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Monday, September 19. 2022Monday morning linksFederer the Great - The legendary champion, the best ambassador tennis has ever had, elevated the sport to an art. A Dance to the Music of Time - The life of pioneering choreographer Martha Graham 'Ultra-Processed' Food: The Nutrition Myth That Won't Die Potty training: The transgender movement wants to change your bathroom habits Gisele Bundchen, Homewrecker The (New) King’s Speech: He Got The Job Done The 17th was Constitution Day in the US Blue cities collapsing US Appeals Court Rejects Big Tech's Right to Regulate Online Speech Watch Jordan Peterson Light up Twitter CEO Over Account Ban: I'm Your Monster, Sir John Durham’s final act: exposing the FBI Biden Pressuring FBI To Fabricate “Extremist” And “White Supremacist” Cases…. The Martha’s Vineyard’s meltdown illustrates the efficacy of a few of Saul Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals. Amid border surge, Biden admin plans to send migrants to cities deeper inside U.S., starting with L.A., say internal documents Venezuela Empties Prisons, Sends Violent Criminals to U.S. Border, Says DHS Report 7 More Buses Full of Illegal Aliens Heading to New York City Left El Paso Yesterday San Francisco Building $95M School Despite Fewer Students Bill Maher: A unified theory of wokeness Next Italian PM Georgia Meloni: “The Leftists who Call us Fascists Used to be Bolshevists” Sunday, September 18. 2022From today's LectionaryLuke 16:1-13 16:1 Then Jesus said to the disciples, "There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was squandering his property. 16:2 So he summoned him and said to him, 'What is this that I hear about you? Give me an accounting of your management, because you cannot be my manager any longer.' 16:3 Then the manager said to himself, 'What will I do, now that my master is taking the position away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. 16:4 I have decided what to do so that, when I am dismissed as manager, people may welcome me into their homes.' 16:5 So, summoning his master's debtors one by one, he asked the first, 'How much do you owe my master?' 16:6 He answered, 'A hundred jugs of olive oil.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, sit down quickly, and make it fifty.' 16:7 Then he asked another, 'And how much do you owe?' He replied, 'A hundred containers of wheat.' He said to him, 'Take your bill and make it eighty.' 16:8 And his master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the children of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light. 16:9 And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of dishonest wealth so that when it is gone, they may welcome you into the eternal homes. 16:10 "Whoever is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much; and whoever is dishonest in a very little is dishonest also in much. 16:11 If then you have not been faithful with the dishonest wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches? 16:12 And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to another, who will give you what is your own? 16:13 No slave can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth." Saturday, September 17. 2022Best foods: Fried (sauteed) Calamari
The danger is over-cooking. Squid can turn into squid chewing gum if overcooked.
Saturday morning linksImage via Am. Digest What doctor would do this? Mostly about gender craziness ‘Indigenous’ scholar resigns after being outed as white WSJ: My High School’s ‘Antiracist’ Agitprop. Teachers tried to bully me into signing a $375 student government check for a group promoting critical race theory. I refused. Grading Toilet Paper For Climate (scam) Impacts Karine Jean-Pierre Says Republicans Busing Illegals to Other States is Different Than Biden Doing the Same Thing Border Patrol releases 1000s into El Paso as Democrats whinge about 50 in Martha's Vineyard Biden administration resumes after-dark migrant flights to airport outside NYC Biden Admin: Hey, We’re the Only Ones Allowed to Smuggle Illegal Aliens DeSantis made politics fun again when he sent illegal aliens to Martha’s Vineyard Facebook Spied On Private Messages Of "Conservative Right-Wing Individuals", Then Reported To FBI For Domestic Terrorism Biden Climate Czar John Kerry Jets To Africa To Lecture Them On Being “As Green As Possible”…. Thank Goodness Global Warming Alarmists Don't Live Their Religion Swedish Prime Minister Resigns after “Far Right” Wins Majority. Likely New PM Says “Make Sweden Great Again!” Friday, September 16. 2022Friday morning linksTake college rankings with shakers of salt Tragedy strikes: Americans are smoking more weed than tobacco Pills for the Girls.Why does every harmful social media trend snag young women? The rise and fall of the hate-crime hoax. Why so many people lie about being victims of racial hatred. Rep. Hank Johnson compares protesting parents at school boards to January 6 rioters Denmark will not offer COVID-19 vaccine to people under 50 Climate Emergency Not Supported by Data, Say Four Leading Italian Scientists More on climate stress counseling Shellenberger: Climate Panic Behind Energy Crisis - My testimony to U.S. Congress Today New EPA Regulations Are Bureaucratic Overreach At Their Worst CNN Host & Ken Burns Compare DeSantis Sending Migrants To Martha’s Vineyard To The Holocaust Left-Wingers Melt Down Over Diversity Brought To Martha’s Vineyard As Migrant ‘Sanctuary’ MSNBC Host Proves the Brilliance of Sending Illegals to Democrat Cities Millions Continue Flocking to Mount Rushmore in Spite of Cancel Culture Jonathan Turley on disclosure about role of key FBI informant in Trump-Russia probe. Turley says we have a more complete picture of how they got this scandal into the bloodstream UK: Russian troops fleeing "in panic" and disarray from Kharkiv defeat -- which the Kremlin acknowledges Thursday, September 15. 2022Thursday morning links
