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Monday, July 1. 2019Monday morning linksA MeToo Mob Tried to Destroy My Life as a Poet. This Is How I Survived Sad story, sad life Forget the haters: High Line is the best thing to happen to NYC ‘Climate Change’ Is Scaring The Kids And Here’s How To Talk To Them Or Something Hate Crime Hoax: The Book All stories must fit The Narrative Rapinoe Asked At Presser What Exactly She's Protesting Just a hater Relatives say father and daughter in that heartbreaking photo were not fleeing from violence in El Salvador, via the NY Times Salon: Trump remains dominant among white voters — Democrats can't afford to be complacent - Trump retains a built-in electoral advantage, and it's no good denying that. Are the Democrats ready to fight? ‘Trying To Out-Left Each Other’: CNN Panel Goes Off The Rails In Debate Recap Kamala Harris takes on the ‘demolition woman’ role, clearing the Democrats’ field of rivals How do you know you are no longer a Democrat? Democrats have an election truther problem What is Russian President Vladimir Putin’s net worth? NSA Caught Illegally Collecting Americans' Phone Data...Again EU moving away from democratic structure German empire is all it is Sunday, June 30. 2019From today's Lectionary: Let us be guided by the Holy SpiritGalatians 5:1, 13-25 5:1 For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. 5:13 For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence, but through love become slaves to one another. 5:14 For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." 5:15 If, however, you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another. 5:16 Live by the Spirit, I say, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh. 5:17 For what the flesh desires is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit desires is opposed to the flesh; for these are opposed to each other, to prevent you from doing what you want. 5:18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not subject to the law. 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious: fornication, impurity, licentiousness, 5:20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, anger, quarrels, dissensions, factions, 5:21 envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I am warning you, as I warned you before: those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 5:22 By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, 5:23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things. 5:24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 5:25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also be guided by the Spirit. Saturday, June 29. 2019A free ad for Mohonk
This is Mohonk's 150th Anniversary. Still owned by the Quaker Smiley family, and still on Conde Nast's list of 100 best hotels in the world. Not sure I would agree with the latter (it is rustic and a bit stuffy), but it's a unique place with thousands of acres with hills, cliff, farmland, mountain lakes, etc. Great hiking trails, and challenging bouldering not to mention rock climbing. I've been going there since I was a little kid, first did the Labyrinth when I was 12. Our hiking team is doing an Uncle Bob Memorial Hike up there this week, with a late lunch at their cookout place (there were no more reservations for brunch at the inn). I will focus on bouldering routes, but I have alternates for those who are uneasy scrambling big rocks.
Saturday morning linksThe Power of One Push-Up - Several simple ways of measuring a person’s health might matter more than body weight Tampons for men: Numerous schools have installed menstrual products in men’s restrooms Down With Yoga, Up With Baseball Dalrymple on denial of personal agency Jimmy Carter Says Trump Is an Illegitimate President Put in Office by Russia NYT Editor Made A Graph Showing The Democrats Pivoted Far-Left. He Used It To Call Republicans Far-Right MSDNC – THE MERGER OF MSNBC AND THE DEMOCRATS - What real State TV looks like. Byron York: In debates, Democrats move toward open borders Say Goodbye to Texas Want to Reduce Your Intelligence? Watch a Spectacle Commonly Called a Political “Debate” Via ZH:
What Trump Really Just Told The Iranians: He’s Out Of Ideas What Kind of State Is Vladimir Putin Building? Would be a nice place to be todayFriday, June 28. 2019Friday morning linksPlants couldn’t run away from Chernobyl—but that’s what saved them. Why plants don't get cancer. Giant Goldfish Shows Why You Should Never Flush Fish Down the Toilet " Why is Harvard discriminating against Asian Americans? 'Diversity' is no excuse for racial bias. We've decided that doling out opportunity on the basis of race is wrong. Even when it changes an institution's 'character.' Even when Harvard does it." When the Government Says You're Fake News - Countries across the world tackle political misinformation with authoritarian censorship. Photos Reveal AOC Was Crying Over an Empty Parking Lot 20 Times Breitbart Reported on Migrant Deaths During Obama-Biden Years and No One Cared It’s Not A Bribe When You Use Other People’s Money The Border as an ‘Attractive Nuisance’ African Migrants From Ebola-Stricken Congo Illegally Cross Into Mexico From Guatemala on Rafts Dalai Lama Goes After Trump: He Has A “Lack Of Moral Principle” For Putting “America First”… Twitter To Censor Trump Tweets Ahead Of 2020 Election First Debate Proved The Democratic Party Has Gone ¡Loco! "Boring!!!!" Post-Mortem Of Predictable, Pandering Platitudes At First Dem Debate The Democratic Candidates' Bidding War: Can Anybody Even Compile A Full List? First Democrat Throwdown: They’re All Super-Enthused To Vastly Increase Power Of Federal Government First Democratic Debate Reveals the Flaw in the GOP’s Anti-Single-Payer Message When Government Sets Hospital Prices: Maryland's Experience Elizabeth Warren Calls for Elimination of Private Health-Insurance Market What if They Offered the Palestinians $50 Billion and No One Showed Up? Thursday, June 27. 