Maggie's Farm

Those terrible Spaniards and their conquests

Life’s Short. So Stop Trying to Perfect It. ‘The world opens up once
you realize you’re never going to sort your life out,’ writes recovering
productivity geek Oliver Burkeman.

Dr. Marty Makary: "The Reason People Don’t Trust The Medical Establishment Is Because It Lied To Them”

‘College for all’ needs a rethink. National security could depend on it.

What Are We Doing to Children? The U.K. finally puts the brakes on gender medicine.

Campus protesters for Palestine no longer deserve the benefit of the doubt - As I left class at NYU, I was surrounded by protesters banging drums and screaming ‘intifada revolution’

Calls for CBS to Release the Kamala Interview Transcript Grow Deafening As Their Reputation Burns

 Kamala Harris: The Manufactured Candidate? Why CBS's "60 Minutes" Edit Betrays The Larger Problem

Goodwin:  Here are the 3 reasons why I’m voting for Donald Trump

Bill Ackman explains his Trump support

4 reasons Harris is losing

Adrenaline junkie is my view. Nothing wrong with that.

Psalm 22:1-15


22:1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning?

22:2O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer; and by night but find no rest.

22:3 Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.

22:4 In you our ancestors trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them.

22:5 To you they cried and were saved; in you they trusted and were not put to shame.

22:6 But I am a worm and not human, scorned by others and despised by the people.

22:7 All who see me mock me; they sneer at me; they shake their heads;

22:8"Commit your cause to the LORD; let him deliver-- let him rescue the one in whom he delights!"

22:9 Yet it was you who took me from the womb; you kept me safe on my mother's breast.

22:10On you I was cast from my birth, and since my mother bore me you have been my God.

22:11Do not be far from me, for trouble is near, and there is no one to help.

22:12 Many bulls encircle me; strong bulls of Bashan surround me;

22:13 they open wide their mouths at me, like a ravening and roaring lion.

22:14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within my breast;

22:15 my mouth is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death.

They might be right, especially for Manhattan. But it's a big country:

It's political season in the US, but isn't it always? Politics is soap opera. Barring the unforeseen, I'd bet that Trump will win the presidential election. I've talked with a number of Kamala fans ("She brings joy") but 6 months ago they would not have been fans at all. Interesting. I had imagined the Kamala voters would just be routine Ds and TDS voters.

CA Says 'No' to SpaceX Launches Because Trump

Can Therapy Cure Criminal Impulses? A realistic look at a much-touted intervention

 Must every day be an ‘awareness’ day? The relentless proliferation of awareness-raising campaigns has done sod all to assist the less fortunate.

Stuart's  Saturday Miscellany

Harris: ‘What’s at Stake in This Election – Well It’s Packed With Some Stuff’. She
also said there’s a duality in our democracy & then talks about
meeting world leaders. Sheesh. I think I’ll push my fingers into my
eyes.

'I Got A Dad, And He Ain't You': Response To Obama's Condescending Remarks Goes Viral

It is unusual for incumbent vice presidents to seek the presidency while
distancing themselves from the presidents they serve. Harris is perhaps
finding it to be impossible.

 Kamala Harris Makes Pledge to Latino Voters to Welcome, Grant Amnesty for Millions of Migrants

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Kamala?

Does CBS News Know Where Jerusalem Is? ‘Do not refer to it as being in Israel,’ said the network’s senior director of standards and practices.

What The Hell Is Going On In Cuba?

Like a home, boating = maintenance and $.

Few of us have had the pleasure of hunting wild Bob White Quail. In the past they were to be found on Cape Cod and the Islands, Long Island, etc but no more large populations up north. Blame global cooling.

The real issue probably is habitat destruction, coyotes, dogs and cats. Some May I want to bring a 100 or 200 Bobs up to Cape Cod and let them loose. Would they survive? If they did, it would be a good legacy.

A Guide to Wild Bobwhite Quail Hunting

It's at Vox, commenting on Tik Tok so you might not bother checking it. The essay is directionally right, though because Everybody has flaws.

Northern Lights Visible Across DC, NYC, Boston

More this weekend. I blame climate change.

Research supports run–walk interval training as a way to reduce chronic low back pain

Why Stephen Hawking gave up on a Theory of Everything - The scientist who gave up on truth

Konstantin Kisin talking to the Woke about Climate Change

The Biggest Climate Whopper Ever Told

Scientific American Article Claims There’s No Difference Between Male, Female Athletes. An
article’s assertion there is biological equity in female and male
athletes shows what happens when a trans-activist agenda supersedes
rational scientific analysis.

