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Saturday, November 30. 2019Will the Circle Be Unbroken?Saturday morning linksTHE MIRACLE OF SQUANTO’S PATH TO PLYMOUTH The Left Hates Thanksgiving, Gratitude, and Coexistence Reminiscing about CAR TALK Millennials In Panic As Outraged Boomers Threaten To Withhold Participation Trophies When did routine bad weather become such big news? Businesses (And Workers) Are Thankful For Texas As Charles Schwab Calls It Quits On California Moral grandstanding is making an argument just to boost your status. It’s everywhere. Big fat lies - The Fat Activism movement is risking lives by suppressing obesity research Despite Screaming Headlines from Fake News Media – Black Friday Shopping Frenzy BREAKS ALL RECORDS – Tops $4 Billion for First Time! St. Greta: Everyone Will Be Required To Participate In Climate Scam Alarmists Propose Rebranding ‘Climate Change’ for Greater Shock Value Study Finds Nearly All Minnesota Patients With Vaping-Related Lung Injuries Used Illegal THC Products Containing Suspect Additive Surber: Save us from those saving the world Walter Williams: Who are the racists? Bloomberg: Darned Right We Need To Tax The Poor The Media Sanitizes Spygate Again. Spying isn’t spying if liberals do it, we’re told. How Democrats Lost The Impeachment Debate. In a left versus right brain world, bureaucrats and careerists have no chance against the Trumpist opposition. Trump Mocks Newsweek Over Story On His Thanksgiving Plans… Why Hong Kong loves the USA French Prosecutors Drop Charges Against Muslim Screaming “Allahu Akbar” Who Beat Elderly Jewish Woman and Tossed Her from 3rd Floor Balcony – Cuz He Was High on Pot China, Fentanyl, And The New Opium War Sending Military Aid To Ukraine In The First Place Was A Mistake, And Congress Should Discontinue It Saturday Verse: Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Village Blacksmith UNDER a spreading chestnut tree His hair is crisp, and black, and long, Week in, week out, from morn till night, And children coming home from school He goes on Sunday to the church, It sounds to him like her mother's voice, Toiling,—rejoicing,—sorrowing, Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, Friday, November 29. 2019Old-fashioned toys for kids
Do the young'uns these days live on their ipads and junk like that? It's a damn shame. If you have kids, or grandkids, let's get back to good toys and things which add real life, vs virtual life, to real living. I am thinking of blocks, pick-up-sticks, wooden train sets, Legos, Chess (can be learned at 5), board games, card games, etc. Poker should be learned as young as possible, because it's part of life. Books at their levels, of course. Real books. Older kids, BB guns, bows and arrows, etc. By age 10-13, fishing rods, 28 ga shotguns, .22s, and big boy and girl toys like that. Everything imaginable is on Amazon. What ideas do our readers have for kids, for Christmas things?
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Friday morning linksColin Dowler Fought Off a Grizzly with a Small Pocketknife Doing Opera, by Jonathan Miller (RIP) 5 Steps You Can Take Now to Increase Your Resilience When You're Going Through Hell 10 Things Climate Alarmists Don't Want You to Be Thankful For Can You Trust What Medical Journals Publish? WHY “GREEN” ENERGY IS A TERRIBLE IDEA Scientists Counter Claims That ‘Meat Is Evil’ MacDonald: Why are college students so aftaid of me? The Indispensable Tucker Carlson - The popular Fox News host has given voice to the most basic—most common-sense—positions. They Voted Democratic. Now They Support Trump. President Trump Triggers Liberals, Breaks the Internet with Epic Meme The guy does comedy Time to PANIC! Byron York lays out why Schiff, Pelosi, and Democrats are REALLY rushing to impeach and it ain’t good Angela Merkel: We Will Shut Down ‘Hate Speech’ Otherwise We Will Not Have A Free Society. Who gets to decide what constitutes “hate speech?” Wednesday, November 27. 2019The Mark Steyn Climate Change ForumWednesday morning links
