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Monday, June 14. 2021Monday morning linksThree years younger in just eight weeks? A new study suggests yes! Believe it? EVERYONE HATES WIND TURBINES ACLU Is Putting Trans Rights Ahead of Women’s Rights. That’s Wrong. The collective insanity that's rapidly erasing America American Marxists, Take Your Fictitious Systemic Racism and White Privilege and Shove It Civic Action, Civil Discourse & the Dogma of Systemic Racism The guy once played golf with Pres. Trump Media Alarmism Is the Real Threat to Democracy. Their reckless claims about fictitious GOP plots constitute a clear and present danger. I told you so! Trump reels off list of times liberal media said he was wrong when he was right all along, from Wuhan, to Hunter Biden's laptop and the clearing of Lafayette Square NEVER HAPPENED: Here Are Eight Fake News Narratives About Trump the Media Has Admitted Were Always Wrong Democrats claim to care about truth — until it's something they got wrong about Trump Goodwin's Top 10 Media Lies “ANTI-RACISM” IS JUST RACISM Leftwing NYC mayoral candidate Maya Wiley who warned about a 'New York City built by and for billionaires' received $500,000 from hedge-fund billionaire George Soros Joe Biden's G7 Presser Was an Absolute Train Wreck on the World Stage Sunday, June 13. 2021From today's LectionaryMark 4:26-34 4:26 He also said, "The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, 4:27 and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. 4:28 The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. 4:29 But when the grain is ripe, at once he goes in with his sickle, because the harvest has come." 4:30 He also said, "With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable will we use for it? 4:31 It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; 4:32 yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade." 4:33 With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it; 4:34 he did not speak to them except in parables, but he explained everything in private to his disciples. Saturday, June 12. 2021Saturday morning linksImage: An old Dylan poster 'I was completely inside': Lobster diver swallowed by humpback whale off Provincetown Did you know apple pie is racist? Thought Police Goes After Bird Names For the first time during the pandemic, U.S. positivity rate drops below 2% New Jersey school district removes names of all holidays from school calendar Why the Left Has to Lie About American History Why the Early Progressives Rejected American Founding Principles YouTube suspends Ron Johnson from uploading videos for seven days over hydroxychloroquine claims. YouTube removed video Friday, citing its 'medical misinformation' policy The Media Didn’t ‘Get It Wrong’ On Lafayette Park, They Lied To America — And They’re Still Lying The IRS Is A Criminal Enterprise In Service Of The Progressive Cause On A Remote Stretch Of Texas Borderland, The Whole World Is Crossing The Rio Grande
Friday, June 11. 2021Friday morning linksLife With a Star. The 1949 Czech film ‘Distant Journey’ was one of the first movies to dramatize the Shoah. Banned for decades and recently restored, its depiction of Nazi horrors is still one of the most striking. One Man’s Amazing Journey to the Center of the Bowling Ball. Mo Pinel spent a career reshaping the ball’s inner core to harness the power of physics. He revolutionized the sport—and spared no critics along the way. The New Clerisy - Faith in science is an oxymoron. Yoga Instructor and “Body Activist” Jessamyn Stanley Says White Supremacy has Polluted Yoga The IRS and Propublica:
Waking up from wokeness - On America’s “First Great Awokening.” Critical Race Theory and Common Sense This Isn’t Your Father’s Left-Wing Revolution. Today’s revolutionaries aren’t fighting “the Man”—they are “the Man.” Canada: They're Coming for Your Children Trump Was Right: Study Shows Hydroxychloroquine Boosted Ventilated COVID Patients' Survival by 200% Biden's Border Crisis Now at Worst Level in DHS History. CBP encountered 180,034 persons attempting entry in May Half of the pandemic's unemployment money may have been stolen Journalists Against Truth MEDIA TALE ABOUT CLEARING OF LAFAYETTE PARK COLLAPSES America’s Overdue to Unfriend Mark Zuckerberg Radio Free America – Rush’s Legacy CBP: Record number of migrants crossed the U.S. border in May Amnesty: China has created 'a dystopian hellscape' in Xinjiang China Increasing Military Capability at 'Serious and Sustained Rate,' Top U.S. General Says The Abraham Accords Passed Their First Big Test. When war broke out in Gaza, Arab countries chose rapprochement with Israel over solidarity with Palestinians. I Worked on the Abraham Accords. It's Time to Free the Palestinians from Hamas—and Iran Thursday, June 10. 2021Kafka
