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Friday, March 26. 2021Kelli O'HaraWe saw her once on Broadway. This is amusing. Yes, she is an opera singer, a Broadway singer, and a country singer.
Tucker on the presserAmusing
"Follow the Science"
The press conferenceByron York was not impressed. I felt that it was awkward and uncomfortable, but what do you expect? What do you think?
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Friday morning linksMore 'Bad News' Coverage of COVID in America Than Anywhere Else Fear sells Do The Vaccines Help People With “Long COVID”? Does it exist? Teachers Unions Hate Science Now That It Supports Reopening Minnesota theater cancels production of Cinderella because the cast is 'too white' The One-Party Orthodoxy of Equity and Anti-Racism Nobody is for racism Via American Exodus - Don’t wait for the oligarchy to let you in. Just walk away.
No Vietnamese Need Apply. Joe Biden’s politically motivated hypocrisy on immigration. Candace Owens Schools Democrats for Sport - Check Out This Candidate Who Just Got His Lesson Read the Shocking Pentagon Training Materials Targeting Conservatives in the Military Securing Peace in the Middle East After Trump Ethiopia’s Dam over the Nile Risks War with Egypt Palestinians Funneled Hundreds of Millions to Terrorists, State Dept Report Reveals Thursday, March 25. 2021Bears having funThursday morning linksUK Lockdown One Year On: It Doesn't Work, It Never Worked, & It Wasn't Supposed To Work "In my opinion, the covid lockdowns in Europe, the U.S. and some other countries have been one of the worst public health fiascos in recent history." The Dream of the '90s Died in Portland.Once an up-and-coming city, Portland was destroyed from within by radical activism and political ineptitude. At a Certain Point, Even The Gestapo Had To Stop Cancelling People Today’s blacklisted Americans: Lincoln and Washington, by Chicago’s Democratic mayor What Trump Derangement Syndrome Has Wrought Biden’s insane $3 trillion race to transform the nation overnight Biden hasn't been talking for a reason 'Money Laundering' for Terrorists Wednesday, March 24. 2021LiesFrom A Wilderness of Lies
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"Functional fitness"
I have been asked what use my levels of fitness are, and my reasons for pursuing fitness in the ways that I do. Probably maintaining vigor is my first item, and a vigorous attitude towards life. I like to say "yes" to doing things. About five years ago I felt tired on a hunting trip, and I hated myself for it. That was my wake-up call. Does bedroom vitality matter too, and being appealing to a spouse? Um, yeah. Duh. Second, the health issue. It is not about living longer because that is not up to us but to fate. Still, nobody wants to become overweight, frail, or rickety sooner than necessary. Third, to be honest, is looking vital and fit instead of looking older. Posture and movement matter to others. Call it vanity, but it is much more than that. People react differently, as they do to clothing and manners. Fourth (but not really fourth), I like to be able to do useful and fun things. I need to be able to hike over hill and dale for 12 miles, or scramble boulders, with Mrs. BD and friends. I need to be able to stack 2 cords of wood dumped in my courtyard (as I did this weekend) and to do all of the yard work I have time for. I need to be able to handle my chainsaw. If my right shoulder were not so damaged, I'd love to live on the tennis court. I guess I am restless and love physical activity. I need to be agile and useful on a boat too. I wish I had more sports but I have always had more enthusiasm than athletic talent. Nutrition is one of my problems. I am not underweight, but I just do not enjoy eating anymore. Some love it, but for me it just is like required fuel no matter how tasty. I have had minimal appetite since I began my intensive exercise program some years ago so I force myself. RJP keeps nagging me about strength. Fair enough, but two days of weights is all I can fit in right now. Pre-covid I was doing 2 1/2 hrs of weights/wk. Deads are the best thing for me. Regarding recovery, I may not do enough but I feel that I do. Whenever I feel unable to get out of bed at 4:30 AM after a powerlift day, I don't. I love feeling stronger but have competing goals.
