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Tuesday, July 21. 2020Tuesday morning linksSunday Sermonette: 10 Safety Tips For Going Back To Church Catholic churches across U.S. suffer week of vandalism and arson AVI explains that free market capitalism is a force, not a system The Science Is Very Clear: Schools Should Reopen This Fall Joe Biden Fights Science: ‘Just Plain Dangerous’ for Children to Return to School Florida's Broward County Orders Residents To Enforce Mandatory Mask Rules At Home Drop tests for blacks, say college coaches Glenn Loury interviewed on Race And Equality
Trump Was Right: Biden First Said He'd Defund Police Voters See Media A Lot More Eager To Help Biden Than Trump Mandated Diversity Training Portland Rioters Burn American Flag, Break Down Fencing At Federal Courthouse As Officers Respond En Masse Homeland Security plans to deploy 150 agents in Chicago this week, with scope of duty unknown 18 Chicago Cops Injured in Riot and Activists Scream 'Police Brutality' We immigrants know the America-bashers are ridiculously wrong UN Secretary General Calls For A “New Model For Global Governance” To Stop ‘Climate Change’ Mission creep? I thought they try to stop wars and genocide. Without much success. Monday, July 20. 2020Monday morning linksWhat is a bad smell? In Canada’s Version of Portland, Cancel Culture Comes for ‘Steve-O-Reno’s’ Left-Wingers Are Hysterical About Federal Agents Policing Protests in Portland Border chief fires back at Portland mayor, defends 'absolutely necessary' policing tactics Portland Rioters Smash Through Door of Portland Police Association, Light it on Fire Portland’s Mayor Is Still On The Side Of The Rioters Black Woman Defaces Black Lives Matter Mural Outside Trump Tower: "Re-Fund The Police!" America Held Hostage - This is how the Left campaigns to remove President Trump. Prof. Glen Loury: ‘You Can Live With Disparities, Or You Can Live In Totalitarianism’ "The white man’s path is a rut for the rest of us" — writes a privileged white woman... This ‘anti-racism education’ sure looks awfully … racist Trader Jose Is Now Racist San Francisco’s experiment housing the homeless in hotels during pandemic working out as expected Hong Kong Outbreak "Out Of Control" As City Suffers Record Jump In New COVID-19 Cases The pandemic could actually strengthen the U.S. food system. The shock to U.S. food chains from the coronavirus has been a boon to small- and mid-sized farms and distributors. Could it be the start of a new way to get food? Paul Krugman Rejects American Elections, Again The Chinese Holocaust: Modern China Looks Like WWII Germany, Horrifying Video Shows BAD Things Are Ongoing With 30 Submarines, Japan Could Shape The Pacific’s Undersea Defenses Sunday, July 19. 2020Stuck inside of the USA with the Italian/Southern France Blues AgainNot a retirement type of person, but Mrs. BD wants a new boat (I thought I had had enuf boats in my life to worry about already, but I love boats. Love farms too, but I like hiking and working the most. Yeah, I likes me a bit of hunting too. She likes the custom Hunts. She likes the trawlers too. This wonderful adventurous couple downsized their trawler to make it trailer-able, and go all around the country - and especially Canada - exploring and having fun times. Trawler Trailer Life. Carpe Diem. Yes, their home base is Florida, but they seem to not spend much time there. If forced to retire, what would you do for fun and excitement while awaiting the Grim Reaper? From today's Lectionary: "...lead me in the way everlasting."Psalm 139:1-12, 23-24 139:1 O LORD, you have searched me and known me. 139:2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from far away. 139:3 You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. 139:4 Even before a word is on my tongue, O LORD, you know it completely. 139:5 You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. 139:6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is so high that I cannot attain it. 139:7 Where can I go from your spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence? 139:8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there. 139:9 If I take the wings of the morning and settle at the farthest limits of the sea, 139:10 even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me fast. 139:11 If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light around me become night," 139:12 even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day, for darkness is as light to you. 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my thoughts. 139:24 See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Saturday, July 18. 2020Saturday morning linksPhotos show "ultra-black fish" camouflaged in the darkest parts of the ocean 63% Say Most News Organizations Are Politically Biased Prof: Trump is the 'worst criminal in history, undeniably' Princeton Professors Rip 'Cancel Culture,' Dems' History on Race How Non-Existent Cancel Culture Works at Princeton and Elsewhere - When a university president threatens a professor with consequences for writing an article, free expression loses out. The Minority Victims of Whitenessphobia - For minority members, whiteness has become an accusation of acting white. The Dehumanizing Condescension of White Fragility - The popular book aims to combat racism but talks down to Black people. Black Portland Cop: ‘More Minorities On The Police Side Than You Have In A Violent Crowd’ UConn student government leaders resign because they’re white Boeing Exec Resigns Over 1987 Article Arguing Against Women in Combat. In woke corporate America, there's no statute of limitations on wrongthink. Coronavirus: Five Reasons Public Health Experts Have Lost Credibility Locking America Down Again Is Exactly What China Wants Because It Will Ruin Us. Stop trying to make lockdowns happen again. The world can't afford it. Cuomo Passes The Buck Again: “Trump Is To Blame For The Virus Coming To New York” Kayleigh McEnany is so effective that the MSM now lying by deceptively editing her The New York Times Has Been Ridiculous for a Long Time Should People in the NYT Glass House Throw Stones?
