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Monday, March 25. 2019Monday morning links
Christian as Identity Henry Tseng, who exercised every day at age 111, dies What was the Rosenstrasse protest? Children Make Perfect Propaganda Props Hundreds of cities, counties and Native American tribes file federal lawsuit against Sackler family over opioid crisis Titiana Graves and The Woke's On You The Guardian is pissed The Reckoning of Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center TRUMP’S FREE SPEECH ON CAMPUS ORDER, STANLEY KURTZ’S TAKE 5 things to know for March 25: Russia probe, Mali, cyclone, Parkland, stricken cruise ship Google Influenced Midterm Elections, May Have Cost Republicans Seats: Study Dems planning another apocalypse primary (video) Steyn: Deep-State Dumpster Fire
Todd Laments Trump Never Dragged Before a Grand Jury, Frets He’ll ‘Banana Republic Us’ Not Only Did Trump NOT Collude – The Trump Campaign ACTIVELY REBUFFED Repeated Russian Attempts To Interfere! After James Comey Posts Bizarre, Post-Mueller Photo, Lindsay Graham OWNS Him on Twitter Dems: There are many other areas of Trump wrongdoing to investigate - Nadler: Congress Has To Look At A “Broader Picture” Than Just Crimes In Deciding Whether To Impeach We should all be celebrating the collapse of Hillary’s big lie The Five Dumbest Things In The New York Times Coverage Of The Issuance Of The Mueller Report The rule is: When something good for Trump happens, find the nearest bad thing and make that the focus of the news report. Scott heard on CNN: Is Mueller a Putin puppet? The vast attempt to undo the 2016 election has failed. History moves on. The NeverTrumpers cannot "Stories have been coming out for some time now hinting Mueller’s final report might leave audiences 'disappointed,' as if a President not being a foreign spy could somehow be bad news." Of course it is good news, but hardly surprising New Zealand: A Nation of Sheep France Is The Socialist Future We Should Dread MP who quit UK Labour over anti-Semitism warns AIPAC ‘things can change quickly’ Sunday, March 24. 2019Exercise Diary: A miscellaneous workoutYesterday morning I did a free-wheeling workout day. I just felt like it. (And this morning, just an hour of "cardio" - stair machine, HIIT on treadmill, and elliptical because I do heavy tomorrow morning.) Yesterday morning I had no time constraints for my free-wheeling: 10 min ellip warm-up (needed warm-up), then a 3X rotation of 20-pushups, 10 (assisted) pullups, 30 kettlebell lunges, rower 60-sec sprints; then a 4X rotation of 100 mixed jump rope, heavy ball squat- and- wall throws, and kettlebell swings; then a 4X rotation of kettlebell Farmer Walks, Roman Chair leg raises, overhand curls, and 60-second planks. Once in a while it feels good to throw away your game plan and just have random fun with all the toys in the gym. You know - masochistic fun. It feels good at the end. Clipper ShipsA book recommendation from Gwynnie: Barons of the Sea: And Their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship
From today's Lectionary: My ways are higher than your waysIsaiah 55:1-9 55:1 Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you that have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. 55:2 Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food. 55:3 Incline your ear, and come to me; listen, so that you may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David. 55:4 See, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples. 55:5 See, you shall call nations that you do not know, and nations that do not know you shall run to you, because of the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you. 55:6 Seek the LORD while he may be found, call upon him while he is near; 55:7 let the wicked forsake their way, and the unrighteous their thoughts; let them return to the LORD, that he may have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the LORD. 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. Saturday, March 23. 2019World's Best Jump Roper - Hawaii StyleAround here, plant your peasSt. Patrick's Day is a traditional time to plant peas around here. Sometimes you have to scrape snow off the garden. Sometimes the seeds never germinate. Still, tradition. I'll try to do it today if 1/2 inch of soil is soft. I don't grow them for the peas. I grow them for the early sweet and crunchy pea-pods. We just eat them raw usually, while checking out the garden. Saturday morning linksNorthern Lights this weekend as far south as NYC Because Olde Mr. Sun got grumpy There's a Concerning Trend of Pet Owners Wanting to Turn Their Carnivore Animals Vegan Grammar quiz from the 1980s is so difficult most people only answer HALF the questions correctly... so do YOU think you can do better? Our readers sure can The Mismeasurements of Stephen Jay Gould He was a good writer. Sorry to learn that he was working a political agenda Black Professor Picks Feminism, Loses at Life But she has tenure and an easy job New York Times CEO warns publishers