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Thursday, January 30. 2020Thursday morning linksColorado bill allowing organic ‘composting’ of deceased clears first hurdle "The Dangerous Rise of Men Who Won't Date 'Woke' Women" Women Publicly Whipped for Violating Sharia in Indonesia Study: Global Warming Will Cause 180,000 More Rapes by 2099 Deficit Will Top $1 Trillion This Year As Entitlement Spending Continues To Rise Democrats Warn That American People May Tamper With Next Election Sharyl Attkisson: The Department of Justice Coverup of its Spying on Me Continue The Steele Trump-Russia Dossier Was "Completely Fabricated", Leading British Spy Expert The role of the chief justice in an impeachment trial 'GAME OVER,' Trump declares, as old Bolton, Schiff videos surface amid Senate impeachment trial Trump’s Successful Iran Policy and Team Obama’s Existential Crisis Where once there was fury, Palestinian issue now stirs up apathy. Region no longer views fate of Palestinians as lynchpin, or – in some cases – even a cause worth championing loudly How it all went right: the great Brexit wound has almost healed. It didn’t take a generation – it took about two weeks NIGEL FARAGE BIDS FAREWELL TO THE EU Wednesday, January 29. 2020Winter pruning of Wisteria - now or neverDoing mine now. Last chance, and easy to do if your August pruning was done correctly. I am not as careful as this guy. If I were that careful, I would have a Wisteria jungle
Is Creatine magic?
For real muscle magic, steroids and maybe GH. Do not touch that stuff though, friends. It is bad juju. Amusingly, the only other supplement the Greysteel doctor recommends is coffee. Without a cup at 4:30 in the morning, there is no way I could get my head into effort. Here's the Greysteel doc on Creatine. Good basic energy physiology. The stuff works like a little battery.
Wednesday morning linksDracula on Gratitude CBD: Therapeutic benefits of CBD show promise, but popularity outpaces research into safety, effectiveness It's a scam Hemp prices plunge as CBD demand falls short When Even Art Is Problematic Gun-grabber David Hogg puts out a statement so stupid everyone is now dumber Sheesh New York State Now Charges to Look at the Stars Harvard Professor Arrested For Failing To Disclose $50,000 Per Month He Received From China NJ Governor Murphy Makes Big Pledge To Force Citizens To Fight Hotcoldwetdry Elizabeth Warren’s proposed fracking ban was rejected as too radical by the Obama administration — for good reason. Peter Schweizer: Bernie Sanders rails about common good but public service has made him (and his family) rich Money for nuthin... Democrats Enter Panic Zone Over the Rise of Bernie Sanders In Iowa and New Hampshire #Red-Carded: How I Got Pushed Out of an LGBT Soccer League for Gender WrongThink George Soros partners with colleges to 'transform higher education' Three years after violent attack, Charles Murray set for return to Middlebury Reynolds: Campus leaders couldn't care less about racial progress. Hadn't we already agreed as a nation that racial segregation is morally wrong? Apparently, these schools haven't gotten the memo. New Scalia Rising? Supreme Court justice Neil Gorsuch warns judicial activists he's coming for them CNN Calls Trump Supporters Stupid Illiterate Rednecks That's me! And Mrs. BD too. GOP Launches Campaign Ad, Fundraiser Off CNN’s Don Lemon Mocking Trump Supporters Impeachment Is Killing Trump Derangement Syndrome. You can only hit the rage button so many times. They deny Trump the right to present a defense, then complain that he has produced no evidence. Goldberg: Our Nation Is Paying for Trump’s Refusal to Be Presidential Jonah should focus on results, not personality. Shut Down This Tiring