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Wednesday, April 21. 2021Wednesday morning linksJust stay home: U.S. puts 80% of the world on Do Not Travel list The World Is “On The Abyss” From Climate Crisis Biden Set to Push Critical Race Theory on U.S. Schools How L.A.’s Brentwood School Became a Battleground in the Culture Wars Joe Biden Is Using Your Tax Dollars To Make American Kids Hate Their Country Shining A Spotlight On Critical Race Theory In New York High Schools Nancy Pelosi Celebrates Chauvin Guilty Verdict by Thanking George Floyd for Dying Legal Insurrection: Derek Chauvin Post-Trial Analysis Ontario’s Covid Tyranny and Democrats’ War on Police Anti-Police Thugs Target EMTs, Paramedics In NYC… More Than A Third Of Liberals Believe 1000+ Black Americans Were Killed By Police In 2019. Black People To Boycott Home Depot Because It Won’t Issue Negative Statements About Georgia Voting Law… Glenn Greenwald on what the truth about Officer Sicknick's death says about the media Who Killed Adam Toledo? How did a 13-year-old boy end up in an alley with a gun at 2:30 on a Monday morning? The New York Times Has Just BeenCaught In Two Monstrous Lies Tuesday, April 20. 2021A book: The GeneRecommended. You do not need to be a STEM student or an MD to understand this history. I had not known that this author had a serious family history of mental illness. The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddartha Mukherjee
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Not too scared to go placesMrs. BD and I have been fairly COVID-fearless during the past 12 months. Call us stupid if you want to. Our Hadrian's Wall hike was cancelled last summer because the UK blocked foreigners (except immigrants - we blocked Europeans too). As Mrs. BD is getting ready for a long-weekend trip to Texas to get together with gardening friends, I decided to recall all of the places she, or we, have been during COVID Year (not including restaurants - we've done them all along): Florida, Cape Cod (twice), Eastern Shore of Maryland for crab cakes and boats, NYC about 5 times, and Rhode Island. We tried to get a hiking week in Sedona for May, but every darn place was full. We have one of our group hikes in Upstate NY next week with great dining and beer at the bitter end. We want to get to Europe this fall. Today, Mrs.BD is off to an architectural and historical hike around Staten Island with a pal. That is an Urban Hike. Carpe diem. I think our running around has been about average for Americans in COVID Year. What have our readers been doing for fun trips and adventures since last April?
Tuesday morning linksMontana man dies following attack by grizzly bear. Investigators later shot and killed male bear near site of mauling Chronicle: The Abiding Scandal of College Admissions - The process has become an intrusive and morally presumptuous inquisition of an applicant’s soul. Scott Adams considers conservative and liberal happiness, at the 32:29 mark Double racism at Cigna:
Chauvin Trial: Jury has “a basis” to “find reasonable doubt here, but it’s not what I’m expecting” UT Austin Approves Orwellian “Strategic Plan for Faculty Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity” FROM THE BIZARRE TWIN CITIES HELLWORLD All Adult Americans Are Now Eligible for COVID-19 Vaccine NY Times newsletter: Maybe these COVID fears are a bit irrational Utah news outlet runs entire segment about local paramedic for ... donating $10 to Kyle Rittenhouse After California's $100 Billion Light Rail to Nowhere, Biden May Fund More California Rail No One Needs Andrew Cuomo just keeps the lies coming New York State Did Worst in Pandemic, Study Says New Study Shows Just How in the Tank for Biden the Legacy Media Is Biden’s ‘Back To Normal’ Is Not What Voters Were Promised NH GOP Chair torches Kamala's plan to visit, Border Czar headed to the wrong border UN: US Vaccine 'Hoarding" Endangers Africa, Africa: We Don't Want Vaccine Monday, April 19. 2021Leftist Narratives Imploding, Still Doesn't MatterThe most recent one to implode is "the 1/6 insurrection led to the death of a police officer." That is now absolutely not true. Assuming you believed that (or the "insurrection" meme) is what happened. Being a natural skeptic, I didn't believe much of the official nonsense 'news' that was shared. After all, I knew many people who were there that day, and none of them were in the Capitol, all were outside protesting. While appalled at the few who did rush the building and do damage, they all said it was a small number by comparison to the group outside, which was peaceful. Other Progressive narratives are breaking down, too, though. Progressive stronghold Portland is still a hot mess. Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Cuomo's mismanagement of Covid is set aside for a more Progressive-friendly sexual misconduct. Maxine Waters has in the past, and is now, inciting 'insurrection' and won't face impeachment. Gaffe Machine Biden keeps putting his foot in his mouth. His son is on a make-nice tour answering softball questions to clear his image. Wikileaks published emails showing Dominion's legal firm offered assistance to the Clinton campaign in 2016. All this dirt is readily available and very little is going to make the mainstream news (frankly, I'm shocked the Russian bounty story's dismissal made it to the mainstream, as that was one of Biden's memorable hot buttons). It's hard to understand why anyone pays attention to mainstream news. DeSantis' treatment is such that one can only shake their head in wonderment at the brazen nature of the lies and deceit. Living in one of the few (there really aren't many - just look at the map of popular votes for all the blue sections) bastions of Progressive thought, I am often stunned at what people are willing to listen to and believe. Comfortable lies rule the day. Say what you want about alternative news sources being 'fake news'. Determining what's real in the supposedly 'credible' media is a feat in itself. Flying on MarsFace masksStanford study quietly published at NIH.gov proves face masks are absolutely worthless against Covid Regardless of that, from Powerline: Take the Damn Mask Off!
