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Wednesday, February 26. 2020Wednesday morning linksPhoto: Winter Croci in New England So it turns out tofu and all these other vegan foods are ruining the planet The Perverse Panic over Plastic - The campaign against disposable bags and other products is harming the planet and the public Why coronavirus will only be a bump in the road for the world economy Keeping Africa on the brink of starvation Justice Department: 45% of Blacks at Harvard Admitted Through Illegal Race Preferences NYT Editorial Board Member Blames TRUMP For NYC Water Main Breaking. President Trump Has Created an Economic Boom for Blacks In America Bernie Sanders: Fidel Castro Wasn’t So Bad… Democrats Have Already Conceded To Bernie VDH: Never Sanders? In 2020 if Sanders is the Democratic nominee, the NeverSanders movement will be far larger, far wealthier, far more influential—even as it is likely far quieter—than were the vociferous but anemic NeverTrumpers of 2016. WHY DID SANDERS CLING TO FAILING COMMUNIST REGIMES DECADES LONGER THAN OTHER LEFTISTS? Joe Biden Claims A Whopping 150 Million People Have Been Killed By Guns Since 2007 Biden in South Carolina: ‘I’m a Democratic Candidate for the United States Senate’ - “Look me over. If you like what you see, help out. If not, vote for the other Biden. Give me a look though, okay?” The Next Coup Against Trump Has Begun. As the intelligence agencies for all intents renew Operation Crossfire, it’ll take more than Richard Grenell to ward them off. Iran’s leadership rigs an election — and still loses How Israel saved many American lives in Vietnam About Palestinian textbooks Tuesday, February 25. 2020Tuesday HaydnTuesday morning linksAmerica Continues To Lead In Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions How Coronavirus Affects the Economy Diversity is a bore Colleges Give Up on Western Civilization If You Can't Articulate A Limiting Principle On Government Expansion, You Get Bernie Sanders CNN continues obsession about Trump’s eating habits, this time over food options in India More Than 100K Pack Massive Stadium to Welcome POTUS for 'Namaste Trump' Rally in India India Plays “Macho Man” by Village People Ahead of President Trump’s Rally at Motera Stadium in Ahmedabad in front of 125,000 That is funny FBI Official: Russia Wants to See Us 'Tear Ourselves Apart'
"I've Never Seen This Level of Doom:" Democrats In Outright "Panic Mode" The evidence doesn't back Democrats' panic that Bernie can't win 7 Reasons the Left's Hatred of Trump Is So Deep Canada: Laboratory for Democratic Socialism PMW report slams Palestinian Authority for using child soldiers. Does UNICEF confront the issue? The Fortunate Arabs in the Middle East Americans aren't as eager to retreat from the Middle East as politicians seem to think Really? Monday, February 24. 2020"If I had been a member of this club I’d still be married to both my ex-wives"Monday morning linksFossils discovered in the Sahara reveal catfish and tilapia swam in rivers 12,000 years ago but died off from over fishing and climate changes World-famous mine is a hidden geological marvel aglow with surreal display of fluorescence AI discovers antibiotic that kills even highly resistant bacteria How to thoroughly disinfect your airplane seat It's called OCD Coronavirus panic update School district scraps traditional ‘A-F’ grading system for kinder, gentler model Connecticut Students Arrested For Saying Things UConn students' arrest over racial slur prompts review of state's ridicule ban A Major Study That Fueled National Vape Panic Has Been Retracted Why Can't California Get People To Take Free Money? California Bill Would Require Occupational Licenses for Porn Actors, Strippers, Cam Girls Bay Area dissatisfaction: Rich, poor, young and old unhappy here. Poll: More residents now want to leave than stay Baltimore Democrats Don’t Want Larry Hogan To Rein In Gun Violence How far Left are journalists? “Hey Hey, Ho Ho, Austerity Has Got To Go” — Oberlin