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Sunday, April 4. 2021Spring in New England: A Beaver PondLarge natural fresh-water ponds with marshes are scarce in the northeast US. If you know of one, where is it and what is it like? I've seen a few in MA, but most were post-glacial and have since filled in as bogs or wetlands or grass, if not trees. With the return of the beaver populations, fresh habitat is available for all of these critters. I like man-made marshes too. Funny - I've never seen a Mallard in a tree before. Canadian LoggersHappy Easter
1 Corinthians 15:1-11 15:1 Now I would remind you, brothers and sisters, of the good news that I proclaimed to you, which you in turn received, in which also you stand, 15:2 through which also you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message that I proclaimed to you--unless you have come to believe in vain. 15:3 For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, 15:4 and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures, 15:5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 15:6 Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have died. 15:7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. 15:8 Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. 15:9 For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me has not been in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them--though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. 15:11 Whether then it was I or they, so we proclaim and so you have come to believe. Saturday, April 3. 2021Saturday morning linksThe mystery of the refugee children in Sweden who won’t wake up. Hundreds of children have succumbed to a mystery illness that can keep them in a sleeplike state for years. I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup (h/t AVI) US Military Goes 100% Woke On Transgenders, Will Even Pay For Transition Surgery Teen cheerleader's Snapchat brings Supreme Court clash over schools and free speech VDH: Is Racism Moral Now? Biden Infrastructure Bill Includes $20 BILLION To DESTROY Highways For Being Racist. Administration claims “long-standing and persistent racial injustice” in infrastructure Barone: Too much risk aversion is too risky Friday, April 2. 2021BearsThe narration is a little cheesy, but you can learn anyway.
Friday morning linksImage via Bookworm Beat 3/31/21 — the illustrated edition Only an opthalmologist? No Opening Day Without Von Tilzer! The Jewish Tin Pan Alley composer who wrote ‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game’ had never been to a ballgame Rand Paul Humiliates Dr. Fauci AGAIN Over Double-Masking Thomas Frank against Cancel Culture Activists Try To Thwart Effort To Name School After “Oppressor” Barack Obama The Disintegration of the ACLU Cuomo Ordered Aides To Conceal Nursing Home Death Numbers While He Negotiated $4M Book Deal: NYT Biden Quietly Hands Over At Least $60 Million To Palestinians Surely they will put that to good use... Entire Migrant Families Being Released Without Court Dates Or Papers 40 Years After Reagan, A Big Bet On Big Government Thursday, April 1. 2021Thursday morning linksLet's Celebrate the Federal Government on April Fools' Day How humans develop larger brains than other apes Scott Adam's podcast: Did CDC kill people due to fear of fat-shaming? At Yale, Cancel Culture Consumes a Celebration of Eli Women Update On Michael Mann v. Mark Steyn Litigation Yankee Go Home Stay out of politics, Facebook and Twitter Facebook Removed Video Interview With President Trump Citing His Ban On The Platform As The Reason… Mostly Peaceful Mayhem - Turning a blind eye to violence in Miami, the New York Times previews its post-Floyd-trial coverage. VDH: The 10 Radical New Rules That Are Changing America Race and False Hate Crime Narratives 9 Crazy Examples of Unrelated Waste and Partisan Spending in Biden’s $2 Trillion ‘Infrastructure’ Proposal Wednesday, March 31. 2021Wednesday morning linksCNN analyst Asha Rangappa wants gov’t to punish all the ‘goobers’ who still believe in stuff like ‘individual ‘freedom” during the pandemic CDC Director: Our Data Shows Vaccinated People Don’t Carry COVID Doom: Hotcoldwetdry Threatens Potato Chip Production! Virtual school resulted in ‘significant’ academic learning loss, study finds Therapy via Text Message For The First Time Ever, Less Than Half Of Americans Are Members Of Churches, Synagogues, Or Mosques A “New Deal” For Indian Country? Schools gone woke: a view from America. In a warning to teachers around the world, one American teacher opens up about the invasion of woke orthodoxy in the education sector Trump Education official asks Biden lawyers to strike down college programs that exclude men, whites Big Media and Big Tech Collude to Control Thought Defending free speech is now racist As Democrats Claim Voter ID Is Racist, New Poll Shows Nearly 70% of Blacks Support It BIDEN HITS THE DISHONESTY JACKPOT WITH CLAIMS ABOUT GEORGIA VOTING LAW Tucker Carlson: Unsafe Cities, Divisive Mainstream Media The Real Legacy Of George Floyd's Death After Sixty Days Biden Is Drifting Into Surrealism Rich and Entitled Allies Don’t Need US Support. Why should we protect stable allies who won’t protect themselves? Nobody believes China Tuesday, March 30. 2021Best Deadlift tutorial I've seen
My new weights trainer is more of a high-rep guy (8-12) than my previous guy was (more 5X5). I think it's because it's what he feels I need for right now. All I can say is that he makes it damn difficult. And no, I do not really need to use a mask in my gym. People fake it. A video is not really a substitute for a trainer who can critique your form right at the moment, but this guy is good. Best mental trick: Push the floor away from the bar.
