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Friday, May 24. 2019Flunked again: Success is good for ego but failure is good for the soul - re-posted
"Conditioning" is about speed, agility, HIIT cardio, endurance, explosiveness, and muscle use. Energy, stamina, and get-up-and-go. It is not about strength or strength-training, which is why lots of calisthenics are involved. In a tough conditioning hour, you can never catch your breath so it is intense cardio. Good stuff for life. I am in the sorry 10% who routinely flunk our Sat. AM calisthenics ("Athletic Conditioning") class. By flunking, I mean being unable to complete the trainer's expectations on at least half of the exercises in the time allowed. I hate failure, so I give it my all and come up short. We are calling ourselves the "Masters Class" and we are all age 45 or more. However, several 50+ and 60+ do make the passing grade. Bravo for them because this sort of thing is great to prevent physical deterioration. If it were high school or college, we would ask for extra time due to disability but, instead, we do our best and accept the fail. Reality is a bitch. Do better next week, or just give up and rightly despise yourself forever for being a loser. Details below the fold - Continue reading "Flunked again: Success is good for ego but failure is good for the soul - re-posted" Happy Birthday, BobThanks for all you have done to enrich our lives, all of the magic. Here's Powerline's birthday tribute, with a bunch of splendid Dylan covers. Here's a beauty:
Here's a true storyAbout a ballsy Christian spy from Mali checking out the smugglers' routes to the mediterranean. Secret Spectacles. It's another heck of a story. Friday morning linksA Memorial Day Reminder From Iraq Progressive anti-semitism Lawmaker Who Helped Write Obamacare: ‘What We Have Now Is Not Working’ It was designed to fail CA Governor, Looking To Shift Blame, Reportedly Calls State's Homeless Problem A National Disgrace Obama Admin Surveillance Of Reporters “Broader Than Previously Known” Pelosi, Schumer Whine And Cry After Trump Owned Them On Live Television Throwing pies TRUMP TO SIGN MEMO TO CURB WELFARE USE BY NON-CITIZENS Trump orders intel agencies to cooperate with Barr probe into 'spying' on 2016 campaign Ex-FBI lawyer: Carter Page FISA application approved in 'unusual' way by McCabe, Yates, and Baker Doomsday elections in Europe? EU update: Germany's green new deal fails Thursday, May 23. 2019Thursday morning links
Image is #1 from Escher's The Creation, at American Digest You Can Now Legally Compost Dead Family In Washington State Finally! But what about their dentures and titanium hips? This Autistic Student with Cerebral Palsy Got Two Title IX Violations for a 'Fist Bump' and a Selfie. Now, He's Suing. Word by Word, SJW’s Are Changing America GLOBAL WARMING: IT CAN DO ANYTHING! The Conventional Wisdom About Millennial Suffering Is A Myth Survey: Americans' confidence in job market at record high Free University Tuition: A Cautionary Note from Germany NY Times Columnist: America's Cities 'Unlivable, Blame Wealthy Liberals' EVERYONE HATES BILL DE BLASIO Video: Biden’s Pre-Obama Immigration Policies Sound A lot Like Trump’s They won’t stop trying to destroy Trump even if it destroys them Trump Defends Free Speech, Liberal Media Condemns Him For It… Mark Meadows: ‘Declassification is right around the corner’ WHO Singles Out Israel As Violator of Health Rights At Annual Meeting Military's Big Middle East Response Made Iranians 'Recalculate,' Shanahan Says Wednesday, May 22. 2019QQQWednesday morning linksCold Brew’s Insidious Hegemony What is it? Herman Wouk: the novelist who spoke for post-war America. Dead at 103 A book: How to Become a Federal Criminal: An Illustrated Handbook for the Aspiring Offender Activists hope that fake news about droughts will win Is the pleasure of smugness what progressivism is all about? A New Policy Agenda for the “Regressive Resistance”: What Happened to Civil Liberties? One of the reasons you do not want to give the government too much power when you are in power is that someday you will not be in power. Mueller Refuses To Testify Publicly Before Congress, Infuriating Democrats He must be working with the Russians Meadows: Gowdy’s Right — Americans Will Be “Astonished” By “Game Changing” Russiagate Material About To Be Declassified We'll see... COMEY VS. THE WORLD - Eventually the “holier than thou” find themselves at loggerheads with the rest of the world. Call it the revenge of the “thous.” Nadler Subpoenas Former White House Comms Director Hope Hicks to Testify Before Congress Desperately seeking something - anything - to nail Trump with. It's called persecution So Who Are The Stupid Ones Down In Australia? Have the nationalists of Europe caught the wave of the future? Tuesday, May 21. 