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Thursday, June 6. 2019Hummingbird Moths, and D-Day I recently planted a few Cleomes in the garden, partly to attract those moths. I have only seen them at twilight, but it's said they are around in daytime too. Flash BoysJust finishing Michael Lewis' Flash Boys, a terrific history of high frequency trading, front-running and markets in general. It reads like a thriller. You'd expect a Wall Street drama to be all about ego, bad guys ripping people off, and money being 'stolen'. Certainly that all plays a role, but it's not central to the story. One of the best parts is the side story of Serge Aleynikov, one of the few people arrested, tried, and imprisoned after the crash in 2008. What's truly sad is that he had little to no involvement in any of the events leading up to that, nor was he involved in any transaction coding or theft of any kind (though Goldman Sachs and the US Government said otherwise). It's a sad state of affairs when someone capable of 'fixing' the problems that lead to flash crashes and other tech-driven market impairments is listed as a 'bad guy'. At any rate, he lost his money, his family, his reputation - but eventually won his case and was freed. He has a great quote: “If the incarceration experience doesn’t break your spirit, it changes you in a way that you lose many fears. You begin to realize that your life is not ruled by your ego and ambition and that it can end at any time. So why worry? You learn that just like on the street, there is life in prison, and random people get there based on the jeopardy of the system. The prisons are filled by people who crossed the law, as well as by those who were incidentally and circumstantially picked and crushed by somebody else’s agenda. On the other hand, as a vivid benefit, you become very much independent of material property and learn to appreciate very simple pleasures in life such as the sunlight and morning breeze.”~Serge Aleynikov Carentan1944Besides everything else interesting about Ambrose's Band of Brothers is the explanations of how much detailed planning went into the invasion.
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Wednesday, June 5. 2019Oxygen maskQQQFalsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when Men come to be undeceiv’d, it is too late; the Jest is over, and the Tale has had its Effect. Jonathan Swift (1710) (h/t, AVI) I still prefer Mark Twain's version: "A lie can go halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on." Our current fitness program for the middle-aged (ie, 40-100 years old)We're talking about general fitness and energy for life during the years of sarcopenia, arthritis, and other various age and accident-related things. Younger people can take on tougher programs but few of them do. - 3 hrs of resistance exercises/wk: weights +/- machines. It's for muscle and bone. - 2 hrs/wk of "cardio." Includes HIIT. Gotta challenge that heart muscle or it will give out on you. Even so, it might anyway unless some cancer kills ya. - 2 hrs/wk of exercise class or your own calisthenics. Classes push you harder. These are for agility, athleticism, cardio, balance, endurance, etc. To make your body do what's it's meant to do. That's a good program, because it permits space to miss a random day without losing a step. A 5-hour hill hike can be a sub for any day. What about sports, yard work, gardening, etc? Unless you are playing a few sets of tennis in the US Open, these sorts of things are why you work to stay fit. Doing ordinary life things are the rewards of fitness, but provide no fitness.
Trump with Piers Morgan in LondonPiers has a bunch of stupid questions, but Trump handles it all very well.
Scared yet?Australian government pays Al Gore $320k to conduct climate training as rare snowfall hits Will The Democratic Candidates Ever Notice That The Climate Change Thing Is Over?
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Left Vows To Topple Patriarchy By Allowing Biological Males To Dominate Women's Sports
Wednesday morning linksPfizer had clues its blockbuster drug could prevent Alzheimer’s. Why didn’t it tell the world? “Flying-V” airplane design promises fuel savings, but there’s a catch Last survivor of Sobibor death camp uprising dies, aged 97. Semyon Rosenfeld took part in famous revolt, in which Jewish prisoners turned on their Nazi guards; later moved to Israel Seventeen Year Old Netherlands Girl Legally Euthanized, Says Being Molested as a Child Made Her Life ‘Insufferable’ Euthanasia seems like a strange treatment for emotional pain. School Shooter Drills Terrorize Our Kids Pointlessly Paul Manafort to be Transferred to Notorious and Dangerous Rikers Island Jail – May Face Solitary Confinement Huh? Joe Biden Links Trump to Murders Of Black Transgender Women Trump Builds Immigration System That Doesn't Sap U.S. Wealth Donald Trump has done Britain a favour with his NHS grab The Left against Zion - On the intellectual left and Israel. The denunciation machine by J. Christian Adams - On the Southern Poverty Law Center. The Brexit Factions - Prime Minister Theresa May’s resignation further complicates Britain’s divorce with the EU. The Unfinished Business of the Cold War - A new global ideological struggle.
They finally started plowing our drivewayA note from Gwynnie, from yesterday in the Sierras.
Tuesday, June 4. 2019Tuesday Bob: Close to a masterpiece1994's "Dignity." I like the pounding rock version, but all I can find now is this rehearsal version for the MTV Unplugged recording. I went down where the vultures feed Some great songs have an inevitability to them, as if they were not constructed but just discovered. The unforgettable lyrics here.
To save the planet, never go anywhereIn my deeply considered view, all of the global whatever you call it is either virtue signalling or power politics. It's all bullsh-t. If one more person tells me "I recycle for the planet" I will just laugh. And maybe ask them what they are doing for other planets.
