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Sunday, August 29. 2021

From today's Lectionary

Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

7:1 Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him,

7:2 they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them.

7:3 (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash their hands, thus observing the tradition of the elders;

7:4 and they do not eat anything from the market unless they wash it; and there are also many other traditions that they observe, the washing of cups, pots, and bronze kettles.)

7:5 So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?"

7:6 He said to them, "Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me;

7:7 in vain do they worship me, teaching human precepts as doctrines.'

7:8 You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition."

7:14 Then he called the crowd again and said to them, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand:

7:15 there is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but the things that come out are what defile."

7:21 For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: fornication, theft, murder,

7:22 adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, folly.

7:23 All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person."

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Saturday, August 28. 2021

For sale: A Great Harbor 47' trawler

Pretty cool. Slow trawler - 7-9 k. Take the tour:

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Bumper crop of peaches right now

The weight of all the fruit has broken many limbs, so it's the last year for this old tree. Such fruit trees have a limited life span.

It has produced abundantly every three years. Feast or famine. My pic does not capture the amount of fruit.

Invited a gardening pal over to share the harvest.

I think the wood might be nice for smoking a turkey on Thanksgiving.

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The models for American Gothic

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Friday, August 27. 2021

DIY Links

Afghanistan Was Never an 'Endless War'

Taliban Takeover Is a Boon for Cash-Strapped Iran: Tehran gets dollars from new oil sales to Afghanistan, while the Taliban get fuel for the ailing Afghan economy

‘Fight to the death’ looms in Panjshir Valley

HHS diverting millions in funding marked for vaccine efforts to housing migrant children

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Identifying as a Furry

A high school in Kentucky is having a "furry" problem

Only in America

As Scott Adams says, "being yourself" is idiotic and infantile. Be your best, most adaptive self if you want to.

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Justice requires injustice

Do facts matter? Re-linking from Undoing the Enlightenment:

Several Disenlightenment urges reinforced one another in the case of James Damore, the Google engineer fired in 2017 for writing a memo discussing sex differences in his field. The National Labor Relations Board declared that Damore’s “statements about immutable traits linked to sex — such as women’s heightened neuroticism and men’s prevalence at the top of the IQ distribution — were discriminatory and constituted sexual harassment notwithstanding efforts to cloak comments with ‘scientific references’ and analysis.” The scare quotes around references to science tell us that science must be ignored whenever it conflicts with Disenlightenment dogma. In the Enlightenment, science was often referred to as a process of unveiling — the frontispiece to Diderot’s Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers depicts the figures of Reason and Philosophy unveiling the figure of Truth. According to the National Labor Relations Board, though, science is more of a cloak.

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Friday morning links

The new chief chaplain at Harvard? An atheist

New York magazine’s shocking revelation: The liberal media are biased!

Americans Are 'More & More Dependent' On Big Govt - Things Are Never Going Back To 'Normal'

Cutting to the Chase: Why Trump Was Driven from Office

Quote via Powerline:

“Ladies and gentlemen, they gave me a list here. The first person I was instructed to call on was Kelly O’Donnell of NBC.” Biden’s minders in the daycare operation at the White House have failed to impress on him that he is to omit their instructions from his remarks.

CNN Shocked to Discover Democrat Voters ‘Frustrated,’ Want to Recall Newsom Too

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Thursday, August 26. 2021

Thursday afternoon links

Taliban Win Liberal Hearts and Minds by Promising to Fight "Climate Change"

Where will Afghanistan’s refugees go?

Penn offers course on ‘White Nationalism in the Age of Climate Change’

How to eliminate crime

Illinoisans Paid Almost As Much On Unemployment As At Work

America Is Now Actually the Mess Dems Pretended It Was Under Trump

Critical Race Capitalism - Verizon teaches employees that America is fundamentally racist and promotes “defunding the police.”

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Greenwald on Cost-Benefit

The Bizarre Refusal to Apply Cost-Benefit Analysis to COVID Debates. Are those who oppose a ban on cars or a radical reduction in speed limits sociopaths, given the huge number of people they are knowingly consigning to death or maiming?

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Charlie Watts, RIP

Dead at 80. Charlie Watts Should Be Remembered as the Coolest Rolling Stone. In the very serious business of rock stardom, the late drummer always made room for humor and humility

As I understand it, he was a Jazz drummer but never minded playing with the Stones.