2019QQQ, re Trump"While we recognize that the subject did not actually steal any horses, he is obviously guilty of trying to resist being hanged for it." Anon Tuesday morning linksFeral Parrots Are Taking Over America Chronic Lyme disease: Fake diagnosis, not fake disease To My Fellow Air Travelers: This Is Why You Fucking Suck Sea otters are bouncing back - and into the jaws of great white sharks Great White Shark in Long Island Sound:
NY Times Op-Ed Admits Something The Times Must Hate About Religious People Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College trial — It’s ‘make or break’ week Americans Paid for the Internet, We Deserve Free Speech On It Fake news travels six times faster than the truth on Twitter Man Who Bribed Son into Penn Guilty in $1.3 Billion Health Fraud ESPN Says It Will Obey Fans, Cut Down On Network's Political Content Top Democrat's wife may have gained 'illegal private benefit' from his committee activities Dem Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand: Abortion Is A “Life And Death” Decision… EMAILS SHOW DEEP STATE CONSPIRING AGAINST TRUMP VDH: He did it, not me Doug Collins releases Loretta Lynch, Andrew McCabe interview transcripts Tapped to lead new probe, U.S. Attorney John Durham has been quietly working for months on issues related to Trump and Russia Impeachment is now the only play the Left has ‘France Does Not Belong to the French!’: Hundreds Of Illegal Migrants Storm Paris Airport Monday, May 20. 2019Monday morning linksWhat is a "woman"? Meet the Bold Sexologist Questioning Transgender Orthodoxy Learning about Cotton in School Is Racist Now So try harvesting some polyester plants Why is a new history of the United States necessary? Why now? Socialism Is about Taking, Not Giving Want To Dismantle Capitalism? Abolish The Family Philadelphia’s Soda Tax Bombed As Predicted Harvard is failing its students by allowing them to live in a fantasy world NYC schools chief accused of creating environment ‘hostile’ to white people The Australian election: Cathy Wilcox, a newspaper cartoonist, tweeted: “It seems unfair that the morons outnumber the thinking people at election time.” Canadian Government Imposes 'Social Justice' on All Universities Sounds like China California half-fast ‘hi speed rail’ plan now pondering old fashioned diesel trains to salvage something from failed project Al Gore inserts himself into Australia's election — and Aussie voters run the other way Financial Collapse Of The United States Postal Service Is Coming Byron York: Mueller changed everything HERE’S HOW THE ASYLUM SYSTEM IS BEING EXPLOITED Sunday, May 19. 2019Keith JarretWeather Porn
While greenies are preparing to change their motto omce again, (to Environmental Destruction), workers are now trying to open Lassen National Park for Spring.
From today's LectionaryRevelation 21:1-6 21:1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. 21:2 And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 21:3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "See, the home of God is among mortals. He will dwell with them as their God; they will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them; 21:4 he will wipe every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; mourning and crying and pain will be no more, for the first things have passed away." 21:5 And the one who was seated on the throne said, "See, I am making all things new." Also he said, "Write this, for these words are trustworthy and true." 21:6 Then he said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give water as a gift from the spring of the water of life. Saturday, May 18. 2019Bird du Jour: Whooping CraneSeeing Endangered Whooping Cranes Step Through the Fog of Extinction -"I traveled to southern Texas to see a wintering population of the birds now 500-strong—a major comeback from just 15 cranes in 75 years." These birds are similar to the very abundant Sandhill Cranes, and can interbreed with them. Sandhill Cranes are huntable and highly edible. They taste like Swan, I am told. Do not shoot a Whooping Crane. The US has an eastern flock, and the famous western flock. With a flock this small, conservation is promising but not guaranteed.
