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Friday, April 3. 2020Did you ever grow cardoons (cardoni)?I never have, but a friend is sending me some seeds to try. Eating cardoons. Like finocchio (fennel), it grows wild in the Med region.
Is this pandemic really as terrible as portrayed?Yes, it is stressing hospitals in hot spots, but compared to what? As Bulldog suggested yesterday, this virus is partly a political and media event - not entirely medical as with the past nasty viral epidemics. From an epidemic expert, The Severity of the CoVID-19 Epidemic is Not as Bad as You Think, According to the Numbers. As with any viral illness, it's best to protect the frail and elderly. Best, but rarely possible. Numbers are cold things, death is not, but some perspective on the big picture is good.
Friday morning linksTraces of ancient rainforest in Antarctica point to a warmer prehistoric world About DC's cherry blossoms Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family—A Review Polyamory In A Pandemic: Who Do You Quarantine With When You’re Not Monogamous? Tips From Someone With Nearly 50 Years Of Social Distancing Experience MORE BAD WUHAN CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS New York Data Confirms Once Again – 99% of Coronavirus Fatalities Have Pre-Existing Conditions – 94% of Fatalities Over Age 45 Hydroxychloroquine Rated ‘Most Effective Therapy’ By Doctors For Coronavirus: Global Survey That look on Jake Tapper’s face when CA Gov. Gavin Newsom insists Trump’s been “responsive to our needs” Gavin Newsom: Virus Is “Opportunity for Reimagining a Progressive Era As It Pertains To Capitalism” Cuomo Helped Get New York Into This Mess. The governor’s position on health care spending looked starkly different a couple of months ago. The FBI Can’t Be Trusted With the Surveillance of Americans. Trump slams ‘partisan' probes after Pelosi announces coronavirus committee: ‘Here we go again’ Powerline: THE CHINA SYNDROME Chinese Doctor Who Attempted To Warn Others About Coronavirus Has Disappeared Putin Extends Shutdown For A Month, Moscow Residents Tracked By Mandatory Cell Phone App Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, What Daily Life Is Like in Italy Now Thursday, April 2. 2020ShakshukaSeems like the middle-eastern version of Huevos Rancheros. Huevos Heartburn for me. Bruce and his kids love this: Shakshuka recipe Fitness: I went out for an HIIT run Tuesday morning in the dark
I remember doing 1-mile sprints for training. Long ago. Also remember my 20-mile morning runs. Lucky me - no joint problems. I quit it in time. Readers know we oppose road running for the toll it takes on joints, but a month, twice a week, is fine with me although I'd like to get back to the treadmill and stair machine for my HIIT. What did I learn from it? The pounding surprised me, even though I was a road-runner and racer in my youth. I also learned that a hat and gloves might be nice when it's chilly, despite the sweat from the sprints. Finally, it is so much more interesting than watching CNN in the gym. Maybe I should try biking, but our bikes were all stolen and I will not wear that biking gear. Your thoughts?
Thursday morning linksThe dogs of war: WW1 in Alsace and Vosges – Secret search for sled dogs : Code name «Poilus d’Alaska» Answering the coronavirus: exponential American innovation Developing Covid-19 Vaccines at Pandemic Speed "This is the Beginning of the End of the Pandemic" - Dr. Stephen Smith Announces Hydroxy-Choloroquine Study that is "Game Changer" in Battle Against Coronavirus If that holds up, great Coronavirus Death Rate Is Lower Than Previously Reported, Study Says Very likely. The stats are dubious Powerline: "Regular readers will not be surprised to know that I am one of the 32% who are Very Concerned." (about shutdown and economy) If The Virus Hadn’t Caused The Crash, Something Else Would Have Hmmm. Maybe a correction, but not this The mysterious case of the people who ate fish tank cleaner Trump Destroys Connecticut Governor's Claim the Strategic National Stockpile Has Been Emptied Someone ought to tell House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about the coronavirus outbreak, because her laser focus on pushing her political agenda suggests she’s unaware of it. MSNBC saw the virus coming before anyone else. But didn't mention it Trump isn't 'finally' relying on experts. He often does He's skeptical of experts, as we all should be. But he is persuadable. Tucker: WHO chief praises, covers for China DEEP ROT AT THE FBI (AND THE TIMES) Jim Jordan and Lindsey Graham seek DOJ watchdog testimony on new FISA abuse report Milestone: 600+ Title IX/Due Process Lawsuits in Behalf of Accused Students General Milley Drops Hammer On Mexican Cartels: ‘We Will Defend Our Country Regardless Of The Cost’ Why Winning the War In Afghanistan Meant Losing to the Taliban. The Taliban will seek to run Afghanistan in line with their values and. America will have to stand back and watch. Not my job Wednesday, April 1. 