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Monday, July 2. 2018Monday morning links
Iguana tastes like chicken AP Investigation: Buying Local Fish? It May Not Be True - An Associated Press investigation has found that a leading sustainable seafood distributor who pledged wild-caught, domestic fish traceable to a dock has duped U.S. chefs. No wild seafood is sustainable today Charles Krauthammer’s Quiet Contribution to Our Understanding of Bipolar Disease Feminists Invent Concept of 'Emotional Labor' to Blame Men for Everything Lazy-ass men and lazy-ass women are equivalent problems NEW REPORT: RECYCLING PLASTIC IS MAKING OCEAN LITTER WORSE VIDEO Uncovered Trump Interview From Over 25 Years Ago Will Shock A Lot of People Bill Bennett, Karen Nussle: Supreme Court's Janus decision could change everything for our schools and kids Notes From a Poor People’s Protest. Feature: In a summer of reboots, an MLK original rallies again Another Bill To Make Puerto Rico A State Better idea - make them a nation. Why not? Why Did DOJ And FBI Ignore Lack Of Evidence For Russiagate? They Fell In Love With Their Source Democrats Are Making A Big Mistake On Immigration Begala: Democrats are about to fight like crazy For no borders? America the Horrible? Progressives say that the United States is racist and misogynist, but they still want everyone in the world to come here. The generic editorial against Trump's next pick The Difference Justice Gorsuch Has Made Enough Moping’: Obama Tells Democrats To Forget Trump, Find A Message No borders and everything free. That's the message Abolish ICE? Not So Fast, Says Congressional Hispanic Caucus Like it or not, Trump is a man of his word The Left needs to face reality: Trump is winning Is Trump the Most Fun President Ever? Why Britain's Deradicalization Programs Are Failing Religion of peace Sunday, July 1. 2018Victor D Hanson Perfectly Breaks Down FBI Trump/Russia Debacle "Who's The Real Friend Of Russia"Another wonderful VDH interview (brief annoying ad in the middle).
Staying Fit on Vacation
Pic is my medicine ball on our Cape Cod driveway. Garbage cans out - a decorative touch. If you have invested time, money, sweat, and tears into a fitness regimen, it is depressing to learn that your level of conditioning will deteriorate measurably within 7-10 days if all you do is walk around for hours. Many people go for morning jogs but there are plenty of other morning calisthenics that can be done anywhere. I have done it all, in hotel gyms, in the sandy driveway on Cape Cod, and elsewhere all over the place. Even in Maine. A light protein and banana shake after. There is no more invigorating way to begin an active day outdoors. One observation: We Americans are fitness nuts by comparison to the rest of the world. It's cultural and, to some extent, class-related We (frequently) overweight Americans try to stay fit and vigorous until something strikes us down. In Europe, not much. In Asia, very little. How often do you see gyms or street runners in those places? An exception might be Switzerland, where I am told gyms are sprouting up on every corner in every town. Especially in Zurich, or course, because Zurich is like a mini-NYC but without the charm. For a business meeting, a business speech, or a job interview, there is nothing like an hour of calis to prepare. A few ideas below the fold -
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Use it or lose it. Strength and power diminish measurably after 7-10 days, cardio fitness after one week without stressing your heart hard. The older you are, the quicker the loss. From today's LectionaryLamentations 3:22-33 3:22 The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; 3:23 they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. 3:24 "The LORD is my portion," says my soul, "therefore I will hope in him." 3:25 The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him. 3:26 It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD. 3:27 It is good for one to bear the yoke in youth, 3:28 to sit alone in silence when the Lord has imposed it, 3:29 to put one's mouth to the dust (there may yet be hope), 3:30 to give one's cheek to the smiter, and be filled with insults. 3:31 For the Lord will not reject forever. 3:32 Although he causes grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love; 3:33 for he does not willingly afflict or grieve anyone. Saturday, June 30. 2018Saturday morning links
