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Monday, April 10. 2017Monday morning linksPreparing adult workers for the artificial intelligence revolution Quiz: Are you CEO material? It says I am but I am sure I am not "Do" and did" in English Scientists stunned by huge octopus discovery We sleep less as we age because our brains don’t think we're tired What about the possibility that sleep needs diminish with age? We still do not know why sleep is necessary. Teaching Obesity, Selling Sickness - We are subsidizing our own disease burden. Turkish cabin crew help woman give birth at 42,000ft I have flown Turkish Air and I like it New York Times Op-Ed Says Families Where Wife Stays Home Aren't 'Egalitarian' And if the guy stays home? Millions of Americans are desperate to trade part-time work for full-time Men's Looks Matter More Than Women Admit, Study Shows Duh. But money, power, and charm do a lot for appearance Teaching doctors to give hormones to ‘transgendered’ pre-teens NY Times: Doctors Right To Give Transgender Kids Puberty Blockers, Hormones At Younger Ages Meet the Chinese Billionaire Who’s Moving Manufacturing to the U.S. to Cut Costs Despite global warming, California drought is over Drought is over cuz of climate change. Hey, isn't most of California a desert? Trump Preparing Order to Expand Offshore Oil Drilling Kubota Tractor Moves Headquarters To Texas From California… From killer diesel fumes to ruinous floods, every green initiative imposed on us by politicians has ended in disaster... and this is the great folly of our age, says CHRISTOPHER BOOKER DEMOCRATS LOSE ARGUMENT, TRY TO BURN BOOKS Dodd-Frank Helps Wall Street But Harms Small Banks 23 Ways Big Government Is Hurting the Poor Dan Rather, Faux Marine Democrats have zero leverage after Gorsuch WaPo: Could it be? Is President Trump on a roll? Prof Calls for Trump to Be Hanged, Random Republicans to Be Executed Defiant conservatives invite Coulter to Berkeley after riots The Deification of Hillary Clinton ICE Agents Arrest 82 Illegals From 26 Different Countries In DC Area Operation ICE is back to work Time Magazine Gets Roasted After Falsely Claiming Republicans ‘Tore Up Senate Rules’ to Confirm Gorsuch Reasonable Inferences About The Weird Obsession With Russia Did the Obama Administration’s Abuse of Foreign-Intelligence Collection Start Before Trump? Wikileaks Bombshell: Guccifer 2.0 Admits “Seth” Rich Was DNC Leaker Trump’s airstrike on Syria delivers another blow to Obama’s legacy WSJ: In Striking Syria, Trump Made All the Right Calls MSNBC's O'Donnell: Putin 'Might Have Orchestrated' Syria Strike to Help Trump Brit clergy bewildered by Islamist terror "We'll never know why he did it" The EU's Utter Contempt for European Freedom Sweden will ´never go back´ to the days of mass immigration after failed asylum seeker launched Friday´s truck attack in Stockholm, says the country´s shell-shocked PM One Week, Five Terror Attacks: Beginnings of Another 'Summer of Terror'? Sunday, April 9. 2017From today's Lectionary: The whole Passion story - " I will never again drink of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom."
Continue reading "From today's Lectionary: The whole Passion story - " I will never again drink of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom."" Saturday, April 8. 2017Saturday morning links“Sex Traffickers at Ikea?” Free-Range Kids Cited by Snopes! The only good thing Ikea sells is Loganberry Jam. Excellent stuff. Have not heard of child sex slaves for sale there yet, but with Sweden going the way it is going, who knows what the future holds for Ikea? Feminist Author: Women Need to Stop Playing the Victim MELANIA TRUMP WORE THE MOST STUNNING RED DRESS Guy Builds Water Cooled, 72,000 Lumen LED Flashlight and Takes it for a Nighttime Stroll (h/t Thompson) Autism Moms Have Stress Similar To Combat Soldiers U.K. Bans Body-Positive Video Game Ad for Sexually Objectifying Women I am constantly amazed by the amount of censorship in Europe. Their governments have never permitted free speech. Bee Experts Challenge Environmental Claim That Wild Bees Are Near Extinction California doubles down on stupid – Court upholds cap and trade program, new fuel tax coming Ezekiel Emanuel Attacks Medical Conscience Innovator finds value in relationship-based primary care model Innovative? Mizzou Shutters Three More Dorms As Enrollment Plummets After Race Protests Will Mexico Get Half of Its Territory Back? Good grief. Maybe Spain should get it back. Or maybe Mexico ought to give itself back to the Aztecs they stole it from. Why Climate Change Models Are So Horrendous For U.S. 'Dangerous' Climate Change Is Like Moving 180 Miles South - New study finds Americans would prefer warmer weather on balance Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Islam’s Most Eloquent Apostate - The West’s obsession with ‘terror’ has been a mistake, she argues. Dawa, the ideology behind it, is a broader threat. Hours Before U.S. Missiles Struck Syria Airbase, Hillary Advised Same Tactic DEMOCRATIC PARTY PRESS TRIES TO UNDERMINE TRUMP ON SYRIA Scott Adams on The Syrian Air Base Attack Suddenly, THE NEW YORK TIMES WORRIES ABOUT OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH RUSSIA I wanted Trump to be pres of the United States, not Pres of the world:
Don’t Get Fooled, Trump Is Winning - While the focus is on a few high-profile losses and messes, the president is quietly, steadily racking up big wins. Trump Is Delivering for His Voters And Washington doesn't seem to care One more example under the MSM radar: An administrative law expert Police in Norway to carry weapons after Stockholm attack Terrorist Arrested In Sweden Attack Is Connected To ISIS
Friday, April 7. 2017Friday morning linksUpdate on John Waters, Singular Maniac Graphene Can Help Quench the World’s Thirst ‘A night of erotic freedom’ at NYC’s most exclusive sex party Venice is just a big museum now: Disney Venice Idaho’s $4.3 Million Solar Project Generates Enough Energy to Run ONE Microwave Oven Ontario's electric costs A brief history of cannibalism Beyond chopped liver, Passover dishes from Jews around the globe, even India and Iraq Another fun website: American Council on Science and Health A sample from above: Technophobia: A Key Tenet Of The Organic Food Religion Another: More Adults Could Prevent Heart Disease With Statins The Unavoidable Pension Crisis Why Is the ‘Right Side of History’ Losing? Democrats refuse to confront the meaning of their own failure. Is the Alt-Left driving the Democrat party? WHY IS BIG BUSINESS SO LIBERAL? DEMOCRATS: THE PARTY OF HATE DAVID HOROWITZ: RUSSIA CONTROVERSY 'PURE INVENTION' TO DESTROY TRUMP Gorsuch was President Trump’s sanest decision Democrats Lose Chomsky As Russian Conspiracy Meltdown Continues National security reporter Sara Carter reports that US spy agencies intercept and unmask congressional figures as often as once a month. America can't right every wrong: Opposing view The Government Doesn’t Care About You Steyn: "The left doesn't want to win the debate. They want to cancel the debate." Thursday, April 6. 2017April 6, 1917Don Rickles, RIPThis via Insty:
Thursday morning linksLive Performance and Q&A With the Banjoist Béla Fleck Why French Fries Are More of a "Superfood" Than Kale Section of 2nd Temple-era column found at Temple Mount dig Gender "Educator:" It is "Repulsive" and "Hurtful" and "Damaging" To Ask a Person What Sex Xer Child Is Chelsea Clinton Gives Advice on How Millennial Women Can Be as Successful as Her Taibbi: Putin Derangement Syndrome Arrives At this point, anti-Trump Russia hysteria smells like Ben Rhodes-style echo chamber - Media reporting on what other media are saying creates endless cycle of news stories about news stories:
Real Collusion: the Clinton and Podesta Record Bombshell: The Obama Spying Scandal Started Long Before Trump Susan Rice's alleged unmasking requests not so routine, ex-officials say Eerie Prescience of Donald Trump Krauthammer’s Take: Sunni States Ready for Peace with Israel but ‘Hostage to the Palestinians’ Nobody can stand the Palis Wednesday, April 5. 2017Wednesday morning linksJews and Native Americans: 7 Fascinating Facts Arkansas Rejects Free-Range Kids Bill Because Legislators Think They're Better Parents Than You - "This is a bill to make sure my parents would not be criminals." Why all this paranoia? Claim: More Public Transport Helps Reduce Climate PTSD Warm weather causes PTSD? Obamacare's Absurd Food Labeling Law to Begin Soon College Prof Says he was Fired for not Dumbing Down his Course Loyalty Oaths Return with Faculty “Diversity Statements” Camille Paglia Defends Jordan Peterson, Tells ‘Sniveling’ PC Transgender Activists to ‘Take a Hike’ Citation Nation - How America turned into a gigantic speed-trap. Poll: 55 Percent of Americans Approve of Obamacare, Highest Since 2012 Chelsea Clinton: I’m Not Running For President, “Right Now” Neither am I Actually, Neil Gorsuch is a champion of the little guy SENATE DEM ADMITS HE WON'T CONFIRM ANY TRUMP SUPREME COURT NOMINEE Dems now The New Party of 'No'
Professor: Republicans Criticize Susan Rice Because They ‘Hate And Fear Black Women’ "I hope Susan Rice was keeping tabs on Trump’s Russia ties." Theresa May slams 'ridiculous' decision not to include Easter in egg hunt title Why France Is Revolting against the Ancien Régime Is Europe Choosing To Disappear?