Disinformation Isn't The Problem... Government Coverups And Censorship Are The Problem

Why Ta-Nehisi Coates Hates Israel

'Anti-Hate' Art Exhibit In LA Featured Participants Kicking Around Donald Trump's Head

Elon Musk Steps Up Again-Accelerates Starlink Access for Hurricane Milton Victims

#WTH We are [almost] all colonizers. A short recitation of facts

Faculty Required to Report “Misgendering”

Can I say "You throw like a girl"?

TGIF is amusing today

She is right: Do not f- with Appalachians

Good News: AOC Offers Her Opinion On Hurricanes And ‘Climate Change’

Kamala Harris Says She Owns a Handgun—Despite Fighting To Ban Others From Doing the Same

Kamala’s ‘Charm’ Blitzkrieg Fails Miserably

Catherine Herridge Spills the Tea on CBS Over Kamala Interview Editing Scandal

Megyn Kelly: The Panic Amongst Left-Wingers About The Loss Of Control Of Information Is Evident

Did the Biden Administration Perpetuate Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine?

What Was Gained by the Ukraine War? The Ukraine–Russia war has dragged on for at least two years longer than it had to—and for what?

Why  There Will Never be a Two-state Solution

At Netflix: Inside the Mind of a Dog

So Science-y! Bill Nye Says Voting for Kamala Harris Will Stop Hurricanes.

The solution is this: Cease separating the sexes in sports.

A Troubled Place - In Charleroi, Pennsylvania, the local population grapples with a surge of Haitian migrants.

Students flee, employee injured, classes canceled, building trashed: anti-Israel protest roils Pomona College

Journalism Happens — CBS Staffers Cry

David Horowitz: Political war

This Biden Guy Doesn't Seem to Be a Big Kamala Harris Fan

Biden remembers to Act Presidential, Even Postpones African Safari

Harris calls DeSantis 'selfish' when Florida needs help, not political games

TNR:  One explanation for Harris’s reluctance to offer more concrete details about her plans is that her campaign believes that she simply doesn’t have to.

Tim Walz at Fundraiser: The ‘Electoral College Needs to Go’

Professor Suspended After Calling For Male Trump Supporters To Be "Lined Up And Shot"

'Spliced'? 60 Minutes Under Fire For Deceptively Editing Kamala Harris Interview; Trump Demands Full Release

America's Homeless Population Reaches Record High Under Biden-Harris Admin

Kamala Harris is not just totally unqualified to be president but disqualified. Here’s why:

The European Fuel Follies Continue

Germany: Over Half Of Prisoners Are Foreigners In Many States, Costing Taxpayers Billions

Eccentric movement is the more seemingly passive component in resistance exercise. It's the reason a trainer will not you to want you to drop a barbell after a lift, or why a trainer will advise you to do, say, curls, 2 seconds up, 4 seconds down.

Depending on your fitness goals, it might be a good idea to pay attention to it. An academic article:  Physiological and Neural Adaptations to Eccentric Exercise: Mechanisms and Considerations for Training.

 For strength-building or maintenance, a little damage to muscle fibers is a good thing.

Arm position during blood pressure check may lead to wrong reading, study finds

Vermont’s Fossil Fuel Shakedown - The Climate Superfund Act Is Heavy on Discourse, Light on Logic

The Fallout at CBS Continues- At the home of Walter Cronkite,
journalists debate Israel’s existence. Also: Hurricane Milton. Are we
overmedicating kids? Will Ferrell’s new doc. And much more: http://www.example.com/Link0

Harris = Biden?

Stuart's Wednesday Potpourri

Artless Dodger: Harris Flustered in Substance-Free 60 Minutes Interview

The unexpected gender dynamic shaping the 2024 election

This very handy, adventurous couple have been refitting their 40 year-old, 40-foot sailboat in Mexico for a few months, preparing for their sail to New Zealand.

I have nothing but admiration. Ocean sailors have to be masters of everything.

Texas Company Claims They Will 'De-Extinct' Four Species by 2028. Spoiler: They Won't.

The Most Underrated Hikes in America’s National Parks

Elon to the Rescue. Plus. . .The gender medicine gold mine; in
defense of MrBeast; watch Ben Kawaller debate immigration in Arizona;
today’s Free Press Live; and much more.