Wednesday morning linksImage via Bookworm Sharansky’s Exodus True Liberal: Now Let Us Praise Naomi Wolf One Year To Flatten Life As We Knew It Former professor says Yale fired her over tweet on Trump, Dershowitz Canceled On gender madness, don’t let Canada be the future The Dubious Origins of Long Covid - Echoes of chronic fatigue in the effort to blame the coronavirus for a host of questionable symptoms. Like "chronic Lyme" As obesity rates in America soar, new weight loss drugs are in the offing that offer hope Drugs? Suspect in Boulder Mass Shooting Identified as Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa: ‘Very Anti-Social’ Deranged, and antisocial Media, Activists Assumed Colorado Shooter Was White, Delete Posts, Pivot When His Identity Revealed White House directs all agencies to refer to 'Biden-Harris administration' In Wake Of Another Tragedy, Democrats Once Again Prove Commitment To ‘Never Let A Crisis Go To Waste’ Babylon Bee is dangerous There is no cure for stupid Betsy DeVos’s campus sex-assault rules need a tweak, not an overhaul The Democrat Party Has Declared War on America Teaching kids to be neoracists Kids As Young As 7 Are Being Sent Across The Border Alone By Their Parents "First Tangible Step" - Evanston, Illinois, Becomes First City To Pay Reparations To Blacks How black do you have to be to get $? This is a tricky one. Denmark Cracks Down on "Parallel Societies" They missed the multicultural memo Links will be delivered later todayIt has to do with my gym + work schedule. They have changed a bit lately.
Tuesday, March 23. 2021Problem solver
It's more or less what the Chinese government is doing now.
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Tuesday morning linksFifty Years of Fear and Loathing Who can be harmed by meditation? A book: PreachersnSneakers THE WORST SCANDAL OF THE PANDEMIC: Death and Lockdowns. When Academic Bullies Claim the Mantle of Free Speech Lesbian Wives Are Now Politically Incorrect Biden Planning $3 Trillion Spending Bill – Universal Pre-K, Free Community College, Etc… Photos Leaked of Joe Biden’s Children in Cages – Migrant Children Stuffed into Holding ‘Pods’ in Squalid Conditions "People are the new dope." Mexican cartels are seizing on Biden's lax border policies to run multimillion-dollar human trafficking scheme and are using families as DECOYS to smuggle single adults and drugs from elsewhere Biden Torpedoes Abraham Accords Summit. The new administration turns its back on peace between Israel and Arab states in order to pursue deal with Iran Former Middle East envoy Greenblatt: Saudi Arabia on ‘path to peace’ with Israel Peace Dividend - Widening the Economic Growth and Development Benefits of the Abraham Accords China’s Damaging Influence and Exploitation of U.S. Colleges and Universities Protests spread across Europe as coronavirus surges create new lockdowns Monday, March 22. 2021Tough peopleAdventure travel: Visiting the PygmiesMonday morning linksNathan Evans' sea shanty Wellerman goes to number one in UK chart The Enduring Relevance of Czesław Miłosz’s ‘The Captive Mind’ Fossils in a Forgotten Ice Core Rewrite Greenland’s Icy Past National Review Prevails against Michael Mann 'Fat Sex Therapist' compares fitness trainers to Nazis, children's dieting to sexual assault Tufts removes portraits of past presidents because they're too White Ivy League pockets millions from COVID stimulus as endowments reach record values BIDEN CALLS FOR ‘COVID-19 HATE CRIMES ACT’ AFTER ATLANTA SHOOTING Columbia University to Offer Graduation Ceremonies Based on Race, Income and More Fauci’s Fall from Grace Began a Year Ago Today Professor Hounded For Saying It’s Okay To Take Your Kids On Vacation Yang: You Know Why We Can’t Get The Schools Open, Right? Democrats’ bid to turn screws on New York’s richest De Blasio’s pathetic school reopenings fail the parent test Is The Left On The Cusp Of Permanent Triumph, Or Is It Committing Suicide? WHY WE SHOULD HATE “HATE CRIME” LAWS "A Threat To American Democracy" - Federal Judge Alleges Democrats Control Almost All Major News Outlets New York Times Writers May Have Deceived Readers in Stories About Project Veritas: Court Critics say Trump’s changes to the citizenship test made it harder. Here’s what actually happened to the failure rate Families sending children alone across the border in response to Biden policies ICE Reserves Hotel Rooms For Illegal Migrants, Biden May Fly Them To States On Canadian Border The Guardian: 'Blindsided': Biden faces tough test in reversing Trump's cruel border legacy Anti-lockdown mob clashes with cops in London as officers arrest 36 people after being pelted with bottles US Falls Into 4 Traps Set by the CCP in US-China Talks Special Ops Aren’t A Substitute For Strategy Sunday, March 21. 2021When is this pandemic over?After a year of restrictions, when can we declare that the pandemic is over? I would say now, for sure. Around here, restaurants are full, pubs are full, and people seem back to normal other than the mask politeness when expected. No need to scare some innocent phobic. There still some phobics out there, so be nice to them because they are truly fearful. They do not believe Science.