Tuesday, April 4. 2017Tuesday morning linksHow 1,600 People Went Missing from Our Public Lands Without a Trace It's called wilderness for a reason Are Frogs Vanishing or Taking over the World? Lady Deborah Moody, the Dangerous Woman Who Started a Colonial Town Why not make murder illegal? Trump Immigration Enforcement Spurs Gang Tattoo Removal Boom Did you ever wonder why Chicago’s crime is out of control? A book: Oppose Any Foe: The Rise of America’s Special Operations Forces After a Historic March, What’s Next for Women? How about championing Islamic women? I Never Meet With Young Women Alone All-star panel examines 'organized neurosis' of PC campuses After Middlebury: Campus as “Holy Space” Jordan Peterson Shouted Down at McMaster University in Ontario What is Hotep Nation? Goodbye Connecticut — Darien Resident Says Gift Tax Forcing Him To Leave Blue states kill the goosies that lay the golden eggs. That's Blue politics Some thoughts on Equal Pay Day, an annual event that spreads statistical misinformation about the gender pay gap Take Two-and-a-Half Minutes to See How Hypocritical Democrats Are on Filibustering Supreme Court Nominees CNN’s Jim Sciutto: Susan Rice News ‘Appears to Be a Story Largely Ginned Up, Partly as a Distraction’ Susan Rice Ordered Spy Agencies To Produce ‘Detailed Spreadsheets’ Involving Trump SUSAN RICE IN CROSSHAIRS AS POTENTIAL FELON Dems want Devin Nunes removed, but can’t unhear unmasking allegations
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Swedish employees agree to free microchip implants designed for office work Cubans Want Capitalism CO2: The EU Casts Stones From Its Glass House The IDF's smallest drone Turkey's Struggling Economy Venezuela is becoming a failed state Monday, April 3. 2017Monday morning linksHere Come the Pizza Gestapo PETA Says Milk is a ‘Symbol of White Supremacy’ Why domesticated foxes are bad pets Warren: “Ethics are for people who have no morals” 5 Reasons It's Dumb To Panic Over Global Warming Climate News This Week: What Was Important? The Climate Yawns - Donald Trump is no more a planet wrecker than Barack Obama (as measured to the third decimal). People are fleeing the New York metro at an alarming rate The decay of the northeast corridor In defense of northern New Jersey
Jeff Sessions laid down the law on immigration, here’s the list of counties and cities who aren’t working with ICE Sessions And Kelly Tell California Justice She Should Know Better Klavan: Obama Spied, Media Lied Evelyn Farkas Blames “Fake News” and “Russians” for Recent Media Assault Baltimore Mayor Supported $15 Minimum Wage Until She Learned What It Would Do to City’s Economy Psychologist Analyzes Trump’s Election And The Progressive Left LA Times really really hates Trump Trump is undoing more things than he is doing That's good Welcome To Londonistan: 423 New Mosques; 500 Closed Churches England: Street preachers who quoted Bible convicted in modern day heresy trial Sunday, April 2. 2017Pond skimmingSugarbush ski area has a community feeling with lots of regulars. They have an annual pond-skimming event usually early April or late March. You are supposed to wear a costume, and the trick is to get across the pond. I love things like this. The water temperature is in the 20s (F).
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From today's LectionaryRomans 8:6-11
Saturday, April 1. 2017Pufferfish CourtshipSaturday linksBreastfeeding Is Not The Only Decent Way to Feed a Child Reader recommendation: 'A French Village,' Streaming on Amazon, Examines Life After Evil Triumphs 10 Things We All Did in School That Are Banned for Kids Today We boys pulled girls' pigtails. That's how we showed we liked them. California Transgender Inmates May Soon Be Given Bras, Mascara, Lip Gloss Z-man's Essential Knowledge: Part VIII Ditto to that, but it makes me feel ignorant. Mexico City metro's 'penis seat' sparks debate Seattle is the biggest water polluter Baby boomers ruined America, according to this Generation X
A Tale of Two Bell Curves Now Murray is KKK All he did was to wonder why jews and asians have higher average IQs, and why blacks and latinos have lower. Charles Krauthammer: The road to single-payer health care "That picture of Hillary is so freaky. Is that real? Where'd you get it?" The Fake News Crisis McCaskill: I’m filibustering Gorsuch over his “stunning lack of humanity” BREAKING=> KREMLIN CONNECTION CONFIRMED! Podesta Company Paid One Billion Rubles from Russian Govt. 'Russiagate' Is Failing And Its Supporters Are Getting Concerned:
Heard from Axelrod on CNN (at the gym this morning): "Trump Administration paralyzed by deepening Russia scandals." The object of the Left’s game is to nullify Trump’s presidency, whether by impeachment or withering rebuke. Democrats Know the Election Was Legitimate but Persist in a Dangerous Fraud
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Dems Demand Investigation Over Mnuchin’s ‘Lego Batman’ Joke Chris Matthews: Ivanka Trump Scares Me Really, Really Bad Her beauty scares me Meet the Hunter Troop: Norway's tough-as-nails female soldiers Israeli report: Thousands of Chinese jihadists are fighting in Syria On display at Arab Summit: division and declining influence Saturday Verse: Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)Breathes There The Man... from The Lay Of The Last Minstrel Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Friday, March 31. 2017Even if you aren't Christian, or are a casual Christian...
