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Wednesday, August 28. 2019Life in America: Cut my driving time by an hour to the family getaway, etc.
Photo: Our porch. No screens, no bugs. Just a constant cool sea breeze. Cut my driving time to our place on Cape Cod by an hour with my new fun car. A sporty but not excessive 280 hp with turbo, but I've never had a car that could cruise comfortably in the left lane at 85- 90 mph or which wants you to accelerate into corners and curves instead of braking. I have been cheap/practical with vehicles all of my life until now. This car has the tightest steering I could imagine, and zero roll on curves. Sheesh, kinda fun, a bit of adrenaline. Only thing I could figger out on the sound system thus far was the Sirius Grateful Dead station. That is something ok for driving. Never a big Dead fan but I got the gist of it. Still not a big fan, but I sort-of appreciate their relaxed stoner approach. No CD players in new cars, which is a great annoyance. A few thoughts about Wellfleet, on Cape Cod, below the fold.
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Photo: View from our porch Vermont will pay you $10K to move there: Here is how many spots are left The Problem With MRIs for Low Back Pain A book by Stephen Meyer: Darwin's Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design Stanford pushes separate physics course for minority students For Students Who Grew Up Poor, An Elite Campus Can Seem Like a Sea of Wealth and Snobbery Study finds more than half of colleges ‘facially violate’ Title IX with women-only scholarships NOAA Data: No Warming in USA Since at Least 2005 New Report: Electric Cars Have ‘Higher CO2 Emissions’ THE GREAT AMAZON FIRE FRAUD While Celebrities Pass Off Fake Pictures Of Burning Amazon, Here's What The Raging Fires Actually Look Like No, ‘the lungs of the world’ are not burning up heralding climate doom The New York Times’ latest hysterical, hypocritical panic David Koch’s Philanthropic Legacy - Sneers about the life and death of a libertarian donor will not erase his good works. Leftists Are Extremely Upset About MTV’s VMA Host Making Jokes About People Who Get Upset About Jokes Sorry, Bernie: America's Poorest Are Richer Than 60 Percent of Developed Countries Panel Appointed by Bill Di Blasio Concludes That New York City's Gifted and Talented Magnet School System Must Be Eradicated, In Order to Desegregate Schools Obama slams selfish greedy rich people from his new $15 million Martha’s Vineyard estate Obama Blows $15 Million on Mansion Doomed by Rising Tides He Failed to Slow Beto O’Rourke: Abortion The Day Before Birth A ‘Decision For The Woman To Make’ Bill Dudley Shocker: Ex-NY Fed President Urges Fed's Powell To Prevent Trump Re-election TRUMP, AGAIN, IS CORRECT: Get Greenland Before China Does Greenland – live and learn Trump is right to confront China, reversing Obama’s policy of weakness and appeasement In 2019, Bombings And Explosions Up 45% In Sweden Israeli jets strike in Syria to thwart attack by Iranian ‘killer drones’ Tuesday, August 27. 2019Tuesday morning linksVacation guilt? "Seems like this advice, which will provide essentially no meaningful benefits to the world, is designed to achieve an exquisite balance..." Best Digital Piano With Weighted Keys For 2019 Reviews 6 Google Tricks That Will Turn You Into an Internet Detective. Even if you’re already a Google pro, these tricks will get you to your desired results even faster. The Driverless-Car Pile-Up In Defense of the Chicago Principles - They have become a gold standard among institutions that wish to show their commitment to American higher education's core principle of freedom of expression, argues Michael Poliakoff. Before moving on from this business of July 2019 supposedly being the “hottest month ever,” I want to pause to take note of some follow-on propaganda fresh out of the Washington Post. .. The Beginning of the End of the Outrage Mob - The Times turns against the crowd. Adams has the term "outrage theater" The New York Times' Wrongheaded Anti-Racism Agenda How U.S. Foreign Student and Exchange Visitor Policies Undercut National Security Bill Barr’s Test – U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu Punts McCabe Indictment Decision Back to Main Justice… “IN MANY CASES, RENT CONTROL APPEARS TO BE THE MOST EFFICIENT TECHNIQUE PRESENTLY KNOWN TO DESTROY A CITY — EXCEPT FOR BOMBING” Yet Another Court Rules That Obama’s “Waters Of The U.S.” Rule Is Unlawful PEWSLAG: The 7 Deadly Sins of Progressivism Psychiatrist Claims Trump Greatest Mass Killer Ever LINDA SARSOUR RESPONDS–STILL LYING Beauty Queen That Made China ‘Run Away’ Says Many Chinese Live in Culture of Fear, Risk Persecution China’s Spies Are on the Offensive - China’s spies are waging an intensifying espionage offensive against the United States. Does America have what it takes to stop them? Trump Isolates China by Making Deals with the Rest of the World Monday, August 26. 