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Sunday, September 16. 2018Cape Cod sharksFrom today's LectionaryPsalm 116:1-9 116:1 I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my supplications. 116:2 Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live. 116:3 The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish. 116:4 Then I called on the name of the LORD: "O LORD, I pray, save my life!" 116:5 Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; our God is merciful. 116:6 The LORD protects the simple; when I was brought low, he saved me. 116:7 Return, O my soul, to your rest, for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you. 116:8 For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling. 116:9 I walk before the LORD in the land of the living. Saturday, September 15. 2018The Hunt for Red October
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Saturday morning linksImage via THE WEEK IN PICTURES: HURRICANE TRUMP EDITION "Have I got a college for you. For your first two years, your regimen includes ancient Greek. And I do mean Greek, the language..." Why We Stereotype The Alarming Findings of a New Study on Transgender Teens and Suicide Nothing to do with trans-whatever. Just generally very screwed-up people Florence Brings A Deadly Hotcoldwetdry Message Or Something Hilarious video shows journalist ´bravely´reporting on Hurricane Florence-until two men in shorts casually stroll past Hurricane Florence: I rode out the storm – this is what it was like when 90 mph winds were above my house ‘The System’s Not Working’ Is Liberal Speak For ‘We’re Not Getting What We Want’ Strzok Wanted To Hunt Down Trump Ties Using FBI "Steele Dossier" Report Leaked To CNN The Dalai Lama: Europe Belongs to Europeans, Refugees Should Return Home to Build Their Own Countries China Cracking Down On Christians, Destroying Crosses, Burning Bibles, Forcing People To Renounce Faith Saturday Verse by Anon.Gypsies in the Wood My mother said that I never should I went to the sea - no ship to get across; Friday, September 14. 2018A very cool hiking adventure
It is unique. I know Bulldog will love this. Once committed, there is no backing out. Best to leave your daypack at the beginning and pick it up later. Nobody steals there. These people enter the labyrinth at the 1:30 minute mark.
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Friday morning linksHiking With Kids Age 4 and 6 (and Some Llamas) Along the Continental Divide Are beards racist? A short history of beards in the West Animals killing hikers Heat Analysis of NOAA Data Suggests the US Is Not Seeing Increased Warming FEMA May Not be Prepared for Hurricane Florence, but Waffle House Is - The "Waffle House Index" shows some differences between the private and public sector when it comes to emergency preparedness. Simple questions for millennials A SCIENTIST FOR A SCIENTIFIC POST? THE HORROR! Kimball: The Intoxicating Effects of Socialist Benevolence Once Hillary's & Fusion GPS' Russia Hoax Storyline Has Run Its Course, We'll Just Segue Into Their Plan B Hoax About Trump's "Money-Laundering" When Government Is Everything, Everything Is Crazy A TIMELINE OF TREASON: How the DNC and FBI Leadership Tried to Fix a Presidential Election [Updated] IT’S OFFICIAL: GOOGLE IS A DEMOCRATIC PARTY FRONT Google Responds To Leaked Video As Damning History Of Bias Haunts Company; Parscale Calls For Investigation Democrats hit a new low in their crusade against Kavanaugh What Trump hath wrought - Thanks to Trump, the Republicans are facing a grim electoral landscape Unforced errors and a chaotic vibe can overshadow all the good he has been doing Incomes Up, Poverty Down in 2017 - Census Bureau reports on latest data on America’s economic wellbeing Thursday, September 13. 2018Making of "The Hunt for Red October" - Behind the ScenesIt's one of the great movies - re-watchable.
