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Sunday, August 28. 2022From today's LectionaryLuke 14:1, 7-14 14:1 On one occasion when Jesus was going to the house of a leader of the Pharisees to eat a meal on the sabbath, they were watching him closely. 14:7 When he noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, he told them a parable. 14:8 "When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not sit down at the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished than you has been invited by your host; 14:9 and the host who invited both of you may come and say to you, 'Give this person your place,' and then in disgrace you would start to take the lowest place. 14:10 But when you are invited, go and sit down at the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he may say to you, 'Friend, move up higher'; then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you. 14:11 For all who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted." 14:12 He said also to the one who had invited him, "When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, in case they may invite you in return, and you would be repaid. 14:13 But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. 14:14 And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous." Saturday, August 27. 2022Saturday morning links'Trans-masculine' parents of 10-year-old 'trans model' plan for minor's gender surgeries at age 16 Georgetown University imposes mask mandates this fall, against CDC guidelines
Cornell is evil: Cornell perpetuates ‘colonialism, slavery, racism, classism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia, ableism,’ school’s website states Whiteboards are racist because 'they collaborate with white organizational culture' Spectator: Nikole Hannah-Jones has taken over the history profession. A professor strays from the woke line and gets slammed College: Free is Free, Before or After the Fact; Yet, There is No Such Thing As Free Hard-Working Plumber Looking Forward To Paying For His Neighbor’s Gender Studies Degree Penn-Wharton pegs Biden's Academia bailout potential cost at $1 trillion Big Tech Gears Up To Throw The Midterm Elections We Now Know The Perfect Temperature For Your Home, Which Is Bad For ‘Climate Change’ Kathy Hochul’s call for 5.4M Republicans to leave New York is dangerous and disgusting Mark Zuckerberg Tells Joe Rogan The FBI Told Him To Censor Hunter Biden Story… Whistleblowers: FBI Leadership Told Agents ‘You Will Not Look at That Hunter Biden Laptop’ With a stroke of his pen before the midterms, Biden forgives $300 billion in student debt, without a care for the dutiful who paid their loans off or those who did not go to college but will now pay for those that did. Anybody who imagines that the Jan 6th protest was an attempted coup is crazy Europe Is Now "Powerless" And Its Inflation And Recession Are About To Get Even More Brutal Friday, August 26. 2022Friday morning links
Mr. Vanderleun wonders how to spent the rest of his life Women feel more sexual desire when their partners do chores Have students lost the ability to do hard math problems? Could anyone still meet the Theoretical Minimum? Sitting all day long increases risk of death, health problems At the American Academy of Pediatrics, ‘Affirmation’-Based Gender Dogma Is Finally Being Challenged Don’t allow Mark Zuckerberg to reinvent history California Gov. Gavin Newsom Brags About Being the “First Jurisdiction in the World” to Ban Sale of Gas-Powered Vehicles "Get Trump!" Damn The Constitution Thursday, August 25. 2022Thursday morning links10 Years Of Tinder Trees cut down at UC Berkeley receive Sunday memorial service Dr. Fauci's Legacy - Dr. Marty Makary on the public health risk of putting America's fate in the hands of one doctor. How racist is The New York Times? Media Union: NY Times Discriminates Against Black Employees Cross-Shaped Beach Pier Causes Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth for LGBTQ Community Members CNN Tells Viewers Monkeypox Is Not Sexually-Transmitted Radical Gender Theory Comes to the Heartland. A Missouri school district promotes the idea that “gender is a universe.” Students must pass new 'Race and Ethnic Studies' requirement to graduate Chicago is being devoured by violence, so city looks to removing monuments Penn Medical School Expands Minority-Candidate Program That Does Not Require MCAT The Dems’ big new $739B climate bill will do almost nothing for the climate Canceling student debt Ellen Carmichael’s thread on what ‘Biden has given us’ says it ALL Ukrainian Parliament Votes to Give Themselves a Raise thanks to US Taxpayers – As Country Bans Free Speech and Targets ‘Information Terrorists’ Wednesday, August 24. 