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Sunday, July 5. 2020Brooklyn Real Estate: Rus in urbeFrom today's Lectionary: My yoke is easyMatthew 11:16-19, 25-30 11:16 "But to what will I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to one another, 11:17 'We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn.' 11:18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He has a demon'; 11:19 the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds." 11:25 At that time Jesus said, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants; 11:26 yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. 11:27 All things have been handed over to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. 11:28 "Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." SpiritSeen by a reader yesterday
Saturday, July 4. 2020Where I'd like to be todayHappy 4thIt's a good day to think about all of the wonderful things about the USA. One day without grousing and bitching would be pleasant. Here's something to try: Have a chat with a recent legal immigrant. I did yesterday, and with another one early this morning for a blood-drawing. Immigrants are grateful for freedom and opportunity, while many of us multi-generational Americans just take it all for granted, or even demand more. Shame on me, if I do that. Friday, July 3. 2020Strong PathFriday morning linksBeavers causing global warming ‘Climate Change” Is The Social Justice Issue Of Our Lives Going to National Parks Is Racist, Declares ABC News Happy 4th of July! US Sets Record for Most New Jobs in a Month Ever! 4.8 Million Jobs Created in June! New York Gov. coronavirus orders unfairly targeted houses of worship, federal judge says. Parents Everywhere Agree: Reopen Schools -- IMMEDIATELY! We Have Reached Peak ‘Wokeness’ Now That They Burnt The Elk - Racism is gone, all is now right with the world, stupid white leftists burnt an elk. UMass Nursing Dean Fired For Saying "Everyone's Life Matters" Reminder: How Progressive "Programs" Keep African Americans Down Quillette: Neo-Totalitarianism and the Erasure of History NY Lawyers Who Torched A Police Car With A Molotov Cocktail Are Out On Bail NYPD Police Retreat in the Face of Taunting City Hall Protesters Woke Harvard Grad Has Meltdown, Says Lost Dream Job After ‘I’ma Stab You’ Video Went Viral Russians Voters Approve Plan To Extend Putin’s Rule Until 2036 Israel annexing the West Bank isn't the disaster for peace everyone says it is. The move is a mostly symbolic acknowledgment of the current reality rather than a change. That could help both sides be more realistic in negotiations. Thursday, July 2. 2020Under the sea: Figi and TongaThursday morning linksA Massive Star Has Disappeared Without a Trace ONLY SIX MONTHS TO SAVE THE PLANET! NYC: Bringing Education to Minority Children The agenda of Black Lives Matter is far different from the slogan Yes, they could be educating children When Police Kill Seattle Police Dismantle CHOP After Protesters Threaten Mayor's $7 Million House Some animals are better than others Protesters, politicians slap the NYPD for a quarter-century of saving lives Bottles And Trash Thrown At NYPD Responding To Crimes SLOGANS FROM THE POORLY EDUCATED NY Times: Say, Mount Rushmore Is Pretty Problematic Two Americas: Risk-Tolerant vs. Zero-Risk—Will One Ruin the Other? Mask Wars - While facemasks can’t hurt in the fight against Covid-19, the outrage directed at skeptics is excessive. Mainstream Media Go All In With ‘Panic Porn’ Over COVID-19 Herd Immunity To COVID-19 May Be Closer Than We Think, New Studies Say The Real Pandemic Was a Nursing Home Problem Salon: It's going to be a long four months: Trump and Fox News just keep ramping up the racism. Desperate to distract from the coronavirus catastrophe, Trump and his media allies are going full-on rabid racism What? Really?
Media Are Playing Games Yet Again With Anonymous Russia Leaks China Has ‘First-Strike’ Capability To Melt U.S. Power Grid With Electromagnetic Pulse Weapon Wednesday, July 1. 2020Wednesday morning linksGenetic clusters in the US Dr. Scott Atlas Calls For Schools To Reopen: "This Is The Most Irrational Public Policy Probably In Modern History" Kneeling in the Church of Social Justice. America certainly has work to do on race, but ritual and symbolic acts aren't the way forward. California Legislature Votes to Strike ‘the State Shall Not Discriminate’ from Constitution, Opening the Door to Legalized Discrimination. Equality before the law is at the heart of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 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
St. Louis Homeowner Speaks Out After Confronting BLM Militants with Firearm, ‘The Only Thing That Stopped the Mob Was my Rifle’ The Mobs Are Coming for the Progressives De Blasio Announces Proposal To Slash NYPD Budget By $1 Billion, Divert Cash To ‘Young People’ Police ‘Reform’ and the Making of a Racism Narrative Scholar forced to resign over study that found police shootings not biased against blacks. Union rep tells College Fix that university should not share data that runs afoul of its support of BLM protests VDH: The Strategies of Dementia Politics It took more than five years, but the corporate media finally have the tools and strategy to successfully defeat President Donald Trump. First Arrests Made Under New Hong Kong "National Security" Law As Thousands Flood The Streets In Protest India Bans TikTok, Other Chinese Apps Over Security Concerns Tuesday, June 30. 2020Do the 60s radicals win?Kimball: America’s current straits represent the victory of 1960s radicals Roger K is a smart guy, but I think he's wrong about this. This sort of power stuff has gone on, on and off, since the 1800s. Race just happens to be the hook right now. Does the hook bring you back?