Saturday morning linksWhy 85% of Solar System Must Be Nature Preserve Leave the Martians alone More on The Rules of sex and dating It's complicated. Everybody likes sex. It's, like, biological. Provides Why Is Fat a Feminist Issue? Lots of guys are fat too Camille Paglia: Neo feminism teaching women to live in ‘a permanently juvenile condition’ DEMOCRATS UNANIMOUS AS HOUSE PASSES BILL FORCING SCHOOLS TO LET MALE ATHLETES COMPETE IN GIRLS’ SPORTS Just call it co-ed sports Buttigieg Backs Idea Of Erasing Thomas Jefferson’s Name: ‘It’s The Right Thing To Do’ Facebook Suspends Candace Owens For Saying Liberal Policies Incentivize Fatherless Homes The Mental Health Community Is Bracing For Eco-Anxiety Or Something Grievance Proxies -The College Board plans to introduce a new “adversity score” as a backdoor to racial quotas in college admissions. SCORING THE ADVERSITY SCORE Quantifying Your Privilege - The evils of fate. Pelosi: Tolerant Is A “Condescending Word To Me”… Pelosi: "'Merit' Is Really a Condescending Word" AG Barr On Government Activities In 2016: The Explanations I Received 'Don't Hang Together' Five Reasons The Pundits Underestimated Joe Biden Joe Biden beats Trump in 2020 by most secure margins, new poll shows. Mr Biden is the only Democrat in the poll whose lead over Mr Trump is outside the margin of error in the new Fox News poll Do We Need NATO? China has a master economic plan. Is it better than America’s? Hamas Thanks U.K. Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn For His Support Friday, May 17. 2019Friday morning linksMick Jagger at 75, 2 weeks after heart surgery, practicing dance moves Ultra-processed foods 'make you eat more' So tasty food "makes you eat it"? Really? Their example of "highly-processed food" is quesadillas. These nags want you to live on fruit, greens, nuts, and seeds. Sicilian pistachios need police protection Notre Dame rebuild proposal would bring solar glass, urban farm to cathedral roof What a joke In Order To Stop White Men From Legislating Women's Bodies, Democrats Fight To Overturn Roe V. Wade Disrupting the Pharmacy - Innovative technology could eliminate the inflated costs that Americans pay for drugs. How Diversity Training Widens the Gulf Among the Races CAN THE COLLEGE BOARD MEASURE ADVERSITY ON THE SAT? The College Board plans to score a student's adversity from one to 100. COLLEGE BOARD OPENLY TRYING TO SKIRT THE SUPREME COURT WITH SECRET ‘ADVERSITY SCORE’ California Wants To Ban 'Racist' Single-Family Zoning To Correct "Historical Wrongs" Infrastructure: President Trump and Democratic leaders have discovered the one policy that unites Washington: spending money we don’t have. Nobel Laureate Shiller: Market Overreacting to Trade War 'Theater' Duh Blame Game: Clapper, Brennan and Comey Start Turning on Each Other as Barr Turns Up the Heat Joe diGenova: For the First Time I Believe These Guys are Going to Jail Judicial Watch Releases Email Exchange Between State Department Official and Bruce Ohr Targeting Trump Weeks AFTER 2016 Election Thursday, May 16. 2019Buying earthworms
So every couple of years I order 2500 of these rapid breeders. If you have decent soil, to a decent depth, regularly replenished with good mulch and fallen leaves, these guys will do a good job for your borders and other gardens while feeding the worm-eaters. All of my shrub, lawn, and vegetable gardens have been carefully prepared. No pesticides, etc, with good deep loam fortified with maure, etc. I let grass clippings lie, and fallen leaves too (until autumn). Feed the worms! How can you tell whether your soil is lousy? If you dig up a shovel full of earth and do not find 5 or 6 wigglers, it's either not very good or it's been a rough winter for them.
Thursday morning linksUS Birth Rate Plunges To All-Time Low As More Women Choose Careers Over Families Highly Potent Weed Has Swept The Market, Raising Concerns About Health Risks Say, Is ‘Climate Change’ Causing Problems With Home Values Near The Sea? Salon Media Announces $5 Million Sale, ‘Bankruptcy and Liquidation’ Threatened If Deal Fails White House To Unveil Sweeping Overhaul Of Immigration System, Including Merit-Based Admissions NYU Journalism Teacher: The GOP Is 'A Terrorist Organization' Harvard Betrays A Law Professor — And Itself Alan Dershowitz Slams ‘McCarthyism’ Behind Removal of Harvard Law Prof Ron Sullivan as Residential Dean Nearly 100 charged in massive Green Card marriage scheme What are the odds that the Durham investigation is for real and will bring the bad actors to justice? Special Prosecutor John Durham Targeting CIA in its Role in Origins of Spygate – Brennan’s Actions Will ‘Come Into Sharper Focus’ CIA, DNI Joining Probe Of FBI’s Russiagate Activities AG Barr Mocks Pelosi to Her Face: “Madam Speaker, did you bring your handcuffs?” Moscow to Implement Facial Recognition AI to Monitor City Wednesday, May 15. 2019Hey JudeFrom 1968. They never figured out how to end this lovely and inspirational tune.