ahead of Apple news launch A brief video you don't want to see The Southern Poverty Law Center exposed as a ‘scam’ My American Dream is not a universal basic income. It's a job. Dershowitz: Comey and Others Committed Fraud on FISA Court – Should Be Held in Contempt Mueller Submits His Report To Bill Barr, Ending Russiagate Probe; Update: No More Indictments Or Sealed Indictments Ken Starr: Mueller Cannot Seek an Indictment. And He Must Remain Silent. Scott Adams: They went elephant hunting and shot a few squirrels Including why McCain was a malevolent jerk Border Patrol: US Facing 'Unprecedented' Immigration Crisis at Border KLAVAN: Trump's Agenda Has Changed Lives For The Better Even if you dislike the guy personally, ya gotta admit it. World peace increasing, and everybody who wants a job has one. Trump Signs Executive Order To Promote Free Speech On College Campuses, Deal With Student Debt "As a man charged with publicly explaining Donald Trump’s often meandering and colloquial vernacular in highly adversarial TV settings..." Seriously? New Zealand Women Wear Hijabs in ‘Solidarity’ With Muslims Following Mosque Shooting I call it out as cultural appropriation New Zealand Prime Minister: Gun Confiscation ‘Just The Beginning’ Of Things To Come Let no incident go to waste - ie, to grab government power Friday, March 22. 2019The Byrds, 1965Friday morning links
Tasting 114-Year-Old Wine With the Rothschilds at Château Lafite Yum Hudson Yards Is Manhattan’s Biggest, Newest, Slickest Gated Community. Bill de Blasio 2020: The campaign no one wants Ten Years after Climategate, the Global Warming Fraud Is on Life Support OBAMA JUDGE DEMANDS TRUMP BELIEVE IN GLOBAL WARMING Trump Tax Reform Hits Home in Wealthy New York Suburbs Same people who say Tax The Rich " Female economists are at some notable points less convinced of market solutions and have more trust in the government in serving the public interest." I think that might be generally true. Why? ‘Seattle is Dying’ Special Shows a City Gripped by Homelessness and Drug Abuse Tales from the Illinois Exodus–Part One The Crying of Lot 330 - San Francisco’s leaders prepare to site a large homeless shelter in the heart of the city. Students say offensive speech is not free speech That offends me deeply. They are idiots. Betsy DeVos Strikes a Blow for Religious Freedom Why Elites Dislike Standardized Testing New Zealand Bookstore Bans Jordan Peterson’s Self-Help Book “12 Rules for Life” Following Mosque Attack Continetti: Democrats Want to ‘Change the Structure’ of the United States to Win Elections Democrats are Changing to Rules on Voting to Ensure Permanent Majorities for Them Ocasio-Cortez Attends Event Encouraging Eliminating Private Ed, Boycott of Standardized Tests BETO O'ROURKE: I DON'T TAKE PRO-ISRAEL MONEY FROM JEWS 2020 Democrats to skip AIPAC The Democrats are about to hand a guaranteed 2020 election victory to Donald Trump on a plate McCain’s Key Role in Fueling Post-Election Trump-Russia Hysteria Makes sense for Trump to be angry, but shut up ISIS caliphate has officially crumbled and last stronghold liberated Winning! On Point: Russia's Crimea Invasion Imperils 21st-Century Peace The Pushback Plan: How Taiwan Can Win Diplomatically Against China Palestinian Lives Don’t Matter - Unless Israel is to blame. Thursday, March 21. 2019Walking shoesYour shoes always matter. "Walking Shoes" and Trail Walking Shoes are neither running shoes nor hiking shoes, generally speaking. Like many European cities, New York City is a walking town. New Yorkers walk a lot. In fact, in many circumstances in Manhattan you can get to your destination as fast, or faster, than you can with a cab or an Uber. For urban walking and urban hiking, you want walking shoes. They are more like heavy-duty sneakers. I suppose you want to use the lightest weight shoe for your purpose. No bouldering boots for exploring Vienna: Trail Walking Shoe vs. Hiking Shoe. We like Merrells and Keens for either long-distance urban or trail walking. The top ten walking shoes reviewed Things to consider when buying walking shoes Also, on another topic, sales on serious hiking shoes at Sierra Trading Post Thursday morning linksCool story from 1912: Truckin' silk soap from New jersey to Petaluma Dr. Littman got in trouble for her studies on gender dysphoria Ocasio-Cortez Joins De Blasio In Call To Punish Asian Students Is racial division about race or ideology? Stop ignoring the brutal downside of legal pot Why Upstate New York Feels Unwelcome in its Own State In a week of grim news, one bright spot stands out, at least for us — Secretary of State Pompeo’s announcement that America will block members of the International Criminal Court from coming here to investigate war crimes in Afghanistan Warren Wants to Eliminate the Electoral College, Which Would Cause Havoc in Our System Border Patrol Nabbed 400 Illegals In Under 5 Minutes Yesterday Ted Koppel: Trump's Not Imagining Things, The Liberal Media Are Out to Get Him Duh. But Trump makes it too easy for them.
