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Friday, June 22. 2018Friday 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 Thursday, June 21. 2018Charles, we admired you greatlyPsychiatrist, author, and talking head extraordinaire Charles Krauthammer, M.D., dead at 68 of cancer. Selections from The wisdom of Charles Krauthammer. I enjoyed his 2013 Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics. In that book, he recalled that he learned to speak fluently and precisely when dictating after having lost the ability to write on paper. An athlete who was paralyzed since medical school in a diving accident, Charles led one heck of a vital, productive, wonderful, full life. I always thought he'd be back... God bless him and his family.
Leonard Bernstein Through His Daughter’s Eyes
From what I have heard, the "secrets" from his kids were no secrets in the world. The man had vast talents and either vast appetites or few inhibitions. Probably the latter.
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Thursday morning links - It's Summertime
Going nowhere fast - After the success of the Standard Model, experiments have stopped answering to grand theories. Is particle physics in crisis? FDA Nears Approval of Ecstasy Drug for Treating PTSD WHY FORD IS BUYING DETROIT’S DERELICT TRAIN STATION WHAT DID I JUST WATCH?… Pony Fetishists Converge For BDSM Festival Don't look. You can't unsee it. Table of the Day: Master’s degrees for Class of 2016 by field and gender. Oh, and the overall 31% master’s degree gap for men! A new approach to fighting campus anti-Semitism HARVARD’S EXPERTS UNDERCUT THE CASE FOR RACE-BASED ADMISSIONS Prof blames mathematics for 'global disparities in wealth' DESPERATELY SEEKING SUPREMACISTS At The Worcester Art Museum, New Signs Tell Visitors Which Early American Subjects Benefited From Slavery Dozens Of Groups Considering Lawsuits Against The SPLC In Wake Of Settlement Trump in Minnesota: “Democrats put illegal immigrants before they put American citizens. What the hell is going on?” Trump getting the job done on German auto exports and imports Gallup: Everyone except Democrats is feeling unusually optimistic about the country's direction right now Disability applications plunge as the economy strengthens Mike Bloomberg To Dump $80 Million To Try To Buy The House For Democrats Bernie Sander's Jobs Plan Needed in the Trump economy? Jobs are going begging. Obama cyber chief confirms 'stand down' order against Russian cyberattacks in summer 2016 Why? Large-Scale Immigration Raid Leads to More Than 100 Arrests Obama condemns ´cruelty´ of families ´broken apart in real time´ in World Refugee Day message–without acknowledging his administration Yeah, it was his policy too The Migrant Question - Western nations are fracturing on the issue. Border Games - The Left’s dishonesty about families disguises its real intentions. Schumer Says He’d Rather ‘Keep The Focus On Trump' Than Solve Border Problems Sanders to Laura Bush: "Frankly this law was actually signed into effect in 2008 under her husband's leadership. Not under this administration" Four Things The Media Won’t Tell You About The Border Crisis Clinton Corruption Update The OIG is infected by a far more dangerous disease than political bias — fear. ‘Future Pres’ Hillary — the Font of all the Scandals Clinton Email IG Report: Scandals Sanitized With Linguistic Trickery Clinton Emails: What the IG Report Refuses to Admit Do any laws apply to Clintons? I Guess That IG Report Really Struck A Nerve ROGER STONE EXCLUSIVE: Comey’s FBI Tried to Entrap Me and Compromise Donald Trump Knife control: The lunacy escalates in UK SOMEONE SHOULD TELL THERESA MAY THAT THE UNITED KINGDOM SEPARATES IMMIGRANTS FROM FAMILIES Hungary approves "STOP Soros" law, defying EU, rights groups NOW IT'S CANADA: Students Want To Cancel Shapiro's Speech At University Of British Columbia Wednesday, June 20. 2018Calisthenics classesFor whatever reasons, there are people who refuse to move weights in the gym and who refuse the tedium of cardio exercise (which, in my view, should never be tedious with the right amount of sprinting intervals). Everybody benefits from heavy weights, but moving weight is hard - not fun at all. For those people who refuse weights I recommend 5-6 one-hour calisthenics classes weekly. These classes have all sorts of labels, and some are more challenging than others. However, for general fitness, they are good and highly stressful. The stress is necessary. While we prefer the Maggie's formula of 2 days weights, 2 days calis, and 2 days cardio, for those who will not do that, the cali classes are a good alternative. More variety, group enthusiasm, jolly people, stupid "music", all that. My group is a jolly but very focused and determined team. Everybody does his/her best and, for some of us, it's not impressive. These classes are not for building strength. They are for building energy, building cardio, building endurance, building agility, and putting all of your muscles to work. Since they tend to be free with gym membership, lots of people do them daily, before work. The classes I do are 50/50 sex -wise, and 50/50 over/under 45 years old. Yes, there are pretty gals to look at but you can't because you are just trying to keep up. Are sweaty gals sexy? Totally. You can tell the newbies from the veterans. 45-60 minutes is exhausting. I was once a newbie. The people who struggle through it for the first few months at 5-6 days/week and stick with it show remarkable fitness gains. Most newcomers do not stick with it because it seems like too much at first. It can be, at first. It really might be all anybody needs if muscle- and bone-building are not your goals. I happen to love-hate my weights days and my cardio routines but I get a kick out of the challenge of classes and look forward to them. Cali classes do enough HIIT cardio for anybody's cardio needs, really. Best part? When the hour is done. Everybody applauds the trainer and then you can collapse on the floor in your puddle of sweat. A cool walking vacation in Tuscany
The rural scenery and the suppers (Tuscany = minimal pasta) should be excellent. Daily distances do not seem challenging (8-9 miles/day) but I don't know how hilly or uneven the route is.