15 Qualities That Make A Good Person Never Apologize for Trying to Tell the Truth. Those who repress inconvenient facts or produce fictitious evidence to nourish a politically convenient story are simply not historians. How the Media Fell for A Racism Sham. A Brigham Young University paper scooped the New York Times. All the students did was practice basic journalism. Congressional commission asks West Point to cancel Robert E. Lee College Students Need Eco-Anxiety Counseling Musk, Gates and the late Steve Jobs all have one personality trait in common New York Times: It's not worth printing if it doesn't insult Trump TOM FRIEDMAN SAYS . . . DRILL, BABY, DRILL? Progressives who turned San Fran into a fentanyl-ravaged hellhole are now begging for ideas to save the city. But there's a catch – you can't arrest hardly ANYONE SF Chronicle poll: Pervasive gloom about the city's future has many looking to leave DeSantis sends two planes with migrants to Martha's Vineyard The gov. has a sense of humor The Biden Administration Isn’t Interested In Governing But In Criminalizing The Opposition The president who cried ‘extremist’ - Biden’s ventriloquists juice the nation’s schism for political gain Wednesday, September 14. 2022Strength training for runnersHow to Get Started With Strength Training if You Want to Run Faster A good rule of thumb is to mix in the opposite of what you usually do. Muscle-builders need to do cardio, runners need weights, etc. We do not recommend road running or jogging. Treadmill or soft track is a bit better, but your joints do not like sustained pounding. In time, your joints will punish you. We do recommend sprinting as good cardio stress. It might be just me, but I hate bikes. Loved them as a kid, but not anymore. Best idea: Move hard for an hour or so daily.
Wednesday morning linksJean-Luc Godard has died. Harvard student body president under fire for defending Christian group The cannabis market is booming and in California so is the black market This should be the absolute peak of hurricane season—but it’s dead quiet out there. Seasonal activity is running 50 percent below normal levels. I blame climate change Another South Asian Flood? Still Not Climate Change. Dem Rep. Tim Ryan Says US Needs To “Kill And Confront” “Extremist” Republican Movement… "Extremist" is the word du jour Ron DeSantis Shows in Florida How to Play Politics as a Team Sport Germany Calls For A "Refugee Summit" As New Migrant-Wave Strains Cities & States Tuesday, September 13. 2022Tuesday morning links“Ethically Unjustifiable” – Scientists from Harvard & Johns Hopkins Found Covid-19 Vaccines 98 Times Worse Than the Virus This exchange between a museum curator and a writer for the Atlantic is nuts Are people finally starting to catch on to the fact that electric vehicles are a terrible idea? California Eco-Activist Group Red-Lists Maine Lobster White House Looks To Shut Down Bitcoin Mining Because Of ‘Climate Change’ Book for 8-12-year-olds says kids should WATCH their parents have sex — and then it gets even WORSE Denmark's Left-Wing Government Will Begin Sending Asylum Seekers To Rwanda After Groundbreaking Agreement European Manufacturers Reel From Russian Gas Shutoff. WSJ: Europe - The energy crisis has left few businesses untouched, and some factories might never reopen Monday, September 12. 2022Monday morning linksTen Years of Tinder: Love (and Hate) Stories - ‘The best $10 I’ve ever spent.’ Plus: Jordan Peterson on why the app is 'fire.' An evolutionary psychologist, an internet historian, a dating coach, and more. UK Announces it Will No Longer Offer COVID Jabs to Children Under 12 Amid New Data That Shows Risks Outweigh Benefits LGBTQ© Groomer Roundup: One-Fifth of Gen Z Now ‘Queer,’ Entire 2nd Grade Class Spontaneously Changes Pronouns Oregon Gov. Signs Law Allowing Students to Graduate Without Proving They Can Write or do Math. “SB 744 gives us an opportunity to review our graduation requirements and make sure our assessments can truly assess all students’ learning” Record Amounts Of Fentanyl Entering The U.S. Via Mexico, 323% Spike The fall of Los Angeles - The ‘progressive’ elites have run the city of the future into the dirt. End Of Renewables Craze Is Near. Renewables have stalled out in California and Germany :: UK announces it will frack for natural gas :: South Korea cuts renewables to fund nuclear Why is the opprobrium toward the British Empire so vehement, when it is less likely to rise from the grave than the Russian, Ottoman or Persian, none of which are quite as dead? Ukraine claims liberation of Kupiansk, "collapse of Russian defences in the region" Sunday, September 11. 202221 years later21 years later, these powerful photos tell the story of 9/11 Happens to be a NYC weekend for us. Yesterday a little urban hiking and brunch with the kids at supposedly the best seafood restaurant in the world (!?) - Milos. They give you a tour of the fish they have on ice before you order. Tourists, visitors, and locals everywhere - just wonderful. Theater later today Sunday.