Palestinian Authority Pays Terrorists More Than Doctors Twelve French Churches Attacked, Vandalized in One Week Muslim Schools Cancel LGBT Equality Classes in London District Saying They Felt “Victimized” by the Program Not woke enuf Wednesday, March 20. 20195th Annual Maggie's Urban Hike: Sunday, May 5th - re-postedMark your calendars. We apologize for putting it on a Sunday, but we were running out of possible dates. As usual, our outing will be regardless of weather. As my sister says, there is no such thing as bad weather, just wrong clothing. This hike will begin at the Lincoln Center fountain and proceed uptown to The Cloisters, about 9 miles all told. Lots of Broadway, which was the old highway north from New Amsterdam (and, first, an Indian path). As always, there will a lunch stop somewhere with beers, and stops at various spots of historical or cultural interest. All friends and readers are invited to be a part of our caravan. We always have a jolly time of it. Lots of laughs, excellent companionship, and sore legs at the end. Easy subway or Uber back downtown. Further details TBA. We'll post reminders, too.
How a fit 90 year-old embraces lifeWednesday morning linksPhoto: Lots of snow in California this year Nile shipwreck discovery proves Herodotus right – after 2,469 years The lawyers who took on Big Tobacco are aiming at Realtors and their 6% fee The Marijuana Delusion - States rush to legalize recreational pot, even as evidence of its harms grows. The Gun Control Campaign Against The AR-15 Is Full Of Lies. Efforts to outlaw the AR-15 are part of an incremental movement to ban all semi-automatic guns Surprise: Solving ‘Climate Change’ Requires Ending Capitalism More Flagrant Alteration Of The Past: Patrick Moore As Founder Of Greenpeace Polar Bears May Have Quadrupled, Despite Claims Of Scaremongers A ‘Disgusting’ Yale Professor Moves On - How a target of students’ ire came to write a book about humanity’s transcendent goodness. The SPLC Designates Itself CNN Stunned to Find Pro-Trump Latinos: We Want ‘Longer and Taller’ Wall Coming Soon: Americans Will be Prosecuted For Critical Posts on Islam – Charged With “Cyber Terrorism Crimes” Donald Trump Changed The New York Times. Is It Forever? Scott Adams: A great week for Trump and the country Learning Chinese State Dep't: 800K to 2 Million Muslims Forced Into 'Internment Camps' in Communist China Tuesday, March 19. 2019Pushup HandlesThe number of pushups a guy or gal can do is a fair proxy for general fitness. 50 pushups in 60 seconds is a fitness benchmark. (I can not do that yet.) Pushups are a calisthenic exercise but they do build some strength in the core, chest, arms, and shoulders. I do them on my calisthenics days but you can do them every day. Why use the handles? Because you can dip lower, and because they are kind to your wrists. I don't approve of declined pushups because of the wrist and shoulder stress. Tuesday morning linksKnights Templar – Among The Most Wealthy And Powerful Of The Western Christian Military Orders Jews of Venice’s Ghetto Stop expecting your job to make you happy CUNY: 'Whiteness continues to be a crucial problem in our English department Americans Say Colleges, Universities Discourage Freedom of Speech Americans are baffled and confused over the place of religion in public life An Analysis of the Recent Climate Change Hysteria The Week supports playing victim Everybody is a victim of reality WSJ: Why Tax Hospitals? It’s a Medicaid Shell Game - Providers pay the state. The state pays providers, then collects matching funds from Uncle Sam. Massacres in New Zealand vs those in Nigeria Media Gorges Itself on Hatred While Ignoring Atrocities Dear Democrats – You are not Qualified to Arbitrate Our Needs "More than 15 journalists, several U.S. government officials and multiple lawmakers were shown or given the Steele dossier during the 2016 presidential campaign or shortly after. Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele disseminated the dossier far and wide in an apparent attempt to insert the document’s salacious allegations into the media. Newly unsealed court filings show how widespread this effort was." What Trump does not do...and it's fantastic The Palis: Jason Greenblatt sets the record straight: Pay-to-slay is not welfare Monday, March 18. 2019Monday morning links