Thursday morning linksHow C.S. Lewis Predicted the PC War on Literature Woman who wrote 'How to Murder Your Husband' arrested for allegedly murdering her husband Dems Work Overtime to Politicize Florence, Blame Trump Washington Post: President Trump Responsible For Hurricanes! Big storm downgraded Give Trump credit for that. He yelled at Florence UN Chief Warns: Less Than 2 Years to Avoid 'Runaway Climate Change' ‘Social Justice’ Teaching Invades Business Schools Transgender Man Sexually Assaults Female Inmates Illegal Immigrants Give California Up to Five Extra Congressional Seats Steyn on Diversity State Dept. Email: Bob Woodward — Who Just Published Anti-Trump Book — Has Been FBI Asset Since 1970s Report: THIRTEEN Different Deep State FBI Agents Fed Information to ONE LIBERAL REPORTER The FBI and DOJ Praetorian Guard – The Beginning of the End Trump Derangement Syndrome Reaching Epidemic Levels as We Head Toward Midterms Besides his personality, it's not clear what the issues are Wednesday, September 12. 2018Wednesday morning linksDo you look like your dog? Canine-human lookalikes in pictures ‘Worst-case scenario’ hurricane simulation alarmingly similar to Florence forecast Don't Be Fooled, There Was Nothing 'Financial' About the 2008 Crisis California Regulates Barber And Tattoo Shops Out Of Business The Paris Climate Accord, Unravelling Mike Rowe's Epic Response To Nike's Kaepernick Campaign Hits Home On 9/11 LUXURY SOCIALISM AND THE END OF THE WORKING LEFT - Who needs necessities, when the government can give you luxuries? Joe Scarborough Owes the President - and the Country - an Apology It’s Not Just CNN’s Poll. All Polling Shows Trump’s Approval Rating Dropping. Presidential Chaos Real 'Collusion' — Deep State's Failed Effort To Elect Hillary Clinton Unravels The Afghanistan War at 17 Tuesday, September 11. 2018Tuesday morning links
Maine photo from Salt Water New England, where everything is always perfectly charming Why Was Disco Ever Popular? Blame Fake News. Did The Village Voice Help Ruin Journalism? Advocacy reporting, once revolutionary and corrective, increasingly supplants the documentation of facts. Harvard Prof: Merit-based admissions 'reproduce inequality' The Academic Left’s Emerging War On Scientific Study Closing Argument on Farm Bill: Work Requirements in SNAP Will Reduce Poverty DRAIN THE SWAMP: EPA SHED 1,200 JOBS IN TRUMP’S FIRST YEAR AND A HALF 100 Bangladeshi Nationals Apprehended near Texas Border in 3 Weeks When censorship is crowdsourced:
Tucker Carlson Reveals Explosive Email from Google Exec on How Company Actively Assisted Hillary in 2016 Trump Should Be a Better Boss BOLTON TO ICC: BABY, DON’T YOU DO IT Trump’s New Attempt to Push Palestinians to Negotiate With Israel. The administration has closed the PLO office in Washington, citing a lack of progress in the peace process. Monday, September 10. 2018Monday morning links
All about Panama Hats Serena Williams battles umpire, loses US Open final in stunning upset "As a 19-year-old, her former professor concludes, Melania clearly had ambition to match her intelligence." ABOUT THOSE “VANISHING” FORESTS. . . The Higher Education Bubble Is Bursting — And That´s A Good Thing “If you’re going to take a knee this season, please have a ring in your hand!” Steyn on The Space Age The Cory Booker you see has always been an imaginary creation Mr. Rosenstein, What Is the Crime? Rough Beasts Slouching toward the White House Now We Know: “The Resistance” Is The Establishment How Donald Trump dismantled the New Class, The President has created a Republican Workers Party Sunday, September 9. 2018Sam the BuglerRoger Angell, still writingAngell is the guy who helped me see the beauty of baseball. From The New Yorker, 2014: "I’m ninety-three, and I’m feeling great. Well, pretty great, unless I’ve forgotten to take a couple of Tylenols in the past four or five hours, in which case I’ve begun to feel some jagged little pains shooting down my left forearm and into the base of the thumb. Shingles, in 1996, with resultant nerve damage..." The thing about the (past) New Yorker writers is that they were so engaging stylistically that you would read any long form article even if you had no interest in the topic - like golf course design. That's the sign of a real writer. "Has-been"A highly-successful older pal and fellow parishioner who retired this summer (in his 80s) told me he asked our retiring pastor this week whether he could give him any advice on how to cope with being a "has-been." Pastor replied "I was going to ask you that." From today's Lectionary: Faith and WorksJames 2:1-10, (11-13), 14-17 2:1 My brothers and sisters, do you with your acts of favoritism really believe in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ? 2:2 For if a person with gold rings and in fine clothes comes into your assembly, and if a poor person in dirty clothes also comes in, 2:3 and if you take notice of the one wearing the fine clothes and say, "Have a seat here, please," while to the one who is poor you say, "Stand there," or, "Sit at my feet," 2:4 have you not made distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts? 2:5 Listen, my beloved brothers and sisters. Has not God chosen the poor in the world to be rich in faith and to be heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him? 2:6 But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you? Is it not they who drag you into court 2:7 Is it not they who blaspheme the excellent name that was invoked over you? 2:8 You do well if you really fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." 2:9 But if you show partiality, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. 2:10 For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it. 2:11 For the one who said, "You shall not commit adultery," also said, "You shall not murder." Now if you do not commit adultery but if you murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. 