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Sunday, June 27. 2021From today's LectionaryPsalm 130 130:1 Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD. 130:2 Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications! 130:3 If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand? 130:4 But there is forgiveness with you, so that you may be revered. 130:5 I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I hope; 130:6 my soul waits for the Lord more than those who watch for the morning, more than those who watch for the morning. 130:7 O Israel, hope in the LORD! For with the LORD there is steadfast love, and with him is great power to redeem. 130:8 It is he who will redeem Israel from all its iniquities. Saturday, June 26. 2021Fun with sawsSaturday morning links1910: The Summer of Our Content Trudeau government unable to define the term 'woman' Hungary Told To Repeal Law Banning LGBT Promotion To Children "Or Else Leave EU" Simon Campbell Calls Out Pennsbury School Board During Public Comment Asian Enrollment Slashed at Top Virginia High School After Admissions Changes Subject Of Lawsuit The Morning Briefing: Humorless Democrat Marxists Are Terrified of the Babylon Bee Calling Out the Propaganda Media Yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee, which is the body that has jurisdiction over antitrust law, wrote and voted on legislation to break up big tech firms Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook. Glenn Loury talks to Charles Murray about the "shift away from racism as a moral issue to accusations of racism as a kind of attack on [white people] as people." What is Behind Gen. Mark Milley's Righteous Race Sermon? Look to the New Domestic War on Terror. Kamala Blames Trump for Biden Border Crisis, Lashes Out at Trump for Kids in Cages — Something They’ve Quadrupled! Friday, June 25. 2021Why is this song great?Are there Youtube people who do this sort of thing for adult music?
Best Jewish jokesFavorites of comedians. One sample: A priest, a minister and a rabbi are playing golf. It is the looooongest front nine holes they’ve ever played. Maybe three hours long. They go into the pro shop to complain, and the pro says, “Oh, didn’t you know? The foursome ahead of you are all blind.” The priest says, “Forgive me Father, for I know not whereof I speak.” The minister says, “Forgive me Father, there but for the grace of God go I.” And the rabbi says, “What? They couldn’t play at night?”
Friday morning linksYour Fault: Crushing Climate Impacts Sooner Than Feared Spotify Bans Song For Having Lyrics Critical of BLM… Homicides Have Skyrocketed in These Six Democratic Cities; Black People Are Disproportionately the Victims, Data Shows Standing Up to the Gender Ideologues: a Quillette Editorial
Green New Deal Illinois Style: Unions Battle Greens Over How To Screw Taxpayers The Republic Is Preserved – But The Democrats Will Try Insurrection Again US has lowest levels of public trust in media among 46 countries: Reuters survey Attack Damages Iran’s Nuclear Centrifuge Manufacturing Facility Thursday, June 24. 2021Thursday morning links
Secret Room Holds 'Lost' Michelangelo Artwork. These rarely seen drawings on the chamber walls may have been created when the famed artist took refuge from the Medici family in 1530. First Clear View of a Boiling Cauldron Where Stars are Born - UMD-led team used NASA’s SOFIA telescope to capture high-resolution details of a star nursery in the Milky Way Climate Today: Guardian Pushes Nuclear Power eBay Bans Dr. Seuss, Allows Hezbollah Suspending Reading and Math Requirements for Oregon Students U. of Oklahoma Instructors Receive Training on How to Censor, Indoctrinate Students MacDonald: Down a Black Hole - Even the hard sciences are no longer immune to the ongoing racial hysteria. Fat Liberation Joe Rogan Explains Why Hollywood is So Liberal ‘Huge Win for Democracy’: GOP Blocks Federal Election Takeover Who won the NYC mayoral primary? Nobody knows Joe Biden’s policy puts America last: Goodwin Biden Administration Undermines Women’s Equality Under Title IX The Russian Navy Loves Drones (And For Good Reason)
ColoradoFrom our friend in Colorado, yesterday