Wednesday morning linksMillennials may be less happy and healthy than their parents The Case for Gender-Segregated Universities But how many genders are there, these days? Penn law school hires The $1.5 Trillion Student Loan Debacle Hits a Tipping Point The Bad Hate the Good: The Southern Poverty Law Center Vs. Prager University The Next Andrew Cuomo Related Corruption Trial Is Kicking Off For the Record: Yes, Hillary Clinton Should Have Been Prosecuted for Willful Gross Negligence Zero Tolerance at the Mexican Border HERE ARE HORRIFYING PHOTOS OF OBAMA’S ILLEGAL ALIEN FACILITIES THE MEDIA REFUSES TO SHOW YOU Hillary Clinton (Obama too): Just Because Your Kid Gets to America Illegally Doesn’t Mean They Get to Stay 'Foreign actors' accessed Hillary Clinton emails, documents show At Least 6 and Potentially 7 Known and Suspected Intelligence Informants Accused of Spying on Trump Campaign - And now there are more. Horowitz Describes How Bombshell FBI Anti-Trump Text Exchange Almost Slipped Away FBI Agent Peter Strzok, author of anti-Trump text messages, escorted out of bureau headquarters but still employed If these guys are not in trouble, I do not ever want to get another ticket for sliding through a stop sign Horowitz: Over 300 Bribes To FBI Agents By Journalists; Two FBI Agents Who Hated Trump Still Work For Mueller; And More U.S. Announces Its Withdrawal From U.N. Human Rights Council Tuesday, June 19. 2018Tuesday morning linksWhere the 'No Ending a Sentence With a Preposition' Rule Comes From Ageing parents: This Is The Biggest Life Event That Millennials Don't See Coming As Nashville Rapidly Expands, Residents Worry the Metropolis Is Growing Too Fast TODAY'S INTERNET NOT 'SUSTAINABLE,' EXPERTS WARN SHAME OF HARVARD MED SCHOOL Food stamp enrollment falls to 8-year low as Trump clamps down on fraud, economy improves How Dodd-Frank Stole The Recovery By Killing Small-Business Growth Democrats know their 'blue wave' is no sure thing Illegal Aliens Increasingly Using Other People’s Children To Claim Asylum 10,000 of 12,000 Kids in US DHS Custody Were Sent Here Alone Compassion and the rule of law at the border Thousands of DACA recipients with arrest records, including 10 accused murderers, allowed to stay in US Hillary Calls Trump A Liar, Unchristian Over Family Separation In Immigration Policy If there are no parents, or parents are in jail, what to do with those kids? Byron York: What do Republicans suspect really happened in the FBI Trump-Russia investigation? For Trump supporters, DOJ IG report amounts to "Told ya so" IG CONFIRMS COMEY INVESTIGATION [UPDATE: MCCABE PLEADS THE FIFTH] GOP Lawmakers Demand Horowitz Identify Names of Anti-Trump FBI Employees in IG Report FORMER CIA HEAD SAYS HE BACKS U.S. PULLOUT FROM IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL Spain's new government to remove Franco's remains from mausoleum Father's Day photoFrom our pal in Maine, a pic from Height of Land in the Rangeley Lake area on a Father's Day trip. A wonderful area, especially for hiking, hunting, and fishing. Not all of Maine is seacoast.
