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Friday, February 4. 2022How do Bald Eagles catch fish?
Unlike Ospreys, they do not dive into the water but just try to snatch fish on the surface:
Saturday morning linksPrice of private island in Connecticut slashed to $100M MORE EVIDENCE THAT LIBERALS ARE STARTING TO TURN AGAINST COVID RESTRICTIONS Michelle Malkin: Why Airbnb Banned Me (and My Hubby, Too!) House Dems Prove They Are Soft on Crime By Blocking GOP's Latest Bill to Crack Down on Fentanyl UCLA students protest going back to class U.S. DEPT. OF EDUCATION OPENS INVESTIGATION INTO ANTI-SEMITISM AT BROOKLYN COLLEGE NYC Public Schools Will Start "Vegan Fridays" This Week Smearing an Entire Protest Movement as Fascistic Will Come Back to Haunt My Fellow Leftists Olympic sponsors' silence on human rights feeds censorship fears The Media Outlets Demanding Joe Rogan's Removal from Spotify Spread Far More Disinformation. Justifying their efforts to de-platform Joe Rogan, media figures claim to be deeply concerned by the "disinformation" he is spreading. Yet nobody spreads disinformation more recklessly than they do. "Zuckerberg, in his trademark nasal drawl, seemed to acknowledge that the tide was turning against the business he has been running for 18 years as of this week." Cuomo News Network: Zucker, Gollust reportedly coached Andrew Cuomo on COVID briefings Russia and China line up against U.S. in "no limits" partnership
Thursday, February 3. 2022Wildlife takes over ChernobylWildlife, plus cats
Thursday morning linksNorway bans breeding Cavalier King Charles Spaniels, bulldogs Graphic Content Restrictions Are Not Book Bans Is Jewish a race? Public Health Midwits Johns Hopkins Analysis: ‘Lockdowns Should be Rejected Out of Hand’ National FIRE survey: Cancel culture widely viewed as threat to democracy, freedom When Artists Become the Censors - The new moral majority comes for Joe Rogan. Schools Embrace BLM ‘Week of Action,’ Teach Students to ‘Disrupt Western Nuclear Family Dynamics’ Georgetown Considers Implementing ‘Cry Room’ for Students Offended by Law Prof Ilya Shapiro’s Tweets Tucker Carlson has some very unexpected people watching his show America’s ballooning national debt has exceeded the $30 trillion mark for the first time ever, according to Treasury Department data. How NATO Empire-Building Set The Stage For Crisis Over Ukraine Wednesday, February 2. 2022Wednesday morning linksTom Brady Officially Announces His Retirement About being autistic Guy's house is better off without a Living Room Real Americans Are Sick of COVID Kabuki Theater Covid and the ‘Hygiene Hypothesis’. Measures like masking and social distancing may be doing long-term damage to our immune systems. The COVID-19 Storyline Is the Greatest Scam in World History – The Truth Is This Is a 'Pandemic of the Vaccinated' The ADL’s Definition of “Racism” In the US, There Are Now A Record 4.6 Million More Job Openings Than Unemployed Workers Medicare Thrives When Public and Private Sectors Work Together Germany Is Shuttering Nuclear Power Just When The EU Needs It The Most Tuesday, February 1. 2022Lute transcribed to guitar: TY ZhangTuesday morning linksPolar bears move into abandoned Arctic weather station – photo essay Study: Weed Makes You Stupid Ivermectin Has 'Antiviral Effect' Against Omicron And All Other 'Mutant Strains' Of Covid-19 DO LOCKDOWNS WORK? THE NUMBERS SAY NO Last Year, I Was a Bryn Mawr Girl. Now I’m at Hillsdale. Growing up in a conservative town, I always dreamed of attending college with liberals like me. The pandemic changed everything. The black academic who has thrown an intellectual grenade into the cult of wokeness Hispanic Students Were Forced To Learn Critical Race Theory. They Hated It. Transgender man who gave birth slams nurses who called him ‘Mom’ Judging Merit by Identity. In making race and sex the paramount considerations for his Supreme Court nomination, President Biden will deal another blow to the quality of our most important institutions. It’s Time for America to Leave NATO and for Europe to Resolve Their Internal Disputes Jewish Organizations Condemn Inflammatory Amnesty International-UK Report on Israel Monday, January 31. 2022More on the live Bald Eagle camAs posted at Am. Digest last week. A few observations: - The alertness of the adults is remarkable - They seem to have no problem catching enough fish. Funny how they seem to prefer the heads. - Their attentiveness to the bobble-head chicks is great. The chicks have times to eat, times to sleep cozily under a parent, times to poop, and times to exercise. Easy life, with non-stop sashimi.