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Thursday morning linksWhy zebras were never domesticated Average world IQ is 83 (h/t American Digest) The Next Entrepreneurial Revolution. The pandemic’s economic destruction has also created new winners Medical Journal Labels “Whiteness” a “Malignant, Parasitic-like Condition” and there is “Not Yet a Permanent Cure” Dr. Fauci's Preposterous Lie: "Attacks On Me Are Attacks On Science" Beijing’s useful idiots. Science journals have encouraged and enforced a false Covid narrative Keep the Tests. Critics overstate the flaws of the SAT and ACT—and understate their merits. The Keystone Pipeline Is Dead, Killing Thousands Of Jobs In America And Canada… Why? Following Clarence Thomas’ Lead, Ohio AG Files Lawsuit To Classify Google As ‘Common Carrier’ Or ‘Public Utility’ ProPublica: We're publishing the illegally leaked tax returns of the wealthiest Americans because ... MSNBC Analyst and NY Times Editor Mara Gay: The Sight of American Flags is “DISTURBING I think this is an honest revelation: American flags really do disturb Mara Gay. Baltimore Tea Party? Businesses Refuse to Pay Taxes as Public Safety Crashes Wednesday, June 9. 2021Complex (aka compound) exercises
There are several reasons, but for me time efficiency comes first. Second, it's more natural in life for different muscle groups to work together. No single exercise counts as a full body strength workout, but the deadlift comes closest to that. 9 essential exercises to include in any full body workout Why to Keep away from simple, use complex movements Wild Brook Trout - I was wrong
His report is that in a couple of days they caught about 70 Brookies, from fingerlings up to full-size (10-12"). Wiki has a good entry on Brook Trout
Wednesday morning linksThe Future Of Energy: One Of These Things Is Not Real College: What's in store for your sons The Totalitarian Threat of Critical Race Theory Rears Its Ugly Head Conservative think tank creates 'A to Z guide' for stopping critical race theory in schools Andrew Sullivan: Woke ideology and 'pious pabulum' go hand in hand A Scandal is Brewing at the IRS Left fumes as Trump and Bill O’Reilly plan to set the record straight with national tour Biden's illegal immigration highest in 15 years -- with four months left to go; ALSO: Harris steps into her own "perjury trap" Israeli ambassador: Hamas was using Associated Press building to jam Iron Dome technology Tuesday, June 8. 2021Gulfstream G-IV Full Flight Engine Start to Shutdown
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Tuesday morning linksPoll: Vaccine-hesitant are likely to stay that way at this point More evidence the COVID-19 panic was just that: an unwarranted panic Liberals' Bizarre Fear Of An Unmasked Nation State authorizes ‘joints for jabs’ vaccine promotions Williamson: Thinking Honestly about Health Care, Welfare, and Taxes ‘Diversity Training’ Continues Its Kudzu-like Growth Since 2018 US Border Patrol has encountered about 5% of Honduras' entire population Guatemala President Blames Biden For Border Crisis, Kamala Harris Deflects, Blaming Climate Change Monday, June 7. 2021Monday morning links
Powerline: D-Day (Dec 6, 1944) at 77 Archive Video Of The D-Day Normandy Landings The Committee to Support and Defend is committed to providing a voice to retired servicemen and women who seek to continue fulfilling their oath to support and defend the US Constitution. Please join me in showing solidarity to support constitutional values by signing this letter. LTC. Allen West (Ret.) Last surviving Allied soldier involved in the liberation of Auschwitz dies at 98: He flattened the fence around the notorious camp with his tank in 1945 Was mask-wearing pointless, after all? Fauci must be forced to answer Birds are racist Bill Maher on the college scam (video) Twitter declares access to its platform a 'human right' amid censorship of conservatives A battle over the future of truth in news: Goodwin Is Academic Freedom a Casualty of the Gaza War? Don't Get Discouraged About The Preposterous Plans To Eliminate Fossil Fuels Looks Like Trump Was Right About Fauci After All No, Critical Race Theory Isn’t a New Civil Rights Movement. (Just the Opposite) Veterans must come together to combat Critical Race Theory New York Psychiatrist Hates White People In order to quiet things down in the Twin Cities, we should probably suspend all law enforcement activity. Just to be on the safe side. Report: Cartels Are ‘Totally In Control’ of The US-Mexico Border… Sunday, June 6. 2021Crow languageFrom today's Lectionary: Seen and unseen2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1 4:13 But just as we have the same spirit of faith that is in accordance with scripture--"I believed, and so I spoke" --we also believe, and so we speak, 4:14 because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will bring us with you into his presence. 4:15 Yes, everything is for your sake, so that grace, as it extends to more and more people, may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God. 4:16 So we do not lose heart. Even though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day. 4:17 For this slight momentary affliction is preparing us for an eternal weight of glory beyond all measure, 4:18 because we look not at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen; for what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal. 5:1 For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. Lake Mohonk.
