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Friday, February 10. 2017Friday morning linksA reason to avoid relationships with crazy people The Next Big Blue-Collar Job Is Coding Twitter Crashes On Revenue Miss, Terrible Guidance, Declining US Sales, Flat US Users From Culture to Cupcakes - The once-great University of California at Berkeley continues its descent into victimology. Ultra-elite College suspends classes for events on privilege, 'sports culture' VDH: California Goes Confederate Berkeley Students: Milo Had It Coming GERMANY’S ENERGIEWENDE - A disaster in the making If Anthropogenic Global Warming Is Real, Why Do Scientists Keep Cheating? Why Do We Have a Department of Education? Show trials and Stalin's children "When Everyone's a Racist, then No One Will Be" Americans Trust Trump Administration More Than News Media in New Poll Three Muslim Brothers, IT Professionals Fired from Capitol Hill for Spying – Funneled House Data to External Server Gad Saad On Hysteria And 'Collective Munchausen' Around Donald Trump Evidence Shows ISIS May Be Forging Passports Actually, Trump has a duty to ban dangerous immigrants 77% of refugees allowed into U.S. since travel reprieve hail from seven suspect countries Drudge:
Linda Sarsour Rekindles the Left’s Love Affair with Radical Extremism Democrats Are Losing Their War With Trump Slate: Five Things Americans Can Do to Beat Trump Scarborough to Trump on Judges: 'Presidents Don't Speak This Way' Harsanyi: Authoritarianism Is Not Confined To One Political Party - The shared governing philosophy of contemporary liberalism and Trumpism Education tyranny: What the opposition to DeVos says about liberals Thursday, February 9. 2017Thursday morning linksGwynnie's photo from yesterday. Buried in snow today In eastern Germany, the land of Luther, church pews are mostly empty - On the streets where Martin Luther preached, about 85 percent of residents have no religion, 40-plus years after Soviet rule ingrained a deep skepticism of God and religion. Cool: Study finds ‘Snowball Earth’ event gave rise to oxygen based life Musk is the new PT Barnum Coffee and soda pop: Philadelphia Goes Over the Tax Cliff Iceberg! Consider this: Some 40,000 icebergs are created each year. Out of that 40,000, the New York Times can’t find one—in our supposedly perilous age of rampant global warming—that actually constitutes a threat to our well being Gravy Train Flows Wide And Deep At Elizabeth Warren’s Consumer Agency No Thug Left Behind - Obsessed with “racial equity,” St. Paul schools abandoned discipline—and unleashed mayhem. Flashback: NAACP Gave ‘Racist’ Jeff Sessions Governmental Award of Excellence In 2009 Sen. Cotton’s immigration bill Hillary The Left's Persecution of Real Refugees from Islam and Communism Illegal Aliens Really Do Vote – a Lot Defending President Trump Is Becoming More Difficult - The president of the United States should never stoop to petty personal attacks against anyone. Trump Destroys Leftist Judges by Reading Law Word-For-Word - Open border activists rewriting law from the bench An inconvenient stretcher - Al Gore was wrong, among other important things, about ‘the tipping point’ Bernie Sanders Villainizes Small Biz Owner for Not Being Able to Afford Health Insurance Sanders is ignorant about real life. New businesses do not make money. They hope to. Reminds me of Hillary's famous "We can't worry about every undercapitalized business in America." Obamacare Exchanges Were in Big Trouble Before Trump Hillary's 'Future Is Female' Femme-A-Goguery Steve Bannon, Antichrist? I've read Breitbart for years, never saw any white supremacy there at all Not A Single Senate Democrat Stands Up To Teachers Unions Goodwin: The Democratic Party has lost its mind — and its soul Trump’s move to end Dodd-Frank disaster all about helping small biz Dodd-Frank did nothing to end Too Big To Fail Second Swedish cop opens up about migrants destroying his country The American Climbing the Ranks of ISIS - John Georgelas was a military brat, a drug enthusiast, a precocious underachiever born in Texas. Now he is a prominent figure within the Islamic State. Here’s the story of his long and troubling journey. Turkey: Erdogan's Grab for Absolute Power And yet Turkey is one of the few nations in the ME which doesn't need a king. Still, I long for the return of the Ottoman Empire. Peace. How to handle Hezbollah in Latin America Bibi Netanyahu on meeting with Chuck Norris: 'Israel is strong but it's indestructible now' Shock Poll: In the Netherlands, Geert Wilders' Party Smashes Rivals New England Real Estate: Wellfleet, MAOur realtor friend in Wellfleet is constantly tempting us with items. But we are smart: We rent on vacations and we are not rich. Who really wants more property maintenance when you could be reading, fishing, sailing, hiking, kayaking, or swimming? Who wants more drudgery? The old Bookstore on the edge of Main St. is for sale. Not the Bookstore Restaurant, the old bookstore. Being a short walk to "downtown" is very desirable these days. A real bookstore in that tiny village is absurd, with tourists basically 2 months/yr. It's a house. Built 1830. Asking $648,000. Wednesday, February 8. 