2019Every silver lining's got a touch of greyA handful of Monday afternoon linksWith thanks to Roger for filling in this past week. I love his contributions. Gillette ‘Shifting Spotlight from Social Issues’ After Anti-Masculinity Ad Disaster Are Your Sexual Preferences Transphobic? 'I'm Radioactive' - Journalist Jonathan Kaiman is one of the least famous, least powerful men to be brought down by the #MeToo movement. A year later, the fallout continues. A sad, sad story Hockey Stick Broken! “Scientist” Michael Mann Loses in Court, Forced to Pay Court Costs — Global Warming Hoax Hit Hardest Pro-Hillary Academic Claims Google Manipulated Millions of Votes for Hillary in 2016 Decades of Intensifying Left-Wing Influence on High School Students NYT and Democrat Bolsheviks echo Farrakhan: White people are devils WHAT EXACTLY DOES THE WEST OWE TO MUSLIM MIGRANTS? For the British political and media elites, the answer is “everything." Trump’s Greenland New Deal Background checks for gun buyers are good policy, good politics for Trump Morning links will be delayed today
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Sunday, August 25. 2019My Umbria photo dump #7, with a little more tasty food, reposted from 2012Some things I didn't find a way to fit into my prior posts. Glad some readers have enjoyed the posts. (For those who might be interested, I have created a Travelogue and Travel Ideas category which can be linked on the left column. Haven't had time to go back and re-categorize older trips to that category, yet.)
View from the garden wall at our Abazzia-hotel: More below the fold - Continue reading "My Umbria photo dump #7, with a little more tasty food, reposted from 2012" From a swamp-loverI am a swamp-lover too - swamps, marshes, ponds, vernal pools, etc - places full of life. The Swamp Lover - An excerpt from Thoreau’s May 1862 article “Walking” From today's LectionaryPsalm 103:1-8 103:1 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name. 103:2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and do not forget all his benefits-- 103:3 who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, 103:4 who redeems your life from the Pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, 103:5 who satisfies you with good as long as you live so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. 103:6 The LORD works vindication and justice for all who are oppressed. 103:7 He made known his ways to Moses, his acts to the people of Israel. 103:8 The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. Saturday, August 24. 2019As good as it gets
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Thursday, August 22. 2019These are the days of the endless summer, the time is nowWednesday, August 21. 2019Elvis' first recordingA popular late-summer vegetable dish around hereSimple as pie. Roughly chop up a few cloves of garlic. Roughly chop up an onion. Throw them in a big pan with plenty of olive oil for a few minutes on medium heat. Chop up an eggplant into about 1" square chunks - skin on. Also, a couple of zucchinis and yellow summer squashes to about 1" chunks. Before the garlic and onions brown, throw in the vegetable chunks with a cup of water, stir it up a little, throw in some salt and plenty of ground pepper, and cover the pot. No tomato - it messes up the subtle flavors. Then get some sprigs of thyme, oregano, and basil from the garden and throw them on top, and let it slow simmer and steam on low medium for a while, covered. Gently stir it around a little. As soon as the veggies begin turn soft but before they fall apart, take off the stove. Throw a handful of fresh-chopped parsley on top before serving. Even vegophobes like it. A beautiful worldThe life portrayed at Salt Water New England usually looks too perfect to be real. She hangs out in the nicest places.
Tuesday, August 20. 2019The Train (1964) trailer
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Monday, August 19. 2019Blue-State Smokin'At this very moment. Chunks of Black Cherry wood from the woodpile, with a pot of water in there. Short and regular pork ribs rubbed with brown sugar, various ground peppers, dried mustard and Kosher salt. Also a pork butt or two. Let me know whether the smell of the smoke comes through your computer screen. It smells good. If you cannot smell it, maybe your computer's smoke-blocker blocks it. How do you do this enjoyable task?
