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Wednesday, January 6. 2021Wednesday morning linksAre The Vaccines Already (Partially) Obsolete? Teachers are not showing up for work Quit the excuses — and get New Yorkers vaccinated Walmart to Increase Number of Clinics in Its Stores Interesting development Video: 2020: What a year of climate alarmism tells us about green ideology In 1903 The Electric Car Was 54 Years Old Who Gets to Tell the Story of 2020? The lying media are the worst historians. THE WAR ON STANDARDS, WEST POINT CHEATING EDITION What about oaths? TV: Mr. Mayor Makes a Much-Deserved Mockery of Urban Politics. The spiritual successor of 30 Rock keeps its edge. Prager: I Now Better Understand the 'Good German' Radical Democrats Are Turning Minneapolis Into A Violent Wasteland THE BIDEN BORDER SURGE COMES EARLY Warnock defeats Loeffler in Georgia Senate runoff Sheesh President Trump Sends Message to Democrats and RINO Republicans: ‘Thousands Pouring Into DC Won’t Stand for Stolen Election’ Shut up, Donald China calls Biden administration ‘a new window of hope’ for US relations Tuesday, January 5. 2021Tuesday morning linksGoodbye to Gerry of Gerry and the Pacemakers. Gerard reviews his leaving NYC, from 2005 Alibaba Founder Jack Ma Has Been Missing For 2 Months ISRAEL LEADS THE WORLD IN CORONAVIRUS VACCINATION SHOTS 64% Of D.C’s COVID Vaccine Supply Is Literally Sitting Unused… Identity Politics is Behind the Failed Vaccine Rollout To Speed Up Vaccine Distribution, Let National Chains Like CVS And Walgreens Take A Role Re Cuomo:
COVID world update Kamala Tells Tall Tale of How She Fell Out of a Stroller During Civil Rights March, Then Told Her Mom All She Wanted Was “Fweedom” – Story Was Lifted From 1965 Playboy Interview with MLK! As a new year dawns, be very grateful you are not Joe Biden Monday, January 4. 2021It's mousetrap season around hereActually it's always the season for House Mice. We have an issue with them right now. In cold weather, their numbers can be supplemented by outdoor wild mice. The solution is good old (humane) Victor Mousetraps. $11 per dozen.
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Monday morning linksPhoto: Some things that were sold out at our fancy shop on New Years Day morning. And the wine shop was closed. So we had to make do. We did. Actually, DC mandarins deserve their hideous brutalist architecture It is designed to intimidate the peasants 2020 taught us one good thing: Celebrities are meaningless Causation Of Climate Change, And The Scientific Method Never ask "How was your weekend?" Chicago Teacher Union Official: Keep Your Kids Home … While I Live The “Pool Life” In Puerto Rico Cuomo: I’ll Fine Doctors Up To $1 Million If They Vaccinate Someone Who Isn’t Eligible Yet Brilliant governor! State is slowest in getting the vaccines out, despite truckloads of them Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Is Finally Figuring Out He Can’t Appease Antifa Rioters As Scott says, people respond to incentives "Angry And Ignorant Is No Way To Go Through Life," Said Nobody On The Left A Group of 400 Former U.S. Intelligence Officials Are Investigating 'Blatant' Election Fraud WHISTLEBLOWER: I Drove 'Thousands of Ballots' From New York to Pennsylvania Does anyone doubt that this was a dirty election? Facebook Shuts Down Page for GOP Senate Campaigns Just Before Georgia Runoffs Trump was tough on Russia. Who knew? Sunday, January 3. 2021Auld Lang SyneOld times. It's a tear-jerker. Last time we played Rabbie Burns' tune in our house was the year that both of my parents died with the whole countless family, at Thanksgiving. Our dear friend played it on our pianny Sat. night for a smallish New Year dinner party. Mrs. BS made that wonderful Italian roast pork with a ton of peppercorns. All I could think of is of my lost pals, died or moved away. Especially my tennis partners and beer partners. Parents and in-laws too. Rabbie did not invent the song, it's just his version that we sing with tears.
From today's Lectionary: In the beginning was the wordJohn 1:(1-9), 10-18 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 1:2 He was in the beginning with God. 1:3 All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being 1:4 in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. 1:5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. 1:6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 1:7 He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. 1:8 He himself was not the light, but he came to testify to the light. 1:9 The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. 1:10 He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him. 1:11 He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him. 1:12 But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, 1:13 who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God. 1:14 And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father's only son, full of grace and truth. 1:15 (John testified to him and cried out, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me ranks ahead of me because he was before me.'") 1:16 From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. 1:17 The law indeed was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 1:18 No one has ever seen God. It is God the only Son, who is close to the Father's heart, who has made him known. Saturday, January 2. 2021Something wonderful, as Gerard would sayDancing in Bryant Park, NYC, this Thanksgiving weekend. Despite politics, what a great city. Everything interesting no matter what. The show must go on.
