Maggie's Farm

I've been to Trapani (west coast of Sicily), and have even taken a little boat out to the Egadi Islands to bike around and eat good seafood.

The area around Trapani is full of salt flats which are windmill-filled.

You can buy their Sicilian sea salt on Amazon. Sure, salt is salt and "sea salt" is the same thing but it's fun to use their sea salt. I like the coarse type.

Hebrews 10:11-14, (15-18), 19-25

10:11 And
every priest stands day after day at his service, offering again and
again the same sacrifices that can never take away sins.

10:12 But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, "he sat down at the right hand of God,"

10:13 and since then has been waiting "until his enemies would be made a footstool for his feet."

10:14 For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.

10:15 And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,

10:16 "This
is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the
Lord: I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their
minds,"

10:17 and he adds, "I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more."

10:18 Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.

10:19 Therefore, my brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,

10:20 by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain (that is, through his flesh),

10:21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God,

10:22 let
us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our
hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed
with pure water.

10:23 Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who has promised is faithful.

10:24 And let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds,

10:25 not
neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging
one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

My view is that it can't hurt, especially if you work out hard. I take a scoop every morning. Might be placebo effect.

How does creatine work?

I am willing to eat 2 or 3 Brussel Sprouts just for the virtue of it. It's odd, because I do enjoy regular cabbage.

Anyway, our Brussel Sprouts recipe is this: First, freeze them if only for a few hours. Why? Cuz they are better with a little freeze. Then chop in half and cook in bacon chunks under the broiler or in a cast iron pan with salt and pepper.

How do your make them?

Bacon makes everything better.

Global Existential Risks - A first look at a new U.S. government assessment on the most significant risks facing humanity

What a psychiatric diagnosis means – and what it doesn’t mean

People do not fit in boxes. It's mostly for insurance claims.

Trump, RFK, and the Autism Dilemma

They expanded the criteria for Autism Spectrum. Thus, more of it

The Penny Case update

A Democratic Reckoning on “Gender Identity”? The party’s handling of
the issue played a key role in its defeat on November 5. Now, some
voices are starting to speak out about it.

Universities boost counseling services as Trump victory prompts some young people to threaten suicide

X Sees Return Of Major Advertisers As NewsGuard & "Boycott Cartel" Come Under Fire From FCC

RV Sales To Be Banned Across Six States As California Climate Rules Take Effect

Why not ban recreational boats?

Saturday Miscellany

Are You Even Aware That There Is Another Big UN Climate Conference Going On?

10 Terrifying Ways Trump Could Destroy The Entire World

FAFO of the Week: I Didn't Mean I'd *Kill*-Kill Trump Voters!

Professional Liar Jen Psaki Wants Social Media to be Regulated Because of ‘Disinformation’

Government hates free thought

Americans don’t vote the way celebrities tell them to, but they just might vote against them.

Tennessee Official Warns: Venezuelan Gangsters "Back In All Of Our Major Cities"

Germany: Police Raid Pensioner's House, Drag Him To Court After He Retweets Meme Calling Green Minister "Idiot"

NYC office buildings brimming with workers at nearly pre-pandemic levels: ‘Work from home is dying’

Scientific American Editor in Chief, Laura Helmuth Resigns - Science Saved

How to Corrupt Science

Liberals Run Away From X Because Diverse Opinions Make Them Feel Unsafe

Crazy things our tax $ goes to

End of the Nutball Era

This NYT Post-Election Focus Group of Young Voters Is Brutal for the Media...and Incredible for JD Vance

Progressives insult Americans because Trump won. Guess who that helps?

Kling:  My Social Journey Toward the Right - How I decided to believe libertarians and conservatives

Trump cabinet picks RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard at Mar-a-Lago gala with Tucker Carlson, Don Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle

Why We Can All Thank Don, Jr.

TGIF: Department of Eat My Shorts - Trump’s picks go from normal to
weird to weirder. Kamala Harris spent money like a Connecticut horse
girl. Elon Musk is president. Biden is finally happy. And more.

Amusing

Peter Thiel is a smart guy

Trump broke the Democrats’ thermostat. The American left was sent spinning in 2016 and is yet to recalibrate

J.D. Vance Proved That Republicans Should Ignore Democrat Attacks

Pelosi’s Latest Big Lie Is Too Much Even for the Washington Post

The UK lies

After Amsterdam Pogrom, Pro-Hamas Demonstrators Riot in Paris

The EU's economic suicide

One of Trump's theme songs from the original video.

Robotic dogs patrol Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate after election win, Iranian murder plot

Trends In Wokeness In Science

The Illusion of Expertise

Safetyism, Calming Jars, and America's Crisis of Leadership

Long Island Rejects the CNN Candidate

Wasn't this man trying to run like six companies and colonize Mars? How did he have time for all of this?

Our Most Courageous Political Leaders -- Then and Now.The more viciously Trump's enemies attack him, the more they add to his legend and legacy.