You will enjoy Max McLean's production of C.S. Lewis' conversion: The Most Reluctant Convert. The New Yorker: " Lewis’ fiercely considered intellectual reason makes the stuffy Oxford don intriguing company.” My favorite line from the performance: "My Oxford friend Barfield was raised in an open-minded family... so naturally he knew nothing about Christianity." I also loved the part about his pre-university tutor W T Kirkpatrick. Some teacher, demanding as hell of intellectual consistency and precision. Also, his experiences in combat in WW l. Lewis' conversion happened like Hemingway's line about how a character's bankruptcy happened, "Gradually, then suddenly."
It's at the Acorn on W 42nd St NYC. Cheap. McLean did another one man show of Screwtape a couple of years ago (which we saw. Also a tour de force). This is only 80 minutes. After, you can grab a bite or a cocktail at our favorite joint in that neck of the woods, The West Bank Cafe, right across the street. Cozy and great service. When McLean finishes, he takes questions from the audience. Mrs. BD unmasked her intelligence with the best question. The Acorn is in one of these new sorts of multiplex stage theaters that are emerging around NYC. It's a cool concept: four or so black box theaters on a few floors of an old converted industrial building, all sharing administration etc. Each small theater has its own name. Also want to mention that all the brand-new high-rises around W 42nd are astonishing. That used to be a lousy area between the Garment District and Hell's Kitchen with a long windy hike to the subway. Every few months there is a new luxury high rise even though the general area is too busy and charmless in my opinion. The Big Apple draws ambitious, determined, and talented people like an apple draws fruit flies.
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Friday morning linksWhat people wore during Jesus' time At Black Rock, machines take over money management Pothole Coast Highway - With its dams and roads crumbling, California faces an infrastructure crisis. Keep him away from Col. Sanders Transgender WWII veteran comes out as a woman at 90 When a Man in a Women’s Restroom is Finally Seen as Wrong 5-Year-Old Girl Suspended from School for Pretending a Stick Was a Gun Insanity is contagious College plans to fire professor who taught ‘Men in Literature’ class Faculty forced to pledge allegiance to diversity or lose their jobs nationwide Good grief. An oath of allegiance to what? Leftists Flip Off Memorial Dedicated To Victims Of Communism THE WORLD’S FIRST STATE OF THE CLIMATE SURVEY BASED ON OBSERVATIONS ONLY Reflections on Mark Steyn’s ‘A Disgrace to the Profession’ about Dr. Michael Mann U.S. College Grads See Slim-to-Nothing Wage Gains Since Recession ‘Buy America’ is a form of impoverishing economic poison, and legalizes discrimination based on national origin It Took Three People Two Months to Create Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Logo Not from the Onion: CNN Investigates Russian Salad Dressing After Sean Spicer Mentions it in Press Briefing TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS QUIETLY DOING GOOD THINGS Cuba reforms are stalling What a World Led by China Might Look Like - The Trump administration may be accelerating "Easternization," argues Gideon Rachman. Lone Wolves No More - The Decline of a Myth Trump's Inherited North Korea Crisis, and Lessons on Iran And can you imagine this one?
