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Tuesday, March 27. 2018Tuesday morning links
Scary indeed. Pusillanimous too. The Stupidity of the 'March For Our Lives' NY Times Unintentionally Exposes The Astroturfing Of The March For Taking People’s Guns Away Sultan: Who Runs March for Our Lives? Planned Parenthood Issues The Most Morally Blind Tweet Regarding 'March For Our Lives' - "Everyone has the right to lead a life that is healthy & free from violence." Israeli Technology Able to Make Water From Thin Air Food snobs and Olive Garden 4 Things Every Man Should Look for in a Wife Why artists should have day jobs Deep in the crater of a volcano sits a new memorial to Pacific Theater chaplains - At the 'Punchbowl Cemetery,' a 1,600-pound black granite stone commemorates those who put their lives on the line to bring God into the lives of others Driving Under the Influence of Cannabis An Increasing Public Health Concern Brown promises ‘tuition-free’ Master's for DACA students Students call Thomas Jefferson 'icon' of white supremacists A Bit Of Insanity: Government Spending On Flood Insurance Flood insurance should be market-priced “If you’re homeless in LA, it’s the end of the line.” Why Tesla Agreed to Pay Elon Musk So Much 6 Americans Produce Services for Every Worker Producing Physical Products. Far more American workers produce services rather than goods, so why do we ignore them when it comes to trade policy? President Trump signs law declaring National Vietnam War Veterans Day CNN In Full Meltdown Over Zinke Allegedly Favoring ‘Excellence’ Over ‘Diversity’ A blasphemy US leads world in CO2 emissions reduction New York and New Jersey officials need to find cheaper, better ways to build crucial projects instead of expecting Washington to pay whatever price they ask. Reynolds: Silicon Valley has gone from liberating to creepy. Next stop, government regulation. I see no need for much regulation. In these businesses, the user is the product being sold. Users know that. Obama: I Hope to Create ‘A Million Young Barack Obamas’ By cloning or by screwing around? Trump administration to add citizenship question to 2020 census This Texas Law Is The Perfect Antidote To California's Sanctuary Insanity More than a dozen states backing Trump in California sanctuary lawsuit SURVIVED THE HOLOCAUST, MURDERED IN PARIS Informant provided FBI evidence Russia aided Iran nuclear program during Obama years China talks concessions after Trump’s tough trade moves Monday, March 26. 2018The sanctity of "my lived experience"
Most of the world cares about objective reality, not subjective. One aspect of my day job is to help peoples' subjective experiences align more closely with objective reality.
A book Donald Trump didn't need to read It seems like a how-to book for guys who have been disappointed in their romantic or simply sexual pursuits. Some guys are luckier than others. Some guys are chick magnets, and they are not all tall, dark (or orange), and handsome. It's not just rich and powerful guys who decide to give their instincts free rein. It's not just guys, either. Interesting to me that nobody needs to write books for women about how to get appealing males into bed. It just comes naturally to them.