Mueller and Weissmann Op-Eds Greatly at Odds With Their Report and Evidence Why China Picked Amnesty International's Ex-Chief as U.N. Free Speech Monitor Friday, July 17. 2020Friday morning links"We'll Have To Suck It Up" - America's Nut-Glut Sends Prices Plunging MIA: Remus and the Woodpile Report Chief of Department for the NYPD Wounded in Black Lives Matter Violence Insanity Wrap #7: Vote-by-Mail Madness and the Riveting Body Cam Video You Can't Miss Oprah’s 1619 Project California to Release 18,000 Prisoners by End of August to ‘Slow the Spread of COVID-19’ Live as a Conservative, Vote as a Leftist “The concept of white privilege can’t explain why several historically marginalized groups out-perform whites today." Thursday, July 16. 2020Thursday morning links
Apple wins fight over $14.9 billion tax grab in blow to EU Genius Trump Wears Mask Causing Media To Question Effectiveness Of Masks California faculty union calls for free tuition for Black students, removal of campus police The Illiberal Liberal Media - As Bari Weiss’s departure confirms, the New York Times has narrowed its spectrum of allowable opinion. Byron York's Daily Memo: Crisis in New York NYPD Officers Brutally Attacked By BLM Protesters Who Tried To Block Brooklyn Bridge… When they’re going after the Virgin Mary, you know protest has turned to madness Althouse on Douthat's "10 Theses About Cancel Culture/What we talk about when we talk about 'cancellation.'" THE SMITHSONIAN HAS LOST ITS MIND - with a chart defining whiteness Never Trump Lincoln Project Devoted 89 Percent of Disbursements to ‘Operating Expenditures’ Wednesday, July 15. 2020Got any greys? An annual re-postWednesday morning linksKilling nearly 500 wolves in a year failed to protect endangered caribou – study Humans have partnered with sled dogs for 9,500 years. Huskies and malamutes have ancient cousins dating back to the Pleistocene, new research shows. AVI: In my day, the problem with capitalism was the soul-destroying conformity it created. Now its problem is that it creates soul-destroying individualism. It seems we are hard to please. California's anti-gig law: Let Them Go on Welfare Sad Wave of Violence Overwhelms NYC. Contrary to what Bill de Blasio and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez suggest, criminal behavior is not an economic phenomenon. Prominent Members Of Black Community Now Calling On NYPD To Bring Back Anti-Crime Unit Duh A Surge In Small Business Bankruptcies Is Underway Sad. Broken dreams NBC News Shocked to Find Pediatricians Want to Open Schools "Lockdown 2.0" Will Ensure The US Remains In An Economic Depression Through The 2020 Election
Adam Carolla Talks ‘Cancel Culture,’ His Relationship With Jimmy Kimmel And More Museum curator canceled Time Op-Ed: Forget Statues. We Need To Start Renaming The Whole Map Who wants "Leningrad"? Sullivan quits NY Magazine Michael Flynn bombshell: FBI believed he was 'forthcoming' and 'telling truth,' notes show US-Canada border to stay closed as New York demands more travellers quarantine on arrival UK Bars Huawei From Supplying 5G Network In Major Reversal By Johnson Tuesday, July 14. 