Photo: My dead bird was cooked on the grill over wood and charcoal. Why Do Progressives Hate Gentrification? Brilliant research says women want to look good cuz of terrible economy Virginia Students Protest Over ‘Fiesta’ Themed Party Held By Classmates, University Says It’s ‘Investigating’ the Party Prof asks teachers to combat ‘whiteness’ in art education as form of ‘reparation’ MA Town Launches Experiment To Give 16 Year Olds The Vote Having Solved All Other Problems, NYC Bans Foie Gras Washington Post: Americans Believing the Media is a "Patriotic" Duty Our moral and intellectual superiors Goodwin: Remembering when The New York Times had higher standards CNN Frets Media Not Anti-Trump Enough… Nation's Progressives Give Thanks That They Have So Much To Be Angry About This Year Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Gets Entire Solar Co. Workforce Fired After Telling Them to Unionize Dark Money Network Funneled $600 Million to Liberal Initiatives in 2018 - Democrats adopt once-derided strategy, building a massive money network that shields donors from scrutiny "Fruit Of The Poisonous Tree" - FISA Alterations Could Pose Significant Trouble For FBI Salon: Final, final Republican defense strategy for Trump: Don the tinfoil, join the conspiracy. How can we expect Republicans to judge Donald Trump fairly? At this point, nearly all of them are in on the crime Sounds like projection to me Can Europe Be Saved From Demographic Doom? Tuesday, November 26. 2019Most Difficult Plane to Fly? T6 "Pilot Maker" SOLO prep!Tuesday morning links
Photo from The Vitality of Six-Man Football - Six-man football rose nearly 100 years ago in small-town America. In the 21st century, “basketball on grass” is a way of life for towns like McCool Junction, Neb. Giving thanks Do the youth really lack gratitude? There’s Growing Evidence That the Universe Is Connected by Giant Structures Three Times Tectonics Changed the Climate - Fifty years after the birth of modern plate tectonics theory, a group of researchers highlights three key examples of how our planet’s shape-shifting outer layer has altered our climate. Yep. Dinosaurs in Alaska The Maximum Practical Range of Slugs & Buckshot Killing Animals to Save Them? Hunting as Conservation America 2.0: Where You're Now a Racist if You Love (or Hate!) Indian Food The Silly Notion of “Speed Limits for Ships” HAS NUCLEAR’S TIME COME? I hope so Villanova and the Compulsory Pieties of Higher Education Elizabeth Warren Repeats Lie About Being Fired For Being Visibly Pregnant… She lies a lot Bloomberg is the most qualified 2020 Democrat but missed his moment CNN Guest: Trump Is ‘Destructive Cult’ Leader, uses‘Mind Control’ on Supporters So is he dumb, or diabolically smart? A National Nightmare: Andrew McCarthy Exposes the Plot Against the President FBI Lawyer Who Altered FISA Docs and His Lover Worked for Current ICIG Who Edited IC WhistleBlower Form to Legitimize Schiff Sham Exposed: China’s Operating Manuals For Mass Internment And Arrest By Algorithm Monday, November 25. 2019Wild Rice for Thanksgiving
People tend to cook it with various additions (mushrooms, cranberries, apples, nuts, white rice, etc) but it's a treat on its own if you have enough of it. Chicken broth and salt and pepper does this wild grain justice.
Monday morning linksNo, Thermodynamics Does Not Explain Our Perceived Arrow Of Time Science isn't facts, it's process The Biochemistry Challenge to Darwin A book: Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power The move to cancel Gauguin could kill off Western culture Pope Cites French Epic Poem to Prove Christianity Is as Violent as Islam THIS WEEK IN KAMPUS KRAZY Heads Should Roll at CDC after Botched Vaping Investigation Who Is Winning The Climate Wars? Statue of Bum Erected in Santa Monica Whatever happened to "Trow da bums out?" Good-Bye Victoria's Secret Fashion Show As It Turns Out, Socialist Politicians Can Be Crooks Too Socialists are all about the benjamins Former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg Enters Dem 2020 Race with a Thud Elizabeth Warren Lies To Activist About Her Son Going To Public School NYT: Draft IG Report Claims Russiagate FISA Application Was “Sloppy And Unprofessional” In Parts But Won’t Claim Anti-Trump Bias Among Top Officials DNC Operative Alexandra Chalupa Behind Trump-Russia Hoax – Is Linked to Obama DOJ Hacking Attacks on State’s Voting Systems in Nov. 2016 Two (!) polls find black approval of Trump at 34% Not surprised ‘ARREST BY ALGORITHM’: China Uses Artificial Intelligence To Flag Entire Groups Of People For Arrest, Report Says As Africa Drowns In Debt To China, IMF Sounds The Alarm China is clever. All the US did was send them free money and stuff. China is buying Africa. Sunday, November 24. 2019Cope's Dried Sweet CornLots of good Thanksgiving things to do with this wonderful stuff. Cope's Dried Sweet Corn, from Amish country.