Deadlift programming to maintain functionality and physical sturdiness
An addendum to Mondays's link - The reason for guys and gals of any age to do total body resistance exercises like squats and deads is to maintain or build muscle and bone strength and overall functionality. They are not just for athletes, and yes, they are preferable to machine exercises which tend to isolate muscle groups rather than being full-body, functional exertions. BUT proper technique is important. Beginners need to be trained to do those things correctly. Even with excellent training, I had a painful back during my first few months of deadlifting. As I grew stronger with the movement, the pain went away and never returned. I began doing deads 3 years ago. I began with 95 lbs, with trainer. The bar weighs 45 lbs, and the lightest bumper plates weigh 25. I have the movement pretty-well grooved in by now so I do deads on my own. However, my trainer still programs what I do. Occasionally I use the trap bar, for no reason other than variety. At this point (mind you, I am not a youngster, and do not have a husky lifter's build) my programming looks like the below note from my genius trainer - This is a strength program for a not-young guy, not an endurance program although I mix it up sometimes: Think: after 115 lb. 5 rep warmup, with 90 second rests between sets. Set 1—135 for 5 reps If you add a 6th set add another set at 135. Even if you feel you can/should do more weight, don’t. Master the weight(make 135-155 move smooth and easy, with no sticks)- Master the hold. Get to a point where 135-155 for 5 reps “feels” like you could do it for 15-20 reps. Bonus links via reader: Dan at age 72 beginning squats, and two years later. My father-in-law's visit to NormandyMrs. BD has been traveling around Normandy with her Dad for the past week. Yes, they did it the high-end way. Wherever they went, people walked up saying things like "Thank you, Americans, for what you did for us." Europeans of all types from all counties (not Germans) showing gratitude to Americans. Very moving, obviously. Story goes that the old guy was too young to join the army. He lied about his age, but the recruiters phoned his Mom to check. His two older brothers were in the war (one on Omaha Beach), and both survived and went on to great educations, great careers, with fine families. Photo is Mrs. BD's Monkfish supper last night in a tiny seaside port in Normandy. She says they poached it right, tender, juicy, delicate, and not chewy as in the US. Those French know how to cook. Wednesday morning links
Jane Brody: Good Vegan, Bad Vegan A Chain of Species Destruction at Yellowstone - The havoc caused by stocking the park’s lake for sport fishing ravaged ospreys, pelicans, bald eagles, grizzly bears and the lake’s own native cutthroat trout. Trapped Nebraska farmer cuts off leg with pen knife CNN Spreads Deceptive Info On School Shootings, Calls For Gun Confiscation 1984 Turns 70-Years-Old In A World That Looks A Lot Like The Book CNN Panel: Americans Too Dumb To Stop Trump… Democrats Claim ‘Constitutional Crisis,’ Media Repeat It 386 Times BARR REPORTEDLY WORKING CLOSELY WITH CIA TO REVIEW RUSSIA PROBE ORIGINS Senator Lindsey Graham Discusses 2016 “Spygate” With Maria Bartiromo… Louie Gohmert: ‘This Came Very Close to Being the First Successful Coup’ in U.S. History Morning links will be late today
Tuesday, May 14. 2019Pieter Breughel
It's worth a trip to Vienna only to see the Breughel room at the Kunsthistorisches Museum. However, I doubt any of our readers made it to this winter's Breughel show at that same museum. Still, a half-million people did. It is unlikely that any museum will ever be able to assemble such an exhibition again.
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Tuesday morning linksDoris Day: America’s Sweetheart Watching Harvard, My Alma Mater, Surrender to the Mob Employees Of 'Socialist' Brooklyn Food Co-op Discover Downside Of Socialism, Demand Union VDH: Journalism is Dead—Long Live the Media! States fight Trump rollback of Obama lightbulb rules Is there no limit to the reach of government? Whenever government regulations lead to higher prices, the champions of regulation blame the free market for failing to fix the problem. New EU Declaration Mandates Europe ‘Empower’Children to Help Set Policy Agendas “DIVERSITY” AND THE WELFARE STATE' The Partner Chase - An elite law firm’s inability to promote enough minority partners exposes the unrealistic expectations of diversity mandates - Heather Mac Donald Whatever Happened To Obamacare? The Atlantic offers proof of Trump's racism CNN Wonders If Trump’s July 4th Speech Will Call “For Violence”… Byron York: Why was FBI so wrong in Trump-Russia wiretap warrant? William Barr appoints US attorney to examine origins of Russia probe A prosecutor? That's a big deal. It means they suspect crime. I am agnostic on that, but I do not trust the deep state at all. Never did. Obama’s Defense Secretary Just Destroyed the Democrat Narrative on Trump and Russia China’s Latest Crackdown Target Is Liberal Economists
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