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From the left-leaning The Hill, The strange greatness of Donald Trump

While one of my daughters is in Berlin doing the cool things she does and reporting that she much prefers Berlin to LA, Mrs. BD emailed me her pic from her travels with her Dad today. You know where this is.

I noticed that the wisteria is ahead of mine. 

Pogo toon via Lileks 

Mongolian Couple Died of Plague After Eating Raw Marmot

Marmot sushi? I prefer my woodchucks medium rare 

HOW TO PUNISH A PEDOPHILE SEX OFFENDER

 NPR Host Fear Mongers: Climate Change Will Cause Human Extinction, “Everyone You Love Will Die!”…

When? 

American Physiological Association Creates Climate Change Guide For Unhinged Warmists

There is obviously a correlation between muscle mass and strength for the "strong men," but for ordinary men and for women, not so much. It's common for me to see young women in the gym, with no notable muscle mass, outlifting me in squats and even in deads.

What do we consider low reps? Low reps are when you can only do 3-8 reps. Higher reps are 10-20. I would never do high reps with powerlifts. Arms, yes. Calisthenics like pushups, for sure.

A study which looked at bench-press, military-press, lat-pulldown, cable-row, squat, leg-press and leg-extension found this: High reps good for building muscle mass, not strength . 

What is your experience with resistance exercise? 

I thought I glimpsed a female yesterday, but today I saw a male picking weed seeds out of my lawn. If they are nesting nearby, I am delighted.

The photo is not a good representation because the males are rarely so puffed up, and in most light they appear more dark purple than blue.

They like brushy areas, and like to sing from phone wires. 

Interesting factoid: Blue appearance in birds is not pigment. It's a feather molecule which just absorbs non-blue wavelengths and reflects the blue.

All About Birds: Indigo Bunting 

Transgender Powerlifter Champion Mary Gregory Is Stripped of World Records 

 “My daughter can see CO2 with the naked eye”

 BATTLING OVER BATTERIES

The only efficient battery is damming rivers and streams 

The Reason Renewables Can´t Power Modern Civilization Is Because They Were Never Meant To

 How Much Did Physicians Drive the Opioid Crisis?

Semenya is intersex. Where should she compete? 

 Don’t Let Students Run The University

George Washington traumatizes students

Really? 

Re Smith College:

A conservative contemplating getting a Ph.D. in the hopes of becoming a U.S. professor would be foolish not to think her political views would greatly diminish her chance of getting professorship. Conservative college employees, furthermore, will take these incidents as reasons to hide.

(Even though I work at Smith College, I can write this article because I’m protected by tenure, a fancy law degree, and a neurodiverse brain that causes me to care less about what people think of me than is the norm. Almost everyone else in the Smith community has far less protection than I do.)

 CNN: Have ‘Fewer Children’ or 1 Million Species Will Go Extinct

The next decent-sized asteroid will solve everything, same as in the past

  Can Anderson Cooper and CNN fall even deeper, or have they finally hit rock bottom?

 Facebook’s latest crackdown begs the question -- Who is the final arbiter of free speech in America?

Answer: Me, of course 

 Can Anybody Around Here Admit Out Loud That The Federal Government Cannot Fix Every Human Problem With Another New Program?

 This Will Be Another Enormous Waste of My Time Feeding the Government Paper

 Democrats Look To A New Century Of Complaining About Every Little Thing

Buttigieg: America never great 

Defined how?

Amusing clips of Biden groping kids 

 Arizona Democrats Claim No Border Crisis - Then Beg Trump For Help With Flood Of Migrants

THE BRAINWASHING OF A NATION - From campus identity politics cults to the media, brainwashing is bigger than ever.

How those Virginia scandals disappeared 

Infuriating Democrats, Trump Plans To Redefine Poverty, Cutting Americans From Welfare

Obama tried to do that too

Pajamas:

 The bottom line for Democrats is that a strong majority (61 percent) of voters say “it's time for Democrats in Congress to move on to other issues now that the Mueller probe has failed to prove that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians.” If Democrats don’t get the hint, they most certainly risk the same kind of backlash the GOP experienced after impeaching President Bill Clinton.

White House vs House: The war is on 

The Gaza Blockade: An Explainer

 New Cuba Travel Sanctions: Restricting What Doesn't Exist Anyway

Is travel to Cuba just poverty porn?

Tucker discusses media censorship

A book: The Barbell Prescription: Strength Training for Life After 40  by Jonathan Sullivan

 97-Year-Old Veteran Still Hard At Work

I admire 

"People keep falling into the Grand Canyon. After a visit, I can see why.... It’s because they’re idiots."

Top UK Art Gallery Covers "Blasphemous" Paintings After Muslims Complain

 Climate Kids Wonder Why Adults Won’t Change Their Lifestyles To Stop ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

The spirits of the city - On the new Hudson Yards development in New York.

