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Sunday, August 30. 2020Van Morrison turns 75 todayPowerline posts a good sampling. For all of what he has accomplished, I would have thought him to be older.
From today's LectionaryMatthew 16:21-28 16:21 From that time on, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and undergo great suffering at the hands of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. 16:22 And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, "God forbid it, Lord! This must never happen to you." 16:23 But he turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; for you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things." 16:24 Then Jesus told his disciples, "If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 16:25 For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it. 16:26 For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but forfeit their life? Or what will they give in return for their life? 16:27 "For the Son of Man is to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay everyone for what has been done. 16:28 Truly I tell you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom." Saturday, August 29. 2020Saturday morning linksImage: Not sure there is any solid data behind it, but whatever Roger Kimball joins Chris Buskirk for a discussion on beauty, aesthetics & national vitality. Syracuse professor put on leave, under investigation for using term ‘Wuhan Flu’ Sen. Rand Paul and others attacked by DC mobs after leaving Trump speech Wrong way to win friends and influence people Mattress Store Owner Breaks Down and Cries Talking About Her 71-Yr-Old Employee Who Was Knocked Out Cold by BLM Before They Torched her Store Like I said One Author's Argument 'In Defense Of Looting' Defund the police and you get people with guns defending themselves. National Media Ignores Two Black Lives Matter Inspired Hate Crime Stabbings Against White Men… in ONE DAY Did I mention that that is not a way to make friends? ‘Black linguistic justice’: Professors demand end to standard English as the norm Virginia's Senate Votes In Favor Of Reduced Penalties For Assaulting Police Briliant Silent Majority: Over 10% Of Trump Voters Won't Admit Preferences To Pollsters Mrs. Dorn endorsed the reelection of President Trump in her incredibly powerful remarks. Friday, August 28. 2020Friday morning linksInstead of Playing Video Games, This 12-Year-Old Is Running a Mushroom Farm in His Basement Cool vid: Footage of WWII smoke curtain used to hide naval ships during battle What’s the history of the vicious The Protocols of the Elders of Zion? Watch Out Cable: 42% of Consumers Plan to Cancel Their TV Subscription NBA Season Reportedly Up In The Air After “Ugly” NBA Players’ Meeting On Boycott As Sports Media Cheers On Athlete Boycotts, Fans Will Walk Away The mob comes for the art world, On “purity spirals” and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Yale lecturer suggests America is racist because Nikki Haley doesn't go by first name VDH: What Is the Violence in American Cities All About? "Any Excuse To Riot" - Minneapolis Descends Into Chaos Over Police Shooting "Fake News" Minneapolis: Rioters Loot Stores in Response to Black Man Shooting Himself New Documents Show George Floyd Had ‘Fatal Level’ Of Fentanyl In His Body At Time Of Death Homeland Security Secretary Says Antifa ‘Absolutely’ Meets Definition Of Domestic Terrorist Group CNN praises Melania Trump for addressing coronavirus and racial unrest in RNC speech Turmoil Consumes Chamber Of Commerce As It Backs Democrats Romney 2012 Staffers Unite Behind Effort To Elect Joe Biden Pelosi Comes to Slow Joe's Rescue: 'I Don't Think There Should Be Any Debates' VICE PRESIDENT PENCE’S SPEECH Europeans Discover the Myth About 'Safety Nets' the Hard Way The dean of America’s intellectual pro-Israel defenders has died Pax Ottomanica: A review of “God’s Shadow”: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World by Alan Mikhail. Thursday, August 27. 2020Finally, JusticeThursday morning linksAre You Dehydrated? Quillette: A Lady’s Duty to Submit—Then And Now CNN Analysts Unleash Personal Attacks On RNC Speakers In Twitter Storm Kellyanne Conway and the Silence of the Feminists Trump Approval Soars to 52 Percent, Up With Blacks and Democrats TRUMP SAVES AMERICA FROM RACE WAR. Joe Biden finally breaks silence on urban violence, too late: Goodwin MORE RIOTS, LOOTING IN MINNEAPOLIS Lefties trying to get Tucker Carlson fired over Kenosha commentary 5 Things to Know About Night 3 of the Republican National Convention: Heroes Night “America First” Pays Off in the Middle East Michel Gurfinkiel on the Reverse Colonization of France Wednesday, August 26. 2020Ticks