Flight Attendants Have Finally Revealed Best Kept Secrets How To Tell If You've Been Abducted By Aliens New Helmet Rule Could Make NFL Unrecognizable A Man Explains 7 Things Men REALLY Love About Women Why You Can't Trust Government Dietary Data Can't trust lots of things coming from government Will Witt Asks Beachgoers About The Fourth Of July. They Perform Poorly. Students complain that prof's op-ed made them feel bad Lindsay Shepherd Is Suing Wilfrid Laurier University — Here’s Why Mandatory Diversity Week in Higher Education The real reason NY city councilmen are trying to squash Airbnb For the Love of the Local Newspaper - Regional publications do work that really matters to their communities. And local journalists know it in their bones. MUELLER TARGETS TRUMP OVER RUSSIAN BILLIONAIRES LINKED TO HILLARY CLINTON Is 'Catch And Release' A Winning Issue For Democrats? Poll: Not At All. Shock: #FakeNews Media Rushes to Blame Trump for Annapolis Newsroom Shooting The ´Resistance´ Is Turning into a National Lynch Mob THE LIBERAL FREAKOUT IN TWO MINUTES Wising Up: The #WalkAway Campaign THE LEFT LOSES THE JUDICIARY - The golden age of conservative jurisprudence is here. Democrats badly underestimated Trump What's Wrong With Britain? Once-Great Britain Descends into Multicultural Madness Friday, June 29. 2018Friday morning linksMaking Dallas a nice place to live in Why the Nobel Peace Prize brings little peace Scrubbing Laura Ingalls Wilder Is A Dangerous Step Toward Ignorance California's Costly Global Warming Campaign Turns Out To Be Worse Than Useless 2018 Has Been Very Good to Trump WINNING: Atlanta Fed Announces 4.5% GDP Growth Estimate For Q2 Krugman wrong yet again US GDP growth could hit 15 year high and US dollar is surging Judge protects us from 'protection' bureau The Western World's most depressing chart After Its Hard Left Turn, Will Democratic Party Officially Admit It's Socialist? The Left is Bordering on Insanity DEMOCRATIC ESTABLISHMENT FRETS ABOUT THE UNHINGED LEFT Why Trump Won: Liberal Hatred Of Non-City Folks THE RUN-DOWN: Here's What You Need To Know About Trump's Top 5 Possible Nominees Britain’s Exploding Population Driven Above 66 Million by Mass Migration Thursday, June 28. 2018Thursday morning linksVacation time. Seems like half of the US is headed for the beaches, lakes, and mountains today for an extra-long 4th getaway from reality and work. From 1920, 10 Things I Would Do If I Were Twenty-One Scientists develop material that could regenerate dental enamel As Insty would say, faster please “Is There a Doctor on the Plane?” Why I Don't 'Dress Up' When I Go to Church Rationalizations for laziness. Of course God doesn't care. There's just the basic issue of respect for events and occasions. Is Cheap Sex Making Men Give Up on Marriage? European High-Speed Rail Also a Huge Boondoggle - A new report finds high costs, and low speeds on Europe's high-speed rail lines California Considers Establishing Its Own Ministry of Truth Good grief, that is sicko New York Times Op-Ed: All Trump Policies Trace Back to 'White Extinction Anxiety' BS on that. The U.S. Is a More Dangerous Country for Women than North Korea, 548 Women’s Rights Experts Concluded MIT hiring admin to expand ‘affirmative action’ efforts What? MIT is diverse as heck, no bias against Asians. Atlantic writer wants Supreme Court to support favored policies, not adhere to Constitution. Problem is, that ain't their job The Left’s Reaction to Justice Kennedy’s Retirement Is Over-the-Top Unhinged New York Times Op-Ed Defends Dem Incivility: Trump Officials Work For a 'Professional Racist'/
ICE at Bay: Siege at Portland Continues as Copycat Insurrections Spread Nationwide Turks in Germany Celebrate Erdogan’s Victory with Chants of Allahu Akbar, Hail him as ‘Führer’ Wednesday, June 27. 2018Quantum computingQuantum Computing Expert Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty. I still don't get it, but I don;t get how regular computers work either. Bits?