From today's LectionaryLuke 23:33-43 23:33 When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they crucified Jesus there with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left. 23:34 Then Jesus said, "Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing." And they cast lots to divide his clothing. 23:35 And the people stood by, watching; but the leaders scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others; let him save himself if he is the Messiah of God, his chosen one!" 23:36 The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine, 23:37 and saying, "If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!" 23:38 There was also an inscription over him, "This is the King of the Jews." 23:39 One of the criminals who were hanged there kept deriding him and saying, "Are you not the Messiah? Save yourself and us!" 23:40 But the other rebuked him, saying, "Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? 23:41 And we indeed have been condemned justly, for we are getting what we deserve for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong." 23:42 Then he said, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom." 23:43 He replied, "Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise." Saturday, November 23. 2019The right way to carve a turkey Turkey is good meat, especially with the sides and gravy. There is an easy and effective way to cut it up: Saturday morning links400-year-old shark found in the Arctic could be the oldest living vertebrate After a tough workout, I feel like that Who's Afraid Of Roundup? Not me. Kills evil vine roots. You Can’t Afford My Radical Life Mr. Sammler’s City - Saul Bellow’s prophetic 1970 novel captured New York’s unraveling and remains a cautionary tale. Bonnie Prince Charles Warns We Only Have 10 Years Left To Solve ‘Climate Change’ Also: Al Gore Is Here To Bore Us All Again With Climate Change Hysteria Coulter: We'll tell you who's privileged The political and emotional need for oppression But, That's How I Feel! That's why we always recommend Dr. Bennet's book F*ck Feelings Students demand ability to select roommate based on race during days-long sit-in Racists L.A.’s New Project Housing Homeless In Shipping Containers Costs $600,000 Per Home Elizabeth Warren Rally Derailed By Pro-Charter School Protesters Listen to the people, Pocahontas Free People Don't Ask the Government for Permission. "Liberty," Thomas Jefferson wrote, "is unobstructed action according to our will; but rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will, within the limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others." After Failing to Prosecute Bankers, Obama Cashes In With Wall Street Speeches. The former president is reportedly raking in $400,000 per speech to massive financial firms How much money do you need? Peggy Noonan Reminds Us Why Trump Won. The NeverTrumpers' fundamental error. Trump: 'Historic' Durham Investigation Will Implicate Obama in Spygate Quick. Find an absolutely clear, 1-paragraph, just-the-facts summary of exactly what Trump did that warrants impeachment. Cuz orange man bad Trump’s Common Sense on Foreign Policy Thinks outside the box. That's good. The Swamp is stultified. Friday, November 22. 2019Friday morning linksGore on climate-change threat: 'This is the Battle of the Bulge. This is 9/11' Chicken Little is back! Study Shows Men Prefer Looks, Women Prefer ‘Social Status’ Another reason to be in love with Heather MacDonald: She writes about music. In this case, Lieder. Marginal Rev: Favorite jazz listening for 2019 Amazon And The Stores Without Cashiers We find Uber to be quite handy at times. Esp. when stuck somewhere.
Kling: Why we tend to be negative and paranoid Intellectual conservatism group denied: may ‘cause stress to the student body’ More stress than Organic Chem? Berkeley Protesters Attempted To Shut Down Ann Coulter Speech, Six Were Arrested Good In 2019, the demand for white supremacists far exceeds the supply. The Utter Futility of Fighting Crime in San Francisco Governor of Illinois, home of nation’s worst fiscal crisis, slams door on pension reform Seattle’s Course: Harder Left - The progressive-socialist coalition tightens its grip on the city council. Banning Huawei Will Cost U.S. Companies $11 Billion Annually Hunter Biden-linked company received $130M in special federal loans while Joe Biden was vice president Sheesh Former FBI Attorney Under Criminal Investigation For Fabricating Evidence In Russiagate Probe AG Barr’s US Attorney John Durham Reportedly Took a Third Trip to Italy and Is Now Investigating Pentagon in His Russia Collusion Probe Poll: Majority Want Impeachment Hearings To Continue As Long As Possible So Congress Will Be Too Busy To Meddle With Our Lives All 6 East Coast Carriers In Dock, Not Deployed: Hill Asks Why Iranian Regime Deploys Snipers Against Demonstrators, Death Toll Crosses 100 Energy-starved Africa looks to India for nuclear reactors Smart of them Thursday, November 21. 2019Thursday morning links