2020Another beginner's at-home workout routine, no equipment
We like to introduce people to various beginner's routines. This one is simple and pretty good. Done daily for 2 or 3 weeks (it should be easy by then), a person can move on to more challenging fitness programs. 20 body weight squats. Repeat for 3 rounds. Bach, sort-ofWednesday morning linksThomas Becket: Alpine ice sheds light on medieval murder A new book from author John Ellis examines the real reasons why most college graduates are woefully undereducated when they leave college after four or more years. Mom who ‘gloated’ with daughter after SAT cheating in college scam gets prison Joe diGenova to Newsmax TV: Not Worried Virus Will Delay Durham Probe Almost forgot about that. How long does it take? Justice Department audit finds widespread flaws in FBI surveillance applications DoJ IG: FBI Problems On FISA Warrants “Far Beyond” Crossfire Hurricane — And FBI Leadership Was Well Aware Of It Remember the Young Woman Who Died While Waiting for a Coronavirus Test in New Orleans? ...Yeah, Well Now the Truth Is Out GOP seeks to claw back Kennedy Center's $25M stimulus payout, as opera house continues layoffs
Tucker Carlson: Chinese Researchers Confirm Coronavirus Linked to Horseshoe Bat Studies at One of Two Wuhan Research Institutes If true, sheesh Rare footage of Wuhan Market and people eating bats Chinese Markets Reopen — And They Still Sell Bats, Dogs And Cats No pangolins? In Midst of DC's Coronavirus Shutdown, Ruth Bader Ginsburg Meets Trainer for Workouts at Supreme Court Gym My gyms are closed The Great Face Mask Debate: To Wear Or Not To Wear? Nancy Pelosi blaming Trump for the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus is staggering when you consider that just a month ago, she was encouraging crowds to congregate in Chinatown. Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Demand Racial Quotas for Coronavirus Testing Hindus fight virus with cow piss The Week: Biden can win Coronavirus is killing the Biden campaign — and making him look like a fool Playing Pandemic Politics Harvard Professor Struggles To Explain Why More Stupid Americans Are Supporting Trump Dulce bellum inexpertis – “War is Sweet to Those Who Have Never Experienced It” Tuesday, March 31. 2020Something else which is lovelyOrchids are cool, sexy. You can't go there now, but here's a tour of this year's NYBG's orchid show.
More music: My RomanceA Bird OrchestraTuesday morning linksImage via Social Distancing During the Black Death This is not the plague Mr. Coburn Went to Washington and Left a Remarkable Example Mainstream Media Gave Kavanaugh’s Accuser Substantial Coverage, Ignore Biden’s Accuser Trump Is Right: Suicides Do Increase During Economic Hardship UVA Students Issue List of Coronavirus-Related Demands to Administration Students always try to find excuses to avoid exams. The Stress! Surreal: Samaritan's Purse Sets Up Coronavirus Field Hospital... in Central Park Yikes, This Is What The Swab Test Looks Like For The Virus Fauci: Health Experts Pushed Trump to Extend Restrictions MINOR CORRECTION: Dr. Fauci Went from a Possible 1.7 Million US Deaths Due to Coronavirus to a Possible 200,000 US Deaths in 14 Days! Open where possible, closed where necessary – that’s how the economy survives coronavirus National coronavirus response: A road map to reopening An Epidemic of Media Partisanship Trump's Approval Rating Soars As Media Seeks Blackout PBS Reporter: Covering Trump Is A ‘Team Sport’ For Press: We ‘Have Each Other’s Back’ In Opposition To President… The media’s war on President Trump has escalated with coronavirus CBS News Caught Using Footage from an Italian Hospital to Describe Conditions in New York City Who's Funding the Coronavirus Political Trolls?