2017Donald the Barbarian Is The Donald half-nuts? I sort-of think so. It's why he was elected. Overturn tables, rattle cages, slash and burn, etc. I think I figgered it all out. His mom, Mary Ann Macleod, was a penniless immigrant from the Isle of Lewis, outside Stornaway. Lots of wild and crazy Clan Macleods up there - or used to be before most of them sensibly emigrated to America where the living is easy. Trump's mom worked as domestic help in NYC before marrying Fred Trump, the real estate developer of German extraction. As I understand it, the Hebrides islanders are like high-octane Highlanders. They had to be, to fight to survive the elements, the sea, the Danes, rival clans, and the Brits. Women as tough and stubborn as the men. A semi-civilized, fighting, reckless, ignorant, defiant breed. Conan the Barbarian was modeled after highland Celtic warriors. Barbarians. America was fed up with its elite overlords who always knew better than us, the great unwashed. Wednesday morning linksAn Eagle tried to buy breakfast at Dunkin RIP Hans Rosling, Who Saw and Explained Our Wonderful World Sowell: Education at a Crossroads More on the why the education establishment so loathes Betsy DeVos. She wants poor people to have a choice Re Devos: “This is not a job for amateurs,” the former “Saturday Night Live” comedian added. 92% of left wing activists arrested by police live with their parents Explains a lot Former Planned Parenthood managers: We had to meet quotas for abortions It's a sales job House Committee Moves Forward With Investigation Into NOAA Climate Manipulation Chief of 84 Lumber Speaks Out on Super Bowl Ad - She's pro-Trump, pro-border wall It turns out that there is a “wage gap” at Audi. America's Latest Social Crisis: Couples Call It Quits Over Trump Calling Out Feminists on Shame of Not Calling Out Islam Williamson: Approve the Cabinet Z-man: Progressives and Race The ‘Fake News’ Problem - Why the left is also responsible for the proliferation of inaccurate information—and why the big beneficiary is Donald Trump
What should the Dems do? The Longest Nooooo!
Mohammed Rapes 13 Year-Old Swedish Girl in School Toilet – Gets 2 Months in Prison Isn't tolerance beautiful? Muslim Brotherhood Making Inroads in Germany, Says Senior Intel Official 55% Of Europeans Agree With Trump: "Muslim Immigration Should Be Banned" Tuesday, February 7. 2017Planks
Regular elbow or straight-arm planks are good uses of "rest" periods between weight-lifting, too. Planks are not really cosmetic, for creating visible 6-packs. You will never do that. They are core-strengtheners, which means torso. A sturdy torso is one's core. I probably do 8-10 30-60-second planks of various types weekly, usually as part of supersets. Not much, but it fills the time. I do plenty of other calis that make demands on core, but all exercise stresses the core because...it's the core. QQQ"I'll buy a TV when I've read all the books I want to read and need to read." - a couple of people said something like that recently, maybe AVI and somebody else too in an interview Tuesday morning linksStudy: Majority Of Humans Happiest When Rest Of Family Still Asleep Christie Brinkley at 63 Some people let themselves go, and some don't Super Bowl ad blasts Humane Society of the United States Apparently white supremacy won the Superbowl How world leaders were duped into investing billions over manipulated global warming data Massive emergency Cleanup Underway Where Environmentalists Camped for Pipeline Protest Marie Claire Claims Trump to Ban Premarital Sex with Executive Order
California Senate Leader Admits: "Half Of My Family" In Country Illegally With "False Social Security Cards" The Federalist Documents The Hysterical Freak-Out Media's Fake News Stories Since the Election, and It's Quite a Long List CBS poll: Two-thirds of Democrats say Islam and Christianity are equally violent Here a Nazi, There a Nazi, Everywhere a Nazi-Nazi! Dilbert creator gives up on UC Berkeley once and for all Everything said about President Trump's "Muslim ban" is a lie -- including that it's a Muslim ban. Soros, Tucson, and Ben & Jerry Helped Finance Violent Shutdown of Free Speech in Berkeley College socialists: We need more violence against Trump and his supporters to be effective In Their Own Words: Anti-Trump ‘Resistance’ Leaders Say They Want To Make America ‘Ungovernable’ Trump’s election is the last, best hope to re-Reaganize the GOP What Part Of “You Lost” Don’t Liberals Understand? All of it, and none of it Le Pen vows 'France first' at campaign launch Syria conflict: Thousands hanged at Saydnaya prison, Amnesty says Beast of Burden1940 Eimco Power-Horse. You steer it with reins! I suppose that made the old farmers more comfortable. Read about it here.
