Maggie's Farm

I'm not - no patience for movies. But Hunt for Red October was a perfect movie (although Tom Clancy's book was more informative of course).

The real thing that Clancy's plot came from:

To those who never listen to NPR in car or wherever: Try it for a week or so. Educational...

 Your tax dollars at work: Minnesota is spending millions to fund marijuana companies

Chronic Absenteeism in DC Schools Was at 43% This Year (Where Are The Parents?)

 Hell Freezes Over: Maher Is Onboard With This Part of Trump's Education Policy

 Businesses Begin Abandoning DEI Initiatives

Stuart's  Saturday Miscellany

 The Left’s fear of fascism under Trump is the ultimate example of projection

 Another Lie! Joe Biden Claims He “Taught at the University of Pennsylvania For Four Years” 

He's always been like that

 Rogan: Democrats Have "No Cards To Play" For 2024, Except Imprisoning Trump

 Déjà Vu All Over Again: Hamas Ends 'Pause' With Rocket Fire

 Save The Salmon, Kill The Humans?

 CNN: ‘It’s Time to Limit Travel’ for Climate Change

 Mark Steyn Vs. The Appalling Michael Mann

 Don't Introspect!

 Entire Board Of Major UK Charity Sacked For Being White

 HBCU fired professor for complaining about inflated grades: report

 The ‘American Dream’ is not about getting rich

Dreams differ 

 TGIF: You Win Some, You Newsom: Ron and Gav get Trumped. Segregationists take back our schools. Capitalists win back AI. Elon, unplugged. Plus, shenanigans at the UN, the WHO, and the CIA.

 The left disgustingly dances on Kissinger’s grave because it hates America

VDH:  The Unhinged Among Us - Is the pro-Hamas crowd ignorant of Middle East history? 

 Pro-Hamas Protesters Get Violent, Try And Stop NYC Tree Lighting

 India Produced Record Amounts Of Electricity From Coal In October

DeSantis DOMINATES in Red State-Blue State Debate With Newsom

 Gavin Newsom Is Not Ready for Prime Time

 The Athens of Asia: A History of Gaza. For much of its history, Gaza moved people, things, and ideas by land and sea, and its name was associated with geographic interconnectedness.

 Israel Had Hamas' Lethal Attack Blueprint a Year Ago: NY Times

 The first women-led armored battle in history - And not just Israel's history. History period. An interview with six women soldiers who drove their tanks into battle early in the morning of October 7th

 Hearing grammatical errors affects your heart rate variability

Doctors lobbying for Medicare for All should be careful what they wish for

 Coal Dust Is Claimed To Kill Old People: A New Instance of the Epidemiologist Fallacy

 UN: Okay, Maybe the Planet Isn't Warming That Quickly

 No proof face masks ever worked against Covid, claims UKHSA boss 

...  converting this building has shown that retrofitting a central heat pump system like this for such buildings is infeasible to the point of being ludicrous.  But of course, this is New York, and nobody is allowed to say that.

 One Example of How Media Creates Racial Panic

 PSNI treating Belfast 'Irish lives matter' graffiti as 'hate incident'

 ‘Don’t Advertise…. Go F*** Yourself:’Elon Musk Lashes Out at Companies ‘Blackmailing’ X/Twitter

 Douglas Murray: Wartime Diary - ‘As the helicopters carrying the released hostages landed, traffic stopped. People got out of their cars and broke into song.’

Using the internet is NOT bad for your mental health: Study across 168 countries finds no 'smoking gun' linking technology and wellbeing

Yes, there are crowds and the food is lousy. However, it is scenic.

 Byron Wien’s 20 Life Lessons

 Beliefs about Emotions Influence How People Feel, Act and Relate to Others. Thinking about a range of emotions as friends rather than foes improves the quality of our life

 Minor, in a Major Key - The movie Chevalier tells us little that is true about a second-rate composer—but it is a peerless example of hatred for the Western past.

 The Fight for the Future of Publishing - Ideological fanatics and fear have crippled the major houses. But new book publishers are rising up to take the risks they won’t.

 Lonely on campus: Students are siloed, silenced. Afraid to offend each other, college students are "siloed and silenced," creating an epidemic of loneliness on campus, writes Samuel Abrams, a professor of political science at Sarah Lawrence, on RealClearEducation.

 Pro-Israel teacher hides in Queens high school as ‘radicalized’ students riot: ‘They want her fired’

How The Democratic Party Faked An American Insurrection

 We Are Governed By Ignorant Fools

 How multiculturalism fuels hate - This elite ideology has cultivated and inflamed ethnic tensions.

 Hate Is Good: Laws Which Ban “Hate” Speech Are Bad: Ireland’s New “Hate” Laws Are Tyrannical

 Where Free Speech Ends and Lawbreaking Begins - The First Amendment does not give carte blanche to intimidation and harassment, writes Ilya Shapiro.

 The New Normal? Election results in the Netherlands and Argentina provide evidence of the vigour and variety of the New Right and its global reach.

 ‘Now and Then:’ How the Beatles Created Magic on Their New ‘Red’ and ‘Blue’ Albums, Via a Little MAL-ware

 Stop following this common piece of career and life advice, says behavior expert: It’s not ‘the solution to everything’

To build mountains from dolomite, a common mineral, it must periodically dissolve. This counter-intuitive lesson could help make new defect-free semiconductors and more.

DISNEY ‘FESSES UP

Who was Dianne Feinstein? 

 OpenAI Tried to Fire Altman Because He Was About to Wake Up the Monster

 New study finds ChatGPT gives better advice than professional columnists

 In Incredible Black Friday Sale, Lockheed Martin Offering 2 Wars For Price Of 1

  Nancy Pelosi’s Daughter Caught on Hidden Camera Admitting January 6 Was a Hoax

My November Guest

“My sorrow, when she’s here with me,
Thinks these dark days of autumn rain
Are beautiful as days can be;
She loves the bare, the withered tree;
She walks the sodden pasture lane.

