… A city where black lives do not matter Can Unhinged Pro-Crime Progressive Prosecutors Survive The Crime Wave They Helped Create? Judge Orders Thug-Loving Minneapolis City Council, Mayor to Hire More Cops. Good Luck With That! VDH:The Genesis of Our American Collective Meltdown. Our adversaries can’t quite believe their good fortune. Had they thought up ways to divide and impoverish America, they could not have improved on our own collective meltdown. Our friend comments on the above Monday, July 5. 2021D-Day, colorizedMonday morning linksAmerica's July 4 begins as Joey 'Jaws' Chestnut sets new world record at Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney Island by downing 76 franks in 10 minutes in front of 5,000 screaming fans Related? Chinese Scientists Produce Genetically Modified Pigs for Human Transplant Young Americans need to appreciate the good fortune they take for granted Our American Inheritance - We must not forget our forebears’ sacrifices. The Left’s War on Gifted Kids. Local progressive activists have found a cause even more unpopular than "Defund the police," and are pushing it with even greater vigor. The Real Problem With Critical Race Theory NEA Goes All-In on Critical Race Theory Hate in America's Classrooms Has there ever been a nation in history with more opportunities for Black people than the USA? Rep. James Clyburn outright lies about Voter I.D. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Blames Trump For Surge In Violent Crime Chicago Mayor Lightfoot Says 99% Of The Criticism She Receives Is Because She Is A Black Woman…Nothing to do with her trainwreck policies. Trump Says One Of His Greatest Accomplishments Was Exposing The ‘Fake News Media’ China’s deal with Montenegro makes sense if you realize it’s not about money Saudi Arabia moves towards the Gulf peace train with Israel Sunday, July 4. 202124.7 knotsYou have to know what you are doing, or disaster. (Thanks reader for this one). Very cool. This cat is rigged for serious. It is athletic.
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Gotta love Marcia BallHappy Independence DayDoing some reading, and musing, on this 245th year of the greatness which is our fine nation. Right now, we live in a world where we're supposed to be humble, and there are factions which would prefer to not tout American Greatness. Still others believe our best years are behind us. My view is some of our best years are behind us, but our very best is still ahead, as long as we understand where we've come from, and the principles for which we stand. I don't believe in being humble about our national identity. No other nation has done many of the things our nation has. Our Constitution was one of the very first, and certainly the first that enshrined individual rights as primary over the predations of a government. Our Constitution started a period of constitutional revolution which spread around most of the world at that time. And while our nations' flaws are evident, we are among the few nations which air our dirty laundry, not proudly, but to learn and improve. Other nations can point to civil or human rights failings we have now, or have had in the past, but none of them have a track record better than ours improving these rights.
Continue reading "Happy Independence Day" Good morning AmericaFrom today's LectionaryMark 6:1-13 6:1 He left that place and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him. 6:2 On the sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astounded. They said, "Where did this man get all this? What is this wisdom that has been given to him? What deeds of power are being done by his hands! 6:3 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon, and are not his sisters here with us?" And they took offense at him. 6:4 Then Jesus said to them, "Prophets are not without honor, except in their hometown, and among their own kin, and in their own house." 6:5 And he could do no deed of power there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and cured them. 6:6 And he was amazed at their unbelief. Then he went about among the villages teaching. 6:7 He called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits. 6:8 He ordered them to take nothing for their journey except a staff; no bread, no bag, no money in their belts; 6:9 but to wear sandals and not to put on two tunics. 6:10 He said to them, "Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave the place. 6:11 If any place will not welcome you and they refuse to hear you, as you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them." 6:12 So they went out and proclaimed that all should repent. 6:13 They cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many who were sick and cured them Saturday, July 3. 2021Not a member of the American Medical Association, but stillI quit them years ago when they were hijacked by lefty functionaries. This new AMA position paper is crazy, illiterate, and only comprehensible in tone: AMA Organizational Strategic Plan to Embed Racial Justice and Advance Health Equity. It sounds like the Babylon Bee.
July 4th gun funThis video is not Chicago. Honest good Americans like firearms. Sadly, so do the bad guys. These are the good guys.
A few Saturday morning linksLegal lunacy: Judge tosses gun case over grand jury’s lack of diversity Powerful, Prestigious Legal Organization Rejects “Affirmative Consent” Caving to the Mob Week in Higher Education Ohio private school expels students because their MOMS launched campaign against woke curriculum and Critical Race Theory HOW RADICAL ARE THE TEACHERS’ UNIONS? Watch out for the extremists around you Target has now acknowledged that San Francisco is the only city in America where they have decided to close some stores early because of the escalating retail crime. " What the f- is going on in California?" MC: Justice In This Country Is Not Dispensed Impartially Between Democrats And Republicans I wish I were in Wellfleet this weekend
This weekend, I'd like to be in Wellfleet with all of my extended family (some below dragging out the kayaks), oysters, wine, maybe a little fishing and a little tennis. They also have a darn cute parade on the 4th. Little kids on little bikes decorated with flags, with a fire engine in front.
