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Sunday, July 12. 2020From today's Lectionary: Jacob and EsauGenesis 25:19-34 25:19 These are the descendants of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham was the father of Isaac, 25:20 and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, sister of Laban the Aramean 25:21 Isaac prayed to the LORD for his wife, because she was barren; and the LORD granted his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived. 25:22 The children struggled together within her; and she said, "If it is to be this way, why do I live?" So she went to inquire of the LORD. 25:23 And the LORD said to her, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples born of you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the elder shall serve the younger." 25:24 When her time to give birth was at hand, there were twins in her womb. 25:25 The first came out red, all his body like a hairy mantle; so they named him Esau. 25:26 Afterward his brother came out, with his hand gripping Esau's heel; so he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them. 25:27 When the boys grew up, Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents, 25:28 Isaac loved Esau, because he was fond of game; but Rebekah loved Jacob. 25:29 Once when Jacob was cooking a stew, Esau came in from the field, and he was famished. 25:30 Esau said to Jacob, "Let me eat some of that red stuff, for I am famished!" (Therefore he was called Edom.) 25:31 Jacob said, "First sell me your birthright." 25:32 Esau said, "I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me?" 25:33 Jacob said, "Swear to me first." So he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob. 25:34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank, and rose and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright. Saturday, July 11. 2020Saturday morning linksImage was a fake AOC retweet, since deleted No One Is Ever Woke Enough Penn State Retracts Statement Saying Conservative Voices Are Important Georgetown student government votes to condemn peer’s ‘I Love America’ column Friday's Insanity Wrap: AOC Will Cancel 'Cancel Culture' Cancelers BB: International Manhunt Under Way For Those Who Signed Letter Supporting Tolerance Of Differing Viewpoints De Blasio Suggests Ban On Public Gatherings Like Parades Or Fairs. Black Lives Matter Protests Are Different. Why Isn't California Criticized Like Florida on Covid-19? Warrant Served On St. Louis Couple Who Defended Private Property, Rifle Confiscated, Report Says Scientists hail 'stunning' results that show areas of New York may have reached 68 per cent immunity Good News: Wall Street Is To Blame For ‘Climate Change’, Police Brutality, And The Wealth Gap President Trump Commutes Roger Stone’s Sentence …Updated with Pencil Neck Video Why is the US Army calling its commander in chief's campaign slogan 'white supremacist'? Friday, July 10. 2020Ray Dalio on the Economy, Pandemic, China's RiseFriday morning linksWalk through Jerusalem’s holy sites from the comfort of your home I think the notion of "holy" sites is silly, but the history is cool Incest and affairs of Japan's scandalous penguins Is persiflage an intellectual herb? Mark Zuckerberg is getting mauled for standing up for basic free speech PRINCETON FACULTY LETTER DEMANDS END TO ACADEMIC FREEDOM Liberals Boycott Goya Foods After CEO Praises President Trump at White House Hispanic Event Fauci Says States Should “Seriously Look at Shutting Down” Again as Coronavirus Cases Rise New York’s school decision a slap in the face to parents This Is How Propaganda's Supposed To Work: 60% In US Believe Fake Russia Bounty Story Links to Biden's plans for the US FBI chief slams Chinese cyberattacks on U.S., calls it ‘one of the largest transfers of wealth in human history’ Satellite Photos Show Iran’s Main Centrifuge Assembly Hall Was Mostly Destroyed Thursday, July 9. 2020Thursday morning linksHarvard, MIT Sue ICE Over Plans to Deport International Students The Declining Case for Municipal Recycling Madison Avenue Shop Sues Governor Andrew Cuomo Over Looting Brooks Brothers Files For Bankruptcy After 202 Years Of Business Opposing Black Lives Matter Now Means Hate Crime Charges Controversial Police-Shooting Study Retracted New head of news at NBC-Universal openly promises to discriminate against Caucasians Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar Calls For “Dismantling” of US “Economy and Political Systems Biden Admits Obama Was A Failure As President Biden Says Police Have “Become the Enemy” and Calls For Defunding the Police Iddo Netanyahu Tells All About Operation Entebbe and his Heroic Brother Yonatan Wednesday, July 8. 