Wednesday, June 23. 2021Squats, repostedImage shows two things: the difference between half squat and full squat, and terrible form in the second image Squats (and deadlifts) are the two most functional muscular exercises. The former is getting up, and the latter is picking up stuff. Squats are known as "The King of Exercises" because so many muscle groups are stressed. They are also said to be beneficial for knee joints. Squats come in many forms: the basic barbell back squat (a power lift), and calisthenics like body-weight squats, squat-and press, side squats, squat jumps, heavy ball wall throws, etc. I have been thinking about how to deepen my barbell squats. With body-weight or hand weights, I can do full squats easily, but with heavier weight I do not go below 45 degrees. It's partly confidence and partly weakness. To do full squats with barbell weights (instead of half-squats, 90 degrees) I think I need to reset my barbell squat program with the plain bar (45 lbs) or light weights and to try to work up quickly from there. I'm convinced that the full squat is the real deal. Also, Squats Are Safe, But You’re Probably Doing Them Wrong
What about you? Below the fold, image depicting all of the muscles engaged in a full squat. She's using dumbells, but it is not as if gals cannot do barbell squats. They sure can, and using the bar makes it more reliable to keep a chest-up posture. On the other hand, dumbell squats get you low if you touch the dumbells to the ground...but on the third hand, barbell back squats let you squat with more weight than your grip is strong. Continue reading "Squats, reposted" Wednesday morning linksWith Its Power Grid On The Verge Of Failure, California Begs Residents To Change Their EV Charging Routines Senate Republicans and Democrats Agree To Double Amtrak's Funding. A bill approved by the Senate’s Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation would give the money-losing rail company $19 billion over 5 years. "I'm Not Going Back To Work": Indiana Residents Sue After Governor Nixes Unemployment Benefits Ikea Atlanta Juneteenth menu changed after blowback over plans to serve fried chicken, watermelon WHO Stealth Edits Page Warning Against Vaccinating Children University Lab Finds 11 Dangerous Pathogens on Children’s Face Masks Democrats' voter ID debacle Black parents furious with Critical Race Theory Woke, Inc: Why I’m blowing whistle on how corporate America is poisoning society Cal State professor worries Victorian literature studies promote ‘white feminism’ A Court Ruled Rachel Maddow's Viewers Know She Offers Exaggeration and Opinion, Not Facts Gen Mattis on law, lawyers, law school, and the commanders’ role in military justice Tuesday, June 22. 2021Tuesday morning linksCalifornia Will Now Fight Wildfires … by Trimming Back Forests. File this item under: “Trump was right. Again” University of Oregon can discipline students for off-campus offenses under new policy 85% of Liberal Students Think Professors Should Be Reported for Offensive Comments What Is Going On at Yale Law School? The prestigious institution has tied itself in knots over a dispute involving one of its most popular—and controversial—professors, Amy Chua. American University Has Maoist Self-Incrimination Session, Decides It’s 'Islamophobic' Greenfield: THE WHITENESS OF WOKE Slave Stories History 'Forgot.' Black People Owned Slaves Too What If the Media Had Told the Truth? Five MSM Lies for Which Trump Has Been Vindicated, and the Damage They Caused Has the average member of the press corps ever actually met anyone in America? Alleged Hate Crime At Florida Gay Pride Parade Yesterday Was Actually Drunk Gay Man Who Stepped On Wrong Peddle… Could Israel Replicate Its Syrian Military Strategy in Gaza? Monday, June 21. 2021Monday morning linksWhat Are Dads Good For? Youth Protest Group Inspired By Greta Thunberg Disbands, Accuses Itself Of Racism Bill Maher to Lin-Manuel Miranda: Don't apologize to these whiny progressive bullies Bookworm Beat — the stupid leftist’s illustrated edition A disturbing look at corporate Critical Race Theory brainwashing CNN IS CRAZY All the Projection That’s Fit to Print. On the New York Times’s blindness to what it has become Chicago Alderman Says Gangs Are Responsible For Chicago Problems, Not Racism, As Mayor Lori Lightfoot Claimed Singer Macy Gray Calls for Replacing ‘Tattered and Divisive’ American Flag Taibbi: Why Has "Ivermectin" Become A Dirty Word? Following the Scientists Who Were Destroying America Just to Spite Trump Palestinians reject 1 million corona vaccine doses from Israel Sunday, June 20. 2021Summer Solstice todayIt's the first day of summer
Ladder safety, the basicsLadders are necessary but they are dangerous. Guys like roofers and framers are experts with them, but the ordinary person is not.
