Maggie's Farm

 Rutgers English Department to deemphasize traditional grammar ‘in solidarity with Black Lives Matter’

 Schools are being politicized, much to the detriment of children

 The Dehumanization of Blacks

Climate-change hysteria costs lives — but activists want to keep panic alive

 The real climate conspiracy by attorneys general for hire

 Reopening Schools and the Limits of Expertise

 News media stoke COVID-19 anxieties; yawned during 1968 pandemic

Yale Epidemiologist: Hydroxychloroquine Could Save 100,000 Lives If Widely Deployed

Codevilla: The COVID Coup 

Teachers Unions Will Sacrifice Their Students For Their Politics

 Dem Rep. Blumenauer: ‘Portland, Oregon Is Not Out of Control’

 Even More Now Oppose Defunding Police, Fear More Violence

 'Cancel Culture' and the Historical Illiteracy That Fuels It

 Biden Vs. The Most Interesting Man In The World

 High School Teacher in Michigan Fired for Saying 'Trump Is Our President' on Social Media

 Nike, Other Global Brands, Complicit in China Slave Labor

My favorite quote in this Paris Review piece on Sondheim is that music can make a word explode. 

It sure can. 

One quote: 

When I was fifteen years old I saw a movie called Hangover Square, another epiphany in my life. It was a moody, romantic, gothic thriller starring Laird Cregar, about a composer in London in 1900 who was ahead of his time. And whenever he heard a high note he went crazy and ran around murdering people. It had an absolutely brilliant score by Bernard Herrmann, centered around a one-movement piano concerto. I wanted to pay homage to him with this show, because I had realized that in order to scare people, which is what Sweeney Todd is about, the only way you can do it, considering that the horrors out on the street are so much greater than anything you can do on the stage, is to keep music going all the time. That’s the principle of suspense sequences in movies, and Bernard Herrmann was a master in that field. So Sweeney Todd not only has a lot of singing, it has a lot of underscoring. It’s infused with music to keep the audience in a state of tension, to make them forget they’re in a theater, and to prevent them from separating themselves from the action. I based a lot of the score on a specific chord that Herrmann uses in almost all his film work and spun it out from that. That and the “Dies Irae,” which is one of my favorite tunes and is full of menace.

Sunday Sermonette: 10 Safety Tips For Going Back To Church

 Catholic churches across U.S. suffer week of vandalism and arson

AVI explains that free market capitalism is a force, not a system 

The Science Is Very Clear: Schools Should Reopen This Fall

 Joe Biden Fights Science: ‘Just Plain Dangerous’ for Children to Return to School

 Florida's Broward County Orders Residents To Enforce Mandatory Mask Rules At Home

 Drop tests for blacks, say college coaches

Glenn Loury interviewed on Race And Equality 

Re the Smithsonian thing:

 When all is said and done, in 2020, the Smithsonian’s caretakers chose to tell our children that values like hard work and rationality are part of the “white” inheritance—and don’t come naturally to those raised in other cultures. If this demeaning caricature was offered up by drawling good ol’ boys defending Jim Crow in some grainy newsreel footage, we’d spot it for the unapologetic racism that it is. The question of the hour, though, is what we call it when educators offer it up in the name of “anti-racism.”

 Trump Was Right: Biden First Said He'd Defund Police

 Voters See Media A Lot More Eager To Help Biden Than Trump

 Mandated Diversity Training

 Portland Rioters Burn American Flag, Break Down Fencing At Federal Courthouse As Officers Respond En Masse

Homeland Security plans to deploy 150 agents in Chicago this week, with scope of duty unknown

 18 Chicago Cops Injured in Riot and Activists Scream 'Police Brutality'

 We immigrants know the America-bashers are ridiculously wrong

 UN Secretary General Calls For A “New Model For Global Governance” To Stop ‘Climate Change’

Mission creep? I thought they try to stop wars and genocide. Without much success.

 What is a bad smell?

In Canada’s Version of Portland, Cancel Culture Comes for ‘Steve-O-Reno’s’

Left-Wingers Are Hysterical About Federal Agents Policing Protests in Portland

 Border chief fires back at Portland mayor, defends 'absolutely necessary' policing tactics

 Portland Rioters Smash Through Door of Portland Police Association, Light it on Fire

 Portland’s Mayor Is Still On The Side Of The Rioters

 Black Woman Defaces Black Lives Matter Mural Outside Trump Tower: "Re-Fund The Police!"

America Held Hostage - This is how the Left campaigns to remove President Trump.

 Prof. Glen Loury: ‘You Can Live With Disparities, Or You Can Live In Totalitarianism’

"The white man’s path is a rut for the rest of us" — writes a privileged white woman...

This ‘anti-racism education’ sure looks awfully … racist

 Trader Jose Is Now Racist

 San Francisco’s experiment housing the homeless in hotels during pandemic working out as expected

 Hong Kong Outbreak "Out Of Control" As City Suffers Record Jump In New COVID-19 Cases

The pandemic could actually strengthen the U.S. food system. The shock to U.S. food chains from the coronavirus has been a boon to small- and mid-sized farms and distributors. Could it be the start of a new way to get food?

 Paul Krugman Rejects American Elections, Again

 The Chinese Holocaust: Modern China Looks Like WWII Germany, Horrifying Video Shows BAD Things Are Ongoing

 With 30 Submarines, Japan Could Shape The Pacific’s Undersea Defenses

Not a retirement type of person, but Mrs. BD wants a new boat (I thought I had had enuf boats in my life to worry about already, but I love boats. Love farms too, but I like hiking and working the most. Yeah, I likes me a bit of hunting too.