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Monday morning links Growing questions about CNN's airport monopoly as network veers left Student at Providence College Attacked for Sharing Catholic Teaching The Red Guards Take Over Mount Holyoke College How is genetics changing our understanding of race? NYT: Barry Diller on Hollywood and the future of film Last Fall This Scholar Defended Colonialism. Now He’s Defending Himself. We’re Saved: Global Experts Take Long Fossil Fueled Trips To Save Us From ‘Climate Change’ If they believed in it, they wouldn't do that. If you talk the talk, you need to walk the walk. Like anti-gun celebs with armed bodyguards. The biggest albatross of environmentalism is its well-deserved reputation for apocalypticism Funny, When Obama Harvested Facebook Data On Millions Of Users To Win In 2012, Everyone Cheered CHILDREN’S CRUSADE? NO, IT’S WORSE “Forgive Me If I Don’t Want A Lesson On The Second Amendment From A 16-Year-Old” You Want To Have A Serious Talk About Gun Violence? Let’s Talk About Chicago And Handguns New York Taxi Industry Update, And The Problem With Unsustainable Government Giveaways Scott Pruitt slammed for spending less on travel than Obama’s EPA chiefs McCabe's Mea-Non-Culpa Editorial in the, Get This, Washington Post: I Didn't Intentionally Mislead Anybody. My Answers Weren't "Fully Accurate," But I Was Confused 'I Went Through Hell': Former FBI Agent Says Andrew McCabe 'Targeted', 'Slandered' Her Giddy Up – DOJ Admits They Have a Grand Jury Empaneled in FBI and DOJ Investigation… MILITARY SERVICE BY TRANSGENDER INDIVIDUALS, GEN. MATTIS SPEAKS After his squad leader went down, this Marine fought to death trying to save his men Vietnam War - Fighting in Hue City, 1968 A book: South Vietnamese Soldiers: Memories of the Vietnam War and After Standing Up in France - One hundred French intellectuals make a public declaration against Islamist totalitarianism. Why the French government wants Muslim immigrants is a mystery ASIA/SYRIA - Syrian sources: Turkish air raids destroy Christian archaeological sites Sunday, March 25. 2018Good magic
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Women have it better than men in the West
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The rapid creation of time, space, and matter
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Saturday, March 24. 2018Little Feat: Down on the FarmTrump's new lawyer
Tough guy
A power-cardio calisthenicThree sets of 15 reps of the heaviest kettlebell you can maintain form with. Good stuff - wakes up your hammies too. It's a hip thrust/hip hinge. These guys talk too much. Sorry about that.
Help in seeing beauty
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Saturday morning links
Cutting calories delays ageing, new study shows NYC: Invasion of the anti-tourists More evidence that it’s very hard to ‘beat the market’ over time, 95% of finance professionals can’t do it Sometimes people get lucky, but luck is not a plan Demand For White American Sperm Surges In Brazil Jordan Peterson Is The Alpha Male America Needs (Which Is Why He Sparks Outrage) Michael Barone: Women against free speech? Nancy MacLean Continues to Embarrass Duke, but Exposes its Double Standards How Seattle plans to increase their vagrancy issue The Parkland Students Just Learned What Asking For More Safety Means, And They Naturally Don’t Like It How Successful Climate Pressure Tactics Paved The Way For Gun Control Bullying DNC Deputy Keith Ellison Calls for 'Maximum Wage' for Corporate Execs Congress Gives Self Raise in Monstrous Spending Bill – Increases Salaries by $12 Million CNN Reporter: Let’s Face It, Trump Got Rolled By Congress On This Spending Bill "I am gravely concerned, Ann," emails Josh Earnest on behalf of the Democratic Party. FBI Informant Speaks, Says Feds Asking New Questions About Clintons House Intel GOP Thinks There’s Something Wrong With Trump-Russia Intel Assessment With Omnibus Bill, Donald Trump Signs Taylor Force Act to Defund Palestinian Terror China bans Orwell books Friday, March 23. 2018Happy Birthday, Mr. Lumbergh
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Billionaire hipsters
VDH on Elite Camouflage: It is true for sure. However, I think his observation applies more to guys than to gals. Most guys prefer to dress in as relaxed a manner as they can except when they need to "dress for success" for meetings. Billionaires do not need to dress for meetings.
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How to stop birds smashing into urban windows
One city is making its buildings bird-friendly.
How exercise gets your weight in shape
The scrawny learn that they need to push themselves to build themselves up for strength and endurance, and the pudgy are forced to realize how much their pudge slows them down. Therefore they are motivated to pay more attention to their nutritional habits so they can keep up. A physiological factor is that an hour of daily exertion tends to reduce appetite in pudgy adults. Exertion means "hard to do." Scrawny people may have to force-feed themselves somewhat. Athletic and physically-active people tend to consume what they need, not so much what they want. So that is how an hour of daily cardio, calisthenics, and weights helps get people into fighting shape. The exertion itself is a minor factor but it is a motivator. Physical maintenance. How to construct a useful and worthwhile lifeThis composition of pieces of talks says it better than I could. He is speaking to youth, but could be speaking to anybody.