2020Bari Weiss quits The NYTTuesday morning links99% Stunning, 100% Brave: Sports Illustrated Will Feature First "Trans" Model In Its Swimsuit Edition Musk Net Worth Rose $6 Billion In One Day, Overtakes Warren Buffet Play stupid games, win stupid prizes, and this home invasion was a stupid idea from the get-go. Couple Who Defended Home: ‘Rumor Is That We Are Going To Be Indicted Shortly’ China and American media Big changes in Hong Kong's internet New Zealand To Quarantine People In Isolation ‘For Months, Maybe Years,’ Epidemiologist Says Houston Officials Call for Return to Lockdown Immunity to Coronavirus Could Be Lost in Months Virus: Never Letting a Crisis Go to Waste NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE REPORT: School Closures Based on Politics, Not Science L.A. Teachers Union’s Demands Before Reopening Schools Are Really… Something. UPDATE: It Doesn’t Matter Companies Must Answer For Their Support Of The Radical Black Lives Matter Org Just protection $ Last week, the worst mayor in the history of the United States decided it was a good idea to use city funds to paint a “Black Lives Matter” mural on Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower NYPD Limits Retirement Applications Amid 400% Surge This Week College Dems national president resigns after accusations of ‘racism and classism’ GWU students want to rid school of names of Churchill, Madison Hofstra U Banishes Thomas Jefferson Banish history Free Speech Letter Is an Attempt to Silence Minorities If you think the news has been horrible so far, hold onto your hats, because the 2020 election is going to make things a whole lot worse. Biden meets a "crowd" of supporters in his home town Wisconsin’s Vote-By-Mail Looked Bad. It Was Actually Worse The Left's "Boycott" Of Goya Has Backfired Spectacularly As Conservative Customers Clean Out Store Shelves Monday, July 13. 2020Atlantic Halibut
This old photo of a handliner is from our favorite seafood cookbook, Howard Mitcham's The Provincetown Seafood Cookbook. As is typical of P'town, lots of Portuguese recipes. "It's a true classic, one of the most influential of my life." --Anthony Bourdain, from the new introduction
Monday morning linksTrailer for "Greyhound," a Tom Hanks WW ll film 536 AD — the worst year in history - Scholars and researchers agree on the year that was worse than any other Best electric bikes for getting around town or to work How a power-hungry CEO drained the light out of General Electric Mortality Stats Show Many Have Died From Lockdown-Related Causes, Not From COVID Brooklyn College unveils ‘anti-racist agenda’ for professors
Goya Foods CEO On Democrats’ Boycott Of Latino Company: ‘Hell No’ I’m ‘Not Apologizing’ For Praising Trump Tucker: Ordinary citizens stand up as politicians cower to the rage mob TikTok Hires Former GOP And Democratic Congressional Staffers To Lobby On US Policy Ahead Of The Election KLAVAN: ‘Hamilton’ Is The Anti-1619 Project Matt Taibbi on Cancel Culture IN 2020 AMERICA, THE DEMAND FOR HATE CRIMES FAR EXCEEDS THE SUPPLY L.A. teachers union says schools can't reopen unless charter schools get shut down, police defunded TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TURNS DOWN REQUEST TO PAY FOR MINNEAPOLIS RIOTS Turkey’s President Erdogan Announces Turkey’s Greatest Cathedral the Hagia Sophia Will Once Again Be Turned into a Mosque Sunday, July 12. 2020Let's go for a sailOn the Maltese Falcon
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Old-timey beachy getaway: Block Island
No need to bring a car. Bring bikes, or just rent bikes. Plenty of fun turn-of the century Queen Anne Revival (aka "Victorian") architecture. The island has an interesting history. Photo below is from the town dock. Block Island is a popular sailing and boating destination.