2022Where do apples come from?No, Eve did not eat an apple. It's called poetic license by the translator. A small mountainside apple originated in the hills of Kazahistan. This heritage apple (in the Rose family) was probably the size of a rose hip. It took me decades to realize that I don't like apples unless they are cooked in some way. Occasionally a thin slice with some cheese. Exploring the origins of the apple A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE APPLE TREE Are apples "healthy"? Not much. Mostly sugar. Wednesday morning linksWhy Don't Men and Women Get Along? All about a homeless San Francisco guy Babylon Bee Won't Back Down Over Trans Joke Twitter Ban. Kyle Mann, the Christian satire site's editor, also talks Biden vs. Trump, and why he saves his deepest burns for mega-pastors like Joel Osteen. White Christians to blame for campus antisemitism, says CUNY official NYT reminds nervous parents that they can mask their kids to protect them from ... monkeypox Can Anyone Explain the Appeal of Drag Queens and Why Lib Parents Bring their Kids to Watch Them? From Clitoridectomy to Chemical Castration: Call the Left’s Sadism What It Is. Children are being exploited and their bodies mutilated, all to serve leftist ideology. Editor for The New Yorker advertises his White Savior complex Joe Biden hands out a $10,000 'gift' to the rich he'd like you to pay for Back-To-School Programs Dividing Students By “Gender, Culture And Identity”… Collective farms sure worked in the past Greg Abbott: Eric Adams is all talk when it comes to ‘open’ borders Sanctuary City Mayors Cry 'Uncle', No More Migrants! Joe Biden: The MIA President. “I definitely get more done when he’s not here,” Biden White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain told Politico Playbook. “No question about it.” French Government Already Looking To Establish Climate Crisis Con Police Tuesday, August 23. 2022Muscle-Brain ConversationsHow do strong muscles keep your brain healthy? There’s a robust molecular language being spoken between your muscles and your brain.
Tuesday morning linksLos Angeles Public Health Offers Free COVID-19 Testing for Pets After City Records Zero Pet Cases Quiet quitting — "renouncing hustle culture, quitting 'the idea of going above and beyond at work'" — is "resonating strongly" with "Gen Z and millennial knowledge workers." Universal school choice would transform real estate - It would help the poor the most and greatly relieve the middle class Ivy League professors write another op-ed suggesting it’s time to jettison the Constitution Trump Derangement Won’t End with Trump. Already, progressives are branding the GOP’s next generation as “a threat to democracy”—sound familiar? Zuckerberg’s Meta going all in in censorship as the midterm election nears Biden Energy Secretary Tells Poor People To Buy Solar Panels To Fight Inflation… My boat has a solar panel. Keeps the batteries charged in the summer. Border Crossers Awarded Healthcare, Free Cellphones Upon Arrival in NYC RulesThat's one of Mrs. BD's boating T-shirts. She means it too. I caught a little trouble the other day for leaving some fish blood on the deck. I figgered it would rain... "My House, My Rules" works too. Monday, August 22. 2022Monday morning linksWhere did American states get their names? Yale Professor Helps Toddlers With Their ‘Gender Journey’ Minnesota teachers unions defend "fire whites first" policy Over 1000 Scientists and Professionals Sign Formal Declaration: “There is No Climate Emergency”“There is no cause for panic and alarm. We strongly oppose the harmful and unrealistic net-zero CO2 policy proposed for 2050. UPDATE: ‘IS HISTORY HISTORY?’ ANSWER: SADLY, YES WSJ: Education Schools Have Long Been Mediocre. Now They’re Woke Too. University of Wisconsin campuses openly embrace a Marxist program called ‘critical pedagogy. Student newsies seek to cancel University of Virginia founder Thomas Jefferson NY progressives have spawned a bloody war on the streets — and innocents are paying the price The Left talking nonstop about civil war: Victor Davis Hanson The Criminal Case Against Trump is Another “Slam Dunk” Feds Intend To Deprive Arizona Of 21% Of It’s Supply Of The Colorado River… Sunday, August 21. 2022Perfect and peelable hard-boiled eggsA pal sent me this: I have the perfect method of producing boiled, peelable eggs. Steam them. Put them in a vegetable steamer basket and bring the water to a boil. Top on the pan, reduce heat to where steam is barely escaping the pan. If you have four eggs cook 12 minutes. Add 1 minute for every 2 extra eggs. Don’t do more than 8 eggs at a time. Do them in batches. Drain the pan at the timer’s chime and fill with cold water. Then change water and add some ice cubes to the water to bring down the temp fast and avoid the dreaded grey mantle of sulfur. Perfect peelable eggs. Try it. West Texas HummingbirdsHummingbirds always chase eachother away
From today's LectionaryLuke 13:10-17 13:10 Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. 13:11 And just then there appeared a woman with a spirit that had crippled her for eighteen years. She was bent over and was quite unable to stand up straight. 13:12 When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said, "Woman, you are set free from your ailment." 13:13 When he laid his hands on her, immediately she stood up straight and began praising God. 13:14 But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had cured on the sabbath, kept saying to the crowd, "There are six days on which work ought to be done; come on those days and be cured, and not on the sabbath day." 13:15 But the Lord answered him and said, "You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger, and lead it away to give it water? 13:16 And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen long years, be set free from this bondage on the sabbath day?" 13:17 When he said this, all his opponents were put to shame; and the entire crowd was rejoicing at all the wonderful things that he was doing. Saturday, August 20. 2022Saturday morning linksI'm 30. The Sexual Revolution Shackled My Generation.Sexual symmetry between men and women was, is, and always will be a lie. The Nation wants you to remain scared about covid Christy Olezeski Phd., Director and co-founder of the Yale Pediatric Gender Program, bragged about her work helping children as young as 3 years old in there ‘gender tourney’ in a recent YouTube video. After widespread backlash, the original video has been removed. Spectator: Donald Trump has enemies everywhere. Even, according to Peter Navarro, inside his own house Sam Harris defends media bias (and lies) Elon Musk Reacts To Border Crisis, Says Lacking Media Attention 'Strange' Saturday Verse: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
The Childrens' Hour Between the dark and the daylight, I hear in the chamber above me From my study I see in the lamplight, A whisper, and then a silence: A sudden rush from the stairway, They climb up into my turret They almost devour me with kisses, Do you think, O blue-eyed banditti, I have you fast in my fortress, And there will I keep you forever, Friday, August 19. 2022Friday morning linksWhy there's no 'Dijon' in Dijon mustard In Surreal Story, 20-Year-Old Student Acquires 6% Of Bed Bath & Beyond, Makes $110 Million In 3 Weeks Pandemic babies are behind after years of stress, isolation affected brain development Majority of college students have a mental illness: study Texas School District Removes “Diary Of Anne Frank” And “the Bible” From It’s Library Shelves… Silencing the Opposition to Child Mutilation Sanctuary cities not enjoying actually being used as sanctuaries