2020Wednesday morning linksThe Trans Cult - Review of 'Irreversible Damage' by Abigail K. Shrier Charter Schools Going Woke Understanding Campus Antisemitism in 2019 And Its Lessons for Pandemic and Post-Pandemic U.S. Campuses WaPo: Now Let’s Purge Classic Literature A NEW LOW IN HIGHER EDUCATION? Cancel Culture: Descendant Of Thomas Jefferson Calls For Removing D.C. Monument City Of Seattle Trains White Employees To Work On “Undoing Your Own Whiteness” Scientists long ago exhausted their COVID-19 capital Not dying is bad for headlines EPA approves two Lysol products as the first to effectively kill novel coronavirus on surfaces US Withdraws From World Health Organization and Democrats Are Losing It Georgia Governor Declares State of Emergency, Deploys National Guard after July 4 Weekend Violence Tucker Carlson: Democrats Are The Driving Force Behind Racial Division
Tuesday, July 7. 2020Tuesday morning linksThe Tale of the ship Alden Besse Scolding Beachgoers Isn’t Helping. People complain that going to the shore is a careless act during a pandemic, but the science so far suggests otherwise. As COVID-19 Cases Surge, Daily Deaths and the Case Fatality Rate Continue To Fall. Expanded testing, a younger mix of patients, and improved treatment help explain the seemingly contradictory trends. Harvard: No in-person classes for 2020-21 year Confessions of a COVID-induced temporary OCD victim The Latest Toppled Statue Should Be a Wake-Up Call for the Left Cancel “Hamilton”? College Student Calls Police on Prager U. for Having the Wrong Opinion Protesters In DC Are Pretty Much What You Thought – All White Kids… Who Needs Police? Shootings In New York City Continue To Climb Chicago Mayor Cites COVID-19 For City’s Escalating Murder Rate With murders up nearly 80% in Chicago last month, Lori Lightfoot blames guns President Delivers Patriotic Speech Sending Trump Deranged Media Into Rage Senator Duckworth and Most of the Press Are Lying about Trump’s Speech Tammy Duckworth Goes on Bizarre Rant About Trump’s Speech, Cites ‘Dead Traitors’ and Russia Good morningImage via Ace via Bee
Monday, July 6. 2020A weekend of fledgelingsAround here, this was the weekend when many birds left their nests and scattered around begging their parents for food. There is a fledgeling Catbird out my window right now in the rose bushes, asking Mom and Dad for a bug or two. We have fully-spotted Robins, still with their wide mouths, on the lawn. A bunch of tiny House Wrens in the shrubbery. A fledgeling Cardinal in a Holly tree. Four baby Barn Swallows, sitting in a line on a dead branch. Noisy baby Grackles on the lawn and fledgeling Crows cawing for food in the treetops. And, down the lane, two fledgeling Ospreys exercising their wings on a high nest, preparing for their first adventures.
Monday morning linksA ‘Viral’ New Bird Song in Canada Is Causing Sparrows to Change Their Tune America’s Never-Ending Battle Against Flesh-Eating Worms The Canned Lion Industry: An‘Unfair Game’ Of Breeding Lions To Be Hunted MC: It’s the Fourth of July, and everyone in America has so much to be grateful for. Happy 4th of July! US Sets Record for Most New Jobs in a Month Ever! 4.8 Million Jobs Created in June! Well, lots of those are restored jobs, I'd guess When WWII Spies Created Explosive Coal To Sabotage the Third Reich How progressive urbanists want to take over the suburbs France bans Dutch bike TV ad for creating 'climate of fear' about cars Forbes falls to cancel culture as it erases environmentalist's mea culpa Another Academic Firing Are we in China yet? Elderly Florida Man Charged With Committing Aggravated Battery To Maintain Social Distancing I thought Karens were female Study Finds That Hydroxychloroquine Helped Patients Survive Coronavirus, Cutting Death Rates In Half GREAT NEWS! Number of Cononavirus Deaths Down to Lowest Levels Since Beginning of Pandemic – Media Silence Hillary: I Would Have Done A Better Job Handling Coronavirus Who asked her? WILL A COVID VACCINE BE RUSHED TO MARKET? "Don't Let Them Vaccinate You": Farrakhan Warns Africans That Dr. Fauci Is Trying To Kill Them This fall, get the children back in school California accuses Cisco of job discrimination based on Indian employee's caste The ‘Diversity’ Trap - Progressive ideas about diversity have taken over the corporate world but they offer a skin-deep version obsessed only with color and conformity In Minneapolis, shootings have more than doubled this year compared to last. "We're In Your House. Let's Go." - Black Armed Protesters Challenge White Militia At Confederate Monument What white militia? A Young Doctor Sees Oppression Everywhere Hearing What Black Voices Really Say About