I explained good ticks and bad ticks. Then I had to send her this, for fun:
Fitness in the armed forces, reposted
I think I can pass the Army test. NOT the SEAL test. Can't bang out 100 pushups right now, or carry a man on my back for five miles. Wednesday morning linksThe Wildest Insurance Fraud Scheme Texas Has Ever Seen It's a detailed portrait of a skilled sociopath Woman killed by bear was on phone to father during attack in Canada The case of Carlin Romano gets a perfect score on the cancel culture checklist (and that’s not a good thing) The Emerging Campus ‘Police State’ BLM Protesters Shot By Homeowners While Marching Through Rural Town Rioters tried to burn Seattle police alive, sealed door during fire at East Precinct Rioting and elections Joe Biden Promises To End Traditional 401(k)-Style Retirement Savings Tax Benefits. Back to Low Growth - The impact of Joe Biden’s tax plan would be less income across the spectrum and a sluggish economy. Hillary Clinton: Joe Biden Should Not Concede Under Any Circumstances After 48 Years, Democrats Endorse Nuclear Energy In Platform Good. Now everybody does Trump is putting on the Greatest Reality Show on Earth Tuesday, August 25. 2020Brief comment about musicI've been "studying," meaning listening repeatedly, to Bach's keyboard concertos. I am no music expert. Over time, they have all come to sound like conversations to me, just turned into music. Bernstein with Glenn Gould:
Tuesday morning linksWHEN YOU’RE OUTNUMBERED: LESSONS FROM TWO BRITISH MASTERS OF IRREGULAR WARFARE Remembering the Holodomor Mass. Educators Don't Understand Why They're Being Told to Teach Remotely From Classroom HCQ All Over Again: WaPo Trashes Blood Plasma COVID-19 Treatment After Trump Announces Breakthrough The Breathtaking Ignorance and Gullibility of America’s Elites Progressive Racism In Practice: The Case Of School Discipline Title lX and targeting the two-track approach LA jails refuse to turn 25,000 criminal illegal immigrants over to ICE. The figure represents requests lodged by ICE for the 2020 fiscal year The Republican Convention is off to a fast start. First night of RNC 2020 was very effective, to media’s dismay Biden Again Quotes Chinese Dictator Chairman Mao In Campaign Appearance Biden aides apologise privately over attack on Linda Sarsour Monday, August 24. 2020Monday morning links
Why I Am No Longer a Social Worker Florida woman shoots, kills man trying to break into her home DeBlasio Says He Has No Plans To Allow Indoor Dining In NYC Again… De Blasio's 'Utopia'? Quarter-Mile Food-Bank Line Spotted In Queens Learning Our Lessons From Asymptomatic Covid-19 Make That Two: Dr. Birx Says Voting In Person Will Be Safe All of a Sudden, Economic Conditions in This Pandemic Matter "Get On With Your Lives!" - Oxford Professor Says "People Have Become Overly Frightened" Of COVID-19 “Wake Up Motherf*ckers!” BLM-Antifa Militants Rove Into Portland Neighborhood in Late Night Rampage FAKE HATE: Black Democrat Faked and FILMED her Own Beating and Kidnapping… WTH? And She Did it For Votes — She Even Posted It Online! BIAS BY OMISSION I had to read it twice California Bill Would Apply Wealth Tax to Residents Who Fled the State in the Last 10 Years Americans Continue to Flee States With Higher Taxes A Potential Landslide Agenda - An optimistic President Trump touting a positive platform. CNN Reveals Their Excuse to Censor the RNC as Their Self-Awareness Hits Zero NYT: The Trump Campaign Accepted Russian Help to Win in 2016. Case Closed. What? Prepping for Durham? Durham looks like KGB to me. Sunday, August 23. 2020COVID Hysteria: The Parents are Not AlrightThe parents are not all right: The experiences of parenting during a pandemic. Findings from the AEI COVID-19 and American Life Survey