Farce. The high court of the whole enfranchised nation will determine whether the president retains his office, in nine months, and this kind of unfounded assault must be discouraged, lest it become routine. Venezuela May Be Forced To Sell Off Its Oil Company… To Russia Trump proposes Palestinian state with capital in east Jerusalem Trump's surprisingly reasonable Israeli-Palestinian peace deal Wake me up when the Palis want peace. Not likely in my lifetime. Without hate, what would they be? CHINA UPDATE: Hong Kong Closes Schools Till March! — Food Shortages in Affected and Barricaded Areas Tuesday, January 28. 2020Christmas for a man who needs and wants nothing but peace of mind and moments of delightMy book stack is high enough for another 6 months. I have enough outdoor clothing (I do like to do outdoor things) for a lifetime. I have enough gym clothes for daily workouts if I do the wash weekly. For hunting and fishing gear I am ok. Too many firearms too, really. So the family got me some of the usual rare stinky cheeses I love along with exotic jams to go with them. Also, a cool spy boardgame: Codenames. It makes you think about words. They also gave me a trip, but to where remains a secret surprise to me. I hope it's low on museums, medium on quaint or historic architecture, and high on hiking, cafes, and vino. Provence might hit the spot, and I think the Hadrian's Wall hike is in the pipeline. I never know. They did identify one thing I didn't really need but is an excellent layer: that featherweight Patagonia quilted vest. I don't like sweaters - too constricting - but I do like to feel relatively comfortable outdoors. A bit chilly is fine with me. Yeah, fleece is great too but heavier than this thing. Next year I think I will get one of them for my lad.
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Tuesday morning linksUniversity Of Derby Offers Crybaby Students And Staff Therapy For Climate Anxiety Do College Students Need ‘Safe Spaces’? When Laws Make Divorce Easier, Research Shows Women Benefit, Outcomes Improve She Has It All, but She's Depressed THANOS SMILES: Quebec politician praises coronavirus for reducing carbon footprint in Wuhan. "These aren’t easy days for travel touts.... I couldn’t help feeling a few pangs of sympathy for the writers and editors who put together The New York Times’ recent Travel package '52 Places to Go in 2020.'" The Problem of Birth Tourism. An important step — will birthright citizenship be addressed next? The Left’s War On Women That Will Jeopardize Women’s Progress The Story Behind Miss Virginia Exemplifies The Moral Case for School Choice Neil Gorsuch Issues Savage Rebuke to Activist Judges and Nationwide Injunctions “What makes so many people angry at Washington,” Schweizer writes, “is the fact that those with political power get to operate by a different set of rules than the rest of us.” Why Won’t Hillary Clinton Just Go Away? DEMOCRATS DETERMINED TO FRACK THEMSELVES Democrats on House Impeachment Team VOTED AGAINST the Aid Package for Ukraine They Want to Impeach Trump Over Dershowitz calls out House Dems in Trump's Senate impeachment trial after Bolton shock waves 'Inconceivable': Dershowitz Dismantles Dems' Impeachment Case; Says Bolton Book Claims Aren't Impeachable, Either So That's Why Schiff Won't Release the Transcript of the 18th Witness Bolton’s Former Top Deputy Blasts Bolton’s Book Maneuvering As ‘Dangerous’ And ‘Inexplicable’ Target Trump Forever. Destroying the president is not just the only viable trajectory for the Left, but it is also the only possible narrative given that focus on the current left-wing agenda is slow-motion suicide. Monday, January 27. 2020Another Bye Bye BlackbirdMy question: What is this song about?
