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Maggie's FarmWe are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for. |
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Monday, October 4. 2021Monday morning linksWhy Memory Worsens as You Age, and 5 Things You Can Do About It Politics and architecture The limits of caring for others ‘Right to repair’ law may run into the changing definition of ‘ownership’ Fauci: I don't know if we'll be able to gather for Christmas this year The Emerging Metropolitan Majority? A multiethnic, moderate coalition of New Yorkers wants order and opportunity
Hundreds of Afghan evacuees are leaving military bases without processing Professor sues UCLA after refusing to grade Black students more leniently than peers Remember that 'Emergency Funding' the States Needed Last March? Here's What Happened to It Kyrsten Sinema is holding firm on the spending madness Joe Biden caves to loony left: Goodwin More Indictments Are Coming; Unraveling the Origins of the Russia Collusion Hoax Stop Enabling the Antisemites Who Live Closest to Our Homes Nice weekend for boatingWe found a cozy cove
Sunday, October 3. 2021From today's LectionaryPsalm 8 8:1 O LORD, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. 8:2 Out of the mouths of babes and infants you have founded a bulwark because of your foes, to silence the enemy and the avenger. 8:3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established; 8:4 what are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them? 8:5 Yet you have made them a little lower than God, and crowned them with glory and honor. 8:6 You have given them dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under their feet, 8:7 all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, 8:8 the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas. 8:9 O LORD, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth! RaceWatching a sailboat race from a respectful distance
Saturday, October 2. 2021Don't fall apart on me tonightQuite a band, and an intense Bob
Saturday morning links Well, the owner did California to Require COVID-19 Vaccine for Students to Attend Schools Fully Vaccinated Justice Brett Kavanaugh Tests Positive For Covid-19 So what? He isn't sick at all. Vaccinated people can test + The Original M16 Manual Was a Vietnam War Comic Book Vox: Shutting down nuclear plants doesn't make a lot of sense Biden Education Secretary: Parents Shouldn’t Be ‘Primary Stakeholder’ In Their Kids’ Education… What? NYC public housing: For the price of repairs you could buy everybody in them a $400,00 home. VDH: Orwell and the Woke Is this ad for or against Ron Desantis Hunter Biden and the Art of Corruption How did 30,000 Haitians get to Texas? Greenwich VillageA quiet little residential street. Interesting fact: Greenwich Village was first developed to create farms for free blacks during the Dutch era.
Friday, October 1. 2021Friday morning links
My favorite NYC walking (and transit) map ... the idea that our hundreds of millions of gasoline-powered cars are going to be replaced by EVs within the next century is ridiculous. Due Process — And Normal Social Relations — Are Being Destroyed By COVID Snitching Culture FEMINISM WITHOUT WOMEN ‘Disorientation’ Event at UVA Teaches Students About Campus Racism and Defunding Police Funding for Child Care Seems Nice, But Think Twice 8 States Have Already Made Mail In Voting Permanent Democratic Incrementalism Makes Pandemic Vote-By-Mail Ballots Permanent DHS fears up to 400,000 migrants - or DOUBLE the 21-year record set in July - could cross the border in October when COVID restrictions Trump used to stop the surge from Mexico end, report claims Democrats plan to resurrect Kamala Harris’s reputation What reputation? Biden Is an Increasingly Toxic Combo of Addled and Untruthful Durham Indictment Pulls Back the Curtain on Trump–Russia Collusion Hoax Latest Durham Indictment May Make Russiagate the Most Corrupt Scandal in U.S. History Inspector General Audit Finds ‘Widespread’ Problems With FBI’s FISA Applications England has the highest university tuition fees in the world. West VillageNYC is the brunch capitol of the world
Thursday, September 30. 2021Bob is back on tourThe EAR InnWe have one reader who doesn't care about old NYC pubs, but we like them. Here's the story of the EAR Inn (Est 1817). I've never been there, but Bulldog has. The pub was started by a wealthy black entrepreneur. Thursday morning links
A Vegan Restaurant Bites the Dust Why Science Can't Settle Political Disputes. Attempts to scientifically “rationalize” policy, based on the belief that science is purified of politics, may be damaging democracy. A commenter re the Canary Island volcano: 75% Of Youths Fear For Their Future From Climate Crisis "A large study by Jones, Bellet, and McNally found that trigger warnings reinforced the belief on the part of trauma survivors that trauma was central (rather than incidental or peripheral) to their identity." YouTube Announces It Will Ban All 'Anti-Vaccine' Content An overview of Biden’s policy positions and his voting record on key pieces of legislation during his years in the Senate: Republicans Get Out of the Way as Democrats Form a Circular Firing Squad The White Horse TavernFrom our urban hike, the venerable White Horse Tavern on Hudson St. in the West Village. Not much to see from the outside.