Monday, June 18. 2018Monday morning linksThe Insanely Eventful Life of Grateful Dead Lyricist John Perry Barlow - A posthumous memoir from a mutant genius NASA glaciologist Jay Zwally puts the hammer down: ‘Antarctica is gaining ice’ Is he allowed to say that? The Arrogant Ignorance of the 'Well-Educated' When we grew up, We Didn't have this Green Thing Shocking number of Americans have sex at work These Harvard kids got the lesson of their life in the Heartland A Bloody Fraud. Review: 'Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup,' by John Carreyrou Boston Globe: Break Up Google for Internet Search Monopoly Target Corporation Pushes LGBT for Kids This Father’s Day, More Than a Quarter of Kids Have Absentee Fathers Father’s Day: Leftists Outraged by Donald Trump Jr. Loving on His Children HARVARD HOSPITAL TAKES DOWN PORTRAIT OF "FATHER OF NEUROSURGERY" Somali Gang Drives by Maine Park and Shoots Park-Goers with Pellet Guns – Then Beats a Young Father to Death Why do Somalis love Maine? It's not the lobsters THE TRUTH ABOUT SEPARATING KIDS AT THE BORDER 22 People Shot In New Jersey, Doesn’t Fit Media Narrative so ¯_(ツ)/¯ As Labor Shortage Worsens, Small Businesses Are "Recruiting In The County Jail" Dershowitz: THE FINAL NAIL IN THE ACLU’S COFFIN - The ACLU’s move from the neutral protector of civil liberties to a partisan advocate of hard-left politics is both a symptom and consequence of it's changes. Trump Plays Poker Like a Riverboat Pro Donald Trump is delivering on his promises and voters are noticing FBI Employees' Texts Reveals an Astonishing Level of Elitism and Scorn for Everyday Americans That's Washington for you. They look down on us - but they are our employees. Justice Leadership Is Not Coming Clean ‘WE’RE GETTING CLOSE’: NUNES SAYS IMPEACHMENT IS ON THE TABLE FOR ROD ROSENSTEIN Comey’s FBI Was Protecting The Legitimacy Of The Presumed Clinton Presidency - James Comey and the FBI decided to come clean on Anthony Weiner's laptop because they thought they were protecting a Hillary Clinton presidency. That's not their job Second FBI Informant Tried To Entrap Trump Campaign With $2 Million Offer For Hillary Dirt: Roger Stone They were determined to take Trump down. Not my America FiVE ANTI-TRUMP FBI OFFICIALS REFERRED FOR DISCIPLINARY ACTION OVER PRIVATE MESSAGES McCarthy: Problems at the Justice Department and FBI Are Serious THE DEEP STATE AND TYRANNY - The deeper dangers that the FBI IG report reflects. “They Should Know We Are No Longer Part of This” – Italy Bars Two More Immigrant Ships from Ports “Things Will Get Ugly” – South African Political Leader Threatens War if White-Owned Land Not Returned to Black People Things are already ugly there Sunday, June 17. 2018Father's Day: Not the barber shop
Mrs. BD's Father's Day "present" to me was a trip to her fancy hair salon to get me an updated hair style to fit my Charlie Brown face and my buff body this past Friday. She said her gal there loves to do men's hair. Can I say that I was not comfortable going to that place? I've been going to Tony, my same old Sicilian barber for 25 years and only when it's past the point of necessity. My wife's cute and athletic hair gal (who I know from the gym) and Mrs. BD agreed that my haircuts were primitive and made me look old and stodgy, like a dorky Senator from Arkansas or a dork from 1980. "Short or long?" was Tony's only question. Story below the fold - Continue reading "Father's Day: Not the barber shop"
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From today's Lectionary2 Corinthians 5:6-10, (11-13), 14-17 5:6 So we are always confident; even though we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord -- 5:7 for we walk by faith, not by sight. 5:8 Yes, we do have confidence, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord. 5:9 So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him. 5:10 For all of us must appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each may receive recompense for what has been done in the body, whether good or evil. 5:11 Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade others; but we ourselves are well known to God, and I hope that we are also well known to your consciences. 5:12 We are not commending ourselves to you again, but giving you an opportunity to boast about us, so that you may be able to answer those who boast in outward appearance and not in the heart. 5:13 For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. 