2:12 So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty. 2:13 For judgment will be without mercy to anyone who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment. 2:14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but do not have works? Can faith save you? 2:15 If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, 2:16 and one of you says to them, "Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill," and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that? 2:17 So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead. Saturday, September 8. 2018DeclutteringIn addition to house-wide de-cluttering, I am facing a de-cluttering of my daily work space. It is on the order of The Management. Some urgency to it too, cuz the place is being re painted. In one cabinet I went through, far more ammo than I knew I had. I had no idea how much I had accumulated in there, including all game loads, plus steel loads, Bismuth loads, and Tungsten loads. 12 ga, 20 ga. Just no 16 ga, which I have come to like the best since inheriting my grandpa's 16 ga. I only like 20 ga for grouse and woodcock, and you do not need much ammo for that game because they are so difficult to find. I have too many firearms too. I love to play with firearms and to shoot birds, ducks, and geese, but I found that I have more than I can ever use. Only so many Saturdays left and, as I say, retirement is not in my playbook. I would do the night shift in a minimart rather than be useless. Saturday morning linksPhysician Solves Mystery of Mona Lisa's Smile While Waiting in Louvre Line Good review of the week at Betsy The Hijacking of College Writing Classes Linda Sarsour: Humanizing Israelis is a Problem Stefanowski: Connecticut's income tax is killing its economy — that's why I want to get rid of it Cynthia Nixon on How to Finance Single-Payer Healthcare 6.3%: African-American Unemployment Rate Second-Lowest Ever Trump Economy Surpasses Predictions For Job Creation In August Krugman: Kavanaugh will kill the Constitution Internal Trump Resistance: ‘We See Ourselves As Rebels’ The Anti-Democratic Implications Of An Inner Circle Run Amok Theater of the Absurd Has Taken Over the Senate That Was Embarrassing! Kamala Harris Grills Judge Kavanaugh for 7 Minutes About Mueller Only to Find Out He Worked with Mueller A marred confirmation hearing that has embarrassed us all The "Trump is insane" strategy It's Africa's Choice: AFRICOM Or 'The New Silk Roads Marxism Is Consuming My Beloved Africa WASHINGTON POST'S HYSTERIA OVER THE END TO AMERICA'S UNRWA FUNDING Friday, September 7. 2018HvarHvar, Croatia. Our friends only stayed in Air B&Bs in Slovenia and Croatia. Said they were treated like royalty. Their hosts even picked them up at train, ferry, and airports. No extra charge. They were eager for good reports on Air B&B.
Gilder on life after GoogleWe rarely link postcasts, but this one is worth it. (h/t. reader)
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Doctor burnout said to be due to Obamacare paperwork requirements Voluntary Human Extinction Movement Gathers Steam How Colleges Are Ripping Off a Generation of Ill-Prepared Students It's No Joke: Students Can Minor in Marijuana At Stockton University Over Half Of America Suffering Drought As Lake Powell, Lake Mead Drop To "Dangerous" Low Levels Too many people living in deserts. Desalinization is only solution. Pipelines! Layoffs Just Reached a Half-Century Low - With too-few candidates, businesses hold tight to workers Democrats' visions of hand signals from white supremacists Is a Tea Party of the Left brewing inside the Democratic Party?
Thursday, September 6. 2018On Deleting Your Social Media AccountsThursday morning linksThe Five Most Overrated Beers My Eight-Year-Old Daughter Walked Her Dog Alone. Then Police Came Knocking On My Door What are the appropriate ages for things? " My nephew tried to school me on cultural appropriation. It didn’t end well” Fisking Chuck Todd’s “It’s All Roger Ailes! He Made The Public Distrust The Media” Article “A fossil-free future”… Real words from a real social justice warrior and author of The Parents’ Guide to Climate Revolution Cleaning out cabinets for painters and found my old fossil collection. I will not have a fossil-free future. I love looking at fossils and hope to become an old fossil myself someday A Facebook Engineer’s Plea for Political Diversity Why Technology Favors Tyranny - Artificial intelligence could erase many practical advantages of democracy, and erode the ideals of liberty and equality. It will further concentrate power among a small elite if we don’t take steps to stop it. The Prophet of Google's Doom TEXAS DOCTORS at Kavanaugh Hearing Say They Saw Liberal Protesters Paid “With a Literal Bag of Cash” (VIDEO and PHOTO) Fine writing by Althouse re Kavanugh's talk with Diane Feinstein:
THE DEMOCRATS ARE CRAZY The case that Trump is crazy EU Enters "Final Stage" Of Crafting Bill Forcing Big Tech Censorship Wednesday, September 5. 2018Wednesday morning linksDear Therapist: I Want a Second Kid. My Husband Doesn't. How should we decide how many children is right for our family? Is Catholic Church leadership deflecting instead of genuflecting? SF Court: Cities can't prosecute people for sleeping on streets Is There Any Real Slum In New York Any More? Nike Boycott: Just Do It Democratic socialists launch 'College for All' campaign Former Democrat Aide Chuck Todd: Media Bias Does Not Exist, And It's Time to Take the War to These Lying Racist Conservative Sonsabitches Democrats, Eyeing A Majority, Prepare An Investigative Onslaught Bob Woodward's book says Trump unfit for office, with many examples Rush: What Dark Secret Lurks Behind the Deep State Cabal Against Trump? World thinks it is entitled to America's money SloveniaFriend just back from trip to Slovenia and Croatia (and a bit of Istanbul). This is Lake Bled. I'll post some more of their pics later.
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