Tuesday morning linksNeurosurgeon Dr. Russell Blaylock: Face Masks Pose Serious Risks to Healthy Individuals Recent Coronavirus Data Suggests the Lockdowns Were a Colossal Mistake How Deadly Has The Covid-19 Pandemic Really Been? Reopen The Schools! Michael Shellenberger: “On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare” Mt. Rushmore is racist July 4th is racist Academic department calls on Penn State to require 'structural racism' courses Black Lives Matter NY President: Crime Needs To Be Looked At As A Health Issue, Not A Police Issue ARE THE WHEELS COMING OFF IN ATLANTA? An African Country Still Has Slavery — Obama Awarded Them Trade Benefits, Trump Reversed It Monday, June 29. 2020A Field Guide to Cape CodActually, Cape Cod and The Islands. A richly illustrated full-color guide to the unique plants, wildlife, and environments of Cape Cod and the other nearby “Outer Lands” that face the Atlantic Ocean OK, we are Cape Codders, and thus biased. But if you know of any getaway place so good for salt air and piney smell, sailing, fishing, hunting (deer, duck and pheasant), gardening (long growing season on the ocean), biking, hiking, dining on day-fresh seafood and Wellfleet Oysters, tell me about it. Besides that, there is no rich people flavor like Palm Beach, the Islands, Spring Lake, Watch Hill, and the Hamptons. Them folks we have on the outer Cape are very low-profile. It's a Maserati and Porsche-free zone, but you have to deal with "F-Trump" bumper stickers. Whatever. It's a free country, thank God. I never get invited to Hamptons parties anyway. Just no skiing on the Cape, but not too far from it. Beautifully desolate and wet in winter, of course, without any real snow but them's the breaks. You can get out and shoot a duck for supper.
Monday morning linksEuropean Union Will Ban Travelers From America/Russia… 1619 Project Author Claims Africans Visited America Before Columbus, Used Ancient African Technology Virus death toll drops to 5 in NY, once the U.S. epicenter MC: Examples Of The Worst Of Progressive Racism OF STATUES AND SYMBOLIC MURDER Black Lives Matter Organizer: 'Give Me Money or We'll Break Windows' Black Billionaire Robert Johnson Demands $14 Trillion in Reparations "The Princeton University Board of Trustees voted on Friday to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from the university’s School of Public and International Affairs." Minneapolis council members who voted to abolish cops get private security Greg Gutfeld Goes Off On Liberal Juan Williams For Blaming Inner City Violence On Trump De Blasio’s performance grows worse by the day, making NYC unlivable: Goodwin Toppling attempt led by Harvard student ends after confrontation with statue defenders The guy is a complete jerk Trump admits it: He's losing. Amid a mountain of bad polling and stark warnings from allies, the president has acknowledged his reelection woes to allies. My advice: Don't be an a-hole Nancy Pelosi: Nationwide Mask Requirement Is ‘Long Overdue’ Sunday, June 28. 2020From today's LectionaryRomans 6:12-23 6:12 Therefore, do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. 6:13 No longer present your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and present your members to God as instruments of righteousness. 6:14 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace. 6:15 What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 6:16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? 6:17 But thanks be to God that you, having once been slaves of sin, have become obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which you were entrusted, 6:18 and that you, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. 6:19 I am speaking in human terms because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness for sanctification. 6:20 When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 6:21 So what advantage did you then get from the things of which you now are ashamed? The end of those things is death. 6:22 But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the advantage you get is sanctification. The end is eternal life. 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Saturday, June 27. 2020His Back PagesSaturday morning linksWhat It’s Like to Live in a City Full of Moose Revisiting Mengele’s Malignant “Race Science” The Declining Case for Municipal Recycling Journalist Absolutely DESTROYS California Officials on Coronavirus and Face Masks UK Government: “we must seize the opportunity to make the COVID-19 recovery a defining moment in tackling the climate crisis” 1 in 5 Ballots Rejected as Fraud Is Charged in N.J. Mail-In Election VDH: When states go wild Noonan in WSJ: The week it went south for Trump JUDGE BLOCKS NEW YORK’S LIMITATION ON OUTDOOR RELIGIOUS SERVICES Does the Black Community Support Abolishing the Police? Then They Came for Abraham Lincoln Week in Higher Education Tear Gas And Dumpster Fires: Antifa Militants Try to Take Over Portland Police Station Abraham Lincoln at UW-Madison is the latest target of cancel culture Saturday Verse: W.S. MerwinThe Summer (1991) After we come to see it and know we scarcely live without it we begin trying to describe what art is and it seems to be something we believe is human whatever that is something that says what we are but then the same beam of recognition stops at one penguin choosing a pebble to offer to the penguin he hopes to love and later the dance of awkwardness holding an egg on one foot away from the snow of summer the balancing on one foot in the flash of summer Friday, June 26. 2020Friday morning linksThe CDC Lost Control Of The Coronavirus Pandemic. Then The Agency Disappeared. Cuomo on tearing down statues: “It’s a healthy expression of people saying let’s get some priorities here and let’s remember the sin and mistake that this nation made and let’s not celebrate it." With Statues Gone, Pigeons Forced To Poop On Rioters Mayor: ‘What Happened Last Night In Madison Was Far From Peaceful And Exceeding Dangerous’ Donations to BLM Are Funneled Through Democrat Related ActBlue and Handled by Organization Led By Member of Weather Underground Terrorist Group Dalrymple: It's 1968 Again According to Ted Cruz, Attorney General Bill Barr Is the Honey Badger MAN BITES DOG: NY TIMES HAS SOMETHING POSITIVE TO SAY ABOUT THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION Thursday, June 25. 2020BeautySeen on a boating outing the other day. Name that rig.