College students protest union staff layoffs How the 'Interpreter' Scam Brought 75,000 Iraqis and Afghans to America National security official discredits NYT report on Russia helping Trump in 2020 Let’s try listening to Bernie Sanders’ voters — they have legitimate gripes Really? Life is hard? Bernie Sanders: Illegal Immigrants Are “Entitled” To The Same Government Benefits As Citizens Bloomberg needs to go medieval on Bernie if he wants any chance of beating Trump Twitter is suspending 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts, citing ‘platform manipulation’ Just ordinary astroturf Bloomberg’s China Apologetics Should Disqualify Him About Trump hatred It is visceral Europe's New Academic Fascism Lessons From Palestinian Rule Over Bethlehem Sunday, February 23. 2020Winter stews: Beef BourguignonIt's been a few years since I made this thing, so we made some yesterday for practice before I begin to serve it to friends for supper. Planning a bunch of suppers before Spring. Tried my version out on my father-in-law. He likes food. If you asks him what restaurant he wants to go to tonight, he says one with food. But especially one with oysters, which is for tonight. I use Julia Child's recipe, but I modify it a bit. My modifications: 3x as much garlic, lots of thyme sprigs from the garden, 1/2 cup of Port or some sugar, and a small handful of dried porcinis. Also, to keep it simple, I just throw in a bag of frozen pearl onions for the last 30 minutes of cooking. I do brown the fresh mushrooms and throw them in the pot for the last 30 minutes. I don't use the oven at all, just 3 hrs simmering on the stove. Traditional ways to serve this is in a shallow bowl with french bread, or on a plate with (white) rice or roasted potatoes. (Tip for those who like rich, earthy sauces: You can buy dried porcinis online, much cheaper than at the store. I buy them by the pound, but it doesn't take many to provide the flavor. You use the water you soak them in, too.)
From today's Lectionary: We're all sinnersMatthew 5:21-37 Jesus said, “You have heard that it was said to those of ancient times, ‘You shall not murder’; and ‘whoever murders shall be liable to judgment.’ But I say to you that if you are angry with a brother or sister, you will be liable to judgment; and if you insult a brother or sister, you will be liable to the council; and if you say, ‘You fool,’ you will be liable to the hell of fire. So when you are offering your gift at the altar, if you remember that your brother or sister has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother or sister, and then come and offer your gift. Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are on the way to court with him, or your accuser may hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you will be thrown into prison. Truly I tell you, you will never get out until you have paid the last penny. “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away; it is better for you to lose one of your members than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away; it is better for you to lose one of your members than for your whole body to go into hell. “It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ But I say to you that anyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of unchastity, causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery. “Again, you have heard that it was said to those of ancient times, ‘You shall not swear falsely, but carry out the vows you have made to the Lord.’ But I say to you, Do not swear at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God, or by the earth, for it is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black. Let your word be ‘Yes, Yes’ or ‘No, No’; anything more than this comes from the evil one.” Saturday, February 22. 2020Microwave roasted garlicDelicious when smeared on toast or crusty bread. Just scoop it out of the bulb and smear it on toast. It works best with those giant elephant garlics: Microwave roasted garlic.