2019Thursday morning linksFrench Locals to Counter Burkini Protest with Nude Swimming Truck driver accused of killing 7 bikers was immigrant who should have been deported Psychologists Can’t Figure Out Why Hardly Anyone Wants To Date A Trans Person Living in deserts: A Water-Stressed World Turns to Desalination Inside Google’s Microaggressions Newsletter: Pronoun Problems, Soy Police, And A Deaf Person Told To Watch Her ‘Tone’ Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 120 others at Statehouse blast vaccination Idiots The Wall Street Journal Embarrasses Itself On The Economics Of 100% Intermittent Renewable Energy Relatives Say Father And Daughter In That Heartbreaking Photo Were Not Fleeing From Violence In El Salvador Half of BP Workforce Reassigned to Humanitarian Support Duty, 100,000 Migrants Slip into U.S. "... according to the most recent data available from the National Science Foundation women actually earned slightly more bachelor’s degrees in “Science and Engineering” (3,111,529) between 2006 and 2016 than men (3,091,614)!", Thanks to Trump, the healthcare choice is yours It’s our elites who are driving America’s divisions The Democratic Party Has a 'Perception Problem' as 'Coastal, Elitist' So Many Democrats, So Many Bad Ideas Politico: Dear Democrats, Here’s How to Guarantee Trump’s Reelection - You’ve got a historically unpopular opponent in the White House, but there are nearly a dozen ways you could still blow this. The Existential Threat of a Democratic Texas - Suburban moms and Latinos could turn Texas blue Navy's Railgun Now Undergoing Tests In New Mexico, Could Deploy On Ship In Northwest The Trump Doctrine Wednesday, June 26. 2019Wednesday morning linksHuman bipedalism is an oppressive social construct Drink coffee, burn fat Yet another round of spectacular data tampering by NASA and NOAA. cooling the past and warming the present THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION DEMANDS HIGH TAXES FOR GLOBAL WARMING Cornell summer seminar asks: Should we still use concepts like ‘rationality’ and ‘reason’? New UN Plan Seeks To Ban Criticism Of Islam… UN Demands Western Countries Take Back Imprisoned ISIS Terrorists Tugging at the Reins of the Administrative State - A Supreme Court decision suggests an interest in returning sole lawmaking powers to Congress—where they belong. Constitutional expert on 'separation of church and state': Framers said nothing wrong with religion in culture James O’Keefe Strikes Again! Google Document Describes Ben Shapiro, Dennis Prager (Both Jews) and Jordan Peterson as Nazis Broken Windows: Lefty scheme to decriminalize NY bus fare jumping leads to a quarter of riders not paying at all Tlaib Says Her Constituents Want to See 'Direct Payment' as Reparations The Bad Economics of ... Pretty Much ALL Advocacy Groups Looking For Government Handouts Will there be refunds for all the suckers who paid off their student loans before now? Democratic debates: What the top candidates need to do Biden lambasts Trump for using the harsh enforcement tools that Biden himself helped create. Tear Gas And Cages: What Immigration Enforcement Looked Like Under Vice President Joe Biden Hillary Attacks GOP On Immigration. Crenshaw Levels Her. Democrats refuse to say what America should do about border crisis Mexico Deploying 15,000 Troops To U.S. Border To Stop Illegal Immigration Into U.S. Dems Are Planning to Steal the 2020 Election Tuesday, June 25. 2019Tuesday morning linksRIP, Steve Dunleavy: The heart of the modern New York Post Instapundit's new underwater Nikon Nice turtle New research into black holes has accelerated in recent years, producing some outlandish - though mind boggling - ideas Why Costco only charges $4.99 for a rotisserie chicken A Loss Leader, and a good one Dalrymple on PC enforcment: The bland leading the bland UCSC folds, will remove ‘deeply painful’ bell from campus Richard Epstein: Race Madness at Oberlin College Pelosi On Enforcing Immigration Laws: “What’s The Point?”… Surprise? After Trump Delays Deportations Operation Pelosi Calls For Amnesty For Illegal Aliens New High in U.S. Say Immigration Most Important Problem Warmist hysteria over purportedly ‘catastrophic’ ice melting in Greenland busted 70 Arrested as Climate Activists Protest Against the New York Times Pope Francis: Muslims Are Our “Partners For Co-Existence”… Are they on board with that? “With the exception of the Registered Apprenticeship program, government job training programs appear to be largely ineffective and fail to produce sufficient benefits for workers to justify the costs.” Kunstler: Democrats Are Race-Hustling Their Way To Election Disaster In 2020 DEMOCRATS’ LEFTIST BIDDING WAR ACCELERATES Elizabeth Warren Celebrated Her 70th Birthday At A Planned Parenthood Forum That's not from Babylon Bee Devin Nunes Notes: “Two Parallel Tracks” Used To Target Donald Trump… It's called Crossfire Trump Administration Pushes To Make Health Care Pricing More Transparent Peggy Noonan is tired of Trump winning Op-Ed By Trump Pal Published In WSJ Calls On Trump To Ditch Pence For Haley Nothing wrong with Pence, but I'd go with Haley. She's a star 2 mulchesMrs. Salt Water New England's garden. Not sure what the plants are. Deep leaf mulch from last fall, and the black stuff. Very neat. Everything she does is neat and stylish. So are her boats.