Monday morning linksObservations Confirm That Orcas Feed on Blue Whales. The orcas, mostly females, attacked the blue whales in coordinated attacks and feasted upon their gigantic tongues. The Cult Of Safety U.K. university adds trigger warning to first Harry Potter book Brown University’s Woke Professors Battle Diversity (of Viewpoint) On Decency and Double Standards at Georgetown - Do apologies mean anything anymore? Consider the case of Ilya Shapiro. The Smart People Have Another Way To Save The Planet: Demand That Public Companies Reduce Their Emissions Inside MSNBC's big shakeup Why The Wall Street Journal Is Wrong About The 2020 Election These NYPD-hating pols are a huge problem for Mayor Eric Adams’ war on crime The Church of the Liberal Pieties Black Lives Matter's Incredibly Shady Finances Get Shadier Marxist BLM Leader Patrisse Khan-Cullors Bought Four High-End Homes in US Before Stepping Down — And Is Now Linked to $6 Million Mansion in Canada The Canadian truckers are fascists Sunday, January 30. 2022Nonna makes Pasta FagioliI prefer my way, but this is fun. It is poverty food for hard manual laborers. Dried beans? Never. Too much hassle with no difference. Properly pronounced, Pasta Fazool.
From today's LectionaryLuke 4:21-30 4:21 Then he began to say to them, "Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing." 4:22 All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth. They said, "Is not this Joseph's son?" 4:23 He said to them, "Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb, 'Doctor, cure yourself!' And you will say, 'Do here also in your hometown the things that we have heard you did at Capernaum.'" 4:24 And he said, "Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in the prophet's hometown. 4:25 But the truth is, there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a severe famine over all the land; 4:26 yet Elijah was sent to none of them except to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon. 4:27 There were also many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian." 4:28 When they heard this, all in the synagogue were filled with rage. 4:29 They got up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they might hurl him off the cliff. 4:30 But he passed through the midst of them and went on his way. Saturday, January 29. 2022Saturday morning links
Bald Eagle live cam The extraordinary rise and fall of BlackBerry Would Galileo Be Good Enough for Woke America? DC Comics’ Bisexual Climate Change-Fighting Superman Is Kryptonite to Sales The ADL Has Chosen a Side. And It’s Not the Jewish One DeSantis Shocker: It’s Not OK to Hate Whites How to help the working stiff Elon Musk calls Biden a ‘damp sock puppet’ after White House CEO snub Why do media ignore Biden family corruption? Public health experts grumble about NYT columnist for trying to reassure people about COVID Biden Administration Has Turned ICE Into an "Unofficial Travel Coordination Agency" for Illegal Aliens Why Ukraine? Ukraine President Zelensky Tells Joe Biden to Chill Out and Stop Trying to Create a War With Russia Not Just The Mufti - the real extension of the Palestinian-Nazi collaboration Friday, January 28. 2022Italian-American: Sunday Gravy
Sunday Gravy (aka Red Sauce) with meat and meatballs was a traditional Sunday Italian-American feast. I think one of my grandmothers-in-law (who I never knew) made this on Sundays for after Mass. Here's how Rao's makes it:
Friday morning linksIf we get big weather up here, do not be surprised if our server is out tomorrow. It's wind that causes the problems, not the snow. White whiskey? Isn't it moonshine? A LOOK AT THE LOST AMUSEMENT PARK WHERE LAGUARDIA AIRPORT NOW STANDS Holocaust Remembrance Day: Lessons to learn from the darkest chapter of history Dani Dayan: Yad Vashem is fulfilling Holocaust victims’ last will and testament Super Bowl Attendees Will Be Forced To Wear Masks Unless Eating Or Drinking Maryland county school CEO wants masks until "COVID no longer exists" WOKE BALLET AT PRINCETON, PART THREE The UK: Police seize ‘anti-trans’ book from activist Jennifer Swayne in raid on home Enrollment in NYC public schools drops again — giving Adams, Banks opportunity to better serve students NYC Rite Aid Closing Its Doors Due to Out-of-Control Shoplifting and Theft Chinese elite have paid some $31 million to Hunter and the Bidens What Did Clinton Know and When Did She Know It? The Russiagate Evidence Builds Israel's PR: Why run after people who keep running away from us, instead of reaching out to those who are reaching out to us? Thursday, January 27. 2022Hearing music