Monday, February 6. 2017Monday morning linksThat was quite a game last night, wasn't it? Commenter at Gateway:
Shameless Super Bowl Clicks -- Banned Super Bowl Commercials, Better Than Un-Banned The Political Saga of Avocados Today's real headline: Climate “Science” Rocked By Another Scandal Climate Alarmism Doesn't Seem To Be Scaring Anybody Any More A conservative social worker! (Is that even possible?) College pledges to hire professors based on skin color, mandates social-justice workshops Corporate Executives Play Politics At Their Company's Peril Boycott the boycotters Look Who Funds The Group Behind The Call To Arms At Milo's Berkeley Event Milo Yiannopoulos Tested Progressives—and They Failed How much of the political future are today’s riots costing the left? Trump Is Right: Silicon Valley Is Using H-1B Visas To Pay Low Wages To Immigrants This Border Town Already Has a Wall—and It Doesn’t Work - Smugglers THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S DARK VIEW OF IMMIGRANTS Report: Sanctuary Cities Received $27 Billion From Feds Each Year - 1 in 5 city residents in Los Angeles are illegal immigrants Errors From The Press Are Piling Up In The Opening Weeks Of The Trump Administration The Disgusting Media Double Standard Between Obama and Trump AP FACT CHECK: Pelosi lacks facts to back up Trump criticism
Lockheed Credits Trump as Price Per Jet Falls in Latest F-35 Batch Repealing Obamacare Proving To Be Harder Than GOP Thought Trump Isn’t Repeating Obama’s Middle East Mistakes The Trump administration pulls the plug on official Islamophilia. Is Justin Trudeau ‘Trumpable'?
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Sunday, February 5. 2017Je suis le bebeFrom last week's Lectionary1 Corinthians 1:18-31
Saturday, February 4. 2017Superbowl Sunday
Serious football fans seem not to like Superbowl parties. My father-in-law would never attend one. Too much noise and distraction. When it comes to football, he likes to focus like a laser beam, in solitude. Slightly related, The NYT Is Horrified That Members Of The New England Patriots Organization Are Friends With Trump. The NYT is horrified that anybody likes Trump, and they do not know anybody who does. I do not particularly like him, but I am impressed by what he is doing. Seems mostly like common-sense undoing of errors. His infantile lashing out, however, has got to go.
A bookWe linked a piece about the life of H A Rey (Curious George) a while ago. Rey also wrote Find the Constellations and The Stars. I learned the constellations from those books. I can still look up and find the North Star as long as I can find the Big Dipper (which is low in the sky this time of year). Basic life knowledge. Constellations illustrate an interesting cognitive phenomenon. There is no pattern up there in the sky, but if you invent some, you will see them for the rest of your life.