5:14 For the love of Christ urges us on, because we are convinced that one has died for all; therefore all have died. 5:15 And he died for all, so that those who live might live no longer for themselves, but for him who died and was raised for them. 5:16 From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view; even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view, we know him no longer in that way. 5:17 So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! Saturday, June 16. 2018Saturday morning linksLots of good links at Lucianne this morning A good week of toons at Powerline Supermarket Scotch Named Best in the World Georgia woman strangles, kills rabid bobcat after it attacks her: 'It came for my face' These men didn’t want a cake, they wanted to find a Christian and ruin him Left Calls for Boycott of Chick-fil-A over Marriage Stance "Harvard consistently rated Asian-American applicants lower than any other race on personal traits like 'positive personality,' likability, courage, kindness and being 'widely respected'..." Harvard Hospital Taking Down Portraits of White Men - Portraits of medical legends moved because they 'reinforce white men are in charge' DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION HARM, Coming to a university mathematics department near you. University of California, Santa Barbara Website Advocates Small Children Watching Porn, Having Sex MS-13, 10 miles from the White House US economy on track for 4% GDP growth? The IG Report Shows That The Fix Was In From Start Of The Clinton Email Investigation IG Report: FBI Agents Found Huma Abedin Deleting Classified/Hillary Emails From Yahoo Account But Failed to Subpoena Her Devices Clearly, There Is No Bias Problem At The FBI FBI Employee to FBI Attorney for Russia Investigation: ‘YOU PROMISED’ Trump Would Never Get Elected These people have a frightening amount of power Steyn: There is no rule book in the FBI
James Comey didn't sink Clinton; Loretta Lynch may have Human Rights Professor Says Venezuelans "Better Off" Under Socialism Paris puts final touches to Eiffel Tower anti-terror walls Friday, June 15. 2018QQQThanks, AVI "I am a democrat because I believe in the Fall of Man. I think most people are democrats for the opposite reason. A great deal of democratic enthusiasm descends from the ideas of people like Rousseau, who believed in democracy because they thought mankind so wise and good that everyone deserved a share in the government. The danger of defending democracy on those grounds is that they’re not true. And whenever their weakness is exposed, the people who prefer tyranny make capital out of the exposure… The real reason for democracy is just the reverse. Mankind is so fallen that no man can be trusted with unchecked power over his fellows. Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters." CS Lewis in his essay "Equality" 1943. QQQ on governmentFriday morning linksConstruction Workers Find Rare Intact Roman Tomb Salt Water New England visits Connecticut Bottled water companies looking to Connecticut tapwater Why Glass Shape Affects the Taste of Champagne I dislike champagne. I'm with Hillary - the only white wine I like is a cheap and creamy chardonnay What Ultimately Took Kate Spade And Anthony Bourdain Wasn’t Mental Illness. It Was Something Worse Seems to me that it was relationship anger and despair The Plot Against Merit - Seeking racial balance, liberal advocates want to water down admissions standards at New York’s elite high schools. Tax preparers' loss is America's gain How Campus Bullies Pulled Off the Anti-Israel BDS Movement AMA UNSCIENTIFICALLY CALLS GUN VIOLENCE A "DISEASE" Steyn: "I'm thinking of walking into a kayak manufacturer and demanding he make me a gay wedding kayak." More on THE HIGH PRICE OF STALE GRIEVANCES Tesla cuts 3,600 workers — 9 percent of its workforce — in bid to post a profit Weekly Unemployment Claims Fall as Jobless Rolls Near 45-Year Low
The Dems: Clintonite triangulation aimed at appealing to the broad middle is dead. Having Learned Nothing, Democrats Turn to Hollywood for Help in 2018 and 2020 Those Ignorant Hicks Ruin Everything That means me Also, IG Report: FBI Agent Said Trump Voters 'Poor, Uneducated, Lazy, POS' 12 Things You Need To Know About The Inspector General's DAMNING Report on The FBI's Hillary/Trump Conduct FBI agent who wanted to ‘stop’ Trump has really just helped him 'We’ll stop it': Justice Department inspector general says texting FBI lovers talked about keeping Trump from becoming president – yet insists there was no 'political bias' in Hillary Clinton email probe And now Meet the Other Amorous FBI Staffers Who Texted About the Clinton Email Investigatio The Nation: The Mueller Indictments Still Don’t Add Up to Collusion - A year of investigations has led to several guilty pleas, but none of them go to the core of the special counsel’s mandate. Guardian: Donald Trump was right. The rest of the G7 were wrong Trump’s Tariff Gambit - The president’s latest move harks back to an earlier era of truly free trade. We are all globalnationalists now. Let's move past the false dichotomy of nationalism vs globalism San Juan Democrat Mayor Who Trashed Trump Now Under FBI Investigation over Distribution of Relief Supplies Can we please give them independence even if against their will? An Assessment of the Islamic State in 2018 They are done. Nice job, Trump and Mattis Venezuelan Socialism Hasn’t Failed Because It ‘Has Never Been In Place’ Europe’s ‘Axis Of The Willing’ Attempts To Seal The Borders Thursday, June 14. 2018You Changed My Life