Princeton Seminary Reforms Its Views on Honoring Tim Keller
Thursday, March 30. 2017A conversation with George Steiner
"Revealing and exhilarating, A Long Saturday invites readers to pull up a chair and listen in on a conversation with a master." A Long Saturday: Conversations
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Thursday morning linksGreat news about American oil Principal Bans 'Bad' Books That Kids Actually Want to Read As a kid, I read indiscriminately. I still read almost anything. If you want kids to read and play outside, shoot your TV and throw out their iPads. Retirement Is Nobody’s Business but Your Own Loyalty oaths return to campi New DOD Report: Junior Female Officers Believe Gender Integration Is About Advancing A ‘Social Agenda’ School Has Its Budget Cut for Having Too Many White Students Emanuel Defends Chicago's Sanctuary Status After Sessions Warns of Funding Cuts Why do cities want so many illegals? DHS list of sanctuary cities leaps to 150; Baltimore now appears on the list Illegal Aliens Are Cancelling Their Food Stamps California’s Chief Justice: Enforcing Immigration Laws Goes Against The Rule Of Law CBS: ‘No Credible Source’ Backs Up Claim Clintons Got Paid for Uranium Your Flat Screen TV Is Causing The Somalia Drought California Shamelessly Persecutes Pro-Life Journalists Stop Calling the 'Freedom Caucus' the 'Rebellious Far Right Wing' Is Obamacare a lifesaver? IS OBAMACARE AN ENTITLEMENT PROGRAM? The Sad Cancer Of Third Party Pay Medical Care More wailing over Trump’s killing Obama’s overreaching climate regs – this time the doctors weigh in If warm weather is bad, why do so many old people go to Florida and Arizona? Leftists Attack V.P. Mike Pence For Being Loyal to His Wife! Trump signs “energy independence” executive order today, killing Obama climate regs North Korea threatens WAR with the US after Senator John McCain called despot Kim Jong-un a ‘crazy fat kid’ Britain officially files to leave the EU, as Scotland seeks its own exit Wednesday, March 29. 2017Evolutionists Flock To Darwin-Shaped Wall Stain
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Oppressed?Peterson is a harsh speaker of truth
Another cool lower body calisthenic
We're working on a new game: Pistols. It's like a one-legged squat. Try it from your chair. It's not easy and you might have to begin from a higher perch and work your way lower. You will see what it feels like for elderly people to get up from a chair without using their arms. The gal in the vid has short legs so she uses a stool for her foot to get the 90 degree knee angle. It stresses lots of accessory leg and core muscles because of the balance challenge. One foot must be solidly-planted, one in the air. We're adding this to our calis repertoire, and I am going to get out of chairs one-legged from now on. Just think of how many times/day you get up from a chair. Why not use it as a good exercise? Sorry for the horrible music.
Wednesday morning linksPeople dress sloppy on flights so they can sleep comfortably. It's unpleasant,though. When children came together when I was a child it was usually to argue about the rules of games and beat the crap out of each other. Seven Ways You’re Ruining Your Steak Dinner CONSUMER ALERT: 'CAN YOU HEAR ME' SCAMS An Army of Straw Men Keeps Campus Intolerance Alive Gotta protect the students from the KKK Wellesley too These people are evil ‘Free’ Camille Paglia! Evidence of employers paying women 20% less than men for the exact same work is as elusive as Bigfoot sightings Computer lab for indigenous only 'Originalism' — another word for the rule of law Investors not worried about the Maldives The Overton Window: How the Left turns the unthinkable into the uncontroversial Money for nothing: Cuomo’s $25 billion upstate-jobs failure What If the Health-Care Collapse Saves Trump's Presidency? President Trump And Making America Great Again — Swiss-Style Did Obamacare Create the Expectation of Universal Health Coverage? And did Obamacare solidify the belief that the federal government should provide it? UPDATE: President Obama’s Own Defense Deputy Admits Obama White House Spied on Candidate/President-Elect Trump… Tuesday, March 28. 2017Tuesday morning linksGwynnie's photo of overhead Snows
World’s largest dinosaur footprint discovered Down Under Sex may be key to a happy marriage, study finds Where would we be without such studies? Boston: It’s the end of urban planning as we know it (and we feel fine) Robots are Taking Our Jobs, and That is a Good Thing Students Confess Their Sins At ‘Masculinity Confession Booth’ Hmmm. That could take a while... As Trans Tide Rises, Women Athletes, Moms, Prisoners and Playwrights Beware:
The problem with medical care (and everything else) is scarcity NY TIMES PUBLISHES, THEN RETRACTS, FAKE NEWS MORE FAKE NEWS FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES Fox’s Cavuto Slams ‘Over-the-Top Negative Media Response’ to Everything Trump Does A Republican Fiasco Years in the Making Reynolds: Why aren't bills on infrastructure, tax reform and free speech lined up like planes on a runway? The growing nuclear threat from North Korea Islam: It’s not non-Western. It’s anti-Western. The contradiction in multiculturalism is that it is a uniquely Western concept London Mayor's Ties To Extremism Call Commitment To Fighting Terror Into Question
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