Saturday morning linksPhoto via Week in Pictures A movie recommendation: Pain and Glory Shipwreck from doomed 1840s Royal Navy Arctic expedition reveals its secrets Why The Cruise Ship Quarantine Turned Into Such A Disaster Oh Xusana! Racist property redistribution hits Vermont CA Governor: No Really, Let’s Allow Doctors To Write Prescriptions For Houses California Politicians Double Down on Encouraging People To Live in Wildfire-Prone Areas. The Renew California legislation introduced yesterday would force insurance companies to renew insurance policies in wildfire zones. As insane as flood insurance in flood zones The Problem with Expanding Guest-Worker Programs K.T. McFarland: FBI Tried to Set 'Perjury Trap' for Me It's what they do 'Woke' Media Fail to Notice Historic Cabinet Appointment by Trump. Of Course They Did. Are They Going To Impeach Trump Again? Bernie's Wrong: We Are Better Off Today Than We Were 45 Years Ago Bernie's 3 houses are not really a big deal "Now the nation faces the prospect of eight months of septuagenarian New Yorkers yelling at each other." Elizabeth Warren Says AOC’s Radical Green New Deal ‘Doesn’t Go Far Enough’… Bernie Sanders Is George McGovern. The similarities between 2020 and 1972 are too astonishing to ignore. But there’s one big difference. Another difference is that, when McGovern reached Sanders' age, he realized how much he had not understood about how the world works Bloomberg: The Democrat Man behind the Curtain Hillary Clinton: 'Putin's Puppet' Trump 'Can't Win Without' Russia Brennan Pushes Latest Deep State Leak to NY Times – Accuses Trump of “Abetting a Russian Covert Operation” to Win 2020 Election Bernie informed that Russia trying to help his campaign Democrats Already Blaming 2020 Defeat on Russia It's Russia Russia Russia 2.0. My gosh, how powerful those Russkies are. Canada’s Epic Rail Crisis Offers the World a Cautionary Tale on Indigenous Mantras The Surprising Success of the U.S.-Indian Partnership. Trump and Modi Have Deepened Defense Cooperation Against the Odds Friday, February 21. 2020An oldieFriday morning linksOhio State students crowdsource to fund events with dominatrix, orgasm coach Ohio State among universities targeted over bias against men Survey Of UK Art World Finds ‘A Quagmire Of Wokeness’ Rife With ‘Coercion, Bullying, Intimidation And Intolerance’ Trump’s Budget Looks To Slash Funding To Hotcoldwetdry Centers At the Debate, Only Losers Bloomberg Agonistes. What appeared to be a ritual demolishing of the billionaire candidate may humanize him to voters. The 2020 Dems' Responses to Bloomberg's Defense of Capitalism Should Terrify All of Us Michael Bloomberg Is Paying People $2500 A Month To Say Nice Things About Him On Social Media MIKE BLOOMBERG IS HIRING SO MANY OPERATIVES, LOCAL AND STATE CAMPAIGNS ARE STARVING FOR HELP “Mike Would Have Dinner Parties And Piss All Over Obama” Here We Go… Fake News Media Says Putin Is Looking to Help Trump Win in 2020 Europe Has a Problem The Vector Of The European Political Agenda Is Changing: Russia Is Becoming A Necessary Partner Iran, Hezbollah stir chaos in Syria's southwest Thursday, February 20. 2020America FirstUm, isn't that the job he was hired for? Looks like a winner to me. The Dems know this already. The wise Dems are thinking about 2024.
Thursday morning linksYou Thought Quantum Mechanics Was Weird: Check out Entangled Time - Adding a new layer to the already complex world of metaphysics Bighorn Sheep Captures Aid Research Female confidence gurus: inside the feminist fad taking New York by storm New Marvel superhero film to feature ‘beautiful,’ ‘moving’ homosexual kiss Boys Will Be Girls ... and Feminists Will Be Furious Why the Restoration Hardware Catalog Won’t Die - The surprising persistence of the mail-order business Why Do New Disease Outbreaks Always Seem to Start in China? Bee: Jussie Smollett Offered Job At CNN After Fabricating News Story Out Of Thin Air Liberals Angry: Jeff Bezos DONATED ONLY $10 BILLION To Fight Climate Change People fleeing blue states K.T. McFarland Says Mueller Interrogators Put Her Through ‘Hell’ and Left Her ‘Traumatized’ Why Trump commuted Blago's sentence Pennsylvania’s Democratic Civil War - The divide between labor leaders and environmental activists widens in a state dependent on fossil-fuel industries WaPo Claims Elites Should Run Elections; Quietly Edits Article After Public Outrage Ensues Bret Baier on Dem Vegas Debate: "The Biggest Winner Tonight? Donald Trump" Hinden-Bloomberg: NYC mayor goes down in flames at Vegas debate - A disaster of epic proportions Elizabeth Warren Says If She Becomes President She Will Decriminalize Border Crossings: ‘Glad To Do It’ What's pushing Bernie Sanders to the Democrats' top? Bloomberg in debate: Billions of dollars, zero vision Mike Bloomberg: The Incredible Shrinking Candidate Winners and Losers of the Las Vegas Democratic Debate Biden: We Should Be Paying Other Countries To Not Cut Down Trees… If Duterte Wants Us Out, Let's Go European Defense Funding Takes $1.5 Billion Hit in Pentagon Budget Request Witch Hazel in bloom nowThis is probably one of the reddish versions, like Diane's. As seen on NYC's High Line last week. Sorta cool pic, with a church behind and the Empire State Bldg. in the distance.