From today's Lectionary: Gifts of the SpiritRomans 12:1-8 12:1 I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 12:2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God--what is good and acceptable and perfect. 12:3 For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. 12:4 For as in one body we have many members, and not all the members have the same function, 12:5 so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually we are members one of another. 12:6 We have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us: prophecy, in proportion to faith; 12:7 ministry, in ministering; the teacher, in teaching; 12:8 the exhorter, in exhortation; the giver, in generosity; the leader, in diligence; the compassionate, in cheerfulness. Saturday, August 22. 2020Travel Influencers: "Embrace the Culture"Saturday morning links
Do Jews Believe in Heaven? An overview of fundamental Jewish beliefs concerning reward and the afterlife MC: The Battle Lines Are Drawn On Public Education I know a recent college grad who tutors a "pod" of 5 5th graders for $100/hr. No teaching credentials, but the parents are extremely satisfied. 6 hrs/day. but lunch break is calisthenics and runs in the park. Craziness in California Week in Higher Education Knights & their ladies fair - On the cold-eyed realism of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind. The Enduring Relevance of The Plague. Albert Camus’s postwar novel captures the existential dread of contagion. Fox News Has A Fever And The Only Prescription Is … Joe Biden? MSNBC Blames Racism for Voters Preferring Trump on Economy Kamala’s America? If Joe Biden’s running mate ever becomes president, she would nationalize California’s increasingly feudal political and economic order. Van Jones Says The Quiet Part Out Loud About Biden Speech Friday, August 21. 2020Friday morning links'They're owned by all Alaskans': salmon free-for-all draws throngs How did the stock market hit a record amid COVID-19 fueled recession? Here's what experts say about the rebound School Reopenings Linked to Union Influence and Politics, Not Safety. New data suggest that school districts in states with stronger teachers unions are significantly less likely to reopen in person this fall. Classes at some elite universities will carry a warning label this fall: This course may cover material considered politically sensitive by China. Fordham University Sent Cops To Investigate A Student For Criticizing Communist China And ‘Black Lives Matter’ On Instagram Socialism: Jerry Brown crabs at sweltering Californians to 'turn up your damn thermostats' Emotional breakdowns after Trump ads appear on the Washington Post’s website Democrats Promise to Bring California-Style Blackouts to Everyone Why did Steve Bannon destroy his life? Obama State Department Official Destroyed Records At Christopher Steele's Request Cuomo Says It’s Time To “Reimagine Policing” As Shootings Spike In NY’s Capital City Dear Biden Supporters: We Can Read, You Know The Israel-UAE deal proves the one-state solution is delusion Don't buy into UN fearmongering on the Iran deal Thursday, August 20. 2020Ageing and ExerciseAn excellent essay or, more precisely, long excerpt from the book Exercised. One quote:
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Thursday morning linksMr. Vanderleun confesses his Bad Thoughts MORE EVIDENCE THAT SHUTDOWNS ARE USELESS
California has first rolling blackouts in 19 years — and everyone faces blame. While California braced for another round of rolling blackouts Monday night, the state’s grid operator held off for a second straight night. Via SDA:
Will The Dam Break After Clinesmith's Plea? “It Was All False Conspiracy Theories and Made Up Lies that Were Paid for by the Democrats”- Carter Page on FISA Warrant Obtained to Spy on Him and Trump Camp Why It’s Common Sense That Universal Mail-In Ballots Are A Terrible Idea In Dark and Divisive Speech, Obama Seeks to Turn Back Clock on America Democrats Killed Cannon Hinnant and George Floyd. The media is trying to keep a lid on the biggest scandal in a generation. America’s Red Guard Rampage Democrats stay silent on violence in their cities Assad takes revenge on largest Palestinian refugee camp in Syria Wednesday, August 19. 2020Dave Brubeck DayI only heard him once live, solo in NYC. Strange times - The sui generis Dave Brubeck Here's some from his classic quartet.