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They all enjoy my birdseed. Tuesday morning linksGalápagos tortoises: 185 babies seized from smugglers Top Paid LA Lifeguards Earned Up To $392,000 In 2019 Study suggests high vitamin D levels may protect against COVID-19, especially for Black people "Right Now I'm Scared" - CDC Director Chokes Back Tears As She Fearmongers "Impending Doom" UK Government Minister Says People Should "Call Out" Others For Hugging Their Loved Ones Was a Trump critic's 1st Amendment violated by Yale? We're about to find out. Cops investigate Virginia teachers' Facebook group for naming parents who were 'against critical race theory' and urging members to 'gather information' on them Nearly half of Americans changed sports viewing habits because of social justice If you want border security, forget about Mexico Associated Press Says It Won’t Use “Crisis” To Describe Border Situation… The Hail Mary of Power-Sharing in Afghanistan - In a multi-ethnic nation such as Afghanistan where all other types of autocracy have failed, a democratic and decentralized system of governance is perhaps the only remaining option Monday, March 29. 2021Monday morning linksWhat Happened to Rules Girls? Dolphins spotted in East River — a great sign of NYC’s environmental progress It’s Official. “Vaccine Passports” Are Required In New York Turns Out What Biden Called Texas’ ‘Neanderthal Thinking’ In Eliminating Restrictions/ Mask Mandates Was Right UK Supreme Court Judge Expects People Will Be Forced To Wear Masks, Stay Home For Ten Years THE WEEK IN CANCEL CULTURE: FIRST EDITION CRITICAL RACE THEORY: THE GREAT EVIL OF OUR TIME University of Oxford considers scrapping sheet music for being 'too colonial' after staff raise concerns about music curriculums' 'complicity in white supremacy' after Black Lives Matter movement US Special Operations Command Appoints a Political Commissar to Make Sure the Whole Place Is Woke Enough to Suit the Left The Meaning of the Woke Military The Not-White Party How C.S. Lewis Predicted the Woke Nightmare THERE IS NO BIDEN ADMINISTRATION Why Trump’s White House Leaked and Biden’s Hasn’t Sunday, March 28. 2021Growing your own HorseradishIt happens to be part of a Seder, but I have often grown it. It is a perennial in New England, grows like a weed, but does not spread. When you want some fresh root, you just stick a shovel in and chop some side root out. Then grate it. I love it on almost anything. It will not damage the plant. Easy to find beginner plants online. It is kind-of like growing rhubarb.