Airlines tell parents to pay up or risk sitting rows away from their kids. That's wrong. We always reserve seats. What's the issue? AVI: They're all mad; mad, I tell you. Mad as hatters. We're the only ones left Former Baltimore Mayor Finally Indicted On Fraud Charges Reuters Deletes Story Meant to Make Trump Look Bad After Realizing it Made Obama Look Bad Alan Dershowitz: Dems Weaponizing Impeachment Ukrainian Indictment Claims $7.4 Billion Obama-Linked Laundering, Puts Biden Group Take At $16.5 Million Settlements and the Smelling-Salts Brigade - Neither illegal nor illegitimate. Fearful Norwegians Wonder: Are ‘Swedish Conditions’ Coming to the Streets of Oslo? Muslim AK-47s and Bombings Turn Sweden Into War Zone THE END OF MULTICULTURALISM IN SCANDINAVIA? The end of innocence China going big on coal Wednesday, November 20. 2019A calis Wednesday: Sweat TimeIf you want a session of conditioning with plenty of HIIT cardio as part of it, you can do something like I did this morning. I needed a 15-minute catnap at 6:20 am afterwards next to Mrs BD who said "You are such a good boy." Another reward was that a very cute and fit gal who is always at the gym early said "Hi" to me during my sweaty workout. At least she did not say "OK, Boomer" or "Good going, Gramps." In each rotation, I give myself 15-second rests between sets, and one minute rest before each new rotation. That keeps the heart rate up. I tend to vary these sequences frequently, but this was this morning after a 5-min elliptical warm-up:
Continue reading "A calis Wednesday: Sweat Time" Wednesday morning linksCheap, older gout drug could be lifesaver after heart attack Good. GOOGLE, CENSOR OF THE WORLD? Your Computer Is Really Bad For ‘Climate Change’ Or Something ACLU Advises Us: Men Can Have Periods And Get Pregnant INDOCTRINATING CHILDREN TO HATE: Leftist Activism Is Now Required in Elementary Schools in Eight States Mob of Moonbats Crushes Free Speech at Binghamton Hilarious NYT Video Mocks 'Cancel Culture.' If Only the NYT Would Listen It is clever, but it is reality too L.A. Voters Think Money Spent On Homelessness Is Going Down A Rat Hole AP Publishes Story Noting That 100,000 Migrant Children are In Detention, Pinning This on Trump; Then They "Retract" The Story When They Learn This Figure is from 2015, and Therefore Not "News" Because It's Not Helpful to Democrat Fake news, daily The ‘Welfare Magnet’ for Immigrants Breaking news: People like free money and free stuff Clinton Foundation bleeding money with no Clintons in high office Duh. But they had a good run In Genius Move, Trump Supports Impeachment, Forcing Democrats To Oppose Goodwin: Why Dems are so worried after latest round of impeachment hearings The Takeaway from Impeachment Theater Is That The Unelected Permanent Government Has Lost Confidence In the Voters Our moral and intellectual superiors Prof. Jacobson: You know I don’t curse here, but I can barely contain myself over the impeachment ******** The Democrats’ Impeachment Fiasco Implodes. The Dan Bongino Show Vindman Admits To Violating Chain Of Command, Says Trump Within Rights To Request Foreign Investigation Alexander Vindman Admits Making up Parts of Trump Call Summary Impeachment Witnesses Confirm: No Quid Pro Quo, No Bribery, No Extortion Left-Wing Journalist On Sweden's Migrant Suburbs: "Everyone Knew It Would End In Disaster"
Muslim Women “Forced To Share Beds” With Male Chinese Officials After Husbands Interned Like we say, China has different "values" Tuesday, November 19. 2019Two TurkeysTuesday morning links
People aged 110 and older have ‘unique’ immune cells that may help them live longer, says study That's bad luck if you are senile too Whole Foods Sells Both 'Nitrate-Free Meat' And Nitrate Supplements. Yup. Starbucks’ Open Bathroom Policy Comes With Heavy Cost, Study Finds Report: 93-Year-Old Nazi Camp Guard on Trial as Accessory to 5,230 Deaths Climate science has died. The effects will be big. Moviegoers flock to free speech doc ‘No Safe Spaces’ despite panning from mainstream critics Evergreen State College Enrollment Is Down Sharply Once Again University invites students to 'Decolonize your Thanksgiving' Does the Left Hate America? Sure seems like it. But why? What Are Luxury Beliefs? Globalist-Endorsed War-On-Cash May Be China's Next Terrifying Weapon New York Times Admits NO ONE Believes the Liberal News Media Anymore – Too Much Hysteria and Fake News 41% Who Support Impeaching And Removing Trump Made Up Their Mind Before The Ukraine Story First Broke Sore losers, not a good look. I see John Dean said Trump should have been impeached the day he was inaugurated. That's hate speech. US failing to stop China from stealing research, report says Democrats to Israel: Go to Hell Chile boots 50 illegals involved in rioting — mostly from Cuba and Venezuela Abandoning Malmö to Its Criminals France: An "Inverted Colonization" Nice place for hunting last weekendMonday, November 18. 2019China updateCorn Pudding for ThanksgivingOr as a side with any meaty winter dinner. Whenever Mrs. BD brings this to a party, the bowl is clean. Very easy, too: Grandma's Corn Pudding As a friend's wife said to me last night at a deep-fried turkey party, "just call it a vegetable and enjoy it." Yum yum.
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