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Sunday, September 12. 2021Last Rose of summerAs weather gets cooler, I think today will be the last day of the year we have Rose for sunset boat drinks. I do not know how to put accents on letters, but I mean the wine. We've done a fair bit of day touring and have learned all we can about our engine and other systems. Still practicing docking but, as I always say, boats are not designed to be near land. Next year we will take on longer overnight trips although I will never do nighttime or fog.
Saturday, September 11. 2021Saturday morning links
Vanderleun: What I Saw: Notes Made on September 11, 2001 from Brooklyn Heights Taliban to Inaugurate Al Qaeda Government on 9/11 Taliban Bans Women From Playing Sports… The Case for Merit, Character, and Capacity I'm 17. And I'm Immunized from Woke Politics. Calling all Barbz: Twitter rallies behind Harvard students told to remove Nicki Minaj flag from dorm window Google et al. Take Hypocrisy On Racism To Yet A Whole New Level Virginia Education Dept. Blasted for 9/11 Sensitivity Training Video for Teachers. “The Virginia Department of Education is woke-washing the 9/11 attacks.” Joe Biden’s Plan for Forced Vaccinations for American Workers Does Not Include Illegal Aliens Did Ron Klain Just Blow Up Biden's Vaccine Mandate with a Retweet? Incredible: Kumala Makes the Case for "My Body, My Choice" The Very Same Day That Biden Imposes Medical Tyranny On the Country Washington Post Legal Analysis Exhibits Confusion about How Law Works Friday, September 10. 2021Bug of the Week: Crickets chirpingThe chorus of crickets chirping on these late summer evenings is one of the finest things in life, and last night they were loud. That evening bug-song has followed me through most of my life, and fills me with joy. Field Crickets are found across the US. In New England, we have the Black Field Cricket (photo) who is at his prime in early October until the first hard frost. They are mainly nocturnal insects and eat almost anything. Taxonomically, crickets (along with grasshoppers, locusts, katydids) are in Order Orthoptera of Class Insecta. The males rub their forewings together producing the chirp or trill, of which the frequency is temperature-related. The function of the trill is, of course, to attract females desirous of fertilization - or to fight. Only males chirp. Around here, we still have the Katydids singing at night along with the rapidly-growing Field Crickets. Open the windows. Or open the doors: two Field Crickets are occupying the Maggie's HQ right now, and I need to leave them some crumbs from my Subway sandwich to keep them happy. Friday morning linksHusband’s Perfect Communication Causes Fight Shameless scaremongering from The New York Times on COVID and kids DISMANTLING THE ENVIRONMENTAL THEORY FOR COVID’S ORIGINS Charges Upgraded Against Minnesota Officer Who Accidentally Fired Gun Instead of Taser, Killing Daunte Wright. First Degree Manslaughter added by Attorney General Keith Ellison on top of previous Second Degree Manslaughter. America's Failing Schools. If our children are our future, we’re fucked. Professor Peter Boghossian Resigns From ‘Social Justice Factory’ Portland State University. Students at Portland State are not being taught to think. Rather, they are being trained to mimic the moral certainty of ideologues.” More educational insanity National Archives and Records Association puts "harmful content" label on Constitution, founding documents Wokeness is a puritanical cult. Asterix and Tintin comics have been set on fire in Canada for failing a woke purity test. Beyond Parody: Biden State Department Voices Concerns Over All-Male Taliban Government… BoJo Blasts Churchill Charity For Scrubbing Former PM From Website Xi Jinping's Great Leap Backward should worry us Thursday, September 9. 2021Our server had a mild case of COVIDAustralia Is Now Confiscating Booze Delivered To People Forced Into Lockdown Whatever happened to "follow the science"? Trump caused COVID, but Biden has not cured it Few of Our COVID-19 Policies Make Any Sense What’s The Chance Of Getting A Breakthrough COVID Infection? Wednesday, September 8. 2021There are many factors
