Saturday, September 26. 2020
Friday, September 25. 2020
 My Brown Turkey Fig shrub has been highly productive this year, and has grown about 6', but I think none of the fruit will ripen before the first frost.
They usually ripen in August, and it's been a hot summer too. Too late now for these fruits to ripen.
In New England, these plants tend to die back to the roots in winter. However, they revive and grow like weeds.
Do any of our readers grow figs?
Thursday, September 24. 2020
 The 232 animals in this photo were killed by house cats in just one year
Who’s Going To Bars And Nightclubs Despite COVID Contagion These Days? It’s Not Who You Think.
It turns out that there really was Russia collusion!
Hunter was getting money from everybody, including China and Russia connected officials
Shock Senate Report Finds Hunter Biden Financially Tied to Chinese Government, Rich Russian Widow, Human Trafficking
U-Haul Truck Filled With Supplies Arrives For “Protesters” In Louisville…
Consider riots as Biden rallies (rallys?)
Here's a bit from the Trump rally in Pittsburg
Is a Trump landslide impossible? Hold my beer!
Wednesday, September 23. 2020
Stonington Borough (pop 929) is as boaty and salty a tiny village as can be found on the East Coast. It is also quaint as heck, almost to a fault. It's a popular summer getaway, right down the road from Westerly and Watch Hill, RI. Also, it has a sizeable retirement population because there is so much to do around there.
Its rock coast has only a postage stamp-sized beach. There is one very pleasant inn, and a yacht club.
Nice boat - a Hunt 33. Mrs. BD wants it.
A bunch more pics below the fold -
Continue reading "Pics from Stonington, CT"
Tuesday, September 22. 2020
Monday, September 21. 2020
A longish but not too technical read: Lies, Damned Lies and Health Statistics – the Deadly Danger of False Positives
Final quote:
I wish to note that in the last 40 years alone the UK has had seven official epidemics/pandemics; AIDS, Swine flu, CJD, SARS, MERS, Bird flu as well as annual, seasonal flu. All were very worrying but schools remained open and the NHS treated everybody and most of the population were unaffected. The country would rarely have been open if it had been shut down every time.
I have explained how a hopelessly-performing diagnostic test has been, and continues to be used, not for diagnosis of disease but, it seems, solely to create fear.
Sunday, September 20. 2020
Seen in Stonington CT this weekend.
More pics of scenic and charming Stonington later.
Matthew 20
20:1 "For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
20:2 After agreeing with the laborers for the usual daily wage, he sent them into his vineyard.
20:3 When he went out about nine o'clock, he saw others standing idle in the marketplace;
20:4 and he said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.' So they went.
20:5 When he went out again about noon and about three o'clock, he did the same.
20:6 And about five o'clock he went out and found others standing around; and he said to them, 'Why are you standing here idle all day?'
20:7 They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.' He said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard.'
20:8 When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, 'Call the laborers and give them their pay, beginning with the last and then going to the first.'
20:9 When those hired about five o'clock came, each of them received the usual daily wage.
20:10 Now when the first came, they thought they would receive more; but each of them also received the usual daily wage.
20:11 And when they received it, they grumbled against the landowner,
20:12 saying, 'These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.'
20:13 But he replied to one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for the usual daily wage?
20:14 Take what belongs to you and go; I choose to give to this last the same as I give to you.
20:15 Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?'
20:16 So the last will be first, and the first will be last."
Saturday, September 19. 2020
Friday, September 18. 2020
 Meanwhile in Australia
An Online Student Attended a Rooftop Party. He Was Reported to NYU and Suspended Indefinitely.
Education Dept. Opens Investigation into Princeton after President Claims Racism ‘Embedded’ in University
America’s Worst Mayor Delays Reopening NYC Public Schools Again, Just Days Before Classes Were Set To Start
Canceling Beethoven is the latest woke madness for the classical-music world
Workers With Disabilities Can Earn Just $3.34 An Hour. Agency Says Law Needs Change
British MP Refuses To Take Part In Unconscious Bias Training
Media Criticizes Trump For Ignoring Social Distancing Guidelines While Saving Baby From Oncoming Train
San Francisco To Provide “Guaranteed Income” To Expectant Mothers… But Only Certain Ones
Trump Jr. Slams Nashville Officials For Concealing Low COVID-19 Numbers
Leaked 2016 Call Reveals Joe Biden Risked National Security To Sabotage Trump. Joe Biden exercised incredibly poor judgement, placing a highly classified counterintelligence operation at risk, and undermined the incoming administration.
Aurora, Colorado Police Stand Down Twice To Avoid Arresting Violent Felon. Guess Why
These people want you dead
Chinese Organization With Communist Party Ties Funds Black Lives Matter Ventures
Thursday, September 17. 2020
The Scramble to Defuse the 'Feral Swine Bomb'
Boeing Put Profits Before People's Lives By Hiding 737 MAX Design Flaws, Congress Finds
That makes no sense.