Monday morning linksThere’s no need to panic about coronavirus. Nasty bugs derived from Chinese livestock markets never fail to whip up mass hysteria Prince Charles Flew 16,000 Miles In Just 11 Days On Three Private Jets And A Helicopter Before Photo Op With Climate Alarmist Greta Thunberg in Switzerland Trump Administration Repeals Federal Protections on Puddles, Dry Stream Beds, Some Ditches - Hysterical reactions greet the White House's modest changes to federal clean water rules. Today saw the premiere of two videos, each with a different vision of America Juan Williams: Trump was wrong to attend March for Life rally because ‘it divides the country’ Devin Nunes: John Bolton was warned about Obama holdovers who 'spy' in Trump White House Members of President Trump’s legal team on Sunday previewed what will be the meat of their forthcoming defense this week by saying that even if all the allegations Democrats laid out last week were true, they would still fall short of “impeachable” offenses under the U.S. Constitution. TRUMP VERSUS DEAN WORMER The Deep State Tapestry of Deceit is Beginning to Unravel WHAT IF THEY GAVE AN IMPEACHMENT AND NO ONE CAME? The Democrats are desperately trying to flog their impeachment show, but so far both the ratings and the reviews are bad. “They Virtually Accused President of Being Russian Asset, of Having KGB Email Address” – Jonathan Turley Breaks the News to CBS Hacks that Democrats Just Lost Their Case " ‘Thank God I was alive to hear Adam Schiff speak these past few days,’ Jennifer Rubin tweeted.” Dan Gainor: In impeachment trial coverage, liberal media heap praise on Schiff and Democrats prosecuting Trump US ‘satisfaction’ best in 15 years, Trump's high four times Obama’s low ABC/WaPo: Trump Climbs To Highest Job Approval Rating Of His Presidency Amid Impeachment Trial With Putin’s Proposed Changes, Russia Begins Its Transition to One-Party Rule Sunday, January 26. 2020Life in Ordinary America: Not just back from WuhanIs this latest Chinese influenza over-hyped, or serious? You never really know until time passes because there are always hysterias. The news is always about hysterias, because they sell. Already 6000 Americans have died from the ordinary flu this year. It can be the last straw for the frail elderly and otherwise fragile and ailing. Normal, natural final straw. As greeters at church this morning, I refused to shake hands because I am getting over a stubborn cold/cough. To good friends, I explained "Just back from Wuhan." Mrs. BD was NOT amused. Your Editor can be a jerk sometimes. I like dark humor but not everybody does, especially when entering church. She's at the theater and dinner in NYC this afternoon/night with gal theater friends, so my high crimes and misdemeanors will blow over as long as I do the dishes, the laundry, and a bunch of indoor and outdoor pick up (I am doing, including clipping the heck out the the Wisteria as best I can - but I would do them anyway on a winter afternoon without plans. Except a steak supper out with a dear old pal later today cuz whenever She is out for an evening, I get together with pals. Me not much of a sitter except when I edit this darn website - and for my day job). There is always a reason for not sitting, unless at work. I am off to the damn gym while the laundry cycles. Beer after. Life is pretty good in the good old USA. From today's Lectionary: Fishers of menMatthew 4:12-23 4:12 Now when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew to Galilee. 4:13 He left Nazareth and made his home in Capernaum by the sea, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali, 4:14 so that what had been spoken through the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: 4:15 "Land of Zebulun, land of Naphtali, on the road by the sea, across the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles 4:16 the people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and for those who sat in the region and shadow of death light has dawned." 4:17 From that time Jesus began to proclaim, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near." 4:18 As he walked by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea for they were fishermen. 4:19 And he said to them, "Follow me, and I will make you fish for people." 4:20 Immediately they left their nets and followed him. 4:21 As he went from there, he saw two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John, in the boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets, and he called them. 4:22 Immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed him. 4:23 Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and curing every disease and every sickness among the people. Saturday, January 25. 2020Saturday morning linksHow Most American Kids Are Kept Out of the Best Public Schools SCIENCE-Y QUOTE O' THE DAY: "Chinese market at center of coronavirus outbreak sold wolves, rats to eat" East is east, and West is west... "Do you screen potential dates or partners for their political beliefs? If so, how? Please include specific examples and funny stories..." No Giver Is Safe: How the Left Is Poisoning Philanthropy AN IMPORTANT FREE SPEECH VICTORY AGAINST THE SPLC The Stupidity of the American Media Journalists Hate You. Review of Andrew Marantz’s Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation.