Photo from California's Desert Bloom Former Transgender Teens Speak Out I completed my son's college applications just to learn he didn't want to go to college Ben Shapiro: The real reason I was attacked on college campuses Courts ruling on side of students accused of sexual assault. Here's why Windmills: Green, Carbon-Neutral, Eco-Friendly? My Ass! Reviewing The Scandal of College Admissions The Bogus Lawsuit against Remington Man Falsely Accused Of Sexual Assault Awarded $1.8 Million In Damages CONNECTICUT SUPREME COURT MAKES WAR ON CIVIL RIGHTS From Brexit to Trump, Elite Contempt Shines Through Via Insty:
Jewish Voters Are Furious At Dems’ Defense Of Ilhan Omar Illegal aliens rescued from freezing, snowy mountain by Arizona Border Patrol Want to see how the illegal immigrant 'conveyor belt' works? Two Democrats Who Lost Their Elections Are STILL Not Conceding New Information Ties the Phony Anti-Trump-Russia Dossier to DNC Billionaire and Far Left Donor George Soros Brexit’s in trouble because Britain’s political class never wanted it Not So Jewish, Not For Peace - How Jewish Voice for Peace falsifies Judaism and glorifies terrorism. 7 reporters held, ‘brutally beaten’ by Hamas for covering Gaza protests Sunday, March 17. 2019Misc.- My weekly Sunday before-church "cardio" workout: 10 min elliptical raising resistance every 60 seconds. 10 minutes Stairmaster, raising speed every 60 seconds, final minute slow. 45 minutes treadmill, rotating 2 min slow walk, 2 min high incline fast walk (10-12% incline), 2 min slow walk, 2 min 4 mph jog, 2 min slow walk, 2 min 7 mph run. Rinse and repeat. - Watch that renewable energy talk we posted yesterday. I mostly agree with the guy, but I am not worried about "climate". Not one bit. I am a conservationist, not a climate wacko. Their priorities are screwed up. - With snow cover mostly gone (for the moment, at least) a good chance for outdoor clean-up. Also, try to repair fence the damn fallen tree crushed in an ice storm a couple of weeks ago. A good day for real work, which is what we try to stay in shape for. I'll keep an eye out for our local breeding Bald Eagles overhead. Love seeing them hunting my rabbits and, I hope, the neighbors' cats. - Recommended movies, etc from all around: “The Sisters Brothers” Is Not Your Average Western A friend recommends Pachinko And there is this: Boomer Ballads: Visions Of Johanna (perfection, beauty. Thanks for that masterpiece, Bob, because it enriched my life) Finally, to make today complete, Van Morrison with The Chieftains. Cry if you must. Sheesh, I am not even Irish but there is so much soulful beauty in this world - The world is so cold, don't care nothing for your soul...:
From today's LectionaryPhilippians 3:17-4:1 3:17 Brothers and sisters, join in imitating me, and observe those who live according to the example you have in us. 3:18 For many live as enemies of the cross of Christ; I have often told you of them, and now I tell you even with tears. 3:19 Their end is destruction; their god is the belly; and their glory is in their shame; their minds are set on earthly things. 3:20 But our citizenship is in heaven, and it is from there that we are expecting a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. 3:21 He will transform the body of our humiliation that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, by the power that also enables him to make all things subject to himself. 4:1 Therefore, my brothers and sisters, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved. Saturday, March 16. 2019Saturday morning links
Harvard University uncovers DNA switch that controls genes for whole-body regeneration Might someday be useful after a heavy weights day. Like today. Fisherman charged with fraud for cheating at bass tournament It's not just the rich who cheat Of the Termites’ Today and the Mayans’ Yesterdays Piece Found At Ethiopian Airlines Crash Site Shows Jet Was Set To Dive. A screw-like device found in the wreckage of the Boeing 737 Max that crashed last Sunday in Ethiopia indicates the plane was configured to dive. Sheesh. US Job Opening Soar To All Time High: 1.3 Million More Than Unemployed Workers Work for all Jim Geraghty via Powerline: CHELSEA CLINTON APOLOGIZES TO STUDENTS WHO BLAME HER FOR NZ ATTACK Trump issues first veto, warning of 'reckless' resolution That was the plan all along Christopher Steele admitted using posts by ´random individuals´ on CNN website to back up Trump dossier Court files reveal role of McCain, associate in spreading anti-Trump dossier The New York Times’ Walter Duranty wrote, “It is unthinkable that Stalin… and the Court Martial could have sentenced their friends to death unless the proofs of guilt were overwhelming.” Nicaragua in Hell EU: Telling Europeans What To Think Friday, March 15. 2019Age-Activated Attention Deficit Disorder