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From today's LectionaryJob 38:1-11 38:1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind: 38:2 "Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? 38:3 Gird up your loins like a man, I will question you, and you shall declare to me. 38:4 "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. 38:5 Who determined its measurements--surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? 38:6 On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone 38:7 when the morning stars sang together and all the heavenly beings shouted for joy? 38:8 "Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb?-- 38:9 when I made the clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band, 38:10 and prescribed bounds for it, and set bars and doors, 38:11 and said, 'Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stopped'? Saturday, June 19. 2021A big cicada year?I have not seen or heard one of these big bugs yet. Maybe in July. How is your Year of the Locust? Saturday morning linksJanet Malcolm, R.I.P. Lego Introduces New Sharper Bricks That Instantly Kill You When You Step On Them What Ever Happened to Flirting? By assuming that any approach is malign unless proven otherwise, we lose something potentially risky—but also potentially wonderful. My Mother Came to America the Right Way. Here’s How Biden’s Policies Devalue Legal Immigration. Who trusts the US Federal govt to do what is right? Jeff Bezos-Backed Company To Build Fusion Plant In UK World Report Card: The Inexorable March Toward Zero Carbon Emissions (Not!) When Sons Become Daughters: It’s Time to Admit That Reflexive ‘Affirmation’ Has Been a Mistake Could there be anything more gross than the masks your kids are wearing? The CDC Says Vaccinated People Can Safely Travel, But Please Don't - More mixed messages from CDC Director Rochelle Walensky. Scientist Admits: We Concealed Our Knowledge That a Lab Leak Was Likely Because We Didn't Want to be "Associated With Trump" Wuhan, Weapons, & Burned Spies: CCP Defector Identified, Gave 'Terabytes' Of Dirt To US Govt. Minneapolis police investigating bags of human body parts found on the street Welcome to Wokespeak: Its Logic-Defying Rhetoric Is Making Heads Spin Parent Destroys CRT At Illinois School Board Meeting: ‘How Do I Have Two Medical Degrees If I’m Sitting Here Oppressed?’… Don't Ban CRT. Expose It. There's a liberal way to fight illiberalism. And it's beginning to work. So It Begins: Lori Lightfoot Declares Racism a 'Public Health Crisis' to Justify New Policy Chicago mayor: Racism is a public health crisis, It is "literally killing us" Army Long Range Strike Gives China A Taste of Its Own Medicine Friday, June 18. 2021Apple Pie as a racist, colonialist symbolEverything these days sounds like satire. This is not: Guardian Article Condemns Apple Pie as “Food Injustice”. Half or more of The Guardian is difficult to distinguish from the Babylon Bee. Seems to me that their specialty to beclown themselves much of the time. The apple is an import from the Chinese mountains. The pie idea has been around since there was flour - probably the Sumerians put some fruit or meat inside some dough. In my view, the nurseryman Johnny Appleseed, aka John Chapman -(photo) did us all a great favor. I am not a big fan of fruit, but most people are. Well, I like cooked fruit in desserts because fruit is nothing but sugar anyway. The idiot who wrote the Guardian article clearly did not know that pumpkins came from Mexico, not from England. Pumpkins, and all squash, were appropriated from Central American farmers by North American natives - and by the Spanish too. Shame on them. For me, I prefer a Tarte Tatin with a hard caramelized crust to an apple pie. With some ice cream (invented in Egypt). Is that un-American of me?
Friday morning linksClockwork manicure robot is proof the future is here Happy Birthday Mr. President From the Marginalized Majority Bookworm Beat 6/14/21 — the Flag Day illustrated edition Father's Day: Fatherlessness Is America's Top Domestic Problem Why Do Colleges Dislike Men? The Disappearing Collegiate Male Mark and Patricia McCloskey Plead Guilty to Charges, Will Surrender Guns Mom Won't Let Her Vaccinated 15-Year-Old Go to Summer Camp, and Slate Agrees. A bad response from the magazine's parental advice column CONCERNED SHAREHOLDERS TAKE ACTION AGAINST COKE’S RACIST DEMANDS Critical Race Theory and Academic Freedom - State-based legislation banning the teaching of the toxic ideology is philosophically and legally justifiable. Last Men Standing: Charles Murray vs. Ibram X. Kendi England’s first Black Studies professor accuses his university of being racist The Wrong Turn of Civil Rights In Loudoun County, Dad Has 2 Reasons to Take on Critical Race Theory John McWhorter: Ignore the left's gaslighting, it's not racist to criticize Critical Race Theory Via HET:
Abbott launches Texas border wall project with $250 million 'down payment'. Texas' governor accused the Biden administration of abandoning its border responsibilities Australian Media Mocks CNN's Glowing Coverage of Bumbling Joe Biden