NYT Reportedly Killed Story Revealing Obama WH Meeting With Whistleblower about Bidens and Burisma All the news they want you to get Proposed NYC Bill Allowing Non-Citizens to Vote Is Too Far Left Even for de Blasio Philly and Limousine Liberals Conn. Dems Want New State Police Dept. Just for 'Hate Crimes and Violent Right-Wing Extremism' A hotbed of right-wing violence. Examples? ELIZABETH WARREN’S JOE THE PLUMBER MOMENT. Schiff Admits Impeachment is a Coup Dems Can't Take the Chance of Voters Deciding 2020 Election While assassins blather in the Senate seeking his death the President marches for life A "Pro-Life Hero"? Trump Becomes First President To Speak At 'March For Life' Will an Arkansas stripper finally shut down the Schiff show? How China Overtook The US As The World's Major Trading Partner PM Boris Johnson has made good on his promise to the British people London Begins Deploying Facial Recognition Cameras Across The City… That's sick. Do they hate the citizens? Or fear them? Brits are pretty decent folks, when sober. Every single Jordanian lawmaker still views Israel as an enemy with whom trade is anathema, even if Jordan itself would benefit greatly. At Holocaust Memorial, a Survivor and Towering Moral Voice Says He ‘Cannot Forgive’. World leaders converged in Jerusalem to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Friday, January 24. 2020Friday morning linksPBS ‘NewsHour’ Host Jim Lehrer Dies at 85 Used to listen to them often. Relatively sane and sober, compared to nowadays. German Language Police Group Decides To 'UnWord' The Term "Climate Hysteria" Creepy US Treasury Secretary Recommends St. Greta Get A Degree In Economics Most American adults don’t know 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust, survey finds Bernie Sanders In The 1970s: Having A Job Is A Lot Like Slavery How would he know? Never had a real job. Partisan Registration and Contributions of Faculty in Flagship Colleges Elizabeth Warren confronted by Iowa dad over student loan plan, saying people paying for tuition would get 'screwed' Labor’s Love Lost - Membership in government unions falls to a 20-year low. 'Show up to court with a toothbrush': ICE says sanctuary city officials should expect jail time if they ignore subpoenas How A Bumbling Fool Marches From Triumph To Triumph More such fools needed Russiagate Spy Paid $1 Million By Obama Was WaPo Deep Throat TDS-Afflicted Schiff Admits on Senate Floor Impeachment is About 2020. The voters cannot decide for themselves because “we cannot be assured that the vote will be fairly won.” It sometimes feels unfair when your team loses. If you are a child. The Media Loves — And, I Mean, Really Loves — Adam Schiff Politico: Trump’s Removal Would Be Insane Republicans Set Nadler Straight After He Selectively Edits Professor Turley’s Testimony to Argue Abuse of Power is an Impeachable Offense Lies and smears, as many as time allows Shifting Terrain for India’s Foreign Policy - A big election win for Modi lifted India’s confidence in tackling a changing global order and challenging its critics Thursday, January 23. 2020Bye Bye BlackbirdThursday morning linksMonty Python Star Terry Jones Dies at 77 Died of dementia DOES CALORIE RESTRICTION SLOW AGING? Yes, somewhat California needs to set more fires. A new study reveals the risks, regulations, and limited resources that hold back plans for prescribed blazes. El Paso Zoo teases return of naming cockroaches after exes, feeding them to meerkats Department of Transportation Plans To Ban Nearly All Emotional Support Animals It's the support cockroaches that really bug me. And the support millipedes. University of Minnesota faculty, staff to undergo LGBT pronoun training A new language Yale Faculty Members Say Yale Needs Political Diversity Facial recognition’s reckoning, Fourth Amendment edition CNN Hires CNBC’s John Harwood, Who Was Caught Colluding With the Hillary 2016 Campaign Activists with bylines, as Insty says Kling: What is the future of journalism? Clearing a Path for New Infrastructure - The Trump administration is right to streamline the environmental-review process. Donald at Davos: Trump teaches a lesson to the crybabies back home The real Trump Yeah, people who meet him say he's a sweet