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Friday morning linksWiped out: Town flushes final roll of 12-year toilet paper supply Survey reveals what’s at the top of men and women’s ‘sex bucket list’ Facebook’s Crisis Management Algorithm Runs on Outrage The Secrets of the World's Greatest Art Thief Amid Dropping Sales, Dick’s Doubles Down On Ditching Guns Horrifying: Trans-Enthusiastic Parents Gush About Their Two-Year-Olds Communicating Their Desire to Transition to the Opposite Sex Through... Sign Language British Male Rapper Mocks Trans Sports Issue – Identifies as Woman at Gym and Breaks Female Weightlift Record Greenpeace Founding Member: 'The Whole Climate Crisis Is Not Only Fake News, It's Fake Science' Bummer: ‘Climate Change’ Will Make Walks In The Woods Much Rarer Or Something Pelosi Advocates For Lowering Voting Age To 16 “To Capture Kids When They’re In High School” CAUGHT ON VIDEO: Illegals STORM ACROSS US BORDER — RUN Right Past Border Patrol — 12 GOP Senators Voted Today to Support Open Borders
" In reality, socialists simply don’t trust people to make the right decisions. They really don’t have confidence in what they consider the unwashed masses. If they did, they would be capitalists." John McCain aide spread Steele dossier around Washington during Trump´s presidential transition DOJ reached agreement with Clinton lawyers to block FBI access to Clinton Foundation emails, Strzok says The damning proof of innocence that FBI likely withheld in Russian probe Steyn: Exit Brexit On Point: Sanctions and New Military Tech Threaten North Korea's Nuclear Threat
Thursday, March 14. 2019Logical flaws of progressive ideologyPhysicists reverse time using quantum computer
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Thursday morning linksMan Gives Up All Food And Drink For Lent…Except For Beer Related, The People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day - “Variety doesn’t really matter to me. I would be perfectly happy to eat the same Caesar salad or peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich every day.” Killer French farm chickens gang-up to kill fox that sneaked into henhouse From FOX News, natch The French Genocide That Has Been Air-Brushed From History I Worked In College Admissions And Had To Admit A Bunch Of Mediocre Rich Kids That's one of the jobs of the elite schools - to civilize the ruling class SARAH LAWRENCE STUDENTS DEMAND FREE FABRIC SOFTENER TO COMBAT RACISM Along with the brain-softener? Students 'demand' review of conservative prof's tenure. College pres reminds them who's in charge. Making America's Kids Smarter - It's So Easy Brit Hume shows why Nancy Pelosi’s defense of Ilhan Omar was a TOTAL fail Migrants Using Nearly 2X the Welfare of Native-Born Americans Duh. It's free. Historically, not so cushy for immigrants - just ask anybody in the US with Irish blood. $2M in Soros, Feinstein-Linked Dark Money Connects to Trump Dossier Creators Group gave $2 million to Fusion GPS-connected Democracy Integrity Project
" Happily, and despite heated mealtime lectures on the evils of white men, Ms van der Zee’s children seem surprisingly well-adjusted..." They quit listening long ago New York AG Launches Fishing Expedition Into Trump Org Finances Of course New York Attorney General Follows Through on Threat – Opens Investigation of Trump Projects, Including Failed Bid For Buffalo Bills
Suddenly, The Democrats Are Making Trump Look Mainstream Trump is a pragmatic centrist. The only conservative thing about him is picking judges. Trump-speak: love it or hate it Good for many giggles, from Russian emigre George Bardmesser: Every Time Democrats Talk, I Want To Vote For Trump Twice US religious freedom ambassador dismisses pope’s China accord, blasts communist assault on Catholics
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