Wednesday, September 29. 2021Wednesday morning linksYour Manners And Competence Are Deeply Problematic Japan to lift all COVID restrictions Joe Biden Hearts Australia, Rubber Bullets and All Wall Street giants moving toward using financial power to pressure cities to enforce SJW agenda Some cool links from Astral Codex Record Power Prices & Blackouts Hit Germany California “experts” hype sea level rise by 2050 50+ times greater than actual data shows Meatpacking District, NYCThe Meatpacking District around Gansevoort St (at the southern end of the High Line) has been transformed into a chic neighborhood of fancy stores and cafes, and lovely women. We began our hike there, next to the new Whitney Museum. In the good olde days, train ferries brought cattle, pigs, etc from the New Jersey railhead to the north entrance to the elevated railroad next to where the Javits Center is now, and trained them downtown to the slaughterhouses and packing houses. Now that elevated rail is a rightly-popular walking trail. When it was proposed, I thought it was the dumbest idea ever. Wrong again. Some remnants of the old time survive:
Tuesday, September 28. 2021Magnolia BakeryThis was the second Maggie's Urban Hike on which we stopped for cupcakes at the first, original Magnolia Bakery on Bleecker St. Since the original, they are now an expanding franchise owned by a venture capital firm. Still good pastries.
Tues. afternoon"It's A F**king Kid": Johnson & Johnson Official Says Children Shouldn't Get Vax Due To 'Unknown Repercussions' Biden: I think we can get back to normal when 97-98% of us are vaccinated WSJ: Climate Policy Meets Cold Reality in Europe. The rush to renewables causes severe energy price spikes and shortages. Biden’s policies would do the same in the U.S. Swedish professor advocates for violence against pipelines to stop climate change NEW YORKER AMPLIFIES CALLS FOR PIPELINE BOMBINGS TO SAVE THE PLANET. No Racism? No Problem! College Racial Hoaxes Are Back Generals contradict Biden: We told him to leave 2,500 troops in place in Afghanistan Tuesday morning linksRolling Stones Open American Tour, Pay Tribute to Drummer Experts: COVID-19 Will Resemble Common Cold by Spring 2022 Famed Medical Journal Calls Women ‘Bodies With Vaginas.’ Social Media: ‘Seriously? The White Backlash That Wasn’t - Opposition to critical race theory is broad and bipartisan. Alejandro Mayorkas’ 7 border lies But, DHS Secretary Admits Biden’s Border Crisis Is ‘Unprecedented…Not Seen That Before’… Illinois To Ban Fossil Fuels By 2045 Monday, September 27. 2021Monday morning links
Amid Worker Shortage, Women Take to Trucking More than ever, COVID-19 is a pandemic of the unvaccinated, the elderly, and those with pre-existing conditions. Yet there’s a disturbing tendency by the administration and the media to generalize and magnify the crisis rather than contextualize it based on well-known data. 1776 or 1619: Why it Really, Really, Matters Even CNN Calls Out "Patently False" Border Patrol "Whipping" It Gets Worse: Look Who Worked Together to Frame Donald Trump With Fake Russia Hoax Ending Homelessness? No—just more of the same federal policy. The "Safety Net": The Goal Should Be To Minimize The Number Of People Depending On It DHS Secretary: As Many as 12,000 Illegal Haitian Immigrants Released Into the US in Recent Days Yes, the border crisis is by design Sunday, September 26. 2021Fun with mapsPaperback: Manhattan in Maps 1527-2014 Related, this book is wonderful: Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City I'll bet you can't name the last year a wolf was killed in Manhattan.