Thursday, June 17. 2021Thursday morning linksGMO Fish Coming Soon? AquaBounty Sells Out First Commercial Harvest Of Biotech Salmon Roger Scruton Hungarian coffee shop - markets in everything Scruton is/was a Maggie's hero Sorry, Virginia, There’s No Math-Equity Claus A Composer Condemned Arson. Now No One Will Hire Him. "I chose to be that guy who didn't issue the apology," says Daniel Elder. "Things went from there and it wasn't good." Distinguishing Respect From Patronizing Condescension In Matters Of Race Bummer: Back To Normal Post-COVID Leads To Climate Doom Perspex Screens Installed To Stop COVID May Have Actually Increased Its Spread, UK Govt Report Finds BBC: Research suggests diversity training doesn't work, so why do companies keep doing it? New York Grapples with Growing Presence of Homeless in Midtown Manhattan "Homeless" is a euphemism Nigerian feminist author offers takedown of online social justice orthodoxy African immigrants are often at odds with native blacks Public Schools Gush over Equality But Neglect Poor Kids & Students of Color The best anti-racist policy is school choice TRUMP GOING TO THE BORDER Kamala Harris Wants to be Called "Leader," but Donald Trump Wants to Actually Lead Biden Hosting Huge July 4th Party After Telling States, Citizens Not to Hold Large Gatherings The Press Are Now Praising Joe Biden for Verbally Assaulting a Reporter Wednesday, June 16. 2021Calisthenics
I include recreational sports (other than running, biking, or swimming) as calisthenics. Calisthenics are about agility, endurance, general fitness, athleticism, balance, and things like that. Our list and variety is long. Some of them: Pushups, pullups, planks, heavy ball throws, burpees, body-weight squats, inclined pulls, Farmer walks, sled pushes and pulls, jumping jacks, band walks, step-ups, box jumps, lunges. As we've said often, just 3 hrs of calis/wk, with nothing else, is a lot better than nothing. What do you do for this aspect of fitness?
Wednesday morning linksSwiss "Climate" Referendum: More Intrusion Of Reality Into The Climate Debate N.J. city to unveil 700-pound statue of George Floyd Academia’s Obsession with Racism Why? Why ideology should not be injected into science Roger Waters Tells "Little Pr**k" Zuckerberg To "F**k Off" Following Request To Use Iconic Pink Floyd Song For Ad Ending due process: Reinstating Catherine Lhamon at the Dept. of Education is a mistake Former Dean of Students wonders 'How much damage have my colleagues and I done?' Bias response teams have become ‘weaponized’ as expected, education reformer warns House Republicans protest more books on Navy reading list Illinois Mom Pushes Back Against Leftist Education Don’t Let the Backlash Against Critical Race Theory Become a Victim of Its Own Success Media Panics Over Mounting Opposition to Critical Race Theory Democrats are trapped in a progressive echo chamber More Evidence Emerges That Joe Biden Is Not Well Not a criticism, just an unfortunate fact. Tuesday, June 15. 2021Black Crow Blues
Another one is It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry. Amazingly deep song in my view, but also simple.
Tuesday morning linksI hope you don’t think masking is ending anytime soon UK Extends COVID Lockdown By 4 Weeks Over Fears About "Delta" Mutant Yet more bloodshed and bedlam in NYC — as voters turn to Eric Adams for help FIRE defends existing Title IX regs in comment to Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. FIRE argued that conducting a fair and credible Title IX proceeding requires adhering to long-utilized tools of fair adjudication, many of which are prescribed by existing regulations. Due Process Is Essential to Higher Learning HOW RADICAL ARE THE TEACHERS’ UNIONS? "In fact, I don’t even believe that most people have any real concept of what critical race theory is." Boston Public Schools board members resign after anti-white texts revealed JACOBSON: Woke college students are "grasping at straws" for things to protest about Protesting is fun The Morning Briefing: The Cancel Woke Bullies Are Getting Pushback and It's a Lot of Fun to Watch Chemistry, biology textbooks overrepresent male scientists, educators say American moms are taking a stand against Critical Race Theory VDH: Anatomy of the Woke Madness - How did such collective madness infect a once pragmatic and commonsensical America? North Korean defector says her Ivy League school is like a totalitarian regime The World Loves Free Speech—Except When They're Offended. Americans oppose restrictions, but report feeling less free to speak about political matters. Unintended Consequences of a Minimum-Wage Hike Kimball: News Flash: Trump Was Right The Enduring False Narrative About the PULSE Massacre Shows the Power of Media Propaganda. Politicians and activists should stop ratifying the fiction that Omar Mateen was motivated by anti-LGBT hatred. It dishonors the victims and obscures the real motive. Journalists Complain That Reporting on Israel Is Not Misleading Enough Monday, June 14. 2021Transplanting animalsWe had a link this weekend about the difficulty animals have when introduced to a fresh habitat. However, when it works, it works. How did these Musk Oxen find the salt licks?
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