Now the nature of man Is to beg and to steal
Bob Dylan - You Changed My Life from albert on Vimeo. QQQThursday morning linksCleanse and Refresh - The New York Times’ coverage of buzzy wellness concepts like “detox” is a case study in pseudoscience creep. Where to Invest Now Moms to Daughters: Don’t Be Ali Watkins Without Government, Who Will Build the Roads? Domino’s Pizza, Apparently New York Times: It's All Craigslist's Fault Many large US firms sell, hire and invest more overseas than in US and they have to think globally, not domestically, to survive Dershowitz Blasts the ACLU for Becoming a ‘Hard-Left Political Advocacy Group’ - "The ACLU is no longer a neutral defender of everyone’s civil liberties. It has morphed into a hyper-partisan, hard-left political advocacy group," Dershowitz wrote. In California, the “Jungle” Is Predictable. Primary results suggest overwhelming Democratic governance—though not without trouble signs. Rod Rosenstein’s Subpoena Threat: He’s Conflicted, and He’s Acting Like It Who Unraveled the New World Order? It wasn’t Trump. The global economic consensus began falling apart years before he entered politics. The Down-Under View of Donald Trump Germany: Shut down talk shows An IDF soldier’s description of experience in Gaza - Have you ever seen 4,000 people running towards you full of hate and yelling “Allah Akhbar”? When Reagan Went to the Wall: A Berlin-Singapore Nexus? North Korea in the Middle East: A Dangerous Military Supply Line The two Koreas are moving ahead Wednesday, June 13. 2018Exercise Goals, Exertion, etc.Do many adult humans reveal, in their behavior, a preference for a life with minimal exertion? Some days I feel that preference, some days I don't. That's why I need to apply some force to myself to consistently measure up to my expectations. I don't know about you, but I tend to despise myself when I disappoint myself, make excuses for myself, or rationalize. That's the Yankee way, harsh conscience and a reasonable dose of self-contempt. People vary a lot in their innate energy and vitality, but I do know that hard exercise increases them for everybody. I'll offer readers a tip: Just Do It. Some mornings at 4:15 I feel "too tired" to face a hard workout at 5. After a cup of covfefe or two while checking Drudge, and then a 5-10 minute warm-up, I'm ready to challenge myself for 60 or 80 minutes. Another tip: An exercise partner or a trainer to push you is a yuge help. I can always do more with a bit of encouragement. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak...and vice-versa. If you are considering making a commitment to exercise (which I prefer to term "exertion" because "exercise" can mean anything other than sleeping or sitting, while exertion implies pushing the limits to stress, discomfort and sometimes pain), the first step is to define one's goals. The goal(s) determine the path. Common exercise goals include the following: - Weight loss I'll take Weight Loss off the list, because the only exertion for that is using your right arm to stop your left arm from opening the door of the ice-box. Each goal requires a different approach. Our fitness posts on Maggie's are all oriented around General Conditioning for Life because it is what we know something about. More below the fold -
Continue reading "Exercise Goals, Exertion, etc." Wednesday morning linksEnvironmentalists foolishly go to war against nuclear power ‘Climate Change’ Might Explain Why There Are No Aliens Out There NEARLY A DOZEN MORE STATES WIN AN INJUNCTION AGAINST OBAMA’S WOTUS RULE Rosenstein Threatened to Subpoena Emails, Phone Records of Nunes and House Intel if They Didn’t Stop Investigation Good grief. That's amazing. Food Stamp Households Drop Below 20 Million for First Time Since 2010 Searching For Citizenship Cheaters Federal judge halts secret FEC plot to target GOP groups Corruption Trump's economic experiment: Growth without immigrants JOE SCARBOROUGH ATTACKS TRUMP FOR BEING ‘UN-CHRIST-LIKE,’ Joe Scarborough: Trump ‘Sick’ for Ignoring Human Rights in North Korea For Trump haters, nothing is ever ok. It's a reflex. Nancy Pelosi bummed out by booming Trump economy Trump Helps Obama’s Team Recognize How Disastrous Their Policies Were Trump’s pledge to end war games with South Korea rocks the region Mexico candidate shot while posing for selfie in latest murder of politician Drug cartels run Mexico Norway to invite more U.S. Marines, for longer and closer to Russia Tuesday, June 12. 2018Tuesday morning links