Personality traits, parental support, cultural ideals, cognitive issues, etc etc all play roles in how people do academically. And, of course, males do not do as well except at the top end. At Quillette, Remedial Education for All. It's about "dumbing down." Trades are not for low IQ. They are good for people who do not like regular school. Wednesday morning linksAn 'Internet apocalypse' could ride to Earth with the next solar storm, new research warns WSJ: Get Ready for the Blackouts. Mismanagement and the push for renewables are degrading the reliability of the U.S. electrical grid. Rutgers bars unvaccinated students from attending virtual classes How to Prepare for COVID (and How Not To) Taibbi on the invermectin craziness Too lazy to work, too callous to care: COVID’s lesson on teachers unions I doubt that is true of most teachers In the next few years, two women will earn a college degree for every man CNN: American Racism Will Never Disappear; It Will Become ‘White Supremacy With A Tan’ Federal government using social-media giants to censor Americans Steven Pinker defends "fake but accurate" Mexico Says US Must Pay Up To Stem Illegal Immigration At US Border Europe Now Hates Joe Biden Months After Calling Him “A Return To Adulthood” For America.. Tuesday, September 7. 2021Monday morning linksTwo utterly fascinating facts about COVID Addicted to Videogames The Looking Glass World Of "Climate Injustice" -- Part II NY Times Blames Global Warming For Hurricane Ida…Like clockwork. What happens when you get canceled (and why) Illinoisans Paid Almost as Much on Unemployment as at Work It’s now obvious that Biden doesn’t even want to stop the ever-growing border surge Five reasons Biden's approval ratings have taken a pounding VDH: Biden and the Left-wing Standard of Attacking Presidents China's Marxist "Profound Revolution" Is Here Sunday, September 5. 2021Boat Life: Installing solarFrom today's LectionaryIsaiah 35:4-7a 35:4 Say to those who are of a fearful heart, "Be strong, do not fear! Here is your God. He will come with vengeance, with terrible recompense. He will come and save you." 35:5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped; 35:6 then the lame shall leap like a deer, and the tongue of the speechless sing for joy. For waters shall break forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert; 35:7a the burning sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water. Saturday, September 4. 2021A few more Sat. links
ET TU, PRINCETON? WSJ: What 9/11 Taught Us About Trauma and Resilience. Distress is a normal reaction to mass tragedy, but so is a relatively prompt climb back to good mental health. MC: The topic of the moment here at Manhattan Contrarian has been how judges with a religious zeal to perfect the world (according to their own woke vision) can go completely off the rails with sweeping orders to transform the entire country. China Rebuffs Kerry In Climate Talks: 'We'll Follow Our Own Roadmap" Joe Manchin Is Singlehandedly Destroying Biden's Presidency. Friday, September 3. 2021Friday morning linksCannabis not good for teen brains Sociology journal calls for papers that ‘critically examine’ racism in sports development Should Public Schools be Allowed to Deceive Parents? 16% of Black Families Left the Corrupt Educational System
Powerline again: I know what you’re thinking, and I checked: this is not a Monty Python skit. Stella Parton: Women in America are treated worse than women in Afghanistan, you know Code Pink Goes All Red Defending Tiny Little Communist China Against Imperial Taiwan No, the Woke Won’t Debate You. Here’s Why. Newsom's closing message: More people will die if I'm recalled GOP hopes of ousting Gavin Newsom fading in the California recall election? DHS, CNN Scramble To Flip Biden Afghanistan Narrative Back To Domestic 'White Supremacists' Threat BIDEN TRIED TO SEND PALLETS OF CASH TO THE TALIBAN AS KABUL FELL Thursday, September 2. 2021Protein supplements and weight trainingThis article applies to heavy weight training, not for the hand-weights typically used in conditioning classes. Age is a factor. Also, there is an amount which is optimal. More is not always better. I do heavy weights (powerlifts, etc) twice weekly, but have been slacking off on the nutrition.