Her pleasure will not let me stay.
She talks and I am fain to list:
She’s glad the birds are gone away,
She’s glad her simple worsted grey
Is silver now with clinging mist.

The desolate, deserted trees,
The faded earth, the heavy sky,
The beauties she so truly sees,
She thinks I have no eye for these,
And vexes me for reason why.

Not yesterday I learned to know
The love of bare November days
Before the coming of the snow,
But it were vain to tell her so,
And they are better for her praise.”

Well, beauty is a human sentiment isn't it?

Guy's been a birder since age 10 - same as me.

The Fall of Minneapolis

I stupidly did it by mistake this year, and it turned out better than ever:  How To Roast a Turkey Upside Down

 12 Phrases Shakespeare Coined That We Still Use Today

 Chess wrongly perceived as a ‘brilliance’ game, leaving girls out

 Over Half of Americans Own a Gun or Know Someone Who Owns a Gun

A Dirty Little Secret About Drudge

 Rush of the Net Zero lemmings

 Prepare for a New, Less Affluent America

 Thank NY’s criminal justice ‘reforms’ for this double murder

 Lafayette College students are being taught that modern museums are instruments of “power,” entrenched in “violence” and colonialism, according to a new anthropology course offered this fall.

 Pride Santa and the Pride Christmas Nutcracker

 Derek Chauvin Stabbed in Federal Prison; Cop Convicted in George Floyd Death Given “Life-Saving Measures” Before Being Taken to Hospital

 Kamala Harris Should Have Checked the Background of Her Thanksgiving Photo

 The ‘Complexity’ of Idiocy - The Left is less a political movement than a neurotic clown collective arrogantly spouting toxic imbecility

Sheesh 

 Liberals Once Embraced Interracial Marriages Like Mine. What Changed?My wife is black. I’m white. When we got married in 2007, progressives cheered. Today, they wonder if I’m up to parenting my own kids.

 Vivek Ramaswamy reveals his campaign has become a social-media stunt

Stuart's Saturday Miscellany 

 Ireland's prime minister condemns anti-immigrant protesters in Dublin

 Violent clashes erupt in Dublin after stabbing of 5 people, as police blame ‘far-right ideology’

 On Eve Of Hostage Release, Hamas Calls For Supporters To Rise Up

 Old Lodge Skins’ Prayer Of Thanksgiving

Stuart on gratitude 

1952 -  How to Explain Thanksgiving to French People?

 Foreign students should love Thanksgiving

 Aquaculture Accounts for Half of the World's Fish Supply

 The Decadence of Common-Good Capitalism

 Why New York is objectively America’s worst state

 The Fall of Minneapolis

 Judge Obliterates Oregon's Newest Gun Grab

 These classical teaching programs meet a growing demand

What is Left and Right? 

 The cause of free speech threatens to become the exclusive property of conservatives.

 Scientific censorship appears to be increasing. 

 'The Science' Suffers from Self-Inflicted Political Wounds. A separation of science and politics might be called for.

 Leftist Attempts to Destroy Elon Musk Won't Work in Time for 2024

 Ask every automaker – Tesla excused – that’s been pushed to make EVs before there was demand to support it.

 "Japs, Jewry And Trannies": Media Matters President's Bigoted Blogs Resurface Amid Spat With Musk

 Biden Getting Killed in Polls Because of Youth Dislike of Israel

 A Radical Democrat Proposal: Treat Black Voters Like They Matter

 German Priorities: Berlin Imposes a Spending Freeze Over Budget Crisis – AND ON THE SAME DAY, Releases a New 1.4B Military Aid Package to Ukraine

 A Self-Described Libertarian Wins In Argentina

Thanks to Squanto, the Pilgrims had a decent harvest of corn and squash (pumpkins mostly, I think) in the autumn of 1621. Also, thanks to Squanto, the friendly neighboring Wampanoags visited bearing venision. Indians likely outnumbered the English at this feast day.

It seems Turkey, roasted pumpkin, mussels, eels, cod, roasted or stewed venison, corn meal mush, and maybe lobster were on the menu:  First Thanksgiving Meal.

There seem not to have been a lot of oysters nearby (maybe the Indians ate them all), but plenty of Cod. Ever heard of Cape Cod Turkey?

They had to learn to fish and how to plant. They had no milk (no livestock on Mayflower unless you count the 2 dogs), and any sugar or flour on board had been exhausted during the voyage. The Mayflower crew (30 men) returned home on starvation rations in Spring, 1621. Mayflower was an 80-foot leaky old cargo vessel which was barely suited for anything.

JFK assassination: 60 years later we know the truth about the real killer

 LA Times Op-Ed: This Thanksgiving, Honor Turkeys By Not Eating Them

 What We’re Grateful For - Jonathan Haidt, Tyler Cowen, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Mayim Bialik, and Free Pressers weigh in. 

 There Is No Good Way to Travel Anywhere in America. An Amtrak ride can go so, so wrong.

That "new" Beatles song 

What's up with the Mayo Clinic? 

 Black women of African descent were more likely to die of the medieval plague in London, academics at the Museum of London have found.

 Scarborough: If Elected, Trump Will 'Execute' As Many People As He Can Get Away With!

 Why Democrats Became The Totalitarians They Warned Us About

Stuart's  Wednesday Potpourri

 Cry no more for Argentina — it’s about to be a new model for economic reform

Great Argus Pheasant, southern Thailand, looking for a wife. Hmmm, one of these birds might make fr a Thanksgiving feast.