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The Circus Dead, Animal Rights Kooks Target Rodeo NLRB memo: football players at private schools are employees Photos: Sea cliff at Kamokuna ocean entry collapses California: Easy to Love, Impossible to Do Business In How the Teleprompter Changed Public Speaking U.N. Official Admits Global Warming Agenda Is Really About Destroying Capitalism Bummer: ‘Climate Change’ Will Kill The Groundhog Day Groundhog Or Something Who are Those Refugees Australia Doesn't Want? The Bureaucrats Think That They Don't Answer To The President How does David Brooks get it so wrong? ‘Born In The USA’ Singer Bruce Springsteen Tells Australian Fans He’s Embarrassed To Be American THERE ARE FASCISTS ON CAMPUS. PROTESTERS DON’T REALIZE IT’S THEM, NOT MILO YIANNOPOULOS: Rabid NYU Professor Melts Down, Orders Cops To Assault Conservative "Vice" Co-Founder Gavin McInnes CNN’s Don Lemon and Robert Reich: Conservatives Masterminded The Berkeley Riots Shameless vendors of "alternative facts" Media freakout: Another day, another media-instigated panic over Trump This is Joy Behar. Today on live television she called Gunning for Gorsuch — liberals' new normal Trump Short Circuits Washington:
AVI on Refugees How France has become the number one target for extremists in Europe and has been repeatedly brutalised in
A Return to Constitutionalism
Friday, February 3. 2017Friday morning linksZuckerberg Steps In It In Hawaii Fight for 15? Meet the Big Mac machine The danger is that entry-level and teen jobs will disappear The search for the African Einstein Boy Scouts to Admit Biological Girls After New Jersey Transgender Lawsuit If We Can’t Unite Against Rioting, We Can’t Unite at All Berkeley Blowback: Milo Book Sales Soar 12,740% Overnight Sarah Silverman Calls for Military Coup of Trump Administration Liberal Journalist On Twitter Says Milo’s Words And Ideas Make Him Feel Threatened Experts: California voter registration system 'highly susceptible' to fraud "Agree With Trump Or Not, He Seems Determined To Enact What He Promised" Trump Overseeing the Destruction of the Democrat Coalition VDH: When normalcy is revolution - Trump raises ire only because he is undoing the Obama upheaval Trump's no monster... and he's not mad either: While the liberal elites literally lose their minds the polls show that common-sense people quite like the big bad boy in the White House ‘Homegirl in a hijab’ returns - Linda Sarsour, an activist venerated by the left, does more damage NY Daily News: How Democrats are getting played Federal employees receive “resistance” training You can't fire them. Can you just eliminate their jobs? On Boycotting Radical Islamic Nations Outrage at Trump's 'Muslim ban' yet silence over the Middle Eastern 'ban on Jews' Theresa May SMACKS DOWN Anti-Trump Socialist In Parliament NYT Misreports Trump’s Statement on Israel Sweden extends border controls until spring 2017 Thursday, February 2. 2017Thursday morning linksIs Groundhog Day one of your top ten favorites? In New England, we call them Woodchucks. CalExit? Go Ahead. Make My Day. Protesters at U. Michigan March Against Campus Deer Cull UC Berkeley cancels right-wing provocateur’s talk amid violent protest The Goldman Sachs Effect - How a Bank Conquered Washington Trump might end up being the most consequential conservative in American history—and he is not even a conservative. For The Last Time: Stop Throwing ‘Never Trump’ Delusions In Our Faces Z-man's The Cloud Party goes to war:
Suddenly, The NY Times Has A Big Problem With Using A Pen And A Phone Flashback=> Obama: “We Simply Cannot Allow for People to Pour in, Undocumented and Unchecked” Refugees and the Right to Immigrate Trump’s PATCO Moment: Emanating Reagan, the Leaked Executive Order Reveals Trump's Plans For H-1B Visas Obama Refused 91 Refugees – Sent Them Back to Castro’s Hell-Hole 2 Days Before Inauguration – Liberal Media Was Silent Sultan: 3 Questions to Keep Future Muslim Terrorists Out of America Is the New York Times Hysterical or Just Lazy? Kimball: Donald Trump vs. Immanuel Kant
McArdle: Trump's Doomed War on Regulations AP: Republicans “Rammed” Nominees Through Committee With “Brute Political Muscle” Althouse: "No one has ever tried moving at Trump’s speed before." Democrats are becoming the party of secession Chris Matthews: Dems who vote for Gorsuch “will have to answer” for it for 30 years Slate: Gorsuch is not a villain CNN Lets Pelosi Smear Gorsuch As Opposed to Air, Water, Food, and Medicine Without Challenge Gorsuch nomination a lose-lose for the Democrats European Council President Says Trump Is ‘Existential Threat’ to Europe After Eight Years Military Casualties Are Front Page News Again Germany may be the land of engineers and chocolate makers, but it is also the home of the world most dangerous morons too. Wednesday, February 1. 2017Fun with replying to spamIt can be fun. John Podesta didn't know this.