Police - African-Americans have mixed attitudes, but most are satisfied with their local departments. Scholar forced to resign over study that found police shootings not biased against blacks Not Portlandia anymore: Antifa Rioters Throw Bricks, Mortars, M-80s at Police as Portland Descends Into a War Zone Nightmare in New York: How Covid-19, BLM protests and a liberal mayor are turning the city into a no-go zone as murders skyrocket, shops are looted and 500,000 middle-class residents flee Former G.W. Bush appointees supporting Biden have embraced socialist policies – why? Trump Repubs: “They Won’t Talk Publicly, Because They’ll Lose Their Golf Game” Did Trump Break America's Brain? Trump’s Syria Policy Is Working. The Assad regime is cracking under the pressure of stalemate—just like the State Department planned. Slavery Rampant in Africa, Middle East; The West Wrongly Accuses Itself Sunday, July 5. 2020Brooklyn Real Estate: Rus in urbeFrom today's Lectionary: My yoke is easyMatthew 11:16-19, 25-30 11:16 "But to what will I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to one another, 11:17 'We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn.' 11:18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He has a demon'; 11:19 the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds." 11:25 At that time Jesus said, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants; 11:26 yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. 11:27 All things have been handed over to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. 11:28 "Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." SpiritSeen by a reader yesterday
Saturday, July 4. 2020Where I'd like to be todayHappy 4thIt's a good day to think about all of the wonderful things about the USA. One day without grousing and bitching would be pleasant. Here's something to try: Have a chat with a recent legal immigrant. I did yesterday, and with another one early this morning for a blood-drawing. Immigrants are grateful for freedom and opportunity, while many of us multi-generational Americans just take it all for granted, or even demand more. Shame on me, if I do that. Friday, July 3. 2020Strong PathFriday morning linksBeavers causing global warming ‘Climate Change” Is The Social Justice Issue Of Our Lives Going to National Parks Is Racist, Declares ABC News Happy 4th of July! US Sets Record for Most New Jobs in a Month Ever! 4.8 Million Jobs Created in June! New York Gov. coronavirus orders unfairly targeted houses of worship, federal judge says. Parents Everywhere Agree: Reopen Schools -- IMMEDIATELY! We Have Reached Peak ‘Wokeness’ Now That They Burnt The Elk - Racism is gone, all is now right with the world, stupid white leftists burnt an elk. UMass Nursing Dean Fired For Saying "Everyone's Life Matters" Reminder: How Progressive "Programs" Keep African Americans Down Quillette: Neo-Totalitarianism and the Erasure of History NY Lawyers Who Torched A Police Car With A Molotov Cocktail Are Out On Bail NYPD Police Retreat in the Face of Taunting City Hall Protesters Woke Harvard Grad Has Meltdown, Says Lost Dream Job After ‘I’ma Stab You’ Video Went Viral Russians Voters Approve Plan To Extend Putin’s Rule Until 2036 Israel annexing the West Bank isn't the disaster for peace everyone says it is. The move is a mostly symbolic acknowledgment of the current reality rather than a change. That could help both sides be more realistic in negotiations. Thursday, July 2. 2020Under the sea: Figi and TongaThursday morning linksA Massive Star Has Disappeared Without a Trace ONLY SIX MONTHS TO SAVE THE PLANET! NYC: Bringing Education to Minority Children The agenda of Black Lives Matter is far different from the slogan Yes, they could be educating children When Police Kill Seattle Police Dismantle CHOP After Protesters Threaten Mayor's $7 Million House Some animals are better than others Protesters, politicians slap the NYPD for a quarter-century of saving lives Bottles And Trash Thrown At NYPD Responding To Crimes SLOGANS FROM THE POORLY EDUCATED NY Times: Say, Mount Rushmore Is Pretty Problematic Two Americas: Risk-Tolerant vs. Zero-Risk—Will One Ruin the Other? Mask Wars - While facemasks can’t hurt in the fight against Covid-19, the outrage directed at skeptics is excessive. Mainstream Media Go All In With ‘Panic Porn’ Over COVID-19 Herd Immunity To COVID-19 May Be Closer Than We Think, New Studies Say The Real Pandemic Was a Nursing Home Problem Salon: It's going to be a long four months: Trump and Fox News just keep ramping up the racism. Desperate to distract from the coronavirus catastrophe, Trump and his media allies are going full-on rabid racism What? Really?