From today's Lectionary: Jacob and EsauGenesis 25:19-34 25:19 These are the descendants of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham was the father of Isaac, 25:20 and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, sister of Laban the Aramean 25:21 Isaac prayed to the LORD for his wife, because she was barren; and the LORD granted his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived. 25:22 The children struggled together within her; and she said, "If it is to be this way, why do I live?" So she went to inquire of the LORD. 25:23 And the LORD said to her, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples born of you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the elder shall serve the younger." 25:24 When her time to give birth was at hand, there were twins in her womb. 25:25 The first came out red, all his body like a hairy mantle; so they named him Esau. 25:26 Afterward his brother came out, with his hand gripping Esau's heel; so he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them. 25:27 When the boys grew up, Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents, 25:28 Isaac loved Esau, because he was fond of game; but Rebekah loved Jacob. 25:29 Once when Jacob was cooking a stew, Esau came in from the field, and he was famished. 25:30 Esau said to Jacob, "Let me eat some of that red stuff, for I am famished!" (Therefore he was called Edom.) 25:31 Jacob said, "First sell me your birthright." 25:32 Esau said, "I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me?" 25:33 Jacob said, "Swear to me first." So he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob. 25:34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank, and rose and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright. Saturday, July 11. 2020Saturday morning linksImage was a fake AOC retweet, since deleted No One Is Ever Woke Enough Penn State Retracts Statement Saying Conservative Voices Are Important Georgetown student government votes to condemn peer’s ‘I Love America’ column Friday's Insanity Wrap: AOC Will Cancel 'Cancel Culture' Cancelers BB: International Manhunt Under Way For Those Who Signed Letter Supporting Tolerance Of Differing Viewpoints De Blasio Suggests Ban On Public Gatherings Like Parades Or Fairs. Black Lives Matter Protests Are Different. Why Isn't California Criticized Like Florida on Covid-19? Warrant Served On St. Louis Couple Who Defended Private Property, Rifle Confiscated, Report Says Scientists hail 'stunning' results that show areas of New York may have reached 68 per cent immunity Good News: Wall Street Is To Blame For ‘Climate Change’, Police Brutality, And The Wealth Gap President Trump Commutes Roger Stone’s Sentence …Updated with Pencil Neck Video Why is the US Army calling its commander in chief's campaign slogan 'white supremacist'? Friday, July 10. 2020Ray Dalio on the Economy, Pandemic, China's RiseFriday morning linksWalk through Jerusalem’s holy sites from the comfort of your home I think the notion of "holy" sites is silly, but the history is cool Incest and affairs of Japan's scandalous penguins Is persiflage an intellectual herb? Mark Zuckerberg is getting mauled for standing up for basic free speech PRINCETON FACULTY LETTER DEMANDS END TO ACADEMIC FREEDOM Liberals Boycott Goya Foods After CEO Praises President Trump at White House Hispanic Event Fauci Says States Should “Seriously Look at Shutting Down” Again as Coronavirus Cases Rise New York’s school decision a slap in the face to parents This Is How Propaganda's Supposed To Work: 60% In US Believe Fake Russia Bounty Story Links to Biden's plans for the US FBI chief slams Chinese cyberattacks on U.S., calls it ‘one of the largest transfers of wealth in human history’ Satellite Photos Show Iran’s Main Centrifuge Assembly Hall Was Mostly Destroyed Thursday, July 9. 2020Thursday morning linksHarvard, MIT Sue ICE Over Plans to Deport International Students The Declining Case for Municipal Recycling Madison Avenue Shop Sues Governor Andrew Cuomo Over Looting Brooks Brothers Files For Bankruptcy After 202 Years Of Business Opposing Black Lives Matter Now Means Hate Crime Charges Controversial Police-Shooting Study Retracted New head of news at NBC-Universal openly promises to discriminate against Caucasians Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar Calls For “Dismantling” of US “Economy and Political Systems Biden Admits Obama Was A Failure As President Biden Says Police Have “Become the Enemy” and Calls For Defunding the Police Iddo Netanyahu Tells All About Operation Entebbe and his Heroic Brother Yonatan Wednesday, July 8. 2020Wednesday morning linksThe Trans Cult - Review of 'Irreversible Damage' by Abigail K. Shrier Charter Schools Going Woke Understanding Campus Antisemitism in 2019 And Its Lessons for Pandemic and Post-Pandemic U.S. Campuses WaPo: Now Let’s Purge Classic Literature A NEW LOW IN HIGHER EDUCATION? Cancel Culture: Descendant Of Thomas Jefferson Calls For Removing D.C. Monument City Of Seattle Trains White Employees To Work On “Undoing Your Own Whiteness” Scientists long ago exhausted their COVID-19 capital Not dying is bad for headlines EPA approves two Lysol products as the first to effectively kill novel coronavirus on surfaces US Withdraws From World Health Organization and Democrats Are Losing It Georgia Governor Declares State of Emergency, Deploys National Guard after July 4 Weekend Violence Tucker Carlson: Democrats Are The Driving Force Behind Racial Division