QQQ: PersistenceNothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts... Calvin Coolidge Wednesday morning linksorker: Maybe We Should Reconsider Free Speech In The Digital Age Reading that gave me a case of PTSD Do we need to update Godwin's Law about the probability of comparison to Nazis? Another Prof argues against stupid speech Pot, kettle Teacher Performance and Accountability Incentives Are public schools factories? The Mommy Effect: Do Women Anticipate the Employment Effects of Motherhood? Army training will now focus on actual battlefield skills, not social issues American money flowing back into America Maxine Waters declares war on democracy There’s Nothing Wrong with Socialism—as Long as It’s Voluntary Justice Gorsuch’s Fascinating, Constitutional Dissent In Carpenter (the cell phone privacy case) Are many American Jews fighting the last war? Judicial Watch Obtains IRS Documents Revealing McCain’s Subcommittee Staff Director Urged IRS to Engage in “Financially Ruinous” Targeting Red Hen Owner Resigns As Director Of Volunteer-Organization After Backlash MEDIA TURNING TRUMP VOTERS INTO PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1 "Strzok isn’t just any rank-and-file guy spouting off in one ill-advised email. His fingerprints were on every FBI investigation..." IN SEARCH OF THE ORIGIN of Russia Russia DOJ Won't Release Top Secret Loretta Lynch Intercepts Suggesting Secret Deal To Rig Clinton Prob Here's One Unverified File the Feds Won't Leak: About Loretta Lynch Scott Adams: Republicans Need to Vote Because ‘They’re Coming for You Next’ Illegals are California's most privileged group VDH: Why This Immigration Psychodrama Will Also Pass Astroturfed “Families Belong Together” June 30 National Protest Sure Looks Like An Open Borders Movement No One Is Asking What Is Compassionate For The Average American Citizen I am Afghanistan isn’t a country — it’s a hole in the map where neighboring countries aren’t. The migration crisis will shatter Europe has shattered HUNDREDS OF MUSLIM MIGRANTS Storm Croatian Border Screaming “ALLAHU AKBAR!” Migrants Not Welcome: Austria Deploys Border Police After Asylum Situation Goes "Critical" Brexit bill becomes law, allowing UK to leave European Union Turkey's Election: Stockholm Syndrome at Its Worst More rebellion in Iran
Tuesday, June 26. 2018Curls for Girls, both waysThey say "Curls for Girls" and "Sun's Out, Guns Out" because, for guys, strong arms are a sign of vigor, health, and fitness to females, and of dominance to males. For gals, toned beats flabby all the time as a sign of health. It's primitive, but physicality matters because we are animals. Biceps (and brachialis) are a bit more about vanity than functionality, but we want all of our skeletal muscles to be firm and fit. Triceps are much more functional, but what the heck. Good to be strong all over. I tend to do one or two sets/week of curls more as "maintenance" than as strength-building. Can't do everything in the allotted time, and curls are "accessory." Furthermore, all upper body exertions stress arms so there is no real need to mess with them. My point here is to mix overhand curls (whether dumbells, straight bar, or crooked bar) with the usual underhand grip. The overhand grip stresses the heck out of your forearms, so it's a good mix. Grip (ie, forearm strength) tends to be the weak link in many exertions (ie, deadlifts). Another good forearm stressor is max-heavy Farmer's Walks (squeeze those kettlebell handles like your life depended on it). We like functional multi-muscle group exercises, and that darn Farmer'sWalk stresses everything from legs to forearms and everything in between. Tip for curls - lower you arms to a count of 3 or 4. Don't just let gravity do it. The "negative" is as important as the pull. That applies to most weight work.
Tuesday morning links
Image via Insurrection is Here; How Long do We have Until Civil War 2.0 Starts? Being overweight correlates with brain shrinkage That doesn't prove it's causal, tho. Still, many problems with excess fat. School discipline: How Federal Education Guidelines from 2014 are Destroying Kids’ Lives Little House on the Prairie Now Shunned as Racist By moonbats The Southern Poverty Law Center isn't authoritative, it's garbage New York Times bombshell on own reporter reveals Ali Watkins dated second potential source Women using sex and charm to get ahead? That's a dog bites man story Trump foes move toward public shaming even of low-level officials DNC Vice Chair Keith Ellison: “Muslims Can Prepare Pork For Infidels, It Will Send Them To Hell And Make Allah Happy”… Bacon is heaven #WalkAway Campaign Urges Fed-Up Democrats to Leave the Party 51% See Democrats as Party of 'Identity Politics and Victimology' Voters Don’t Regret Hillary’s Loss DEM CHIEF OF STAFF TRIED TO EXPOSE SUSPECTED THEFT RING ON CAPITOL HILL, WAS MET WITH RESISTANCE Why the protection of these Pakistani crooks? Garrison: 'Trump Derangement Syndrone' Has Reached Epidemic Proportions Where the Wall Worked - Tijuanans shrug at Donald Trump’s proposed wall—because they already have two. And, for the most part, they’ve done the city some good. Obama admin: Of course we detained children Two Views on the Politics of Immigration The liberal lurch left on immigration 63% of Americans Say Arrest Illegals and/or Send Them Home – 21% (Democrats) Want Them Released The Cost of Providing Health Care to Illegal Aliens - The total is obviously enough to pay for a border wall. FBI Still Stonewalls Congress On Russia Investigation — More Deep State Obstruction? Protesters 'SWARM' Tehran's Grand Bazaar, Shout 'Death To Palestine,' 'Death To Dictator' Erdogan wins in Turkey, gets ready to assume sweeping powers Monday, June 25. 