Friday, July 2. 2021Cannabis not good for teen brainsThe Art of Dying
It's about his life.
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Friday morning linksThe Margaret Mead problem. Mead, so radical about gender and sex in her early work, doubled down on the differences between men and women later. If a Person Can Be Trans-Gender, Why Not Trans-Race? Most of FL condo board quit in 2019 as squabbling residents dragged out plans for repairs Biden Official Claims Climate Change May Be To Blame For Florida Condo Collapse… California Begs For More Electricity As Shift To Renewable Power Leaves State In The Dark ELECTRIC VEHICLES ON COLLISION COURSE WITH REALITY ‘Tree Inequity’ plaguing ‘peoples of color’ The week in whoppers: Randi Weingarten’s chutzpah, The Gray Lady’s revisionism and more MSNBC Expert Seems to Leave Mika Speechless When He Delivers a Harsh Blow About Trump Charges Trump must be extremely clean if this is all the NY prosecutors came up with The Bill Will Come Due on Biden's Trillions. Biden's infrastructure package is really a jackpot for public unions and big business. Why Is the Buttoned-Up Biden White House Leaking Dirt on Kamala? Thursday, July 1. 2021Re-learning boat-handlingI have had to re-learn much of what I once was comfortable with about boat-handling. Midlife crisis issues, I guess. Gotta keep learning or re-learning skills, or decay. I am blessed with many interests and hobbies, but am at best mediocre with all of them. Due to time spent, I am at my best at my day job. - This craft is a deep-V single diesel Downeast-style thing, Maine-style, lobster-boat-style. Heavy. Pretty, I feel. Designed to go from place to place regardless of weather and not a toy boat. - It's all about "feel". Each boat has her own handling qualities. Like a horse, you have to know it, learn how she responds to things, make her an extension of your brain and body. Takes me many, many hours to do this without causing a problem. Maybe more hours than I have left. Mrs. BD: "Aw, you'll get used to it. It's just bigger." Good, bold life attitude on her part. - Boats steer by the stern. Turning left makes the stern turns right to reorient the vessel. Duh. I knew that. It makes the stern turn into the damn dock. - A rudder does not work in reverse. Duh. Well, you can steer in reverse with an outboard or sterndrive, but otherwise, not really. Easiest to handle is twin engines because you can steer with the engines alone. I don't have that so I have to learn like the guys with their lobster boats. We actually wanted a twin diesel but could not find one we liked from up north even down to Texas. Boats are in short supply right now. - Docking and mooring in wind is as much of a bitch as it ever was. Can I back this boat into a slip? No way, even without wind. Well, probably could on a calm lake but not on real water. - When over age 45, scrambling around a slippery bow deck feels (is) treacherous. Gotta hold on to something. - Winds and currents can mess up your best intentions. - Checklists. Gotta use them for everything. It's tough to remember everything, which is why pilots use them. Very easy to forget to check the oil in the generator. - Put a little bleach in the water tank, and a little water-softener in the head to keep it sweet. - Nighttime boating? I am so past that, and there are idiots out there. Could include me I guess. - I do love the chug of a diesel engine. They just want to work hard at 3000 rpm. Work makes them happy. - New GPS. I have little problem plotting a course on a chart. Not used to GPS plotting, but I will get it after a while. Anyway, 90% of the challenge of boat handling is at docks and in harbors and marinas. - The basic knots? It you knew them once, they will come back. But they should be automatic. Clove hitch, bowline...Darn. - Dockhands? God bless 'em. When they are around at the fuel dock. Do we have any salt-water boater readers?
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Thursday morning linksPhysician Practice Acquisitions Accelerated During COVID-19. A new study shows an acceleration of physician practice acquisitions, leading to nearly half of US physician practices being owned by hospitals and corporations. It is a short easy read and is chock full of information that challenges the woke narrative How did Bill Cosby's conviction overturn happen? Legal experts weigh in Vogue declares Jill Biden 'a goddess' and puts her on their cover as the epitome of style Supreme Court Says Students Who Identify As Teachers Must Be Allowed To Use Teacher's Lounge Majority of liberal college students not proud to be American, favor socialism, NDSU survey finds If Trans Women Are Women, What Does That Make Women? Crime: What Was California Thinking? HOW LOW CAN HOLLYWOOD SINK? California: Put your masks back on, and don’t whine about it Global Warming 33 Year Birthday a Celebration of Failures Via Schneiderman:
NSA VS. TUCKER: AN UPDATE [UPDATED!] If the Woke Revolution Cancels Truth Itself, What Then? Kamala Harris Has a Big Problem The incredible shrinking Kamala Harris Putin Declares The Age Of American Dominance And Leadership Is Dead…
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