Monday, June 24. 2019Monday morning linksTheater of Dreams: A Tale of Boom and Bust at the Plaza Hotel What Dropping 17,000 Wallets Around The Globe Can Teach Us About Honesty EcoWatch: Those Impossible Burgers Are Neither Healthier Nor More Eco-Friendly The Top Four Reasons California Is Unsustainable Online Knitting Community Bans Trump Supporters, Accuses Them Of Backing 'White Supremacy' Study Shows 92% Of Left-Wing Activists Live With Their Parents, One In Three Is Unemployed It Will Cost $600,000 To Cover Up George Washington Mural That 'Traumatized' San Fran High School Students Elizabeth Warren Makes The Case For Gay Reparations FROM THE MIXED-UP FILES OF REP. ILHAN OMAR Chicago Mayor ‘Will Not Cooperate’ With ICE To Deport Illegal Immigrants Biden Compares Trump’s Election to the Assassinations Of MLK Jr. And Bobby Kennedy Democrat Leaders Pelosi and Schumer Caught on Camera Doing Victory Dance After They Thought They Goaded Trump into War with Iran! Tucker Carlson Calls National Security Advisor John Bolton A ‘Bureaucratic Tapeworm’ Sunday, June 23. 2019Weights before cardio?It looks to me as if lots of people do weights and cardio on the same days. I never do that, unless you count a little jump rope between lifts to loosen up. My reasoning is that a weights day calls for at least one (or two days for those over 40) of active muscle recovery, by which I mean just calisthenics or "cardio." That's why I have weights days, "cardio" days, and calisthenics days. However, if you do cardio and some heavy weights on the same day, do the weights first. If you do them the other way around, you may not have the oomph to move the amount of weight you need to. From today's Lectionary: When shall I come and behold the face of God?Psalm 42 and 43 42:1 As a deer longs for flowing streams, so my soul longs for you, O God. Saturday, June 22. 2019Saturday morning linksBeing overweight can impair mental functioning How Your Looks Can Shape Your Personality McDonald’s Is Testing Kitchen Robots And Voice-Recognition In The Drive-Thru San Francisco Bans Vaping for Some Reason Rebuild Penn Station Never should have knocked down the magnificent old one A Jew in SS uniform - An Orthodox Jew from Manhattan, William Brickman never expected to be dispatched to Germany during World War II. There, posing as an SS officer behind enemy lines, Brickman's job was to catch Nazis attempting to flee Germany for South America. University of Oregon Students “Oppressed” By American Pioneer Statue, Demand It Be Removed… Running out of things to be offended by Ideology and Facts Collide at Oberlin College College students and free speech Twice denied the freedom he'd fought for, black Revolutionary War hero from Maryland to be honored at last Judge orders special prosecutor be appointed to look into Jussie Smollett controversy Why Wasn’t Everyone Looking for Hillary’s Missing Emails? The FBI Used Another "Dossier" It Did Not Verify and In Fact Was Specifically Warned Might be Fake, to Start an Investigation into Paul Manafort THE REAL BIRTHRIGHT: INHERITING OUR JEWISH STORY Saturday Verse: A prayerMatthew, Mark, Luke and John, From the New England Primer, via American Digest's Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep Friday, June 21. 2019Robbie Robertson talksAn amusing chat about working with Bob Dylan
Friday morning links
Toon via Lucianne Four Child-Rearing Practices Ben Franklin’s Father Used to Raise a Great Man 10-Year-Old Colorado Girl Becomes Youngest Person to Climb El Capitan Sheesh Talk About Excitement: New York To Become The "Global Leader" On Climate! Why Are There So Many Homeless in Los Angeles? Connecticut’s Fiscal Decay
Kotkin: What Do the Oligarchs Have in Mind for Us? Anti-Semitism Grows on College Campuses Rhode Island Passes 'Abortion Until Birth' Bill; Senator: 'We Will All Be Accountable To God' What physician would do that? Depraved Social Engineers Run California Schools Bishop Tells Congress White People Need to Pay Reparations to Save Their Souls At Dems' Event on Poverty, No One Talked About Jobs Why? LEFT-WINGERS PILE ON CHUCK TODD FOR CALLING OUT OCASIO-CORTEZ CNN’s Angela Rye Says America Is Headed Toward Implementing The Same “Death Camps” As Nazis CA Voters Not Happy With Free Medical For Illegals IMMIGRATION MADNESS - A legal immigrant weighs in 'Scorched Earth': Mueller's Targets Speak Out Terrible stories Schlichter: Trump’s Way To Victory 5.8 Million Individuals Drop Off Food Stamps Under Trump Apple, Black & Decker and Steve Madden among US companies moving production out of China. Here’s the full list. Iran determined to arm West Bank Palestinian factions China’s Urban Crisis - Authoritarian planning, rising class tensions, and sophisticated population surveillance cast a shadow on the country’s rapidly growing cities. Thursday, June 20. 2019Possibly best version of Desolation RowLife in America: Nice rural garden in Connecticut, and thoughts about gardening