Monday, March 30. 2020Nature BoyDylan referenced this recording in his song:
Monday morning linksI was wrong to make a bit of fun about the toilet paper pandemic. If you anticipate the worst all the time, sometimes you will be right. I have to say that, between the virus politics, peoples' economic and medical lives, and the epidemiology, it's confusing. I am glad I am not in charge. I am afraid April 30 will be as aspirational as was Easter. Lives are being destroyed, and it's nobody's fault. Mia Farrow has finally succeeded in destroying Woody Allen NYC Idiots Attend “Corona Potluck Parties "Here's the thing. It's Not Just corona virus victims that are having to plan funerals that no one can attend... it's Everyone." RICH EUROPEANS FLEE CITIES, NEW YORK TIMES DISAPPROVES. For quite a few centuries, cities have been unhealthy places in times of contagion Rich Americans too, bringing germs to their second and third homes. We're All Germophobes Now Can coronavirus spread through food or packaging? Calif. was ready for virus, then it wasn’t. State had plenty of emergency supplies, then got rid of them USING CHLOROQUINE TO TREAT COVID-19: Q&A WITH RAGHU CHIVUKULA, MD, PHD Coronavirus Patients Taken Off Ventilators and Out of ICU After Receiving Experimental Drug Leronlimab FDA Issues Emergency Use Authorization Of Trump-Touted Drug To Treat Coronavirus Kennedy Center Tells Musicians It Will Stop Paying Them Hours After $25 Million Bailout Is Signed From the always annoying and sanctimonious David Brooks The only "meaning" in disease is that nature is a bitch. That's not news. The Media's Top Lies and Spins About COVID-19 As usual, lies upon lies for 3 years Pelosi calls for probe into Trump’s handling of virus: ‘What did he know and when did he know it?’ Graham Torches Pelosi: 'Most Shameful, Disgusting Statement By Any Politician In Modern History' Hillary Clinton's toxic coronavirus commentary uses dead Americans as a political weapon Crenshaw Promotes Unity After Hillary Clinton Mocks Trump’s Coronavirus Response People ARE united. Politicians are not Bernie and the Democrats - Sanders’s revolution may have stalled, but his platform lives on. Biden Says We Must ‘Believe All Women’ – Except The Woman Who Accused Him China Makes Itself A Laughingstock 1984 COMES TO BRITAIN Urns In Wuhan Far Exceed Death Toll, Raising More Questions About China’s Tally Does anyone ever believe anything out of China? French Official Says Quarantine Should Not Be Enforced In Migrant Areas To Avoid Riots Sunday, March 29. 2020Streaming gifts from the Metropolitan OperaScroll down for the dates. $4.99 is cheap. Don Carlo is the one I do not want to miss, April 2. I know some of the music but have never seen it.
Flight attendant, working from homeFrom today's Lectionary1 Corinthians 1:10-18 10 Now I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you be in agreement and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same purpose. 11 For it has been reported to me by Chloe’s people that there are quarrels among you, my brothers and sisters. 12 What I mean is that each of you says, “I belong to Paul,” or “I belong to Apollos,” or “I belong to Cephas,” or “I belong to Christ.” 13 Has Christ been divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul? 14 I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius, 15 so that no one can say that you were baptized in my name. 16 (I did baptize also the household of Stephanas; beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized anyone else.) 17 For Christ did not send me to baptize but to proclaim the gospel, and not with eloquent wisdom, so that the cross of Christ might not be emptied of its power. 18 For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. Saturday, March 28. 2020Saturday morning linksJust wash your hands - whenever you go to do something. Purell if you got it, but soap is fine. Assume the bug is everywhere, but if you wash, no problem - and don't touch your darn face. If sick, quarantine yourself. Apparently this bug is not easy to catch except by hands or lengthy times in close spaces. Exposure is pretty much unavoidable, but getting sick is not. British Climate Activists: “Corona is the cure. Humans are the disease” Tomb of the Unknown Soldier sentinels won't abandon post for virus: 'We are always here' Don’t Even Think About Leaving New York City The End of New York - Will the pandemic push America’s greatest city over the edge? Nope. NYC has been through far worse things like wars, diptheria, cholera, polio, 9-11, HIV, etc etc All We Have to Fear Is the MSM Itself Panic sells Obama Admin Repeatedly Sought Millions In CDC Funding Cuts, Despite Biden’s Attacks On Trump Preparedness The NIH had 13 years to prepare for coronavirus but still didn't ‘Big Pharma and Its Well-Heeled Swamp Creatures’ Should Stop Being Divisive, Navarro Says Which Is Worse, The Virus Or The Response To It? (2) Dr. Birx: Coronavirus Data Doesn't Match The Doomsday Media Predictions COVID-19 is NOT going to overwhelm our healthcare system Trump chips away at Congress' role in coronavirus relief oversight. The $2 trillion coronavirus relief bill establishes a "special inspector general" to review and investigate loan decisions made by the treasury secretary. End the lockdown, save the economy: Is there method in Trump’s madness? What madness? Trump understands what his critics don’t: The current lockdown is unsustainable NIH failed to test coronavirus drugs, studied drunk monkeys, soap operas, and tailgating instead. Expert warned agency as much as 87.5 percent of biomedical research was wasteful. President Trump Invokes Defense Production Act To Force GM To Produce Ventilators Kathy Griffin sticks to COVID-19 angle despite being sent home from hospital with abdominal infection Obama Official Busted for Spreading False Story About Hospital Lacking Ventilators, Deciding Not to Treat People Donald Trump signs TAIPEI Act to support Taiwan’s international relations If the PA Lacks Funds to Combat the Coronavirus, It Should Stop Paying Salaries to Terrorists Saturday Verse: John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)Lots of people feeling snowbound these days, housebound. Get outside! A short excerpt from Snowbound: A Winter Idyl (1866): Yet, haply, in some lull of life, Ahhh, the benediction of the air. Read the entire wonderful but old-fashioned-sounding 1865 poem by the great north of Boston newspaper editor and abolitionist here. He made a lot of money from that poem. Whittier's home, to which the poem refers, stands in Haverhill, MA. It's a sentimental poem you can read to the kids - with feeling! Especially on a snowbound day. Friday, March 27. 2020A new Dylan "song"He packed a lot of his life into this one. It's a talker, really, and a metaphor. I assume it's Dylan on piano.