Friday morning links
A friend recommends Animal Planet's The Zoo Jordan Peterson Is Driving His Critics to Desperate Attacks
Kevin Williamson moving to The Atlantic Maryland NAACP Cites Hoax as Evidence of Racism Keep hoax alive! “I’m a little worried the U.S. is falling behind”: Katharine Hayhoe’s Template for Climate Persuasion Hollywood stars, athletes driving away viewers with political activism, poll finds Ben Carson is going to sleep on the couch for the rest of his life, after throwing his wife under the bus An End To The Race Vs. Class Debate Flashback: Obama Congratulated Putin on His 2012 Election Sorry, Facebook was never ‘free’ FB: What’s genius for Obama is scandal when it comes to Trump Liberals, NeverTrumpers Freak Out About Americans' Belief in a "Deep State" Can the Iran Deal Be Fixed? And should it be? How the Mossad Eliminates Top Terrorists, Deterring Further Attacks US Marines Already Revamping Close Combat Ahead of Mattis' Initiative Thursday, March 22. 2018Office workFatherless families in the USFamilies without good father role models do not work well, statistically. Where are the good men? And why do women go along with this program if it works poorly for their kids?
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A few dumb forms of "cardio"There are many things called that people term "cardio." However, Cardio means highly-elevated heart rate. Nothing wrong with ordinary swimming, jogging, stair-climbing, walking, rowing, etc for recovery days, but they do not do much for conditioning except for the infirm. For cardio conditioning, use brief all-out sprints in all of the above. 30-60-second sprints, then a 60-second breather before the next one. That's HIIT - a good component of fitness training. It took me a while to go from jogging to sprinting, but it has been worth it. Sprinting is an endurance-builder. Still, as we say, doing anything is better than sitting.
Thursday morning links
Photo, Maine 1940s New global research into low back pain Facts about farmed salmon you wish you didn’t know “The use of nor’easter to describe a northeast storm is a pretentious and altogether lamentable affectation, the odious, even loathsome, practice of landlubbers who would be seen as salty as the sea itself." Fed up with Facebook? Here's how to protect your data Stop Making Children Into Moral Authorities Labor unions' fearmongering on autopilot Inside California’s War on Trump - As the state resists the White House on issues from immigration to climate change, Governor Jerry Brown is determined to avoid a pitched battle. " It’s time to regulate YouTube, Google, Facebook, and Twitter as common carriers." Dershowitz To Mueller: Stop. Just Stop. Obama Campaign Official Admitted Democrats Sucked the “Entire Social Network in US,” Kept the Data, Still Use It Army Major: "Unmitigated Failure" - Operation Iraqi Freedom, 15 Years Later Wednesday, March 21. 2018Feed your children well"Conditioning" classesWhat is "Conditioning"? It's basic physical maintenance. Five conditioning classes a week is not a bad idea for beginners. Gotta start somewhere.
As usual, government is a bit behind the times but that is not a bad plan for a beginner. It's difficult to make a general statement given that age, starting condition, diet, body build, level of fat, physical limitations, etc. all are factors. I'll disagree with the "moderately-intense" weasel-wording because, depending on age and condition, "Cardio" condtioning means high heart rate. For the less ambitious, though, I have no argument with moving every day, however minimally. Walking or swimming can't hurt you, but our focus here has been to encourage committed fitness ambition for the best, energetic, adventurous, vigorous life possible. Sounds corny but that's just where we are. Pushing the envelope, feeling the pain. More below the fold -
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Does Caitlin Jenner have a "disease"? I don't know and I don't care. I do know that human fantasy has no limits. (This is an old interview)
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