Photo from our Maggie's Brooklyn hike in April ‘You Aren’t That Big a Deal’: A Message the Self-Esteem Generation Desperately Needs to Hear The clothes you donate probably end up in a landfill When You Have To Apologize For Eating At Chick-Fil-A Pregnant man and flower power at London Men's Fashion Week Explaining Monogamy to Vox University of Tennessee Professor Claims ‘Diversity of Thought’ is Racist Penn trustees privately admit they are afraid to criticize school’s diversity cult, former trustee says Wimps College Course: ‘Objectivity’ Is among ‘White Mythologies’ How Capitalism Could Save the World - A world of capitalism is a world of peaceful, voluntary, mutually agreed upon interactions where no person or group is politically privileged over another. It already is doing so Mentions of the "Social Security Trust Fund" Like It is A Real Thing Make Me Crazy Bill Clinton: Norms of ‘What You Can Do to Someone Against Their Will’ Have Changed He might wish to rephrase that Chain Migration Comes to Hazleton - The working-class Pennsylvania city is struggling to adapt to a heavy influx of Hispanics from New York. The Farm Bill for Billionaires - Farm subsidies are a menace, especially when they line the pockets of the wealthy. What causes hyperinflation for medical costs in the US? Medical insurance, which is the problem, not the solution TOO MUCH POLICING IN BLACK NEIGHBORHOODS OR TOO LITTLE?: Liberals ought to learn from Kim Kardashian Bill Maher: We Need a Recession to Save Us from Trump America's Europe Problem Trump's attitude toward Europe is awfully realistic. The G-7 should listen to Trump or go away
Interesting piece on economies of India and China Italy Turns Away Ship Carrying Over 600 Migrants China's Long Game for the Singapore Summit - While Trump and Kim play checkers, Xi has the Go board out. China puts China first, Making China Great Again Monday, June 11. 2018Monday morning linksWhy predicting suicide is a difficult and complex challenge Fifty Years after Tet Study: Dog parks are manifestations of rape culture and oppression Cultural-Marxist Left Doesn't Like Term 'Cultural Marxism' Manhattan Doctor Sues Patient For $1 Million For Posting Negative Reviews Online High Tech Oligarchs for Diversity Real Life Feminist Bookstore From “Portlandia” Closing, Blames Cis White People Vermont Subsidizes Remote Workers to Move to the State Z-man on the free market ideology: OK, but there is a freedom issue Crisis at the National Archives PRO-TRUMP JEWS ARE THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN ZIONISM Vox: Study: telling white people they’ll be outnumbered makes them hate welfare more - White racism keeps hurting programs that help the poor. More Asylum Seekers Game America’s Immigration System The Cambridge Fossil Fuel Divestment Plan Goes Up In Smoke Bill Clinton’s Me Too Reckoning Lawmakers Warn IG Being Pressured to Slow Roll Clinton FBI Report - Concern mounts as DOJ and FBI seek redactions and weaken report Media blackout: Trump’s 60-point accomplishment list of ‘American Greatness’ Steve Hilton: Trump’s criticism of G-7 is ‘unprecedented’ scream the elite -- That’s the whole point of Trump! TRUMP NAILS TRADE HYPOCRISY ABC Depicts ‘Hindu’ Terrorist Plot on Pakistan in “Quantico” Episode Italy’s “populist” government An Iraqi threat goes mainstream Sunday, June 10. 2018From today's Lectionary: The serpent tricked meGenesis 3:8-15 3:8 They heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 3:9 But the LORD God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?" 3:10 He said, "I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself." 3:11 He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?" 3:12 The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate." 3:13 Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent tricked me, and I ate." 3:14 The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you among all animals and among all wild creatures; upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. 3:15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will strike your head, and you will strike his heel."
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