From today's Lectionary: Would that all the Lord's people were prophetsNumbers 11:4-6, 10-16, 24-29 11:4 The rabble among them had a strong craving; and the Israelites also wept again, and said, "If only we had meat to eat. 11:5 We remember the fish we used to eat in Egypt for nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic; 11:6 but now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at." 11:10 Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, all at the entrances of their tents. Then the LORD became very angry, and Moses was displeased. 11:11 So Moses said to the LORD, "Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me? 11:12 Did I conceive all this people? Did I give birth to them, that you should say to me, 'Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a sucking child,' to the land that you promised on oath to their ancestors? 11:13 Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they come weeping to me and say, 'Give us meat to eat!' 11:14 I am not able to carry all this people alone, for they are too heavy for me. 11:15 If this is the way you are going to treat me, put me to death at once--if I have found favor in your sight--and do not let me see my misery." 11:16 So the LORD said to Moses, "Gather for me seventy of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; bring them to the tent of meeting, and have them take their place there with you. 11:24 So Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD; and he gathered seventy elders of the people, and placed them all around the tent. 11:25 Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders; and when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. But they did not do so again. 11:26 Two men remained in the camp, one named Eldad, and the other named Medad, and the spirit rested on them; they were among those registered, but they had not gone out to the tent, and so they prophesied in the camp. 11:27 And a young man ran and told Moses, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp." 11:28 And Joshua son of Nun, the assistant of Moses, one of his chosen men, said, "My lord Moses, stop them!" 11:29 But Moses said to him, "Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit on them!" Will post photos etc. later, but just a NYC Covid observationOur 6 1/2 hour stroll around the East and West Village(s?), with a bit of the Lower East side, was delightful as always. I am told that midtown is about 50% of normal people traffic, but where we went the streets were packed (mostly attractive young people), pubs and restaurants packed, and a mask was rarely to be seen anywhere. It felt like a party. We stopped into McSorley's at around 1:30 for some (a few pitchers) ales and hot dogs. We were lucky to get a big outdoor table, but the inside was jammed. Nobody seemed to be checking vacc. proofs. Funny thing about McSorley's is they only have ales, and only two kinds - light or dark. They still make their own. Their rest room seems unchanged since 1860, and there is only one. So, at least in these neighborhoods, it feels and looks wonderful.
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Saturday, September 25. 2021Screech Owl CamoOwl migration in North America
I looked it up, to some extent. Did not cover all North American owls. The very common Great Horned Owl does not migrate at all. They lay their eggs in January, wherever they live. The common (but rarely seen) Long Eared Owl does move down from its northern breeding range in winter as does the tiny Saw Whet Owl. Screech Owls tend to stay put. The Short-Eared Owl migrates widely from its breeding grounds on the tundra. I've seen them on marshes in winter in New England. The arctic Snowy Owl is famous for its occasional irruptions south. I've been lucky to see them a few times, mostly on beaches but once on the roof of a suburban house.
A few Sat. linksFossil footprints show humans in North America more than 21,000 years ago. The footprints, the earliest firm evidence for humans in the Americas, show that people must have arrived here before the last Ice Age. Vanderleun takes a look at deToqueville Thousands of NYC teachers haven’t been vaxxed. What — they’re all Trump supporters? What's that about Trump and vaccines? Trump led the way in making the vaccine happen in record time, and asked people to get it Man, 20, and woman, 23, are arrested after cops find 21kg of carfentanil - enough to kill 50 MILLION people Black man arrested for ‘N-word’ graffiti, swastikas at Emory University Photographer Who Took Photos of Border Patrol's Horse Unit Takes a Sledgehammer to 'Whipping' Lie Yet another political hoax Melbourne Australia Police and Riot Squads Fire Upon Peaceful Protestors While Media Frame COVID Anti-Lockdown Protests as Domestic Extremists Consequences of Failure: The Politics of Saigon and Kabul
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