From today's LectionaryPsalm 51:1-10 51:1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. 51:2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. 51:3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. 51:4 Against you, you alone, have I sinned, and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are justified in your sentence and blameless when you pass judgment. 51:5 Indeed, I was born guilty, a sinner when my mother conceived me. 51:6 You desire truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart. 51:7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 51:8 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have crushed rejoice. 51:9 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me. Saturday, September 10. 2022Saturday morning linksCORRUPTION IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS Mainstream media isn't mad about gender surgeries on teens, they're mad you found out Welcome to the Green New Deal, California. You can scaremonger about climate change all day long and ratchet it up to insane levels, but no one escapes the laws of physics or economics. Doom: Rising Seas To Cause $34 Billion In Damage Within 30 Years It STILL Came From a Lab in China. How can it be that we’re still not able to conclusively determine the origins of COVID-19? It's hard to say a racist incident never happened, but why was it so easy to say that it did? President Biden Calls Half Of All Americans A "Violent Threat To Democracy...Again! Scare tactics work Truss lifts fracking ban -- as Yellen promises to "rid ourselves" of oil and gas Friday, September 9. 2022Friday morning links
Photo is from just a couple of days ago See the double rainbow that appeared over Buckingham Palace on the day of Queen Elizabeth's death Kimball: An American remembrance of the Queen. It says a lot that when I say ‘the Queen’ even American readers know I can mean only one person Integrating SD in Photoshop for human/AI collaboration (v.redd.it) Against Authenticity - To be human is to be artificial. The truth about the Myers–Briggs personality test. Should we take any personality tests seriously? U.S. Forces Ordered to Stop Using Gender Pronouns to Improve ‘Lethality’ DC councilmember: Abbott and Ducey have "turned us into a border town"! After livestreamed Memphis shooting spree, Mayor Strickland says 'the problem is this judicial system that will not punish' What good would punishment do in this case? Pajamas VIP: Trans Madness: Start With Grooming Children for Stripping, End With Surgically Mutilated Teens German Diplomat Who Mocked Trump At UN Suddenly Silent As President's 'Russian Energy' Warning Comes True Finnish economist: “I am telling you people that the situation in Europe is much worse than many understand” Dems want the midterms to be a referendum on Trump, not bungling Biden — and the media are compliant RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT Spectator: Ukraine turns the tables on Russia. The defender goes on the offense Thursday, September 8. 2022Thursday morning linksThe remarkable story of Frances Tiafoe is the classic child-of-immigrants tale – writ large. How many people can Earth handle? Are you better off working from home? Here's what the science says Some Canadian Health Care Patients Say They're Being Encouraged To Just Die Already NYS Jewish Gun Club goes on offense Democrat South Carolina US Senate Candidate Krystle Matthews: You Gotta Treat White People Like Sh*t AOC: Americans hate women of color, you know Why Nuclear Power Is (Quietly) Making a Big Comeback All Around the World. From California to France to Japan and beyond, nuclear power is all the rage suddenly. California dreamin' for fast-food workers will hurt, not help WSJ: Wealthy Families Stick With Full-Time Tutors Hired Early in Pandemic. Upper-middle-class families, dissatisfied with K-12 schools, are signing up for the instruction as well Biden admin annoyed with CNN Western Elites' "Sanctions Fever" Will See Common People "Freeze" & Wreck Lives: Putin New UK PM Truss To Lift Fracking Ban, Climate Activists Crushed Wednesday, September 7. 