Oct 7:  Knowing Who Your Friends Are

FEMA Arrests Noah For Running Unauthorized Flood Rescue Operation

The fight for civilisation is only just beginning. The West failed the moral test of 7 October. We must never fail like this again.

Hillary Demands ‘Total Control’ of Social Media Via Censorship

This is why the fake news media is attacking Elon and the X platform. They have lost control of the narrative they once had.

The Truth About Amber Thurman’s Death - Harris and Walz exploit a tragedy to further a political narrative about ‘Trump abortion bans.’

Kamala melts down after brief run-in with journalism on 60 Minutes

“Buy America” sounds great. But it’s costly and about to rise steeply.

There Never Was A Mythical Time When ‘The News Was Just the News’

Bari Weiss: A Year of Revelations - We expected Hamas to try to kill Jews. We didn’t expect Americans to celebrate when they did.

“God willing, we will destroy Israel.”

What Will It Take to End Stay-at-Home Mom Shame?

'The university's purpose is not political action or social justice,' new Stanford prez declares

Goodbye Europe

Once upon a time, things were better in California:

Walz a Laughingstock?

Axelrod says ‘upscale’ NC Harris voters will find way to vote after storm, not sure about rural Trump fans

Kamala Harris Book of Achievements Consists of… Empty Pages

CNN's Enten: "Historically Unprecedented" For Incumbent Party To Win When Only 28% Think Country Is On "Right Track"

Elon Goes to Butler, PA

Donald Trump: ‘I Could Be in Monte Carlo…But I’d Rather Be in Butler’

Helene beat the heck out of it.

I drove it once. Was worth it.

Job 1:1, 2:1-10

1:1
There was once a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.

2:1
One day the heavenly beings came to present themselves before the LORD, and the accuser also came among them to present himself before the LORD.

2:2
The LORD said to the accuser, "Where have you come from?" The accuser answered the LORD, "From going to and fro on the earth and from walking up and down on it."

2:3
The LORD said to the accuser, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man who fears God and turns away from evil. He still persists in his integrity, although you incited me against him, to destroy him for no reason."

2:4
Then the accuser answered the LORD, "Skin for skin! All that the man has he will give for his life.

2:5
But stretch out your hand now and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face."

2:6
The LORD said to the accuser, "Very well, he is in your power; only spare his life."

2:7
So the accuser went out from the presence of the LORD and inflicted loathsome sores on Job from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.

2:8
Job took a potsherd with which to scrape himself and sat among the ashes.

2:9
Then his wife said to him, "Do you still persist in your integrity? Curse God and die."

2:10
But he said to her, "You speak as any foolish woman would speak. Shall we receive good from God and not receive evil?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

 As Cannabis Use Climbs, So Do the Serious Problems Associated With It

 "When states began legalizing marijuana nearly three decades ago, initially for medical use, they set in motion something of an unintended public health experiment...."

 As UNC Chapel Hill launches new School of Civic Life, critics pounce  Why Would Anyone Want to Be a College President?
The toughest job in the world still finds takers.

Dealing with election anxiety? A psychiatrist explains how to channel your fears and break out of tribal thinking

"So, for the first time in my life, I’m voting Republican."

SpaceX Engineer In North Carolina Has Dire Warning: Biden-Harris' FEMA "Actively Blocking Shipments" For Relief

What illegals get in Maine

Tribalism in politics

Stuart's Saturday Miscellany

MSNBC Producer Admits Channel Doing 'All They Can to Help' Harris Get Elected

 Slew of Special Guests Are Joining President Trump in His Return Rally in Butler, PA

 The World Is in Love with America

Trump is going back to Butler - with Elon. This is just wonderfulhttp://www.example.com/Link0

Much credit to whoever made this election fun.

Sea Turtles are interesting critters.

There are some number of species with different lifestyles. The species commonly seen by snorkelers and divers is the Green Sea Turtle, most common in tropical and subtropical waters. The adults hang out on coasts and coral reefs. They are not green. I've seen one, snorkeling in the Caribbean.

I've also seen their tracks in the sand in the morning on Little St. Simon's Island. Sea turtles' migrations to their nesting beaches is miraculous.

How long can they hold their breath? It depends on how active they are.

Of course you can - or should.

If you stop on a yellow, you could get rear-ended. If the light turns red when you are under it, that's fine too.