guy. He's just a bully for America. The FBI Scandal The big Trump administration mistake that led to impeachment Trump's Impeachment Trial Will Only Make Us Hate Washington Even More. That's a bad thing, even—or especially—from a libertarian perspective. Whistleblower Was Overheard in '17 Discussing With Ally How to Remove Trump A Tale of Two Whistleblowers: One Protected, One Not Nadler Goes Nuts, Accuses GOP Senators of ‘Treacherous Votes’, ‘Cover-Up’ and ‘Voting Against the US’ for Rejecting Schumer Subpoenas for Trump Impeachment Trial JW Investigates if Ousted Ukraine Ambassador Ordered State Dept. to Monitor Journalists, Trump Allies Competing against China University of Minnesota student jailed in China over tweets Everything you must know about the biggest diplomatic event in Israel’s history - Who’s coming and who’s boycotting the event? Who will be allowed to speak? Will Putin sit next to Pence? What are the leaders doing in their spare time? And what’s on the menu? Having persecuted and purged their Jews as punishment for the rebirth of Israel, many Arabs now realize they shot themselves in the foot. Ukraine’s Jewish president heaps praise on Israel in pre-visit interview Iran blinks Trump freaks them out. Good. He's good at freaking people out. EagleFrom our pal wintering in Colorado, an eagle feasting on a goose on Sloan's Lake
Wednesday, January 22. 2020Wednesday morning linksTreasures From a 16th-Century Venetian Shipwreck Have Been Hidden Away for Centuries. Now, a Curator Is Planning to Make Them Public In death of dinosaurs, it was all about the asteroid — not volcanoes Denver Post Columnist Fired After Arguing There Are Two Sexes French Intellectual Sentenced To 2 Months Jail After Calling Mass Immigration An "Invasion" Use of Derogatory Terms to Motivate Student-Athletes is Permissible Under Title IX Millennials Offended by Suggestion They Work Weekends 2020 May Possibly Maybe Be The Last Chance To Stop Climate Doom Mexico Begins Deporting Migrants Who Rushed The Border Monday Should You Hate the Media? TRUMP AT DAVOS: APOCALYPSE NOT NOW More on TRUMP IN THE LIONS’ DEN Imagine if Trump staffers were on camera talking about plans to drop communists from helicopters. Bernie Sanders Says He Will “Look At” Tearing Down Existing Border Walls… AOC: 'You Need to Give Up Control and Power' To her... Biden: “We Should Be Helping” China, “The Idea That China’s Going To Eat Our Lunch…Give Me A Break” Tuesday, January 21. 2020Tuesday morning linksHoward Zinn: Fake Historian Get Out of My Bedroom, Andrew Cuomo! In the name of ending the patriarchy, New York’s governor wants to make sure that women don’t drink too much while keeping a close watch over our sex lives Big issue is that women want/need sex too. They love it. It's not talked about much in media, but women talk amongst themselves about it all the time. Many women are sex-starved (and men too). That's not good for the soul or biology/health. Tesla Is Cutting Down "Thousands Of Trees" To Put Up Its German Gigafactory 4 The Dems Still Don’t Know Why Trump Won in 2016 Left and right, arrogant elites just ignorant of what other half thinks Elizabeth Warren Says the Greatest Threat to Foreign Policy Today Is Climate Change… Joe Biden Endorses Teachers Walking Out On Students: ‘These Walkouts Are Vital’… The Best 'White Supremacist' Minority Protests From the Virginia Gun Rally You Won't See on the News Why Trump Had To Hire This Legal Odd Couple Not easy to work for Jenna Ellis: Trump impeachment trial – Here are four legal problems House Democrats have to face “We Will Not Stop!” – Maxine Waters Vows to Continue New Impeachments Against President Trump Democrats Are Impeaching Trump Because They Can’t Beat Him Duh John Durham Criminal Probe Gathers Steam Investigating Post Election Docs Monday, January 20. 2020Is/are Spaghetti and Meatballs Italian?Nope. It's Italian-American. You can't buy Italian-American food in Italy. A review of the history of marinara sauce and Spaghetti and Meatballs. (h/t Ace) I can't help it if I am an Italian food snob. Very happy to never see baked ziti again in my life, or meatballs. They make me feel stuffed and just gross and tired. Soak the breadcrumbs in milk for the meatballs. Better that way.