Viral immunity, jargon-freeThursday morning linksWhy you should eat meat. Not eating animals is wrong. If you care about animals, then the right thing to do is breed them, kill them and eat them Atlantic: School masking 'is not justified by the data' Why Are We Boosting Kids? The CDC and the FDA have ignored other countries’ caution, the WHO’s chief scientist, leading American experts, and their own data. Fauci Proposes Three Shot Series for Babies 6-Months-Old Up to Children 4-Years-Old The Night Riders of the Language Police Progressives Against Transparency. The ACLU joins Democratic politicians in opposition to making school curricula available to parents. New ‘Jesse Watters Primetime’ Show On FOX News Opens To Huge Ratings Seattle Target store picked clean by shoplifters (plus Michael Rappaport witnesses shoplifting in NY) Putin's Waited 30 Years to Sort Out Ukraine Wednesday, January 26. 2022Wednesday morning linksTonga eruption was 'hundreds of times' more powerful than Hiroshima atomic bomb, NASA says Bars and gyms are bustling as Americans learn to live with COVID Why shoplifting is soaring across the US — and will only get worse University slaps a trigger warning on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four WOKE BALLET AT PRINCETON Hollywood Wokeness Is Becoming a Parody of Itself An Unhealthy Obsession - One of the nation’s top schools for public health puts “antiracist” instruction at the center of its curriculum. Chicago Public Schools Receive $2.8 Billion While Kids Still Stay Home John Durham Puts Hillary Clinton On Notice In New Filing: ‘Active, Ongoing Criminal Investigation’ A Conversation With the Last Liberal Interventionist. Bernard-Henri Lévy on cultural relativism, isolationism, Pax Americana, the Enlightenment, Greta Thunberg, Eric Zemmour, Derrida, Covid and much more. Biden Needs a War. Don’t Give Him One. The Wag The Dog scenario looms larger as the Biden vortex deepens. That's not the point ‘We have a sacred obligation’: Biden threatens to send troops to Eastern Europe What? What the Right Gets Wrong about Ukraine, Russia, and American Hegemony After Keystone XL cancelation, we're now importing more oil from Russia Tuesday, January 25. 2022Tuesday morning linksThe Criminalization of Christianity in Finland The Left Doesn't Like School Choice. The Right Doesn't Need Them To. Why is this political? Antifa thugs win again as Dartmouth cancels my event on far-left violence Althouse on the Supremes' college diversity case CBS Host Stunned NOT ONE Participant in Face the Nation’s Focus Group Believes America is in a Better Place After One Year of Joe Biden (VIDEO) Jen Psaki Can’t Answer Why Americans Should Spill Their Blood in Ukraine if Europeans Aren’t Willing to Spill Blood and Treasure in Ukraine What American national interest depends on Ukraine (other than Hunter Biden's deals)? Monday, January 24. 2022Life in America: Not an opera review
The plot(s) are silly, but da Ponte's libretto is not, mostly. It is seriously human. Interestingly, da Ponte ended up teaching Italian at Columbia University (College, at the time). Anyway, I know Nozze almost by heart. Pure Mozart dramatic and song genius, and of course the Met could not have done it better. Aria upon aria, and you have to remind yourself that it's entertainment, not "art". Best voices in the world. Again, the place was packed at the matinee. I did a rough count, and I'd say half of the audience was under 40. Around 10% over 80. People need live performance. It's a different thing. A thrill, but not a cheap one. How did Mozart do all of those things in such a short life? After, a terrible "Italian" supper - too expensive and the sort of thing Sinatra would like. As Mrs. BD says, "Never eat anything bigger than your head." The fancy, busy place seemed to have decided that volume compensated for deliciousness. "The pasta comes with the veal scallopini." No thanks. Yeah, down in NYC they all want vaccine proof, but that's easy. Restaurant was packed but we had a reservation.