2018Monday morning linksWow, Public Schools Must REALLY Suck New NYC Regents Exam Requirements Are, Um… A Bit Low When all else fails, lower your standards ‘Cultural Marxism’ Explained and Re-Evaluated Meaty interview: Victor Davis Hanson On The Fate Of The West, Trump, And The Resistance Walter Williams says that as racism declines, victimology increases Dems Complain About Massive ObamaCare Premium Hikes — After Ignoring Them For Years Who is the liberal news conductor? IS THE DEMOCRATS’ “SEPARATED CHILDREN” PLOY WORKING? Shouting and Spitting Lefty Protesters Hound Fla. AG Pam Bondi Out of Tampa Movie Theater Sarah Sanders and Her Family Kicked Out of Virginia Restaurant by Trump-Hating Owner Related, The Left's Most Dangerous Game Trump And The 1930s Playbook: Liberal Democracy Comes Unstuck John Brennan, in Ominous Tweet to Pres. Trump, Calls for Insurrection by Cabinet, GOP Leadership U.N. Report Faults Trump For Obama Poverty, Media Fall For It The Poverty Fraud In Action, With UN Assist 7 Recent Lies From Media On Emotion-Driven Immigration Debate Airline offers to send illegal immigrant children in US separated from families back home for free Majority With Trump: Want Wall Built, Migrant Families Deported or Detained Sullivan: If We Want to End the Border Crisis, It’s Time to Give Trump His Wall Democrats refuse to acknowledge safe borders are necessary Who’s Really to Blame at the Border? The current distress and hysteria is the fault of illegal aliens and their enablers in the courts. TRUMP’S GOOD ADVICE TO GOP: DON’T WASTE TIME ON IMMIGRATION REFORM The country remains as split on how to fix U.S. immigration laws as it was in 2013 or in 2016. Trump fights The battering Trump is taking in the press is not hurting him. George Will: Vote Democrat This Fall If You Care About Your Country Former Secret Service Agent Dan Bongino: The Trump Investigation “Started with Zero Evidence at All” – Trump Was Spied On Illegally! FBI sends classified letter to House GOP on use of informants in Trump campaign Mueller trying to get out of his Russian case Facing humiliation, Mueller backs away from prosecution of Russian entities Russia Meddled and Almost Nobody Cared, Until . . . Pentagon Covering Up Fact That Female Officers Nearly Sank Navy Ship Germany’s Largest Auto Makers Support Abolishing EU-U.S. Car Import Tariffs Thank you, Pres. Trump Leading Mexican Presidential Candidate Promises Radical Revolution Mohammed bin Salman is on a make or break mission Merkel presses over migration as 'European solution' fails Major BDS groups have ties to Palestinian terrorist organizations, ministry says Sunday, June 24. 2018QQQ"Everything you do or say, every minute of your life, tilts the world towards heaven or to hell." Jordan Peterson, from this powerful interview In the time of my confession...From a recording rehearsal
LSAT questionI have a problem with this, because last time I checked there were 58 genders. For unknown reasons, the LSAT wants to know this about their test-takers:
QQQA handful of classic Krauthammer quotes. Here's another one: " America is the only country ever founded on an idea. The only country that is not founded on race or even common history. It’s founded on an idea and the idea is liberty. That is probably the rarest phenomena in the political history of the world; this has never happened before. And not only has it happened, but it’s worked. We are the most flourishing, the most powerful, most influential country on Earth with this system, invented by the greatest political geniuses probably in human history."
Not from today's Lectionary: Spiritual warfareFrom Romans 7, via No, You’re Not Perfect ‘Just the Way You Are’ I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out . . . For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! Saturday, June 23. 2018Saturday free ad for Bob: Series of DreamsA Cape Cod dayThat's what I call these cool (low 60s), windy, and drizzly days in New England. They lift the soul. This is a pic of one of Wellfleet's ocean beaches - part of The Great Beach. Thoreau hiked the glorious length of the Great Beach (Chatham to Provincetown), and wrote about it in Cape Cod. It's a Bird Dog family place, a place to love. No gardening needed- nature does it perfectly.