Media Are Playing Games Yet Again With Anonymous Russia Leaks China Has ‘First-Strike’ Capability To Melt U.S. Power Grid With Electromagnetic Pulse Weapon Wednesday, July 1. 2020Wednesday morning linksGenetic clusters in the US Dr. Scott Atlas Calls For Schools To Reopen: "This Is The Most Irrational Public Policy Probably In Modern History" Kneeling in the Church of Social Justice. America certainly has work to do on race, but ritual and symbolic acts aren't the way forward. California Legislature Votes to Strike ‘the State Shall Not Discriminate’ from Constitution, Opening the Door to Legalized Discrimination. Equality before the law is at the heart of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The ‘Diversity’ Trap - Progressive ideas about diversity have taken over the corporate world but they offer a skin-deep version obsessed only with color and conformity
St. Louis Homeowner Speaks Out After Confronting BLM Militants with Firearm, ‘The Only Thing That Stopped the Mob Was my Rifle’ The Mobs Are Coming for the Progressives De Blasio Announces Proposal To Slash NYPD Budget By $1 Billion, Divert Cash To ‘Young People’ Police ‘Reform’ and the Making of a Racism Narrative Scholar forced to resign over study that found police shootings not biased against blacks. Union rep tells College Fix that university should not share data that runs afoul of its support of BLM protests VDH: The Strategies of Dementia Politics It took more than five years, but the corporate media finally have the tools and strategy to successfully defeat President Donald Trump. First Arrests Made Under New Hong Kong "National Security" Law As Thousands Flood The Streets In Protest India Bans TikTok, Other Chinese Apps Over Security Concerns Tuesday, June 30. 2020Do the 60s radicals win?Kimball: America’s current straits represent the victory of 1960s radicals Roger K is a smart guy, but I think he's wrong about this. This sort of power stuff has gone on, on and off, since the 1800s. Race just happens to be the hook right now. Does the hook bring you back?
Tuesday morning linksNeurosurgeon Dr. Russell Blaylock: Face Masks Pose Serious Risks to Healthy Individuals Recent Coronavirus Data Suggests the Lockdowns Were a Colossal Mistake How Deadly Has The Covid-19 Pandemic Really Been? Reopen The Schools! Michael Shellenberger: “On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare” Mt. Rushmore is racist July 4th is racist Academic department calls on Penn State to require 'structural racism' courses Black Lives Matter NY President: Crime Needs To Be Looked At As A Health Issue, Not A Police Issue ARE THE WHEELS COMING OFF IN ATLANTA? An African Country Still Has Slavery — Obama Awarded Them Trade Benefits, Trump Reversed It Monday, June 29. 2020A Field Guide to Cape CodActually, Cape Cod and The Islands. A richly illustrated full-color guide to the unique plants, wildlife, and environments of Cape Cod and the other nearby “Outer Lands” that face the Atlantic Ocean OK, we are Cape Codders, and thus biased. But if you know of any getaway place so good for salt air and piney smell, sailing, fishing, hunting (deer, duck and pheasant), gardening (long growing season on the ocean), biking, hiking, dining on day-fresh seafood and Wellfleet Oysters, tell me about it. Besides that, there is no rich people flavor like Palm Beach, the Islands, Spring Lake, Watch Hill, and the Hamptons. Them folks we have on the outer Cape are very low-profile. It's a Maserati and Porsche-free zone, but you have to deal with "F-Trump" bumper stickers. Whatever. It's a free country, thank God. I never get invited to Hamptons parties anyway. Just no skiing on the Cape, but not too far from it. Beautifully desolate and wet in winter, of course, without any real snow but them's the breaks. You can get out and shoot a duck for supper.
Monday morning linksEuropean Union Will Ban Travelers From America/Russia… 1619 Project Author Claims Africans Visited America Before Columbus, Used Ancient African Technology Virus death toll drops to 5 in NY, once the U.S. epicenter MC: Examples Of The Worst Of Progressive Racism OF STATUES AND SYMBOLIC MURDER Black Lives Matter Organizer: 'Give Me Money or We'll Break Windows' Black Billionaire Robert Johnson Demands $14 Trillion in Reparations "The Princeton University Board of Trustees voted on Friday to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from the university’s School of Public and International Affairs." Minneapolis council members who voted to abolish cops get private security Greg Gutfeld Goes Off On Liberal Juan Williams For Blaming Inner City Violence On Trump De Blasio’s performance grows worse by the day, making NYC unlivable: Goodwin Toppling attempt led by Harvard student ends after confrontation with statue defenders The guy is a complete jerk Trump admits it: He's losing. Amid a mountain of bad polling and stark warnings from allies, the president has acknowledged his reelection woes to allies. My advice: Don't be an a-hole Nancy Pelosi: Nationwide Mask Requirement Is ‘Long Overdue’ Sunday, June 28. 2020From today's LectionaryRomans 6:12-23 6:12 Therefore, do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. 6:13 No longer present your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and present your members to God as instruments of righteousness. 6:14 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace. 6:15 What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 6:16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? 6:17 But thanks be to God that you, having once been slaves of sin, have become obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which you were entrusted, 6:18 and that you, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. 6:19 I am speaking in human terms because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness for sanctification. 6:20 When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 6:21 So what advantage did you then get from the things of which you now are ashamed? The end of those things is death. 6:22 But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the advantage you get is sanctification. The end is eternal life. 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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