 When a leftist university terrified of free speech deep-sixed Jordan Peterson

Attkisson:  How Media Narratives Became More Important Than Facts

 Our Lying Garbage Media Is Lying Garbage, But You Knew That

Adams' podcast:  85% of CNN’s POLITICAL coverage…is fake news and hoaxes

 JOE BIDEN: THEY'LL PUT Y'ALL BACK IN CHAINS

 The unintended consequences of ‘doing good’ laws

NYT Editorial Board: Congress, Give Trump His Border Money, ‘Trump Is Right’

 The EMP Executive Order — Where Were Bush and Obama?

 The only thing uglier than an angry Washington is a fearful Washington. And fear is what’s driving this week’s blitzkrieg of Attorney General William Barr.

Trump Looks Solid for 2020

 In April Former DNI James Clapper Said Bill Barr’s Accusations of Spying was “Stunning and Scary” – On Monday Clapper Admitted They Were Spying 

 Is A Major Real Scandal About To Break Soon?

VDH: The fright of James Comey 

 The Malevolent Farce that is Mueller and the Russia Hoax

 The FBI’s Trump-Russia Investigation Was Formally Opened on False Pretenses

 Major Mueller Report Omissions Suggest Incompetence Or A Coverup

 PETER STRZOK SUSPECTED CIA WAS BEHIND INACCURATE MEDIA LEAKS

 The Overlooked Military Implications of the 5G Debate

 Inside the Air Force's Plan to Revolutionize Pilot Training

Outcry as Turkey orders rerun of Istanbul mayoral election - Erdoğan’s successful bid to overturn vote is ‘plain dictatorship’, says CHP party

 Hamas launched a cyberattack during rocket barrage, so Israel blew up their cyber command center

AMIDROR: IRAN BEHIND THE GAZA ESCALATION. “Why did the Islamic Jihad do this?” former national security adviser asks. “The answer is again and again and again - Iran.”

 New evidence of China's mission to raze the mosques of Xinjiang - Guardian and Bellingcat investigation finds more than two dozen Islamic religious sites partly or completely demolished since 2016

Sometimes referred to as Aaron Burr's house, it is more accurately the Morris-Jumel Mansion. Built in 1765, it is the oldest surviving residence in Manhattan.

We stopped by the place on our Sunday hike. The exterior is in poor repair but the inside seems ok. Happy to report that the men's room in the basement is basic but functional.

When built, it sat on its 130-acre country estate. The house served, for a time, as Washington's HQ. Washington Heights was countryside then.

That Mrs. Jumel was a pip, wasn't she? She divorced Burr. Always looking for a better deal.

Wiki has an excellent article on the story of the Morris-Jumel House.

It is ramping up right now.

I can hear, out my window this morning, the songs and calls of Pine Warbler, Black and White Warbler, Redstart, Red-eyed Vireo (not exactly a warbler), Magnolia Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Black-Throated Blue, Parula, Prairie Warbler, and a few more that I am not sure about.

My idea of watching the spring warblers is a chaise lounge lawn chair flat, under a big old oak tree with binocs. Preferably, a big oak near some juniper trees - which is why I planted my junipers and Japanese willows: to watch the warbler migration with minimal exertion. Let them come to you. Just wait for them to pass through the trees. Otherwise, it's a day of neck pain. Knowing their calls simplifies it: you don't have to try to see them. But plenty of them forage silently in the treetops. Especially the odd vireos.

Get out there and see these little jewels of Creation, and listen to their morning calls, as they pass by on their trip north.

Image: A Peterson pic of a few Spring Warblers

 5 Countries that Produce the Most Wine

Dementia care: 8 skills to cultivate joy 

We Don’t Need Fraternities

 Millionaires Flee Their Homelands as Tensions Rise and Taxes Bite

GOOGLE CENSORS THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE

 You Are Now More Likely To Know A Prostitute Than A Primetime CNN Viewer

Scott Adam's podcast:  85% of CNN’s POLITICAL coverage…is fake news and hoaxes

The ridiculous reason New York faces a gas shortage

 Driving Investment, Fueling Growth: How Strategic Reforms Can Generate $1.1 Trillion in Infrastructure Investment

‘An Evening With The Clintons’ Tour Ends, Ticket Prices Plummet To $2.00

Hillary Clinton Claims 2016 Election Was ´Stolen´ From Her

 Obama Took Hillary's Loss as a "Personal Insult;" Was Sure the Public Would Never "Turn on Him;" Blames Hillary's "Soulless" Campaign and Bad Choices

Driven Mad By Trump: Celebrities Express Anger and Depression Over President

David  LIMBAUGH: The Worm Has Turned On The Democrats

 Remember when Obama made fun of Trump's 'magic wand' to fix the economy?

 Foreign Collusion, Confirmed: Ukranian Embassy Confirms That DNC Contractor Asked Ukraine to Provide Negative Oppo On Trump She Could Use in the Election Against Him

Cambridge Capitulates to the Mob and Fires a Young Scholar

OK, that is the UK where they are PC crazy. But could that happen in the US? Or does it? 

Why do people capitulate to the Maoist mobs? It just seems so weak. How do these people face themselves when their weakness goes public?