Saturday morning linksHappy New Year, Reality Denial Edition Abortion Leading Global Cause of Death in 2020 with 42.7 Million Killed A Tidal Wave of Death - The 1918 Spanish flu was a killer of historic proportions. Ancient Egypt: A pyramid scheme that worked The political threat of authoritarianism is very real and has nothing do with trump -Greenwald Cancel Culture Strikes Again And The NY Times Is Fine With It Proposed House Rules Seek to Erase Gendered Terms Such as ‘Father, Mother, Son, Daughter’ $2,000 Checks For The Affluent Ninth Circuit Judges Reopen Borders for Flood of Illegals Pallets of Fake Ballots in Georgia’s Fulton County Were Identified, Filmed and Sampled Before Moving Trucks Picked Them Up and Shredded Them Powerline: HOW MUCH VOTER FRAUD WAS THERE? Thursday, December 31. 2020Nearing the end of Christmas week, if you need some musicThursday morning linksGoodbye to 2020, the year when so much and so many were so wrong California Extends Its Stay-At-Home Orders Indefinitely, No End In Sight… 60% of Ohio nursing home staff refusing covid vaccine @GovMikeDeWine says The Forgotten 1957 Pandemic and Recession Nursing Home Patients Dying Of Loneliness Amid COVID Lockdown… Gender ideology ties Scouts in tough knots Resistance Journalists Looking To Take A Break Now That Biden Is In Office CNN Activist-Reporter Jim Acosta Admits He Won’t Cover Biden as Aggressively as Trump Ric Grenell: The America First policy is ‘never going back in the bottle’ after Trump B-52 Bombers Fly Over Persian Gulf As Pentagon Steps Up 'Deterrence' Warnings To Iran Still scary after all these years Wednesday, December 30. 2020The story of "It is Well with my Soul"Wednesday morning linksWhy Roman concrete is stronger than it ever was, while modern concrete decays Something Wonderful: Eddy’s World of Invention What a guy. At 98, Eddy still whistles while he works Was Ancient Greek Poet Homer a Civil War General? He Just Got Canceled in a Mass. School Down the 1619 Project’s Memory Hole Massachusetts city to post climate change warning stickers at gas stations Young Climate Cultists In California Making Themselves Crazy GET READY FOR THE “CLIMATE EMERGENCY”? Spain Will Make List Of Residents Who Refuse COVID Vaccination, Will Share It With European Union To Potentially Ban Them From Air Travel Across EU… New York Lawmakers Decide No One Can Be Evicted During COVID, Landlords Will Just Pay Their Bills Somehow I Guess? Mass Vaccination Campaign Begins In Europe, Millions Of Doses To Be Distributed In First Week Do Black Lives Really Matter? Latest New York City Crime Statistics Worst Governor In America Prioritizes Drug Addicts Over Seniors For Vaccines Obama, Biden Oval Office Meeting On January 5 Was Key To Entire Anti-Trump Operation. Susan Rice's bizarre Inauguration Day email about that meeting helps explain the campaign of leaks, lies, and obstruction that followed. Man Who Has Been In Government For Nearly 50 Years Promises To Fix Government Ukraine Press Conference Explicitly Ties Hunter & Joe Biden To Corruptionaine Press Conference Explicitly Ties Hunter & Joe Biden To Corruption Tuesday, December 29. 2020The Royal Ballet rehearse The Nutcracker
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Tuesday morning linksTHE MOB COMES FOR PROF. GEORGE THE LONG MARCH THROUGH THE INSTITUTIONS IS COMPLETE–THE LEFT CONTROLS TEEN VOGUE REJECT WOKE CIVICS. A national movement to mandate standards for the teaching of Civics and History is gaining momentum. No conservative should support it. Brother, Can You Spare $120 Billion? Colleges: $23 Billion Isn’t Enough
Why does The New York Times hate America? Bill Gates' Savior Complex Spirals Out of Control, Funds Sun-Dimming Plan To Save the Human Race The Real Reason Why Your Kids Can’t Go Back To School (Hint: It’s Not COVID-19) UK Journalist Hounded After Pointing Out That Only Old And Sick Die From COVID Fauci Admits He’s Been ‘Deliberately’ Moving the COVID-19 Goalposts—Partly Based on His Gut 330,000 Americans Die ‘With’ China Coronavirus – CDC says Number Who Died “From” Coronavirus Is Much Less, Around 6 Percent Universal Medicaid for Ages 1–21 Pushed in New England Journal of Medicine To Balance China, Joe Biden Should Build Upon Trump’s India Strategy U.S. "Driving Stake Through Heart" of German-Russian Pipeline Monday, December 28. 2020Monday morning linksJohn Henry Faulk (from 2000): The day after Christmas a number of years ago, I was driving down a country road in Texas... WSJ: In Defense of Scrooge, Whose Thrift Blessed the World. In the 1840s, Dickens didn’t see how businessmen like his hero were already lifting mankind from poverty. Michael Walsh's 'Last Stands' Explains Why Men Go Down Fighting to the Last Breath Girl Powerlessness 'Stressful' incidents fall under 'workplace violence' at Vanderbilt University UMich’s IT department told to stop using word ‘picnic,’ it could ‘harm morale’ THIS WEEK IN RACISM: TIKI BARS? Soccer Club Demands Fans Who Booed BLM Undergo Re-Education Courses Before Being Allowed Back Understanding Black Americans: Don’t Ask Liberals Testing The "Systemic Racism" Narrative Losing a Generation: Across the Country, a Frightening Number of Students Are Receiving Failing Grades MSNBC Doom and Gloom Doc: Don’t Get Overly Optimistic About the Covid-19 Vaccine, We’re in For a “Decades-Long Battle” Media idolatry of Dr. Fauci becoming patently and verifiably absurd Deborah Birx Says She Took Risk Of Traveling On Thanksgiving Because Her Parents Had Stopped Eating… Tucker Carlson: The slow, painful death of California. The policies that destroyed America's largest and most economically important state are heading your way Washington Post Warns Joe Biden: ‘Pandemonium at the Border’ Ossoff: Sorry, But My Company’s Finances Are Confidential The Post says: Give it up, Mr. President — for your sake and the nation’s 29 Years Ago The Soviet Union Was Officially Dissolved… Brexit trade deal agreed at last minute China Begins Antitrust Investigation Into Alibaba, The Countries Largest Corporation… Understanding Israel's War in the 'Grey Zone' Sunday, December 27. 