Wednesday morning linksCOVID-19 confers lasting immunity New Cuomo Book To Explain How To Defeat The Virus By Letting It Rampage Through Your Population That takes hutzpah NYC’s “Homeless Hotel” Experiment Coming To An End Wealth Tax: A New Bad Idea f or California? Gavin Newsom admits it: Green energy mandates are driving California's blackouts The Mailbox Hoax That Won't Go Away Just Got Even More Fake Waiting for Durham May Be Over Senate Panel: Manafort Worked With Russian Intel Officer Possibly Linked to DNC Hack Democrats’ Celebration Of Coercive Government Policy Has Begun Trump Has a Plan To Steal The Election Or Something Baltimore GOP Candidate Kimberly Klacik Lays Down an Absolute Knockout With Stunning New Campaign Ad Former CIA officer charged with spying for China. The method prosecutors said they used to get Alexander Yuk Ching Ma to reveal the nature of his espionage was worthy of a spy novel Chinese Regime Rushes to Destroy Files Overseas as US Cracks Down on Beijing’s Espionage Tuesday, August 18. 2020Tuesday morning linksSurfer Punches Shark Repeatedly To Save His Wife In Attack Off Australian Beach. “I did what anyone would have done,” he said. “The shark was latched onto her leg. I just jumped into the water.” Quantum paradox points to shaky foundations of reality What Is The Cause Of The Recent Power Blackouts In California? MacDonald: Conformity to a Lie - Academia’s monolithic belief in systemic racism will further erode American institutions and the principles of our civilization. A Fragile Argument - Review of 'White Fragility' by Robin DiAngelo Experts weigh in on how to save New York City post-coronavirus New York City is dead forever Will New York Come Back? Good comments there Armed Citizens Fight Back In Chicago The Stupid USPS Fight Of 2020 Democrats Want To Give The Post Office An Extra $25 Billion… Mail voting is guaranteed chaos.
Democrat Convention Speaker Ashley Nicole McCray Advocates For the “Destruction of Capitalism” DNC Convention Brutally Mocked Online: ‘One Of The Worst Things That’s Ever Been On Television’ Monday, August 17. 2020Schindler's List themeMonday morning linksWhy doesn't the US use the metric system? Canceling Flannery O'Connor "Even in the 1970s, and through the 80s, when NYC was going bankrupt, and even when it was the crime capital of the US or close to it, it was still the capital of the business world..." How NYC championed broken windows policing and threw it away: Goodwin Pritzker Says Mask Mandate Applies Even While ‘Outside and Walking Around' D.C. Liberals Protest IN PERSON To Oppose Having To Vote IN PERSON… Irony Alert not needed Chicago Cracks Down: Cops Swoop In, End Unrest, Arrest Dozens During Downtown Demonstration More than 60 Portland 911 calls go unanswered overnight as police respond to 'violent, tumultuous' riot where protesters threw 'softball-sized' rocks and glass bottles at officers BLACK LIVES MATTER WEEKEND: 76 Shot in NYC, 46 in Chicago, 32 in Philly, 18 in Cincy Is BLM at hate group or a terrorist group? McCarthy: Connecting Dots in Clinesmith’s Russiagate Guilty Plea Hemmingway: FBI Concealed Exonerating Information 4 Times The MSM still will not report the Russia Hoax Hillary Clinton: Trump Will Not “Go Silently Into The Night If He Loses Top Democrats Join Iranian Regime in Condemning Historic Peace Deal Between Israel and UAE Why do Dems love China and Iran? James Carafano: Israel-UAE agreement shows Trump’s Middle East policy succeeding. Trump inherited a Middle East policy from the Obama administration that was collapsing Sunday, August 16. 2020From today's LectionaryMatthew 15: (10-20), 21-28 15:10 Then he called the crowd to him and said to them, "Listen and understand: 15:11 it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles." 15:12 Then the disciples approached and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees took offense when they heard what you said?" 15:13 He answered, "Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted. 15:14 Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if one blind person guides another, both will fall into a pit." 15:15 But Peter said to him, "Explain this parable to us." 15:16 Then he said, "Are you also still without understanding? 15:17 Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach, and goes out into the sewer? 15:18 But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this is what defiles. 15:19 For out of the heart come evil intentions, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander. 15:20 These are what defile a person, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile." 15:21 Jesus left that place and went away to the district of Tyre and Sidon. 15:22 Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came out and started shouting, "Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is tormented by a demon." 15:23 But he did not answer her at all. And his disciples came and urged him, saying, "Send her away, for she keeps shouting after us." 15:24 He answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." 15:25 But she came and knelt before him, saying, "Lord, help me." 15:26 He answered, "It is not fair to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs." 15:27 She said, "Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table." 15:28 Then Jesus answered her, "Woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish." And her daughter was healed instantly.
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