I'm talking about the area from Great Barrington MA down through Salisbury CT, Kent CT, Litchfield, Washington, Warren, Goshen, Woodbury, Southbury, etc. Perfect semi-rural villages, each with its dominating Congo church. We visited the Hollister gardens again this weekend. I like the way that even their formal gardens are not manicured - sort-of random but always with good structure, good garden architecture.
Over the years, I think I have grown weary of the vegetable gardening hobby. It was more fun when the kids were young, and learned from it. Some of my pals have wonderful and attractive vegetable gardens, but it can become just a chore. I just focus on tomatoes for now. Too many other fun things to do on weekends, not to mention social duties. I focus more on shrub borders, perennial borders. I'd rather mow a meadow on a tractor, with a cold beer or two and a ceegar, than hoe a vegetable garden. To each his or her own, I guess. I have my eye on a rural property in Litchfield County with a pond, a trout stream, meadows, and woodlands. Antique farmhouse, barns, and cottage. Trouble is, we never seem to have free weekends. Thursday morning links8 Fun (and Possibly Dangerous) Activities Enjoyed by Past Generations That Today's Kids Will Never Experience JD POWER SAYS KOREAN CARS BEAT US AND EUROPE IN QUALITY California Bishops Concerned With Climate Disruption, Want Ecological Sprituality Female Student Athletes File Title IX Complaint, Say Transgender Competitors Are ‘Displacing’ Them Stuyvesant High School: Some stats: Mean SATs, Stuyvesant: 1470, mean math 760. These correlate with an IQ of 143. Meet the New York couple donating millions to the anti-vax movement Mexico becomes first country to approve USMCA Schumer & Cotton: Our bipartisan 'Fentanyl Sanctions Act' targets traffickers like China VDH: America’s First Third-World State Hoyer expects reparations bill to get a floor vote Race hustlers Don Lemon Compares Airing Trump Speeches To Giving Hitler Air Time… MSNBC’s Donny Deutsch: Make America Great Again Is Make America White Again, ‘It’s All About Racism’… CNN Pulls the Plug on Trump Rally After Crowd Chants 'CNN Sucks' Trump's Orlando Speech: Unprecedented and Remarkable This Marine captain figured out exactly how many pounds equal pain in combat One of the criticisms of D Day was overloaded infantry Wednesday, June 19. 2019Wednesday morning linksThe Atlantic: Sure Looks Like MH-370 Disappearance Was Pilot Suicide 5G – Dunno CBS braces for risqué Love Island as producer breaks silence on U.S. version Harvard dean who repped Harvey Weinstein UNLEASHES after losing job City of Secrets: Estimated 10,000 people in DC are spies NPR Beclowns Itself, Chapter 9,603 State Department Identifies 23 Violations, ‘Multiple Security Incidents’ Concerning Clinton Emails Big surprise Clinton Broadway Play Shuts Down Early After Ticket Sales Sag Big surprise TRUMP’S MCCARTHYITE ENEMIES Poll: Trump Better for Black Americans Than Obama Tuesday, June 18. 2019Life in America: A New England GraveyardWhere we planted my dear brother-in-law's ashes on Saturday afternoon, in the family churchyard next to my parents. Typical of the Bird Dog family, his widow's first words: "Let's make this quick, everybody, cuz I'm paying the gravedigger by the hour." We all got an F in Solemnity class. Damn, I miss that good guy, and will miss him terribly in Cape Cod this summer. Navy vet, outdoor-lover, running buddy, fishing buddy, beer-drinking buddy, body-surfing buddy, hiking buddy, farm work buddy. Always up for anything energetic or challenging. Wry, dry humor. It sucks, as my sister says. Yep. Happy trails, Uncle Bob, and maybe catch ya later in the great unknown.