Saturday, June 5. 2021Saturday morning linksKate Winslet shows there’s more to middle age than a saggy belly As Gas Prices Rise, Biden Shuts Down Alaska Drilling California May Be Crazy In Its "Climate" Initiatives, But New York Wants To Be Even Crazier 'The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind' - A psychiatrist lecturing at Yale's Child Study Center spoke about 'unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way.' Facebook: We're suspending Trump for two years Sweden Was Right, Lockdowns Were Wrong Politico: Republicans Are Seizing On COVID Origin Story Pompeo: NIH Tried to Suppress State Dept.’s COVID Origin Investigation
Pompeo slams Fauci’s China remarks: “The Chinese Communist Party doesn’t care for a moment, they have no desire for the world to know what happened.” The Five Biggest Bombshells (So Far) From Fauci's Emails Despite COVID's decline, 71% of Dems say people should still stay home as much as possible Performative Pandemic Panic. Officials’ cynical manipulation of the public damaged their own credibility as well as the world at large. WHEN BLACK LIVES MATTER, AND WHEN THEY DON’T Rioters Set Fire, Loot in Minneapolis after Police Shoot Allegedly Armed Suspect Friday, June 4. 2021Wild trout in the Northeast US
I have claimed, rightly or wrongly, that there are no wild-bred Brook Trout in the northeast US. To persuade me otherwise, I'd need to see a photo of some fingerlings in a stream. There are two main issues: The foremost is that most streams become too warm in summertime to support a Brook Trout population. That has always been true. (Yes, Brookies are the only species native to the Northeast US. They like cold water). Hatchery trout can survive in springtime, for a while, in non-trout streams. Second issue is predators, and the worst is the introduced (from Europe) Brown Trout. That fish will eat any baby fish or fish eggs it can find. They prefer meat to bugs. I oppose any stream stocking with Brownies unless they are streams that would never support Brookies anyway. The ordinary fish predators like mink and otters can be put up with but always kept the Brookies at low numbers everywhere they could breed. Given the popularity of fly-fishing, it's up to states to decide what their stocking programs should be. I get it. Fly-fishing is a beautiful experience and it is assumed that pretty much all stream- stocked fish will either be caught, fall to predation, or die from heat by June or July because they no longer have breeding populations to support hundreds of anglers. Stocking is required to accommodate all of the avid springtime anglers. Even the southern US states have been doing this.
Friday morning linksNAOMI OSAKA AND POST-GAME SPORTS NEWS CONFERENCES California drought CA has had droughts forever. New blood at Wall Street's old guard rattles Corporate America He wants to remain in covid cocoon It is termed "regression" Georgetown University professor is under fire after quoting a racial slur from a historic Supreme Court case Diversity—Unless You’re Asian. The Supreme Court will soon decide whether to hear a case concerning Harvard’s race-conscious admissions policy. Happening Now: Violent Minneapolis Black Lives Matter Mob Looting Sneaker Shop, Target, Walgreens, CVS and More That's not news Is Glenn Greenwald the New Master of Right-Wing Media? American Liberalism Is Dying
‘Woke’ medicine is coming to a hospital near you What Happens When Doctors Can't Tell the Truth? Whole areas of research are off-limits. Top physicians treat patients based on their race. An ideological 'purge' is underway in American medicine. Elie Wiesel’s son: Jews always speak up for everyone else. Now’s the time to stand up for ourselves. Thursday, June 3. 2021Thursday morning linksPhoto stolen from here Manatees Dying/At Risk From ‘Climate Change’, Water Pollution, Mankind, But Mostly Water Pollution And Mankind WHERE HAS ALL THE GLOBAL WARMING GONE? More Workers Are Quitting Their Jobs Instead Of Returning To The Office POLITICSKavanuagh Rape Accuser Confesses She Lied, Was Never Raped, Never Even Met The Man WSJ: ‘American Republics’ Review: A Patchwork Nation. In the decades following the American Revolution, the governments that counted were those that met in state capitals. Politicization Isn’t Sustainable. Corporate and journalistic virtue-signaling sows discord and can endanger an organization’s bottom line. China’s COVID calamity It's Official: The Paranoid Were Right All Along About Fauci TSA mask mandate all for show Ibram X. Kendi Tries and Fails to Define Racism Texas Gov Declares State of Emergency Over Border Joe Biden: ‘Terrorism from White Supremacy’ the ‘Most Lethal Threat to the Homeland’ Greenwald: The New Domestic War on Terror Has Already Begun -- Even Without the New Laws Biden Wants Google Diversity Chief: Jews Have ‘Insatiable Appetite for War’… Who Started the Gaza War? America did Wednesday, June 2. 