Yelp Data Shows 60% Of Business Closures Due To COVID-19 Are Now Permanent
Stanford Journalism Prof Rejects Objectivity in Journalism
Fake News BUSTED Again: CBS Uses TRUMP Latino Crowd Pic, Pretends It Was a BIDEN Rally
Almost two-thirds of millennials, Gen Z don't know that 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust, survey finds
Race-counting by The NYT
Columbia marching band, ‘founded on the basis of racism,' votes to ‘dissolve’ itself
Columbia University Distributes Microaggression Whistles To Student Body
Northwestern law faculty refuse to explain why they introduced themselves as racists
Dem Hack Chuck Todd ‘Uncomfortable’ With Historic Middle East Peace Deal…
Trump has his unique version of ‘here, hold my beer’ – and it’s a good thing
Trump does the impossible, often, by thinking outside the box
Kamala Harris’s Husband’s Firm Reps Chinese Communist Party-Owned Corporates, Employs Ex-CCP Officials
THE *HARRIS* ADMINISTRATION??
Pennsylvania Will Accept Mail-in Ballots Whose Signatures Don't Match
Atlantic: If Trump Wins, Democrats Will Respond With ‘Mass Unrest’
Wednesday, September 16. 2020
Tuesday, September 15. 2020
When Math Gets Impossibly Hard - Mathematicians have long grappled with the reality that some problems just don’t have solutions.
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade To Be Virtual Only, No Live Procession…
Preteen Bada Bing - Despite its director’s claim that she is making a feminist statement, Cuties cannot disguise its attraction to barely pubescent bodies.
Education Dept.: High Court Ruling Does Not Support Transgender Athletes
As Four Alleged Arson Suspects are Arrested for Wildfires, Media Fans the Flames of Climate Change
TIME Mag's view: The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%—And That's Made the U.S. Less Secure
Every Card is the Race Card, But They’re Not Playing with a Full Deck
Let’s take a moment to applaud that unnamed female deputy’s courage
Antifa and BLM, the Democrat party's stormtroopers
Sen. Markey says all police must be disarmed of 'weapons of war' including tear gas, rubber bullets
Left-wing dark money groups to ‘carpet-bomb’ 2020 election, report warns. Report says network's revenues eclipse those of conservative groups such as the Heritage Foundation
Voters Say Media Focuses on Issues With Biden, Controversy With Trump
Joe Biden Promises Fewer Fires, Floods, and Hurricanes if He Wins in November
Monday, September 14. 2020
As the FAA finalizes the 737 MAX’s return, is Boeing’s jet now safe?
Pelosi Ditches Science, Blames 'Angry' 'Mother Earth' For California's Wildfires
Scientific American Goes Full Anti-Science
Fairfax County Is Running Empty School Buses
Andrew Cuomo going off the rails under the stress of NY’s pandemic woes
Minnesota Restaurant Delays Opening, Changes Name Due To “Cultural Appropriation”
Academics & scholars are standing up to 'social media mobs' and 'cancel culture'
Students at Expensive, Private Skidmore College Demand Art Professor Be Fired For Watching Pro-Cop Demonstration
The real conversation on racism is much more difficult but necessary
Take Lululemon, a $3 billion corporation that is funding the campaign to “unveil historical erasure and resist capitalism.” A global company with a campaign against capitalism brings to mind Vladimir Lenin, who claimed, “When it comes time to hang the capitalists, they will vie with each other for the rope contract.” Lululemon must hope to sell not just the rope but the attire of the revolution. What better way to redefine society than in a fetching Lululemon “define jacket” that costs more than $100?
In de Blasio’s New York, Asians just don’t count as a minority
“We Hope the B*tch Dies!” – BLM Chants Against 31-Year-Old LA Sheriff Deputy and Mother After She is Ambushed and Shot in the Head
Michael Moore Compares Trump to Osama Bin Laden: ‘He Is a Mass Killer’
Joe Biden: Trump ‘Accidentally’ Making Peace Between Israel and Arab States
When Rabbis get political
Bloomberg Dropping $100M In Florida For Biden
Democratic Derangement: Party ‘Games’ A Possible Coup If Trump Wins In November
Ballot Harvesting and the The Long Con
Nancy Pelosi: Trump’s Historic Peace Deals Are Just ‘A Distraction’
Sunday, September 13. 2020
Britain is, rightly, not known for their cuisine. It's no wonder they prefer Indian cuisine. However, is there anything better than Roast Beast with Yorkshire Pudding?
A Brit classic: Cheese and Pickle Sandwich.
This sandwich must feature thick, almost steaklike slices of aged cheddar. Cheddar cutlets, if you will. The aging adds tangy sharpness and a more crumbly rather than creamy texture. Then, a thick layer of Branston pickle, made from sweet gherkins, cauliflower, carrots, onions and rutabaga in a thick, sweet sauce which tastes somewhat like ketchup. We definitely don’t have an equivalent stateside, but plenty of supermarkets stock the most ubiquitous British foods — malt vinegar, Cadbury’s chocolate, tea biscuits and the like — and Branston pickle can often be found. Try the Indian store as a last resort, no joke.
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