In the Start Me Up video they post, watch Watts smirking at Jagger.

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Wednesday, August 25. 2021

Re-linked: Codevilla on Afghanistan, etc.

Graveyard of Narratives

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Astronomy gets woke

A Telescope for Social Justice

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Cool world-wide weather website

Windfinder. Wind, weather, waves and tides, for those who seek fun in or on the water.

According to my pal, they accurately noted that the Henri storm would be a non-event.

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DIY Links

The Results of the Labor-Market Experiment Are In: Reducing unemployment benefits reduced unemployment.

New York Times weirdly omits the ‘why’ of why Jews would want to pray at Temple Mount

Where will Afghanistan’s refugees go?

Undoing the Enlightenment

Afghan debacle isn't the first Sullivan and other Biden officials have defended

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Neuroanatomy

The Brain Doesn’t Think the Way You Think It Does. Familiar categories of mental functions such as perception, memory and attention reflect our experience of ourselves, but they are misleading about how the brain works. More revealing approaches are emerging.

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A few Weds morning links

The Good News—A COVID-19 Update By Thomas T. Siler, M.D.

A Famous Honesty Researcher Is Retracting A Study Over Fake Data. Renowned psychologist Dan Ariely literally wrote the book on dishonesty. Now some are questioning whether the scientist himself is being dishonest.

Illinois sex ed classes to teach gender expression as early as K-2 starting next school year

ANDREW CUOMO’S PARTING SHOTS

Reynolds: I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE TO PAY SOME INCOME TAX, AND IT SHOULD RISE AND FALL WITH FEDERAL SPENDING

Progressives have ruined California. Governor Gavin Newsom's hapless reign exposes the rot at the heart of America's liberal elite.

The UK police are getting serious about hate crime

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Tuesday, August 24. 2021

Free speech at the University of CT

UConn Students Fighting for Broader Free Speech Protections Face Backlash on Campus

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If you watch a few of this guy's Youtubes about his boat (as posted yesterday), you quickly see why fiberglass took over recreational boating. It's normal to term such vessels "project boats," and that's for sure.

However charming and quaint, wooden boats were never build to last forever. His lovely wooden 1930s cruiser, like many restored (aka rebuilt) wooden boats, is a sight for sore eyes. On the other hand, his boat is his home and his entire lifestyle.

I believe he is a professional carpenter, a semi-professional electrician, and repairs his cars and knows engines.

All the same, people who do those sorts of deeply impractical things make life more charming for the rest of us.

Not that guy's boat, but a 1939 wooden Chris Craft (for sale):

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Monday, August 23. 2021

DIY Links

CIA’s Former Counterterrorism Chief for the Region: Afghanistan, Not An Intelligence Failure — Something Much Worse

Keeping Fear Alive: Reluctant to set the public free, policymakers and the public-health bureaucracy set unachievable and unnecessary goals.

Terrorist elite set free from Afghan Guantanamo Bay

Iran has doubled forces on Israeli border since 2018, report claims: Istanbul-based Jusoor research institute, which has close ties to Syrian opposition forces, says the number of bases used by pro-Iranian militias and Iranian satellite Hezbollah has increased from 40 to 88 since 2018.

Hamas' secret foreign investment portfolio reportedly worth $500m

Moderate Nine Have More to Gain by Sticking Than Folding

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This guy knows his boat

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Monday morning links

Toon via Lucianne

NYT: Hospitals and Insurers Didn’t Want You to See These Prices. Here’s Why.

Nearly 15 Million Mail-in-Ballots Unaccounted for in 2020 Election, Report Says

MC's Initial Reaction To Charles Murray's "Facing Reality"

Antony Blinken Causes Alarm After Refusing to Answer Key Joe Biden Question

“The Taliban Now Has US Biometric System Used to Identify Afghans – Know Who Worked with the Government”

Taliban Sets Woman on Fire for 'Bad Cooking'

Taliban Draw Up Kill Lists and Demand Girls as War Booty To “Marry” Fighters. Taliban commander: “All girls over the age of 15 and widows younger than 40 should be married to the insurgent fighters.”

HOWIE CARR: Biden voters — are you tired of losing yet?

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Sunday, August 22. 2021

Rick Beato on The Beatles

Beato looks under the hood of a Beatles tune. Yes, he also finds George Martin (the "fifth Beatle) under the hood. However, Martin saw something great to work with.