2022Why fruit trees do not always bear fruitNo fruit on your tree? Here’s why But no - Monbiot’s orchard is already experiencing the effects of rapid climate change. Everything is caused by drastic climate change. Wednesday morning linksThe Origins of Woke - A forgotten satirical book from the nineties predicted cancel culture. Jordan Peterson to Hillsdale grads: You will suffer in life; rise above it Chaplain Claims Church Of England Deemed Him "Risk To Children" For Questioning LGBT Ideology UC Berkeley School of Law groups ban ‘Zionist’ speakers An alien worldview has invaded our nation’s schools. Nearly 1 In 4 Democratic Voters Believe Men Can Get Pregnant: Poll Biden Official Complains Big Tech Doesn’t Censor Enough… The Campus Trans Diktat: No Debate, No Dissent—And No Jokes. Before firing me, my university investigated everything I’d said about gender ideology, right down to the satirical quips I’d made on Twitter. Spectator: How science became politicized - New rules from a leading journal do not bode well "A Dangerous Escalation": Majority Of Americans Think Biden Speech Was "Designed To Incite Conflict" Germany Rules Out Keeping Nuclear Power On Despite Energy Crisis Tuesday, September 6. 2022Tuesday morning linksTrans Toddlers and Secret Abortions: Elite NYC Private Schools Use Summer Reading Lists to Push Radical Agenda Terrence Williams Put His Own Picture on the Box of his Pancake Mix — Facebook Labeled it as ‘Racist’ Teacher Enoch Burke spent his first night in custody isolated from general prison population. Enoch Burke told the High Court: “I am here today because I would not call a boy a girl.” Scientific American magazine Says Western science invented the ‘two-sex model’ The strange pleasures of feeling unwell: It Hurts so Good Trump's incendiary rally proved President Biden was right Who wrote Joe Biden's blood-red "soul of America" speech? Jon "Soul of America" Meacham? Pappy O’Daniel, Warm Up The Biscuits For The GOP And Its Disappearing ‘Constituency’ Judge Appoints Special Master, Temporarily Bars FBI/DOJ Review Or Use Of Records Seized in Mar-a-Lago Raid Idealist and Idiot - Gorbachev’s legacy is partly to blame for the tyranny into which Russia has since slumped. Monday, September 5. 2022Labor: Inchworm
In the end, I respect work of any sort. We sedentary workers have to workout in gyms etc. to try to remain mentally and physically fit for life. It is difficult and unpleasant, but afterwards you feel wonderful. Or not. A new calisthenic for y'all: Inchworms. People call it a warmup or a rest, but I do not. It's a bitch of an exertion if you do 10 per set:
Monday morning link dumpIt is Labor Day in the US, a federal holiday to celebrate unionization. For most people, just a day off towards the end of summer. I am working this morning, and so was the nice cleaning gal at my gym. And the regular folks at Dunkin. An AI program won an art competition. Does it matter? College Football’s Twilight. The sport as we know it is changing forever. Wall Street’s most-coddled generation is in for a rude office-return awakening Top med school putting wokeism ahead of giving America good doctors Robots could be the future of child mental health counselors: study Gender-affirming care for transgender kids is going to backfire: experts America, Exporter of the Gender Revolution, The Biden administration may begin pressuring other countries to push vulnerable youth into hormones and surgeries. NY Dem Governor Declares No Such Thing As A “Good Guy With A Gun”… Her security guards don't count How science became politicized. New rules from a leading journal do not bode well So who can you believe? Yale psychiatrist fails in attempt to get her job back after calling Trump mentally ill Duke University Volleyball Hate Hoax Related, Who knew that Victor Davis Hanson was also a comedian? The ESG Bubble Is Bursting. Politicizing investment decisions was never a good idea—especially for public pensions. Electric Car Mandates: The Latest Frontier in the Elites' War on the Middle Class Allahpundit: My Farewell to Hot Air Readers Biden Banks on Democratic Outrage, Risking Deeper US Divisions Biden's speech declared war on half the country I Am a 'Clear and Present Danger' to the Biden Regime (And So Are You) Reagan is not the devil anymore? Lori Lightfoot, an extreme left-winger, presides over a sanctuary city. So she should be happy to get a few busloads of illegal immigrants, right? Wrong! The origins of illegal migrants are shifting rapidly BIDEN IS PAYING OSAMA BIN LADEN’S OLD AIRLINE MILLIONS TO FLY OUT AFGHANS Virginia Lt. Governor Winsome Sears Talks About Why Democrats Despise Black Conservatives Russia has shut off the gas supply to Germany indefinitely Trump warned them years ago. Didn't listen to Orange Man. Sunday, September 4. 