From today's LectionaryMark 11:1-11 11:1 When they were approaching Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples 11:2 and said to them, "Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately as you enter it, you will find tied there a colt that has never been ridden; untie it and bring it. 11:3 If anyone says to you, 'Why are you doing this?' just say this, 'The Lord needs it and will send it back here immediately.'" 11:4 They went away and found a colt tied near a door, outside in the street. As they were untying it, 11:5 some of the bystanders said to them, "What are you doing, untying the colt?" 11:6 They told them what Jesus had said; and they allowed them to take it. 11:7 Then they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks on it; and he sat on it. 11:8 Many people spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut in the fields. 11:9 Then those who went ahead and those who followed were shouting, "Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! 11:10 Blessed is the coming kingdom of our ancestor David! Hosanna in the highest heaven!" 11:11 Then he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple; and when he had looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve. Saturday, March 27. 2021At 53, He Took the Tough New Army Combat Fitness Test.Saturday Bob: Good sound quality, and the band is a wooly animalBob Dylan - Complete Show, Huntsville, Alabama, 4/19/1993. First tune is a lovely Hard Times
Saturday morning linksElephants driven to the brink by poaching 'Lonesome Dove' Novelist Larry McMurtry Dead at 84
How big is the boat stuck in the Suez canal? Hot mic never good: Pilot NY Times Seems Pretty Upset That Riders Are Abandoning Public Transport, Which Hurts Climate Fight HOW WOKE MEDIA BECOMES BROKE MEDIA Chronicle of HEd: The Apocalyptic New Campus Novel. In Christine Smallwood’s story of scholarly precarity, what the academy wastes above all is human potential. Former CDC Chief Redfield: Coronavirus 'Escaped' From Wuhan Lab Bring Better Justice to U.S. Universities - How President Biden can reform Title IX. Parler Just Flipped Big Tech's Jan. 6 Conspiracy Theory on Its Head On the Dignity of Work, AOC's View Has Replaced FDR's A New Crime Wave—and What to Do About It. New York City rejected the policing lessons that led to its success, and violence is surging. Oakland California To Send Out Monthly Checks Of $500 To Every Family In The City Who Isn’t White… Collins: “Human Trafficking, Child Abuse, & Drug Smuggling Are Rampant” In Border Crisis Senator Collins: I Toured the Border. Cartel Members Taunted Us. Escaping from North Korea in search of freedom | Yeonmi Park | One Young World (video) Friday, March 26. 2021Friday morning linksMore 'Bad News' Coverage of COVID in America Than Anywhere Else Fear sells Do The Vaccines Help People With “Long COVID”? Does it exist? Teachers Unions Hate Science Now That It Supports Reopening Minnesota theater cancels production of Cinderella because the cast is 'too white' The One-Party Orthodoxy of Equity and Anti-Racism Nobody is for racism Via American Exodus - Don’t wait for the oligarchy to let you in. Just walk away.
No Vietnamese Need Apply. Joe Biden’s politically motivated hypocrisy on immigration. Candace Owens Schools Democrats for Sport - Check Out This Candidate Who Just Got His Lesson Read the Shocking Pentagon Training Materials Targeting Conservatives in the Military Securing Peace in the Middle East After Trump Ethiopia’s Dam over the Nile Risks War with Egypt Palestinians Funneled Hundreds of Millions to Terrorists, State Dept Report Reveals Thursday, March 25. 2021Bears having funThursday morning linksUK Lockdown One Year On: It Doesn't Work, It Never Worked, & It Wasn't Supposed To Work "In my opinion, the covid lockdowns in Europe, the U.S. and some other countries have been one of the worst public health fiascos in recent history." The Dream of the '90s Died in Portland.Once an up-and-coming city, Portland was destroyed from within by radical activism and political ineptitude. At a Certain Point, Even The Gestapo Had To Stop Cancelling People Today’s blacklisted Americans: Lincoln and Washington, by Chicago’s Democratic mayor What Trump Derangement Syndrome Has Wrought Biden’s insane $3 trillion race to transform the nation overnight Biden hasn't been talking for a reason 'Money Laundering' for Terrorists Wednesday, March 24. 2021"Functional fitness"