Tuesday, July 7. 2020Tuesday morning linksThe Tale of the ship Alden Besse Scolding Beachgoers Isn’t Helping. People complain that going to the shore is a careless act during a pandemic, but the science so far suggests otherwise. As COVID-19 Cases Surge, Daily Deaths and the Case Fatality Rate Continue To Fall. Expanded testing, a younger mix of patients, and improved treatment help explain the seemingly contradictory trends. Harvard: No in-person classes for 2020-21 year Confessions of a COVID-induced temporary OCD victim The Latest Toppled Statue Should Be a Wake-Up Call for the Left Cancel “Hamilton”? College Student Calls Police on Prager U. for Having the Wrong Opinion Protesters In DC Are Pretty Much What You Thought – All White Kids… Who Needs Police? Shootings In New York City Continue To Climb Chicago Mayor Cites COVID-19 For City’s Escalating Murder Rate With murders up nearly 80% in Chicago last month, Lori Lightfoot blames guns President Delivers Patriotic Speech Sending Trump Deranged Media Into Rage Senator Duckworth and Most of the Press Are Lying about Trump’s Speech Tammy Duckworth Goes on Bizarre Rant About Trump’s Speech, Cites ‘Dead Traitors’ and Russia Good morningImage via Ace via Bee
Monday, July 6. 2020A weekend of fledgelingsAround here, this was the weekend when many birds left their nests and scattered around begging their parents for food. There is a fledgeling Catbird out my window right now in the rose bushes, asking Mom and Dad for a bug or two. We have fully-spotted Robins, still with their wide mouths, on the lawn. A bunch of tiny House Wrens in the shrubbery. A fledgeling Cardinal in a Holly tree. Four baby Barn Swallows, sitting in a line on a dead branch. Noisy baby Grackles on the lawn and fledgeling Crows cawing for food in the treetops. And, down the lane, two fledgeling Ospreys exercising their wings on a high nest, preparing for their first adventures.
Monday morning linksA ‘Viral’ New Bird Song in Canada Is Causing Sparrows to Change Their Tune America’s Never-Ending Battle Against Flesh-Eating Worms The Canned Lion Industry: An‘Unfair Game’ Of Breeding Lions To Be Hunted MC: It’s the Fourth of July, and everyone in America has so much to be grateful for. Happy 4th of July! US Sets Record for Most New Jobs in a Month Ever! 4.8 Million Jobs Created in June! Well, lots of those are restored jobs, I'd guess When WWII Spies Created Explosive Coal To Sabotage the Third Reich How progressive urbanists want to take over the suburbs France bans Dutch bike TV ad for creating 'climate of fear' about cars Forbes falls to cancel culture as it erases environmentalist's mea culpa Another Academic Firing Are we in China yet? Elderly Florida Man Charged With Committing Aggravated Battery To Maintain Social Distancing I thought Karens were female Study Finds That Hydroxychloroquine Helped Patients Survive Coronavirus, Cutting Death Rates In Half GREAT NEWS! Number of Cononavirus Deaths Down to Lowest Levels Since Beginning of Pandemic – Media Silence Hillary: I Would Have Done A Better Job Handling Coronavirus Who asked her? WILL A COVID VACCINE BE RUSHED TO MARKET? "Don't Let Them Vaccinate You": Farrakhan Warns Africans That Dr. Fauci Is Trying To Kill Them This fall, get the children back in school California accuses Cisco of job discrimination based on Indian employee's caste The ‘Diversity’ Trap - Progressive ideas about diversity have taken over the corporate world but they offer a skin-deep version obsessed only with color and conformity In Minneapolis, shootings have more than doubled this year compared to last. "We're In Your House. Let's Go." - Black Armed Protesters Challenge White Militia At Confederate Monument What white militia? A Young Doctor Sees Oppression Everywhere Hearing What Black Voices Really Say About Police - African-Americans have mixed attitudes, but most are satisfied with their local departments. Scholar forced to resign over study that found police shootings not biased against blacks Not Portlandia anymore: Antifa Rioters Throw Bricks, Mortars, M-80s at Police as Portland Descends Into a War Zone Nightmare in New York: How Covid-19, BLM protests and a liberal mayor are turning the city into a no-go zone as murders skyrocket, shops are looted and 500,000 middle-class residents flee Former G.W. Bush appointees supporting Biden have embraced socialist policies – why? Trump Repubs: “They Won’t Talk Publicly, Because They’ll Lose Their Golf Game” Did Trump Break America's Brain? Trump’s Syria Policy Is Working. The Assad regime is cracking under the pressure of stalemate—just like the State Department planned. Slavery Rampant in Africa, Middle East; The West Wrongly Accuses Itself
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