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Monday morning linksLeft Coast Preparing For First Emergency Water Shortage Declaration… Too much desert with too many people relying on the Colorado River. Only real solution is massive desalinization systems. Conservative Women Are the Happiest People in America Glass half full, or glass half empty? Gratitude, or bad attitude? Education Insanity: Top 10 Stories Of The Week Ron DeSantis Delivers a Message to Vaccinated Americans, Hysteria Follows The Search to Explain Our Anxiety and Depression: Will ‘Long COVID’ Become the Next Gender Ideology? "Our?" Remote Learning Prompts Cheating Scandal at West Point You Will Not Believe the INSANE Proposals Austin Is Considering for 'Reimagining' Public Safety The never-ending story: Rioting and arson in Portland State Budget Time In New York And Florida Dominion Advisor Met With John Podesta Offering ‘Anything’ That Would Help Defeat Trump, According to Email Released by WikiLeaks Joe Biden Now Describes Migrant Rush on the Border as a ‘Crisis’ Biden explains:
Sunday, April 18. 2021Goodbye to the old boss..The Castros are gone, but I still see no hope for the Cubans. I see lots of hope for the Cuban Sandwich.
The Irish Famine
Why are Democrats so badly misinformed about COVID?
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MiseducationBari Weiss on the elite prep schools: (h/t K-12 Implosion) What is wrong with these people? From today's LectionaryActs 3:12-19 3:12 When Peter saw it, he addressed the people, "You Israelites, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we had made him walk? 3:13 The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our ancestors has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and rejected in the presence of Pilate, though he had decided to release him. 3:14 But you rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked to have a murderer given to you, 3:15 and you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses. 3:16 And by faith in his name, his name itself has made this man strong, whom you see and know; and the faith that is through Jesus has given him this perfect health in the presence of all of you. 3:17 "And now, friends, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers. 3:18 In this way God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, that his Messiah would suffer. 3:19 Repent therefore, and turn to God so that your sins may be wiped out. Saturday, April 17. 2021Is this offensive to people of Yorkshirian ethnicity?A glorious rantThe entirety of the glorious rant from the father of a Brearley girl. (If you do not know, Brearley is one a few very toney NYC private schools.) Most parents will probably agree, but will be afraid to speak up.
Saturday morning linksThe SEC V. Ripple: Testing The Limits Of A Regulatory Vacuum National Geographic’s Pollution Of Scientific Discourse " There has to be a point where any decent parent will say, Oh, my God, this is the crap they are feeding young minds, including my beautiful child!" CBS News slammed for cropping bodycam footage of Adam Toledo holding gun before fatal shooting Portland Rioters Set Fire To Apple Store; Smash Up Church, Veggie Grill, Historical Society Liz Cheney Was A Primary Culprit Of Spreading Fake News On Russian Bounties To Undermine Trump Kamala Harris comes out of the woodwork with plan to solve all those 'root causes' of migrant surge Venez: Dollar triumphs in socialist hellhole, rescuing high quality producers Berlin’s Disastrous Rent Control Law Gets Scrapped Biden finally saw the folly of our Afghan adventure, but Trump got it first Chinese government worker goes viral after battering her boss with a mop after he had allegedly harassed her Friday, April 16. 2021Notes for copy editorsA dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly. A bar was walked into by the passive voice. An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening. Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.” A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite. Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything. A question mark walks into a bar? A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly. Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Get out -- we don't serve your type." A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud. A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves. Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart. A synonym strolls into a tavern. At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar -- fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack. A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment. Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor. A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered. An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel. The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known. A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned a man with a glass eye named Ralph. The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense. A dyslexic walks into a bra. A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines. An Oxford comma walks into a bar, where it spends the evening watching the television getting drunk and smoking cigars. A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert. A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget. A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony.