Wednesday morning linksMore Photos of the Obamas' New House 20 Ridiculous Signs That Prove Humanity Is On The Wrong Track Eighty birds of prey take flight - on jet to Jeddah Online Grocer Debuts "Fruit-Picking Robot" In Latest Blow To Minimum Wage Proponents Stingray: A New Frontier in Police Surveillance Beyond creepy DEVOS ATTACKED FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES DONATIONS If she donates to FIRE, she's fine with me VDH: Fake News: Postmodernism By Another Name Gutfeld: 'Trump Is Treating the Presidency Like an Actual Job' DELINGPOLE: Trump’s Climate Plans Just Made the Media’s Heads Explode Smoking Out Islamists via Extreme Vetting Why Do We Have A Refugee Crisis? Because Of Elite Failures On Foreign Policy And Immigration Pause in U.S. entry policies sensible WSJ’s Strassel: I Don’t Remember Protests, Lawsuits When Obama Paused Iraqi Immigration to U.S. in 2011 But Obama wasn't Hitler Byron York: Dems escalate anti-Trump offensive Are We Going To Freak Out Every Time Trump Does What He Promised? Tuesday, January 31. 2017Tuesday morning linksAfraid Government Will Ruin Your Life? Reduce Their Power. Many Americans have an adolescent attitude towards gummint. They want stuff from it, but can feel defiant and don't want to be told what to do. Barcelona Seeks to Limit Number of Tourists With New Law' Initial Impressions: India and Mumbai First Buckingham Palace, now Windsor Castle: Time-honoured tradition of Changing the Guard is AXED amid fears of a Nice-style terrorist attack Maybe time for some extreme vetting Trump v. the Border-less Left: For progressives, the universe of victims is infinite.
Microaggressions, Macro Debate Why the Left hates tolerance - On the shallowness of left-wing “inclusivity.” An American Leader FLASHBACK: Chuck Schumer in 2015: “REFUGEE PAUSE MAY BE NECESSARY!” Flashback 2006: Senators Clinton & Obama Vote For Secure Fence Act, Bush Signs Bill FLASHBACK: Democrats Tried To Block Thousands Of Vietnam War Refugees, Including Orphans Diaz-Balart: Where was the outrage when Obama blocked Cubans? Trump fires acting AG after Justice Department staff told not to defend refugee order New Rasmussen Poll Reveals Silent Majority Approves Of Immigration Ban Trump signs “one-in, two-out” EO to reduce federal regulations Millions Of Lost American Jobs Show The High Cost Of Unfettered Free Trade Trump's team gets ready for Supreme Court fight Saul Alinsky in the White House...Still? Herring Gull eating a MusselFrom a reader this weekend
Monday, January 30. 2017Monday morning links
The Italian Jesuit Who Taught Computers to Talk to Us Scientists finally figured out how to make tomatoes taste good again GMO technology Eat More Peppers, Live Longer; Eat More Grilled Meat, Die Sooner - Exploring the absurdities of modern nutritional epidemiology. "I'm A Woman Who Went To The Women's March And The March For Life. The Differences Were Stunning" A union in Ohio is actually cutting their pension benefits Trump’s EPA Secretary Will Have ‘16,000 Employees Working Against Him’ Good Grief: We Need To Keep Obamacare Because Of ‘Climate Change’ The Media Honestly Doesn’t Get It The Real Relevance of '1984' Today Trump's Unconstitutional Attack on Sanctuary Cities - How the president’s executive order debases the Constitution. Soros Bankrolling Effort to Stop Trump’s Temporary Refugee Halt Order Obama Banned all Iraqi Refugees for 6 Months in 2011 – Liberals SAID NOTHING! Epic – Is Team Trump Baiting Liberal Media and Refugee Protesters By Using Obama’s Own Policy?… President Trump's Immigration Ban is Magnificently Right NY Times Pukes All Over Trump's Refugee Ban Washington Post solicits immigration sob stories The real shocker: Trump is a politician who delivers on his promises Newt Gingrich: The left should be scared to death after Trump's first week Trump sets 5-year and lifetime lobbying ban for officials LAT: When it comes to Trump, liberals can’t see shades of gray
UN Ambassador Haley: 'There is a new US at the UN' Sunday, January 29. 2017From today's LectionaryMatthew 5:1-12
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