She likes the custom Hunts. She likes the trawlers too. 

This wonderful adventurous couple downsized their trawler to make it trailer-able, and go all around the country - and especially Canada - exploring and having fun times. Trawler Trailer Life.  Carpe Diem.

Yes, their home base is Florida, but they seem to not spend much time there.

If forced to retire, what would you do for fun and excitement while awaiting the Grim Reaper? 

Psalm 139:1-12, 23-24

139:1 O LORD, you have searched me and known me.

139:2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from far away.

139:3 You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

139:4 Even before a word is on my tongue, O LORD, you know it completely.

139:5 You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.

139:6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is so high that I cannot attain it.

139:7 Where can I go from your spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence?

139:8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there.

139:9 If I take the wings of the morning and settle at the farthest limits of the sea,

139:10 even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me fast.

139:11 If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light around me become night,"

139:12 even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day, for darkness is as light to you.

139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my thoughts.

139:24 See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

 The media are openly rooting for a surge in coronavirus cases, cheering for violence and racial division in our streets, praying for a slow economic recovery, and demanding that children stay home from school, because they are hoping it will hurt Trump at the polls.  The veils have come off for the mainstream media.  On November 3, the veils will also come off for the American voters.

Mueller and Weissmann Op-Eds Greatly at Odds With Their Report and Evidence

 Why China Picked Amnesty International's Ex-Chief as U.N. Free Speech Monitor

 "We'll Have To Suck It Up" - America's Nut-Glut Sends Prices Plunging

 MIA: Remus and the Woodpile Report 

Chief of Department for the NYPD Wounded in Black Lives Matter Violence

 Insanity Wrap #7: Vote-by-Mail Madness and the Riveting Body Cam Video You Can't Miss

 Oprah’s 1619 Project

 California to Release 18,000 Prisoners by End of August to ‘Slow the Spread of COVID-19’

 Live as a Conservative, Vote as a Leftist

The scourge of Whiteness 

 “The concept of white privilege can’t explain why several historically marginalized groups out-perform whites today." 

Ballad of The Green Beret

“The song was the No. 1 hit in the U.S. for the five weeks encompassing March 1966 and the No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100’s end of the year chart for 1966, despite the competing “California Dreamin'”, sharply dividing the popular music market, and the No. 21 song of the 1960s, even though the Vietnam War later became unpopular.

“The rivalry between “Green Berets” and “California Dreamin'” was so fierce that the two records tied for the No. 1 record of 1966, according to Cashbox. “Green Berets” has sold over nine million singles and albums and was the top single of a year in which the British Invasion, led by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, continued to dominate the U.S. charts.

Apple wins fight over $14.9 billion tax grab in blow to EU

 Genius Trump Wears Mask Causing Media To Question Effectiveness Of Masks

 California faculty union calls for free tuition for Black students, removal of campus police

The Illiberal Liberal Media - As Bari Weiss’s departure confirms, the New York Times has narrowed its spectrum of allowable opinion.

 Byron York's Daily Memo: Crisis in New York

 NYPD Officers Brutally Attacked By BLM Protesters Who Tried To Block Brooklyn Bridge…

When they’re going after the Virgin Mary, you know protest has turned to madness

Althouse on Douthat's "10 Theses About Cancel Culture/What we talk about when we talk about 'cancellation.'"

 THE SMITHSONIAN HAS LOST ITS MIND - with a chart defining whiteness

 Never Trump Lincoln Project Devoted 89 Percent of Disbursements to ‘Operating Expenditures’

Lyrics here

 Killing nearly 500 wolves in a year failed to protect endangered caribou – study

Humans have partnered with sled dogs for 9,500 years. Huskies and malamutes have ancient cousins dating back to the Pleistocene, new research shows.

AVI:  In my day, the problem with capitalism was the soul-destroying conformity it created. Now its problem is that it creates soul-destroying individualism. It seems we are hard to please.

California's anti-gig law:  Let Them Go on Welfare

Sad 

Wave of Violence Overwhelms NYC. Contrary to what Bill de Blasio and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez suggest, criminal behavior is not an economic phenomenon.

 Prominent Members Of Black Community Now Calling On NYPD To Bring Back Anti-Crime Unit

Duh 

 A Surge In Small Business Bankruptcies Is Underway

Sad. Broken dreams 

Who pays for the WHO?

NBC News Shocked to Find Pediatricians Want to Open Schools

 "Lockdown 2.0" Will Ensure The US Remains In An Economic Depression Through The 2020 Election

The first wave of lockdowns certainly didn’t stop the spread of the virus, and more lockdowns will not stop it from spreading either.  And now three separate scientific studies have shown that COVID-19 antibodies disappear very, very rapidly, and that means that a vaccine is not going to end this crisis and we will never reach a point of “herd immunity”.  So we are going to have to find a way to function effectively as this virus circulates around the globe year after year, because it isn’t going to go away.

We simply cannot shut down the economy every time the number of cases starts to surge again.  The damage that we have already done to the U.S. economy has been incalculable, and now these new lockdowns will do even more damage.

 Adam Carolla Talks ‘Cancel Culture,’ His Relationship With Jimmy Kimmel And More 

Museum curator canceled 

 Time Op-Ed: Forget Statues. We Need To Start Renaming The Whole Map

Who wants "Leningrad"? 

Sullivan quits NY Magazine 

Michael Flynn bombshell: FBI believed he was 'forthcoming' and 'telling truth,' notes show

 US-Canada border to stay closed as New York demands more travellers quarantine on arrival

 UK Bars Huawei From Supplying 5G Network In Major Reversal By Johnson