Explosion of leftist hate aimed at Dr BirxExplosion of leftist hate aimed at Dr Birx after she demolishes media’s panic narrative. Panic serves all sorts of political and psychological needs. It takes common sense to avoid the bug. Simple.
Friday morning linksDOJ Says Title IX Doesn't Cover Transgender Status of High School Athletes Before the virus, we cared about crazy stuff like that MeToo Legal Fund Refused To Help Biden Accuser, Claiming It Couldn’t Risk Nonprofit Status Since He’s Running For President Joe Biden Said He Believes All Women. Does He Believe Tara Reade? A former staffer says he sexually assaulted her in 1993. In Campus Sex Cases, Cross-Examination Is Now on the Table Lindsey Graham Begins Probe Into Origins Of FBI’s Russia Operation Williamson on markets: Be thankful for the opportunists Unemployment benefit claims skyrocket to 3.283 million This is a war': NYC doctors describe fight against coronavirus Lessons on enduring coronavirus crisis from these heroes of Vietnam Trump campaign threatens to sue networks airing ad claiming he called coronavirus a 'hoax' He never said it Media Push to Censor President Trump's Coronavirus Briefings Trump Press Conferences a massive ratings hit, now you know why liberals want network broadcasts stopped In the Same Poll Where Trump Triumphs on COVID-19 Response, the Media Come In Dead Last Coronavirus Response: Hospitals Rated Best, News Media Worst HHS IG Now Investigating Trump Administration Response To Coronavirus Outbreak After Dem Request Glad they have their priorities straight Trump tells governors he is setting new coronavirus guidelines At Taki: That's when pols are challenged - when all options suck. This thing is loose on the planet, and will never go away entirely. Like flu never goes away, despite vaccines. In the midst of coronavirus crisis, Pelosi goes for woke Radical Environmentalists Welcome Wuhan Virus “We’re F***Ed”: Aircraft Carrier Outbreak Sends Troops Scrambling US Overtakes China As The Country With The Most COVID-19 Cases If anybody believes China FORECAST OF BRITISH CORONAVIRUS DEATHS REVISED, UM, DOWNWARD Russia (Finally) Admits Wuhan Coronavirus Pandemic Within Its Borders: “A serious situation is unfolding” 80% of coronavirus test kits 'gifted' to Czechs by China faulty - China charged Czech government millions of crowns for defective coronavirus test kits Spain, Europe's worst-hit country after Italy, says coronavirus tests it bought from China are failing to detect positive cases Thursday, March 26. 2020Thursday morning linksGarth Brooks and Wife Trisha Yearwood Crash Facebook Live With Free Concert ORCHESTRA PLAYS BEETHOVEN 9TH FROM THEIR HOMES Why the Coronavirus Has Been So Successful - We’ve known about SARS-CoV-2 for only three months, but scientists can make some educated guesses about where it came from and why it’s behaving in such an extreme way. US was more prepared for pandemic than any other country, Johns Hopkins study found Coronavirus: New York hospital admission rates for Covid-19 decreasing. 'Evidence suggests density control plan may be working,' Is coronavirus less fatal than early predictions suggested? Contra Andrew Cuomo, While A Grim Choice, We May Have To Restart The Economy An Easter rebirth for our economy? Hallelujah: Goodwin It's a goal Analysis: How South Korea Flattened The Curve Without Shutting Down Its Economy Harvard: Let them eat cake DEMOCRATIC NETWORKS TUNE TRUMP OUT They don't want people seeing him doing his job We will remember Dems’ stimulus holdup Nope. People forget. Democrats Have Misread the Moment Biden Super PAC Ad Attacks Trump For Coronavirus Response, Repeats Debunked Claim He Called It A ‘Hoax’… The Virus Is a Fire, and the Arsonist Is China ‘Cheap manufacturing be damned’: Sentiment builds for moving U.S. companies out of China In Spain You Can't Use Your Own Back Yard. Police Make Sure of It... Sheesh. Fresh air and sunshine kills bugs. Iran Expels 'Doctors Without Borders' Team Despite 1800 Virus Deaths No Biggie. Iran Just Stole A Billion Euros In Coronavirus Aid Wash your hands
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