Thursday morning linksNYC Marathon cancelled due to coronavirus pandemic A Third Of Americans Have Gained Weight Due To Coronavirus NY, NJ, Conn. to Quarantine Visitors from Worse-Off States Good luck with that THE HOLLOWNESS OF VIRTUE SIGNALING Here Come The Bourgeois Bolsheviks "And all it took was one generation of neglect, just one, and poof, the reserve of bourgeois values necessary to maintain Western Civilizational disappeared. And I'm not sure it's possible to ever get it back." NASCAR's Bubba Wallace Angry at Attacks on His Character After Fake Noose Incident Noose stories are pretty much always fake #FAKENOOSE STORY PROVES RACISM IS OUR NEW RELIGION The Arrest That Led To The Riot In Madison, Wisconsin Last Night US brands four Chinese state media outlets 'foreign missions' Pentagon Names 20 Chinese Firms It Says Are Military-Controlled Twitter marks Trump tweet in violation of “policy against abusive behavior, specifically, the presence of a threat of harm” Wednesday, June 24. 2020Managing fitness in crazytime
I do not like the new rules at my gyms. I will not deadlift with a mask on, and forget cardio with a mask. That is just unhealthy. I'll be back to my trainer's home garage on Monday for my heavy weights, I hope. Legal or not, I do not care. What about you all?
Wednesday morning linksA Sedentary Lifestyle is the Sworn Enemy of our Health To Solve Climate Change: “stringent eco-taxes …, wealth redistribution … a maximum income, a guaranteed basic income … reduced working hours” Planning to Revive Racial Preferences in California Education Department uncovers $1B in anonymous foreign funding at higher education institutions Facebook moderators brag about deleting pro-Trump posts in Project Veritas sting A retired physician's take on epidemiologists Don’t Count Manhattan Out - The appeal of working from home wears thin, and big real estate deals promise a rebirth of the Big Apple. D'Souza: THE CRIMES OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS Leftists Promise To Tear Down Lincoln Emancipation Memorial in D.C. The American Museum of Natural History Purges Its Most Famous Patron I always thought the statue depicted him as helping them WWII Monument In Charlotte Defaced With Hammer And Sickle DEAR BABYLON BEE… IT PAINS US, IT DOES, BUT WE MUST ONCE MORE REMIND YOU THAT YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO BE SATIRE... Minneapolis got away with being a liberal city for quite a while, but the rot was deep and the decline was inevitable. UChicago econ professor’s career being torn apart after criticizing ‘defund the police’ The Political Genius of Donald Trump Bolton Is Wrong; I Was There Tuesday, June 23. 2020I don’t know how to argue in America anymoreI agree with this guy: For someone like me, that is a real tragedy and so I would like to understand how this new reality came about.
Tuesday morning linksVast neolithic circle of deep shafts found near Stonehenge - prehistoric structure spanning 1.2 miles in diameter is masterpiece of engineering, say archaeologists Climate change: Planting new forests 'can do more harm than good' Are Universities Going the Way of CDs and Cable TV? Like the entertainment industry, colleges will need to embrace digital services in order to survive. Stanford Prof: Median Infection Fatality Rate Of COVID-19 For Those Under-70 Is Just 0.04% The blind continuing panic over COVID-19 Thoughtcrimes Now Prosecuted in the Land of the Free A modest proposal for renaming Washington, DC According to the London Daily Telegraph, the latest target of the rampaging iconoclasts in Britain is the statue of Sir Arthur “Bomber” Harris outside the RAF Church of St. Clement Danes in London. Seattle Mayor Announces The End Of CHOP: ‘It’s Time For People To Go Home’ Minneapolis crime wave Bill Barr: Effort to Push Trump From Office Closest Thing to Coup Since Lincoln Assassination
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