2022A damn tasty pizza in Todi, Italy. Too effete for Maggie's? (re-posted)Best pizza I've ever had, at least recently. Pupette and I took Mrs. BD out to a fancy Italian dinner for her birthday but I just ordered the pizza there. Not ordinary pizza. Very thin crust pizza, like a cracker, burned black on the bottom as I like it, with melted chunks of goat cheese and chunks of peanut-sized chopped and sauteed white truffle, (no sauce), cooked over firewood, then sprinkled with some dandelion greens and thinly-sliced fresh figs and the whole thing splashed with hot white truffle oil. The smell of it was a meal in itself. I usually prefer a pizza bianco with wild mushrooms, but I suppose I am, unfortunately, a pizza snob. This was better than that. Mrs. BD had their beef carpaccio as an antipasto. It was as good as you can get in Todi, but without the view. Pupette had their tuna carpaccio with dill and cucumber as her antipasto, then ate half my pizza with a bottle of Moretti. She lost 15 lbs. on her 14 hr/day film job, need to fatten her up before she returns to school. Truffle oil - and truffle - is one proof to me of God's existence. My hope is that Obama or Bernie will make truffles free for us all, when Utopia arrives. I can't wait. Pic is a beautiful White Truffle. Cost around $125./ounce. Shrimp ScampiThat is actually "Shrimp-Shrimp", because "Scampi" is the Italian term for cooked shrimp or prawns. In Italy and Sicily, it's just "Scampi." Not a common item over there though. More common are mixed seafood things with shrimp or prawns, squid, clams, fresh anchovies, cuttlefish, etc. Anyway, American "Shrimp Scampi" includes, garlic, butter, wine, and parsley. Tasty, even for a shrimp-bored person like me. I'd eat dog kibbles with enough garlic and parsley. From today's Lectionary:Luke 14:25-33 14:25 Now large crowds were traveling with him; and he turned and said to them, 14:26 "Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple. 14:27 Whoever does not carry the cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. 14:28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not first sit down and estimate the cost, to see whether he has enough to complete it? 14:29 Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it will begin to ridicule him, 14:30 saying, 'This fellow began to build and was not able to finish.' 14:31 Or what king, going out to wage war against another king, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one who comes against him with twenty thousand? 14:32 If he cannot, then, while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation and asks for the terms of peace. 14:33 So therefore, none of you can become my disciple if you do not give up all your possessions. Saturday, September 3. 2022Great Spring/Summer food: Soft-shelled crabReaders know that the Soft-Shelled Crab (ie moulting Blue Crab) in all of its forms is perhaps my favorite food. My friends and I would catch them at the shore with bacon tied to string and bring a bucket of them home to Mom. She'd steam the hard-shelled ones, and sautee the soft-shells. I love the soft-shells fried, sauteed, in a sandwich with mayo, Chinese-style - or anything. A perfect combination of juiciness and crunchiness, and you just eat the whole darn thing feathers and all. Here's an easy one: Soft-Shelled Crabs on Toast. Methods of crabbing. Delicious photos of soft-shell crab recipes. Soft-shells are often frozen for use through the crab season.
Saturday morning linksNYT: Inventor of the Trapper Keeper dies Can the American Mall Survive? On loving and loathing some of America’s most common public spaces A Guide to the Catechism of the Climate Emergency New York’s Parents Are Exercising Their School Options. We Need to Rethink the Meaning of Public Education Study at University of North Carolina Finds Conservative Students Self-Censor on Campus Yale Group Says Students Who Cleaned Litter From Homeless Camp Committed ‘Violence’ Cowing Family Farms. Amish farmer Amos Miller’s ongoing battle with federal regulators is representative of the broader war on family farmers. Biden White House: You Must Agree With The Majority, Otherwise You Are An Extremist… Why is Washington DC So Intensely Focused on Targeting Donald Trump and Labeling His Supporters as Threats to Democracy? Yes, There's an Invasion at the Border and It's Not Racist to Say So "Go Nuclear, Go Large" To Boost UK's Energy Security: Boris Johnson
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