Monday morning linksWhat Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. might think of America today In Retrospect - Amity Shlaes’s brilliant history of 1960s welfare programs and the flawed vision that underpinned them Op-Ed: We Can No Longer Tolerate An Economic System Where The Rich Get Richer And The Poor Also Get Richer It’s Hard to Be a Patriot. When did love of country get such a bad name? Did it? Another boring feminist pretends she’s SKEERY: Mona Eltahawy’s ‘patriarchy’ video recorded at #WomensMarch2020 accidentally HILARIOUS 44 profs at Catholic university demand school apologize for screening pro-life film Unplanned Profs don't want students to see a documentary? Student Govt. at Dickinson College Votes to Ban Israeli Hummus to be More ‘Inclusive’ That hummus is tasty. I like it. Easy to make it yourself, too. Cuomo doesn’t care who else gets hurt by his war on the gig economy Gigs are how lots of people amend their incomes. I did gigs when I was young. Did You Know That 2020 Socialist Candidate For President Bernie Sanders Supported Iran During The 444 Days Of The 1979 Iranian Hostage Crisis? How five members of Joe Biden’s family got rich through his connections Minnesota: Republican Iraqi American Reportedly Set to Challenge Rep. Ilhan Omar Warehouse Filled With Hurricane Maria Supplies Discovered Years Later In Puerto Rico Like Trump said Holman Jenkins: The Comey coverup unravels
Trump was elected to shake all the boxes. He has. Under Trump, America May Be Its Strongest Since the End of World War II Something is missing from the charges against Trump: An impeachable offense. Being orange is like totally impeachable What the Media Won’t Tell You: Bill Clinton Charged of 11 Felonies and Impeachable Offenses – Trump Accused of ZERO Felonies and 2 Non-Crimes The cant and emotionalism that enshrouds this final doomed effort to undo the 2016 election probably require a full trial. The public relations battle must be fought to the end. “You’re Impeached Forever!” – ‘Prayerful’ Pelosi Giggles and Taunts Trump on Bill Maher’s Show The Unexpected Consequences Of Germany's Anti-Nuclear Push Makes them beholden to Russian gas Taiwan Stands Up to Xi NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS PRESS DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES ON SHUTTING JERUSALEM EMBASSY Sunday, January 19. 2020From today's LectionaryPsalm 40:1-11 40:1 I waited patiently for the LORD; he inclined to me and heard my cry. 40:2 He drew me up from the desolate pit, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure. 40:3 He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the LORD. 40:4 Happy are those who make the LORD their trust, who do not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after false gods. 40:5 You have multiplied, O LORD my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you. Were I to proclaim and tell of them, they would be more than can be counted. 40:6 Sacrifice and offering you do not desire, but you have given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required. 40:7 Then I said, "Here I am; in the scroll of the book it is written of me. 40:8 I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart." 40:9 I have told the glad news of deliverance in the great congregation; see, I have not restrained my lips, as you know, O LORD. 40:10 I have not hidden your saving help within my heart, I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation; I have not concealed your steadfast love and your faithfulness from the great congregation. 40:11 Do not, O LORD, withhold your mercy from me; let your steadfast love and your faithfulness keep me safe forever. Saturday, January 18. 2020Saturday morning links“When I saw the latest climate hysteria headlines earlier this week, I did what any rational person would do: I cashed out my IRA and spent it all on hookers and blow." Appeals Court Throws Out Climate Change Lawsuit Democrats move to crush small business Meet the Muslim Republican Iraqi Refugee Who's Looking to Unseat Ilhan Omar Robert Hyde: I Was Climbing Volcanoes In Ecuador When I Sent Those Texts About Surveilling Yovanovitch To Lev Parnas Deep State Spying on Trump Family and Journalists? Consumer Confidence Hit Highest Level in 19 Years What Do Democrats Fear in Donald Trump? Greatness Kinda true. He is a change agent:
Kimball: Impeachment is now just another bludgeon in the armory of political warfare. There is nothing new in the plot of this lugubrious sitcom Dream Team? Trump Adds Starr, Dershowitz, And Ray To His Senate Impeachment Defense Putin’s Now Purged the West from the Kremlin China's Antics Are a 'Game-Changer' for the Navy and Marine Corps, 4-Star Says Erdoğan's 'Make-Turkey-More-Islamic' Campaign Is a Failure ISIS' Own "Jabba the Hut" Saturday verse: Walt Whitman, When Liberty GoesFrom The Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass. h/t American Digest “When liberty goes it is not the first to go nor the second or third to go . . it waits for all the rest to go . . it is the last. . . When the memories of the old martyrs are faded utterly away . . . . When the large names of patriots are laughed at in the public halls from the lips of the orators . . . . When the boys are no more christened after the same but christened after tyrants and traitors instead . . . . When the laws of the free are grudgingly permitted and laws for informers and bloodmoney are sweet to the taste of the people . . . . When I and you walk abroad upon the earth stung with compassion at the sight of numberless brothers answering our equal friendship and calling no man master… When we are elated with noble joy at the sight of slaves . . . . When the soul retires in the cool communion of the night and surveys its experience and has much extasy over the word and deed that put back a helpless innocent person into the gripe of the gripers or into any cruel inferiority . . . . When those in all parts of these states who could easier realize the true American character but do not yet— When the swarms of cringers, suckers, doughfaces, lice of politics, planners of sly involutions for their own preferment to city offices or state legislatures or the judiciary or congress or the presidency, obtain a response of love and natural deference from the people whether they get the offices or no . . . . When it is better to be a bound booby and rogue in office at a high salary than the poorest free mechanic or farmer with his hat unmoved from his head and firm eyes and a candid and generous heart . . . . And when servility by town or state or the federal government or any oppression on a large scale or small scale can be tried on without its own punishment following duly after in exact proportion against the smallest chance of escape . . . . Or rather when all life and all the souls of men and women are discharged from any part of the earth— Then only shall the instinct of liberty be discharged from that part of the earth. GranbyFrom a pal who was skiing there yesterday
Friday, January 17. 2020Heather takes no prisonersEthnic Studies 101: Playing the Victim. An aggrieved Harvard professor exemplifies how a fast-rising academic field injects paranoia and hatred into American culture. Apparently the "cannon" of everything academic is about white supremacy. Science, too. I worry about people whose "identity" and career is based on their ancestry. Friday morning linksCall of Duty: ‘1917’ How One Librarian Tried to Squash Goodnight Moon. There’s a reason this classic is missing from the New York Public Library’s list of the 10 most-checked-out books of all time. Stephen King faces backlash for saying 'quality' should matter in Oscar nominees over 'diversity' Brett Sokolow criticizes live hearings and cross-examination, suggests there may be ‘clever work-arounds’ Finally. The Feds — including ICE — appear to be investigating Rep. Ilhan Omar. At least three departments are reviewing what could be the worst-ever crime spree by an elected US official Here’s All The Liberals Who Were COMPLETELY WRONG About Trump’s Trade War with China — It’s a Long, Long List… Kevin Williamson Moves the Goalposts in Judging Trump’s Presidency Markets Surge to New Record on Trump Trade News! Up Nearly 267 Points Sharyl Attkisson Refiles Spying Suit, Exposes Big Deep State Players MSNBC Anchor: ‘Bleak’ Future for Children, Grandchildren of Trump’s Defenders Impeachment Is Not the Issue, It's the 2020 Election Double Standard Much? Biden's Threat to Withhold $1B from Ukraine Violated the Law An after-action report: Trump, Soleimani and Khameni Our ruling class’s judgment that America’s killing of terror master Qassem Soleimani united Iran’s people behind its regime is characteristic of their incompetence. The nuclear deal with Iran was a charade right from the start.
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