I have been asked what use my levels of fitness are, and my reasons for pursuing fitness in the ways that I do. Probably maintaining vigor is my first item, and a vigorous attitude towards life. I like to say "yes" to doing things. About five years ago I felt tired on a hunting trip, and I hated myself for it. That was my wake-up call. Does bedroom vitality matter too, and being appealing to a spouse? Um, yeah. Duh. Second, the health issue. It is not about living longer because that is not up to us but to fate. Still, nobody wants to become overweight, frail, or rickety sooner than necessary. Third, to be honest, is looking vital and fit instead of looking older. Posture and movement matter to others. Call it vanity, but it is much more than that. People react differently, as they do to clothing and manners. Fourth (but not really fourth), I like to be able to do useful and fun things. I need to be able to hike over hill and dale for 12 miles, or scramble boulders, with Mrs. BD and friends. I need to be able to stack 2 cords of wood dumped in my courtyard (as I did this weekend) and to do all of the yard work I have time for. I need to be able to handle my chainsaw. If my right shoulder were not so damaged, I'd love to live on the tennis court. I guess I am restless and love physical activity. I need to be agile and useful on a boat too. I wish I had more sports but I have always had more enthusiasm than athletic talent. Nutrition is one of my problems. I am not underweight, but I just do not enjoy eating anymore. Some love it, but for me it just is like required fuel no matter how tasty. I have had minimal appetite since I began my intensive exercise program some years ago so I force myself. RJP keeps nagging me about strength. Fair enough, but two days of weights is all I can fit in right now. Pre-covid I was doing 2 1/2 hrs of weights/wk. Deads are the best thing for me. Regarding recovery, I may not do enough but I feel that I do. Whenever I feel unable to get out of bed at 4:30 AM after a powerlift day, I don't. I love feeling stronger but have competing goals.
Wednesday morning linksImage via Bookworm Sharansky’s Exodus True Liberal: Now Let Us Praise Naomi Wolf One Year To Flatten Life As We Knew It Former professor says Yale fired her over tweet on Trump, Dershowitz Canceled On gender madness, don’t let Canada be the future The Dubious Origins of Long Covid - Echoes of chronic fatigue in the effort to blame the coronavirus for a host of questionable symptoms. Like "chronic Lyme" As obesity rates in America soar, new weight loss drugs are in the offing that offer hope Drugs? Suspect in Boulder Mass Shooting Identified as Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa: ‘Very Anti-Social’ Deranged, and antisocial Media, Activists Assumed Colorado Shooter Was White, Delete Posts, Pivot When His Identity Revealed White House directs all agencies to refer to 'Biden-Harris administration' In Wake Of Another Tragedy, Democrats Once Again Prove Commitment To ‘Never Let A Crisis Go To Waste’ Babylon Bee is dangerous There is no cure for stupid Betsy DeVos’s campus sex-assault rules need a tweak, not an overhaul The Democrat Party Has Declared War on America Teaching kids to be neoracists Kids As Young As 7 Are Being Sent Across The Border Alone By Their Parents "First Tangible Step" - Evanston, Illinois, Becomes First City To Pay Reparations To Blacks How black do you have to be to get $? This is a tricky one. Denmark Cracks Down on "Parallel Societies" They missed the multicultural memo Links will be delivered later todayIt has to do with my gym + work schedule. They have changed a bit lately.
Tuesday, March 23. 2021Tuesday morning linksFifty Years of Fear and Loathing Who can be harmed by meditation? A book: PreachersnSneakers THE WORST SCANDAL OF THE PANDEMIC: Death and Lockdowns. When Academic Bullies Claim the Mantle of Free Speech Lesbian Wives Are Now Politically Incorrect Biden Planning $3 Trillion Spending Bill – Universal Pre-K, Free Community College, Etc… Photos Leaked of Joe Biden’s Children in Cages – Migrant Children Stuffed into Holding ‘Pods’ in Squalid Conditions "People are the new dope." Mexican cartels are seizing on Biden's lax border policies to run multimillion-dollar human trafficking scheme and are using families as DECOYS to smuggle single adults and drugs from elsewhere Biden Torpedoes Abraham Accords Summit. The new administration turns its back on peace between Israel and Arab states in order to pursue deal with Iran Former Middle East envoy Greenblatt: Saudi Arabia on ‘path to peace’ with Israel Peace Dividend - Widening the Economic Growth and Development Benefits of the Abraham Accords China’s Damaging Influence and Exploitation of U.S. Colleges and Universities Protests spread across Europe as coronavirus surges create new lockdowns
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