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Springtime Beverage: Shandy
A light, refreshing drink. Time to fertilize shrubs and young trees
I fertilized our garden beds last week. It will take some rain to sink it in. A good time to put down crabgrass preventer, and fert your nice lawns too. I spread Preen at the same time in the flower and shrub borders. It works, sort-of.
From today's LectionaryPsalm 51:1-12 51:1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. 51:2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. 51:3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. 51:4 Against you, you alone, have I sinned, and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are justified in your sentence and blameless when you pass judgment. 51:5 Indeed, I was born guilty, a sinner when my mother conceived me. 51:6 You desire truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart. 51:7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 51:8 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have crushed rejoice. 51:9 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me. 51:11 Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your holy spirit from me. 51:12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and sustain in me a willing spirit. Saturday, March 20. 2021Attracting owlsThe big owls - around here Great Horned and Barred - have already nested, but you can attract Screech Owls by putting up nesting boxes. They are fun to have around. Reposted: Fielding your questions about the Maggie's Fitness for Life recommendationsI'll do my best to field readers' questions about the Maggie's Fitness for Life suggestions (which readers know includes sessions of heavy weights, sessions of calisthenics, and sessions of HIIT cardio plus maybe some plain "cardio." Ask me, and I will attempt to explain the rationale. Bear in mind that exercise is not for fat loss I keep getting caught up by our own anti-spam filter, so I will post further responses to questions here: OG: Unless somebody is a well-experienced gym rat, we recommend using an experienced trainer to make personal recommendations. Injuries are avoided by correct techniques. Road-running is terrible. Treadmill or trails, not so much. Juan: Most gyms are open now. For the weight-training part of your program bands are no substitute for dumbells and barbells, but are better than nothing. Anon: That is surely better than nothing, but I tend to view my workouts as a sort of torture. Then I derive the life benefits. We recommend balanced exercise programs, so one has to hate a lot of it. It hurts. RJP asked us this question: Since you bring up calisthenics again, I'll ask the same (unanswered) question from a previous post: In your day-to-day life, where exactly are you applying all this hard-earned endurance? What makes you think you won't have enough endurance for those activities if you build up more strength? Why do you think getting your squat and deadlift up will hamper your ability to do things like burpees? Our program recommendations (4-6 hrs/wk) are designed for general life functionality. That includes sports and things like hiking 15 miles. It is "general," not designed for body-building or marathon-running. Squats and deadlifts will not harm your burpees. Every category of exercise makes demands on, and builds on, different energy systems. Power, agility, and endurance are completely different. That's the reason for a mix. I will welcome more questions...
Saturday morning linksThe Nazi-Fighting Women of the Jewish Resistance - They went undercover, smuggled revolvers in teddy bears and were bearers of the truth. Why hadn’t I heard their stories? DO MASKS WORK? I Got My COVID Vaccine. Now Can I Hug My Mom? Gurri’s Negation: ‘The Revolt of the Public’ is this month’s book award winner Physics Term “Quantum Supremacy” Struck From Newspeak Dictionary Social Justice is on full tilt this week A North Carolina school district says White parents are a problem California Now Officially Handing Out Senate Seats Based on Race Go Home Tim Cook, You’re Drunk… San Francisco School Board Member: Many Asians Use ‘White Supremacist Thinking’ To ‘Get Ahead’ Cuomo Reportedly Told Former Aide He Would Like To "Mount" Her Like A Dog When The Narrative Replaces The News
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