2021Wednesday morning linksWhy Babylon Berlin should be your next Netflix watch. This German series has it all — twisty mysteries, will-they/won’t-they romances, and a train full of gold. Via Insty, Drug acts as Trojan horse to kill cancer cells Young Warmists Suffering From “Climate Anxiety” Demand More Doom Teaching To Get More Anxiety Students sign fake petition to CANCEL MEMORIAL DAY over ‘American imperialism’ Charter schools enter their thirties. What comes next? Will Eliminating Standard Tests Really Reduce Racial Disparities In Education? Princeton Removes Greek, Latin Requirement for Classics Majors to Combat ‘Systemic Racism’ 'Kill Everything White in Sight,' Speaker Tells Crowd at Tulsa Massacre Rally VDH: The New Regressive Dark Ages - Arrogance, wealth, and received authority are always the super-spreaders and force-multipliers of false knowledge, and none more so than in the present age. Joe Biden Says Black Entrepreneurs Don’t Succeed Like Whites Because They Don’t Know How to Find Lawyers or Accountants What? Tuesday, June 1. 2021Tuesday morning linksClimate Cult Study Blames 37% Of Heat Deaths On You Eating Burgers That's why I prefer a ribeye. What is so rare as a steak in June? The Sad Truth About Traditional Environmentalism PRINCETON DROPS GREEK AND LATIN REQUIREMENT FOR CLASSICS MAJORS “No Evidence Covid-19 Came From a Lab”: The Media Blow Another Hole in Their Credibility Cynthia Nixon: Why are we locking up shoplifters? Reparations will never be enough Founder Of Black Lives Matter Chapter Quits After Learning the "Ugly Truth" One year after the death of George Floyd, the psy-ops have triumphed PAID TO STAY HOME: HOW THE $300 WEEKLY UNEMPLOYMENT BONUS AND OTHER BENEFITS ARE STIFLING THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY Harris Encourages U.S. Businesses To Outsource Investment From U.S. To Central America… Trump Taps Newt Gingrich to Come Up With a New Spin on an Old Idea That Worked Monday, May 31. 2021Far Northern Italian food, etc.Over the years, we have tried to inform our readers about regional Italian food. I guess we usually refer to "northern Italian" as north of Rome, but that covers plenty of cultural diversity. This episode is from the most northern part, where there has been plenty of milk, butter, potatoes, cabbage, and beef during the good times. Also, maize. I've never had anything made with chestnut flour, but chestnuts are found all over Italy. The amazing roasted chestnuts on the streets of New York are all from Italy, and they are darn good.
Sunday, May 30. 2021Bob Dylan's 2016 Nobel LectureFor Decoration Day weekendFrom today's Lectionary: The Nicodemus storyJohn 3:1-17 3:1 Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. 3:2 He came to Jesus by night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do apart from the presence of God." 3:3 Jesus answered him, "Very truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above." 3:4 Nicodemus said to him, "How can anyone be born after having grown old? Can one enter a second time into the mother's womb and be born?" 3:5 Jesus answered, "Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit. 3:6 What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. 3:7 Do not be astonished that I said to you, 'You must be born from above.' 3:8 The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit." 3:9 Nicodemus said to him, "How can these things be?" 3:10 Jesus answered him, "Are you a teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things? 3:11 "Very truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know and testify to what we have seen; yet you do not receive our testimony. 3:12 If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you about heavenly things? 3:13 No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. 3:14 And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 3:15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. 3:17 "Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
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