Sunday, August 18. 2019Best driving music?From today's LectionaryLuke 12:49-56 12:49 "I came to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! 12:50 I have a baptism with which to be baptized, and what stress I am under until it is completed! 12:51 Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division! 12:52 From now on five in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three; 12:53 they will be divided: father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law." 12:54 He also said to the crowds, "When you see a cloud rising in the west, you immediately say, 'It is going to rain'; and so it happens. 12:55 And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, 'There will be scorching heat'; and it happens. 12:56 You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time? Could be Mrs. and Mrs. BDSaturday, August 17. 2019American life: Gone swimming with the sharksHeading to Cape Cod (Wellfleet) soon for family reunion week and my birthday party (25 of us, plus with some of our high-energy outdoorsy pals joining us). We do indeed take over the village when we are out there. Roger de Hauteville, that illustrious Norman King of Sicily, will provide the morning entertainment here. Bless his Viking heart. Our plans are dawn runs, morning calisthenics or Yoga, kayaking, hiking, body surfing, jumping in the pond loop, and some baseball and tennis. And lots of seafood and beer. Sitting on beaches is not our thing, but we have a big porch overlooking the harbor. No TV, no wifi. Good Boston classical music radio though. Best thing of all - getting salty and sunny and perfumed by the piney woods - and no bugs. Plus we have an outdoor shower. I will not tolerate an indoor shower on Cape Cod. Just feels good to shower in the sunshine. Speaking of seafood, maybe my favorite Cape Cod seafood is steamed Steamers. Drinking the broth might be the best part. As much as I love mussels, or a raw bar with Wellfleet oysters, I can never tire of Steamers. They are fun to harvest too, if you don't mind lots of mud. Cold Teas: Sweet Tea and Sun Tea
In the southern USA, "tea" means Sweet Tea. People usually make a couple of quarts at a time. Delicious. I have been a fan of Sun Tea since I first had it in Montana. It's usually made a gallon jar at a time. Keep the top on or ants will come, and keep in direct sunlight for 5-6 hours. Saturday morning links15 Stats That Show Americans Are Drowning in 'Stuff' My Time in the University Gulag Here’s why my fellow millennials are seduced by socialism How Socialism Permeated City Council. These aren’t your grandma’s Cold War–era pols. Inside Chicago’s far-far-left political wavelet. CORY BOOKER BLAMES RACISM, NOT HIS OWN CORRUPT AGENCY, FOR LEAD WATER Yes, Immigrants Should Be Less Dependent On U.S. Welfare, And So Should Everyone Else Tlaib Bumbles Into Revealing Her Undeniable Priority: Bigoted Anti-Israel Propaganda Admitting Fake News
Friday, August 16. 2019Had to change their hiking plansFrom friends vacationing in Colorado, a pic from the Rocky Mountain National Arsenal Wildlife Refuge.
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Late Friday morning linksFirst Time Nudist? Here Are 7 Signs You’re Ready to Visit a Nude Resort No thanks, too shy Navy SEAL will start at Yale this fall as a 52-year-old undergrad NY University Gender Studies Department Publishes Paper Saying Milking Cows Is Like Sexual Abuse Not written by dairy farmers The Green New Deal Leads To Communism In Seattle Men who recycle more likely to have their sexuality questioned HURRICANES? GET SERIOUS Why not offer to buy Greenland? Don't tell the Danes, but it will be palm trees and golf courses any day now More Daycare Spots Will Stop the Shootings! Ben Shapiro: It's a 'you problem' if you 'had to work more than one job' Dear Catherine Rampell, the Former Soviet Union Had Many 'Experts' Too Vanderleun: Rant0matic #5: Dennis Prager Speaks for me, “These are not good people.” Jessica Anderson: What do women want from political candidates? Surprising answers could get Trump reelected DEMOCRACY DIES IN GLOBAL GOVERNANCE Duh In Government Property We Trust - To help reduce pension debt, Connecticut eyes privatizing publicly owned assets. The Myth of the ‘Underage Woman’ - One more shameful truth Jeffrey Epstein symbolized: a culture that continues to write girls out of its stories Dalrymple: Thoughts on the Death of Jeffrey Epstein. It’s not implausible that a man facing life in prison would find the means to kill himself. When Gorbachov learned an economics lesson FOIA DOCUMENT Shows FBI Agreed to Cover Up and Ignore All Hillary Crimes in Its 2016 Investigation! New evidence shows why Steele, the Ohrs and TSA workers never should have become DOJ sources Collusion Killing Free Speech In Canada Israeli Decision on Omar and Tlaib Inflames Politics in Two Countries Israel Has Every Right To Block Rashida Tlaib And Ilhan Omar - Not even we believe people are entitled to visit simply because they demand it. Had a server hiccup
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