Yet another refugee professor: English scholar explains why politics drove him out of academia The Powerful Leftwing Journalists' Union and the Conflicts of Interest News Junkies Don't Hear About After Liz Cheney’s whopping defeat, leftists rant against the ‘uneducated’ Michael Hayden, Advisor to ‘Misinformation’ Watchdog NewsGuard, Says GOP More Dangerous than Al Qaeda, ISIS Trump's house: This is why it appears this was a raid in search of a crime. Here's What Led the FBI to Seek a Search Warrant on Trump's Mar-a-Lago Home The Revolt of Empty Spain: A nonpartisan movement to bring attention to the depopulation of Spain’s countryside has begun to shape national politics. Thursday, August 18. 2022Tomato seasonAugust/September is tomato season in the northeast and central US. Why are so many varieties red? Because marketing, same as apples. Much genetic engineering to come up with the amazing Beefsteak Tomato. The first tomatoes were introduced to Europe from Mexico via the conquistadores. They were mainly viewed as ornamental plants. The fruit was the size of cherry tomatoes, and yellow-green when ripe. I guess that was the real "heritage tomato". Why pomodoro? Pomo d'oro - Golden apple. Why the Tomato Was Feared in Europe for More Than 200 Years Italian food before the tomato. He is wrong about one thing - peppers came to Europe and to the world via Central America too. Same as polenta (maize meal), beans, and so much else. Thursday morning linksPhoto: Grilled Porgies Astronomers looking at Webb: What if the Big Bang didn't happen? Environmentalists don't seem to care about golden eagles when it comes to wind power The Failed Campaign To Kill To Kill a Mockingbird. Recent moves to censor the book have come from Virginia, Mississippi, and California. 'Someone's taking the p***': Fury as Scotland's first ever male period dignity officer is appointed Savage Restaurant Owner Completely Fed Up with 'Holier-than-thou' Vegans, Will Now Make Them Go Hungry British Royal Air Force No Longer Offering Pilot Jobs to White Men — Only Womenand Ethnic Minorities May Apply The Elite Panic of 2022 -From the end of Covid restrictions to Elon Musk’s Twitter bid to the Dobbs ruling, startling developments threaten progressives’ grip on power. A complicated fall vaccine campaign As DC Plans to Ban 40% of Black Teens From School, Mayor Rejects DC COVID-19 Vaccine Numbers Twitter and Groomers MC: Report On Yesterday's Soho Forum Climate Change Debate White House climate official sanctioned by key science body CNN: Our Democracy Is In Danger Because Liz Cheney Lost… The Left Always Considered Trump an Illegitimate President. Trump himself said, and he was correct: “They’re not after me, they’re after you – I’m just in the way.” The Raid that Red-Pilled America. The FBI Gets Political and Goes Too Far “THE ONGOING VENDETTA OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AGAINST DONALD TRUMP” Wednesday, August 17. 2022Cave paintings
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Wednesday morning linksOn Rich Friends and Poor Friends UVA student paper demands removal of all things Thomas Jefferson Boston Children's Hospital supports castrating kids and I have evidence Rents for One-Bedroom Apartments in Manhattan Hit a Record High of $5,100 in July. Here’s Why Supreme Court sets date for UNC, Harvard affirmative action cases Mick Mulvaney, Laura Ingraham reach the same conclusion - Trump policies are good but drama is bad TDS persists How can people be so insane when it comes to Donald Trump? People were just as insane about Nixon, Reagan, and Bush Most illegal immigrants do not qualify for US asylum Sanctuary Cities Seethe as Illegal Immigrants Actually Arrive Sri Lanka faces looming food crisis with stunted rice crop Tuesday, August 16. 2022Tell me what is inaccurate, misleading, or wrong in this articleIt seems likely correct that 5-6 days of working out, in varying forms, is good for building or maintaining fitness, but tell me what the weaknesses are in this piece: Exercise answer: Research shows it’s how often you do it, not how much
Tuesday morning linksNavy SEAL Kaj Larsen’s Guide to Becoming a Better Swimmer. The best waterman in his class talks dolphins, breath exercises and something called "surf torture" Chocolate ICE CREAM is more nutritious than a granola bar, bacon is better than couscous and McDonald's pancakes are healthier than an omelette Atlantic writer claims the rosary is an extremist symbol Doomsday Climate Predictions Meltdown: Arctic Sea Ice Extent Reaches 12-Year Mid-August High I blame climate change Why all kids should take the SAT: Student’s defense of standardized testing Pediatricians slam pediatrician group for pushing puberty blockers for children Have we reached peak insanity yet? An Unjustified Fear Of Nuclear Energy Is Holding The Industry Back WSJ: ‘But Her Emails’? A Defense of ‘Whataboutism’ - Mrs. Clinton should take her hat off. Treating like cases alike is crucial to the equal protection of the law. KAMALA HARRIS, SPACE ODDITY Always incomprehensible