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Tuesday morning links
10 Tiny Houses That Are Dream Homes You Can Buy on Amazon Relecting on the old Jewish Mob of NYC Global Warming: Is There Anything It Can't Do? Yes. Apparently it can not cause perfect days - like today. Something else caused that. 10 Of 10 Coastal Antarctic Stations Show Zero Warming Over Past Decades. Biological Man Who Beat Women in Cycling Complains About 'Toxic Masculinity' “The troubling legacy of Martin Luther King.” Prager: Why So Many Mass Shootings? Ask the Right Questions and You Might Find Out Biden: Fastest Way To End Transgender Violence “Is To End The Trump Administration”… Mexico Is Key to Resolving the U.S. Asylum Crisis Mexican borders are controlled by banditos American taxpayers paid over $90 billion more under Trump tax law Trump's Negotiating Strategy Kimball: Let’s Call the Russian Collusion ‘Hoax’ What it Really Is William Barr determined to unravel truth behind Russia lie Byron York: Law enforcement, media changed standards for Trump ROBERT MUELLER: UNMASKED by Congressman Louie Gohmert Who Ran Crossfire Hurricane? Barr’s investigators should focus on John Brennan and Gina Haspel. ISLAMIC TERROR DEFENDER SADIQ KHAN SAYS WELCOMING TRUMP IS "UN-BRITISH" PIERS MORGAN: The real big baby in London this week is Mayor Khan - a petty little pipsqueak Dozens of Confucius Institutes still operate across US TWITTER TAKES SIDES: Chooses Brutal Chinese Communist Govt. Over Freedom Dissidents and US Conservatives Monday, June 3. 2019Wondered who that aviator Matt Guthmiller wasWe have posted several of his flying videos. Quite an accomplished young fellow, Matt is. He looks about 12 years old. Thanks for the tip, reader. How clear is Candace Owens?
CANDACE OWENS AND THE LEFT’S EFFORT TO BAN COMMON SENSE
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I got the one that extends to 18'. Handy. Air Traffic ControlThis is a bit dated, but darn interesting.
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Nothing Prepares You For Visiting Omaha Beach The Secret Jewish History Of Popeye The Sailor Man Luxury cinemas are fighting Netflix with steak tartare, expensive booze, and gourmet popcorn The first large group of 116 migrants from AFRICA are caught on video wading across the Rio Grande to illegally enter the U.S. Mexico Is Key to Resolving the U.S. Asylum Crisis Re The NYT: " the sanctimonious journalists who run the most important newspaper in the galaxy actually wonder why reasonable people think they have an anti-Republican, anti-Trump, blatant liberal bias?" George Will: Is the individual obsolete? Progressives want to dilute the concept of individualism, but that’s antithetical to America’s premise. Painting of Trump team 'Crossing the Swamp' touches off social media frenzy Trump Caves To King Corn Yet Again Cowardly decision. I guess Trump doesn't use his own lawnmower. Moonbat Demands We Ban Lawnmowers RUSSIAGATE, SEEN FROM THE FAR LEFT "It's All A Fraud": Deceptive Edits Found In Mueller Report Sweden's Self-Inflicted Mess - The Scared Girls of Uppsala; Children of ISIS Terrorists Sunday, June 2. 2019A New England classic: Shad Bake, reposted I had the delight of attending a Connecticut Shad Bake on Sunday after a day of trout fishing. My pic above of shad (with lardons) on planks, with a tray of shad roe above. Shad roe is a special food for us. Shad Bakes are done on rough planks over an open wood fire. Some pics of somebody else's Shad Bake. Yes, you nail the filets on the planks. The only seasonings are salt and pepper. Shad are anadromous fish which migrate up rivers to breed in April and the beginning of May. The jolly bake I was invited to attend had Connecticut River shad, expertly-boned (few people know how to filet a Shad) along with whatever sacks of roe that the female Shad contained. Nice outdoor party, in the woods by a large pond. Seemed like I had two degrees of separation from people I met there. Serve it up with beer, cole slaw, potato salad, and strawberry shortcake for dessert. Campus insanityIt's like a sermonBut it's more like a Witness: Back Row America by Chris Arnaud. Arnaud is a recovering Wall st. banker. It's excerpts from his book, Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America (h/t Instapundit)
From today's Lectionary: A jail storyActs 16: 16-34 16:16 One day, as we were going to the place of prayer, we met a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners a great deal of money by fortune-telling. 16:17 While she followed Paul and us, she would cry out, "These men are slaves of the Most High God, who proclaim to you a way of salvation." 16:18 She kept doing this for many days. But Paul, very much annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, "I order you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her." And it came out that very hour. 16:19 But when her owners saw that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the authorities. 16:20 When they had brought them before the magistrates, they said, "These men are disturbing our city; they are Jews 16:21 and are advocating customs that are not lawful for us as Romans to adopt or observe." 16:22 The crowd joined in attacking them, and the magistrates had them stripped of their clothing and ordered them to be beaten with rods. 16:23 After they had given them a severe flogging, they threw them into prison and ordered the jailer to keep them securely. 16:24 Following these instructions, he put them in the innermost cell and fastened their feet in the stocks. 16:25 About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. 16:26 Suddenly there was an earthquake, so violent that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone's chains were unfastened. 16:27 When the jailer woke up and saw the prison doors wide open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, since he supposed that the prisoners had escaped. 16:28 But Paul shouted in a loud voice, "Do not harm yourself, for we are all here." 16:29 The jailer called for lights, and rushing in, he fell down trembling before Paul and Silas. 16:30 Then he brought them outside and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" 16:31 They answered, "Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household." 16:32 They spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house. 16:33 At the same hour of the night he took them and washed their wounds; then he and his entire family were baptized without delay. 16:34 He brought them up into the house and set food before them; and he and his entire household rejoiced that he had become a believer in God.
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