Wednesday, February 19. 2020The Kominsky MethodMrs. BD thinks it's hilarious. A comedy series on Netflix about not being young. Michael Douglas and actor-genius Alan Arkin. Some of it is about the craft of acting.
Wednesday morning linksHow a quantum technique highlights math’s mysterious link to physics - Verifying proofs to very hard math problems is possible with infinite quantum entanglement Yeah, it's complicated Amazon: How Bezos built his data machine, Hacker News ‘1776’: Prominent black conservatives counter NYT’s flawed ‘1619 Project’ with message of unity Boy Scouts of America files for bankruptcy amid rampant sex abuse allegations The Rot Inside American Jewish Organizations Alleged Serial Robber on NYC’s Bail Reform Law: “It’s a great thing. It’s a beautiful thing” New York Squeegee Men Are Back Durham Expands Probe Into Special Counsel’s Activities – Interviews Several FBI Investigators Who Worked on Mueller’s Team Urban Dictionary to add 347,823 new non-binary pronouns in 2020 in order to alleviate confusion. Bloomberg on trannies Why Trump is a heroic figure Spend any time with people who supported presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016 and you quickly find out that the reasons they voted for Trump had very little to do with him. True, that Trudeau Calls For Patience As Canadian Railways Have Been Shut Down For 12 Days By Protesters Tuesday, February 18. 2020SitesTwo websites we are adding to our handy list on the left side of Maggie's (which needs some winnowing when I find the time): Issues and Insights - This site was started by the team that for decades had produced IBD Editorials at Investor’s Business Daily. American Council on Science and Health - Promoting science and debunking junk science since 1978 I wish I had written thisI wish I had written this short essay about the one Great American Novel, Moby Dick. To me, the story is like the Iliad, or some parts of the Bible. It destroyed Melville to write it, it seems. Destroyed him, or changed him. I blame the Transcendentalists although I might be sort-of one myself.
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Tuesday morning linksAn Eloquent Witness and Wit: David Berlinski on Human Nature Climate change causes mental illness? Maybe it does: Bezos launching initiative that commits $10 billion to combat climate change Georgetown libraries remove dozens of novels that offend some students Funniest part is that the Hoya put a trigger warning on the article that reported the above Virginia Is About To Require a Government License for 'Art Therapy,' Because Glue and Scissors Are 'Potentially' Dangerous The Death Of Free Speech: Zuckerberg Asks Governments For Instructions On "What Discourse Should Be Allowed" The Moral Crisis of Skid Row - Los Angeles’s addiction epidemic is creating a permanent underclass, cut off from the rest of the city. AB5 Backfire - Barely a month old, California’s poorly designed “gig-work” law is already having unintended consequences. California Renames "At Risk Youth" to "At Promise Youth" A rose by any other name... Jordan Peterson: Torture by Bad Journalism Young Adults Support Comrade Bernie Because They Want “Free” Stuff They Haven’t Earned Everybody likes free stuff Bloomberg Implied Farming Doesn’t Take Intelligence In 2016 Comments Bloomberg Suggests We Need To Ration Care, Shouldn’t Give Treatment For Fatal Disease Past A Certain Age Bloomberg has spoken openly, often, in the past. But isn't he "past a certain age"? Isn't life a fatal disease? Mike Bloomberg Slams Young People For Supporting Democratic Socialism Trump Charges the Liberal Hacks’ Latest Ambush Nunes: Trump Has to Tweet Due to Hostile Media His bully pulpit What Exactly Is Wrong with a President Putting America First? Europe: Why the Left Is Losing How Lord of the Rings Brings Modern Day Orcs to England The UK: "non-crime hate incidents" Monday, February 17. 2020Monday morning links