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Monday morning linksPhoto is from a friend X-country skiing in Tahoe How connected fitness became the new obsession. Investors may be cooling on the at-home exercise business, but it has changed the way millions work out The fit and famous. To strive, to struggle, to sweat, is to be human China: What does single woman do after work? She has gadgets Imperial College London’s Cancel Campaign Against Its Own Founders Protect the kids from feeling "unsettled" Data, data, everywhere. A new major in data science helps undergrads make sense of it all. Campus Double Standards and the Need to Protect Jewish and Zionist Students Kling's summary: Keeping up with the FITs There’s a reason for the chaos that controls within the Democrat party More "overperforming?" After Keystone XL cancelation, we're now importing more oil from Russia The US Must Prepare for War Against Russia Over Ukraine. If Putin is not deterred from seizing another chunk of sovereign territory, he won’t stop there. Huh? The decision of the Biden administration to arrange for the payment of Iran’s dues at the United Nations is being described to us as “a staggering act of appeasement. Sunday, January 23. 2022Nice Italian dinnerWe are fortunate to have a pasta shop nearby. They make fresh daily, and make takeout meals too. While I have never seen any meaningful difference between dried spaghetti, linguine, and things like that, fresh ravioli and gnocchi do matter. These Italian guys make excellent ravioli (many varieties, from pumpkin to mortadella, to cinghiale) and the fluffiest gnocchi. Last week Mrs. BD decided to cook up a nice Italian supper for her Dad who had just been allowed to leave the old folk's home. I think it was also in gratitude to me for getting rid of at least a third of my stuff (excess boots, clothing, etc.) as we slowly move back into our refurbished living quarters. I noticed that lockdowns for old folks are terrible for them. They lose muscle and balance. For no reason, at this point. Apperitivo: Olives and marinated artichoke hearts. Primo: Fresh gnocchi with gorgonzola cream sauce. About 8 gnocchi per person is plenty. Secondo: Trieste-style Osso Bucco. It's different. Spinach in garlic as the contorno. Vino: All I had around was some Pinot. I do not have a wine cellar.
From today's Lectionary: The body of Christ1 Corinthians 12:12-31a 12:12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 12:13 For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body--Jews or Greeks, slaves or free--and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. 12:14 Indeed, the body does not consist of one member but of many. 12:15 If the foot would say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body. 12:16 And if the ear would say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body. 12:17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be? 12:18 But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. 12:19 If all were a single member, where would the body be? 12:20 As it is, there are many members, yet one body. 12:21 The eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you," nor again the head to the feet, "I have no need of you." 12:22 On the contrary, the members of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 12:23 and those members of the body that we think less honorable we clothe with greater honor, and our less respectable members are treated with greater respect; 12:24 whereas our more respectable members do not need this. But God has so arranged the body, giving the greater honor to the inferior member, 12:25 that there may be no dissension within the body, but the members may have the same care for one another. 12:26 If one member suffers, all suffer together with it; if one member is honored, all rejoice together with it. 12:27 Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.\12:28 And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers; then deeds of power, then gifts of healing, forms of assistance, forms of leadership, various kinds of tongues. 12:29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? 12:30 Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret? 12:31 But strive for the greater gifts. Saturday, January 22. 2022Saturday morning linksWhat Did Europe's First Tomato Look Like? Involuntarily Celibate: Explanations and Practical Solutions to a Dangerous Phenomenon How Does the FBI Art Crime Team Operate? “[The art market] provides an opportunity for people to move money in a way that they can’t with other commodities,” says FBI Special Agent Chris McKeogh. CASE CLOSED: President Trump on Jan. 6: “I Authorized National Guard on Jan. 6 – Pelosi Turned It Down Taibbi: Thomas Friedman Roars Back To Form I’m a Public School Teacher. The Kids Aren’t Alright. My students were taught to think of themselves as vectors of disease. This has fundamentally altered their understanding of themselves. Matt Taibbi takes the full measure of Joe Biden’s first year and he demonstrates the higher truth, once enunciated by Barack Obama: “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up.” Tucker Carlson: If Putin Had A Sense Of Humor, He'd Paint All His Tanks Crossing Ukraine's Border With "No Person Is Illegal" HOW SHOULD THE U.S. RESPOND TO A RUSSIAN ATTACK ON UKRAINE? Friday, January 21. 2022Friday morning linksIf Omicron Creates Herd Immunity, Then What? Starbucks Drops COVID Vaccine and Testing Requirements for Employees Hong Kong to Kill 2,000 Pets as Chinese Authorities Blame COVID-19 Spread on Imported Animals, Packages RCP: Throwback Thursday—In 1978, Federal Study Concludes Obese People Eat More Than Non-Obese Never piss off a Mama Bear Our Woke Decadent Culture Can't Create Anything New NYC Mayor: Even I don't feel safe on the subway Theodore Roosevelt statue removed from American Museum of Natural History TSA Says It Will Accept Arrest Warrants as ID for Illegal Aliens at Airports Schumer Suffers Crushing Defeat on Filibuster, as Manchin and Sinema Stand Firm VIRGINIA’S “NEW SHERIFF IN TOWN” The January 6 Narrative is Starting to Unravel Durham vs. Horowitz: Tension Over Truth and Consequences Grips the FBI's Trump-Russia Reckoning How long can the corpse be held up at the Party? The Dems’ Total War On Republicans Has Totally Backfired
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