Wednesday, September 1. 2021Wednesday morning linksStudy shows evidence of beer drinking 9,000 years ago in Southern China Hydroponics Reveals That Organic Food Is About Ideology, Not Sustainability More On European Climate Change Litigation: These People Are Crazy U.S. Aid Will Keep Flowing to Taliban The Media Will Lap Up Biden's Afghanistan 'Victory' Speech Like Dogs Returning to Their Vomit Kinder, Gentler Taliban Murder Afghan Folk Singer, Because Music Is Un-Islamic Taliban Expected To Double Down On Drug Trafficking Taliban Committing House-To-House Executions Of “Traitors”… Government Teachers Gone Wild: Teachers Direct Students to Salute the Gay Pride Flat and the Antifa Fla Report: Libs ‘Discouraged’ After Months of Getting Owned by Kyrsten Sinema. 'Demoralization is setting in' among left-wing activists as Democratic senator ignores their pointless whining Tuesday, August 31. 2021Tuesday morning linksCape Cod: eight great white sharks seen feeding on humpback whale carcass. Expert marvels at ‘biggest smorgasbord a shark could dream of’ Epoch: 800-Year-Old Medieval Chain Mail Vest From Norman Period Discovered in Longford, Ireland Epoch keeps getting better, but $. Greedy capitalists. HHS Plans To Treat Climate Crisis As Public Health Crisis LA Teacher's Union President: 'Our babies may not have learned all their times tables' but 'they know the words insurrection and coup' Obama Education Secretary Loses His Mind, Compares Anti-Maskers To Kabul Suicide Bombers They Openly Mock Us Now: Taliban Hangs “Traitor” by the Throat From US Helicopter in Kandahar Left Behind by Joe Biden Biden Will Fund Taliban Through "Humanitarian Aid" American University of Afghanistan Students Struggle to Flee the Country Playing the Race Card on Larry Elder. Engaging in shameful duplicity regarding crime and policing, the media attempt to portray the California gubernatorial candidate as anti-black. Kamala Harris: The absentee VP by design The Story About Biden Checking His Watch During Dignified Transfer Just Got a Lot Worse Did not like being there Monday, August 30. 2021Rick Beato on J.S. BachMonday PM linksThe kinky secret sex lives of sharks ‘We are burning our cultural inheritance’. Heather Mac Donald on how high culture has been destroyed by the culture war. Strange Daze: The American Anti-American White Anti-White Sleepwalking “Woke Folk” Among Us Scientific American (and math) go full woke Stop enabling people to avoid work because of Covid Who’s Skipping the Vaccine? The Answer May Surprise You After implementing a vaccine mandate, Amherst requires double-masking and limits student travel Kamala Harris and Jane Fonda Sunday, August 29. 2021The story of the YardbirdsSunday afternoon link dump
AOC Decides To Jump In On The Science Of Ice Cream From a doctor bewildered at where all this COVID stuff is going Bill Maher Crowns Greg Gutfeld the ‘New King of Late Night’: Conservative Comedy Successful Because Liberals ‘Sound Like an Onion Headline’ New documents detail behind-the-scenes turmoil at UNC journalism school over Nikole Hannah-Jones hiring Okla. Woman Took Credit for Rescuing the Afghan Girls Robotics Team—and Many in the Media Fell for Her Lies The Atlantic: The dark, destructive place the GOP has found itself in isn’t shocking. What??? What Took You So Long? After Years of Antifa Assaults, Portland 'Journalists' Finally Muster Outrage at Latest Attack Australian state's new "reward" for full vaccination: Two hours allowed outside your home each day instead of one Life in America: Peaches and PorgiesOne of my daughters and her pal caught 12 Porgies this morning from the boat. It is Porgie season in New England. Last night I made a bowl of Peach salsa from our peaches to accompany Indian take-out, and Mrs. BD made a peach pie (yeah, she always makes her own crust - rolls them out with her grandma's rolling pin). Thing about peaches is, for cooking, best if they are firm and far from ripe. For salsa, not ripe but slightly softer and crunchy like an apple. A skewer of hard peach chunks on a grill makes them perfect. For fresh peach chutney that you don't want to bother canning (I am done with canning - it's a pain), you want to use unripe fruit. Just cook it up and put it in the fridge. Peach salsa and peach chutney go with everything, but especially shrimp and fish. And Porgies. From today's LectionaryMark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 7:1 Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him, 7:2 they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them. 7:3 (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash their hands, thus observing the tradition of the elders; 7:4 and they do not eat anything from the market unless they wash it; and there are also many other traditions that they observe, the washing of cups, pots, and bronze kettles.) 7:5 So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?" 7:6 He said to them, "Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me; 7:7 in vain do they worship me, teaching human precepts as doctrines.' 7:8 You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition." 7:14 Then he called the crowd again and said to them, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand: 7:15 there is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but the things that come out are what defile." 7:21 For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: fornication, theft, murder, 7:22 adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, folly. 7:23 All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person." Saturday, August 28. 2021Bumper crop of peaches right nowThe weight of all the fruit has broken many limbs, so it's the last year for this old tree. Such fruit trees have a limited life span. It has produced abundantly every three years. Feast or famine. My pic does not capture the amount of fruit. Invited a gardening pal over to share the harvest. I think the wood might be nice for smoking a turkey on Thanksgiving.
The models for American GothicFriday, August 27. 2021Friday morning linksThe new chief chaplain at Harvard? An atheist New York magazine’s shocking revelation: The liberal media are biased! Americans Are 'More & More Dependent' On Big Govt - Things Are Never Going Back To 'Normal' Cutting to the Chase: Why Trump Was Driven from Office Quote via Powerline: CNN Shocked to Discover Democrat Voters ‘Frustrated,’ Want to Recall Newsom Too
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