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Tuesday morning linksAmerica Loves the Idea of Family Farms. That’s Unfortunate. Teen Vogue Publishes Article Promoting Prostitution to Their Young Readers Student journalist: Shoplifting at Gibson’s Bakery was part of Oberlin College’s “Culture of Theft” Title IX update: OCR opens investigations against Boston University, the University of Rhode Island, Indiana University and the University of Wisconsin-Stout Obama Admin Spent $4.1 Million to Link Pollution to Eating Fast Food. Researchers aimed to link air pollution exposure to childhood obesity, failed Africans Coming Across The Southern Border Have "Rolls Of $100 Bills" Trump eyes new chance to put mark on long-liberal 9th Circuit The CIA Is Running Scared - Barr’s bloodhounds are sniffing up Langley’s skirts The Pirates of Tehran. If Iran won’t change its behavior, we should sink its navy. No, please Has Iran chosen hybrid warfare? China is harvesting organs from detainees, tribunal concludes - Victims include imprisoned followers of Falun Gong movement, China Tribunal says Hey, it's a different culture Jared Kushner is right about Palestinians, despite criticism he’s received Monday, June 17. 2019Harissa on Father's Day - it's a chili pestoWe took my father in law out for dinner yesterday to our favorite Italian joint. I had two appetizers for supper (I often like to do that): Carpaccio, and the steamed PEI mussels in Green Harissa. Well, that harissa/mussel broth was the tastiest new flavor I've tasted in a year. Wow. Luckily for me, there was no cilantro in it (I am among those for whom cilantro tastes like gasoline). There are many variations on Green Harissa - you can google them. It's not meant to be overly hot, just tangy. As best I can tell, this one contained jalapenos, garlic, mint, scallions, black pepper, salt, flat-leaf parsley, olive oil, lemon zest, a little sugar. Some water. No spices, because the mussel broth had plenty of good flavor. Mix raw in blender or immersible blender. For vegetables or fish, you might want to use some of the spices the recipes suggest. Photo is farmed mussels, Nova Scotia
Monday morning linksNot nice to leave gramps behind Could the Big Bang theory be wrong? David Brooks' rather ordinary spiritual journey Church Hosts Summer Camp to Train Grade School Kids to Be Antifa Activists FOREIGN MEDDLING: DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION GOING AFTER ELITE COLLEGES FOR ALLEGEDLY TAKING AND HIDING FOREIGN CASH The Golden State’s War on Itself - How politicians turned the California Dream into a nightmare Should you pay "surprise medical bills"? Democrats constantly overlook conservative solutions to fix our broken health care How is it broken? Trump Is Expanding Obamacare . . . in a Good Way Remember when you worried about Net Neutrality? The Unnerving Need to Believe in Politicians It's infantile Executive Order on Evaluating and Improving the Utility of Federal Advisory Committees Good WILL THE CRAZY LEFT RE-ELECT TRUMP? Donald Trump is a lucky man. Victor Davis Hanson on The Case for Trump What If You Held an Impeach Protest and Nobody Came? A lefty discovers border checkpoints - and concludes Trump put them up there Record number of African migrants coming to Mexican border Capitalism remains broken no matter what Hypocrites get last kicks at Sarah Sanders, slobbering over her White House exit WaPo: Say, It Looks Like Trump Won His Tariff Battle With Mexico After All McGovern: DoJ Bloodhounds On the Scent Of John Brennan Mollie Hemingway: If Getting Info From A Foreign Government Is A Problem, Ask Democrats About Steele Dossier The 630 Year-Old Reason Eastern Europeans Dislike Islam Schoolgirls for sale: why Tokyo struggles to stop the 'JK business'
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