From Rio Grande to The Row Hotel! Migrants bussed in from Texas will be housed in $400-a-night luxury NYC hotel within a MONTH
Monday, August 15. 2022Monday morning linksWhat do Americans hold as sacred? Besides coffee and beer? Back to the office Breakthrough: Ignition confirmed at California fusion reactor San Francisco's $20K trash cans Now it's 'mega-floods' that will destroy the whole world Episcopal Church Endorses Sex Change for Children Boston Children’s Hospital Creates Bizarre Video Promoting ‘Gender Affirming’ Hysterectomies for Kids Monkeypox is getting a new name because the WHO says the name is racist AG Merrick Garland’s raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago is a farce of law Thomas Piketty Wants To Bring Back Communism In The Guise Of Democratic Socialism Great Barrington Declaration Scientists Join Missouri, Louisiana in Lawsuit Against Biden Administration For Censoring Covid Facts Go Woke, Go Broke: Fitness Company Peloton Announces Massive Layoffs Amid Cratering Stock Price Education System Produces Staggering Ignorance Pelosi and Democrats Cheer After They Pass Massive ‘Bidenflation’ Bill – Will Raise Taxes on Middle Class During Recession – Create 87,000 IRS Jobs to Harass American Families I once hated America, but now I can’t wait to be an American The FBI and its media allies scramble to justify the Mar-a-Lago FBI raid Nancy Pelosi's Son a Major Investor in Chinese Telecoms Company An Education in Price Discrimination- colleges charge more to those most willing to pay Atlantic: Trump’s Scandals Are Never Done But aren't they all hoaxes and smears? FBI Agents Involved in Trump Raid are Under Criminal Investigation by Durham For Abusing Their Power in Trump-Russia Probe Salman Rushdie Off Ventilator and Condition Improving, Agent Says The Rushdie Attack. He was assaulted by an enemy of free speech while about to speak in defense of free speech, a principle of which he has been a staunch and brave supporter. We Ignored Salman Rushdie's Warning. Words are not violence. Violence is violence. Liberté, égalité, nudité: France’s new sexual politics. Are perverts ruining the country’s proud tradition of naturism? "Nothing Left In Pipes": French Towns Rely on Water Truck Deliveries For Survival German Shipper To Halt Rhine Operations As Water Level Drops Below Critical UN official fired after condemning Palestinian rocket attacks on Israeli civilians Sunday, August 14. 2022From today's LectionaryLuke 12:49-56 12:49 "I came to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! 12:50 I have a baptism with which to be baptized, and what stress I am under until it is completed! 12:51 Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division! 12:52 From now on five in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three; 12:53 they will be divided: father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law." 12:54 He also said to the crowds, "When you see a cloud rising in the west, you immediately say, 'It is going to rain'; and so it happens. 12:55 And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, 'There will be scorching heat'; and it happens. 12:56 You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time? Saturday, August 13. 2022Saturday morning linksPlant-based diet is not always virtuous—or healthy, says new book Denmark outlaws the COVID vaccines for children Departing Whole Foods CEO: ‘My Concern is That I feel Like Socialists are Taking Over’ Soldiers for the Gender Revolution. Left-wing activists have smuggled radical gender theory into more than 4,000 school Portland: The city’s public schools teach K-5 students to subvert the sexuality of “white colonizers” and begin exploring “the infinite gender spectrum.” On The Causes Of Racial Health Disparities In The United States Latest Update on FBI's Trump Raid Is Beyond Laughable CODE RED FOR THE DEEP STATE?
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