Why the election was not a sea change

As Team Trump 47 Takes Shape, Lefties Lose Their Minds

Guardian blames white male anger

Rubio, Gabbard, and Gaetz. . . Oh My! Plus: What would Trump’s deportations actually look like? Border czar Thomas Homan talks to The Free Press. And much more.

Vox:  Why the attempt to deplatform Trump failed so utterly

Europe wants to take the reins

How the human brain deals with zero

Canada Is Super Concerned With Illegal Aliens Escaping America Under Trump. I wonder if Canada will look to shut down their southern border with the United States?

Lots of people forget that Obama deported 4 million illegals

"They Just Got Handed Fraudulent Books" - Ed Dowd Confirms Our Warning That Trump Is 'Inheriting A Turd Of An Economy

Big surprise

Wednesday Miscellany

The Deep State War Against Donald Trump Begins

GOP Holds the House, So Trump's Two-Year Disruptor Clock Is Ticking

Illinois Restaurant Attacked by the Left over Trump Sign – Business Increases by 50% Since Hanging Sign

Democrats Must Pick Fights with Woke Activists Ignoring the far-left’s identitarian agenda is not enough

Dems Starting to Realize: Woke Is Broke

Cooper, who anchored the Election night coverage, rakes in an annual
salary reported to be as high as $20 million. Burnett makes about $6
million and Collins takes home a more budget-friendly $3 million.

Court Vaporizes 50 Years of Environmental Law Leaving Trump's EPA to Build on the Ashes

They weren't laws

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy Appointed to Lead the 'Department of Government Efficiency'

Great - another Department...

Kamala's California Problem - As skyrocketing costs and mass exoduses define the Golden State, Democrats face a crucial reckoning.

Read the abstract about this book.

WTF? These people sound crazy to me but maybe I am stupid. After all, they are academics and I am not.

Psychologists found a “striking” difference in intelligence after
examining twins raised apart in South Korea and the United States

Just one study.

Lost all of my links from yesterday due to computer glitch, so this is all I have. Not related, but we are working on that Google "not secure" thing. I have problems with Powerline too.

Update on Bob Dylan at 83 - still on tour

The butter had no "milk warning"

Making Your Children Crazy (about politics)

Yale Psychiatrist: Harris Voters May Need To Cut Off Friends & Family Members

That doc needs a shrink

‘Managing Stress During Change’: Biden-Harris State Department Holds Therapy Session After Trump Win

Pathetic

The Zoomer Zynergy that brought Trump back - An increased presence in spaces where Zoomers reside was all that Republicans needed

CNN Gets Whiplash Over How Fast Trump Is Moving to Fix This Country

America Failed Kamala

Meet Our New MAGA Overlords. Plus. . .America said no to drugs, a Trump presidency could cost Columbia University $3.5 billion, and much more.

U. Oregon administrator on leave after wishing Trump voters would ‘f***ing’ kill themselves

Melania Trump Will Snub Jill Biden and Skip Traditional Meeting After Biden Regime Raided Mar-a-Lago and Targeted Her Family and Husband for Years

‘Second Resistance to Trump’ has already begun, but it won’t work so well this time

Trump’s stunning comeback victory has cured America of the woke mind virus

We’re not listening: Trump’s win proves voters have tuned out biased media

Rubio is a good pick

Incoming Border Czar Plans Worksite Raids To Bust Migrant Sex, Labor Trafficking Networks

Strength training early in life can set up kids and adolescents for a lifetime of health and well-being

Over the past decade, it's come to light that plastic recycling is
mostly bogus – essentially a marketing scheme crafted by the oil
industry.

NY school brass are set to let even unprepared kids graduate high school

‘Devastated’: Classes at Harvard, Penn, Columbia, Swarthmore and others canceled over Trump win

Globalist Attack on American Free Speech

The 2nd Trump Admin Is Staffed With MAGA Talent Pool Which Knows How Levers Of Power Work

Francis'  Ideas For An Incoming Trump Administration

Revenge of the Silent Male Voter - What I learned about Trump’s landslide victory from one night in New York City.

Migrants Abandon Caravan As Trump Win Kills 'Dream of Getting Out'

We Are Only Now Starting To Recover From The Madness. Its political power has broken, but Wokeism is still ruining the culture

Bill Maher Blasts the Left — ‘You’re Brats, and You’re Snobs, and People Don’t Like That!’

How did Harris spend over a billion $

Did celebrities have to be paid to endorse Kamala?

Democrat Civil War Heats Up As Biden, Harris, Obama, and Pelosi Camps Point Fingers. “How did you spend $1 billion and not win? What the f***?”