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Computer genius suggests blocking out the sunBill Gates wants to spray dust into the sky to control the Earth's temperature. Is that the ultimate "What could go wrong" idea?
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Friday morning linksBernie Madoff’s secrets revealed by his prison pen pal Rep Dan Crenshaw Had Emergency Surgery on His Only Eye The Truth About 'Papa John' Schnatter Finally Comes Out Comedian John Cleese 'Apologises' For Making "Fun Of White English People" Why cheese is racist “Consensus” Becomes a Scary Word COVID: We're in a 'Perpetual Pandemic' With No End in Sight Global Warming Rebranded as “Climate Emergency” A number of major news organizations worldwide, ranging from Scientific American and The Columbia Journalism Review to The Guardian and Al Jazeera, have signed a pledge to begin referring to "climate change" as a "climate emergency" in their reporting. Chelsea Clinton Calls on Facebook to Ban Tucker Carlson Video After His Takedown of Dr. Fauci Goes Viral Fascist Jack Dorsey Purges James O'Keefe From Twitter Border agents arrest more criminals, see spike in meth and pot seizures as cartels exploit migrant surge Biden's CBP nominee defended sanctuary cities, criticized police working with immigration authorities Retail explodes, jobless claims drop nearly 200K to pandemic low ACE goes quite sarcastic re Afghanistan Dozens of Gitmo Captives Confirmed to Reengage in Terrorism after Release are At Large The Biggest Threat to the Climate: China Thursday, April 15. 2021Woodland forensics: An education in Northeastern forestsI thought I knew quite a bit about North American (mostly meaning east of the Mississippi) forests. Nope. This helped me be a far more informed hiker. This is a sequential series of 3. I had to watch it all twice. One of the best youtubes we've ever posted. I lied - I watched it 3 times because it was so absorbing.
Conditioning for those with a gray hair: "It's not fun, but it's done."Been thinking about this more. We like terms like sturdiness and conditioning. Our fitness posts (many of them for years) have never been about body-building or training for a specific athletic pursuit. It has all been about maintaining good fitness for life for those over 35 years old so that the interests and pleasures that life offers can be engaged as much as possible for as long as possible. One hour or so daily, plus a nutrition plan to stay trim, are not very difficult even for the most sedentary. I have to say that I envy Bulldog, who plays basketball and tennis every week. How good is that? Great fun.
Thursday morning links
Sorry, but I forgot where that toon came from Our internet pal David Warren is recovering from a stroke, heart attack, and bypass surgery Who Is Freer These Days? Rand Paul Calls Fauci a 'Petty Tyrant,' Urges Americans to 'Go About Your Lives' Nate Silver Accuses Dr. Fauci of Gaslighting on COVID Transmission Teacher’s ‘come at me’ rant caught on video by Reopen California Schools group California Public School Teachers Being Told to Hide Critical Race Materials From Parents CEOs’ Surrender To The Mobocrats On The Left Will End Poorly No Charges Against Officer Who Shot Ashli Babbitt: DOJ John Durham scrutinizes Steele dossier source through Brookings Institution subpoena The Georgetown Affair: New Levels Of Progressive Reality Denial BBC diversity chief says Idris Elba's TV detective Luther 'isn't black enough to be real' because 'he doesn't have any black friends and doesn't eat any Caribbean food' Students support voting bill...then learn it's actually Georgia's law Did the cop who shot Daunte Wright experience "slip and capture?" The border is even worse than you think Guatemala: We have no idea what Biden and Harris are talking about Israel: A “VERY BEAUTIFUL” ATTACK Wednesday, April 14. 2021Ginger Baker soloThe bad news: Waistline correlates with cognitive decline (reposted)Correlation does not prove causation, but it's something to consider anyway. There are many reasons to pursue physical fitness.
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