2020Christmas PipesFrom today's LectionaryLuke 2:22-40 2:22 When the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord 2:23 (as it is written in the law of the Lord, "Every firstborn male shall be designated as holy to the Lord"), 2:24 and they offered a sacrifice according to what is stated in the law of the Lord, "a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons." 2:25 Now there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon; this man was righteous and devout, looking forward to the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit rested on him. 2:26 It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord's Messiah. 2:27 Guided by the Spirit, Simeon came into the temple; and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him what was customary under the law, 2:28 Simeon took him in his arms and praised God, saying, 2:29 "Master, now you are dismissing your servant in peace, according to your word; 2:30 for my eyes have seen your salvation, 2:31 which you have prepared in the presence of all peoples, 2:32 a light for revelation to the Gentiles and for glory to your people Israel." 2:33 And the child's father and mother were amazed at what was being said about him. 2:34 Then Simeon blessed them and said to his mother Mary, "This child is destined for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be opposed 2:35 so that the inner thoughts of many will be revealed--and a sword will pierce your own soul too." 2:36 There was also a prophet, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was of a great age, having lived with her husband seven years after her marriage, 2:37 then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshiped there with fasting and prayer night and day. 2:38 At that moment she came, and began to praise God and to speak about the child to all who were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem. 2:39 When they had finished everything required by the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth. 2:40 The child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom; and the favor of God was upon him. Saturday, December 26. 2020Moderna
Supposedly your doc or employer has to ok it, but it seems they just want to get all of the vaccines put out into the community and let none go to waste. I did it not because I am a fearful type, but for the comfort of people I encounter. You get a CDC certificate and a sticker to wear if you want to. In 30 days, you can get the booster shot but you are immuzined until then. That's a precaution. There appears to be no shortage around here. Around here, CVS (good for them) is all set up for delivering to all of the nursing homes and old folk's homes today. Front-line people have already had the chance over the past week, but I saw a few late nurses in our line-up. They were coming cuz of their 5 days off. RNs have strange schedules.
Boxing Day, reposted from 2015
Virginia, your learned friends are wrong. Hansel and Gretel: losing their religion What to the Atheist Existentialist Jew is the Meaning of Christmas? Jingle Hell - The debasement of Christmas songs
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Friday, December 25. 2020A day lateBut not a dollar short with Jessye. We had a memorable Christmas Eve service from the porch of our church last night in the wind and rain with about 200 of us singing carols, doing the readings, with those fake battery candles.
"Come, Martha. Let's go listen to the pudding singing in the copper."That was Tiny Tim on Christmas Day. We got into a chat today at brunch with a Brit friend about Christmas Pudding. Whether you like it or not (it's like Fruitcake), it is a necessary Brit tradition. How to make it is below (recipe and video). Ideally served with flaming brandy, then something creamy on top. Funny thing about Christmas Pudding is that you can make it months in advance. Even a year or two in advance. Just put it on a shelf. Even mice won't bother it.
Thursday, December 24. 2020Forgiving billions of dollars of student debt is a bad ideaThursday morning links
Story of famous photo via Vogue You can stream the musical Hamilton Rush Limbaugh gives emotional signoff during pre-Christmas show Andrew Yang Plans To Run For Mayor Of NYC… Liberal Education and Politics An Exit Interview With Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos Wheels Come Off For Bus Companies, Closing Down Travel Options For Poorer Americans Contrast Between New York And Florida California Accelerates Plan To Chase Away The Wealthy San Francisco Mayor: Newsom’s Senate Pick “A Real Blow To The African-American Community” And To “Women In General” Confused or Dishonest? Biden Claims Hunter Stories Are 'Russian Disinformation,' Biden: ‘We’ve Already Started Discussing’ Repealing Trump Immigration Rules With President of Mexico… Even as Democrats become more anti-Israel, the Middle East is changing
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