How Kamala Harris killed the celebrity endorsement — parading A-listers over policies was always a recipe for disaster

Calling Trump 'Hitler' Has Done Permanent Damage to the Moral Realm

What Undid the Democrats? Let Me Count the Ways

NY Times’ ‘analysts’ reveal their hatred for America, ex-Biden aide Jen Psaki slams Elon Musk and more

Democrats need a reality check. The wound is self-inflicted

America Rises as Europe Falls

Do you get a "Not safe" message?

If so, we have no idea why. We'll try to figure it out.

I get the same thing when I check on Powerline.

You can take a Hillsdale class on Milton’s beautiful depiction of the Fall and God’s promise of redemption.

Psalm 146

146:1 Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, O my soul!

146:2I will praise the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God all my life long.

146:3 Do not put your trust in princes, in mortals, in whom there is no help.

146:4 When their breath departs, they return to the earth; on that very day their plans perish.

146:5 Happy are those whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD their God,

146:6 who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps faith forever;

146:7 who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free;

146:8 the LORD opens the eyes of the blind. The LORD lifts up those who are bowed down; the LORD loves the righteous.

146:9 The LORD watches over the strangers; he upholds the orphan and the widow, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.

146:10 The LORD will reign forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations. Praise the LORD!

" I was proud and happy to vote for Douglas Roofing for everything. I’m
not sure if he won, but if he did, he should thank the guy that printed
his signs. And me, of course."

Trump Wins and Universities Ramp Up the Coddling

Guardian offers therapy to staff after ‘devastating’ Trump election win

The mainstream press is about to suffer its most definitive discrediting yet.

VDH: Harris was always doomed

FEMA ‘horrified’ after confirming workers directed to ‘avoid homes’ with Trump signs in hurricane-ravaged Florida community

Enten marveled, “Donald Trump’s performance on Tuesday was the best for a
Republican presidential candidate in exit poll history. He literally
goes all the way back through history and breaks history.”

The Daily Chart: Behind Those Staggering Trump Numbers

Even before taking office, Trump puts Mexico on spot — stop the caravans now

Stuart's Saturday Miscellany

"Until this week, it was still possible to hope that Trump would be
remembered as a historical blip, an outsider who somehow turned a few
elections into a contest over his ideas and personality, before exiting
the political scene in disgrace. Today, it seems much more probable that
he has cemented his standing as the figurehead of a political movement
which will lastingly transform the politics of the US — and, perhaps,
much of the democratic world."

Amsterdam soccer-attack pogrom shows ‘antizionism’ is just hate for Jews

What The Covid Panic Did To Science

Legal Weed Goes Up in Smoke. Losses in Florida and the Dakotas augur an about-face.

Laura Helmuth, the editor in chief of Scientific American, chimed in
with a now-deleted tweet: “I apologize to younger voters that my Gen X
is so full of fucking fascists.” (Fifty-four percent of Gen X voted
Trump.)

Interesting things are changing already

 NYC Mayor Eric Adams to stop giving migrants FREE pre-paid cards worth $18,500 a year to migrants over backlash to multi-million scheme

Dershowitz: Kamala Harris crashed to a landslide defeat because Democrats embraced extremists

Free Press Readers Saw This Coming. It’s not because we told you what to think. It’s because we did the basic job of journalism: We held up a mirror to reality.

Dems Blame Free Speech for Election Loss

The Biggest Transatlantic Loser from Trump's Election: Britain's Labour Government

We'll get off politics soon, but not today. Interesting detail I saw: 90.6% of Washington DC voted Dem. Hmmm. Another thing: No more complaints about $ and politics. She had double Trump's money. Spent a billion.

"I am not voting for Donald Trump today, and here's why"

http://www.example.com/Link0

That's a good piece. Kinda reflects my views. 

‘It’s time to unite’: Donald Trump’s victory speech in full

Trump Win Signals 'Historic Realignment'

I'm not convinced

But:  The only group Kamala Harris made gains with was white college-educated women and those over 65.

Some astonishing quotes in that link

DOJ To Drop Trump Cases

Jack Smith no longer useful

MAGA Has Birthed a New, Diverse Republican Party

Kimball: The Democratic art of magical thinking - It is not surprising that Democrats prefer pleasing fantasy to sobering reality

Trump's Massive Win Is A Referendum On What The Democratic Party Is No Longer. They lost the plot and abandoned liberal values, common sense, and the working class

" In her service as vice president, Harris was respected by approximately
no one. She was historically unpopular. Her vacuity and the related word
salads became a national joke. We all believe in limits, but the scope
of her emptiness appeared to be infinite."

Yeah, a terrible candidate

"These Are Not Good People" - Trump Derangement Is The Stupidest Political Phenomenon Of Our Lifetime

Niall Ferguson: The Resurrection of Donald J. Trump
Trump’s victory
is a blow to political lawfare, critical race theory, woke campuses,
legacy media, and Hollywood. It’s a win for a new generation of builders
like Elon Musk.

Vox: Donald Trump has won — and American democracy is now in grave danger

Good grief

‘Trump Shock’: European Media in Meltdown Over Trump’s Victory