Saturday morning links‘Climate Change’ Made Lobsters Awesome, But Will Kill Them In The Future Or Something Fun to eat but boring food, in my opinion. Stripers love to eat them, and Stripers taste good. Opening Sentence of WaPo’s Obituary For Charles Krauthammer Blames Him For the Iraq War… Supreme Court says warrant necessary for phone location data in win for privacy Stunning Confirmation: Judicial Watch Obtains IRS Documents Showing McCain Staff Urging IRS To Target Tea Party Groups… That is sick Most Blame Law-Breaking Parents Not Immigration Enforcement for Separated Children MOTHER OF CRYING CHILD WAS PREVIOUSLY DEPORTED IN 2013 Fake news OBAMA HELD MORE THAN DOUBLE THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN IN SHELTERS COMPARED TO TRUMP WHITE HOUSE real news Obama administration 'knowingly allowed at least 16 members of notorious teen gang MS-13 into the US' Michael Anton: Here's a Question No One Ever Asks-- Why Does a Nation of 320 Million Need Millions of More Immigrants? Votes TIME cover paints Trump as immigration ‘boogeyman,’ in striking contrast with Obama coverage Illegal Aliens Fatally Separate American Parents and Children Opioids: The Child Separation Crisis No One is Talking About Elizabeth Warren’s academic claim to fame may be no more legitimate than her claim to be Native American Low-life Indian made millions flipping slum houses during the housing boom Rep. Mark Meadows: There’s Growing Evidence FBI Altered 302 Reports in Both Clinton and Russia Probes Drain the swamp. Sessions is too "low energy" This is the FBI agent who worked on Hillary Clinton probe, labeled Trump supporters 'retarded' and texted 'f**k Trump' to her colleague lover - seen for the first time since her identity was revealed after release of IG report These FBI agents are pathetic Comey And Lynch Will Be Subpoenaed By Senate Unless Feinstein Obstructs NBC NEWS: “WE” HAVE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO HURT TRUMP Democrats in a lather over the good news It's morning in America Trump’s Immigration Policies Are Actually Pretty Popular I am all in with legal immigration. But working our generous systems of all sorts, no. George Will demands voters punish´king´ Trump´s Republican ´poodles´ The Decline and Fall of Merkel For better or worse, Europe is no longer a world player. In visible decline, becoming a (nice, except for the immigrants) museum. Heck, we love southern France, the Cotswolds, and most of Italy. THE DECREASING EFFECTIVENESS OF HAMAS TERRORISM Israel then and now shows power of a good defense and a strong wall Friday, June 22. 2018David Hogg strolling NYC with armed bodyguards.Friday free ad for Bob: The time is running away...On ageing, from 1997. It is gloomy, sad, but Bob is still on his Endless Tour today. "Steel" has two syllables if you didn't know about Dylanesque lyrical phrasing. Without an operatic voice, you have to handle genius phrasing. Songs like this make me hope that, when the end times come, some of our culture will be preserved somehow. Likely not.
Friday morning linksThe Pope discusses Hell 24 HOURS AT MY LOCAL DUNKIN DONUTS (IN BROOKLYN) Cute story Gaming Addiction Classified as Mental Health Disorder by WHO Oh, come on. Sounds like The Onion. They are just bored escapists. High Court: Online shoppers can be forced to pay sales tax The Op-Ed on Diversity that Got a Best-Selling American Author Sacked by Penguin If you critique the cult of diversity, you can be fired. Luckily for me, I can't be fired. It's good to be king - a free man. Princeton Takes a Stand for Free Speech on Campus In the footsteps of the great Univ of Chicago. Can't let the lunatics run the asylum Althouse on women politicians' clothing The ACLU Tip-Toes Away From An Absolute Defense Of Free Speech Open Letter to School Boards Everywhere: Stop Renaming Your Schools After Obama You're Fired: Mick Mulvaney Fires Entire CFPB Advisory Board 'Christmas Comes Early' For Mulvaney? Federal Judge Rules CFPB's Structure Is Unconstitutional White House releases sweeping proposal to reorganize government Good ideas, but will never happen The comic masterpiece of Donald J. Trump - Conrad Black explains how the President consistently and hilariously outplays his enemies, provoking and then exploiting the friction between him and them to raise himself to ever greater heights Dems’ true goal is to end all border enforcement Democrats Have Zero Tolerance For Illegal Immigration Solutions - Family separation is callous, but it doesn't excuse the Democrats' refusal to do anything about the border Credibility Crisis: Media Trumpets Allegation of Child Migrant Abuse, Fails to Mention it Happened Under Obama Trump lets DC have it with both barrels Anti-Trump FBI Agent Strzok joined Mueller probe to 'fix' 'unfinished business' from 2016 election A bad cop 'Extraordinary' Strzok removal shows FBI agents in crosshairs from IG probe IG Report Highlights FBI Counterspy Failings - Counterintelligence division under fire for mishandling Clinton email probe Venezuelan economy heading to complete collapse in months and probably a military coup Hamas Paid Family to Falsely Claim Gaza Baby Died of Inhaling Israeli Tear Gas Never ever believe those people Father says little Honduran girl on Time cover was not taken from mother For the eurozone, auf Wiedersehen would be better than ciao
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