George Washington was an 'illiterate LIAR who cheated his way to the top, wore dentures made from hippo ivory, beat his slaves and lied about freeing them', new biography claims Did coronavirus originate in Chinese government laboratory? Scientists believe killer disease may have begun in research facility 300 yards from Wuhan wet fish market Exercise can make you happier Romantic or disgusting? Passionate kissing is not a human universal How Did Architecture Get To Be A Left/Right Political Issue? Frequent fliers side with woman in seat-reclining beef: ‘We have a right to lean back’ "In 1920, Americans spent more than half their income on food (38 percent) and clothing (17 percent)..." Skills Development, Not Education, Is Key To Workforce Transformation Harvey Weinstein’s case might be too weak to convict: Devine The views of Woketopia UK Judge Compares Police To Gestapo Over Probe Into ‘Transphobic’ Tweets San Francisco Mayor Just Admitted To Having Relationship, Accepting Money From City Worker Under FBI Investigation For Public Corruption San Francisco Middle School Descends Into ‘Lord Of The Flies’ Environment
Emissions Accomplished -- Trump Wins on Fracking Trump makes the 62nd Daytona 500 something special as media heads explode Democrats’ 2020 race turned tragic because they can’t face the truth about 2016 There Is No One To Stop Trump Now Author Lee Smith: “We Knew the Clinton Campaign was Giving Information to FBI – It Now Appears FBI was Giving Information to Clinton Campaign as Well” Sunday, February 16. 2020Trip planning: Mac's Adventures
If interested in walking or biking adventures in Europe (or in the UK, which is thankfully no longer Europe), you can do it the expensive way with Backroads or the cheap way with Macs. Mac (obviously) started out doing Scotland walking trips, but has expanded all over. We're using his service for our Hadrian's Wall hike this summer. (They book your B&Bs and shlep your luggage. The daily hikes are on you.)
From today's Lectionary: You are God's field1 Corinthians 3:1-9 3:1 And so, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but rather as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. 3:2 I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for solid food. Even now you are still not ready, 3:3 for you are still of the flesh. For as long as there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not of the flesh, and behaving according to human inclinations? 3:4 For when one says, "I belong to Paul," and another, "I belong to Apollos," are you not merely human? 3:5 What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord assigned to each. 3:6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. 3:7 So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. 3:8 The one who plants and the one who waters have a common purpose, and each will receive wages according to the labor of each. 3:9 For we are God's servants, working together; you are God's field, God's building. Saturday, February 15. 2020Nice gift for one's valentineSaturday morning linksMy vegan hell - Veganuary was not for chickens US investigates Harvard and Yale over foreign funding The hounding of Jordan Peterson America’s Growing Approval Of Socialism Is A Rejection Of Freedom
5 Times Barack Obama Protected His Allies from Justice and Democrats Didn't Care John Durham Continues to Focus on John Brennan’s Role in the Genesis of the Notorious Russia-Collusion Hoax Carville fires back at Sanders for 'hack' slam: 'At least I'm not a communist Bloomberg Can Buy Support, But He's a Terrible Campaigner Iran, Not Saudi Arabia, Is to Blame for Yemen's Humanitarian Crisis Germany Can’t Stop Loving Iran European defense plans: What could possibly go wrong? 4 ways the EU’s military ambitions could end in tears. Saturday Verse: Seamus Heaney
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